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After the outbreak of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, a large number of volunteers entered the DPRK to fight, and Liang Xingchu's 38th Army was one of the first armies to enter the DPRK to fight.
However, in the first battle after entering the dynasty, the 38th Army made a mistake, and Mr. Peng angrily scolded Liang Xingchu as a "rat general".
However, Liang Xingchu soon showed his true strength, annihilating 8,000 enemies in one battle, and the number of captured American cars was so large that there was no end in sight.
If Liang Xingchu was so capable, why did he lose the first battle? What did Liang Xingchu and the 38th Army experience in Korea?
Click to pay attention and walk into the story of the 38th Army of the DPRK to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea.
Entered the Korean War
To say that Mr. Peng's initial impression of Liang Xingchu is still very good.
Since Chairman Mao made the decision to resist US aggression and aid Korea, the Central Military Commission also appointed Peng Dehuai as the commander-in-chief and political commissar of the Volunteer Army.
Peng Dehuai attached great importance to the issue of resisting US aid to Korea, and he knew that the situation was urgent and could not tolerate the slightest delay, so on the day he was appointed, he flew from Beijing to Shenyang to convene a meeting of cadres above the level of the Chinese People's Volunteer Army, and Liang Xingchu also attended the meeting on the same day. As soon as he walked into the conference room, Mr. Peng said bluntly that Siye was very capable of fighting: "Siye can fight, you have won many battles, and your contributions to the battles of Jinzhou, Pingjin, and Liaoshen are not small." ”
As a member of the 38th Army, especially Liang Xingchu as the commander of the 38th Army, everyone was very happy to hear Mr. Peng's unreserved praise of the Siye.
Mr. Peng happened to see Liang Xingchu sitting on the side, and immediately praised him: "You fought very well in the Black Mountain Resistance Battle." ”
Speaking of this, Liang Xingchu smiled innocently, but Mr. Peng changed his words and immediately asked about the situation of the 38th Army: "Liang Xingchu, you are now the commander of the 38th Army, you are an old army, you are the ace army of the Four Fields, and you have the foundation of the Pingjiang Uprising, how is the army?"
Liang Xingchu knew that Mr. Peng was asking if the troops could go on the expedition, the duty of the Chinese army is to protect the family and defend the country, and the 38th Army was naturally duty-bound, Liang Xingchu immediately stood up and returned: "There is no problem, we will set off immediately." ”
At the meeting, Peng Dehuai and everyone discussed the battlefield situation in a good voice, and also talked about the plight of the Chinese army and the might of the enemy.
But he was not afraid, wasn't it just American-style equipment? Back then, when we were going to fight Chiang Kai-shek, weren't the Nationalist troops also equipped with American-style weapons, and they were not chased and beaten by our army, so they could only flee to Taiwan in disgrace.
Peng Dehuai's words greatly encouraged everyone present, and Liang Xingchu also pondered in his heart: they all said that Mr. Peng had a bad temper, and today's opinion is obviously very angry.
However, he soon understood Mr. Peng's temper.
After the meeting, Peng Dehuai ordered the volunteers to prepare for the expedition. Liang Xingchu's 38th Army, as one of the first armies to enter the DPRK to fight, was also intensively preparing for war.
However, in the first battle after entering the DPRK, the 38th Army encountered some difficulties.
After the Volunteers entered the DPRK, they first focused their attacks on the South Korean puppet army, and the vanguard of the Volunteers attacked the vanguard of the puppet army in the area from Unsan to Onjeong.
However, at that time, they did not believe that China really sent troops to fight, so they were ready to continue to advance, as the volunteer army continued to penetrate into Korea, everyone and the puppet army troops began to confront each other in the south and east of Wenjing, Peng Dehuai decided to change the original plan to destroy the enemy, and the 40th Army blocked the enemy to Wenjing, so that the enemy was in a predicament.
Then the besieged enemy will definitely ask for help like the surrounding troops, so that the enemy in Heecheon and Unsan can come over later, and then concentrate all the main forces of the 38th, 39th, and 40th armies and annihilate them around Unsan and Wenjing.
Under Mr. Peng's order, the 39th Army and the 40th Army successfully completed the task as planned, but the 38th Army led by Liang Xingchu had an accident.
Although the 38th Army performed brilliantly in the Liberation War, they had an accident in the Korean War.
The 38th Army first marched according to the plan and reached the periphery of Xichuan at the specified time, but they did not immediately attack, but waited on the periphery.
