Author Guo Yongtai Edited the High-speed Railway Army
Editor's note:
The old movie "Surprise Attack" was created based on the deeds of the 38th Army of the Volunteer Army bombing Wuling Bridge. Before the Second Battle of Resisting U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea, Liang Xingchu, commander of the 38th Army of the Volunteer Army, proposed to form a reconnaissance detachment, which would penetrate south of Tokugawa in advance, and reconnaissance reported the enemy situation and roads along the way. When the large army began to attack the 7th Tokugawa puppet division, it blew off the Wuling Bridge and blocked the enemy from fleeing south and north. The 38th Army Reconnaissance Detachment has a total of 323 people, consisting of the Army Reconnaissance Company, the 113th Division Reconnaissance Company and two engineer platoons. Several directors and deputy directors of the Interior Affairs Office of Pyeongan South Road, North Korea serve as liaison officers and translators in the detachment. Zhang Kuiyin, deputy chief of the Military Reconnaissance Section, serves as the detachment leader and political commissar.
surprise attack into Wuling Bridge
Guo Yongtai
midnight (night of November 24, 1950), a bonfire flashed on the mountains, and the tongue of fire licked the dark night sky, and tracer bullet kept flying from above to behind. We ran quickly and quietly in the enemy's defense zone. White frost was condensed on the hat and cotton coat, but sweat was covered with beads of sweat. From time to time, I wiped my eyes with a towel, panting with my mouth open. Run, run, as long as you can quickly penetrate to Wuling Bridge, it doesn’t matter no matter how tired you are.
The night is getting deeper and deeper, the northwest wind is passing by my ears, and the team keeps running southward. At the Datong River Ferry, we knocked down the enemy sentry. After stepping across the river, the vanguard squad met a small group of Li puppet troops in the village. We broke up these enemies blocking the road and continued to quickly run forward. After running for four or five hours, when turning a mountain bend, the vanguard squad was crushed on the road by the enemy's heavy machine gun. mortar constantly exploded at the rear of the team.
It seems that the enemy has discovered us. If we continue to tangle here, we cannot complete the bridge bombing mission at 8:00 a.m. the day after tomorrow - the 26th. In response to this situation, the reconnaissance section chief ordered me to lead a row (the first row of the military reconnaissance company), climb up the steep slope on the left, attract enemy firepower, cover the troops to retreat to the mountain on the left, and bypass the enemy and continue to advance. He said: "We don't need to spend time to annihilate this enemy. As long as we blow up the Wuling Bridge on time, let alone these guys, even the American robbers in Tokugawa will become turtles in the jar."
Wuling Bridge orientation
Half an hour later, I completed the task as planned; at dawn, I met with the troops on the Shop Peak again. Everyone chooses to stay in the Nanmu forest as a hidden place for rest during the day, and wait until the sky turns to dusk before setting off. When I crossed the Datong River last night, I didn’t have time to take off my clothes and my clothes were wet. The cold wind blew along the way, and the cotton coat was frozen hard. Now when I stopped, my whole body was like I was wrapped in an ice shell, trembling with coldness. In order to avoid frostbite and loss of personnel, everyone ran in the woods. We teased ourselves and said, "I was not satisfied with running all night last night. I really wanted to be considered a special athlete!" Some people patted the cotton coats that were frozen like iron shells and said, "Hey! We are racing in armor!"
It was completely dawn, and the sun's light shone into the jungle. We stopped running and sat down to dry our clothes. In order to deal with possible situations, no one took off the sun. The sun is an everlasting fire, and our bodies are moving clothes racks. It was sunny, and I fell asleep in a daze. I don’t know how long it took, but I was woken up, got up and picked up the snow to wash my face, and then had a meal with everyone. I had eaten this meal for a long time, and the corn cakes were frozen like iron blocks. As soon as the sun came out, we put them on the stones and dried them, and ate them one by one, but we felt that the more we ate them, the more we ate them, the more we tasted.
