In February 1951, the 19th Corps crossed the Yalu River from Andong and Changdian estuaries to enter the Korean War. Speaking of the 19th Corps, it is famous, and its predecessor is the famous "Yang Luogeng Corps". During the War of Liberation, the troops called the commander-in-chief of the army, except for the most famous "Liu Deng Army", I am afraid that this corps will be counted. According to statistics, during the entire Pingjin Campaign, in more than a dozen telegrams sent by the Central Military Commission to the Second Corps of the North China Military Region at that time, the words Yang, Luo, and Geng appeared as many as 12 times. Although the commander of the Corps was still Yang Dezhi, the political commissar was changed to Li Zhimin, and the chief of staff was concurrently Deputy Commander Zheng Weishan.
As everyone knows, during the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, US planes bullied the volunteers that they had no air force and that their air defense firepower was insufficient, so they were very arrogant, and they not only bombed the front-line troops indiscriminately, but also the rear transportation lines, and they did not let go of them, and carried out a cruel strangulation war, causing great difficulties for the transportation of personnel and materials of the volunteers. Don't look at Yang Dezhi and others, although they are the leaders of the corps, they are also forced to go out day and night, and only when the US bombardment weakens in the dark night can they move to the front line.
On that day, on the road to the Imjin River for defense, the train taken by the Corps Headquarters could not travel north of Dingzhou because of the very heavy bombing and strafing by US planes, so it had to hide in a tunnel. In the evening, when the moon was dark and the wind was high, the enemy planes could not be dispatched, and the corps headquarters decided to set off immediately. After receiving the order, the locomotive rumbled from the hidden place, and after hearing only a clang, the whole train shook violently and then slowly moved out of the tunnel. However, the people on the train suddenly felt that something was wrong, and through the dim light outside the window, they noticed that the train seemed to be going backwards! After careful observation, it was confirmed that the train was going backwards along the same path as it came, and that it was going faster and faster down the hillside. Yang Dezhi's surprise was not trivial, and he was busy pulling the emergency brake, but due to the large slope and fast speed, the brake brake no longer worked.
Not far in front of Dingchuan Station, there was a truck parked on the tracks, and the two cars were about to collide! At this critical moment, I saw a young North Korean boy running from the platform and struggling to move the turnout, and the train swept past the wagon and stopped on another track. It's dangerous! Rao is a group of battle-hardened fierce generals, or was shocked into a cold sweat. When the train stopped, they hurriedly got out of the train and thanked the little boy. After inquiry, it was revealed that the little boy was taking the place of his brother and was on the station to pull the switch and guard. When the chiefs heard this, they sighed with emotion and hurriedly gave the little boy some canned food as a token of gratitude.
The little boy may not realize that he had made a great contribution and saved the headquarters of the 19th Corps. Later, they were ordered to command the 63rd Army to organize defense on the front line of Lianchuan and Tieyuan, which shocked the enemy, and was called the real iron army by Mr. Peng. In particular, the tiger general Zheng Weishan, who was appointed as the commander of the 20th Corps by General Peng, personally planned and commanded 3,000 people to lurk in the Jincheng counterattack, creating an example of large-scale daytime latent operations under modern conditions, and making important contributions to the victory of the Jincheng Battle and the forced US army to a complete armistice.