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On November 11, the 29st Regiment attacked southwest with all its strength, trying to break through and threaten Xiajieyuli. It encountered resolute resistance from the 31th and 26th Regiments of the 76th Division of the 227th Army. By 228 pm, the 4st Regiment returned to its original starting point.

The 26th Army joined the Changjin Lake battlefield, which greatly changed the balance of forces in the entire campaign.

In the original combat plan, Zhisi planned to use the 26th Army as the reserve force for the entire Eastern Front, and the position was very far back, not at Changjin Lake at all, but at Langlin Lake on the north side of Changjin Lake.The first reason is the misjudgment of the total number and total combat effectiveness of the First Marine Division; the second is the fear that the 100th and 7nd regiments of the 17th Meibu Division, which are marching on the border between China and North Korea more than 32 kilometers to the northeast, will march westward.If the 17th and 32nd regiments march westward, and the 26th Army starts from Langlin Lake, they will be able to block this wave of U.S. troops head-on on the border between China and North Korea without going far.

But in this way, only 8 divisions participated in the battle of Changjin Lake.

(In the 90s, the military exchanges between China and the United States, the two sides reviewed the game together, and China discovered that the US troops in Changjin Lake were not 1.5 but 3, and the United States also discovered that the volunteers who attacked them were not 11 divisions but 8 divisions. Frostbite and early reduction of personnel, only 6 people participated in the war)

That's why from November 11, Tang Hua sent telegrams to the chairman and the commander-in-chief every day at the 23 Center in Jilin, nagging about it for three days.

11月30日夜，对31团的总攻开始。为协调来自两个军的3个步兵师，27军80师暂时划归第26军指挥，30日晚8时，5个步兵团几乎同时突破31团的防御阵地，将31团完全压缩在一个很小的区域里。

Xinxingli Village became the last shelter of the 7st Regimental Combat Team of the 31th Division of Mibu.The acting commander, Lieutenant Colonel Don Faith, could hear the booming sound of shells exploding, and he could tell that the volunteers attacking him not only never used heavy artillery, but now the 75mm howitzers hardly fired. , It may be a shortage of ammunition, only mortars are still shooting at Xinxingli Village.

"Before retreating, we need to blow up the equipment that has no combat value, especially them." Feith pointed to several tanks beside him.

This is the anti-aircraft artillery company assigned to the 7st regiment by the 31th division of the US Army. It is equipped with 6 self-propelled anti-aircraft guns, which are installed on the chassis of the M24 Chaffee tank with double-barreled 40mm "Bofors" guns.During the daytime battles on the 29th and 30th, these 6 self-propelled anti-aircraft guns fired flat, causing great losses to the Volunteers, and they were better than any tank or self-propelled artillery.

However, during the two days of fighting, the ammunition of the self-propelled artillery was almost exhausted.The reason why anti-aircraft guns are easy to use is that the 40mm "Bofors" gun has a rate of fire of up to 300 rounds per minute, which has a strong ability to suppress infantry, but the shells are consumed quickly. The 31st regiment collected all the inventory and the remaining ammunition of each vehicle, and barely filled one of the self-propelled anti-aircraft guns with 2/3 of the shells.The remaining 5 vehicles were planted with explosives by engineers, and they were blown into parts one by one in the early morning.

"It's past midnight. In the early hours of the morning, we will try for the last time. Follow the route of the breakout battle two days ago, with vehicles familiar with the road that participated in the breakout battle two days ago. If you encounter the Chinese army blocking, don't stop. Fire while breaking through." Feith put the tank cap on his head and jumped onto the M24 light tank.

On the morning of December 12, the 1st regiment placed the wounded on the truck, and started the last breakthrough along the road with a self-propelled anti-aircraft gun as the forward.

In order to stand out from the encirclement, the 31st regiment cannot bypass the 1221 highland.Feth concentrated the last two companies, and about 300 U.S. troops, supported by tanks and self-propelled antiaircraft guns, launched a final assault on Height 1221. Feth himself also rushed to the front line with a tank.After a fierce battle, the 31st regiment was defeated, and the last hope was extinguished.The air strikes by U.S. aircraft made the 31st regiment even worse-the first wave of bombing by carrier-based aircraft fell on the retreating 31st regiment.Then the two sides entered into close combat, and it became even more difficult for the air force to distinguish friend from foe, so they had to give up air strikes.

