In the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, a heroic figure of the Volunteer Army has always stood firm after countless battles, and he performed bravely in the first four battles and made great achievements.
He defeated an undefeated American rival in 160 years, then conquered the capitals of North and South Korea, and finally set a record for the number of American troops captured in a single attempt.
His record was so good that even MacArthur openly admitted that he was too powerful. Who is this general who won four consecutive battles on the Korean battlefield? How did he dominate the tough battles and the bad battles?
That is Wu Xinquan, who is good at tough battles and vicious battles.
Wu Xinquan, a poor peasant from Pingjiang, Hunan, joined the Red Army at the age of 18 and embarked on the revolutionary road. In his 20-year war career, he was promoted from an ordinary soldier to the commander of the 39th Army, and was famous for fighting tough and vicious battles.
During the third anti-encirclement and suppression, he was seriously ill but still insisted on fighting, and won three battles and three victories, which greatly boosted the morale of our army. Although he was wounded many times in the Fifth Anti-Encirclement and Suppression and Long March, he always insisted on staying on the front line, and after only a little recuperation, he threw himself into the battles of the Eastern Expedition and the Western Expedition, and made great achievements in the War of Liberation.
At the beginning of the Liberation War, Wu Xinquan fought in the northeast, and later participated in the Pingjin Campaign, the Hengbao Campaign, the Liuzhou Campaign and the Nanning Campaign, fighting all the way from north to south, and finally planted the red flag of victory in the southernmost "Zhennan Pass" of the motherland.
In 1950, Wu Xinquan once again led the 39th Army to the Korean War and became a member of the first sequence of the Volunteer Army. His bravery and tenacity are admirable.
After winning the first battle after entering the Korean Peninsula, the 39th Army received an order to go to the capital of Unsan County to investigate the enemy's situation. According to previous information, the 1st North Korean Division is stationed in the Unsan area, and there is a big gap in strength compared with the 39th Army of our army, so we did not take it seriously.
However, when Wu Xinquan and the 39th Army arrived at Yunshan, they found that it was not the Korean ** team stationed here, but the elite troops of the US army.
The importance of the Yunshan area was deeply recognized by the commander-in-chief of the US army, MacArthur, who specially dispatched the 1st Cavalry Division, which is known as the elite of the US army, to garrison it in order to ensure the security of the strategic location.
Since its founding, the division has not tasted defeat for more than 160 years, and its strength is extraordinary.
After discovering that the intelligence was wrong, Wu Xinquan was faced with a difficult decision: should he retreat immediately or start a decisive battle with the American army? After a short period of thought, Wu Xinquan decided to take advantage of this opportunity to show the courage and strength of the volunteers.
He first captured two American soldiers to obtain the next plan of action of the American army, and then on the one hand, he reported the intelligence to the Volunteer Army Headquarters, and on the other hand, he began to actively deploy troops and prepare for a fierce battle with the 1st Cavalry Division.
The original time for the attack was 7:30 p.m. on November 1, but Wu Xinquan keenly seized a crucial opportunity before the time came.
It turned out that at that time, the U.S. and South Korean armies were in the process of handing over defensive forces, resulting in the extremely fragile defense of Unsan City. If you attack at this time, you will be able to defeat the enemy quickly.
However, the artillery units of the Volunteer Army have not yet been fully deployed, and attacking in advance is equivalent to giving up fire support, and the ** of the Volunteer Army has no advantage over the US army, and there is a certain risk of direct attack.
Despite this, Wu Xinquan's determination remained unwavering, and he resolutely decided to launch an attack in advance.
After receiving the order, the 39th Army launched a fierce attack on Yunshan City, and the brave volunteer soldiers took advantage of the night to get as close to the enemy as possible, reducing the threat of artillery fire, and the guns rang out everywhere, and countless bullets were fired at the enemy.
The U.S. Army and the South Korean Army did not expect the Volunteer Army to take the initiative to attack, and in an instant the U.S. military camp was in chaos, and several counterattacks were resolutely suppressed by the 39th Army. In the end, the three battalions of the 8th Regiment of the US Army were completely annihilated by the Volunteers, and the 1st Cavalry Division, which has a long history in the United States and is known as the "Founding Fathers Division", also suffered heavy losses.
