As everyone knows, before the deployment of the northern part of the peninsula to advance southward, out of friendship, our army sent three Korean divisions to the north of the peninsula, and the source of troops came from Korean immigrants living in the border areas of Jilin, Heilongjiang, and Liaoning. Among them, the division-level units that have been formed into a structure are the 164th and 166th divisions directly under the Northeast Military Region.
After that, our army also selected Korean troops from the troops in the south of Siye and mixed them into four regiments and an independent brigade, including: more than 4,500 people in the 156th Division of the 43rd Army, more than 2,500 people in the other 11 divisions of the 15th Corps, more than 4,500 people in four battalions of the 40th Army, more than 1,000 people in one battalion of the 113th Division of the 38th Army, and more than 2,000 people in each battalion of the 418th and 419th Regiments of the 140th Division of the 47th Army.
Among them, the 15th Corps and the four battalions of the 40th Army formed an independent 15th Division, the 47th Army two battalions formed an independent regiment, and the 113th Division of the 38th Army formed an independent brigade.
After returning to China, the 164th Division was organized into the Fifth Division, the 166th Division was organized into the Sixth Division, the Independent 15th Division was reorganized into the Seventh Division, the 47th Army was incorporated into the Fourth Division as the Eighteenth Regiment, and the Independent Brigade was incorporated into the Armored Forces.
So, what was the fate of these troops?
First of all, let's talk about the Fifth Division, the fifth division was formerly known as the Independent 11th Division of the Northeast Military Region, founded in November 1948, by the 72nd Regiment of the Jilin Military Region, the 8th Regiment of the Songjiang Military Region, and the Independent 3rd Regiment of the Mudanjiang Military Region. When it was reorganized into the Fifth Division, the whole division had a total of 10,821 people, the division commander was Jin Changde, the younger brother of the leader of the independence movement, Anderson Li Deshan, the former deputy commander of the 164th Division, was the deputy division commander.
In the 625th War, the 5th Division was sent to the east coast to carry out a separate attack, engaged the ROK 8th Division under the command of Lee Jung-il, defeated the 8th and 10th Divisions at Gangneung, and together with the 12th Division, annihilated 38,000 remnants of the 8th, 10th, and Capital Divisions of the ROK Army that had time to retreat south in the future. At the end of July, the 5th Division swerved to the right back to Indeok-gun on the Pohang flank, where it engaged in a fierce battle with the ROK 3rd Division, which was supported by U.S. naval and air artillery, and captured Pohang half a month later.
However, due to the long-term change of battle, the Fifth Division suffered heavy losses, and only more than 6,000 people were left after the capture of Pohang. On August 14, the U.S. 2nd Division, the 8th Regiment, and the rebuilt ROK Capital Division formed a powerful counter-offensive force and pounced on Pohang. On August 19, the Fifth Division was forced to retreat and enter the Taibai Mountains to recuperate. Due to its initial attack by U.S. naval and air artillery fire, it was not able to recover until the inch of Inchon.
After the Inchon landing, the Fifth Division was ordered to retreat north, only 3,000 people remained, but still maintained a considerable combat effectiveness, and fought an ambush at Tongchuan, annihilating half of the pursuing ROK Capital Division, forcing the Capital Division to flee into Gangneung for several days, and then attacking and occupying the ROK garrison in Xiangyang and capturing a large amount of supplies.
On December 12, 1950, at the instigation of the 38th Army of the Volunteer Army, the troops were successfully withdrawn to Jiangjie. Until March 1951, the Fifth Division was reorganized in the rear, and then incorporated into the Fourth Army and participated in subsequent battles. During the stage of position warfare, it was stationed on the heights of Mount Kongo and repeatedly frustrated the enemy's attacks. After the war, the defense was transferred to Nampo.
The second one talks about the Sixth Division, which can be said to be a legend in the war.
The predecessor of the Sixth Division was the Li Hongguang Detachment, which was formed by the merger of three Korean squadrons of Tonghua, Liuhe and Qingyuan at the end of 1945, and had made great contributions to quelling the Tonghua Rebellion. Before entering the DPRK, there were 10,320 people, with more than 6,700 long and short guns, more than 370 light and heavy machine guns, 870 submachine guns, 89 gun grenades, 31 grenade launchers, 91 60 mortars, and 35 artillery pieces of various types.
The original division commander was Liu Ziyi, the political commissar Fang Hushan, before entering the dynasty Liu Ziyi was transferred away, and Fang Hushan took over.
