Limited Express Train(5)
After four days of rush transportation, Liu Hai transported all 400,000 rounds of artillery shells to the triangle area with the cooperation of the air force, anti-aircraft artillery units and intelligence departments! However, it is the most difficult to transport it here, because the focus of the Americans' air blockade of the volunteers is in the triangle area, because after the logistics materials arrive here, they are distributed to the positions of the volunteers on the east and west fronts, so the Americans have always focused on taking care of the triangle area.
"Boom!" A huge explosion sounded outside, and Liu Hai stood on the lookout and watched the earth-shattering bombardment outside, thinking in his heart how to safely transport these hundreds of thousands of shells from the triangle to Shangganling. After thinking about it, Liu Hai decided to use the method of striking east and west, deliberately exposing that the shells had reached the triangle area, and then making it look like they were going to be transported to the eastern front, and moving the US military planes in the triangle to the east to cover the real shell transportation! Liu Hai reported his thoughts to Hong Xuezhi, hoping that Hong Xuezhi would help cooperate!
In fact, at this time, Zhiji was also planning a counterattack in the direction of Shangganling, in addition to tactics, the most important thing was the issue of firepower, according to the current situation, the Americans have assembled six artillery regiments, two heavy artillery regiments, and five artillery regiments of the South Korean Army in the Shangganling area, in addition to thousands of army and navy planes ready to support, if you can't win a temporary firepower advantage, there is no way to launch even a company-level attack, so the preparations before the counterattack in Shangganling are twofold. One is the preparation of firepower, and the other is the reconnaissance of the enemy in front of Shangganling before the war, and now the task of Liu Hai is the top priority of the pre-war fire preparation, if the shells are not in place, then what kind of firepower is there to talk about. So in order to be able to help Liu Hai transport the shells, Shiji agreed to make a move on the Eastern Front.
In order to cover Liuhai's transportation of 400,000 rounds of artillery shells, and also to conceal the strategic intention of carrying out a counterattack in Shangganling, the volunteer troops and the People's Army on the Eastern Front carried out extensive mobilizations, and also sent reconnaissance units to the front, and assembled a large number of troops in some important areas. For the preparation of the counterattack of the volunteers on the Eastern Front, almost all the generals and staff officers of the Americans, except for Division Commander Cowen, believed that the volunteers would launch a counteroffensive on the Eastern Front, and the reason why Cowan did not believe it was because he felt that the Chinese had invested a lot of money in Shangganling, and even if it was a counterattack, it should be counterattacked here!
"Commander, now the Chinese's offensive intentions on the Eastern Front are becoming more and more obvious, they have concentrated the forces of three armies there, which is enough to inflict a major blow on us on the Eastern Front, and according to our intelligence, hundreds of thousands of shells transported by China have reached the triangle, and if we cannot eliminate these shells, these shells will cause us heavy casualties!" Van Vliet's staff officers reported to Van Vliet. "Has your information been verified? Can you confirm that the Chinese will attack from the Eastern Front? Van Vliet said. Of course, we find that the Chinese on the Eastern Front are moving frequently, and the forces have begun to gather to the front, and this is the rhythm of the obvious attack! The staff officer said: "In the past, the Chinese attacked like this, when the eastern front was fierce, they would suddenly launch a counteroffensive from the western front, their thinking was different from ours, this time I can be sure that they will indeed launch a counterattack on the eastern front to break the dilemma on the western front!" ”
"Now the two armies have been in a stalemate for a while, and it is impossible to take advantage of our unpreparedness to launch a sudden attack like in the early days of the war, and we are now very well prepared, so if they want to attack, they must have strong firepower to cover, so the hundreds of thousands of shells mentioned in the intelligence are the key, whether they are counterattacking from the Eastern Front or the Western Front, if this batch of shells is destroyed by us, then their counteroffensive plan must be canceled, So destroying their shells is the root of restraining their counteroffensive! Van Vliet said. But according to intelligence, their shells have now reached the triangle, and now our bombardment should be focused on their transport routes to the Western Front or the Eastern Front? The staff officer asked. To gather further information, the focus of the bombing is still on the triangle! Van Vliet said.
"The enemy's bombardment has become more intense, with an average of more than 900 bombs dropped every day in the past few days, and several of our stations have been bombed to the ground!" The head of the station in the triangle reports to Liu Hai! "Send someone to repair the two stations on the Eastern Line, how many anti-aircraft guns do you have here?" Bangs asked. "The triangle area is a key bombing area for the enemy, there are a total of fifty-nine anti-aircraft guns here, twenty-two at the station on the eastern front, and thirty-seven on the western front!" The stationmaster said. "It's enough to have twenty gates on the Western Front, and all the others are concentrated on the Eastern Front, and I'll command the air counterattack!" Bangs said.
