Chapter 137: 180th Division

"Deputy Battalion Commander Cui!" While I was still disgusting for the body, Zhao Yongxin hurriedly ran to me and reported: "Oh no, Deputy Battalion Commander Cui! We are separated from the troops!"

"What? Are you separated?" Hearing this, I pointed at the large number of volunteer soldiers in front of me and said, "Aren't we our troops in front?"

"Then, that's not our army!" Zhao Yongxin couldn't help but answered with a bitter face: "It was so dark last night that no one could see anyone. They all pulled the bullet bags of the soldiers in front of them. A comrade pulled the wrong person, and all the people behind them followed! No... all the two hundred people in our battalion were left behind!"

"What are you doing while standing? Why don't you go to the army?" I couldn't help but stand up in a hurry.

"Where are you looking for?" Zhao Yongxin wiped the rain on his face and said embarrassedly: "This place is not familiar with, and there is not even a map. Even if there is a map, our army is running around the mountains..."

"Oh!" I couldn't help but sigh and sat down on the ground in depressed manner.

After a while, looking at the teams of volunteer soldiers who were about to set off in front, I couldn't help but ask curiously: "Which unit is ahead?"

"It's from the 60th Army!" Zhao Yongxin replied: "I asked just now, it seems to be from... the 180th Division!"

"What? 180th Division?" I was stunned when I heard this. The unit in front of me was actually the 180th Division, the 180th Division that was almost wiped out after being surrounded in the fifth battle...

"What's wrong? Deputy Battalion Commander Cui!" Zhao Yongxin couldn't help but ask in confusion when he saw that I looked wrong.

"Well, nothing!" I calmed down and quickly ordered: "Count down the number of people and prepare the soldiers. Let's follow the comrades of the 60th Army!"

"Yes!" Zhao Yongxin responded and turned around and went to make arrangements.

The troops started marching again, and the number of people was counted out quickly, including the number of people lost to other battalions, which was a total of 328 people. This is almost half of the number of people in our regiment. I don’t know when and where they got separated last night, so it is impossible to find the regiment headquarters.

Moreover, according to my personal opinion, now I have been sent by a god to keep up with the 180th Division, thinking that this army of more than 10,000 people will die in battle, be separated, and be captured in the near future... I feel like I should do something.

Because the communication equipment of the Volunteer Army was very backward, it was common for them to fall behind and fight with other troops. We were no longer surprised by our group of people following behind the 180th Division, but I didn't want to follow them just to fight, which would not work. So I accelerated my pace and caught up with a little soldier in front.

"Comrade! Which group are you from?" I asked casually.

"We are from the 538th Regiment!" The young soldier couldn't help but look at me in confusion: "Aren't you? Which part of you?"

"We are from the 353rd Regiment of the Forty Army." I replied helplessly: "We are separated from the troops!"

"What? From the Forty Army?" The little soldier couldn't help but look at me in surprise when he heard this, and said with respect on his face: "I heard that you have fought from the first battle until now? Are they all true?"

"Yeah!" I nodded.

"Wow! You must have fought a lot of Japanese devils!" Before I could answer, the young soldier turned around and shouted to his comrades in front: "Comrades, we meet the big brother of the Forty Army!"

Sweat, I couldn't help but smile bitterly when I heard this. We have become the big brother at any time...

"Fourth Army? I heard that I have won many battles!"

"Yes! I heard that the first shot was fired by them, and they wiped out the British devils' tank battalion!"

"Look at the 40th Army, it's different. They are holding guns taken from the Americans!"

...

Although the soldiers of the 60th Army did not stop, they turned to look at us, and only looked at me and the soldiers were both feeling very comfortable. It felt like a hero worshipped, and the ones who worshiped us were the volunteer soldiers.

After fighting along the way, I just kept suffering and bleeding. I didn’t expect that our troops had already made a name for themselves.

"Comrade!" At this time, a middle-aged volunteer soldier with a beard walked down from the front. Seeing that he had a pistol on his waist and a guard behind him, he thought he was a little official. But what made me feel strange was that there was a sunglasses in his pocket of his cotton coat, which should have been seized from the puppet army.

When I thought about the rustic volunteer soldier wearing sunglasses on his face, I couldn't help but laugh, but thinking that he might be an "official" older than me, I had to endure it with all my heart.

"Comrade!" He walked in and asked at me, "Which part of the Forty Army are you from?"

"Report!" I couldn't help but stand up and replied: "We are from the 3rd Battalion of the 353rd Regiment of the 118th Division of the 40th Army. I am the deputy battalion commander Cui Wei."

"Well! Or a deputy battalion commander?" The middle-aged soldier couldn't help but glanced at me unexpectedly, and then quickly held my hand enthusiastically and said, "Comrade, I am Pang Kechang, the commander of the 538th Regiment! You are separated from the army!"

"Yes!" I nodded and replied, "Maybe I was with the wrong army when I was squeezing with you last night..."

"That's right, right!" Captain Pang laughed and said, "It's all our own troops. How can we say it's wrong? It's not like we were touching the dark side and following the puppet army..."