During the June 25 War, Fang Hushan led the Sixth Division to attack Kaesong first, secretly repairing the railway tracks leading to Kaesong on the Gyeongui Line in advance. After the attack was launched, Fang Hushan attacked from the front with one regiment, and the other regiment took a train directly to the Kaesong Station, completely annihilated a company of the defenders, and conquered Gimpo on the 27th, becoming the first unit in the people's army to realize the drinking horse Han River.
On 11 July, Fong Hu-san commanded the 6th Division to avoid real attacks and make rapid strides along Jeolla And Chungcheong Province, and by the end of July had swerved back to the south of the Busan defensive circle. However, Fang Hushan did not grasp the essence of the 101 operation, and acted instead of acting resolutely in a roundabout way, wasting valuable time attacking the port. It did not reach Jinju, south of Busan, until the end of July.
However, this also greatly surprised the ROK Army and the US Eighth Army. The commander of the Eighth Army, Walker, urgently mobilized the nearest US 24th Division 29th Regiment to intercept it, and Fang Hushan commanded the 6th Division to pretend to be defeated and retreated, luring the 3rd Battalion of the US 29th Regiment to the ambush circle and completely annihilating it, killing more than 500 American troops and taking more than 100 prisoners. On August 2, Fang Hushan defeated the 27th Regiment of the U.S. 25th Division and captured Jinju, threatening the safety of the Busan defense circle from the south.
In order to retake Jinju, the US army concentrated all of the 25th Division, the Marine Brigade, and the 5th Cavalry Regiment of the 1st Cavalry Division to counterattack Jinju, and the two sides fought fiercely until mid-September, still without winning or losing. Fang Hushan also ambushed the Five Regiments of Cavalry in Fengming Valley, Jinzhou, and completely annihilated two battalions of the Fifth Regiment of Mounted Horses.
After the Inchon landing, Fang Hushan, as the southernmost KPA unit, fired a false shot and first ran out all the ammunition of the defenders in just a few days, making the 25th Division mistakenly believe that the KPA was still going to hold Jinju. After that, Fang Hushan withdrew the Sixth Division in batches in a few days and headed north along the Jinzhou-Shanqing-Xianyang-Jeonju Highway toward Daejeon, and planted mines on the Jingpu Highway in the middle of the way, so that the pursuing troops led by tanks, armored vehicles, and automobiles could not pursue along the road.
Thanks to Fang Hushan's excellent command, the 6th Division successfully retreated from the southernmost jinju in only one month, annihilating many small units of the Rok army on the way, and there were still more than 7,000 people when it retreated to the Wolf Forest Mountains in 1950, which was the best-preserved unit of the People's Army. He was awarded the title of Guard.
After a two-month rest, the Sixth Division took part in three battles, forcibly crossing the Linjin River and attacking the combined forces of the 2nd and 3rd Armies of the Roks between Yangkou and Linjiao. He also attacked Seoul with the 50th Army. In four campaigns, the 6th Division took part in the Counterattack of Hengcheng on the Eastern Front. During the five battles, the Sixth Division, together with the Ninth Corps of the Volunteer Army, stormed the roon third army defense line from the front, and captured the height of the ROK defense line in one fell swoop, Gary Peak, which made the ROK army shake the entire line.
In September 1951, the United Nations army launched the autumn offensive, Fang Hushan commanded the Sixth Division regiment to defend the 931 heights, against three regiments of the US Second Division and a division of the ROK army, the US army fired 40,000 howitzer shells at the 931 heights every day, and Fang Hushan made full use of the anti-slope position, cleverly dodged the artillery fire, and used mortars to kill and injure the US troops in large quantities.
After the autumn offensive, the Sixth Division withdrew to the rear to rest, in the summer of 1952 it was transferred to the west coast to undertake anti-landing tasks, and in 1953 it was transferred to Kaesong before the Battle of Jincheng to cooperate with the volunteer army in attacking the ROK army.
The third one talks about the Seventh Division. The Seventh Division was composed of a mixture of 15 Corps and 4 battalions of the 40th Army, and the division commander was Quanyu, which can be said to be the most elite unit entering the DPRK.