Mr. Peng said bluntly: "The 1st Cavalry Division of the US Army has never been defeated, but this time it was defeated in the hands of our 39th Army!" "The victory in the Battle of Yunshan shocked all countries in the world, and the strength of China's light infantry was shown to the world for the first time.
Their remarkable military qualities in night fighting, white-knuckle fighting, and storming battles are amazing. Later, the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force Cadre School listed this battle as a basic textbook for officers and a model for infantry attacks.
Pursuit of victory: After the Battle of Yunshan, General Wu Xinquan immediately sent a reconnaissance team to the rear of the enemy to conduct reconnaissance and learn in detail about the basic movements of the US troops.
Accordingly, General Wu Xinquan quickly determined the route and destination of the US troops, laying a solid foundation for the victory of the second campaign to resist US aggression and aid Korea.
After reporting to the command, General Wu Xinquan decided to lead the 39th Army to launch an attack on the 25th Division of the US Army, which was located south of Yunshan. In order to avoid unnecessary losses, he did not choose to attack directly this time, but took a more strategic approach.
He kept the main force hidden on the rugged mountain roads, and at the same time sent some troops to outflank the enemy's rear, thus forming a net of heaven and earth, waiting for the American troops to penetrate on their own.
However, the U.S. 25th Division did not learn from the previous failures of its cavalry division, and eventually fell into the trap of the Volunteer Army, where it was quickly besieged and suffered heavy losses by the troops led by Wu Xinquan.
What made the US military extremely angry was that the black third company of the 25th Division and the 24th Regiment of the 24th Division, as well as its reinforced engineer squad and artillery squad, chose to surrender to the volunteers when they were surrounded by the volunteers and annihilated more than 20 people.
Prior to this, the U.S. military, which boasted of being the most powerful army in the world, did not take the Chinese volunteers seriously at all, and at this time the tenacity of the volunteers frightened them.
However, the vaunted American troops did not learn their lesson, believing that the defeat of the American troops was not due to the army, but to their underestimation of the enemy, and the lack of courage of the regiment.
Therefore, since then, the U.S. military no longer has a separate ethnic military formation, but a mix of blacks and whites to supervise each other. Despite this, the course of the war has not changed as a result.
The 116th Division led by Wu Xinquan marched all the way and soon broke through the Pyongyang area.
After the recovery of Pyongyang, the US military never set foot in this place again, which is enough to prove the bravery of the 39th Army. Idioms"All at once"To describe this campaign, after two successive victories, the Volunteer Army decided to act immediately and completely drive the American army out of Korea through the third campaign, and the capture of Seoul was the key to achieving this goal.
With his outstanding performance in the first two battles, Wu Xinquan received an order from Mr. Peng that he and his 39th Army needed to cross the Imjin River and attack Seoul. After a hard battle, they finally reached Seoul. "
On January 4, 1951, he received orders to prepare for a general assault on Seoul. He immediately deployed his troops, ordered 70 guns to carry out artillery bombardment on the front line in order to suppress enemy troops.
At the same time, he organized a feint attack from another direction of Seoul in order to attract the attention of the enemy. The enemy thought that he had seen through his plan, but did not expect that the real main force had been lurking in the grass, enduring severe cold and hunger.
After 16 hours of waiting, he found an opportunity to attack Seoul, and at the sound of an order, the main force rushed out of the grass, broke through the enemy defense line in one fell swoop, and was the first to attack the city.
During the Korean War, Seoul was thrown into disarray, and troops from other directions followed. It didn't take long for the troops holding Seoul to be cut off by the volunteers, and most of them were eventually captured.
Oh Shin-chuan and his 39th Army successively captured the capitals of North Korea and South Korea, which attracted widespread attention in various countries. South Korea's Syngman Rhee clique was beaten to the ground, and MacArthur's U.S. forces had to avoid it.
