At the beginning of the founding of New China, war broke out in Korea, and the United Nations army led by the United States repeatedly ignored the warnings of the mainland, crossed the 38th Line in one fell swoop, and boasted that Haikou would occupy all of Korea before Thanksgiving. At the same time, the United Nations army and the South Korean troops fired bullets and shells at the mainland, and in order to safeguard the mainland's territorial integrity and people's security, the Chinese People's Volunteer Army held high the slogan of "Resisting US Aggression and Aiding Korea, Defending the Homeland and Defending the Country" and secretly crossed the Yalu River. The so-called U.S.-led United Nations forces attacked together on the eastern and western fronts, forming a pincer offensive and launching an attack in the direction of Chosin Lake, in a vain attempt to occupy all of Korea before the Yalu River froze. The headquarters of the Volunteer Army, already seeing the intentions of the enemy army, issued an order to the 38th Army, the ace of the Volunteer Army, to advance in the direction of Flying Tiger Mountain, block the northward advance of the United Nations army, and also block the retreat of the United Nations army that had already advanced northward, so as to buy time for the deployment of the volunteer army. And how did the 38th Army hold out for five days and five nights under the repeated bombardment of enemy aircraft and tanks in the case of backward weapons and equipment? And how fierce was the battlefield, the volunteer army actually repelled 57 consecutive enemy attacks? Why did he order the 335th Regiment to retreat after five days and five nights, and then what happened?
Background to the war
MacArthur was in command
The US army dispatched nearly a hundred fighters, and a large number of artillery bombarded the Feihu Mountain position.
The 112th of the 38th Army is the 335th Regiment that has been holding the position of Feihu Mountain for five days and five nights.
All the positions on Feihu Mountain were exhausted, and fierce battles and shouts filled the entire position.
Even in this difficult situation, the volunteer soldiers repelled the enemy's attacks one after another, and did not retreat from their positions. But just as he was holding his position, Yang Dayi, commander of the 112th Division, called Fan Tianen, commander of the 335th Regiment:
"Order the 335th Regiment to evacuate 30 kilometers from Feihu Mountain."
Fan Tian'en, of course, did not understand and asked:
"Back? Our troops are stuck in their positions and do not retreat a step, and now you say that you want to retreat? After retreating to the Yalu River, how to fight? ”
But the soldiers were to obey the order, and Fan Tian'en still organized the troops to retreat, waiting for the next arrangement.
The 38th Army lost the first battle
In the first campaign to resist US aggression and aid Korea, the headquarters of the Volunteer Army decided to first use the strength of one army to cooperate with the Korean People's Army on the eastern front.
The main force of the 5 corps of the Volunteer Army was then dispatched to suddenly attack the United Nations troops on the Western Front,
However, the task of the 38th Army of the Volunteer Army was to rush towards Xichuan, except for the 114th Division under its command as a reserve, 113 engaged the enemy head-on, and 112 was responsible for interspersing detours on the flanks.
Annihilate the Heecheon South Korean army army, and then reach the Cheongcheon River to intercept the enemy's retreat, achieving the goal of encircling and annihilating the enemy.
U.S. troops on the march
It is regrettable that the enemy army collapsed as soon as it clashed, and the 38th Army of the Volunteer Army was delayed in action, although it engaged a small group of enemy troops on the way to the attack, although it eliminated more than 1,000 enemy troops, it delayed the march of the troops. When the vanguard of the 38th Army rushed to Xichuan, it mistakenly thought that the troops stationed in Xichuan were American troops, and because they had not fought with the American troops, they did not carry out offensive operations.
By the time it was discovered that hee-cheon's garrison was a South Korean army, the enemy had long since fled.
Not to go to the 38th Army has not yet reached the strategic position on time to intercept the enemy's retreat to the Qingchuan River, this series of mistakes,
In the end, the volunteer army's encirclement and suppression plan was not perfectly realized, and most of the enemy troops escaped safely to the south area of the Cheongcheon River.
The mistake of the 38th Army made the volunteer army headquarters very angry, the original encirclement circle of the volunteer army was not sealed, the headquarters really could not forgive such a low-level mistake, the commander was very angry and pointed at the commander of the 38th Army and scolded:
"The enemy in the Xichuan area is weak, so why delay in attacking?" Do you know that because of this mistake, you have missed the good war situation of our army? Violating military orders, do you know what you did? ”
In the case of the 38th Army's missed fighter plane, when the Volunteer Army headquarters held a combat meeting, it directly reprimanded the commander of the 38th Army as a "rat general" and said heavily: "After fighting all my life, there is no small trick, I only know that I command so many fighters to fight, it is not a joke, we must seriously deal with it, and the deployment is precise."
