After being a military commander for a long time, Li Yong naturally had a convincing temperament, as if he had changed roles in an instant, and his tone of voice seemed to be back to the Independent Brigade.

The main thing is to see whether the 346th Regiment can clear the minefield in the short interval between the shelling, and this is a hard-hitting task, and there must be no false in the slightest, so Li Yong should also ask Regiment Commander Wu, who is most familiar with the combat effectiveness of the regiment, on specific issues.

The tone of Li Yong's speech and the questioning are typical ways of superiors to subordinates, and the commanders at all levels of the 346th Regiment naturally regard Li Yong as the head of the superior, because they grasp the key to the matter in a few words, this is the basic essence of an excellent commander, it is impossible to be a passing soy sauce, and the people of the 346th Regiment are not fools.

Commander Wu Baoguang subconsciously asked: "How long can we prepare for artillery fire?" ”

After asking this sentence, Wu Baoguang also regretted a little, can a person who is much younger than him know the preparation time of our army's artillery fire, this is the top secret in the army.

Li Yong smiled, because almost all the shells were brought by him, and now there is no need to keep it secret:

"Commander Wu, our logistics capabilities are poor, there are not enough shells, and some of them were knocked out by American planes on the way to transportation, so the artillery preparation is only twenty minutes, that is, if you want not to expose the intentions of the troops, you must clear the minefield within twenty minutes, otherwise the time for the impact of the large forces will come."

"Twenty minutes, twenty minutes, a hundred meters of minefield." Commander Wu Baoguang did not ask Li Yong why he knew so much about the time of our shelling, but muttered softly in his mouth.

After a while, Head Wu looked at Li Yong as if he had made a great determination: "Chief." We are confident that we will be able to clear the minefield within twenty minutes. ”

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"Why?" Li Yong did not completely believe in Wu Baoguang just because he said he had confidence, and fighting a war was not a joke, nor was it just a matter of making up his mind indiscriminately.

Wu Baoguang replied loudly: "Report to the chief." Because our regiment has a combat hero Zhang Caishu, I believe that he will definitely be able to complete the task. ”

Commander Wu mentioned a fighter. Zhang Caishu, the combat hero, seemed to be able to bring him great confidence by saying this soldier, and his tone became more and more firm.

The commanders of the 346th Regiment on the side also agreed: "Yes, we have the combat hero Zhang Caishu, who will definitely be able to complete the task within the specified time, and we believe in him." ”

It seems that it is indeed not easy for an ordinary soldier to bring confidence to so many commanders. Li Yong asked in a deep voice: "Briefly introduce his situation." ”

Wu Baoguang: "Report chief, Zhang Caishu is a veteran soldier of our regiment, enlisted in the army in 40 years, a veteran of the anti-Japanese battlefield, has experienced countless battles and battles, and has repeatedly made meritorious contributions, and is a well-known demining expert in our whole regiment, the whole division and even the whole army. ”

There is an old man and a treasure in the family, and the veteran soldiers who came down from the anti-Japanese battlefield are too precious. The 346th Regiment is really not simple, it is a bit of an old family, and there is reconnaissance hero Zhang Guohan in front. Now there is another demining expert, Zhang Caishu, and having such a veteran soldier can indeed make the commander feel confident, and the tone of his words will be hard.

Just as both sides were in full swing of preparations, the New Year's Day of the 50th year was approaching.

The cold wind whistled, and the entire banks of the Imjin River turned into a silver-white world of ice and snow, and the temperature suddenly dropped to nearly minus 30 degrees.

He is said to be old not because of how old he is, but because he can see from his actions that this is a veteran who has tested the battlefield very much. The observation points chosen are good.

What is a veteran, he is called a veteran after a hundred battles and has not died. He didn't seem to feel the biting cold wind or the cold in the bitter cold, and his hand holding the telescope remained motionless. His eyes were looking forward intently, and he was looking at an open field, an open field covered with snow and ice.

This open area is nearly 100 meters wide, just on our side of the Imjin River, in front of the assault position of the 346th Regiment, and the voice of the regiment commander Wu Baoguang sounded in his ears from time to time:

"Lao Zhang, the time given to you is only twenty minutes, and after twenty minutes of artillery preparation, our regiment will start to attack, and if there are any difficulties and requirements, the regimental party committee will definitely solve them."

That's right, this veteran soldier is none other than Zhang Caishu, the combat hero of the 346th Regiment.

There was no need for a heavy hammer to ring the drum, and the head of the regiment Wu Baoguang did not say anything about you must complete the task, nor did he give any hard orders, but only carefully explained to Zhang Caishu the situation and difficulties that the whole regiment was facing.

Zhang Caishu knew that there were countless deadly mines buried in this large minefield, and he only had 20 minutes, and 20 minutes was necessary to open the way for the whole regiment to assault, and this was his Zhang Caishu's task, and no one could snatch it away.