Feith's tank was hit by a 40mm rocket launcher, the tracks and guide wheels were scattered all over the place, and he himself was slightly injured.Climbing out of the tank, Feith faced volunteer soldiers rushing down from Height 1221. The 40mm self-propelled anti-aircraft gun fired the last round of shells and became a useless iron lump.When the driver of the self-propelled antiaircraft gun opened the hatch, six or seven volunteer soldiers had gathered nearby, either pointing a rifle at him, or pulling out a grenade and making a gesture of fortifying it into the self-propelled antiaircraft gun.The driver and several crew members were captured with their hands up.Feith himself did not enjoy the treatment of a prisoner of war. During the overwhelming counterattack of the Volunteers, he was hit by a 30-type semi-automatic rifle at a distance of 50 meters and fell in the snow.

31团的残余——半履带车和运送兵员、伤兵的卡车组成的车队，在盘湖公路被77师一个团团团围住。在火箭筒摧毁头尾车之后，31团的车队趴在公路，77师很快冲入31团的车队，用手榴弹和炸药包将31团最后的抵抗力量摧毁。12月1日下午3时，美步7师第31团级战斗队——含两个步兵营、1个自行高炮连、1个坦克连、1个汽车连、1个医疗连在内，2000多人在朝鲜的征途暂时告一段落，仅有约200人四散逃出了包围圈，其余全部被志愿军歼灭于新兴里、后浦、泗水里地区。

It was also almost at the same time, on the afternoon of December 12, the two groups of enemies in the northwest of Xiajieyuli-the 1th and 5th regiments of the 7st Marine Division and the two battalions of Xinxingli, after the past four days, they persevered and did not count casualties. After the breakout battle, they finally got together.The two groups, one with 13000 people and the other with 2000 people, merged into a large group, with a total strength of about 4000 people.This is actually the original configuration of this unit when it set off to move north, but it was divided into two pieces by the surprise attack of the Volunteers on the night of November 11.

Although the 31st regiment in the northeast direction has disappeared, as long as the two groups attack violently from two directions starting tomorrow and occupy Xiajieyuli again, the [-]st Marine Division can retreat completely.As the sky gradually darkened, the [-]st Marine Division in Xinxingli built fortifications as quickly as possible, opened the airdropped material boxes to take out food and ammunition, and before launching a new round of offensive tomorrow, they must first ensure that they will not be attacked by the volunteers at night. Offensive down.

On the snow-capped mountains on both sides of Xinxingli, commanders and fighters of the 94th Division of the Volunteer Army quietly began to march.On the night of the 27th, the battle between the 5th and 7th Regiment clusters and the Xixingli cluster was divided. In fact, the Volunteers were very reluctant to divide, because the distance between the two clusters was too close. The distance between the two U.S. forces is less than 94 kilometers, and the blocking position is facing the enemy from the front and back. Even if the volunteers can use the snow-capped mountains on both sides to set up cold-gun blocking positions, this dividing line is not easy to maintain.After several days of fighting, the 5th Division decided to take the initiative to withdraw from the position, allowing the enemies of the two clusters to reunite for the time being, and the 94th Division moved to the northwest of Xiajieyu Ri to build a more solid blocking position with the 94th Division.

"The location here is good. When the enemy enters from the road, we have an effective range of hundreds of meters. What is the name of this mountain?" The commander of the 94th Division asked the commander of the 59th Division who had been deployed here before.

"This place is called Dead Eagle Ridge."

……

On the afternoon of December 12, when Smith, the commander of the 1st Marine Division, was looking to the north in Fushengli, Tang Hua was looking to the south from the snow field near Jiaohe in Jilin.

Changjin Lake is just to the south and slightly east of Jiaohe, with a straight-line distance of less than 400 kilometers.

The temperature is more than 30 degrees below zero, and it will be more than 40 degrees below zero in a few days. Tang Hua solved the winter clothes.

