Zhu Tian: Beginning to Cross the Changjin Lake

These trucks were carrying corpses, which were to be transported back to the rear for burial.

The fighting on the front lines was brutal, with large numbers of corpses being dragged down every day.

When the convoy passed a bend, Li Guotao and others who were lying in ambush on both sides of the road took the opportunity to climb onto the trucks, lay among the corpses, and moved forward with the convoy.

The location chosen by Li Guotao was very tricky. Because the vehicle was turning and moving relatively slowly, it was relatively easy for the soldiers to climb onto the vehicle.

And because the car behind hadn't turned yet, it was impossible to see anyone climbing onto the car in front.

In this way, Li Guotao and his men hid among the corpses and passed through several enemy checkpoints.

When they reached the front and passed another bend, the soldiers took the opportunity to jump out of the car and hid together on the side of the road.

This route was planned in advance by Li Guotao, and everything went quite smoothly.

After the enemy convoy went far away, Li Guotao gathered everyone together, and together they climbed over a mountain in front and walked a few more miles along a small path.

Li Guotao led his soldiers to ambush in a forest. At this time, they could see a village in the valley next to the road about a thousand meters away, and the lights in the village were bright.

Li Guotao observed carefully and said to everyone, "That's our target today. We will go around it later, quietly approach it, and launch an assault."

"Once you enter the village, immediately head straight for the big house in the center of the village. If I'm not mistaken, that's the enemy's headquarters."

Because that house had the brightest lights, it was easy to identify.

Everyone nodded, rubbed their hands, checked their weapons and ammunition, and prepared for action.

After a few minutes, Li Guotao waved his hand and the commandos took action.

More than twenty soldiers, divided into groups, carefully moved towards the village.

Under the cover of night, Li Guotao and his men successfully reached the village entrance, and the operation went surprisingly smoothly.

Li Guotao waved his hand, and Wu Qianli took the lead and quietly approached with several soldiers.

Although it was already late at night.

However, several senior generals of the enemy army were still gathered in the conference room arguing.

At this moment, Ding Yiquan had been successfully promoted and became the commander on the front line.

This was also done by the US military to appease the emotions of the puppet troops. After all, the main force fighting on the Shangganling front has now been replaced by these puppet troops.

Ding Yiquan looked at Major General Jenkins and said angrily: "The commander has been ordering us to continue fighting, but you American troops are unwilling to send more troops to launch an attack. How can we fight this battle?"

Major General Jenkins frowned and said, "General Ding, you should understand one thing, who are we fighting for?"

"Everyone else can complain, but you are not qualified to complain because this is your land, not ours."

When Ding Yiquan heard this, he was speechless. He sighed helplessly and said, "But the enemy's reinforcements are coming in continuously. We have suffered heavy casualties. We need support."

Major General Jenkins said helplessly: "Our American troops are not idle either. The enemy has launched offensives on other lines of defense. Our troops have been tied up. We are unable to mobilize troops to support the battle in the direction of Wusheng Mountain."

"I have discussed this issue with the Commander more than once. We have already sent out all the reserve troops that can be sent."

"The Seventh Division is still resting and replenishing. Once the replenishment is complete, they will definitely return to the battlefield, but this will take some time."

"I hope you understand."

"I can't understand it!"

Ding Yiquan said angrily: "Our two divisions have been exhausted. We have been replenished several times. All those who can go to the battlefield have gone."

"But now that Hill 597.9 has been lost, Hill 537.7 is still untaken."

"We really have no other options."

"Our casualties were heavy, but the enemy's were also high," said Major General Jenkins.

"If we continue to fight, we still have a chance to retake the position. At least we have to take the northern hill of Hill 537.7."

"Otherwise, wouldn't all the casualties we suffered be in vain?"

"I believe the enemy is struggling now, and they won't be able to hold on for much longer."

"Now it depends on who can hold on to the end and who will win in the end."

"So we must continue the attack and retake the position. This is the commander's order and you must execute it."

As soon as he finished speaking, there was a sudden burst of intensive gunfire outside, followed by continuous explosions.

Several high-ranking enemy generals present suddenly turned pale with fear.

"what happened?"

