Everyone said that the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea was a great and remarkable miracle, and the reason why it was said to be a miracle was because the Chinese People's Volunteer Army turned the situation on the battlefield by manpower while its equipment and weapons were completely backward.
The feat of the volunteers fighting the enemy's steel torrent with their flesh and blood on the Korean battlefield and still being able to drive the enemy south of the 38th Parallel deserves everyone's praise.
However, the enemy's tank and infantry tactics brought great trouble to our army, and the volunteer army at that time did not have many ways to destroy the tank, but could only detonate through a bazooka or approach the tank by hand carrying an explosive package to detonate, giving this iron guy a fatal blow.
Today, we want to talk about a heroic squad leader in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, Lei Baosen, who won special merit, who led a squad of nine soldiers on the battlefield, blew up 11 enemy tanks, and completed a feat in the history of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, but in the end he committed suicide by jumping off a cliff because he was surrounded by the enemy.
After the war, the troops went to the bottom of the cliff to look for but failed to find The body of Lei Baosen, and the special merit recipient was thus left alive and dead. Until the victory of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, the upper leaders always wanted to find this hero who had made outstanding military achievements, so they published a search notice in the People's Daily and newspapers in various provinces across the country, and finally found the heroic squad leader in a county-level guest house in Henan.
No one expected that this Lei Baosen, who had made an extraordinary contribution on the battlefield, would actually work as a cleaner in the guest house. What happened to this special hero squad leader, why did he not see anyone die or see a corpse? Why did he work as a cleaner in a guest house after returning home? What happened to the heroic squad leader in the end? Today, Xiaobian will tell you the story of this heroic squad leader in detail through this article.
The three major battles changed the situation on the Korean battlefield, and the situation on the battlefield of the fourth campaign was particularly sticky
As we all know, the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea at the beginning of China's founding was divided into three major stages, the first stage of which Chinese The People's Volunteer Army drove the US troops south of the 38th Line through five campaigns. The second stage is that the Chinese and American armies have carried out countless offensive and defensive battles with the 38th Line as the boundary. The third stage is when the two sides return to the negotiating table and talk while talking.
To say that the most important thing to resist us aggression and aid Korea is naturally the first stage, because the first stage began with the Chinese Volunteer Army to Korea, and experienced five major battles to expel the US troops to the south of the 38th Line. The first stage was the stage in which the volunteers suffered the greatest casualties and the most tragic battlefield situation, and the first three of the five battles were considered to be the volunteers' intention to fight without the heart, and they caught the American army by surprise.
The fourth battle was the real head-on confrontation between the volunteer army and the American Imperial Alliance, and the fourth of the five major battles was the most glued, but it ended with the victory of the volunteer army. It was precisely because of the victory in the fourth campaign that it led to the misjudgment of the situation on the battlefield by the top level of the volunteer army at that time, resulting in huge losses of the volunteer army in the fifth campaign, and ultimately failed to achieve the established strategic objectives.
After the end of the three campaigns to resist the United States and aid Korea, the US army has been driven south of the 38th Line by the volunteer army, but it is precisely because of these three battles that the US Imperial Coalition Army has found out the combat effectiveness of the volunteer army and understood the weaknesses of the volunteer army. At that time, the volunteer army stationed on the 38th Line was too long because the battle line was too long, resulting in untimely support and most of the advance troops were too far away, creating a good opportunity for the US Imperial Coalition to counterattack.
Ridgway seized on the weakness of the volunteer army and issued a combat policy, established a defensive line on the 38th line, and then took advantage of the highly mobile combat characteristics of the airdrop force to advance on the battlefield from the east and west lines, with the intention of driving the volunteer army north of the 38th line to reoccupy Seoul. The U.S. army gathered 16 divisions and 3 special operations brigades on the western front with a total of 230,000 people, and took the western front as the main breakthrough point from the beginning.
At this time, although the volunteer army saw through the tactical intentions of the US army, the first three battles were fought too smoothly, and the US army retreated too quickly, resulting in the forward pursuit of the 38th line having reached the 38th line, but the rear supplies still needed to be transported from the country through the Yalu River, which led to the volunteer supply line being too long, and the troops were too tired.
Therefore, after the American counterattack, the Volunteer defense line was in jeopardy. It would take two months for the follow-up troops to reach the battlefield, and the volunteers had to hold out on defensive lines until the arrival of the reserves. The headquarters of the Volunteer Army made battlefield adjustments according to the battlefield situation, and the troops on the western front dug fortifications on the spot and resolutely blocked the place of future offense outside the defensive line.
