Chapter 50: The Falling Star-Spangled Banner I

The counterattack of the Chinese People's Volunteers against the US Eighth Army has been carried out for the fifth day.

The 114th Division of the 38th Army, as the reserve of the 125th Division of the 42nd Army, also engaged in blocking two regiments of the 25th Division of the US Army south of Sunchon three days ago. After two days of fierce fighting, the US 25th Division stopped at a distance of 6 kilometers from Sunchon after paying more than 3,300 casualties. In two days, the U.S. 2nd Division also made two breakout operations from the north. In response to the response of the US 25th Division, it was unsuccessful. Later, after receiving a report of a large-scale attack on the troops left behind in Jiechuan, they immediately retreated, and the 125th Division took the opportunity to launch a counterattack, and both sides were engaged in new tearing up. After dark, the colonel of the 5th Regiment of the 2nd US Division, Colonel Dai Wei, and the staff officer of the regimental headquarters, the driver, and other five people walked in the direction of Jiechuan on the mountain path in the vast dark night, and they had not eaten any food, and for four days, they tried to break out of the encirclement to the south, but the result was in vain. Late at night on November 3, he was ordered to block the Chinese at a distance of 15 kilometers from the pass and cover the retreat of the remnants of the US 2nd Division to Jiechuan. After a day and a night of fighting, the 5th Regiment was beaten by the Chinese, and the troops were scattered. Now they're exhausted, where are they? Even they don't know it themselves. They crossed a stream and smashed down a few blocks of ice and put them in their mouths to replenish the water they were missing. They came to a small village, and at the edge of the village, they found a grass hut with no one in it. They found ten potatoes in the hut, and in the hay in the manger, and the horses ate the remaining dozens of grains of corn. They didn't dare to light the fire, so they ate it raw. Then go around the village and climb up the hill, resting every 5 minutes. At last they reached a small gentle slope, and they could no longer walk, or rather, did not want to walk anymore, and lay down on this hillside for the night. Before going to bed, several of them commented on MacArthur and Walker in less elegant terms, and discussed their ancestry and the female surnames of their families. The sound of gunfire in the vicinity could be heard clearly, but they were all exhausted, hungry and cold, and no one cared where the gunshots came from. I just hope to end this damn fugitive life soon. When they are kicked awake. I saw the muzzles of several Orientals in fat vests pointed at them in the moonlight. They laughed, and for them this terrible war was over.

The 126th Division of the 42nd Army, on the evening of November 2, was also 18 kilometers south of Suchuan, and engaged in a blockade of a regiment of the US 25th Division and the Turkish Brigade, and after two days and nights of fighting, the US 25th Division and the Turkish Brigade, after paying more than 2,800 casualties, returned to Pyongyang with the wounded and corpses. After two days of fierce fighting with the 124th Division guarding Suchuan, the 7th Regiment of the US Cavalry, which was accepted, suffered more than 1,900 casualties, and saw no hope of breaking through. I wanted to return to the Anju area. The 124th Division took the opportunity to counterattack it and pursued the 7th Regiment of the American Cavalry. The 7th Regiment was the main force of the 1st Cavalry Division of the US Army, and it was constantly hit hard in the area from Suchon to Anju south of the Cheongchon River, and the 1st Battalion of the US 7th Regiment was responsible for covering the retreat. On the night of 4 November, when the 124th Division of the Chinese People's Volunteers launched a powerful counterattack near Nandongli, 10 kilometers from Suchuan, more than 1,400 officers and men were completely annihilated. In this battle, many units of the 124th Division of the Volunteer Army were awarded honorary titles for their outstanding combat achievements. Major Phil, then of the 1st Battalion of the 7th Regiment of the 1st Cavalry Division of the United States, recalled in the prisoner of war camp: "The battle began at midnight, and a piercing horn came from not far away. I know that the Chinese are on the offensive. They! Arguably the most ferocious enemy I've ever seen. Our machine-gun shooters swept down the Chinese soldiers who rushed to the skirmish line in front, while they still swarmed in the back. They kept throwing grenades, and using the smoke from the grenades, they kept rushing at us. My soldiers are getting fewer and fewer. The main characteristic of our US [***] team is that it must be supported by strong ground-to-air artillery fire. But now, we're in a hand-to-hand situation. There was no support from the air. The main position of our battalion was broken through, and the two sides fought together. Our glorious battalion, which had annihilated our own army on Iwo Jima, collapsed at this time. Once again, I ordered the signal corps to shout to the regimental headquarters. The regimental commander ordered our unit to move closer to the regimental headquarters and shrink. I then gave the order to throw away all heavy weapons and wounded. The troops concentrated on retreating in the direction of Anzhou, where the regimental headquarters was located. At this time, I knew in my heart that with the wounded brothers, not only would they delay the movement of the troops, but their fate would probably be death. I am very clear about my kindness to the Chinese army. They will not kill prisoners of war as the shameless man himself, nor will they shoot prisoners of war as mercilessly as the North Korean army did. Although I have repeatedly preached the ugliness of the "Red Devil" to my soldiers, in fact they are very humane troops. Finally, after leaving behind 382 wounded and all the tanks and armored vehicles, I retreated at full speed, but I was still tightly entangled by them. At dawn, I thought I had escaped, and my heart was happy. However, in the end, we did not escape the doom. We heard the Chinese yelling. As a result, we are once again surrounded by divisions. There are less than 200 men left in our entire battalion. Half of them were wounded. I was also wounded. The wound was bleeding and painful. I weakly called the commander of Company E to my side and told him to call my soldiers to lay down their arms and stop making this useless resistance. Finally, we declare our surrender to the Chinese".

