Chapter 11 Three, illustrious record

On the evening of November 25, 1950, on the wide front of the entire western front north of the Qingchuan River, from west to east, the 50th Army of the Chinese People's Volunteers from Yu Bochuan to the 27th Brigade of the British Army and the 66th Army from Yu Bochuan Taicheon to the 1st Division of the South Korean Army, the 39th Army to the 25th Division of the US Army in Yongbyon, the 40th Army to the 2nd Division of the US Army in the direction of the stadium, and the 38th Army to the 1st Division of the South Korean Army in Tokucheon The 7th Division and the 42nd Army launched a full-scale attack on the 6th and 8th Divisions of the South Korean Army in Ningyuan.Two days later, the 20th, 26th, and 27th armies of the Chinese People's Volunteers on the eastern front also began their offensive.Chinese war history called this attack the "second battle" of the Korean War.

It is worth noting that in the frequent telegrams between North Korea and Beijing, a viewpoint of Mao Zedong was repeatedly mentioned in a crucial position, that is: first annihilate the puppet seventh and eighth divisions.Mao Zedong even worried that there were not enough troops in this direction, and demanded that special attention be paid to the deployment of troops.Mao Zedong and Peng Dehuai had the same views on the choice of the opening of the battle: the right wing of the United Nations Army's western front. In many later works describing the Korean War, one issue was repeatedly touched upon, that is, the combat effectiveness of the South Korean Army.Examples of the low combat effectiveness of the South Korean army can be seen everywhere in the military history of the US military. Words such as "collapse at the first touch", "rabble", and "panic" were used repeatedly.In the war history of the South Korean Army, the anger towards this description of the Americans has been shown more than once. The South Korean Army believes that the only way for the US military to escape responsibility is to slander the South Korean Army for its incompetence.

In the second battle launched by the Chinese army, the 38th and 42nd armies of the Chinese People's Volunteers were in charge of attacking the front, which was the defense zone that the 6th, 7th, and 8th divisions of the South Korean Army were in charge of.This sector was located on the right flank of the UN Army's western front. This is where Mao Zedong and Peng Dehuai paid attention at the same time.Peng Dehuai's campaign concept is to use two armies to attack the left flank of the Sino-Korean front with a violent assault, quickly opening a battle gap. On the one hand, this battle gap can completely cut off the connection between the two battlefields of the United Nations Army. The gap can cut across to the rear of the United Nations Army, thereby encircling the entire Western Front.Both Mao Zedong and Peng Dehuai knew that the success or failure of this battle depended largely on whether the left wing could break through quickly and whether the horizontal penetration could be in place on time.

At that time, the U.S. Army on the western front was advancing rapidly, while the South Korean Army on its right wing was advancing slowly, thus forming a salient on the entire front.The front line of the United Nations Army was stretched virtually, and its forces were dispersed.In particular, the right-wing South Korean troops hang far away on both sides of the Taedong River.Walker's deployment is to hand over the entire right wing of the front to the South Korean army. The reason why Mao Zedong and Peng Dehuai agreed that the left flank of the front of the Chinese and North Korean troops to attack is the weakest area of ​​the entire front of the United Nations Army. The two Chinese armies will definitely be able to quickly break through the front line of defense here, and can unstoppably insert into the rear of the United Nations Army , The source of their confidence is simple: the opponents in this region are all South Korean troops.The South Korean army is much easier to fight than the US army.

Since the success or failure of the left-wing attack is related to the success or failure of the entire campaign, Peng Dehuai decided to go to the front line of the war to command in person. His decision was immediately rejected by the Party Committee of the Volunteer Army.The meeting finally decided that Han Xianchu, the deputy commander of the Volunteer Army, would organize the Volunteer Army to advance to the command post, and unified command the 38th Army and the 42nd Army on the left.Before setting off, Han Xianchu asked Peng Dehuai: "What else do you need to explain?" Peng Dehuai said sharply: "First, we must insert it, and second, we must block it. We must accept the lessons of the last battle, and we must not let the enemy run away!"

The so-called "lessons from the last battle" refers to the fact that the 38th Army missed its opportunity in the direction of Xichuan in the first battle. This time, the main attack direction of the 38th Army was Tokugawa. Liang Xingchu, the commander of the 38th Army, has been feeling uncomfortable since he was reprimanded by Peng Dehuai at the Volunteer Army meeting.At the military party committee meeting, he conveyed Peng Dehuai's criticism of the 38th Army, and at the same time took the initiative to take responsibility: "Boss Peng is right, I did not command well!" The real mentality is not convinced: Who doesn't know that the 38th Army is a well-known army?Even though the first battle was not ideal, the number of enemies wiped out was no less than that of other armies. Boss Peng's sentence "what is the main force" is really hurtful.

