In 1951, after learning that Huang Chaotian disobeyed the military order, he did not punish him, but said that he would reward him. The reason behind this move is that in the Fifth Campaign to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, Huang Chaotian led the army to attack, disobeyed the military order, and saved the lives of 100,000 volunteers.
This battle not only defeated the offensive of the joint **, but also established the prestige of the Hwacheon resistance battle and won the praise of the first. Mr. Peng even said to him: "It is worthy of Su Yu's number one ace army."
Huang Chaotian was born in 1915 in Ganzhou City, Jiangxi Province, to a poor family. Despite his family's poverty, he began working at the age of 10 to support his family. As a teenager, Huang Chaotian joined the revolutionary ranks and began to participate in guerrilla warfare with the Red Army at the age of 13.
After reaching the standard age, he applied for the Communist Party of China, and was soon approved to become a member of the party. In the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the War of Liberation, Huang Chaotian made outstanding contributions, was promoted by the organization many times, and made outstanding achievements.
After the outbreak of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, Huang Chaotian was sent to the front line as the commander of the 58th Division. The predecessor of this Red Army was the 1st Vertical and 1st Division of the East China Field Army, which was officially renamed the 58th Division of the 20th Army in February 1949, and the original commander was Su Yu.
Through this, Huang Chaotian became a well-respected military leader. The troops led by General Su Yu showed extraordinary combat capabilities and won widespread praise.
The 58th Division participated in many battles with General Su Yu and achieved remarkable achievements on the battlefield, and was recognized as an elite unit.
Under Su Yu's command, this unit has accumulated rich combat experience, displayed tenacious combat effectiveness and superb combat skills, and is known as the "outstanding of a hundred brigades." After joining the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, the 58th Division was ordered to go to the Korean battlefield and participated in the Battle of Changjin Lake.
In this fierce battle, the 58th Division lost 800 soldiers, but the team led by Huang Chaotian held its ground and killed more than 4,000 enemy troops after fierce fighting.
However, the bad weather and brutal fighting caused the 58th Division to lose more than 100 soldiers, and was forced to rest and retreat. After a five-month break, they returned to the battlefield and ushered in an even more difficult battle - the Hwacheon Blockade.
During the Fifth Korean Campaign, our army was short of logistical supplies and had to stop to recuperate. The U.S. military took the opportunity to launch a counterattack and used the advanced ** in an attempt to prevent our troops from retreating.
On the morning of May 27, 1951, when the 58th Division was preparing to complete the evacuation mission, Huang Chaotian heard the sound of artillery bombardment from the direction of Hwacheon and realized that Hwacheon had been lost and the US army was preventing our troops from retreating.
Realizing the urgency of the situation, Huang Chaotian immediately launched the next step of organizing the operation and sent scouts to reconnoiter the shelling point in Hwacheon. Soon after, the scouts returned to confirm Huang Chaotian's suspicion that the Hwacheon position had been captured.
Faced with the dilemma that the enemy was approaching and the 58th Division had to retreat as the vanguard force, Huang Chaotian was faced with two choices: one was to retreat to the Jinhua area as ordered, but in this way, the Ninth Corps might be ambushed by the American army without knowing it; The second is to continue to defend Huachuan and wait for the Ninth Corps to catch up.
After coming, we seek to break through together. After consulting with other generals, they decided to choose the latter. Because once the enemy army occupies the Hwacheon area, it will pose a threat to the Ninth Corps, and at the same time, it will also lose the communication arteries of the Eastern Front, and the situation of the battle will also be reversed.
After weighing the pros and cons, Huang Chaotian decisively decided to recapture Hwacheon, which surprised the U.S. army, which had just won the victory, and did not expect the volunteers to counterattack. The 58th Division recaptured Hwacheon, started the Hwacheon Blockade Battle, and launched the challenge of holding its position and resisting the attack of the American army.
This was followed by a plan to break the joint **. The American army was angry at the lost trophies, so the next day, the 7th Division brought in 100 heavy artillery pieces to launch a fierce attack on our troops.
The heavy and heavy artillery fire made the 58th Army somewhat difficult to resist, and it lost a lot of combat effectiveness.
However, at this critical juncture of life and death, Huang Chaotian did not waver, ordered all troops to hold on to Huachuan, and declared: "Even if the 58th Army is all killed, it is necessary to cover the safe and sound arrival of the Ninth Corps, and we must not lose the face of Chief Su Yu." ”。
Huang's words inspired the soldiers, and some of them ran out of bullets and began to throw grenades, which began to engage in hand-to-hand combat.
In the extremely harsh combat environment, our troops held their positions and resisted stubbornly, turning Hwacheon into an impregnable defensive line and blocking the attempts of the American army to penetrate the Ninth Corps.
Until May 30, the Ninth Corps successfully passed through Hwacheon under the cover of the 58th Division, marking a phased victory in the Hwacheon blockade battle. In this battle, the 58th Division annihilated more than 3,000 enemies, and our army lost more than 1,700 people.
Although the 58th Division could have quickly retreated to the Jinhua area in the north, the U.S. forces were not willing to suffer such heavy losses. They sent the 7th and 6th Divisions to continue the pursuit to the north, in an attempt to break through the rear units of our army, opening the second phase of the war.
After more than 10 days of high-intensity fighting, the 58th Division was already exhausted, but in the face of another attack by the US army, how could they give up lightly?
The US military has relied on its advanced superiority to force us to evade its edge, but with our many years of combat experience and skillful skills, we have been able to go out day and night, so that the US military cannot sleep at night and cannot rest day and night.
Until June 6, the two sides reached a stalemate, but fortunately our reinforcements arrived, with the assistance of the 60th Division, and the defense was successfully changed. The morale of the 58th Division was greatly boosted, and it launched a large-scale Hwacheon blocking battle that night, forcing the American troops to retreat to the southwest.
Seeing that they could not gain any superiority, the US troops not only failed to annihilate our army, but on the contrary, seeing that the morale of our army was high and became more courageous, they gradually lost the confidence of pursuing and hurriedly retreated southward.
After the Huachuan blockade, ** spoke highly of Huang Chaotian and the 58th Division: "It is worthy of Su Yu's ace army, and I must reward you for deviating from the order." ”。
With the sacrifice of 3,000 people, the 58th Division annihilated more than 6,000 enemies, smashed the plot of the US army to penetrate the rear of the ** army, successfully defended the victory of the fourth campaign to resist US aggression and aid Korea, and laid the foundation for the final victory.
Generally speaking, our army was able to finally win the victory to resist US aggression and aid Korea because of the heroic struggle of heroic units like the 58th Division, and it was the fearless sacrifice spirit of these brave soldiers that brought about the victory on the Korean battlefield.
Despite the fact that our **armament is not as advanced as that of the United**, we have achieved a strategic victory. Huang Chaotian minimized losses, protected 100,000 volunteer soldiers, and laid a solid foundation for the victory of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea.
Huang Chaotian's disobedience to military orders in the war became one of the key factors in our victory.