Chapter 788: Yellow Grass Ridge

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The arrival of the advance regiment of the 42nd Army brought hope to the chaotic Changjin area, but after contact, the members of the Soviet advisory group could not hide their disappointment, because the squadron that had been given high hopes only arrived in a light infantry regiment.

With the experience of Soviet advisers, how much of a light infantry regiment can play in the face of a three-dimensional offensive of American aircraft, artillery and tanks? It is not in vain to increase the number of casualties.

Deputy Division Commander Xiao replied: "Technical equipment is of course very important, but it is not omnipotent; as long as favorable terrain is occupied and roads are closed, the enemy's mechanized troops will not be able to exert themselves, and the Chinese People's Volunteer Army will certainly be able to defeat the enemy with rich combat experience and brave fighting spirit." ”

The members of the Soviet advisory group were noncommittal about the answer given to the Chinese deputy division commander, they were all soldiers trained in the Great Patriotic War, they were not bird pickers, and they knew very well how difficult it was to fight when the strength of the two sides was too large, and according to the curriculum of the Soviet Military Academy, such a battle could not be fought in the case of a huge disparity in strength, or in other words, there was no need to continue fighting a battle without hope of victory.

Unlike the deputy marshal of the People's Army and the members of the Soviet advisory group, Jin Yongzhao, the commander of the garrison in the Changjin area, believed in Deputy Division Commander Xiao and his old superiors.

Jin Yongzhao, a former PLA company commander, knows his old unit very well, and he deeply knows what the strong self-confidence of the vast number of officers and men of the Chinese People's Liberation Army comes from.

Deputy Division Commander Xiao Jianfei doesn't care whether others believe it or not, he is carrying out the orders of the Volunteer Army Headquarters, and he has nothing to do with the Soviets.

When the Volunteer Army arrived in the Changjin area, there was only one light infantry regiment, and its strength and firepower were not comparable with those of the opponent, let alone any technical weapons, and the troops that were forcibly marching and advancing had no way to carry any technical weapons. In order to curb the pace of joint progress, and this point is the Huangcaoling, which has long been optimistic.

Huangcaoling, is the commanding height of an extended highway, just stuck on both sides of the highway, the geographical location is very dangerous, in the mountainous Korean Peninsula, a road that can pass cars is very valuable. It is also the lifeblood of mechanized troops.

In the minds of the joint commanders, Hwangcholing is equally important, and the capture of this point is equivalent to opening the gateway to the eastern part of Korea, and any army that wants to stop their advance will be in a situation where there is no danger to defend, whether it is the North Koreans or the Soviets. Or the Chinese who have been clamoring to unite ** to retreat south of the 38th parallel.

Both sides are optimistic about the key point of Huangcaoling, and are advancing towards this place, and the result is to see who can occupy it first.

Because of the two-day delay in Jiangjie, the Volunteer Army had a bad start, and the advance regiment was still more than 210 kilometers away from Hwangcholing, while the first division of the Republic of Korea in the United League was only more than 100 kilometers away from Hwangcholing.

The 1st Division of the Republic of Korea is the best-equipped division of all the Korean ** teams, and it is also a close confidant and descendant of President Syngman Rhee. Not only does it have a large number of personnel, but its combat effectiveness is also one level higher than that of other Korean divisions, and it is known as the capital division.

The soldiers of the 42nd Army don't care what the opponent is, they don't care what division he is, if they are defeated, they will be the dead man's division, and the difficulty in front of them now is that the joint ** team is a mechanized march, and the volunteer army is marching on foot.

The distance is long, or on foot. How can you outrun an enemy that is all mechanized???

Deputy Division Commander Xiao Jianfei found the command organ of the People's Army in the Changjin area and put forward the only request, which was to provide the volunteers with cars that could move quickly.

The deputy marshal of the People's Army and the Soviet advisers were very unimpressed by Xiao Jianfei's request to the deputy division commander, because there were not many cars in the Changjin area, and the limited number of vehicles had to be responsible for the retreat of personnel and materials, not to mention. What if all the cars were given to the volunteers? With one regiment can withstand the United Nations **? It's not in vain.

Fortunately, Deputy Division Commander Xiao Jianfei has Jin Yongzhao, an old comrade-in-arms, and he believes that his old unit can overcome a difficult task to complete the task, so for this, Jin Yongzhao ordered. Raise a car that can be used in the Changjin area, whether military or civilian, and be requisitioned and transferred to the volunteer army.

