In the three-year War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, the US military could not have imagined that our army could take advantage of the terrain and block their most elite units for six days without firing a single shot. In April 1951, when our army was in the fourth campaign, it once created such a miracle, that is, it successfully blocked the US Marine Division for 6 days in the Huachuan Plain, but the amazing thing is that our army did not fire a single shot in this blockade battle. This made the commander-in-chief of the United Nations army, Ridgway, feel incredible.
So the question is, what kind of plan did our army use to achieve this elite UNIT of the United States for six days without firing a single shot? New friends bother to point a little attention and praise, your support is the driving force of our creation, we continue.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="8" > flooded U.S. troops</h1>
It turned out that according to the relevant information, our army was responsible for this mission with the ace unit, the 39th Army. The U.S. army participated in the war this time was the U.S. Marine Corps First Division, which was the absolute trump card of the U.S. army. The reason why our army was able to block the enemy without firing a single shot was actually to emulate Guan Gong's plan to open the floodgates.
Pictured| Lake Huacheon in North Korea
The use of such tactics was also inseparable from the reality of the situation at that time, because the 39th Army was fighting continuously at that time, and there was almost no time for rest. At this time, the 39th Army was almost exhausted, and it was really very difficult to stop the enemy in the Huachuan Plain and be the ace unit of the US army. But Wu Xinquan, commander of the 39th Army, was very strategic, and soon thought of a plan to flood the American army.
Pictured| Wu Xinquan
In early April 1951, the 115th Division of the 39th Army was ordered to hold a high ground near Lake Huachuan to hold off the Americans. Since Lake Huachuan is a relatively large reservoir in central Korea, the output of water is very large.
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The 115th Division was stationed in the area south of the Huachuan Lake dam, which was closely linked to the railway that the U.S. army had to pass. At that time, the US First Marine Division planned to advance rapidly on this road in order to achieve the purpose of containing our army. In order to break the US military's battle plan, Wu Xinquan can be said to have thought about it for several days in a row.
Figure | Guan Gong flooded the Seventh Army
He suddenly thought of the story of Guan Gong flooding the Seventh Army during the Three Kingdoms period. So he began to observe the terrain of Huachuan Lake, and he came up with this wonderful idea. Then he immediately gathered the cadres in the division and held an emergency meeting. After a series of discussions at the meeting, the whole army unified its proposals. Then he quickly took the North Korean translator with him, found the relevant personnel of the reservoir, and learned more about the relevant information of the reservoir. Immediately afterwards, the headquarters of the 39th Army was reported, and the nearby North Korean residents were evacuated.
Then the 39th Army began to close all the gates of the Huachuan Lake Reservoir and raise the water level as much as possible. The 115th Division then began to retreat to the north bank of the Han River, leaving a company behind just in case to prevent a surprise Attack by the Americans. In order not to affect the normal life of the Korean people, he only ordered the opening of the gates and release of water, but it was absolutely not allowed to blow up the dam.
Pictured| the Han River in North Korea
A few days later, the U.S. First Marine Division arrived. However, the carelessness of the US military made our army believe that this plan would be successful. When they arrived here, they did not conduct reconnaissance work in advance. Instead, it chose to cross the river directly to the area on the south bank of the Han River, so the 39th Army quickly seized the opportunity and closed all the more than ten gates of the reservoir.
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So the water that had been stored in Huachuan Lake for eight days suddenly gushed out and flowed rapidly along the top of the reservoir. According to the recollections of those present at the time, the huge amount of the reservoir was almost 30 meters high, and then it flowed into the channel of the North Han River and directly pounced on the US troops who crossed the river. In just an hour, the water downstream directly overwhelmed an artillery company of the First Marine Division. And the armored troops and cars that were crossing the bridge fell into the river, and then the flood flooded into the road, and many American soldiers and their tents were washed away in an instant.
Pictured| U.S. First Marine Division
The position was chaotic for a while, and the U.S. 1st Marine Division now faced the same shadow as it had just experienced Lake Chosin. From this point on, the U.S. military saw lakes and reservoirs and became very cautious.
Although the heavy equipment of the US military is very aggressive, the waterproof performance is still very poor. In the face of the impact of the flood, it turned into scrap iron in an instant. However, objectively speaking, the US military is not completely idle. Immediately after facing the flood, Ridgway ordered the First Marine Division to begin organizing troops to prepare to seize control of our army's Huachuan Lake reservoir.
Figure | our army's geotechnical work
So they prepared a plan to occupy the reservoir, but Wu Xinquan had already thought of this step for the US army. He ordered the 115th Division to send a company to garrison here, and after the company commander Zhang Lizhi received this task, he did not dare to relax in any way, and it had been preparing for several days. But he had only done one thing in the past few days, ordering the troops to dig pits here. They insisted on 14 hours of soil work every day, which is the lesson learned from the beginning of the War of Resistance Against Japan.