Tracing back the history of the 38th Army is actually closely related to Peng Dehuai's military career.The predecessor of this army was the first column of the Northeast China Democratic Alliance Army, and this column was developed with the Chinese Workers and Peasants Red Army as the backbone.The 338th Regiment of the 38th Army is part of the 75th Division of the 25th Red Army, and the 334th Regiment is part of the Fifth Red Army formed after Peng Dehuai led the Pingjiang Uprising in July 1928.This unit participated in the Pingxingguan Battle during the Anti-Japanese War. After marching into Northeast China in 1946 and forming the first column of the Northeast Allied Forces, they participated in the battles of "three trips to the south of the Yangtze River", "four battles and four peaces", "battle of Western Liaoning" and "occupying Shenyang" in the Chinese Liberation War. In November 1948, the 38th Army was formally formed.In the Battle of Pingjin, he took the main task of attacking Tianjin. He was the first to break through the city defense of Tianjin, captured Jintang Bridge, and wiped out more than 20,000 Kuomintang troops.Then he sent his troops to the south to participate in the battles of Yi (Chang) Sha (City), Southwest Hunan, and Guangxi.In China's Liberation War, the 38th Army fought from the Songhua River in the northernmost part of China to the Sino-Vietnamese border in the southwest of China, fought in 13 provinces and cities, and liberated more than 100 cities. Arguable workhorse.

The first battle into North Korea became "what is the main force".Army commander Liang Xingchu said to his subordinates: "Whether the 38th Army is the main force or not depends on this battle! Everyone should be responsible for this battle. If anyone has a problem, don't blame me for being rude!" The command post of the 38th Army was moved from the stadium to a mine in Jiangxiandong.In this damp cave, Liang Xingchu looked at the map for a long time.He knew almost by heart the name of every place in the territory his troops were attacking. Han Xianchu arrived at the command post of the 38th Army.

Han Xianchu, a native of Huang'an County, Hubei Province, joined the Red Army since he was a child. From a soldier to the deputy commander of the Corps of the Fourth Field Army, he has served in every military position in his military career, so he has very rich combat experience. Han Xianchu introduced the situation on the entire western front, and then specifically talked about the mission of the 38th Army: to take down Tokugawa, and then quickly detour behind the enemy.Han Xianchu said that in order to quickly take down Tokugawa, the 42nd Army cooperated with the 38th Army to fight first, and then attacked Ningyuan.

Liang Xingchu was unhappy when he heard it: "Let the Forty-Second Army do whatever it wants! We'll take care of Tokugawa!" Han Xianchu said seriously: "There is no joke in the army!" Liang Xingchu said: "The attack will begin on the 25th, and the battle will be resolved on the 26th!" Han Xianchu called Peng Dehuai and said that the 38th Army would "do it alone" and promised to take Tokugawa one day.Han Xianchu suggested that if the 38th Army attacked Tokugawa alone, the 42nd Army could attack Ningyuan at the same time, so that it would be easier to smash the defense line of the South Korean army.Peng Dehuai said: "Liang Xingchu's tone is so loud! Tell him, what I want is to annihilate, not drive sheep!"

Liang Xingchu said: "I want to make dumplings from the Seventh Division of South Korea!" Liang Xingchu's tone was surprisingly loud, because he already had a specific plan.He wants to penetrate from the junction of the 7th and 8th divisions of South Korea and encircle the enemy in Tokugawa.The 113th Division passed from the east of Tokugawa to Zheri Peak in the south of Tokugawa, and then attacked from south to north; Sichuan. "I'm going to fight hard this time!" Liang Xingchu said through gritted teeth, "Send an advance team to set off immediately, led by Zhang Kuiyin, the reconnaissance section chief of the army, and Zhou Wenli, the reconnaissance section chief of the 113th Division, to smuggle across the Datong River and infiltrate secretly. In Wulingli, south of Dechuan, I blew up the road bridge from Dechuan to Suncheon and Pyongyang, and I will see where the Puppet Seventh Division is going!" Han Xianchu agreed to the plan of the 38th Army, and then said: "I'll go to the 42nd Army to see." Han Xianchu understood that it was completely unnecessary to say anything about the 38th Army, which was in a state of imminent fire. On the 24th, the day before the start of the second battle, the advance team of the 38th Army set off in the middle of the night when the moon was bright and the stars were sparse. The advance team of the 38th Army went deep into the enemy's rear this time, and was later made into a black-and-white film by a Chinese film studio, which was widely shown in urban and rural areas of China.The name of the movie is. At that time, Liang Xingchu called Zhang Kuiyin, the chief of the reconnaissance section, to the command post and asked, "Do you dare to