Zhu Tian: Beginning to Cross the Changjin Lake

Chapter 33 Commander’s Pocket!

Major General Smith personally sent a long telegram to Admiral Katz.

The general meaning is that our 10st Marine Division is the left wing of the th Army, but our left wing has no protection at all, and there are no friendly forces within at least eighty miles of our left wing.

The road conditions in the Changjin Lake area are very bad, especially in winter, when the snow melts and freezes into ice, making the mountain roads even more difficult to pass. I am very worried about the logistics support capabilities in this environment.

The bad weather will have a certain impact on airdrops, and airdrops alone cannot meet the supply needs of the entire 1st Marine Division.

The staff officers of the 10th Army made their plan on a one-millionth map, and we were carrying out our mission on a one-fifty-thousandth map. As the troops continued to advance northward, their forces became increasingly dispersed, their flanks and logistics were not guaranteed, and our situation was extremely dangerous. If an accident occurred, the consequences would be disastrous.

After receiving Smith's report, Admiral Katz also attached great importance to the matter and immediately communicated and negotiated with Five-Star Mike.

However, the huge victory of the Incheon landing brought Five-Star Mike's reputation to a new peak, and Mike's self-confidence was extremely inflated as his prestige was at its peak.

In this situation, not to mention Admiral Ketz, even their president could not change his battle plan.

This communication and negotiation ultimately came to nothing.

Five-Star Mike strictly ordered all troops to continue to advance northward quickly according to the established plan, to clear out the enemy in the north as soon as possible, and to strive to end the war completely before Christmas.

Even though the first battle was over, the vanguard of the US troops heading north suffered a heavy blow from the Volunteer Army.

But the arrogant Mike still believed in his own judgment, thinking that China had at most sent a few divisions of troops to participate in the war, and that limited intervention was only to warn them not to cross the Yalu River.

The Chinese military has no determination to fully intervene in the war, let alone the strength to do so.

At that time, the United States had no plan to cross the Yalu River, so in Five-Star Mike's view, as long as their troops did not cross the Yalu River, a larger-scale war would not break out, and they could easily occupy the North Korean region and end the war.

The reason why Five Star Mike is so arrogant is that they do have the strength to be arrogant.

In the Pacific War, Five-Star Mike made great achievements and was invincible. Now he has the most powerful navy, army and air force in the world. Mike really can't think of any reason for himself to fail.

However, he never dreamed that after the first battle, the Volunteer Army's voluntary retreat was entirely a strategy of the commander to lure the enemy deep into their territory.

Hundreds of thousands of volunteer troops had secretly entered North Korea and were deployed simultaneously on the eastern and western fronts, secretly infiltrating their flanks.

Our great commander has already laid a huge pocket, waiting for them to fall into it.

And at the moment they still know nothing about this. This arrogant Mike will eventually pay a heavy price for his arrogance.

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After several days of forced march, Li Guotao and the soldiers of the Seventh Company finally arrived at the Changjin Lake area and joined up with the main force.

The Seventh Company was arranged to rest and stand by in a hidden ravine.

The dry food we replenished at the headquarters had been used up along the way, and we had thought we could get supplies once we arrived here.

However, the situation here is not optimistic. As the enemy has intensified its bombing of the rear, the troops are under tremendous logistical pressure.

Supplies from the rear could not be transported to the front line in time, and the Changjin Lake area was sparsely populated. After the war broke out, most of the local residents fled.

Therefore, it was difficult for the troops to obtain sufficient supplies locally. After all, the 9th Corps had three armies, a total of troops, and the amount of food consumed every day was astonishing. The lack of logistics supplies led to a general shortage of food in all troops.

The superiors allocated some food to the Seventh Company, but the quantity was quite limited and each soldier could only get a few potatoes.

Li Guotao slowly took out a potato the size of an egg from his arms. The potato had been melted, and Li Guotao ate it all in a few bites. Then he reached out and grabbed a handful of snow from the clean snow next to him and put it in his mouth.

His tongue was so painful from the cold, and his teeth seemed to be frozen too. The snow gradually melted in his mouth, and Li Guotao swallowed it hard. It was as if a popsicle had been inserted directly from his throat into his stomach. Li Guotao could not help but shudder.

Potatoes of that era were generally small in size, and Li Guotao felt that he could eat at least twenty or thirty of them in one meal.

Now these few potatoes may be their food for the next two days, so each one of them is extremely precious.

Mei Sheng would encourage the soldiers from time to time, "Comrades, hold on, it will pass a little longer. When the battle starts, the enemy will have everything they want."

"As long as you defeat the enemy, you will have plenty of cookies and canned food!"

The soldiers were very excited when they heard this and were looking forward to the battle starting soon.

Of course, the most urgent one was Li Guotao. As long as the battle started, they at least wouldn't have to worry about food.

When you arrive at the battlefield, will you still worry about having no food?
Even if he could not capture the enemy's weapons, Li Guotao could still earn points by killing them and then exchange them for food.

In recent days, all the points Li Guotao earned were used to exchange for quilts and cotton clothes, which were airdropped to friendly troops.

Although hunger seriously reduces the soldiers' ability to resist the cold, they may be able to survive by skipping a few meals and holding on.

Without thick cotton clothes, facing the extreme cold of minus 30 or 40 degrees Celsius, a person may be frozen to death in just one hour.

As a time traveler, Li Guotao naturally knew that what the Ninth Corps needed more now were cotton-padded clothes and quilts, so he had been providing more cotton-padded clothes to the troops to the best of his ability in order to reduce unnecessary casualties.

Li Guotao had nothing to do, so he took a look at the system panel.

In terms of skills.

Basic tactics have been upgraded to level 6.

Automatic firearms upgraded to level 3.

The newly learned rocket launcher has also been upgraded to level 3.

The reason for learning this skill is that one of the tasks requires destroying enemy tanks, and the bazooka is known as a tank killer, so using a bazooka is undoubtedly the best way for a single soldier to destroy a tank.

The improvement of skills has further enhanced Li Guotao's combat effectiveness, and he is more confident about the next battle.

However, facing this extremely cruel war, this is far from enough. But there is no point in Li Guotao being anxious, as he still has to take one step at a time.

Fortunately, you can gain a skill point every day, so the improvement speed is actually quite fast.

(End of this chapter)