On November 5, 1950, the first battle was over, and the first battle was won.
At the first campaign summary meeting organized by the Volunteer Army Headquarters, only one person was not happy, but on the contrary, he was scolded the most fiercely, that is, Liang Xingchu, commander of the 38th Army.
Liang Xingchu
Peng Dehuai ruled the army strictly, and was also known for his violent temper, sometimes making mistakes and scolding himself in public:
"Peng Dehuai, Peng Dehuai, what kind of bird Marxist are you?"
Because the 38th Army delayed the fighter plane because of the unwarranted black regiment, the established plan to annihilate the enemy was in vain, and the South Korean puppet army fled, and it was bound to be scolded!
The summary meeting was presided over by Deng Hua, deputy commander and deputy political commissar of the Volunteer Army.
Deng Hua (first from right)
Deng Hua first praised the 39th Army and the 40th Army, and then criticized the 38th Army, but the criticism was not severe:
“...... Some of our comrades do not yet know how to insert their main forces into the enemy's flank and back attack, encircling and annihilating the enemy. Especially in the Battle of Heecheon, the two regiments of South Korea had been cut off by our army to retreat, but the 113th Division delayed the attack, and as a result, the enemy ran away... Some troops moved too slowly and did not dare to move during the day, mainly for fear of planes, and at night it was a good opportunity to annihilate the enemy, but as a result, because they overestimated the enemy, they did not dare to boldly cut off the enemy's retreat, delaying the fighters. The 38th Army failed to arrive on time..."
But at this time, Peng Dehuai was angry and immediately asked:
"Did Liang Xingchu, the commander of the Thirty-eighth Army, come?"
Obviously, such an important summary meeting, the military commander must participate, Peng Dehuai asked this, naturally to criticize the prelude to the Thirty-Eighth Army.
Then he scolded Liang Xingchu, commander of the 38th Army:
"I ask you, why did your Thirty-eighth Army take off slowly, and how did it do it?" I let you insert into Xichuan, why don't you insert into Xichuan? ”
"People say you are a tiger general, I Peng Dehuai have not learned, what a tiger general, I think it is a rat general!" Lao Tzu asked you to fight Xichuan, you said that Xichuan has a 'black group', and a 'black group' scared you? This is clearly an escape from the battlefield, and where is the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea! ”
Deng Hua saw that the position was not right, and hurried to round the field, but Peng Dehuai did not appreciate it, and Liang Xingchu also felt aggrieved, and said in passing:
"Don't swear!"
This is good, Peng Dehuai is more energetic:
"Don't swear? You Liang Xingchu did not play well, Lao Tzu is scolding you! You delay the fighter plane, according to the law, I scold you as polite, I Peng Dehuai has no other skills, the ability to cut horses is still there! ”
As soon as these words came out, the whole venue was suddenly silent and silent.
The story of Ma Mo's loss of the street pavilion is familiar to everyone, because Ma Mo's arrogance led to the destruction of the street pavilion, the street pavilion was very important to shu Wei, and the leader was a person who was very appreciated by Zhuge Chengxiang, but in order to stabilize the hearts of the army, Zhuge Liang had to tearfully behead Ma Chen.
Tearful stills of horse-cutting
When Peng Dehuai said this, he was naturally extremely angry, and Liang Xingchu lowered his head and stopped saying a word. After a while, Peng Dehuai's anger faded. This was the most vicious insult Liang Xingchu had ever endured in the twenty years since he joined the revolution in 1930.
In fact, Peng Dehuai knew that the Thirty-Eighth Army was two pounds, and the predecessor was the old foundation of his own Pingjiang Uprising, and the Thirty-eighth Army was famous during the period of the Agrarian Revolutionary War, the War of Resistance Against Japan, and the War of Liberation, but at this moment, the criticism still had to be criticized.
Peng Dehuai still had a number in mind, he knew that Liang Xingchu would be ashamed of himself, otherwise he would not have handed over the key combat tasks to the 38th Army in the second battle to reverse the situation.
