In 1951, the new commander of the U.S. Eighth Army, Ridgway, with the support of aircraft, tanks, and artillery, gathered the strength of a division of the United States, a brigade of the British Army, and a division of the South Korean Army, and launched an all-out attack on the defensive positions of the First Army, the 112th Division, the 125th Division, and the Third Army of the Korean Army. However, just as the Volunteer Army and the 112th Division were fighting bloody battles on the south bank of the Han River, an unexpected situation arose. The headquarters of the 113th Division of the US Army was subjected to massive artillery shelling, and both transport and transceivers were destroyed. It turned out that Major General John Church, commander of the 1st Division of the United States, decided to follow the interspersed and roundabout tactics of the Volunteer Army, boldly interspersed at night, and penetrated directly into the area of Shanzhongli and Xiyueli behind the 113th Division. In the face of the US military's front and rear attacks, the army is facing the most severe test in the history of army building. The back of the 113th Division had been occupied, and the army commander Liang Xingchu ordered the troops to immediately set out to annihilate the enemy who had infiltrated the Shanzhongli area. The rear of the 112th Division and the Third Army would be cut off by the American army, and there was a danger of falling into the enemy's encirclement. However, at this critical juncture, the regiment commander Zhu Yuehua rushed to Shenyang for a meeting, and Political Commissar Xing Ze could only personally command the operation. This battle was not only a battle of one regiment of the Volunteer Army against one regiment of the American Army, but also fought under the surveillance of enemy aircraft.
Fortunately, although Xing Ze is a political cadre, he has a wealth of combat experience. He ordered the deputy regiment commander Xie Chunlin to lead a company to seize the nearby high ground and resolutely resist the enemy's attack, while the rest of the troops were ready to set off at dusk. When night fell, Xing Ze took Hu Guang, chief of staff of the regiment, and led a battalion to launch an anti-interspersed operation against the interspersed US troops. In order to avoid being discovered by enemy aircraft, they abandoned the road and chose a steep and difficult mountain road. During the night march in the snow, Xing Ze was so anxious that he rushed forward desperately, and even accidentally fell into a large snow pit. When the soldiers saw Xing Ze's condition, they hurried over to pull him. A cadre joked while helping Xing Ze pat the snow on his body: "Political commissar, the enemy hasn't been **, you will drill a hole." Xing Ze emerged from the snow pit and climbed to the top of a nearby mountain. The deputy battalion commander came over and reported: ". Battalion. The battalion has been inserted to the enemy occupation. 131。141。The high ground flanked behind, and no movement of the enemy was found so far. ”。Xing Ze. Late that night. point, led by Xing Ze. 338。When the regimental command post arrived at a separate house in Xinxingli and waited for the news of the detour of the troops behind the enemy, he did not expect that after waiting for an hour, there was no movement at all.
Xing Ze thought to himself: "Could it be that the troops are empty?"Or the enemy has already crossed the Han River?”。Xie Chunlin, the deputy head of the regiment, who was also anxious, couldn't stay in the house at all. From time to time he ran out of the house to hear the sound of gunfire, but the night was so quiet, only the whirring of the wind. He was so anxious that he returned to the house again and again, and said irritably, "Why hasn't it started yet?"Just when Xing Ze, Xie Chunlin and others were waiting impatiently around the small kerosene lamp, suddenly dense gunshots and dull wooden-handled grenades** sounded one after another, breaking the silence of the night sky. Xie Chunlin, the deputy head of the regiment, jumped up happily and shouted: "It's started, it's started." ”。Xing Ze, who breathed a sigh of relief, looked down at the luminous watch, and the hour hand pointed to half past one in the night. Xin said: "At present, the US troops who have infiltrated the position are finally surrounded, but the battle has just begun, and it is still difficult to predict the victory or defeat." ”。To Xing Ze's surprise, before dawn. Battalion. The battalion sent someone to report: "It has been captured. 131。141。Two highlands, completely cut off the entrenchment. 395。635。Wait for the rear road of the American troops in the high ground. ”。Xing Ze asked, "How is the mood of the fighters?"”。The battalion commander was pleased. He said, "It's full of energy, you know us." Even the eighth squad leader Zhu Xingyuan.
The young man rushed to the front, ran halfway up the hill and suddenly jumped out two American soldiers, knocking down one with the butt of his rifle, and then flying up and kicking the other, and that's what he did. ”。The battalion reported that they seized a lot of canned food there. ”。So, why. 338。The regimental anti-interspersed operation went so smoothly?Actually, from the very beginning of the fourth campaign. 338。The regiment has always been anxious about not catching the battle. After receiving the order from his superiors, he was in Xingze political commissar. In this battle, the commanders and fighters under the command of the regiment skillfully avoided the reconnaissance of enemy planes, successfully penetrated the rear of the Volunteer Army, and carried out a surprise attack on the American troops. The panicked American troops simply did not have time to dig the fortifications, so they could only hastily pile up canning and biscuit boxes and act as sandbags to resist. During this time, they could not even eat meat and vegetables. However, for those battalion fighters who lacked nutrition, seeing so many cans and biscuits inspired even more tenacious fighting spirit. After daybreak, the fighters managed to occupy the equal heights. The result of the defeat of the U.S. military by a roundabout tactic was a big surprise. However, Xing Ze was not carried away by this victory, he immediately realized that the enemy would not be willing to defeat and would definitely organize a counterattack.
In the early morning light, Xing Ze moved the regimental command post forward in order to observe the enemy situation more closely and command the troops to fight. In the morning, under the cover of fire from several aircraft and dozens of heavy guns, the US troops dispatched tanks and a battalion to launch a fierce attack on the two heights occupied by the 338th Regiment. In the cold weather, the fighters of the 338th regiment huddled in the shell craters and, with rifles, machine guns and grenades in their hands, stubbornly repelled the enemy's onslaught after onslaught. At noon, there was even a company and guard company target competition, the criterion of which was simply to see who could get as close as possible to the enemy. The report from the observation post informed Xing Ze that the enemy in the area around Xiyueli had dispatched a battalion of tanks to attack the high ground, while the besieged American troops were busy carrying the remains and wounded. Xing Ze immediately judged that the besieged American troops were already difficult to hold onto, and they were likely to prepare to launch a breakthrough. He immediately summoned Hu Guang, the chief of staff of the group, and ordered him to quickly lead the troops to attack. After receiving the order, Hu Guang led some officers and soldiers and two companies of the 339th Regiment that were ordered to reinforce to launch a final attack on the besieged American troops. In the US military's eagerness to break out, they were subjected to indiscriminate bombardment by many planes.
However, while blocking the enemy's breakthrough, they counterattacked the reinforced enemy forces. When the ammunition ran out, they even engaged the enemy in white-knuckle combat with rifle butts and bayonets, and finally held out until reinforcements inserted into the enemy group, disrupting the enemy's disposition. After two days and two nights of fierce fighting, the gunfire in the Xiyueli and Shanzhongli areas finally subsided. In the Fourth Campaign to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, the United ** suffered a heavy defeat, and more than 1,100 soldiers of the two battalions were wiped out, of which more than 300 were captured. The schematic diagram of the battle shows that the day after the victory, Xing Ze was puzzled, he did not understand why someone mentioned "New Year's greetings", while Wei Changcheng was overjoyed.