Chapter 31 If you don't drive away the US emperor, you won't return to China

On the morning of New Year's Day, Li Qiwei, commander of the US Eighth Army, left Seoul in a jeep just after dawn.Drive fast in the direction of the front line.His eyes were bloodshot, and the muscles on his face were tense. As the jeep bumped, the two grenades hanging around his neck swung violently back and forth.The pistol holster around his waist has been opened, revealing the delicate handle of the gun. Less than two hours after returning to Seoul from the frontier of defense last night, the huge offensive suddenly launched by the Chinese army began.All night, Li Qiwei's headquarters kept calling, and telegrams flew in like a piece: The Chinese army quickly implemented a breakthrough across the hundreds of kilometers of defense from east to west!The South Korean divisions on the front line are all in crisis, especially the first and sixth divisions, which have already suffered devastating blows.Didn't President Syngman Rhee say that at least 100,000 workers have built the frontier as solid as steel under his personal deployment?I have personally reviewed the defense plan. Isn't the firepower configuration on the defense line quite strict?Isn't there at least several layers of firepower nets just to block the advance of the Chinese army?

The cold wind howled, and the messy snow powder hit his face like a scoop.Directly in front of him, guns boomed and explosions continued. The jeep hadn't gone a few kilometers, and Li Qiwei saw a group of soldiers running chaotically on the road. This was the first batch of defeated soldiers he saw running back from the front.As the jeep continued to move forward, more and more soldiers fled, congesting the entire road.Ridgway always remembered this vividly. He said it was the most embarrassing and depressing fleeing army he had ever seen in all the wars he had ever experienced: South Korean soldiers with unkempt hair and blue faces drove one after another. A steady stream of trucks swarmed southward.Those who didn't have a truck to sit on used all the means of transportation they thought they could use, including ox carts, donkey carts, and riding various livestock that they didn't know where to get.They have no order, no arms, no officers.They have only one thought, that is, to escape from the Chinese army as far as possible.They threw away their rifles and pistols, all their artillery and mortars.Machine guns and those weapons operated by several people.

Li Qiwei finally became furious. He took out his pistol, stood in the middle of the road, fired several bullets into the sky, and then shouted: "Stop!" No one paid him any attention. The gunshots and shouts of General Ridgway seemed so insignificant amidst the curses of the chaotic Han soldiers and the approaching explosions.The distraught soldiers had no time to pay attention to the existence of the commander, and the vehicles bypassed his jeep and continued southward. In the end, maybe it was the three white stars on Ridgway's jeep that made a South Korean officer recognize that the American was not a small officer, and a fleeing convoy stopped in front of Ridgway.The South Korean officer didn’t seem to understand English, or he pretended not to understand, desperately making confused gestures with Li Qiwei, and then he didn’t care what orders Li Qiwei gave him, climbed into the car and led the convoy to run like a gust of wind up.

Among these defeated soldiers, there were many Western war reporters. They used many adjectives when recording the scene at that time: Agence France-Presse: "The Allied Army was dazed", "The U.S. Eighth Army troops Retreating in groups", "The long line of soldiers fleeing from the front line went southward in embarrassment, their faces were haggard and black, and they were exhausted", "On the way to Seoul, there were burning military supplies along the way". Associated Press: "Behind the front line, the retreating troops are always cursing in a hurry and making a mess", "the long retreating convoy keeps getting stuck in the mud".

The Eighth Army's news release of the battle situation it released is: "The Chinese army has launched a powerful offensive, which has torn a huge battle gap in the US defense line, completely collapsed the United Nations forces known for their tenacity, and seriously threatened the road to the United States. An important supply line for the entire front of the U.S. Eighth Army." Li Qiwei put away the pistol.He understood that the troops were completely out of control. When he returned to Seoul, he immediately ordered the military police to be dispatched on the way for the South Korean soldiers to flee south, set up inspection lines, review all the soldiers who fled from the front line, and enforce battlefield discipline.At the same time, he called the South Korean Presidential Office and "invited President Lee to inspect the front."

Therefore, the very old President Rhee, accompanied by General Ridgway, took a liaison plane with a canvas fuselage and flew in the direction of the front line.Li Qiwei was still terribly cold in the cabin wearing thick winter clothes. He saw that the old man beside him was wearing a white North Korean clothing that did not protect against the cold at all. His wrinkled face was even more pale and shriveled in the extreme cold. The plane landed near Uijeongbu, where they saw the South Korean soldiers who were taken in by the containment team and were chaotically collecting food. Rhee Chengman delivered a speech to the soldiers, asking them to return to the battlefield.

