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Chapter 91, Warriors Turned into Gold Stars

Jiaohe, 50 Center.

"The key of the South Korean Army's M-209 telegram was changed last night. Now that the amount of ciphertext has been collected, it is necessary to stop the 'X cracking' and run the cracking program of M-209."

"The cracking of the South Korean army's tactical radio station is an urgent matter. Let's interrupt the 'X cracking' first." Tang Hua looked at the progress. The cracking of the second direction has been calculated for almost 24 hours, and it may take a while.After completing the second direction, it may not be possible to crack the military-level code of the US military.

"Old Wang, it's up to you to crack the program and keep an eye on it. I'll go outside to cool off."

The cave dug by the little devil is unbelievably large. Walking through the underground passage, you can hear the echo of footsteps.This made Tang Hua feel uncomfortable everywhere.Consecutive days of anxiety and uneasiness, no mood to sing, no mood to joke, no mood to eat, only to go outside for a while in minus [-] degrees snow to feel better inside.

At the guard dormitory at the entrance of the cavern, Tang Hua used his hands and feet to change into his ski clothes, while Deng Hua passed by the door.

"Little Tang, I found that walking in the snow is good. The air is cold, and my whole thinking has sharpened. No, I'll go out and freeze for a while."

"Well, it's good, that's how it is."

"I asked Xiao Song and Xiao Peng to put on their ski suits and follow you. There should be no accidents in skiing."

"Chief of Staff Deng, no need, no guards. I don't ski difficult ones, I just wander around on gentle slopes."

"Don't skate difficult ones? Then why did you hit a tree yesterday?"

Tang Hua: "..."

Carrying skis and poles on his shoulders, Tang Hua stepped out of the gate of the cave, and a gust of cold wind blew in his face.

Why did you bump into a tree yesterday? You don’t have to ask. It’s because I didn’t concentrate.

This is still the case today, people are in the snowdrifts of Jilin, and their hearts are on North Korea.

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On the night of November 11, the 27th Corps attacked and occupied Xiajieyuli at night.

On the morning of the 28th, the US military on the southern front launched a counterattack.The southern line is the headquarters of the First Marine Division. There is a marine regiment plus three battalions that can participate in offensive battles, plus the British Royal Marine Corps. The total number is more than 9000.

Xiajieyuli is a small town built on the flat land between mountains, which is not conducive to defense. The defensive positions of the 58th and 59th divisions are mainly located in the three mountains in the south, west, and northeast.Before the U.S. tanks rushed over, the air strikes taught the 9th Corps of the Volunteer Army a lesson.In the town of Xiajieyuli, one regiment after another battalion that was counting transshipment supplies was repeatedly bombed and strafed by U.S. carrier-based aircraft, causing more than 300 casualties, which exceeded the sum of the casualties of the regiment's attack the night before.

A considerable part of these casualties was due to volunteer soldiers braving air strikes to grab supplies.

After paying huge casualties, the available materials were finally moved from Xiajieyu to the surrounding mountains controlled by our army.These materials exchanged for the lives of volunteer soldiers will play a big role in the future, especially the nearly 9 tons of food.Now that the fried noodles of the 7th Corps have been eaten up, the troops began to eat the compressed biscuits at the bottom of the press box that they carried with them, which was enough for each person for 7 days. After 9 days, if you can't get supplies from the rear, you can only eat snow.The capture of Xiajieyuli, on average, can give each person in the [-]th Corps an additional three days of rations. This is likely to be the last straw that changed the balance of the battle.

Perhaps this should also be thanks to the unusual interest of the U.S. military pilots in the ammunition in the material accumulation area in Xiajieyu. Two-thirds of the bombs were thrown at the area where the ammunition was accumulated.In fact, most of these bullets and shells are not available to the Volunteer Army, but food—the Chinese and American militaries can really use it, and the Volunteer Army lacks this.

In addition to the air raid on Xiajieyuli, the defense line established by our army was also subjected to intensive low-altitude bombing and strafing on the hills south of Xiajieyuli.The U.S. Navy is now deploying the "Valley Forge" and "Philippine Sea" in the Sea of ​​Japan, and soon the "Princeton" will also enter the theater.There is no Chinese or Soviet air force in this area, and the three hundred aircraft on the three "Essex" class aircraft carriers can all be used for ground bombing attacks.The most regrettable loss in the air raid was that the hidden position of the Artillery Regiment of the 20th Army was discovered by U.S. pilots, and it was immediately attacked by intensive air strikes. Eighteen 18mm rocket launchers were destroyed or 108 were damaged, and nearly half of the 13mm light howitzers were also destroyed.

After the carrier-based aircraft flying all over the sky disappeared, 36 heavy artillery pieces and dozens of heavy tanks took the lead, and the attack of the First Marine Division officially launched.The U.S. military's counterattack on the first day almost put the 58th Division into crisis. The blocking front was stabilized after the first regiment as the reserve team urgently sent two reinforcement companies to the front line.The severe cold of minus 58 degrees made it extremely difficult to dig fortifications on the mountain. Many troops were unable to build trenches and only dug some foxholes.But even under such difficult conditions, the 7th Division still let the attacking US troops lay down 4 "Pershing" and more than a dozen half-track armored vehicles. After fighting until [-] pm, the US troops finally retreated.