The most critical point of the first battle at Changjin Lake was Xiajieyuli, which Tang Hua solved by nagging.

Three divisions of the 26th Army went south to join the battle, and Tang Hua solved it with nagging.

The entire corps, the 11 divisions of the three armies did not have a single heavy artillery, and Tang Hua couldn't solve it.

Tang Hua couldn't solve the harsh air strikes by the US military.

There is no way to solve it.So far, Tang Hua has played all the cards in his hand. The only thing he can do now is to place his hope on the 9th Corps of the Volunteer Army-this army composed of the best fighters of the Jianghuai River and the first-class fighting force in the three fields, can Whether to fight for the best ending?

Chapter 93, one side is stalemate, the other side is broken

"At midnight, moderate snow turned to light snow. The lowest temperature is unknown. Just half an hour ago, at 12:2 on December 15, our mercury thermometer froze."

"This afternoon, the company carried out the third rotation. The first and second platoons of the 1st Battalion and the 3rd Company suffered most casualties in the battle in the previous few days and withdrew from the position. I led the third platoon to continue to stand here. The third platoon fought If the 58th Division is wiped out, there will be other troops on top. We will be like a nail, firmly nailed here, so that none of the American devils in the encirclement can go back."

On the south line of Xiajieyuli, Yang Gensi, commander of the 58rd Company of the 172nd Regiment of the 3th Division, first spread out half of the American sleeping bags that had been torn apart by bombs, and then spread his own sleeping bags on the mats in the hastily dug snow nest at the foot of the mountain.Getting into the sleeping bag, Yang Gensi wrote a short diary and fell asleep.

"At 12 o'clock in the morning on December 2, the temperature was minus 2 degrees. My mercury thermometer has frozen, and only the alcohol thermometer carried by the medical soldier still has readings."

"From Liutanli to Xixingli, we can only advance 2 kilometers a day. From 5:[-] p.m. to [-]:[-] a.m., everyone in the [-]th Marine Regiment is digging fortifications. Sandbags, firepower points, artillery holes, and artillery positions , watchtowers, telephone lines. An excavator is not as good as a pickaxe against frozen ground. At night, when digging holes in the ice, I always feel that someone is watching us.”

"The airdropped materials are both small and unreasonable. Canned luncheon meat, canned broad beans, and canned fish, all the cans froze the moment they hit the ground, and either lit a fire to roast them at dangerous nights, or they could only be piled up for defense Fortifications. Sometimes I envy the bricks of Chinese soldiers. Although they are hard and chew like they are eating fodder, they are dry and will not freeze no matter how low the temperature is...Evening, Jerian Grant Trying to dig fava beans out of a frozen can with a bayonet, a reporter accompanying the army asked Grant, 'If God could give you one thing, what would you wish for it?' Grant replied, 'Give it to me tomorrow'."

Sergeant Kay Field of the 5st Battalion and 1nd Company of the 2th Marine Regiment put his diary in his pocket, prayed in the tent, and lay down full of sorrow.

"It went through! The fourth direction yielded results!"

Tang Hua tiredly got up from the desk and chair, and walked to the console where the operators of the supercomputer hall were on duty.After taking the deciphered message note, Tang Hua glanced at it, and it was correct.

August 12th at 2 am.

Eight days, a full eight days, including the two suspensions to crack M-209, it took a full seven days to crack the US military-grade code.During these seven days, the T50 was turned on for 22 hours a day. Because of the huge heat generation, the heating boilers in the cave only need to turn on 2/3 of the firepower to maintain the temperature.

After looking at the M-209 key of the first layer of encryption and the code table of the second layer of encryption, Tang Hua walked to the front of the T50 modified machine to make a virtual machine of the U.S. military-grade password.When the virtual machine was programmed and the first ciphertext was input and the plaintext was successfully spit out, Tang Hua called one of the operators over and asked him to continue to translate the military-grade telegrams of the US military one by one, and find a place to sleep by himself. went.

