Shangganling, a piece of land only 3,700 meters long and 1,000 meters wide, has witnessed a 43-day desperate battle between the Volunteers and the United **. The scale of the battle gradually escalated into a battle, and nearly 40,000 soldiers were buried here forever, making it one of the rare fierce battles in the world.
An autumn rain and a cold, the summer in North Korea is fleeting, ushering in the autumn wind and autumn rain, and the grass and trees begin to change color. Shangganling, as the choke point of the middle line of the Volunteer Army, has an important strategic position.
Once lost, it will pose a huge threat. In order to occupy the Shangganling area, the Chinese volunteers paid a huge price. The enemy commander, Van Vliet, originally had only two battalions of troops, and planned to complete the battle in five days.
However, the Chinese People's Volunteer Army, which was on the defensive side, commanded by Wang Jinshan, deputy commander of the 3rd Corps, and Du Yide, deputy political commissar, commanded the 15th Army.
Despite the fact that the enemy occupied our side 5377 Surface Positions of the North Hills, 5979 accounted for only a third, but the volunteers still occupied the main position. At night, the Volunteers took advantage of close combat and night combat to successfully recapture their positions.
Although the United ** invested more troops and firepower in the Shangganling area, Qin Jiwei and Gu Jingsheng still decided to adjust the deployment of the 45th Division and transfer one battalion each of the 134th Regiment and the 133rd Regiment.
However, Van Vliet, the general of the United **, was full of confidence and thought it dependent"Showdown"The plan and the ace team of the U.S. Army will be able to quickly win with a small number of **.
However, the tenacity and determination of the volunteers proved to be a tough and protracted battle.
However, the stubborn resistance of the volunteers exceeded his expectations. Whole"One day"，"Joint**"Not even a single meter of territory was captured, but a huge amount of personnel were paid**.
In desperation, Van Vrey could only continue to increase his troops. Although the volunteers held their positions, they still suffered considerable losses in the face of heavy enemy fire.
By the night of the 19th, the Volunteers launched a large-scale counterattack and successfully recaptured the heights. In this fierce battle, a hero who has been praised by the Chinese for generations - Huang Jiguang appeared.
After the capture of 597At the time of the 9 heights, the Volunteer Army carried out three blastings, but all of them were unsuccessful. In this case, Huang Jiguang led the soldiers Wu Sanyang and Xiao Dengliang to rush to the position and successfully destroyed the enemy's firepower point.
However, some of the three were injured and some were killed. Huang Jiguang's left arm was pierced by enemy fire, but he was undaunted and continued to rush towards the enemy. Even when he was seriously wounded and his ammunition was about to run out, he blocked the enemy's machine gun with his chest and died heroically.
Inspired by Huang Jiguang's heroic deeds, the volunteers quickly occupied the position and successfully annihilated two enemy battalions. After the battle, Feng Yuqing personally took Huang Jiguang back.
Huang Jiguang was wrapped in charred clothes, his spine was broken, and his legs were also broken. The leading organ of the Volunteer Army awarded Huang Jiguang with special merit and posthumously awarded him the title of "Special Hero".
Under the powerful attack of the "United **", in addition to 597Except for the three positions at the northwest foot of the 9th Heights, all the remaining surface positions were occupied, and all the volunteer troops on the two heights moved to the tunnels to hold on.
In order to hold on to the Five Holy Mountains, the volunteers did not shed tears even if they shed blood, and they regarded death as home. Eventually, the war ended on November 25, and the "United" were forced to stop their offensive due to the heavy situation.
The 2nd Division of the South Korean Army was withdrawn for reorganization, and its defense was replaced by the 9th Division of the South Korean Army, and the Battle of Sangganryeong came to an end. The U.S. press commented that the Jinhua offensive had become a bottomless pit, and that the United States had suffered the greatest losses in personnel and military materiel in this campaign.
The Battle of Shangganling was based on retreat and defense, and won a victory with difficulty, demonstrating to the world the firm perseverance and determination of the volunteers to win.
In front of Wusheng Mountain, the positions of the ROK 2nd Division and the 40th Division of the US Army were replaced. In order to cope with the stalemate, the 45th Division of the Volunteer Army decided to adopt psychological tactics. At the end of September, the teacher's audio-visual education team transported the generator up the mountain and camouflaged it in the cat's ear hole in the traffic ditch.
Subsequently, two female officers of the Korean People's Army, Lieutenant Kim and Second Lieutenant Choe, came here to assist in the broadcast against the enemy. One night, the enemy engineer officers of the division and regiment led the fighters to set up propaganda positions in the guerrilla zone between the enemy and our positions.
The banners facing the enemy were written in Korean and English respectively: "The Chinese and North Korean People's Armies Give Preferential Treatment to Prisoners" and "People Think of Their Relatives on Festive Occasions." The painting in the middle depicts a family sitting around under the Mid-Autumn moon, looking forward to the early return of their children.
In front of the painting, a flat stone as flat as a table is filled with "Mid-Autumn Festival mooncakes" purchased by the logistics personnel of the Volunteer Army from the motherland, and is equipped with many color-printed propaganda materials and special passes.
Early the next morning, the two female comrades first sang a song "Song of Spring" that is popular with North Korean men, women and children, and then broadcast it to the enemy army in Korean, telling them that the Chinese and North Korean people's army had prepared mooncakes for them, and that it was in the depression 150 meters in front of the right side of the position.
