In 1951, the fifth battle was launched on the Korean battlefield. The large number of troops and the tragic situation of the two sides was rare. After this battle, both sides of the war realized that they could not quickly resolve their opponents. The two sides took several steps at the same time: start , Banmendian negotiations, strengthen positional war preparations, and no longer hope to annihilate the opponent in large-scale corps movement wars.
1952, Korean War has reached the late stage, and the two sides against each other have entered the positional war stage. This form of positional warfare is extremely unfavorable for Volunteer Army . Because powerful firepower can rest easy and reduce infantry casualties and physical energy consumption. The US military has more than 1,000 types of artillery in each type, and at this time, our volunteer army only had more than 100 units even if it received full assistance from the Soviet Union. The firepower difference is extremely different, which is also the origin of our army's "phobia of insufficient firepower" later.
At the beginning of the positional war, some units of our volunteer army organized sneak attacks on enemy strongholds and achieved certain results. However, this style of play has objective conditions and is not applicable to all units.
Because there is no need to worry about our volunteer army interspersed and encircled, United Nations Army unscrupulously assembled various artillery and tanks in front of our position, bombarding and bombing day and night. There are also United Nations forces aircraft in the sky, and they throw a bunch of bombs and incendiary bombs from time to time. The soldiers of the United Nations Army were also extremely arrogant, strolling on the positions with cigarettes in their arms, basking in the sun, chatting and even taking a bath.
One day, a volunteer army could not stand being beaten and refused to fight back, nor could it stand the arrogance of the enemy. He secretly raised his gun and aimed at it. When a gunshot came, a British army that was relaxing fell to the ground. The remaining British army was so scared that they fled in all directions. I heard another gunshot from the opposite side, and a British soldier who had no time to hide also fell to the ground. After a brief panic, the British army launched revenge. heavy machine gun , artillery, tanks and other weapons fired countless bullets and shells in the direction of the gunshots, shattering rocks and shaking the earth.
This volunteer army was named Xu Shizhen, who was the deputy company commander of the 9th Company of the 355th Regiment of the 40th Army of our Volunteer Army at that time. After he finished shooting, he had already quickly moved and retreated to the anti-aircraft tunnel. He listened to the British guns and cannons in the tunnel, as if setting off fireworks to congratulate him. He smiled on his face, but he felt a little uneasy because he violated his superior's order of "no shooting".
Unexpectedly, Xu Shizhen violated the discipline and was not punished, but was awarded instead. Xu Shizhen violated discipline this time and launched the largest sniper war in history.
In this sniper battle, many famous combat heroes emerged from the volunteer army. For example, there are cold gun heroes Zhang Taofang who killed 214 enemies, and cold gun heroes Tang Zhanghong who killed more than 400 enemies, etc.
Because we beat too hard, American artistic creation is accustomed to bringing themes such as "sadness" and "terror" to the screen. In 1961, Americans filmed a movie called "Sniper Strike Ridge", which depicts the events of the 135th Regiment of the 45th Division of the 15th Army of the Volunteer Army stationed in the Beishan position in the 537.7 highland of Shangganling. The regiment used cold gun tactics to defeat more than 3,000 enemies in 9 months. The United Nations troops who had been hiding in the bunker all day long were frightened, and they were afraid of being furious and were dealt with in the bunker. This led to a huge decline in morale.
Here is the platoon leader of the 1st Battalion of the 135th Regiment, the 1st Battalion of the 135th Regiment, the platoon leader of the machine gun, the "first-class hero" and the "cold gun hero", and almost killed an enemy with one shot.
Zou Xixiang, Guizhou Gelao . Born in April 1922, Guizhou is mountainous, and there is not much grain planting, so it relies on side job hunting to make a living. Hunting in the mountains is not about shooting at the right time. Hunters need to learn to lurk and wait, and also learn to kill themselves with one shot. If you can't take it down with one shot and your prey is injured and run away, the one who kills the teeth in will not be yourself but other carnivores.
Zou Xixiang had already practiced the ability to listen to the wind and distinguish positions and walk through the Yang in a hundred steps when he was young. There are often prey at home. In addition to being able to slaughter teeth, you can also exchange a little salt and other essential foods for daily necessities. In 1949, the originally peaceful life was broken by the Kuomintang. The Kuomintang defeated the army and passed by. Zou Xixiang, who was strong in health, was arrested as a strong man.The strong men of the Kuomintang are basically synonymous with cannon fodder. When fighting, they cannot retreat. There is supervision team . As a cannon fodder recruit, Zou Xixiang suffered a lot in the Kuomintang troops. Zou Xixiang thought about running away, but when he was caught, the deserter was going to be executed. Before he could make up his mind to run away, his troops revolted and Zou Xixiang became a glorious People's Liberation Army soldier.