Compared with the difficulties on the Eastern Front, November 11 was a day when the situation on the Eastern Front was completely reversed.

After occupying Tokugawa and opening the breakthrough, the 38th Division of the 113th Army set off on the afternoon of the 27th. After a 14-hour forced march, two small-scale battles were fought on the way. On the morning of the 28th, the 72.5th Division walked 113 kilometers continuously to Sansuoli.The 113th Regiment of the 338th Division, which arrived first, directly attacked the positions of the South Korean Army without rest, annihilating a company of defending enemies and occupying the commanding heights.Then other units of the 113th Division, a howitzer battalion of the 38th Army Artillery Regiment, and two 1 rocket launchers arrived one after another. The 2th Division took advantage of the situation to capture Longyuanli not far to the west of Sansuoli, cutting off the U.S. forces near the Qingchuan River. The rear of the 108 divisions. On the afternoon of the 113th, after the news of the fall of Sansuoli and Longyuanli was sent back to Washington, Bradley, who was sleeping in the early morning, was woken up by his secretary and picked up the phone. The result was a situation worse than the 3st Marine Division being divided and surrounded. information.

These are all the battle reports Tang Hua received yesterday.It is noon on November 11th.

The battle situation on the Eastern Front will only become more difficult day by day.

This is also the biggest reason why Tang Hua has been restless for several days.

After one night, the volunteers in Xiajieyu were strengthening their positions, and the [-]st Marine Division was also regrouping to prepare for the next day's attack.

On the 29th, the 5st Marine Division not only threatened Xiajieyu-ri from the south, but also to the northwest, the two U.S. battalions in Xixingling and the 7th and 79th Marine Regiment clusters were returning to aid. The 7th Division's diversionary attack could not fully prevent the advance of the US military.Fortunately, the 31st Regiment of the [-]th Division of the US Army has been locked, but facing threats from two directions, the volunteers in Xiajieyu still have to divide their troops to defend in two directions.

On the southern blocking line, the 58rd Regiment of the 173th Division had to withdraw to rest after a day of fighting yesterday, and the 172nd Regiment went up.

The 172rd Company of the 1st Battalion of the 3nd Regiment was responsible for the blocking mission of the Jinsongling position southwest of the 1031 Highland outside Xiajieyuli.

"The road in front of Xiaokaoling is one of the two passages for the US military to go northward on the southern line, and it is also an important place related to the safety of Xiajieyu. Even if you hold this high ground, you will block the enemy's counterattack plan. Remember , You must not even allow the enemy to climb up the small kaolin, and you must resolutely wipe out the enemy before the Jinsong position."

Yang Gensi, the commander of the 3rd company, saluted: "Don't worry, the battalion commander, the people are in the position!"

Entering the Jinsongling position, Yang Gensilian was covered by incendiary bombs from US aircraft.The napalm bomb still melted a layer of snow covered by the position in an environment of minus [-] degrees.The fire on the position has not been extinguished, and the howitzers of the US military launched a violent attack on Jinsongling again, and the shells fell on the position one after another.After the bombardment ended, the dark American troops rushed towards Yang Gensi's position in Jinsongling.

"About one company of the U.S. military is charging up the mountain. With our strength, we can beat them down," Yang Gensi pointed to the U.S. troops who were dismounting from their vehicles about three kilometers away. "There is a battalion there." U.S. military. The key to the problem now is that we must destroy the follow-up reinforcements of the U.S. military!"

In the second trench, the soldiers took out the 108mm rockets they carried and placed them one by one on the slope in front of the trench.In yesterday's air strike, most of the 20mm rocket launchers of the 108th Army were destroyed. The 58th and 59th divisions could only distribute the excess rockets to each unit and launch them in an emergency manner.

After the rockets were placed, Yang Gensi took the aiming gauge, corrected the direction of the rockets one by one, and then attached electrodes with wires to the tails of the rockets.

"Eighteen, nineteen, twenty, okay, the first round, 20 rounds first!"

Taking the detonating battery box from the campfire and plugging in the wires, Yang Gensi shouted: "The first trench, retreat to the left and right!"

What Yang Gensi saw was the 3rd Combat Engineer Battalion of the 11st Marine Division, one of the two battalions driven out from Xiajieyu on the night of November 27.

Withdrew from Xiajieyu, the counterattack engineer battalion on the 28th did not participate in the battle.In the battle on the 28th, the 1nd Battalion of the 2st Marine Regiment suffered heavy losses in front of the Volunteer Army's defense line, and the Combat Engineer Battalion, which suffered a lot of casualties the night before, also had to fight.

