In the Korean battlefield in 1951, the American army was defeated by the heavy blows of three consecutive battles of our volunteer army and was driven south of the Han River.
However, the enemy was not willing to accept defeat, so he gathered heavy troops and launched a frenzied counterattack against our army.
In order to crush the enemy's attack, the 38th Army of our army stationed on the western front relied on the lofty mountains on both sides of the Han River to launch an obstruction battle with the enemy in the north.
And in these battles there have been many heroic stories that can be sung and wept.
Among them, Zhao Lianshan, a company commander of the 3rd Company of the 1st Battalion, 342nd Regiment of the 114th Division of the 38th Army, led a small detachment to lead the enemy rear in a thrilling attack and led the whole company to hold the 350.3 heights and the fierce battle with the US aces was widely spread in the army, and the comrades-in-arms were all impressed by his boldness, courage and wit, and firm will to fight.
During the liberation war, zhao Lianshan retreated from the enemy with tact
Born in Qingyuan County, Liaoning Province, Zhao Lianshan, a poor peasant family, has suffered from the old society since childhood, and has worked as a long-term worker for landlords since childhood.
Later, his parents died, and Zhao Lianshan went to Jilin to join his uncle in order to make a living, and worked hard for the capitalists in a coal mine.
At that time, it was in a state of tug-of-war between the Kuomintang and the Communists, and there were tables everywhere on the street to recruit soldiers, and some people at the recruitment booths of the Kuomintang troops shouted "When soldiers eat food, they have military salaries."
However, the recruitment booth of the People's Liberation Army only has the slogan "The People's Liberation Army has endured hardships and fought for the people and let the people live a good life."
Zhao Lianshan resolutely chose to come to the People's Liberation Army to join the army.
Just a year after Huang Lianshan joined the army, he made a great contribution when the Kuomintang was launching a winter offensive against the Liberated Areas, and Huang Lianshan's troops were stationed in a village.
There was a frozen river on the north side of the village, and on the other side of the river there was a Kuomintang cavalry unit stationed in the village, and in order to prevent the Nationalist troops on the other side of the river from sneaking in, the battalion commander set up sentries on the river and the small bridge.
Because at that time, our army was in a state of tug-of-war with the Kuomintang army, and it was still approaching the Spring Festival, everyone's vigilance became lower.
It was the afternoon of the day of the New Year, and our army was having a party with the local masses on the threshing ground, and for a time the gongs and drums were noisy, and the singing was full of songs, and it was not lively, and even the sentries of the Kuomintang troops who were vigilant on the other side of the river were attracted to them.
However, at this moment, a dozen or so kuomintang cavalry on the other side of the river suddenly rushed through the small bridge with guns, and because the sentries relaxed their vigilance and did not timely alarm and resist, for a time there was a great chaos, and casualties would occur at any time.
At this time, Zhao Lianshan, a warrior who was watching the liveliness in front of the window, grabbed a machine gun from the open window and swept it violently, directly knocking down several enemies, and the rest of the enemies saw that their companions had fallen, so they even crawled back with a rolling belt.
Afterwards, Zhao Lianshan was praised by the general report, and later, under the cultivation and education of the party and the troops, his ideological consciousness was rapidly enhanced, and he gloriously joined our party.
Later, in the battles of the Three Lower Jiangnan, the Liberation of Siping, the Northeast Winter Offensive, the Liaoshen Campaign, the Pingjin Campaign, the Battle of Crossing the River, and the Jiangxi Bandit Suppression Campaign, Zhao Lianshan fought bravely and actively, made many meritorious achievements, and quickly grew into a young and resourceful commander.
Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, defend the family and defend the country
In 1950, when the United States burned the war to the Yalu River, Zhao Lianshan's unit was also ordered to go to Korea to participate in the war.
Before leaving, Zhao Lianshan bid farewell to his newly married wife, who had been married for less than a week, and the two of them both made a pact: the husband heroically killed the enemy on the front line and tried to become a hero of the battle; the wife worked hard in the rear to become a model worker...
In February 1951, the U.S. army was defeated by the volunteer army after three consecutive battles, and was driven south of the Han River by the volunteer army.
However, the enemy was not willing to accept defeat, and once again gathered heavy troops to launch a counterattack against the volunteer army, in order to crush the enemy's attack, Zhao Lianshan's 38th Army relied on the lofty mountains on both sides of the Han River to launch a blockade battle with the enemy in the north.
Zhao Lianshan and his company were ordered to hold a high ground called 350.3 on the south bank of the Han River, and in front of this plateau there was a small town called Jing'anli, and a tributary of the Han River snaked past the edge of the town.
