The 117th Division of the 39th Army annihilated most of the 6th South Korean Division, leaving behind a regiment to encircle and suppress the rest of the stragglers of the 6th South Korean Division who had been scattered and fled into the mountains. The remaining two regiments, the 115th and 116th Divisions, went southwest to the remnants of the 5th Armored Mobile Regiment and the 8th Regiment of the 1st American Cavalry Division in Bochuan. fund

Martin was a lieutenant company commander in F Company of the 3rd Battalion of the 8th Regiment of the 1st Cavalry Division of the U.S. Army, and he took with him 7 soldiers of F Company, including two wounded. They were scattered during the breakout of Yunshan, and they walked away hungry for three days. One of the wounded men with abdominal injuries had a high fever. At about 4 p.m., they came to a private house. Here he bumped into a North Korean man wearing a South Korean military uniform. Martin ticked the index gesture: He walked over. The South Korean soldier kept pointing to his military uniform and chanting in terrible English, "I am a South Korean, a soldier, a U.S. soldier, and a friend." Martin saw that the North Korean's English was too bad to communicate at all, and finally Martin even talked about it and asked him to find a way to order the food for a long time. He finally understood f00d.

Two hours later, I saw the South Korean soldier returning, carrying a bag in his hand. He got about 1 kilogram of rice mixed with soybeans, and Martin mixed this yellow paste with beans in the middle, which is somewhat sticky and reminiscent of human excrement. Divided into 7 small groups, one serving per person, for Martin and them, the taste of these foods far exceeded that of Yasai steak. After eating, Martin decided to rest here for two hours, and they sent out a sentry, and then each with a gun in his hand, lay down on the floor and fell asleep. In their sleep they heard their native voice: "up!up!handup!" putdownyourweapon！ (Get up!) Get up! Hands up! Lay down your weapons! ）

At this time, more than 10,000 people of the US 24th Division were left north of the Qingchuan River to defend Dingzhou alone, and a large number of more than 7,000 people from the 1st Division of the US Cavalry Division of the Chinese Volunteers and the remnants of two regiments had leaked around Dingzhou, and more than 7,000 people were alone in Bochuan, two areas of several tens of square kilometers each, and more than 10,000 stragglers of the First Division of South Korea and the stragglers who had completely lost their formation, guarding the Ningyuan area; There are also more than 4,000 people of the British 27th Brigade in the Iron Mountain area on the west coast.

South of the Qingchuan River, the 2nd US Division had more than 5,000 people, half of whom were wounded. in Anzhou; There are still more than 2,000 people in the 7th Regiment of the American Cavalry in Xin'anzhou, and more than 1,000 wounded.

At this time, Lieutenant General Walker, commander of the Eighth Army of the United States, was already in a state of exhaustion, and he was completely desperate. He sent telegrams urging MacArthur to find a way to do it quickly. Hurry up and send a ship to pick them up and retreat, it's too late. The U.S. Eighth Army needs at least 4,000 tons of supplies every day, and although it is now less than half of its men, there are still less than 40,000 people left including the stragglers of South Korea. But the daily supply should not be less than 1000 tons. At present, it can only get less than 300 tons of replenishment through the estuary of the Qingchuan River every day, and it is not possible to send it to various bases in time. There is too much difference between the actual need and the actual supply. Don't say that the Chinese will fight in two days, even starving will starve the rest to death. Two days ago, he demanded that small boats be organized to enter the Qingchuan River and evacuate from the sea, but the Tokyo headquarters only agreed to bring the wounded on the return trip, and the rest of the ships along the Qingchuan River estuary were defended on the spot. Resist on the spot, that has this strength, and the South Korean Second Army was almost completely annihilated. The remaining 1st South Korean Division and more than 10,000 people who are completely unorganized are in Ningyuan and have been completely isolated. It is a matter of minutes to be destroyed. At present, the remaining US 24th Division has less than 10,000 people left in the smallest damage, and the US 1st Cavalry Division has more than 7,000 remainers. There were only 5,000 men left in the 2nd US Division, and half of them were wounded. The remaining 20,000 U.S. troops also lost their heavy weapons and had no fighting spirit. The British 27th Brigade was tightly surrounded, and now it was almost wiped out, with only 4,000 men left. More than 2,000 wounded were also surrounded in the Iron Mountain area. At first, he also wanted the US 24th Army to abandon Guicheng and retreat to Dingzhou in order to meet the British 27th Brigade, but the 24th Division itself was tightly entangled by the Chinese 66th Army, and every day it was constantly fighting with the Chinese who had infiltrated his periphery, and there were hundreds of casualties every day. The British 27th Brigade seems to be more than lucky, and can only rely on itself to turn evil into good luck. If the British had come out to meet their retreat, perhaps a few would have escaped, otherwise it would only be a matter of time before they were all annihilated.

Five days ago, there was a mighty army of 130,000, including more than 50,000 American troops, more than 10,000 British troops, and more than 60,000 South Korean troops. But now, hey, what a defeat! If this continues, Walker doesn't dare to think about it. He couldn't help but let out a long sigh. It seems that the Chinese are ruthless and want to wipe out all our US Eighth Army in the western part of North Korea, and now they have no troops available, and now it is difficult to withdraw from the sea. How to withdraw? The Chinese had 150,000 men in three armies in the north, 50,000 in one army in the east, and 100,000 in two armies in the south, constantly compressing the space of the Eighth Army. The encirclement has tightened and tightened, and now there are only a few isolated strongholds left. Even the weather helps the Chinese, and the winter in North Korea is also the great enemy of the US military, making the US military face the most severe test. It's unimaginably bad, and the non-combat attrition is constantly increasing. But all this seems to have little impact on the Chinese, and no matter how bad the weather and how rugged the mountain roads are, China continues to attack. After losing air supremacy in the Far East Air Force, the US military was so vulnerable without air support.