Liu Hai rushed to the station of the Eastern Line and found that it was very badly bombed, there was a crater almost every ten meters, if it were not for the railroad tracks on the ground and the platform that had been blown into a wall, it would not be a station at all. When Liu Hai arrived, more than a dozen US planes were bombing, the anti-aircraft guns around the station were counterattacking the air, and the station on the ground was in flames! However, after a closer look, Liu Hai found that the anti-aircraft guns around the station were almost all fighting separately, and there was no concentration of fire at all, and there was no focus on blocking the enemy's dive points.
Watching the reckless bombing of the US planes in the sky, a platoon commander of the volunteer army looked at the US planes, his eyes turned red, he grabbed a machine gun, rushed out, stood on the ground, and began to pull the trigger at the US planes that were diving down. The US military plane in the sky saw that a person was shooting there, a diagonal spur swooped down and began to strafe, the volunteer platoon commander did not dodge or dodge, just blindly pulled the trigger, when the smoke from the plane's machine shells dispersed, the volunteer platoon commander was hit with two big holes in his body, and fell down unwillingly!
"This won't work!" Liu Hai watched the platoon commander of the Volunteer Army fall, and then looked at the chaotic anti-aircraft counterattack against the air, and said to the station commander behind him, "Where did the anti-aircraft gun commander here come from?" "It's a KPA major!" "Fucking major, call me the commander of the anti-aircraft guns!" Bangs said as he looked at the chaotic firing of the anti-aircraft guns. "Division Commander Liu, this Major Park is the nephew of the commander of the First Army of the People's Army, you..." The stationmaster reminded. "No wonder, call him!" Liu Hai's heart was on fire, and he glanced at the bombed station again, "One general is incompetent, killing the three armies!" "Okay!" The stationmaster ran out. In a short time, I brought a KPA officer carrying a KPA major card! "This is Division Commander Liu, and he is in charge of this artillery transport." The stationmaster introduced. "Hello Master Liu!" The major came over and said. Liu Haitie blushed and looked at the KPA major in front of him and waved his hand.
"Grab this shit!" Bangs said to his guard. Several guards rushed up and arrested the KPA major. "Why did you arrest me?" KPA Major shouted. "Because of your incompetent command, you let such an important station be bombed and almost scrapped, and handed him over to the People's Army for dereliction of duty!" Bangs said. "I am an officer of the People's Army, you have no right to arrest me!" KPA officers shouted. "It's because of your People's Army, if you were a volunteer army, I would collapse you now!" Liu Hai waved his hand, and the guards escorted the KPA major out, and Liu Hai followed him out and ran to the anti-aircraft position!
"All the gun positions are under my command, the single gun blocks the enemy's dive point, and the double gun follows my gun to counterattack in the air!" Bangs picked up the intercom and shouted. Liu Hai rushed to the gun position, operated the artillery to fire at a US plane that dived down, more than a dozen double guns followed the fire of Liu Hai's artillery fire, the shells of more than a dozen guns suddenly formed a fire net, the US military plane was covered by the fire net, dozens of shells hit the plane, the US military plane was hit by a volley explosion almost at the moment of being shot, and the fragments after the explosion flew down like flowers! "Just fight like this!" Bangs got down from the gun position and said to the gun commander. "Yes!" The artillery commander of the KPA said immediately. Liu Hai changed the command of the air counterattack, and the dive rate of the US planes was greatly reduced when the dive point was blocked, and even if they found a hole to take root, they would immediately be shrouded in anti-aircraft fire, and after another one was shot down, the US planes finally withdrew! "Repair it now!" The stationmaster shouted to his men.
"This should be the last enemy plane to bomb today, you must grab a line that can leave the station by half past three tonight!" Liu Hai said to the stationmaster. "It's so bad, it's hard to grab a line at half past three!" The stationmaster said. "It's half past seven now, and there are still eight hours left at half past three, and if you don't rush through after eight hours, you should be a volunteer, right?" Bangs said. "Of course I'm a volunteer... When the station manager said this, he suddenly remembered what Liu Hai said to the officers of the People's Army just now, that is, because of you, the People's Army, if you were a volunteer, I would collapse you now. The station manager understood the meaning of the bangs, if he couldn't grab them at half past three, the bangs would collapse him! "Please rest assured, Master Liu, I will definitely snatch the way out!" The stationmaster said.
"Prepare a locomotive, tell the train driver to hang up a few scrapped wagons, drive in reverse, drive to the scrapped railway branch line of the Eastern Front, and wait by where to mobilize five anti-aircraft guns!" Bangs said to the stationmaster who was about to go out.