At this time, the hope of the US Eighth Army to break through from the land had been dashed.

The 50th Army cut the British 27th Brigade into several sections on the section of less than 30 kilometers from Yichuan to Yanzhou, and launched a fierce attack on the enemy with absolute superiority in each section.

The British Royal Heavy Tank Battalion, less than 50 kilometers from Sinuiju, suffered the hardest blows. As soon as the battle began, the 149th Division launched a powerful attack on the British Royal Heavy Tank Battalion. The Royal British Heavy Tank Battalion relied on tanks, armoured vehicles, and cars to form a ring of fortifications and the powerful firepower of the tanks to put up desperate resistance. Inflicted heavy casualties on my 149th Division.

Zhikong decided to send Wuzhi-10 to provide air support to the 149th Division.

After the Wuzhi-10 was built, Wu Qiang's group strongly demanded to fight. Deng Feng considered that the Wuzhi-10 was the only one, and as a prototype for the development of armed helicopters in the future, it was not suitable for war. However, Wu Qiang and his comrades in the army aviation unanimously agreed that whether it is really useful as a weapon or not must be tested by the battlefield environment. The Wuzhi-10 was the first prototype aircraft in China to successfully test in April 2003. It is the first special type of armed helicopter independently developed and developed by China with anti-tank warfare as its main task, and it has excellent combat ability, high technical content, and powerful firepower, and its overall surname ability has reached the international advanced level. But these have yet to be tested on the battlefield. So Deng Feng considered that Yanzhou was close to Xinyizhou. The risk of sorties was not very great, so they were allowed to attack. The British Royal Heavy Tank Battalion became their preferred target.

Wu Qiang and Zhao Yong, the driver of the Zhi-10, boarded the tandem sitting compartment of the Wuzhi-10 majestically, Wu Qiang sat in the front cabin with his weapons in his hands, and the driver Zhao Yong separated the rear and front seats with bulletproof glass. The bottom and sides of the seat compartment, the engine, and the fuel tank are all composite armor, the nose is equipped with an optoelectronic turret for search and fire control, and the front and rear compartments have helmet sights, and the front and rear compartments are backup engine compartments for each other. At this time, two 18-tube 80-mm rocket launchers were hung on the inner hardpoints of the short wing of the Wuzhi-10. Two other hardpoints were hung with two 250-3 aircraft sub-carriers. At 23 o'clock on the evening of November 1, it took off from the base, and 30 minutes later, it flew over Yanzhou. Wu Qiang, who was sitting in the front seat, found that more than 50 tanks, more than 20 armored vehicles and more than 100 cars of the British Royal Heavy Tank Battalion formed a protective ring between the road and the railway through the fire control radar of the multi-function down-looking display. Countless artillery shells, bullet trajectory over the battlefield, intertwined a large network crisscrossing the battlefield. In the defense circle of the British army, there was a Spitfire tank every few times, constantly spewing fire dragons into the vague bright spots that approached it.

"Hey, Zhao Yong, let's attack from north to south along the highway first, and then turn around and fly along the railway line from south to north in order to attack the targets below along the railway line. After that, the two sub-munitions were still moved to a densely populated place in the middle of the ring. What do you think? ”