"Fighting with Chinese bayonet was the greatest mistake of my life," said Lieutenant Colonel Walsh, who had lost two hundred men the first time he met the Chinese volunteers.
Walsh said this when he was just relieved of his position as battalion commander of the Royal Australian Battalion, Brigadier General Calder, commander of the British 27th Brigade, angrily rebuked Walsh for blind commanding during the battle, causing the loss of fighters, and the courage of the puppet, but Lieutenant Colonel Walsh secretly scolded the brigade commander as a straw bag, only to run away on his own, he had nowhere to defend, this is the second bad news after the Australian battalion entered the DPRK, the last is the former battalion commander Lieutenant Colonel Green was inexplicably killed by stray bullets while sleeping, he thought he picked up a bargain, but just took office and met Chinese, His own troops had dealt with the Germans in North Africa, the Japanese in the Pacific, and after entering the DPRK, they killed the People's Army, but this encounter encountered outlaws.
What is even more incredible is that when Walsh heard that the other side only had 30 people, it was crazy, and a 30-man army could withstand the impact of a full battalion of white-knife warfare? Walsh did not believe it, fortunately he also heard that the Chinese volunteers also suffered heavy losses in the battle, which made the heart a little more balanced, but the next time never fight with the Chinese bayonet has become the general consensus of the Royal Australian Battalion, Walsh suspected that the enemy must have taken stimulants or something before going to the battlefield, otherwise in the face of the "King of White Blade War", how could they have a chance of winning?
Time back to November 5, 1950, the 39th Army of the Volunteer Army took advantage of the rout of the US 1st Division and was ordered to pursue the south, the 350th Regiment of the 117th Division encountered a howitzer position head-on in the process of interspersing, and the regimental commander Zhao Xianshun was overjoyed and immediately ordered the first company to take the initiative to attack, but the fierceness of this battle was far beyond imagination.
A company found that the enemy on the opposite side was flying different flags, the artillery was American, and the infantry was British, the enemy seemed to be very surprised by the sudden penetration of the volunteers into the flank rear, hastily organized a ring of defense, and the company did not have time to consider how many people the other side had before it entered the battle, and the second and third companies that followed were also wrapped up in a big melee, although the artillery could not fight closely, but the combat quality of the other side was not bad, and soon the company ate the closed door.
At the beginning, the US artillery used automatic weapons to return fire and inflicted heavy losses on our vanguard troops, but a company approached the enemy position regardless of casualties, the US army was in a hurry, and then called in two howitzers to shoot closely, and also used trucks as obstacles to block the speed of the volunteers' attack, the enemy was waiting for reinforcements, if they did not hurry to break through, they might be bitten back, Xu Chunbo, commander of the 1st Battalion of the 350 Regiment, personally supervised the battle, urging a company to quickly break through the enemy's defenses, the two sides fought overnight, and the casualties of a company were already more than fifty percent, but in the daytime, the enemy's counterattack came first.
It turned out that the British 27th Brigade, the escort unit of the US army, drove over, the other side brought tanks and two battalions of infantry, during the day on the battlefield gathered more than a dozen B26 bombers on a company of positions indiscriminately, seeing that the bones did not gnaw down, the 350 regiment may also encounter counter-encirclement, just at this time, the 1st Battalion Commander Xu Chunbo and the company commander Zhang Wennian were killed one after another, the British army was crowded, repeatedly rushed into the volunteer positions and was repulsed, a company only left a platoon-level formation, but also left the main force of the cover regiment to retreat, At this time, the most magical scene appeared.
Another British battalion-level unit suddenly appeared, they and friendly combat style is very different, these people unusually put on the bayonet, shouted slogans past the earlier attacking troops, directly towards a company of positions to launch a charge, and at this time our army's front line only a company of less than 30 people, but the soldiers killed the red eye, but also put on the bayonet counterattack, the biggest advantage of the white blade battle is to let the other side's aircraft and tanks temporarily stop the flag, the biggest disadvantage is the lack of numbers, the gap between the number of the two sides reached 1:20 or 1:30.
On the other hand, the battalion commander of the Australian battalion Walsh is deploying for battle at this moment, he is disgusted by the fear of brigade commander Corde, yesterday the US 61st Field Artillery Battalion assigned to the 27th Brigade was suddenly attacked, the battalion commander panicked and called for support through the radio, but Codd was bent on fleeing to the east of the Cheongcheon River, he was worried that the volunteer army would blow up the bridge, which obviously affected Walsh's desire to perform, he had just taken office, he wanted to come to a personal command show, so he made a bold decision after hearing that the Middlesex battalion could not be attacked for a long time.
Walsh ordered his A Company and Company B to put bayonets on them, he wanted to cross the position of the Middlesex Battalion to show his muscles, but although the large number of volunteers was wiped out, the remaining Chinese almost without consideration also came back with bayonets, the Royal Australian Battalion was confused, in the face of the fanatical and not afraid of death of the Chinese soldiers, Company A and Company B were almost full of structure and could not get cheap, and constantly their own soldiers fell, and at this time, the tanks and heavy artillery that should have made the battle more advantageous were useless because of the close-quarters hand-to-hand combat of the Australian battalion Brigadier General Codd jumped straight to the feet of the brigade headquarters, but this was not the worst.
The situation on the battlefield was rapidly changing, and before Walsh could make a wonderful appearance, the reinforcements of the Chinese arrived, and a heart-rending charge sounded all over the mountains, he estimated that a division had entered the battle, and the Australian battalion had quickly withdrawn from the battle after suffering heavy casualties while fighting bayonets, the brigade commander ordered them to retreat to the new defensive circle as a rearguard, the fierce battle between the two sides lasted until November 6, and for Walsh, his battalion commander career was also ended because of the missed fighters, and in the next few days, the commanders of Company A and Company B were dismissed. Almost all junior officers were punished, and since then the British 27th Brigade has a new rule that it is not allowed to fight with Chinese bayonets.
The royal Australian battalion appeared in Korea is an accident, it was originally subordinate to the British 27th Brigade, this unit is from Hong Kong, if it were not for the Royal Navy's "Purple Quartz" and the People's Liberation Army a few years ago, the 27th Brigade could be transferred back to the mainland as a garrison, and in those years, Churchill's cabinet was highly worried that the People's Liberation Army would retake Hong Kong, so the direct game between the Australian battalion and the Chinese was delayed for a few years, walsh was glad that it did not start with the People's Liberation Army in Hong Kong. Otherwise he would have been in the prisoner-of-war camp with Brigadier General Calder, who was interested in the poorly equipped army that didn't even have a car.
