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In the early morning of October 25, 1950, the Korean Battlefield.
Although the ROK army was exhausted, the troops closest to the Yalu River could already see the Yalu River, so the officers and men maintained a high morale, believing that as long as they persisted for another day, they could finish the battle and go home to celebrate their achievements.
Near 11:00 a.m., the 15th Regiment of the 1st Division of the ROK Army was the first to be recruited. When passing through the Chaoyang Bridge in the Santan River, he was first hit by a grenade shell from nowhere, and then found an unknown force of about three hundred people on the north side, and after about half an hour of fighting, the northern front luckily caught a prisoner, wearing a completely different military uniform from the Northern Korean Army, and he revealed the news that surprised the Korean army, just north of the Unsan area, there were about 10,000 volunteer troops, and in the northeast direction of Xichuan, there were more than 10,000 people.
How could a volunteer soldier be so familiar with the deployment of troops? Despite some disbelief, the U.S. advisers of the ROK 1st Division reacted to the situation to the military headquarters.
The 12th Regiment of the Second Echelon also made contact with the Volunteers when attacking from the west flank of Yun Mountain, and the 11th Regiment behind the palace also spotted an unknown number of enemies while reconnaissance to the south.
At this moment, at least ten fires suddenly occurred on the mountains around Yunshan Mountain, and the smoke and heavy snow that had just fallen seriously obstructed the line of sight and made aerial reconnaissance and support impossible.
Although the 1st Division was the first Rok army unit to encounter the Volunteer Army, it was the 6th Division under the ROK 2nd Army that was unlucky. In the early morning of the 25th, the convoy of the 3rd Battalion of the 2nd Regiment of the 6th Division drove through the road 13 kilometers west of Wenjing, although both sides of the road were mountains with an altitude of 150 meters - 300 meters above sea level, and there were dense woods on it, and in the middle was a narrow valley with a length of 1000 meters, but the 3rd Battalion was very relieved, because the day before, the 7th Regiment had just passed through here, and at that time, it was still safe.
However, just after the 3rd Battalion had fully entered the valley, it was suddenly attacked by the front and the left and right heights. After the initial panic, the 3rd Battalion found that the number of enemies attacking was small, but as they advanced forward, they found that the rear road had been blocked, and the resistance of the enemy in front of them suddenly became fierce.
Interspersed behind enemy lines, carrying only light weapons and daring to fight the war of annihilation, it is the signature skill of the volunteer army, and this is what the North Korean army has never played before, the 3rd battalion of the ROK army is surrounded in a river valley without any cover, the 750-man battalion did not resist much and threw away all heavy equipment, scattered and fled, in the afternoon found the Wenjing return of the 3 battalion officers and men a total of less than four hundred people, strangely, the volunteer army did not pursue exhaustively.
The 2nd Battalion, which was preparing to leave on Wenjing, immediately dispatched scouts, and the captives who brought back said, "There are still tens of thousands of volunteers on the north side who are waiting in hiding", but the commander of the 2nd Battalion felt that it was impossible, because it was completely inconsistent with the information he had received from his superiors, so he chose not to believe the prisoners.
When the 2nd Battalion advanced along the path taken by the 3rd Battalion, it soon found a large wave of enemy movement on both sides of the mountain, and when he wanted to retreat, he found that the rear road had been blocked, so he had to build a circular position in situ, but at night, he felt that it was unlikely to make a breakthrough forward, so he threw away his heavy equipment, led the team into the mountain on the south side, circled a large circle, and finally ran back to Wenjing.
In the same place, using the same method to smash the exact same and the first two times, the 2nd Regiment of the 6th Division of the Rok army was enough to go down in history, and the 1st Battalion in Wenjing suddenly had no idea and had to organize a defense on the spot.
At the same time, in the Unsan area and the Chosin Lake area, the US and ROK troops in a state of pursuit were also increasingly stubbornly blocked. From the mouths of the captured prisoners, it was confirmed that at least three of the volunteers were in front of the "United Nations Army", but some of the intelligence conflicted with the intelligence provided by the intelligence department of the "United Nations Army", and after weighing it up, the senior commanders, especially the top level of the US military, chose to believe their own intelligence departments, ignored the confessions of the captives, and some of the intelligence obtained by the ROK army was even considered "nonsense" by the US military high-level.
October 25, 1950, later called "Fate's Day" by American historians, was originally the day when the "United Nations Army" was most likely to find that the volunteers had laid a net in front of them, and the US and Rok armies had enough evidence and enough time to change the original battle plan and get rid of the upcoming "nightmare", but under the "efforts" of many aspects, the "United Nations Army" continued to move forward with great swagger.