"What kind of tiger general are you?"
After the end of the first campaign to resist US aggression and aid Korea, Peng Dehuai, then commander of the Volunteer Army, slapped the table in front of the senior commanders and fighters of the whole army and scolded Liang Xingchu, commander of the 38th Army in front of him.
It should be said that the 38th Army of the Volunteer Army and General Manager Peng can also be regarded as indissoluble. The predecessor was the old troops that disrupted Xiang'egan when General Peng launched the Pingjiang Uprising, and the famous Red Fifth Army during the Long March; during the Liberation War, it turned to the north and south, from the black land dripping into ice, all the way to the end of the world on Hainan Island.
The 38th Army is a veritable army of a hundred battles, plus it is Peng Dehuai's old unit. So, why did he not leave Any face to Liang Xingchu, but instead scolded him in front of everyone?
Picture | Peng Dehuai
It turned out that the volunteer army went abroad for the first battle, and the 38th Army, which was given great hope by Peng Dehuai, received the combat task: to quickly go to the Xichuan River area to pursue and intersperse, and control Xin'anzhou. The fleeing United Nations forces were completely locked up in the Cheongcheon River, the heavenly net of the volunteers, in an attempt to strike at more effective enemy forces. Only by winning the first battle can we play the pride of the Chinese People's Volunteer Army!
The 38th Army, which was responsible for the task of blocking the interspersed attack, misestimated the strength of the fleeing enemy in Hee-cheon, and mistook a U.S. military camp for a black regiment. When the troops were gathered to prepare for the blockade, the enemy had long since fled, disappeared without a trace, and missed the great fighter.
Thinking of this, Peng Dehuai's anger suddenly exploded again, pointing at Liang Xingchu's nose and scolding: "A black regiment is scared like a turtle grandson, and something as timid as a rat really brings out a timid as a rat's troops, and everyone says that you are the main force, I see the main force!" Liang Xingchu was full of anger and retorted: "Boss, you can scold me for waste, you can't scold the 38th Army waste!" ”
Peng Dehuai's eyes narrowed, his hands crossed the belt around his waist, and his voice increased several degrees: "Miss the fighter, Lao Tzu will kill your head!" You're still not convinced? A bold Liang Xingchu, Lao Tzu let you insert into Xichuan, why don't you go? What's so great about you! Liang Xingchu shrunk his neck and did not dare to refute it, but Mr. Peng was breathless, and the more he scolded, the more he became stronger.
"I don't think it's called the 38th Army, just change the name to rat army, call it turtle army!" You Liang Xingchu is that rat general! ”
Mr. Peng's words were like a blunt knife with a missing mouth, sawing back and forth on Liang Xingchu's heart. Not only that, but all the officers and men of the 38th Army held their breath in their hearts. Being scolded as cowards by the veteran leaders of the troops and the supreme commander of the whole army in public, how can these flesh-and-blood soldiers feel good in their hearts? But they were powerless to refute that the enemy had indeed run away under their noses.
The whole army of the 38th Army felt uncomfortable in their hearts, and they felt that they could not lift their heads in front of the brother troops. In particular, Guo Zhongtian, the leader of the sharp knife platoon, felt even more uncomfortable: the honor of a soldier was above all else, and it was worse to be insulted than to cut off his hands and feet.
The face lost on the battlefield is naturally to be recovered on the battlefield.
The blade of a sharp knife
Platoon leader Guo Zhongtian has been very depressed lately, not only he is holding back, but the soldiers in the whole platoon are sullen. It has been a few weeks since The last time General Manager Peng publicly criticized the 38th Army, and the whole army is ready to attack like a sharp arrow wound up and down. Riveting enough to fight a big battle, waiting for an opportunity to let this arrow spin and roar to kill the enemy, washing away the previous shame.
On November 25, 1950, their coveted opportunity arrived. When the second battle began, Liang Xingchu, who was holding his stomach full of anger, immediately asked for orders and won the task of the main attack, and Han Xianchu, deputy commander of the Volunteer Army, personally came to the command of the 38th Army. According to the meaning of Commander Han Xianchu, he wanted the 38th Army to attack and the 42nd Army to assist.
