On July 13, 1953, the Battle of Jincheng began. The task of the 2nd Battalion of the 609th Regiment of the 203rd Division of the 68th Army of the Volunteer Army was to attack the main peak of The 552.8 Heights, where the enemy was the 2nd Battalion of the 1st Regiment of the "Capital Division" of the ROK Army.
Prior to this, this regiment was known as the "White Tiger Regiment", a unit in the Korean army sequence known for being able to fight hard battles, and their soldiers' steel helmets were painted with a white tiger head as a badge, meaning that they were as fierce and strong as tigers.
However, such "tigers" are no longer powerful in the face of the volunteer army that is good at "descending the dragon and ambushing the tiger." After fierce fighting in the middle of the night, after dawn, the red flag of the volunteer army had been planted on the main peak of the position.
As soon as they climbed to the top of the mountain, the third platoon leader ordered the squad leader Li Yinzhou to take Li Weihua and Li Changliang to search to the left front.
They had just walked a short distance when more than a dozen enemies pounced on them.
As soon as the three warriors opened fire at the same time, the enemy fell five at that time, and the rest saw that the momentum was not good, and immediately turned their heads and fled.
"Chase!" Li Yinzhou shouted, and he took Li Weihua and Li Changliang and chased them down tightly.
As they were chasing, the enemy in front of them suddenly disappeared without a trace. Li Yinzhou scolded fiercely: "What a living hell! ”
At this time, only a clamor was heard, and it turned out that the enemy had just entered a cave or tunnel, and now he had turned around and was ready to sneak out. Li Yinzhou was greeted by a barrage of bullets and blocked them back.
Taking advantage of the enemy's panic, Li Yinzhou ran to the left side of the cave entrance and first cut off the telephone line leading to the cave. Then, he said hello and signaled Li Weihua and Li Changliang to follow, and the three of them went into the tunnel.
The tunnel was pitch black, and the disgusting smell of dampness and sweat came over the face. The three fighters alternately advanced with submachine guns, the enemy fought and retreated, and Li Yinzhou and others followed them to the deepest part of the tunnel.
The three of them hid themselves around a corner and shouted into the North Korean language:
"Shoot and don't kill!"
"The volunteers are lenient with prisoners!"
But they shouted for a long time, but they didn't answer at all, and they didn't see anyone coming out, only to hear the chaos inside, like a nest of quarrelsome dogs. Li Yinzhou judged that there must be a large number of enemies who have penetrated into this "tiger hole."
In the midst of the chaos, a trembling voice kept shouting, "Bark! ”
Another guy who was angry yelled, "Barry! Barre! Babi Barrel! ”
Listening to that meaning, the voice in front seemed to be asking for a phone call, and the officer in the back must be some kind of officer, anxiously scolding the telephone soldier as a rice bucket.
Li Yinzhou and the others almost laughed out loud when they heard this, and scolded in their hearts: "Bastard! The phone line has long been cut off by us, and you told the telephone soldier to go there? You're a real rice bucket! ”
Li Yinzhou couldn't bear it any longer, and as soon as he reached out, he threw two grenades into it. After the explosion, they continued to shout, but the enemy still refused to surrender.
At this point, Li Yinzhou was furious and wanted to blow them up with explosives. But on second thought, this tunnel is full of good, left useful for us, blowing up how to use it to fight the enemy's counterattack?
Li Yinzhou suddenly thought, can't you use tracer bombs to reconnoiter the situation on the enemy's side? But they didn't have rifles around them and couldn't fire tracer bullets.
At the moment of embarrassment, it happened that ning Guozhi, the commander of the division, also entered this tunnel. Li Yinzhou remembered that Ning Guozhi had a flare gun, so he used his flare gun to fire two flares in a row.
Unexpectedly, these two signal flares played a completely unexpected effect. Only to see that as the white light of the signal flare flashed, a flame suddenly rose up inside, and the flames rolled out against the top of the tunnel, and then a thick cloud of smoke was thrown over, and the smoke was mixed with the pungent smell of gasoline and burning cloth.
It turned out that the signal bomb happened to hit a gasoline barrel inside.
At this point, the enemies inside were in a mess, and they were screaming and screaming. Without shouting from the volunteers, they raised their hands to drill out four, and then drilled out five more. Li Yinzhou used a flashlight to illuminate them, all of them had blue noses and swollen faces, alive one by one freshly burned purple eggplant, their eyebrows and hair almost let the fire burn out, their clothes were still smoking, but they did not dare to put down their hands.
Li Yinzhou shouted in a half-unfamiliar Korean language: "Is there anyone else inside?" ”
The enemy was stunned for a long time, seemed to understand, and then said, "Yes! Yes! And many more..."
Li Yinzhou and others escorted the captives out of the tunnel and then into the tunnel to extinguish the fire. Their idea was to catch a few more jobs, but after shouting for half a day, only two came out. As soon as the two enemy soldiers came out, they opened their mouths wide and asked the volunteer soldiers for water to drink.
Li Yinzhou asked them, "Is there anyone else inside?" ”
This time, an enemy soldier who spoke a little Chinese replied with tears: "Die!" It's all dead! ”
Li Yinzhou didn't quite believe it, so he asked the two captives to lead the way and led the three of them to search inside. Indeed, there was no more sound in the tunnel, only the enemy soldiers who had been burned to death in the seven vertical and eight horizontal areas stumbling in secret.
As they walked, the two captives suddenly stopped, and the one who could speak Chinese rushed to say, "There are many dead..."
Li Yinzhou took a picture with a flashlight, but it was not! Here alone lay more than 20 burned enemy soldiers, one of whose face was blurred, whose tweed clothes were charred, and only a new pair of leather shoes on his feet and five or six medals hanging from his chest remained.
According to the captives, this was the commander of the brigade who had received military training from the United States, the commander of the second battalion of the "White Tiger Regiment".
There is no doubt that this burned tunnel is the command post of the second battalion of the "White Tiger Regiment".
After counting, Li Yinzhou and others killed and burned a total of 46 enemies and captured 11 enemies inside and outside the tunnel, and also saved the tunnel for the subsequent counterattack.
In this way, the enemy soldiers suddenly disappeared when they fled, but they led three volunteer soldiers to the enemy's battalion command post, and let them unexpectedly make a miracle. Later, the course of this battle was called "Burning Tiger Cave" by the volunteers.