In 1951, in the fourth campaign launched by the Chinese Volunteer Army, Mo Ruojian, a legendary translator of the Volunteer Army, when interrogating a US prisoner, found that the prisoner was actually a us military policeman, and the impression was that the US military police were a very squealing character, wearing a steel helmet hat marked with "MP" white font, and his toes were high and mighty, and he seemed to be the biggest in heaven and earth. However, the US military policeman in front of him, dressed in disheveled clothes and full of dirt, also showed a particularly lost look, and it seemed that he had not yet woken up from the nightmare. Before Mo Ruojian could inquire, he burst into tears and cried with a handful of snot and tears, and his mouth continued to "grunt" and Mo Ruojian listened carefully, and it turned out that what he "grunted" was constantly repeating a sentence: "All have been killed, I am alive alone, I am killed, I am alive alone..." Seeing this virtue of this US military gendarme, Mo Ruojian turned his doubtful eyes to his side
Regiment leader Zhang Zhenshan and political commissar Lu Zhao
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Zhang Zhenshan and Lu Zhao looked at each other and laughed.
1. Ridgway: Do you want to rest? There are no doors.
In 1951, in Chinese Volunteer Army and the North Korean People's Army launched the first and second consecutive initiatives
The third battle
Under the blow, the "United Nations Army" led by the United States lost Seoul and shrank to the area near the 37° north latitude line.
At this time, the Chinese and DPRK armies launched three consecutive campaigns in more than two months, the entire unit was extremely tired, the attrition was very large, and the rear supply line was stretched from 100 kilometers to more than 500 kilometers, making it even more difficult for the grain and ammunition transportation line, which had been constantly bombarded by US aircraft.
In view of this situation, General Peng Dehuai, commander of the Chinese Volunteer Army, ordered all units to stop pursuing after reaching the "37th Line", and the main force of the volunteer army turned to rest, and on January 8, after the third battle ended, the 50th Army stopped pursuing, immediately turned to the defense, covering the withdrawal of the main force.
At this time, however, Lieutenant General Matthew Bunker Ridgway, commander of the U.S. Eighth Army, was frustrated
Commander douglas of the "United Nations Army"
General MacArthur suggested that a large number of veteran reinforcements be immediately mobilized from the Japanese, European, and home garrisons to increase their troops to the Korean battlefield and counterattack the volunteers.
Matthew Ridgway, also a pretentious figure, has repeatedly accused the Pentagon's Deputy Chief of Staff in his capacity as deputy chief of staff of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Douglas
MacArthur was self-absorbed, and because he always expressed his opinion on the Korean War, Lieutenant General Walker, the former commander of the U.S. Eighth Army, was appointed commander of the new Eighth Army shortly after he fell to his death while fleeing, and was transferred to the Korean battlefield to take over Walton Walker's post.
MacArthur went from the success of the Inchon Landings, clamoring for an end to the war before Christmas, winning the admiration of the Western world, to a total rout in which Walton Walker fell to his death and was killed by U.S. President Harry W. Bush. S. Truman's relentless accusations, after a process of ice and fire, can be described as discouraged, self-aware that it is not long, and now in the face of the ambitious advice of Ridgway, a former opponent, he can only shake his head and sigh and say, Do well, you can have complete freedom.
In fact, Ridgway really found the weakness of the Chinese Volunteer Army, that is, due to the logistical difficulties of the Volunteer Army, the time of each attack would not be too long, so he named this "Worship Offensive" or "Full Moon Offensive", that is, due to the combat time that the infantry could support, the Volunteer Army's offensive could only last for a week at most, or longer, half a month, and once this time passed, it was inevitable that because of the complete loss of logistics support, it would have to withdraw from the battle.
Therefore, he thought of a method of torturing the volunteer army, called "magnetic tactics", organizing mechanized troops to carry out tentative attacks, using a war of attrition to stop our army's offensive, and when it was unfavorable, it quickly contracted and evaded the attack, while the volunteer army's offensive was weak, and when it was ready to withdraw from the battle, it immediately followed the volunteer army, seized the main points, and turned to the counter-offensive. That is to say, stick to you like a magnet, so that you can't fight, you can't withdraw, tired will also exhaust you, bad enough.
