70 years ago, during the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, Chinese soldiers fought with blood and won the respect of the whole world, including the respect of Americans.
In May 1953, through a series of confrontations between China and the United States, the Americans finally made a major concession, and the two countries reached an agreement on the repatriation of prisoners of war, and the return of peace on the Korean Peninsula was just around the corner.
Syngman Rhee stirred up trouble
But at this time, South Korean President Syngman Rhee, who has been playing soy sauce next to him, brushed a sense of existence. Because the number of North Korean soldiers repatriated is as high as 80,000, and the number of South Korean military personnel repatriated is far less. These 80,000 soldiers, who have experienced the test of life and death on the battlefield, return to Korea and rearm a frightening army, which is enough to completely overturn the balance of power on the Korean Peninsula. So as the leader of South Korea, Syngman Rhee was very upset.
He decided to say no to the United States. President Lee recalled South Korean negotiators, and South Korean negotiators never appeared at the table again. However, the Koreans' ideas are full, but the reality is bone-chilling. Peace has been achieved on the Korean Peninsula without the involvement of South Koreans, and no one cares what Koreans think.
It's like Huawei and Apple talking about strategic cooperation, do you need Nokia's consent?
But at this time, Rhee was already drifting, and he decided to put pressure on the Americans, and the old brother went to see General Clark of the United States, showing that even without the help of the Americans, the Koreans were willing to go north alone and unify the country.
Syngman Rhee's courage is commendable, and it is not Liang Jingru who gives him courage, but the South Korean army. At this moment, the South Korean army is no longer the garbage army in the early days of the war, a touch that will collapse thousands of miles, but under the tutelage of the Americans, there has been rapid progress, it is already the descendant of the sun, in a battle, the Korean army can actually block the attack of the 38th Army of the Banzai Army, which makes Rhee feel very good, and the ace troops of the original volunteer army are just like this, which gives Syngman Rhee great confidence.
Focus on taking care of Koreans
In the face of the restlessness of the Koreans, our volunteer army decided to teach the Koreans a lesson and let the Koreans recognize their own position.
According to the instructions of the Volunteer Command, Zheng Weishan, the commander of the Twentieth Corps who was preparing to rotate back to China, decided to send a small parting gift to the Koreans before returning home.
Zheng Weishan
The enemy facing the 20th Corps of our Volunteer Army is the South Korean Army entrenched in the Kimseong area, where the Koreans have a salient, through which they can clearly peek into the movements of our army. So Zheng Weishan made up his mind to pull out this nail before returning to China.
This place, known as the Capital Highland by the Koreans, has formed a relatively complete defense system after two years of unremitting operation by the Koreans. Especially after seeing the peak of the shangganling tunnel warfare, the Koreans immediately came to the Dongshi Gongyi, followed my example of the Shangganling tunnel, and built a tunnel defense position on the high ground.
Of course, the Koreans are not simply copying the homework, they are copying the homework on the basis of understanding, and have optimized the combination of the tunnels in Shangganling, compared with the tunnels of our army that can withstand the crazy attack of VanVleet on the Shangganling, the Koreans think that their tunnels are absolutely the best in the world, hundreds of times stronger than the tunnels in Shangganling! It was perfectly able to resist the large-scale attack of the volunteers.
In order to encourage the Koreans, Rhee even sneaked up on this high ground, looking at the commander's introduction, Rhee's face smiled like a blooming chrysanthemum, and for the entire defense line Syngman Rhee gave a very middle name, called Gyeonggi Fortress.
Can you take it in three hours?
Just when the South Koreans were full of confidence and could block the attack of our army, they were also discussing it in the headquarters of the Ninth Corps. The focus of the discussion was not whether or not this hard bone could be taken, but how long it would take for our army to take this position.
Three hours is enough? Zheng Weishan ordered the general of the 67th Army.
Three hours is enough! Captain Qiu Wei slashed the iron!
In the face of a hard bone that is harder than Shangganling, our army actually claims that it can be taken in three hours, is it not a little too light for the enemy?
In fact, the volunteer army came prepared. First of all, tunnel warfare is the specialty of our army, and our army is also an expert in how to restrain tunnel warfare, and our army knows the weaknesses of tunnel warfare.
Moreover, before that, our army had already fought with the Korean tunnels many times, and had a certain understanding of the advantages and disadvantages of the Korean tunnels. The clever volunteers have already discovered that the Koreans have only copied our army's tunnel tactics in form, but have not learned the essence of our volunteers' tunnel warfare, in today's terms, that is, our army's tunnel tactics have always been imitated, but have never surpassed. In this master-apprentice contest, our army has full confidence in teaching Koreans to be human within three hours.
Of course, confidence alone is not enough, in order to know oneself and know the other, our volunteer army launched a short raid, using powerful artillery fire as a cover, broke into the enemy's command post, and grabbed several tongues. Based on the confessions of these South Korean soldiers, our army has further clarified the military deployment of the South Koreans here.
