Chapter 33 4. The results of the 67th Army

On September 21, the "United Nations Army" was supported by 75 tanks, more than 100 artillery pieces and a large number of aircraft with the 25th and 7th Divisions of the United States and one part each of the 2nd and 6th Divisions of South Korea. Next, a fierce attack was launched on the Ganfengli (Jinhuadong)-Bukhan River front line of the 67th Army of the Volunteer Army.The 200th Division and the 199th Division on the left and right wings of the 67th Army immediately carried out heroic defensive operations. Among them, the anti-tank struggle achieved obvious results. The 600th Regiment formed an anti-tank platoon with the 11th squadron of the seatless gun company and the 6th squadron of the 3rd company. Squad 6 hid on both sides of the road, and the squad leader Yan Jie led two new fighters on the east side of the road.At about 5 o'clock in the morning, three enemy tanks advanced in a triangle along the Jincheng and Jinhua section roads. When they were 500 meters away from our artillery positions, the battalion mortars began to shoot. , Among them, the second shot hit the observation hole of the first tank. Immediately, the enemy tank lost its direction and could not move. The driver abandoned the vehicle and fled south.At this time, the second vehicle was about 40 meters away from Yan Jie's team. Yan jumped forward and rushed towards the enemy tank. About 20 meters away from the tank, he threw a Soviet-style grenade at the fuel tank from the side and back, and then continued to attack the enemy tank. Three shots were thrown, and the enemy tank caught fire. Seeing that the situation was not good, the driver jumped out of the car and wanted to escape, but was shot dead.Seeing this situation, the enemy's third tank started firing, and Yan Jie and another new soldier were injured.Immediately afterwards, four enemy tanks gradually approached in the distance, Yan Jie's team immediately evacuated and took cover, and the destroyed tank was dragged away by the enemy tank.

The anti-tank squad of the 3rd company of the 599th regiment was ordered to block enemy tanks near the anti-tank trench on the road between Huiyu and Qiaotianli.After the squad arrived at the position on the 18th, it organized and studied the method of fighting tanks according to the current terrain. The battalion also sent Zhao Lianjun, deputy platoon leader of the 2nd company and 3rd platoon, to strengthen the leadership of the squad. On the morning of the 21st, enemy tanks went back and forth several times on the Jinhua and Ganfengli roads. At about 11:00, the first four enemy tanks advanced in a diamond formation. After the tanks were shot by a human team, the infantry accompanied them. A three-man team threw a grenade to create a smoke screen. The squad leader Zhou Qingquan threw a Soviet-style grenade and hit the underside of the leading tank.

The 90th rocket launcher of the 2nd Battalion of the 596th Regiment is at the foot of Nanshan Mountain in Houdongli. At about 8 o'clock, the enemy occupied the mountain. They withdrew the bazooka and hid it in the position. When the enemy found out, they would use grenades to fight the enemy. At 15:00, three enemy tanks entered 230 meters in front of the squad's position and fired at me.My bazooka hand is about to shoot at it with the only two rounds. The first shot hits the belly of the second tank and explodes. If it is blown up, the enemy tanks will hastily drag the damaged tank away.

With a battalion of troops and 22 tanks, the enemy advanced along the left side of the road at 7:30 in the direction of upward and downward Jiujing.When five of them entered about 700 meters away from the Xiajiujing position of the 5th company of our 401 regiment, I suddenly opened fire and destroyed all five enemy tanks.But our position was also discovered by the enemy.The enemy immediately fired more than 2,000 shells at our position with support guns and tank guns, and cooperated with 20 aircraft to bomb them in turn, threw a large number of gasoline barrels, and destroyed three of our battle guns.Then, the enemy continued to rush towards our position with seven tanks.300 meters away from our position, the company destroyed another enemy tank with the only remaining gun.Seeing this situation, the enemy tank immediately cast a smoke screen to drag the bad tank away.

Fighting fiercely all day long, a total of 17 enemy tanks were destroyed across the board.Among them, six vehicles were destroyed by anti-war artillery, six vehicles were destroyed by rocket launchers, seatless guns and Soviet-style grenades, and five vehicles were destroyed by other artillery fire. The results of the whole day: the enemy occupied three support points in our front at the cost of 1140 casualties.