Therefore, at the critical moment when he learned that the volunteer army had been extremely tired after three battles and had not yet replenished its strength and was ready to rest, he concentrated the ground troops of more than 230,000 people, including 16 divisions, 3 brigades, and 1 airborne regiment of five armies, as well as all the artillery tanks and aviation units in Korea on the two-hundred-kilometer frontal frontal front, divided into east and west, and prepared to launch a large-scale offensive from west to east.
Second, what is the situation, Suwon City suddenly stationed American soldiers.
Ridgway had a bad heart, but the volunteers didn't know it, and they were still preparing to rest for a while, recuperate their spirits, and continue to launch the spring offensive.
The 50th Army of the Chinese People's Volunteer Army was originally the former Kuomintang 60th Army of the Yunnan Clan who led an uprising in the Changchun battlefield led by Zeng Zesheng, the former Commander of the Kuomintang, and the soldiers of the subordinate units were mainly yunnan disciples, with zeng zesheng, the commander, and Xu Wenlie, the political commissar. Ordered to stop the pursuit, defend on the spot, and withdraw all the troops that had advanced to the "37th Line" to the mountains north of Suwon to turn into defense, monitor the movement of the front line, and be ready to block the attack of the United Nations army. According to the defensive deployment of the Fiftieth Army, the 447th Regiment of the 149th Division was ordered to hold the baiyun mountain area north of Suwon Castle, and to hold the Baiyun Mountain at the throat of the "Jingbu National Highway", which was a military point that the enemy and us must fight for.
At this moment, Suwon City was already empty, and the warehouses in the city were piled up with combat materials left behind by the US army when they fled in a hurry, and what white noodles, cans, and all kinds of materials could not be put in the warehouse. In the face of these Americans' "foreign wealth," the volunteer soldiers who were extremely short of food were simply overjoyed, and invariably went to the city to carry some "booty" back, and by the way beat the tooth sacrifice, and the soldiers called this to pick up "Yang Luo'er", a truly qualified "Yang Luo'er", and did not pick up white and did not pick up. There was a group of volunteer soldiers, when they entered Suwon City, because they found food, they did not blow up the tanks in Suwon City, and when they came back, they were punished because they usually wanted to blow up a tank, they had to sacrifice a lot of fighters, so on weekdays, when they saw a tank, they had to do everything they could to blow it up, but now, there was no way, as soon as they saw the food, they forgot about it.
At dawn on January 25, 1951, Wu Liang, then deputy platoon commander of the 2nd Platoon of the 3rd Battalion, 8th Company, 3rd Battalion, 447th Regiment, 149th Division, 50th Army, was preparing to take people down the mountain to get some white noodles and canned food, but unexpectedly, before they could go out, at more than seven o'clock in the morning, a large number of US F86 saber jets suddenly came to the positions held by the Baiyun Mountain Volunteer Army, and a bunch of American soldiers, under the guidance of M46 Patton tanks, launched a fierce attack on the warning positions in the front of the Volunteer Army.
The battle continued until 12 noon, when the offensive of the American soldiers was stopped by the volunteers.
Fierce fighting until the afternoon
At 17:00, when night was about to fall, the American soldiers withdrew from the battle and retreated back to Suwon Castle.
What's going on, and when are Americans coming back? After the battle, military commander Zeng Zesheng and military political commissar Xu Wenlie immediately decided to send people to conduct reconnaissance and comprehensively find out what the intentions of these new American soldiers in Suwon City were.
The task was handed over to the 149th Division, and the commander of the 149th Division, Jin Zhenzhong, ordered the 447th Regiment to send a crack detachment to organize a night attack and at the same time to find out the enemy situation.
Third, the deputy battalion commander took over the task, and he also had to talk about the conditions.
Dai Ruji, a native of Naxi, Yunnan
man
The former Captain officer of the Kuomintang at the time of the Changchun Uprising, after receiving the task, he fully knew the difficulty of this task, and before leaving, Dai Ruji specially put forward a request to Zhang Zhenshan, commander of the 447 regiment, and Lu Zhao, political commissar, who had been pursuing for nearly two years and failing to fulfill his wish: "If I sacrifice, please organize and posthumously recognize me as a Communist Party member!" "
Dai Ruji in North Korea
According to the coordinated plan for the night attack on Suwon Castle, the regimental reconnaissance platoon was a feint attack detachment, attacking the enemy with fire 5 kilometers outside the southern gate of Suwon Castle, attracting the enemy's attention; the division's reconnaissance company was a cover detachment, occupying the dan nam hill on the northeast side of Suwon City outside the north gate city, and was responsible for covering the reception; Dai Ruji led the 8th Company as a shock detachment and inserted into Suwon City from the north gate.