Unfortunately, the above did not make good use of this elite division that was good at running and interspersing. At the beginning of the war, when the 2nd Division's attack on Chuncheon, the capital of Gangwon Province, was blocked, the 12th Division was arranged to take over the 2nd Division to continue the attack on Chuncheon, but as a result, there was a lot of delay in the attack, and the loss of troops was also lost. Seeing that the purpose of containing the enemy's two divisions had been achieved, the Rok Army's Sixth Division retreated completely. Quanyu was dismissed as a result, and the name of the Seventh Division was changed to the Twelfth Division.
The second from the left is Quan Yu, deputy commander of the 156th Division of the former 43rd Army
After that, the Twelfth Division and the Fifth Division jointly undertook the offensive on the Eastern Front, and finally exerted the elite nature of The four fields, rushing to Andong, the northern gateway of the Busan Defense Circle, at a speed of 70 miles per day, and defeating the Korean Eighth Division. When the Fifth Division engaged the Third Division of the Rok army at Yingdeok, the Twelfth Division crossed the mountains and unexpectedly attacked Pohang. The Roks panicked and hastily recruited apprentices to die, and more than 70 apprentices died 48 in 11 minutes on the battlefield. The 12th Division again marched forward, crushing the Rok army's capital division and the Fifth Division, capturing Gyeongju, the capital of Gyeongsang Province, and expanding its positions southward, taking many hills.
However, Gyeongju had penetrated deep into the Busan defensive circle and was a place where the coalition had to retake. The above made another mistake, failing to support the attack of the Fifth and Twelfth Divisions in time, giving the enemy the opportunity to counterattack.
From August 14, the US Eighth Army mobilized the US 2nd Division, the 8th Regiment, and the rebuilt ROK Capital Division and the 5th Division, and pounced on Pohang and Gyeongju with the support of aircraft bombing, 500 howitzers, and naval guns, changing positions back and forth seven or eight times a day.
After the fall of Pohang, the situation in Gyeongju became more critical, and the Twelfth Division once again exerted the elite combat effectiveness of the four fields, and the enemy, who had absolute superiority in strength and firepower, had been fighting fiercely and refusing to give way. The two sides fought fiercely until September 7, when the 12th Division had to withdraw from Gyeongju and retreat to Mount Feihe to rest.
After the landing at Inchon, the 12th Division retreated to Sinuiju after many hardships and hardships, and only retreated to Sinuiju to rest under the advice of the 40th Army of the Volunteer Army, leaving only 1200 people in the whole army.
Due to serious injuries, the 12th Division did not go to the front until the fifth campaign in April 1951, when it was incorporated into the Fifth Army and participated in the attack on the Third Army of the Korean Army on the Eastern Front. In August, the U.S. Second Division attacked Hill 983, and the Twelfth Division was ordered to die in danger, fighting a bloody battle with three U.S. regiments + a roon regiment for 12 days. The Losses of the American Army were extremely heavy, so it was called Bloodstained Ridge. In April 1952, it was transferred to the West Coast.
The U.S. army shelled the blood-stained positions
The 18th Regiment of the Fourth Division formed by the 47th Army, the 18th Regiment, the wing commander Zhang Jiaode and the deputy wing commander Song Dewan both participated in the Black Mountain Blockade Battle, of which Song Dewan was the deputy battalion commander of the 418th Regiment 3 Battalion defended the Xiaobaitaizi - Wang Carpenter Tun line, and within three days resisted the attack of the 5 regiments of the Nationalist army. After that, together with a large army, he attacked Liao Yaoxiang's corps and captured 600 Nationalist troops. In January 1949, he participated in the southward campaign and the suppression of bandits in western Hunan Province, and was promoted to the commander of the 2nd Battalion for meritorious service.
In the 625th War, the Eighteenth Wing attacked from the front, the first to attack Seoul, and was awarded the honorary title of Guard Seoul. After taking the lead in Daejeon, the 24th Division defeated the US 24th Division in a row, and the correspondent Kim Kwang-so captured the division commander Dean and advanced all the way to the daegu and Busan fronts.
After the landing at Inchon, the situation was reversed, and the Eighteenth Wing suffered heavy casualties during the retreat, and the wing commander Zhang Jiaode was killed. Song Dewan acted as a wing commander and commanded the troops to fight guerrillas in the mountainous areas south of the 38th Line in the Tieyuan and Lianchuan areas, and persisted behind enemy lines for 4 months, staying up until the end of the three battles before meeting our army, at this time there were more than 700 people in the Eighteenth Wing. As a result, the Eighteenth Wing was awarded the title of Guard and expanded into the Guards Division, which was responsible for garrisoning Pyongyang.