bring some people to insert it for me first?" Zhang Kuiyin said seriously: "Why don't you dare!" Liang Xingchu said: "Then Prepare to set off immediately, and I must blow up that bridge on the 26th." Zhang Kuiyin's answer was: "I promise to complete the task." Changjiang Yonghui, deputy commander of the 38th Army, pointed to the map and said to Zhang Kuiyin: "Wulingli is adjacent to the Datong River in the west. There is a tributary across the road leading from the south to Dechuan. There is a road bridge there. You must go there on the 26th. Blow up the bridge before 8:00 a.m. on the 1st. It is estimated that the enemy under attack at that time may flee south, and the enemy going north may also reinforce. Only by blowing up the bridge at this time can the main force completely wipe out the Tokugawa enemy." Finally, Jiang Yonghui asked, "Can I cross the Datong River tonight?" Zhang Kuiyin said: "No accident is possible." Jiang Yonghui said: "The advance team you brought has a large number of people, and it is very difficult to pass through the enemy's forward positions. However, if there are casualties, we must go there!" Zhang Kuiyin said, "Yes!" Apparently, Jiang Yonghui was a little worried about whether this team could successfully insert behind the enemy's rear under the strict blockade of the South Korean army: "It's really hard to make it through, so we have to fight and capture some prisoners back." The advance team consisted of 323 people, mainly engineers, as well as English and Korean translators, as well as the director and deputy director of the Pyongan-do Internal Affairs Bureau of North Korea who came to act as guides and liaisons.In addition to carrying the necessary weapons, it also carried communication and explosive equipment. The Chinese officers and soldiers of the advance team each had white towels tied around their arms. Under the cover of a feint attack by the forward troops, they walked towards the South Korean army's position in the dark.Not long after departure, the headquarters of the Volunteer Army called, saying that the advance team was not allowed to carry a translator—for fear that if something happened, the enemy would know the code of the telegram, and the loss would be great.Army commander Liang Xingchu believed that the advance team did not have a translator, so how could they contact the command post?Just trust your translator.Just then a shell blew up the telephone line, and the matter was left alone. In war, especially when the two sides are in a tense confrontation on the eve of the war, it is simply impossible for a team of 323 people to pass through the enemy's forward positions without being detected by it-no Knowing that the area to be crossed was the US military's position, would Commander Liang Xingchu dare to imagine such an action-the South Korean army is destined to be played a trick by the Chinese soldiers.The advance team walked for a while, saw that the road had been blocked by barbed wire, came back again, and then walked in the other direction of the front.In this way, they walked around at the front of the South Korean army, looking for a place to plug in, but the South Korean army did not respond.Finally, the advance team found a very steep foot of the mountain. Perhaps the South Korean army thought that this place was impossible for people to pass through, so they did not take very strict precautions.Sure enough, the foot of the mountain could not be lowered. The slope was steep and the soil was soft. The soldiers slid down when they walked up.Going further, approaching the front, saw barbed wire again, and saw South Korean soldiers digging fortifications under the moonlight.Taking advantage of a cloud covering the moon, several Chinese soldiers, led by Zhou Wenli, the reconnaissance section chief of the 113th Division, put up the barbed wire fence. 323 people successfully entered a forest under the eyes of the South Korean soldiers. Zhang Kuiyin counted the number of people in the forest, and there were quite a few of them. The next step is to cross the river.The river bridge had been blown up by the enemy. The advance team knew that when the North Korean People's Army retreated from Pyongyang, they built a "water bridge" on the river hidden under the water.When looking for this bridge, the advance team walked along the road, as if they were marching on their own territory, and a car full of South Korean soldiers drove across, passing by face to face. The appearance of Chinese and North Koreans There was no difference in appearance, and the military uniforms looked similar in the dark. After passing by, even the Chinese soldiers who were sweating nervously clutching the uncapped grenades were surprised that the South Korean soldiers were so easy to fool. The advance team entered a small town called Guchengjiang, where the water bridge is located.The town was already defended by the South Korean army. A South Korean soldier was peeing sleepily on the street. When he saw the oncoming team, he turned around and ran into the house.The Chinese soldiers followed him into the house and shot the sleeping enemy.From the