Within a day, the 38th Army of our Volunteer Army captured Tokugawa, the 42nd Army captured NinhYuan, the 7th and 8th Divisions of the South Korean Army were mostly annihilated by the Volunteer Army, the Second Army of the South Korean Army ceased to exist, and a huge gap appeared on the right wing of the United Nations Army.
The commander of the U.N. Western Front, Walker, commander of the 8th Army, ordered the U.S. 1st Cavalry Division and the Turkish 27th Brigade to maneuver in the direction of Xincangli and Yokawa respectively to protect the flank of the U.N. Army's Western Front.
The Turkish Brigade of "Heroic Warriors"
Turkey, a small country in Europe, has a different faith from the West, nor is it an ally of the United States, and the Korean War has nothing to do with Turkey's half-cent relationship, so why did Turkey send troops to participate in the Korean War?
Don't look at Turkey as a small country, in history, he is with Russia in the north, for more than three hundred years. After World War II, the Soviet Union and the United States two camps confrontation, Turkey can not join the Soviet camp, the only choice is to join the United States camp, but Turkey and the West's beliefs are different, the United States led NATO does not necessarily accept him. Turkey is fretting about this, the Korean War broke out, and in Turkey's eyes, this is a perfect opportunity.
Turkey actively responded to the call of the United States, and sent a brigade of troops, more than 5,000 people, this is to the United States big brother to hand over the name of ah, the United States knows that in 1950 the Turkish brigade set foot on the land of North Korea, in early 1952 Turkey joined NATO, by the big brother protection.
Lieutenant General Kurt, commander of the US 9th Army, saw that the Turkish soldiers were tall, bearded, carrying machetes around their waists, and were very fierce, and felt that the combat effectiveness of the Turkish brigade was explosive, so he made an exception and incorporated this team into his 25th Infantry Division, becoming the only foreign army to be incorporated into the battle sequence of the US army, and Kurt planned to use it as a surprise soldier at a critical moment.
Located behind the Tokugawa River, Gazhi Ridge was the only way for the volunteers to go south, and it was also a place of contention between the two sides. At this critical juncture, Walker ordered the present-day Turkish Brigade to quickly seize The Gazhi Ridge, and the Turkish Brigade, with the help of American vehicles, quickly reached the summit of Gazhi Ridge on November 27, 1950, where the 1st Turkish Infantry Battalion and a company of combat engineers controlled.
The "heroic and heroic" Turkish 27th Brigade soon received a triumphant report, and the first victory not only held its position, but also captured more than 200 "Chinese volunteers" and killed and wounded countless people.
The news of the great victory of the Turkish brigade greatly excited the US army, and the Second Division urgently sent intelligence officers and interpreters to the Turkish Brigade to interrogate Chinese prisoners of war, and only after the first instance did they know that the original Turkish Brigade had defeated the Seventh Division of the ROK Army, which had fallen from the tokugawa rout, and had a hard time escaping, and was beaten up by the Turkish Brigade, which knew neither Korean nor English, and the Koreans were humiliated.
It seems that the "heroic divine force" of the Turkish brigade, thanks to the full cooperation of the South Korean defeated troops, what will happen to the fate of the Turkish brigade when it encounters a real volunteer army?
One hit on The Gari Ridge
At 9:30 p.m. on the 27th, the 342nd Regiment of the Vanguard Regiment of the 114th Division of the 38th Army of the Volunteer Army rushed to the bottom of the main peak of The Gazhi Ridge, and the Turkish Brigade had occupied the top of the Gaj Ridge, but they did not seem to realize that danger was coming, and most of the people were roasting fires next to the road at Yakou.
The 3rd Battalion was tasked with capturing the ridge. In order to avoid exposing their whereabouts, Wang Pili and his soldiers advanced barefoot on the snow and launched an attack at a distance of 20 meters from the Turkish brigade, killing more than 200 Turkish brigades with white blades, taking less than 10 prisoners, while the volunteers suffered less than 7 casualties.
Two hits eighteen sets
When the Battle of Gazhiling began, the 9th Company of the 3rd Infantry Battalion of the Turkish 3rd Infantry, followed by car, just arrived at the Eighteen-Pan Road, saw that things were not good, turned around and fled, the 8th Company saw it, desperately, down the mountain, panicked enemy, a chaotic, slow action, by the soldiers to catch up.
The fighters blew up the second car (the first car had fled), and the enemy saw that the road was blocked, jumped out of the car, some hid under the car to fight back, and some ran up the hill. The soldiers shouted in English and Korean, but the other side refused to surrender (the Turkish soldiers could not understand). The soldiers threw grenades and machine-gun fire at the bottom of the vehicle, and the enemy was quickly annihilated, and the commander of the 3rd Battalion, Major Luf Birkin, was killed. The captured soldiers were escorted to the division headquarters, and Zhai Zhongyu, the commander of the 114th Division, found the stars and moon motifs on their epaulettes, and determined that it was the Turkish brigade.
Three strikes yang battle
On the evening of the 28th, the main force of the 114th Division of the 38th Army of the Volunteer Army successfully entered the outskirts of The Yang Station. Yang Station was garrisoned by the Turkish 2nd Infantry Battalion and a howitzer battalion, and the division headquarters decided to take the 342nd Regiment as the main attack, the 340th Regiment to cooperate, and the 341st Regiment to insert itself into the road south of Fengmingli and cut off the enemy's retreat.
At 22:00, the 342nd Regiment attacked the battalion with the 1st Battalion as the main attack battalion, and the battalion commander Cao Yuhai led 2 companies to break into the streets of Yangzhan Station, destroyed 6 howitzers in a row, took advantage of the enemy's confusion and directly passed through Yangzhan Station, seized the high ground west of Yangzhan Station at dawn, and blocked the rear road of the Turkish army. The troops of the 1st Battalion surrounded Yangzhan from the east, west and north, and successively repelled the repeated counterattacks of the Turkish army, and the two sides repeatedly engaged in fierce white-knife battles.
After dawn, fighting during the day was not good for our army, coupled with fighting all night, the soldiers were very tired and could only retreat first, but when the 1st battalion withdrew, it was blocked by enemy fire, so they had to stick to the spot and wait for dark.
At 9 o'clock on the 29th, the 342nd Regiment and the 340th Regiment of the Volunteer Army launched a general attack on Yangzhan Station, and after an hour of fierce fighting, the defenders were eliminated, more than 700 prisoners were killed and wounded, and more than 110 cars were captured.
The Turkish brigade was maimed
Within two days, in three strikes, the three main infantry battalions and one artillery battalion of the Turkish brigade had all been destroyed, leaving only the remnants of the two companies of the 3rd Battalion, left on the hills east of the Gazhi Ridge and the Wayuan, foolishly defending against the "attack of the volunteers".
The 113th Division of the 38th Volunteer Army seized Sanshouli on the 28th, and then seized Longyuanli, cutting off the southward retreat of the US 9th Army. The remnants of the Turkish brigade were surrounded on three sides, they lost all their vehicles, all climbed the mountain, born in the countryside, they played to their strengths, and many soldiers successfully escaped from the encirclement.
According to the Austrian magazine Military History, the Turkish brigade suffered a total of 3514 casualties, of which 741 were killed, 2068 were wounded, 163 were missing, 244 were captured, and 298 were non-combat casualties (the volunteer war report only said that more than 1000 were annihilated).
The first appearance of the Turkish brigade was maimed within two days by the 38th Army of our volunteer army, and even American military historians themselves said that the Turkish brigade was asked to plug the gap: "to plug the mouth of a beer barrel with the cork of an aspirin medicine bottle."