Chapter 12 4. The laughing stock of history

The Beck Company of the Third Battalion of the Ninth Infantry Regiment of the Second Division of the US Army is the same as most of the US companies of the Eighth Army. The 129 officers and soldiers of the entire company are mixed from whites and blacks, recruits and veterans. Combat, the company is also equipped with more than a dozen South Korean soldiers. In the early morning of November 25, 1950, when the officers and soldiers of Baker Company learned that they were still going to serve as the vanguard company today, they were full of complaints, because there is a popular saying in the US military these days: "Whoever is the vanguard company will definitely meet the Chinese. The officers and soldiers of Baker Company believed that Baker Company was in the front line every time they fought, which obviously showed that in the eyes of the commander, Baker Company was just a dirty rag.

However, the fact is that Baker Company has not encountered a real battle since it entered the Qingchuan River. Apart from sporadic resistance, they have not seen the shadow of the Chinese army. On November 25, when Baker Company was about to depart, the pilot's report from the reconnaissance plane reached the company commander, Captain Wallas, and the content of the report was the same as every day: No trace of the enemy was found. Bakerlian's destination today is Highland 219 by the Qingchuan River, 10 kilometers north. When walking towards the battlefield, the officers and soldiers of Baker Company believed that there would be no more major battles.MacArthur said that he would be able to go home for Christmas, which sounds very tempting.What's more, the officers and soldiers knew about MacArthur's visit over the Yalu River in person. They said: "This old man is still very good. If the old man's plane falls, the Chinese will give Stalin his corncob pipe, because Stalin also likes it." Playing with pipes." November 25th was a nice cold day with blue skies.As usual, the officers and soldiers threw away the heavy steel helmets they thought were too heavy, and wore warm and light fleece caps just issued.They were also unwilling to carry more ammunition. Each soldier had an average of 1 grenade and 16 rounds of ammunition, and only 4 boxes of machine gun ammunition, and 61 mortar ammunition—this is the minimum amount of ammunition carried in the regulations.About half of the soldiers still carried civil engineering tools, and the other half had already thrown away these cumbersome things.The empty rucksack felt light and comfortable on the body. As for the food, migrant workers from South Korea would carry it anyway.The telephone soldiers of Baker Company thought it was troublesome, and they didn't even connect to the only field telephone. He thought that if something really happened, he would clamp the end of the single telephone unit to the telephone line laid for artillery observation on the marching road and say a few words. That's it.

Soldiers from the two platoons of Baker Company rode on 4 M-4 tanks and 2 M-16 double-barreled self-propelled artillery vehicles, and the rest of the soldiers followed on foot. The mountain road is winding and uneven, the team is lazy, the sun is shining on the head, and the surrounding fields are silent. Highland 219 is a saddle-shaped hill covered with low miscellaneous trees, with a gentle slope in the north and cliffs in the south.This is an important highland along the Qingchuan River. It controls the northward road, and it is the commanding height that must be controlled first when going north.

Captain Wallas looked up from the western foot of the highland. The highland was quiet, the leaves were swaying in the breeze, and several crows that had frozen in the cold night were basking in the sun. Therefore, Captain Wallas concluded that there was nothing unusual and ordered to occupy this area. highlands. Along the gentle slope to the north, Bakerlian began to climb the mountain.The second platoon and the first squad climbed to the front as the vanguard, and the main force of the company followed up about 10 meters behind them.After climbing slowly for an hour, the first group approached the top of the mountain.At a distance of 20 meters from the top of the mountain, the soldiers stopped to wipe their sweat. Private First Class Smith and Lieutenant Kijonas, the platoon leader, inadvertently glanced up during the interval of wiping sweat. At this moment, they opened their mouths in surprise: Above his head, a group of grenades are flying down densely!

