Chapter 77 The 38th Army charged across the piercing river

At 4 pm on November 25, 1950, the second battle that determined the situation of the Korean War began. The second battle, this is what the Chinese call it, in the West it is called the Battle of Qingchang (Qingchuan River, Changjin Lake). The signal flared against the red sky, the bugle sounded in the cold wind, and there was a lot of killing in the direction of Tokugawa. The 38th Army is really red-eyed this time. Whether it is the 112th Division, the 113th Division or the 114th Division, this screaming army launched an overwhelming attack on the 7th Division of the Korean Army in Tokugawa from different positions.

Before the start of the battle, Army Commander Liang Xingchu said to his subordinates: "This time, we will wring out the enemy's brains and use them as chamber pots!" Two big dies flickered "outside the door", with a fierce look in his eyes. The head of the regiment went back and said to the soldiers: "This time, beat me to death!" The commander of the 112th Division is Yang Dayi, who was the one who misreported the American Black Regiment during the first battle and delayed the fighter plane.This time he's going to be tough.He ordered the officers and soldiers that no one is allowed to fight on the road, and they must be inserted at the predetermined location on time to block the retreat of the Koreans.

After issuing the instructions, Yang Dayi personally led the troops on the road.This desperate team, like an arrow off the string, shot at the back of Tokugawa defending the enemy in the west. On the way, they defeated a supply team of the Korean army and seized tens of thousands of live chickens. Some people advocated cooking meat and eating it before leaving, so as to avoid flying around.Yang Dayi ordered that now is not the time to eat chicken, let it go immediately, and it is more important to eat the 7th Division of the Korean Army.As for the large group of captured Korean soldiers, let’s take them and run. They couldn’t keep up with the team, so they had to release them on the spot with the chickens and let them disperse.The captured American consultants could not be let go, and they were reluctant to let them go. Out of fear, these guys refused to follow, so they tied their feet with ropes and carried them forward like pigs.Cough, look at this trouble.

At 5 o'clock in the morning, the 112th Division occupied Unsong-ri to the west of Dechuan on time, cutting off the retreat route of the 7th Division of the Korean Army to the west. The 113th division is also the master of fighting to die, and the division commander is Jiang Chao. Because they did not fight well in the first battle, the 113th Division held back their energy. They fought and rushed all the way, and by 9 pm, they had rushed to the Datong River.A random pick of bayonets and slamming of grenades completely wiped out the Korean patrol team that was warming up.Standing by the river, Master Jiang Chao and Political Commissar Yu Jingshan looked at the other side of the river. It was the end of November, and the nighttime temperature in northern North Korea dropped below zero. ice.

There is no bridge to cross, no wading tools, what should I do? Everyone focused their attention on these two backbones.At this time, Master Jiang Chao and Political Commissar Yu Jingshan looked at each other, and without saying a word, bent down and pulled off the boots and socks, then loosened the belt, and quickly took off the cotton trousers. "Take off your pants!" I don't know if it was the teacher or the political commissar who shouted in a low voice. The soldiers of the 113th Division also followed the division commander and political commissar, and took off their pants, boots, and socks one after another.

Facing the biting cold wind, Master Jiang Chao and Political Commissar Yu Jingshan walked into the icy Datong River with their heads held high. The soldiers' blood boiled with enthusiasm. The soldiers of the new republic followed their leaders and stepped into the icy Datong River one after another.Among them, some only wear long johns, some only wear a trouser top, and some even have bare buttocks. Accompanied by the sound of wading through the water and the sound of their bodies colliding with the ice, this group of strong men waded towards the opposite bank step by step with ammunition supplies on their heads and guns raised.

Among the teams wading across the river was a female soldier. The river god of the Datong River has lived here for tens of thousands of years, and I am afraid that he has never seen such a scene, never seen such an army. It is often said that pain is easy to bear, but itching is unbearable; Similarly, death is easy to bear, but freezing is not. The volunteers waded across the river and were discovered by the enemy. The Han army sentries discovered by the hazy moonlight that there were black volunteer soldiers wading everywhere on the entire Datong River, and they rushed over like a wave of tide.