Liang Xingchu gritted his teeth when he heard it, this was a battle to wash away the shame, there was something about his Wu Ruilin 42 Army! So he made a military order on the spot: I can't defeat Tokugawa, and I will be directly removed from my post and punished!
The Lord generals all went out, and the soldiers below naturally screamed and rushed forward. After a day and night of fierce fighting, the Tokugawa was defeated, but after two days of hard work, the United Nations army was defeated and fled on both the east and west fronts, and the situation of the first battle was very similar.
Pictured| Volunteers escort captured Un troops after the Tokugawa victory
After the Tokugawa victory, the 38th Army, which had been humiliated by Ichiyuki, was too late to celebrate, and Shiji's order was issued again. On November 27, when it was discovered that the U.S. troops in Yuchuan had the intention of retreating south, the Volunteer Command issued an order: the 113th Division of the 38th Army was responsible for encircling and interspersing, blocking the fleeing American troops in Sansho, and not letting the Americans run to Pyongyang! 10 hours after the order was issued, there was still no response from the front.
Peng Dehuai was in a hurry, there was no air superiority, and basic communications on the battlefield could not be guaranteed! However, the 338th Regiment of the 113th Division was on a rapid march. At dawn on the 28th, in the extremely cold temperature, the army marched more than 100 miles and rushed to Sanshouli. After a night of rapid marching, the troops were already sleepy and tired, and the division of the Yangtze River was still lying on a stretcher against the sudden high fever.
Within a few minutes of reaching Sansho, the northern reinforcements came like a tidal wave. The soldiers, who had just arrived at the strategic location, did not have time to rest, and immediately threw themselves into battle again. When the news that the 113th Division had already engaged the fleeing enemy troops and was trying its best to block the attack came, Peng Dehuai was squinting at the battle map of the front line, and the chief of staff on the side, Xie Fang, frowned thoughtfully.
"Old solution, I always feel that something is not quite right." Mr. Peng's gaze searched inch by inch as the UNITED Nations troops retreated.
"I also think..." Xie Fang picked up a baton and slid all the way west against the map, stopping at a place called Longyuanli. Mister! Over here! There is a road in Longyuan, from which not only the Americans in Oggawa and Sansho can escape from the encirclement, but also the Yankees in Kiyokawa Gangnam! This mouth is not blocked! ”
Upon hearing the news, Peng Dehuai immediately sent a telegram to the 118th Division, asking them to send a regiment of troops to block the Longyuanli Highway. Not a car, not a single tank can be put over!
The first echelon of the 118th Division was at this time blocking the enemy's breakthrough in Sansholi. In the middle of the battle, the division commander urgently ordered the 337th Regiment to go to Longyuanli to take up the task of blocking the attack.
After receiving the order, the 337th Regiment immediately divided into two routes and marched towards Longyuanli. The second row led by Guo Zhongtian was the sharp knife row in the left road vanguard, which belonged to the sharpest tip of the blade. Their task was to take the lead in rushing to Longyuan to build fortifications, resist the enemy's routing footsteps, and drag them until the large troops arrived.
In the Korean battlefield in the middle of the night, thirty soldiers kept breathing white gas in their mouths and noses, and kept moving forward. Guo Zhongtian cheered the soldiers in the platoon from the side: "Comrades, work harder, don't let the US troops run away!" After twelve hours of continuous marching, in the early morning of the 28th, the sharp knife was firmly "inserted" into the Dragon Source--the enemy's coffin lid was now tightly closed.
Then send them to God
Since the beginning of the battle, the second platoon led by Guo Zhongtian has been sleepless for several days. During this period, fierce fighting lasted for two days and two nights, and marched at extremely high intensity for 12 hours. The warriors had reached the limits of their physical strength and will, and after reaching the mission position, Longyuan Li ge Da Ling, the warriors collapsed to the ground, hoping to rest for a while.
