On the night of April 22, 1951, three red signal flares launched into the air kicked off the fifth battle of resisting U.S. aggression and aiding Korea. The second squad of the 178th Regiment of the 60th Division of the Volunteer Army was directly under the Bazooka Company, and was equipped with the Fifth Company of the Sharp Knife. He adopted the tactic of sneak attack and lurked under the blind spot of the enemy's high-power searchlight straight light column, quietly touching the frontier positions of the US military.
They took off the empty can shells hanging on the barbed wire mesh to call the police, cut the barbed wire mesh, and broke through the enemy's frontier defense position from the junction of the enemy's defense between the two hills, and seized the two hills, thus opening a breakthrough for the main force to attack. Then he took advantage of the victory and advanced through the enemy's depths for more than ten miles in one night, and fought more than ten times along the way.
The next morning, on a mountain path, more than 100 enemies put down their weapons and sat on both sides of the road to express their surrender. The enemy who surrendered with weapons will be taken over by the subsequent enemy labor department. The task of the Sharp Knife Company is to continue chasing and advancing. After the defense line of the 24th Division of the US was broken, it retreated across the board. The US military is a mechanized division, and fled south from the highway to the northward Han River. Our main force pursued the northern Han River from the mountain road shortcut.
htmlOn 24, the fifth company of Sharp Knido chased into the territory of Bocheon County, Gyeonggi Province, and walked through the mountains of the Yunyue Mountains of Bocheon County. At dawn, in the quiet mountains, we advanced into the bushes on the right side of the mountain road, and suddenly a yellow and black wild deer without long horns rushed out. We broke through the ranks of avant-garde squads and ran into the bushes in the mountains on the left. A fierce battle was coming. At noon, the fifth company of Sharp Knife occupied Yunyue Mountain. After observation, it was found that the enemy burned houses in the village at the foot of the mountain and ravaged the people. The soldiers were very indignant and asked to fight and kill them down the mountain to eliminate these robbers.At 3 pm, the Sharp Knife Company and the Bazooka Squad launched an attack on the enemy's positions at the foot of the mountain. After the enemy discovered it, they organized cross-fire power of light and heavy weapons to block the Sharp Knife Company's impact route. There were bullets and bullets, and tracer bullets and series. The Volunteer Army warriors desperately fought their own lives, braved the enemy's artillery fire, covered each other, and marched forward alternately across the enemy's blockade line. The sharp sword company was like a divine weapon descending from the sky and penetrated into the enemy's position. Face to face and face, and a life-and-death battle began fiercely.
At this time, enemy tanks arrived to reinforce. The US M-48 main battle tank group (also equipped with infantry on the turret) rushed from the right rear mountain at a speed of five or six meters per second, directly threatening the sharp knife company. At this critical moment, Pan Zemin was fearless and stood up to meet the enemy. He used the tactics of hitting the head and slashing the enemy tank group that came to the column to prevent them from advancing to ensure the safety of the sharp knife company; the second was to ensure that the first shell hit the target and fight the Khan enemy in close combat.
said it was late, and then the enemy tank was coming quickly. Pan Zemin was very calm and boldly let it enter the effective range of bazooka , 200 meters, 100 meters, 80 to 90 meters. The tank muzzle also aimed at the "dadada" to shoot. The situation was very tense, but Pan Zemin was very calm and calm, aimed at the enemy's vanguard tank and held its breath and fired decisively. With a "boom", the first shell hit the target.
The American tank that was still showing off its might just now ignited a raging fire in an instant, like a burning "dead turtle" paralyzed there and could no longer move. A cheer immediately sounded from the position: "I hit it, I hit it!" The company commander also encouraged: "Pan Zemin hit it, Pan Zemin hit it!"
At this time, Pan Zemin quickly moved behind a pile of soil, and saw a second tank coming from the side of the destroyed tank, which was a good opportunity to smash its head and create conditions for the entire annihilation of the enemy tank group. The loader quickly loaded the shells, and Pan Zemin shot two shots in a row. The second tank track was broken and paralyzed next to the first tank, and the road was blocked.
The enemy was angry and shy. Several tanks concentrated their firepower and fired violently, and fired retaliatory fire. The anti-aircraft machine gun on the turret also shot flat. The tank group increased the accelerator and rushed forward fiercely. Pan Zemin fought a tank and changed his position to another position, concealed along the ridge of the field, and quickly moved his position to approach the enemy.
At this time, Pan Zemin had only four rocket launchers in his hand. He had to save ammunition and fire the gun before he was sure. When transferring positions, he stared at the movements of the enemy tanks and accurately estimated the distance of the enemy tanks. It was only more than forty meters, and the "boom" two guns destroyed the fourth tank in half.Then the fifth tank rushed over, and Pan Zemin and the third squad anti-tank team concentrated their firepower and fired at the same time, and hit the fire and destroyed the fifth tank.
The crew of the destroyed tank and the infantry carried were rolling and climbing, walking southwest along the small high ground on the right. At this time, the English slogan "Snatch the gun and don't kill it" and "be lenient to prisoners" sounded in the mountains. A few enemies huddled near the tank, trying to repair the destroyed tanks and resisted stubbornly. Pan Zemin's anti-tank team and infantry combat team used infantry weapon to eliminate the remaining enemies, and 6 American tank crews were captured. After the battle was over, there were 20 "dead turtles" on the entire Jiangkou Cave position.
In the anti-tank battle of Jiangkou Cave, Pan Zemin used the 90 rocket launcher captured by the United States from the US soldiers and destroyed four main battle tanks worth more than 30 tons made by the United States with 8 US-made rocket shells, which greatly increased our army's ambition and destroyed the prestige of the US military.
According to the battlefield meritorious service regulations, fight a second-class merit for one tank or an aircraft, fight two tanks or two aircraft, and fight a first-class merit for two tanks or two aircraft. Pan Zemin made a special merit and created an anti-tank example that combines courage and wit and shooting technology. In order to commend Pan Zemin's anti-tank achievements, the Political Department of the Volunteer Army Command awarded him the honorable title of "anti-tank hero".
