Chapter 14 6. Fierce Battle on Pine Bone Peak

The United Nations army began to retreat on a large scale to the south bank of the Qingchuan River. The goal of the retreat of the United Nations forces was the line of Suncheon, Sucheon, and Seongcheon, which was the narrowest bee waist between the east and west of North Korea. From the map, there are only four roads for the United Nations Army to retreat to the south. These are also the four roads for the United Nations Army to advance north. From west to east, they are: the road from Bocheon to Sucheon, and the road from Baecheon to Sucheon via Sinanju Highway, the road from Jiachuan to Shunchuan via Longyuanli, and the road from Jiachuan to Shunchuan via Sansuoli.

The U.S. military is different from the Chinese army and the South Korean army. Their huge mechanized troops must rely on roads for movement. The westernmost U.S. First Army quickly retreated from the north bank of the Cheongcheon River to the Sinanju area, and the U.S. Ninth Army also shrank to the Gecheon area. In order to quickly get rid of the increasingly violent compression of the Chinese army, the U.S. military abandoned a large number of equipment and equipment, and retreated all the way along the direction of Gucheon through Sinanju.In Sansuoli and Longyuanli, under the cover of planes and tanks, they launched a fierce attack on the positions already occupied by the Chinese army, trying to open the way to retreat southward as soon as possible.

Walker pinned his only hope of withdrawing the besieged troops on the western front on a hypothesis, that is, the Chinese army in Sansuoli and Longyuanli might be a force that hastily inserted here, and its strength and defense depth should be very large. Although it is troublesome for the U.S. military, which is weak and has superior military strength and firepower, to open the passage, it should not be a problem. On the morning when MacArthur vaguely admitted that the United Nations Army's northward advance plan had completely failed, a bloody Turkish soldier ran in from the headquarters of the US Second Division. He was out of breath and reported that he was the Turkish brigade supply company. Yes, when their company was heading north along the road from Shuncheon to Bicheon, they encountered a large number of Chinese troops near Qinglong Station. The whole company was suddenly attacked, and now there are not many people left.

Kaiser, the commander of the US Second Division, realized that the Chinese army cutting off the retreat might not be a small force. The north-south pincer attack of the US Second Division during the day impressed Mr. Kaiser deeply.The Chinese army's continuous attack on its front has reduced the combat effectiveness of the Second Division by half, especially the infantry battalions. Some battalions have reduced their numbers to 200-250 men, while some infantry companies have only 20 men left.Even so, Kaiser did not dare to give up the tactics of resistance, because otherwise, the second division would really collapse.

After hearing the report of the panicked Turkish soldier, Kaiser decided to send a military police squad to explore the way to the south first, but since the squad left, Commander Kaiser has never heard from them again. At 8 o'clock, Kaiser, who was not sure what to do, received a call from General Milburn, the commander of the US First Army: "How is the situation?" Kaiser replied: "No, even my command post was attacked!" Milburn said: "It's really not possible, just come to me, maybe it's safer to go here." The US Second Division is responsible for covering the right wing of the entire front. How can it abandon the entire front and run west?Besides, how can he listen to someone who is not his direct superior at this time?Commander Kaiser decided to go to the army headquarters in person.He went there by jeep, and the army headquarters is four kilometers west of Junyuli.When Kaiser got there, he found that there was no one in the army headquarters, only a chief of operations who was lying on the map and frowning but couldn't decide anything.Kaiser looked at his division's combat area on this army command map and decided to take this as an order, so he drove back.When the jeep got on the road, it was discovered that the road was crowded with retreating baggage vehicles, and the jeep could not pass at all.So Kaiser temporarily switched to a helicopter.As the helicopter flew down the road to the division headquarters, Kaiser saw thousands of refugees swarming southward on the road below the plane.Based on his own battlefield experience, Kaiser believes that whenever refugees appear, the Chinese army must not have arrived, because the common sense in war is that refugees always flee before the army.