In front is the 1031 highland.Outside the limit range of heavy machine guns, the 3rd Combat Engineer Battalion jumped out of trucks and armored vehicles to check firearms and ammunition, fuel tanks for flamethrowers on their backs, carry mortars, and take out blasting cartridges and explosive boxes from packing boxes.In front of them, the only combat infantry company of the 1nd Battalion, 2st Marine Regiment, was charging the high ground.

When the soldiers of the Combat Engineer Battalion looked at the distant hill again, they found that there were more than ten or twenty streams of white smoke pulling out from the hill, and the end point of the white smoke seemed to be near them.

"Katyusha! Get hidden!"

Before the words fell, a dense explosion sounded in the crowd of the 3rd Combat Engineer Battalion.

"Katyusha? Why is it always Katyusha!" Smith yelled into the walkie-talkie, "There are Katyushas here, and Katyushas there! Might show up in daytime battles! Even if they had a Katyusha rocket that survived yesterday's airstrike, now if they dare to pull it out of the snow cave, within 5 minutes the US Navy bombs will drop on the head of their rocket Come on, get it Billy?!"

Major Billy Gay, commander of the 3rd Combat Engineer Battalion, rolled his eyes in despair.At the moment when Division Commander Smith reprimanded him, the 1031 Heights, from a small hill near the Gongwei Heights, pulled out about 20 white smoke, and the rockets followed the precise trajectory to the 3rd Combat Engineer Battalion. fly to...

Chapter 92, Dead Eagle Ridge

In Sansuoli and Changjin Lake, the Chinese and American militaries finally realized the true strength of their opponents.

The 38th Army interspersed with the three places and shocked the entire western front. When the U.S. military mobilized all its mobile forces, the two regiments of the 25st American Cavalry Division went from the south and the 38th Division of the American Army from the north, trying to retake the three places, but three days later, they were defeated. The positions of the [-]th Army, which were flanked by the north and the south, stood still.Around Sansuoli, Longyuanli, Songgufeng, Gexian, and many unnamed highlands, the U.S. military suffered huge casualties and was still unable to get through the road to retreat south.

In Changjin Lake, the 58th and 59th divisions seized Xiajieyuli, which was also a key move that related to the life and death of the local.In other words, Xiajieyu terrified the U.S. troops on the Eastern Front more than Sansuo ri.After Xiajieyu was captured, the four groups of U.S. troops who were divided and surrounded were not only unable to support each other, but they were also unable to immediately launch a three-way counterattack against Xiajieyu for the time being. The volunteers of the 9th Corps have all been interspersed in place, and they can launch as long as they go down the mountain. attack.

In the first two days of the battle, only the southern front troops of the 5st Marine Division could directly attack Xiajieyu-ri.The 7th and 7th Marine Regiment clusters in the northwest can still protect themselves temporarily, but the 31st Regimental Combat Team of the [-]th Meibu Division in the northeast is in great trouble.

After cutting off the main force of the U.S. military on the Eastern Front, the next step of the 9th Corps' operations is three questions: which one to eat first, when to finish eating, and how many to eat at most.

“电令奉悉，决遵指示逐步实现。我兵团现已分割包围敌军，正集中力量分批歼灭中。在新兴里地区，拟以26军76、77师协同27军80师，共集中9个步兵团及26军炮兵团，以8个步兵团进攻、1个步兵团阻击援敌，先歼灭美步7师31团级战斗队；以58师及89师两个团在下碣隅里南阻击陆战一师第1团集群；以27军79师、94师在西兴岭阻止陆战一师第5、7团集群与美军西兴里集群汇合；以59师在下碣隅里西北阻击，阻止美军西兴里集群攻击下碣隅里。第88师为总预备队。”

On the hill to the south of Xiajieyuli, the volunteers knew what a "real beauty" is.Our army has accurate information. The U.S. troops attacking north from Gutuli and Fushengli consisted of a first marine division, a regiment and three battalions, with a total strength of 9000 people, including more than 5000 combat troops, but only these 5000 people The 58th Division, which was attacking and defending in place, attacked for three consecutive days, and even beat the 1th Division with a total staff of 58 people into embarrassment, and many defense lines were in crisis.

Every morning, the volunteers were greeted by repeated bombing by dozens of U.S. aircraft, followed by frantic scrubbing of the ground by 105mm and 155mm howitzers.Since the U.S. military was divided, aircraft carriers on the Sea of ​​Japan dispatched 300 sorties every day, most of which were to bomb the hills south of Xiagaru-ri.It is a routine operation for the US howitzers to tilt thousands of shells to a company's position. Combined with the bombing of aircraft heavy bombs, the trenches of many positions were almost flattened.

12月1日，下碣隅里南线的阻击战进入第4天。58师的两个团被打残，南线有一个方向的阻击阵地失守。58师动用最后一个有战斗力的团发动夜袭，这才在12月2日凌晨重新夺回阵地。

While Xiajieyuli was holding on to the southern line, Xinxingli in the northeast was finally about to kill the 31st U.S. regiment.