On November 7, 1950, The Second Campaign to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea Officially Launched 。 The scale of this campaign is huge, and it is divided into two fronts, one is the eastern front, and the other is the western front. The eastern front is most famous for the battle of Changjin Lake, while the western front is also the battle of six armies, The 38th Army played an important role in the western front combat mission.
follow up a victory with hot pursuit
In this battle, all the officers and men of the 38th Army were holding their breath because they did not fight well in the first battle. Liang Xingchu was criticized by Peng Dehuai in public for this reason, and he was looking forward to winning a battle with pride. The 38th Army already had the fighting capacity of the main force. Peng Dehuai used the method of provoking generals in front of the station, which made the 38th Army powerful after the war, and defeated the 7th Han Division quickly.
Liang Xingchu had been in battle for a long time and had a good grasp of the war planes. After seeing the defeat of the 7th Korean Division, he did not intend to let it go. He fought a determined war of annihilation. Even the advisory group sent by the US military to the 7th Korean Division was captured by the 8th Company of the 338 Regiment. After the annihilation of the 7th Korean Division, The right wing of the US military immediately appeared a gap and needed to face the front of the 38th Army.
The battle gap appeared, and the powerful US troops were also obviously afraid of fighting. When they found that the situation was not good, they gradually had the idea of retreating. The weapons and equipment of the US military are far superior to those of the volunteer army. In particular, the army is highly mechanized and has very high mobility. Freedom of movement can be achieved in the drag of mobile warfare. If this feature of the US military cannot be restricted, the annihilation of the US military will become a fantasy.
After Liang Xingchu discovered the intention of the US military, he did not intend to let the US military go easily, but it was not easy to do so. He wanted to block the pace of the US military retreat while blocking the follow-up reinforcements of the US military, No matter which goal is not achieved, the combat strategy to eliminate the effective forces of the US military cannot be achieved.
difficult task
According to the battlefield environment at that time, the geographical location of Sansouli and Longyuan is very important. As long as a force quickly occupies these two positions, it can simultaneously cut off the retreat of the enemy fleeing to the south and block the reinforcements of the US army going north.
But the problem is that the U.S. military is moving fast, and the only thing that limits the speed is the rugged mountain roads and our pursuit, It is not easy to occupy Sansuoli and Longyuan before the US army.
Moreover, even if they are interspersed in place and faced with the desperate American troops and the reinforcements of the enemy who are eager to move north, it is still a problem whether they can hold their ground until the main force of our army arrives. After all, the American troops fleeing to the south are elite. There are not only the First American Cavalry Division, known as the "Founding Army Division", but also the Second American Division, the main force that followed Eisenhower to fight in Europe in World War II, As well as the US 25th Division, once they find their way back blocked, they will fight like trapped animals!
Because this task is extremely important, Han Xianchu himself gave orders to Chang Jiang Chao, 113 division by telephone, and repeatedly told them that they must be inserted into the three institutes at any cost and in place before 6:00 in the morning, No matter what kind of attack the enemy faces, they should be nailed in the three institutes like nails.
Jiang Chao is very clear about the huge difficulties behind the simple three requirements. But after receiving the order, Jiang Chao didn't even complain, but when Han Xianchu asked him whether he heard clearly, he firmly replied to Han Xianchu with three words: "Clear!"
It is the bounden duty of soldiers to obey orders. Han Xianchu gave orders to Jiang Chao. Jiang Chao should have executed them without complaint, but why did the author praise Mr. Jiang Chao? In fact, there is a reason behind this. When Jiang Chao received the order from Han Xianchu, he had just been fighting for several days and nights, The officers and men of the 113th Division were very tired and almost at the limit of physical strength.
After several deliberations, Jiang Chao assigned the important task of cutting through the three institutes to the 338 Regiment. The head of the group was named Zhu Yuehua. Zhu Yuehua was having breakfast when he passed the order to him. He was sitting at the simple table with a bowl of porridge in his hand, and was about to take a sip of porridge. However, he fell asleep because of excessive fatigue. The porridge was scattered all over the table, but he didn't know it.
In addition, the soldiers of the 338 Regiment were extremely tired, Some soldiers fell down when they walked, and when they came forward, they found that they were asleep 。 When some soldiers were digging fortifications, they suddenly pouted their hips and stood still in the digging position, so that they could hear the sound of snoring when they got close.