After the speech, Li Chengwan said to Li Qiwei in English: "Don't be discouraged! Don't be discouraged!" But what flashed in Li Qiwei's mind was the most terrifying thought: Seoul might not be able to keep. The 124th Division of the 42nd Army of China was an interspersed unit. There was a soldier in this unit who became famous later, 19-year-old Leng Shuguo.This young man from Liaoning Province was an ingenious little carpenter when he was in his hometown. He had a good handcraft, especially he could carve dragon and phoenix patterns.In the year when the land reform was carried out in his hometown, he joined the army and joined the battle to liberate all of China.in the troops.He received a letter from his younger brother, which said: "You have been in the army for several years, and I haven't seen you make any meritorious service. All the people in the village who joined the army have made meritorious service. They always talk about serving the people, but they have to be a little What kind of merit."

Leng Shuguo said that this letter greatly stimulated him. The destination of the first, second and fourth divisions interspersed is Jiningli.Division Commander Su Ke ordered the 372nd Regiment, which is good at attacking, to be the vanguard, and advocated that the hardest 4th Company be placed at the forefront of the whole regiment.The company commander of the fourth company was Wang Qingxiu, but he didn't look handsome when he started fighting. He had a very hot temper and was about to set off before the heavy machine gun could catch up. His anxiety was justified. It was still dark, but The gunshots in front gradually faded away. It can be seen that the enemy is running farther and farther, and he is still running in a car. If you want to catch up with the enemy on two legs, you have to hurry up and hurry up!

Wang Qingxiu said to the first platoon leader: "You just charge forward! I will lead three platoons to attack and cover along the sides of the road!" Led by Wang Qingxiu, the extremely exhausted soldiers started a desperate pursuit. The United Nations Army had no resistance on the 38th Parallel, so when the Fourth Company crossed the 38th Parallel, many soldiers did not know that the most important land boundary on the Korean Peninsula was under their feet.At 6 o'clock in the morning, when Li Qiwei was driving to stop the rout on the road outside Seoul, a squadron of four companies and one row arrived at a place called Julinchuan, which was the first road they reached south of the 38th parallel. a big village.Scouts reported that there was at least one battalion of the South Korean Army in this village.

Squad leader Zhao Hengwen thought, if the troops from behind come up, these enemies may run away, why not rush in and beat one guy first, the enemy is already frightened, and once they hit, they will be sure to mess up! A squad of Chinese soldiers quietly approached hundreds of South Korean soldiers. While attacking an enemy sentinel, a South Korean soldier escaped, screaming and running towards the village.Zhao Hengwen yelled, the light weapons in the hands of the Chinese soldiers began to fire, and the grenades exploded in the village at the same time, causing chaos in the village.The South Korean military officer commanded the soldiers to rush to the entrance of the village, hastily organized blocking firepower, and fired aimlessly at the dark place under the cliff at dawn.Zhao Hengwen estimated that the company commander would lead the troops up quickly when the gunshots fired, so he threw down the enemies in front of him and shouted: "Go to their rear!"