The climax of this battle was that the Volunteers captured 800 American troops, which made the United States in an uproar after the Volunteers officially captured Seoul. Under domestic pressure, Truman decided to dismiss MacArthur and put Ridgway as commander-in-chief.
The famous general Li Qiwei really showed extraordinary ability and quickly discovered the problem of the lack of logistics materials in our army. So he began a series of actions, the most representative of which were "Operation Butcher" and "Operation Tear".
His original plan was to drive the volunteers back to the 38th parallel, but he probably did not foresee that he, like MacArthur, would become the background of Wu Xinquan's fame. Due to the close pursuit of the U.S. army, on January 25, 1951, the Volunteer Army took the initiative to launch the fourth campaign.
Wu Xinquan and his troops assembled at Toping-ri, and after the Battle of Hengcheng began on February 11, they quickly attacked, successfully cutting off the enemy's rear route, annihilating more than 3,300 enemy troops and capturing more than 2,500 in one fell swoop.
In the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, the largest number of US soldiers captured by the volunteers in a single battle took place among the 2,500 people, and more than 800 were US troops. This battle made the conceited and arrogant MacArthur have to admit that Wu Xinquan is"Terrible people"，"Operation Butcher"Instead of achieving his goal, Ridgway put himself in a difficult situation and lost a lot of U.S. military strength.
In a fit of rage, Ridgway initiated"Operation Ripping", the plan was to imitate the Inchon landing, attack the Volunteer Army from the middle line, cut off the connection between the east and the west, and then outflank the Volunteer Army.
However, this time history did not repeat itself, and Wu Xinquan, under the command of Mr. Peng, led his 39th Army to start a mobile defense.
Wu Xinquan, a brave and fearless volunteer soldier on the battlefield to resist US aggression and aid Korea, relied on his own strength in the fourth battle to withstand the attack of the US army, and even pioneered the pioneering feat of using a company to repel a regiment.
His heroic performance tilted the victory of the 4th battle in favor of the Volunteers. However, although he did not get the "first place" in the 5th battle, he never left the battlefield, but carried out hundreds of days of defensive operations, took over the defensive positions in the Imjin River area, and launched a constant competition with the American army.
Although hundreds of battles were fought, large and small, the US military could be said to have taken advantage of Wu Xinquan's hands almost once, which greatly frustrated the US military's self-confidence.
With the end of the 5 battles, the U.S. military realized that it could not end the war in the short term, and was finally forced to negotiate with the Volunteer Army. However, the war did not end because the US military always felt that it had an advantage in strength and was unwilling to negotiate with us sincerely.
Therefore, our country has decided to "promote talks by fighting" to make the US military aware of the strength of the volunteer army. In the course of the negotiations, the 39th Army also made many sorties to fight against the US troops, and each time it was able to annihilate several companies of the enemy and achieved considerable results.
The brilliant achievements of Wu Xinquan and the 39th Army on the Korean battlefield are astounding, and their undefeated record has made them known as the "Victorious Army", and even the American army is in awe of them.
After the war, Wu Xinquan returned to China and continued to serve in the Northeast Military Region and the Shenyang Military Region, and was awarded the rank of lieutenant general in 1955. After that, he served as deputy commander of artillery for more than 20 years, until he was unwell, but his dedication and outstanding military talent will always be remembered.
Wu Xinquan has a large family, with a total of 8 sons and 4 daughters, and in the third generation, the number is even larger. He always made it clear to his children that they must be strict in their education, and even if they suffer some hardships, they must not be allowed to develop the habit of pampering, and they must become people who are beneficial to society, the people and the country.
There is also such a sentence in the family motto of the Wu family: "Whether it is a person or a goose, you must leave a name, no matter what kind of society you are in, those who do not work are not allowed to eat." ”
Although the Wu family has a large population, they have no bad habits, and the younger generations are talented. Regardless of the level of talent, they are law-abiding, willing to be ordinary people, diligent and dedicated. Although the general has passed away, his story will live on forever"He has not lost a single war in three years, and has made great contributions in four battles"Famous.
Let us remember this vivid and sincere general through these stories, and deeply remember and mourn.