With the call of the Korean sentry and the gunfire, a Korean infantry battalion quickly ran towards the shore. When they rushed to the river, they saw such a terrifying scene: Volunteer soldiers with naked lower body and covered with ice water, holding bayonets, and some logistics soldiers even wielded poles and kitchen knives, like ghosts They also rushed out of the river. Volunteer soldiers rushed and shouted. Faced with this situation, Han Jun first broke down mentally, and they ran away one after another.In the end, more than 140 people were taken prisoner. After crossing the river, the 113th Division marched non-stop to the predetermined area.

At 8 o'clock, another retreat route of the 7th Division of the Korean Army was completely cut off. Immediately afterwards, on the evening of the 25th, the 114th Division launched a strong attack on Tokugawa, which was occupied by the 7th Division of the Korean Army.During the attack, the artillerymen of the Korean Army fired directly with bang bang bang bang, and the cannons posed a great threat to the volunteers.The 341st Regiment quickly found out the location of the enemy's artillery position, organized a small unit, broke through the enemy's tight fire blockade, and went straight to the Shaping Station. At 7 o'clock in the morning on the 26th, the howitzer battalion of the 7th Division of the Korean Army had been completely wiped out.

At 11 o'clock, the 38th Army completed the frontal compression task against the Tokugawa enemy. At 15:00, the 38th Army launched a general attack on the 7th Division of the Korean Army. At that time, more than 5,000 people from the 7th Division of the Korean Army were surrounded like iron barrels by the three-way army of the 38th Army.They panicked, and the command system was disrupted. The officers couldn't find the soldiers, and the soldiers couldn't find the officers. They ran around like fish in a net cage.Chinese soldiers and Korean soldiers fought together, and batches of American planes that came to support them were circling in the sky anxiously, not knowing where to drop the bombs.

The battle is in full swing. The command post of the 112th Division was set up in a small village near the battlefield. Division Commander Yang Dayi left the headquarters and led the guards to the forward position, leaving Li Zhongxin, the deputy division commander, to write the battle report in a small telegraph room.At this moment, the phone rang, and Deputy Master Li Zhongxin picked up the phone and answered it, shocked. I heard the operator in the next room say in a low voice: "Deputy commander, don't talk, just listen, there is an enemy coming towards your house!" Li Zhongxin looked out through the crack of the door: ah, my God, a wave of enemies has already touched the division command post of our army! It's just that this group of enemies doesn't even know that the division headquarters of our army is located next to their buttocks.This group of enemies was probably exhausted, they stopped at the door and sat down on the steps to rest. There are quite a few enemies in this group, forty or fifty people.At that time, there was only one guard squad in the headquarters, and they were guarding an American prisoner in another room. Outnumbered and outnumbered, I am stuck in the house, what should I do?Li Zhongxin was very calm. He ordered the security squad by phone to immediately occupy the small hill behind the headquarters. Then he ordered the trumpeter: "Bustleman, blow the bugle, and the guard squad shoots to attack the enemy." Putting down the phone, Li Zhongxin raised his pistol, shouted "Where are you going?", opened the door and rushed out. The stunned enemy didn't know what was going on, so he got up and scattered away. Four hours later, the 7th Division of the Korean Army was surrounded by the enemy. Except for a few stragglers who fled, the rest were all wiped out.In the First Battle of Tokugawa, the enemy killed 3,104 people and captured 2,078 people. The division's 156 cannons and 218 vehicles all fell into the hands of the 38th Army. It's a pity that as soon as it was daylight, US military planes flew over and bombed indiscriminately, blowing up these cannons and cars into a pile of scrap steel and rotten iron. In the middle of the night, the American Broadcasting Corporation repeatedly broadcast such a piece of news that shocked the entire United Nations Army and even the whole world to the world with a voice almost mourning: The 2nd Army Corps of the Republic of Korea Army was suddenly attacked by a large number of Chinese troops. In less than 24 hours, the 2nd Army Corps of the Republic of Korea Army was completely wiped out and no longer existed. There is no trace of this army anymore. In fact, the 6th, 7th, and 8th divisions under the 2nd Army Corps of the Korean Army are still there, and the entire army has not been destroyed.It's just that the ABC may not have had time to understand the establishment of the 2nd Army Corps of the Korean Army, or it may be deliberately exaggerating to create news effects, so it said so.In any case, it is true that the Second Army was devastated.