"It's better to follow the puppet army!" Hu Zi interrupted, "If we really follow the puppet army, we will just take them all as soon as the sky is dawn!"

"Oh! This warrior is so angry!" Captain Pang couldn't help laughing when he heard this, and the soldiers around him laughed.

"How is it? Deputy Battalion Commander Cui!" After laughing for a while, Commander Pang pointed to the soldiers behind me, his eyes full of expectations and asked: "Are you going to find the large army? Or..."

Then he mysteriously approached my ear and said, "Tell you, we are not going to pursue the puppet army, we are going to fight the Americans! If you want to fight happily, you must be right with us!"

"Um! Are you going to hit the Americans so soon?" I couldn't help but be surprised when I heard this.

Commander Pang nodded: "The Americans knew that we were fighting the puppet army, so they couldn't sit still. They were sending reinforcements here! The superiors ordered us to cut off the US military's connection with the puppet army and firmly block the Americans' reinforcements!"

It turned out to be the reinforcements of the Americans. I couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when I heard this. I thought the US military would have counterattacked the entire line so quickly, but it was almost the same time as the US military counterattack! In any case, to save the 180th Division, you have to follow them first.

Thinking of this, I quickly nodded and agreed.

"Okay!" Commander Pang patted my shoulder hard: "Deputy Battalion Commander Cui, our army has never fought with the Americans and lacks combat experience. We just need experienced veterans like you to communicate! Deputy Battalion Commander Cui can't hide the good way and tease her!"

"Um!" I couldn't help but smile bitterly when I heard this. Only then did I realize the real reason why Captain Pang hoped that we would join his army so much.

So I was thinking, if he knew the real reason why I agreed to join their troops was to save their entire division to break through, he would definitely think I was crazy. But at this time, I was also in a state of great difficulty. Whether this could save them was still unknown! I don’t want to trap myself in as a captive to the US military…

After following the soldiers of the 180th Division, they marched in the mud and water for a day, they finally arrived at their destination in the afternoon of the same day. They heard from the soldiers of the 180th Division that this place is called Chunhong, and the road below the high ground is called Chunhong Highway. It is a must-pass place for the 1st and 7th Divisions of the American Marine Warfare Eastward to reinforce the puppet army.

Like other parts of North Korea, it is also surrounded by a winding road, but unlike in the past, the heavy rains over the past few days made the road muddy, and you can also see mudslides rushing down the mountain blocking the road.

Although these can slow down the speed of the US military's advance, I know that this is not enough to stop them, because their Sherman tank only needs to be slightly modified and will become a high-power bulldozer. For the Sherman medium tank, this amount of soil and stones blocking the road is not a small matter!

"Deputy Battalion Commander Cui!" Just as I and the soldiers were speeding up to build fortifications, a correspondent found me: "Captain Pang asked you to go!"

"Yes!" I put down the shovel, jumped out of the trench filled with water, and followed the correspondent to the back of the position.

I originally thought that Commander Pang called me and he should have gone to the regiment headquarters, but after walking for more than ten minutes, I felt something was wrong. The regiment headquarters of the Volunteer Army is usually located not far from the front line, which makes it more convenient to command. But now it has been more than ten minutes and hasn't arrived yet. Could it be that the division headquarters is going to?

As expected, as I thought, after walking for a while, the correspondent took me off the road and climbed up the mountain. Several guards could be vaguely seen in the woods. I thought that if I hadn't gone to the division headquarters, I wouldn't have been so strict. Then I lifted the black cloth and walked into an air raid shelter. Seeing Commander Pang standing there straight, it even more confirmed what I thought.

"Report!" The correspondent stood up and saluted: "Report to the division commander, Deputy Battalion Commander Cui of the Forty Army is here!"

"Well, Deputy Battalion Commander Cui! Come on..." A middle-aged soldier wearing a cotton coat, thin cheeks, but bright eyes waved to me enthusiastically, making me realize that the person in front of me who was dressed almost like an ordinary soldier was Zheng Qigui, the commander of the 180th Division.

"Do you smoke?" Another volunteer soldier who was slightly older with two beards handed me a cigarette.

When I saw it was "Harumika", this cigarette can definitely be called a domestic brand in this era. But even if it was the courage to make me god, I wouldn't dare to smoke in front of the teacher. So hesitated and stood up and replied: "Report to the leader, I won't!"

"Who are you lying to you?" Commander Zheng couldn't help but point at me and scolded, "Looking at your eyes staring at the cigarette, you will know that you are not a chimney!"

Several people in the air-raid shelter couldn't help laughing when they heard this, and the atmosphere immediately eased a lot.

"Come on... Commander Pang also came!" Commander Zheng quickly recruited Commander Pang, and the air-raid shelter was soon filled with the fragrance of smoke and flue-cured flue.

"Let me introduce it!" Commander Zheng spat out a mouthful of smoke and pointed at the warrior with a beard and said, "This is the political commissar Wu Chengde, and I am the commander Zheng Qigui."

"Political Commissar Wu, Commander Zheng!" I hurriedly got up and saluted the two of them.

