Chapter 89: On-site Defense

The three-day rest was quickly spent in ease and joy. At this time, a batch of supplies from the rear was transported to fill the soldiers' stomachs for the time being. Otherwise, I would have to use the few trucks of food buried in the government tunnel.

It was just dark that night. With the order of the whole army's rest, the soldiers packed their luggage and advanced south again. At this time, I couldn't help but feel a little up and down. At this time, it was time for President Peng to realize the danger of holding back the footsteps of the volunteer army. If history does not follow the original track, then...

"Instructor Zhao!" Thinking of this, I couldn't help but chased me twice and ran to Zhao Changshun, who had just returned to the team: "How is it? Have you been going well these days?"

"Oh! Stop mentioning it!" Director Zhao's eyes were covered with blood. He knew at a glance that he must have spent a lot of effort to travel around in the past few days: "I have found several people and also found old comrades from the Volunteer Military Daily, but they all said that we were just speculations, unfounded speculations, and they also said that the large army will soon launch a general attack on US imperialism. Such wrong remarks should not be made, and we should have confidence in our own troops..."

"Um!" I responded and didn't say anything. Although I had known this would be the result, I still disappointed me now.

What if history does not develop according to its original trajectory? I thought with distress, and I, a small soldier, rushed to find Mr. Peng. Then I told him that I came from the future world and knew the future war situation. I was afraid that I would be imprisoned in a mad asylum in ten minutes. If there was a mad asylum here.

I followed the troops all the way and came to the Han River without realizing it. At this time, the Han River had already frozen. Looking around, I saw two sections of iron bridges spanning the river surface like a mirror, that is, the Han River Bridge.

It should be said that the Han River is sacred in the hearts of South Koreans because it nurtured the growth of millions of people on both sides of the Han River; but the Han River Bridge, which is more than 1,000 meters long, is a shame because it was bombed twice because it was defeated to escape. It is said that a farce was staged when it was bombed for the first time. Lee Seung-meng actually blew up the Han River Bridge in advance regardless of the puppet army guarding Seoul to resist the People's Army. It is said that this is to make the defenders of Seoul "burn their boats and swear to resist the People's Army to the death."

It seems that Syngman Rhee is worthy of being a senior intellectual who has returned from studying in the United States. He also has some research on Chinese culture and knows the idiom "Take aside".

But Xiang Yu's boat was following the soldiers, but Rhee blew the bridge and ran away. The soldiers of the three armies were willing to work hard for him, not to mention that the large number of arms that were going to rescue could not be transported. This made the People's Army cheap, and it took Seoul without any effort. The bridge bombing incident also became a shame to the pseudo-government.

This time, the United Nations Army led by the United States was the Chinese People's Volunteer Army that forced them to blow up the bridge and flee. This is enough to make us proud.

The Han River is the same as all rivers in North Korea. Although the river surface is relatively wide, the flow rate is quite slow. At this moment, it has formed a thick layer of ice. Several volunteer soldiers tried it on the layer of ice and stepped over with confidence.

Stepping on the ice of the Han River reminded me of the battle in Linjin River a few days ago. Compared to the crossing of Linjin River, there were no enemy machine guns or landmines on the other side of the river, but I was not at all relaxed when crossing the river, because I always thought, what should I do if I was chasing the enemy? The Americans were putting their pockets and waiting for us to drill! Could it be that my influence changed history like this? Am I going to do something?

But what can I do?

After crossing the ice surface of the Han River and walking on the road on the south bank, I felt less and less uncomfortable when I walked. The more I walked, the more anxious I felt. My feet were as heavy as lead, and I almost thought about running forward to grab the team's pace.

It can be seen that the soldiers in the company were also anxious, especially Instructor Zhao, who was rubbing his hands with sighs all the way, but there was nothing he could do. In the torrent of steel of hundreds of thousands of people, the thoughts of us insignificant people were too trivial.

"Battleman Cui! What do you do if you think about this?" Instructor Zhao might have thought about it the more he became, and he came to me and asked, "Why don't we go to the commander to talk to the commander together to see if we can convince the commander? The commander has always valued you very much, right?"

"Even if we convince the regiment commander, is that useful?" I smiled bitterly: "The regiment commander is not listening to the orders of superiors, unless we convince the division commander, the commander or the chief of staff, but you think! To put it nicely, it means to stop and not get into the Americans' pockets. To put it bluntly, it means to be afraid of the Americans, and that is to be a coward! Not to mention the division commander, the commander of the army, even our regiment commander is not happy!"

"That's it, but look at this..." Instructor Zhao looked even more anxious than me: "What you said is true, our army will go..."

"Wait a little longer!" I gritted my teeth. Although there was a butterfly effect, I didn't believe that my time travel would affect Mr. Peng's decision.

But as the marching grew longer and my persistence became weaker and weaker. In the end, when my confidence completely collapsed and I decided to call Instructor Zhao to persuade Captain Chu with him, the order to stand by was passed in front of me.

"Battlefield Commander Xu! How is the situation now?" I found battalion commander Xu Feng as soon as possible, hoping to hear something from him.

"I don't know either!" Xu Feng shook his head, his face also feeling confused.

"I heard that it was the order from my superiors!" The speaker was the instructor Lin Zhenglong. He was a man with a very tough body, and there was a shrapnel scar on his forehead. At a glance, he knew that he was a veteran who fought from a tough battle, not as literary as Instructor Zhao.