The more the commander uses a distraction, the less the soldiers sacrifice, and the more the soldier's life can be used to accumulate victory.
All warriors have parents, wives and children waiting at home, and if sacrificed, the pain is unacceptable. ”
This picture shows the volunteers accepting the surrender of American troops
Due to the small plan to encircle and suppress the enemy, the main forces of the enemy army also all withdrew to the south area of the Cheongcheon River, and also occupied a favorable position.
The volunteers continued to fight, the soldiers were exhausted and could no longer fight the battle, and then ended the first battle, and all the troops retreated to the rear.
However, the enemy army has gathered a large number of troops on the Cheongcheon River, and at any time it is possible to continue to advance northward, in order not to let the speed of the United Nations army's advance to the north too quickly affect the rest and supply of the main forces of the volunteer army, the volunteer headquarters issued an order to the 38th Army:
"The Feihu Mountain position is the only way for the enemy to advance northward, and the 112th Division of the 38th Army is ordered to seize the Feihu Mountain position, which is also the last chance for your troops to fight for breath, if you can't hold feihu Mountain, then your army should not be the main force!"
Rush to attack the Flying Tiger Mountain position
Seize Flying Tiger Mountain
The 38th Army also knew that this battle was a battle to justify its own name, so it ordered the 335th Regiment of the 112th Division to arrive at Feihu Mountain.
In order to make the superiority of the battle situation poured over to his side, the commander of the 38th Army of the Volunteer Army immediately sent troops to advance south in two ways under the unfavorable circumstances for the first time, and the 113th Division first advanced all the way to XinxingDong, and then wanted to advance in the direction of the stadium, and then approached the courtyard and junyuli area, and the 112th Division attacked the Sumindong and Feihushan positions, which could directly threaten the junyuli area and hit the target of encirclement and annihilation.
He also ordered the 335th Regiment to attack Feihu Mountain as a vanguard force to prevent the enemy from fleeing.
As an important strategic location, the height of Feihu Mountain is only 622.1 meters, and the terrain is precipitous, which is the only way to reach the Junyu-ri and Gagawa areas. Whether the UN forces are advancing northward or retreating, they must pass through this place, and the Junyuri area is a transit point for the UN forces to advance northwards.
If the volunteers occupied this place, it would be equivalent to choking the enemy's northward transport line, and whether it was attacking or retreating, the American army would pay a huge price for it.
In the preemptive occupation of Feihu Mountain, the 2nd Battalion of the 335th Regiment of the vanguard troops rushed to the flat area under the main peak of Feihu Mountain and began to attack.
Here the unit defending the Volunteer Army is a regiment of the Seventh Division of the South Korean Army,
There was also an artillery battalion of the US Second Division, and as the volunteers charged towards Flying Tiger Mountain, various bullets and artillery were already fiercely attacking the troops.
The volunteers engaged the enemy in a white-knife battle
Although the enemy's firepower was unusually fierce, the enemy relied on the terrain to counterattack our army again and again. After the heroic resistance of the volunteer soldiers, they finally rushed to the position, and after approaching the main position of Flying Tiger Mountain,
The volunteers engaged in a fierce white-knife battle with the enemy, and the sound of knives colliding with knives was heard throughout the position, and the roar resounded throughout the highlands.
The 335th Regiment relied on the fog to take the position of Flying Tiger Mountain in one fell swoop,
Annihilated more than a thousand troops of the South Korean Seventh Division,
After capturing the position of Feihu Mountain, the fortifications were immediately built, because the volunteer army knew that
It is more important to hold your ground.
The 112th Division immediately deployed the battle plan, the 1st And 3rd Battalion of the 335th Regiment cooperated with the main force to launch a counterattack in the direction of Junyuri, and the 2nd Battalion held the position of Feihu Mountain and built two small hills on the enemy's inevitable road to block the enemy on the flank.
Lieutenant General Walker learned of the information that Flying Tiger Mountain had been lost, and he immediately ordered 3 divisions of the South Korean Army and 1 division of the Us Army to assemble to launch a counterattack around Flying Tiger Mountain.
The U.S. military also knew that if Flying Tiger Mountain was lost, the transportation route and its rear would be threatened. The US military immediately dispatched dozens of fighters and a large number of artillery to bomb the Feihu Mountain position, and the enemy, under the cover of artillery fire, rushed towards the position with great momentum.