Jiang Chao, as a division commander, was naturally aware of the situation of the 338 Regiment. It was hard to imagine how difficult it would be for such a tired team to carry out the task of rushing forward and sticking to the three li position. Under such circumstances, it is not easy to answer "clear" decisively without complaining, so the author deeply admires Mr. Jiang Chao.
work wonders
Although the 338 Regiment was exhausted, it immediately became energetic when it learned of such an important task, forced the army 145 li to create miracles, and moved into three places ahead of the US army, which became a nightmare for the US army on its way to escape.
The trump card division of the US military, Now they are stuck in the three institutes by the 338 regiments , no longer paying attention to the calm image, he began to attack the three institutes desperately. The American army is famous for its abundant ammunition and terrible fire output in a short time. In addition, these divisions are the ace divisions of the American army. They not only have artillery, but also have a lot of aircraft support and tanks.
In addition, the position of Sanzuoli is also a position for intercepting the enemy's reinforcements. It not only needs to fight against the madness of the enemy who has just escaped, but also needs to face the fierce attack of the rescue enemy. At the moment of the battle, our positions in the three institutes were almost covered by the output of American firepower. According to the statistics of an American artillery battalion, they fired 3206 shells at our positions in just 22 minutes.
After the bombing, the position was scorched and the smoke of gunpowder remained for a long time , and a new round of coordinated offensive between the US Army and Pakistan has been launched. In the view of the US military, even if there are many defenders on the position, it is hard to find anyone after such a bombing. However, after they boarded the quiet position, with the sound of a gun, the volunteer army began to shout and kill intensively, and many close up volunteer soldiers rushed up with bayonets to fight, which scared the American soldiers back again and again. Only then did they realize that it was not so simple to want to pass the three institutes.
After the American army withdrew, it organized a new round of bombing and attack again. Although the output of firepower was already very fierce, it was still unable to take down the position of Sansouli. For a whole six hours, the US military did not advance in front of the three institutes, This result is unacceptable to the US military, and it also makes the US military more afraid, because the main force of the volunteer army is getting closer and closer.
How can the US army also wonder why the volunteer troops stationed in the positions of the three posts have such combat effectiveness after such a long time and such intensive fire output? The more the US army fought, the more anxious it became. The more it fought, the more afraid it became. It had no choice but to give up attacking Sansuoli and turn its head to attack Longyuanli crazily.
The 337 Regiment was waiting for them in Longyuan. They had the same soul as the 338 Regiment. The US army could not break through the defense line of the 337 Regiment even after it bombed wildly until nightfall. At this time, the main force of the 38 Army was ready to start the final general attack under the cover of darkness. The American ace division still suffered heavy losses in the battle of trapped animals. When they lost their armor, countless weapons and equipment remained on the battlefield and became the spoils of our army!
The vice army, Yangtse Yonghui, saw this scene with his own eyes when he climbed up and looked far with a telescope. Later, when he recalled this experience, he could not help sighing, "I have fought for half my life. This is a marvel on earth that I have never seen before!" What scene did Jiang Yonghui see that made him so unforgettable?
"There are countless booty of tanks, artillery, armored vehicles, weapons, equipment, ammunition, military flags, documents, scraps of paper and so on, almost all over the battlefield"
According to statistics, there were more than 2000 cars and even hundreds of tanks left on the battlefield by the US army at that time, which was why the US army escaped and was completely annihilated without heavy weapons and supplies. The victory of this campaign has greatly supplemented our army, but it is a pity that most of the tanks and cars were blown up by the aircraft coming from the US.
In fact, even if the US army does not blow up these cars and tanks, our army will blow up them. The reason for doing so is also quite helpless, because our army was very short of driving talents at that time, As a result, these cars and tanks cannot be driven away. If they are not blown up, they will be left to the enemy.
What's more regrettable is that the Volunteer Army once captured fighter planes and helicopters on the Korean battlefield, but because they were unable to fly and were afraid of being taken back by the enemy, they had no choice but to bomb them. Even so, The defeat of the US army still left us a lot of military supplies, which greatly supplemented the volunteer army!