Regiment Commander Wu Baoguang assigned Zhang Caishu two staff officers from the regiment headquarters, and asked these two staff officers to register all the equipment and personnel needed by Zhang Caishu, and then the regiment headquarters directly allocated them without any discount.

As the daylight seemed to be coming to an end, hundreds of thousands of volunteer soldiers had been lying in ambush in the snow-covered trenches for days, and the hour they had to wait was near.

The hour hand pointed to 17 p.m. on 31 December 1950, which was a historic day, because the Chinese People's Volunteers were about to break through the 38th parallel, which was drawn by the Americans, or the old saying, no matter what line you have, we Chinese can cross it whenever we want.

Several artillery groups had already concealed themselves in their positions, all the artillery had been torn off their camouflage, and the boxes containing shells were picked open by the fighters with bayonets one by one, and the battle was about to break out.

Suddenly, the same voice came from the telephone line at the root of the tree, and anyone who knew the inside story could hear it, it was the voice of Han Xianchu, the former commander-in-chief of the enemy of the Volunteer Army: "The attack begins." ”

On the north bank of the Imjin River, several artillery groups of the Volunteer Army roared together, first firing a few test firing with tom tom, and then rapid fire that made people unable to even breathe.

Hundreds of artillery pieces opened fire at the same time, and in less than a minute half the sky was red, and swarms of shells whizzed across the Imjin River and landed on the heavily defended United Nations-Army side positions, followed by violent explosions.

Gunsmoke, dust, broken steel and cement blocks, weapons and equipment, and various limbs of human bodies flew into the sky with the sound of explosions.

Bombardment, bombardment, non-stop bombardment, artillery shells shot batch after batch, the headquarters of the Volunteer Army had an order, in order to ensure that the shock troops crossed the Imjin River along the way, the artillery must first clear the obstacles, this is a dead order.

Shells rained down from the sky, and shrapnel flew everywhere along the UN-Army line, and corpses were scattered everywhere, as if they had come to the Shura hell full of death.

Bombing barricades, trenches, pillboxes, firing points, barbed wire, fronts, depths, enemy artillery positions, the artillery fire of the volunteers is as accurate as having eyes.

Seeing that the position was bombed in pieces, the artillery of the so-called powerful United Nations-Army never reacted, let alone reacted, and not even a fart was released.

In order to get first-hand information about the enemy, many soldiers like Zhang Guohan did not hesitate to risk their lives to reconnoiter the enemy's situation, and thus obtained first-hand information about the enemy.

At the mouth of the numerous tunnels on the north bank, the soldiers watched and laughed, and some simply jumped out and cheered loudly, saying that they wanted to see how the invincible Yankees were bombarded, whether they peed their pants when they were bombed, and whether they cried to go home to find their mother.

It is no wonder that the soldiers are so happy, the PLA troops have been bullied by their opponents in terms of firepower since the day they were founded, they were bombed when they beat the Japanese, they were bombed when they beat the Kuomintang, and when it came time for Korea to fight the Yankees and those chaotic national armies, it was still time to be bombed, which made the soldiers' hearts very unbalanced, and they all secretly held their breath, and we also bullied the enemy at that time.

I didn't expect this day to come so quickly, the three battles were the first large-scale use of artillery by our army after entering Korea, and there were hundreds of heavy artillery pieces with a caliber of more than 100 millimeters.

The soldiers of the 346th Regiment of the 116th Division of the 39th Army of the Volunteer Army were different from other troops, because everyone knew that there was a large minefield arranged by the enemy on the route they were going to break through.

Logically speaking, the best way to clear mines is to bombard with artillery fire, and one can basically solve the problem after coverage, but now it can't be done, because first, the supply of artillery shells for the volunteers is tight, and the limited artillery shells are for artillery to strike at important targets on the other side of the Imjin River, and second, the minefield is too close to the mouth of the tunnel where the soldiers are hidden, so the artillery cannot guarantee that it will not hurt its own people, so the 346th Regiment can only rely on its own strength to clear mines.

Zhang Caishu had already prepared, and as soon as the artillery fire rang out, he led his demining team to separate the crowd and rushed forward, Zhang Caishu shouted as he ran: "Get out of the way, get out of the way." ”

Zhang Caishu is not a cadre, but he is a celebrity of the 346th Regiment, and most of the thousands of cadres and soldiers know him, and some shouted when Zhang Caishu ran forward: "Hey, Lao Zhang, clean it up, if you can't get it clean, see how I kick your ass when I come back." ”

The fighters of the demining group did not have time to quarrel with them, and one by one, they did not make a sound, rushed forward with various tools, and rushed out of the tunnel at the beginning of the preparation of artillery fire. (To be continued) I640