Chapter 14 It was dark, and we were still on Yantai Peak!

On October 31, General Almond, commander of the U.S. Tenth Army, who was in charge of commanding operations on the eastern front of the Korean battlefield, visited the headquarters of the First South Korean Army Corps in Hamhung, and listened to Major General Kim Baek-il, commander of the First South Korean Army Corps, on the There may be intelligence analysis reports on the presence of the Chinese army on the way forward.According to the report, the possible presence of the Chinese army is the 124th Division of the 42nd Army. They crossed the Yalu River from the vicinity of Manpu Town a week ago, and from there they began their night march on foot, with mortars and ammunition carried by mules and horses. .Most of the members of this Chinese division had been part of the national army of Chiang Kai-shek, who was stationed in Peiping. It was not until more than a year ago that their entire division surrendered to the Communists and was immediately incorporated into the Red Army.

In order to achieve the goal of advancing northward to the desolate mountains in northeastern North Korea, General Almond's deployment plan is roughly as follows: the South Korean First Army advances along the East Coast Highway to the northeast border; the US Seventh Infantry Division is in its southwest, Follow the highway northward from Liwon to Huishan Town on the border between China and North Korea; to the southwest of the 7th Division of the US Army is the 1st Marine Division of the US Army, which advances from Hamxing to the Changjin Reservoir; safety behind it. "Our army is scattered in this isolated terrain." Even Almond himself realized that this was very bad.

When depressing news continued to come from the western front, General Almond received the battle report from the front: the 26th Regiment, the vanguard of the 3rd Division of the 1st Army of South Korea, launched an attack on Shuidong. Expensive and heavy casualties.It was the 370th Regiment of the 124th Division of the 42nd Army of China that blocked them. Due to the demining of the Wonsan Port waters and the prudence of the commanders of the U.S. Tenth Army, its advancing speed was extremely slow, which made Peng Dehuai eliminate his worries about the Eastern Front after the Western Front started.

The 124th Division and 126th Division of the Chinese Forty-Second Army all arrived at the designated defense area on October 27 after a difficult mountain march.The deployment of the army headquarters is: the 370th Regiment of the 124th Division and the 3rd Battalion of the 371st Regiment occupy Cangli and 1115 Heights. 796.5 Highland and Caofangling first-line blocking positions; the 372nd Regiment and the 371st Regiment 1st and 2nd Battalions are located in Xiamadaili, Leidongli is the reserve team, and the division headquarters is located in Fushengli; the 126th Division is based on the 376th Regiment Occupying the blocking positions at the front line of Quzhanling and Gaodashan, the main force of the division gathered at the front line of Getianli as the army's reserve team.Its military headquarters are located in Old Town.

On the day when all the 1st, 24th and 4th divisions arrived at the designated positions, the 3rd South Korean Division was ordered to replace the capital division that had been hit at Huangcaoling, and began to march northward at 8:00 am.In the afternoon, the 370th Regiment of the 124th Division of the 42nd Army received a report from the enemy: the enemy was moving towards the water hole, and the target was the 796.5 Heights.So he ordered his fourth company to go to block immediately. At this time, the commander of the fourth company took a platoon to find the North Korean troops, and the fourth company actually only had two platoons left.When the political instructor Li Zhaoqin was thinking about how to carry out this task, the soldiers shouted fiercely from the foot of the mountain.The correspondent came to report: the enemy's first platoon had reached the foot of the mountain.

As night fell, the soldiers of the fourth company did not sleep in the cold fortifications.At midnight, they heard footsteps on fallen leaves down the hill.After a while, the flashes of helmets and bayonets appeared in the moonlight.The 5th Squad at the front suddenly threw a grenade when the enemy was only 10 meters away from them. The machine gun shooter Zhu Pik jumped out of the fortification and shot at the enemy with a machine gun. The South Korean soldiers dropped several corpses under the sudden blow He immediately ran down the mountain and disappeared into the moonlight in the blink of an eye.The soldiers of the fourth company snatched back their abandoned American-made automatic rifles, and were very surprised by this advanced weapon.When an officer reminded the brave machine gunner Zhu Pik that he had fired too many bullets just now and should pay attention to saving, the soldiers counted and found that the bullets recovered from the corpses of South Korean soldiers were more than the bullets Zhu Pik fired. So the officer looked at his soldiers and smiled.

