[Promoting the Great Spirit of Resisting US Aid Korea] Xinxingli Fighting: Annihilate a whole regiment, defeat powerful enemies with inferior equipment

From November 27 to December 2, 1950, the battle started in Xinxingli, North Korea. In this battle, in view of the advanced weaponry and equipment of the enemy and the support of the air force, the 27th Army of our Volunteers adopted the traditional tactics of close combat and night combat to surprise the enemy, attack the unprepared, exploit strengths and circumvent weaknesses, and defeat the enemy. In the end, 3191 members of the "Polar Bear Regiment", an elite unit of the US Army, were completely wiped out by our army. Our army also seized more than 100 US artillery pieces, 127 rocket launchers, 2445 guns, 11 tanks, and 199 cars. It marked the name of this once-in-a-lifetime "ace group" and has since disappeared forever. It created the miracle of war of defeating the superior by the inferior and defeating the strong by the weak. It was the only glorious example in the history of the war to resist US aggression and aggression against the United States that completely wiped out the US military and strengthened the infantry regiment and captured its flag.

In World War I, the 31st Reinforced Infantry Regiment of the 7th Infantry Division of the US Army successfully penetrated into Siberia, Russia. It was awarded the title of "Polar Bear Regiment" by President Woodrow Wilson and the "Polar Bear Flag" by President Woodrow Wilson. . In the battle of Xinxingli in the Second Campaign to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, the 27th Army of the Chinese People’s Volunteers wiped out the pride of the U.S. Army with its extremely inferior equipment-the "Polar Bear Regiment", the most elite unit of the U.S. Army, from the commander to the bottom. None of the soldiers slipped through the net. The head of the regiment, Colonel McLean, was killed by the volunteers and captured his military flag- "Polar Bear Flag" .

destroyed the enemy command post at night.

In November 1950, the "United Nations Army" led by the US army relied on its navy, air force and equipment advantages to launch a general offensive under the command of Commander-in-Chief MacArthur in an attempt to expel our volunteers from North Korea. . The 10th Army of the US Army on the eastern front of the battlefield was divided into 3 routes to start the northern offensive. One way is the Seventh Division of the US Infantry. The 31st Regiment of this division was deployed to the east of Changjin Lake to protect the right flank of the 10th Army. This regiment consists of 3 infantry battalions and a tank company. In addition to rifles, carbines, and light and heavy machine guns, the regiment also has a large number of 60 or 90 rocket launchers, 57 recoilless guns, 60 mortars and 22 tanks. At the same time, the regiment can also receive close-to-ground fire support of more than 8 aviation sorties every day. At that time, our army had neither tanks nor planes, only a few small-caliber guns and 60 rocket launchers. It can be said that the disparity in weapons and equipment between the enemy and ours is a world of difference.

Faced with such an equipped enemy, the 27th Army, which has a glorious historical tradition and a daring fighting style, braved the freezing of minus 40 degrees to advance into the war zone. The main force concealed into Liutanli and the area north of Xinxingli. The 80th Division of the army was on the move, and due to frostbite, more than 700 people were lost due to non-combat. It marched for 200 li and reached Tianyishuili, Wantianli, Tupuli, and Fengliuli areas to gather. At 24:00 on the same day, the forces of the 234th Regiment of the 80th Division, the 239th Regiment, the 204th Regiment and the 242th Regiment of the Eighty-first Division, sent troops to the 32nd Division of the US 7th Division in Xinxingli area. The regiment and the third battalion of the 31st regiment and the divisional artillery battalion launched an attack. The 80th Division made a fierce attack on the US forces in a siege and inserted 1 regiment to the south of Xinxingli, preventing it from withdrawing aid from the south and north. Fighting until dawn on November 28, the encirclement of the US forces at Xinxingli and Neidong was completed. . During the

operation, Zhuang Yuandong, the instructor of the fourth company of the twentieth and ninety-ninth regiment, led a platoon into the Xinxingli Dongshan, and found about one platoon of American soldiers sleeping in several tents on the mountainside. Zhuang Yuandong immediately ordered the entire platoon to surround the enemy. However, a soldier accidentally slipped and slipped on a pile of cans, and the sound awakened the enemy. Zhuang Yuandong immediately ordered the troops to open fire. In an instant, more than 30 American troops were killed. The other two platoons of the

