The Battle of Unsan was the first confrontation between the Volunteer Army and the US Army on the Korean battlefield, and finally the 39th Army of the Volunteer Army defeated the US Ace 1st Cavalry Division, annihilating more than 1,800 enemy troops, destroying and capturing 28 tanks, more than 170 vehicles, and 119 artillery pieces of various kinds. In addition, 4 planes were also captured, which was also the only time our army captured US aircraft in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea. In this battle, the 39th Army emerged a lot of heroes, such as Zhao Shunshan, a deputy squad leader of the 3 US troops, who killed three deputy squad leaders of the US army with a cross pickaxe in hand-to-hand combat, such as Luo Liangsi, a 17-year-old explosive hero.
However, there were also 3 cowards in this battle, all of whom were from the first battalion of Wang Fuzhi's 343rd Regiment. On November 2, 1950, a unit of the 8th Regiment of the 1st Cavalry Division fled to the area of Long Chau Dong, where it was blocked by the 3rd Company of the 1st Battalion of the 343rd Regiment. In order to escape, the US army dispatched aircraft, heavy artillery and tanks to indiscriminately bombard the positions of the 3 companies. Wang Fuzhi, a regimental commander who was anxious to understand the situation of the battle, personally called the 3 companies, but the telephone line to the forward position was blown up and could not be connected.
Soon after, a bad news came: "The three companies have lost their positions!" ”。 The reason why the position was lost was not that the soldiers were not brave, but mainly because the deputy battalion commander of a battalion escaped from the front. Before the war, the deputy battalion commander was sent to the 3rd Company to strengthen the command. After the battle began, the heavy artillery of the US army blew up the positions of the 3 companies, the napalm bombs dropped by the enemy planes burned everywhere on the positions, and the enemy's heavy tanks also rampaged in front of the positions of the three companies.
Seeing that the enemy's fire was so fierce, the deputy battalion commander was timid, and even left his troops to escape from the front, and ran to the shelter in the rear regiment in one breath, just in time to be seen by Liu Benzhong, the head of the organization unit responsible for taking in the wounded there. The deputy battalion commander escaped from the front, seriously affecting the morale of the three companies, and soon after the position was lost. After occupying the positions of the three companies, the enemy began to attack the main position of the first battalion. Dozens of enemy planes in the sky frantically bombarded and strafed in turn, and the infantry of the enemy underground made a wave of impact under the cooperation of tanks.
Under overwhelming enemy artillery fire, the remaining two companies of the first battalion also suffered heavy casualties. In the past, whether fighting the Japanese army or fighting the Nationalist army, I had never encountered so many aircraft, so many heavy artillery and such serious casualties. When the instructors of the first battalion saw that the casualties were so large, they thought that the position must be unguardable, so they took out their pistols and injured their right hand, and then ran down the position, and the commander of the first battalion was slightly injured in the ribs, and even ran down the line of fire with the battalion instructor.
In this way, the three commanders of the first battalion escaped from the front one after another because of the timid battle, and the position of the battalion that had lost its command was in danger of being broken by the enemy at any time. While reporting the situation to the army, the regimental commander Wang Fuyi urgently appointed Xue Qiang, the head of the reconnaissance unit, as the acting battalion commander and commanded a battalion to continue fighting. After the enemy's artillery bombardment, the tanks guided the infantry to attack the main position of a battalion. The enemy thought that under such ferocious fire, the soldiers of the first battalion should have suffered all casualties, so the arrogant American troops no longer bent forward but straightened up and rushed upwards.
When the enemy rushed to the top of the hill, the soldiers of the first battalion seemed to come out of the soil, firing fiercely at the enemy with the weapons in their hands, and the batches of grenades also blossomed in the enemy group, and the enemy was knocked down in an instant, and the remaining enemy troops fled in fright. Wang Fuzhi, who saw this scene in the telescope, was very happy, but also wondered: the position of the first battalion was so badly destroyed by the enemy, how did the soldiers survive the artillery fire?
In order to figure this out, between battles, Wang Fuzhi took the guards to the position of a battalion. Acting battalion commander Xue Qiang rushed forward and asked, "Commander, how did you get here?" "I'll see how you persevered in the face of enemy fire." Wang Fuzhi said. After turning around the position, Wang Fuzhi found that a battalion had dug one fire ditch after another on the entire hill, separating the burning place from the fortifications, and the enemy's napalm bombs could not spread to the fortifications no matter how strong they were.
And all this was Xue Qiang's idea, in addition to the soldiers to dig a lot of anti-gun holes and single bunkers, greatly reducing the killing and injury caused by enemy artillery fire. Wang Fuzhi was very satisfied with this commander who was willing to use his brain, and he shook Xue Qiang's hand and said, "This is a great creation and a great contribution of yours, and it is really good to solve a big problem that we did not expect!" After the war, the three commanders of the first battalion who escaped from the battlefield were severely punished, and Xue Qiang was credited with a great merit, and the broken fire ditch he created was also popularized throughout the army.
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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