In Xixingli, the flat ground on the west side of the camp of the 5th and 7th regiments of the 9st Marine Division is the airdrop field for receiving airdropped materials.At 4 a.m., the first batch of four C-47 transport planes arrived at the scheduled location and dropped off supplies.Five batches of a total of 20 planes were airdropped at low altitude, and soldiers from the First Marine Division came out to collect supplies.However, just as the soldiers were happily running towards various large boxes, more than a dozen streams of white smoke emerged from the mountains on the north side of Xixingli and flew straight towards the airdrop field.

"Ah! Ah!" Bobby Portis rolled in pain in the snow.The rockets launched by the Volunteers caught the First Marine Division by surprise, and three or five unlucky ghosts were killed immediately. One of them was directly hit by the rocket, and his body tissues were blown everywhere.Bobby Portis' right leg was cut off by shrapnel from the thigh above the knee, and the whole person was useless.

"Bobby! Look at me! Open your eyes and look at me!" The medic dragged Bobby out of the danger zone, and then dragged him onto the stretcher.Use the fastest speed to stop bleeding, sprinkle hemostatic powder, and give him a shot of cardiotonic.But it was of no avail, and Bobby's heart had stopped when he was taken to the field hospital.

In the Battle of Changjin Lake, the 108mm rocket launcher became a sharp weapon in harassment operations. The 108mm rocket launcher has a maximum range of 7500 meters. The rocket launcher is small in size and can be pulled out of the snow cave quietly, and it can come to the last round when it is aimed at the U.S. military camp.However, the planes in the sky of the U.S. military are not vegetarian. When the rocket launcher is launched, the huge flames and smoke will instantly expose the target, followed by bombs and machine guns.Rocket launchers aren't particularly important though.Even if the launcher is destroyed, you can still use the emergency launch method. The soldiers in the two squads each carry a rocket, find a suitable place on the mountain, put down the rocket and aim at the target area, and then press the electric ignition. Within a distance of 4000 meters, coverage can generally be achieved.

"This is a telegram from Walker to the United Nations Command in Tokyo!"

Deng Hua received a newly translated confidential telegram from the staff officer.

"The Chinese army that our army is facing has at least 6 corps and 18 divisions, with an estimated number of 16.5 people, and the troops I can currently use for combat are only the 24st Cavalry Division, 25th, 187th Division, 2th Airborne Regiment and two The British Brigade, relying on these forces alone, cannot support the establishment of a continuous solid line of defense around the waist of the Korean peninsula... Moreover, the [-]nd Infantry Division is now in extreme danger. If rescue is not provided, they will suffer disastrous consequences."

Deng Hua smiled. The U.S. military finally knew how many troops there were on the western front.

"...The Chinese army is entering the area east of Sunchon, and is establishing a new blockade line on the road from Wonsan to Pyongyang. It is possible to detour westward at any time and form a new encirclement of our army north of Pyongyang."

"Now, they finally understand Mr. Peng's double-layer detour tactics." Deng Hua pointed to the telegram sent by the commander of the Eighth Army Walker to the First Army and the Ninth Army. Draw a straight line at the waist of the bee to establish a line of defense; MacArthur refused and asked to continue to test the attack; Walker strongly opposed the first two opinions, and he wanted to rescue first and then retreat. Guess whose opinion won in the end?"

"Now Washington, Tokyo, and the Eighth Army may have no room for debate. They can only respond passively."

Tang Hua completed the programming of the virtual machine, went back to sleep until almost noon, got up and wandered in the cave, and then wandered to the staff information center.

"After the U.S. military's military-level code is deciphered, we can judge the U.S. military's movements more accurately," said Deng Hua, who spent the morning analyzing the U.S. military's communication messages at various levels. "

Tang Hua: "But the most important thing now is the Eastern Front. What do the Seventh Meibu Division, the First Marine Division and Almond think?"

"On November 11, Almond authorized all Changjin Lake troops to be under the command of the 29st Marine Division. The main purpose was to transfer the 31st Regiment of the 31th Meibu Division to Smith. From last night to this morning, Smith has been calling the 31st Marine Division. The headquarters of the [-]st Regiment, of course the [-]st Regiment didn’t respond, they were wiped out yesterday afternoon.”

It is normal for the 31st regiment to be wiped out, and it would be a ghost if it was not wiped out.

Tang Hua came over and grabbed the telegram, let's just read the original telegram.