Sword of Light: Humanoid Self-Propelled Artillery

Chapter 280 Disguise
The task of capturing Hagaru-ri Airport was originally assigned to 58 Lions, a force of over 10,000 men, but now it is up to Wang Gensheng and his Marine Corps, a force of less than 1,000 men, to complete.

However, this is not an impossible task, after all, the combat strength of the Marine Corps is what it is, each of them is a low-end version of Wei Dayong or Duan Peng.

Wang Gensheng checked the time. It was only an hour since the battle ended, which meant that many other units were still fighting.

After all, the reason why the Polar Bear Regiment was wiped out so quickly was because Wang Gensheng led the Marines into the battle. For example, it was Wang Gensheng who led the team to break through the Polar Bear Regiment's defensive positions first.

This led to the collapse of other defensive positions of the Polar Bear Regiment, ultimately achieving a partial breakthrough.

After checking the time, Wang Gensheng led about eight hundred marines on a rapid march towards Hagaru-ri.

Although the snow on the ground was already 60 centimeters thick, it was actually a good thing for Wang Gensheng and the others.

Because at this time, the road distance between the Polar Bear Regiment, which was annihilated in Xinxingli while leading the vanguard, and the rear base stationed at Hagaru-ri Airport, was only 20 kilometers. If they wanted to turn around and retreat normally, given the level of mechanization of the US military, they could retreat back to Hagaru-ri in no more than 20 or 30 minutes.

However, with 60 centimeters of snow blocking the way, it would take more than two hours, let alone 20 minutes.

However, Wang Gensheng was able to lead his Marines through the 60-centimeter-thick snow and reach Hagaru-ri Airport in less than 20 minutes.

The thick snow had turned the Changjin Lake area into a natural ski resort, so Wang Gensheng didn't even need to lead the Marines on the road; they could easily reach Hagaru-ri Airport by skiing between the mountains.

Before Wang Gensheng and his Marines arrived at the outskirts of Hagaru-ri Airport, the retreating U.S. troops had not yet returned.

But that's normal, after all, it would be strange if 50 or 60 centimeters of snow could be brought back in a short time!
Walking through such thick snow is slower than crawling, but this also gives Wang Gensheng a time advantage. Of course, despite the urgency, if he doesn't hurry, and the retreating American troops enter Hagaru-ri Airport in two or three hours, then there won't be just a few hundred combat-ready soldiers at Hagaru-ri Airport.

"Sir! Look closely, although there are multiple layers of barbed wire around Hagaru-ri Airport, there aren't many US soldiers defending it! It seems that Hagaru-ri Airport is the US military's rear base!"

Upon hearing this, Wang Gensheng immediately said:
"Five minutes for battle preparation. We don't have much time left. If we don't act now, the American forces will be too numerous to fight once they retreat. Firepower teams, prepare your bombs. Once the assault team enters Hagaru-ri Airport, you must destroy it as quickly as possible! Make sure the American transport planes and bombers can no longer take off or land at Hagaru-ri Airport!"

After all, Wang Gensheng remembered clearly that the US military relied on this airport to quickly transfer more than 4,000 wounded US soldiers, allowing the US military to retreat from Watergate Bridge without any burden.

After hiding the skis in a safe place, Wang Gensheng led more than 800 Marines and swaggered across the front of Hagaru-ri Airport, which was the main entrance.

The reason Wang Gensheng chose to pass through the main gate was naturally because the Hagaru-ri Airport was surrounded by barbed wire. Of course, the barbed wire was a minor issue; more importantly, Wang Gensheng's mental probing also detected that a number of landmines were buried in the barbed wire area.

Therefore, only by swaggering in through the main gate can one avoid being attacked by landmines. Of course, the reason why Wang Gensheng dared to swagger in through the main gate was because Wang Gensheng's Marines were now wearing US military uniforms.

Sure enough, the American guards at the gate didn't fire upon seeing Wang Gensheng and his group. Instead, they spoke a long string of words in Yingyu (English). Wang Gensheng replied in Hanyu (Western dialect).

"The front wheel doesn't turn, but the back wheel does, smida!"

Of course, Wang Gensheng didn't know welding slang, so these two welding phrases were actually made up by Wang Gensheng, and even Wang Gensheng himself didn't know what they meant!
However, it is clear that the guard at the gate is not a bilingual genius. After all, they have only been on the ground for less than half a year, so how could they have learned the welding language!

The reason they didn't fire was naturally because Wang Gensheng and the others were wearing American military uniforms. That's right, these American uniforms were actually provided by the United States, so they were naturally similar to American military uniforms.

The only distinguishing features are small insignia on the uniforms, but it's nighttime now, so how can you tell the difference between those insignia?

100 meters, 50 meters, 30 meters, 20 meters, 10 meters. As Wang Gensheng and his men got closer and closer, the American soldiers finally noticed that something was wrong with them.

The suspicious part was the bullet holes on Wang Gensheng and the others' uniforms. After all, the uniforms they wore were taken from American soldiers' corpses. From a distance, it didn't look like much, but upon closer inspection, the bullet holes and bloodstains on the uniforms immediately gave it away.

Unfortunately, it was too late. Although the machine gun bunkers at the entrance to the airport's defensive positions were no longer effective, the Marines, who were ready for battle, threw out their pineapple grenades with the pins already pulled.

At a distance of less than twenty meters, the Marines easily threw the grenade into the machine gun bunker, demonstrating their grenade-throwing skills.

You should know that these machine gun bunkers are a nightmare for charging soldiers. Unless a large-caliber howitzer hits them directly, it is impossible to break through the defenses of such machine gun bunkers. When Wang Gensheng was fighting alongside Kong Jie, he used such machine gun bunkers to defend against an attack by a Japanese regiment.

More importantly, the machine gun bunkers at the US military airfields housed M2 heavy machine guns, not light machine guns. Charging under such heavy machine gun fire would be tantamount to suicide, since the bulletproof vests worn by Marines would not be able to withstand bullets from M2 heavy machine guns.

After dealing with the dozens of guards at the entrance, Wang Gensheng led his Marines toward the airport runway.

Of course, the start of the battle on Wang Gensheng's side naturally attracted a large number of soldiers to rush towards Wang Gensheng's location.

Meanwhile, Captain Smith of the U.S. Marine Corps 1st Lion was in the airfield's operations command center receiving terrible battle reports from all over the country!

In particular, the news that the polar bear regiment, which was at the forefront, had lost contact was heartbreaking for Smith.

But before Lion Chief Smith could even feel sorry for himself, the explosions from the battle at the airport entrance on Wang Gensheng's side naturally alerted Lion Chief Smith. He knew perfectly well how fragile the fighting power of his Lion Commander was!

(End of this chapter)