On November 25, 1950, the second campaign to resist the United States and aid Korea began, and according to the development of the battlefield, Peng Dehuai made campaign arrangements: 9 corps and 30 divisions of the Volunteer Army launched a campaign in the two eastern and western battlefields. 6 armies and 18 divisions on the Western Front sang the lead. The 42nd Army of the 38th Army annihilated the South Korean pseudo-7th Division and the pseudo-8th Division of Tokugawa and Ningyuan in the first battle, and after completing this operational goal, the division would insert itself into The River and Sansho-ri, cutting off the retreat route of the 39th Army, the 40th Army, and other multinational forces facing the U.S. army. The three armies on the Eastern Front mainly attacked the US First Marine Division and multinational forces.
After two days of fighting, the 38th Army, the 39th Army, the 40th Army, the 42nd Army, the 50th Army, and the 66th Army on the Western Front fought according to the battle plan, and the American army and the South Korean puppet army retreated to the south and fled south. The headquarters of the Volunteer Army ordered the 113th Division of the 38th Army to quickly insert it into the three institutes, tie up pockets here, cut off the connection between the US army and Pyongyang, block the fleeing enemy, and form a trend of "closing the door and fighting dogs", which was the winner or loser of the second battle.
After 14 hours and 72.5 kilometers of forced marching, the 338th Regiment of the 113th Division inserted itself into Sansholi on time and engaged in a fierce battle with the oncoming 5th Regiment of the US 1st Cavalry Division, repelling more than 10 US attacks and firmly tightening the pocket of the enemy retreating in Sansholi.
The situation on the battlefield was changing rapidly, and when the U.S. army saw that it could not move, it turned its head and fled to Longyuanli on the west side of Sansoli. Sansholi was controlled by the volunteers, but if the enemy army ran from Longyuanli, it would be meaningless to control Sansholi. That is, if the bamboo basket is empty, the results of the second battle will be greatly reduced. The 113rd Division's Yangtze River Chao did not have time to ask for instructions from his superiors, and decisively ordered: The 337th Regiment of the reserve team should be put on top and rushed to Longyuan to occupy this key point.
On the 27th, the 337th Regiment quickly entered Longyuanli in two ways. Ordered 1 battalion, 1 company and 2 platoons to rush from Sansholi to Longyuanli to block the American troops. Longyuan-ri is in the west of Sansho-ri, north of The Price River and Junyu-ri, and south of Shuncheon and Pyongyang, the geographical location here is quite important, and it is a way for the enemy forces in Sansho-ri and the south of Cheongcheon Tonkawa to withdraw U.S. troops.
The 2nd Platoon had been fighting fiercely for two days and two nights, and the soldiers looked exhausted, but they still stubbornly carried out a 12-hour running and walking army. In the early morning of the 28th, 2 platoons of fighters arrived at the Ge Da Ling position. After carefully examining the surrounding terrain, platoon commander Guo Zhongtian decided to build a false position on the main peak of Ge Da Ling, and the real blocking position was set up on a hill next to the road on the north side of the main peak of Ge Da Ling. It pierced the pockets of the U.S. troops that could not escape.
At 8 o'clock in the morning, the two fortifications, one true and one false, had just been constructed in the hands of the volunteers, and the AMERICAN troops came. This is the US 2nd Division fleeing to Pyongyang in 1 small jeep, 4 cars, and 3 ten-wheeled trucks.
The US army is getting closer and closer, the volunteer soldiers have clearly seen the appearance of the US army, Guo Zhongtian saw the opportunity to order the car's fuel tank first, and the volunteer machine gun spat out a tongue of fire and hit the fuel tank. The car caught fire, and Guo Zhongtian ordered 5 squads to attack to destroy the enemy, and 4 squads to grab ammunition. The U.S. troops were sent back to their hometowns before they could resist.
The 2nd Platoon had just breathed a sigh of relief, and more than 50 U.S. tanks "rumbled" and "rumbled" towards the 2nd Platoon position. Guo Zhongtian ordered the tanks to be spared and waited to strike the enemy infantry. It's not that he doesn't want to fight American tanks, but strength doesn't allow it. His platoon had no bazookas, no explosive packs, and no anti-tank mines, so it relied on rifles and only 4 grenades per person to deal with 50 U.S. tanks.
The American tanks passed, and convoys of personnel carriers, ammunition trucks, and artillery vehicles followed. Guo Zhongtian ordered the head car and the ammunition truck to fight. These vehicles are much easier to fight than tanks, and under the rain of bullets from 2 platoons of fighters, personnel carriers and artillery vehicles continue to catch fire and explode. The American soldiers collapsed and howled and fled for their lives. The follow-up convoy of the US army was blocked by the vehicles that exploded in front of it, and the fleeing troops were blocked, paralyzed and collapsed next to The Ge Da Ling.
The U.S. tank group that passed through the blockade line found itself deceived, and the last 3 tanks turned their noses and returned to the battle. A commander emerged from a tank and waved a small flag in his hand to gather the fleeing American troops. Guo Zhongtian asked the sharpshooter Zhang Xiangzhong to kill him, and after a gunshot, the US commander returned to his hometown.
Another U.S. officer hid between two tanks and called the plane by radio. Not long after, more than 30 US military planes roared in, strafed at the main peak of the top of Ge Da Ling, dropped bombs, and the rocks on the mountain were blown into powder, and the whole mountain was in a sea of fire. Guo Zhongtian's false position played a blinding effect and played a key role, which made his soldiers admire it.
After the US aircraft bombed, the infantry rushed up with black pressure. When the enemy entered the grenade throwing distance, 2 platoons of grenades flew towards the American troops, blowing up the American troops.
U.S. tanks slammed the battered car into a ditch and cleared the blocked road. The cars and gun cars behind them started to move again, and they fled in a panic, and they had to pass through the blockade line of 2 rows. Guo Zhongtian ordered that a US military vehicle should not be released, and the fuel tank of a US artillery vehicle was hit, the shells on the vehicle exploded continuously, and the road was blocked.
Under the stubborn resistance of the 2nd platoon, the US convoy never crossed the blocking line one step. 32 volunteer soldiers held out in the death zone for a day, resisted the enemy's tens of times the strength of the troops and more than a hundred aircraft and dozens of cannons of the joint attack, fierce battle for one day, in front of their positions lay 215 American corpses, not a single person died themselves, creating a miracle in the history of world war, the First World War is famous in the world. Two platoons captured and destroyed 6 American artillery pieces and 58 vehicles in this battle.
The Headquarters of the Volunteer Army awarded the 2nd Platoon the glorious title of "Guo Zhongtian Hero Platoon", and gave Guo Zhongtian the title of "Hero of the First Class" for his special merits. During the fourth campaign, Guo Zhongtian was promoted to the commander of the third company and led the troops to make new contributions. He also wrote a letter to Chairman Mao as a representative of the Volunteer Army.
In June 1951, guo Zhongtian participated in the Third World Peace Festival as a member of the delegation of the Chinese Youth League, and when he passed through Moscow, the Soviet Union, Stalin received him and asked him about the details of the battlefield at that time.