Grenades exploded among American soldiers, followed by rifle bullets. The soldiers of Baker Company were bloody and bloody, and the company commander Wallas shouted: "The enemy!" The whole company fell down on the 219 Heights.When Wallas was crawling towards a group of soldiers bandaging the wounds, he saw the shadows of several Chinese soldiers flashing among the miscellaneous bushes. Wallas opened his eyes wide in horror, but the Chinese soldiers disappeared again. Baker didn't even have time to fire a single bullet. The time is 10:30 am on November 25. The gunfire stopped suddenly.Baker Company immediately split into two groups and went on the offensive.The Chinese soldiers on the front of the second row seemed to have disappeared, so the second row boarded a ridge line. Because the ground was full of rocks, the machine gunners couldn't find a place to set up their machine guns. The tanks were also blocked by the ridge line and could not support them. After hesitating, the Chinese soldiers started shooting again from the bushes on the higher rocky ridgeline. The overwhelming number of grenades and rifle bullets poured down, and the number of casualties in the second row increased to 18 soldiers at once.The three platoons attacking from the other direction ran out of limited bullets before they even approached the top of the mountain, so they had to retreat.Lieutenant Broughton, the leader of the third platoon, is an officer who just took office today, and he hasn't even figured out the names of the soldiers under his command.When the third platoon retreated, the deputy battalion commander of the third battalion arrived with an ammunition vehicle. He directed the tanks and self-propelled artillery at the foot of the mountain to adjust their positions to support the third platoon to re-attack.Broughton then commanded the three platoons to charge towards the top of the mountain again.Just as the third platoon was approaching the small top again, Lieutenant Broughton saw a scene he would never forget: in the trench on the top of the mountain, a row of Chinese soldiers suddenly stood up, "These Chinese soldiers raised their hands and surrendered." The third row stood up in skirmish formation "at a distance where the buttons of the Chinese soldiers' uniforms can be seen", and a South Korean soldier who could speak Chinese began to shout: "Come out of the trench and surrender!" The Chinese soldier replied: "Come here and catch it!" When the conversation with the Chinese soldiers started, many Chinese soldiers joined the ranks of raising their hands, but "they suddenly threw grenades together and then got into the trenches."

Broughton's three platoons suffered heavy losses on the 219th. The Chinese soldiers disappeared into the miscellaneous bushes again. After the black deputy company commander Wu Yin led 25 people to carry out an assault, but failed again at the cost of half the casualties, Baker Company completed the construction of its defensive position.As a result, Chinese and American soldiers entered a stalemate of shooting on the 219 Heights until the sun went down. On the first night of November 25, 1950, the temperature was minus 15°C, the air was clear and the moon was shining brightly. The silent night didn't last long, and the soldiers of Baker Company were stunned by the sudden sound of a huge explosion from the north.Half of the night sky was instantly dyed red by artillery fire, and the thunderous sound of artillery resounded through the sky.The sound of the explosion and the flames were first on the other side of the Qingchuan River, and after a while, there was a burning flame on the right rear of Baker Company.

The officers and men of Baker Company understood that fierce fighting was taking place in front of them and behind them. Captain Wallas used a telegram to ask his superiors what happened. Colonel Charles Sloan's answer was very simple: "This may be the real guy." Wallas understood the general meaning of this answer, but he failed to imagine that the battle that Baker Company encountered during the day was only blocked by the Chinese army's reconnaissance troops, and in a few hours, he and his Baker Company would be caught in a battle. In the fiercer battle. It is understandable that Captain Wallas couldn't think of it, because at this moment, even General MacArthur couldn't think of it. The hundreds of thousands of Chinese troops under the command of Peng Dehuai had already started a full-scale offensive on the western front of the Korean peninsula.This was the second day after MacArthur flew to the front line to announce "let the children go home before Christmas", and it was also the second day after he flew over the Yalu River to observe with his own eyes and announced "there is no trace of the Chinese army".

Baker Company was surrounded by gunfire, but it was strange that they were not attacked. 219 Heights was dead silent.Bakerlian listened to the gunshots behind him in extreme horror, but no one knew what they should do.Through telephone contact, Wallas knew that the other companies of the 3rd Battalion were under fierce attack and were facing collapse, the 2nd Battalion was also surrounded, and the 1st Battalion was attacked by the battalion headquarters, the whereabouts of the battalion commander and many staff members were unknown. .Therefore, all units of the Ninth Regiment of the Second Division of the US Army are in a bloody battle.And the news from the 38th Regiment at the right rear of the Ninth Regiment said, "They have been involved in hand-to-hand melee."

