Turkish First Brigade: It is very big and attracts the attention of the headquarters of the Volunteer Army and Chairman Mao
On the battlefield of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, 16 of the 21 "United Nations troops" led by the United States directly participated in the war, and the other 5 countries also sent logistical and medical units. Among them, the most arrogant is the "First Turkish Brigade", even more arrogant and active than the US military. The "First Turkish Brigade" on the battlefield of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea was not small, well-equipped, and had a very strong ability to fight individually, claiming to be the "World's First Brigade." General Yazji, a distinguished Turkish general, voluntarily demoted to become the brigade commander of this brigade. Turkey, claiming to be a descendant of the Turks, fled to Europe after being defeated by the Tang Dynasty to establish the Ottoman Empire, once a superpower spanning Europe and Asia. Considering the thousand-year-old humiliation of his ancestors, General Yazji was very excited and issued a statement: he wanted to beat the volunteer army to the ground.
In the second campaign, against the extremely arrogant "Turkish First Brigade", the goal of the Volunteer Army headquarters for the 38th Army was to eat a battalion of the Turkish Brigade and hit the morale of the "16-nation Coalition". Not only did the headquarters of the Volunteer Army attach great importance to it, but the "First Turkish Brigade" also attracted the attention of Chairman Mao, who actively searched for intelligence internationally.
The Turkish army and the U.S. army and the British army are called the "coalition forces" of the three powers
。 Before the war, Chairman Mao also sent a telegram to General Manager Peng stressing:
In this campaign, the ambitions of each battle should not be too great, and only our army should be required: It is enough for each army to annihilate one whole battalion of the American, British, and Turkish armies in one battle, and at most two whole battalions.
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The debut of the First Brigade of Turkey: too "stunning", making a fuss, annihilating nearly a thousand Korean troops
The debut of Turkey's 1st Brigade was indeed very "stunning" and showed great strength. The First Turk brigade soon won a "great victory", and they suddenly encountered a "volunteer army" of several regiments. They killed or hacked hundreds of "volunteers" to death with Turkish machetes, wounded countless others, and managed to capture more than 200 "volunteers."
When the "volunteer army" prisoners were handed over to the US army, it was found that the water had washed away the Dragon King Temple, they were the first part of the Sixth Division of the ROK Army, nearly a thousand ROK troops were killed and wounded by mistake, and several regiments of the ROK Army Zhuang Ding disappeared or fled.
The first brigade of Turkey made its debut and became the laughing stock of the 16-nation coalition army, and in order to prove itself, the first brigade of Turkey was more active in trying to defeat the real volunteer army.
Critical moment: The 1st Turk Brigade was faster than the 38th Army, taking the lead and reaching the peak of The Gari Ridge first
During the second campaign, the U.S. military still had high hopes for the "First Turkish Brigade", and more than 5,000 people of the "Turkish First Brigade" were incorporated into the US 8th Army and were responsible for the flank security of the US 2nd Infantry Division. Both the U.S. army and the volunteer army realized that The Gazhi Ridge was the only way for the 38th Army, and whoever came first had the advantage. The four wheels were sometimes faster than two legs, and the "First Turk Brigade" quickly reached the Price River, deployed 1 infantry battalion and an engineer company to control the deployment of the summit of The Gari Ridge, half a day faster than the vanguard of the 38th Army.
The summit of The Gazhi Ridge is thousands of feet high, very steep, easy to defend and difficult to attack. If you want to eat the Ace army of the US army, you must first defeat the Turkish Brigade, can the 38th Army, which lost the opportunity, do it?
In just 20 minutes, a battalion completed the task given to an army by headquarters
On November 27, 1950, the 3rd Battalion of the 114th Division, the vanguard of the 38th Army, arrived at Gazhi ridge and found that the opportunity had been lost, and there were already hundreds of elite enemy troops at the peak. The 38th Army's style before it started was relatively conservative, it was not yet dark, the 3rd Battalion calmed down, decided not to attack first, fearing that if the attack began during the day, it would quickly attract a large number of enemy reinforcements. The Turkish brigade was probably too proud and too light on the enemy, with only more than 300 defenders.
At 21:30 on the 27th, the 3rd Battalion suddenly launched a night attack
In just 10 minutes, he attacked the summit of The 1,000-foot-high Gari Ridge. After 20 minutes, the Gazhi Ridge was completely occupied, and the remnants of the Turkish brigade had not yet had time to support.
The 3rd Battalion completely annihilated more than 300 Turkish defenders
。 The Turkish First Brigade was completely unaccustomed to this style of play, and before it could figure out the situation, it was completely annihilated, and the gap between reality and ideals was too great.
