The Nineteenth Chapter: A Surprise Attack on Wuling Bridge

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  On the night of November 24, at the command post of the 38th Army, Liang Xingchu and others were studying specific combat plans. Gao Quan drew an arrow with a red pencil on the map, pointing directly to the rear of Dechuan in the combined area of the pseudo-7th Division and the 8th Division. Gao Quan handed the map over to Liang Xingchu.

  Then he said, "How about Old Lianzhang? Send a detachment to infiltrate here." He pointed with his pencil at Wuling Bridge. "Blow up the big bridge over the Datong River, and the pseudo-7th Division will have no way to retreat. The enemy reinforcements coming from the south won't be able to get through either." Liang Xingchu thought for a moment, then said, "Alright, let's do it that way." Then he pressed his pencil firmly on Wuling Bridge.

  That night, the 38th Army Command Center, Liang Xingchu was looking at a map "Report" Liang Xingchu looked up and saw that it was Zhang Kuiyin, Deputy Director of the Intelligence Department. "Do you dare to send me behind enemy lines?" "What's not daring about it?" Zhang Kuiyin said with a tilt of his head. "How are the preparations going?" "Just waiting for the army commander's order, I've found the 113th Division Reconnaissance Battalion Commander Zhou Wenli, the vanguard team is composed of the Army Reconnaissance Company and the 113th Division Reconnaissance Company, don't worry, Commander!" "Alright, then you go to Wuling Bridge on the Datong River and blow it up" "Yes, I guarantee completion of the mission" Zhang Kuiyin stood at attention

  "Hey, Old Lianzhang, isn't this unfair? I'm the one who gave you the idea, but when it comes to execution, oh, you kick me out. No way, no way. And on top of that, you have to add my assault company's first platoon and its leader, Feng Gui. He's always been in charge of reconnaissance missions behind enemy lines, with rich experience, and he even speaks good Korean and English."

  "Alright, add your assault battalion to that, you dark-skinned kid, everywhere taking credit for others' work. If it weren't for you requesting to be assigned under me, my troops would have taken all the credit for annihilating the enemy at Tokugawa. Wherever you go, you take all the credit, I'm actually afraid of you." "Heh heh, Old Battalion Commander, look what you're saying" Gao Quan said with a smile

  The vanguard team was formed by 482 people from the 38th Army Reconnaissance Company, the 113th Division Reconnaissance Company and the Independent First Strike Battalion. Zhang Kuiyin, the head of the 38th Army Reconnaissance Department, served as the captain, while Zhou Wenli, the head of the 113th Division Reconnaissance Department, and Feng Gui, the commander of the Independent First Strike Battalion, served as deputy captains.

  On the night of 24th, under the feint attack of the 339th Regiment of the 38th Army, the vanguard team, wearing fake army uniforms and holding American-style firearms with white towels tied on their arms, quickly broke through the enemy's front-line blockade line from a mountain path and inserted into the junction of the enemy's Seventh Division and Eighth Division.

  Arriving at the Datong River, the Datong River Bridge had already been blown up by the US military. Although he knew that the People's Army had built an underwater bridge with sandbags during their withdrawal from Pyeongyang, he couldn't find it on the map and didn't know which direction to go, while the patrol team walking back and forth on the other side made Fenggui understand that if he couldn't find the underwater bridge again, he would be exposed.

  When they saw 5 or 6 local troops of the puppet army walking towards the riverbank, the security team members carrying Type 38 rifles were about to cross the river. Suddenly, Feng Gui loudly said in Korean, "Take a break, take off your shoes and socks, prepare to cross the river." Seeing the enemy roll up their pants high, they slowly walked across from one place to the opposite bank of the river. As Feng Gui approached, he discovered the mystery in the water. Then, the vanguard successfully crossed the Datong River.

  After crossing the Datong River, on the 25th, Xian's troops continued to advance along the highway, continuously scouting enemy situations along the way, and using radio to report to the front command that the enemy's rear forces were extremely empty. When they were still over 60 kilometers away from Wuling Bridge, the sound of cannons echoed from the north, and the cannon fire lit up the dark night sky of Tokushima. Feng Gui secretly thought: "It's time to hurry up."

  All the way along the highway, they rushed forward, constantly passing by the enemy who was on their way to reinforce them. Many times, when the troops passed by the enemy's mobile sentry, the enemy even gave way and let our army pass through. When our army crossed the Xianyou Peak in the second half of the night of the 25th, they saw the Wuling Bridge spanning two mountains, over a hundred meters long, with a deep and treacherous mountain stream below.

  However, the enemy has strengthened its vigilance, perhaps due to the Tokugawa artillery fire that alerted them to protect their retreat route's key bridge. On the bridgehead, the enemy built several shelters with sandbags, revealing dark gun barrels reflecting multiple light and heavy machine guns inside. The enemy also had three patrol teams patrolling back and forth on the bridge.