In accordance with Mao Zedong's instructions, Peng Dehuai made specific arrangements for the second campaign, preparing to adopt the tactics of showing weakness to the enemy, luring the enemy to go deeper, dispersing the enemy's forces, and finally annihilating the various tactics, and handing over the task of detouring the western front of Tokugawa to the 38th Army.
Schematic of the second battle
To this end, Deputy Commander Han Xianchu personally came to the 38th Army and said to Liang Xingchu:
"Your army will fight Tokugawa first, and the whole battle will be cut from you, and it is very important to take Tokugawa!" Chairman Mao has repeatedly called and instructed him to entrust the task of detouring on the western front to the 38th Army. Mr. Peng believes that the 38th Army can fight well, so he entrusts this task to you, and if you hear no, Tokugawa, you must fight it down! ”
Liang Xingchu secretly rejoiced that this was a good opportunity for Yixue to be ashamed, and when he heard that he would also send a division of the 42nd Army to the Thirty-eighth Army to take insurance, he immediately refused.
Liang Xingchu said to Han Xianchu:
"We've packed up to fight Tokugawa, so what should the Forty Army do?"
At this time, Peng Dehuai called to inquire about the situation of the troops, and Han Xianchu reported to General Peng on Liang Xingchu's determination to take Tokugawa, and Peng Dehuai said on the other side of the phone:
"Liang Xingchu's tone is not small, I want to gather annihilation, but not to drive sheep!"
Mr. Peng's voice was very loud, and everyone heard it. Liang Xingchu naturally understood Peng Dehuai's meaning, and if he wanted to recover the lost land and destroy the enemy's living forces, he replied categorically:
"There is no joke in the military! Ensure the completion of the combat tasks assigned by the headquarters. ”
Receiving the combat mission, Liang Xingchu began to arrange the campaign, and if he wanted to wrap the dumplings of the South Korean army in Tokugawa, he had to intersperse them into the rear of the enemy. The night before the battle began, Liang Xingchu summoned Zhang Kuiyin, the head of the reconnaissance section, and asked when they met:
"Do you have the guts to go behind the enemy?"
As far as Zhang Kuiyin, who has been doing reconnaissance work since the eighth route army period, began as a surveyor and mapper of a regiment of the 115th Jinxi detachment as a surveyor and mapper, and now to the chief of the reconnaissance section of the Thirty-Eighth Army, the reconnaissance work for more than ten years has been full of guts in addition to meticulous and meticulous thoughts.
Zhang Kuiyin in his later years
Zhang Kuiyin said to Liang Xingchu:
"If you don't dare, you can give it to me!"
Liang Xingchu ordered Zhang Kuiyin, chief of the reconnaissance section, and Zhou Wenli, chief of the reconnaissance section of the 113th Division, to lead 323 people to form a reconnaissance detachment, with Zhang Kuiyin as the detachment leader and political commissar, and Zhou Wenli as the deputy detachment leader, secretly inserting themselves behind the enemy's rear on November 24, before the second battle, and must blow up the Wuling Bridge before 8 o'clock on November 26, block the enemy's rear road, and cooperate with the main force to annihilate the pseudo-Seventh Division in the Tokugawa area.
At 10:00 p.m. on November 24, Zhang Kuiyin led the team to advance behind the enemy, the lone army went deep, there were many difficulties, and if they were not careful, there was a danger of the whole army being destroyed, with the rich reconnaissance experience of the advance team and the help of the Korean people, the soldiers of the advance team overcame fatigue, got rid of the enemy, crossed the mountains, and finally arrived at the predetermined location of Wulingli at 5 a.m. on November 26, when there were still 3 hours left before the time set by the commander of the army to blow up the bridge.
The soldiers had been marching and fighting for more than 40 hours, during which they had only rested for 4 hours, and they had not eaten hot meals or even drunk cold water. Everyone could not rest, because the most arduous and important task of blowing up the Wuling Bridge was not yet complete. Zhang Kuiyin Mobilization:
"Our task is to blow up the bridge, and Chairman Mao, the people of the motherland, and the chiefs of the army are waiting for news of our victory, and we must let them hear the explosion of victory!"
