In November 1950, after the volunteer army captured Tokugawa, the U.S. army was not willing to lose, and immediately made two arrangements in order to plug the gap in the battle, restore the situation in the Tokugawa area, and preserve the support point of the "vice":
The first was to urgently dispatch the reserve Turkish Brigade from the Price River to the direction of Tokugawa; the second was to let the two battalions of the First Division of the US Cavalry set out from the Price River in a vain attempt to seize the Gazhi Ridge in order to restore the Tokugawa and block the passage of our army to the west.
In this way, the Gazhi Ridge became the focus of contention between the enemy and us.
The Gazhiling Mountains are highly forested and rugged, and there is a road winding up the mountain from the east side, passing through the mountain pass, and winding down the mountain on the west side to the Price River. Local people call this section of the highway "Eighteen Plates".
The 2nd Battalion of the 243rd Regiment of the 114th Division of the 38th Volunteer Army, which served as the vanguard battalion, marched all the way and arrived at the west side of the Pingdiyuan at 21:00 on November 27, only 2 kilometers from The Gari Ridge.
However, the enemy ran fast in a car, had already preemptively occupied the yakou, and built a campfire on the side of the yakou road to keep warm.
The situation is extremely urgent, and it is necessary to seize time and seconds to seize this fortress, otherwise the entire campaign plan will be "in vain".
At this time, Zhai Zhongyu, commander of the 114th Division, was under the command of the 342nd Regiment, and he immediately decided to take advantage of the darkness of the night and take advantage of the enemy's main force to adopt sneak attack tactics to seize this dangerous pass in one fell swoop.
The 342nd Regiment was very familiar with the terrain in this area, and the defense of Yuefeng Mountain and the attack on Longfengli were all carried out under the Gari Ridge.
The sneak attack began, with Regiment Commander Sun Hongdao and eight companies climbing up the cliff from the flank and detouring back behind the enemy, while political commissar Wang Pili led seven companies to approach the enemy from below along both sides of the road.
Wang Pili walked at the front of the troops, heard a noise behind him, and immediately ordered the seven companies to lightly load and drop everything, bringing only guns, bullets, and grenades.
He felt the big toe shoes make a "crunching, crunching" sound when he stepped on the snow, so he took the lead in taking off the big toe shoes. Wearing only socks, the troops quietly approached the enemy from both sides of the road.
On the road at the pass, the enemy was divided into several piles sitting leisurely around the fire or smoking a cigarette, and none of them thought that death would soon come.
The volunteers advanced 80 meters from the enemy, and the enemy did not realize it. The commander of the seventh company was about to fight, and Wang Pili waved his hand and moved forward again.
It was only 20 meters away, and they could clearly see that there were about 10 fires, and each fire was surrounded by about 10 enemies. It just so happened that there was a bend in the road here, and the terrain was extremely favorable for me to sneak in.
Wang Pili divided the seven companies into a dozen groups and launched an attack on the enemy. After he gave the order to attack, Seven Companies rushed toward the enemy with a shout of kill, and a series of grenades exploded in the fire. The enemy dies, runs, and messes up.
At this time, regimental commander Sun Hongdao and the eighth company climbed above the Gari Ridge, saw that the seventh company had started, and immediately rushed down to form a pinch attack with the seventh company against the enemy. The enemy was beaten on the abdomen and back, so he had to retreat to the east side of the pass to organize resistance.
Under the combined attack of the seventh and eighth companies, the battle was over in just 20 minutes. Our army occupied Yakou and also captured more than 20 prisoners.
The enemy on both sides of the Gazhi Ridge, seeing that the situation was not good, immediately climbed into the car and fled westward.
Sun Hongdao saw the lights of the car circling around on the "Eighteen Plates" highway, and immediately ordered the Eight Companies to insert a row straight into the lower end of the "Eighteen Plates" to intercept the enemy.
In order to grab the front of the fleeing car, a long row of leaders rolled down the hill.
The hillside was covered with grass and rocks, the soldiers' clothes were torn, their skin and flesh were torn, and some of the soldiers fell and injured, and finally they rushed ahead of the enemy's fleeing car and threw grenades at the car.
The first car caught fire and crossed the road, blocking the road behind it, and the enemy jumped out of the car, some running up the hill, some burrowing under the car to resist.
Wang Pili organized the soldiers to shout, but English and Korean were useless. Angry fighters used submachine guns to strafe under each car, resulting in many deaths. A reinforced company, only a dozen alive.
Although the enemy was destroyed, it was difficult to find out the name of this foreign force--these prisoners were neither white nor black, all of them were stubble, and their faces were covered with yellow sauce, and they were asked in English and Korean, but they just "grunted" and kept talking, and no one knew what they were saying.
What was the origin of this foreign force made the volunteers wonder.
Regiment commander Sun Hongdao listened carefully, and the words "Turki" and "leg Erqi" often came out of the mouths of the prisoners, and suddenly realized: "They are Turks!" ”
With this said, the warriors discovered that the prisoners' armbands had a pattern of stars and moons on them. If you look closely, this pattern is also on the car, on the paper cigarette box, and on the daily necessities bag.
Wang Pili said: "Don't ask, they are a Turkish brigade, our troops do not know Turkish, quickly send them back and hand them over to their superiors for handling." ”
The most impressive impression of these Turks was that each of them had several large copper bowls and small copper spoons for eating at the (fresh) people, which also made the soldiers feel very confused.
Why did the Turks collect this tableware? The reason is actually quite ridiculous.
It turned out that the Turkish soldiers heard that the country was full of gold, and the eating bowls, spoons, and chopsticks used by the people were all gold. MacArthur boasted that this offensive was the last general offensive to end the war of aggression against Korea, and the Turkish soldiers, like the American army, snatched many copper rice bowls and copper rice spoons from ordinary people. When their bags could not fit, they drilled a hole in the copper bowl, tied it up with a rope and hung it behind them, and ran to "clang" and make a "jingling" sound.