Chapter 85: Lurking Battle

"Xiao Cui!" After a while of another chat, the old soldier said earnestly: "Now the two sides of the war have already sat on the negotiating table. Although there is still a little bit of a small fight, the situation on the front line has basically been stable. We have always been paying attention to one issue in China, that is, in which direction the situation will develop in the future... But we old guys, all of us cannot go to the battlefield. It is difficult for us to grasp the situation on the battlefield without being on the battlefield, so I want to hear your opinions!"

"Um!" I couldn't help but hesitate after hearing this.

I hesitated not because this question is difficult to answer. In fact, this question is too simple for me. After all, I am a person from the modern era, and I can clearly explain all the developments of the war. For example, when will the US military launch an attack, when will the troops withdraw, Rhee attempt to disrupt the negotiations, etc. I can even accurately reach the month in terms of time, and I can also ensure the truth.

But in this way, there will be a problem. I just say something like this. When these words are verified one by one, the old soldiers will not think that I am a god, but will treat me as a super spy or a double-faced spy...

But I have to say that I have never had the opportunity to let the senior leaders of the volunteer army know about the future situation. Even if I have the opportunity to say it, the senior leaders may not take it seriously. It is rare that I don’t want to let this go so easily with this opportunity.

So I looked at the map on the table, thought about it and replied carefully: "The current situation on the battlefield is not only a stalemate at the negotiating table, but also the same is true for the war on the front line. The several months of negotiations have given both sides enough time to prepare. Our army laid heavy troops on the front line, dug tunnels, and accumulated a large amount of strategic materials. Even the east and west coastlines have made sufficient preparations. The fortifications of the entire North Korea are like an iron barrel. The United Nations is no exception. They have built three defense lines, namely the "Earing Line", the "Wyoming Line" and the "Kansas Line". All the defense lines have been built, with a large number of mines and barbed wire.

So the battle situation became a stalemate where the enemy could not fight and we could not fight. The front line was slightly moved on the 38th line. The battlefield transformed from the initial large troops and large-scale attacks into the current small troops and the battle for the small highlands!"

The old soldier listened to my words and nodded constantly, as if he agreed with my statement.

"Captain Cui's meaning..." Li Pinghe couldn't help but interrupt: "Will the Korean War continue like this in the future?"

"No!" I shook my head and said, "On the surface, the battle situation has developed into this way, neither side has room for attack. But in fact, there are loopholes in our defense line, and the US military still has room for attack!"

"There are still loopholes?" Li Pinghe couldn't help but look at me in confusion and asked impatiently: "Where is it?"

"Here!" I pointed to the location of the Five Sacred Mountains on the map and said: "The advantage of the US military is that it has large-scale modern equipment. Although our army has received support from the Soviet Union, it is still far behind the United Nations army in terms of equipment. Our army does not have a navy, and the air force and tank soldiers are in the initial stage and cannot compete with the United Nations army at all. Therefore, our army's defense can only rely on the mountain to compete with the US military, rely on tunnel fortifications and night to offset the gap in equipment. Once we fight with the US military in the plains, our army will be in a passive state of being beaten!"

"It makes sense!" Listening to my analysis, Li Pinghe nodded in agreement and said, "So the Five Sacred Mountains is a weakness. Although the terrain of the Five Sacred Mountains is dangerous and easy to defend and difficult to attack, once the US military conquered the Five Sacred Mountains, the Pingkang Plain was followed by a flat land. The US armored troops would drive straight in, and the enemy armored troops could reach the city of Pyongyang in less than a day. This might defend the entire defense line of our army and may change the entire battle situation!"

"That's right!" I nodded and said, "I think so. South Korea is not the land of the US military, so the US military believes that fighting for more mountain and less mountain on the 38th parallel is completely meaningless to them. It will not be of any benefit to the US government except to increase material loss and casualties of the US military. So the next war starts, if the US military does not fight, it will be enough. If it wants to fight, it will definitely fight a war that may change the overall situation! So I boldly guess that the goal of the US military's next battle will inevitably be the Five Sacred Mountains area!"

The more Li Pinghe and I talked, the happier I became. Suddenly, I saw the old soldier sitting beside us looking at us with a smile on his face, and couldn't help but stop.

"Say it! Keep talking!" Seeing us stopping, the old soldier couldn't help but nod and praised: "You are very good at speaking! The analysis is very thorough and reasonable. Especially Xiao Cui, it is particularly valuable to be able to combine the situation on the battlefield with the political stance of the US military! He said it very well, keep talking about it!"

"Uncle!" I took out my pocket watch and looked at the time, and couldn't help but persuade: "It's already very late now, otherwise we'll continue to talk about it tomorrow!"

"Yes! Uncle!" Li Pinghe also advised: "Anyway, we haven't left so quickly. There is time in the future. It's already three o'clock in the morning..."

