According to Deputy Commander Hong's suggestion, Li Yong went to the Ninth Corps to investigate and understand the situation, in order to accumulate more experience and facilitate his future work.

Accompanied by Tao Yong, the deputy commander of the Ninth Corps, this is also a great general, who was the axe of Commander Chen Yi to open up a new area, and was famous for daring to fight tough battles.

Deputy Commander Tao Yong took Li Yong to visit every army, division, regiment, and even the most basic company of the Ninth Corps to learn about the battle situation at that time and ask the troops what difficulties they had now.

Deputy Commander Tao Yong slowly introduced: "Our corps is fighting in the south most of the time, there is no combat experience in the cold area, and there is no ideological preparation, many soldiers are the first time in their lives to see the snow, because the situation is urgent, the cotton clothes of the troops have not had time to be distributed, each squad only has one or two quilts, other cold equipment is a blank, the troops have to rest on the quilt on the snow, everyone sits on it and shiveres, there is no warmth at all, the first day of the march, we were frostbitten more than 700 people, The U.S. military had air supremacy during the day, and the few cars of our corps were bombed to the ground. In order to be able to block the enemy in time, the troops advanced lightly, and all the heavy equipment was left in the rear, and before the battle began, some troops had not eaten a mouthful of hot food for nine days, and while shivering with cold, they had to drink ice and snow to quench their thirst. ”

"So, before the battle was launched, there was already a lot of non-combat attrition on our part?" Li Yong asked.

"Vice Minister Li is right. Before the battle was launched, the troops had already suffered a lot of frostbite, and the most severe was the 172nd Regiment of the 58th Division. After the battle, only more than twenty people survived, and the soldiers in rows and rows were frozen to death on the positions, and after the trumpet was blown, not a single person from the attack positions that had been given hope to charge, because they had already died in the bitter cold, and the 177th Regiment of our 59th Division, one of their battalions repelled eight attacks by the American troops in a row. In the end, only about 60 fighters survived, and after the 60 fighters had used up all their ammunition, they were frozen on their positions, and after the battle, the paramedics pried open the ice and carried them off. There are also many companies of our ............................ that only one or two communicators survived, including the company commander and instructors, all of whom died, and the most famous combat hero of our Sanye, Yangens, also died, and his company only survived two seriously wounded. ”

Deputy Commander Tao Yong's introduction made Li Yong and He Cuihua and others who came with him fight the Cold War. They felt the same for the losses suffered by the brother troops. They are also soldiers of the People's Liberation Army, and they completely understand why Commander Song Shilun is sad, his old comrades-in-arms and old subordinates who have been fighting together for many years will be wiped out in the next battle, and they can't even find their bodies.

During the following visit, Li Yong came into contact with a large number of commanders and fighters at the grassroots level, and the general impression of the soldiers was. The Americans' armament was so good that they sometimes surrounded the enemy with several times the number of troops. But it couldn't be taken, because the US military tanks formed a circle to form a strong fortress position, plus the support of the air force and long-range artillery fire, forming a three-dimensional firepower network, and our army lacked effective means of attack, no artillery fire, no covering fire, no anti-tank weapons, and even a limited number of mortar shells could not be fired because the barrel was reduced by the cold, and after the battle, grenades became the most luxurious weapons.

A teenage soldier told Li Yong that he was the only one in his company who survived, thinking that the instructor had wrapped the only quilt in the company on his youngest soldier, so that he had not been frozen to death by the severe cold, and the little soldier said in a choked voice: "When the American troops passed from the front of their company's position, including him, all the people in the company were frozen, unable to move their hands and feet, and could only watch the enemy run away. ”

Commander Tao Yong, the introduction of the soldiers, has actually heard it countless times, but he still can't help but sigh: "Vice Minister Li, our food has run out, our ammunition has run out, and we have been fighting for more than 20 days in a row, and the soldiers have fought with the enemy with sapper shovels in the cold of more than minus 40 degrees Celsius barefoot, and they have fallen down one by one under the cover of the enemy's ground-air fire net, even if our equipment reaches half of the enemy, no, even if our equipment has one-third of the enemy, we can completely and cleanly destroy them, and the battle is so bad. It's the first time I've encountered Tao Yong. ”

Commander Tao Yong's atmosphere was a little dull when he said this, because needless to say, the equipment had reached half or one-third of the enemy's, and now after the battle, the most basic cotton clothes of the troops had not yet been distributed, and a considerable number of soldiers in the Ninth Corps were still wearing single clothes.

Li Yong felt uncomfortable with a breath of air in his chest, he was the deputy minister in charge of logistics of the Volunteer Army, and the front-line troops couldn't even wear cotton clothes, so what was the use of him as a deputy minister? Although he is new to the city, he has a responsibility.