Later facts proved to Commander Kaiser most cruelly that the thousands of people he saw were not refugees at all, but the Chinese army that was going south to cut off his retreat. The Chinese soldiers marching on foot have no obvious military uniform marks, and they can't take into account the military appearance at all during the hard and fast running, which makes the US military's reconnaissance judgments wrong again and again. Since it was believed that the main force of the Chinese army had not yet arrived, the U.S. Second Division still had time to retreat along the road from Jiachuan to Shunchon—on the helicopter, Commander Kaiser made such a decision.

After the war, Kaiser regretted his stupidity whenever he thought of this scene for the rest of his life. When he returned to the division headquarters, Kaiser learned that not only had there been no news from the military police squad that had been dispatched, but also that the tank platoon that had been dispatched after that had never returned.At this time, the pressure on the front of the Second Division was increasing, and the anxious Commander Kaiser sent another reconnaissance company to investigate the way to retreat to the south. When a reinforcement company of the Ninth Regiment of the Second US Division found the reconnaissance company, there were only more than 20 officers and soldiers alive in the reconnaissance company.

In order to kill the U.S. troops retreating south, the U.S. Ninth Army launched a full-scale onslaught against the Chinese army throughout the day on the 29th.However, to their surprise, the Chinese army is surprisingly tenacious. It is not a small unit as imagined at all, but an elite large force. This elite force is the 113th Division of the Chinese 38th Army that quickly penetrated into the three institutes and was "nailed there like steel nails". The reconnaissance company sent by Master Kaiser encountered the first battalion and third company of the 337th regiment of the 113th division in Longyuan.

When the 337th Regiment occupied Longyuanli at 4:00 a.m. on the 29th with the third company as the avant-garde, a convoy of American troops passed by. Yes, 15 cars were destroyed and 15 American soldiers were captured.After interrogation, it was known that they were the vanguard of the Fifth Regiment of the First Division of the US Cavalry.After the battle, there was a brief silence, and the Chinese soldiers began to eat food seized from American vehicles.After daybreak, the sentry said that there was an enemy situation. Zhang Youxi looked north along the road, and gradually saw clearly that it was a small convoy composed of a jeep and several large trucks.When the convoy approached, Sanlian resolved the battle with a sudden attack without much effort.To the excitement of the Chinese soldiers, what the US military convoy transported this time was no longer the bad "whiskey", but flour and butter!

The soldiers of the third company were not happy for a while, and a large number of American troops arrived. During the daytime on the 29th, the attacks of the Ninth Regiment of the Second Division of the United States were all led by tanks. Therefore, the blocking on this day was actually a fight between Chinese soldiers and steel tanks with their flesh and blood.After a soldier named Xu Hanmin in the third row broke the track of a tank with a grenade, it didn't take long to find that the tank whose track was blown off by himself was "alive" again.It turned out that the American tank driver got under the tank and repaired the tank.Seeing that Xu Hanmin was angry, he chased after him and jumped onto the tank.When the other Chinese soldiers saw this scene, they shouted loudly: "It's kind! Good job!" Xu Hanmin didn't know what to do on the American tank.The knowledge of Chinese soldiers fighting tanks is extremely limited.The tank drove the Chinese soldier more than 100 meters away. The applauding Chinese soldier was worried again this time, and shouted: "Come back quickly! Come back quickly!" At this moment, Xu Hanmin suddenly rolled off the tank, followed by a loud cry. There was a huge explosion. It turned out that Xu Hanmin had stuffed a bundle of grenades into the turret of the tank.

