During the Korean War, we are familiar with the battles between the Chinese Volunteer Army and the United Nations Army led by the US army, while the Korean People's Army and the South Korean Army have always appeared in the form of auxiliaries, but their strength and scale should not be underestimated, especially the South Korean army, which has received direct assistance from the US military.
However, the volunteer army still defeated them when they encountered the ROK army, and the first regiment of the ROK army was directly annihilated by our army, and its regimental flag was also captured by our army, and it is still displayed in the military museum of the Chinese People's Revolution.
After the end of World War II, the United States and the Soviet Union occupied the Korean Peninsula respectively, and since then, with the support of the two countries, the north and south of the peninsula have established North and South Korea respectively, but the combat effectiveness of the two militaries at this time can be described as a world of difference.
The Korean People's Army had the direct participation of the People's Liberation Army's Shiye and Korean divisions, as well as Soviet military assistance, but the Rok army was a bit miserable, although they had more than 100,000 people in eight divisions and regiments, but they seriously lacked heavy firepower, and the troops lacked training, and they were soon beaten to a corner of Busan by Kim Il Sung in front of the People's Army that was actively preparing for war.
At this time, in order to safeguard its own interests in Asia and avoid losing the bridgehead of South Korea, MacArthur's United Nations army landed at Inchon, turning the war situation around.
After that, the ROK army also counterattacked with the US army, the number of troops soared to 300,000 people, the army of 100,000 people was not much trained, 300,000 people can be imagined, basically belong to La Zhuangding, but at this time the ROK army belongs to the period of victorious pursuit, and it can not manage so much.
But soon, the war burned to the 38th line, Chinese the People's Volunteer Army entered the Korean War, the ROK army followed the United Nations army in the back to recover the lost land in the comfortable days, after encountering the volunteer army, it was completely different, the volunteer army wanted to form a system to eliminate the US army, but the elimination of the ROK army is different.
In the five battles in the early days of entering the DPRK, each time the Division-level units formed by the Rok Republic of Korea were eliminated, and the number was revoked, but some South Korean troops showed good combat effectiveness, such as The First Division of Baek Sun-yeol and the Fifth sixth Division of The Admiralty, but the overall combat effectiveness of the Korean Army at this time was very poor, and it was unable to cooperate with the US army.
In the battle, the Rok army was quickly annihilated or retreated, which also caused great losses to the US army, and no army could accept the army that was dragging its feet and had to be protected.
In the middle of 1951, van Vleet, commander of the US Eighth Army, began to reorganize the ROK army, and the combat effectiveness of the ROK army after the reorganization was significantly improved, and it also obtained the large-caliber artillery of the United States, which made the first regiment of the first 8 regiments of the ROK army formed as early as January 1946 more powerful, and it was nicknamed the "White Tiger Regiment".
The White Tiger Regiment belongs to the Capital Division of the Korean Army, and the status of this division is known by listening to the name, and in the battles of Xiangyang Defense and Daguanling, the Capital Division performed very well, and its White Tiger Regiment repeatedly made its first contribution, and was personally awarded the Tiger Head Banner by South Korean President Rhee, but all this glory stopped at the Battle of Jincheng.
In 1953, both China and the United States, who wanted an armistice, finally made substantial progress in peace talks, mainly because the U.S. military found it impossible to take any advantage of the volunteers, and the truce became their only option.
But South Korean President Syngman Rhee did not think so, he thought that the Americans abandoned him, Rhee shouted that he would fight alone without American troops.
In this case, the Volunteer Army decided to give the ROK troops a major blow to the Capital Division and other units deployed near Jincheng to ensure the signing of the armistice agreement.
At the start of the Battle of Jincheng on July 13, 1953, the Volunteer Army fired 1,900 tons of artillery shells for fire preparation, including Soviet-aided Katyusha rockets, which devastated the White Tiger Regiment deployed on the Jincheng front line.
The main 1st and 2nd battalions were in danger of being hit by our artillery, and the regimental commander Cui Xiyin had to send additional reserves, but he did not expect to reach the position, and most of the reserves were wiped out, and his company commander was mistaken by the US army for volunteers and almost killed in the process of escape.