When the enemy approached the position 30 meters, the heavy machine gun immediately shot out a pile of bullets, and then threw out a pile of grenades, and the front of the position was full of enemy corpses, and the enemy who had not yet rushed up had long been afraid to run back when they saw this scene.
After many times of blocking the enemy, when the fierce battle was counted, the enemy army did not get any advantage, and every crazy counterattack of the enemy would be met with stubborn resistance from the 335 regiment, and they had to retreat down the mountain in disgrace.
Volunteer light weapons blocked enemy attacks one after another
Fierce battle on Flying Tiger Mountain
The situation on the battlefield has always been unpredictable, and although the first campaign to resist US aggression and aid Korea did not accomplish the goal of encircling and suppressing the enemy, the United Nations army was still arrogant and arrogant, shouting
"Christmas Offensive",
The enemy did not understand the terrible things about the volunteers. In order to achieve better combat results, the Volunteer Army Headquarters decided to adopt it
"Enticing the Enemy Deeper"
Strategically, the various units of the Volunteer Army were assembled towards the designated combat area.
In order to buy valuable time for the deployment of the volunteer army, the order of the 335th Regiment of the 38th Army was to stick to the position of Feihu Mountain, cover the volunteer troops to enter the rear, temporarily rest, obtain time for supplies, wait for the fighter to appear, and put the enemy into the designated area to give them a blow.
The commander of the 38th Army of the Volunteer Army knew very well that the 335th Regiment was isolated and helpless.
With the strength of a regiment, in the face of fierce attacks by American fighters and artillery, it was extremely difficult to hold the position of Flying Tiger Mountain.
More importantly, the 335th Regiment abandoned many heavy weapons on the way to the attack, and now can only rely on light weapons to hold the position of Flying Tiger Mountain. Nevertheless, the 335th Regiment must also hold its position,
This was also the last chance of the 38th Army, and it was also an important factor in the entire war situation.
Enemy fighters bomb positions
After Fan Tianen, the commander of the 335th Regiment, received the task of defending Feihu Mountain, he was also very worried, and the troops threw away the heavy things on their bodies in order to attack.
In addition to bullet weapons and grenades, not even the shovel for digging the fortifications was taken, and now it is necessary to defend against enemies several times more than oneself.
Fan Tian'en was also very difficult.
However, in order to defend the position of Flying Tiger Mountain, he also had to immediately tell the soldiers to dig trenches, and if there was no shovel, he would dig with a bayonet, and dig with his hands to do a good job in the fortifications as soon as possible.
In order to better hold the position,
The warriors desperately dug with bayonets and used their hands to pick up the soil, and both hands had long been scarred, and blood and dirt were mixed together.
When the instructors in the regiment, who had no combat experience, braved the enemy's artillery fire to bring the shovels down the hill back to the position at the risk of their lives, the soldiers could not help but cry when they looked at the shovels in their hands.
The enemy's offensive began immediately, with nearly 20 American fighters coming at the 335th Regiment and countless bombs frantically bombarding the positions. Immediately after that, a bunch of soldiers began to charge frantically towards the position, and the volunteer soldiers hid in the fortifications, and when the enemy approached, a shuttle of bullets and grenades was thrown at the enemy.
The three platoons withstood the fierce attack of the enemy, repelled seven enemy attacks, the troops suffered heavy casualties, and one soldier was cut off by shrapnel, but the belief in holding the position was always in his heart, and the wounds still resisted the enemy.
The enemy suffered heavy casualties in the fierce battle of Flying Tiger Mountain
Seeing that the charge did not achieve good results, the US army increased its offensive intensity, and fighters, artillery, and napalm bombs fired countless times at the positions.
In just one day, the enemy dropped more than 2,000 shells.
And how tragic the Flying Tiger Mountain position is,
The enemy and our army have repeatedly fought for positions up to 16 times,
White-knife battles with the enemy are often fought on the ground.
Among them, on the position of the fifth company, a soldier was bandaging his head when suddenly three American troops locked him tightly.
There were only 5 people left on the position, and in the fierce battle, he kicked one American soldier off the cliff, shot down another American soldier, and detonated a grenade on the American army to kill him.
Scenes of multiple enemies abounded on the battlefield.
