Chapter 5: Team Leader

"But!" Some people also raised concerns: "Since its establishment, our army has been in an extremely disadvantaged environment. We have always fought if we can win, and we can leave if we can't win. We rely on our skilled tactical maneuvers to control the enemy and have never fought positional wars. According to this young comrade, that is, we must change to positional wars that confront the enemy, and it is a long-term positional war that has never been seen in the history of our revolutionary war. Our army's quality is good and our spiritual awareness is high, but once a long-term positional war is fought, it is firepower to fight firepower! This young comrade also said that the strength of the US military is its advanced equipment, and the weakness of our army is its backward equipment. With such a strong firepower of the US military, do we still need to consider fighting positional wars with them?"

"If we don't know how to fight before, it doesn't mean we won't fight in the future!" The boss said firmly: "The American devils are learning, and we must also learn. The Americans have learned to deal with our mobile wars. If we want to defeat them now, we can only learn how to fight positions with them!"

"The boss is right!" Deng Hua continued, "As for how to fight a positional war with the American devils, Chief of Staff Wang's concerns are also reasonable, but I think fighting a positional war does not necessarily mean fighting a firepower with the American devils. Of course, it is impossible to fight a firepower, but we can find ways to maximize the advantage of the US military's firepower. Let's talk about the 118th Division of the 40th Army of our army! A comrade in this unit proposed the theory of "reverse slope fortification". I have already extended this theory to the entire legion, and it has been proved in actual combat that this fortification can greatly limit the firepower of the US military."

Upon hearing this, I couldn't help but feel a sudden slap in my heart. I didn't expect that the "reverse inclined fortifications" I proposed would still attract Deng Hua's attention, and it was also proposed at such a high-level meeting.

"Well! The 'reverse inclined fortifications' was proposed by your army?" Some cadres said unexpectedly: "We have learned this fortification before entering the court. Although we have not come to use urgently in this battle, we are still very confident in the idea of ​​building tunnels and fortifications on the reverse inclined. I wonder which comrade proposed it?"

"This..." Deng Hua couldn't help but hesitate, thought for a while before answering: "I don't remember much, it seems to be a soldier named Cui Wei!"

"Um!" Hearing the words, the boss couldn't help but laugh and pointed at me, "It's far away in the sky, and it's near in front of me!"

"You..." Hearing this, all the cadres couldn't help but look at me in surprise and said, "You are Cui Wei?"

Upon hearing this, I couldn't help but salute awkwardly and said, "Hello Commander Deng! Hello, Chiefs!"

"Cui Wei is Chen Wei, he is the guard who has been with me for several years!" The boss replied with a smile.

"Where is a hero coming out of a boy!"

"The next wave of the Yangtze River pushes the previous wave!"

"Commander Deng, such a good talent doesn't know how to use it. You, the commander, are dereliction of duty!"

...

The cadres said one sentence from the left and one sentence from the right, and they could not even raise my head.

"I think it can be done with reverse slope tunnel fortifications!" Chief of Staff Wang returned to the topic: "If we combine tunnel fortifications with field fortifications on the ground to form a complete defense system, we may be able to compete with the modern equipment of the Americans!"

"By the way, just do it!" the boss continued: "Our tunnel operations must develop towards tactical tunnels that can be hidden and fought. We must develop tunnels into a complete system that can be attacked, prevented, maneuvered and lived. We must promote the fortifications of the reverse slope tunnel to the entire army and fight the American devils to the end!"

"Yes!" The cadres stood up one after another.

"Boss!" Seeing everyone's energetic look, I couldn't help but hesitate: "Actually..."

"Actually, what!" Seeing that I was eager to speak, the boss couldn't help but urged me: "If you have something to say, we are all your students!"

The boss's words once again attracted laughter from all the cadres.

I smiled embarrassedly and plucked up the courage to say, "Actually, our problem is not too big, the biggest one is the People's Army!"

"What?" Hearing this, all the cadres looked at me in confusion, and they all didn't understand what I meant.

"That's right!" Looking at the people who were puzzled, I coughed lightly and said, "When our army attacked the United Nations army, we would always find the relatively weak puppet troops to find a breakthrough from their front. Similarly, if the US military attacked our Sino-Korean coalition forces, we would also choose the weaker People's Army..."

"Come on!"

"Yes! If I were an American devil, I would also ask the People's Army to take action!"

...

Once I was reminded, the cadres were talking and most of them agreed. The boss nodded to me frequently with a smile of approval.