Pictured| Guo Zhongtian
At this time, the enemy had not yet reached longyuan, the sky was still a gray black, and the battlefield was quiet, only the cold north wind could be heard. Guo Zhongtian climbed the main peak of Ge Da Ling, carefully observed the terrain of the battlefield, and did not miss any details.
Through the telescope, the road came from the sky like a long brown snake. As his vision grew closer, Guo Zhongtian found that there was a huge rock standing next to the road not far from Ge Da Ling, and the slope on the side was almost perpendicular to the road under his feet, and it was impossible for the enemy's tanks to drive up.
The boulders are backed by The Ridge of Ge Da Ling, not far from the sharp bends of the road, which means that no matter how fast the enemy convoy is driving in front of it, it must also slow down at this bend. The mountain bags to the left and right of the boulders have been occupied by the comrades of the other battalion.
In addition, there is a natural cave behind the boulder, and if this position is combined with the fortifications, it is simply an excellent shooting boundary, and the weakest abdomen of the enemy is exposed to the muzzle of our guns! Thinking of this, he hurriedly withdrew from the main peak and immediately arranged for the soldiers to build fortifications.
The warriors had only just sat down to rest for a short time, and they were dragged to build fortifications, and they were more or less complaining. "Platoon leader, let's rest and rest, people have been running all night, and their feet are running badly." "Repair the fortifications every day, wait for the first order at the meeting, we have to shift our positions again, and we are busy in vain, and it is better to have more rest and rest with this kung fu, and to fight a war with vigor!"
In the face of the soldiers' complaints, Guo Zhongtian was very angry, but he did not get angry, explaining: "You have followed me for so long, you know that I like to dig fortifications the most, when I took the booty before, what did I let each of you take a small shovel for?" ”
The warriors looked at each other, what else could the shovels do, dig the earth and dig the fortifications! As if seeing the soldiers' inner thoughts, Guo Zhongtian encouraged: "Will the platoon leader still harm you?" Chairman Mao has said that if we do not fight unprepared battles and build fortifications 100 times, even if we only use them once, then our lives will be saved! ”
As soon as the warriors heard the reason, they dragged their tired bodies up from the ground and picked up the small shovels they carried with them and slammed them. When the sky was white, the second row built camouflage and fortifications on the basis of boulders, and the machine guns and ammunition were all fully prepared, and they all huddled in the fortifications ready to take a nap and wait for the enemy to arrive.
Guo Zhongtian was still not satisfied, and he threw the soldiers from the ground and rushed to the main peak of Ge Da Ling to repair some fake fortifications, ready to play a "hat trick" for the Americans. Later, it turned out that these fake fortifications played the self-proclaimed clever American army around, and also laid the groundwork for the subsequent great victory.
When the first rays of sunlight emerge from the horizon, a group of small black dots appear in the sky. Guo Zhongtian immediately got up, picked up the telescope and began to observe: "Four cars, three large trucks carrying troops and ammunition, a military jeep..."
Over time, the American officers in the jeep and the soldiers in the large truck behind were clearly visible. They were all unaware of the impending danger, and they were still laughing and whistling during the escape.
"Squad six! Didn't Americans claim to have some Christmas before? Do you know what that means? Guo Zhongtian crawled motionless in the fortifications, his eyes fixed on the American convoy. The sixth squad leader, also with a machine gun, remained motionless, and replied, "It seems to be some kind of God's birthday, similar to our Rulai Buddha." ”
After the sixth squad leader finished speaking, the position fell into a brief silence, and everyone could hear each other's breathing. As the convoy got closer and closer, guo Zhongtian suddenly shouted, "Then send them to see God!" ”
With Guo Zhongtian's order, all the light and heavy machine guns in the fortification opened fire, and the bullets were all greeted at the fuel tank of the car. Soon there was a loud noise, and the car exploded into the fire. The surviving American soldiers above did not dare to laugh anymore, pouted their butts and rolled over the car, hiding in a small ravine and preparing to escape.
