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Chapter 43 Buried in situ

"Comrades, hurry up!"

It was found that a large number of Korean soldiers gathered by the Qingchuan River a few hundred meters away, rushed into the cold and bone-blooded water of the Qingchuan River, and chased the battalion commander of the Chinese People's Volunteer Army who came and issued orders to the soldiers of the entire battalion.

The volunteer soldiers who had long been sharpening their knives, after hearing the orders issued by the battalion commander, immediately stepped on the thick snow and rushed forward with cold guns.

After the volunteer soldiers from this battalion arrived at the Qingchuan River, there were no one of the Korean soldiers who had originally gathered on the riverside.

However, what made the volunteer soldiers overjoyed was that they seized a large number of weapons and equipment discarded by Korean soldiers who were eager to jump into the river to escape, especially the box cannons that were often used by Korean soldiers.

In addition, the volunteer soldiers also captured more than 500 Korean soldiers who jumped into the cold and bone-blooded river water and were unable to swim and shouted for help.

Among the more than 500 prisoners, not only were Korean soldiers, but also more than a dozen American soldiers, especially Captain Thomson who was seriously injured and dying and was abandoned on the bank of the Cheongcheon River.

Later, Captain Thomson, who was unconscious after being shot in the chest, was sent to the Volunteer Army Field Hospital in Wenjing in a timely manner. The volunteers performed surgery on him for humanitarian aid, took out the bullets from the chest, and saved his life by chance.

Captain Thomson, the captain of the US military company who was domineering in front of the Korean soldiers, was later detained in the prisoner-of-war camp of the Korean People's Army after he recovered.

And those uncaptured Korean soldiers, more than a thousand people were frozen to death under the ice, and the water flowed rapidly and icy Qingchuan River.

The Korean soldiers who survived with Li Douxuan fleeing to the other side of the Qingchuan River were only about 500 left. The US company formed by a company, not only Captain Thomson, was captured, but also less than 100 people were left.

After the Third Company of the Volunteer Army, which occupied the favorable terrain of the highland five kilometers south of Wenjing, successfully completed the interception mission, they buried the bodies of Li Dequan, a row of soldiers of the Third Company, one row of soldiers who had frozen to death, and more than ten soldiers who died here before heading to the Guitoudong area east of Wenjing.

Due to the cold weather, even though the soldiers of the Third Company seized dozens of military shovels discarded by Korean soldiers, the soil covered with heavy snow was frozen. After digging down for about half an hour, they only dug half a meter deep.

Due to the tight time and heavy tasks, the Third Company of the Volunteer Army had to set out to the ** Cave area dozens of kilometers away, and did not continue to dig down. The bodies of the more than a dozen soldiers who died were piled up together and placed them in the digging pit with a depth of only half a meter.

After burying the pit filled with corpses with hard frozen soil, it also covered it with a layer of white snow, and wrote the names of each soldier who died here next to it.

With such a simple tomb, the bodies of the dead comrades were buried, without even a tombstone. The soldiers of the entire company of the Third Company of the Volunteer Army, from the company commander and instructor to an ordinary soldier, stood in front of this simple collective grave and took off their hats and saluted, all of whom were moved and burst into tears.

In order to make it easier to wait until the war is over, we can come to this place to take away the bodies of the more than a dozen buried comrades and transport them back to the country for burial. The soldiers of the Third Company of the Volunteer Army also made special marks before setting off for Guitou Cave.

It was originally planned to leave for half an hour before setting off, but because they had to dig a hole to bury the bodies of more than a dozen comrades who died here, and the soldiers were in a bad mood, it took another half an hour to go.

It was not until an hour later that there were only two platoons of more than 60 people, and then they set off to rush to the Guitoudong area, where they were interspersed behind enemy lines.

From the southern highland where the Third Company of the Volunteer Army is located, it is dozens of miles away from the Guitoudong area, and they need to climb over five mountains and hills, and the road surface has long been covered with thick snow.

It can be seen that this is definitely an extremely severe test for the old man in the Third Company of the Volunteer Army, because the order issued by the regiment headquarters was to make them rush to the location where the roadblock was set before dark.

Otherwise, even one hour at night will probably delay the fighter jets, and the serious consequences will naturally be unimaginable.

After washing and marching for an hour, the company commander of the Third Company of the Volunteer Army took out the map and saw that they had only walked less than twenty miles. In the biting cold weather, he was so anxious that he was sweating on his forehead.

The vertical distance is dozens of miles, but the distance between the peaks that have crossed along the way has been at least twice.

In addition, it was around six o'clock in the morning, and the sky gradually became clearer, and the horizon in the east also turned white. With the burgundy morning glow, a rising sun was also rising above the horizon.

For the volunteer army without air supremacy, it is very dangerous to march in the open place and without any other things to cover it.

At that time, the air supremacy of the entire Korean Peninsula was in the hands of the US military. They usually did not dispatch planes at night, but once it reached the daytime, they would immediately dispatch various fighter planes. While reconnaissing the enemy's situation on the land, they were also used to bomb the enemy's ground forces.

Therefore, since the Volunteer Army entered North Korea for about half a month, most of the time they chose to march at night, hide in the dug air raid shelters or in the dense woods during the day, in order to avoid US fighter jets.

However, the interspersed task received by their Volunteer Army's Third Company this time was to make them march during the day. At first, Zhao Yifa, the company commander of the Third Company, who was disdainful of the task of setting up roadblocks, finally felt that the task was still quite difficult.

"Old Wang, tell me, it's going to be dawn soon. It seems that it's still a sunny day. If we don't think of a way to cross mountains and ridges like this, we will be discovered by the US fighter jets in the sky within a few hours."

The company commander Zhao Yifa, who was walking at the forefront of the Third Company of the Volunteer Army, looked sad and turned his head, looked at Wang Wenju, who was walking aside and said with concern.

The awakened instructor Wang Wenju also felt a headache for the questions asked by the company commander Zhao Yifa next to him, and he couldn't help but shake his head.

"Old Zhao, why not do this. Let's go to a forest not far ahead and let the comrades take a break. At the same time, we will also mobilize everyone to brainstorm. What do you think?"

After careful consideration, instructor Wang Wenju discussed and asked the company commander Zhao Yifa in a tentative tone.

After hearing what Wang Wenju said, Zhao Yifu a little and said weakly: "The only thing is this right now, let's do as Lao Wang, what you said."
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