Start from Changjin Lake

Chapter 96 Have We Been Found?
Time passed little by little.

The sky gradually dimmed.

In winter in North Korea, the night always comes quickly.

At this time, the wind in the mountains was very strong, and heavy snow was spreading on the ground like a quilt. In this weather, Edward, the soldier on duty, stood for a while and sneaked into the tent again.

After a while, a few boring American soldiers drove Edward out, and then watched the snow tie up his clothes tightly, and then ran back and forth on the highland hillside, chasing the poor guy and throwing snowballs .

"Hey, don't run away, kid! Let's have a snowball fight, hahaha..."

"Tom, your hands are so black!"

The soldiers of the Seventh Company lurking around were all stunned on the spot, and Xu Qing was also a little taken aback. These Americans were chasing and playing snowball fights easily under their noses, without any vigilance.

Did they even wonder if they were being too careful?

Just when I was thinking about it.

"I'm coming!"

Suddenly a soldier ran out of the tent, shouting loudly, "Tom, you didn't answer the telephone, the colonel is angry—his team has arrived!"

"Shit!"

The snowball fell, and a few soldiers hurriedly adjusted their uniforms and rushed over.

Soon, Xu Qing faintly heard the sound of rumbling tanks coming from the road below the highland.

In the snow all over the sky and the dimming night, the volunteer soldiers could not see the tanks, but the marching lights and the sound of the huge team marching in, the metal tracks crunching and trembling on the snow and gravel on the road It is extremely clear against the ground, and it is also mentally tense.

All the soldiers in ambush lowered their heads even lower.

The few soldiers ran down the high ground, shouting and guiding the whole team towards the dam behind the high ground.

Xu Qing hid himself in the snow without showing his head, and it was even more important to keep calm at this time. After about twenty minutes, the long queue finally passed, and the loud starting sound gradually faded away.

"Why? Why did the colonel want us to guard nearby, but he lived in directly? Don't they have their own sentries?"

"God knows, if I had known, I would have scolded him a few more words the night before yesterday. I don't want to stay for another second in such a horrible weather!"

With the sound of footsteps, those soldiers returned to the high ground, and they were full of resentment.

A guy directly kicked the canned food that he had eaten last night, and the tin can rolled down the hillside and landed two meters in front of Xu Qing.

In the end, amidst the scolding, this group of people directly put themselves into the tent and could not come out.

Xu Qing pried around for a while to make sure there was no one else around.

He raised his head slightly, the snow layer around him crumbled and fell, and a figure stood up in the snow.

He clenched the Garand rifle that had been wrapped in his clothes, did not speak, but simply made a gesture:
attack!

Ping He and Song Weiguo who were beside them understood instantly, and they also got up slowly, and then they swiped back and made a few gestures.

The soldiers of the reconnaissance squad who were about 70 meters away from them also stood up carefully from their hiding place, each of them put a bayonet on their gun, and followed the footsteps of Xu Qing and the others.

At this time, it was more than four o'clock in the afternoon, and it was not long before the general offensive. The sky in North Korea was also dark, and the air in the mountains was filled with thick icy mist.

This is not the usual mist in the winter morning in the south, but the icy mist filled with a large number of fine ice particles. Xu Qing took a light breath, feeling the cold and shivering in his lungs, which almost made him cough up, and he turned his head quickly Instruct everyone to cover their mouth and nose.

On a small high ground.

The tent was filled with about ten American soldiers. They were warming up to the fire, eating canned food, and drinking coffee. The air was filled with the smell of alcohol. These soldiers were complaining loudly to their commander, complaining Colonel McLean.

The closer Xu Qing and the others got, the more they could hear all kinds of greetings filled with the words "ass" and "fuck". Ping He silently mouthed to Xu Qing, and Xu Qing smiled knowingly.

This guy with few words and honesty has also been misled by these Americans a lot.

The group of them bypassed the mines and barbed wire, if they looked down from the sky at this time:
The tent standing on the top of the high ground is surrounded by snow-white figures, like ghosts, pulling out bayonets wrapped in white cloth one by one and slowly reaching into the tent!

Xu Qing raised his right hand and carefully compared the numbers:

One!

two!
three!
As soon as the "three" gesture was made, everyone suddenly stood up with a clatter, and all pulled up their bayonets and plunged into the tent fiercely.

puff!

puff!

The loud talking inside stopped abruptly, a handful of bright red blood splashed inside the tent, Xu Qing quickly cut open the surface of the tent with a knife, revealing the appearance inside.

The ten soldiers who were sitting around fell into a pile in an instant, and most of them had been stabbed through the heart and lungs, and their hearts were so cold that they were dead!
Only two or three people who were slightly inward missed the vital points and were still alive. A young Caucasian man was the luckiest, with the tips of knives poking a few centimeters beside his face.

He was so frightened that the wine spilled all over the floor, and as Xu Qing opened the side of the tent, his terrified face was illuminated by the dim light!
Xu Qing ignored him, but quickly stabbed the bayonet at Tom who was stretching out his hand to grab the gun!

"Puff" twice!
Pulling it up and dropping it, the silver bayonet stabbed the man to the ground, and there was no movement in an instant.

"what……"

Look back at this white young man.

He looked at Tom, who had been bullying him all the time, and died. His whole body trembled with fright, and the wine bottle fell to the ground with a clang.

He hurriedly raised his hands and trembled: "...I, I surrender!"

"Hands, slowly over your head."

Xu Qing stared at him and spoke.

Whenever there is any wrongdoing, he will brake instantly.

"I promise to cooperate."

This white young man was Edward who had been bullied by these soldiers before, and the unlucky guy who liked to watch Captain America.

