Zhu Tian: Beginning to Cross the Changjin Lake

Li Guotao couldn't sit still anymore and took the initiative to find Li Moyin.

Li Moyin looked up at Li Guotao and frowned slightly.

"Is something wrong?"

"Ok!"

Li Guotao nodded, and then said: "I don't think we can wait like this!"

Li Moyin sighed slightly and said, "I knew you would be restless again."

"What are you planning to do this time?"

Li Guotao pondered for a moment, organizing his words in his mind.

"Captain, this is what I think. We can't just passively defend, right?"

Li Moyin frowned and asked, "Do you want to launch a counterattack?"

"Based on previous experience, the military has formulated a plan that if a position is lost during the day, an appropriate counterattack will be launched at night to try to recapture the position."

Li Guotao said: "That's not what I meant. What I meant was that we can send a troop to go behind the enemy lines to contain the enemy and cooperate with the 63rd Army in the frontal battle."

Li Moyin smiled bitterly and said, "Why don't you just tell our task force to infiltrate the enemy's rear?"

Li Guotao smiled and said, "That's exactly what I mean. If more than a hundred of us stay here and defend our positions, the effect will be extremely limited."

"The 63rd Army has more than soldiers. Our hundred-plus soldiers, no matter how good they are at fighting, are dispensable and may not have much effect."

"If we successfully infiltrate the enemy and wreak havoc behind their lines, we might be able to achieve a greater effect."

"We are fully capable of disrupting the enemy's deployment and pinning down more enemies, thereby reducing the pressure on the 63rd Army defending the front."

Li Moyin frowned and said, "Actually, I have considered this matter before."

"But this large area in the south has fallen into the hands of the enemy. If we infiltrate there, we can only fight alone, which is a life-and-death struggle."

“So I have been hesitating about this issue.”

Li Guotao knew the dangers involved and had hesitated before, but now he finally made up his mind.

Just do it, why worry so much.

Li Guotao said: "What is the purpose of our task force coming to the front line? Isn't it to familiarize ourselves with the tactics and summarize our experience?"

"Before, we were basically fighting head-on, but we ignored the tactics we are best at."

Li Moyin said: "You mean guerrilla warfare behind enemy lines."

Li Guotao nodded and said, "I think we need to try to see if it is feasible to fight the Americans by means of guerrilla warfare behind enemy lines."

"Given the current trend, it is no longer realistic for us to quickly defeat the US and end this war."

"We must be prepared to fight for a long time. In addition to direct confrontation, we also need to adopt some other forms of struggle, such as guerrilla warfare behind enemy lines to cooperate with direct combat."

Li Moyin was silent for a moment, then said, "But this is not China after all. We don't have a mass base. Without the support of the masses, the situation behind enemy lines is so bad that I'm afraid it will be difficult to hold on."

Li Guotao said: "How can we know if we don't try? Isn't the purpose of our task force to summarize experience?"

"There are still some friendly guerrillas behind enemy lines. If they can survive, we can also survive in this harsh war environment."

"Besides, this time, we are just doing a short-term experiment. We will first try to see if this method of warfare is feasible and accumulate some experience for future battles."

"Many of the backbones of our task force are veterans of the War of Resistance against Japan, and have extensive experience in guerrilla warfare behind enemy lines. If even we can't do it, then other troops will be even less likely to do it."

"And I have confidence in myself. Even if it doesn't work, we can still withdraw in time."

"As for the losses, there are always casualties in war. There is nothing we can do about it."

"All we can do is to reduce our casualties as much as possible."

Li Moyin pondered for a long time, then slowly asked, "When do you plan to leave?"

Li Guotao said: "Tonight, we will take advantage of the cover of night to pass through the enemy's blockade from the mountainous area and infiltrate the enemy's rear."

"I have already explored the route. As long as nothing unexpected happens, we should be able to successfully get behind the enemy lines."

Li Moyin said: "I will bring a radio with me and go with you."

Li Guotao said with some surprise: "I'm afraid this is not appropriate."

Li Guotao himself was not afraid, but he was afraid that something might happen to Li Moyin.

Li Moyin smiled and said, "Don't forget, I've been a veteran for more than 20 years."