After arriving at the village, Zhao Hengwen was startled. At least 100 South Korean soldiers were fleeing along the road behind the village. The Chinese soldiers ran into the enemy pile without paying attention.In their panic, the South Korean soldiers didn't notice the Chinese soldiers who entered among them, and just fled. The Chinese soldiers were caught in the flow of fleeing enemies.A South Korean officer who wanted to run faster took off his leather shoes and walked barefoot side by side with Zhao Hengwen.There were carbines dropped by the enemy all over the ground. Zhao Hengwen picked up a few, but soon felt that this was not enough, because he would not be able to catch a few alive by running like this.So he stopped abruptly, fired a round of bullets into the sky, and shouted, "Stop!" The South Korean soldiers froze and scattered towards the ditch beside the road. "I am the Chinese People's Volunteer Army!" As soon as Zhao Hengwen knew that he spoke Chinese, he yelled "Give up your guns" in Korean. The South Korean soldiers who were beaten dizzy by the Chinese army didn't know what to do for a while. A South Korean soldier wearing an overcoat stood up and whispered in Chinese in the dark: "Are you Chinese?" Zhao Hengwen said: "That's right! Tell them, come here with guns behind your back, the volunteers will not kill prisoners!" The South Korean soldier told a bunch of things about North Korea to the black crowd, and immediately more than 20 people came over and surrendered. Zhao Hengwen took them to a farm yard by the road, ordered the prisoners to put down their guns, and locked them all in a room.When it was over, Zhao Hengwen felt that few people had been caught, so he asked the South Korean soldier who could speak Chinese to collect more people on the road, and collected more than 20 people. At this time, it was daylight.The South Korean prisoners in the yard saw clearly that there were not many Chinese soldiers here, and the chirping Chinese soldier was also an unattractive figure, so they winked at Zhao Hengwen, which made Zhao Hengwen feel a little nervous.Fortunately, the company commander came with the team. Zhao Hengwen began to count the number of prisoners, a total of 50 people.Zhao Hengwen thought proudly: Now he must be a hero. Leng Shuguo envied Zhao Hengwen very much. The company commander, Wang Qingxiu, was in a hurry, and he wanted to get to Jining on time. Leng Shuguo wants to be a vanguard this time no matter what. The deputy platoon leader of the second row, Bai Wenlin, led the team, and Leng Shuguo's fifth squad ran at the front. The road in the valley is a small road with sand and gravel, winding southward.There are cliffs on both sides, covered with messy trees.When Squad 5 was running forward on this road, there were constantly fleeing and scattered South Korean soldiers sticking their heads out of the woods on both sides, and they fired a few shots from time to time.Leng Shuguo knew that this area was already surrounded by Chinese troops, so he wanted to let the follow-up troops do the mountain search. The most important thing now was to arrive at the scheduled location on time, and he must capture a lot of prisoners!So, apart from killing a truck of the South Korean Army that was transporting telephone wires to the front, the fifth squad ran forward regardless of anything! Hunger and fatigue made Leng Shuguo's legs a little weak, and he felt as if his body was flying with the wind while running.He stopped only after the sound of an explosion. The defeated South Korean soldiers he saw had blown up a civilian house with explosives. Two ordinary people, one old and one young, were lying beside the house. The young one's thigh was blown off, but he was still alive Alive, gasping for breath. The speed of Leng Shuguo's pursuit surprised Wang Qingxiu, the commander of the leading company of the 372nd Regiment.Wang Qingxiu was worried that everyone who ran at the front would be weak alone and would be difficult to handle when encountering a major enemy situation, so she led the troops to run desperately, always trying to catch up with Leng Shuguo, but they couldn't catch up no matter what.On the interspersed road, the fourth company was chasing Leng Shuguo, the second battalion was chasing the fourth company, and the main force of the regiment was chasing the second battalion. Su Kezhi, the commander of the first, second and fourth divisions who had been urging the troops to advance quickly, even complained a little, because he Seeing how many enemies had been dealt with in Julinchuan Fourth Company at once, he felt that the number of defeated enemies ahead was hard to estimate. He really wanted the main force of the 372nd Regiment to catch up and strengthen the front strength. Leng Shuguo's sharp knife squad has been running at least two kilometers ahead of the company. During the day, US military planes came.However, on the highway leading to the south, the soldiers of the two warring parties were chaotically running in the same direction. The U.S. aircraft could not tell which were the fleeing South Korean troops and which were the pursuing Chinese troops.Soldiers from both countries were ragged and sometimes intermingled, making air support impossible. The