Chapter 64: Change defense

The sound of gunfire was constantly ringing, and the battlefield was still repeating offense, defense, bombing, and charge as before. The front line was repeatedly moved in the battle between the enemy and us...

After the Self-English Army seized the three high grounds in the front, the US military launched several charges to capture them. But these three high grounds are easy to defend but difficult to attack. Just as we have to pay a considerable price when we seize them from the US military, it is not easy for the US military to take them away from us. What's more, when we attacked the US military, we attacked them with superior forces. But now we are fully prepared. No matter when the US military attacks, we can quickly send reinforcements to the high ground in the rear.

Volunteer soldiers lacked everything, guns, bullets, aircraft, cannons... but they were not short of people! So the US military organized seven or eight attacks and was beaten back by the Volunteer soldiers without exception.

Once, the US military even sent more than a dozen planes to assist in the war, but still had no choice but to the three high grounds. What made the pilots helpless was that they had to deal with the concrete fortifications they built on the high ground. These fortifications were originally built to deal with the Volunteer Army. In order to ensure that these fortifications could withstand the artillery fire of the Volunteer Army, many of the fortifications had a thickness of more than one meter thick, and they were cleverly combined with rocks, caves, etc., making these fortifications difficult to detect and bombard.

And these fortifications have now become excellent fortifications for the Volunteer Army soldiers. The soldiers hid in it, and even the planes in the sky were unable to do anything to them. Because of this, the 540th Regiment was responsible for the task of defending the three high grounds and sending reinforcements to them. It was enough that our regiment would not need to take action at all, so we had to rest for several days.

I was used to staying on the front-line battlefield, and suddenly retreated to the second line, and I had no tasks. Every day, except eating and sleeping, I occasionally talked to Li Pinghe about the situation on the battlefield. I always felt that there was something missing in my heart, and later I felt like I was doing nothing and didn’t know what to do.

On that day, I was bored at the regiment headquarters and looked at a map on the table, which clearly marked the highlands that our army had captured and the highlands that were in fierce battle.

This tactical counterattack was undoubtedly successful. The US military was not fully prepared this time, so most of our troops won the predetermined targets, causing the front line to move three or four kilometers from the north to the south. But I suddenly felt that this tactical counterattack battle did not seem to have any commendable results except that it could provide some experience and buffer zones for newly-entered troops.

What if the front line is moved south by three or four kilometers? As the Americans said in the summer and autumn strike back war, this is not our Chinese land, and we actually don’t need to kill a few miles of land on this land. This is why the US military shifted the focus of the offensive from the Western Front to the Eastern Front during the summer and autumn strike back war.

Although the facts prove that the Americans' ideas were wrong, I now think what these Americans said makes sense. What we have done with such a huge casualty to fight for these three or four kilometers of land? For us, isn't what we need just a buffer zone? What's the difference between a few kilometers more and a few kilometers less...

But obviously the soldiers of the Volunteer Army did not think so, because I know that the Volunteer Army had never had negative thoughts in this regard from the beginning of entering the Korean battlefield until the end of the war. This is also something that the US military is puzzled by us.

But this is normal. The Americans who have never been invaded in the country will not understand the fighting habits of the volunteer soldiers who fought all the way through the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the War of Liberation.

"Captain Cui!" Just as I was thinking about it, Li Pinghe walked up to me and handed me a telegram: "This is just sent by the division headquarters, saying that he wanted to transfer the 353rd Regiment of the brothers to replace us. I think the superior's intention is to take this opportunity to let the newly-entered comrades learn more experience and become familiar with the terrain to adapt to this battlefield as soon as possible!"

"Yeah!" I nodded.

This is what Li Pinghe is like. Some things are obvious about the lice on the bald man’s head! This was originally the intention of our army to launch this tactical counterattack. The troops that had just entered North Korea were originally reserved on the second line and will gradually be transferred to the front line for combat in the next month.