With Jin Yongzhao's full assistance, things were much easier, and the volunteers finally raised 18 cars, in addition, Jin Yongzhao also transferred the 12 field mountain guns that the People's Army retreated back to the volunteers, and at the same time, he also ordered a company of the people's army garrison in Huangcaoling not to retreat a single step, even if the whole company was finished, not to retreat, to buy time for the volunteers.

Eighteen cars are all the belongings that can be requisitioned in the Changjin area, but how many people can be transported by eighteen cars? According to the loading of thirty people per vehicle, it is only more than five hundred, that is, the volunteer army can only go up one battalion at a time.

The opponent is the first division of South Korea in the joint **, and it is the ace division of the Korean ** team, but how many people can the volunteer army dispatch? There was only one battalion in the advance regiment, because there were only eighteen vehicles.

A lightly armed infantry regiment is already unattractive to the Big Brother advisors, this is good, not even a regiment can go, only one battalion is used to fight and block, can such a battle be won?

No one is going to answer Big Brother's question, because the cadres and soldiers of the squadron are busy marching towards Huangcaoling, what happened to a battalion? The same war.

Under the stunned gaze of the members of the Big Brother Advisory Group, the squadron came out, out of the second battalion of the advance regiment, the car was full of people, even the roof of the cab was filled with people, and the truck full of personnel was moving forward frantically on the curved road, with only one purpose, to reach Huangcaoling before the enemy.

Fortunately, the joint ** did not know anything about the squadron going abroad to fight, more than 100 kilometers, although the road was not easy to walk, but with all the mechanized march, that is, a few hours away, but these few hours of travel, the elite South Korean division did not finish a day.

At the end of October, the temperature in the Changjin area dropped sharply, the temperature dropped to about -10 degrees Celsius, and the cloudy sky was scattered with scattered snowflakes, as if to indicate the arrival of a big war.

Eighteen frantically driven trucks sent a battalion of Chinese soldiers to Huangcaoling in the middle of the night, and when there were still a small number of People's Army soldiers on guard on Huangcaoling, the deputy regiment commander who led the team finally let go of his hanging heart, damn it, he was one step ahead of the enemy.

At dawn on October 25, 1949, a battalion of the 42nd Army of the Chinese Volunteers entered the first-line blocking position at Huangcaoling, and an extremely fierce battle awaited them.

Doesn't the Korean capital division in the joint ** know the importance of the Huangcaoling position? Of course, they know that no one is stupid, but they think that no matter how important Huangcaoling is, what can it do, just a few sporadic resistors, and a single artillery can solve the battle.

Every time a battle is a battle, it is necessary to open the way with steel, first bombard the suspicious position with artillery fire, and then the infantry will follow up.

It was almost noon, a strange thing flew slowly, the soldiers didn't understand what this thing was, the plane, no wings, not an airplane, it could still fly, the amazing thing was that this flying thing still had a big roulette wheel that could spin on its head, what kind of guy was this, what did it come for?

This is a joint reconnaissance helicopter, but no one in the squadron knows what it is, and the fighters guessed that it might be a big bomb that can fly, and it was made by the Americans.

In the surprised eyes of the fighters, the big missile did not explode, and it flew up again after shaking to the ground, however, no one in the squadron fired a shot, because, I don't know how to deal with this guy.

The reconnaissance helicopter is used for artillery ballistics, and although the fighters do not quite understand what this flying guy does, the enemy is definitely coming.

Sure enough, the news that the North Korean army had appeared in the Huangcaoling area immediately reached the front-line headquarters of the United **, and various types of fighter-bombers roared over, and large-caliber long-range artillery also began to tilt ammunition towards the Huangcaoling area.

For the first time, the soldiers of the Volunteer Army saw such a battle, and they began to prepare for fire without even seeing a single figure, and the bombs and shells turned the entire area into a pot of paste.

The sky is full of bombs and shells, overwhelming, such a formation is an eye-opener for a battalion of volunteer soldiers, damn, how much does it cost? The poor ** people don't understand it very much.

It is undeniable that the fire preparation of the joint ** is very good, and the bombs and shells plow all the places on both sides of the road where people can be ambushed.

This is simply the fate of the squadron, when they hit the Japanese, they were bombed by shells, and when they fought the Kuomintang, they were bombed by shells, and they were bombed when they returned to North Korea.

The first division of the Republic of Korea is the best division of all the Korean ** teams, and the weapons and equipment are no worse than those of the US army, and the whole division is composed of two mechanized infantry regiments, a tank regiment, and a 105 howitzer battalion, with more than 10,000 personnel.

This kind of equipment and composition is simply too powerful in the 50s, it is not just an ordinary division, but a composite force composed of multiple arms, plus the support of aircraft in the sky, the firepower is not known how many times stronger than a division of the Volunteer Army.