Although this town is not large, it is located at the intersection of two roads of great strategic significance, where the enemy forces are in an endless stream, and a large number of enemy troops are gathered here, ready to launch a new attack on our army.
Surprise attack on Kyoan-ri and blow up two bridges
On the eve of this great battle, Zhao Lianshan was so excited that he was carrying a fire in his heart, eager to immediately fight the enemy who was going to commit the crime.
However, due to the continuous conquests since entering the DPRK, his 3 companies have been severely reduced, and the current 3 companies only have 24 combatants.
However, their division commander Zhai Zhongyu knew that the 24 soldiers of the 3rd Company were all trusted warriors, so in order to carry out active defensive operations, he ordered Zhao Lianshan, the commander of the 3rd Company, to organize a capable detachment to go deep behind the enemy's back and blow up the two bridges in Jing'anli, which was used to block the enemy's communication line and delay the enemy's attack.
On the night of receiving the order, Zhao Lianshan selected 12 fighters with capture and blasting skills among the only 24 fighters in the company to form an explosive squad.
Each member of the squad tied a white towel to his right arm, then draped a white sheet, and then fished into the night.
After the detachment had traveled a few kilometers, it spotted a large number of enemy troops, but fortunately the enemy did not find them.
In this way, the detachment was right in front of the enemy sentry, passed through several barbed wire and blockade lines of the enemy, bypassed the enemy's temporary camp, and approached the first surprise target, the reinforced concrete jing'anli bridge.
Zhao Lianshan carefully observed that on the road connected to the Jing'anli Bridge, there were tanks, armored vehicles, and cars; moreover, there were several nearby US positions that occasionally made the sound of shells coming out of the chamber, and the sky also flashed with the fire of shells from time to time; there were also many US military campfires on the bank of the Han River; the water surface under the bridge was covered with ice shattered by artillery fire; there were also US sentries walking back and forth on the bridge; and there were also machine gun bunkers built with sandbags at both ends of the bridge.
It seems that the US military has been fortified at the Jing'anli Bridge, and it is impossible to approach the bridge head-on. Zhao Lianshan pondered for a moment, then decided to wade across the river and then secretly approach the bridge from the side along the river embankment.
Therefore, Zhao Lianshan took the warriors to swim towards the heart of the river carrying explosives, and the cold and bone-chilling river water gradually disappeared to the chest, soaking the cotton clothes, like steel needles that stung the bone marrow.
A warrior walked ahead, peeling off large pieces of ice floes with the butt of his rifle to open the way for the team members, while vigilantly watching the movement of the enemy on and at the head of the bridge.
Suddenly, a strong light swung towards the team members, and then heavy footsteps came from the river embankment, and Zhao Lianshan quickly commanded the team members to close to the trees by the river.
After a while, a patrol of the American army walked along the river embankment, and they stayed on the embankment above the squad for a while, and looked back and forth with flashlights for a while, and then went back without finding anything.
After the US patrol went far, Zhao Lianshan immediately led the squad to the center of the bridge, and at this moment, a pair of US artillery vehicles were coming towards the bridge, and Zhao Lianshan immediately made a bold decision: take advantage of the opportunity of the artillery vehicle to cross the bridge to attack the enemy and blast the bridge when the enemy was confused.
The fighters were lying wet in their hideaways under the embankment, and as the last three enemy vehicles had just boarded the bridge, the squad suddenly opened fire on the enemy.
After the first car swung from side to side, it crashed into the guardrail of the bridge, and the American soldiers who were suddenly attacked were suddenly in a mess, some lying on the car and did not dare to move, and some jumped out of the car to shoot around in a panic.
One of the sharpshooters of the squad circled the back of the enemy as quickly as possible, and used the semi-automatic rifle in his hand to shoot at the American troops hiding behind the car, destroying 7 enemies with 8 bullets.
Under the situation of the two bread clips of the squad, the enemy directly threw away their armor and fled to the sides of the bridge, and the squad seized the opportunity to quickly eliminate the remnants of the enemy.
On the other side, the leader of the demolition team had already placed the explosives and lit the fuse. "Boom—" There was a loud noise, and the earth was shaking.
A thick stream of gun smoke rose into the night sky in a mushroom-like shape, and the shattered reinforced concrete and car wreckage also rushed into the sky with the huge shock wave, and then smashed into the water and the ground with gravity.
The scene of the explosion was a thick smoke and chaos, and the reinforced concrete Jing'anli Bridge was cut off.
And Zhao Lianshan had already led the squad to the two second target points, the wooden bridge in Jing'anli Town.
The enemy who had assembled in the town of Gyeongan-ri was also awakened by the sound of a huge explosion, and they immediately blocked all entrances and exits to Gyeong-an-ri.