"We fought guerrilla warfare against Chiang Kai-shek's bandit army in the south for several years. Later, we fought guerrilla warfare behind enemy lines for eight years during the War of Resistance against Japan. Then we fought Chiang Kai-shek's bandit army again."

"When it comes to experience in guerrilla warfare behind enemy lines, who can compare to me?"

Li Guotao smiled and said, "Hey, you know you are a veteran of more than 20 years, but you don't even look at your age."

"Hey~!"

Li Moyin was immediately unhappy and said with a straight face: "Are you f*cking disgusted with me?"

"How dare I?"

Li Guotao smiled and said, "I am just telling the truth. This mission is quite dangerous. I think you should stay here and command. I will report to you via the radio if there is any situation."

Li Moyin said seriously: "Do you think I am discussing this with you?"

"This is an order, execute it!"

Li Guotao also looked helpless and quickly responded, "Yes!"

That evening, the task force's position was taken over by a platoon from a brother unit.

Li Guotao and Li Moyin led the task force and quietly arrived at a frontline position.

At this moment, the enemy has stopped attacking, but the strong smell of gunpowder still lingers on the battlefields everywhere, which shows how fierce this battle was.

The enemy's artillery shells and incendiary bombs were dropped like they were free, and almost everything that could be burned on the nearby hills was burned up.

Li Guotao led his soldiers over mountains and across rivers and arrived at a mountain.

Li Guotao pointed ahead and said, "There are many mountains here, and the mountains are steep. There is no road at all. So if we go through here, we can bypass the enemy sentries and get to the rear of the enemy."

Li Moyin asked, "When did you scout the terrain?"

Li Guotao replied: "I took a look on the way here."

Li Moyin nodded slightly and said, "It seems that you have been prepared for this!"

Li Guotao smiled and said, "Everything should be prepared in advance."

Li Moyin asked: "Since there is no road, how can we get there?"

Li Guotao smiled and said, "If others can't get through it, we may have to."

“If there is no road, trample one out and climb over the cliff.”

"You're already forty now! If you can't hold on, don't force it."

Li Moyin said unhappily, "Are you trying to provoke me?" Li Guotao smiled and said, "I don't have the leisure time, I'm just telling the truth."

Li Moyin said: "Stop talking nonsense and keep going."

Li Guotao said: "Well, let's make a deal. If you can't hold on any longer, no one will take you back."

Li Moyin kicked Li Guotao on the butt and said, "I find that you are talking more and more nonsense."

Li Guotao chuckled, then took a few soldiers to clear the way.

The road ahead is indeed difficult to walk on, with many cliffs, but for Li Guotao, it is nothing.

Li Guotao and his group climbed up first, then lowered the rope, and it became much easier for those behind them.

But doing so will inevitably waste a lot of time.

But one night was enough for them to cross the enemy's blockade.

At dawn, under the leadership of Li Guotao, more than 100 members of the task force successfully hid in a small valley surrounded by mountains. Hiding deep in the dense forest, they did not have to worry about being discovered by enemy aircraft.

There are mountains all around, and this place is remote and there are no enemies nearby, so there is naturally no need to worry about being exposed.

Li Guotao came up to Li Moyin and said, "We can rest here for a day. It won't be too late to take action at night."

Li Moyin nodded and said, "Just do as you say."

Li Moyin looked up to the east, sighed slightly, and said, "It's almost dawn, and the enemy's attack will begin soon."

After daybreak, the enemy once again dispatched a large number of aircraft and used thousands of cannons to fiercely bombard the 63rd Army's frontline positions on the Cheorwon line.

Van Fleet's ammunition volume is not in vain.

Even his own congressmen are accusing Van Fleet of wasting ammunition and taxpayers' money, which shows his strength.

After the artillery preparation was completed, the enemy once again dispatched five infantry battalions and a tank battalion to launch a fierce attack on the position of the 561rd Battalion of the st Regiment.

Under the command of the battalion commander, the soldiers resisted step by step and continuously delayed the enemy's attack speed.

But soon there was no way back.

The instructor said: "Battalion Commander, we can't retreat anymore."

The battalion commander gritted his teeth and said, "Let's fight them. Inform all companies to hold their positions. Even if it means death, you must stop the enemy for me."

"Yes!"