However, the first batch replaced our 538th Regiment, which still surprised me. Maybe it was because the superiors knew that our 538th Regiment had severely reduced troops and needed rest! And coincidentally, the one who came to change defense with me was the 353rd Regiment of Leader Chu. This might be a kind of fate!

"Did your superior say when will you change your defense?" I asked casually.

“Just tonight!”

"Just tonight?" I was stunned for a moment when I heard this.

Because the 180th Division where Commander Chu is located is our reserve team, the base of Commander Chu is not far from us, only four or five miles away. When I was free during this period, I wanted to see Commander Chu, Hu Zi, Zhao Yongxin and other old comrades. But considering that they are still fighting now, although they are reserve teams, they must be busy, so they did not disturb them. At this time, I heard that they were coming to change defense with me, and I thought I could take this opportunity to discuss the issue of changing defenses on public and private matters and go to see them! Unexpectedly, the time for changing defenses was tonight...

I took out my pocket watch and looked at it. It was already four o'clock in the afternoon, and it was only a few hours before it was getting dark. Now I have to start preparing, but I can't leave anymore.

"Captain Cui!" At this time, Zhang Mingxue lifted the black cloth outside the tunnel and ran in, saying to me: "Captain, see who is here!"

"Captain Chu, Hu Zi, Zhao Yongxin!" Seeing the few people behind Zhang Mingxue, I couldn't help but be overjoyed. I stood up from the chair with a loud voice and went up to meet him: "I was thinking about you just now, but I didn't expect you to come!"

"Boy!" Captain Chu laughed and said, "I heard that you have won another big victory! And is it still fighting against a little Japanese?"

"Hi! The little Japanese is good, but it's not a big victory!" I didn't dare to hold my tail in front of Captain Chu, so I said respectfully: "If you compare this with Captain Chu, it's not a piece of cake!"

"Hey!" Hearing the words, Captain Chu couldn't help but smile, "I think you, Captain, have become the leader. The greasy and smooth mouth has not changed at all! Just like you, I don't understand how your subordinates are willing to obey you!"

Everyone in the tunnel was amused by Captain Chu's words.

"Come on, comrades, have a cup of tea first!" Li Ping and Zhou Quan quickly served a few bowls of hot tea to Captain Chu and others. The reason for using the bowl was that the volunteer army lived a hard life, and there was no tea cup in this regiment headquarters.

"This is the political commissar of our regiment, Li Pinghe!" I introduced Commander Chu to Li Pinghe: "This is the Commander Chu Chuanyu, the commander of the 353rd regiment. He is my old regiment commander. When I first entered the court and had not touched the gun, it was his soldiers who followed him to fight!"

"Hello comrade!"

"Hello!"

The etiquette between the volunteer soldiers is actually very simple. In addition to shaking hands, they are also shaking hands. The words come and go, "Hello comrade!". However, this seemingly simple handshake and a saying "Hello", I think that just by just one moment, they can eliminate each other's strangeness. Compared with the polite and skillful greetings of modern people, I don't know how many times better.

But perhaps, this cannot be said to be a credit for shaking hands and asking for good things! On this battlefield of fighting life and death, if you know that the other party is a comrade standing on the same front, it requires each other to trust and depend on each other.

Just like now, Commander Chu quickly became familiar with several soldiers in our regiment headquarters. Even Xu Yongwei and Zhang Mingxue came up to chat with Hu Zi and the others.

"Captain! When you first entered the court, you really didn't even touch a gun?" Li Pinghe remembered what I said just now and asked in confusion.

"That's not?" I laughed and pointed at Hu Zi and introduced: "This is Hu Zi, a tiger from the 353rd Regiment. He can be said to be my master. He taught me how to shoot!"

"What? Did he teach you how to shoot?" Li Pinghe said this, and he was surprised and said nothing. Xu Yongwei and Zhang Mingxue looked at Hu Zi even more shocked. He only saw Hu Zi giggling and blushing, standing aside and not knowing what to say!