Our party has natural advantages in the transformation of the old troops. From recalling the bitterness and thinking about sweetness to revolutionary propaganda, from ideological education to telling personal experience, the soldiers of the old troops will realize a fact: the officers and soldiers in the Communist Party are all the same as them, and they are from hardships. The Communist army is different from the old army, and the officers and soldiers are the same. What they see, contact and feel are completely different from the old army.
After a series of ideological mobilization and publicity, Zou Xixiang realized that he should be a part of this army. Because this is the army of the poor, the army that conquers the world for the poor. Zou Xixiang didn't want to run away and began to serve in the army attentively. With the encouragement of the organization, he also taught his experience of shooting accurately to his comrades. In the later War of Liberation and the fight against bandits, Zou Xixiang continued to make progress and make contributions, and was appointed as the platoon leader of the machine gun platoon.
In 1950, the 15th Army, who was Zou Xixiang's unit, entered North Korea to participate in the war. The 15th Army, as a reserve team, was directly pulled to , 38th parallel, and fought a positional war with the US army. Because of the high demands on weapon firepower in positional warfare, our volunteer army is at an absolute disadvantage. Compared with the US military, our volunteer army also has an advantage that the US military cannot match: the geographical advantage! Our volunteer army is often stationed in high ground. According to the situation of the garrisoned position, digs deep tunnels, side bunkers, and also digs tunnels on the back slope to dig bunkers, which can both prevent artillery and enemies.
This geographical advantage was carried forward to the extreme by our army. By 1953, in order to prevent the United Nations Army from landing on our side, our volunteer army built more than 1,000 kilometers of tunnels, more than 6,000 kilometers of trenches, and more than 100,000 bunkers along the east and west coasts of the peninsula. These decisions and actions have also made the plan and not had time to take action.
The so-called 852 plan, the "army" wants to repeat the good show of Incheon landing , like quickly defeating the People's Army, cut off the retreat of our volunteer army, give our volunteer army a heavy blow and quickly defeat our volunteer army. However, the Central Committee and Shishi, who were far away in Beijing, saw this possibility at the same time and smashed Clark's plan with their actions.
Zou Xixiang's 135th Regiment where he is located is stationed in the area of Shangganling in , and a battle of leaving a name in history is about to be launched here.
The enemy is not as stupid as in movies and TV dramas now. In the fifth battle, Li Qiwei discovered the lack of logistics in our Volunteer Army and called our Volunteer Army a "World Offensive." Van Vritte used new tactics in position warfare in terms of the characteristics of our volunteer army, and forced our volunteer army to retreat through firepower surprise attacks. While our army was too late to counterattack, the US infantry took over to prevent our volunteer army from regaining the position in order to achieve the goal of encroaching on our positions. This style of play is called " Van Vlite ammunition ".
On October 14, 1952, the famous Shangganling Battle started. During the four seasons, the United Nations army led by the US military mobilized 320 cannons, more than 50 aircraft and 47 tanks to launch a surprise fire attack within 30 kilometers of the front of the 15th Army's defense, pouring out various ammunition according to the "Van Vlite ammunition volume". Among them, 300 artillery, 27 tanks and more than 40 aircraft were targeted at the 597.9 and 537.7 highlands at the forefront of Wusheng Mountain. The firepower density of up to six rounds of bombs per second made our volunteer army sit in the tunnel and bumpy like waves, and a small soldier was even shocked to death.
After the enemy was ready for artillery fire, they attacked for a whole day. The 1st Battalion of the 135th Regiment stationed at the 537.7 Highland suffered heavy casualties. After paying the huge price of more than 1,000 casualties, the 2nd Korean Division occupied 537.7 surface positions. Machine gun platoon leader Zou Xixiang and the remaining soldiers hid in the tunnel, preparing to sneak attack and regain the superficial position that night while the Li bandit army was not yet firm in its foothold.
For the next 6 days and 6 nights, both sides repeatedly fought for superficial positions, but they had no choice but to do anything to each other. During the day, the enemy used a large amount of ammunition to press into the tunnel. At night, our volunteers took advantage of the enemy's artillery fire and did not dare to fire easily to regain the surface position.After repeated repetition, our volunteer army had no reinforcements, the troops could not be replenished, and the loss of guns and ammunition could not be replenished. Zou Xixiang led the only six remaining volunteers to enter the tunnel to defend, and the ammunition and food were exhausted.
Han 2nd Division saw that my volunteer army no longer launched "night attacks" at night, so they used various poisonous schemes to destroy the tunnel. Our volunteer army suffered casualties and withstood the pressure and consolidated the tunnel again. In the tunnel of Shitou Mountain, the most troublesome thing is the lack of water. The surviving soldiers had to quench their thirst with cold stones in their mouths. Zou Xixiang risked his life to sneak back to the camp headquarters and brought reinforcements back to the tunnel. At this time, the comrades in the tunnel had died one after another, leaving only empty American canned boxes, and Zou Xixiang no longer ate canned food. After
regaining the surface position, the enemy was unable to launch a large-scale offensive and defensive battle because Van Vritte's "Van Vritte's ammunition" consumed too much and was withdrawn to the United States. The machine gun platoon leader Zou Xixiang heard the news that Xu Shizhen used a cold gun to attack the enemy. He thought about it. He was familiar with this cold gun. Isn’t the enemy the same as prey? Just fight.