The combat task given to one corps by the Volunteer Headquarters was to eliminate a main battalion of the "United Nations Army", and the 38th Army completed the task in 20 minutes with only one battalion of troops.
The night and melee strength of the 38th Army was "terrifying", and the remaining remnants of the large troops of the Turkish First Brigade quickly withdrew west to Gachuan
, continue to defend, cover the defeated American troops on the Western Front to retreat first.
The night raid continued on day 2, and two Turkish battalions were gone
The 38th Army still attached great importance to the Turkish First Brigade, and prepared the strength of two regiments, the 340th Regiment as a reserve and the 342nd Regiment as the first echelon. During the day on the 28th, the 342nd Regiment came to Yang Station, 20 kilometers east of The Valley River, and encountered two battalions of the Turkish Brigade, one for infantry reinforcement and the other for a howitzer battalion.
The 342nd Regiment repeated the same trick, but the time was changed a bit, and it was decided to wait until 22:00 in the evening
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The commander of the 342nd Regiment, taking into account the terrain and the combat effectiveness of turkey, decided to devote only one battalion of troops to the battle, and the rest as a reserve force. The battalion commander of the battle thought about it for a moment and decided to leave a backhand, one company as a reserve, and put in two companies first, and the 2nd and 3rd companies entered the battle first.
The 3rd Company destroyed the enemy artillery position in an instant. The defenders of the Turkish brigade, relying on cliffs and machine guns, blocked the road, and the 3rd Company immediately attacked the hill in a scattered manner. In just 20 minutes, the 3rd Company captured 4 hills and occupied the main position of Yang Station.
The 2nd Company was not idle, and they attacked the street of Yang Station, intercepting more than 20 cars trying to escape on the west side of the street and cutting off the retreat route of the two battalions of the Turkish Brigade. After 30 minutes, the 3rd and 2nd Companies all occupied the three highlands east, west and north of Yangzhan Station.
Two battalions of the Turkish Brigade are still trying to escape, and the direction of escape is numerous. As the 1st Company of the Reserve, it had to join the battle, plug the escape loophole in time, form a four-sided encirclement, and by 10:00 a.m., finally annihilated the two battalions of the Turkish Brigade, killing, wounding and taking prisoners totaling more than 580 people.
Within 12 hours, two small targets for the volunteer headquarters were completed.
Within 10 days, 10 battalions of turkey's first brigade were gone, ridiculed by U.S. troops
The 342nd Regiment of the 38th Army continued to advance towards The Valley River, and the arrogant Turkish First Brigade was beaten to the ground.
In less than 10 days, 10 battalions of turkey's first brigade were gone, and an ace brigade of more than 5,000 people suffered casualties of more than 3,200 people
It became the army with the largest casualty rate among the 16-nation coalition and was ridiculed by the U.S. military and other friendly forces.
The U.S. military likened the 342nd Regiment of the 38th Army to a "huge beer barrel" and the Turkish First Brigade to a "small cork in a medicine bottle": a cork in a medicine bottle was used to block the mouth of a beer barrel. Turkey's First Brigade, which took the initiative to call for war, was ridiculed by the US military as "inscalculable".
What happened to the Turkish Brigade?
The embarrassing and humiliating Battle of the Turkish First Brigade, in less than 10 days, lost more than 3,200 people, completely lost the main force, and was soon forced to withdraw its troops back to China. Later, Turkey sent two brigades in turn, but not the "First Turk brigade", mainly to cheer for the US army. These two brigades were well-behaved, no longer took the initiative, nor did they confront the volunteers head-on, and the casualties were very small.
Throughout the Korean War, the 3 brigades that Turkey fought in the war had a total of 3514 casualties, of which 163 were missing, 244 were captured, and the two brigades that participated in the war lost less than 300 people.
What is the combat strength of the Turkish First Brigade?
According to the descriptions of some volunteer veterans:
The Turkish First Brigade's individual combat capability is somewhat stronger than that of the U.S. military, and it is also much braver than the U.S. army.
However, the coordination and weapons are far inferior to those of the US military, and there is no support from the US air force and long-range artillery fire.
The 38th Army is particularly good at night combat, melee combat and hard fighting
For the Turkish First Brigade, which had only the advantage of cars, but no advantage of air force firepower and long-range artillery fire,
It's a kind of "dimensionality reduction strike"
。 However, turkey's first brigade, compared to more than a dozen other national armies, is still an elite division that can fight, but it is used as cannon fodder by the US army. If you like "fresh history" articles, just follow me and support more articles of "fresh history".