U.S. pilots had to fly their planes very low, passing over the heads of soldiers on both sides, making the atmosphere on the road even more tense and chaotic. A village ahead is called Daoli.Leng Shuguo stopped, only to realize that there were only five people around him: Bai Wenlin, deputy platoon leader, soldiers Dou Guobin, Guo Yinsuo, Wang Er, plus him. Bai Wenlin asked Leng Shuguo and the others to hide, and went to investigate by himself, only to find that Daoli village was full of enemies, at least 400 people. What they overtook was the second battalion of the 32nd Regiment of the Second Division of the South Korean Army. In Julinchuan, isn't that how Zhao Hengwen, the squad leader, beat him like this?No matter how many enemies he has, he just wants to fight! hit! Five Chinese soldiers were divided into two groups and touched from both ends of the village.Leng Shuguo raised his head on an upper ridge, just in front of him there were four South Korean military officers sitting on a truck. The driver had already started the car, and it seemed that they were going to run away.Leng Shuguo jumped up and shot head-on. The four officers were killed before they could fight back.At this time, the grenades in the hands of several other Chinese soldiers were also thrown out. The Chinese-made barrel grenade made a special noise when it exploded, and South Korean soldiers were familiar with it.Suddenly, a battalion of South Korean soldiers fell into chaos. Leng Shuguo rushed into the small street of the village.A jeep that was rushing out of a small courtyard almost ran into him.There is a radio station in the car, the wireless is very long, and there is a tall enemy: Americans! Along the way, Leng Shuguo has not seen any American soldiers yet.jumped up. The Americans pushed Leng Shuguo down at once, and then drew a pistol from his waist. Before he could draw out his gun, Leng Shuguo rushed forward again and hugged him tightly.The American trembled all over, and Leng Shuguo's fingers dug into the thick flesh of the American's chest.Without knowing where the strength came from, Leng Shuguo actually picked up the American and threw him under the car. The Americans were stunned by the ferocity and bravery of the Chinese soldier, and watched Leng Shuguo pull out his pistol from his holster. The Americans raised their hands. The explosion of the wooden-handled grenade made in China also made Silian rush to Daodali quickly. A whole battalion of the South Korean Army killed or wounded dozens of people and captured dozens of people in just a few minutes, and the rest were all scattered into the mountains and forests. Wang Qingxiu still didn't see Leng Shuguo's shadow, and when the fifth squad was annihilating the enemy, they went forward to pursue them again. Near noon, five Chinese soldiers from Leng Shuguo's fifth squad arrived at Jiningli, the destination where the 1st, 2nd and 4th divisions interspersed. From a height, they saw dozens of cars on the road beside the small river, as well as large tractors pulling artillery. Wait for the follow-up troops to come up? No, rush up!Block them! Leng Shuguo had already rushed up the small river.The ice on the creek was broken by his violent movements, and he fell through the bitter water.The enemy on the opposite side spotted him, and bullets flew over like a swarm. rush!Be sure to rush forward! The jeep at the front of the enemy convoy started, and Leng Shuguo's bullets shot at the jeep.The tires of the jeep were immediately blown out and lay across the road, blocking the way for the entire convoy to escape. Leng Shuguo, Bai Wenlin, and the three Chinese soldiers following them rushed fiercely towards the large group of enemies.The enemy was frightened by the aura of these Chinese soldiers. All the trucks were backing up, trying to find a way to escape, but they were crowded together. A Chinese barrel grenade fell on the bed of a truck, causing a huge explosion.It was a truck full of ammunition. The huge air wave knocked down several Chinese soldiers. In the chain explosion, the fragments of the vehicle flew violently.Leng Shuguo raised his head in the ditch, a kind of indescribable joy occupied his whole heart. When Wang Qingxiu led the company to catch up, the road was already covered with enemy corpses. Wang Qingxiu asked: "Is everyone here?" Leng Shuguo said: "There were no casualties! It's just that we didn't catch a lot of prisoners for you to see!" Wang Qingxiu said: "You're going to make a great contribution this time! First, our division blocked at least two puppet troops from at least two regiments. Second, if you don't want to catch them, you should catch the big ones!" Wang Qingxiu was referring to the American who fought against Leng Shuguo.After being screened by the prisoners, the American was an adviser to the Second Division of the South Korean Army and a colonel in the US Army. It didn't take long for a soldier's story to spread among the Volunteer Army, saying that his "No. 11" raced the wheels of a car and chased the US military advisers with nowhere to run. When the regiment leader Zhang Jingyao saw Leng Shuguo, he found that the soldier who was chasing the enemy through mountains and rivers had no shoes on his feet, so he