"The enemy advances and retreats, the enemy stays in us to disturb me, the enemy is tired and I fight, and the enemy retreats and I chase." Guo Zhongtian, who was well versed in these principles, saw the situation and urgently ordered the fifth squad to descend the mountain from the right flank and quickly annihilate the fleeing enemy troops, while he himself took the fourth squad down the hill to collect weapons and ammunition.
With a single order, the warriors of the fifth squad descended the mountain like fierce tigers, quickly throwing grenades in the direction of the enemy's escape. The enemy troops hiding in the ditch had nowhere to hide, and with a loud noise, the first battle of the Ge Da Ling Blockade Battle was successful, killing 30 enemy troops.
At this time, a low, faint roar came from afar, as if it were muffled thunder. Guo Zhongtian closed his eyes and listened for a while, and immediately ordered all the soldiers to return to the fortifications. "No one is allowed to shoot without my orders!" He stressed it again and again.
As time passed, a group of steel behemoths came down the road, and it was the enemy tank group, more than 50! Seeing that the tanks were getting closer and closer, the soldiers' expressions also became tense.
At this time, Guo Zhongtian issued an order: "Let me put these tanks over, no one is allowed to open fire!" There is a problem in the company, and I am responsible! The soldiers were puzzled, but the soldier's duty was to obey orders, and no one said much. Only Guo Zhongtian himself knew that their platoon did not have any anti-armor weapons, and even the number of enemy tanks was not as large, and it was absolutely a dead end.
As the enemy's tanks moved farther and farther, Guo Zhongtian's breathing became thicker. Because he found that what was coming at him was a dense pack of personnel carriers and ammunition trucks, one after another, and he could not see the edge at a glance, and this position was the only pass they had to pass through to evacuate.
One husband and one hand, no one can open!
At the sound of an order, the guns fired in unison, and the harsh sound of brakes and explosions completely masked the wailing of the enemy. The road was chaotic, and the retreating convoy of American troops was pinned down at the foot of Ge Da Ling, unable to move.
The subsequent convoy of the US army had to shrink behind the fire net. At this time, the tanks that had just driven through the blockade line noticed an abnormality behind them, and three tanks drove back, and an officer poked his head out of the tank and waved a banner. After a while, hundreds of enemies gathered behind the tanks, and Guo Zhongtian saw at a glance that the US army wanted to play the charge tactic of "step-to-tan coordination" again. He sneered and waved his hand, and Zhang Xiangzhong, the sharpshooter next to him, shot the enemy officer.
The U.S. army was furious and hurriedly called for air support. Within a few minutes, the piercing engine sound of the fighters swept across the long sky, and more than thirty US fighters roared toward Ge Da Ling. Petrol bombs, bombs, and large-caliber machine gun bullets poured out of the Ge Da Ling position like no money, and the bombardment lasted for half an hour, and the main peak of Ge Da Ling was beaten into a red field.
White smoke came out of the mud, rubble and broken trees burned, and the AMERICAN bombers withdrew. After the bombing, the US troops immediately cleared the road, and the convoy behind slowly moved towards Ge Da Ling. However, just after reaching the main peak, the second platoon blocked it to death under the main peak with strong firepower.
The enemy could not have imagined that the fortifications on the Ge Da Ling were actually a cover set up by Guo Zhongtian, and when they bombed, their entire platoon hid behind the boulders and laughed. The bombing by the US military is just a joke! After the bombing, Guo Zhongtian led two squads to block the enemy, and ordered another squad to touch Ge Da Ling to build fake fortifications again.
Then the U.S. army launched several consecutive attacks on the positions of the second platoon, all of which ended in failure. In the afternoon, bombers came again, and this time more, more than 100. Bombers bombarded Ge Da Ling back and forth, looking at the situation in an attempt to use their powerful firepower to blow Ge Da Ling alive to the ground.
At this moment, Guo Zhongtian was squinting his eyes in the artillery hole! After the bombing, the American soldiers screamed and charged again. Guo Zhongtian, who had cultivated enough spirits, continued to block the enemy's offensive at the foot of the mountain, and the enemy threw down dozens of corpses and was not allowed to advance.
