Chapter 20 4. One-month training near Seoul

Our army stopped pursuing. After the third battle, the superior ordered only a small number of troops to monitor the enemy on the front line, and the large troops were transferred to training on the spot, ready to fight again.The troops of our division were concentrated in the Dongduchuan and Uijeongbu areas north of Seoul for training.The political department of our division came to a village called Xiaocunli on the evening of January 6, and the training work started here. Troop training includes both political and military aspects. The political training is mainly to summarize the situation of the three battles experienced in the past three months since entering the DPRK in October last year.There are three specific contents:

The first is to carry out the three evaluation activities of "evaluating combat, evaluating unity, and evaluating discipline". "Evaluating the battle" is to evaluate whether the determination in the battle is strong, whether the performance in the battle is brave or not, whether it is stubborn or tenacious, whether there is the spirit of not being afraid of sacrifice in order to win the battle, etc.; Whether the spirit of solidarity and cooperation, mutual care, mutual love, and mutual help between units, units and units is good, etc.;The "Three Evaluations" are carried out throughout the division, from agencies to companies, and from individuals to units, and evaluate the performance of each commander and each unit.Through the "Three Comments", all commanders and fighters received a profound education, which further strengthened the determination and confidence to defeat the enemy, enhanced the spirit of unity and friendship, and strengthened the concept of organizational discipline.

The second is to generally carry out the activities of appraising meritorious service and selecting heroes and model figures on the basis of the "Three Comments".Except for individuals and units with special meritorious service in the past three campaigns, the leaders at all levels have immediately announced that they will be honored or awarded the title of hero model, all individuals and units are within the scope of the evaluation this time.According to the evaluation opinions of each commander and unit in the "Three Comments", a bottom-up and top-down democratic selection method is adopted to select meritorious personnel and units of different levels, and those who make minor contributions will be awarded , Those who deserve great merit will be given great merit, and those who deserve special merit will be given special merit.However, it must be reported to the superior for approval according to the regulations, and a certificate of meritorious service must be issued.At the same time, combat heroes and role models are selected on the basis of general merit evaluation.Individuals and units who have achieved exceptional merit must report to the military and higher authorities for approval to confer the title of combat hero or model, and vigorously publicize their heroic and exemplary deeds in the army, set an example, and call for learning from them.

The "three evaluations" and merit evaluation activities of our division's political department are also very serious. According to the methods and steps arranged by the superiors, we conduct evaluations in units of classes and platoons of each subject or service team, and also in the "three evaluations" Based on merit evaluation.Both soldiers and cadres must receive an education through the "three evaluations" and merit evaluation.In this evaluation, all comrades unanimously agreed to give me a small credit.This shows that the leaders and comrades have recognized and praised my work and performance since I entered the court for three months.It gave me great encouragement and profound education.

The third is to convey, study and implement Chairman Mao's instructions.After the third battle, the superior conveyed the following instructions from Chairman Mao to the Volunteers: Take good care of all the mountains, rivers, plants and trees in North Korea.We must unite with North Korean comrades like brothers, share weal and woe, depend on each other for life and death, and fight to the end to defeat the common enemy!Regarding Chairman Mao's instruction, the troops conveyed it word by word from top to bottom, learned and understood its spiritual essence and significance, and formulated measures for its implementation in the future.Chairman Mao always issued the most important instructions at the most important time.In the third battle, our army crossed the "38th parallel" and entered the territory of South Korea. The local people didn't understand our army even more. We had to deal with them. We fought in a new and unfamiliar environment.Under such circumstances, Chairman Mao issued such an instruction, and everyone felt that it was of great significance and extraordinary.Chairman Mao took care of every plant and every tree while commanding thousands of troops. What kind of generosity is this!

