introduction
Even after many years, the spirit of the volunteer army is still alive and inspiring us at all times.
On the battlefield of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, the heroic Chinese People's Volunteer Army came all the way from the artillery fire, and went through five battles before and after, fighting such as
Ice and snow Changjin Lake, blood battle on Ganling, Iron Plains Blockade Battle
and many other fierce battles.......
Victory on The Ganling Mountains
Always can make the American soldiers on the other side marvel at it,
In their eyes, the Chinese Volunteers always seemed to be able to be reborn under the fierce artillery fire, they did not seem to be harmed by the artillery fire, and seemed to be the Chinese god of war who could not die
Because in the hearts of every volunteer, there is always a belief:
"People are in the position", even if there is only one person left, they will still insist on fighting.
But in fact, in addition to the Chosin Lake, Shangganling, and Tieyuan Blockade, it was involved in the 335th Regiment of the 112th Division of the 38th Army of the Volunteer Army
Pine Bone Peak Blocking Battle, Flying Tiger Mountain Blocking Battle
The fierceness of its battle situation still does not lose any battle,
The volunteers of the 335th Regiment completely beat the iron-blooded soul of the Chinese soldiers in this battle, and played out the military prestige and national prestige.
Just after the battle of Song Bone Peak, the Chinese writer Wei Wei personally climbed na Song Bone Peak and recorded with a pen the magnificent scenes he saw on that day
"Who's the Cutest Man"
This was born, and whenever I read the words in this book, people can't help but boil with blood. But just before this well-known book was published,
Wei Wei actually gave this book to a person on purpose, who was he?
Look at this sentence written by Wei Wei in his own handwriting on the book and you will understand:
"Comrade Fan Tianen, you are the authors of this book." This book of special significance was later collected in the collection of the Chinese Civil and Military Museum.
Van Tien
In 1950, as the commander of the 335th Regiment of the 112th Division of the 38th Army of the Chinese Volunteer Army, he officially entered the Korean War.
Don't look at Fan Tianen as just a regimental commander, but during the entire War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, his achievements and contributions were actually not lost to many senior volunteer generals, and people even evaluated him as one of the most capable regimental commanders in the volunteer army
person
"Fan Tiger"
。
Even his 38th Army was famous in the military
"Viva Army"
A large part of the credit should also go to the 335 regiment and the regiment leader Fan Tianen.
Flying Tiger Mountain became famous in the First World War
But the name "Fan Tian'en" is really well known to people, and the battle that became famous in the first battle he participated in after entering the DPRK was the first battle he participated in.
Flying Tiger Mountain Blockade Battle
"Tell Fan Tianen of the 335th Regiment to let him attack Flying Tiger Mountain and take down Flying Tiger Mountain to see him."
Liang Xingchu
Being able to give such a death order was enough to show his trust in Fan Tian'en. And the facts proved that "Fan Laohu" did not live up to the expectations of Liang Xingchu and the entire 38th Army. Fan Tianen, when he received the order to take Flying Tiger Mountain, was young and strong, intelligent and wise, and fierce in battle. But even so, the Battle of Flying Tiger Mountain had also made him unbearable.
At dawn on November 4, 1950, the volunteers of the 335th Regiment of the 112th Division, led by Fan Tianen, officially launched an attack on Flying Tiger Mountain.
Flying Tiger Mountain is a necessary route to Junyu-ri and Gakugawa
, its military strategic significance is self-evident. And if the UN troops want to go north, they must also pass through here.
Therefore, as soon as he reached the top of the Flying Tiger Mountain, Fan Tian'en sent a battalion of troops to attack the military corner in the front, because he knew that as long as he could take the army corner, he could cut off the rear road of the United Nations army.
But the United Nations forces guarding the corners were far more numerous than the volunteer attacking forces, plus
Walker
The troops of the US 2nd Division, which were also urgently transferred, covered and supported the army, and finally made the initial attack of the volunteer army end in failure.
On the other hand, the US military, with its high mechanization speed, continued to retreat to the area south of the Kiyokawa River.
