The heavens start from Changjin Lake

Chapter 875 Massive Attack
In the conference room, several people smoked silently and were too lazy to talk.

Almond had been doing well on the Eastern Front.

On November 11, the US 21th Division invaded Huishan on the banks of the Yalu River. He led the division commander Barr to go to congratulate him. He saw the long green water of the Yalu River, the snow-capped banks, and saw that the river bridge had been blown up by them. , the wreckage stayed on the river surface.

He stood by the Yalu River, looking at the Chinese border, and reported victory to MacArthur. MacArthur was overjoyed and sent a congratulatory message: "Edward, congratulations to you, my sincere congratulations, and please tell Major General Barr that the US Seventh Division has won the largest victory." success."

However, just a few days later, the troops on the east and west fronts were divided and surrounded.

MacArthur had to formulate a retreat plan. The United Nations troops would set up defenses on the front lines of Pyongyang and Wonsan, first reorganize the team, and then formulate a counterattack plan.

As a result, a large number of U.S. troops on the western front fled from the north of the Chongchuan River towards Junyu-ri and Bicheon. On the eastern front, the U.S. and Li puppet troops retreated to the distant mountains in an attempt to block the distant mountains and Pyongyang defense lines.

MacArthur exclaimed to Washington at this time that the Chinese had dispatched a large number of elite troops, and at the same time issued a statement to foreign countries regarding the sudden change in the war situation.

On the morning of the 29th, MacArthur declared that the "Christmas Return Offensive" was bankrupt. ,

"Due to the large-scale march southward by the Chinese army, it is difficult to expect an early end to the Korean War."

On the afternoon of the 29th, the th Division captured Yangzhan, broke through the Turkish brigade defense line, and prepared to continue the attack in the direction of Junyu-ri. Just at this time, a call came from the military headquarters.

"In order to reduce the pressure on the 113th Division in Sansuoli and Longyuanli, you should temporarily abandon the enemy in Junyuli and quickly move closer to the 113th Division."

The phone was hung up. The head of the military department, together with the deputy divisions and cadres of the 14th Division, arranged the march of each regiment. They ordered each regiment to quickly abandon the original plan and immediately change direction and march towards Longyuanli and Xinglongli. , occupying a position on the west side of the railway, and working side by side with the 113th Division to block the enemies fleeing south.

At the same time, Commander Yang Dayi of the 112th Division was informed that in addition to using part of the force to contain the current enemy, the main force of the division would move south along the railway and highway, and work side by side with the 114th Division at Longxingli to intercept the enemies fleeing south.

He also told the two divisions that if they encountered the enemy on the way, they should take advantage of the fact that the entire enemy line has not moved, so that regiments, battalions, and companies should fight independently. Wherever the enemy runs, they should block and annihilate them.

At that time, the commander of the 114th Division was commanding the battle in the 340th Regiment, and the military headquarters ordered him to come back immediately.

After the division commander came back, after a meeting and discussion, he immediately decided to lead the troops to penetrate into the Xinglongli area. In order to avoid encountering the enemy and delaying the support of the 113th Division, the troops took a small road and penetrated directly into Xinglongli after setting off.

At this time, Sun Hongdao, the commander of the 342nd Regiment, suffered from excessive sleepiness and dizziness due to continuous fighting, which caused hearing impairment and could not even hear the sound of artillery. However, he had to carry out the division commander's order and lead the troops to march towards Xinglongli, but he His body was really unsupportable and he fell down on the side of the road while walking. He had to be supported by two guards and kept moving forward on the rugged mountain road.

When the road passing through Bichuan has steep mountains on the right side and a riverbed on the left, the enemy tightly blocked it with volleys of artillery in order to prevent the advance of the 114th Division.

Sun Hongdao made a prompt decision and ordered the troops to advance lightly, quickly ford the river bed, pass through the enemy's artillery blockade, and advance along the east side path.

In order to speed up the advance of the troops and save the trouble of finding roads, he ordered the regiment staff officer to lead two correspondents to clear the way first.

Sun Hongdao explained: "In order to carry out covert operations, you must do three things correctly. You are not allowed to find a guide, you are not allowed to take the main road, and you are not allowed to alarm the barking dogs. Only by surprise can you win!"

Whenever there is a war, no country is short of traitors. Some guides who seem to be taking the initiative to show the way to the volunteers may also be traitors.

In order not to disturb the barking dogs, the regiment staff bypassed the village and walked into the wilderness.

Without a guide, he had no choice but to grasp the direction according to the azimuth angle. After walking for a while, he would check the map to guide the team to move forward quickly.

It was dark at night and he couldn't see the map, so he needed to use the light of a flashlight. In order to avoid exposing the target, he asked the two guards to put on raincoats. When necessary, they would form a circle and cover themselves with raincoats.

Because the 342nd Regiment moved in a concealed manner, the enemy did not notice that the 114th Division of the Volunteer Army had crossed the south of the Yangtze River, and still used artillery fire to tightly block the road. The artillery fire did not stop all night.