In the second half of the night, the South Korean army carried out several sneak attacks on the positions, but all were unsuccessful. What the four companies experienced was the optimistic beginning of the extremely brutal blocking war in the Huangcaoling area. In the next three days, the 370th Regiment paid a heavy price under the repeated attacks of the 26th Regiment of the Third Division of South Korea.The U.S. planes strafed and bombed the Chinese soldiers like flies. The Chinese soldiers could see the white star logo on the plane and even the faces of the U.S. pilots in the cockpit.There is no anti-aircraft facility on the blocking positions of the Chinese army, and the sound of huge explosions continues throughout the day, and the scorching shrapnel makes a sharp whistle in the suffocating smoke.Supporting the South Korean army's attack, there are also a large number of artillery groups. They poured dense shells on this small high ground. The exposed rocks on the high ground were shattered in the explosion of the shells, and the rock fragments were as sharp as shrapnel.U.S. planes also dropped napalm bombs. During the fire, Chinese soldiers either rolled on the ground or waved branches and beat each other to extinguish the flames on the cotton-padded clothes.The offensive scale of the South Korean army gradually increased from one company to two battalions, and the front of the fourth company was crowded with attacking enemies. Chinese soldiers could see American advisers wearing leather jackets mixed among the South Korean soldiers.

The casualties of Chinese soldiers are serious, but what is more serious is their necessary physiological needs.After dark, the enemy's offensive stopped, but the long night illuminated by the flares made the Chinese soldiers feel even more miserable.All the passages from the regiment headquarters to the blockade heights were tightly blocked by intensive artillery fire, and any attempt to deliver materials to the blockade positions was unsuccessful.The soldiers still ate a meal of sorghum rice on the day they entered the position, and so far not a grain of grain has been transported to the position.There was no water on the ground, and some people started drinking urine.Mao Zedong once raised three questions for the cadres of the Volunteer Army to discuss: Can they fight?Can you keep it?Is there anything to eat?At least in the blocking position b of Huangcaoling, the volunteers fought and defended, but there was no food to eat - not to mention the forward positions like Silian, the whole division only had three days' food reserves left.Besides hunger, there is cold.The temperature here has dropped below zero at night. The Chinese soldiers slept in the mountains, their cotton clothes were already torn, and their hands and feet began to suffer from frostbite.In the cold wind in the field, a soldier was crying. It turned out that the pickaxe in his hand could not dig out the hard rock at all. After digging for a whole night, his palm was shattered. The soldier cried because the bunker that had been blown flat had no hope of repair up.Chinese commanders are anxious, but there is still no good news along the long and fragile supply line.So they made a decision that made this war look particularly tragic: each person in the military command organization was only provided with 4 taels of food per day, the second-line troops were 6 taels per person per day, and the first-line officers and soldiers were 8 taels per person per day. Getting food to the field is another matter.Regarding the tools for building fortifications, the logistics personnel of the Mobilization Army went to the abandoned mining areas in North Korea to find them.Regarding the lack of ammunition, the "three do's" are stipulated: do not hit if you cannot see; do not hit if you cannot aim correctly;In addition to "tear off the quilt and cover the hands and feet that are prone to frostbite", there is another solution to the problem of cold protection: it is recommended to hug each other.

In the early morning of the 29th, the soldiers of the Fourth Company received a straw bag of potatoes and half a bag of radishes from the cooking squad under fire.The company commander Li Zhaoqin ordered the cadres not to leave a potato or a radish, and give them all to the soldiers, so each soldier was given two potatoes and half a radish—while eating, the attack started again. This is the most brutal day of fighting.There were extraordinarily many U.S. planes in the sky, and the attacking South Korean soldiers on the ground were extraordinarily crazy.There was nothing left to burn on the ground, and finally, the napalm-soaked earth was burning.The Chinese soldiers in ragged clothes were buried by the soil blown up by the shells, and were dug out again by their companions.The hygienists tore all the quilts into bandages to stop the bleeding.In the rain of bullets, among the corpses of the enemy and ourselves, Chinese soldiers are looking for ammunition that can be used for combat.