"Where did the gunfire come from?"

At this time, several soldiers rushed in and said in panic: "Sir, are there enemies breaking in?"

"what?"

Ding Yiquan's eyes almost popped out of his head in surprise. His command post was dozens of miles away from Shangganling, and was surrounded by layers of sentries and protection by escort troops. It should be absolutely safe.

How could the volunteer army suddenly get here?
But the gunfire outside became more and more frequent, and the explosions continued to sound, and were getting closer and closer.

Major General Jenkins also panicked and shouted, "Quickly retreat, leave here quickly."

At this moment, the old Japanese was regretting his decision so much that his intestines turned green. If he had known this would happen, he would never have come here even if he was beaten to death.

Everyone suddenly became chaotic and rushed outside one after another.

The commando team led by Li Guotao attacked very swiftly. The sniper hiding in the distance shot down all the enemy machine gunners stationed on high ground.

Li Guotao led the soldiers and rushed towards this side. The enemy was caught off guard and suffered heavy casualties in a short time. They could not withstand the fierce offensive of the task force at all.

The senior enemy generals in the command center, under the protection of the guards, ran out in a panic and tried to get on the car and escape.

Just then, several grenades flew over.

"Boom~! Boom~!"

There were loud explosions and two jeeps were destroyed one after another.

"Da da da~!"

Intensive gunfire rang out, and a string of hot bullets flew over, and the drivers of several other cars were also shot dead one after another.

The guards who were protecting them were also killed or wounded. Li Guotao, along with several soldiers, quickly killed them while protecting each other.

Seeing a group of people gathered at the door, Li Guotao raised his gun and fired without saying a word.

Several enemy guards who were protecting them were beaten into sieves one after another.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Jenkins, Ding Yiquan and others turned around and ran back.

Li Guotao rushed forward while firing. After he ran out of bullets, he quickly took out a grenade, pulled the fuse and threw it directly in.

The other soldiers dispersed and shot at the enemy soldiers who came to support. The surrounding enemies wanted to rescue, but they couldn't rush up for a while.

"Boom~!" A violent explosion sounded, and flames shot up into the sky.

Li Guotao threw four grenades at the house in succession. As loud explosions sounded, the people hiding inside were blown to the ground one after another.

[Ding Dong~! Congratulations on killing an enemy lieutenant general. You will receive a bonus of +10000 points.]

[Ding Dong~! Congratulations on killing an enemy major general. You get a bonus of +10000 points.]

[Ding Dong~! Congratulations on killing an enemy major general. You get a bonus of +5000 points.]

[Ding Dong~! Congratulations on killing an enemy brigadier general. You get a bonus of +3000 points.]

……

A series of crisp system prompt sounds rang out.

Li Guotao couldn't help but be overjoyed. He made a fortune this time.

Four enemy generals were killed at once.

However, judging from the points, there should be only one major general from the US army, and the other three are generals of the puppet army.

Because the US military’s generals receive higher points rewards, a major general gets 10,000 points, while a lieutenant general in the puppet army only gets 10,000 points.

But even so, it is already quite rare.

Li Guotao estimated that the enemy's senior generals on the Shangganling front had basically been wiped out by him.

And this is indeed the case. Ding Yiquan, the front-line commander, Jenkins, the American army commander, and two division commanders of the puppet army were all wiped out by Li Guotao.

After succeeding, Li Guotao did not hesitate, and did not even go in to check, because there was no need to do so.

After all, they were dozens of miles deep behind enemy lines and were surrounded by enemies, so they had to retreat quickly.

Li Guotao immediately ordered: "Withdraw from the battle immediately and retreat according to the original plan."

"Yes!"

Following Li Guotao's order, the soldiers immediately retreated quickly.

At this time, a large number of enemies were rushing towards this side, about dozens of enemies, chasing after Li Guotao and his men, chasing them all the way.

The soldiers took turns to cover each other and retreated continuously, turning around and shooting as they retreated.

These soldiers were very skilled. Amid the dense gunfire, enemies were constantly shot and fell to the ground.

Li Guotao had already planned the retreat route in advance. Instead of retreating, he led his soldiers to flee directly to the deep mountains in the southeast direction.

