The U.S. military, which had ended the two world wars, knew this very well, so it used a large part of its air power on the supply lines of the volunteers.

Facts have proved that the US military's approach is not unreasonable, and the aerial strangulation war has indeed brought great trouble to the Chinese volunteers, and what Vice Minister Li, who has just taken office, is about to face is how to find a way to solve these difficulties, and the pressure is very great.

Li Yong's demand was that as long as the enemy's plane showed its head, it would be beaten hard, and the ammunition supply would be satisfied.

As long as our lines of communication are well protected, even if our logistical capability is inferior to that of the US military, there will be a earth-shaking change compared with before, and the situation of wearing single clothes and fighting in the freezing cold of minus tens of degrees Celsius like the Ninth Corps will absolutely not be allowed to happen again, otherwise it will be a dereliction of duty by the logistics department of the Chinese People's Volunteers.

As expected, the concealment points on the rear lines of communication had not yet been completed, and on this day, from the top of the hill in the distance, there was a terrible sound of gunfire, the sound of shooting from the M1 rifles of the American army.

Equipped with American-style M1 rifles, they are basically the air defense observation posts of the Korean People's Army, which are transmitted forward one station at a time in a relay manner.

Li Yong and his squad have all recently been engaged in logistics work, but the job of the guard company is not to dig holes, their task is to prevent enemy spies from causing sabotage.

To everyone's displeasure, it has been almost 10 days since I came to North Korea. The work of more than 200 people is still in charge of guarding and guarding as they were in Shigatse before, as for fighting wars? I didn't even see the enemy's hair, and I still mentioned fighting.

Sanniu, Xiaocheng and Ning Erzi have to say something strange from time to time. What do you say, digging holes behind the ass of the big army all day long, what kind of battle can you fish? I can't even catch a small fish and shrimp, and it's strange to say, why can't even those spies see it.

The idea of the fighters is actually very simple, since they can't be assigned to the front-line combat troops, at least they must open meat in the rear, those pervasive spies are the best targets, and our guards and scouts are professional troops to deal with these spies. happened to practice with spies, but what was depressing was that more than ten days had passed. The troops didn't even find a single agent, let alone fight.

Li Yong is not in a hurry at all, he thinks differently from the fighters, as the saying goes, if you have an ass, you don't have to worry about beating. No enemies? That's impossible. The DPRK lacks everything, that is, there is no shortage of enemies, and not seeing it does not mean that there is none, and perhaps the enemy's spies have already sent out the news that the volunteers are going to dig hidden points on the communication line.

This is the second large hiding point from the Yalu River port, about 100 kilometers away from the Sino-North Korean border, and it is also an important material transfer station designed by Li Yong.

The excavation of a large hidden spot in the narrow valley is nearing completion. Several openings allow multiple trucks to enter at the same time, according to Li Yong's estimates. After the completion of the project, the hoarding of grain and ammunition can reach several hundred tons, the geographical location here is very good, not far from the highway is a high mountain with an altitude of thousands of meters, and the concealment point is built at the bottom of the mountain, and cars can get into it from a bend in the road, which is very beneficial to air defense.

In order to protect this important hidden point, Li Yong also tried his best to apply to his superiors for an antiaircraft artillery unit to be responsible for air defense.

This is the sorrow of not having air supremacy, leaving the national border for just over 100 kilometers, and being forced to dig a hole and hide by the enemy's air force.

How good it would be if our planes could also go to the sky to fight, the transport teams on the ground would be able to deliver supplies to the front line day and night, and the shortage of ammunition and food for the front-line combat troops would be greatly alleviated, but these can only be imagined, let alone airplanes, and even the anti-aircraft firepower on the ground is very scarce, in order to ensure that this important concealment point can be built smoothly, the higher authorities sent two antiaircraft artillery companies at Li Yong's request.

The two antiaircraft artillery companies, one is the antiaircraft artillery unit of the Chinese People's Volunteers and the other is the antiaircraft artillery unit of the Korean People's Army, which are equipped with the same model of Soviet-style single-barreled 37 guns.

The soldiers of the Volunteer Army felt a little strange when they saw the female soldiers of the People's Army, or it was also a novelty, because although there were female soldiers in the units of the Volunteer Army, they were all in the non-combat sector, such as communications and field hospitals, and they were rarely seen in the front-line combat units.

The soldiers of the Volunteer Army did not understand why the artillery of the People's Army used a large number of female soldiers, you must know that women are naturally weaker than men in terms of body, and a Soviet-style 37 anti-aircraft gun has eight gunners, of which three gunners are specially responsible for transporting shells, and the requirements for the body are very high.

Of course, Li Yong knew why, but he did not explain to the soldiers that the war was cruel, and it was helpless for North Korea, which consumed a large number of young and middle-aged male population, to use female soldiers.