Can't fight and then fry, blow up and then fight. At three o'clock in the afternoon, the US army seemed to know that the large troops of the volunteer army were moving to Longyuan and launched an internal and external attack.
In the face of the enemy's desperate struggle and the enemy's abdomen and back, the defense of the three-company position on the side was under great pressure. Guo Zhongtian immediately ordered a squad to march to the flanks to form a network of intertwined firepower and attack the enemy who had no cover on the flanks. At this point, the advantages of fortifications and geographical location were fully exerted by Guo Zhongtian. Wave after wave of enemy attacks was repulsed, and the casualty rate reached more than half.
At more than five o'clock in the afternoon, the large troops of the volunteer army rushed to Longyuankou, and Guo Zhongtian led his troops to rush out of the hidden fortifications, facing the fierce charge and launching a charge against the enemy convoy!
Unfortunately, the American tanks were released
When cleaning up the battlefield and counting the number of enemies killed, Guo Zhongtian scratched his head and stood in front of his superiors in a twisted way to review: "I made two mistakes in this blockade battle: first, I let go of the US tanks, and second, I did not capture a prisoner alive. ”
"That's all right, how many Americans have you killed?" The superiors didn't care, and this battle was really angry.
"215."
The superior thought that he had not heard clearly, and asked again, and Guo Zhongtian's answer was still the same. Good guys, a platoon of 215 enemy people, what a big victory! He asked, "What about your casualties?" Report it. "The fifth squad leader was shocked by the enemy's artillery and had some tinnitus, and it was gone." The superiors were completely shocked, and the team that did not close their eyes for six days and five nights fought fiercely for a whole day, repelled more than ten ATTACKs by the US army, captured a lot of materials, killed 215 enemy people, and actually suffered zero casualties? What a miracle!
After learning of this, the Volunteer Army Headquarters quickly verified that in order to commend Guo Zhongtian's outstanding command and heroic combat in battle, the second platoon was awarded the title of "Guo Zhongtian Hero Platoon" and Guo Zhongtian's special meritorious service was recorded once. And the 38th Army made great achievements in the second battle and became famous all over the world! In one fell swoop, the military prestige of the volunteer army was brought to the forefront, and the American army was frightened, and the shame in the first battle was swept away in one fell swoop.
Commander-in-Chief Peng Dehuai personally wrote after the commendation order: "Long live the Thirty-eighth Army! Therefore, the 38th Army is also called the Banzai Army.
epilogue:
"Historically, the Yalu River has not been an insurmountable obstacle to the division between China and north Korea." When MacArthur said these words in front of the whole world on his toes, and openly sent planes to fly over the 38th Line to peek at the northeast border of the mainland, the anger of the people of the whole country was ignited.
In the face of US imperialism's bullying of the weak by the strong and its vain attempt to set off a new hegemonic act in the East, the Chinese people will never allow it. The whole country has set off an upsurge of "resisting US aggression and aiding Korea and defending the family and defending the country."
"To safeguard peace and defend the motherland is to protect the homeland."
In October 1950, in order to defend the northeastern frontier and assist neighboring Korea, our army held high the banner of the righteous division to form the Chinese Volunteer Army, and marched into the icy And snowy Korea by singing battle songs. All the soldiers know in their hearts that behind them is the frontier of the motherland, and the people of the motherland are the new society that countless predecessors have thrown their heads and spilled their blood in exchange.
The general died in a hundred battles, and the hero returned in ten years. The soldiers who have fought and charged on the battlefield understand the preciousness of peace better than others, and the countries that have struggled in the chaotic world understand the cruelty of war better.
We have been drenched in rain, so we have adhered to the compassion of holding an umbrella for others; we have been colonized and invaded, so we have the courage to fight and resist, even if it is a waste and the people's livelihood is withering. If a division is famous, it is a righteous teacher; if the people's hearts are desired, they will never be destroyed.
The hero who gave his life for the righteousness of fighting aggression is immortal!
The heroes who shed blood and sacrificed to defend the peace of the motherland are immortal!