mouths of the prisoners, we know that the bridge in the water has been discovered by the South Korean army, and troops are already defending it.A platoon of the advance team ran quickly to the ferry. In a small room by the river, a few South Korean soldiers were playing something, like gambling.Zhou Wenli asked the North Korean liaison officer to say loudly in Korean: "Take off your shoes and prepare to cross the river!" Due to the loud and calm voice, several South Korean soldiers thought it was a joke on their own, and continued to play without raising their heads.When he got to the river, Zhou Wenli became nervous, because if he went into the water without knowing the bridge under the water, the South Korean soldiers would definitely see a flaw.He looked at the river for a while, and saw a fine wave on the river leading to the opposite bank.Zhou Wenli stretched his feet and walked down. Sure enough, this is the underwater bridge.Crossing the river, which was thought to be very difficult, came like a child's play. The forward security of the South Korean army and the defense of the Taedong River ferry are useless.The advance team walked a few more miles and saw a small village. Because they didn't want to get entangled with the enemy, they passed by the edge of the village. But on the small road that had to be passed, they found a South Korean soldier swimming in the middle of the road holding a gun. Appears to be a mobile sentinel.The advance team seemed to have not seen the sentinel, and just walked away. The South Korean soldiers holding guns were pushed aside and stared blankly. The Chinese soldiers thought he was in the way, so they bumped him into the ditch with their shoulders. On the other side of the ditch, I still stared blankly like this.At this time, gunshots rang out suddenly. It turned out that a squad of the advance team entered the village to catch a guide, but was discovered by the enemy.The two sides fought, and the advance team wanted to rush over, but was suppressed by the enemy's machine guns on the road.The advance team was exposed.Zhang Kuiyin immediately decided that the fight could not continue like this, and ordered the team to get rid of the enemy, leave the road and go up the mountain.Before the South Korean soldiers figured out what was going on, hundreds of people in the advance team had disappeared into the dark and dense mountains.This is a mountain with towering ancient trees. From 2:00 am to 8:00 am, the advance team climbed to the top of the mountain.When crossing the river at night, the cotton trousers and shoes were wet, and now they are frozen to ice.The soldiers dried their trousers in the sun while eating dry food.The radio station contacted the army and reported the situation of the night and the location of the underwater bridge. The soldiers of the advance team were drowsy from the warm sun while drying their trousers, and they all dozed off in a daze. It is still 70 kilometers away from Wulingli, the goal of the advance team.On the road below the mountain, cars of the South Korean army came and went.It is definitely not possible to walk on the main road during the day.At 14 o'clock in the afternoon, the advance team set off again, taking the path in the mountains.The thorns in the mountains were growing chaotically, and the rotten trees fell down. The advance team advanced while opening the road. When it was dark, there was the sound of artillery from the north. Looking back, the artillery fire lit up the sky over Tokugawa: the second battle had begun. The Chinese soldiers in the advance team knew that as soon as the sound was fired, the South Korean soldiers would swarm back like a swarm, and they couldn't be stopped if they didn't hurry up. On the evening of November 25, three divisions of the 38th Army began their attack. At the beginning of the attack, the officers and soldiers of the 112th Division felt the most tired.After the first battle, they took on the task of luring the enemy into the depths. The main force of the division took turns fighting against the United Nations army advancing northward, taking a step back after each battle, and always leading the United Nations army into the area set by Peng Dehuai. On the afternoon of the 25th, the 112th Division, which had just stopped, received an order to advance and attack immediately, that is to say, to fight back from the route of fighting and retreating these days.The whole army had to cross the mountain called Brother Peak again overnight, and encircle the west of Tokugawa.Due to the hasty order to advance, the cadres of the company could only mobilize for combat while marching. "Climbing the mountain is to surround the enemy, as long as you climb over it, you will win!" The 112th Division put forward such a slogan. The command given by the division commander Yang Dayi to the troops is: When encountering the enemy, use a small number of people to withstand it, and the large troops will resolutely insert it. Whoever loves fighting will be responsible! To the west of Dechuan is the junction of the 7th Division of South Korea, the 25th Division of the US Army and the