Chapter Sixteen: Night Attack
The previous wave of attacks had just ended, and gunpowder smoke was still flying on the battlefield. The stench of dead bodies disintegrated by bombs and the stench of burned human flesh was everywhere. The originally beautiful mountains and forests were now devastated, and there were post-war devastation everywhere. Messy.
General Lee, commander of the Second Army of South Korea, stood on a high hill. He did not hold a telescope, but looked directly at the North Korea army that began to retreat slowly two kilometers away with his naked eyes.
"It's another tough battle," he said, looking at the slowly retreating North Korea offensive troops. His men finally held their position after paying a heavy price.
"How long can we keep this up?"
General Lee said with some sadness: "The door of the free world is about to be trampled by barbarians. We are all brothers and compatriots of the same nation. Why can't we solve it in the right way?"
"General," while General Li was feeling sad, the adjutant in camouflage uniforms came to General Li's side.
The adjutant's face was covered with black ash. He had obviously just returned from the battlefield. When he saw the general turning his head, the adjutant said quickly: "The enemy has retreated."
General Li nodded heavily and said: "I saw it. They retreated, but the price we paid was not small. Their reinforcements seem to be endless. If this continues, when will it be over?"
The adjutant originally came to report the good news, but he didn't expect General Li to be so depressed.
He was stunned for a moment, and then said as a reminder: "General, I want to say that the opponent's casualty ratio is three times that of ours. Although they have many people, their equipment is very poor. As long as we stick here and wait for reinforcements, believe us." They can be defeated,"
General Li was not half happy after hearing the adjutant's advice. He still shook his head and sighed: "Our total army is less than 400,000, including the sea, land and air, and their army is the entire country. Everyone in North Korea can become a soldier. Do we want to fight against a country?
Our air force was scrapped at the first opportunity, and North Korea's missiles seemed to have been aimed at our aircraft long ago. Now only the navy is left cruising on the beach. Should we ask them to clear their ships to land?
Also, reinforcements, where did the reinforcements come from? We have suffered heavy losses and have no new soldiers, but North Korea keeps sending people over, killing one and two more will appear. If this continues, sooner or later we will have to fight. failed,"
The adjutant was really stunned. These long-term situations that only the general could see were not what he, a young officer who only focused on the victory or defeat in front of him, could imagine. If it was as terrible as the general said, wouldn't the whole of South Korea be over?
The adjutant was agitated. He couldn't even think about such a thing. He was living in a world without freedom, and he might be shot even if he said the wrong thing.
The adjutant asked in a panic: "What about the Americans? Aren't they our allies? Aren't they the ones who should stand up immediately when we are attacked? Where are their people now?"
Seeing the eager look on his adjutant's face, General Li looked towards the northern seaside, which was so deep and unknowable that it seemed to hide endless secrets.
General Li said calmly: "Who knows, the war has reached this point. It has been four days since the war started, and we have lost most of the country, but the Americans have not shown up yet. Who knows what they are thinking. Maybe they have abandoned us a long time ago,”
In an instant, the adjutant seemed to have seen the end of the world. A bloody scene of massacre kept flowing in front of his eyes. He sat down on the ground slumped, and said with despair in his eyes: "Are we all going to be killed by the northerners?" Is it done?”
General Li looked at the young adjutant with pity. He was already in his twilight years and had become accustomed to bloodshed over the years. He knew that sooner or later there would be a war between the north and the south, but this war came too soon. It was so fast and violent that the war that he had been waiting for for half a century actually started in his sleep, and the level of cruelty exceeded his imagination. It is not an exaggeration to say that it was so fierce that he would annihilate his descendants.
"Lost, huh," General Li's eyes suddenly emitted an arrogant light. He looked coldly at the slowly retreating, but extremely disorganized North Korean army and sneered: "You have to have real strength to defeat us. Okay, depending on them now, it’s still impossible,”
"Adjutant, pass my order to all commanders above the company level to gather outside my camp. I have important combat tasks to assign," General Li said coldly, his tone without any emotion, and it was colder than the weather around him. .
But the adjutant listened to his ears, and it was as if he saw the last light before the world was shrouded in darkness. He stood up from the snow with all his strength, saluted with all his strength, and said excitedly: "Yes, General,"
As night fell, the battlefield began to experience a rare quietness in the day. Even the North Korean army, which had been attacking in turns, felt exhausted at this moment.
The tenacity shown by the South Koreans in the end was completely different from their previous attitude of collapse. This had to give the attacking North Korean commanders the illusion that the troops on the opposite side were not South Koreans.
After dozens of large and small charges throughout the day, North Korea's army made no progress except leaving tens of thousands of corpses on the battlefield.
