Feng Ren's plan to capture Heshui County received the support of Cheng Min and Liu Santang. Feng Ren immediately made combat arrangements. The first platoon and the second platoon detoured to the left and right, back to the side and rear of the U.S. military, and the first platoon was responsible for blocking Heshui County.
The U.S. troops in Shui County prevented the U.S. troops in Heshui County from sending reinforcements. The second platoon launched an attack from the side and rear of the U.S. troops, and the third platoon attacked the U.S. troops who came to support them, forming a pincer attack from both sides.
Feng Ren ordered: "Jiushan, your mission is to block the US military in Heshui County and monitor the actions of the US military in Heshui County. Jin Gui, your mission is to insert yourself in place and launch an attack from the rear of the US military. Together with the third platoon,
Take action to eliminate this US military force."
Liu Santang suggested, "Lu Chen and I are better at marksmanship. We can go with the first platoon to the rear of the US military and snipe at key US military targets from the rear to support the second platoon leader."
Liu Santang and Lu Chen's shooting skills were amazing and played a key role in several battles. Feng Ren approved Liu Santang's application, "Santong, we don't know the situation in Heshui County, so we should be more cautious."
First platoon leader Chen Jiushan and second platoon leader Jin Gui led the team to detour to the left and right respectively. Liu Santang and Lu Chen followed the first platoon. "Click, click, click -" The third platoon exchanged fire with the American troops who came over to support.
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Baker, a native of Chicago, 27 years old, holds the rank of lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He is the temporary deputy commander of the sixth company of the 11th Regiment of the 7th U.S. Division. He has participated in the Sicilian landing battle and has rich combat experience. In fact, Baker's term of service has expired. This year
He should have retired in the summer, but unexpectedly the Korean War broke out. Baker was directly promoted from sergeant to lieutenant. However, Baker was not satisfied with this. His fiancée at home was waiting for Baker to return to get married, and his parents also had a small farm waiting for Baker to inherit it when he returned.
Baker's company is a temporarily formed company with four platoons and 120 men. Baker's commander, Captain Fuld, is a logistics commander, but he is very conceited. A few days ago, Baker suggested giving up.
The guards in Heshui County built fortifications near the train station and tried their best to defend the train station, but Captain Fuld objected.
Captain Fuld's explanation was that his superiors asked him to defend Heshui County and did not emphasize the defense of the train station alone. Therefore, the focus of defense should be on Heshui County. Baker argued that the train station was the focus of defense and Heshui County had no defense.
Meaning, Captain Fuld did not adopt Baker's suggestion, but sent Second Lieutenant Lake to lead two squads of troops to garrison the train station, and most of the other troops were garrisoned in Heshui County.
Fuld is a college student in the Department of Mathematics. He admires numbers very much. According to the comparison of numbers, the Chinese have crude weapons and are almost all infantry. There are no tanks or armored vehicles. They travel through mountains and ridges. I don’t know when they will reach Heshui County. They are the Chinese.
Come here, what can we do to the US military? In Fuld's eyes, the US military is a natural force and a natural general. Looking around the world, it has no rivals.
The Korean War, for the Chinese people, was a war of fate. Before the Korean War, the Chinese people gave the world the impression of being disorganized and low in combat effectiveness. In external battles, for more than a hundred years, they suffered almost repeated defeats.
After repeated defeats in the war, the Korean War gave the world a new understanding of the Chinese people. It should be said that the Korean War was the starting point of modern China. From then on, a new China that stunned the world came onto the world stage.
Another reason why Fuld was unwilling to garrison at the train station was that the living conditions at the train station were too small, with only one waiting room and a few abandoned warehouses. Most of the soldiers had to live in the wild, which was very difficult for Americans who pay attention to the quality of life.
Said it was unbearable.
At around eight o'clock in the morning, intensive gunshots rang out from the direction of the train station. The Chinese people were coming, and Fuld realized the seriousness of the problem. Second Lieutenant Lake's distress call only lasted a few minutes, but there was no sound. Second Lieutenant Lake's team
They must have been wiped out by the Chinese.
Regarding the issue of rescuing Second Lieutenant Lake, Baker and Fuld had another disagreement. Baker believed that the train station had a weak force and would soon be occupied by the Chinese. His own force was weak, with less than a hundred people. If he fought with the Chinese in the wild,
, the chance of winning is not great, it is better to hold on to the troops and wait for reinforcements, relying on the houses in Heshui County, and start street fighting with the Chinese people, it will be no problem to hold on to the troops for a few days.
It has to be said that Baker has a certain level of tactics. If Fuld relied on the houses in Heshui County to start a street battle with the Ninth Company, the outcome would be unpredictable. At least he would be able to persist until the U.S. military arrived, but in the face of Lieutenant Lake's call for help
, Fuld once again rejected Lieutenant Baker's suggestion and ordered Lieutenant Baker to lead two platoons of troops to call for reinforcements from the train station.
Soldiers take obedience to orders as their bounden duty, and subordinates obeying superiors is an iron discipline. Although Baker had objections, he had to carry out Fuld's orders.
The distance from the train station to Heshui County is less than one kilometer. Lieutenant Baker, with two platoons of troops and two American 81mm mortars, left Heshui County to rescue the train station. They did not go far before they were blocked.
, there were no fortifications, and the plains were wild, so Baker had no choice but to organize an attack on the spot. "Boom, boom—" Baker ordered the artillery to fire.
The third platoon responsible for blocking had already deployed in battle formation. A few mortar shells did not cause much damage to the third platoon. Following the action of the first platoon, Liu Santang and Lu Chen crossed to the left rear of the US military and saw two mortars.
The gunners set up an American 81mm mortar on the road and prepared to fire the mortar again, from a distance of 180 meters.
"Pa--" Liu Santang fired first, hitting a US gunner on the left chest. The US gunner fell to the ground, and the shell in his hand was thrown far away. A US soldier one meter away grabbed the thrown mortar shell and rolled it.
Liu Santang rushed towards the mortar and just stood up. "Pah!" Liu Santang fired another shot, and the bullet hit the American soldier in the face.
"Pop -" Lu Chen hit a US gunner first, "Pop -" followed by another shot, hitting a US military commander at a distance of more than 180 meters, which is the best distance for sniping.
Affected by the wind speed, other US soldiers lay on the ground, not daring to get close to the 81mm mortar, shouting, "Sniper, Sniper (sniper)."
Second platoon leader Jin Gui led the second platoon into position and was at the right rear of the U.S. Army. When he saw several U.S. gunners being killed, he knew that Liu Santang and Lu Chen were shooting to support him. He shouted excitedly, "Brothers, charge!"
Jin Gui was a machine gunner. He picked up the Deggarev light machine gun and fired fiercely with "ta da". Two US soldiers fifty meters away were shot and fell instantly. The Deggarev light machine gun was fired at
Commonly seen in movies and television, the magazine is a circular turntable, which is the main weapon of the D Field Army in land warfare.
The second platoon suddenly appeared behind the U.S. Army, and Baker was caught off guard. When the U.S. military fights, they pay attention to front-line push and head-on confrontation, mainly because the U.S. military has powerful firepower and air superiority. The Chinese people pay attention to interspersed ambush, mainly because of their crude weapons and lack of air superiority.
There is a huge gap in firepower with the US military.