At the end of November 1950, at the Battle of Chosin Lake, the 1st Battalion of the 281st Regiment of the 94th Division of the 97th Army of the 9th Corps was ordered to monitor the Pseudo-3rd Division on the Eastern Front. On this day, the 1st Platoon of the 1st Battalion, 3 companies, encountered 10 times more enemy during reconnaissance, and no one would have imagined that the platoon leader's order was: Launch an attack on the enemy!
On the Chosin Lake battlefield, the opponent of the 9th Corps was not only the 1st Marine Division, but the entire 10th Army of the US Army. In addition to the 1st Marine Division in Yanagitan-ri and Hagaru-ri, there was also the U.S. Infantry Division in Xinxingli and the U.S. Infantry Division in Shecang. In addition, there are the pseudo-capital division and the pseudo-third division on the easternmost line.
The 9th Corps of the Volunteer Army focused its main forces on attacking the American army, and for the puppet army, only a small number of troops were sent to monitor its movements. The reason for this is not to blindly despise the puppet army, but to base it on the basic requirements for achieving the entire strategic objectives on the battlefield. It was in this context that the 1st Battalion of the 281st Regiment was sent to monitor the Pseudo-3rd Division.
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On this day, 1 battalion, 3 companies and 1 platoon were engaged in forward reconnaissance, and suddenly encountered a puppet army. Led by 6 jeeps, followed by two long lines of more than 200 people. The 1st platoon was not full, and several soldiers with frostbitten feet were recuperating at home, and only 23 people came out to reconnoiter. Nearly 10 times the comparison of troops, the average person knows what to do.
But the volunteer soldier is not an ordinary person, a platoon leader is not an ordinary person, he and several squad leaders a little bit of a total, it is decided, attack! Call me!
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A platoon checked the weapons, and there was only one light machine gun. Since it was a reconnaissance mission, only 16 grenades were brought with them by 23 men, and the rest were all rifles. The platoon leader divided the 23 men into 5 battle groups, leading a group to attack head-on, 3 groups attacking from the left, and one group detouring back to the enemy's right side, ready to pinch.
As soon as the gunshots rang out, 23 warriors pounced on the enemy like tigers descending the mountain. The enemy was caught off guard and fell into chaos. But after all, the enemy army was crowded, and after a while it calmed down, and then looked closely, what was the situation? The attacking side seems to be only one or twenty people?
Row after row of thrusts approached the distance of throwing grenades, and the only dozen or so grenades were all thrown out. The sound of the explosion awakened the enemy, and after only a moment's hesitation, they used their strongest skill: escape Dafa! No matter how many of them there are, it will be too late to run. More than 200 people suddenly ran all over the mountains.
The platoon leader took a look at it and said don't chase it, and quickly clean up the battlefield. The enemy left 6 jeeps behind, and hurried to see if there was anything to eat, wear, weapons and ammunition. The result of the battle was to kill 8 people (all lying on the ground), the wounds were unknown (all of them ran out), there were no prisoners (all ran out), and there were no casualties of their own.
A row patronized in search of booty, but did not capture the prisoners
A row that fought a beautiful battle with less to win more came back and was criticized for two reasons, one was only concerned with grabbing the spoils of war, what if the enemy came back to fight back? Second, there are so many enemies that not a single prisoner can be captured?
The 3-man Pang Guoxing group launched an attack on a battalion of the Indian army, and the enemy not only did not surrender, but also dared to fight back
It is said that the combat effectiveness of the volunteer army is the peak of the world's light infantry, and this small example of the battle can be seen that our army's combat style, combat awareness, and combat quality can be called the peak of a well-deserved one. And this spirit has been passed down, more than ten years later in the counterattack against India, there is a legendary hero Pang Guoxing, with two soldiers dare to launch an attack on an artillery battalion of the Indian army, which can be called a miracle in military history.