"No!" I felt a little funny when I remembered the past and said with a smile: "At that time, I was still betting with Hu Zi to compare shooting skills..."

"You still bet on the gun? What are you gambling?" Zhang Mingxue seemed particularly sensitive to the word "gambling". When he heard about our gun gambling, he immediately looked like a gambler and asked.

"The bet is to wash the other party's feet!" Zizhi said, but was embarrassed to not answer, so he had to answer helplessly.

With a coaxing sound, the soldiers all laughed when they heard this.

"Who won?" Zhang Mingxue turned his target to Huzi again and asked mysteriously: "Comrade Huzi, tell me, have our team leader washed your feet for you?"

"No, no!" Hu Zi said embarrassedly: "That time this guy saved my life. I, I don't believe that it was his first time shooting, and that was accurate and ruthless! At first I thought he was a coward, and I had to drag him to charge, but I didn't expect that in the blink of an eye, he was like crazy. He knocked down several of them in one breath and captured three with a shovel!"

"What? Can you catch prisoners with a shovel?" Everyone couldn't help but exclaim.

"You are so strange!" Zhao Yongxin was a talkative person, so he could not hold back at this time. He immediately pulled away his storytelling tone and said, "Your Captain Cui was the king who captured the captives back then! The captives were captured in pieces. Once, he only had three or four people, and captured a whole company of enemies!"

"Wow!" Everyone exclaimed in surprise, and even Li Pinghe looked at me with incredible eyes. It made me feel very helpful.

But I know Zhao Yongxin, and if I let him continue to say this, I will blow me to the sky. If there is a flaw at that time, I will make a big blush.

So I hurriedly stopped him and said, "Hey! You guys, are you going to make all the embarrassing things I had back then in front of my subordinates?"

"Then... I dare not!" Zhao Yongxin stopped talking after I said this.

"Comrade Huzi!" Xu Yongwei then asked again: "We have seen Captain Cui's shooting skills, and we all admire him very much. You are Captain Cui's master, so your shooting skills..."

"Hey! You don't understand this!" Looking at Hu Zi's embarrassment, Zhao Yongxin continued, "Do you know what it means to be better than blue than blue? Hu Zi's shooting skills are half as good as your Captain Cui!"

"Oh!" Xu Yongwei breathed a sigh of relief after hearing this, shook his head and smiled, "I said just now! Our Captain Cui's shooting skills are so amazing. Now there is a Captain Cui's master! Hey... I was shocked!"

The soldiers laughed again, and I found that Li Pinghe seemed to feel relieved.

After laughing for a while, Captain Chu breathed a sigh of relief and patted my shoulder and said, "I remember that you were a slim soldier who was not abide by military rules before! I didn't expect that in the blink of an eye, he would be a commander with thousands of soldiers!"

"This is all Captain Chu, you are leading the troops well!" I replied.

"Stop being slick with me!" Although Captain Chu said this, he was very helpful in his heart and said happily: "Talk the serious matter! I'm here to change my defenses! We're going to change my defenses tonight. We are not familiar with the terrain here and do not have a detailed map reference. We are afraid that we will be dizzy when we change our defenses at night. We were going to let the correspondent come to get it, but I also want to come and see you, so we brought Hu Zi and Zhao Yongxin together!"

"Oh, this is easy to deal with!" I handed the map on the table to Captain Chu, thought for a while, and then explained: "Captain, be careful when dealing with those little Japanese! They are very powerful and have many tricks. We took their own way when we attacked and lost many comrades!"

"Don't worry!" Captain Chu took the map and glanced a few times, then put it in a cotton coat and put it in his clothes: "I have seen a lot of little Japanese, they can't get it from me!"

"I'm going back to China!" After a pause, Captain Chu patted my shoulder and said, "I've been out for so long, I want to go back and have a look! Don't worry, it won't take long to return to China if I change my defense this time!"

"Return to China?" I was stunned when I heard this.
Chapter completed!