four company, led by company commander Li Changyan, swiftly penetrated inward from the flanks. Their light and heavy machine guns fired together, and the enemy immediately organized a counterattack. Li Changyan changed his tactics: In addition to leaving a few people on the front to continue to contain the enemy, the main force quickly outflanked the past. Under the night, our combat teams used terrain and features to leap forward. After a while, the two teams entered the shooting blind spot of the enemy's first independent house. They were about to throw hand grenades into the house through the doors and windows, and some even took the opportunity to shoot inward with their guns. The enemy was stunned by our military's personal tactics. Some raised their hands to surrender, some fled, some lay on the ground and pretended to die... The few stubborn enemies were also wiped out one by one by our commanders.

used this style of play for four consecutive times to capture the enemy's multiple independent houses. When the spoils were collected, Li Changyan and the others found that each house had telephones and walkie-talkies, and the walls were covered with battle maps, and there were unburned combat documents on the ground. An enemy colonel (later known as the regiment commander McLean) ) Also inside the corpse house. It turns out that this is the enemy regimentcommand post. After the war, the 27th Army awarded the company the title of "Xingxingli Combat Model Company". Z1z

fought desperately to wipe out the "Polar Bear Regiment"

at 6 o'clock on the 28th, 12 U.S. tanks, accompanied by one infantry and multiple aircraft, moved northward from Houpuri, trying to break the siege of Xinxingli. The 242th Regiment of the 80th Division resolutely blocked the 1221 Highland Southeast Highway south of Xinxingli. The most headache for my officers and fighters is the enemy tanks. At that time, our army was only equipped with a small number of rocket launchers and had no experience in fighting tanks, so enemy tanks were the most threatening to our army. The

fighters were eager to gain wisdom and invented a series of "brilliant tricks" for fighting enemy tanks: Ye Yongan, deputy squad leader of the 9th company of the regiment, was ordered to lead a team to fight the enemy tanks. When the enemy's four tanks approached about 40 meters from our position, Ye Yongan led Kan Litian and Xiong Ziyuan to creep forward quickly. At a distance of about 20 meters from the enemy tank, Ye Yongan jumped up, rushed to a damaged jeep in front of the enemy tank, and quickly poured fuel and ignited it. The fire blocked the way of enemy tanks. Ye Yongan took the opportunity to destroy the first tank with a row of grenade. Then they rushed to the second tank. When the enemy tank driver stretched out his head to peek, Kan Litian jumped onto the tank and threw a grenade into the top cover, smashing the second tank. They rushed to the third tank. Kan Litian threw out a grenade. Ye Yongan took advantage of the moment when the explosion smoke rose, picked up the explosive bag and rushed forward, and the enemy tank was blown off the track. In this way, they wit and bravely blew up four enemy tanks and made outstanding contributions to the victory of the battle. After the war, the army awarded Ye Yongan the title of "anti-tank hero" and gave the Ye Yongan team a collective special class.

Then, the rest of the "Polar Bear Group" surrounded by Xinxingli organized a counterattack. My twenty-seventh army is determined to gnaw this hard bone. That night, the 80th Division continued to attack the US forces in Xinxingli and Neidongchi. The US Army suffered heavy losses. Our 80th Division also paid a heavy price. With more than half of the battle casualties and frostbite, it withdrew from the battle at dawn on the 29th.

