Author: Hu Xianda
On the heroic spectrum of the people's army, the five heroes of Wolf's Tooth Mountain shine brightly, and we are familiar with it.
In the face of desperate circumstances, he would rather jump off a cliff and die than be a prisoner of the enemy, and the heroic feats of the five heroes of Wolf's Tooth Mountain are shocking.
10 years later, such a magnificent scene was repeated in the Tieyuan Blockade Battle.
The Tieyuan Blockade Battle was one of the most arduous blockade battles fought by the Volunteer Army after entering the DPRK. In this blockade war, the disparity between the enemy and our forces was too great, and Ridgway led the US coalition forces to sneak into the volunteer logistics supply base Tieyuan in a menacing manner, in an attempt to completely cut off the grain, ammunition, and supplies of the volunteer troops in front of me, and become lambs to be slaughtered. If Ridgway's hand succeeds, the consequences will be unimaginable.
Whether it is for Mr. Peng or for Ridgway, Tieyuan's gains and losses affect the overall situation, which is destined to be a fate-determined fight.
Because there were not many volunteer troops near Tieyuan, General Peng was very anxious and strictly ordered Fu Chongbi's 63rd Army, which was closest to Tieyuan, to urgently deploy and demand that it be held for 15 days at all costs.
Seriously, whether the 63rd Army can complete this arduous task, General Manager Peng does not have much bottom in his heart.
The situation was quite grim. The 1st Cavalry Division, the vanguard of Ridgway's army, was less than 20 kilometers away from Tieyuan, and the 63rd Army did not even have enough time to dig trenches.
Resisting the torrent of steel of the US army is certainly indispensable to the field fortifications with deep ditches and high barriers. It will take at least 3 days to construct such a fortified defensive area.
Fu Chongbi had to draw a special unit from the 63rd Army to be responsible for dragging the 1st Cavalry Division for three days to win time for the whole army to build field fortifications. The 189th Division was ordered to undertake this arduous task on the verge of danger, and adopted the tactics of scattered flowers of the Heavenly Nuns, reducing them into pieces, with a wide front and a deep depth, and gradually resisted the "three-plate axe" tactics of the US 1st Cavalry Division, such as aircraft bombing, artillery bombardment, and tank rushing.
American artillery positions
In coordination with the 189th Division, the 8th Company of the 563rd Regiment of the 188th Division was responsible for holding the intersection of the road near Tieyuan. There are three highlands near this intersection - 200.1, 200 and Unnamed Highlands. Once these three heights were captured by the US army, the entire logistics supply line of the volunteer army was in danger of being cut off by the US army.
In the pre-war preparations, Guo Enzhi, the commander of the 8th Company who was ordered to defend this area, led several platoon commanders to repeatedly inspect the terrain and carefully consider the firepower of the fortifications to ensure that under the indiscriminate bombardment of the US aircraft artillery, they could effectively save themselves and negotiate with the US troops to the end.
Only by knowing oneself and knowing the other can one never lose a battle. Imitating the opponent and thinking in a different position is an important way to know oneself and know the other. Guo Enzhi asked a platoon leader to pretend to be a U.S. army and talk about how he would attack and then how he would defend. A platoon leader said, if I am to take the lead, I must first attack the 200 heights.
Company Commander Guo Enzhi
The answer of the long row coincided with Guo Enzhi's idea. Company Commander Guo Enzhi combined the operational characteristics of the US army with the troops' strength and assigned several platoon commanders to make full use of the terrain and build fortifications. When the US aircraft artillery bombards, it is necessary to make full use of the trench bunker to protect themselves, wait until the US army charges up, and then engage them with short troops, so that the US fire support can not find a place to use.
In response to the pre-war rehearsal simulation of the US offensive posture, Guo Enzhi let the second platoon hold the 200 heights, the first platoon to hold the nameless highlands, and the third platoon to stay at the -200.1 highlands, as a reserve maneuver, ready to support the other two highlands.