After intense preparations, at 7:30 a.m. on November 26, 1950, the explosion of the Wuling Bridge sounded the prelude to the second victory in the battlefield of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea.
The various units of the 38th Army in the front were not idle. On November 27, 1950, Liang Xingchu ordered the main force of the 38th Army to attack in three ways.
The first battle falsely reported that Yang Dayi, commander of the 112th Division of the Black Regiment, led his troops to occupy Unsong-ri in western Tokugawa, cutting off the retreat route of the South Korean Seventh Division to flee westward;
The 113th Division, which failed to complete its mission in the first campaign, occupied Theuri Peak and Gedong in the south of Tokugawa, and the South Korean Seventh Division's escape route was cut off;
The 114th Division, under the supervision of the deputy Yangtze River Yonghui, also launched a strong attack from the front.
At this point, more than ten hours after the campaign was launched, the Thirty-eighth Army had formed an iron wall on the outskirts of Tokugawa, and more than 5,000 people of the pseudo-7th Division were surrounded in a narrow area of only a dozen square kilometers in the Tokugawa River Valley.
It was time for the harvest, it was time to make dumplings for the South Korean Seventh Division, and Liang Xing, seeing great joy at first, ordered all the units to fire at the Pseudo-7 Division. pass through
After seven hours of fierce fighting, the headquarters of the 7th Division and the 5th and 8th Regiments under the pseudo-japanese Division captured all kinds of guns, artillery, and automobiles, and even the American advisers were all taken prisoner.
Tokugawa Hatsuki. When the battle report arrived at Shiji, Peng Dehuai was overjoyed and boasted:
"The Thirty-eighth Army has fought well, well fought!"
However, tokugawa's first victory was only part of the western front, and there were still more difficult challenges to be faced by the Thirty-eighth Army. Liang Xingchu wanted to make dumplings from the South Korean Army, but Peng Dehuai wanted to make MacArthur's dumplings.
Before the Thirty-eighth Army could celebrate, it received an order from its deputy commander, Han Xianchu:
The Forty-second Army is responsible for the outer detour, and the Thirty-eighth Army is responsible for the inner detour, so the 113th Division will be inserted into the Three Houses tomorrow morning, and the 112th Division will quickly seize the Gari Ridge.
This is a very difficult task, especially in the three houses. It's less than 15 hours away from the allotted time, and Sansho is still a hundred miles away!
The 113th Division's Yangtze River Chao knew the importance of the task, and even more knew the arduousness of the task, and could not take care of so much, put down the phone, picked up the pistol and began to set off for the three houses, and the order was also marching and descending!
Volunteer soldiers went straight into the three houses
The 113th Division, from the second battle, basically did not rest much, the rapid march at this time was a test of willpower, and many people exhausted the last bit of energy in the process of the rapid march and never woke up again.
On this thrilling night, the 113th Division is quietly setting a world record that no army has yet broken.
After a night of rapid marching, when there were still almost thirty miles away from the three institutes, the sky was getting brighter and brighter. The sky began to be filled with hovering enemy aircraft, and during the day, it was the domain of the U.S. Air Force!
At this time, the commanders of the 113th Division were in a hurry, asking the soldiers to remove their disguises and swing forward. It was undoubtedly a gamble, but the bet won. When the US Air Force flying in the sky saw that there was no disguise, it must be the defeated south Korean army, and it turned around and left!
"It's here, it's here!" The leader of the vanguard shouted. The 113th Division had just arrived at Sanshouli, and within five minutes, the enemy army was coming!
But the 113th Division of the Thirty-eighth Army set a record for a night march with a speed of fourteen hours and one hundred and forty-five miles. And that's not all there is to it and get rid of the enemy!
When Shiji received the battle report of the Thirty-eighth Army, the deputy commander of the Volunteer Army called out:
"It's a miracle, a miracle!"