Baker Company, located in an important location, was not attacked from any direction!This frightened Baker even more than being attacked.The officers and soldiers of Baker Company looked at the sky with mixed emotions, looked at the moon that was similar to their hometown, and huddled in the trenches to pray for their own fate. At this time, a Chinese army that was about to kill Baker Company-the 359th Regiment of the 120th Division of the 40th Army was approaching the 219th Height step by step. The attack position of the Fortieth Army was in the middle of the Western Front, between the Thirty-eighth and Thirty-ninth Corps. On the evening of November 24, the 40th Army was ordered to advance towards Longchuan Mountain and Xicang. On the morning of the 25th, knowing that the U.S. Second Division had already occupied Xinxingli and Suminli, Peng Dehuai ordered the 40th Army to continue to penetrate in the direction of Xicang, and its main force cooperated with the 39th Army to attack from the front. Annihilate the US Second Division.

The plan of the 40th Army is: use the 119th Division to continue to penetrate towards Xicang, use the 118th Division to attack the Ninth Regiment of the Second US Division in the direction of Xinxingli, and the 120th Division to stay on the flank of the main force of the support army on the west bank of the Qingchuan River It is safe, but the 359th regiment was deployed to immediately cross the Qingchuan River, go straight to Yulongpu, cut off the retreat of the US Second Division, and block the possible reinforcements from the direction of the field. When the battalion commanders of the 359th Regiment were called to a meeting and learned of the mission, the battalion commanders didn't say a word.The temperature at that time was minus 25°C, and the Qingchuan River was 200 meters wide.On the other side of the river, an infantry battalion and an artillery battalion of the US military were deployed, equipped with heavy weapons including tanks, and the daily target of the weapons was to block the river.At the same time, there are also enemies on the Jiang'an side, and there are more than 20 miles of blockades.Without any equipment for crossing the river, the entire regiment had to cross the river; not only had to withstand the enemy's shooting on the other side, but also be blocked by the enemy's flanking fire from the river.

However, the 359th Regiment had to cross the Qingchuan River. Huang Guozhong, the deputy commander of the 120th Division, is here. He is going to cross the river with the 359th Regiment.He is the former head of the regiment and is familiar with every battalion commander.The last thing Huang Guozhong said to the battalion commanders was: "We share life and death together, so you have to give me your strength!" As night fell, the 359th regiment set off.After a 10-kilometer raid, they arrived at the crossing point. It's freezing cold, the north wind is biting, and the sound of ice cubes in the river water can be heard.During the on-site reconnaissance, several staff officers led a few soldiers into a shack to avoid the wind for a while. When they came out, one of the second and second soldiers looked at the gun in his hand in a daze: he was using a semi-automatic rifle. The base of the wall leaned against the wall, how did it become an American carbine now?Out of nowhere, he went back to the shack and turned on the flashlight. He was shocked. It turned out that there were seven American soldiers sleeping in the corner of the shack! The American soldier who was awakened hadn't understood what was going on, and had already been firmly pressed into the sleeping bag by a few pairs of cold hands. At 20:30, after the fire preparation of the mortar company and under the cover of heavy machine guns, the 359th Regiment began to forcibly cross the Qingchuan River.The commander of the third battalion was the first to break through the ice.During the 10-kilometer raid, the soldiers, who were sweating all over, plunged into the chest-deep icy water, and suddenly felt severe pain like a knife cutting all over their bodies.After being soaked in water, the cotton padded clothes were heavy like lead. After taking a few steps, my legs began to twitch, and then I lost consciousness.When approaching the dark heart of the river, the current was so fast that one could not stand still, and the water rushing up to the neck was suffocating.The soldiers raised their guns above their heads, huddled together, and moved step by step in the river.Ahead, white ice and sand under the moonlight. The enemy on the opposite bank began to shoot. They did not expect that in places without bridges, Chinese soldiers would wade in the icy water, so the shooting was flustered and hasty. Deputy Commander Huang Guozhong at the front was