"Sit down... don't be polite!" Political Commissar Wu pulled me down on the bench again: "Deputy Battalion Commander Cui, we sent a telegram to your teacher to verify your situation before you came! I heard that you can fight very well? The Royal British Tank Battalion was the one you commanded to fight, and your Commander Chu kept saying that you were accurate in your marksmanship and had a lot of tricks. He also said that the enemy had suffered losses in your hands several times! It seems that we have picked up the treasure this time!"

"The political commissar has been too much, I am also confused..." I was a little embarrassed by the praise from Political Commissar Wu.

"Deputy Battalion Commander Cui!" Commander Zheng's face turned heavy at this time: "We are all comrades, so we won't say anything else. According to the original plan, the entire 60th Army was originally carried out by the entire blocking mission, but the superiors temporarily intertwined the 181st Division to the 12th Army, and the 179th Division was assigned to the 15th Army as a reserve force. Now we are only one division left to block the reinforcements of the 1st and 7th Divisions of the US Army. This battle is not easy to fight!"

"In addition, our army has never fought with the US military!" Political Commissar Wu interrupted: "Your Forty Army has fought with the Americans since the first battle. How about it? Let's introduce the experience!"

"Political Commissar, Division Commander!" I didn't say polite words after hearing this, stood up and saluted the two of them and replied: "Although the US military's fighting will is not strong, its firepower is very fierce. Aircraft, cannons, tanks and large-caliber naval guns on warships. Moreover, this battle is different from previous battles. The intensity of the artillery fire attack is several times more violent than that of previous battles!"

"Well, it's Van Vritte's saturation attack!" Political Commissar Wu nodded and explained: "In the past, Americans had limited ammunition, but this battle, the US military gave orders without ammunition restrictions. How can those artillery fight?"

Actually, I also know that this is Van Vritte's reason, but I'm not convenient to say it explicitly, because a soldier would know that Van Vritte's saturation attack would look very strange. After a division commander and political commissar asked, I don't know how to explain it!

"The enemy's artillery is not a big problem!" Commander Zheng walked to the map and gestured at our current location and said: "The area where our army is stationed is full of mountains and forests. As long as we build tunnel fortifications, the enemy's artillery can't do anything to us! In addition, it is rainy season now, and the enemy's aircraft will be restricted."

"Teacher Zheng..." I couldn't help but responded: "What if we want to retreat? Hiding in the tunnel is not afraid of enemy bombardment, but we can't retreat even if we want to retreat! Moreover, there will be times when it doesn't rain in the rainy season!"

"What? Are you saying that our troops are going to retreat?" Hearing this, Commander Zheng and Political Commissar Wu couldn't help but look at me in confusion. Now is the time when the volunteers sing a sing of triumphant songs to defeat the puppet army. How could they think that the Volunteers would retreat in a few days?

I nodded with certainty: "The enemy had known that our army was inadequate in the fourth battle. They always launched a counterattack when we fought for seven days without ammunition and food. This battle is probably no exception. Now the soldiers are almost out of bullets!"

"My division's situation is fine!" After hearing this, Political Commissar Wu couldn't help but frown: "But our division has always been fighting in the inside line, and the ammunition consumption is not much reduced, so the troops on the front line must be different!"

"There is really not much left!" Teacher Zheng said worriedly: "We always thought we would deliver it from behind, but we didn't even take it seriously!"

"A million troops!" Political Commissar Wu couldn't help but smile bitterly: "The Volunteer Army has added aircraft and anti-aircraft artillery regiments. Although the logistics has improved greatly, the number of the Volunteer Army has also doubled!"

"Team Commander Zheng, Political Commissar Wu, look!" Taking advantage of this opportunity, I pointed to the invading position of the volunteer army on the map and said: "In this battle, the puppet army formed a prominent part on the eastern front, exposing the left wing to our army. Our army pursued and attacked the enemy's depths. Although we are winning battles all the way, it also exposes the right wing of our army to the enemy."

After pausing for a while, I decided to express the actions of the US military in history in an imaginary way: "If I were the US military, I would take advantage of the Volunteer Army's warriors for several days and were exhausted from ammunition and food, launch a full-line counterattack, move the entire front north, and then send a small group of armored troops to quickly penetrate the sensitive waist behind our army with the cooperation of the aircraft. Then the tens of thousands of officers and soldiers who had the farthest interspersed in the previous battle will be divided south of the 38th parallel, and thus trapped in the heavy encirclement of the US military..."

"Old Wu!" Hearing this, Commander Zheng couldn't help but gasp and said to Political Commissar Wu: "I think we should contact the military headquarters. Should we stop when we see the opportunity and withdraw the troops safely as soon as possible!"

"Agree!" Political Commissar Wu nodded with a serious expression and said, "Report the situation to the military headquarters immediately. We must treat the enemy's combat plan mentioned by Deputy Battalion Commander Cui with caution!"

"Deputy Battalion Commander Cui!" Commander Zheng nodded at me and said, "Your suggestions are very good. We will seriously consider these questions you raised. You can go back to the army to command the battle first!"

"Yes!" Captain Pang and I responded and turned around and walked out of the cave.
Chapter completed!