The Eastern Front chose to retreat strategically to lure the enemy deeper, and then the central front sent troops to penetrate the depth of the enemy army so that they did not dare to attack unscrupulously on the battlefield of the Western Front, thus delaying or even disintegrating the offensive of the US Imperial Alliance. The battle plan was very ideal, but the implementation was unexpected, and the Eastern Front lured the enemy deeper but failed to successfully annihilate the enemy on the Eastern Front, resulting in a sudden change in the situation on the Eastern Front.
The western front battlefield also suffered heavy losses in continuous defense, and if the established tactics were fought, it would bring irreparable losses to the front-line troops of the Volunteer Army. Therefore, after the battlefield entered the second stage, the volunteer command adjusted its strategy in time, established two lines of defense near the 38th Line, and blocked the attack of the US army with a gesture of mobile defense, which could not only disintegrate the main offensive of the US army, but also exchange the smallest casualties for the greatest annihilation of the enemy.
On February 19, 1951, the U.S. Imperial Coalition launched an offensive on the Han River, and the volunteer defenders dealt a fierce blow to the invading enemy on the Han River Defense Line. After holding out for nearly a month and completing the task of annihilating the enemy, the defenders of the Southern Han River of the Volunteer Army chose to retreat strategically, and the large troops retreated to the north of the 38th Line for rest, and the second line of defense was ready to meet the enemy.
The most tragic battle of the fourth battle, the Seven Peaks Mountain Blockade Battle, occurred when the second line of defense met the enemy.
The Battle of Seven Peaks Mountain, the most tragic battle of the Fourth Campaign
In the campaign defensive warfare formulated by the Volunteer Army, the first front reached the task and retreated, and the task of resisting the enemy's attack was given to the second line of defense. Originally, when the enemy army was frustrated in the attack, it made adjustments and then attacked the second line of defense, so that the second line of defense could calmly meet the enemy, and then after annihilating the enemy army in the largest area, it calmly retreated, and then the first line of defense of the retreat once again established a new defense line.
The alternating retreat of such a defensive line would not only prevent the enemy from pursuing, but also inflict heavy casualties on the enemy. However, the American general Ridgway seemed to see the intention of the volunteers, and after taking the Seoul area south of the 38th Line, there was no rest at all, and the troops quickly advanced north.
Moreover, the US Imperial Coalition army also took advantage of the strong mobility of the airdrop force to airdrop troops and weapons to the front line, which disrupted the arrangement of the volunteer army, so there was the fierce defense of the Seven Peaks Mountain.
Responsible for guarding the Seven Peaks Mountain was the 3rd Battalion of the 234th Regiment of the 78th Division of the 26th Army, and the initial task received by the 26th Army was to defend the Seven Peaks Mountain for fifteen to twenty days, which was an important strategic highland on the volunteer line and the only way for the US Imperial Coalition army to reach the northern front, and its importance was self-evident.
In the Battle of Blocking Qifeng Mountain, China and the United States successively launched 11 battles for positions, dispatched more than 4o tanks successively, and launched one attack after another on Qifeng Mountain with the strength of one regiment under the bombardment of artillery aircraft.
The 3rd Battalion of the 234th Regiment blocked the attack of one regiment of the other side with the strength of one battalion, and also annihilated more than 1,000 enemy troops, defending the position for thirty-eight days, and the last battalion of troops fought until only 16 people, including the battalion commander, were left, and the entire battalion casualties were more than 95% still holding the position.
A squad blew up 11 U.S. tanks
There is a road at the foot of Qifeng Mountain built according to the mountain, originally this hillside is not so steep, but when the road is built, in order to better open up the road, so at the bottom of the mountain along the road to open up a cliff with a height of 3 meters and a length of about 200 meters, it is precisely because of the existence of this cliff that the Seven Peaks Mountain becomes an easy place to defend and difficult to attack.
All mobile firepower to attack The Seven Peaks Mountain had to pass through this cliff, through which the road turned to the side and then attacked the Seven Peaks Mountain. Therefore, as long as you hold this road and block the enemy's mobile fire on this road, the defense of Seven Peaks Mountain will be impregnable. And Ray Baosen and the nine soldiers in their squad were responsible for fighting on the side of the road, and they came to the side of the road early to dig a trench. Before the U.S. Imperial Army could begin, aircraft and artillery began to bombard The Seven Peaks Mountain.
After the bombardment, the American infantry launched a charge from the eastern mountain to the Seven Peaks Mountain without the cover of the mobile unit, and saw that the battle had begun, but Lei Baosen and the others were lonely on the road, and all the fighters were eager to join the battlefield and kill the enemy.
