On November 27, 1950, Chinese and North Korean forces fought side by side in Hingheung-ri, Korea, swallowing up the mighty U.S. Ace Marine Division, foiling the enemy's plot to move north.
After that, the 241st Regiment of the 81st Division of the 27th Army of the Volunteer Army pursued the area around Neidongzhi, but because the follow-up troops did not keep up in time, the 241st Regiment was unfortunately cut off by the enemy.
In order to turn the tide of the battle, the commander of the first battalion of the 241st Regiment ordered three companies to block the enemy on the front line of Linti Mountain, demanding that they must hold their positions, and in any case hold out until 5 p.m. the next day.
At this time, the commanders and fighters of the three companies had not eaten a meal for two days, and each of them had only eaten one potato. But the military orders were like mountains, and they ignored hunger and fatigue and crossed 5 mountains overnight to reach the position.
Just at this time, the enemy also rushed to the bottom of the mountain, gathered hundreds of troops to charge, and the intensive artillery fire almost flattened the mountain, and several attacks in a row were beaten to the flesh and blood by the commanders and fighters of the three companies who occupied the superior terrain.
Later, the US army gathered more troops to launch a crazy attack, and the commanders and fighters of the volunteer army shouted the slogan of "swearing to coexist and die with the mountain" while fighting.
It was an extremely fierce battle, and in the end only 18 men remained in the entire three-company position, and most of them were wounded. There was a soldier in the machine gun platoon named Li Jingzhai (a native of Menghai Town, Dingtao County, Shandong Province), who was pierced by a bullet on the side of his neck during the fierce battle, but fortunately it was not a fatal wound, and he simply bandaged it and continued to fight.
Instructor Gao Yuanguang saw that everyone's bullets were gone and the machine guns were broken, so he led everyone to build a "melon garden" with overturned stones, and one person built two, which could be used as bunkers and weapons.
When the enemy charged, the soldiers pushed the stones down, and the stones rolling down from the heights rolled faster and faster, touching more and more, which simply became a "rain of stones", smashing the American soldiers into a ghostly wolf howl and retreating.
Gao Yuanguang also encouraged everyone to pull away, build a few more "melon gardens" per person, successfully complete the task of blocking, and then everyone quickly withdrew in the intended direction.
During the retreat, Li Jingzhai insisted on retreating at the end to cover everyone's transfer. Due to several days of hunger and continuous fighting, coupled with a wound to his neck and bleeding a lot, he had just turned over a hill and fainted in a dizziness.
When Li Jingzhai was awakened by the sound of gunfire, it was already late at night, and he continued to grit his teeth and grope over the mountains.
When I arrived at a clearing, I suddenly tripped over something under my feet. As soon as he touched the ammunition box with his hand, he knew that it was the cattle that had accidentally slipped down, and he pried it open with the starlight to see that it was all grenades.
"Haha, it's easy to do with weapons!" Li Jingzhai was extremely happy, pinned a few in his waist, and took one in each hand, preparing to encounter the annihilation that the enemy could destroy, and if he could not destroy it, he would die together.
Arming himself, he walked more vigorously, although he fell behind and got lost, but according to the position of the starlight in the night sky, he decided to go north and try to return to the army as soon as possible.
I don't know how long I walked, the sky was about to light, Li Jingzhai suddenly heard dense footsteps at the foot of the mountain. He was secretly happy in his heart: Maybe this is our troops, no matter which unit it is, find them first!
Unexpectedly, when he approached, he found that the team under the mountain was neither a volunteer nor a people's army, but an American army wearing steel helmets. He looked closely, and there was about a company of troops, sneaking toward the north.
Li Jingzhai thought to himself: Looking at the sneaky appearance of this gang of devils, there must be some conspiracy, first observe what their intentions are.
At this time, seeing an enemy in the form of an officer in the team, he quietly ordered the team to stop, then made a gesture of copying the mountain in front of him, and finally, he slammed his fist down hard and explained a few words in English.
Although Li Jingzhai could not understand what the enemy officer was saying, he could probably understand his intention through his gestures, most likely they were preparing to quietly surround the mountain in front of them and launch a surprise attack.
"Not bad! We must not allow this gang of devils to succeed in their plot! Li Jingzhai immediately tensed up, and he speculated that there must be a volunteer army unit on the hill in front of him, and the enemy was ready to sneak attack after discovering it.
Thinking of this, he did not hesitate to throw the grenade in his hand at the position where the enemy officer was.
Only two loud rumbles were heard, and two clusters of fire suddenly lit up, and the enemy officer fell down in response, and the rest of the enemy also shouted in surprise.
Taking advantage of the enemy's confusion, Li Jingzhai took off all the grenades from his waist and threw them at the enemy.
The US troops were blown up by these grenades, and they were crying wolf, and they really couldn't understand that they were about to approach the target of the sneak attack, so why would they be bombed by this headless and brainless bombing?
When the first grenade thrown by Li Jingzhai exploded, the volunteer sentry on the hill in front of him had already heard it, and he immediately fired a warning shot, and then two platoons of volunteers rushed towards this side.
After Li Jingzhai threw the grenade, there was no weapon available, where did he go?
In fact, he had already rolled into the grass in the chaos, and he approached the enemy group extremely covertly, snatched a gun from the nearest wounded enemy soldier, retreated to a safe distance, and then shot at the enemy.
Two platoons of volunteers arrived quickly, and Li Jingzhai came to fight back and forth, wiping out all the enemies in the valley.
Later, Li Jingzhai learned that the volunteer army stationed on the hill in front of him was the regimental headquarters of the 242nd Regiment. At that time, they only had two and a half platoons of troops, and they did not expect that the US army, which had always launched an attack only during the day, would come to carry out a sneak attack this time. If the enemy succeeds, the consequences are unimaginable.
Fortunately, Li Jingzhai, who had fallen behind, accidentally bumped into this group of AMERICAN troops, and happened to be in favorable terrain, using only a few grenades to destroy the enemy's sneak attack plot, just like the Heavenly Descending Divine Soldier made a miracle.
The commander of the 242nd Regiment personally asked the Eighty-first Division headquarters for Li Jingzhai's credit, praising him for appearing in time to help the brother troops resolve the dangerous situation.
Although this practice of "asking for merit from separate regiments" did not conform to the regulations of the troops at that time, Li Jingzhai was still rated as a first-class meritorious service and became a legend on the battlefield of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea.