On the evening of October 29, 1950, the 353rd Regiment of the 118th Division of the 40th Army of the Volunteer Army received an order from its superiors: to rush to Longgudong in Chushan County, and cooperate with friendly neighboring troops to surround and annihilate the 7th Regiment of the 6th Division of the Korean Army.
Previously, the 353rd Regiment had been continuously interspersed in the area of Wenjing and Chushan, and the generals were very tired. However, after receiving the new combat order, they were immediately energized, and they could not rest and rushed north.
The 2nd Company of the 2nd Battalion, as the sharp knife company of the whole regiment, took the lead in reaching Yonggudong.
As the troops walked, they entered a grand canyon and found the terrain extremely treacherous: two large mountains sandwiched a road in the middle, and the soldiers walked on the road as if they had entered a dark and narrow alley, with only a line of sky overhead.
Such terrain could not help but surprise experienced warriors, who all understood that only a machine gun was needed to block the mountain pass, and even thousands of troops and horses would not want to break through this canyon.
I really responded to that sentence: I was afraid of what I wanted, and just at this moment, the front of the volunteer army suddenly sounded a fierce gunshot!
The 3 platoon commanders and fighters who walked in the front were the first to be attacked by the enemy, and the troops immediately stopped advancing.
The enemy held a guard at the road pass, firmly blocking the passage forward with machine guns. The volunteer soldiers had to use the steep cliffs on both sides of the road as cover.
But in such harsh terrain conditions, the warriors not only could not advance, but could not even fight back at the enemy on the spot. The 3 platoons in front of them were in the most critical situation, and the powerful enemy fire suppressed them on the road and could not be withdrawn.
In the pitch-black night, it was completely unclear how many enemies were blocking in front of them. It can only be judged from the intensity of the gunfire that the enemy's strength far exceeded that of our generals, and that the enemy had at least five heavy machine guns firing wildly at the volunteers.
At this time, the entire canyon was filled with fire and smoke, and the fierce gunshots were intertwined with their echoes in the canyon, like a storm! It can be said that the officers and men of the Second Company of the Volunteer Army have fallen into an extremely critical predicament!
A squad leader Cui Zhaoxin was keen to find that there was a hillside not far from the right side of the front, and the slope was not too large. He immediately reminded his comrades-in-arms: "Comrades come with me and climb the hillside over there!" ”
The warriors immediately moved and climbed up the hill after him. But they had just climbed halfway when they were spotted by the enemy, and after a burst of machine gun fire, several fighters were shot and fell.
Cui Zhaosheng understood that in the face of such a desperate situation, he could only advance and could not retreat, and he immediately shouted: "Rush, rushing up is victory!" ”
Under his leadership, 11 warriors struggled to climb the hillside, and then quickly plunged forward along the cliff, quietly circling behind the enemy.
Cui Zhaosheng led the warriors to jump off a three-meter-high cliff, ready to launch a counterattack against the enemy from behind. Unexpectedly, as soon as they jumped down, they found that there were enemies on the left and right of the front and back -- they landed right in the center of the enemy group.
The warriors stabbed an enemy soldier to death with a bayonet, and Choi Siu-sang also shot a Rok soldier with a gun. The sudden blow launched by the two men stirred up the enemy's ranks into panic and chaos.
At this time, the enemy soldiers around them were gathering more and more, and the volunteer army had only 11 people, and there was no position to rely on.
Just when the situation was extremely critical and Cui Zhaosheng was anxious about it, he suddenly saw a round and deep bomb pit not far in front of him. He immediately led the fighters to jump in, and found that the bomb pit was 3 meters in diameter, just to make a cover for them.
Cui Zhaosheng immediately organized a counterattack, and 11 volunteer soldiers just lay on the edge of the crater, grabbed their light machine guns, rifles, carbines and submachine guns in their hands, and opened fire fiercely at the enemy gathered around!
That is to say, at this time, Cui Zhaosheng and 11 other volunteers used this bomb pit located in the center of the enemy group to build a strange wheel-shaped fire point, which played the attack effect of "center blossoming", and immediately confused and disrupted the enemies in all directions.
Because the volunteers were mixed up with the enemy, the enemy's heavy machine guns did not dare to strafe anymore, and could only let their troops turn around like headless flies.
The volunteer soldiers in the canyon wasted no time in launching a counterattack, echoing a group of fighters in the crater. This combination of internal and external firepower suddenly brought the entire volunteer army out of the desperate situation and turned the tide of the war in one fell swoop.
The Fourth Regiment of the Sixth Division of the ROK Army carefully set this trap, thinking that it could put this volunteer army unit in a "pot end", but it did not expect that like the heavenly gods, 11 volunteers were drilled in the center of their positions, and a fire point with great lethality was also constructed, and soon the whole line collapsed.
Due to the limitations of the terrain, a very strange scene appeared on the battlefield: the Rok army on the road screamed and fled to the cliffs on both sides, while the ROK troops on the mountain ran to the road in despair.
When the Roks who were fleeing south were about to approach the reserves they were guarding at the southern end of the canyon and preparing to be used to tighten their "pockets", they were regarded as volunteers who broke through the front line and were fiercely shot by their reserves...
The more the volunteer soldiers fought, the more happy they were, and the reinforcements of the follow-up troops dispersed the entire regiment of the Rok army.
During the pursuit, the soldiers found that the enemy had parked many cars on the road ahead before they could drive away, and a large number of ammunition boxes and military blankets were piled up on the vehicles.
Due to the sudden rise of Cui Zhaosheng and others, the volunteer army staged a great reversal of the battlefield. The battle annihilated most of the 7th Regiment of the Rokshok 6th Division, capturing more than 70 vehicles, more than 10 60 guns, and a batch of supplies.