Baiyun Mountain Battle Comic Strip
Just after the night of January 25, 1951, Dai Ruji, deputy battalion commander of the 3rd Battalion of the 447th Regiment of the 149th Division, was ordered to lead more than 200 people from the 8th Company, the Division's Reconnaissance Company, and the Regiment's Reconnaissance Platoon to form a reconnaissance detachment and attack Suwon without hesitation. Along the way, the wind swept the mountains and villages furiously with snowflakes, and the snow flakes twisted like needles in the fierce wind, whipping every soldier of the volunteer detachment with their heads and faces.
Dai Ruji led the turmoil
hit
As the soldiers of the detachment walked toward the north gate of Suwon, they summoned cadres of 8 companies and platoons or above to quickly go to the front to study the battle plan. Dai Ruji said: "Our task is to grasp the tongue and understand the enemy's situation, and a reconnaissance platoon in the regiment cooperates with us and covers our company's attack on Suwon Castle from the flank, so we must make a quick decision, and before the regimental reconnaissance platoon enters the southern gate position of Suwon City and the battle begins, we must quickly reach the north gate of Suwon City."
At this time, the night was quiet, there was no figure, the enemy was frightened by the night battle of the volunteer army, and at night, even the plane did not dare to come out, all the turtles shrunk in the old nest, and did not dare to move, so,
Dai Ruji and his party
Very smoothly, I touched the north gate of Suwon Castle.
There is a small bridge outside the north gate of Suwon City, and as soon as the commandos approached, they heard the inquiry of the American soldier "Harrow" in front of them, and the commandos' footsteps were still discovered by the enemy's sentry.
Ni Yucheng, the machine gunner, was about to shoot when he was held down by Dai Ruji and said softly, "Leave him alone, seize the time to insert himself!" ”
Due to the darkness of the night and the wind and snow, the enemy's sentries themselves were reluctant to come out, and when they saw the other side swinging wildly, thinking that they were "their own people", they waved their hands, and Dai Ruji led the commando team through smoothly again. Soon, the assault detachment was interspersed under Suwon Castle. About 50 meters from the city wall, the assault detachment was once again spotted by the enemy sentry on the city wall, and they shouted for the commando to shout "password".
At this moment of great danger, Dai Ruji, who was walking in front of the commando, was not afraid of danger and resolutely gave the order,
From sneak attack to strong attack,
Continue to lead the assault detachment into the city. The enemy sentry on the city wall suddenly woke up, shouted "sneak attack", and for a time all kinds of light and heavy machine guns opened fire together.
At a critical moment, Dai Ruji ordered
3 rows of Chen Youzhi
"Chen Youzhi, quickly kill the enemy machine gun fire point!" Chen Youzhi immediately pulled out two grenades and crossed the road, only to see a flash of red light, and the enemy's machine guns were dumb with two loud noises. Dai Ruji shouted, "Comrades, follow me!" At this time, all the enemy searchlights were turned on, and Dai Ruji looked back and saw more than 10 tongues of fire cutting off the commando team, and the main force of the commando team was crushed by the fierce fire of the enemy on the front line of the small bungalow outside the city, and it was impossible to follow.
Fourth, Li Yunlong said: Even if it is a mosquito, I will bite him with a tube of blood.
At this time, Dai Ruji was under siege, looked around, and only 10 people were there, and the main force of the commando was crushed outside the city by the enemy and could not enter, according to this situation, it can be said that this night attack operation has completely failed.
However, Chinese Volunteer Army soldiers are a different kind of heroic team, and it is in this way
Under harsh conditions, still undaunted and daring
Counterattack, just like in "Bright Sword", Li Yunlong said, even if it is a mosquito, I will bite him with a tube of blood, narrow road to meet the brave to win, Dai Ruji ordered the warriors around him: "Follow me inside!" Immediately after, 10 people fiercely rushed forward, like a sword straight into the heart of the enemy, this is the military quality of the Chinese People's Volunteer Army, what is a warrior? This is the Warrior!
When Dai Ruji and the others interspersed into the center of the street in one breath, they found an ocean building on the right side of the intersection, surrounded by Hessian trees and barbed wire, 1 tank and 7 jeeps parked in the courtyard, the lights were bright, the noise was noisy, several jeeps were starting, the terrified enemy was panicked, The commander of the Dai battalion was a graduate of the officers' school, and the American troops who had never come and gone were dressed to look at it, and he immediately realized that this was the old nest of the Americans! A real U.S. military command!
