In 2005, when the US Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld visited China, he once proposed to visit the 39th Army of our army. Because, in the fourth battle of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, the 39th Army fought against the 1st Division of the US Army's Ace Army Cavalry, and its daring fighting style left a deep impression on the US military.
In an interview with Shen Mu, who was the chief of staff of the 115th Artillery Regiment of the 39th Corps of the Volunteer Army at the time on the Korean battlefield, and later served as the deputy commander of the 39th Corps, we saw one aspect of this mighty division; in Shen Mu In the narration, we felt the impressive military power of the People’s Volunteers...
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Speaking from a map of North Korea
At Shen Mu’s house, we saw a 500,000:1 picture brought back from the Korean battlefield. The map of North Korea was once hung in the 115th Division’s combat command post. Although the edges of the map have been broken, Shen Mu carefully glued it with tape and kept it until now.
In front of the North Korean map that was once hung in the North Korean battlefield combat command post, Shen Mu recalled the past.
The 95-year-old Shen Mu is not a person who is good at talking about himself. In his mouth, he is more of a former comrade-in-arms and a victory. There are too many stories in Shen Mu's stomach about the 39th Army on the battlefield to resist US aggression and aggression: They opened the gate and flooded the US Marines, destroying the enemy's 1st Marine Division's plot to continue its offensive to the north of the Yangtze River; they used a company The troops stuck to the 288.4 highlands, fought bloody battles for 4 days and nights, repelled more than 10 frantic attacks by the enemy, killed and injured more than 400 enemies, and shattered the enemy's plot to seize the highlands and seize the reservoir and dam...
However, in this interview The protagonist of the story of Shen Mu is the 115th Division Artillery Battalion of the 39th Army. During the two years between the battalion’s participation in the war in North Korea in May 1951 and its return to China in May 1953, the battalion shot down 69 enemy aircraft, wounded 68, captured 6 enemy pilots, killed 42 and seized large-caliber machine guns10 Ting, 4 radio stations and a number of other military supplies. Due to the outstanding achievements and outstanding achievements of the battalion, it has been repeatedly commended by the Volunteer Army Headquarters and the 39th Army.
"When the battalion entered the Korean war, the battalion was equipped with multiple rocket launchers. When attacking Yunshan, the artillery was prone to missing bullets in the middle, and it was not suitable for the actual combat situation. The troops immediately returned to the country for reloading. The battalion was equipped with 12 Soviet systems. Anti-aircraft guns and 9 anti-aircraft machine guns.” Shen Mu said, “The Battalion Commander Chen Wenyi is my Jiangsu fellow. He has accumulated a wealth of experience in combat. At that time, our army had no radar and no searchlights. He could only listen and judge with ears. The type, number and approximate flight altitude of the enemy aircraft."
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Yangde airspace has become a "forbidden zone"
Yangde Station is located on the railway line from Sinseongcheon to Wonsan in northern North Korea and is an important transportation hub for the central line of the Korean battlefield. Relying on its "air superiority," the enemy often bombards the area indiscriminately in an attempt to disrupt our army's transportation and cut off our soldiers' supplies and logistics.
In order to ensure the air safety of Yangde Station, the antiaircraft artillery battalion entered the highlands on the east and west sides of Yangde Station at dawn on June 2, 1951, occupied the launch positions, and separated the three artillery positions 600 meters into a triangular configuration. The companies are scattered in the positions of the artillery companies.
After each company entered the position, they actively constructed fortifications, riggedly disguised themselves, dispatched circular observation posts, communicated and communicated, and made all preparations before the war, in line with the enemy’s dive planes and no horizontal planes; only low-altitude planes and no strikes High-altitude aircraft: The principle of fighting the enemy aircraft that is the most threatening to our defending target is to try to achieve close combat.
May 1955, photos of Shen Mu when he was awarded the title.
At 8:10 on June 8, the 3rd company of the battalion first shot down an enemy F-84 fighter jet. At 8:20, the second batch of 8 F-84 fighter jets approached the air, and the battalion’s concentrated firepower shot down one more and injured three. At 8:40, 5 enemy planes were shot down one after another, and the battle lasted until 12:00.