Turkish Brigade. The enemy's designation here is very chaotic. In addition, the frontal attack has already begun, and the enemy's organization is even more chaotic.The 112th Division was marching on the road in a hurry, and suddenly saw a string of car lights in front of it. Li Zhongxin, the deputy division commander, judged that the enemy had discovered it, so he ordered to fight.After the short battle, it was found that the seized cars were full of live chickens. I don't know what the South Korean army was doing to send so many live chickens to the front at this time.The Chinese soldiers who had no oil in their stomachs immediately thought of the taste of boiled chicken, and advocated eating it after a meal, but Master Yang Dayi firmly disagreed and asked the troops to advance recklessly.The Chinese soldiers bound the captured South Korean soldiers hand and foot and threw them into the ravine.The captured American advisers could not be thrown away, and they were told to follow the troops. The Americans refused to leave, so the Chinese soldiers carried them away.In this way, the 112th Division occupied Unsong-ri west of Tokugawa on time at 5 a.m. on the 26th, cutting off the retreat of the South Korean Seventh Division. The 113th Division of the 38th Army, which was in charge of penetrating to the south of Tokugawa, started to move half an hour after the 112th Division started to move.The route they interspersed is the junction of the Seventh Division and the Eighth Division of South Korea, where the defense is even weaker.The 113th Division did not complete the task well in the first battle, and the whole division felt a lot of pressure, so the operation seemed very fierce from the beginning.Each regiment uses two battalions to fight in the vanguard. When encountering an enemy position that hinders the advance on the road, a single impact will resolve the battle.When they arrived at the Datong River at 21 o'clock at night, they wiped out all the enemies warming by the river like hungry tigers, and then hurried across the river.Division Changjiang Chao and political commissar Yu Jingshan took the lead in taking off the cotton trousers and shoes and socks, and walked into the river first, so the soldiers followed their example and walked into the icy cold river one after another.The broken ice blocks in the river collided with each other in the rapids, making a loud noise, and the bone-chilling river water made it difficult for the soldiers to breathe.Among the soldiers crossing the river, there was a female soldier named Hao Shuzhi, who was loved by the soldiers of the whole division because she was particularly able to endure hardships and took extremely good care of the wounded.That night, she also took off her cotton trousers and walked in the dark team. She even carried an extra amount of dry food on her body than other soldiers. The soldiers will not go hungry.The No. 1 company served as the rear guard of the 338th Regiment. When the cooking squad walking in front had already disembarked, and the three platoons walking behind had not entered the water, someone shouted in the dark: "Enemy!" South Korean soldiers rushed towards the ferry.The officers and soldiers of the first company did not hesitate, and immediately rushed up to the enemy. The first row that was crossing the river turned around in the water and began to shoot. The third row also set up machine guns in the north of the river and fired. The company commander shouted: "Catch the prisoners! Merit The time has come!" The soldiers howled in response, and even the soldiers in the cooking squad rushed towards the enemy with kitchen knives and shoulder poles.When the Chinese soldiers had rushed to a place not far from the South Korean soldiers, the South Korean soldiers saw a scene that horrified them: in this cold night, a group of Chinese soldiers without pants rushed towards them!These bare-legged soldiers are covered in ice!The great fear that came in an instant caused more than 140 South Korean soldiers in bloated clothes to be captured alive besides being beaten to death. After crossing the river, the 113th Division continued to advance to the predetermined area. On the road leading to Dechuan, the search company and guard company of the South Korean Seventh Division blocked the road.The front platoon of the 3rd Battalion of the 338th Regiment circled behind the enemy, and a burst of grenades scattered these South Korean soldiers. Under the urgency of the Chinese soldiers, more than 50 South Korean soldiers from the two companies were captured alive, and the rest escaped. Without a trace.After the battle, their beef was still steaming in a pot by the side of the road. The 113th Division occupied important places such as Zheri Peak and Gedong in the south of Dechuan at 8:00 a.m. on the 26th, cutting off the enemy's connection between Dechuan and Ningyuan and the enemy's escape route to the south. The last action was the 114th Division of the 38th Army in Tokugawa, which was in charge of the frontal attack. They started a frontal storm at 20:00 on the evening of the 25th, directly attacking the defense line