On the night of May 16, 1953, the squad leader of the 2nd Platoon of the 1st Battalion, 447th Regiment, 447th Division, 1st Battalion, 1st Battalion, 149th Division, 50th Army of the Volunteer Army received an order from his superiors: to send three soldiers to the No. 6 position of Nanshan in Kehuli to take up the defense.
Accepting this task were Huang Zhengmao, Li Jirang, Ma Huagui and three others, who took advantage of the night to quietly touch position No. 6.
For the past three days, it had been held by three soldiers from The 1st Squad, but they were all wounded in the battle and had to be ordered to withdraw.
The situation here is very bad, the entire hill is almost full of American troops, and the No. 6 position has long been completely unrecognizable after the baptism of American artillery fire, and can only rely on a cover ditch to maneuver with the enemy.
Huang Zhengmao and the other three people understood that this combat task was extremely arduous, but they made up their minds: they swore to coexist and die with the position!
At dawn the next day, the U.S. army first dispatched aircraft to indiscriminately bombard the volunteer positions, and then dispatched an infantry platoon to touch the direction of the 4 company command posts on the main position.
Huang Zhengmao saw that if the enemy wanted to approach the command post of the 4th Company, he would have to pass by the left side of position No. 6. Instead, he was overjoyed: "It's just right!" Let's beat them up!" ”
When the Americans climbed up the hillside, Huang Zhengmao led Li Jirang and Ma Huagui to quickly drill out of the ditch, first throwing out a string of grenades, and then using submachine guns to aim at the enemy and sweeping.
The enemy was caught off guard, and a piece of the position fell, and the rest of them all scurried around.
The first attack went smoothly and made the three volunteer soldiers very happy. However, after all, the US military has an absolute advantage in numbers and weapons and equipment, and when they come back to attack again, it will be much more difficult to deal with.
In the fierce battle that followed, Huang Zhengmao's head was scratched by shrapnel in two places, and the blood flowed continuously. But he could not care about this at all, and he and two comrades insisted on stubbornly counterattacking at the mouth of the gap, once again repelling the American troops.
However, Ma Huagui was also unfortunately shot in the battle, and then died heroically. At this time, only Huang Zhengmao and Li Jirang were left, and both of them were head injuries, so they could only bandage each other's wounds and immediately prepare for battle.
The U.S. army launched a third attack, with a total of about one company of troops, and Huang and Li could only retreat to the ditch to fight the enemy.
When the enemy touched it, he knew that the volunteers were hiding in the ditch and began to dig holes. No sooner had a bright hole been dug than the commander ordered several enemy soldiers to climb in.
Huang Zhengmao stood not far away, waiting for the three enemy soldiers to burrow into the ditch and immediately open fire. The enemy soldiers who had been beaten behind did not dare to climb in anymore.
The U.S. military came up with another trick - to smoke it with poison gas. The two volunteer soldiers did not have gas masks, so they took out a towel and wrapped a bag of soil, and then used urine to wet and even, and used it as a mask.
The enemy smoked for half a day, saw that there was no movement in the ditch, thought that the volunteers were all smoked to death, and rested on the top of the ditch unscrupulously.
The surface positions were occupied by the US army, which made Huang Zhengmao and Li Jirang very anxious, but they could only wait for the poison gas to dissipate and then look for an opportunity to counterattack the enemy.
For the next day and night, they persevered tenaciously, fighting hunger and thirst.
On May 18, the U.S. army was convinced that the volunteers in Gaigou had been poisoned by them, and even set up heavy machine guns and small cannons above the heads of Huang and Li, and stormed the command post of the 4th Company on the main peak position.
The guns shook the mud on the top of the ditch, and Huang and Li were covered with dirt.
Although the two of them could not see the specific situation outside, they had already judged that the enemy was attacking the main position.
The enemy was so big that he didn't search the ditch at all, which made the two of them angry and funny.
Huang Zhengmao said that he saw that Li Ji was seriously injured, so he said to him: "I will fight out first and teach the enemy a lesson!" ”
Immediately after, Huang Zhengmao quietly drilled out of the ditch, and seeing that no enemy had found him, he suddenly fired fiercely with a submachine gun, killing the US machine gunner at once, and then shooting continuously at the enemy's dense area.
The US troops were attacking the main peak position, and they couldn't imagine that Huang Zhengmao had suddenly come out from under their feet to attack them, and he was suddenly beaten to panic!
It is reasonable to say that to fight against a company of American troops with one person's strength will only suffer losses in any case.
However, the place and time of Huang Zhengmao's sudden appearance was too strange for the US military, and they were completely unguarded, so that they did not know how to deal with it in a hurry, and they were knocked down by Huang Zhengmao at that time.
At that time, the US troops felt inexplicable, and thought that the volunteer troops had launched a sneak attack from behind, which made the US troops shout strangely!
Although they had a company, there was only one thing they could think of at this time--escape! Escape from this damn place as soon as possible!
Huang Zhengmao saw that the US troops began to flee down the mountain, unceremoniously picked up a machine gun, aimed at the US troops and continued to shoot fiercely, and the position returned to him and Li Jirang's hands.
At this time, the volunteer officers on the other positions of the 4th Company saw the fierce gunfire on position No. 6, knew that they were launching a counterattack, and immediately under the command of the company commander, they dispatched a small detachment to carry out a coordinated pursuit.
Taking advantage of the great confusion of the enemy's army, chasing and fiercely attacking, thwarting the enemy's vigor and injuring the enemy's living forces -- the decision of the company commander has proved to be very timely and effective.
Under the attack of Huang Zhengmao, Li Jirang, and the small detachment, the US army fought more and more chaotically, and finally collapsed in an inexplicable way, a total of more than 70 people were annihilated, and the entire position was still firmly held by the officers and men of the 4th Company of the Volunteer Army.
After the battle, the company commander patiently maneuvered with the enemy with Huang Zhengmao, and at the critical moment suddenly emerged from under his feet to launch an attack, and the heroic performance of one person defeating a company of the US army was highly praised.
In order to commend Huang Zhengmao's heroic deeds, the military headquarters of the 50th Army of the Volunteer Army awarded him a first-class meritorious service, and after he retreated to the tunnel (that is, gaigou), he skillfully maneuvered with the enemy and sought opportunities to annihilate the enemy's tactics were promoted throughout the army.