  "What to do? The casualties from a strong attack would be too great, and it's not even certain that we could blow up the big bridge." Our three team leaders were in constant debate. Suddenly, Feng Gui saw a warehouse on the top of the mountain across from us with a large skull and crossbones painted on it - explosives! Yes, explosives! So Feng Gui spoke his mind to Zhang Kui, "Let's first capture an enemy military vehicle, then go to the enemy's mountain and get some explosives, load them onto the vehicle, and use it to blow up the enemy's big bridge."

  Zhang Kuiyin said with a worried expression, "We can only try first, if it doesn't work, we can only launch a strong attack." Feng Gui and Zhou Wenli said in unison, "Then I'll go." The two of them looked at each other and smiled. Zhang Kuiyin didn't say anything, he just patted their shoulders.

  Two kilometers ahead of Wuling Bridge, several wounded and sick pseudo-soldiers appeared, as if waiting for passing vehicles to take them. A pseudo-military car saw the bandaged men waving continuously in front, and they stopped after extinguishing their cigarettes.

  When he saw a hand tied with gauze around his neck, Fēng Guì, wearing a lieutenant colonel uniform. Hurriedly ran out of the car and then saluted Feng Gui with a standard military salute "Commander good". Seeing Feng Gui handing over an American Camel cigarette, although the two were very frightened, the two still accepted it with a brightened face.

  However, the wounded men around them suddenly rose up, covering their mouths and holding down their bodies, then a light knife to the neck, two pseudo-military automobile soldiers who had already gone soft were quickly dragged into the depths of the bushes, and the bloodstains on the ground were quickly buried by the yellow soil.

  The car drove onto Wuling Bridge and stopped in front of the pseudo-army's roadblock. Then, Feng Gui got out of the car, ran over to the pseudo-army platoon leader who was standing at attention, and handed him his credentials.

  After checking, the fake army company commander said, "Sorry, sir, the front line is tight, and no one is allowed to retreat from the big bridge." Feng Gui jumped out of the car with great anger, "Pa" "Pa" twice. "I was ordered by the division commander to come and prepare to blow up the bridge. You say I'm not allowed to pass?" The surprised fake army company commander said a word "Yes", then gestured for the soldiers to remove the roadblock and let the car through.

  Feng Gui carefully looked at the three teams of patrol soldiers on the bridge, and then glanced at the only four sentries at the end of the bridge, and couldn't help but smile.

  Arriving at the explosives depot on the mountain, Feng Gui and Zhou Wenli showed their credentials to the only puppet soldiers on the mountain. Then a dozen or so puppet soldiers ran out of the barracks and politely opened the door to the explosives depot for Feng Gui, helping our army's six soldiers who had come together to transport explosives and detonators onto the truck.

  When he saw Feng Gui preparing to light a cigarette next to the car, a fake soldier rushed over and pressed down on Feng Gui's match. He was then knocked to the ground by Feng Gui's conditioned reflex. Looking at the fake soldier rolling around on the ground, their leader said "Officer, this is an ammunition depot. If it gets ignited, we'll all go up in flames."

  Feng Gui smiled and pulled the fake soldier up from the ground. "What's your name?" Feng Gui asked, still smiling at him. The little soldier hugged his stomach to endure the severe pain and replied in a low voice, "Jin Zhen Tai, sir." "Good kid, good job!"

  Seeing the returning car, Zhang Kuiyin's nerves were tightly strung. The soldiers around him made preparations for battle, the 60mm mortar had already taken aim at the bunker on the bridge, and the light and heavy machine guns were also set up in a flurry.

  The sentry saw the car coming and going, which was strange. But seeing the cruel and evil-looking Feng Gui in the car, he didn't say a word. The car stopped steadily in the middle of the bridge.

  Feng Gui shouted to the enemy patrol team, "You guys take good care of this car loaded with explosives, don't go near it, I'm going to call the sappers to install it. If you touch the explosives and they explode, you know what the consequences will be." "Get down, get down, all of you!" Feng Gui shouted loudly. Zhou Wenli lit the 2-meter-long fuse in the gap between the explosive boxes. The fuse slowly shortened with a hissing sound.

  When Feng Gui walked to the bridgehead, a small squad leader with a strange expression asked, "Commander, why have you come back again?" Feng Gui handed a cigarette to the pseudo-military squad leader at the bridgehead and said, "Look behind, all the explosives are on that truck. I'll take people to work. Call the engineer and bring tools to load the explosives onto the bridge. If our army retreats and passes through, blow up this bridge! You must guard the bridge carefully and not let anyone else come down from the north. Be careful of the Communist Party's disguised surprise attack to destroy the bridge." "Yes, Commander, I will be careful."

  When Duan Gui and Zhou Wenli led six people to the mountain to meet Zhang Kuiyin, a deafening explosion sounded from the bridge. More than 30 puppet soldiers sitting on the ground were blown into the sky, while the puppet soldiers in front of and behind the bridge were killed by the shock wave of more than 500 kilograms of explosives.

  Before the battle began, Wuling Bridge was blown up and one of the enemy's rear routes was cut off.