But I am ashamed to say that I have a bad habit of being a little afraid of being a child and always get used to being with familiar people. I have been not a deputy battalion commander for several days, and I still spend most of my time in my own company and rarely interact with instructors and other companies.

"Bail Commander Xu, Battalion Commander Cui..." At this time, a communications soldier hurriedly ran up: "The commander asked you to have a meeting!"

When I heard this, I couldn't help but feel relieved. It was because of the order from our superiors that we had stopped.

"This is the situation." Following Battalion Commander Xu, instructors and others to the regiment headquarters, Commander Chu said straight to the point: "The superiors have just issued an order to stop moving forward and prepare for rest and winter. The time is two months."

With a "coax...", the soldiers were all surprised by the sudden arrival of rest and soon started talking below.

"Captain!" a cadre stood up and asked, "Why should we stop moving forward? Didn't we say we wanted to drive the Americans into the sea? We haven't even seen anyone yet!"

"That's right, leader!" Another cadre also asked in confusion: "After resting for such a long time, isn't that giving the Americans a chance to breathe? It's a delay in the fight, and it's probably even harder to fight at that time!"

...

There was a lot of doubts for a moment, and only Zhao Yongxin, instructor Zhao and others looked at each other, and each breathed a sigh of relief. What I know more is that the US military will not give us a chance to breathe, and they will not let us rest for two months for so long.

"Comrades, be quiet, be quiet!" Chen Ye raised his hand slowly and said, "This order was issued from the Joint Command of China-Korea. I think that no matter what order it is, the superiors have made sufficient considerations, made careful plans and made decisions. As for us, the most important task at present is to resolutely execute the orders! The thought of King Shan is that he must not be done!"

"The political commissar is right!" Commander Chu said with a stern face: "If you want to fight, you will fight. If you want to rest, you will rest. Where can you get so many problems and so much nonsense!"

"Comrades!" Chen Ye then said earnestly: "I know your mood very well. The New Year is coming. If we rest for two months, it means that we can't go home for the New Year and we can't reunite our family!"

Listening to the political commissar, the soldiers all bowed their heads involuntarily. Although it was only three months in North Korea, basically all the soldiers went abroad for the first time. The feeling of fighting in a foreign country is different from fighting in their own country. Although they have been winning battles so far, the degree of hardship is incomparable to any war in China. Now it is almost the New Year's Day. The tradition of our Chinese people is to reunite for a good New Year. Which soldier would not miss home at this time?

"It's not easy!" Chen Ye nodded heavily and said, "I know it's not easy for comrades! But we must remember that we are revolutionary soldiers, and as soldiers, we must bravely kill the enemy on the front line and defend our country. We are suffering more here, suffering more, fighting the reactionaries here, and unable to go home for the New Year, just for our relatives to have a good New Year, just for our motherland to have a good New Year! Comrades, are you willing?"

"Will!" the soldiers clenched their fists and shouted in a low voice. If they weren't worried about being discovered by the enemy, I think the momentum they burst out was no less than Xiang Yu's aura back then.

"The instructions of the superior." Commander Chu pointed to the map on the ammunition box and continued: "We will draw some of the troops from our 40th Army, 38th Army, 42nd Army, and the 5th and 2nd Army of the People's Army to defend themselves in Suwon, Quanliangchang, Lichuan, Longtouli, Hengcheng, Xia'anxingli and north of Pyeongchang to protect the main force from resting near the south of the 38th Parallel. And our regiment..."

Speaking of this, Commander Chu couldn't help but pause, glanced at the soldiers before continuing: "Our regiment received an order to defend on the spot."

After hearing this, the soldiers couldn't help but be stunned for a moment. Only then did they realize that not only could not go home for the New Year, but they couldn't even take a rest. I couldn't help but complain, thinking that the soldiers were afraid they wouldn't accept this time! This seemed a bit too much...

But what unexpectedly was that except for the sentence "Resolutely complete the task!", none of the soldiers said a complaint. Only then did I realize that in the soldiers' answers, there was no word "excessive"; at the same time, in the discussions of soldiers, there was no complaint to say.

Captain Chu nodded with satisfaction: "Band-level cadres stay, and other comrades will quit the meeting!"

After a while, the people dispersed, leaving only a dozen battalion commanders, deputy battalion commanders and instructors.

"Comrades!" Chen Ye walked among us and said in a low voice: "You are leaving behind to inform us. From tonight, the division commander will be temporarily held by Political Commissar Zhang Shaohua. If there is no change in all actions, you will obey the command of Political Commissar Zhang. This matter must not be mentioned to other comrades! Otherwise, revolutionary discipline will be punished!"

"Yes!" the soldiers responded. Although they were all confused, they didn't dare to ask more questions when they saw the mysterious appearance of the political commissar.

Only I smiled bitterly. It seemed that history had not changed much. This time, the division commander must have attended the first and only senior officials' meeting of the Sino-Korean coalition. I even knew that the meeting was in the gentleman, with a total of 60 representatives.

It was at this meeting that General Peng and other cadres summarized the experience of winning the first three battles, and at the same time criticized the common view of quick victory in the army, emphasizing that we must be prepared for a protracted war. From then on, the soldiers of the volunteer army truly changed their minds.

However, this matter is now very secret. I soon thought of the power of it. Those who attended the meeting were all Volunteers, Division Commanders and Commanders of the People's Army! If this news leaked, I am afraid that the agents of the puppet army would be dispatched in full swing.
Chapter completed!