So, Zou Xixiang found a place that is conducive to lurking and began to shoot the "prey" opposite with a cold gun. Every time Zou Xixiang finished fighting, he quickly changed his position, allowing the enemy's firepower to be consumed on the rocks in vain. Zou Xixiang used the cold gun tactic to shoot 203 enemy troops to consume 206 bullets. Almost one person killed one company of the US military. Zou Xixiang not only fired cold guns himself, but also taught his comrades how to fire cold guns and how to prevent the enemy's revenge and other combat skills.
In October 1951, the author of an article in the US Army Infantry School quarterly found that at least 95% of the officers and soldiers stationed in the U.S. positions in the position war had encountered the cold guns of our Volunteer Army. Those who had not been cold guns of the Volunteer Army were embarrassed to say that they had stationed in the position.
Post-war statistics show that the 537.7 position of Shangganling, which was stationed by the 135th Regiment, killed 3,558 enemies within 9 months, which is equivalent to killing a regiment of the US military. Nearly half of them are the results of cold guns.
The movie shot in the United States is called "Sniper Soldier", but the soldiers privately called the position of Shangganling 537.7 "Sad Ridge".
At the beginning of the sniper battle, our volunteer army followed the geographical advantage and the continuous mountains on the 38th parallel, and the sharpshooters named the United Nations army one by one. The United Nations Army was not willing to be outdone. It used light artillery to shoot precisely on the gunshot positions, and then extended to the depth with heavy artillery , hoping to use the sea of fire to cover our volunteer army's cold gun soldiers. At the same time, some United Nations soldiers with good gun skills installed scope to snipe our volunteer army. These began to be discontinued and caused major casualties to our volunteer army.
The battle methods against the enemy, our volunteer army actively summarized experience and formed many effective strategies. The purpose is to "preserve yourself and eliminate the enemy." Let the enemy be helpless to consume ammunition.
Later, my volunteer army artillery also asked to participate in the battle. The artillery first blew up the enemy bunker, and then the sharpshooters named the United Nations troops who were fleeing in all directions. When artillery soldiers join the war, the shells are not just bombing the enemy's bunker. Targets such as artillery, tanks, and other inconvenient enemy movement also entered the artillery's field of vision. Therefore, sniper warfare is not only a gun-to-gun, but also a gun-to-cannon battle.
This kind of battle is different from the past. It not only needs to kill and damage the enemy in a hidden way, but also fight wits and courage with the enemy, and strive to kill and kill more enemies. This gun showdown played a great positive role in the subsequent development of artillery tactics of our army. It is this kind of cold gun and cold cannon confrontation on a large scale, which is called the largest sniper war in the world of .
In May 11954, the 15th Army was ordered to return to China. Zou Xixiang gloriously completed his mission and returned to the peaceful and peaceful motherland with the troops. In 1956, Zou Xixiang was demobilized from the army and was assigned to the provincial capital to enjoy the treatment of a combat hero. Zou Xixiang refused the treatment of cadres in the provincial capital and returned to his hometown. What he had always been thinking about was to let the people in his hometown eat white rice. Because his hometown is in a high cold, he planted rice seeds from the northeast in the pasture of Liyuan, Wuchuan County. After several experiments, the people in his hometown finally ate white rice.
Zou Xixiang never told others about his achievements, nor did he mention that he was a combat hero. I have been living in my hometown a dull and gradually getting old.When some people who knew the inside story asked him how many enemies he killed, he just said lightly: "It's only thirty or fifty."
htmlIn the 180s, the film projection team went to the countryside. Wuchuan County ushered in the open-air movie "Shangganling". An old man watched, tears flowed in his eyes, and gradually he couldn't help but whimper. This old man is Zou Xixiang. He saw the place where he had fought in the movie and remembered the battle he had fought in the past.
A verified reporter contacted Wuchuan County and learned that Zou Xixiang had passed away for 27 years. The reporter did not give up and went to Zou Xixiang's hometown to visit Zou Xixiang, trying to find more of Zou Xixiang's combat deeds. As a result, it was surprising that Zou Xixiang's family didn't even know that he was a fighting hero. The family and blind dates only knew that Zou Xixiang was arrested for a strong man. Later, he became a People's Liberation Army, participated in the Liberation War, and participated in the War of Resistance and Aid Korea. But no one can tell him clearly when asked about his heroic deeds, because Mr. Zou Xixiang never mentioned it and never regarded himself as a hero.
When Zou Xixiang appeared in the movie "Crossing the Yalu River" produced by CCTV, his family and blind dates realized that he used 206 bullets and killed 203 enemies!
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