The squad that was on the way was also stopped by a machine gun position, but the leader of the assault group was really powerful, and a few flashes and movements detoured up, kicked over the American machine gunner, and dragged the machine gun to the sides.
Then Zhao Lianshan continued to hurry with the squad and quickly hid in the night.
After tossing and turning for most of the night, the enemy in Gyeongan-ri found that no one had come to attack them, so they fell asleep again, and the squad had to cross Gyeong-an-ri town if they wanted to reach the wooden bridge.
Zhao Lianshan once again came up with a bold method, he let a large soldier disguised as a changing guard of the American army, from the right side to attract the attention of the sentry, the other two fighters from behind quietly pounced, covered the sentry's mouth, and with a strong arm, they broke the sentry's neck.
In this way, the detachment unknowingly passed through the US military garrison and arrived at the Gyeongan-ri Wooden Bridge. By the light of the bonfire in front of the bridge, I found that there was a log cabin at the head of the bridge, and there was a pile of military leather boots stacked vertically at the door.
Zhao Lianshan knew at a glance that it was the South Korean army in the house, because according to the Customs of the Koreans, people had to take off their shoes before entering the house.
Looking closely at the bridge again, he found that there was only one American sentry on the empty bridge deck looking around, and Zhao Lianshan directly signaled the leader of the assault team to kill this sentry.
The leader of the assault group led two soldiers to the sentry little by little, and as they approached the sentry, the three of them pounced on it like a tiger descending the mountain, slashing their throats with a knife, resulting in the American sentry.
The demolition team also took the opportunity to run to the bridge deck and set up the explosives, while Cho Lianshan and another soldier rushed to the hut at the head of the bridge, kicked open the door, threw in several grenades, and killed more than a dozen South Korean soldiers inside.
Immediately after, after a loud "boom-", the Jing'anli Wooden Bridge was also destroyed.
Destroy the artillery positions, and then blow up the bridge triumphantly
On the way to retreat, Zhao Lianshan again found that an enemy artillery position on the left side of the road ahead was attacking our army, and at this time the ammunition of the small detachment was running out, but thinking that these howitzers were still firing, he issued an order: Open fire on the enemy position.
The leader of the fire brigade was not ambiguous, directly poking the 60 cannon barrels to the ground, holding the cannon barrels with one hand, filling the shells with the other, only to see an explosion in the enemy position, the enemies inside were stunned, they did not expect that there would be volunteers to raid their positions, and the result was suddenly chaotic.
The squad rushed to the artillery position, and in a few moments cleared the remnants of the enemy, and then the members took out grenades and threw them into the muzzle, and in less than a few minutes, dozens of howitzers became scrap iron.
Then Zhao Lianshan commanded the squad to fight and retreat, and in a short while it went around the enemy's encirclement, and when the east was just exposed, the squad bypassed the blown bridge and returned to its position.
As a result, the next day, the forward observers received news again, and the enemy brought in a tank tractor and built a cable canvas bridge.
The enemy's move really did not occur to us, and the squad had no choice but to attack again.
The enemy also did not expect that in order to seize the time of the attack, the squad would once again come to blow up the bridge.
On this night, Zhao Lianshan changed his strategy, and he and the comrades of the squad disguised themselves as South Korean troops, covered with American equipment, and boldly sped along the most heavily guarded roads of the enemy.
On the way to the march, two enemy military vehicles came on the road, and Zhao Lianshan made a clever move, directly stopped the two cars in the name of the inspection post, and before the enemy on the car could say anything, he directly led the squad to the car, and then took the gun and forced the enemy driver to turn around and drive toward the bridge.
Then the car stopped a few hundred meters from the bridge, and the American troops on the position saw that it was a car carrying shells, and did not care, and Zhao Lianshan immediately approached the Jing'anli Bridge with a small detachment.
Zhao Lianshan carefully observed the bridge that had just been repaired, and the bridge was surrounded by enemy campsites, and the enemy was sleeping soundly inside, with only a few sentries, and still dozing off. Zhao Lianshan quietly approached the enemy's camp with a small detachment and quietly killed the sentries.
The squad walked lightly through the enemies who were sleeping like dead pigs, and approached the bridge step by step.
Seeing that it was about to succeed, suddenly one of the enemy sentries noticed the movement of the squad and directly called out. Zhao Lianshan was not ambiguous, and directly raised his hand to shoot the other party.
The assault team also directly took the grenade to blow up the tank engine, and the demolition team quickly rushed to the bridge and tied the explosives to the iron cable.
At this time, the awakened enemy directly blew up the battalion and directly began to shoot indiscriminately, and Zhao Lianshan returned fire on the enemy while directing the explosives team to detonate explosives. The explosive fuse sparkled slightly, and as soon as Zhao Lianshan saw that the time had come, he organized a small detachment to retreat.
