Stretching to Koto-ri and back toward Hagaru, a convoy numbering more than a thousand vehicles had been waiting for this moment, fighting off the Chinese all the while. It was a snake of rolling machinery, bumper to bumper, ten miles long: ambulances, transport trucks, half-tracks, artillery pieces, tractors, bulldozers, snowplows, tanks. Some fourteen thousand Marines and Army soldiers, as well as Royal Marines, would be marching or motoring down the mountain.