short, and when he reached the center of the river, the river water had covered his head. He drank a few sips of the cold river water, and the guards lifted him out of the water, and his face and hair immediately froze. , he wanted to say something, but couldn't speak. The chaotic shouts of three, five and nine groups echoed on the dark river: "Crossing across the river is victory!" "Glory to Chairman Mao!" "Rush to the shore and smash the enemy!" Soldiers continued to fall down and flow along the water in the shooting of the opposite bank and the impact of the huge ice blocks blown up by the artillery shells. However, when their feet set foot on the land on the opposite bank, the world immediately belonged to them again. Eight in a row and three platoons rushed to the river bank first.The drenched cotton coat turned into an ice cube.The soldiers tried their best to break off the ice on their bodies, but when they fired the guns, they found that the guns had frozen.Someone started urinating on the gun, and it was not easy to urinate in extreme cold and stress, but just urinating worked well. The Eighth Company destroyed an American artillery position. Wulian occupied Yulongpu. After crossing the river, the Sixth Company went to the highway bridge and encountered the gendarmerie of the Second Division of the United States. After 20 minutes of fierce fighting, all Chinese soldiers in the two platoons died.Later, those who buried the bodies saw that the Chinese soldiers in these two platoons were covered in ice armor and all kept fighting postures, with their guns pointing in the direction of the enemy. The 359th Regiment continued to develop in depth, attacking and surrounding the 3rd and 2nd Battalions of the 9th Regiment of the 2nd Division of the United States. At this time, the 3rd Battalion and 8th Company of the 359th Regiment were ordered to attack the 219 Heights.It was already midnight.When a row of shells fell on Height 219, the officers and soldiers of Baker Company finally realized that the disaster was their turn. The mortar platoon of Baker Company was defeated by the attack of the Chinese soldiers and was concentrated and surrounded on the mountainside. The 219 highland battle thus became a grenade battle.Since both sides could use the rocky depressions for cover, bullets were of little use.The American soldiers discovered that the attacks of the Chinese soldiers were carried out rhythmically under the command of the horns. Two horns were for advancing, and one horn was for bombing.The density of grenades thrown by Chinese soldiers made American soldiers feel like they were in hell.In the narrow depression, the American soldiers who were crowded together could not avoid the grenades, so they had to kick the grenades away desperately.Crawford, a 17-year-old armorer in the Baker Company, later recalled that grenades rained down on him, and he alone kicked out "more than forty" of them before they exploded. Lieutenant Uin, the deputy company commander of Baker Company, was a tall black officer. During the chaotic confrontation, he ordered the surrounding soldiers to move closer to him, and he tried his best to cover the concentration of the soldiers.However, the ammunition was gone.Uin began throwing rocks, and finally, he stood on the trench, throwing canned goods. Baker company decided to abandon the position.When he was about to rendezvous with the mortar platoon on the mountainside, Uin turned his head and was about to call out to Lieutenant Wen who was behind. A grenade exploded on Lieutenant Wen's head, and the shrapnel cut off half of his face. Twenty-six hours after Baker Company began its offensive, Baker Company was completely defeated.The whole company went from 129 people at the beginning of the attack to only 34 people left when it was withdrawn, and half of them were still "wounded who could walk by themselves." After the end of the Korean War, in all war materials, there are records of the battle of Baker Company on November 25, 1950.Some described Baker Company's battle at 219 Heights as a heroic feat, while others cruelly described the tragic situation of Baker Company shouting at 219 Heights.In any case, the soldiers from the 8th Company of the 3rd Battalion of the 359th Regiment of the 120th Division of the Chinese 40th Army attacked the Baker Company of the 3rd Battalion of the 9th Infantry Regiment of the 2nd Division of the US Army on that moonlit night. This fight is unforgettable for anyone. The two regiments of the 118th Division of the 40th Army also crossed the Qingchuan River on the evening of the 25th, and launched a fierce attack on the positions of the 2nd Division of the United States.The battles in various parts of the battlefield showed the same situation: the U.S. military resisted tenaciously with the