When the soldier Li Yonggui was blown up by the enemy with a gasoline bomb in his position, he took the lead in leading the soldiers to rush toward the enemy, and the enemy saw the fierce volunteer soldiers rushing from the sea of fire and retreating in a hurry. When he ran out of ammunition, he ran back to the headquarters to take a dozen grenades and heavy machine guns to continue to block the enemy. On the second run back to the headquarters to get his weapon, his leg was blown off, and he dragged his short leg to get the ammunition to the position. As he resisted the enemy, he kept repeating a sentence:
"We are fighting for the people and the country, and we are voluntarily going to Korea to fight American devils!"
Resisted the enemy in the position until the last drop of blood was shed.
Stick to your position and don't take a step back
The 7th class leader also shouted loudly:
"As long as there is still one person on the position, the position is still ours."
After deputy squad leader Zhao Caishan lost an arm, he still shot at the enemy, and the enemy's bullets hit Zhao Caishan's body one by one, and until the last moment, he maintained an offensive posture. At this time, the position had already become a sea of fire, and when the soldier grabbed the grenade and threw it at the enemy, a row of bombs exploded at the bottom of his feet, and the fragments immediately pierced his body.
The volunteer soldiers fell and glared at the enemy.
Volunteer soldiers ate stones to fill their hunger
On the Flying Tiger Mountain position, it is not only necessary to block the enemy with bullets running out, but also to consider eating and drinking.
Especially until the night of the battle, the enemy attack temporarily stopped. Because the volunteer army rushed to attack, did not bring much dry food, at night was really hungry and sleepy, and it was particularly cold, and the soldiers had been resisting with strong faith.
The machine gunner warrior Liang Renjiang was really hungry and could not bear it, and inadvertently found that eating stones could alleviate a little hunger, so he often put a stone in his mouth and nibbled it.
The warriors were very surprised and asked him, "If the stones can be eaten, then what else is there to cultivate?" The machine gunner Liang Renjiang responded: "If you don't believe in trying, if you salivate a little more, you won't be so hungry." Subsequently,
The position was filled with the sound of gnawing stones.
North Korean farmers deliver grain despite the danger
In order to hold the position of Feihu Mountain, Fan Tianen, the commander of the 335th Regiment, sent Feng Xiaoxian down the mountain to prepare grain. At first, the Korean peasants who hid did not know who Feng Hyo-hyun was, and thought that they were people from the South Korean government, but although they talked a lot, they still did not gain the trust of the Korean peasants. The volunteers then found the North Korean workers in a lead mine and let them know that the volunteer forces were helping them protect the country and resist U.S. imperialism.
When the village cadres learned that the volunteers were fighting the American imperialist invaders, they took the lead in killing their own cattle and asking the peasants to cook several large pots of broth to the positions. Other farmers were also allowed to gather rice and send people to the positions under the strafing of American warplanes.
On the way to the Feihu Mountain position, each road was under the surveillance of Us warplanes, and the people who led the delivery of food were north Korean farmers in their 60s. With wooden basins full of rice on their heads, they marched in an orderly manner under the rain of enemy guns and bullets, and the Korean peasants fearlessly walked towards the position of Flying Tiger Mountain.
Because they know that the volunteer army is protecting their country with their own lives, the volunteer army is the teacher of benevolence and righteousness.
A North Korean farmer with a wooden basin of rice on his head crawled toward his position after being hit in the leg by an enemy fighter and fell. The volunteer soldiers looked at the meal brought by the peasants despite the danger, and they were in no mood to eat it with tears in their eyes. When the enemy attacked again, the volunteers put down the rice and shouted:
"Fight, Lao Tzu will not eat, kill these American devils!"
Flying Tiger Mountain blocked 57 enemy attacks
And the Korean people who had finished feeding the volunteers also threw themselves into battle, blocking the enemy one after another, and the casualties on the positions were also increasing, including the Korean people who supported them.
At the end of the battle, almost all the positions of Flying Tiger Mountain were in a situation of white-knife warfare, and the roar and fierce battle sounded unevenly on the position.
The enemy also knew that the volunteers were running out of ammunition at this time, so the enemy army fought a wheel war, consuming the volunteers one at a time. Flying Tiger Mountain has been in a situation of repeated contention in the white-knife battle between the two sides,
Although the volunteers had no ammunition, they still held their positions firmly in their hands.
At this time, the 335th Regiment had been holding the position of Feihu Mountain for five days and five nights, resisting the crazy attacks of South Korean and American troops again and again.
Repelled 57 enemy charges with weapons that lagged behind the enemy.