With the support of intelligence, Zheng Weishan decided to take an unusual path and directly hit the main peak to solve the enemy's core position in the shortest possible time!
In order to fight this battle well, our volunteer army even dispatched tanks, such as large weapons, and Katyusha rockets were ready to be launched, ready to pour blazing flames on the enemy's positions.
But at this time, we are faced with a great difficulty, that is, in order to carry out a surprise attack, we must quietly move our army under the eyes of the enemy.
How to quietly enter the attack positions of our army and how to better hide the troops under the eyes of the enemy can make the comrades of the 67th Army feel confused. After repeated research, the 67th Army found several places where it could build a tunbing cave. 63 tunnels were found before the battle began, and 512 single bunkers were set up in the Hidden Department.
In this way, the soldiers of our army quietly entered the attack positions in front of these enemies. And the Koreans were still foolishly firing indiscriminately at the open space in front of their positions, as if they wanted to find our soldiers hiding. However, all this proved to be futile, and this time none of my 2,000 volunteer soldiers who were stationed in advance were injured.
With the support firepower in place and the assault troops in place, it can be said that the entire campaign is ready for everything, and only the east wind is owed.
As night fell on June 12, the fighting finally began. Our army began to wash the ground with unprecedented firepower. A total of 308 heavy artillery pieces spoke violently at the enemy positions, and the heavy shells fell like a fierce wind on the Korean positions, and the unexpected attack caught the Koreans by surprise, and the South Korean troops in the surface positions quickly hid in the tunnels.
With the rumbling of artillery, our assault troops began to advance towards the enemy positions. The 11 Katyusha rockets of our army are like the grim reapers of death with a scythe, harvesting the lives of the Roksk army with intensive firepower! A heavy shell with the kind greeting of the god of death, kissing the Rok position wildly.
In the face of the sudden and powerful fire, the Koreans were completely beaten stupid, and in order to save their lives, they hid in the tunnels, which provided great convenience for the assault troops of our volunteer army to clear the surface positions. The assault troops of the 67th Army wiped out all the enemies in the surface positions in just one hour and began to attack the enemy inside the tunnels.
Send you a packet of pepper noodles!
In the face of the enemy in the tunnel, our army has a magic weapon, a large bag of pepper noodles was used as a greeting gift, given to the ROK army, in the face of the pepper noodles that spread throughout the tunnel, the ROK soldiers quickly made the most correct choice that is to lay down their weapons and surrender. For a small number of Korean soldiers who usually prefer to eat spicy, we will not play the set of first salute and then soldiers, directly blow up a large hole in the tunnel above their heads, and then the soldiers of our volunteer army will enter the tunnel in units of 3 to 5 people, give them a shuttle, and send them to see the king of Yama.
The whole battle was carried out at a high speed and efficiently, and soon the positions were basically taken by our army.
However, general Qiu Wei was more disappointed. This battle was fought for 3 hours and 13 minutes, which was 13 minutes more than expected!
After the South Koreans found that the position was lost, they immediately organized people and horses to come and seize it, but in the face of the tenacious sniper attack of the 67th Army, the enemy was unable to move, and more than 50 waves of attacks were repelled by our army, and finally exhausted the enemy's offensive kinetic energy, and we won the final victory.
The essence of tunnel warfare
Why is it that in the same tunnel operation, our army can withstand VanVleet's crazy attack on Shangganling, and can also change from defense to attack, and the same tactics cannot withstand our army's three-hour attack in the hands of the Koreans? You must know that although the artillery fire of our army is very fierce, compared with the crazy amount of ammunition of Van Vleet, a fanatical believer in the theory of victory in firepower on Shangganling, this bit of firepower of our army can only be regarded as a brother.
I think the most fundamental reason is that the so-called tunnel warfare of the Koreans has its form, not its god. The Koreans dug the tunnels very well, dug them very well, even better than their teacher volunteers. But they did not learn the core content of the volunteer tunnel operations.
In the Battle of Shangganling, no matter how fierce the enemy's artillery fire was, at least three soldiers were responsible for guarding each of our activity points, one of whom was killed, and soon a new person would be on top. In order to prevent the use of the enemy's heavy artillery fire as cover, the death squad sneaked into the position. It can be said that all the fire monitors are playing games with death.
The Koreans, on the other hand, did not have this fearless revolutionary spirit at all; in the face of our army's artillery fire, the enemy had already been frightened, and in order to survive, they all hid in the tunnels, and no one gave warning, so that the assault troops of our army entered no man's land, easily occupied their surface positions, and began to send pepper noodles to the enemy in the tunnels.
The victory in this battle completely destroyed Syngman Rhee's confidence, and after experiencing this defeat, Syngman Rhee was completely instigated, saying that he would no longer obstruct the armistice negotiations, and finally reached an armistice agreement in Korea three days later.