West Point is called the cradle of generals in the U.S. military, which is not an empty word, and the school motto of country, honor, and responsibility is deeply implanted in the minds of every cadet and invades their souls.

Under God's arrangement, Ridgway caught up with the two world wars, starting from an infantry second lieutenant, to the outbreak of World War II, he was already a division commander, or the most famous infantry division in the United States, the 82nd Division, and later this division was reorganized into an airborne division because of its strong combat effectiveness, becoming the most elite combat unit of the United States Army.

From the beginning of the Sicily campaign, Ridgway led his soldiers to major European theaters, until he participated in the most famous and brutal Normandy landing campaign, and by the end of World War II in four or five years, he had commanded an army.

Born in a military family, graduated from the most famous West Point Military Academy, and started from a lowest-level second lieutenant to the army's deputy chief of general staff in charge of operations, Li Qiwei is familiar with almost every branch of the army, and is known throughout the US army for daring to think and do, and tactical astuteness.

Matthew Ridgway was a remarkable figure in the U.S. military.

A discordant telephone rang, breaking the rare silence in the room, and Li Qi, who was leisurely, frowned slightly, this is a special phone that goes directly to the staff headquarters, and there is no big thing, this phone will not ring.

On the other end of the line was his old classmate and immediate boss, Army Chief of Staff General Collins.

Collins's phone call was simple, but the amount of information leaked out of it was huge: "Matthew, something big is going on in the Far East." Walker is dead, and the Pentagon tells you to go to a meeting right away. ”

Walker was the commander of the U.S. Army's Eighth Army.

As the deputy chief of staff in charge of operations, Ridgway was well aware of Walker's location. Knowing that Walker was commanding hundreds of thousands of U.S. troops to fight the Communist Army in a place called Korea in the Far East, and that the commander was killed? It shows that the battle situation has been very strict.

Walker died, and the Pentagon asked him, the deputy chief of staff in charge of operations, to go to a meeting immediately, and the content of the meeting was easily guessed by the shrewd Ridgway.

There is no doubt that Ridgway's guess was accurate, taking Walker's place and going to Korea to command the U.S. Eighth Army to fight the Comintern. The Pentagon's order was simple and straightforward.

Ridgway, who had experienced many brutal battles, only took a photo with his wife and children, and then got on the plane specially prepared for him, accompanied by the roar of the propellers, and the plane was buried into the vast night.

The military situation was urgent, and he had to report to his old superiors. Ridgway's old boss was also the principal of West Point when he was in school, and MacArthur, the commander of the three armed forces in the Far East.

Li Yong's detachment consisted of only more than 200 people, but he was able to mobilize more and more forces, and he was the deputy director of the General Logistics Department of the Chinese People's Volunteers. The level is too high. At the beginning, no one believed it, and there were a lot of jokes, but after a long time of contact, everyone gradually learned that there was such a very young senior leader in the volunteer army, and he was very capable.

There are very few combat units from the Yalu River port to the front line that do not give face to Vice Minister Li, including the organizations of the Korean People's Army at all levels.

Jin Yingzi, a female soldier of the People's Army who has been following the squad, has played a great role, and she has long been more than just a guide for the squad. is also the translator and liaison officer of the team, and even Li Yong has praised this girl many times for being very capable. It's a rare good hand.

However, Jin Yingzi didn't seem to be very interested in Li Yong's praise, in her words, hum, what is there to be happy about being praised by a young man in his twenties.

For this matter, the second son of the third platoon Changning, who was often with her, quarreled with her many times, of course, there was definitely no result in the quarrel.

Li Yong has too much work to do, he has to be responsible for the food, drink and Lazar of the entire volunteer army, and a large number of weapons and equipment have to be transported to the front line through him.

Li Yong knew very well that the three battles that were about to begin were very arduous, and the gap between our army's logistics and that of the US army was still too great; a single soldier not only had to rely on the speed of the enemy's mechanization on foot, but also carried ammunition and food with him for four days; in the most popular terms, he had to carry his guns and people by himself, and he fought against the enemy while carrying dozens of kilograms of his own weight.

At this time, Li Yong understood what the weekly and weekly offensives recorded in later generations were all about, individual soldiers carried food and ammunition for four days, and after the ammunition and food were exhausted, they had to rely on the soldiers' hunger and will to hold on for a few more days, and seven days was already the limit of the soldiers' bodies.

Seven days is the limit, the limit of the Volunteer Army's offensive operations, Li Yong knows this, and Li Qiwei, the incoming commander of the US Eighth Army, will soon be able to figure out this truth, and it is precisely because Li Qiwei has figured out the weakness of the Volunteer Army that there have been four battles after three battles.