The soldiers said humorously: "The Turkish Brigade is such a good friend. They kept sending us a 'salute' to our destination."

At dawn, the 342nd Regiment of the 114th Division entered the Xinglongli area. As soon as they arrived, they encountered the enemies fleeing south. They were advancing on the road in a mighty manner. They all immediately engaged in fierce battles with the enemies and beat them. Catch a large number of enemy soldiers and cars by surprise.

The 114th Division was close to Longyuanli, and together with the 113th Division, they strengthened their ability to block the enemy's escape south and seek reinforcements from the north, and forcibly controlled the distance between the enemy trying to escape south and the enemy trying to go north to support. one kilometer.

The two sides can almost see each other, but at this distance of one kilometer, they are being violently penetrated by the frontal troops of the 38th Army, and are in a chaotic state of division and fragmentation.

At this time, the 112th Division was advancing rapidly towards Fengmingli.

At 29:16 on the th, the enemy's th Division of the US Army in Fengmingli fled in two directions to the west and southwest. The enemy tanks frantically blocked the path forward of the th Division.

In order to open the blockade formed by enemy tanks, the 334th Regiment launched a fierce attack on the tank group.

The Sixth Company of the 334th Regiment did not have anti-tank weapons, but the soldiers had long had experience in dealing with tanks in China. They made cluster grenades into cluster grenades, stuffed them into the tank tracks, and blew up the enemy's leading tank in one fell swoop. The second company's demolition teams followed suit. Blow up the tanks in the rear.

After two hours of fierce fighting, Fengmingli was successfully captured.

At 29:20 on the th, the rd Battalion of the th Regiment occupied Zhengtong Mountain and started a fierce battle with the first section of the US nd Division that fled south. The th Company successively occupied the unnamed high ground to block the attack. Both US attacks were repelled.

At 3 o'clock, the main force of the battalion arrived, and the troops turned from defense to offense. The battalion commander ordered the sixth and ninth companies to attack from the front, and the seventh company to flank, determined to eat the enemy.

The cunning enemy used tanks and cars to form a fortress and fired fiercely at the troops of the third battalion.

The commander of the third battalion was quick to think and decided to organize firepower to blow up the cars in front and behind, forcing the enemy infantry to lose the barrier of cars and tanks and be exposed to the firepower of the third battalion.

Therefore, comrades from the Sixth and Ninth Companies first concentrated their firepower on cars. Cars were easier to fight than tanks and easier to ignite.

Under the concentrated firepower, the enemy's cars were set alight one after another. The enemy's cars and tanks were very close to each other. The raging fire immediately endangered the tanks. There were deep ditches and cliffs on the left and right sides, and the road was narrow. , the tanks panicked. The first tank rushed on the burning car, and the second tank hit the first tank because of its excessive speed and also burned.

The tank driver behind saw that something was wrong, and the infantrymen on the car abandoned the vehicle and fled. The soldiers of the third battalion took advantage of the enemy's confusion to launch a fierce attack, annihilating more than 200 enemies, intercepting more than 400 cars, and more than 30 artillery pieces.

Without the harassment of peripheral enemies, Price River was exposed to the guns of the 112th Division.

Then, Yang Dayi commanded the troops to attack Bichuan. They stood on the mountain and had a commanding view of the enemies in Bichuan. He found that the enemies were heading west from the city, and there were more and more tanks and artillery vehicles.

The cadres were eager to attack and hoped that Yang Dayi would give orders quickly and not let the enemies of Qichuan escape.

Yang Dayi pressed his hand and said: "Don't worry, let's let him run out of the city!" Suddenly, they saw the city burning with fire, something was ignited, and there was an explosion. Those were supplies left by the enemy. , cannot be taken away, can only be destroyed.

Yang Dayi concluded that all the enemies had left the city, and ordered the 334th Regiment and the 336th Regiment to outflank the enemy from the left and right sides. It only took an hour to annihilate the enemy.

Among them were the U.S. Second Division, the 200th Division, and the puppet troops. More than 20 cars, more than cannons, and countless supplies of various types were seized.

As soon as the battle ended, Comrade Han and Comrade Liang of the 38th Army arrived. The volunteers captured Peichuan, and most of the enemies in Peichuan were annihilated by them. The soldiers who had been fighting continuously were already exhausted.

Comrade Liang said: "Now is not the time to rest, you must quickly advance to Songgu Peak."

Yang Dayi received the order and promised: "Please rest assured, chief, I have been looking at the map here for a day, and I promise to arrive at Songgu Peak on time!"

At this point, the 38th Army cut off the connection between the U.S. military between Junyu-ri and Bichuan. The three divisions of U.S. troops were divided and surrounded by Fengmingli, Bichuan, Sansuoli, and Longyuanli. vast area.

The armies of the thin line started fierce battles to encircle and annihilate the US military on the banks of the Chongchuan River, starting from Xin'anju in the west, to Junyu-ri and Jichuan in the east, and to Yongyuan-ri and Sanso-ri in the south.