Once the U.S. military successfully reached the area south of the Cheongcheon River, it meant that Fan Tian'en's military operations lost their original significance.
At this time, Fan Tian'en had mixed feelings, but at the same time, a new battle plan was being constructed in his mind, and if successful, it might be able to completely reverse the situation in the Korean battlefield. So in order to hold the Flying Tiger Mountain and gain more time to redeploy troops,
Fan Tianen's 335th Regiment almost with flesh and blood to resist the torrent of steel armor of the American army.
American planes, tanks, and artillery, from the ground to the air, poured frantic ammunition and plowed artillery against the volunteers again and again.
Behold, the tragic scene of "Ten Thousand Tigers Flying" on Feihu Mountain, in the face of shelling, in the face of hunger, the volunteer soldiers of the 335th Regiment stubbornly held out for five days and five nights, and did not let the US army take a step forward. Even if the Flying Tiger Mountain blockade was carried out until the last day, such a fierce hand-to-hand combat continued to be staged. But at this time, the 335 regiment was already there
There was no gun, no cannon, no food, just bayonets, shovels.
Faced with such a difficult situation, division commander
Yang Dayi
Had to be ordered
Troops withdrew from Flying Tiger Mountain
。 But At this time, Fan Tianen, who had already killed the eye, did not think so:
"Retreat? Why retreat? Why retreat........ Retreat again to the Yalu River, desperately trying not to let the enemy retreat one step forward! Don't dry! ”
However, the military order could not be violated, and even if Fan Tian'en was unwilling, he had to follow the arrangement of his superiors on the night of November 8 to lead his troops to fight and retreat until they retreated to that area, which was more than 100 kilometers away from Tokugawa
Huaping Station
But the volunteers of the 335th Regiment have done a very good job of this mission.
It has repelled 57 attacks by US and ROK troops at or above the company level (100 people), repeated battles for positions have been fought 9 times, killing and wounding more than 1,800 enemy prisoners and more than 700 casualties
It was because of their insistence that they successfully blocked the enemy's movements and won valuable time and opportunities for other volunteer units to deploy encirclement operations on the korean western front. Even though this blockade battle was not as good as the Battle of Shangganling in terms of casualties and combat duration, it was still one of the most fierce battles fought by the volunteer army after entering The DPRK, and Fan Tianen and his 335 regiment became famous in this battle.
A who's who was later published in Japan
Who's Who of the Korean War
In this who's who, the Japanese have made this comment:
Fan Tian'en became the head of the regiment in 1950. In the first campaign, 1 regiment (Commissar Zhao Xiaoyun), who commanded only short firearms, penetrated into the rear of the allied 9th Army, seized Flying Tiger Mountain (622.1 Heights), and threatened the Ninth Army's supply station. After being counterattacked by the 7th Division of the Allied Rokmen Army and a unit of the US 5th Regiment, supported by a large number of air artillery fighting vehicles, it held out for five days and nights, and took the initiative to break away from the enemy army, so as to become famous."
Pine Bone Peak achieved another good result
Just over 20 days after the end of the Battle of Feihu Mountain, Fan Tianen and the 335th Regiment immediately ushered in their second bloody battle after entering the DPRK.
Pine Bone Peak Blocking Battle.
Matsuku Peak, a seemingly inconspicuous hill with a main peak of about 288.7 meters, but the road to Kōsuri and Gakugawa is blocked here, and the road at the foot of the mountain winds and winds here, making it another strategic point to facilitate the defense and annihilation of the Us army in one fell swoop.
As long as our army can preemptively occupy Songkuo Peak, it can take advantage of the topographical characteristics of Songkuo Peak to block the southward retreat of US military vehicles
So who will complete this blockade mission?
Division Commander Yang Dayi once again aimed at Fan Tianen and his 335 regiment, so he ordered it
"Desperately hold on to Pine Bone Peak to prevent the enemy from escaping from the north."
In order to buy as much time as possible for the large troops to encircle, the volunteers of the 3rd Company of the 1st Battalion of the 335th Regiment were responsible for the task of blocking and annihilating the enemy after seizing the high ground on the north side of Songkuo Peak.