Just when he was like an ant on a hot pot and had nothing to do, the telegraph correspondent Captain Moni sent him a clear-code telegram sent to him by the headquarters of the Chinese People's Volunteers.

Lieutenant General Wharton Harris Walker and U.S. Division Commanders:

You have reached the point where you have reached the point of exhaustion, and the three divisions of the South Korean Second Army have been completely annihilated by us in the past few days. The 1st South Korean Division had also been disposed of by us in the Nyongwon area two hours earlier. The three divisions of your American army also suffered more than 2/3 casualties. Over the past few days, under our fierce attacks, your defensive area has become smaller and smaller, and now only Dingzhou and Bochuan, two isolated strongholds are left north of the Qingchuan River. There are also less than 10,000 people per stronghold. It has fallen into the encirclement of hundreds of thousands of our troops, and there are only two strongholds left south of the Qingchuan River, Xin'anzhou and Anzhou, and there are only a few thousand people left, and they are surrounded by more than 100,000 people of our volunteer army. You are now underfed every day, your wounded are screaming for days, and your officers and men are crying out for a long time, and they don't want to fight anymore. They have done everything that a soldier should do, and you commanders should be sympathetic to their feelings, cherish their lives, and don't let them make unnecessary sacrifices.

As long as you lay down your arms and stop resisting. Our army will guarantee the safety of the lives and personal property of all your officers and men. This is the only way out for you, and their parents will thank you, and their wives and children will thank you. If you think you want to fight again, then do it again, but you really don't have much time left.

Headquarters of the Chinese People's Volunteers

November 5, 1950

Immediately, Walker forwarded the letter urging the surrender of the US Eighth Army to MacArthur in Tokyo. At this time, MacArthur did not have a good solution. It's not that he doesn't want to withdraw the remnants of the US Eighth Army from the sea. It's that the Qingchuan River can't get into the big boats, and the few small boats found are still enough to transport the wounded, so is it too late to collect them from this book?

At the same time, the Volunteer Army fired dozens of propaganda bombs urging the surrender of the US Eighth Army at various strongholds guarded by the US and British troops.

A day later, MacArthur, taking into account the actual situation of the US Eighth Army, after consulting the Joint Chiefs of Staff, authorized Lieutenant General Walker to make his own decision on the US Eighth Army in light of the actual battle situation and logistical supply situation. The Volunteers then bombarded the positions defended by the American troops with heavy artillery fire, in which General Walker was seriously wounded, and before he died, he ordered the entire force in western North Korea to stop resistance and surrender to the Chinese Volunteers. At 8 o'clock in the evening of November 6, 1950, Dingzhou, the commander of the 24th Division of the United States, who had only been in office for more than three months. After Major General Wallant ordered all the shells to be poured into the positions of the volunteers, he drove to the headquarters of the 66th Army in frustration and handed over his pistol and the division's flag to Xiao Xinhuai, the commander of the 66th Army. Soon he will be able to meet with his ex, Major General Andy, who has been declared dead by the U.S. military, in a prisoner of war camp. Later, Gai Yi, commander of the 1st US Cavalry Division, met Wu Xinquan, commander of the 39th Army of the Chinese People's Volunteers, at the headquarters of the 116th Division, only 800 meters away from the Bochuan front, and after saluting him in an American military salute, he handed over his pistol and the flag of the 1st US Cavalry Division. In Iron Mountain, the commander of the British 27th Brigade led more than 100 people to escape from the sea on a small cargo ship a day earlier. The commander of the 16th Field Regiment of the Royal New Zealand Artillery and the Canadian Light Infantry Regiment came to the front of the 50th Army and surrendered to the commander of the 50th Army, Zeng Zesheng.

The 7th Regiment of the 1st U.S. Cavalry Division in Xin'anzhou, south of the Qingchuan River, was wounded by the regiment commander, and the deputy regiment commander took the regiment's flag to the headquarters of the 124th Division of the 42nd Army and surrendered. At Anjumei, the commander of the 2nd Division, Kimirite, surrendered to the 125th Division. There was also a small episode in the middle, the commander of the US 2nd Division, Kimiriit, insisted that the commander of the 42nd Army come to surrender. was so angry that the commander of the 125th Division scolded behind his back: "There are only about 1,000 people left in a division who are still fucking playing music, if it weren't for Zhisi's order, I would have killed him with a charge." It took Wu Ruilin more than three hours to rush to Anzhou from Suchuan. On the way, the jeep overturned and Wu Ruilin fell with a blue nose and swollen face, and almost didn't break that leg. It looks very messy. So the U.S. 2nd Division became the last division of the U.S. Eighth Army to surrender.

At this point, the week-long counterattack of the Chinese People's Volunteers came to an end. More than 10,000 U.S. troops, including more than a dozen generals, surrendered, making it the biggest fiasco in the history of the United States! This is after the surrender of the U.S. military in the Philippines following the surrender of the Bataan defenders in the Philippines. The largest act of surrender. And these two surrenders took place in the Far Eastern Army under the command of MacArthur, and I don't know whether it was accidental or inevitable.