At 23:00 on the 30th, the Volunteers attacked the US forces in Xinxingli from six directions. From the war to dawn on December 1, the offensive troops successively invaded Xinxingli. In the battle, the 2nd and 40th Regiment’s 3 Company was still required to take on the task of attacking the enemy’s 3 independent houses with only two platoons left. When they captured the first house, they were flanked by enemy fire on three sides due to the fact that the follow-up troops failed to keep up and the terrain was flat and inconvenient to hide. Three companies of commanders independently launched a fierce battle with the enemy, blowing up an enemy tank and taking down two houses and two bunkers. At this time, there were only 16 people left in the whole company. Under the leadership of deputy platoon leader Ma Rizhen, they rushed to the third house. When the battalion commander led the follow-up troops, Wang De was left alone in the 3rd company. When the

fought until 11:00, the remnants of the U.S. Army finally fell out of support under the continuous attack of our volunteers. Under the cover of more than 40 aircraft and more than 10 tanks, they violently broke through the road southward. The 239th Regiment and the 240th Regiment of the 80th Division followed and pursued. In the chasing and fleeing enemy battles, the majority of commanders and fighters "do not get under the line of fire for minor injuries, and do not complain about severe injuries." Two of the toes of Sui Chunnuan, squad leader of the seventh consecutive fifth class of the Second and Fourth Zero Regiment, were rotted due to frostbite when he entered the imperial court. He quietly wrapped his feet in cloth and kept hiding. In this pursuit, he endured the severe pain and led the whole class to detour 9.5 kilometers, cut off the enemy's retreat, and contributed to the complete annihilation of the enemy. Later, he injured his right arm again and still bravely jumped into the car to fight the enemy. After the war, the 5 squads led by him won the title of "Xingxingli Fighting Model Class", and he was also honored as a special class by the Volunteer Army Headquarters.

In the evening of that day, a group of remnant enemies tried to escape over the frozen and snow-covered Changjin Lake, but the ice surface collapsed and all died of freezing and drowning. After dark, when another group of about 400 disabled enemies fled to a depression in dozens of vehicles and tanks, they were intercepted by our 242 regiment. At dawn on the 2nd, the battle ended. At this point, all 3191 members of the "Polar Bear Group" were wiped out by me in Xinxingli and Xindaili areas.

The most elite "Polar Bear Regiment" of the U.S. Army was destroyed. The group's flag was handed over and the group leader was killed, unprecedented in the history of the U.S. military. It marks the name of this once incomparable "ace group", and has since disappeared from the US military's battle sequence forever. It also marked that the 27th Army of our Volunteers created a miracle in the history of human warfare that defeated the superior by inferiority, because it was the only glorious example in the history of the war to resist US aggression and aggression to completely wipe out the US army and strengthen the infantry regiment and seize its flag. Zhang Jiqing, the communications squad leader of the third battalion of the second and thirty-ninth regiment of

, picked up a piece of blue cloth of about one square meter while cleaning the battlefield. Its shape and decoration looked like a flag.He didn't pay attention to it, and used it as furoshiki. After the battalion commander Bi Shuyang heard about it, he went to check and found that this piece of furoshiki was originally the enemy's banner. Bi Shuyang turned it in as a trophy. Now this flag has been listed as a cultural relic under first-class protection by the state, and is collected in the Military Museum of the Chinese People's Revolution. Some enlightenment from

, and then look at the battle of Xinxingli

volunteers won the battle of Xinxingli, at least give us the following enlightenment:

careful planning is the basic prerequisite for victory in battle. National Supreme Commander Mao Zedong, Volunteer Army Commander Peng Dehuai and other comrades are very concerned about the Eastern Front battlefield. Xinxingli repeatedly gave the 9th Corps Commander Song Shilun the commander of the Ninth Corps the deployment plan and combat ideas in the battle preparation phase; it is required to make full use of the first battle just ended. , The US military arrogantly underestimated the advantages of the enemy, to lure the enemy to deepen, divide and encircle the US military on the eastern front; order the 42nd Army to adopt the tactics of fighting and retreat to lure the enemy into advancing; order the enemy of the 9th Corps to enter and covert , Avoid the main road and take the small road, take a short rest during the day, and march hurriedly at night, quietly crossing the mountains and crossing the mountains to the side of the US military. Due to the careful planning of the volunteers, the 27th Army of the Ninth Corps successfully divided and encircled the US forces in Xinxingli. When the battle started, the second monk of the US Army was confused and the deployment was completely disrupted, giving our army the opportunity to win the battle.