help of powerful fire support, while the Chinese army tenaciously attacked wave after wave.The U.S. military history records: "The Chinese army fired heavily with rifles and machine guns, and threw out what seemed to be an inexhaustible supply of grenades. They rushed to the U.S. positions and stabbed U.S. soldiers to death in foxholes with bayonets." Chinese soldiers captured an American private named Smedley and released him after interrogation.When he was released, a Chinese interpreter said to him: "We know you very well, we know the names of all the officers in the George Company you are in. You go. Tell your superiors not to use incendiary bombs, that is, napalm bombs to hit us. Your troops are over there now, you go." As Private Smedley ran toward the river, he felt that gunshots must be heard behind him, but the Chinese did not fire. The George Company where Smedley is located is a company of the Ninth Regiment of the Second Division of the United States.After the company collapsed, company commander Frank Mussen heard crying in a wooden house. He went in and saw a soldier crouching in a corner with tears streaming down his face. "What are you doing?" Moosen asked. The soldier said, "I don't know...I don't know." Musen said, "Come with me!" The soldier said, "Captain, I don't want to go..." Musen grabbed the soldier's arm and lifted him up like a chicken: "I order you to put your ass on the tank!" Mu Sen drew his pistol and led the remaining soldiers to escape from the siege of Chinese soldiers. By the 26th, the Second Division of the US Army was facing a full-scale collapse under the attack of the troops belonging to the Chinese 40th Army. It was the Chinese 39th Army that launched the frontal attack on the 25th Division of the US Army. The first person in the 39th Army to contact the 25th Division of the United States was Hua Qingchuan, the Chinese regiment commander with a very strange surname.The 345th Regiment led by him rushed to Shangjiudong at dawn on the 25th to take over the defense of the 40th Army, and agreed that a reconnaissance platoon from the 40th Army was waiting for them there.But when we arrived at the upper nine holes, we found that there was no sign of the reconnaissance platoon at all.Wang Fuzhi, the commander of the 343rd Regiment, also arrived at the same time, and said that he did not see anyone from the 40th Army.Just as they were talking, the fellow North Koreans told them that there were enemies in the west of the village.Commander Hua Qingchuan went to the west of the village to have a look, and he saw American soldiers. This is the vanguard of the 24th Regiment of the 25th Division of the US Army. Like the Second Division of the US Army, the 24th Regiment also began to advance northward on the morning of the 25th. Hua Qingchuan immediately ordered: "Seize the high ground, block the enemy to the south of Shangjiu Cave, and buy time for the follow-up troops to advance!" In this way, the 115th Division of the Chinese 39th Army and the 25th Division of the US Army broke out in a haste. Since the 345th Regiment in Huaqingchuan had been fighting the U.S. Army for a day, the 344th Regiment attacked the frontal attack on the 26th.The division commander Wang Liangtai gave Wang Fuzhi, the head of the 343rd Regiment, a "target" for capturing prisoners: 200 people. The U.S. military already knew that this was a large-scale attack by the Chinese army across the board, and they began to retreat. There is a pass on the road near Shangjiudong. If you occupy and hold this pass, you will be able to block the retreating US troops. On the night of the 26th, Chinese and American soldiers engaged in desperate struggles between man and man, man and tank on the road near Shangjiudong.When fighting for the high ground beside the road, the strong firepower of the US military caused a lot of losses to the 343rd Regiment, but the American soldiers' fear of night battles also made the Chinese soldiers more emboldened.They held bundles of grenades, explosive packs, or several blasting tubes bundled together, and rushed straight towards the huge US tanks, rushing again and again.Because it was dark night, the American tankers couldn't see the direction the attack was coming from, so they could only frantically turn the turret and shoot randomly until the tracks were blown off or the tank's fuel tank was blown apart.The burning tanks blocked the road, and the tanks behind were desperately hitting the paralyzed tanks. The sound of the collision made the Chinese soldiers sound more thrilling than the sound of guns. The shock formation of the Chinese soldiers formed moving shadows one after another in the darkness.When they hit the closest distance, the psychological defense line of the American soldiers collapsed, and they fled all over