On January 3, 1952, the 2nd Battalion of the 446th Regiment of the 149th Division of the 50th Army of the Volunteer Army was ordered to advance towards Gaoyang Attack, with the goal of cutting off the enemy's retreat.
When the volunteers broke through the "38th Line," the "United Nations Army" was like suffering from a "retreat disease," not resisting the volunteers' offensive, but rather collapsing like a mountain.
On the highway from Goyang to Seoul, the British took on the task of breaking the rear of the American army.
Watching the "brothers" of the US military leave their allies in a moment of crisis, the offensive of the Chinese army became more and more fierce, and the British found themselves in an unfavorable situation, and while scolding the American brothers for not being "friends" enough, they turned around and desperately retreated to escape.
The tanks and cars of the Royal Tank Battalion of the Twenty-ninth Brigade of the British Army, smoking black smoke, increased the throttle, and drove backwards violently, at this time no one could take care of anyone, and whoever ran fast could escape the encirclement of the Chinese army.
The volunteers interspersed with troops were actually racing against the enemy's car wheels. In such mountainous areas, the volunteer army could only run to the front of the enemy and block the enemy if it crossed the mountains and cut the path straight through.
The commanders and fighters of the second battalion rushed all the way, and finally rushed ahead of the enemy, laying out a "pocket array" on both sides of the Valley of Fomidi, waiting for the enemy to drill in.
It didn't take long for the enemy convoy to break into the valley, with dozens of tanks and cars in total.
Suddenly, with a loud noise, the volunteer soldiers threw grenades at the enemy convoy, and a cloud of fire appeared in the valley, and a deafening explosion sounded continuously.
The British Royal Heavy Tank Battalion, which had just been fortunate to be out of danger, did not expect the Chinese volunteers to descend from the sky and set up an ambush here.
The machine guns and artillery of the British tanks immediately fired fiercely at the high ground on both sides, and they rushed forward as they fought, trying to kill a bloody road and escape from the valley.
The volunteer soldiers fired at the enemy with fierce fire, but the machine gun shells hit the enemy tanks, only to see a splash of fire, hitting the tanks "dangdang" directly, and the enemy tanks still rampaged.
Two fighters used explosive packs to blow up enemy tanks, but neither succeeded because the fuse of the explosive packs was too long.
The enemy's tanks rumbled forward, and Li Guanglu, deputy squad leader of the Fifth Company of the Third Taiwan Nationality in Sichuan, was so anxious that he picked up the explosives package and rushed up, and then lay down on the side of the road, waiting for the enemy tanks to come over.
This time he learned the lessons of the first two fighters, and the fuse was cut a lot shorter. He mentally calculated the time the fuse burned and the distance the tank was from here.
When the enemy tanks reached the right distance, he suddenly pulled the fuse, pushed it to the middle of the road, and then rolled into the rice field snow on the side of the road.
As soon as Li Guanglu stopped, a cloud of fire and a loud noise engulfed the enemy's tank. He was so close that he fainted from shock.
Several tanks in front of the enemy were destroyed, a pile of scrap iron was piled on the road, the tanks behind were blocked, and the British Royal Heavy Tank Convoy could not advance or retreat, but had to return fire on the volunteers with the fire of the tanks.
Volunteer reinforcements enclosed the British tank battalion in an area of less than 2 square kilometers, enclosing it in a valley.
Volunteer explosive packs and cluster grenades engaged in fierce battles with British tanks.
The whole valley was on fire, and the British tank convoy was chaotic, some rushed down the road, planted down and could not move, some collided with the tanks in front, lost their command before and after, and did not know where to rush.
Li Guanglu and his group continuously carried out blasts on enemy tanks, and the blasting equipment had been used up, so Li Guanglu quickly ran to the battalion command post to find explosives.
The instructor saw that Li Guanglu's face was covered with blood and insisted that the hygienist bandage his wound.
While bandaging, an enemy tank rushed to the side of the battalion command post, and Li Guanglu immediately broke free from the arms of the hygienist, picked up an explosive package and several grenades on the ground, and rushed towards the enemy tank.
He ran to the tank and found that this guy was the size of a house.
"Can this little explosive pack blow it up?" Li Guanglu looked at this slowly squirming monster and thought to himself.
He felt that a small package of explosives would be difficult to pose a threat to this big iron lump, so he jumped into the tank.
The tank was spewing fire, the turret was turning, Li Guanglu was roasted to the point that his face was sore, he couldn't care less about this, one hand grabbed the hot tank guard plate, and the other hand quickly placed the explosives.
Immediately after, he bit the fire pipe with his mouth, shook his head and pulled the fire, and then jumped down.
At the same time as he landed on the ground, the big monster behind him "boomed" and flashed a ball of fire, and he could no longer move.
Li Guanglu got up from the ground, and as soon as he withdrew, an enemy tank drove over again.
He picked up the explosives package again and ran toward the enemy tank, destroying it like the first two.
But when this tank exploded, the fire was brighter than any other, and the explosion was deafening. It turned out to be an oil tank, the gasoline was blown up, and the flames soared into the sky, illuminating the entire valley and reflecting half the sky.
At the moment when Li Guanglu was away from the tank, the explosive gasoline was sprayed in all directions, splashing him with oil. His whole body was on fire, like a burning man.
Li Guanglu hurriedly rolled several times in the snow before he suppressed the fire, but his clothes were all burned.
The soldiers of the two battalions of the Volunteer Army, without advanced anti-tank weapons, only used grenades, explosive packs, and explosive canisters, and relied on their heroic and tenacious fighting style to blow up and capture a total of 31 British tanks, killing, wounding, and capturing 447 enemy soldiers, and completely annihilating the British Royal Heavy Tank Battalion.
In the Korean War, the Volunteer Army destroyed 2,687 tanks of the "United Nations Army", but this battle alone was achieved
The enemy tank units were eliminated in formation, setting a precedent for the superiority of the inferior in weaponry and equipment
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The great war between the Chinese and British armies has fully proved that although weapons are an important factor in war, they are by no means the decisive factor in war. Even if the volunteer army's weapons were poor, they could defeat the modernly equipped British and American troops!
The Valley of Fomidi undoubtedly became a graveyard for the British army on the Korean battlefield, for which the British army called it the "Valley of Death" in the history of the war.
Li Guanglu, who destroyed three enemy tanks by one man, became famous in the first battle, and the leading organs of the Volunteer Army awarded him special merits.
It is worth mentioning that
After the end of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, this special meritorious man did not take credit for himself, but obeyed the arrangements of his superiors and went to work in a remote town in Longxi, Gansu Province, until his retirement.