In fact, I only know from historical knowledge that in this summer and autumn defensive battle, the main attack direction of the US military was on the eastern front of the People's Army. There are two types of sharpshooters, one refers to wherever they hit, and the other refers to wherever they hit. I undoubtedly belong to the latter.

"The equipment of the People's Army is similar to ours." Deng Hua said worriedly: "In addition, their troops are not in a good way and they don't know the fortifications of the reverse slope tunnel. If you want to block the attack of the US military, it will be difficult!"

"It's easy!" The boss responded quickly: "Send one of our troops to exchange tactical ideas with them, learn from each other, and make progress with each other!"

"The boss is right!" Staff Wang first agreed: "But who should I send?"

Before he finished speaking, the cadres turned their attention to me.

I couldn't help but be shocked and said, "No, right?" I have been dealing with the People's Army for a long time. I have always been unable to stand the arrogant look of their officials. Now I want to send me to the People's Army to "exchange tactical ideas"?

"Boss!" Although I also wanted to return to the battlefield, I was not very willing to go to the People's Army, so I hesitated and said: "I, I am not suitable..."

"Who is suitable for you?" Chief of Staff Wang smiled and said, "No one knows the importance of the fortifications of the reverse slope tunnel better than you, and you can also speak Korean, so it is not difficult to communicate at all!"

"By the way! It's you little devil!" The boss also clenched his fists happily: "Wang Jinshan, there is another leader of the 180th Division who has not arranged it, right? I think I'll let this little devil take a group over!"

What? I couldn't help but feel a little shocked when I heard this. Judging from what the boss said, it seemed that I was promoted to the commander of the group at once.

"There is no arrangement, but..." At this time, a cadre who had been frowning and silent at the meeting responded. Only then did I realize that he was the commander of the Third Corps, Wang Jinshan, who was called Wang Crazy.

"It's just what?" the boss asked, "What are the difficulties?"

"No difficulties!" Wang Jinshan hurriedly stepped forward and replied: "Don't worry, boss, we will definitely complete the task!"

"That's good!" The boss nodded, turned around and patted my shoulder and said, "You must perform well in the brothers' troops, and you can't let them underestimate us!"

"Yes!" I stood up helplessly and saluted.

After walking out of the command center of the boss, I have been following Wang Jinshan for his orders. My current identity is a battalion commander of the 180th Division, and I have just been appointed as the regiment commander by the boss. Wang Jinshan, the ever-winning general in front of me, is the commander of the Corps. He commands the 12th Army, 15th Army and 60th Army of the Volunteer Army.

In other words, he is my immediate boss now.

It is said that Wang Jinshan, known as the "king madman", put down his bold words before entering the court: "Sooner or later we will eliminate imperialism and attack the United States!"

But at the beginning, fate played a big joke with him. He, known as the "eternal victory general", had just entered Korea to fight, and he first fought a "big defeat".

Although I brought out most of the 180th Division, the performance of the 60th Army in this battle was really unsatisfactory. Not only was the chaotic command and severe criticism, but the loss of troops and generals was severely injured. The 540th Regiment, which was responsible for the cover mission of the 180th Division, failed to break out...

There is a saying that the higher you climb, the more you fall, the more you fall. The more you "win" Wang Jinshan is in China, the more he can't bear the failure of this battle. When I walked behind him, I couldn't connect him with the nickname "crazy". Now he looks completely out of nowhere, and even lowered his head when he walked, for fear of facing the eyes of others.

After walking for a while, Wang Jinshan found a stone by the side of the road and sat down. He took out a cigarette from his pocket and held it in his mouth. He must have been in the command center for a meeting. Because the boss had no habit of smoking, he kept holding it. Now he couldn't wait to come out, but he couldn't touch the match after touching it for a long time. Seeing this, I hurried forward and took out the match and lit the cigarette for him.

As soon as the cigarette was lit, Wang Jinshan took a few sips, then took a long breath, and surrounded himself in the smoke, as if he wanted to disappear from this world.

"Little devil!" After a long time, Wang Jinshan said in a muffled voice: "The 538th Regiment is missing a leader, so you can be the one!"

"Regiment 538?" I was stunned when I heard this and asked quickly: "Is the 538 Regiment not the regiment of Captain Pang? Could it be that Captain Pang..."

"He is the commander!"

"Oh!" I finally breathed a sigh of relief. I had heard that the commander of the 60th Army and the commander of the 180th Division were withdrawn, but I didn't expect that the commander of the regiment Pang became the commander of the division.
Chapter completed!