The Volunteer Army and the pseudo-Capital Division were fighting each other. After a few minutes of circling in the air, the US plane flew away helplessly because the fuel was about to run out.

As soon as the US military's plane left, the soldiers had no worries and their morale was shocked. They all rushed towards the puppet army like tigers entering a flock of sheep.

The soldiers had already fought with the pseudo-Capital Division on the machine gun position on the Eastern Front, and now they recognize the unique armband on the shoulders of the pseudo-Capital Division, so they can be said to be aware of them and have been prepared in their hearts. In addition, the soldiers rushed down from a high point and had an advantage in the terrain, so they killed the pseudo-Capital Division in one encounter and turned over and overturned the army.

On the other hand, because the pseudo-Capital Division did not have obvious signs on the uniforms of the various units of the Volunteer Army, they did not know that we were the one who fought with them a few days ago. A large part of the reason why they dared to fight with us in this situation was that they underestimated the enemy. After all, they were a unit that came out of World War II and was trained by the little Japanese who were good at fighting against the thorns. They had few opponents on the battlefield of fighting against the thorns, so they always had a sense of arrogance in their bones.

But when they had just contacted us, they knew that this time was wrong again. Because they soon discovered from the soldiers' powerful stinging technique that this army was the one that defeated them with bayonets not long ago... The scene of the volunteer army massacred them with bayonets a few days ago was still vivid in their minds. The fear in their hearts had not subsided, and the scars on their bodies had not healed.

When they realized this, the team's team quickly became chaotic, but the volunteers became more and more brave as they fought. They all shouted and stabbed the puppet army with bayonets. In an instant, blood splattered everywhere on the battlefield, and screams passed by.

Not long after, the pseudo-Capital Division completely collapsed under the offensive of the Volunteer Army soldiers. The entire army turned its head and fled to its position without any recklessness...

The puppet capital division! Even if it escapes, it is different from other troops. Ordinary puppet troops may have escaped from their level. Therefore, when they have to escape after defeating a war, they will scatter in all directions in a tacit understanding. Sometimes even the volunteer soldiers who are used to guerrilla warfare admire them very much. Because sometimes we have obviously defeated the puppet troops and even surrounded them, but we can't catch a few people!

However, obviously, when it comes to escaping, the puppet capital division is far less experienced than other puppet troops. Isn’t it? They all retreated in one direction, that is, their positions. This cannot be blamed for our volunteer soldiers being cruel and set up a few machine guns to attack their backs. They knocked down a large area.

"retreat!"

Unfortunately, I knew that once the two armies separated, the enemy's artillery fire would come soon, so I had to give the order to withdraw the troops.

"Captain Cui!" When I returned to the regiment headquarters, Jiang Chunzeng quickly came up and asked, "How is it? Is the loss big?"

"Not counted yet!" I leaned on the tunnel wall, sat on the chair and said dejectedly: "But the casualties should be quite large, most of them were caused by US aircraft!"

"Damn it!" Huang Xianhua cursed fiercely: "These enemies are as cunning as foxes, and they will use planes to raid!"

"Fortunately, Captain Cui became quick to respond!" Li Pinghe walked in with blood all over and said, "It was really thrilling just now. If Captain Cui hadn't made a quick decision and ordered the troops to rush up and stalk with the puppet army, the loss would not be like this now."

"What's the use of saying this!" I couldn't help but say a little bitterly: "If the enemy can do it once, you can do it again! The question now is, how should we defend our position?"

After I said this, the soldiers in the tunnel were speechless.

The severe reality is in front of us. The surface position cannot build fortifications at all and cannot withstand the bombing of enemy planes, even if it is only for a while.

If it was the enemy's cannon, the shells would not be so accurate and there were traces to be found. The soldiers had time to dig into the tunnel to avoid when the enemy fired. But this plane...

If we are on a surface position, once the plane comes, it means we are completely exposed to their firepower. Just like the battle just now, if we don’t enter the tunnel, we have to fight with the plane until they finish the bullet or have no fuel. When they enter the tunnel, dozens of people line up at the entrance of the tunnel, leaving the plane with a burning bomb or a bomb all gone...

"Or..." Li Pinghe said hesitantly: "Let's hide in the tunnel. After the enemy enters the surface position, we give them a bomb and then rush out. In this way, our troops will be together with the enemy as soon as they go out. Even if the enemy has planes, there is nothing we can do?"

"No!" Jiang Chunzeng quickly denied: "This is too passive to fight. The enemy can just come up with a platoon to block us in the tunnel!"

"I agree with Chief Jiang's point of view!" Li An agreed: "We don't have many artillery shells. If we hide in the tunnel and need artillery fire support every time, we will not be able to afford the ammunition. And if we do this, the enemy will probably only dispatch small troops to the high ground to seal us in the tunnel, such as a few platoons... With so few enemies, our artillery troops will cover one firepower, and after firing hundreds of shells, they will not kill a few people!"