The enemy was also chasing them relentlessly, their headquarters was destroyed, and these enemies were completely enraged.

Li Guotao led his soldiers to fight and retreat, running for more than ten miles and entering the deep mountains and forests, and only then did they gradually shake off the pursuers behind them.

Wu Qianli came up and said, "We have shaken off the pursuers."

Li Guotao said: "It's not that simple. They will definitely continue to hunt us down. There are their people all around us, and the number of pursuers will only increase."

Mei Sheng nodded and said, "Besides, the enemy is not stupid. They must have cut off the way back. If we want to go back, it may not be that easy."

Li Guotao looked up at the distance and said, "Let's not go back. Let's continue to go south, make a big detour in the mountains, travel more than 100 kilometers, and then return to our defense zone. This way we can avoid them."

"Don't stop. You must retreat to a safe place as soon as possible. Soldiers left behind, remember to clean up the traces left behind as much as possible."

"Yes!"

For safety reasons, Li Guotao did not rush back to our army's defense zone in the north, but continued to flee to the south, walking for dozens of miles before turning east.

Along the way, we had to avoid the enemy, cross mountains and ridges, and take small paths. After going through untold hardships, we walked almost 200 kilometers before we returned to our army's defense zone from a place dozens of miles east of Shangganling.

Although the journey was hard, it was relatively smooth.

Li Guotao and his soldiers rested in the defense zone of a brother unit for a day and a night before returning to Shangganling.

Only after returning did Li Guotao and his men learn about the news from the Shangganling front.

The day after they launched a surprise attack on the enemy headquarters, the enemy did not launch a large-scale counterattack.

But the fighting only stopped for one day before it broke out again.

The enemy was still pouring shells towards Hill 537.7 to the north like crazy. Within one day, the entire hill was covered by shells countless times.

However, the enemy's frenzied counterattacks could not shake the position of the 106th Regiment, and the northern hill of Hill 537.7 was always firmly in the hands of our army.

The enemy suffered at least thousands of casualties every day and the fighting went on for several days. On November 11, the enemy, suffering heavy losses, finally stopped the attack.

This time the enemy was basically defeated and did not launch any large-scale attacks for several days.

At this point, the Battle of Shangganling was basically declared over.

However, the enemy still did not give up completely and stopped attacking for another eight days.

The puppet army's White Horse Division, which had received reinforcements, felt that they were back in action, or they thought that the Volunteer Army had relaxed its vigilance.

They gathered a large number of troops again and launched a fierce counterattack on Hill 537.7.

But the result is predictable. The counterattacking enemy was once again beaten badly by the Volunteer Army and suffered heavy losses. This time, the White Horse Division was completely defeated.

The enemy's last bit of hope was completely destroyed.

At this point, the Battle of Shangganling, which lasted for more than a month, was completely over.

However, the two sides were relatively close on this battlefield, and sporadic battles still occurred from time to time.

In this battle, both sides deployed 100,000 troops on the small battlefield of Shangganling and launched a frantic fight around these two inconspicuous hills.

In this battle, our army also achieved fruitful results, killing and wounding more than 30,000 enemy troops.

Our army also paid a heavy price in casualties, with a total of about 15,000 casualties.

But in the end we held our ground and won the battle.

It was because of this battle that the enemy was completely defeated.

As the war developed to this point, the enemy had to re-evaluate the strength of the Volunteer Army.

Faced with the increasingly powerful Volunteer Army, the enemy's arrogance was completely crushed, and they could only obediently return to the negotiating table and continue the negotiations.

Therefore, this battle is of great significance.

Its significance is not just to defend those two inconspicuous hills.

After the battle, Li Guotao was not in a hurry to leave Shangganling.

Instead, he and the task force soldiers continued to stay near Shangganling for a while.

During this period, Li Guotao was not idle either. The task force organized a training class specifically for sharpshooters. Because the large-scale battle had ended, it was estimated that there would be no large-scale battles breaking out in Shangganling in the next period of time. Most of the time, the two sides would just confront each other.

The positions of both sides are close here, which is an excellent battlefield for snipers. (End of this chapter)