the mountains and plains.Chinese soldiers began to block in all directions, and groups of American soldiers would encounter head-on blows no matter which direction they ran. The dark night is the world of the Chinese army. Just after dawn, the U.S. military plane arrived. One by one, the F-86s swooped down, trying to find the ground indication that the US troops called for support, and also looking for traces of the Chinese troops.But the pilots could not see the shadow of the American soldiers, and they all ran to the mountains.The pilot did not see the shadow of the Chinese soldiers, and they all went up the mountain to hide. In the miscellaneous forest where Chinese soldiers and American soldiers were hidden, the Chinese soldiers searched the mountains with their waists bent, in order to catch the American soldiers hiding in the mountains. When it came time to count the prisoners, the head of the regiment Wang Fuzhi counted more than 180 in total, which was still a little short of the "target" required by the teacher Wang Liangtai. These U.S. captives with bronze plaques engraved with unit numbers, positions, and names hanging around their necks are all from the 25th Division of the U.S. Army, and almost all of them are Puerto Ricans. There is a black regiment in the 25th Division of the U.S. Army, and this is the 24th Regiment that was attacked by the Chinese 39th Army. The Twenty-Fourth Regiment is a unit with a long history and outstanding military exploits. The 24th regiment is also a unit that has long suffered discrimination and ridicule. The 24th Infantry Regiment of the 25th Division of the U.S. Army was established by an act passed by the U.S. Congress in 1878.In the war against the Indians in the 1870s and 1880s, the 24th Infantry Regiment was praised for its bravery.However, since this is an all-black army, in an era when racism was prevalent, although they fought bravely, they will always be "secondary soldiers".Therefore, the deep-rooted view of the black officers and soldiers of the 24th Regiment is: Since we are not treated as human beings, why should we die for them? The U.S. Twenty-fifth Division was one of the first U.S. troops sent to the Korean battlefield. On July 20, 1950, after the 25th Division of the U.S. Army entered the battle, the first task received by the 24th Regiment was to defend Liquan City.On the first day of the mission, the performance of the 24th Regiment made division commander William Keane furious: the soldiers fired indiscriminately for a while, and then began to flee in a hurry. ".The search team sent by the U.S. military came back the next day and reported that the People's Army had never been to Liquan, and that the fire in the city was caused by the U.S. artillery hitting the building. In the subsequent Battle of Sangju, the performance of the 24th Regiment became a shame for the 25th Division.The performance of the 24th Regiment in Sangju is recorded in the U.S. Army War History as follows: In almost all battles west of Sangju, the 24th Infantry Regiment was in constant panic.The soldiers left their positions without authorization and slipped to the rear.They dropped their weapons on the ground, and on one occasion the 3rd Battalion retreated from a height, throwing away fifteen machine guns, eleven mortars, four rocket launchers, and a hundred and two rifles. On another occasion, Company L of the regiment entered the position with four officers and one hundred and five men. When the company withdrew from the position a few days later, only seventeen men remained in the foxhole. During this period, only One officer and seventeen soldiers left the position due to casualties and other reasons, and the whereabouts of the remaining three officers and eighty-eight soldiers are unknown. On the way down the mountain, the team of seventeen soldiers continued to expand, and when they reached the foot of the mountain, they already had an officer and thirty-five soldiers. The other units of the 25th Division nicknamed the 24th Regiment "Fleeing".Wherever it is, the armbands of the Twenty-Fourth Regiment attract ridicule.The American soldiers composed a ditty called "Fleeing Dance" for the 24th regiment, which used the melody of the black folk song: Serious racial discrimination deeply affected the sense of responsibility and honor of the black officers and soldiers of the 24th Regiment. The unwritten tactic of the Twenty-Fourth Regiment is: stand firm during the day and escape at night.In a battle on July 29 in the first battle, the entire first battalion of the 24th regiment disappeared overnight, throwing all the artillery to the North Korean People's Army.In order to prevent soldiers from escaping, the U.S. military established checkpoints. Major John Woolrich had the right to detain any soldiers who