"Hey!" the old soldier refused energeticly: "I've slept in the daytime, and now I can't sleep! Besides, you don't know me, and when you talk about war, you're full of energy, keep going..."

As he said that, he pushed the map into us without saying anything.

Li Pinghe and I looked at each other helplessly, and had to continue to move our eyes to the map. But after this interruption, neither of us knew where to start.

"Actually, we have considered what you said!" After a while of silence, the old soldier spoke first. He nodded and said, "Your ideas coincide with us, and not only us, but your boss also considers this!"

"Um!" Li Pinghe didn't respond much after hearing this. I couldn't help but feel shocked and thought to myself that I was indeed not wrong. The old soldier in front of me was really not simple. Even the boss in North Korea was thinking about what he knew.

"But even though we know that the enemy's eyes are staring at the Five Sacred Mountains, we have no good idea!" The old soldier frowned: "The area of ​​Five Sacred Mountains is small, and the area behind it is covered with plains, with no danger to defend, and we cannot deploy heavy troops at all. In this way, we can only wait for the enemy to launch an offensive!"

Li Pinghe and I have just come down from Wusheng Mountain, so we are very clear about the fact that when we arrived at Wusheng Mountain, the total strength of the 597.9 and 537.7 highlands at the forefront were less than two companies. The reason for this part was that everyone thought that the US military would not choose to attack the 597.9 and 537.7 highlands, and the other part was that those steep highlands were not suitable for large troops to guard.

This is very clear. If too many troops are sent to garrison on those high grounds, the enemy only needs to bombard the enemy with a few rounds of planes and cannons, which will cause a lot of casualties to the defenders. Of course, under my command, the soldiers of the 597.9 and 537.7 high ground dug many more tunnels to alleviate this problem to a certain extent.

"Uncle!" After looking at the map for a while, I said to the old soldier: "We can't do this and wait for nothing. This is a passive defense, right?"

"But what can we do?" Li Pinghe looked at the map and said with some embarrassment: "There are only so many mountains in the Wusheng Mountain area. Can we transform into a few more mountains?"

"There are no mountains on the side and behind, but there are mountains in front!" I replied.

"You mean... to call?"

"Yes, take offense as defense!" I nodded and said, "This will not only allow us to have more troops stationed in the Wusheng Mountain area, but more importantly, we can provide a strategic buffer zone for Wusheng Mountain, so that the US military will directly threaten Wusheng Mountain as soon as it comes up."

"But..." Li Pinghe raised his head from the map and looked at me in confusion: "Didn't you just say that the US military has made sufficient preparations in the position and built a three-dimensional defense with aircraft, cannons, tanks and steel and cement fortifications? Why now..."

"Of course it's not possible to charge like before!" I replied: "If we don't change our tactics, nothing can be changed except for causing huge casualties to the troops!"

"Well! What new tactics does Xiao Cui have? Let's listen!" Listen to my words, the old soldier couldn't help but look at me with anticipation.

"It's not a new tactic!" I explained: "Actually, we used it unconsciously when we were moving cold guns and cold cannons, but it was not used in infantry charges!"

"You mean... lurking?" Li Pinghe had seen us lurking in front of the enemy's positions on the battlefield, so he quickly came up with the answer.

"Yes!" I nodded, and casually turned the two empty bowls on the table upside down, pointing to the bottom of the bowl and said, "These are two high grounds, this is our high ground, this is the enemy's high ground. Our army usually has to come out of the tunnel in the reverse slope tunnel, and move to the top position when attacking, and then enter the valley along the forward slope, and then charge towards the enemy's position. If we attack in this way, our troops will be intercepted by the enemy's firepower during the movement of the enemy's position and suffer a large number of casualties. When we attack the enemy's position, the impact on the enemy is probably less than half of the original!"

"This kind of attack is to take the lives of the soldiers to fight the enemy's bullets!" The old soldier made a judgment: "You must not fight like this!"

"I don't agree with this style of play!" Li Pinghe nodded and said, "It's too irresponsible to the lives of the soldiers!"

"So I was thinking..." I pointed to the seams between the two bowls and said, "Can we lurk here in advance, and when we are about to attack, we will touch it at the fastest speed..."

"What?" Hearing this, the old soldier and Li Pinghe both cast shocked eyes at me.

"Little Cui!" the old soldier asked back: "How many people are there in the offensive troops you mentioned?"

"To take down one of the enemy's high ground, at least one company must be needed!" I replied.

"Then how long are you going to let this company lurk in the valley?" the old soldier asked again.

"About one day!" I replied without thinking: "If we want to enter the lurking position without the enemy discovering it, we must start acting at night. In order to offset the enemy's equipment advantage, we must start the war when it is dark, so the lurking time will take about twenty hours, which may be longer."

