At the end of 1950, during the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, after three battles, the volunteer army was unstoppable, killing all the way from the north to the south, repelling the "United Nations Army" led by the United States to the south of the 38th Line.
Just when the volunteer army was in hand, Ridgway, commander of the US Eighth Army, discovered the shortcomings of our army. Because the superiority of the air force and navy is not on our side, the logistics supply route has been seriously harassed by US bombers, resulting in logistical supply difficulties for our army.
The ammunition and food of the soldiers in the front could not be supplied in time, and the individual volunteers could only carry food and ammunition supplies for a week at most, so during the volunteer operations against the United States, they often had to stop for a little repair when the battle was carried out until the seventh day or so, waiting for backup supplies. This feature was discovered by Ridgway, commander of the US Eighth Army.
The cunning Ridgway grasped this characteristic of the volunteer army, took advantage of the us army's air and equipment superiority, and deliberately stretched the battle line very long in order to achieve the operational purpose of conducting a roundabout attack on the volunteer army.
The volunteers took a sip of fried noodles and a mouthful of snow
In early 1951, the 50th Volunteer Army took the lead in invading Seoul, the capital of South Korea, and then occupied The city of Suwon, 44 kilometers south of Seoul. Due to the excessive length of the front line and the difficulty of logistical supply follow-up, the volunteer army had to choose a strategic retreat and voluntarily abandon the already occupied city of Suwon.
Not far north of Suwon Castle, at Baiyun Mountain, the 149th Division of the Fiftieth Army encountered American troops. The volunteers found that the city of Suwon, which our army had just retreated out of, was occupied by the US Eighth Army. This Eighth Army was Ridgway's ace unit.
The 149th Division received orders to ascertain the enemy situation near Baiyun Mountain and to explore the strategic intentions of the enemy in and around Suwon City. This task eventually fell to Dai Ruji, deputy battalion commander of the 3rd Battalion of the 447th Regiment.
Dai Ruji
Dai Ruji formed a reconnaissance detachment of 200 people from Baiyun Mountain to Suwon Castle, with the purpose of directly penetrating the enemy's heart, ascertaining the details of the enemy's army, grasping the next strategic intentions of the US army, and capturing a "tongue" back.
Dai Ruji, a native of Lijiang, Yunnan Province, is a Naxi man. The athletes of Naxi in Lijiang have been famous for their loyalty and courage from ancient times to the present, as a disciple who came out from under the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain, Dai Ruji thought in his heart that he must win honor for his hometown.
From Baiyun Mountain to Suwon Castle, it was necessary to pass through several blockade lines arranged by the US army. Dai Ruji and his party quietly crossed the first blockade line, and the US military sentry personnel were unaware.
When passing through the second blockade line, the reconnaissance detachment was seen by American soldiers patrolling in the distance, and the American soldiers shone searchlights on Dai Ruji and the others, and then a voice was heard, "Harrow! ”
Dai Ruji calmed down and told the warriors not to panic and continue to move forward. The enemy sentry saw Dai Ruji and his party waving wildly, thinking that they were south Koreans, and after shouting twice, they stopped shouting. Dai Ruji and his party successfully passed the second blockade line.
The group continued to the intersection of Suwon City, where two machine guns were mounted. Just as Dai Ruji and his party were thinking about how to enter the city, american soldiers found them.
The enemy's machine guns began to shoot wildly at Dai Ruji's squad, and Dai Ruji and the others had to fight back desperately. At the moment of the first shot, Chen Youzhi, a member of the squad, stepped forward, pulled out two grenades, crossed the street, and threw two grenades at the position of the enemy machine gunner.
After the grenade exploded, the enemy machine guns were instantly dudded, and Dai Ruji saw the situation and ordered the squad to quickly rush into the city center. Just after Dai Ruji led his men into the block, he looked back and found that the enemy's machine guns were once again sounding in all directions. Dai Ruji led a small group of people to follow him quickly to the city center, and most of the members of the reconnaissance detachment were blocked by enemy machine guns outside the city.
Dai Ruji did not care so much, and led a group of people through the enemy blockade line to a crossroads in the center of Suwon. On the left side of the intersection, there is a small western-style building, which is brightly lit, crowded, noisy, and surrounded by barbed wire.
A few days ago, Suwon City, which had been baptized by war, had long been an empty city, and now there was such a brightly lit place, and there was no doubt that this must be an important base for the US military.
Outside the small western-style building, Dai Ruji counted the number of people around him, counting himself, there were only eighteen warriors in total. Dai Ruji was not afraid, and immediately made a combat deployment: ordered Ni Yucheng to lead a group to block the street entrance; Liao Zhongliang blocked the hospital door; Wang Hongxun cut off the telephone lines around the building; and the rest of the personnel all followed Deputy Battalion Commander Dai into the small Western-style building.
Attacked the Suwon command
It was too late, it was fast, Dai Ruji led the volunteer soldiers into the courtyard of the small western-style building, several jeeps inside were starting, and the American soldiers were still carrying out activities in the courtyard. Dai Ruji led the volunteer soldiers like divine soldiers descending from heaven, and before the enemy could react, they were killed under the submachine gun fire of the eighteen warriors. The enemy, who was hiding in the bottom of the car in a panic, was immediately captured by the reconnaissance detachment.
After the enemy in the courtyard was cleared, the deputy platoon leader Wu Liang rushed into the building, and after several gunshots, Wu Liang carried out an American soldier with a carbine around his neck. Wu Liang's arm was hit by an enemy bullet, and the blood flowed, and he rushed into the building again despite the wound on his arm.
In the courtyard, illuminated by the lights of the jeep, the volunteers found the armband of the captives with the word "MP" on their arms, and immediately shouted excitedly: This is the headquarters of the enemy, we have captured the gendarmes! Rush in!
Dai Ruji led eighteen warriors into the building, and after a rain of bullets, the volunteers swept away the enemy gendarmerie in the building. In this battle, eighteen warriors killed and wounded more than sixty enemy soldiers, and then burned more than ten cars and military supplies in the courtyard.
After the battle, the eighteen warriors took prisoners and quickly withdrew from the east gate of Suwon Castle. On the way back, Dai Ruji led eighteen warriors to cross several enemy blockade lines again, and although they had gone through several twists and turns, they finally retreated completely and successfully retreated to the rear position of our army at Baiyun Mountain.
On this mission, in addition to killing and wounding more than 60 AMERICAN troops, Dai Ruji's squad also captured 2 enemy mortars, 1 radio station, and 1 light machine gun, and brought back a living US gendarmerie prisoner to successfully complete the task.
It was from the mouth of this captured American gendarme that we learned the next step of the US military's combat intentions. The so-called soldiers will come to block, water will come to cover, know each other and know themselves, and never lose a hundred battles. Because of this crucial and important information, the volunteer army made corresponding countermeasures, and finally played a very important and positive role in the fourth campaign, the fifty-day and night blockade battle on both sides of the Han River.
Ruji Elementary School
In 1983, 30 years after the end of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, Dai Ruji died of illness. According to the strong demands of the fathers and villagers, the Lijiang County People's Government renamed a primary school "Ruji Primary School" and built the Dai Ruji Hero Monument on the campus.
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