The 26th Regiment of the 3rd Division of South Korea used almost all of its troops, and attacked several high grounds along the road at the same time, and a unit unexpectedly inserted behind the 4th Company.The Chinese soldiers began to use stones, the most primitive weapon, to fight against the enemy. Huge stones flew over the heads of the South Korean soldiers, and the loud groans of the soldiers injured by the stones made the soldiers who tried to attack terrified.When the casualties almost reached the limit, the fourth company put a squad of reserves into it. This was the last fight. At 17:00 in the afternoon, the fourth company persisted until the last time when the superior asked them to hold their positions.

The fourth company won the title of "Huangcaoling Hero Company" awarded by the Volunteer Army Headquarters with the results of killing 250 enemies and holding the position for three days and two nights.A flag with this title is still hung in the honor room of a company of the Chinese army. They always hold this flag high when they go out to participate in exercises or when they rescue people before natural disasters. Many people who hold the flag don't know where the mountain of Huangcaoling is and what happened there, but they must know that the predecessors of the soldiers who held this flag must have written an amazing past with their lives. Oliver, commander of the US Marine Division 1.Smith was a melancholy, suspicious and cautious officer, and his character saved the entire 1st Marine Division from being destroyed in the Korean battlefield.When General Almond personally flew to Wonsan on October 30 to give the 1st Marine Division the task of marching northward, Smith looked at the beaming Almond with intense resistance.General Almond stood in front of the map and gestured, while constantly playing with his cane. When he explained the route of the division to the Changjin Reservoir to the officers of the 1st Marine Division, he seemed to be planning A relaxing weekend walk."The 1st Marine Division will advance northward along the west side of the reservoir, heading straight for the Yalu River on the border between China and North Korea. "When you finish sweeping this area, the South Korean army will take over for you, and then we will withdraw the US troops from North Korea." General Almond finally said. All the officers of the First Marine Division remained silent, which made Almond, the commander of the US Tenth Army, feel a little unhappy. The officers of the 1st Marine Division knew that a South Korean division had just been hit hard by the Chinese army where they were about to arrive. Although the Chinese army had withdrawn from several blocking positions, military common sense told them that these Chinese troops must have Accompanying lectures were arranged in other places.Although the intelligence agencies have repeatedly said that the Chinese army is only fighting to protect a few power plants near the reservoir that supply electricity to Northeast China, no one will believe these nonsense-the Chinese army near Yunshan on the Western Front is fighting to protect What are you fighting for?Moreover, after terrain reconnaissance, the place where Almond wanted 8,000 officers and soldiers of the First Marine Division to go was simply a maze.The more than 100-kilometer road from Xingnan, the port, to Xiajieyuli, the destination of the 1st Marine Division, is actually a gravel path, with numerous sharp turns and steep winding mountain roads, until it enters the endless barren land. Among the mountains.The steepest of these is the Huangcaoling area.This area is surrounded by cliffs on one side and towering cliffs on the other. The slope is so steep that even a jeep cannot drive up it.This kind of terrain is simply designed for blocking. Once the First Marine Division enters, it may encounter catastrophe at any time.Besides, let the elite Marine Division do the job that should be the infantry, and the tradition of amphibious warfare of the First Marine Division will be tarnished. The Chief of Operations of the First Marine Division shuddered after reading the map. He thought MacArthur was completely confused.The 1st and 7th Marine Divisions on the Eastern Front were too far from the Eighth Army on the Western Front.However, in the view of the Chief of Operations, Almond's attitude was "almost to the point where he couldn't be more aggressive", "he portrayed the current situation as an unstoppable victory, and he was sure of winning". In the view of Divisional Commander Smith, it was the height of military folly to go deep into the mountains without flank protection.When the division commander proposed building an airstrip in Hagaru-ri to transport supplies and evacuate the wounded during the battle, General Almond asked with wide eyes: "How can there be casualties?" "He wouldn't even admit there were going to be casualties! That's what you have!" Smith later recalled. "We built an airstrip anyway, and from there we