promised on the spot that he would find a pair of good shoes for Leng Shuguo. The official honorary title of Leng Shuguo, squad leader of the 4th Company and 5th Squadron of the 372nd Regiment of the 124th Division of the 42nd Army of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, is "Chasing Heroes". The Sixty-Sixth Army, which belongs to the same left column as the Forty-Second Army, also fought fiercely. Its main force stepped on the snow more than two feet thick, broke through the heavy firepower set up by the enemy, broke through the highlands such as Guowangfeng, Huayue Mountain, and Gaoxiuling, and quickly penetrated deep into the South Korean army. Together with the 42nd Army, they wiped out The Wang 11th and 32nd Regiments of the Second Division of South Korea and the 36th Regiment of the Fifth Division.Zhang Xuxu, commander of the third company of the 587th Regiment of the 196th Division of the Sixty-sixth Army, broke through the Guowangfeng position and took down five enemy fortresses in a row, opening up a way for the troops to advance.The sharp knife squad of the 4th Company of the 586th Regiment occupied Huayue Mountain after five hours of desperate fighting. The time they occupied Huayue Mountain happened to be 0:00 on January 1, 1951. They were awarded the "First Break of the 38th Line" Company of Heroes" pennant. By January 2, the entire right-wing column of the Chinese army had penetrated the United Nations defensive positions to a depth of 20-50 kilometers. On the front of the Seoul defense line that Li Qiwei was most worried about, its first-line defense force was the First Division of the South Korean Army's elite troops.This division fell into total chaos on New Year's Eve. After dawn, the division commander Bai Shanye found that his troops were still collapsing and could not carry out his order of "organized retreat".Less than an hour after the Chinese army's forcible crossing of the Linjin River began, the twelfth regiment on the right wing of the division called "it can no longer be supported" and immediately began to retreat.The second-line position on the riverside had just begun to accommodate the lost soldiers, and news came that the reserve team of this regiment had been surrounded by the Chinese army on three sides.The twelfth regiment retreated again and again, the radio contact was interrupted, and the contact was finally restored. The regiment command post could not report the real situation at all, but said that "the sound of Chinese gongs, drums, trumpets and bugles is all around." Because of the collapse of the right wing of the 11th Regiment on the left wing of the First Division, Wen Hengtai, the head of the regiment, said that he "must retreat". The 15th Regiment, the reserve team of the 1st Division, saw soldiers from the 12th Regiment swarming into their defense zone shortly after the Chinese army's attack began.The head of the 15th regiment called Bai Shanye and asked for artillery support to stop the Chinese army's offensive. The soldiers of the second regiment rushed over from behind.Together with the 15th regiment, all the positions of the First Division of the South Korean Army collapsed before midnight.Zhao Zaimei, the head of the 15th Regiment, explained: "Although we received support from 115mm lattice artillery, the enemy had already approached the position of 50 tactics, and the artillery support was meaningless, and the position soon entered hand-to-hand combat." The military history of the South Korean Army has the following record of its first division’s big battle on New Year’s Day in 1951: “The New Year’s Day was ushered in during the fierce battle all night long. When the old year was said and the new year was welcomed, the enemy launched the so-called ‘New Year’s Day Offensive’ , the spearhead pointed at Seoul, but our army kept retreating. "The 1st Battalion of the 12th Regiment was disbanded last night, regrouped near Gengshin-ri and Beishiju-ri, and moved to the Yeongok-ri area. The 2nd and 3rd Battalions succeeded in breaking through, but were surrounded by the enemy again in the southwest of Dongducheon. Be broken up again. "The enemy mixed with our stragglers and continued to attack, forcing our army to continue to retreat. In order to support the retreating troops, the supplementary team commanded by the deputy head of the 15th Regiment went out from Guiyanli to the vicinity of Height 295, However, they were attacked violently by the enemy and the team was broken up. "The Sixth Company of the Third Battalion requested artillery support, but it failed because the distance between the enemy and us was too close and it was difficult to observe. As a result, the 180 Heights fell, and the Sixth Company suffered a large number of casualties. The enemy attacked the Fifth Company again, and the company commander was killed. The company's ammunition was exhausted, and the whole company was completely broken up. "The battalion commander, Lieutenant Colonel Cui Bingchun, gathered about 100 people, together with the search company and the engineering company, moved to a high ground, determined to block the enemy. But the enemy attacked from the 180 high ground, attacked the supplementary company position, and started hand-to-hand