of the 7th Division of South Korea.The attack went well.The 340th Regiment occupied the North Mountain of Xiangtangdong at 5:00 a.m. the next day, and occupied Tiema Mountain and Sanfeng area at 9:00 a.m.The 341st Regiment also successfully occupied the Fayangdong position.At this time, the artillery fire of the South Korean army became very fierce, so the deputy Jiang Yonghui, who followed the 114th Division, ordered to destroy the enemy's artillery positions.The 2nd Battalion of the 341st Regiment approached the enemy's artillery position under artillery fire, and surrounded the enemy's artillery position at 4 am on the 26th. The fourth company attacked the command post, the fifth company cut off the connection between the enemy's command post and the position, and the sixth company directly attacked In the artillery position, the result of the battle was to completely wipe out the enemy, defeat a reinforcement regiment, seize 50 cars and 11 howitzers. The 114th Division occupied the Doomyeong-dong and Mali areas in the north of Tokugawa at 11:00 am on the 26th, and completed the task of compressing the Tokugawa enemies. Also on the morning of the 26th, after crossing the Datong River, the advance team led by Zhang Kuiyin hurried forward 70 kilometers and approached the destination Wulingli.Led by an old North Korean man and a young North Korean girl, they passed through a village and saw the bridge that Commander Liang Xingchu asked them to blow up.They sent a telegram to the army, and the army command post ordered them to carry out the blast immediately.The Korean villagers in the village by the bridge heard that the volunteers were going to liberate Tokugawa. The women cooked for the advance team, and the men helped them find ropes and ladders. At 7:50 am on the 26th, a huge explosion sounded in Wuling, and the bridge was blown up. Before the Chinese soldiers who blew up the bridge left the bridge, they saw cars and tanks approaching one after another on the road to the north, and Tokugawa's enemies began to flee south.So the advance team started a battle with the enemy several times their own.The battle was concentrated around the bridge. The enemy tried to repair the bridge, but Zhang Kuiyin's advance team would never allow the enemy to repair it. So far, more than 5,000 main forces of the Seventh Division of South Korea in Tokugawa have been compressed in an area of ​​only a dozen square kilometers in the Tokugawa Valley. The plan of Liang Xingchu, commander of the 38th Army, was to take Tokugawa on the 26th. In order to deal with the enemies of Tokugawa as soon as possible, the 38th Army launched a general offensive at 15:00 after encircling Tokugawa.The three divisions attacked fiercely from three sides. As the encirclement narrowed, South Korean soldiers rammed around like fish in a net.The Chinese soldiers and the South Korean soldiers fought together completely, so that the support planes of the U.S. military in the sky did not dare to drop bombs or strafed. They just circled chaotically in the sky, not knowing how to save the defeated South Korean army.Hou Zhengpei, the instructor of the fifth company of the third, third and sixth regiments of the 112th division, led 17 soldiers. On a road, they encountered a rout of the enemy, more than 2,000 people. The 17 Chinese soldiers fired fiercely without fear, and the South Korean soldiers turned around and ran away, but were fired from another direction.As a result, the South Korean soldiers ran back and forth under the shooting of the Chinese soldiers. Only 17 soldiers led by Hou Zhengpei killed, wounded and captured more than 200 South Korean soldiers. Since the South Korean army had no command at all and became a chaotic and disorderly rout, many unexpected things happened. ——The command post of the 1st and 2nd Division was set up in a small village. The division commander Yang Dayi went to the front to command the troops. The deputy division commander Li Zhongxin was writing a battle report in a small house. : "Deputy division commander, don't talk! Just listen! There is an enemy walking towards your house!" As he spoke, the wounded political commissar stumbled into the door, confirming the enemy's situation.Li Zhongxin looked outside the door, and saw a group of enemies sitting at the door of this small house to rest!There were no soldiers in the command post, only a guard squad guarding an American prisoner.Li Zhongxin immediately ordered the guard squad to occupy the hill behind the house, and then ordered the trumpeter to blow the trumpet.As soon as the trumpet sounded, the deputy division commander rushed out of the door with a pistol in hand, and the enemies at the door ran away in fright.When Li Zhongxin was annoyed that the American prisoner took the opportunity to escape, he looked up and saw thousands of South Korean soldiers rolling over the hill like a cloud of muddy water. Dozens of American planes were covering their escape above their heads.Li Zhongxin immediately ordered the 1st Battalion of the 336th Regiment to block this group of South Korean soldiers.The first battalion stepped in and