When the 113th Division blocked the U.S. troops fleeing south in Sansuoli and Longyuanli, Peng Dehuai ordered the Chinese troops on the entire western front to attack the U.S. troops violently. Within a radius of more than ten kilometers centered on Qichuan, the Chinese army was divided into countless units, dividing the U.S. military, making the Qichuan area a place of huge bloodshed in the history of world wars. The divisions of the 39th Army pressed fiercely towards Junyuli, and stubbornly broke into the temporary defensive position built by the US military.The American soldiers were horrified to see a Chinese soldier standing with a machine gun and shooting at them. The soldier did not fall down even after being shot several times. This Chinese soldier was Yang Yuding, who belonged to the 349th Regiment of the 117th Division.When the vanguard company of the 350th Regiment of the 117th Division chased to a place called Sanpuli, they encountered a group of American troops who had escaped from Junyuli and were covered by tanks and aircraft.The Chinese soldiers of the 350th Regiment completely forgot about the safety of their own lives. The platoon leader Yan Huaiyou ran onto the road and blocked the retreat of the US troops.The other Chinese soldiers were also like him. They drove the American soldiers into a rice field to encircle and suppress them. As a result, no one in this group of American soldiers escaped bad luck. After the 114th Division of the 38th Army broke through the defense line of the Turkish brigade, it was ordered to quickly advance towards Sansuoli regardless of the enemy in front of it, and move closer to the 113th Division, which was under tremendous pressure.The 114th Division rushed tenaciously and quickly, and finally approached Longyuanli.They are the thousands of "refugees" that Kaiser, the commander of the US Second Division, saw on the helicopter. The 112th Division of the 38th Army arrived at Fengmingli at 16:00 on the 29th.The 25th Division of the United States here is fighting desperately.After two hours of brutal fighting, the 112th Division occupied Fengmingli. The 118th Division of the 40th Army broke through the interception of the US military, occupied Junyu-ri, and pursued it all the way to the Sinanju area.At dawn, the young division commander Deng Yue was impatient with the US military planes flying overhead, because those planes repeatedly shouted something to the ground in English and Korean through their loudspeakers.Deng Yue asked the interpreter: "What is the endless shouting on the plane?" The interpreter listened for a while, and said: "It is notifying the US military and South Korean soldiers to gather in Pyongyang." The 119th Division of the Fortieth Army was ordered to go straight into Qingguli.This is an important highway located in the north of Longyuanli.The 119th Division was a force attacking the U.S. troops head-on. Their advance to Sansuoli and Longyuanli proved that the U.S. troops had been compressed into one mass.The highway was blocked by cars, tanks and artillery discarded by the U.S. Army. The sixth company rushing to the front found more than 300 U.S. cars and tanks gathered near a railway tunnel.Chinese soldiers hit an oil truck with a captured American rocket launcher, and the fire suddenly burst into the sky near the tunnel, and the flames illuminated the night as if it were day.After the violent shooting, the Chinese soldiers rushed onto the road, and the dead American soldiers were densely packed on the road, and the living American soldiers fled in all directions.At this time, there was a sudden burst of gunfire in front of the road. It was Qinggulixi, which was occupied by the 38th Army and was stubbornly blocking the position-Songgufeng. Gu Feng had no way to escape. Songgufeng, an extremely ordinary hill in the west of North Korea, but because what happened here was written into a newsletter by a Chinese writer, many adults in China still know Songgufeng today and know that it happened there Chinese soldiers and American soldiers fought desperately. November 30, 1950, was the day when this place called Pine Bone Peak was full of blood and flesh. Although Pine Bone Peak is covered with green pines in Chinese writers' newsletters, in fact Pine Bone Peak is a hill of half soil and half stone.Songgu Peak is located in the northeast of Longyuanli, forming a tripod with Sansuoli and Longyuanli.It leads to Junyuli in the north, and can reach Jiachuan in the northwest.Its main peak is 288.7 meters above sea level, and the highway extends about 100 meters east from the top of the mountain. The Chinese army that stood firm on Songgu Peak was the 335th Regiment of the 112th Division of the 38th Army, headed by Fan Tianen who had just finished the Feihushan blocking battle. Fan Tianen's 335 regiment is destined to continue to fight fierce battles on the Korean battlefield. When the second battle began, the 335th Regiment was still