Even without counting the artillery, the enemy's five infantry battalions and one tank battalion were almost ten times stronger than our three battalions. The strength of one enemy battalion far exceeded that of one of our battalions.

Under the tenacious resistance of the soldiers, the enemy's attacks were repelled again and again.

Faced with an enemy armed to the teeth, the soldiers of the Third Battalion had no advantages other than the terrain.

Especially the enemy's tanks, each of them relying on their thick skin and strong flesh, they rushed all the way.

The 9nd Platoon of the 9th Company, which was defending the Xincun position, risked their lives to blow up four enemy tanks, but were ultimately outnumbered and all died heroically, and the position of the nd Platoon of the th Company was lost.

But on the battlefield, the enemy left hundreds of corpses.

After taking the Xincun position, the enemy began to attack the Xincun Beishan position fiercely.

The north side had been bombed beyond recognition, a scorched earth with enemy corpses lying scattered on the hillside.

The soldiers of the Seventh Company who were defending the position also suffered heavy casualties.

Under the leadership of the seventh company instructor Zhao Manzeng, the remaining soldiers were still stubbornly resisting the enemy's fierce attack.

Under the cover of powerful firepower, a large number of enemies rushed up to the small hill like a group of mad dogs.

Dense rain of bullets continued to fall on the defenders' positions, suppressing the firepower of the volunteers.

Zhao Manzeng looked at the approaching enemy and shouted, "Grenade!"

As Zhao Manzeng roared, dozens of grenades flew out from the battlefield.

"Boom~! Boom~!"

Violent explosions continued to sound, and the enemy troops were immediately blown to pieces, with many casualties.

"Da da da~!"

Intensive gunfire rang out at the same time, and the soldiers raised their guns and fired fiercely at the enemy.

Dense rain of bullets swept through, and enemies who rushed up were constantly shot and fell to the ground, but these enemies, as if crazy, continued to charge.

The enemy forces responsible for fire support in the rear immediately used heavy machine guns, mortars and tank guns to bombard the positions on the mountain.

Bullets and shells fell on the battlefield like raindrops.

The soldiers fell one after another under the enemy's hail of bullets, and their blood was shed on the battlefield.

A bullet flew over and hit Zhao Manzeng's left arm, taking away a large piece of flesh and blood, and the blood instantly dyed the entire arm red.

Zhao Manzeng groaned and was brought to the ground. He turned his head to look at the wound, gritted his teeth and endured the severe pain, climbed up, and lay in the trench to observe.

At this time, another large group of enemies rushed up desperately.

Zhao Manzeng immediately rushed to a machine gun position nearby. At this moment, the machine gunner, the assistant gunner and even the ammunition handler had all died.

Zhao Manzeng set up a machine gun, aimed at the enemy and started firing fiercely.

"Da da da~!"

Intense gunshots rang out, and a string of blazing bullets quickly flew towards the enemy.

"Puff puff puff~!"

Suddenly, blood splattered, screams were heard, and a large number of enemies were wiped out.

Zhao Manzeng roared, "Come on, you bastards! I'll treat you to a bullet."

At this moment, the old soldier was completely bloodthirsty. He held the machine gun and fired wildly at the enemy, killing more than 20 enemies.

It didn't stop until it ran out of bullets.

Zhao Manzeng searched the trenches over a dozen meters away but didn't find a single bullet.

He just took a grenade from the hand of a sacrificed soldier, and at this time the enemy had already rushed up again.

Zhao Manzeng lay in the trench, listening quietly to the noise outside and judging the enemy's approximate position based on his experience.

The battlefield seemed to become quiet in an instant. Zhao Manzeng's face became paler and paler due to his serious injuries, but his eyes were unusually firm.

When the enemy approached the position, Zhao Manzeng pulled the grenade without hesitation, exerted his last bit of strength, jumped up directly from the trench, then jumped out of the trench and pounced directly on the enemy.

The enemy was caught off guard and two of them were knocked to the ground by Zhao Manzeng. They rolled down the mountain and into the crowd of enemy troops.

Zhao Manzeng tried hard to raise the grenade, and then the grenade exploded with a loud bang.

Zhao Manzeng died heroically on the spot, and several enemies around him were also blown away. (End of this chapter)