Soldiers are often known for their strong bloodline, especially when facing foreign invasions, relying on this bloodline, they can often burst out with strong fighting will and qualities. On the contrary, it is absolutely shameful to choose to surrender or even rebel in the face of powerful enemies. Once a soldier betrays his team, he will not only be disgraced by the former side, but even if he accepts his enemy troops, he will despise such a person without willpower and backbone from his heart, and will only use it without truly entrusting important tasks.
However, such an abnormal thing happened during the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea. A soldier from a volunteer army betrayed his motherland and surrendered to the hostile US military. After learning about the identity and unit number of the defector, Li Qiwei, then commander of the US Eighth Army, personally ordered the dispatch of a special air force aircraft to connect the man from the front line to Daegu, which was heavily guarded by the US side. As soon as this person arrived in Daegu, Li Qiwei ordered the military procuratorate to inquire about him in detail. From a level perspective, the commander of an army should not have taken such importance to an ordinary soldier. The reason why Li Qiwei received this volunteer army defector in such a "high-level reception" was to get from him about our troops deployment in order to make full preparations before the next battle begins. So what kind of information does Li Qiwei want to get from the traitor, and can his plan be successfully implemented in the end?
1950, in the second year of the founding of New China, Western countries led by the United States brutally interfered in the internal affairs of the Korean Peninsula. After World War II , the Korean Peninsula was divided into two north and south governments according to the 38th latitude north latitude. The two regimes had uninterrupted political and military conflicts since their establishment, and finally the civil war broke out on the peninsula in the early 1950s. Originally, this war had no direct relationship with the United States, but the United States used this as an excuse to unite other countries from the same camp to force troops to North Korea under the banner of saving North Korea.
On the surface, this is the United States' military "leading" for its South Korean allies. However, anyone with a discerning eye can see that the United States' ambition is not only satisfied with controlling the Korean Peninsula, but also to challenge the bottom line of the New China, which is dependent on North Korea. During the US's armed interference in North Korea's internal affairs, its aircraft bombed the Sino-North Korea border, causing serious losses to the lives and property of the residents on our border. Faced with this situation, Chairman Mao and other leaders made the decision to defend their homes and defend their country. So in 1950, our country formed the Chinese People's Volunteer Army and entered North Korea to support it in batches.
But the severity of this battle exceeded our expectations before the war. On the one hand, the combat effectiveness and weapon equipment level of the US military, which had just experienced the baptism of World War II, have an overwhelming advantage, especially the cooperation of its various military branches has reached a perfect level. Due to the special terrain of the Korean Peninsula, the United States can summon its navy and air force to enter the battlefield and launch an attack on our volunteer army at almost any point on the battlefield. On the other hand, although China and North Korea are separated by a river, sending troops into North Korea is a transnational war after all, and there is no need to do so in terms of terrain familiarity and logistics supply. Taking the Battle of Changjin Lake in the early days of the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea as an example, although our army showed a brave and fearless spirit, the harsh environment still brought great trouble to our soldiers.
In this battle, the 20th Army and the 27th Army, the main force, fought fiercely with the US military in the area of Changjin Lake, . Although it paid a heavy price, it still failed to prevent the US military from breaking through with a full system. At this time, the 26th Army, as a reserve team, rushed to the battlefield, hoping to take over the heavy task of the brothers, catch up with and wipe out the enemy, and then pursued the south.But at that time, it was the coldest time in the Changjin Lake area. The 26th Army, which was alone and deep, was rashly entering the army without sufficient warm-keeping equipment. Not only was it unable to catch up with the fleeing enemy, it trapped itself in the snow and ice. Many soldiers died heroically because of their weakness and thin clothes, which also became one of the most tragic scenes in the history of the Volunteer Army.
After this battle, the superiors severely criticized the 26th Army's rash behavior and punished the relevant responsible persons. Among them, the , which had serious casualties, was removed, and the 262nd Regiment, originally the main regiment of the 88th Division, was "relegated" from the main regiment to the military spy regiment. In the internal system of our army, the troops directly under the headquarters such as the secret service regiment are often not front-line combat units. Such adjustments are tantamount to the officers and soldiers of the 262nd Regiment. In addition, the 264th Regiment, which originally belonged to the 88th Division, was also assigned to the 77th Division due to the abolition of the original unit number. The traitor named Lu Qiliang mentioned above is a member of the 264th Regiment.
After a brief browsing of Lu Qiliang's archives, Li Qiwei discovered that the affiliation between the 264th Regiment of the Volunteer Army where he was located had changed from the 88th Division to the 77th Division. Due to the high sensitivity of professional soldiers, Li Qiwei believed that this was not a simple signal. He tried to get more information from the changes in the internal numbers of the Volunteer Army to make a judgment on our army's next combat operations and methods. This is also the reason why he attached so much importance to Lu Qiliang.