performing the task of "luting the enemy into depth".Under the leadership of Fan Tianen, the officers and soldiers of this regiment carried out a tenacious resistance to the northward United Nations army on Feihu Mountain. After that, they retreated while fighting. Huaping Station, more than 100 kilometers away from Tokugawa, blocked a wave of US troops advancing north.That night, Fan Tianen received a new order, the order only had one sentence: launch an attack on the enemy in front of you.At this time, the radio station in contact with the division was broken. Fan Tianen immediately looked for the route on the map and decided to call the place called Xinxingli.At this time, a staff officer of the 40th Army found him and said that he was here to pick up the position of the 335th Regiment. From the commander of the 40th Army, Fan Tianen knew that the 38th Army was fighting against Germany in the second battle. Sichuan.Fan Tianen felt that following the 40th Army, there must be no real battles to be fought, so it is better to chase the main force of his own army.After the decision, the whole regiment of the 335th regiment carried out light equipment. Except for the things necessary for combat, all other equipment was hidden in a small ravine, and a squad was sent to guard it.Fan Tianen calculates that if he walks 60 kilometers a day, he can catch up with the main force in two days. The 335th Regiment had no guide and relied entirely on a map and a compass. They started their difficult march across mountains and ridges in the freezing weather.There is only one goal: to catch up with the main force and strive to catch up with the battle.After walking for two nights, when they arrived at a small mountain village more than ten kilometers away from Dechuan, the officers and soldiers of the whole regiment, including Fan Tianen, could not move any longer. Take a break in the village.When the guards were looking for a place for air defense, they accidentally caught more than a dozen South Korean soldiers in a vegetable cellar. When they asked, it turned out that the battle in Tokugawa was over.Soon, the staff officer who went out for reconnaissance came back and said that the main force had already advanced to Jiari Ridge.Fan Tianen immediately ordered the troops to continue to chase.Near Jiari Ridge, the 325th Regiment finally caught up with the main army that had just captured Jiari Ridge. Fan Tiansi also got a radio station from an American car lying on the road.At this time, Yang Dayi, the commander of the 112th Division, was receiving an order from the army to let them occupy Songgu Peak immediately.The division commander was suffering from the fact that he had no troops to mobilize. Seeing the 335 regiment approaching, Yang Dayi exclaimed with joy: "What a heavenly soldier!" Yang Dayi's order to Fan Tianen is: go straight to Songgu Peak, and block the US troops fleeing south there. Fan Tianen led his extremely exhausted soldiers and immediately rushed towards Songgu Peak. In the dark night, the 335th Regiment broke through the artillery blockade of the US military and deployed troops around Shutang Station.Fan Tianen ordered the first battalion to occupy Songgu Peak. The first company of the first battalion is the third company.Sanlian climbed up Songgu Peak at dawn, and before it had time to repair the fortifications, a large number of US troops came along the road. The troops that swarmed south were the Second Division of the US Army. Facing the U.S. army on the highway, which could not be seen at a glance, the soldiers of the third company immediately forgot about hunger and fatigue after a few days of marching. The eighth class is at the forefront of the three companies.When the U.S. Army was only 20 meters away from the position of the Eighth Squad, Yang Wenming, the machine gunner of the Eighth Squad, opened fire first, and immediately hit the first car.As soon as the gunshot rang out, the platoon leader Wang Jianhou led five soldiers onto the road. The bazooka shooter approached and fired at the tank, and the grenade flew towards the car at the same time.At this time, the demolition team of the fifth squad also hit the second tank. The cars and tanks blocked the road, and the American soldiers in the car turned around and ran back. Moments later, the U.S. military organized an attack on Pine Bone Peak.They must open the access to Pinebone Peak if they want to live. Thus began one of the bloodiest battles in the Korean War. After the battle broke out, Fan Tianen worried that the fortifications on the ground had not been repaired, and the soldiers would suffer heavy casualties, so he turned on the walkie-talkie and shouted to the first battalion. However, all the voices on the walkie-talkie were in English, and the US commanders over there were quarreling. .Fan Tianen had no choice but to order the second battalion to support the direction of the first battalion and third company with machine gun