After the French battalion's position was conquered, and then the valley in the middle was captured, the entire circular defensive position in Dipingli also collapsed and collapsed.

The US military command center was captured, and even the regiment commander Colonel Freeman was captured, causing the US troops stationed on various high grounds to lose unified command and fight on their own. Secondly, the US troops on the high ground soon faced the attack of the volunteers in both the forward and the reverse slopes. In addition, the Americans paid attention to their own lives and had a strong will to fight, so they raised their hands to surrender after a little resistance.

Of course, there are only the exceptions of this. The US troops stationed on Mount Wangmei in the south. They were not attacked from the beginning to the end of the battle. Because there were no volunteers attacking on the other side, when we attacked the central valley, they were not surrounded and attacked on both sides. When they found that the situation was not good, they threw down all their heavy equipment and fled.

In the 354th Regiment, which failed to attack during the first charge, when their regiment commander heard that the US military had fled, they asked the division commander several times to pursue the enemy. After obtaining the agreement, the soldiers of the 354th Regiment, who were irritated, picked up rifles and didn't even bring the quilt. According to their statement, they just didn't kill a few enemies to avenge their dead comrades, and they didn't have to sleep.

In this dark night, the US military had neither cars nor tanks, and all of its heavy equipment was thrown on the position. I couldn't help but worry deeply about the US military on the road to escape! If they could see the gritting teeth of these soldiers who were chasing them, I think they would rather choose to surrender.

What made the soldiers very sad was that the volunteer soldiers of the 357th and 359th Regiment touched the enemy's corpses as soon as they came up, searching for bullets and food. After searching for some food, they stuffed them into their mouths, and some searched the prisoners. This made me realize that they had been out of food for a while, otherwise they would not have been like this with their will...

Our division's troops seized a large number of enemy supplies from the beginning of the negotiation government, and then received airdrops from the US military. Although most of the seized materials were handed over, some of them were left behind when they passed through the soldiers, so the food shortage was not serious. But other troops were different. Although the amount of materials we handed over was quite large, there were hundreds of thousands of people in the entire volunteer army! I am afraid that there would be only a little bread crumb left when they were handed over.

"Give it..." I sighed and handed a pack of cookies to a volunteer soldier who was searching for the prisoner but could not find anything. The soldier subconsciously extended his hand but quickly shrank back, staring at the cookie with his eyes, but his face was full of embarrassment.

"Hold it!" I pretended to be relaxed and patted the dry food bag behind me and said, "I still have more, hold it!"

"Hey!" the soldier responded foolishly, looked at me gratefully, took the biscuit and turned around and ate it with more than a dozen soldiers.

The old squad leader and others also took out their own grain and distributed it until they sent the dry food bags to the sky.

"Oh!" Zhao Yongxin sighed, shook his empty dry food bags to the sky and said, "From the way! We're going to fight on hungry..."

"Who, who said he would be hungry?" Hu Zi smiled and patted the signal board on his back and said, "I'm still worried about being hungry. I'll ask the Americans to send some more tomorrow!"

"Ah?" I was stunned when I heard this. No wonder Hu Zi sent all the dry food so generously, but his feelings were still based on this idea!

"Hu Zi!" I replied helplessly: "For the battle of Dipingli, our signal board is so troubled, I am afraid that this signal board will not be used in the future!"

"Ah? Then...will you really go hungry in the future?" Hu Zi couldn't help but feel a little panicked when he heard this.

"By the way, Hu Zi!" Xiao Shandong approached with some confusion and asked, "How did you mess with this signal board just now? Can the American plane explode themselves?"

"I, I don't know either!" Hu Zi touched his head: "I just laid this signal board on and then put it away. Unexpectedly, the American plane exploded... Battalion Commander, this signal board is really useless?"

"We cheated them once, twice, and we cheated them for the third time?" I replied angrily: "Do you think Americans are as easy to cheat as you are, and they are all stupid?"

The soldiers laughed and laughed, but I was the only one who sighed in my heart. It was not just the signal board that could not be used. After this battle, I was afraid that the US military would also know that the radio codebook was seized by our army. It would not take long for them to replace the backup codebook, and from then on, they would never be able to crack their telegrams so easily. In order to win this battle, the price paid is really not small.

"Platform leader, platoon leader..." Hu Zi's soldier shouted aside as he heard this: "Then do we still bring this signal board? This is big and heavy..."

Hu Zi pulled down the signal board on his back and threw it on the ground, responding angrily: "What are you doing with me if you are useless? You'll lose it all... I deserve it if you're so tired!"

"Wait!" Hu Zi thought for a while but was still a little reluctant: "It's better to find a place to bury it. I can't tell you when it will be available!"