The entire battalion won its first battle, shooting down 7 enemy aircraft, wounding 3 aircraft, and capturing 4 enemy pilots in one day, and won the first battle. During the 20-odd days at the end of June, enemy fighter jets did not dare to attack again during the day. Enemy fighter jets passing by did not dare to pass through the Yangde airspace, but detour from its two wings. "Later, we learned from the captured enemy pilotsIt was found on the aerial map that the enemy had marked Yangde Station as a no-fly zone with a red pencil. "Z1z
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Enemy Changed, I became "Seven Battles and Seven Victory"
After the enemy plane was hit hard by our army during the day, it switched to a B-26 night flight to carry out a night sneak attack on Yangde Station. At about 10 o'clock in the night of June 18, An enemy B-26 bomber carried out a horizontal bombing of the station, killing and wounding more than 60 migrant workers, and suffered serious losses of military supplies.
Facing the enemy’s new challenges, based on the principle of the enemy’s change, the whole camp fully discussed and worked together. Studying tactics, analyzing the laws of enemy aircraft activities, and formulating new combat plans. "At that time, we called this the Zhuge Liang meeting. "Z1z
After half a month of night and day preparations, at 9 p.m. on July 6, an enemy B-26 bomber entered the air over the first company position, and the entire company hit the enemy aircraft with only one short shot, and the enemy aircraft exploded in the air. , The fire blazed into the sky. The stevedores in the station, the cadres and soldiers on the position all raised their arms and shouted in ecstasy. The train sirens to congratulate. Then, at 3:50 on the 7th, another B-26 bomber entered Over the 2nd company position, the whole battalion fired intensively, forming a dense fire-stopping net, and shot it down in one fell swoop.
From July 6 to 18, in 13 days, the anti-aircraft artillery battalion shot down 7 B-26 bombers. One prisoner pilot has achieved a glorious record of "seven battles and seven victories." Shen Mu proudly said: "The 115th Artillery Regiment's artillery battalion on the Korean battlefield is the largest number of enemy night aircrafts shot down at night among all artillery units. unit. "Z1z
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Anti-aircraft artillery’s first "ambush"
The 115th Division Artillery Regiment’s high artillery battalion served as the division command post and Yutandong Ferry’s air defense mission in the defense operations on the east bank of the Linjin River. It lasted 340 days of defense operations. In the battalion, the battalion achieved the results of shooting down 23 enemy aircraft and injuring 21 aircraft, which effectively guaranteed the air safety of the defending target.
In August 1952, under Gan Shuifeng, the second position of the division’s defense, the battalion used our army The traditional method of ambush, shooting down two enemy planes in one fell swoop, created a precedent for anti-aircraft artillery to fight an ambush.
In 1952, he observed the enemy’s picture at the artillery reconnaissance position Gan Shuifeng.
On our defense positions, the enemy often relied on its "air superiority" The formation of 2 to 4 fighter jets was used to harass our artillery positions. According to the requirements of the artillery battalion, the division artillery group command ordered the 3rd company of the artillery battalion to ambush the north slope of Ganshuifeng and attack the enemy by surprise.
August 24 In the evening, the company chose its position on the reverse slope on the north side of Ganshui Peak. With the assistance of an infantry company and a tank company, he pulled up the cannon and seized the preset position in a concealed manner, and was ready for battle before dawn on the 25th.
At 9 o'clock on August 25th, four enemy F-47 fighter jets approached the air from the southwest at a height of 1,500 meters, forming a column. After circling two times above our position, they swooped down towards our artillery position from the east side of Gan Shuifeng and shot their bombs. Under the unified command of company commander Li Huibin, the third company focused fire on the first one, and it hit immediately, and the remaining enemy planes fled in panic. The company commander of the third company judged that the enemy might continue to attack based on the characteristics of the enemy’s usual retaliatory means of continuous attacks, namely Order the entire company to continue to prepare for battle.
At 9:10, the four enemy F-51 fighters entered from the southwest and attacked the three company positions at an altitude of 3000 meters. The company ignored the enemy’s planes and fired bombs, calmly challenged, and quickly aimed. The first one, when the enemy plane dived to a height of 1,500 meters, the entire company set fire in close combat. The first burst shot down the pilot plane, and the other fighter planes fled after panicking. The ambush lasted 12 minutes, and the two battles were successful. Two enemy fighters were shot down successively, and our army had no casualties.
Text: Ling Feng
Editor: Ling Feng
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