From November 30 to December 1, 1950, the enemy and us fought a general battle south of the Price River, sansho-ri, and north of Longyuan.
At that time, the situation was: 30 kilometers from north to south were battlefields everywhere, and the enemy was interspersed and divided into several pieces by the volunteer army.
Judging from the entire battlefield, the volunteers surrounded the enemy; in individual battlefields, some volunteer units were surrounded by the enemy.
The 38th Army fought in companies or battalions. The sound of gunfire is the order, and wherever there is an enemy, shoot wherever there is. There was a sense of undermanning everywhere, and divisional command posts were often surrounded by enemy forces. As a result, the personnel of the organs also took up arms and became combatants.
On November 30, deputy Yang Yonghui (founding major general) personally led the 114th Division command post into the middle of the Us army.
When the troops set out, the 1st Battalion of the 341st Regiment took a shortcut along a mountain path and plunged into the depths of the enemy. The command post of the 114th Division followed the 1st Battalion to Madong, found a train tunnel, and settled the command post.
The 1st Battalion continued in the direction of Longxingli. In the division's command post were Deputy Jiang Yonghui, Commander of the 114th Division Zhai Zhongyu (Founding Colonel), Political Commissar Li Wei (Founding Colonel, Major General in 1964), Deputy Division Commander Song Shaohong, and others; there were several staff officers, guards, correspondents, telephone soldiers, radio station operators, and translators; there were no troop guards, only a guardian platoon of the division's logistics, and more than a dozen U.S. prisoners were also detained.
The command post was busy setting up radios and pulling telephone lines. Suddenly, a group of enemies was seen coming from north to south. The rumble of enemy tanks and the bombardment of howitzers was incessant, and the hole was surrounded by enemies on all sides.
Although the enemy was fleeing, it still posed a great threat to the 40 or so people in a division command post.
Zhai Zhongyu immediately ordered the logistics supervision platoon to take out two squads, each guarding a tunnel entrance, and all the personnel of the command post were ready for battle.
At this time, everyone was worried about the leaders at the command post and suggested that they withdraw from the train tunnel.
Jiang Yonghui was not in danger, and he said confidently, "What are you afraid of?" The enemy is already a bird of prey, and he simply does not have the courage to fight us. At present, we should focus on doing two things well: First, we should protect the telephone and radio and contact the troops as soon as possible; second, we should pay attention to observing the enemy's situation at any time. ”
Zhai Zhongyu, commander of the 114th Division, called to inform Wang Pili, the political commissar of the 342nd Regiment (founding colonel, colonel in 1964), to quickly send troops over, but Wang Pili only replied, "Okay, I'll do it right away..." and didn't speak.
It turned out that the enemy B29 bombers began to bomb them there. Enemy planes were strafing at the detached houses at the regimental headquarters. Wang Pili had just left the house with the telephone, and a string of aerial bombs came over.
Zhai Zhongyu could hear all this clearly on the phone, only to hear Wang Pili give orders to the troops: "Tell the 2nd Battalion to run to relieve the siege of the division headquarters..." On the one hand, zhai Zhongyu added a report: "I will immediately send troops." ”
The 342nd Regiment was stationed 4 kilometers away from Madong, and it was daylight again, and enemy planes were hovering in the sky in groups, constantly bombing and strafing.
The 2nd Battalion had not yet arrived at Madong, and after the 3rd Battalion of the 337th Regiment of the 113th Division counterattacked to Longyuanli, madong came to Madong.
Jiang Yonghui said, "You have come just in time, I have no soldiers here, and you will immediately launch an attack on the enemy!" ”
Zhao Jixiang, commander of the 3rd Battalion, looked around, all the enemies, and he commanded the 3rd Battalion companies to attack separately.
Just as Jiang Yonghui estimated, the enemy did not dare to fight a decisive battle with our army and ran away as soon as he fought. Some of the enemy were wiped out by the 2nd Battalion, and the rest fled south, lifting the siege of Madong.
At this time, Wang Pili was still worried about the division command, and called to inquire about the situation, and Zhai Zhongyu told him: "The 3rd Battalion of the 337th Regiment has beaten the enemy away, and the 2nd Battalion has just arrived. ”
"Commander, tell the 2nd Battalion to run back, I'm nervous again!"
Wang Pili did not wait for Zhai Zhongyu to reply, put down the telephone handset and went to deal with the emergency again.
Can you not be nervous? When the 38th Army went abroad, more than 40,000 people, one-third of the military division organs and logistics, and 2 battalions were left in Tokugawa, and less than 30,000 people could participate in the battle.
On the two roads 30 kilometers from north to south, the enemy surrounded by identified numbers were the US 1st Cavalry Division, the US 2nd Division, the US 25th Division, the Turkish Brigade and the ROK 1st Division, as well as the artillery and transport units of the US 8th Army, with a total strength of several times more than the Volunteer Army.
The enemy occupied the east station south of Madong, affecting the troops to attack forward. Jiang Yonghui also ordered Zhao Jixiang, commander of the 3rd Battalion of the 337th Regiment, to destroy the enemy at the East Station.
Zhao Jixiang looked at the terrain and quickly organized an attack on the East Station. In two hours, the enemy at the East Station was destroyed, and everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
Li Zhongxin,the deputy commander of the 112th Division (major general in 1964), came to Madong with part of the 336th Regiment, and Jiang Yonghui said, "You are here to listen to my command." ”
The enemy plane seemed to have found something, and with one force to throw a bomb at the mouth of the tunnel, Jiang Yonghui said to Li Zhongxin: "Among the prisoners you have brought, there are no officials who will be at the mercy of the board and let the enemy plane leave." ”
Li Zhongxin and the interpreter said to the captives: "Your plane has come to blow you up, don't you want to be at the mercy of the board, waiting for death?" ”
A US signal soldier took the initiative to come out and placed an arrow with a white cloth at the mouth of the tunnel, and a "two" behind the arrow with a red cloth, and the arrow pointed in the direction of the fleeing US troops.
In this way, the tunnel was indeed safe, but the fleeing American troops were hit by many bombs.
The U.S. 25th Division and the 1st Cavalry Division were under siege by the volunteers, and they failed to break through several times, suffering heavy casualties and low morale. It has been cut into small pieces of Dragon Fighting dragons by my interspersed troops, and compressed into a small area of the child's block.
At 17:00 on the 30th, Liang Xingchu (founding lieutenant general) commander of the 38th Army ordered a general attack on the besieged enemy. After 20 hours of fierce fighting, the enemy's structure was completely disrupted, and the enemy had to abandon equipment, equipment, artillery, and vehicles to disperse and break through.
After the battle, Deputy Commander Jiang Yonghui's outstanding performance in commanding from the front and not being in danger was praised by the headquarters of the Volunteer Army, believing that he led the 114th Division to boldly intersperse and made important contributions to blocking the enemy.