In 1950, although the Volunteer Army won the first battle, but the US Army still did not think that the Volunteer Army would enter Korea on a large scale to fight, in order to end the battle before Christmas, the Joint ** Commander-in-Chief concentrated no less than 220,000 troops on the east and west fronts, preparing to launch a tentative offensive with ground troops as the mainstay, in anticipation that the US Army may be preparing to attack our army, on November 7, the Volunteer Army took the initiative to launch a second campaign. Take the initiative to lure the enemy deeper.
In the first campaign of the Western Front, due to the rapid penetration of the 38th Army, the US Eighth Army on the Western Front quickly retreated, while the US 10th Army and other units on the Eastern Front were still advancing northward, and were trapped in the Changjin Lake area by the 9th Corps of the Volunteer Army.
The U.S. defenders in Xinxing are the 31st Regiment of the enemy's 7th Division, which is the Polar Bear Regiment we mentioned earlier, and the reason why it is called this name is because in World War I, the regiment invaded the vicinity of Siberia, when the United States **Wilson specially awarded the regimental flag of the "Polar Bear Regiment" to the unit, and since then the department has existed as an elite unit in the US army until the 50s.
However, according to detailed information, the 31st Regiment was actually just a mixed unit at that time, and its main force was the 3rd Battalion of the 31st Regiment, that is, a battalion of the Polar Bear Regiment, and its commanders were all incumbent commanders of the Polar Bear Regiment, and the other battalion was the 1st Battalion of the 32nd Regiment, and the department was also equipped with a heavy mortar company, an anti-aircraft artillery company, and a field artillery company.
More critically, since it was fighting under the name of the 31 Regiment, the division carried the regimental flag.
On November 27, the 80th Division of the 27th Army of the Volunteer Army had already surrounded the 31st Regiment, and at this time the department still knew nothing, and even the commander of the US 31st Regiment was ready to lead the army to attack again the next day, and the 81st Division was interspersed with the junction of the two battalions, cutting off the connection between the two reinforced battalions, and the 4th Company of the 239th Regiment of the 80th Division boldly carried out interspersed operations after accepting the task, and directly inserted the headquarters of the 31st Regiment and the location of the guard company. After pulling out the enemy stronghold, the 4th company was already close to the headquarters of the 31st regiment.
At this time, the enemy was not yet conscious, most of the American soldiers were still in a deep sleep, by our army suddenly attacked, there was no time to resist, can only be a head rat to escape, most of its guard company was annihilated, 4 companies at the cost of more than 60 people, annihilated the enemy 31 regiment headquarters and more than 300 guard companies, the company was later awarded the "Xinxingli combat model company".
Although the headquarters of the 31st Regiment was annihilated, the US army still had two reinforced battalions in this area, and after the headquarters of the US Regiment was terminated, the remaining commanders immediately took over the post of regiment commander, and what was even more difficult was that in order to pull out the 31st Regiment that was under siege, the US army mobilized more than 40 planes to bomb continuously.
Due to the lack of ammunition supplies, even cotton clothing was scarce, and the 80th and 81st divisions** were very serious, most of which were frostbitten. Moreover, the ice sculpture company in the Battle of Changjin Lake was from the 2nd Battalion and 5th Company of the 242nd Regiment of the 80th Division, and the non-combat attrition of the entire 80th Division reached one-third, but fortunately, the momentum of our army was also played in this battle, especially the 4th Company raided the headquarters of the 31st Regiment and captured the polar bear flag, which was the most serious blow to the US army in spirit, and even the US army itself was unwilling to admit it later.