evacuated 4,500 casualties." Homer, commander of the Seventh Regiment of the First Marine Division.Colonel Lizberger clearly knew what his regiment would face as the vanguard of the division.On the night of departure, he said to his officers: "Guys, I can expect to meet the Chinese army for sure. We will soon be engaged in the prologue of World War III." The Seventh Regiment of the First Marine Division came from the United States, so it arrived in North Korea a week later than the other regiments of the Marine Division, but the regiment quickly caught up with the main force. Known by the U.S. military as "Scud Lizberg." However, on the way to the Changjin Reservoir, "Scud Lizberg" walked slowly and carefully.The first battalion followed the road through the valley as the vanguard, while the second battalion advanced along the ridges on both sides in what Lizberg called "circle protection on the move", with the third battalion in the rear.In the process of advancing towards the water hole, they encountered the scattered South Korean army and knew that there was a Chinese army in front of them, so they recruited US support planes and violently bombarded the Chinese army with 500-pound bombs and 20mm rockets. blocking positions. On the evening of November 1, not far from the water hole, the Seventh Regiment of the First Marine Division began digging trenches to spend the night. The dark night belongs to the Chinese. Not long after midnight, the Seventh Regiment of the First Marine Division of the U.S. Army was attacked by the Chinese army. The history of American warfare records: The flashes of fire and the sound of bugles signaled the attack from every ridge.When the Chinese met resistance, they fought ferociously with light machine guns and hand grenades.When they found a gap in the weak point of the defense, they rushed down the valley.In the nighttime melee, the Chinese seemed to be everywhere. The Marines who fought against the Japanese night attack in World War II found that the Chinese tactics were very similar - they called the field guards in English and shouted "where are you" or "I saw is you".The marines met the Chinese in silent, tense mood, shooting only when the Chinese were exposed.A Russian-made T-34 tank broke through a roadblock and rumbled to the command post of the 1st Battalion, firing indiscriminately at mortar positions, vehicles and even individual soldiers.A Marine rocket hit the tank, its turret swerved, and with just one round—a shot that was actually fired at flat range—destroyed the Marines' rocket team. At dawn, the Marines found themselves at the bottom of the valley with the Chinese.Chinese troops occupied the road between the 1st Battalion and the 2nd Battalion, and the companies of the Marine Corps were scattered on the hills, many of which were cut off from each other.At this time, another Chinese regiment rushed to help. It is conceivable that on this night, the American soldiers of the Seventh Regiment of the First Marine Division became real "scuds", and the speed with which they fled for their lives was astonishing. Lizberger ordered his soldiers to hold out until dawn no matter what. He believed that with the firepower of the landing troops, the Chinese army would be over before dawn.However, after dawn, when the American soldiers rushed to the Chinese on the high ground, they also encountered a strong counterattack.One is Robert.Bay's lieutenant recalled: "What the author has witnessed is undoubtedly the densest grenade fire net." American planes rushed to support, and there were serious casualties on the Chinese army's position, but the American offensive was still unsuccessful. "A Chinese sniper spotted the dressing station of the 2nd Battalion," the American War History records, "and knocked down six Marines in quick succession, one of whom was Doctor Lieutenant Clark, who was shot while tending a wounded man. " The most difficult attack position for the American soldiers of the Seventh Marine Regiment was Yantai Peak.This 890-meter-high highland is located in the northwest of Shuidong, echoing the 727 highland in the northeast, overlooking the highway, and is the gateway to Huangcaoling.The 371st Regiment of the 124th Division of the Chinese Forty-Second Army occupied the high ground and used this favorable terrain to block the United Nations Army. On October 30, the 22nd and 23rd Regiments of the Third Division of the South Korean Army began to attack Yantai Peak with a large force. It was discarded under the counterattack of the Chinese army that night.Smith, the commander of the First Marine Division, believes that if Yantai Peak cannot be taken down, the entire Huangcaoling area cannot be captured, and the goal of advancing northward cannot be realized at all.Therefore, the Seventh Regiment of the Marine Division was ordered to be assigned to the Third Division of South Korea to unplug the Yantai Peak Highland that could attack any target on the road no matter what. Standing on the high