On June 20, 1953, the 2nd Battalion of the 604th Regiment of the 202nd Division of the 68th Volunteer Army decided to launch a counterattack on the 529.3 Heights garrisoned by the 7th Division of the ROK Army on the 26th.
The commander of the second battalion gave the main offensive task to the six companies and decided to move the troops to lurk in a grove in front of the enemy position the night before the attack.
After several days of intense preparations, the sixth company was about to leave, and the soldiers were scattered in the traffic ditch to stand by, and the instructor Pu Jianggou went to the pre-war inspection.
Pu Jiang Gou said to a warrior, "In the lurking, what do you do if you want to cough?" ”
He said, "I brought ginger slices, and if I want to cough, I will put them in, and if I don't, I will pick up a small pit and bury my mouth in the soil." ”
Pu Jiang Gou asked again, "What should you do if the enemy shell hits you?" ”
He replied without hesitation: "Like Qiu Shaoyun, I don't say anything about dying of pain!" ”
Pu Jiang Gou shook his hand happily, and then asked a combat team leader: "Your main and deputy squad leaders are all injured, what do you do?" ”
"I immediately take over the command and keep the whole class fighting!"
"You're the only one left?" "Automatically join other classes, obey the command, and fight to the end!"
The soldiers' resounding answers filled Pu Jianggou's heart with joy. He let another fully armed warrior run a few steps, and the soldier's equipment did not make a sound, and it seemed that their preparations were well done and they could go.
At three o'clock in the morning of the next day, the messenger who went with the troops returned, reporting that the troops had successfully reached the lurking area and had all done their camouflage, and only then did He Jiang Gou calm down slightly.
He imagined that when the attack signal was issued, the grove of trees that had never been noticed would suddenly explode like a time bomb under the enemy's nose, catching it off guard.
Pu Jiang Gou had just taken a nap, and it was Already June 26. This day was really the most difficult day of his life, and the sun seemed to go slower than any other day, almost like a nail to the sky.
The warriors were now lying on the wetlands in the woods, unable to turn over, unable to move their legs, and lying on their joints from sore to stiff for 21 hours. The boys who love to laugh the most, now they have to be dumb, those warriors who usually smoke from their mouths, now they can only suck their lips hard, they live every minute, it is equivalent to a year!
In order to cover the lurking troops, the artillery company of the regimental headquarters from time to time used cold artillery to knock on the enemy positions and prevent them from showing their heads to observe.
Finally, the difficult day passed calmly, and after the sun rolled down the western mountains, the real battle began! The battalion commander entered the command position, and Pu Jianggou also set off with the field service detachment.
At exactly eight o'clock, the red flares announced the start of the attack! The volunteers' tens of millions of shells dragged the tail of the fire and screamed towards the 529.3 heights. The enemy's position was immediately engulfed in fireworks, and the explosive air wave set off a gust of hot wind and rolled in all directions.
The people of the volunteer field service team were even more excited, and a soldier walking next to Pujiang Gou said: "Such a powerful artillery fire, that small mountain beam is afraid of being smashed!" ”
This reminded Pu Jianggou of the words of a chief: "When necessary, we will also compare steel with the enemy." ”
They were walking towards the position, the artillery fire suddenly stopped like a knife cut, the sound of submachine guns and grenades immediately replaced it, and the "time bomb" in the woods exploded. The enemy's artillery, as if just awoke, was firing indiscriminately at the volunteer positions.
When Pu Jianggou rushed to the mountain beam with the field service team, the gunfire had subsided.
At eight fifty o'clock, the signal of all the occupied positions rose into the night sky. The second battalion completed its intended task, occupied the position of one battalion of the enemy, and annihilated 180 enemy soldiers; the volunteers suffered a total of seven casualties.
Pu Jianggou was busy, and the messenger came to report: "The command post has come up, and the battalion commander is seriously injured. ”
This report first made Pu Jiang feel embarrassed, but he immediately ran to the command post with the messenger. Now is not the time to grieve, but to immediately take up his burden and take command of him. The whole battalion must fight with the enemy to meet the enemy's counterattack and destroy more enemies!
At about 7 p.m. on the 27th, the enemy began to counterattack. However, the enemy did not come to the "fire attack" first, and only used the strength of one squad.
The enemy repelled three such counterattacks in succession, but all of them were fought down in batches, and it followed another batch.
As a battle-hardened commander, Pu Jiang Gou concluded: This is not at all to seize the position, there must be ghosts in it, and the platoon intends to consume us with a small group of troops using wheel warfare.
After the enemy's ruse was discovered by Pu Jianggou, he immediately made a decision and ordered only a 4-man combat group to remain in each position in the front to fight, and to intercept the enemy's counterattacking small troops with all their might, and the rest of the personnel were hidden and standby.
At ten o'clock in the night, the second battalion repelled the enemy's counterattack 13 times and annihilated 120 enemy soldiers, without any casualties.
The correspondent laughed: "Old Li Tou really can do business, afraid of wholesale losses, changed to zero sales, zero sales still did not make anything!" ”
Pu Jianggou said, "You wait, his wholesale is still behind!" ”
The communicator squeezed his eyes and said, "That's best, let's better receive the goods in the whole batch." ”
He was right. On the 28th, the enemy launched an attack with the entire company, but the result was that more than 200 people were killed by the volunteers.
At three o'clock before dawn on the fourth day of the battle, the second battalion made all the arrangements to meet the enemy's larger counterattack.
At four o'clock, the enemy's artillery fire stormed toward the position of the second battalion, which lasted for more than 3 hours, but the commanders and fighters of the second battalion were leisurely smoking cigarettes in the artillery hole!
At seven o'clock, the observation post reported that the enemy was moving from the Tomb of Dupi to our position. Pu Jianggou ordered the liaison artillery fire to stop the attack. The walkie-talkie immediately shouted: "Dupi Tomb visitor, open the rice quickly, big bowls and small bowls are served together!" ......”
Volunteer shells streaked through the air and exploded at the Tomb of Dupi. At this point, the Tomb of Dupi really became the grave of the enemy, the shells slammed into the enemy, and those enemies who could easily sneak to the front of the second battalion could no longer be connected or lined up.
The volunteer soldiers who had already waited for the emergency would not care whether it was in full or not, and how much they came, they would be "wrapped up" to some extent.
The Rokshoku Seventh Division continued to fill in camps to fill in cannon fodder, and two regiments were dispatched successively, but although they covered the front of the volunteer positions with the blood and flesh of their own soldiers. Standing on the 529.3 position was always only a 4-man combat group of the second battalion.
The soldiers of the Second Battalion captured this position in tens of minutes, but the enemy fought back desperately for several days, but did not even touch the soil on the top of the volunteer hill, but paid the price of being annihilated by more than 1,000 people. This battle became the most splendid example of the 2nd Battalion of the 604th Regiment on the battlefield of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, and it is famous in the military history of the Volunteer Army!