fire to reduce the pressure on the front. Wang Suqi, the commander of the first battalion, was more anxious about whether the third company could withstand the enemy on the hill close to the road and without any support. He ordered the first company on the left side of the third company's position and the second company on the right side to mount bayonets . The third charge of the US military began. It was daytime. The U.S. military planes went crazy and dropped a large number of bombs and incendiary bombs on the heads of the Chinese soldiers.The artillery of the U.S. Army was also crazy. The artillerymen knew that if they didn't break out, they would be finished. Therefore, the artillery shells hit the Chinese army's position like a rain.Shrapnel flew across the forefront of the third company's position, and the fire was raging. American soldiers rushed up. The battalion commander Wang Suqi immediately ordered the first company on the left to attack from the side with bayonets. After the hand-to-hand combat, the American soldiers were forced down by the bayonets, so they changed to attack from the right side of the third company, but the second company on the right also rushed up with bayonets. . In this way, the third company is on top of the front, and the first and second companies are supporting from the side.In the bayonet fight, the first and second companies suffered huge casualties. The strength of the US military attacking the front of Songgu Peak is still increasing exponentially. Teacher Yang Dayi anxiously watched the direction of Sanlian.Standing on the hilltop of the division headquarters, he saw that the road from Yaoshuidong to Longyuanli was full of American cars and tanks, so many that there was no end in sight. The fourth charge of the US military began when the fire on the position was burning the most.The American soldiers had rushed to the position of the fourth squad, and the soldiers of the fourth squad shouted: "Machine gun! Shoot!" The machine gun could no longer shoot because the barrel was bent.Machine gunner Li Yumin picked up his rifle from the corpse of his comrade and rushed towards the American soldiers.A bullet had pierced a hole in his thigh. He stuffed a bullet into the wound to stop the bleeding, and then bayoneted the enemy.The soldiers of the fourth squad rushed over, and the American soldiers left him and ran away.The invisible third platoon leader crawled over and wanted to carry Li Yumin away. Li Yumin said: "Go and command, the enemy is going to fire again!" At this time, Liang Xingchu, the commander of the 38th Army, called. The commander got angry with Fan Tianen on the phone. The reason was that the reconnaissance intelligence report said that in the defense area of ​​the 325th Regiment, four American artillery vehicles were running south through the road. up. "Catch me back! Remember, no US military is allowed to flee south!" Fan Tianen immediately sent two companies from the third battalion to chase after him.In order to annihilate the four artillery vehicles, two infantry companies were drawn out of the already very tense force, which is enough to show the determination of the Chinese army to put the US army to death without any one left.Fan Tianen's two infantry companies took shortcuts across the mountains and chased for a whole day, and finally caught up with and annihilated the four American artillery vehicles. At noon, less than half of the three companies that stood firm on Pine Bone Peak were left.After the company commander Dai Ruyi and the instructor Yang Shaocheng burned all the documents and their own notebooks, they recalled the various titles the company had won in its war history with the soldiers who could fight: the combat model company, the three good company, and the hero who crossed the Yangtze River Lian... In the end, their determination was: where the most dangerous place is, the two of us will appear there. When the blocking battles in Songgufeng, Longyuanli, and Sansuoli positions were in full swing, Peng Dehuai called the command post of the 113th Division. He asked Yu Jingshan, the political commissar of the division: "The enemy has all retreated. , all swarming in your direction, will you be able to get stuck?" Yu Jingshan replied: "We can get stuck!" Blocking in Longyuanli was another 3rd Company, belonging to the 337th Regiment of the 113th Division of the 38th Army.In addition to the troops of the US 2nd Division, the US 25th Division and the British 27th Brigade attacked from the front of this company.The Chinese soldiers of the third company relied on the hard rocky terrain on the position, ate cakes baked with captured butter and flour, and vowed not to take a step back.In order to open up this road, the U.S. military dispatched hundreds of planes during the most intense battle. The entire Longyuanli position was shaken up and down. The American soldiers, who were superstitious about their own firepower, felt a "religious emotion" in awe of the ability of the Chinese to survive such bombings.When he heard that the enemy from Beiyuan had occupied a row of forward positions, Sanlian Zhang Youxi led ten soldiers to attack the enemy immediately, and pressed the enemy back with bayonets.The U.S. military, which has repeatedly failed, actually came up with such a way: let its soldiers pretend to surrender.A group of U.S. troops sat in a car and raised a white flag to signal their surrender.So the Chinese soldiers sent people down to accept the surrender. As a result, when the Chinese soldiers approached, the American soldiers in the car suddenly opened fire, and then the car drove away quickly.The American soldiers didn't know that what they did just built up the belief in the Chinese soldiers to fight against the enemy. Once this passion in the Chinese character was aroused, they would become more fierce and tenacious. The position of the third company has always been under the attack of the U.S. military from the north to the south. The U.S. troops fleeing south and the U.S. troops going north for reinforcements have almost "joined forces" sometimes.After the war, the officer of the US Second Division recalled: "We even saw the white stars on the Turkish tanks that came for reinforcements." Under such circumstances, the U.S. forces on both sides of the North and South have never been able to join. The "gate" in Longyuan is always tightly closed. At 13:00, the US troops attacking the Songgufeng position began their fifth charge. As the encirclement of the Chinese army is getting tighter and tighter, the fate of the US military has reached its last moment.The number of U.S. troops participating in the charge on Pine Bone Peak increased to over a thousand. The U.S. military dispatched planes, tanks, and artillery to bombard the hill next to the road for 40 minutes.The soldiers of the third company squatted in the bomb crater on a position without any fortifications to hide, and then suddenly rushed out to shoot at the American troops who climbed up. As the U.S. assaults were repulsed time after time, more and more U.S. troops were invested in the assault, and fewer and fewer people could fight in the third company on Songgufeng. The platoon leader died, and the squad leader took the initiative to act as an agent. The squad leader died, the soldiers took the initiative to take over, and the cooks and correspondents also participated in the battle.Instructor Yang Shaocheng was out of bullets. He rushed towards the enemy with a bayonet in his hand. When American soldiers who were several times his size surrounded him, he fired the last grenade left on his body and shouted: "Comrades! , Resolutely hold the position!" Then hugged the enemy when the grenade exploded.Seeing their instructors sacrificed like this, the Chinese soldiers cried out with tears in their eyes: "Come on! Hit them!" The soldiers rushed towards the densely packed U.S. troops already on the ground. It was the final moment of the three-company, and one that is fondly remembered by those Americans who witnessed the battle at Pine Bone Peak.With grenades stuck in their waists, the Chinese soldiers, who were out of bullets, rushed forward fearlessly with cold bayonets in their hands.The bayonets snapped, and they clung to the enemy and beat them, with their fists and their teeth, until when they thought it was time to end, they blew off their grenades.Zhang Xuerong, a member of the Communist Party, crawled towards the enemy. He was already seriously wounded and had no strength to pick up his bayonet. He crawled among the American troops and rang the four grenades he had picked up from the dead comrades.A Chinese soldier named Xing Yutang was hit by a napalm bomb from the U.S. Army, and his whole body burst into flames. He rushed towards the U.S. military with roaring flames. bayonet.The American soldier was frozen in fear in front of this "Fire Man". Xing Yutang stabbed several enemies in succession. At the last moment of his life, he hugged an American soldier tightly and bit the ear of the American soldier. Arms clamp around the enemy's flesh like pincers until both are charred. The fifth charge of the US military finally failed.There were only seven Chinese soldiers left alive in the third company's position on Pine Bone Peak. The Songbone Peak position is still in the hands of Chinese soldiers. When the Songgufeng battle finally ended, a writer named Wei Wei who came to North Korea from China and Yang Dayi, the commander of the 112th Division, went to the third company's position together.On the battlefield, among the corpses of hundreds of American soldiers and a pile of smashed guns, they saw the bloody attitude of the sacrificed Chinese soldiers before death.The grenades in their hands were covered with the brains of American soldiers, and half of the American soldier's ears were still dangling from their mouths.The body of the soldier named