From the point of view of the nature of weapons, antiaircraft artillery units are always used for defense, compared with fighters, antiaircraft artillery is passive no matter how it hits, for example, now, the antiaircraft artillery units of the volunteer army are very limited, and there are many targets that need to be protected.

Two anti-aircraft artillery companies, each company is equipped with Soviet-style single-barreled 37 anti-aircraft guns 8, a total of 16, at that time the troops were equipped with two kinds of Soviet-style anti-aircraft guns, one is 37 guns, the other is 85 guns, the caliber of 37 guns is small, the firing height is only 6,000 meters, so it is called 37 small guns by the soldiers.

It is not easy to come to two 37 small artillery companies, Li Yong understands the difficulties of his superiors very well, artillery firepower requires centralized use, like sheep, the placement of a company in the east and a company in the west is not the way to use soldiers, it is estimated that the superiors also saw the face of him, the deputy minister of logistics, sent two companies to the concealment point that had just been excavated not long ago, and one of them was a female soldier company of the People's Army.

Although it is a small anti-aircraft gun with a low range, it is also an anti-aircraft gun, and it is also a professional equipment for fighting aircraft, Li Yuming and the soldiers of the guard company are still in close contact with anti-aircraft guns for the first time, and they all feel very fresh, Deputy Company Commander He Cuihua is not only very interested in anti-aircraft guns, but also very interested in the female soldiers of the People's Army.

He Cuihua followed Li Yong's side and kept muttering: "If you know that you are going to North Korea to fight the American planes, it is better to pull up the anti-aircraft machine gun battalion of our brigade, we have sixty or seventy anti-aircraft machine guns, and the firepower is not weaker than these dozen small guns." ”

Li Yong did not think that these two companies would be able to knock down the American planes from the sky, and his request to the two company commanders was to use their best efforts to intercept the planes at medium and high altitudes, and as long as they did not dive down, they would be considered to have completed the mission.

The main equipment of the US Far East Air Force is the F80 and F84 tactical fighter-bombers, taking into account the two functions of ground attack and air combat, and only when high-value targets are found, the B52 Aerial Fortress is used, the B52 Aerial Fortress is a large professional bomber, the combat mode is to bomb horizontally at high altitudes, and use area bombing to destroy the opponent's strength, while the fighter-bomber is not good, if you want to bomb accurately, you must dive down, and once you dive to a low altitude, the danger will increase.

Li Yong believes that our army's large concealment points have not yet been completed, and it is impossible for the US Far East Air Force to use such heavy equipment as the B52 from the very beginning; you must know that heavy bombers are also treasure-level equipment in the United States, which has a great cause at home, and it is impossible to use them lightly; once the US military is ready to carry out air strikes on the concealment points, the planes coming are likely to be F80 and F84.

As expected, in Li Yong's telescope, the planes in the sky became bigger and bigger from small black dots, from the size of a fly to the size of a sparrow, and then from a sparrow to an eagle, and I saw clearly, the planes coming were F80 and F84, and when they flew closer, even the bombs hanging under their wings could be seen.

After the gunfire of the air defense post rang out, all the soldiers and civilians in the vicinity were hidden, and Li Yong's heart also pinched, because the only troops he could use in his hands were two artillery companies, 16 37 small antiaircraft guns, plus a guard company that he brought from Shigatse, this is the entire strength in Li Yong's hands now, and the total is only more than 400 people.

In the past, he commanded a brigade of 10,000 people to fight, but today he is good, nominally he is the deputy minister of the Chinese People's Volunteers, and he is a high-ranking deputy minister, but he only has more than 400 people in his hands, which is not as good as a battalion in the past.

The commander of the Volunteer Army and the People's Army in the vicinity was only a company commander other than him, and of course everyone had to obey the command of Senior Vice Minister Li.

Li Yong placed the positions of the two antiaircraft artillery batteries on the hill where they could give full play to their firepower and formed crossfire, with the intention of intercepting the US fighter-bombers at medium and high altitudes and preventing the enemy from diving to attack the concealed points, and as long as the enemy's planes did not dive down, there would be no major threat to the concealed points.

The position of the guard company was halfway up the mountain, and a number of firing points were set up not too far from the opening of the concealment point, and five Maxim heavy machine guns and more than 20 Czech light machine guns from the first and second platoons of the guards were deployed.

This is already all the equipment that the guard company can come up with, and the submachine gun is really not on the table.

Infantry small arms can also fight against aircraft? Seeing the position of the guard company, the soldiers of the two antiaircraft artillery companies did not think so, they thought that it was necessary to fight the aircraft with antiaircraft artillery, and the infantry to fight the aircraft was nonsense, but the guard company was a unit brought by the commander himself, and they did not dare to say anything.

Lao Ba's body hasn't recovered yet, and it should be better in a few days, thank you. (To be continued......)