Zhu Tian: Beginning to Cross the Changjin Lake

Chapter 90 Urgent mission!
These heavy artillery pieces are extremely powerful, but they are also too heavy and difficult to move.

The limited manpower in the artillery battalion is far from enough.

So the division headquarters mobilized a large number of infantry to assist the artillery battalion in transferring the heavy artillery. After all, these heavy artillery were too precious.

The Seventh Company was also transferred to help.

Li Guotao and several of his soldiers were busy moving boxes of artillery shells onto trucks and taking them away.

A group of soldiers pushed a cart with a cannon hung on the back of the cart. They would later pull it to the distant mountains to find a favorable terrain for concealment.

Gu Cangzhou took a look at the cannon and said, "This thing is too big. It's not easy to hide it."

Li Guotao said casually: "Didn't the higher-ups tell us to disperse and hide as much as possible? We can save as many as we can."

"It's because we don't have air superiority!"

In the early stages of the war, our air force did not participate because it was too weak.

Originally, the Russians had agreed to send out their air force to assist in the war.

But when the war really broke out, they changed their minds for their own interests and delayed sending their air force to join the war.

It was not until the following year that the Russians saw that the Chinese People's Volunteer Army had won the war and that the US military had no plans to expand the war, and they increased their support for the Chinese People's Volunteer Army. The Chinese People's Volunteer Army's Air Force gradually joined the war, gradually curbed the enemy's air advantage, and seized partial air supremacy.

Now, and even in the next few months, air superiority is completely in the hands of the enemy.

Because of the complete lack of air superiority, the Volunteer Army also paid a heavy price.

Not only did the volunteer soldiers on the front line suffer constant bombardment from the enemy, but they also suffered heavy losses.

The supply lines in the rear were often bombed by the enemy, which resulted in the inability to deliver supplies to the front line in a timely manner, severely restricting the combat operations of the Volunteer Army.

If the supplies could be delivered in time, the Volunteer Army would definitely be able to achieve greater results.

In this battle, Li Guotao won a lot of points as rewards.

Although he could exchange a large amount of supplies through the system mall, this amount of supplies was just a drop in the bucket for an army of hundreds of thousands.

What Li Guotao has to do now is to maximize the value of these materials and equipment.

And right now there is a good opportunity, that is the Watergate Bridge.

If the Watergate Bridge could be completely blown up, cutting off the 1st Marine Division's escape route, then the entire 1st Marine Division might be wiped out.

The worst result was that the 1st Marine Division was forced to abandon all its supplies and heavy equipment, break out on foot, and flee to Hungnam Port.

Without these heavy equipment, the 1st Marine Division would become a group of turtles without shells, at the mercy of others.

There is still some distance from the Watergate Bridge to Hungnan Port, and it is icy and cold. Once those guys abandon their heavy equipment and retreat, they will inevitably be defeated. At that time, the main force of the Volunteer Army will take advantage of the situation to pursue and kill them. They only need to capture prisoners all over the mountains and plains. With the enemy's fighting will, it will be impossible for them to form an effective resistance.

So no matter what, Li Guotao had to complete the task of completely blowing up the Watergate Bridge to make up for this regret.

Li Guotao also knew that it was difficult to complete this task, and it was even more difficult to complete this task at the lowest cost.

But no matter how difficult it is, Li Guotao will try his best and do his utmost without any regrets.

The messenger ran up to Wu Qianli and shouted, "Captain Wu, the division commander has ordered the Seventh Company to rush to the Watergate Bridge immediately to assist Battalion Commander Tan in carrying out the mission of blowing up the bridge."

"Yes!"

Wu Qianli responded loudly: "Please tell the commander that we will complete the task."

When Li Guotao heard the voice, he looked up at Wu Qianli not far away, and he was looking forward to it. Are they finally going to the Watergate Bridge? The real test has begun!

Meisheng walked up to Wu Qianli and said, "The Watergate Bridge is the only way for the enemy to retreat. If we want to completely wipe out the 1st Marine Division, we must blow up the Watergate Bridge."

Wu Qianli said: "The battalion commander and his men should have already reached the Watergate Bridge. There are two possibilities for sending us over to provide support this time. One possibility is to be prepared for an emergency, and the second possibility is that they ran into trouble in bombing the bridge."

"The enemy must have realized the importance of the Watergate Bridge. It is not easy to accomplish this mission. We must prepare for the worst."

As the two were talking, Li Guotao suddenly came over and said, "The enemy has a large number of advanced equipment, and their engineers are also very capable in repairing equipment."

"For example, in Hagaru-ri, the enemy built a large airport and a large number of fortifications in a short period of time. We simply could not do that in the same amount of time."

"The Watergate Bridge is just a small bridge. Even if it is destroyed, the enemy may be able to repair it in a short time."

"So even if the battalion commander and his men have already blown up the Watergate Bridge, we must be fully prepared. If the enemy repairs the Watergate Bridge again, we must try to blow it up again until this battle is completely won."

Wu Qianli nodded and said, "What Li Guotao said makes sense, so this time when we go there, in addition to carrying enough weapons and ammunition, we also need to carry a large amount of explosives for blowing up the bridge."

Mei Sheng said: "We have run out of explosive packs, but we captured a lot of spoils in the battle, so we should have enough explosives."

"I'll take a few people to find the leader and try to get more explosives."

After Mei Sheng finished speaking, he turned and left.

Wu Qianli ordered Li Guotao: "Notify the entire company immediately and assemble and prepare to set off."

"Yes!"

Li Guotao responded, turned around and left quickly.

Captain Yang heard the voices coming from this side, walked over quickly and asked, "Wu Qianli, you are leaving again."

Wu Qianli smiled slightly and said, "We are doing what we are best at, making a detour to the Watergate Bridge."

Captain Yang nodded slightly and said, "Be careful."

Wu Qianli smiled and said, "Old Yang, let me discuss something with you!"

Captain Yang asked, "What's the matter?"

Wu Qianli smiled and said, "Aren't we going to carry out the mission of blowing up the bridge? We need a lot of explosives."

"Can you give us some shells so we can dismantle them and take out the explosives?"

Captain Yang said angrily, "Go to hell, you're dismantling shells to get explosives. How dare you say that? Which prodigal son of a bitch would do such a thing?"

"If you want to touch my shells, you have to step over my dead body."

"This is not negotiable."

"Haha~!"

Wu Qianli laughed and said, "I knew you would say that. I was just joking with you, but you got so angry."

"These cannons and shells are your lifeblood. You must take good care of them and don't let the enemy blow them up."

Captain Yang said angrily: "Get out of here!"

Wu Qianli was just teasing Lao Yang on purpose. He waved his hand, smiled and turned away.

(End of this chapter)