Compared with the Battle of Shangganling, the Battle of Songkuofeng can only be regarded as a small-scale blockade battle, but this war was highly praised at home and abroad at that time, because of this battle, Commander-in-Chief Peng Dehuai tearfully praised the 38th Army as the Long Live Army, and afterwards, the report on the situation of the Second Battle of the Volunteer Army songkuofeng was seen by Stalin, and the fierce Battle of Songkuofeng made the Soviet commander tearfully say: This is a great army.
Why does this ordinary battle attract the world's attention? Because this war was so fierce!
At the end of 1950, in the second campaign to resist the United States and aid Korea, the volunteer army severely attacked the United Nations army led by the US army, annihilating 36,000 enemy troops, and the Associated Press and the United Press commented: This is the biggest defeat in the history of the United States, the darkest years, and the members of the US Senate and the House of Representatives denounced MacArthur as the stupidest commander and the worst fool in the history of the United States. However, the tragedy of the US military is far from over.
At dawn on November 30, 1950, when the second campaign to resist the United States and aid Korea had begun, the 335th Regiment of the 112th Division of the 38th Army of the Volunteer Army, in order to pursue the American troops fleeing south, chased to Songkuo Peak, in order to give the large troops enough time to encircle, annihilated the enemy in one fell swoop, and the first battalion and three connections at that time were ordered to seize the nameless heights on the north side of Songkuo Peak and ambush the enemy here.
At 6:30 a.m., the enemy's front-line troops had already arrived at Songkuo Peak, just in time to fight with the three companies of fighters who were ordered to occupy the position, the US army did not realize the danger coming at first, for a time, cars, tanks and infantry rushed towards Songkuo Peak in black pressure, seeing that the enemy was about to approach the front of the three companies, company commander Dai Ruyi gave an order, ordered machine gun shooters, bazooka shooters and demolition groups to launch a fierce attack on the enemy, the US soldiers were stunned, countless cars and tanks were bombed, The remaining American soldiers jumped out of the car and ran around, as if a divine soldier had descended from heaven.
At this time, the American soldiers realized that the Songkuofeng position had been occupied by the volunteers, and hurriedly organized a counterattack, and in less than half an hour, the enemy organized 8 tanks, more than 10 cannons and 11 aircraft to start a crazy counterattack, and the US army wanted to take the Songkuofeng position in one fell swoop, so it organized 5 charges, but all of them were repelled by the volunteers, and the emperor left more than 100 corpses to escape.
For a moment, the US army did not dare to act rashly, and the volunteer army used this precious time to seize the opportunity to dig fortifications and prepare to hold the position to the death, and on the position, the soldiers of the three companies knew that the enemy would definitely not give up and give up, and this battle would be extremely cruel, so the instructor Yang Shaocheng called a meeting of the branch committees on the position, called on the party members to play an exemplary vanguard role, and burned all his documents and notebooks, indicating that he would coexist and die with the position.
Sure enough, a few hours later, the enemy brought reinforcements, with shells and incendiary bombs to blow up the Songkufeng position into a sea of fire, after a wild bombardment, more than 400 US troops began to attack the position in turn, this battle caused the soldiers of the three companies to suffer huge losses, the company commander unfortunately was shot and died, the deputy company commander took over the company commander to continue to hold the position, three times wounded still insisted.
At this time, our army was encircling the enemy army, the US army felt bad, and launched an attack on the Songkuofeng position even more frantically, and then gathered 18 tanks, dozens of cannons, and 32 aircraft to bomb the position for more than 40 minutes, and the position was once again plunged into a sea of fire, and the intention of the US army was very obvious, they wanted to avoid contact with our army's short troops as much as possible, completely eliminate our army through this cruel way, and then organize an infantry charge to take the position in one fell swoop.
But the soldiers of the three companies have already held the determination to die, they are fighting the fire on the sea, while using the shell pit to do fortifications, and the enemy launched a desperate fight, the instructor Yang Shaocheng ran out of bullets, he picked up the bayonet on the ground to continue charging at the enemy, because he was outnumbered, Yang Shaocheng was surrounded by american troops, in order not to let the position fall into the hands of the enemy, he resolutely pulled the grenade around his waist, and died with six or seven enemies, the soldier Zhang Xuerong was seriously wounded, and tried his last breath to pick up the 4 grenades next to him. Pulled open the fuse and ran towards the enemy group.
This brutal war lasted for more than 6 hours, a company finally only 7 people remained, the position was finally saved, but the heroes were buried here forever, after the battle, a battalion commander Wang Suqi led the soldiers to the three companies of the position to collect the bodies of the heroes. But the scene in front of him made him cry, and he could not say a word for a long time, and he saw such a scene on the position:
The guns were completely shattered, and machine gun parts were thrown all over the mountain. The bodies of the martyrs retained a variety of postures, some holding the enemy's waist, some holding the enemy's head, some grabbing the enemy's neck and throwing the enemy to the ground, and some falling with the enemy and burning together. There was also a soldier, he still had a grenade in his hand, the body of the bullet was stained with blood, and the head of the American devil who died with him was opened by the soldier with the grenade!
This was one of the most spectacular battles on the Korean battlefield. From 6:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon, there were 6 uninjured people left in the three companies, and the enemy died more than 600, and the ratio of losses between the enemy and us was about 6:1. The three companies successfully completed the task of blocking the attack, so that the main force arrived in time, and most of the enemy forces of the US Second Division, the US Twenty-fifth Division, and the Pseudo First Division, which were blocked, were annihilated by us.
The leading organ of the Volunteer Army awarded the company a pennant of "both offensive and defensive" and recorded the collective special merit, and the 38th Army awarded the company the title of "heroic unit".
When he heard the tragic battle report of Song Bone Peak, Peng Dehuai shed tears, he shed tears for the bravery of the soldiers, for this group of young soldiers, he angrily praised the "long live" of the 38th Army, and since then the honor of the "Long Live Army" of the 38th Army has spread throughout the country. The tear-jerking article written by Wei Wei at that time made the real life of the volunteer army in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea be revealed to the public's vision, and it was from then on that the volunteer soldiers had a more affectionate name - "the most lovely person"