Seventh Section: Raid on Wenjing 1

  While sweeping the battlefield, the soldiers of Fēng Guì and Tū Jí Yíng surrounded the M24 tank. Gǒu Wá Zi knocked on the tank and smiled at Fēng Guì, saying "Battalion Commander, this thing is much bigger than those little Japanese Type 95s we used to train with, look at how big the cannon is."

  Wiping away the saliva dripping from the corner of his mouth as he spoke, he looked at Feng Gui and said, "Captain, why don't you give it a try."

  Then two agile figures jumped onto the tank and crawled into the two hatches on top of the tank. Before long, a rumbling sound started to rise, followed by thick black smoke billowing out of the exhaust pipe at the back of the tank, which had roared to life.

  The tank accelerated forward for over 70 meters before suddenly braking, with one track still and the other moving, causing the tank to spin in place before returning to its original position. As Feng Gui and Gou Wa's heads emerged from the vehicle body and turret respectively, a cheer erupted across the battlefield.

  Feng Gui said, "American stuff is just better than the little Japanese ones. This thing is much more useful than the Type 95." Only the huge crater still smoking, the massive shell hole, scattered body parts, and those patches of land stained red with blood reflected that a fierce battle had just taken place here.

  At this time, Kim Jong-oh, who had just arrived at Onjong, was a little restless in the temporary headquarters, and when he heard the sound of gunfire cease, he said to himself, perhaps it's just a few North Korean guerrillas.

  "The statistics of the battle results have come out. In this battle, we annihilated the enemy's 6th Division, 2nd Regiment, artillery battalion, and tank company, killing 3981 enemies, wounding 1917 enemies, injuring 846 enemies, capturing 1218 enemies, including one enemy colonel regiment commander, US military advisor Captain Jesse, and Lieutenant Epps. We seized 12 M24 tanks, 12 105mm howitzers, 43 vehicles, and over 1900 various firearms. Our army suffered more than 300 casualties."

  "No, an enemy reinforced regiment like this should have more than 3,900 people, less than 4,000. Is there still a part of the enemy that has escaped?"

  "The report is that the battalion commander buried 700 kilograms of yellow explosives on the side of the road, blowing up a large number of enemy soldiers. We had to collect the legs of the enemy, counting two legs as one person. A small portion of the enemy also escaped into the mountains."

  "Alright, report to Chief Zhi immediately."

  Dà Yú Dòng

  The old general looked at the battle report and said to the leaders of the original 13th Army Corps, "This Deng Yue and Gao Quan, they fought quite well, annihilating an enemy reinforced regiment. They also captured an enemy colonel regimental commander and two US military advisers. Hmm, Independent Division 1 even formed a tank company with the 12 captured tanks. Does Independent Division 1 have capable people?"

  "The commander of the independent regiment, Gaoquan, is quite capable, but he likes to kick people. His first two political commissars were kicked by him, and since then, no one dares to be a political commissar in his regiment. Now, the regimental commander also serves as the political commissar!" The army corps commander said with a smile.

  "Oh, he's got this kind of bad breath"

  "At first, everyone in the army knew that if Gao Quan was nice to someone, he would kick him, so all the division commanders of similar level kept a distance from him." After finishing, they burst into loud laughter.

  On the ancient road from Gusuan to Wenjing, a column of 12 tanks and more than 40 trucks was heading south from north, swaying towards Wenjing. Strangely, it was in the opposite direction of the UN army's attack. Occasionally, US planes flying over the convoy saw the Tai Chi flags laid flat on top of the tanks and cars, but only found it strange, after all, under the attack of the United Nations army, the North Korean army was retreating to China.

  But if you walk past the convoy, there will be many doubts. The car is full of bullet holes, and the 10-wheel large truck only has 8 wheels left, with 6 wheels remaining. Among the 14 guns, two are very different from the others. Although one is a US-made 75mm mountain gun, another is actually a German-made Krupp field gun. Wasn't the Korean army built with the help of the US military? How can there be German-made weapons?

  Time reversed half a day

  When the 12 tanks rumbled forward, the soldiers of the Independent Division's Third Regiment were stunned for a moment before immediately stopping their cleanup of the battlefield and rushing back to their trenches, even ignoring the wounded enemy prisoners. The artillerymen hastily went to fetch earth-made armor-piercing shells.

  When they saw the soldiers standing on the tank with handrails, wearing the same uniform as themselves, the soldiers looked at each other in dismay, full of doubts, thinking when did we also have a tank unit to participate in the battle?

  When they saw Gao Gui's face, which was smiling so hard it was almost convulsing, everyone suddenly realized. Especially when Zhang Da Biao sat on the tank and greeted every passing acquaintance or stranger. When he saw Shen Fei Hu, the commander of the Third Battalion, he even shouted "Shen Fei Hu, Shen Fei Hu" - his face could only be described as lewdly smiling.

  When the sound of "Ka" "Ka" track pressing ground came from beside the command post, suddenly remembered that it was Fang Gui and Deng Yue who walked out of the command room, only to see Zhang Dabiao riding on the tank and Fang Gui (yes, use the word ride, one sitting on the tank gun, one sitting between two hatches, can only be described as riding) still waving to everyone passing by, looking spirited and proud like two proud roosters.

  When they saw me watching them, they hastily jumped off the tank and ran to us in small steps. One of them saluted and said: "Reporting to Independent Division 1st Regiment Commander Zhang Dabiao (Commander of the 1st Assault Battalion of Independent Division 1) that we have brought 12 captured US-made M24 tanks for reporting." Seeing the smile on their faces, I couldn't help but punch each of them heavily on the chest and laughed at them saying "Good kids!"

  Deng Yue stroked the tank, touching the 75mm main gun. "Brother, you're now making a fortune, but I need to borrow a few tanks from you. My artillery is slow and this guy's armor is too thick, resistant to attack."

  "Alright, I'll lend you three tank drivers and gunners, but your soldiers had better be well-trained, or I'm taking them back."

  "Sounds good to me"

  When Deng Yue inadvertently touched the Tai Chi flag, a sudden inspiration appeared, and after discussing with Deng Yue.

  A company of tanks and cars was drawn from the assault regiment, with more than 300 people left, five or six people per vehicle, as well as combat backbone troops drawn from the Independent First Division and the 118th Division of the 40th Army. They put on thousands of military uniforms taken from the puppet army and exchanged them for captured M1 Garand semi-automatic rifles (commonly known as "eight big grains"), M1922 automatic rifles, M1 carbines, M3 submachine guns, M1911 air-cooled machine guns, and M2-12.7mm heavy machine guns.

  Kim Jong-oh received a telegram from Cham Byeong-seon, the commander of the 2nd Regiment of the 6th Division, who had been captured: "Our army was ambushed by an unknown force and suffered heavy casualties. The 1st and 2nd battalions were severely damaged and have retreated to Onjong."