On October 3, 1951, the 191st Division of the 64th Army of the Volunteer Army did not launch an attack at night, and for the first time in the bright sunshine of the day, launched a strong attack on the Scottish Border Militia Regiment of the 28th Brigade of the Commonwealth, which claimed to be the best soldier in Great Britain! In this battle, the volunteer army mobilized nearly 70 artillery pieces and directly launched an artillery battle with the British army! Twelve tanks soared to the forward positions to carry out direct targeting and bombardment of the British fortifications, and the anti-aircraft fire network composed of fifty anti-aircraft guns turned the entire battlefield sky into a rain of bullets! No U.S. military plane dares to fly low! This is the first time since the Korean War that the Chinese army has fought jointly with various arms! Greatly shocked the British army! Greatly encouraged the volunteer army, countless Chinese veterans who have experienced hundreds of battles, hugged together, jumped! Sing! After fighting for more than ten years, Chinese soldiers have never seen such a painful scene!
The news of the disastrous defeat of the British army at Ma Liangshan reached the US military headquarters, and the US commander did not believe it at all, they looked at the telegram in their hands with contempt, and said contemptuously: "The courage of the British is frightened, and the Chinese who can fight a modern war has not yet been born!" Unfortunately, less than 13 hours after this sentence was said, an even more terrible battle situation report came from the west side of the cave! The Americans are out of luck!
On the evening of November 4, the Volunteer 47th Army organized 7 T34 tanks and self-propelled guns to forcibly break through to the eyes of the 3rd Infantry Battalion of the 1st Division of the US Ace Cavalry in the area of the US fire blockade line, and was not discovered by the US Army. Soon 4 Chinese tanks from another road also broke through, the U.S. army still did not find, after the war to know, the U.S. soldiers did not believe that Chinese can drive tanks to carry out night attacks! The roaring motor sound should be the US army's own tank!
At 10:10 p.m., the Katyusha rockets of the volunteer army roared and spewed out fire dragons, blowing up the US positions into a sea of fire, and more than a dozen Chinese tanks led the volunteer infantry to launch a fierce attack on the US troops! Since the beginning of the war, the US army has never been covered by such a powerful firepower, the will to fight collapsed in an instant, and it was trying to retreat along the back hill anti-slope position, but it was copied by the volunteer army's latent troops, and after the two wings were encircled, the US Third Battalion ceased to exist in the sequence of the First Cavalry Division! Here's one thing to tell the reader, the total strength of the US Super Ace Cavalry Division is only nine battalions, and one battalion was destroyed in less than two hours! This loss is unprecedented.
The US 1st Cavalry Division is worthy of the Ace of the US Army! Less than three hours after losing the position, the troops were immediately organized to counterattack, and more than thirty tanks took the lead, and what the US army did not expect was that just approaching the west hill of the main cave, two tanks were hit by the volunteer T34 tanks and the whole body was on fire! The rest of the Volunteer Tanks were also firing wildly close! This is the first time since the Korean War that Chinese soldiers have launched a tank showdown with the US army! The U.S. tank unit has never experienced such a battle! In less than an hour and a half, the US counterattack was all repelled, and the most important thing was that the reinforced battalion of the US army that counterattacked was also completely destroyed, and the only fortunate thing was that the battalion suffered little casualties, because most of the US soldiers directly raised their hands and surrendered!
After the war, there was also a violation of "discipline", and there were American prisoners of war protesting against the humiliation of volunteer soldiers! After our army's investigation, we learned that it was a misunderstanding, and the new soldiers of the Volunteer Army who had originally escorted the US prisoners of war heard that the prisoners were all US Aces, so they looked at the US prisoners, pointed and pointed, and wanted to find out what was the difference between the so-called ace prisoners and ordinary prisoners of war. This puzzled the U.S. troops who had been raising their hands to surrender, and some felt greatly humiliated! When I think about the scene at that time, it is really funny and painful!
The Battle of Maliangshan and Zhengdong Xishan was an important battle in the transformation of the Chinese army from traditional field warfare to modern warfare, and soon the volunteer army actually launched a three-dimensional landing battle of sea, land and air on Dahe Island! These battles marked a change from quantity to quality in our army, and clearly told the Americans that when the weapons of Chinese soldiers were equal to those of the Us army, the US army was not the opponent of the volunteer army at all!