Sure enough, after interrogating Lu Qiliang, Li Qiwei confirmed his judgment, and then Li Qiwei felt a long-lost sense of relaxation. This is because Li Qiwei was already planning a battle to cross the Hantan River at this time. As a skilled tactician, Li Qiwei knew the importance of occupying the commanding heights in the war. His plan was to immediately attack the commanding heights of Seed Mountain after passing the Hantan River. If this high point could be won in the shortest time, it would become a major wedge for the US military to nail the hinterland of the Volunteer Army's position. Once the US military gathered large forces to attack, this high ground would inevitably make the first in our army unable to take care of each other and eventually lose the battle. The troops guarding the Seed Mountain Highlands were the 262nd Regiment, which had just been "reduced" from the front-line troops to the military's secret service regiment.
In Li Qiwei's view, this army has just been defeated and has undergone personnel adjustments. It is not scary in terms of morale and combat effectiveness of the troops. It seems that success is close to you. Inside the 262nd Regiment, although everyone felt depressed because of the defeat and the loss of the position of the main regiment, under the encouragement of the regiment commander Zhang Yuanhe, everyone gradually emerged from their previous depression. Zhang Yuanhe, who has rich combat experience, can also see the strategic importance of the Seed Mountain he guards, so he must complete this task whether for the overall situation of the battle or the honor and disgrace of his own troops.
On April 11, the US military took advantage of the night to approach Seed Mountain. Since the US military's position was located a river from Seed Mountain, if the US military wanted to seize Seed Mountain, it would have to cross this river first. The US military's mentality of underestimating the enemy when crossing the river also made it pay the price. After learning that the troops guarding Seed Mountain were the 262nd Regiment of the 262nd Regiment of the "defeated general" of Seed Mountain, the US military not only had the intention of underestimating the enemy, but they believed that as long as they had full firepower, the volunteers on Seed Mountain would be completely wiped out by them in a short time. Many of them believed that Li Qiwei's order to cross the river at night was obviously "a move."
With this idea, many soldiers of the US military seemed absent-minded when crossing the river, and even misunderstood the water depth in the early measurements. The price of this negligence was that several soldiers fell into the water while crossing the river. Because they had an error in estimates before, they couldn't help but shout in panic when they discovered the real depth of the water. This sound quickly attracted the attention of the officers and soldiers of the 262nd Regiment guarding Seed Mountain. They quickly realized that this was a surprise attack on the commanding heights by the US military in the dark of the night, so the volunteers quickly launched a blocking attack based on favorable terrain.
Seeing that the trace was discovered, the US military simply tore off its disguise and launched a frontal attack. Under the call of the night attack troops, the US military's artillery fire flew towards the Seed Mountain Highlands. For a moment, stone chips flew, and the hilltop was covered by the air waves and smoke caused by artillery shells. After several rounds of artillery attacks, the Americans proudly believed that Seed Mountain would never have any life anymore, so they were arrogant and prepared to go forward to occupy the high point. However, at this moment, Seed Mountain seemed to be resurrected. Various light and dark firepower points suddenly spit out fire snakes, and the vanguard of the US military was instantly injured. The Americans opened their mouths in surprise when they saw this scene.
It turns out that since the 262nd Regiment suffered losses, the whole regiment learned from his mistakes and decided to get rid of his mistake of underestimating the enemy and responded to the enemy in a smarter way. Therefore, after receiving the task of defending Seed Mountain, the regiment commander Zhang Yuanhe first asked the entire regiment soldiers to dig out many ravines on the mountain in the way of the Volunteer Army leader tunnel battle . Even if the enemy used large-scale artillery fire to "cover" our positions, the soldiers could use the tunnel to withstand most of the firepower strikes and preserve more living forces, which also made up for the disadvantages of the 262nd Regiment itself in terms of number of people and combat effectiveness. The extremely arrogant US military did not know the trick. After seeing their side suffer, they shouted and continued to rush towards Seed Mountain. After a burst of gunfire and grenades and explosions, another enemy corpses were arranged in front of the position.
Seeing this scene, the Americans became furious in an instant. They vowed to take down the Seed Mountain to wash away the previous shame. However, the problem is that at this time the US military was already blinded by anger. They attacked without analysis, but the result was that they could only suffer greater casualties. When the US was timid and prepared to command the troops to retreat, our army took advantage of the victory and came out of the tunnel to launch a firepower strike on the US army. Because our side was in full swing and occupied a high point, the Americans could only be beaten but could not fight back for a while. Zhang Yuan and the regiment commander's tactic practiced Chairman Mao's idea of "the enemy retreated and the enemy attacked me." The US military, which fled in panic, tried to change its strategy and attack the other high point of the nearby Highland 463. However, under the calm blocking of our army, the opponent not only failed but paid a greater price for casualties. It even trampled between the two commanding heights and the Turkish Brigade as reinforcements. After the battle, there were only 240 people left in the third battalion of the US military, which was the main attacker, and the 262nd Regiment fought a beautiful "turnaround battle".
This beautiful blocking battle not only hit the arrogance of the US military, but also laid a good foundation for the subsequent fifth battle. Li Qiwei originally thought that the intelligence obtained from the rebellion was Lu Qiliang's mouth that could help him achieve an absolute victory against our army. However, under the tenacious resistance of my brave volunteer army, this battle gave the US military a huge shame, which also shows that the tenacious Chinese military and civilians are invincible.