Just as Dai Ruji was thinking about how to break into the building, he suddenly felt that there seemed to be a familiar voice next to him, so he let it
1 Platoon Wang Hongxin sent a unique signal to the volunteer army,
A long and two short horns sounded, and sure enough, the right side of his own immediately heard a long and short response sound of a small horn, which turned out to be 2 rows long
Wu Liang took Wang Hongpei, Ni Yucheng, Liao Zhongliang, and Li Chuncheng
The other 7 people also rushed into Suwon City, and they also mistakenly hit and met Dai Ruji.
Wu Liang recalled the scene when eighteen warriors attacked Suwon City at night
Dai Ruji was overjoyed, just thinking about how to attack the building, the reinforcements arrived, although counting, including only 18 people, but the strength was significantly enhanced, according to Dai Ruji's judgment, this is likely to be the command post of the US army, Dai Ruji asked Wu Liang: "Do you have a grenade?" Wu Liang replied, "Bring it." Dai Ruji immediately ordered: "Ni Yucheng (machine gun group) blocked the street entrance; Liao Zhongliang, blocked the hospital door; Wang Hongxin cut off the telephone lines around the building; and the rest of the people followed me inside!" As soon as the words fell, grenades, submachine guns, and light machine guns swept toward the Ocean Tower like a sudden storm.
Chen Youzhi, the commander of the 3rd platoon who rushed into the courtyard, first sealed the gate of the Dayang Tower with a submachine gun, Li Chuncheng quickly jumped up and threw two grenades inside, and at the moment when the grenade exploded, another soldier took the opportunity to rush to the door of the building, but unexpectedly, he was hit by bullets fired from the stairs and windows. After the first wave of charge was frustrated, Wu Liang and the 1st platoon commander Wang Hongxin, the 6th squad leader Li Yingchao,
Gao Ziqing, 8 Liansun Wanshan
When the 5 people rushed into the "Ocean Building" again, Wu Lianggang rushed into the building and was blown out by the enemy's grenade. Dai Ruji saw Wu Liang holding his right hand, and the blood flowed down his sleeve, and asked with concern: "Wu Liang, can you do it?" ”
"Okay!" Wu Liang gritted his teeth, did not say a word and rushed in, and after a while, he dragged out from the building a US prisoner with a carbine around his neck, and through the enemy's searchlight, Dai Ruji found that the prisoner's armband with the word "MP" on his arm, and shouted happily: "Comrades, we have captured the enemy gendarmes, here is the enemy's command post, rush!" "
18 Warriors Attack Suwon Castle at Night (Painting)
18 Warriors were like sharp knives, fiercely stabbed into the Ocean Tower, fiercely fought for 2 hours, stirred up the enemy's internal organs, and beat the American soldiers who were high on their toes during the day to cry wolf howls, holding their heads, and even the tank escaped without a trace.
After capturing the "Dayanglou", Dai Ruji also picked up a pair of long woolen socks and put them on (no way, poor), and then ordered that all the cars and military supplies that could not be taken away be burned and taken prisoners.
From the east gate of Suwon city wall
swift
Rush out,
Evacuation from the battlefield, in the process of evacuation,
Dai Ruji led the ministry
He beat up the American mortar position on the East Gate Heights and returned smoothly. When the 18 warriors retreated to a small hill outside the city, the enemy woke up like a dream, organized a gun group to aim at the north gate and fired indiscriminately, frightening the American troops in the south of the city and the American troops in the north of the city to bombard each other with artillery fire for a night.
The 18-man commando team led by Dai Ruji killed more than 60 American troops, captured 1 person, destroyed 10 vehicles, and captured 2 mortars at the cost of 6 casualties and many wounded.
1 automatic rifle, 4 carbines, 1 light machine gun, 1 radio
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During the interrogation, the US military police cried in fear.
After the volunteer soldiers returned to the regimental headquarters,
Escorting captured U.S. gendarme prisoners to the 447th Regimental Headquarters,
Regiment leader Zhang Zhenshan and political commissar Lu Zhao
He and Dai Ruji interrogated the captives, and at the time of the first interrogation, Mo Ruojian had not yet questioned, and the captives had not yet been interrogated
Recovering from panic, he just said to himself: "They were all killed, I was alive alone, I was killed, I was alone..." In desperation, he had to give up the interrogation and appease the captives.
