The importance of the Battle of Tieyuan was self-evident, and when the Volunteer Army had already won the Fifth Campaign, the ensuing problem was that the supply was insufficient and the consumption of weapons and ammunition was too great, so the offensive had to be stopped.
And the cunning opponent Ridgway had already figured out the length of the volunteers' attacks, and he expected the volunteers' attacks.
Worship offensive
After that, it was inevitable to enter a rest or retreat, so a rapid mobile force was immediately organized to pursue the volunteer ranks.
If the retreat of hundreds of thousands of troops is not properly arranged, the consequence may be the collapse of the whole army, and at this time, the example of the 180th Division of the 60th Army reminds the chiefs of the Shiji that someone must block the American troops in the rear to ensure the smooth retreat of the main force of the volunteer army to the north.
This task was given to Fu Chongbi's 63rd Army, and the place where they laid out the defensive line was in the iron plains where the terrain was dangerous.
The fierceness of the Tieyuan Blockade War can be described as a rarity in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea.
After receiving the task, Fu Chongbi immediately began to arrange the task, and the soldiers of the 63rd Army built fortifications day and night.
After the battle began, the soldiers hid in the trenches, waited for the enemy tanks to rush through the trenches, and then used Soviet-made anti-tank grenades to throw at the tanks from behind, destroying a large number of enemy tanks, and the enemy army captured our positions under the cover of aircraft and tanks, and at night was retaken by the volunteer army organization.
The mountains south of the Iron Plains were densely forested, burned bare land by napalm bombs dropped by the planes, and the sound of gunfire was completely masked by the sound of gunfire and bombs, and from miles away, half of the sky south of the Iron Plains turned red.
The real thing is that the iron is burning!
The positions of the volunteers were almost cut off by artillery blockades, and the soldiers could only rely on some of the captured cans to fill their hunger, some were so tired that they fell asleep directly in the fortifications, and the enemy came up and continued to fight, and many positions were hit by one or two people, and these two people finally died with the enemy who rushed up, and all the troops on the front line fought with bayonets.
On June 4, Fu Chongbi ordered the 563rd Regiment of the 188th Division to take over the task of defending the Fahua Cave of the 189th Division, the Gaotai Mountain area, and the 8th regiment connected the 8th regiment to defend a high ground south of Gaotai Mountain for the brother company, which was the intersection of the enemy's main traffic route and the main direction of the enemy's attack.
After continuous combat, the 8th Company was greatly reduced, the total number of people was only 58 people, but the morale was still very high, after entering the position, braving the rain to repair the fortifications, from the 5th, the enemy army launched a fierce attack with the strength of one or two battalions, and the 8th Company fought for two days and nights, crushing the enemy's repeated attacks and nailing to the position.
On the fifth day of the battle, the 1st Battalion, 1st Company, 2nd Platoon, 1st Battalion, 563rd Regiment of the 188th Division, which had just entered the position, repelled two attacks by one battalion of the enemy and was surrounded on three sides by two battalions of the enemy on an isolated mountain.
After the 2nd Platoon repelled two frontal attacks by about a battalion of enemy troops during the day, at night, the enemy attacked with the strength of a battalion to the flank, which touched Fu Chongbi's heart, and Ma Zhaomin, the commander of the 563rd Regiment, said that when he and the 2nd Platoon last called, they were only 8 people left, commanded by deputy platoon commander Li Bingqun.
By midnight, there was still fire and gunfire on the positions of the 2nd Platoon, which showed that the 8 warriors were still fighting.
After midnight, the 8 fighters only had 15 rounds of ammunition, no way, they fought with the enemy with bayonets, butts, sticks, stones, and finally repelled the enemy's attack again, on this day, 2 platoons killed and wounded more than 100 enemy troops, but at this time the bullets had all been exhausted, only a few grenades were left, and the enemy troops rushed up.
Deputy platoon leader Li Bingqun said to the soldiers"
Now we have been surrounded by the enemy on three sides, behind us is a cliff, 8 of us want to break through is impossible, to fight, no bullets, to fight with the enemy face to face, they are many, if they are not good enough to be captured, we can not shame the motherland, to let the enemy know that Chinese is a hard bone, I propose, we jump off the cliff, death should not be taken prisoner!
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The soldiers agreed with Li Bingqun's opinion in unison, and in the end, they left a party member squad leader with two fighters to take cover, Li Bingqun led 4 fighters to jump off the cliff more than five meters deep first, and the remaining 3 comrades also jumped off the cliff after completing the cover task.
Eight warriors, who killed more than 100 enemy troops in a six-hour battle, are really singing and weeping.
On the afternoon of the 6th, the enemy army formed an encirclement of the 8th Company from both sides, and the warriors of the 8th Company, under the command of the company commander and instructor, fought fiercely with the enemy for two hours and repelled the enemy again.
But at this time the enemy was advancing step by step, and the volunteers lacked serious ammunition, but the casualties were increasing, after discussion, the 8th Company decided to break out, they concentrated only 13 rounds of ammunition and 1 anti-tank grenade, after dark, under the command of the company commander, jumped off the cliff from the southwest to break through, and moved to the main position of the battalion headquarters, 400 heights.
In the battle to defend the 400 heights, the 8th Company once again made outstanding achievements, 58 cadres of the 8th Company, the soldiers fought for four days and nights, at the cost of 16 casualties, killed and wounded more than 800 people, company commander Guo Enzhi Ronglite and other meritorious service.
After the end of the Tieyuan Blockade Battle, Peng Dehuai rushed to Yichuan to see the soldiers, they were all ragged, burned, bullet-pierced, every strand of them, all covered with "windows", some soldiers were bare-backed on the upper body, and only a pair of shorts on the lower body, Peng Dehuai could not help but cry on the spot, this was simply more bitter than the Long March of the Red Army that year, an army of more than 20,000 people, only a few thousand people were left in the end, Peng Dehuai just said a word."
The Motherland thank you
The warriors all cried.
When Peng Dehuai left, he asked Fu Chongbi what he needed, and Fu Chongbi said"
I want soldiers!
Peng Dehuai nodded, all the soldiers gave priority to replenishing the 63rd Army, domestic military supplies, condolences also arrived at the rear, Peng Dehuai gave these things to the soldiers of the 63rd Army one by one, the Battle of Tieyuan was over, this cruel battle made the 63rd Army leave more than half of the volunteer soldiers, but also let the US army's offensive be strangled in Tieyuan, can not move forward, saved hundreds of thousands of volunteers, salute to the hero!