"Yes!" Several soldiers under Hu Zi responded and ran away with the signal board on their backs. Look at them, they were really a bit stupid. They only saw the soldiers angry and laughed. They really brought out the kind of soldiers!

As the sky was about to dawn, the soldiers cleaned the battlefield and hid into the forest. It was supposed to be a time to eat something to rest, but the soldiers had distributed all the dry food just now, so they could only hide in the quilt with their empty stomachs. I rubbed my stomach that was so hungry that I couldn't help but feel depressed. I hadn't had enough for two days, and I had to have an empty stomach again.

Dipingli, this battle should have been defeated by the Volunteer Army, but now I have won. How will the next thing develop? This question has always been in my heart, but I haven't thought about it because I was busy cleaning the battlefield. Now when I was lying down to rest, I remembered this question again in boredom.

After pulling out the nail of Dipingli, the volunteers now have the opportunity to take advantage of the victory to pursue the entire front of the United Nations Army. However, I know that the volunteers do not have this condition, and the supply line is longer the further south. Now the volunteers are all hungry. Even if the US military does not fight with us, as long as we retreat for a few days, we will starve us to death.

At this time, I couldn't help but think of the trucks of grain from the government, but what is that little grain for an army of hundreds of thousands of people? At best, each person has an extra piece of bread...

As I thought about it, I fell asleep unknowingly with the pain of hunger and the fatigue of fighting all night.

The pain from my stomach woke me up. I opened my eyes and saw that it was just after noon, and the sun was still hanging in the sky.

Sometimes I feel that there are two kinds of things in my body fighting, that is, hunger and fatigue. When fatigue overcomes hunger, I will temporarily put down my hunger and faint and fall asleep. However, as long as the fatigue is slightly relieved, hunger will soon emerge and test my perseverance.

Look at the soldiers, they were all the same. They were all hungry and couldn't sleep. Some people tied their belts tighter and tighter, while others simply held the snow and stuffed them into their mouths.

"Battery Commander Battalion Commander!" At this time, Zhao Yongxin got out of nowhere. He grabbed a towel in his hand and wrapped something in unknown things. He walked up to me with mud and shouted: "Battery Commander, look..."

As he said that, he couldn't wait to untie the towel, which turned out to be a pack of mushrooms and wild vegetables.

Damn! Zhao Yongxin is really a little tricky. These things are like a bunch of treasures for the hungry soldiers! The soldiers rushed around excitedly, and some of them reached out to take them, but they were quickly stopped by the old squad leader.

"Comrades!" The old squad leader snatched the pack of mushrooms and stopped him, "How can you fill your stomach if you eat this mushroom? Now there is still some time left, so why not pick more and cook a pot of soup, which is delicious and full, right?"

"Yes...I'll go pick it too!"

"I'll make a fire!"

...

"Don't pick poisonous mushrooms!" The old squad leader told the soldiers who went to pick mushrooms.

"How can it be?" the soldiers responded with a smile: "We have been picking mushrooms since we were young, so what can we not tell me?"

Soon the soldiers rushed to drive. Some dug holes, some picked firewood, and some collected snow. Soon they prepared a tunnel that could disperse the smoke from cooking and boiled water. After the water boiled, the mushrooms and wild vegetables were thrown into the pot. The smell was so scented... that only made the soldiers drool. They all prepared the bamboo tubes that had just been tossed out, and the bamboo chopsticks were waiting by the pot.

After watching the mushrooms and wild vegetables tumbling in the pot for a while, the old squad leader gave the order, the soldiers put out the bowls and put them in one bowl and swallowed them. I also put them in one bowl and squatted aside and moved the chopsticks. Not to mention, I felt delicious when I was hungry, and I still felt unsatisfied when I ate this big tube, but my stomach was not so hungry, and my whole body felt much more comfortable. At the same time, I sighed in my heart that the day for volunteer soldiers to eat wild vegetables has finally come. Although most soldiers were born in poor families and would recognize which wild vegetables were poisonous, many people would inevitably die of poisoning when they were hungry.

"Set off!"

In the evening, with a familiar command, the soldiers who had already prepared their luggage set out on the road of their march again. The volunteers rarely stayed in the same place for a few days in combat, so it was not an exaggeration to call it a wandering force. If I had been used to this kind of combat method, I would not care about the direction and destination of the march, but this time I couldn't help but play a small drum in my heart.

In real history, the Volunteer Army spent two days and two nights, and suffered huge casualties but failed to capture Tepingli. Then it retreated to the north and turned to the border defense while retreating. This time, because of my appearance, the Volunteer Army defeated Tepingli overnight at a very small price, and captured a large number of Americans...

Will this stimulate the command center's blind underestimation of the enemy? Will it make them ignore the difficulties of the volunteer army and advance rapidly? Should they go south or north now? I just walked out of the forest and couldn't tell the direction in the darkness, so I simply stepped up and caught up with Captain Chu in front of me.

