At the end of the Fifth Campaign, due to the elongation of the front line and the continuous bombardment of enemy aircraft, the logistical supply of the Volunteer Army gradually could not keep up, and some troops were already short of food and ammunition. Without food and ammunition, how can the battle be fought? On 21 May, Shiji sent a telegram ordering the 3rd, 9th, and 19th Corps to retreat. On the way back, due to various reasons, the 180th Division of the 60th Army was entangled by the enemy, and the division commander Zheng Qigui commanded the troops to fight hard for many days, but they could not get rid of the enemy.
On May 28, the 180th Division, trapped at Eagle Peak Mountain, ran out of ammunition, and Zheng Qigui decided to disperse and break through. On the way to the breakthrough, more than 300 wounded people with limited mobility were encountered, and Wu Chengde, the political commissar of the division, took the initiative to stay and lead them to break through. Finally, under the tenacious cover of the soldiers, the division commander Zheng Qigui, the deputy division commander Duan Longzhang, and the chief of staff Wang Zhenbang broke through the siege and returned to the military headquarters, while Wu Chengde was unfortunately trapped behind the enemy, with only more than 30 people left.
Wu Chengde, a native of Xindi County, Shanxi Province, joined the Ranks of the Red Army very early, and after the Outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression broke out in full swing, he fought guerrilla warfare behind enemy lines many times and had rich experience in guerrilla warfare. Therefore, after being trapped this time, Wu Chengde was very calm, and he led these more than 30 people to skillfully maneuver with the enemy, and finally successfully escaped the enemy's pursuit and entered the Red Root Mountain. Because the U.S. army lacked experience in guerrilla warfare, they specially hired the Japanese army that had participated in the invasion of China as an adviser to deal with the guerrilla group led by Wu Chengde.
At the suggestion of Japanese advisers, the U.S. army burned all the villages near Akagen Mountain, creating a no-man's land within a radius of nearly a hundred miles, and then built bunker fortifications near all the exits of Akagen Mountain, in a vain attempt to trap the guerrillas in the mountains. Due to the enemy's tight seal, the guerrillas were unable to go down the mountain to get food, and eating became the biggest problem. Fortunately, it was summer, and the wild mulberries in the Akagen Mountains had matured, and the warriors went up to the trees to pick mulberries to eat when they were hungry.
A few days later, Wu Chengde found a lot of frogs in a deep ditch, he organized the soldiers to catch frogs, and then put them on the wire to roast, and after ten days, the frogs in this ditch were caught. Then the warriors began to dig up wild vegetables and mushrooms to fill their hunger, and this lasted until the autumn. At this time, the wild chestnuts and wild walnuts in the Akagen Mountains were ripe, and they became the main food for the guerrillas. Relying on wild vegetables, wild mushrooms and wild mountain fruits, the guerrillas survived the autumn again.
Soon the cold winter came, and the guerrillas faced the harshest test. At this time, the temperature had dropped to more than -20 degrees, and the guerrilla fighters had no clothes to protect themselves from the cold, and their stomachs were empty, so they could not withstand the cold. Wu Chengde decided to dig a cave for the winter, and he divided the warriors into two groups, one group digging a hole with a bayonet instead of a shovel, and the other responsible for transporting the excavated soil hundreds of meters away to cover up, so as not to be detected by the enemy.
After more than ten days of hard work, the guerrillas finally dug two caves on the hillside that could both accommodate people and keep warm. After the problem of living was solved, the problem of eating was put in front of us again. At this time, it was already the deep winter season, and there were neither wild vegetables nor wild fruits in the Chigen Mountain, so Wu Chengde decided to personally take people down the mountain to get grain. The fighters could not bear the political commissar to take risks and dissuaded them one after another, but Wu Chengde knew that among the guerrillas, only he had experience in fighting guerrillas behind enemy lines, and he was really uneasy about sending others down the mountain.
Eventually, Wu Chengde set off with 6 fighters, who alertly bypassed the enemy blockade and ambushed a U.S. transport vehicle on the road, obtaining two bags of rice and some cans. On this day, the guerrillas were as lively as a festival, and the fighters finally had a full meal. But this operation also alarmed the enemy, and the American army thought that the guerrillas had already starved to death in the mountains, but they did not expect that they were still fighting tenaciously. So two battalions of troops were dispatched to take the military dogs into the mountains to search and suppress.
Wu Chengde's guard Xiaohu took the lead in discovering the enemy and shot down the enemy's military dogs, Wu Chengde immediately led the soldiers to move, and finally got rid of the enemy after a bitter battle, but sacrificed seven or eight soldiers, including Xiaohu. After that, Wu Chengde organized the soldiers to ambush the enemy's transport vehicles many times, and although there were gains every time, there were also casualties among the soldiers each time. By the end of June 1952, the guerrilla group of more than 30 men was only 4 men left.
However, the 6th campaign that Wu Chengde had been looking forward to had not been launched for a long time, and at this time they had been fighting a guerrilla attack behind enemy lines for 14 months, and now they really could not hold out. Wu Chengde was determined to lead the remaining 3 fighters to break through, and on the way through, they encountered a patrol of American troops, and Wu Chengde and others were unfortunately captured. After the enemy learned of Wu Chengde's identity, they repeatedly threatened and seduced him in a vain attempt to extract information from his mouth about our army, but in the end they did not get anything.
After the end of the Korean War, the two sides exchanged prisoners of war, and Wu Chengde returned to the side of the volunteers. After Peng Zong learned of Wu Chengde's return, he personally received the hero who had fought a guerrilla war behind enemy lines for 14 months. The arduous guerrilla life behind the enemy lines, coupled with the torture he was in the prisoner of war camp, Wu Chengde, who was originally a one-meter-eight-man, weighed less than 90 pounds at this time. Looking at the skinny Wu Chengde, Peng Zong was so distressed that he shed tears. However, due to his experience as a prisoner, Wu Chengde was transferred to a battalion-level cadre after returning to China, and only after 27 years did he regain his reputation and enjoy military treatment. In March 1997, Wu Chengde died of illness at the age of 84.
The War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea was a national war for our country, and this battle brought out military and national prestige, and made the whole world look at New China with astonishment. Written by the famous writer Li Feng
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