Chapter 85 The 2nd Division of the 40th Army's bloody battle against the United States

While the 38th Army and the 42nd Army were attacking the 2nd Army Corps of the Korean Army, the 40th Army was responsible for ensuring the operations in the Dechuan and Ningyuan areas.They interspersed towards Xicang, cutting off the connection between the 2nd Army of the Korean Army and the US military in the west, so that the 2nd Division of the US Army could not assist the Korean Army in the east. The 40th Army is determined to cross the Qingchuan River with a regiment of the 120th Division, capture Yuyongpo, block the enemy fleeing south in Xinxingdong, and ensure the safety of the main flank of the army; Contact; the 118th Division attacked Xinxingdong and Liudong.

On the evening of the 25th, all divisions of the 40th Army launched an offensive at the same time. The four sharp knife companies of the 359th Regiment of the 120th Division of the 40th Army ran 10 kilometers in the dark and rushed to the Qingchuan River in spite of the intensive firepower of the US military. They want to cross the river and capture Yulongpu. The officers and soldiers jumped into the icy water of the Qingchuan River without even taking off their sweat-soaked cotton trousers.At that time, the temperature was more than minus 20 degrees Celsius, and the water in this section of the river was relatively deep, so there were no people there.In this way, the soldiers endured the piercing pain and rushed to the opposite bank silently.Volunteer soldiers continued to be unbearably frozen, fell into the river, and drifted away.

Soldiers of the Volunteer Army wore ice armor and finally broke through the 200-meter Qingchuan River, breaking through the river defense positions of an infantry battalion, an artillery battalion and a tank battalion of the US military. As soon as he rushed to the river bank, he charged the U.S. troops regardless of the cold on his body.After the two platoons of Chinese soldiers who encountered the military police of the 2nd Division of the United States died, their bodies were covered with frost, and they lay down on the ground with guns... The follow-up combat troops are still advancing one after another, and none of them retreated.

After landing on the east bank, the soldiers' gun bolts were all frozen and could not be pulled; their cotton clothes were frozen and too hard to bend over, so they started hand-to-hand combat with the enemy with bayonets. This is a contest between spirit and matter. Finally, they cut off the retreat of the US 9th Regiment in Xinxingdong. In the middle of the night, the Chinese People's Volunteers launched an overwhelming attack on the United Nations Army in three directions: west, north, and east.Changjiang Yonghui, deputy commander of the 38th Army, climbed to the highest point of the command post, and he saw a scene that would 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, rumbling and rumbling continuously.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, "Bagua flags" of the pseudo (Korean) army, and other military supplies were scattered everywhere. ...

In this battle between the Chinese and American armies that determined the outcome of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, the US 2nd Division suffered a devastating blow, losing more than a hundred tanks, hundreds of cannons and thousands of vehicles.