On January 28, 1951, the famous Han River Blockade Battle began, and after frantic artillery preparations, the US 1st Cavalry Division and the 3rd Infantry Division jointly launched a fierce attack on the positions of the 38th Army, and the 5th Company of the 336th Regiment of the 112th Division was the first to be attacked by the enemy. Under the bombardment of more than 30 tanks and dozens of large-caliber heavy artillery, the positions of the 5th Company seemed to be ploughed over, and the soldiers hiding in the artillery holes were choked by the thick smoke of gunfire, and some of the soldiers' eardrums were shocked and bloodied.
After the shelling, 8 planes came to bomb and strafe again, and also dropped a lot of napalm bombs, and the entire grass was surrounded by a sea of fire. The American commander thought that under such ferocious fire, there would be no life on the position of the 5th Company. However, when a battalion of American troops was about to occupy the seemingly empty position, the warriors of the 5th Company, led by company commander Xu Henglu, rushed over with bayonets and shouts. Wang Wenxing, the sixth squad leader whose right leg was blown off by enemy planes, rolled down the hill with a cluster grenade that had been pulled on the string and rolled into the enemy group, and died with more than a dozen American troops.
The U.S. army was stunned by this magnificent scene, turned its head and ran back, and did not dare to attack again for a long time. After that, the 5 companies repelled the enemy's repeated charge, and the battle did not retreat until noon before the enemy retreated to rest. The warriors took the opportunity to take out fried noodles and prepare to fill their hunger. In the early days of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, the soldiers were often a handful of fried noodles and a handful of snow, but now due to the bombardment of enemy artillery and the high temperature of napalm bombs, the snow in front of the positions of the 5th Company has all melted. The warriors had no saliva in their mouths, and the fried noodles could not be swallowed at all.
A platoon of three squad leaders saw this, asked for three clean handkerchiefs from their comrades, and then took three soldiers and three bags of fried noodles and climbed out a long way to find a snowy field. He first sprinkled a layer of snow on the handkerchief, then sprinkled fried noodles, and finally wrapped it up on his chest to melt the snow. The other three fighters began to "steam" the fried noodles in the same way as the squad leader, and then brought them back to the position. The fried dough that was "steamed" was soft and a little warm, and won the unanimous praise of the soldiers.
Just after noon, the enemy launched an even more ferocious attack on the positions of the 5th Company. Xu Henglu led the soldiers of the whole company to engage in a bloody battle with the enemy, and persisted until dark before being ordered to retreat. After the 5th Company retreated, the 9th Company of the 2nd Battalion of the 334th Regiment, which was adjacent to them, was attacked by a regiment of American troops in the early morning of the next day. After repelling the enemy's three chargebacks, the company commander ordered the entire company to move to the main position in order to concentrate its forces against the enemy's more ferocious attack.
After the 9th squad, which was holding on to the forward position, was ordered to retreat to the main position, the squad leader Chen Xiwen found that the 18-year-old young soldier Pan Tianyan had not followed. I just wanted to order people to go back to look for it, but I found that a group of American troops had rushed to the forward position that the 9th class had just abandoned. So where did Pan Tianyan go? It turned out that when the 9th class was ordered to retreat, Pan Tianyan suddenly had a stomachache, so he found a corner and squatted down to relieve his hands. As soon as he finished untying his hand, he found that a group of enemies had already come up, and he didn't have time to think about it, grabbed a grenade and threw it out, then raised his gun and fired at the enemy, knocking down three or four enemies in a shuttle, and the remaining enemies turned around and ran back.
After repelling the enemy's attack, Pan Tianyan found that he was the only one left on the entire position. He looked down the hill, and the black oppressive enemy was ready to attack again. At that time, Pan Tianyan was only 18 years old, still a small warrior, somewhat nervous, worried that he would not be able to stop the enemy's attack alone. But on second thought, there are so many lonely heroes in the army, why can't you do it yourself? Right! Fight with the American devils here today!
After making up his mind, Pan Tianyan took advantage of the gap between the enemy's attacks and climbed out of the position and retrieved a lot of guns and ammunition from the enemy's pile of dead bodies. Then, some grenades and guns were placed on the front of the position every ten meters, and then the cover of the traffic trench was used to suddenly attack north and south, left and right, and one person hit a squad, making the enemy dizzy. After the enemy's third attack was repulsed, the position suddenly fell silent, and Pan Tianyan probed from the bunker and found 6 American soldiers hunched over and secretly climbing up, ready to carry out a sneak attack.
Pan Tianyan was happy at first sight, surprise attacks and sneak attacks are the best tricks of the volunteer army, isn't the enemy playing a big knife in front of Guan Gong? So he had a plan in mind and deliberately shouted: "Comrades, the enemy has come up and is ready to throw grenades!" Although these US troops who were climbing up could not understand what Pan Tianyan was shouting, they knew from their experience of being beaten in the past that after shouting, they were either grenades or submachine gun bullets, so they hurriedly lay on the ground one by one and fired guns indiscriminately. Pan Tianyan took the opportunity to go around behind the enemy and threw two grenades to reimburse the 6 enemies.
Several unsuccessful attacks, the enemy was ashamed and angry, and gathered a company of troops to relaunch the attack. Pan Tianyan unscrewed the lid of the grenade and was ready to fight the enemy. At this time, the roar of machine guns and mortars suddenly came from the main position, and the original company commander saw that there were still people fighting on the position abandoned by the 9th Squad, guessed that it was Pan Tianyan, so he concentrated his fire to support him. With the support of his comrades-in-arms, Pan Tianyan was like a tiger and repelled many enemy attacks.
According to post-war statistics, Pan Tianyan repelled the enemy's 9 charges in the battle on this day, killed more than 30 enemy people, and wounded nearly 100 enemy people. With this battle, the 18-year-old Pan Tianyan became famous in one fell swoop, becoming a famous lone hero of the 38th Army, and was awarded the honorary title of "Young Hero" by the Headquarters of the Volunteer Army. In 1953, Pan Tianyan returned from North Korea, and soon after retiring from the army for medical reasons, he died of illness in 1970 at the age of 37.
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