This was because the 38th Division had not been able to reach the designated position after getting the 112th Division, and their judgment of the enemy had been wrong, so the 38th Army rushed into Xichuan late, which gave the enemy room to operate.
When they rushed into Xichuan, they found that the enemy had already fled, and a good opportunity to destroy the enemy was missed. Liang Xingchu was dumbfounded when he saw the situation on the battlefield at that time, and regretted it again and again.
It didn't take long for Mr. Peng's call to ask for guilt came, and he yelled on the phone: "Liang Xingchu, you missed the fighter, I can't spare you, hurry up!"
The 38th Army fought
Liang Xingchu, who made a mistake, sighed in a low voice, and quickly replied yes, ordering the 38th Army to immediately pursue the enemy fleeing south from Xichuan, and the task of the 38th Army at this time was to cooperate with the 39th Army and the 40th Bureau to annihilate the enemy and cut off the enemy's retreat in Yunshan and Wenjing.
Liang Xingchu stood in front of the map and pointed to two areas: "The enemy is likely to pass through the stadium and the military corner, and we must block them here." ”
So the 38th Army decided to divide the troops into two routes, the 113th Division first hit Xinxingdong, and then attacked the stadium, approaching Junyuli, and the 112th Division took Sumin Cave, and then threatened Junyuli, so that the enemy was blocked in this place.
As soon as the plan was formulated, Liang Xingchu received a call from the commander of the 112th Division, and it turned out that after the order to the east of Xichuan, it was carried out according to the plan, but there was an accident halfway, the 334th Regiment was still in the Jiangjie, but the troops had already arrived in Qianchuan, and the railway station was bombed again, so they had to change to walking, which delayed the march.
The commander of the 112th Division still wanted to explain, but Liang Xingchu didn't want to hear it, the delay of the fighter plane had become a fact, and what could be done now was to make up for it, so Liang Xingchu gave the 112th Division a death order, which must be taken down by Su Mindong, and only gave them two days.
The 112th Division carried out according to plan this time, but the problem of their delay in fighters could not be revealed so easily.
On November 13, 1950, the Volunteer Army Headquarters held a meeting, and Liang Xingchu, as the commander of the 38th Army, also attended the meeting. Liang Xingchu had a premonition that this meeting was not good for him, so when he arrived at the scene, he found an inconspicuous corner and sat down.
After the meeting began, Deng Hua summarized and reported on the first battle according to the routine, and when it came to the teams that performed well in the war, Deng Hua specially praised the 39th Army and the 40th Army.
Since there is praise, there will definitely be corresponding criticism, among them, he mentioned the mistakes of the 38th Army in the Battle of Xichuan and the delay of fighters.
Although Liang Xingchu and others actively took measures to remedy the situation after the war, this mistake still brought unnecessary losses and risks to the volunteers.
If Liang Xingchu's 38th Army had no accidents, it was very likely that the Volunteer Army would have completely annihilated all the enemies north of Qingchuan in this campaign, instead of letting go a large group of living forces of the enemy.
Deng Hua's criticism was quite tactful, but Peng Dehuai didn't care so much, he was furious when he talked about it, so he suddenly shouted: "Liang Xingchu!"
Liang Xingchu, who was sitting in the corner, stood up with a ashamed face, and Mr. Peng continued: "Let me ask you." Why are the 38th Army waiting, I asked you to go to Xichuan, what are you doing? Why don't you listen to orders?"
The more Mr. Peng spoke, the more angry he became: "People say that you are a tiger general, but I, Peng Dehuai, have not seen anything in the war for so many years? What kind of tiger general, you are obviously cowardly in battle, and I think you are a rat general." ”
Liang Xingchu also knew that Mr. Peng's criticism was reasonable, he lowered his head and didn't dare to speak, Deng Hua saw the atmosphere of the troops, and wanted to stand up and fight a round: "Come to Japan, this battle has not been fought well, next time it must be fought well, the 38th Army is still the main force." ”
Speaking of this, Peng Dehuai was even more disdainful: "What the main force, the main force is a bird." ”
Seeing that Mr. Peng even said scolding words, Liang Xingchu didn't dare to fight back, but only dared to mumble in a low voice: "Don't scold people." ”
Mr. Peng scolded Liang Xingchu, which made Liang Xingchu determined to fight the next battle.
After returning home, Liang Xingchu immediately summoned the commanders of the 38th Army at all levels for a profound reflection and summary. He clearly realized that the mistakes in the Xichuan Campaign were not only the responsibility of individual people, but also the problem of the entire army's command system. Mr. Peng's criticism of him is also reasonable.
