Among the commanders of the volunteer army, Liang Xingchu, commander of the 38th Army, known as the "Long Live Army", is well-known, and Qin Jiwei, commander of the 15th Army who commanded the Battle of Shangganling, is also impressive, while the commander of the 27th Army of the Volunteer Army, who commanded a reinforced regiment of the us army, is little known.
In the entire Campaign to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, only the 27th Army of the Volunteer Army completely annihilated the entire regimental-level units of the US Army, and it was the only time that the commander of the 27th Army was called Peng Deqing, and his name and Mr. Peng's name were only one word apart, but his luck was much better than That of Mr. Peng.
Peng Deqing is a native of Tong'an County, Fujian Province, and has nothing to do with Mr. Peng in Xiangtan, Hunan Province, if there is no relationship, it can only be said that they are revolutionary comrades-in-arms, in 1926, 16-year-old Peng Deqing joined the peasant Red Guards, later became a soldier of the Red Army, and insisted on fighting guerrilla warfare in the south for three years.
In the year of the Japanese invasion of China in an all-round way, Peng Deqing was appointed as the leader of the independent brigade of the Anti-Japanese Volunteer Army in southern Fujian, and later transferred to the New Fourth Army as a company instructor.
In the Liberation War, Peng Deqing served as the commander of the 12th Division of the 4th Column of the East China Field Army, and Peng Deqing participated in the Battle of Zaozhuang, the Battle of Laiwu and the Battle of Menglianggu.
In November 1950, Peng Deqing led the 27th Army into the DPRK, when due to the urgency of the war, the 27th Army entered the DPRK directly from the south, the soldiers did not have time to change their equipment, most of the fighters were still wearing single clothes and shoes, and only a few people supplemented cotton clothes when they were transferred to the northeast.
Within a few days of entering the DPRK, a large number of soldiers were frostbitten, but the volunteer soldiers still insisted on marching with tenacious perseverance, and according to the orders of Song Shilun, the commander of the 9th Corps, the 27th Army, in coordination with the 20th Army, surrounded and annihilated the US 1st Marine Division in Xinxingli, Liutanli, and Hagaru-ri.
The name of this US 1st Marine Division is very large, with more than 160 years of military history, known as the "sword of The United States", before the war MacArthur devalued the volunteer army worthless, calling the volunteer army "Chinese laundrymaker", the US Marine 1st Division naturally did not take the volunteer army seriously.
On November 27, the Chosin Lake area was a winter of slaughter, and at 10 p.m., with the order of Peng Deqing, the two ace forces engaged in a fierce battle, and the 81st Division of the 27th Army was responsible for the frontal attack, which was responsible for cutting off the contact between the US 7th Division and the 1st Marine Division.
The 79th Division of the 27th Army immediately launched an attack on Liutanli, the first wave of attack annihilated the enemy, the two sides formed a confrontation, the 80th Division of the 27th Army attached to the 242nd Regiment of the 81st Division, surrounded the enemy in Xinxingli and Neidongzhi in one fell swoop, on November 30, the 80th Division and the 81st Division, together with the military artillery, opened fire on the American troops in Xinxingli.
Gradually compressing the US army to a small area, the US military used tanks to rebuild the defensive circle, for a time the volunteer army was even difficult to break through, Peng Deqing learned of it and ordered the soldiers to rush into the US tank defense circle, and the US infantry in the circle to engage in hand-to-hand combat.
In one fell swoop, Colonel McLaughn, commander of the 31st Regiment of the 7th Division of the U.S. Army, saw that the troops suffered heavy casualties, ordered the tank cover troops to break through, and the volunteer soldiers bravely pursued and killed mcLean, the commander of the 31st Regiment, and the American soldiers crossed Chosin Lake in a car.
Under the pursuit of the volunteers, the American car fell into the ice hole, and those who climbed ashore were captured, and finally a battalion of the 31st Regiment and the 32nd Regiment of the US 7th Division plus an artillery battalion, a total of one reinforced regiment of the enemy was completely annihilated by the Volunteer 27th Army, creating a miracle of the Volunteer Army annihilating the American regimental-level troops for one day.
After the war, the 27th Army commanded by Peng Deqing killed and wounded a total of 11,000 people in the 1st Marine Division of the US Army, which was the largest loss of the US Army.