combat with bayonets and grenades. The enemy has captured the high ground. "The 1st Battalion of the 11th Regiment has been threatened by the enemy since last night. When the enemy went south from Jicheng, broke through the defensive position of the 3rd Battalion and attacked Mazhili, the battalion commander ordered the 1st and 2nd companies to retreat. The third battalion changed its defensive direction and connected with the second battalion of the fifteenth regiment, determined to stop the enemy. "It was at this time that the order for the retreat of the division was given, and therefore, from that moment on, the whole regiment began to delay the enemy in stages. "On this day, the division headquarters moved from Shinsan-ri to Nokpan-dong, Seoul." It was soldiers of the Chinese Thirty-ninth Army who broke through the frontal defensive positions in Seoul. The South Korean First Division, which was in charge of the frontal defense of Seoul, immediately withdrew its headquarters to downtown Seoul on the second day after the Chinese army started the "third battle". How fast is Shuai" fleeing.Due to the rapid defeat of the South Korean army, the U.S. troops on the second line of defense were exposed to the attacks of the Chinese army. The 24th and 25th Divisions of the U.S. Army and the 29th Brigade of the British Army suffered heavy losses. After the Chinese 39th Army broke through the Linjin River, it hurriedly pursued the 1st Division of the South Korean Army in front of it day and night. Its vanguard encountered the 21st Division of the 24th US Division at Huilong Temple. After annihilating part of the US Army , They surrounded two companies of the 29th Brigade of the British Army in Fuguli, west of Uijungjung. Fuguli, a prominent Korean place name in the military history of the 39th Army of China. This is a small town only 30 kilometers away from Seoul, the capital of South Korea, and it is an important three-way intersection on the highway leading to Seoul.The 347th Regiment of the 116th Division of the 39th Army of China was ordered to quickly occupy this place; the whole regiment immediately divided into four groups and advanced at a forced marching speed, and the messengers who urged their advancing speed arrived one after another.Some soldiers of the 347th Regiment fainted during the extreme running, and the wounded who couldn't run were lying on the side of the road, waiting for the recovery team.After a brief "rest in place" order, the soldiers lay on the snow, randomly grabbing a few handfuls of snow cold and stuffing them into their mouths. On a high ground close to Fuguli, regiment leader Li Gang called a meeting of battalion commanders: "This is a hard and fierce battle, but we must hold the enemy here and wait for the main force to arrive!" At this time, Li Gang, the company commander, was included, and the 347th regiment didn't know that the army guarding Fuguli was not the South Korean army. At dawn on the 3rd, the 347th regiment arrived in Fuguli.According to a report from a local commoner, the enemy here is a regiment... Because the 347th Regiment believed that there were only South Korean troops here, they heard "a regiment" as "a company".After preliminary research, Fu Xuejun, the deputy battalion commander of the first battalion, led the third company and rushed up.During the fierce battle, Fu Xuejun felt that something was wrong with the battle. It didn't take long for him to understand: there is not only "one company", but a whole regiment; it is not the South Korean puppet army that is fighting the Chinese army, but the British people! The 347th Regiment encountered the Royal Rifle Regiment of the 29th Brigade of the British Army.The twenty-ninth brigade is an elite unit in the British army. It is the unit of the famous General Montgomery and participated in the Normandy landing campaign.The Royal Rifle Regiment is famous for its positional warfare, and its officers and soldiers wear the regiment's emblem on their uniforms: a green tiger. Fu Xuejun immediately withdrew from the position and ran to the regiment headquarters. It was light.The British spotted him and shot him.He was shot in the arm, and he ran into an empty booth, bandaged it briefly, and continued running to the regimental command post. British fire continued to pursue him and he was also shot in the leg.By the time he insisted on running into the regiment command post, he was covered in blood.He reported the real enemy situation to the regiment leader Li Gang. At this time, the Second Company had already occupied a small school, wiped out the enemy of one company, and captured more than 300 British soldiers. These prisoners were locked in the small school.Now the second company is confronting the British army. Another news reached the regiment command post: Wang Fengjiang, the deputy commander of the seventh company in front, died! It was Wang Fengjiang who stood chest-deep in icy water and lifted his soldiers onto the ice layer one by one while crossing the Great Ice River. At the forefront of the battle with the British army, Wang Fengjiang saw the deputy chief of staff of the regiment coming up, and shouted: "No. 5! Get down! It's too dangerous here!" Before the words fell, a shell almost