opened fire. In the melee, the Eighth Company of the 338th Regiment of the 113th Division met the US Advisory Group of the 7th Division of South Korea.The Chinese soldiers rushed forward and wrestled with the US military advisers. As a result, they wiped out most of the advisory group and captured 8 US military advisers, including 1 colonel, 1 lieutenant colonel, and 6 majors. Fighting until 19:00 in the evening, except for a few enemies who escaped, most of the South Korean Seventh Division was wiped out in Dechuan.In the Battle of Tokugawa, the South Korean Army killed 1,041 people, captured 2,078 people, lost 156 artillery pieces, and lost 218 vehicles. At night, Han Xianchu, the deputy commander of the Volunteer Army, accompanied by Liu Xiyuan, political commissar of the 38th Army, entered the burning Tokugawa City.The streets in the city are full of prisoners, artillery, guns and cars, as well as piles of various supplies. At dawn, the battle situation in Tokugawa was described by the announcer of the American Broadcasting Corporation as follows: "The Second Corps of the Republic of Korea Army was wiped out, and under the fierce attack of the Chinese army, it has completely disappeared in less than 24 hours. no longer exists, and no trace of the unit can be found." Wu Ruilin, the commander of the Chinese 42nd Army, had a leg injury and was known as "Wu Cripple".This experienced Chinese general showed his flexible, tenacious and unyielding command style in the eastern part of the Korean peninsula in his first battle after entering the DPRK. At dawn on the 23rd, he was studying the map when he received a call from Han Xianchu from the 38th Army. The battle plan will be changed.Wu Ruilin thought: This Liang Daya! It must be because Mr. Peng criticized the first battle of "a black group emerged from Xichuan", and wanted to save face in the second battle!That's fine, I'll concentrate on fighting Ning Yuan and Meng San, and solve the 8th Division of South Korea cleanly, so don't let Liang Daya take up the show alone! Army Commander Wu Ruilin and Military Political Commissar Zhou Biao once again confirmed the enemy's situation and the new combat plan of the 42nd Army. On the front of the 42nd Army are the units of the 8th Division of South Korea. The tactics adopted by the 42nd Army are: movement to wipe out the enemy, detours and divisions: - The 25th Division is a frontal attack force, and Ningyuan will carry out a frontal breakthrough, annihilating the 1st, 3rd and 21st Battalions of the 10th Regiment of the 8th Division of South Korea. The first and second battalions of the regiment occupied the front lines of Tianfengli, Songtingli and Fengdeshan, and then attacked Ningyuan City.The 126th Division occupied Longdeli and Nanzhongli, cut off the enemy's retreat in Ningyuan, blocked Mengshan and Beicangli's possible northern aid enemies, and occupied Mengshan.The 1st, 2nd and 4th divisions detoured to the Shimuli line in the southeast of Ningyuan, and then attacked Ningyuan in the north. The flanking detour began at dusk on the 25th, and the time for the frontal attack was at 23:00 on the 25th. Han Xianchu came to the command post of the 42nd Army and specifically ordered that after Meng San and Ningyuan dealt with the South Korean Eighth Division, they should immediately attack Shunchuan. Insert it in the direction. Army Commander Wu Ruilin limped, ignored the dissuasion of his subordinates, and climbed to the top of the mountain in the north of Ningyuan City.The snow was knee-deep, and the army commander saw Ningyuan City that his troops were about to attack in the binoculars while panting.The county town is already in ruins, and the collapsed houses look even darker in the snow.On the west side of the river flowed ice blocks that had been cracked by shells, and the ice blocks collided with each other, making a loud noise.Wang Daoquan, commander of the 125th Division accompanying the army commander, pointed to the river and said, "This is the 'Chu River-Han boundary'. Hexi is the puppet Seventh Division, which belongs to the 38th Army; east belongs to us." Wu Ruilin said: "Send a sharp knife battalion to sneak into Ningyuan City, and give me the command post of the Tenth Regiment, the main force of the Puppet Eighth Division in the city. I will dig their hearts first!" When the 124th Division and the 126th Division moved forward, due to the crowded roads, they failed to reach the attack position at the appointed time. The bombing and strafing by a U.S. aircraft required the troops to move forward in a hurry, and they needed to keep concealed. As a result, not only did the speed not increase, but some casualties occurred. Nevertheless, when dusk came, the 42nd Army's attack on the 8th Division of South Korea began. The 125th Division of the frontal attack attacked on time at 23:00, and its 375th Regiment went all the way to overcome the enemy positions such as Tiantianli, and attacked to the west of Ningyuan. The troops of the 373rd Regiment of the 1st, 25th and 3rd Divisions were divided into two groups. Li Lin led the way to attack Matanli and Zhili, and the political