The first one to bear the brunt is Longyuanli.

A large number of the enemy's main forces were blocked in Longyuanli by the 113th Division and the 114th Division.

On the 29th alone, the st Company and rd Company of the th Regiment fought against the enemy for a whole day and suffered heavy casualties.

The first company mainly dealt with the enemies coming south, and the third company mainly dealt with the enemies coming from the north.

He insisted on holding the position firmly with heavy casualties.

This day made the enemies on both sides extremely anxious and unable to move forward.

At dusk, the enemy retreated again.

The division cadres of the 113th Division estimated that tomorrow would be a fierce battle. Some advocated building fortifications and burying mortar shells on the road with the detonators upward, so that the enemy tanks could damage the road and blow it up with one press. Enemy tank tracks.

Some people advocated attacking at night, and the enemy should not be allowed to escape in vain. After intense discussion, the opinion advocating the attack came to the forefront, and Jiang Chao agreed to attack.

He decided that the second battalion of the 337th Regiment would not move, the first battalion would fight along the road, and the third battalion would go over the mountains to find the enemy and fight.

The First Battalion chased along the road for more than ten miles without encountering the enemy. The enemy did not catch up. The fortifications that were blown up by enemy shells during the day had not yet been built. The First Battalion returned non-stop to build fortifications.

As soon as the troops returned to their positions, it was dawn and the fortifications had not yet been repaired. A large number of enemies came rushing in, with tanks in front and military vehicles behind them.

Everyone regretted that they should not have attacked last night, but destroyed the highway.

The enemy concentrated artillery fire from the beginning, and 24 aircraft cooperated to launch an even more frenzied attack on the Longyuanli Third Company position guarded by the th Division. Zhang Youxi called the battalion instructor to report the situation here, and a shell fell. Next to Lian Zhi, a huge air wave destroyed Lian Zhi and blew up the phone line.

Several company cadres in the company were also blown away by the huge shock wave.

Zhang Youxi felt that the situation was not good and immediately ran towards the third row position. Bang bang, two petrol bombs exploded in front of him again. The heat wave overturned him. The burning flames ignited the cotton-padded clothes on his body. He had no time to extinguish them and tore the cotton-padded clothes directly. Drive, shake off, run forward with your shirt on.

When he ran to the third row position, he found that the land here had been plowed by enemy artillery fire. The ground was full of blown-up tree trunks and rubble. There were bomb craters one after another. Most of the bunkers and fortifications were destroyed. He was guarding the front line. Both the squad leader and deputy squad leader of Class Seven died.

A soldier cried and said that the bodies of the two men could not be found and they were afraid that they had been blown up by enemy shells.

Zhang Youxi's heart was heavy, but he ignored his sadness and immediately re-appointed an acting squad leader on the battlefield to organize the soldiers to resist the enemy's attack.

The enemy frantically attacked the positions of the 1st and 3rd companies several times in companies and battalions, but all ended in failure. In anger, they called in dozens of planes to bomb the hills one by one along the highway.

On this day, the soldiers who stood on the Longyuanli position could not see the sun in the sky.

West Line.

Various units of the Volunteer Army formed a large siege of the US Army, with only the southwest gap not yet blocked.

On the night of the 29th, 8 regiments and 24 battalions of the th Army were like dozens of sharp swords thrust into the surrounded enemies. They fought fiercely all night, forcing the enemies to retreat towards Junyu-ri.

Junyuli was occupied by the 30th Army at 3: on the th, forcing the enemy to flee in the direction of Longyuanli.

The three divisions of the 38th Army deployed in the Longyuanli, Xinglongli, Qinglongli, and Fengmingli areas to fight fiercely with the blocked enemies.

If the enemy wants to break through, the first thing they need to do is to tear apart the defense line of the 38th Army. Only in this way can they have a chance to break through.

The battle on the 30th was unprecedentedly fierce. In order to make a final desperate struggle, MacArthur assembled more than 500 aircraft sorties, and with tanks as the guide, he adopted a "wave-like" group charge in an attempt to open a gap and escape from the encirclement. When the Sanqi Regiment fought a fierce battle at the gate of Longyuanli.

A more difficult battle began in the 335th Regiment.

This is Songgu Peak.

Songgu Peak is located in the northeast of Longyuanli, forming a tripod with Sansuoli and Longyuanli. It connects to Junyuli in the north and Keda Jianchuan in the northwest. Its geographical location is very important.

The main peak is 288.7 meters high and extends 120 meters east from the top of the mountain to the highway.

The road turns slowly here, forming a 'U'-shaped bend, which is a good terrain for guarding the enemy.

However, it is just a half-rock, half-earth, bare mountain with a relatively small slope and many rain cracks, so it is not that extraordinary of a position.

But such an inconspicuous hillock became the place where the Ninth Regiment of the US Second Division was destroyed.

Guarding this hillock were the soldiers of the 335th Regiment, 1st Battalion and 3rd Company.