exploded beside him, and a piece of shrapnel sliced ​​into his head. Wang Fengjiang, a farmer in Northeast China, became the person with the most military exploits in the many cruel battles that the 39th Army experienced after joining the army. After Wang Fengjiang died, his comrades found only two things on the famous hero of the Chinese army: a fountain pen made up of old parts pinned to his coat pocket and a few chestnuts in his pocket to satisfy his hunger. The situation faced by the 347th regiment is very serious. Bugok-ri is a depression, surrounded by mountains on three sides, controlling the highway and a railway from Sanui government to Seoul.The "Green Tiger Regiment" of the 29th Brigade of the British Army has already occupied the favorable terrain here, preparing to cover its main force to retreat southward if the battle situation changes. The planes in the sky came, the tanks on the ground were dispatched, and the British army began to counterattack the positions of the 347th regiment. Several companies of the 347th regiment suffered huge casualties, and they seemed to be unable to withstand it. The young and educated chief of staff of the 116th Division, 28-year-old Xue Jianqiang, has been fighting with the 347th Regiment to Fuguli.When he was talking on the phone with his division commander Wang Yang at the front, his voice was very anxious: "Over 300 prisoners were captured, and they belonged to the 29th Brigade of the British Army! They are all suffocating in the primary school! Let the 348th Regiment come up!" As far as weapons and equipment are concerned, the British army has an absolute advantage, so they confronted the British army, and the battle was unprecedentedly tragic.Moreover, the 347th Regiment entered Fuguli at night, and it was discovered after dawn that several important commanding heights had not been occupied in time, and they posed a huge threat to Chinese soldiers.Fighting until noon, the telephone and radio connection between the 347th Regiment and the division headquarters was also cut off.In the afternoon, the military radio station sent a telegram saying that the 347th Regiment suffered heavy casualties.The division commander Wang Yang and the director of the political department were in a hurry, and took the staff to the front. They went directly to the position of the 347th Regiment. Wang Yang had just entered the position when he saw Xue Jianqiang coming down on a stretcher. Xue Jianqiang's guards were crying. The young chief of staff of the 116th Division has died. The British army must be stopped here, no matter how high the price is. The head of the regiment, Li Gang, decided to send the Seventh Company up to take down and hold a commanding height stuck on the road. Controlling this commanding height, the British army is tantamount to being paid attention to this depression in Fuguli. Li Fengdang, commander of the Seventh Company, and Zhang Dingxian, the instructor, led the troops to first control the small school on the side of the road.The two of them climbed up the wall of the school and hit the road. There were a large number of cars on the road.Li Fengtang knew that the car was the life of the enemy, and his escape depended on it. If he guarded the road and the car, the enemy would never be able to escape.Therefore, he led the soldiers to quickly seize the small highland beside the road. Just after occupying this highland, the British army attacked before taking a breath. The Seventh Company, the company developed from the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army to the present, is at a critical moment of life and death. Because for the British army, this highland is also related to their life and death. The artillery fire of the British army was extremely fierce, and the one-foot-thick snow on the high ground immediately turned into hot muddy water.There was no way to build fortifications and bunkers, and the Chinese soldiers resisted the attacks of the British soldiers in the muddy water.The ammunition ran out quickly, and all the soldiers sent by the command post to deliver the ammunition died on the road. The intensive firepower of the British army sealed off the road from the high ground to the regiment command post. Soon, the instructor Zhang Ding died first, and then all the platoon leaders also died.When the heavy machine gun was broken, company commander Li Fengli fell down with serious injuries.There were no cadres left on the battlefield, and Li Fengtang looked at the bugleman Zheng Qi who bandaged him in a pool of blood and was speechless, but Zheng Qi understood the look in the company commander's eyes, and the company commander was saying to him: Go and command the battle. Zheng Qi said to the dying company commander: "Don't worry, I will be in charge of the position, hold it firmly!" The person Zheng Qi admired the most was the deputy company commander Wang Fengjiang. The day before breaking through the Linjin River, he had a long chat with the person he admired in the hidden cave.Ever since he knew the news of Yufengjiang's sacrifice, he felt that he had lost something forever, and his heart ached all the time. Zheng Qi gathered the people on the battlefield, and there were still thirteen people who