Therefore, he strengthened the discipline of the army and strictly carried out orders and battle plans. He demanded that every commander have a deep understanding of the battle plan to ensure that the right decisions can be made quickly on the battlefield.
This time the battle was lost, the soldiers were holding their breath in their hearts, everyone knew how "humiliating" this matter was, and the cadres at the meeting assured Liang Xingchu that the next battle would be fought well, and as a result, an ordinary meeting was held as a "pledge meeting".
In order to learn the lessons of the last war, before the start of the war, Liang Xingchu repeatedly called cadres above the group to discuss the battle plan to ensure that every cadre could deeply understand the strategy.
On the night of 24 November, Liang Xingchu called Zhang Kuiyin, chief of the army's reconnaissance section, and asked him: "Do you dare to penetrate behind enemy lines?" None of the volunteers were afraid, and he immediately agreed.
The second campaign of the 38th Army
Liang Xingchu's task for Zhang Kuiyin was to bring a bunch of men and horses to the area between Tokugawa and Ningyuan, and to carry a radio station, so that he could report the enemy situation and terrain to the headquarters at any time along the way.
Finally, it was necessary to penetrate the inevitable Wuling Lane of Tokugawa and blow up the highway bridge over the river, which would be very difficult just to transmit information between the enemies, and to blow up the highway bridge no later than 8 a.m. on the 26th.
The task is not simple, but Zhang Kuiyin is confident that he can do it all.
Before the war officially began, the reconnaissance company of the 38th Bureau first formed an advance team of 600 people, and under the leadership of Zhang Kuiyin, it was interspersed with the enemy army.
In order to confuse the enemy's sight, the volunteers deliberately disguised themselves as South Korean puppet soldiers, while other foreign armies themselves could not distinguish the appearance of Asians.
In this way, everyone went all the way, using a few words of Korean they had learned to successfully complete the tasks, and everyone hurried to finally arrive at the highway bridge at 7 am on the 26th, and successfully blew it up.
At the same time as the advance troops arrived smoothly, the main forces of the 38th Army also began to act, and they launched an attack according to the predetermined plan. Under the cover of artillery fire, the fighters descended the mountain like fierce tigers and quickly broke through the enemy's defenses.
The enemy was taken by surprise by the surprise attack of the volunteers and soon fell into disarray. As the advance troops cut off their retreat, the enemy was besieged by the Volunteers in a valley in the Tokugawa.
Liang Xingchu stood in the command post, observing the situation on the battlefield, and was overjoyed when he learned that the highway bridge had been blown up, and his heart was full of confidence. He knew that the 38th Army had to win this battle, not only to win, but also to win beautifully.
So Liang Xingchu gave the order to open fire on the enemy, and as the battle progressed, the performance of the 38th Army became better and better.
They not only successfully completed the interspersed mission, but also showed tenacious fighting spirit on the battlefield. Whether it was in the face of enemy artillery fire or in the face of adverse weather conditions, they did not flinch and forged ahead.
Under the attack of the 38th Army, the enemy retreated one after another, and after seven hours of fierce fighting, we successfully annihilated the enemy army and captured more than 200 enemy cars.
After the battle, Liang Xingchu stood on the battlefield, looking at the corpses of the enemy and the broken positions all over the ground, his heart was full of pride and satisfaction.
He knew that the 38th Army fought beautifully in this battle, not only winning the victory, but also winning respect and honor. He also deeply understands that all this is inseparable from the heroic dedication and sacrifice of the soldiers
The 38th Army annihilated 8,000 enemies in World War I, a truly remarkable achievement. General Peng Dehuai could not help but marvel at the bravery and combat effectiveness of the army.
Due to the large number of US cars that have been captured, there is no end in sight, and the capture of these US cars is not only a blow to the enemy, but also an encouragement to the soldiers of the Chinese People's Volunteers, and it also makes us understand that the US military can be defeated, and we can also defeat the invincible US army through war, even if they have advanced weapons, they cannot defeat us.
Under difficult conditions, the soldiers of the volunteer army showed tenacious will and fighting spirit that was not afraid of difficulties. Faced with a formidable enemy, they did not flinch, but chose to fight it bravely.
As the war continued, the volunteer soldiers faced more and more difficulties and challenges. However, instead of being defeated by these difficulties, they have strengthened their faith and defended their homes and loved ones.
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