But when the volunteers of the 3rd Company had just climbed the Pine Bone Peak and had not yet had time to build a fortification division, a large number of American troops poured into the road like a tide. whereas
This group of American troops was the unit of the US 2nd Division that had just been attacked by the 40th Army in the corner of the army, and they were defeated and retreated all the way, fled here, and coincidentally encountered the 3rd Company of the 1st Battalion of the 335th Regiment.
Seeing this, the volunteers of the 3rd Company were excited, sharpening their knives one by one, and preparing to fight with the retreating American troops. However, in order to escape for their lives, this group of AMERICAN troops also seemed to have made desperate preparations with the volunteers, and under the cover of heavy fire from tanks, aircraft, and artillery, they officially launched an artillery attack on Songkuo Peak, and another fierce battle on the Korean Peninsula was staged.
Bullets flew, shrapnel splashed, and continuous artillery fire ignited the entire hillside for a time, and the pine bone peak suddenly lit up with raging fire and smoke.
After several hours of fierce fighting, the US army launched a counterattack again, continued to increase the strength of the troops, the input of ammunition, the entire Songbone Peak position burned to the sky, the US ground troops under the cover of firepower, the volunteer army took turns to attack, the battle was in full swing, extremely fierce.
Among them, the instructor Yang Shaocheng resolutely decided after the bullets ran out, picked up the bayonet for the ground battle, and without thinking much about it, he rushed straight to the enemy and faced the siege of many US troops.
After pulling out the grenade and pulling the fuse, with a loud noise, he died with the Americans.
Like Yang Shaocheng, there were many volunteers who chose to fight with their lives, and the US military seemed to have no longer dared to believe what it saw in front of its eyes, and thought that there would be no more traces of life in the hellish fire. But whenever they were ready to seize the position that seemed to be no one anymore, they were suddenly attacked by the volunteers, shooting and bayonet fighting.
Although the American army had been armed to the teeth, well-armed, and had taken advantage of the air, it had done everything in its power, but after several hours of fierce fighting, it was still unable to break through the resistance of the volunteers and advance even one step.
"See you in the afterlife, good brother"
The fierce battle ended with several volunteer soldiers saying goodbye to each other, then
Picking up their bayonets and shovels in their hands, they launched a final charge at the American troops, burning the last flame of their lives, and they burned the American troops to death, but also burned themselves.
The sound of gunfire and artillery on the position gradually stopped, and what remained on the position were hundreds of American corpses, as well as the remains of nearly two companies of volunteer martyrs. The blockade finally stopped, and when they boarded the position where the three companies of soldiers were located, they saw:
"The guns were completely shattered, and machine gun parts were thrown all over the mountain. The bodies of the martyrs retained a variety of postures, some holding the enemy's waist, some holding the enemy's head, some grabbing the enemy's neck and throwing the enemy to the ground, and some falling with the enemy and burning together. There was also a soldier, who was still clutching a grenade in his hand, and the body of the projectile was stained with brain plasma, and the American devil who died with him burst open and smeared the ground..."
This scene, let's
The regimental commander Fan Tian'en couldn't hold back any longer, his eyes were red, and his eyes were soaked with tears.
Fan Tianen in the film and television drama
brief summary
At the Battle of Songkuofeng, the Korean battlefield was once again a fierce contest, and even the US troops could not help but sigh after being heroically blocked by Fan Tian'en's troops
“The Gauntlet”
, meaning
"Iron Gloves"
The troops led by Fan Tian'en not only successfully completed the task of blocking the attack, but also ushered in their own heroic highlight moments in the Korean battlefield. The Battle of Songkuofeng not only won the reputation of "Long Live the Army" for the 38th Army, but also the regimental commander Fan Tianen was also killed in two bloody battles at Flying Tiger Mountain and SongkuoFeng.
He became one of the most capable regimental commanders among the generals of the Volunteer Army and was awarded the title of "Model RegimentAlty Leader".
Footage of Fan Tian'en's interview in 2000