At the second interrogation, this name
The US gendarmes were very cooperative, shaking out the US military deployment in one go, and it turned out that the US troops in Suwon City were
A battalion of the 2nd Battalion of the 35th Regiment of the 25th Division and a unit of the Gendarmerie,
Dai Ruji led a night raid to kill him
It was the U.S. 25th Division
Gendarmerie platoon. According to the U.S. military plan,
The U.S. army has 5 corps, 16 divisions, 3 brigades, and an airborne regiment
The ground troops of more than 230,000 people, as well as all the aviation and armored troops in the Far East, were divided into east and west, from west to east, and prepared to launch a large-scale attack, while the US 25th Division, the 3rd Division Reconnaissance Unit, the Turkish Brigade, the US 35th Regiment, the US 7th Regiment, and the 8th Cavalry Regiment were lined up from west to east, starting from the northeast line of Defense Churi - Osan - Anseong, and were conducting combat reconnaissance to the north, and Suwon Castle became the first stop of their military deployment, but was beaten by 18 brave soldiers.
It was a big deal
The news shocked the Volunteer Command, and the Chinese People's Volunteer Army quickly deployed, and the Chinese and North Korean People's Army stopped resting on January 27 and turned to defensive operations.
Peng Dehuai, commander and political commissar of the Chinese People's Volunteer Army, in accordance with the difficulties of the troops at that time and the situation that the war would be protracted, and after agreeing with the Korean People's Army, adopted the policy of striving to stop the enemy's advance, steadily open up the war situation, and step up preparations from all aspects, and still made long-term and arduous plans, han Xianchu, deputy commander of the Volunteer Army, commanded the 38th 50th Army and the 1st Army of the People's Army (hereinafter referred to as the Han Clique) to organize a defense against the attack of the "United Nations Army" in the direction of Seoul on the 68-kilometer area north of Kimpo Inchon and Yemu-ri to Yeoju; The 39th 40th 42nd 66th Army (referred to as Deng Group), commanded by Deputy Commander Deng Hua of the Volunteer Army, and with the cooperation of the 2nd 3rd 5th Army (hereinafter referred to as the Jin Group), commanded by Jin Xiong, commander of the Front Command of the People's Army, sought opportunities to carry out a counterattack in the Hengcheng area of the Eastern Front.
Under difficult and difficult conditions, the Chinese and DPRK people's armies carried out defensive, campaign counterattack, and movement defensive operations, which lasted 87 days, killing and wounding more than 78,000 enemy prisoners (including more than 53,000 volunteers annihilating the enemy), so that the "United Nations Army" advanced 1.3 kilometers at the cost of nearly 1,000 casualties on average every day, and the volunteers suffered more than 42,000 casualties. The Chinese and Dprk people's troops completed their defensive tasks, won time, and covered the assembly of the follow-up corps of the volunteer army, creating favorable conditions for the fifth campaign.
Dai Ruji's name and 18 warriors
The story of the night raid on Suwon Castle
Thus spread throughout the whole army of the Volunteer Army,
On March 31, 1951, the People's Daily reported on the "North Korea Newsletter" column
18 warriors
In April 1953, with the imminent victory in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, Shanghai printed and distributed 100,000 copies of the pictorial "18 Warriors of the Chinese Volunteer Army" and distributed them to the whole country.
On May 28, 1951, in recognition of the heroic fighting spirit of the 447th Regiment, the 50th Army was awarded to the regiment with the approval of the Volunteer Army Headquarters
"Baiyun Mountain Hero Regiment"
Honorary titles
At the request of Xu Wenlie, political commissar of the military, he deliberately removed the word "hero" and changed it to
"Baiyun Mountain Regiment", later, by
"Singing Baiyun Mountain", written by Liu Baiyu and composed by Zheng Lucheng, was sung on the battlefield and in China.
In Dai Ruji's hometown, the scenic Lijiang County of Yunnan Province, Dai Ruji became a hero who made the people of his hometown proud. After Dai Ruji's death in 1983, the Lijiang County People's Government, in accordance with the strong demands of his father and fellow villagers, renamed the alma mater that Dai Ruji had funded before his death to "Ruji Primary School", and built a pavilion and a monument on the campus to commemorate it, with the "history of meritorious service" and let "the image of Weiwei cast children's hearts".