ground of Yantai Peak is another fourth company of the Chinese army-the second battalion and fourth company of the 124th Division 371 Regiment of the 42nd Army. After repeated scrambles for the main peak, there were only six Chinese soldiers in the platoon standing on the main peak, and the U.S. military had already occupied half of the main peak.The company commander Liu Jun, who had just returned from a meeting in the regiment, pulled out his pistol and said to the bugleman, messenger, hairdresser and several other non-combatants of the company headquarters: "Follow me!" They divided into two groups to climb up the main peak.Liu Yulong, a soldier from the right, led three people under the cover of fire and approached meter by meter. When they were about to approach the main peak, there was a loud explosion, and they stepped on a landmine.The group on the left moved forward quickly in the smoke of the explosion. They used hand grenades to wipe out the heavy machine guns of the US troops.At this time, a row of American soldiers with bayonets stood up in front of them. They rushed over with roars, and the company commander Liu Jun realized that the last moment had come. Suddenly, the Americans heard a voice that startled them. This voice was right in front of them, sharp and loud.The bugles of the Chinese army sounded.There are many frightening legends about "Chinese horns" circulating among American soldiers. Unexpectedly, at such a close distance, they not only heard, but even saw countless "Chinese horns" flashing. So the Americans started turning back and running, dropping their weapons on the ground. After Liu Jun, the commander of the fourth company, rushed to the main peak, he found that there were only 19 Chinese soldiers on the main peak, and 4 of them were wounded.He gathered these soldiers on the top of the main peak with a radius of less than 100 square meters, and then conveyed the battle situation that the troops on the Western Front had beaten the 1st U.S. Cavalry Division as conveyed by the regiment meeting, and said again, we It is necessary to hold out until dark to wait for the counterattack of the main force. The trumpeter of Silian is Zhang Qunsheng, a young man from Northeast China, who lives by the Yalu River.Before enlisting in the army, he worked in an art performance team and could play the trumpet.After enlisting in the army, he was taught by the best old trumpeter in the army. Not only could he play the military horn notation that conveyed various instructions, but he could also use the bugle to play ditties from his hometown. He became a favorite of the soldiers.Because he was brave in battle and had so many "ideas", the soldiers simply renamed his bugler as "commander". In the Fourth Company, everyone who mentioned "commander Xiao Zhang" knew about it. While waiting for the enemy to attack again, "Commander Xiao Zhang" began to play "Xiao Er Hei Married", which is familiar to Chinese soldiers. The American offensive began again. Zhang Qunsheng looked down from behind the rock, beside him were burning tree trunks, and the red ribbon on the bugle was still fluttering in his hand.The head of an American soldier popped out of a valley, his helmet flashing.It was not until the U.S. troops climbed to 10 meters from the peak that the company commander Liu Jun gave the order to shoot.From the sound of the gunshots, the American soldiers could tell that there were not many Chinese soldiers on the main peak. This time they did not retreat, but lay down in the crater and threw grenades on the peak.Machine gunner Guo Zhongquan was wounded by a US grenade. This is the third time Guo Zhongquan has been injured. One of his legs has been broken.The U.S. military rushed to K when the machine gun stopped. Guo Zhongquan knelt up with one leg holding the machine gun, and the sound of machine gun firing rang out again. In another direction, several U.S. troops had already climbed the main peak. Company Commander Liu Jun stood up from the trench holding a bayonet-mounted rifle and rushed up to meet the U.S. troops. Hand-to-hand combat began.Liu Jun was entangled with four American soldiers. When he stabbed a bayonet into the back of an American soldier, an American bayonet was also stabbing him.Soldier Zheng Youliang knocked down the American army with a gun butt, but there were more and more American soldiers.At this time, the reinforcements of the third squad arrived, and the U.S. troops became confused and retreated down the mountain.Liu Jun shouted happily: "Squad Three! Please give credit to you!" Before he finished speaking, a bullet hit him, and Liu Jun fell on the bugleman Zhang Qunsheng. Liu Jun said to Zhang Qunsheng: "There are too few people on the mountain, so we must guard it!" Zhang Qunsheng said: "We fought the enemy!" Liu Jun said: "I can't do it anymore, you should be the official commander." Zhang Qunsheng looked down the mountain again. From a distance, he saw several American trucks unloading the reinforcements