For the group charge tactics used by the US army, Guo Enzhi let the second platoon commander who took the lead in receiving the enemy calmly and calmly, and did not rush to open fire on the enemy, so as not to expose the fire configuration prematurely and be hit by the US rear support artillery.
After the ARRIVAL OF THE US TROOPS, it was indeed the first to rush to the 200 heights as Guo Enzhi predicted before the war. After a burst of artillery fire, the American troops rushed up in the form of a group charge. At first, they encountered little resistance. After a brief silence, the doom of the American army came. Only to see the second platoon of soldiers emerge from the fortifications at once, using grenades and submachine guns to shoot at the front of the position with short and extremely close fire, and hit the American troops at the front of the position. Caught off guard, the U.S. troops were dumbfounded, and a large piece was suddenly knocked down.
Volunteer night raids
When the US troops fled from the 200 heights in a hurry, Guo Enzhi ordered the mortars and machine guns of the whole company to concentrate their fire on the fleeing US troops. Not only that, but he also ordered the battle groups that ambushed the two wings to attack quickly, cut off their retreats, and encircle and attack. The stunned American soldiers were chased by volunteer soldiers all over the hillside for their lives.
Offense is the best defense. In the evening, Guo Enzhi led the whole company to take advantage of the cover of night and quietly touched the camp of the US army. As for the volunteer army's "midnight robbery camp", the US 1st Cavalry Division could not dream of it and hardly did anything to prevent it. When the volunteers approached the camp and blew them up with grenades, most of them were still asleep.
The U.S. army has no recoil guns
Of course, the US 1st Cavalry Division was not a soft persimmon after all, and suddenly encountered a night attack by the volunteers, and did not abandon the camp and flee, but relied on armored fighting vehicles to organize a counterattack on the spot. The American troops, who returned to their senses in panic, constantly fired flares and relied on fire superiority to stop the volunteers' attacks, and night raids became a tough battle. Faced with this situation, Guo Enzhi resolutely withdrew from the night raid battle to avoid fighting hard with the US army under unfavorable combat conditions.
The American troops, who had suffered heavy losses after being attacked by the volunteers at night, regrouped their superior forces the next day and frantically counterattacked the high ground defended by Guo Enzhilian.
On this day's attack, the US army coordinated infantry, artillery, and tank warfare, and relied on the superiority of troop strength to launch an attack on the three highlands at the same time, through tactical division and firepower blocking, so that the volunteers of the three highlands fought separately and it was difficult to help each other.
Soon, Guo Enzhi's company was caught in a bitter battle of running out of ammunition. After a day of fighting, there were very few bullets left.
Just as the whole company was getting on the bayonet and preparing to engage in hand-to-hand combat with the American front, Guo Enzhi remembered the instructions of the pre-war battalion commander that this was a mobile defensive battle, with the purpose of taking advantage of the favorable terrain, resisting step by step, delaying time, and creating opportunities for the last counterattack of the volunteer army.
On the battlefield, nothing is more important than preserving living forces. "Lost land can be saved", and lost land can be recovered again!
The volunteers charged heroically
In view of the need for mobile defense and the loss of land, Guo Enzhi believed that the resistance of the whole company had won two days for the brother troops to build fortifications, and it was impossible to hold out in this way. Therefore, he decided to lead the whole company to find a breakthrough. In the contraction to Hill 200, the entire company of fighters gradually concentrated on the cliffs of the back slope of the highlands, where the U.S. army was weakest defended.
Saying that it is a cliff, it is actually a 200-meter-high hillside, which is much better than the cliffs of Wolf's Tooth Mountain. Guo Enzhi took the lead and jumped down, and with a flurry, he rolled down the hillside.
Guo Enzhi ventured to jump off a cliff to break through this time, but fortunately there were only a few scratches and falls. The company miraculously survived along the hidden ravine and returned to the garrison, resuppling the ammunition and resting for battle.
Guo Enzhi
In this battle, Guo Enzhi led the company to repel 13 enemy charges, inflicted 14 casualties on his own, annihilated more than 800 enemies, and completed the task of blocking the attack with excellence.
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