Without the cover of warplanes and artillery,
At the cost of more than 700 casualties, more than 1800 enemy troops were killed.
Show weakness and lure the enemy
The 335th Regiment received orders from its superiors to retreat, and knowing that its mission had been completed, the Volunteer Army headquarters was ready to adopt the strategy of "luring the enemy deeper".
Interestingly, Van Tien played a trick on the Americans during the retreat, sending troops to block the enemy on the high ground, and immediately withdrew from the high ground after repelling.
After the enemy bombarded the highlands indiscriminately, they found that the highlands did not see any volunteer soldiers at all. While the American troops rushing up the hill were still in a daze, the enemy fighters just happened to bomb on the high ground, treating them as volunteer soldiers, and blowing up the American soldiers on the mountain high ground.
In accordance with the instructions of the headquarters, the 335th Regiment fought and retreated in the Kowloon Li area, and entangled with the enemy for several days. The U.S. and South Korean armies were also dizzy by this time.
When the 335th Regiment of the 112th Division of the 38th Army and the 356th Regiment of the 119th Division of the 40th Army were on the task of luring the enemy deeper, the headquarters decided to release a group of prisoners of war in order to confuse the American troops.
The volunteers also deliberately threw a pile of worn-out guns on the road and deliberately told the American prisoners of war: "Our troops have run out of ammunition and medicine, can't fight, and are ready to return home." ”
Under a series of operations by the volunteer army, the plan to lure the enemy deeper began to appear.
The western front was attacked by the US Ninth Army, equipped with armored troops, artillery and other mechanized units, and dispatched more than 300 tanks, nearly a thousand artillery pieces, more than 7,000 cars, and a strength of up to 50,000 people.
The U.S. 9th Army headed north, and all it saw along the way were weapons and ammunition dropped by volunteer troops. He also proudly said to his subordinates: "They all say that the Chinese army is difficult and dares to fight, and it is no more than that in front of the US military." ”
Subsequently, the scouts said that the soldiers captured in the previous battle had been released. When U.S. Army Commander Kurt asked why he was released, the released soldier said: "The Chinese soldiers said that because the Yalu River was blown up, the logistics supply could not keep up, and they had to release the prisoners in an attempt to leave the battlefield and evacuate Korea." ”
When the U.S. army heard this, it felt that the volunteer troops were scared, so they immediately advanced north.
The volunteer army "lured the enemy deeper" and encircled and suppressed the US troops
However, what they never expected was that the encirclement and suppression of the volunteer army had begun to close the net. As soon as the UN troops entered the designated area, the volunteers rushed out from all directions to catch the American troops by surprise. The various units of the Volunteer Army attacked the Americans in a roundabout way and blocked their retreat.
In just a few days, the volunteer soldiers annihilated more than 36,000 enemy soldiers, including more than 24,000 American soldiers, and the losses of the main U.S. army were as high as 80%.
The ferocious fire of the Volunteers directly forced the UN forces to abandon Pyongyang and other places and retreat to the south of the 38th Parallel.
The second campaign also ended, completely reversing the situation of the volunteer army in the Korean battlefield, smashing MacArthur's "Christmas Offensive", which was also called "the most defeated battle" by the American media.
And the United States also paid the price of belittling the volunteers, and the volunteer troops that macArthur thought were not threatening, but they gave him a hard blow.
Although the weapons and equipment of the volunteer army are not as good as those of the United States, none of the volunteer soldiers are greedy for life and afraid of death, and each one insists on his own belief to heroically kill the enemy and stubbornly resist.
Volunteer soldiers who have left their lives behind defend the security and honor of the country with their flesh and blood.
The 335th Regiment of the 112th Division of the 38th Army blocked the enemy at Feihu Mountain for 5 days and 5 nights, which bought an important time for the deployment of the main force of the volunteer army in the rear.
And pretending to be the main force of the enemy's blockade, the right retreat, showing weakness to induce the United Nations army to go deep into the designated combat area, and cut off the enemy's transportation line, and finally surrounded and killed the enemy successfully.
In the Feihu Mountain Blockade Battle, the heroic resistance of the 38th Army and the spirit of not retreating from it also greatly boosted morale, affected the battle situation, and was also a well-deserved main force.
At this time, the beautiful life is forged by the ancestors with their own lives, we must remember the history, with the expectations of the ancestors to move forward!
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In the fierce war to resist US aggression and aid Korea, the volunteer army ran out of ammunition and food, so why was it able to hold out for five days and nights?