and loading the American corpses. Zhang Qunsheng cleaned up the ammunition on the position, and each person can get six bullets and two grenades on average.He climbed up to the correspondent Zheng Zhaorui and said: "If you don't have enough bullets, use rocks to fight!" He climbed up to the barber Chen Kaiming and said: "The company commander is dying, avenge him!" He talked to almost every soldier, and the soldiers said: "Commander Xiao Zhang, we listen to you!" After heavy artillery bombardment, more than 200 U.S. troops rushed up again.On the main peak, after scattered gunfire, stones rolled down like rain.Guo Zhongquan, who woke up from serious injuries, heard Zhang Qunsheng's cry of killing, and he hurriedly shouted: "Commander Zhang! Save it! Save it!" Zhang Qunsheng replied: "I used stones!" After that, no matter what Zhang Qunsheng couldn't hear anyone shouting any more. What resounded on the main peak of Yantai Peak was the sound of cursing and roaring from Chinese soldiers! The U.S. troops retreated again because it was getting dark. The three remaining Chinese soldiers stand together in the twilight with the steep main peak of Yantai Peak. Zhang Qunsheng picked up his company commander and called him, but Liu Jun, the commander of the fourth company, could never answer his call. Zhang Qunsheng covered the company commander's face with his white towel and cried. There are more than 200 corpses of US troops lying in front of the position. Blood stained the scorched earth. A soldier reminded Zhang Qunsheng that it was time to report to the battalion command post.So, Zhang Qunsheng blew the bugle again in the night. The command post interpreted the trumpet sound from the main peak of Yantai Peak, and its meaning should be: It’s dark, and we are still on Yantai Peak! Under the positive pressure of the 1st Marine Division of the US Army, the situation on the blocking line of the 124th Division of the 42nd Army of the Chinese Army continued to deteriorate.The scout reported that the artillery group of the 1st Marine Division was located in Longshui Cave, southeast of Yantai Peak, and was equipped with more than a dozen tanks. The artillery group was guarded by only one battalion.About 10 kilometers south of Longshui Cave is a place called Wulaoli, where the main force of the US Marine Division 1 is stationed. That night, a surprise attack team consisting of four battalions set off. The policy formulated by the military council for this counterattack against the U.S. Marine Division 1 is a bit like a Chinese classical novel: start at the beginning, stop at the end, go to the waist, go deep, and dig holes and hearts. Shortly after the surprise attack team set off, the first battalion discovered the US artillery position 500 meters north of Longshui Cave.Excited, Feng Ziting, the battalion commander of the first battalion, found that the second battalion who was acting together had not followed up.Su Yu, the deputy head of the 371st regiment who followed the command of the first battalion, said that if the second battalion came up to fight, the cucumbers and vegetables would be cold.Thus, the attack began.The U.S. military was caught off guard by the sudden attack, and more than 10 guns fell into the hands of the Chinese army in a panic.The U.S. troops who woke up from the attack immediately organized a blockade. The U.S. soldiers, whose numbers were several times larger than the Chinese soldiers who attacked, fought together with the Chinese soldiers, and they took back the lost artillery.The first battalion killed east and blocked west, and retreated at dawn. Sanzhang, led by Xing Jiameng, Chief of Staff of the 3rd Battalion of the 370th Regiment, touched the west side of Longshui Cave in the dark and found that the US military was camping on the other side of the small river.He personally crossed the river to reconnaissance, and saw that the tents next to each other were all lit up. Most of the American soldiers were sleeping, and some were drinking and playing poker. More than 20 howitzers were placed on the river beach without warning, only more than 10 tanks surrounded the artillery position in a ring, and a few floating sentries wandered back and forth.Xing Jiasheng came back from wading again, and when he was explaining the tasks to the companies, there was a sudden gunshot from the north, which was in the direction of the first battalion.The gunfire alarmed the U.S. troops on the other side of the river, and Xing Jiasheng decided to change the sneak attack into a storm.Under the sudden and violent attack, more than 10 artillery pieces on this US artillery position were blown up by Chinese soldiers, and most of the US soldiers in a reinforced platoon died in sleeping bags in the tents. After the battle, the third battalion continued to go deep into the US defense line.On a road, another US battalion headquarters was attacked, destroying 2 jeeps, 7 trucks and 3 howitzers.It's not far from Wulaoli, the headquarters of