Predict everything to stand, and if not presuppose, it will be abolished. The same is true for war. In future operations, there will be more combat elements, more complex combat units, and larger combat systems. To win a war, careful planning before the war is particularly important. The elements of information reconnaissance, command and control, information offense, information defense, and comprehensive support should be integrated in a targeted manner to ensure the accurate, reasonable and efficient use of various combat elements to maximize the advantages of the system; and to allocate information in a targeted manner Combat units, and organically integrate them into a combat system through an information system, optimize the use of forces to obtain the greatest combat benefits; make scientific decisions based on the sharing of battlefield situation information, and implement integrated combat operations throughout the battlefield space to ensure The combat effects of each space promote and gain each other.

is flexible and changeable is an important guarantee for mastering the battlefield initiative. Before the Xinxingli battle was launched on November 27, the leader of the 9th Corps judged that the US forces deployed in the Xinxingli area were a battalion of the First Marine Division. On the 29th, the Volunteer Army found that the enemy in Xinxingli was one regiment, which was more than three times larger than the previous judgment, so they immediately revised their scheduled combat determination and adjusted their combat deployment.

Flexibility is the soul of strategy and tactics. The victory in the battle in Xinxingli was attributable to the volunteers' ability to change in response to circumstances and to control "change" with "change". Aiming at the characteristics of the US military’s fear of close combat and night combat, it insists on using its own strength to attack the enemy’s shortcomings, actively mobilizes the enemy, creates and exploits the enemy’s weaknesses, concentrates superior forces and firepower to attack the enemy, and widely adopts flexible tactics of cutting off, circuitous splitting, and sudden attack. Surround and squeeze the enemy. "Those who are surprisingly good are infinite as heaven and earth, and inexhaustible as rivers." In the future, informatized warfare will be a duel of systems, but also a battle of wisdom. The strategic use space, conditions, mode of thinking, and the focus of strategic contests in informationized operations have changed. This is manifested in that more attention is paid to the enemy-breaking system, the combination of virtual and real, and the simultaneous use of multiple methods. Only by adapting to changes and seeking newness while changing, can we achieve the state of "the magic of application is of one heart". The tenacious style of

is the fundamental support for winning the tough battle. War is not only a confrontation of weapons and equipment, but also a contest of military morale. In order to win the information warfare against powerful enemies in the future, we must inherit and carry forward our army’s fearless revolutionary heroism and brave and tenacious fighting style, temper the belief in victory without fearing powerful enemies and march forward bravely, and forge hard-working and sacrificed dedication. The quality of will allows officers and soldiers to always maintain the vigor, revolutionary enthusiasm, and desperate spirit of the revolutionary war period. Z1z

strong guarantee is the key link to ensure victory. Although Xinxingli won the battle, the volunteers also paid a heavy price. In the battles of the 80th Division on November 27 and 28, due to frostbite, frostbite, and loss of combat casualties, the infantry regiments had to merge on the 29th to reorganize combat organizations at all levels. Analyzing the reasons, in addition to the backward equipment of the Volunteers, the main reason is that the logistics support has not kept up. When the fighting in Xinxingli started, the area was already icy and snowy, with the lowest temperature reaching -40°C. The 27th Army, which has been fighting for a long time in the subtropical and temperate regions, has not been able to provide all the winter clothing due to its emergency entry into North Korea, and the shortage of medicines, food, and oil materials has made it extremely unsuitable for the harsh local climate. Force commanders did not study the characteristics of operations in extreme cold environments before the war began, There is no effective anti-cold and anti-freezing measures, and there is no way to deal with the severe cold. Due to the harsh environment and the indiscriminate bombing by the US Air Force and ground artillery, the supply of materials and ammunition for the Volunteers is seriously out of touch. Volunteer officers and soldiers sometimes had to fight against US tanks and artillery with rifles with only a few bullets left, and suffered several times more casualties than under normal conditions.

"Soldiers and horses have not moved, food and grass go first", this is a truth that the ancients have long recognized. The more developed the form of warfare, the greater the dependence of operations on logistics. We must adhere to the glorious tradition and fine style of logistics for all for the front, all for victory, serving the troops, and serving the officers and soldiers, and strive to build a strong modern logistics to provide a strong guarantee for winning future informationized wars.

(Wei Jianli)

Source: National Defense Times

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