After the screening of the patriotic film "The Battle of Chosin Lake", countless Chinese people further understood the heroic deeds of the Chinese Volunteer Army in fighting against the "United Nations Army" on the Korean battlefield.
In fact, three weeks before the Battle of Chosin Lake, the volunteers had given the American troops a blow in the head at Unsan in North Korea, crushing one of their ace troops, making the American army lament that it had been "slaughtered by Indians", and shocking the world.
Interestingly, the volunteer troops who took the lead in shining their swords in the Battle of Yunshan only had one company of troops, and they were in the wrong situation, and they mistakenly broke into the forbidden place of the US army, the Yunshan Base Camp, and then won a great victory in the history of the army, and the whole process was quite dramatic.
It all started on November 29, 1950. At about five o'clock in the evening of this day, Wei Jiayu, commander of the 10th Company of the 347th Battalion of the 347th Regiment of the 116th Division of the Volunteer Army, suddenly received an order from the division commander Wang Yang and the regimental commander Li Gang personally: Lead the whole company to the south of Yunshan Mountain that night, blow up a three-mile-long road bridge there before dawn, and cut off the passage for the enemy to reinforce or flee south.
Since entering the DPRK, Wei Jiayu had not fought with the enemy, and naturally he was very excited, and at seven o'clock that night, led by four guides, he led the whole company to the destination.
However, this operation had a very serious problem -- because the guide had taken the wrong road, the whole company could not find the highway bridge designated by Commander Wang and Commander Li.
The reason was that the volunteer army had rushed into the DPRK and could only temporarily find some Korean students from Yanbian University as guides. They are not natives of North Korea, they have never been to North Korea, they do not understand the terrain here, although they speak Korean, they have not met ordinary North Korean people along the way, so they have taken the wrong road.
Of course, Wei Jiayu could not blame these students, and could only immediately send someone to look for the homes of ordinary people nearby and inquire about the exact location of the highway bridge.
He himself took a warrior up to the top of the hill to look out and found lights in a valley in the distance. In the case of the soldiers looking for the common people without success, Wei Jiayu could only make a decision at the moment and lead the whole company to the bright light.
Unexpectedly, the lights did not look far away, and in fact they did not march for an hour. In order to buy time, Wei Jiayu had to lead the warriors to run on the thorny hillside. Many of the warriors' clothes were torn, and their faces and hands were cut one after another. One by one, he was sweating and panting.
It was not until about three o'clock in the morning that the commanders and fighters of the Tenth Company came to the light. Wei Jiayu had just ordered everyone to stop and catch their breath and send someone to inquire about the situation, but he didn't expect that a dense row of bullets suddenly shot at everyone!
"Lie down!" Wei Jiayu shouted, and then lay down in the small earthen kang on the side of the road to take a closer look at the lights and fires, and couldn't help but be surprised - it turned out that this was a town (that is, Yunshan Town), and the slopes of the town and outside the town were full of US troops, tanks, cannons and various vehicles, which could be said to be the forbidden land of the US army.
The enemy's firepower was so fierce that several firepower nets were formed, crushing the commanders and fighters of the tenth company to the point of not being able to lift their heads.
Wei Jiayu thought to himself: It seems that we have mistakenly entered the enemy's base camp in Yunshan, and it is no longer possible to make a hard breakthrough.
After looking around, he thought that only by seizing the hill on the left side as soon as possible would it be possible to resist the enemy and reduce casualties. So he ordered the entire company to concentrate its forces and firepower on the left side of the hill.
With his order, the commanders and fighters of the Tenth Company, like fierce tigers out of the cage, bravely pounced on the enemy on the hill, killing and wounding the American troops.
When the US military saw that our army was coming fiercely, it increased its firepower to block it. However, the commanders and fighters of the Ten Companies were in a common enemy, and none of them retreated or hesitated, making full use of the surrounding terrain and features to attack the enemy.
After a fierce hand-to-hand battle, Wei Jiayu finally led the whole company to capture the mountain on the left side, using this commanding height to block the enemy.
Because the position of the Tenth Company was exactly in the heart of the enemy, it was a very headache for the US troops to fight. The reason is very simple, if the US military wants to attack with heavy weapons such as artillery, then as long as the landing point of the shells is slightly deviated, it may hurt its own people.
This situation just allowed the ten companies in the midst of the enemy's siege to win a glimmer of life, and they under the command of Wei Jiaxuan, they used mobile and flexible play to make the American troops miserable.
When the battle was carried out at dawn, the sound of artillery and gunfire outside the mountain was suddenly deafening, and Wei Jiayu was overjoyed: "Our large army has launched a general attack!" ”
He guessed correctly that it was precisely because the commanders and fighters of the Tenth Company inadvertently broke into the US army's base camp in Yunshan, disrupted the deployment of the US troops, pinned down their main force, and caused the large troops of the volunteer army to quickly break through the enemy's outer defense line and launch a general attack on the US troops in Yunshan!
This greatly invigorated the ten companies of commanders and fighters trapped in the enemy's siege, and launched a more violent attack on the enemy.
The nail in the heart made the American commander mad, and ordered more than a dozen tanks to rush to the top of the hill where the ten companies were located.
Under the cover of company commander Wei Jiayu and commander Zheng Qi, a platoon commander Wang Fengjiang paralyzed a tank with a blasting canister and killed all four enemies inside.
The Wei family was overjoyed, and quickly entered the tank with Zheng Qi, and used the machine gun on it to slam the enemy, making them cry wolf.
The enemy on the outskirts was beaten by the large forces of the Thirty-ninth Army and abandoned their armor and fled south along the road. The US troops in Yunshan Town saw that the general trend had gone, and they also scattered and fled.
Wei Jiayu suddenly heard someone shouting in English, "Surrender your gun and don't kill", at first he thought that the enemy did not move, and when he listened carefully, he found that there were many people speaking Chinese, and only then did he know that the people outside were all his own people, and he quickly opened the tank window and drilled out.
The volunteer soldiers outside were all shocked: "How are you?" ”
Battalion Commander Shang Lianjiu ran over and punched Wei Jiayu and laughed, "It turned out to be your boy, I just said, there is a kind of drill into the stomach of the US army to make a big fuss in the sky, it must be a bold guy!" ”
"It was the order directly given by the division commander and the regimental commander, but we went the wrong way, so we hurried to blow up the bridge..." Wei Jiayu was already too tired to speak.
Because Wei Jiayu, Wang Fengjiang, and Zheng Qi had been tossing and turning all night, they were already extremely tired, when they saw their comrades-in-arms, their hearts were relaxed, and all three of them sat paralyzed on the ground.
"What bridge is blown up, the enemy has basically been killed!"
Shang Lianjiu ordered them to be carried on stretchers, and reported to the regimental commander on the situation of the battle: Since our army of the Tenth Company had won a complete victory, most of the Eighth Regiment of the First Cavalry Division of the US Army was destroyed.
After the battle, the ten companies that failed to complete the task of blowing up the bridge because their guides led the wrong way were not punished, but they were commended by their superiors for mistakenly entering the US army base camp and completely disrupting the deployment of the US army.
Note: The real people described in this article are true, and Wei Jiayu has told people about the battle many times in his later years.