commissar led the way to attack Matuli.The flanks of the 374th Regiment, which mainly attacked Ningyuan City, were guaranteed. The 374th Regiment was also led by the regiment leader and the political commissar, and rushed towards the outskirts of Ningyuan City. The Jiandao Battalion sent by Wu Ruilin to "digging the heart" was undertaken by the First Battalion of the 374th Regiment of the 125th Division, and the Jiandao Company of the Jiandao Battalion was the third company led by the deputy battalion commander Sun Xianshan.Sanlian has a reputation for being good at night battles, and at night, they are like ducks in water.In the battle of sweeping the periphery, they touched the South Korean soldiers less than 10 meters away and stabbed the enemy sentinel to death with a dagger. Before the enemy could react, with the support of artillery fire, the soldiers of the third company rushed forward , South Korean soldiers resisted hastily, then left their positions and fled south.When attacking Height 565, South Korean soldiers put up tenacious resistance, and the cries of hand-to-hand combat echoed throughout the height.The leader of the second platoon of the third company is Comrade Liu. When he led the soldiers to scuffle with the enemy, he first confronted a short and fat South Korean soldier. Amidst the shouts of the short and fat soldier, two South Korean soldiers emerged. , As a result, Comrade Liu was surrounded by three enemies.Comrade Liu is a veteran who has made great contributions in the War of Liberation twice and is famous for his bayonet fighting.He didn't shout, and calmly took advantage of a loophole in the opponent's fight, and stabbed the bayonet into the short and fat guy's back.Perhaps because the stab was too deep, Comrade Liu's bayonet could not be pulled out at once, and the remaining two enemies stabbed at him. Comrade Liu let go of his bayonet, turned around, and snatched one of the enemy's guns.Taking advantage of the moment when the opponent was in a daze, he stabbed another enemy down.The last enemy turned around and ran away. Comrade Liu was desperate and ended the fight with a bayonet.After occupying Heights 566, the third company did not stop. They broke through the blockade of a company of the South Korean army, and plunged into Ningyuan City like a sharp knife.This small town that was ravaged by the war and riddled with holes was pitch-black. Under the contrast of the violent gunfire all around, the city was completely silent.The Chinese soldiers from the third company touched a small two-story building and found someone inside, speaking American.Sanlian immediately attacked, and after a short battle, a white towel was stretched out of the window to express surrender.The Chinese soldiers were taken aback when they counted the results of the battle. There were 17 all American soldiers in total, and there were a few American female soldiers among them!It turned out that they came from Hengchuan, they were all members of the Third Division of the United States, and they said they came to Ningyuan City to spend Sunday.And this two-story building was originally a singing and dancing hall.Only then did the Chinese soldiers know that today is Sunday when people all over the world rest. At the same time, Sun Xianshan, the deputy battalion commander, had commanded soldiers to surround the command post of the Tenth Regiment of the Eighth Division of South Korea.The South Korean military officers did not expect that the Chinese army would appear here so soon, and more than 30 officers including the regiment commander were all captured. Then came the chaotic street fighting in Ningyuan City.The fighting continued until dawn.At the cost of 97 casualties, the 1st Battalion of the 374th Regiment killed 194 enemies, 223 floating enemies, captured 15 artillery pieces, and more than 160 various guns. The Tenth Regiment is the main regiment of the Eighth Division of South Korea, responsible for the defense of Ningyuan.The command post is gone, so where can we talk about defense?The South Korean troops in Ningyuan began to flee in all directions. The 1st, 2nd and 4th divisions responsible for the detour were suppressed on the road in Nanshan, Zhongli.The 376th Regiment's attack on Zhongli Nanshan had not been defeated for two hours, and Army Commander Wu Ruilin was furious.在他的严令下，由师参谋长亲自指挥，集中了九挺重机枪，以加强的兵力，向这个拦在迂回路上的障碍发起了强大的攻势，最终打开了通路。插得最远的三七六团的二营，天亮的时候已经插到德化里，营长命令士兵们抓紧时间吃东西。正吃着，突然跑来一伙南朝鲜士兵，误认为二营是自己人，跑过来就吃。当他们知道自己被俘虏了的时候，把枪扔在一边，依旧狼吞虎咽。二营就此活捉了200多名饥饿惊恐的南朝鲜士兵。 一二四师三七零团于午夜到达石幕里，歼灭了南朝鲜第八师二十一团的一个机枪连。由于其二营没能按时赶到指定地点，结果南朝鲜这个团的步兵连全逃了。 向宁远西南穿插的先头部队是一二四师三七二团的二营四连。在一个叫做头上洞的地方，一辆吉普车迎面向四连开来。面对四连士兵的拦截，车上跳下两个南朝鲜军官，大声地喊着什么，经过翻译员的解释，四连士兵明白了他在喊：“中国军队在哪里？”于是，四连的士兵大声回答：“中国军队在这里！”抓了俘虏之后，一问，知道有一股从宁远逃来的南朝鲜败兵马上就到，于是四连立即占领了公路两侧的制高点，没多一会儿，公路上车灯闪亮，逃兵来了。四连等车辆开近之后，打头打尾，然后拦腰，车上的南朝鲜士兵跳车逃命，被四连紧紧包围。战斗结束，中国士兵们意外地发现车上装满了食品，饼干、罐头，还有一些中国士兵不认识的好吃的。二营营长孔祝三发布命令：“通知各连，上车拿好吃的！能拿多少拿多少！” 通信员瞬间就把“上车拿好吃的”的命令传达到了每个连。 有一样东西中国士兵们拿不走，就是南朝鲜军丢弃的汽车和大炮。中国军队中会开汽车的人很少，而大炮靠人推是推不动的。 天亮的时候，美军的飞机照例飞来了。飞机在低空盘旋，确定了南朝鲜第八师已经不存在了的时候，就开始轰炸那些中国士兵们拿不走的东西。公路上顿时火光冲天，中国官兵们心疼地看着汽车和火炮顷刻变成了一堆废铁。 正如毛泽东和彭德怀在战役开始前所预料的，仅一天时间，联合国军战线的右翼就全部崩溃了。