Listening to Jiang Chunzeng and Li An's words, Li Pinghe couldn't help but blush. It was because he stayed in the Political Review Office for too long and was separated from the battlefield of reality for too long, so the proposal proposed was not very practical.

"Son of Turtle!" Huang Xianhua cursed a little angry: "It's not right to go out to fight, it's not right not to fight! How could this happen to Ma Liangshan? I think the enemy's high ground will not be like this, but it's just our high ground..."

"Enemy's high ground?" I was stunned when I heard this. Without saying a word, I lay on the topographic map to find the high ground where the British army was stationed in the front. As Huang Xianhua said, although the enemy's high ground is not high, with an altitude of only more than 200 meters, it is very steep and very suitable for defense.

"Chief of Staff Jiang!" Seeing this, I couldn't help but ask: "Do you see if we can use attack as the defense?"

"Taking offense as defense?" Everyone couldn't help but look at each other unexpectedly for a few moments. Jiang Chunzeng seemed to understand what I mean: "What Captain Cui means is... take down the enemy's position as a buffer zone?"

"That's right!" I nodded and said, "The enemy has the air firepower of the plane, and no matter how we fight, we will be very passive. Chief of Staff Jiang and Staff Li said just now that defending to the death is unrealistic, and there will definitely be great casualties. Then there are only two roads in front of us, either retreat or attack! Retreat is impossible. The superiors give us a dead order, so there is only attack!"

"Attack?" Everyone was stunned when they heard this. The enemy in front had at least one division, and many of them were the enemy's ace troops. Let's use a regiment of troops to attack?

"If we can capture this enemy's high ground!" I pointed to the location of the enemy's high ground on the map and said: "We can turn passive into active, and only arrange a small number of troops to garrison there, turning that high ground into our frontier position! It becomes our buffer zone. Once the enemy uses large troops to attack, we can send troops to reinforce according to the opportunity..."

"That's right!" Jiang Chunzeng nodded in agreement: "If the enemy has an airplane, our army can go for reinforcements more than ten minutes later. It's nothing for our soldiers to support more than ten minutes, but the enemy's plane can't stand it. This can basically solve the problem of being beaten by the plane on the head!"

"I also agree with Captain Cui's plan!" Huang Xianhua thought about it and agreed: "Even if the position is lost, we can take it back, so that the battlefield will not be on Ma Liang Mountain, which is easy to attack and difficult to defend, but will be pushed around on the enemy's position. Even if the position is lost during the day and has difficulty in defending, we can still take it back at night!"

"But...Captain Cui!" Jiang Chunzeng raised the difficulties again: "The enemy bullies us without aircraft and cannons, so we don't have the habit of building tunnel fortifications, and even the minimum single-man air raid shelter. I'm afraid that our large army will hit us like the Scottish regiment of the British Imperial Army. Although they take the position, they will be hit by their gunfire and suffer heavy casualties!"

"This..." I replied after thinking about it: "This problem is not a big deal. They don't have a single air raid shelter. Can we let them build it!"

"What?" Everyone couldn't help but look at each other, unable to believe what I said was true, and even thought that they had heard it wrong.

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"How are you doing? How are you preparing?" I ran to the position with a rifle and asked in a low voice Li An, who was lying on the high ground with a telescope and a gunshot glasses, observing the enemy's firepower points.

"Captain Cui, why are you here?" Li An turned around and saw that it was me, and couldn't help but say unexpectedly: "It's dangerous here! You'd better go back!"

"I'm so angry in the tunnel!" I smiled and held the telescope to look at the enemy's position: "How is it? It's not difficult to find the enemy's firepower point!"

"It's not difficult!" Li An smiled and said, "Just as we thought, the enemy did not expect us to attack, so the firepower point was to use several machine gun positions piled on sandbags, and the trenches were stacked with sandbags. Such fortifications would be blown away in just a few guns..."

"Don't blow it too hard!" In the aperture of the telescope, looking at the British soldiers sitting lazily in front of the trenches smoking and chatting, I couldn't help but explain: "This time we bombard the British only to make these British men realize the danger and ask them to help us build the air raid shelter, so don't blow it too hard. Otherwise, our offensive intention will be exposed, and it will be worth the loss!"

"Don't worry! Captain Cui!" Li An nodded and said, "Look at me..."

As he said that, he lowered his voice and shouted a few coordinates at the walkie-talkie. After a while, he heard a few strange roars in the air, followed by a few "boom..." sounds. Several fire points built with sandbags on the enemy's position flew into the sky in just this moment. When the smoke of guns dissipated, the machine guns and people at the fire had long been blown up.