"Captain! Where are we going?"

"Chasing the Americans!" Captain Chu turned his head and found that it was me, so he nodded to me: "Comrade Xiao Cui! You performed very bravely and smartly today. I heard from the political commissar. If this was not the way you thought, it would be really not easy to defeat the Pipingli!"

"Ah?" I couldn't stand the praise of Captain Chu. When I heard that I was really chasing the US military, I secretly shouted "No," because the current situation of the volunteers is still chasing the US military. I am afraid that the future losses will be greater than those of Dipingli. At that time, I will not have become a sinner for the ages.

Thinking of this, I couldn't help but rush to say: "Captain, our army has eaten up all the food, and the bullets are all taken from the enemy. Now it's almost done. I have to chase the Americans..."

"We just need to implement the orders of our superiors!" The worries in Captain Chu's eyes flashed and he followed the team without saying anything.

I returned to the team nervously, thinking about the crisis in front of me. If the volunteer soldiers had food and bullets, then the gap in front of me was indeed a good opportunity. The volunteers rushed in with their superior forces in this part of the Eastern Front, directly threatening the rear of the US military front on the Western Front. At that time, the US military on the Western Front would face the danger of being divided and surrounded again. But the problem is that the volunteers have no food and bullets now...

But then I soon thought that the current situation was similar to the third battle. Since the boss could stop the Volunteer Army's advancement, he could do it now. Thinking of this, I felt a little relieved and took a step and walked forward with the team.

After walking north for a few hours, the more you walked forward, the more surprising the scene he saw. There was no one in the place where the US military defended. There were burnt houses and empty villages everywhere. The broken cars and tanks were blown up on the roadside without exception. All the food that could be eaten and used was burned. Even the vegetables that the people had just sprouted in the fields were burned to pieces.

This situation is very similar to the great retreat of the US military during the Third Battle, but I know that they are strengthening the walls and clearing the fields. The soldiers cannot find a bullet here, and at the same time they cannot find any food. It is very likely that the Americans built fortifications on the way forward and were waiting for us.

Sure enough, when it was about to dawn, the team stopped and the scouts in front reported that they discovered the US defense line.

Li Qiwei, Li Qiwei! I couldn't help but smile bitterly in my heart. This guy is really a top student at West Point Military Academy. Not only did he understand the combat habits of the volunteers, but he even calculated how long the volunteers could march overnight.

We ran up to fight with the Americans at night, but they ignored them and retreated 30 kilometers. This distance happened to be the one-night trip of the volunteers. The volunteers marched with two legs. The Americans marched with mechanized. The thirty kilometers were not a one-hour journey. It was just a two-hour shout. When the volunteers who passed the night marched the next morning were already exhausted, they were half-dead, but the US troops slept beautifully and had a full meal waiting for us on the defense line!

And it was almost dawn at this time. If the volunteers still wanted to start a war, it would mean that they would expose themselves to the enemy's planes and attack the enemy's defense line under the bombardment of artillery fire.

This is what Li Qiwei calls "magnetic tactics". This tactic makes the volunteers hold their breath, but they can't catch up, and they can't fight. When the volunteers are trapped and retreating, the US military chases them from behind...

Damn! I couldn't help but curse, "The thirty-six strategies of waiting for you to work hard for Li Qiwei to learn and apply it! Not only did we learn our strategies, but we also used them to deal with us Chinese!

Thinking of this, I couldn't help it anymore, so I ran to Captain Chu and said, "Captain, look at this situation..."

Commander Chu also saw the embarrassment of the volunteers and understood what I meant, but he just shook his head with a dark face and said, "We can't retreat yet, we have to wait!"

"What are you waiting for?" I couldn't help but feel a little confused.

"I just received the telegram!" Political Commissar Chen Ye replied on his behalf: "The troops of our two armies are moving towards the rear of the US military on the Western Front. The purpose is to force the US military to retreat on the Western Front, reduce the pressure on the 38th and 50th armies that I fought on the Western Front, and provide an opportunity for them to retreat safely! And we are going to drag the US military here until the US military retreats on the Western Front."

"Oh!" I felt relieved when I heard this. It turned out that this attack was not a real attack, but a counterattack before retreating.

The most fear of the enemy's intention to retreat is that the enemy knows the intention to retreat, because if the enemy knows it, it is very likely to follow behind and chase after it. Therefore, before retreating, most people will use a counterattack to retreat the enemy and then retreat, or cover each other to retreat.

From this point of view, after the boss seized the footsteps of the volunteer army in the third battle, he made plans to retreat. Even the strategy of "top the west and release the east" formulated at the beginning was not for the offensive, but for a better and safer retreat!
Chapter completed!