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Based on the strength of their own troops and the consideration of actual terrain factors, they built a total of nearly 2,000 meters of trenches, and each squad was responsible for an average of two trenches. This scale was entirely prepared for the large-scale military offensive of the US military. In addition, the soldiers of this company also built dozens of shelters and more than two hundred shooting fortifications. More importantly, they also built a bunker cover here, so that at once a row of companies could be interconnected with each other, and thus formed a ring of strong fortifications.
The | bunker
Needless to say, such fortifications are to use the advantages of the terrain to weaken the role of enemy firepower, and our army can fully exert its tactical superiority to annihilate more enemies. A company of warriors was then on the front, building stable dark fire points and bunkers.
In order to prevent an unexpected situation, they also destroyed the road more than two hundred meters in front of the position. This contained the heavy fire of the American army, and when all this was completed, Zhang Lizhi ordered the troops to dig a pit of more than 800 meters in front of the position. The purpose of this was also to prevent the attack of the U.S. armored forces, and also to destroy as many possible U.S. landing sites near Lake Huachuan. It is precisely because of the construction of this solid fortification in advance that our army will next block the strong attack of a battalion of the US First Marine Division. In the afternoon of the same day, the US army still followed the usual routine, with the support of the air force and ground artillery units, and the First Marine Division first used a company to attack.
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Subsequently, a group charge was launched on our positions, but because of the preparations in advance, the two strong attacks of the American army were repelled. Then the U.S. army felt great anger, and then began to send bombers and artillery units to attack our positions. The US military undoubtedly wanted to destroy the defensive force of our positions and thus reduce the casualties of ground troops. Therefore, countless incendiary bombs and napalm bombs of the US army began to be projected on our positions in large quantities.
Pictured| Napalm
The high ground instantly turned into a sea of fire, and there were still fortifications built before as a guarantee, so the casualties of our army were not particularly large. When the shelling of the Us army was over, the soldiers of our army immediately threw themselves into the battle again.
A company of fighters can do a long-term battle, which the US military can not imagine. Because no unit in their perception could withstand such high-intensity artillery fire, the Japanese army during World War II and the German army in the European battlefield often faced such a fire attack and immediately collapsed. For an entire day, a company of fighters repelled six consecutive American attacks. By the next day, the undead American troops began to send a battalion of troops back and forth, launching another strong attack. In the face of the attack of the US army, our army desperately resisted. There was even a soldier named Wang Wenhai who was seriously wounded, but he did not fall but continued to strafe the American troops with a gun.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="28" > was awarded the title of Hero Company</h1>
Then one by one, our soldiers rushed out of the trenches and fought with the American troops. When the next day was over, it was still the Rout of the American army that ended. But what is unexpected is that after the US military saw the failure of the plan to attack our army head-on, it planned to gather the strength of one battalion, bypass the first company from the lake, and sneak into the high ground where the second company was stationed. At that time, due to some slack in the defense of the second company, at first it almost made the US military sneak attack plan almost successful. At the same time, the 344th Regiment of our army immediately organized enough troops to repulse the American troops who had just occupied the position.
Figure | our army's front line to block the attack
In the end, the troops of the first company of the 39th Army stubbornly held their positions for four days and repelled a battalion of the US army. It also killed nearly five hundred American troops, and after the war, the company was awarded the honorary title of Hero Company.
Therefore, the 39th Army used the strategy of flooding the US army, and made sufficient preparations in advance. There was not a single shot, blocking the U.S. army for six days and six nights.
Pictured| Ridgway
This provided a guarantee for the follow-up operations of our army, and after the war, Ridgway felt that our army's flooding tactics were incredible. In fact, in addition to Wu Xinquan's meticulous combat plan, our army's plan this time is inseparable from some objective factors. First of all, our army chose to carry out the battle plan in the early morning, so that it was easy to catch the US army by surprise. Secondly, our army has already occupied the high ground, and the US army is in the middle and lower reaches of the position, and the use of the mountain gap makes it even more difficult for their advanced weapons to play a role. Each step of this step is inseparable from the close cooperation of the generals of the whole army, and more importantly, it can be said that this battle is the inheritance of the wisdom of our army to the ancient ancestors.
Our country has a splendid civilization of thousands of years, and the experience adopted by our ancestors is still used today. This is something that the United States cannot understand, and they know that they can crush us only with advanced weapons and equipment. But they don't understand the truth that soldiers are not normal, and water is impermanent. Even less did they understand the truth of Ezhu Kegang, so their rout on the Korean battlefield had long been inevitable.