"Good fight!" I couldn't help cheering. After fighting for so long, I was always bullied by American artillery. Now it was finally our Volunteer Army's turn to show its power. Although the artillery once showed its power when fighting the British Scottish regiment yesterday, it was not as satisfying as it was now!

At this time, the British soldiers who were resting in front of the trenches realized what was going on. They were worthy of being veterans from World War II. They were not panicked when they saw this situation, but they put away their carelessness and hid in the trenches. But their trench built with white sandbags was too conspicuous to us...

Then there was another roar, and more than a dozen shells exploded in front and behind the trenches with great accuracy. Two shells hit the trenches directly, immediately lifting more than a dozen British soldiers into the air and even blew up their trenches. Although this fortification built with sandbags was convenient, it was still not as strong as it was dug on the ground!

"Is it enough?" After the phone was finished, Li An put away the telescope with satisfaction and asked at me.

"It's almost done!" I patted Li An on the shoulder and said, "It's beautiful, let's go back to the air-raid shelter first! If these guys don't dig the air-raid shelter, we'll come up and give them a few shots at that time!"

"Okay!" Li An responded happily and followed me to the tunnel.

"How is it? How is it?" As soon as our group of three ran back to the regiment headquarters, they were surrounded by Jiang Chunzeng and others. Huang Xianhua couldn't wait to ask: "Are you fighting the Japanese? How many of them are fighting?"

"Will there be any problems if I take action?" Li An said proudly: "You ask Captain Cui, and he knocked down the enemy's four firepower points in one breath, and at least thirty British devils!"

"Hey! Well done!" Huang Xianhua clenched his fists hard: "If Captain Cui hadn't kept saying that there were too many people, he would have exposed the target and not allowed us to go up, I would also like to see how powerful our artillery comrades are!"

"That's it!" Jiang Chunzeng said with some dissatisfaction: "I said Captain Cui, you will be exposed if there are too many people. What? In the blink of an eye, you will lose your shadow! Captain Cui! The so-called upper beam is not straight and the lower beam is crooked. As a leader of a group, you must set an example, how can you..."

"I'm not thinking about you old people, right?" Seeing that Jiang Chunzeng was trying to trouble me, I responded without being outdone, "Old Jiang! I'm looking at your age, so I don't let you go! Let's leave this thing for climbing up and down for us young people! Besides, you have to hold a magnifying glass to look at a map. Even if you go to the position, can you see where the cannons hit? Maybe the enemy's shells are hit in front of you, you still think it's our own shells that keep applauding!"

"Hey! You... you are so good at getting a bargain!" Jiang Chunzeng was speechless after I said this, and only made everyone in the tunnel laugh.

"Report!" At this time, a soldier in disguise appeared at the entrance of the tunnel. He stood up and saluted us and reported: "Report to the regiment commander, the enemy has begun to build an air raid shelter!"

"Um! So fast!" Jiang Chunzeng couldn't help but joke: "Why are these British devils so obedient! Just like our boys!"

With a coaxing sound, a burst of laughter broke out in the tunnel again.

"Captain Cui!" After a smile, Li Pinghe said to me seriously. "I have just reported our plan in detail to the division headquarters. Commander Pang expressed support for our combat plan. He said that starting from the overall strategic situation and launching a local counterattack against the enemy is of great strategic significance to cooperating with the Kaicheng negotiations. This is a political battle. If we can push the front north under the enemy's attack, it will not only crush the strategic purpose of the enemy's launch of the autumn offensive, but also gain considerable initiative for us at the negotiating table!"

"Um!" I was stunned when I heard this. I didn't expect that such a small battle will affect negotiations, politics, and take the initiative. But thinking about it, it's true that this is not just a problem of a mountain and a high ground. If we really fight and can still defend it, then at the negotiating table, it can be said to be a counterattack!

"So..." Li Pinghe continued to say in his slow tone: "Based on the importance of this battle, Commander Pang decided to send us an additional armored force!"

"What? Armored Forces?" Everyone present was stunned when they heard this, even Li An, who was an artillery officer, was no exception.

"Did Commander Pang say...what is this armored force?" I asked hesitantly. I still can't believe it is true.

If we really want to talk about the armored forces of the Volunteer Army, it was formed more than a month before China sent troops to North Korea. However, the real large-scale development was after the outbreak of the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea, that is, in November 1950, 10 tank regiment equipment was purchased from the Soviet Union, including 300 T-34 medium-sized tanks, 60 Is-2 heavy tanks, and 40 IsU-122 self-propelled artillery.

Although these equipment were available, the operation of tanks was no better than other weapons, so the Volunteer Army tanks had never appeared on the battlefield of resisting U.S. aggression and aiding Korea, and they did not come in handy until summer and autumn defensive wars.

It won't be... the first time I used a tank, my army! Everyone turned their attention to Li Pinghe...
Chapter completed!