the First Division of the U.S. Marine Corps. The Second Battalion, led by Deputy Battalion Commander Zhao Jisen, was preparing to attack a high ground.When the sharp knife squad touched the front, they saw more than 30 sleeping bags scattered in the bomb craters and fortifications, and the enemy with only his head exposed was sleeping soundly.This was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. The squad leader waved his hand, and the soldiers rushed forward. However, these Chinese soldiers were shocked: the heads protruding from the sleeping bags were all black! Chinese soldiers had never seen black people, and most of them were farmers, and they had no idea that there were people of this color in the world. "Ghost! There is a ghost!" someone shouted. Chinese people believe in ghosts and gods. The Chinese soldiers in the sharp knife squad turned around and ran back. Zhao Jisen saw that the sharp knife squad not only did not start, but also ran back. After asking what happened, he said: "Even if there is a ghost, we must take down the high ground!" When the Chinese soldiers attacked again, the U.S. military had already formed a blocking formation.After fierce fighting, a platoon of US troops was defeated. American soldiers really became ghosts. At dawn, Chinese soldiers were still watching the corpses of black American soldiers. After being attacked, the U.S. First Marine Division immediately ordered to suspend the frontal attack, and dispatched the U.S. Third Division, a reserve force, into the battle to wipe out the Zhongkuang troops that had penetrated into the hinterland of the U.S.-occupied area. The third battalion, which was the farthest behind the enemy, was surrounded by the US military on the 400.1 height. On the high ground, Xing Jiasheng, the chief of staff of the third battalion, saw the convoy of the US army, which was as strong as a battalion.The convoy stopped at a height of 400.l, and American soldiers jumped down to attack this high ground.Xing Jiasheng immediately gave an order, and while the U.S. military was still standing still, two companies of Chinese soldiers rushed down the hill shouting. During the 20-minute battle, more than 130 American soldiers were killed, 30 were captured, and more than 40 trucks were burned. The Chinese soldiers picked up more than 60 guns and two radios and ran back to the mountain. The U.S. military surrounded the high ground where the third battalion was located, and began a frenzied revenge. The desperate offensive and defensive battle was going on fiercely, and more than 10 US military aircraft took turns to participate in the battle. By noon, the US military had increased to the strength of a regiment.Because Chinese and American soldiers were fighting together, the US military planes did not dare to bomb rashly, but hovered at low altitude.In this way, the third battalion persisted until dark. After dark, under the frontal feint attack, the third battalion began to break through.They retreated while fighting, and entered the mountains.They ate wild fruits to satisfy their hunger, went through hardships in the deep mountains, and finally joined the troops that responded to them two days later. Smith, the commander of the First U.S. Marine Division who graduated from the West Point Military Academy, was puzzled by the large-scale and deep attack of the Chinese army: What tactical thinking is the Chinese's almost suicidal move based on? In the middle of the Korean War, Mao Zedong received Wu Ruilin, commander of the 42nd Army, in his study. Mao Zedong said: "I saw from the telegram that Wu Ruilin blasted rocks on the road. What's going on?" Wu Ruilin replied: "During the War of Resistance Against Japan, I saw Japanese devils building roads and blasting stones. I used this method in Huangcaoling. I asked engineers to stuff small packets of explosives in the crevices of the mountains, blast the openings, and then put 200 kilograms of explosives on them. Using electricity to set fire and telephone to detonate, five enemy tanks were blown up, eight were injured, and the enemy ground troops did not dare to move for five or six days.” What Commander Wu Ruilin said was only once. In fact, this method was implemented many times on the Korean Eastern Front.On one occasion, hundreds of thousands of tons of stones were blown up by the explosives detonated by Chinese engineers on the side of the road. More than 20 of the more than 50 American tanks that drove in on the road were buried in the stones, resulting in casualties The number of American soldiers is even more numerous. After hearing this, Mao Zedong said repeatedly: "Okay. Okay." What kind of tactic is this? On the battlefield on the Korean Eastern Front, the US military has an absolute advantage in strength.In this situation that seemed to violate the principle of combat, the Chinese 42nd Army stubbornly blocked the northward advance of the United Nations until they disappeared from the battlefield on their own initiative.