Two female officers of the Korean People's Army broadcast it twice in a row, but received no response, so they sang a North Korean song. Then, they broadcast to the South Korean army, emphasizing the three rules that need to be followed when going to pick up during the day, and ensuring that the Korean and Chinese people's armies count their word.
However, the enemy interrupted their broadcast with a platoon of machine guns. But Second Lieutenant Choe firmly told the ROK that despite the other side's shooting, the promises given by the Korean and Chinese People's Army were still valid.
If it is inconvenient to take it during the day, they will guarantee that they will not shoot and not ** at night, and the Korean army can rest assured that they will pick it up. After the broadcast, someone looked at the position of the South Korean army, and there was also a quarrel.
A South Korean soldier later came over and said that the soldiers were going to pick it up, but the superior said that it was a trap set by **, and warned that the moon cakes were poisonous. However, the soldiers did not believe it and took it all that night.
When the commander of the Korean battalion heard about it, he sent people to search for it, took it back to eat, and hid the rest, which made the soldiers very angry. In addition, Lieutenant Kim also broadcast a song "Farewell to Busan Port" that was widely circulated among the South Korean army, and the melody of this song suppressed the sound of guns and cannons on the line of fire, making the battlefield silent.
In war, the power of ** is immeasurable. Whether it is Guan Zhong's "Li Ke Song to Take Ye", or the "Embattled Song" and "Embattled Wu Song" during the struggle between Chu and Han, or even "Farewell to Busan Port", "Nodor Riverside" and "Arirang", they have all helped the army break the morale of the enemy army and boost their own fighting spirit.
Now, with his sweet voice, Second Lieutenant Choi sings North Korean folk songs, and the beautiful singing voice is transmitted to the enemy's forward positions through a loudspeaker, attracting the attention of the South Korean soldiers.
As soon as the song fell, there was a cry of "Super Smecta" from the traffic ditch opposite, and some people even learned to hum. All this shows the importance of ** in war.
It can arouse the national feelings of the soldiers, break the morale of the enemy army, and even prompt the enemy to disarm and surrender.
On the battlefield, the Volunteer Army mainly relied on field fortifications and tunnel fortifications to resist the enemy army. In response to the protracted war, they carried out a project called the "Underground Great Wall".
Although the US military was constantly "playing demons" on the side, trying to provoke the attention of the volunteers, the volunteers always remained "silent" and concentrated on "digging holes" in the positions.
They withstood five months of arduous construction and finally completed the project. In the cold gun and cold artillery movement, the US troops had a lot of fun, they held parties in front of the position, danced veneer dances, and even sunbathed under the noses of the volunteers in broad daylight.
Seeing all kinds of evil deeds of the US military, the volunteers could only swallow their anger, and the scene became ridiculous for a while.
Chen Fenglou of the 135th Regiment was a newcomer, and as soon as he saw the arrogant posture of the US troops, he knew that this was a blatant provocation against us. How could Chen Fenglou, a hot-blooded young man, endure such an insult?
Although these actions of the US military do not seem to be aggressive, they are extremely insulting. The sky was as blue as usual that day, and the sun shone warmly on the earth, as if everything was full of harmony.
However, the US military habitually set up reclining chairs in front of the position, then took off their clothes and pants, and began to enjoy the daily necessities of sunbathing. This made Chen Fenglou's heart full of contradictions: if he didn't shoot back, his lungs would be blown up; But if he fired, he would have violated military discipline and faced the punishment of squatting and confinement, because it was expressly forbidden.
It's not to fight, it's not to fight, Chen Fenglou is in a dilemma. When he looked across again, the American military was immersed in sunbathing, his eyes narrowed into a line, his hands under his head leisurely and naturally, his legs stretched straight, and the white flesh of his body was particularly conspicuous.
Anger completely occupied Chen Fenglou's heart. I saw him slowly raise his gun, and constantly calibrate it by aiming his sight at those white flesh. Suddenly, with a slight smile on the corner of his mouth, he pulled the trigger.
With a muffled sound of "bang", the American soldiers who were sunbathing could no longer enjoy the next second of sunshine, and their whole bodies were no longer white, but were dyed red by the gushing blood.
On the battlefield, the American troops, as if stung by a wasp, fled frantically, shouting as they ran: "Someone shoots!" After Chen Fenglou's comrades-in-arms heard the gunshot, they were like athletes hearing the starting gun.
With the advantage of being outnumbered, the volunteers defeated the arrogance of the US army, so that sunbathing, picnics, dancing and other activities disappeared in an instant. Chen Fenglou's first shot was recognized by his superiors, and this effective cold gun shooting mode was called "cold gun cold gun movement".
The first company of the 135th Regiment of the Chinese Volunteers killed more than 300 American troops and disabled two companies within two months, dealing a major blow to the US Seventh Division. The U.S. military was forced to replace the South Korean Second Division to deal with it, but the soldiers of the South Korean Second Division did not listen to the warning, and as a result, they paid a heavy price.
After this lesson, the enemy no longer dared to openly provoke, and could only hide under the position. Under the leadership of the 135th Regiment, the 15th Army destroyed 19,921 enemies, of which more than 40% were created through cold guns, while our army's ** only 35 people, and the ratio of enemy to enemy reached 569:1.
This figure made the army commander Qin Jiwei smile.
Pang Zilong: I stopped delivering food, I switched to being a sniper, and I killed 54 enemies in three months, which is so cool.