When the sun is approaching, I went to branch committee . At the meeting, the chief of the reconnaissance section (the deputy chief of the military reconnaissance section was Zhang Kuiyin) spread out the map and made a brief analysis.He said: "It's more than 140 miles away from the bridge. After a night of marching and fighting, the troops were tired and hungry. Moreover, the enemy discovered us again, so it would be even more difficult to move forward, but..." He stopped and looked at us all, as if he wanted to find an answer on our faces, and then continued: "...We must break through all difficulties, and we believe we can do it. The radio station just now received the order from the military command post, asking us to complete the task on time."
Zhang Kuiyin and his comrades were studying the route of progress (the picture comes from the "Long Live Army" album)
After talking, he took us to see the terrain. Looking down from a high place, I saw enemy cars coming and going on the highways that run across the north and south at the foot of the mountain. The surrounding villages and important intersections were all stationed in enemy troops, and the shadows of the guard posts were swimming. It’s really hard to get into Wuling Bridge through the gaps of the enemy. How difficult it is! However, no one doubts that we can complete the task resolutely.
When the sun was about to post on the hill, the team set off and our platoon was responsible for the vanguard mission. In order to hurry up and find a gap, we took the shortcuts to march through the barren mountains and forests. There is no road here, the ground is full of dead branches and rotten leaves, so I step down. It cannot be pulled out like it is stuck in a mud pit, and the stench smell hits its nostrils; in some places, thorny wild vines and fallen fir block the front like a deer fort. We followed the direction of compass , and used wooden sticks to sweep the pine branches and vines, opening up the road. If the wooden sticks cannot be beaten, they will pull them with their hands and chop them with an axe, which is so tired that they sweat. I had just cleared some thorny wild vines like iron wire, but who knew that I was holding up such a thick tree in front of me. When I bent down and raised it, it was so strange that the tree was as light as a lamp grass, it turned out to be a rotten rotten tree. We stood up straight and threw away the wood. With a whirlwind, a yellow thing rushed past Han Zhongxiao's crotch and almost knocked him down. We were stunned for a long time before we could see clearly that it was a goat. Han Zhongxiao said with some regret: "Why didn't you find out long ago? Should we have a meal?"
Reconnaissance Detachment was marching in the mountains (pictures from "Long Live Army" album)
After it got dark, the forest was mercerized like a big box, and the person behind grabbed the corner of the person in front and explored and moved forward. Sometimes when someone touches a big tree, a scream immediately sounds. Sometimes dry leaves a few feet deep spread out on the ground, and they trembled when they stepped on them. Some comrades joked, "We are so rich, we are walking on the sofa!" They walked like this for a few hours before they came to an end. When we first saw the stars in the sky, we couldn't help but whisper excitedly, "It's out of the cage now!"
We are really like birds out of the cage, running happily.
A dark village, standing across the way we were moving forward, and a faint cry of women came from the village. The section chief estimated that there were enemies in the village and ordered us to go in and search.
We followed the disguised liaison officer to run to the village. As soon as we entered the village, we met the sentinel of the pseudo-security team. He asked, "What are you doing?"
"National Army!" The liaison officer simply replied, "Look for your commander."
The guy nodded and bowed to lead the way in front. When we walked into the pseudo-government office and turned on the lights, the guys were stunned and handed over all the guns and ammunition in a desperate way.
passed through the village, crossed the forest, and walked for another night. At dawn, along the spiral winding mountain path, climbed to the 1,100-meter Houxianyou Peak, and saw milky white clouds rolling under our feet.
"Look! The foot of the mountain is Wuling!" I shouted happily.
When everyone heard that it was Wuling, they smiled in surprise and jumped, and accelerated their pace at the same time and ran down the mountain. The people in the village didn't know where we came from, and they all looked at us timidly because the Li puppet army had just snatched their cattle and food.
We borrowed a wooden ladder and rope from a fellow villager and headed straight for Wuling Bridge. This five-hole gray bridge spanning the steep cave is an important trunk line that the Tokugawa enemy must pass when they escape south.Now it has caught us. The American Li bandit army never dreamed that we suddenly appeared like a divine weapon falling from the sky, and destroyed the pseudo-security team guarding the bridge, blew up the bridge, and built a position on the north end of the bridge, blocking their retreat...
1 in his later years (pictures are from the Internet)
Postscript: essay is selected from the seventh episode of "Military History Edition". If the descendants of the author see this article, please contact us, thank you!
This article was first published in the era when the public account grew up together