But the officers of North Korea were not discouraged. They had many men, and the troops of South Korea suffered considerable losses. As long as they launched several more large-scale attacks, the positions of the South Korea were definitely theirs.
But before that, both sides need to rest. Whether it is the North Korea troops who are desperately attacking or the South Korea troops who are desperately defending, both sides have reached their limit. They are exhausted at this moment and can only wait for dawn to come before the decisive battle.
As if there was a tacit understanding between the two sides, after the last battle before nightfall, they each ceased fighting and took the time to rest. However, there were still soldiers on duty on the South Korean positions, and no one could guarantee whether the North Koreans would suddenly Sneak attacks, sneak attacks at night, are the traditional tactics of the North Koreans.
But behind the South Goryeo position, General Lee, standing proudly in the snow, wanted to change this long-standing tradition. Today, he wanted to completely return the night attack to the North Goryeo troops.
More than 500 soldiers, carefully selected from the army, all from each company, stood neatly in front of General Li. Each of them held a bowl with the wine that had just been poured into it.
The adjutant also handed a bowl of wine to General Li. General Li picked up the wine bowl boldly and said in a low voice to the five hundred soldiers: "Warriors, tonight, you will be the sharp blade that penetrates the heart of the North Korean army. We have arrived. At the last moment, our survival depends only on tomorrow's battle. I believe you all know that as long as there are two more battles, we will all be defeated and all of us will be driven into the sea by the North Koreans to feed the fish.
Therefore, I want you, this death squad, to use your own lives to severely attack the enemy's arrogance. Only if you tear open the gap can our large army rush over and tear the enemy into pieces."
General Li solemnly drank up the wine in the bowl. After drinking the hot liquor, General Li trembled all over. He smashed the wine bowl and roared to the death squad soldiers with blood boiling: "If you don't succeed, you will be killed."
Chengren, warriors, the country needs you, your relatives need you, it is time to dedicate your lives, we will see you on the road to hell,"
"If you don't succeed, you will be successful. See you on the road to hell," more than 500 people roared in unison. They raised their necks and drank all the wine in the bowl. Then, 500 bowls hit the ground at the same time. They all knew that this was
The last act of heroism in their lives is about to use their lives to fight for freedom.
"Let's go," General Li wiped his eyes and gave an order. Five hundred soldiers were like ghosts in the dark night, running quickly towards the North Korean position. Just as they disappeared into the night, General Li issued an order to prepare for a full-scale counterattack.
command.
"Adjutant, convey my order to all troops. As soon as you see fire and explosion in local positions, immediately counterattack across the board. Use the artillery behind to fire harder and more accurately to kill those bastards."
The adjutant saluted and left in a hurry. General Li looked at the dark night and fell into a state of anxious waiting.
The death squads easily crossed the ditch and quietly moved toward the North Korean positions. There was an isolation zone about five kilometers long between the positions of the two armies, which mainly served as a buffer.
The isolation belt was littered with dead bodies that had not been retrieved in time. The dead bodies lay sprawled across the snow, which served as a cover for the death squads to sneak into the North Korean positions. Half-bent, they quickly approached the North Korean positions.
Maybe they really believed in their own strength too much, or were dazzled by the victory. The North Koreans, who were about to achieve a comprehensive victory, did not have any effective defense and only placed some mobile sentries on the periphery of the position.
The death squads easily eliminated several mobile outposts, and the entire North Korean position immediately came into view. The death squads were still worried, and they patrolled back and forth several times before they were sure that there was no threat.
The soldiers of the death squad looked at each other. At this moment, there was no hesitation or flinching. Some of them just smiled as if they were about to die. Each of them put on a turban with a national flag, threw away their hats, and held their guns like tigers descending from the mountain.
, and rushed towards the North Korean position.
Most of the North Koreans were still asleep, and the soldiers in the camp were leaning on one spot and dozing off. In such a cold weather, who would have thought that the dying South Koreans would dare to make a sneak attack.
There was a loud explosion. The target of the 500-person suicide squad was very clear. They did not aim at killing people. They specifically found weapons and ammunition depots and places where various grains were piled to attack. Suddenly, grenades were flying all over the sky, explosions continued, and the flames were like spring breeze.
It blew throughout the entire North Korean camp in an instant.
The sudden attack caused the people of North Korea to panic. Many people did not even have time to put on their clothes, so they picked up their guns and joined the fleeing team.
The explosions and shouts of death were really terrifying. The death squads took advantage of the enemy's panic and clashed back and forth to kill anyone they saw, turning the North Korea position into a pot of porridge in an instant.
At this moment, the sound of killing in the direction of the South Korean positions was loud, and thousands of artillery shells roared across the sky, hitting the North Korean positions with the most beautiful flames.
Chapter completed!