He looked at the dripping blood continuously dripping from the triangular surface of Xu Qing's bayonet, and knelt directly on the ground, holding his hands above his head cooperatively.

After hesitating for a while, he said again: "Well, I don't know whether to say it...Really, I'm afraid of misunderstanding, I still have a pistol in my pocket, can I hand it over?"

Other soldiers also came in, Xu Qing pointed at this guy: "Guo Wei, take off his weapons and things."

"Yes!"

Song Weiguo quickly stepped forward and removed a bunch of debris from his body, including the two grenades on his chest, the gun in his pocket, and even a love letter from a woman in the innermost part of his clothes.

"I have a lot of information to tell you, please don't hurt me!"

The guy saw that the bayonets were still pointed at him, and the love letter was opened for inspection. He felt as if he had no more secrets, so he opened his mouth quickly.

Xu Qing was noncommittal.

In fact, they have already heard a lot of news from these people in the past few days.

They have confirmed that this American team is the 31st Regiment of the 31th Division of the Army, that is, the famous Polar Bear Regiment. The team that has just started is the regiment headquarters of the [-]st Regiment and a tank guard company under it.

This group of soldiers also basically lost their value.

"Finally, I have a clear idea!" Song Weiguo whispered, "Just seeing these guys eat and drink and cook on fire these days makes me very angry."

Xu Qing smiled, he thought for a while, and asked this guy: "Your colonel led the team from Changjin to Hubei, why didn't you continue walking, but stopped here?"

Edward was shocked in his heart, and then he realized that these people had been staring at the dark place for an unknown amount of time, and he said anxiously:

"Sir, that's because the Koreans on the west side were beaten to pieces two days ago. Mr. Colonel thinks it's impossible to meet the main force on this side..."

Xu Qing understood that what he was talking about was actually the planned general attack on the 25th, but the western front started, and their side delayed it by two days.

He looked at Pinghe and whispered in his ear, "It seems to be about the same as we expected. Let's tie him up and take him back to the rear. We'll interrogate him if there's any news."

This Edward had a cloth strip stuffed in his mouth, his hands were tied tightly, and he was taken away quickly, and he went back to report the letter.

soon.

The other teams of the Seventh Company and the Third Battalion who had been waiting for a long time at the rear quietly approached.

"How about it?"

After Qianli came up, he immediately asked Xu Qing.

"No problem. These unsightly sentries have been pulled out, and now is a good opportunity to attack!"

Tan Ziwei also came up, heard the conversation between the two, and nodded: "Okay, it's time for the general attack soon, we will ambush on this high ground, it is dark now, the Americans are running all the way, it is we who attack good moment."

"Yes!"

All the soldiers quickly divided up the supplies and clothes found in the tent, and then lay on the high ground, waiting for the last time.

Some people don't know how Changjin Lake was fought. Is it a crowd of people?Or is the army pressing the border to advance to the Americans?

Many soldiers on the battlefield are not clear, they only know their combat missions, and strictly obey the orders of their superiors.

And actually.

If these American teams want to go north, they have to travel along a mountain road, because this is the only road in the Changjin Lake area that can be used by tanks and armored troops. The whole team grows like a snake and extends for more than 50 kilometers. .

Stopping for a rest halfway, it is natural to look for a place that is easy to defend and difficult to attack, such as the 1100 highland in Xinxingli.

From the perspective near the tent, the 1100 highland is near the dam of Changjin Lake, and they can even see the tanks parked on the embankment in the dark.

The most conspicuous place on the dam is a brightly lit detached house, which was the water and electricity house of the Koreans in the past. There are some sentry posts around to park vehicles. Most of the soldiers have pitched tents near the dam, and some of them have retracted into the tents. They didn't come out at all, and some hurriedly set up some fortifications around them under the order, and then hurried back to warm up.

Apparently, these people don't think there's an enemy around them from the top down.

The temperature at this time has reached minus 37 degrees, which is the coldest winter in North Korea in more than 50 years. The extremely low temperature not only tests the enemy, but also tests the soldiers of the volunteer army.

Xu Qing looked back and saw that the soldiers lying all over the mountains and fields on this high ground were all blushing from the cold, and many of them were trembling slightly. It was not fear, but a natural physiological reaction of the body under extreme freezing.

Xu Qing took out the pocket watch on her chest and looked at it. It is now 27:27 pm on the [-]th...

"Don't look at it, we've been waiting for two or three days, it's not bad!"

Qianli whispered to him beside him.

Xu Qing nodded silently, but did not move her eyes away.

He watched the pointer on the dial move second by second, advancing one frame at a time, and finally reached the moment of four thirty, when a high-pitched bugle sounded faintly from the distant mountain!
After the bugle, there was the sound of gunfire scattered in the sky. Even though it was far away, everyone could hear some slight sounds, and such sounds are so disturbing at this moment...

It was the call of comrades in arms in the distance, but it also awakened the people who were waiting here!

Even the individual American soldiers below and above the dam looked around in a daze.

Song Weiguo asked: "There's too much movement, we might be discovered!"

Xu Qing shook his head: "No, we are going to attack."

And Qianli was already holding the whistle with one hand:

"Fire ready, artillery ready—"

The sharp whistle and the exciting bugle sounded suddenly on the top of the mountain, and all the soldiers stood up in the snow.

Boom, boom!
The continuous artillery fire that had been prepared for a long time was fired on the mountain in an instant, drawing bright trails of light in the dark night, and bombed away.

Under this bright light, the blurred figures of the soldiers wrapped in pieces of fluttering white cloth were charging, forming hundreds of "V"-shaped combat groups in twos and threes, and suddenly jumped out of the mountain!

(End of this chapter)