The U.S. army did not let Rebauson and his comrades wait too long, and around 2 p.m. the road heard the roar of the engines, and the ground began to shake because of the tanks walking. The road was dusty in the distance, and the American tank unit was slowly approaching Rebalsen's position.
The soldiers hiding in the trenches all showed joy on their faces, and some soldiers looked at the tanks in the distance and counted one by one, two, three, and four... The US military attacked a total of 12 tanks and 1 jeep, and there were countless infantry behind the tanks. Ray Baosen and the nine soldiers in the squad hid in the trenches, afraid that the enemy would find their ambush.
They chose to ambush in this place for a reason, this section of the cliff is narrow, on one side of the 3-meter-high cliff on the other side is an unfathomable canyon, as long as the two tanks destroyed the remaining tanks will be blocked in this narrow road, becoming their living target.
The US tanks seemed to be aware of the danger of this section of the road, and when entering the narrow section, they also specially used the tank's watchtower to observe the surroundings, fortunately, Lei Baosen and others were well concealed and not discovered by the US army.
When the American tank slowly entered the narrow road, Ray Baosen nervously clenched his fists with both hands, and when the last tank also entered the narrow road, Ray Baosen roared and opened fire, and the soldier carrying the rocket popped out of the trench to aim and shoot, and the rocket dragged a long tail flame to hit the first tank, issuing a huge explosion, and then the tank lost power and stopped.
After that, the 11 tanks were not prepared to crash into each other one by one, and all the tanks were crowded together at this time. The tank that was walking at the end realized that it was not good, and immediately hung up the reverse gear without being reversed. How could Rebalson, who was experienced in combat, give him the opportunity to order his fighters to take the initiative after the rocket hit the first tank. By this time, fighters had swerved back behind the last tank and used anti-tank grenades to blow up the last tank.
In this way, 12 tanks became a living target blocked on the road, and Ray Baosen cooperated with 9 soldiers in the squad to suppress the fire of the U.S. Allied infantry, and then destroyed the remaining tanks on the road one by one through anti-tank mines and rockets, in this battle they blew up a total of 11 American tanks and a jeep, and if it were not for the lack of anti-tank grenades, the last one would not be left for the U.S. army.
This time, Lei Baosen blew up 11 AMERICAN tanks with a squad of troops, creating a miracle of infantry against tanks. After such excellent achievements were reported, they were immediately valued and praised by their superiors. The superior specially approved Reberson's class as an anti-tank hero class, and Reberson was also awarded the title of first-class combat hero.
Seriously injured but not dead, he was sent back to China, and the hero enjoyed the honor he deserved
The day after they won the great victory, the U.S. army dispatched the main force to launch a general offensive in a panic, and the U.S. army gathered 30,000 troops to attack from three directions.
Ray Baosen also committed suicide by jumping off a cliff after covering the transfer of the wounded, and the entire anti-tank hero company was basically killed. After the victory of this battle, the troops returned to the battlefield to clean up the body, but neither on the position nor under the cliff was found Lei Baosen's body, but the seriously injured Lei Baosen jumped from such a high cliff that there was basically no possibility of survival.
But no one thought that Lei Baosen, who jumped off the cliff, was seriously injured and did not die, he was rescued by two North Korean compatriots and sent to the rear field hospital, and Lei Baosen, who was seriously injured in 11 cases, was quickly sent back to China for treatment. The shrapnel from his lungs could not be removed for technical reasons, which also caused Reborsen's body to no longer be a glorious soldier, and he recovered from his wounds and returned home.
The soldiers of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, especially the veterans who had caused dark diseases, were demobilized, and the local government would give some help to a greater or lesser extent, and Lei Baosen entered the local government guest house under the arrangement of the local government and became a miscellaneous employee. During his time at the guest house, Ray Baosen never mentioned his career on the battlefield, so everyone did not know that he could get a first-class combat hero.
It was not until the end of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea that General Li Yaowen, a member of the Political Department of the 26th Army, when he took credit for him, found that Lei Baosen's body had not been found on the battlefield at that time. So there was the opening scene, Li Yaowen published a search notice in the People's Daily and a number of local newspapers, and finally found this first-class combat hero in Henan.
Lei Baosen enjoyed the treatment of a combat hero he deserved, and then on the eighth anniversary of the National Day, he also received an invitation from Mr. Peng Dehuai to go to the Tiananmen Tower to watch the National Day ceremony. Later, he was cordially received by Chairman Mao as a combat hero, and Chairman Mao also called him "the pride of the volunteer army." ”