Xing Yutang was still smoking, and his fingers had been inserted into the flesh and blood of the American soldier under him.The writer Wei Wei wrote the battle of Pine Bone Peak into the famous newsletter titled: "Who Is the Cutest Person". At dusk that day, Fan Tianen's 335 regiment turned from defense to offense, and the whole regiment attacked. At the same time, the Chinese army, which encircled and annihilated the U.S. military in all directions, also launched its final attack. Under the setting sun at dusk, between Junyuli, Fengmingli, and Longyuanli, the besieged U.S. troops were cut into small groups and were chased and killed by Chinese soldiers pressing up from all sides.The U.S. plane trying to rescue the U.S. soldiers flew very low, and the fleeing U.S. soldiers shook white towels to the sky, but the Chinese soldiers also followed their example and shook the white towels. In the state, a sentence was continuously reported to the base camp: "It's over, they are over!" Night fell. The night on the Korean battlefield is a grave for the US military. Changjiang Yonghui, deputy commander of the 38th Army, climbed to the highest point of the command post, and he saw a scene that would still make any experienced commander feel thrilled: I stood on a high place and looked south, the battlefield shone with cold moon and cold stars, bursts of thunder tore through the sky, and "rumbling, rumbling" continued.On the tens of kilometers long front, strings of tracer bombs, flares, and signal flares danced in the air. The screams of shells, the dull explosions of grenades, blasting tubes, and explosives echoed endlessly in the canyon.The fierce battle between the enemy and the enemy along the road was a majestic and magnificent scene that I had never seen in my decades of military service.Cannons, tanks, armored vehicles, and cars of various sizes abandoned by the enemy stretched and meandered beyond sight. Documents, papers, photos, shells, US military flags, puppet "Bagua flags" and other military supplies were scattered everywhere... That night was also the most tense night for the Volunteer Army Command.Peng Dehuai put on his overcoat and kept drafting telegrams all night. He didn't smoke at all, and he began to ask the staff for cigarettes.He hadn't closed his eyes for six consecutive days and nights. His face was thin, his eyes were bruised, and his lips were cracked. But when the news of victory came from the front line, he was extremely excited, and he personally drafted a telegram of commendation: Liang and Liu Zhuan all comrades of the 38th Army: This battle overcame some excessive concerns of some comrades in the previous battle, and brought into play the excellent fighting style of the 38th Army. In particular, the 113th Division moved quickly. The enemy occupied Sansuoli and Longyuanli before the enemy, and stopped the enemy Fleeing from the south to aid from the north.More than a hundred enemy planes and tanks bombed all day long and broke through repeatedly, but failed.As of yesterday (the 30th), the results of the battle were brilliant, and nearly a thousand tanks and cars were confiscated, and there were still many enemies besieged.Hope to overcome difficulties, muster up courage, continue to wipe out the besieged enemies, and pay attention to blocking the enemy's northern aid, a special order to reward, and I wish you continued victory!Long live the Chinese People's Volunteers!Long live the thirty-eighth army! In Chinese vocabulary, the word "long live" has its special meaning and cannot be used casually. It is a special vocabulary that can only be used by the supreme person and thing. In the history of Chinese warfare, there was never, and there is still no army that can be called "Long Live".After the commendation telegram was drafted, even several deputy commanders raised objections to the appellation "Long Live". There are many words of praise in Chinese. Can you change it, but Peng Dehuai insisted on "Long Live". It is said that Liang Xingchu, the commander of the 38th Army who was severely scolded by Peng Dehuai after the first battle, shed tears when he received this telegram from Peng Dehuai on the front line. When the telegram from the headquarters of the Volunteer Army was sent, the soldiers of the 38th Army were cleaning up the seized US military supplies on the road.According to the recollection of deputy army Changjiang Yonghui, when a Chinese soldier was playing with a U.S. military radio, a song came out of the radio, which stunned all the Chinese soldiers present. The announcer on the radio said in Chinese: "This is the Central People's Broadcasting Station, and now it is broadcasting the national anthem of the People's Republic of China." The soldiers of the Thirty-eighth Army who have been fighting life and death since they left the country, their faces stained with smoke and flames, and their bodies ragged, they stood motionless on the smoky road around this radio.