"The Ninth Corps is a good example, our soldiers are all heroes, all of them, under such difficult conditions, you have defeated the 1st Marine Division of the US ace and the 7th Division of the US Army that came to reinforce it, and drove the enemy out of the Wonsan area, I assure you that our logistics conditions will definitely be greatly improved in the future." These words were uttered by Li Yong when he visited the wounded of the Ninth Corps.

Li Yong, who returned to the headquarters of the Volunteer Army, wrote an investigation report overnight, handed it to Mr. Peng and Deputy Commander Hong Xuezhi respectively, and put forward his own opinions or opinions, which are probably as follows:

First, the campaign organization of the Ninth Corps was very well organized, and it was remarkable that the large corps of more than 100,000 people was able to reach the designated position covertly and not be discovered by the enemy before the campaign was launched.

Second, the troops lack sustained combat capability, lack of food and ammunition, basically do not have equipment to protect against the cold, lack effective means of attack, and lack the necessary material support conditions.

Third, the firepower of the US military is very fierce, and the firepower of an ordinary infantry regiment of the US army is even stronger than that of an army of tens of thousands of people.

Fourth, the mechanization of the American army is outstanding, and when it is routed by our army, it runs away very quickly, and the two legs of the soldiers cannot catch up with the wheels of the enemy's cars, so that they cannot expand the results of the battle.

In fact, this is also a common problem encountered by troops at all levels of the Volunteer Army, and it is a common problem, and Mr. Peng and the leaders of the headquarters also know it, but they can't find a solution to it at present, and Li Yong has his own ideas when he puts the problem up again.

According to the trend of history, the three battles on the Korean battlefield are about to start, and in the three battles, the problems and difficulties encountered by the volunteers in the first two battles have not been resolved, and the third campaign is launched before the problems have been effectively solved.

However, this is only Li Yong's personal opinion, and he also knows that his influence as the deputy minister of logistics on the war situation is limited, or not at all, and he once again raised the problems and difficulties just to make the head of the headquarters more vigilant.

The report was handed in, and it was none of his business what the chief thought of it, and Li Yong devoted all his thoughts and energy to improving the troops' logistical capability, which was also the most tedious work.

The logistics department of the newly established Volunteer Army was in urgent need of manpower, but at the critical moment before the campaign was launched, it was impossible for Mr. Peng and several leaders to transfer personnel from the combat units, and it was too late to transfer personnel from the country.

The two victories of the Chinese People's Volunteers after entering Korea gave the Korean People's Army a respite, and before the three campaigns were launched, the KPA organized three more corps (the 1st, 2nd, and 5th Army Corps) with a total strength of more than 70,000 troops.

The three corps of the Korean People's Army also had to participate in three battles, and Ri Yong asked for cooperation not with the main battle force of the KPA, but with the garrison of the second line, that is, the troops similar to the guide Kim Young-ja.

In any case, Li Yong's identity is still useful, and the deputy director of logistics of the Volunteer Army Headquarters has come forward, and the People's Army has also paid enough attention to it, promising that the garrison troops in various places will fully cooperate.

With the cooperation of the local military and civilians, Li Yong's work has gone much easier; according to the prior design, starting from the Yalu River port, a large concealment point will be set up every 50 kilometers on average, and five to 10 small concealment points will be set up in the middle of every two large concealment points, depending on the situation, and mobile and fixed air defense observation posts will be set up at the nearby commanding heights, so that they can immediately fire warning shots if there is a situation.

Li Yong demanded that large concealment points should be able to store at least dozens of vehicles and supplies, and small concealment points should also be able to store 10 vehicles, so that convoys can transport large quantities at night and small batches during the day.

While digging hidden points, it is also necessary to mobilize antiaircraft artillery units for air defense, and it is impossible to conceal the enemy's secret agents from the simultaneous excavation of countless large and small air defense projects, and if nothing else, it will certainly attract the enemy's aerial bombardment.

Li Yong had long been mentally prepared for the US military's aerial bombardment, and it was a conspiracy to dig large and small air defense concealment points on the lines of communication in the rear, and the conspiracy was invincible.

Under Li Yong's mobilization, several antiaircraft artillery and antiaircraft machine gun units of the Chinese People's Army and the People's Army were deployed near the lines of communication, and Li Yong told these air defense units not to be afraid of wasting ammunition, as long as the enemy's planes showed their heads, they would be beaten hard, and as long as our lines of communication were not bombed, the ammunition supply would be satisfied.

Lao Ba has caught a cold in the last few days, and he doesn't have the energy to write a novel, so he has to slow down, but I still want to thank the old guys for their support, and the following chapters should have a climax. (To be continued......)