What Li Yong was worried about was not the three battles, but the fourth battle that followed, the fourth battle was fought passively when the volunteers ran out of ammunition and food, that is to say, the volunteers in the first three battles occupied the initiative in the campaign, while in the four campaigns, on the contrary, the initiative in the battle was in the hands of the enemy, which is also extremely rare in the military history of the PLA.

The fourth battle of the Korean War was fought extremely hard by our army, and some people said that it was like the period of the Red Army, Li Yong's heart was full of a sense of urgency and powerlessness, he knew the direction of the next battle, but there was no way to stop it.

For now, only do our best to prepare as many supplies as possible for the front-line troops, so that the soldiers can have more protection in the later defensive operations, you know, sometimes a pack of biscuits, a grenade and a bullet can save a soldier's life.

Li Yong thought of all the ways he could think of, in addition to preparing a large amount of food and ammunition, Li Yong also asked the rear to prepare some straw and planks, no one knows why the deputy minister asked the rear to prepare so much straw, can straw also fight?

Straw can not fight, but straw does have a great effect, in the three battles that are about to begin, our army has to break through the enemy's Imjin River defense line, and the Imjin River is more than 200 meters wide, the soldiers are easy to fall down in the cold conditions of dozens of degrees below zero, once they fall, it is easy to be frozen by ice and snow on the river surface and cannot move, the straw can be spread under the body can solve this problem very well, but the battle was fought in a hurry at that time, and the troops could not find so much straw.

Li Yong also did a lot of work like this, in short, there was only one purpose, so that the troops could reduce even a little loss in the next two major battles.

At the headquarters of the Volunteer Army, a large mine cave is brightly lit, and what makes people strange is that the lighting in the mine is not a kerosene lamp, nor is it a gas death lamp often used in the army, but a very rare electric lamp.

The electricity was specially sent from a generator that was transported from the country, and the fuel used was gasoline, and in the Korean battlefield at that time, where every drop of gasoline was very expensive, it was extremely unusual to use a gasoline generator to generate electricity.

It is indeed a big thing, this big mine illuminated by electric lights is full of people at the moment, and a rough estimate shows that there can be dozens of them, and it is strange that there are not only the heads of the Volunteer Army Headquarters, but also some comrades of the People's Army, and by the way, there are also a few high-nosed and blue-eyed Soviets.

This was a trilateral meeting between China, the Soviet Union, and the DPRK, and the contents of the discussions were undoubtedly the three battles to be started.

On the Soviet side, senior members of the delegation of the Soviet Red Army to the Korean People's Army were present, and the general representative was the head of the regiment Vyshinsky, and almost all the senior personnel of the high command of the DPRK participated, including the Supreme Commander, Prime Minister Kim XX.

It was the first time since the Korean War that China, the Soviet Union, and the DPRK sat down together to hold a meeting, and in particular, such a high-level military conference was also the first formal military meeting of the three socialist camp countries.

Logically speaking, it is a good thing and a joy that the countries of the three socialist camps can sit together and discuss things, but I don't know what it means, after the meeting has been held for a while, the meeting hall is filled with a very strange and strange atmosphere.

The expressions of the representatives of the three sides were very gloomy, especially the commander-in-chief of the Volunteer Army, Mr. Peng, whose faces were distorted for a while, if it weren't for the deputy commander Hong Xuezhi on the side who dragged the boss's clothes under the table a few times, I don't know what Mr. Peng would say.

In the middle of the meeting, the representatives of several quarters suddenly stopped talking, and more than ten minutes passed, and there was silence, and the atmosphere in the meeting hall was terrifyingly quiet.

A staff officer suddenly walked in, leaned on the ear of Deputy Commander Hong Xuezhi and whispered a few words, and then walked out quietly.

Deputy Commander Hong Xuezhi reported to Mr. Peng next to him in a low voice: "Boss, Xiao Li Yong is back, and he will be at the headquarters soon." ”

Hearing that Li Yong, the love general, was back, Mr. Peng's face finally showed a little smile, and he said to Deputy Commander Hong Xuezhi in a voice that only two people could hear: "Let him hurry up and come over for a meeting, and listen to people's opinions." ”

Li Yong is the deputy director of logistics at the headquarters of the Volunteer Army, and his level is high enough to attend such a meeting.

The news soon reached the ears of Li Yong, who had just rushed back, that the headquarters of the Volunteer Army was holding a high-level military meeting in three aspects, and Mr. Peng asked him to prepare and go over to the meeting immediately.

The dusty Li Yong broke the silence in the venue, and the people from several sides turned their heads to look at the young soldier who walked in.

Thank you all (to be continued......)