At the end of October 1950, the first large-scale blockade battle after the Volunteer Army entered North Korea had been fought for several days on the front line of Huangcaoling.
The 4th Company of the 371st Regiment of the 42nd Army of the Volunteer Army, under the leadership of company commander Liu Jun, the defensive Yantai Peak was violently attacked by the 7th Regiment of the 1st Marine Division of the US Army.
[Stick to the position]
At an altitude of 890 meters above sea level, Smith, commander of the U.S. 1st Marine Division, ordered the 7th Regiment not to rely on the South Korean army that feared the enemy like a tiger, and to take Yantai Peak to clear the biggest obstacle on the way north.
Due to the continuous snow in the past few days, the temperature has plummeted, and the peak of Yantai is even colder, and liu Jun, the company commander, ordered that in addition to the guard post, we must endure the attack of the severe cold and seize the time to rest.
Due to the lack of cold materials, Liu Jun also issued such an order with a smile, comrades should not be embarrassed, and they can also hold each other for warmth.
This order was not something he did at will, but an order issued by the 42nd Army headquarters according to the harsh natural environment, and because the logistics supply line of the Volunteer Army had been controlled by the United Nations Army, and all kinds of materials could not be transported to the front line.
In order to stop the snow, the commanders and fighters can maintain a certain amount of physical strength to fight with the United Nations army.
The snowflakes that had been falling for several days finally stopped, and the Yantai Peak, which was covered in snow, was very beautiful and spectacular, and the soldiers of the 4th Company did not have the heart to enjoy this beautiful scenery, they knew that the snow had stopped, and the attack of the US 7th Regiment had begun.
Before the U.S. 7th Regiment launched an attack on Yantai Peak, aircraft and heavy artillery began to carpet bomb Yantai Peak, trying to defeat the volunteers who were holding on to Yantai Peak by dealing with the Korean army.
Under the heavy bombardment of UN aircraft and heavy artillery, the original cold and bone-chilling positions, because of the burning of pine trees and weeds, made the volunteer soldiers feel like they were living in the summer.
The UN pilots bullied the volunteers into lacking the necessary anti-aircraft weapons, and deliberately flew the planes very low, and the soldiers of the 4th Company could even clearly see the faces of the smiling American pilots.
The positions that the soldiers of the 4th Company had worked so hard to build up were almost destroyed by the bombs and heavy artillery dropped by the United Nations aircraft.
[Fight to the death to block the enemy]
After the heavy bombardment, Smith, commander of the US 1st Division, directly gave orders to the 7th Regiment to take the initiative to attack, do not expect the South Korean army, immediately launch a charge, must take Yantai Peak as soon as possible.
The 7th Regiment, under the repeated supervision and strict orders of their superiors, began to attack.
The soldiers of the 7th Regiment, cowering behind the tanks, climbed up the hillside, and the volunteer soldiers, who had just been under the bombardment of UN aircraft and heavy artillery, extinguished the part where their clothes were on fire, moved the seriously wounded and sacrificed soldiers to the side, raised their guns, and patiently waited for the American troops to attack.
The soldiers of the 7th Regiment, who thought they had been heavily bombarded by UN aircraft and heavy artillery, did not see the soldiers of the 4th Company when they climbed toward Yantai Peak.
The American-assisted tanks finally stopped because of the slope, but they were still firing at the position of the 4th Company, and the soldiers of the 7th Regiment, who were following the tanks, became bold and began to rush up to occupy the position of the 4th Company.
As they drew closer and closer to their positions, the fighters who had survived the bombardment of aircraft and heavy artillery fire did not hesitate to fire at the overwhelmed fellows.
The soldiers of the 7th Regiment, who rushed to the front, fell one after another, and as for the soldiers of the 7th Regiment, they did not find the soldiers of the 4th Company because the clothes worn by the soldiers of the 4th Company had been burned into various shapes during the aircraft bombardment and artillery fire, and the uniforms were completely blackened by smoke, and it was impossible to distinguish them from the burning trees and weeds around them.
The soldiers of the 7th Regiment lost their courage in the face of such a fearless attack of the soldiers of the 4th Company and had to retreat from their positions.
The first attack of the 7th Regiment was repelled, the soldiers of the 4th Company began to build simple fortifications, and the shovels for digging trenches were blown up.
The few shovels that were held in the hands of the warriors but were difficult to dig were frozen together.
Just as the soldiers began to try their best to begin building fortifications, UN aircraft and heavy artillery once again carried out a new round of bombardment of Yantai Peak.
[Cover up approaching enemies]
After the bombing, the 7th Regiment launched another offensive, but still failed to capture Yantai Peak. The 7th Regiment's repeated charge was unsuccessful, which made Smith, commander of the US 1st Division, change the platoon-based approach to attack, adopt real man-sea tactics, and change to company and battalion levels, and at all costs to conquer Yantai Peak and tear open the breakthrough of the northward advance.
The 4th Company of the Volunteer Army still firmly held its position in the face of the frenzied attack of the US 7th Regiment. This caused Smith, commander of the US 1st Division, to fall into madness and began to implement the method of attacking in the bombardment, that is, to take Yantai Peak at all costs to the two warring sides, whether the enemy or the enemy dropped the bomb.
The U.S. 7th Regiment, which had reached the front of the 4th Company's position, saw that its planes had begun to drop bombs, and quickly turned around and ran, and Smith's calculations failed.
After several days of fierce fighting, the casualties of the 4th Company became more and more serious, and Company Commander Liu Jun told his superiors that even if the 4th Company was all sacrificed in the position, it would never retreat.
There were fewer and fewer soldiers, so the commanders, hygienists, correspondents, etc. all took up arms to participate in the battle, and the 4th Company, from 160 people who held the Yantai Peak, only less than 40 people remained after several days of fierce fighting, and still held their positions.
On 3 November, the day was at its most difficult for the 4th Company, when ammunition was severely insufficient, while the 7th Regiment and the South Korean Army were still desperately charging forward like crazy.
What to do, Liu Jun divided the division of fighters in the whole company, and the slightly wounded soldiers were responsible for carrying large and small stones and placing them next to the soldiers who were sticking to the side of the position, so that when the soldiers ran out of bullets, they let the stones fall, and no matter what, they could not let the US troops occupy the position.
The lightly wounded soldiers, on the orders of the company commander, carried large and small stones to the soldiers. After the UN aircraft were still ready for bombing and artillery fire, they began to attack again.
The soldiers came to the front of the position, the bullets ran out, and they lifted the stones and smashed them on the 7th Regiment that had climbed on the mountainside, and the stones of all sizes tumbled, and the ghosts of the 7th Regiment soldiers were howled, and they were scaled and wounded, and they were beaten down again.
Liu Jun took advantage of the enemy's escape and quickly ordered the soldiers to jump out of the trenches, retrieve the weapons and ammunition left by the enemy, and continue the battle to strike at the enemy.
It was precisely with this spirit of fearlessness of life and death that the 4th Company held out at Yantai Peak for 5 days and nights, annihilated more than 200 officers and men of the US 7th Regiment, and successfully completed the blockade plan. Reference: Far East Korean War by Wang Shuzeng