On December 31, 1950, the 4th Company of the 372nd Regiment of the 124th Division of the 42nd Army of the Volunteer Army was ordered to quickly penetrate into Jiningli to create conditions for the total annihilation of the 2nd and 5th Divisions. After receiving the order, the 4th Company sent a 5-man combat group as an outpost. Shortly after their departure, the 5 fighters encountered an enemy battalion, and the deputy platoon leader immediately ordered: Surround them!
The volunteer group pursued the enemy
After the second battle, the 42nd Army lost about one-third of its personnel due to fighting, starvation, and disease, and many companies and platoons were not satisfied. The 4 companies were no exception, so they organized the remaining fighters into temporary combat groups. The 5 people in this group were Bai Wenlin, deputy platoon leader, Leng Shuguo, squad leader, Wang Erwang, Guo Yinsuo, and Dou Guobin.
In the process of interspersing, the 5 people found a truck full of puppet troops, they immediately ambushed the terrain, and when the truck entered the ambush circle, it was captured by the combat team in one fell swoop. The enemy company driver on the car was a total of 22 people, and the combat team still had to perform the interspersed task, and could not take so many prisoners, so everyone discussed and decided to tie the prisoners to the side of the road and wait for the main force of the 4 companies behind to come and receive them.
One of the captives saw that there were few volunteers and suddenly jumped off the road to escape, and Wang Erwang pulled out his leg and chased after him. The puppet army prisoners may be the only people on the battlefield who can win the volunteer army by relying on their feet, and the prisoners run faster and faster, and Wang Erwang gradually can't catch up. The captive ran up a small hill, turned over and completely escaped, Wang Erwang raised a shot, and he did not know where it hit, and the man lay on the ground.
When Wang Erwang also ran up the hill, he was taken aback. In the open space by the river below the mountain, it was crowded with people, cars, and artillery. A rough number is enough for a battalion. Afterwards, it was learned that this was a battalion of the 32nd Wing of the Pseudo-2nd Division, and the sound of the gunfire had just alarmed them, and many people were nervously looking around.
The 124th Division plunged behind enemy lines
At this time, Bai Wenlin, Leng Shuguo and others had already tied up the prisoners and followed, everyone looked at Bai Wenlin, 5 people against a battalion, was it to fight or withdraw? Bai Wenlin said: If we don't fight now, it will inevitably be encountered when the main forces of the next company come up, and our task is to clear the obstacles, we rush down and surround them!
The five men immediately rushed out from the hillside, firing their guns as they charged and shouting in all directions as if they were summoning companions. The pseudo-2nd Division, this battalion, which had originally been defeated and retreated here, was already a bird of fright, and seeing that the volunteers were so brave and brave, and were confused by their bluff, it was expected that there must be a large army behind it, and it was immediately chaotic, and some people actually jumped into the river in spite of the cold and prepared to wade into the water to escape.
Five volunteer soldiers knocked down the enemy troops who looked like officers one after another, and the enemy troops in one battalion were so chaotic that they could not organize even a decent counterattack. One of the enemy groups suddenly started, ready to rush out of the crowd to escape, but the road was full of people, and the speed could not be improved.
The warrior Leng Shu Kuni rushed up, grabbed the person on the car, and pulled it off. When the man stood up, Leng Shuguo found that it was a US soldier, a head taller than him. Leng Shuguo couldn't take much care of it and pounced on it, and the two wrestled together. In the confusion, Leng Shuguo pulled out the Pistol of the American Army and pressed it on his chin, and the American Army stopped resisting and obediently raised its hand.
The enemy obediently raised his hand
Afterwards, it was learned that this person was Colonel Emerson, an adviser to the US Army, and he had been angry about such a "confused" capture. And the cold tree country that caught him was actually barefoot, and his rubber shoes had long been worn through the bottom on the road. The first thing he did at the moment was to run to the enemy he had killed and take off his shoes and put them on.
In this battle, 5 volunteers killed and wounded 16 enemy troops, took 42 prisoners (including previous captives), Leng ShuGuo was awarded the first class merit, and the group was awarded the honorary title of "Leng Shu Guo Sharp Knife Hero Group". Faced with an enemy a hundred times larger than his own, and only the Volunteers had the courage to "surround them," Colonel Emerson remained in the prisoner-of-war camp until the armistice, writing in his memoirs: "This is the most incredible battle I have ever seen, and they (the Volunteers) have used deception tactics to the extreme,...... I still can't understand their courage.