Listening to my words, the old soldier and Li Pinghe didn't say anything anymore.

After a long time, Li Pinghe said: "Captain Cui, have you considered the danger of more than a hundred people lurking under the enemy's nose? If the enemy discovers, the loss may be more serious than a cross-valley attack! I have seen the cold gun troops lurking in front of the enemy's positions to fire cold guns, but they are all backbones in a hundred, and the number is only a dozen. Now there are more than one hundred people, more than one hundred people! As long as one exposes the target, the enemy beats the bullets and the shells come, the consequences will be unimaginable!"

"I know this!" I nodded and said, "It depends on our battlefield discipline and the quality of the soldiers!"

The tactic of lurking combat I mentioned was not invented. As usual, I still benefited from the historical knowledge I had, because during this period, the volunteer soldiers in history seized the living space with the enemy on the front line.

"I don't agree!" Li Pinghe immediately denied: "It's too dangerous to do this!"

"Do you have a better way of playing?" the old soldier asked back.

"Uncle!" Li Pinghe replied: "Instead of this, we might as well use the cover of tanks and artillery to hit him with just a little more..."

"Nonsense!" the old soldier cursed: "When you were fighting against Japan in Jiuhuali, did you use artillery and tanks to destroy the enemy's fortifications?"

When the old soldier said this, Li Pinghe had nothing to say.

If our cannons and tanks could destroy the enemy's fortifications, there would not be any heroic deeds like Huang Jiguang who sacrificed himself to block the gun hole in history.

"I agree with this style of play!" After a while of silence, the old soldier gritted his teeth and said, "There is no risk in no battle. If you want to win, of course you have to pay a certain price! But I have two questions. First, it is spring now, and the snow has begun to melt, and it is not suitable for lurking battles at all!"

"We can wait!" I replied without thinking: "Landed combat is only suitable for autumn, winter, and winter is unbearable, so autumn is relatively more suitable. Clark, the commander-in-chief of the United Army, just took office, and he will not launch an attack on our army so quickly, so we still have time!"

"Yeah!" the old soldier nodded and continued: "Another problem, there may be landmines laid by the enemy in the valley area and even on the inclined positions of our army. Therefore, it is very difficult for this lurking force to enter the lurking position without the enemy's discovery. For more than 100 people, no one of them must step on the mines, and then lurk in the valley for a whole day, and ensure that they have considerable combat effectiveness!"

"This problem can also be solved!" After thinking about it, I replied: "With the end of spring and autumn, we will carry out mine clearance and lightning protection training for the soldiers, and we can also conduct necessary lurking drills for the soldiers to let the soldiers understand that even if they die, they cannot say a word or move! Otherwise, the target will be exposed and other comrades will be implicated!"

"Yeah!" After thinking for a long time, the old soldier finally nodded and said, "I will convey this tactic to the frontline troops. This should be a feasible tactic!"

After pausing, the old soldier suddenly turned his eyes to us and asked, "Can you two clear mines?"

Li Pinghe and I looked at each other for a moment, and soon shook our heads.

Just kidding, mine clearance! During the third battle, my head was almost blown away by mines. That thing has always left a shadow in my heart. Now when I think of that thing, I tremble. Sometimes I feel a little suspicious when I walk on the road: I step on it, will it be a "boom" sound waiting for me...

"That's right!" said the old soldier seriously: "In two days, the instructors of the military academy happened to start talking about mine clearance. Let's study with the students together!"

"What?" I was stunned when I heard this.

Li Pinghe hurriedly found an excuse and said, "Uncle, we are the leader of the regiment and the other is the political commissar. We have been here for a long time, so we are afraid..."

"Yes, uncle!" I immediately stood on the same front with Li Pinghe and said to the side, "There are many recruits coming to our regiment recently, training! Reorganization! There are a lot of things waiting for us to do! It's not possible for us in the regiment to do it, so how can we stay here to learn to clear mines..."

"You think I'm an old man, right?" The old soldier replied to us without hesitation: "The affairs in your regiment, Liu Shunyi, the former deputy commander, still need to worry about you? Besides, I said Comrade Xiao Cui, do you also train new recruits? Didn't you hear that you can't even walk clearly? Could it be that I was wrong to hear it from my ears?"

Upon hearing this, I couldn't help but turn my eyes to Li Pinghe. Li Pinghe smiled bitterly and lowered his head, secretly bowed to me to express his apology. I gritted my teeth. If it weren't for the old soldier, I would have wanted to kick him on the spot! This guy, even if I couldn't walk clearly, I would report to his uncle, and I wouldn't leave any privacy for me...

"You two!" The old soldier just thought that he hadn't seen our little movements and smiled: "Let's rest tomorrow, and move me to the student dormitory tomorrow night. I will arrange a bunk for you!"
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