could hold on to the battle, including six members of the Chinese Communist Party. Zheng Qi divided the thirteen people into several fighting groups.Some people suggested that the position of the commander should be at the back, but Zheng Qi disagreed, he knew that the company commander was at the front to command the battle, and he also had to be at the front, and he also appointed someone who would take over his command after he died. The British attacked again after several mortar shells.The tanks on the road aimed their muzzles at the high ground for aiming and shooting, and the British soldiers climbed up to the high ground in rows of skirmishers. Zheng Qi ran on the ground: "Fight! Fight! If you win the fight, you will cross Seoul tomorrow!" After repelling several attacks by the British army, Zheng Qi found that there were no bullets on the ground. He decided to collect bullets from the enemy's corpse. Zheng Qi crawled around the corpses of British soldiers.The British army's machine guns almost followed his figure and fired back and forth.He kept jumping into the crater to avoid it, and finally he used a branch to pick up his military cap and shake it, and the cap was smashed into pieces by the bullets. He carried back a dozen bullet bags and a bunch of grenades from the enemy's corpse. While he was distributing the ammunition, he found that six more people had died. There was an uneasy silence on the Highlands. Looking at the road, the British army's cars are still there, and the cars are full of British soldiers.Because this highland is in the hands of the Chinese, the British army still cannot escape. Zheng Qi distributed the last bit of dry food in the dry food bag to everyone, and then waited for the last moment. The British army launched the last attack. Six tanks participated in the assault on the high ground, and the number of infantry was several times that of the previous attacks. When he could see the British helmet clearly, Zheng Qi gave the order to fire. Almost at the same time, the remaining seven Chinese soldiers stood up and fired, throwing grenades.Zheng Qi shouted while fighting: "The position was bought by comrades in exchange for blood! It cannot be taken away by the enemy!" The British soldiers had already rushed to the position, and all the Chinese soldiers raised their bayonets. Suddenly, Zheng Qi ran to the highest place on the battlefield, stood there, and raised his small steel trumpet.With all his strength, he blew out the bugle at its full volume. The sudden sound of the horn made the British soldiers puzzled for a moment, and then they immediately turned and ran back. The Chinese soldiers who were about to face death felt strange: the enemy who was about to occupy the high ground heard the sound of the trumpet, suddenly stopped shooting, and rushed down as if a catastrophe was imminent! Those who had been nervously observing the movement on this high ground at the command post of the 347th Regiment were also puzzled: What does the sound of the bugle mean?What the hell happened? Zheng Qi blew it over and over until his lips bleed, and kept blowing the enemy onto the road. There was already a fire on the road, and the cars of the British army began to burn under the blow of the main force of the 347th regiment. The Seventh Company, at the cost of almost all casualties, guarded this high ground for a whole day and night, and finally waited for the main force to take the "Royal Rifle Regiment" of the 29th Brigade of the British Army. One of the battalions was wiped out here. Today, the regiment flag of the British Royal "Green Tiger Regiment" is displayed in the Chinese Revolutionary Military Museum, and at the same time, the small brass trumpet that Zheng Qi blew on the battlefield is also displayed. One year after the battle in Fuguli, Zheng Qi was invited to Beijing to attend the National Day ceremony.After visiting Beijing for a few days, on September 30, Zheng Qi received a red invitation card, which read: Sincerely Your presence - Mao Zedong, Chairman of the Central People's Government. Huairen Hall in Zhongnanhai.Mao Zedong entertained more than 200 guests from all walks of life. The table where Mao Zedong sat was No. 100, and the table where Zheng Qi sat was No. 66. Due to the arrangement, Zheng Qi and Mao Zedong were only separated by one table. Zheng Qi, 19, was born in a poor family. His father died when he was two years old, and his mother remarried when he was three years old.He wanted to eat and let the pigs go. If he hadn't joined the army, he wouldn't have known what it was like to have enough food. Zheng Qi walked towards Mao Zedong with a glass of wine. He said: "To Chairman Mao a glass of wine." Mao Zedong asked: "A representative of the Volunteer Army?" Zheng Qi said, "Yes, from the front." Mao Zedong put down his wine glass and took the young soldier's hand. After Zheng Qi returned to the trenches in North Korea, he told his comrades in arms that Chairman Mao's hands were hot, thick and soft. On January 3, 1951, the Chinese army approached Seoul across the board. 这时，小国志愿军部队中开始流行这样一支歌：志愿军不怕困难多，经得起寒冷经得起饿。 两条腿撵上四个枯辘，翻了高山过大河。 不怕美国反击凶，隐蔽好了它炸不着。 不管飞机满天飞，照样开会照样唱歌。 朝鲜人民军一起干，朝鲜游击队来配合。 美军的防线ABC，一攻就是全线突破。 志愿军不怕困难多，经得起考验经得起磨。 不到胜利不停休，不赶走美帝不回国。