retreated without permission. As a result, he intercepted an average of 75 deserters every day, and he caught 150 deserters in the most day.Detention was useless. The next day, Lieutenant Gilbert, a company commander of the 24th Regiment, escaped with a dozen soldiers. The inspector ordered him to return to the position immediately, but he refused to carry out the order.Gilbert was later sentenced to death for refusing to carry out field orders.He defended himself: If the order is executed, it will be tantamount to sending me and 12 other soldiers to die.His sentence was commuted to 20 years in prison on the advice of an army judge. President Truman personally approved the court-martial sentence against Gilbert, and a president personally approved the conviction documents for a lieutenant, which is unique in American history. President Truman's approval date was November 27, 1950. It was precisely on this day that another incident happened to the 24th Regiment far away on the Korean battlefield, which made Truman wonder what to say. The 347th Regiment of the 116th Division of the Chinese 39th Army surrounded a company of the 24th Regiment in a village called Shangcaodong.Chinese military officers discovered through the binoculars that the surrounded American soldiers were all black.After the first battle, Chinese soldiers already knew that there was a kind of American soldier with black skin. Chinese soldiers called this kind of American soldier with strange skin color "Heimei" - which means black American. English-speaking Chinese officers began calling out to the surrounded American soldiers to come out and surrender. Not long after, the Chinese soldiers saw two black soldiers coming out holding a white flag. However, when the Chinese soldiers stood up to accept the surrender, the American soldiers behind them opened fire suddenly, and several Chinese soldiers were shot and fell down on the spot. The angry Chinese soldiers started shooting violently, and there were tragic cries among the surrounded American soldiers. The Chinese army stopped firing and shouted again. Finally, a black officer came out. What he was holding high was not a white flag, but a piece of white paper. On the white paper was a picture of a black man raising his gun and surrendering. Next to the picture was the number of the company. The black officer was Stanley, commander of Company C of the 24th Regiment. Company C had 148 men, all black.Stanley came to the Chinese army and explained that the shooting at the Chinese soldiers who accepted the surrender just now was forced by the white officers in the company. Company C of the 24th Regiment of the 25th Division of the U.S. Army was the only complete U.S. company that surrendered to the Chinese army throughout the Korean War. No one knows how President Truman and the U.S. military reacted to this incident. So far, all the military history of the U.S. military has kept this incident secret. Three months later, according to the suggestion of Major General Keane, the commander of the 25th Division of the US Army, and with the approval of the US Secretary of Defense, General Marshall, the US military announced a reorganization plan: the disbandment of the 24th Black Infantry Regiment.Since then, the U.S. military has always practiced a mixed system of blacks and whites. At dusk on November 26, Colonel George Peplo, commander of the 38th Regiment of the Second Division of the U.S. Army, came to the position. up.Colonel Peplo boarded the front and took a look. The scene in front of him surprised him: it seemed that at least a few thousand South Korean soldiers flooded into the US positions. A thought immediately popped into Papulo's head: How did these South Koreans get here?Could it be that they are responsible for what happened to their right wing? Thinking of this, Papulo broke out in a cold sweat! At the same time, General Kaiser, the commander of the U.S. Second Division, also received a call from a U.S. position in another direction. There was a noisy voice on the phone: "A whole regiment of the South Korean army is swarming towards our defense zone. ,what should we do?" General Kaiser suddenly flew into a rage: "Command them! Use them! Bastards!" General Walker, the commander of the U.S. Eighth Army, finally realized at dawn on November 27, 1950 that the flank of the United Nations Army had been completely exposed to Facing the attack of the Chinese army, the US military fighting in the middle of the front line could no longer support it.As a result, the plan for the United Nations to reach the Yalu River before Christmas and end the Korean War was hopeless.The announcement of General MacArthur, commander of the US Far East, to "let the children go home before Christmas" is about to become a historical laughing stock.