The military training is mainly to summarize the situation of the three battles experienced in the past three months since entering the DPRK in October last year.Both cadres and soldiers must sum up experience and lessons. Cadres at all levels mainly summarize their experience and lessons in organizing and commanding.The army held a meeting of cadres above the regiment on January 15, focusing on summarizing tactical thinking, mainly studying the relationship between night combat and day combat.The meeting pointed out that since entering the DPRK, since our army has no air force and anti-aircraft weapons, the air supremacy is completely in the hands of the enemy, and at the same time, our army's weapons are at a disadvantage. Therefore, it is completely correct and effective to carry forward our army's glorious tradition of being good at night combat , In this way, the enemy's air superiority and weapon superiority cannot be fully utilized, and the enemy is afraid of death, especially the power of our army's night battles, so many major victories are obtained by relying on night battles.However, the meeting also pointed out that in the battle of breaking through the Linjin River in the third battle, the breakthrough at night was relatively smooth, but after the breakthrough, when the enemy went deep into the enemy, it was wrong to continue to fight bravely to expand and develop the results during the day. However, in the case of close combat between the two sides, it is difficult for the enemy's air force to play an effective role. Therefore, under certain conditions, our army commanders must also establish the idea of ​​daring to fight continuously during the day in order to expand and develop the results of the battle; The army does not have air supremacy and is afraid of fighting during the day. If it simply adopts the tactics of fighting at night and stopping during the day, it will lose the opportunity to expand and develop the results of the battle and strive for greater victories; It is entirely possible to fight continuously during the day. For example, in the first battle, the 359th Regiment of the 120th Division chased and fled the enemy during the day and wiped out a company of the US Army. The annihilation of a large number of U.S. troops in Qingguli is an example.The guiding ideology of this tactic was clarified through the meeting, and then conveyed to the battalion and all commanders and fighters step by step, so that the troops established not only the fine tradition of our army being good at fighting at night, but also seized the opportunity to dare to fight continuously during the day to expand and develop the results. principles of warfare.

All fighters mainly summarize their own experience and lessons in tactical techniques.Such as whether the tactics are flexible, whether the terrain and features are well used, whether the shooting and bombing techniques are skilled and accurate, and so on.The summarization of the experience and lessons of these problems has basically been solved through the "Three Reviews", and what needs to be done at this stage is to improve the tactical and technical level through practical training. The material guarantee for this training was realized under very difficult conditions.Because the army is far away from the motherland, enemy planes bombarded and blocked our transportation lines day and night, making it very difficult to transport materials.However, with the strong support of the people of the motherland and the desperate efforts of the logistics team, a large number of supplies were still delivered, especially nutritious fried noodles, compressed biscuits and various canned foods, etc. were continuously delivered to various catering units.Although the army's food supply was not enough from the motherland, since the division's reconnaissance company found a large amount of food left by the enemy in Seoul, all units went to Seoul to transport food back every day, so three meals a day were basically the same. can be satisfied.Vegetables are mainly maintained by soybeans shipped from the motherland, plus kimchi that the cooking team trades or buys from local villagers.During the entire training period, tofu was our main course.The tofu we eat is not ordinary tofu, but after the soybeans are ground, even the bean curd dregs are in it, salt and vegetable leaves are added and cooked in a pot together, which is called "small tofu" or "lazy tofu". ", but it tastes very fragrant, which suits everyone's appetite.As for the fried noodles, compressed biscuits, canned food, etc. brought over from the motherland, they are still reluctant to eat them, and keep them for marching and fighting, so as to satisfy their hunger when food runs out.

During this training period, the superior also sent more than 1,700 recruits from Hunan from China to supplement the troops. At the same time, the troops themselves streamlined the organization, reduced the number of units directly under them, and enriched the combat companies, so that all the combat companies’ reductions in the previous three battles were compensated. The weapons and equipment of the troops have also been supplemented accordingly. In short, after nearly a month of political and military training, the army has shown a new atmosphere: the fighting will is firmer, the unity and cooperation are more active, the organizational discipline is strengthened, the guiding ideology of combat is clearer, the tactical and technical level is improved; the troops are full of emotions , Energetic, high-spirited, full of confidence in victory, ready to enter a new battle.