A ball of fire rushed into the night sky with the sound of explosions, the bridge was once again blown into two sections, in the dark night, the enemy was even more panicked, and even fought with each other, while Zhao Lianshan retreated with a small detachment and disappeared into the night.
As soon as Zhao Lianshan returned to his position, the division commander and regiment commander called to congratulate the detachment on its success in blowing up the bridge again.
24 men held their positions day and night
A few days later, Zhao Lianshan led the only 23 combatants of the company into the position on the 350.3 heights, and this time, the combat task of the 3 companies he led was to hold out for a day and a night.
Zhao Lianshan, who was only 25 years old, felt that the burden on his shoulders was heavy, and late at night, Zhao Lianshan and his instructor Sun Yongchang led all party members to stand solemnly under the stone cliff to take the oath, Zhao Lianshan looked at the faces of the soldiers who had been weathered by the wind and frost, and saw the determination to win victory in the resolute eyes of these soldiers who had been tested by the war for a long time.
The sky gradually brightened, the enemy's guns were also aimed at the heights, at 9 a.m., the enemy's dense shells exploded on the high ground, and the hordes of bombers also began to bombard fiercely, and the shrapnel on the 350.3 high ground flew wildly and the fire was raging.
After 30 minutes of artillery fire, the enemy thought that there was no longer any life on the high ground, so they swung toward the high ground.
As a result, when they reached a distance of 30 meters from the trenches of our army, the soldiers of our army came out of the anti-slope position behind the mountain, and Zhao Lianshan raised his hand to shoot a shot, knocking down the enemy who rushed to the front, and then the soldiers opened fire fiercely, and the enemy fell one after another, and some of the enemies with greater lives left dozens of corpses and wounded and fled in a daze.
The enemy was immediately enraged, and ten minutes later a second attack was launched, first a frenzied round of artillery fire, followed by 52 tanks accompanied by a large number of enemies, roaring all the way to the heights.
When the enemy's 52 tanks reached the halfway point, there was no way to advance, only to stop and embolden the infantry. Zhao Lianshan took several warriors and fought a melee with the enemy who rushed up.
During this period, dozens of enemies were about to rush into the trenches of our army, and the leader of the previous firepower group was not in a hurry to shoot a few 60 guns, and the enemy was wiped out on the spot.
Several enemies ran very sharply, climbing the mountain quite fast, Zhao Lianshan grabbed a rifle, one shot at a time, killed 8 in a row, and the rest of the enemies were directly frightened and turned around and ran.
But there were too many enemies, knocking down row after row, the casualties of the 3 companies were also increasing sharply, the number of combatants was constantly decreasing, and there were only a dozen fighters on the high ground fighting in blood, and the situation was getting more and more critical.
The battle was getting more and more fierce, a large group of enemies were beaten down, and under the pressure of the rear supervision team, they reflexively rushed up, and an enemy burst into the corner of the high ground, and the company commander Zhao Lianshan was leading several fighters to fight back against the enemy in other directions.
In a hurry, the 60 gunners, who had been injured many times, climbed up with 6 wounded and rushed into the enemy group with the shells, and with the sound of "boom--", he and more than a dozen enemies were killed, and the other wounded also rushed into the enemy group with smoking grenades like him.
After repelling the enemy's unknown number of attacks, there were only 4 soldiers left in the 3 companies, Zhao Lianshan, holding back his grief, pointed to the enemy corpses crisscrossing the front of the position, and said to the only 4 remaining soldiers: Look! The blood of the martyrs did not flow in vain, they were good. We who are alive want to avenge them!
After a burst of indiscriminate bombardment, the enemy's attack began again, Zhao Lianshan led four fighters to resist hard, but due to the small number of people, it was difficult to block the enemy's attack, the enemy still rushed to the high ground, Zhao Lianshan and the enemy at a distance of close proximity, with only three bullets to knock down three enemies.
Then he picked up his empty gun and smashed it on the head of the fourth enemy, and then wrestled with the enemy, and just as Zhao Lianshan fell into the downwind, the only remaining soldier on the position rushed over and picked up the sapper shovel to understand the enemy who was entangled with Zhao Lianshan.
Just as the two of them were facing the swarming enemy and preparing to be martyred, a loud charge suddenly sounded behind them, and the reinforcements of our army landed on the 350.3 height.
Zhao Lianshan looked at this highland that looked like it had been turned over and there were still a little bit of burning smoke, and recalled that the comrades who had been living together day and night were buried here, and a complicated expression appeared on his face, and only he could deeply understand this feeling.