The heavens start from Changjin Lake

Chapter 43

The temperature at noon today was not bad, but at night, the temperature turned sharply down, and snowflakes floated in the sky. When it was dark, the light snow turned into heavy snow, and it looked like goose feathers had fallen.

Taking advantage of the moonlight, Xia Yuan drove all the way west, showing the power of his night vision skills.

The battle to resist U.S. aggression and aid Korea is divided into the eastern front and the western front. The battle of Changjin Lake on the eastern front started on November 1950, 11. As long as he does not go south, there is no problem. The U.S. troops landed in Incheon and stationed in Xing South, follow the highway all the way north to Changjin Lake, and go south by yourself, which is to send it to the enemy.

What's more, he also met the Seventh Division of the United States on a road.

With a car, traveling is much faster.

Xia Yuan chose a small road. Walking along the small road, the probability of encountering the US military will be very small. This is related to the route and method of the US military at that time.

MacArthur, the commander-in-chief of the United Nations Army, once announced in a high-profile manner that the United Nations Army will arrive at the Yalu River on Christmas Eve and spend a wonderful Christmas by the Yalu River. Smith, the commander of the First Marine Division, is a very cautious guy.

The first battle in North Korea, the Battle of Unsan, hit the U.S. military hard.In Huangcaoling, the 3rd Division of the South Korean Army was hit hard by the People's Volunteers.However, the U.S. military has always believed that the number of volunteers who entered North Korea this time was only 3 or [-]. The U.S. military in the Changjin Lake area plus the Hanyi Army has a full [-] troops, and they are all mechanized troops, with tens of thousands of tanks and armored vehicles. , the five-star general MacArthur is naturally full of confidence.

Smith was just the opposite. Not long ago, they had learned an important news. On their way forward, they would pass through Huangcaoling, which was the place where the South Korean Army was hit hard.It is conceivable that at this time, let the 1st Marine Division march northward, who knows if there will be traps and dangers along the way?
Smith cautiously believes that the troops' northward route has complex terrain, winding and rugged roads, and is surrounded by mountains and mountains. It is simply designed for blocking. Once the 1st Marine Division enters this area, it may be destroyed at any time.Besides, it is militarily stupid to send troops deep into the mountains without flank protection.

Therefore, Smith marched steadily on the way forward, step by step, and established a large number of supply stations in Zhenxingli, Gutuli, Xiajieyuli and Liutanli. When he came to Xiajieyuli, he even built a airstrip.

That is, this airstrip sent away more than 4000 wounded for the [-]st Marine Division during the subsequent retreat of the [-]st Marine Division.If it weren't for this airport, those wounded would have dragged down the [-]st Marine Division, perhaps history would have been rewritten, and the number of enemies annihilated would have doubled.

Xia Yuan knows the behavior style of the US military here. At this time, he has only just arrived in Changjin Lake. Many US troops have just assembled in Changjin Lake, and they will only send reconnaissance troops to conduct reconnaissance in the surrounding areas. This is the case with the military reconnaissance platoon.

late at night.

The snow fell more and more heavily, and the clothes on the car were covered with a thin layer of snow. The air was extremely cold. Even Xia Yuan, who was tightly wrapped, felt the abnormal cold. His eyelashes were covered with frost, and his vision had been closed. When it came to obstacles, the activation of night vision brought him a little convenience.

The sky is getting darker and the snow is getting bigger and bigger.

The wind and snow were howling, Xia Yuan, who stopped the car, rubbed his hands, parked the car in a forest, and broke off some branches to temporarily cover the car.

"We can no longer drive here. If we fail to face the US military, it will be miserable."

After driving in the middle of the night, his marching distance was greatly reduced. It has to be said that four wheels can run faster than two legs.Along the way, apart from the planes in the sky, no other enemies were encountered.

"Put the car here first, I'll go to the front and explore it"

Rubbing his hands, Xia Yuan took out a string of bullet bags from the back of the jeep, filled up the bullet bags on his body, and carefully groped to the high mountains on both sides, and went deeper.

He looked back at the location where he put the car, and after making sure to remember it, he continued to go deeper along the mountains.

After turning over two or three mountains, he suddenly saw a dozen or so figures swaying in the snow in the distance, walking towards him without formation, and they kept saying that he couldn't hear them. If you understand, it turned out to be a soldier from the same class as Syngman Rhee. Their clothes looked a bit worn out, some of the cotton clothes were directly torn to reveal the cotton inside, and even two soldiers didn't even have guns in their hands, as if they had just experienced fighting.

A defeated Western Eighth Army?
Xia Yuan hid along the way, looked at the stick soldier in front of him, and seemed to think of something, "Huangcaoling blocking battle!"

He doesn't know much about the history of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea. In fact, he also maintains a skeptical attitude towards whether the movie Changjin Lake is a parallel world. The appearance of this Western Eighth Army gave him some new ideas.

Perhaps many things in the Battle of Changjin Lake are similar, but not similar.

In the Huangcaoling blocking battle, the 124th Division of the Volunteer Army fought continuously for 13 days and nights, wiped out more than 2700 enemies, and defeated the Third Division of South Korea. People who unfortunately encounter the US military will be shot and killed as volunteers.

And the team I met in front of my eyes is likely to be one of the defeated ones. Now the area around Changjin Lake is snowing heavily, and the visibility at night is very low. They didn't see themselves from a distance. On the contrary, in such a dark night , They can also get better protection. They take advantage of the cover of the night to advance quietly. If they don't have night vision, they are really likely to bump into their faces.

Lying on the snow, Xia Yuan quietly stretched out the big eight, and he wrapped the big eight with a coarse cloth, only revealing the magazine that can press bullets and the black muzzle of the gun.

The temperature in Changjin Lake during the war can be as low as minus [-] degrees. Many soldiers’ rifles are Japanese-style equipment seized during the Anti-Japanese War and American-style and British-style IWC cards captured during the War of Liberation. Many weapons are not of good quality. Without severe cold, some gun chambers can be frozen and deformed. Only when the battle started, it was discovered that the gun could not be fired, the grenade would not explode, and so on.

Xia Yuan also considered this point.

There were only 13 soldiers in this rout. Ye Xing probably had never encountered any enemies, and they walked very quickly. Their direction was probably Changjin Lake.

Aim at the lead stick soldier and lightly pull the trigger.

A gunshot tore through the tranquility of the night.

At this moment, in the valley on the other side of the mountain, a company of volunteers was rushing under heavy snow. The moment they heard the gunshots, the soldiers stopped and lowered their figures. The company commander, Wang Yonghe, raised his head and stared at the front.

An agile figure slid down from the mountain, covered in snow, panting heavily: "Commander, the gunshots are coming from our north. Judging from the sparseness of the gunshots, there are very few people on both sides."

The instructor came over: "We have been on our way since we entered the dynasty. The soldiers were thinly dressed and suffered from frostbite a lot. If we can take down a small group of enemies, it would be a good thing to resupply ourselves. And the direction of the gunshots is very close. It may be that our Brotherhood was attacked by the enemy, maybe why we touched their rear and flanked the Brotherhood back and forth.”

"Instructor, your suggestion is good, everyone checks the equipment, let's go!"

Hearing this, Wang Yonghe immediately asked the soldiers to speed up and head towards the direction where the gunfire sounded.

(End of this chapter)