The 38th Army was one of the first units to enter the Korean War, and from October 22, 1950, when it entered the DPRK, it went through the whole process of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, and was not ordered to return to China until a dozen days before the armistice agreement was signed on July 27, 1953.
The 38th Army made great achievements in the Korean battlefield, the name of the "Long Live Army" is famous all over the world, and the famous writer Wei Wei's "Who is the Most Lovely Person" is to interview the heroic deeds of the 38th Army.
The "Long Live the 38th Army" added by Peng Dehuai to the telegram commending the 38th Army comes from the great achievements made in the second campaign of the Three Houses, Longyuanli, Songkuofeng and other blockade battles.
The key to all this is the creation of a miracle in the history of the world military created by the 113th Division.
In the second campaign in November 1950, the 113th Division of the 38th Army received an order from Han Xianchu, deputy commander of the Volunteer Army, who was sitting in the headquarters of the army: set off immediately, rush to Sansuoli at dawn on the 28th, "get stuck, get stuck", prevent the enemy from fleeing south to aid from the north, and resolutely intercept the enemy, only succeed, not fail.
DivisionAl jiang chao and deputy division commander Liu Haiqing ordered: Set off immediately, eat while walking, and issue tasks while walking, and no one is allowed to be left behind.
The 113th Division shot like arrows at Sansholi.
The warriors, while fighting and running, crushed countless South Korean scattered troops, and kept running towards Sansholi one step at a time.
Climbing up the hill, climbing over the mountains, up to the division commander, down to the cook, running desperately, falling down and getting up, fainting and walking on a shelf, ignoring the fallen team, and only going forward. The hardest artillerymen carried heavy gun mounts and ammunition and followed the team step by step.
All people's minds are frozen, and there are only three words in the brain, "Sansholi", which are completely advancing with extraordinary willpower.
At dawn, the 113th Division got off the road, only 30 miles away from the three institutes, and the sky began to be filled with circling enemy aircraft.
Time is life, and there is no time to delay.
Deputy Division Commander Liu Haiqing was bold and careful, and on a whim, ordered all the disguises to be thrown away and marched along the highway in an upright manner.
The U.S. Air Force was puzzled, and it must have been its own men in the rear, thinking that it was a collapsed South Korean force.
They also enthusiastically informed the South Korean Security Army in front of them that some rice, boiling water, salted fish, etc. had been prepared, and the hungry and thirsty soldiers unceremoniously swallowed them into their stomachs.
In the headquarters of the Volunteer Army, Peng Dehuai, Deng Hua, Hong Xuezhi and others were restless. The 38th Army headquarters Han Xianchu, Liang Xingchu and others were extremely anxious.
Dozens of radio stations were tuned to the frequency of the 113th Division, waiting for news from the 113th Division, which had disappeared all night.
Originally, the commander of the 113th Division implemented a radio station silence in order to prevent the U.S. army from finding its direction.
The 113th Division spent 14 hours fighting with both feet and marching 72.5 kilometers and 145 miles.
They arrived at Sansholi 5 minutes earlier than the enemy, seized the favorable terrain of Sanshouli, and created a miracle in the history of world war that the two legs of the Chinese army surpassed the wheels of the AMERICAN army.
The sudden appearance of the 113th Division shocked the American army, and they hurriedly brought in aircraft and tanks to cover their own breakthrough, and fought fiercely with the 338th Regiment of the 113th Division that was in front of them, and the battle was quite arduous and the sacrifices were great
Finally, the newspaper was ready, the radio was on, and Shiji cheered.
Peng Dehuai sat on the chair with his ass on the back: "Oh, this is relieved, finally out!" ”
Deng Hualian sighed, "Miracle, miracle! ”
The commander of the 113th Division found a loophole that had not been noticed before- Longyuanli, the enemy army saw that there was a blockade in the three houses, and would choose longyuanli not far away to evacuate.
Dragon Source must be seized.
Before Shiji could give orders, the 113th Division sent a regiment to block Longyuanli and a battalion to blow up the road bridge to Anju.
The 113th Division engaged in a deadly duel with a dozen mortars, hundreds of machine guns, thousands of rifles and bayonets, hundreds of aircraft, hundreds of tanks, and thousands of cannons of the U.S. army.
The 38th Army's blockade battles in Sanshouli, Longyuanli, Songkuofeng and other places defeated the US 2nd Division and severely damaged the US 25th Division and the US 1st Cavalry Division.
At the end of the telegram of the commendation order of the 38th Army: Long live the Chinese People's Volunteer Army, Peng Dehuai added another sentence of "Long live the 38th Army", and since then the Long Live Army has become famous all over the world.
Longyuanli resisted the fleeing enemy
The 113rd Division was known as the "Flying Tiger Division".
The miracle of the 113th Division, whose actual distance was much longer than the 145 miles on the map, also set an unprecedented record in the history of infantry warfare in the world, a record that no country's army has been able to break so far.
In 1990, during the Gulf War, which shocked the world, the extremely modern heavy armored forces of the United States and Britain faced the defeated Iraqi army in the flat desert of Iraq, and the speed of attack was only 50 kilometers to 60 kilometers per day and night.
The two young generals in their early thirties who commanded this miracle were brave and decisive, wise and courageous, and became iron-blooded generals who had made many achievements in the Korean battlefield.
General Jiang Chao
113th Division Division Yangtze River Chao (1917-1996), a native of Dingxian County, Hebei Province, joined the Eighth Route Army from the Northeast Army in his early years, and later served as deputy chief of staff and deputy commander of the 38th Army, chief of staff of the Tibet Military Region, and deputy commander of the Sichuan Provincial Military Region.
He studied at the Nanjing Military Academy for three years, and his homework was excellent, often getting a full score of 5 points, and he was retained as the director of the artillery professorship of the military academy and the deputy director of the training department.
After arriving in Tibet in 1963, most of the checkpoints at that time had no access, and Jiang Chao rode all the border checkpoints in Tibet on horseback.
Jiang Chaoyin joined the Eighth Route Army during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and was awarded the rank of colonel in 1955 and promoted to the rank of major general in 1964.
Deputy Division Commander Liu Haiqing (1921-2007), a native of Tongjiang, Sichuan, joined the Red Army at the age of 11 and was a little red devil who dragged his horse's tail through the Long March.
He later served as the 7th commander of the 38th Army, the 10th commander of the Xinjiang Military Region, and the deputy commander of the Lanzhou Military Region, and was awarded the rank of colonel in 1955.
Liu Haiqing on the Korean battlefield
Liu Haiqing could have been promoted to the rank of major general, but on June 1, 1965, the mainland abolished the rank system and missed the opportunity to be promoted.
In 1988, when the rank system was restored and a new rank system was "implemented", Liu Haiqing was supposed to be the rank of lieutenant general, but this time he lost his arms due to age and rank, and Liu Haiqing was nearly seventy years old at this time.
He missed the rank of general twice, so he was also the commander of the Xinjiang Military Region and the deputy commander of the Lanzhou Military Region, the only "colonel rank".
Liu Haiqing