But the 113th Division, which was facing a serious challenge, also scored points for The Soldiers, because there was still a way out. By the time Shiji discovered the loophole and asked the 113th Division to divide its troops into Ryugen-ri, the 113th Division had already taken the lead and installed a regiment there.
A blockade battle began, and the defeated Eighth Army had to tear a hole in it and withdraw from here, otherwise it risked being completely annihilated, so it counterattacked frantically in the area around sansho.
However, the Positions of Longyuanli and Ge Clam guarded by the 113th Division, the Fengzhang Cave captured by the 114th Division, and the Shuanglongli where the commander of the 112th Division inserted themselves were full of tiger and wolf divisions of the Thirty-eighth Army, and everyone fought bravely for the sake of shame.
The most intense battle was the Battle of Pine Bone Peak. Fan Tianen of the 335th Regiment of the 112th Division led his troops with the strength of a hundred people to fight the enemy to the death in the absence of danger.
Pine Bone Peak Blocking Battle
As the encirclement of the Chinese army tightened, the fate of the US military has reached the final moment. The number of American troops participating in the charge toward Pine Bone Peak increased to thousands, and the American troops dispatched aircraft, tanks and artillery to bombard the hill on the side of the road for 40 minutes.
After five chargebacks, the U.S. army still did not break out of the siege. The fifth U.S. charge finally failed, and there were only seven living volunteer soldiers left on the three companies of the Pine Bone Peak at this time, but the Pine Bone Peak position was still in the hands of the Volunteer Army.
The war correspondent Wei Wei wrote "Who is the Cutest Man" based on the battle situation of Song Bone Feng, which wrote:
The platoon leader died, the squad leader took the initiative to act, the squad leader sacrificed, the soldier took the initiative to take over, and the cooks and communicators also participated in the battle. The Chinese soldier, who had no bullets, had a grenade in his waist and rushed forward fearlessly with a cold bayonet. The bayonets broke, and they held the enemy and wrestled, with their fists and teeth, until they thought they should end, and they pulled the grenades on their bodies.
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At dusk on this day, Fan Tianen's 335th Regiment counterattacked and attacked, and the whole regiment attacked, and at the same time, the Chinese troops that surrounded and annihilated the American army in all directions also began the final attack.
Since then, the Thirty-eighth Army has satisfactorily fulfilled the task entrusted by the Volunteer Army Headquarters to break through from the left flank and open the gap in the campaign, and has boldly interspersed it, resolutely blocking the enemy's retreat and ensuring the victory of the entire western front.
When the war report reached the Volunteer Army Headquarters, Mr. Peng blurted out:
"Our warriors are so nice! That's great! ”
Deng Hua said:
"This time the Western Front annihilated a large number of enemies, and the 38th Army played a key role!"
Hong Xuezhi said:
"Last time they didn't play well, they were criticized by the boss, and this time they held their breath and wanted to make a show." This unit is an old force, and it has the strength not to accept defeat! ”
Still excited, Peng Dehuai personally drafted a commendation telegram:
All comrades of the Thirty-eighth Army of Liang and Liu Zhuan -- This campaign overcame some of the excessive concerns of some comrades in the previous campaign and gave play to the excellent fighting style of the Thirty-eighth Army, especially the 1st and 3rd Divisions acted quickly, occupying Sansoli and Longyuanli first, and preventing the south from fleeing to the north to help.
Enemy planes and tanks each bombed all day long, repeatedly breaking through, and finally failed. As of yesterday (30 days), the results of the battle were brilliant, and there were nearly a thousand tanks and cars alone, and there were still many enemies who were surrounded. I hope to overcome the difficulties, summon up the courage, continue to completely annihilate the besieged reasons, and pay attention to blocking the enemy's northern aid, special orders to commend, and wish you continued victory! Long live the Chinese People's Volunteer Army! Long live the Thirty-eighth Army!
Commendation Order Manuscript
Liang Xingchu burst into tears after receiving the telegram.
The 38th Army can withstand the most fierce scolding, can also withstand the most difficult tests, and can withstand the best rewards!