At this time, Cui Xiyin, the commander of the White Tiger Regiment at the command post of the Erqingdong Regiment, could only ask for help from his superiors, but not only the White Tiger Regiment suffered heavy losses, but also the 26th Regiment located on the left flank of the southeast defensive line of Jincheng was also hit, so that Cui Changyan, the commander of the Capital Division, received an urgent telegram from both the White Tiger Regiment and the 26th Regiment, at this time, even if Cui Changyan decided that the volunteer army was mainly attacking the White Tiger Regiment, he did not have much troops to deploy.
By midnight, the positions of the 26th Regiment were all lost, and there were only a hundred or so men left in two battalions, and if the 26th Regiment was miserable, then the White Tiger Regiment would be even more miserable, and its 1st Battalion was completely destroyed, and the 2nd Battalion still had more than 200 people left, and the important thing was that its regimental headquarters was completely wiped out by our volunteer army.
At that time, the commander of the Attack on the White Tiger Regiment was Zhao Renhu, deputy commander of a regiment of the 203rd Division of the 68th Army of the Volunteer Army, who was assigned by the Party Committee to lead an infiltrating detachment with the purpose of infiltrating the rear of the enemy army in order to eliminate the enemy artillery and the White Tiger Regiment.
The day before the Battle of Jincheng began, he had already led his troops to infiltrate the enemy position and scratched a few tongues, and after interrogation, he not only knew about the artillery position, but also knew about the five large houses of the White Tiger Regiment headquarters in the Erqingdong Ravine.
Later, Zhao Renhu wondered how to unknowingly take over the White Tiger Regimental Headquarters, considering that the number of infiltration detachments was more than 500, and it was difficult to play a hidden role in the raid, Zhao Renhu could only send a small team to go.
At this time, Zhao Renhu saw that Yang Yucai was tall and had a big nose, so he asked him to disguise himself as an adviser to the US army and ordered him to destroy the enemy White Tiger Regiment.
Subsequently, Zhao Renhu ordered deputy platoon leader Yang Yucai to lead a reconnaissance squad straight into Erqingdong, while the rest of the squad members were wearing Korean military uniforms.
In the process of advancing the team, Yang Yu found that there was one more person behind the team, so he ordered Han Danian, the liaison officer of the People's Army next to him, to find out what the situation was, and Han Tannian went to the back to see that it was a South Korean soldier, and he immediately dragged this unfortunate soldier to Yang Yucai.
It turned out that this soldier was afraid of the shelling of our army, ran out of the position to escape, saw our army's small detachment that was walking into the defensive line, and followed himself.
Yang Yucai explained our army's policy of preferential treatment of prisoners, learned the ROK army's password from this soldier's mouth, and then Yang Yucai continued to advance toward the target, and when he arrived at Erqingdong, Yang Yucai found the enemy's reinforcement of the mech regiment troop chariot.
He made a clever move to decide to fish in muddy waters, attack them in a quick and decisive way, and then quickly withdraw regardless of the results of the battle, after Yang Yucai's round of attacks, when he left, the enemy was still shouting: "My own people have misunderstood." ”
Finally, the detachment took advantage of the chaos to reach the headquarters of the White Tiger Regiment in Erqingdong, and at this time, the Han Army Headquarters not only had the regimental commander Choi Hee-in, but also the reinforcement of the mech regiment leader Lu Genzhu, who was arguing about how the battle should be fought, and soon after, the commander of the Capital Division, Lin Yichun, arrived and ended their argument.
At this moment, Yang Yucai saw that among the rows of houses, there was a large house with several officers sitting in a meeting, so he divided a dozen small detachments into 3 combat groups and attacked from different directions.
The raid went very smoothly, the commander of the mech regiment, Lu Genzhu, was killed, our army annihilated more than 70 enemy troops, only a few escaped, and later the deputy division commander Lin Yichun was captured by the volunteer army, and none of the squad was killed or wounded.
During the battle, Yang Yucai and others captured a banner of the White Tiger Regiment, embroidered with a tiger's head and victory, after the war Yang Yucai was recorded for special merit and awarded the title of first-class hero, the squad also made a collective special merit, Zhao Renhu was awarded the first class merit, and the White Tiger Regiment flag still preserved in the museum witnessed the glory of that year through wind and rain.
Yang Yucai's combat experience was later adapted into the modern Peking Opera "Surprise Attack white tiger regiment", so that more people can understand the history of war and the glory of heroes.
The White Tiger Regiment was completely destroyed, but it was not abolished like the Rokk troops in the five battles, and it and its division were rebuilt, probably because of its former merits and status.