On the evening of May 29, it rained heavily in central Korea, as if weeping over what was about to happen.

In the cave, the shirtless Commander Peng said to the people around him in the deepest voice: "Something has happened! The 180th Division has been surrounded on the south bank of the Han River. ”

The heavy rain caused the water of the Han River to rise sharply, and more than 10,000 Chinese officers and soldiers of the 180th Division of the 60th Army could only pull the only three wires to cross north to break through. U.S. flares hung overhead, and artillery and low-altitude hovering planes smashed the dense barrage of shells at Chinese soldiers who were unable to return fire. The chest-deep river was turbulent, the weak female soldiers were holding the horse's tail tightly, and the volunteer soldiers shouted to each other, but there were still people who were constantly swept away by the river. The blood of the Chinese volunteers turned the waters of the Han River red.

The 180th Division was surrounded by American troops five times their own number, and extremely brutal battles took place in every direction of the breakout. Even more terrible than death was hunger, the whole division was without food for many days, and the wounded soldiers were even more miserable, and the wounds were festering and inflamed because they could not be treated in time. Some soldiers advocated killing and eating the mules and horses that were loaded with artillery, but they were immediately opposed by the officers and men of the artillery unit, and the soldiers would rather starve to death than kill the mules and horses that followed them to death. The volunteer soldiers who fed them were afraid that they would be eaten, so they untied the ropes and let them go, but these mules and horses were in love with their masters, and they followed wherever they went, making the volunteers who had fed them cry loudly.

When the commander of the 60th Army learned that the 179th and 181st Divisions, which were responsible for rescuing the 180th Division, had failed in their operation, they fell headlong in the army headquarters.

The 180th Division held the last party committee and decided to disperse and break through. Division Commander Zheng Qigui led the guard detachment and some agency personnel to be chased and killed by US tanks at dawn, and the steel tracks rolled the bodies of the Chinese volunteer soldiers into them and then threw them up. Several guards ran in the opposite direction to Commander Zheng's actions to attract American fire. Zheng Qigui and the others took the opportunity to rush over the mountain. Zheng Qigui looked back and saw that one soldier had been killed on the spot, and the other soldier had been wounded and fell on his back, being grabbed by two black soldiers and dragged away.

According to the information of the Volunteer Army Headquarters, which was declassified 40 years later, "In addition to the division commander, chief of staff, and a formed battalion that served as a cover for the big luggage, there were about 7,000 people who could not walk due to hunger and fatigue, were poisoned by eating wild vegetables, or died or were separated in battle." ”

The 180th Division of the 60th Army was completely annihilated by the enemy, which was the second stage of the Fifth Campaign, and the heaviest loss suffered by the Volunteer Army, and it was also the most serious first loss of the Volunteer Army in the entire War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea.

The Volunteer Army continued to retreat north, and the battle line became farther and farther away from the 38th parallel. The U.S. army's armored vehicles and tanks are motorized, and their mobility ability far exceeds that of two legs, which is beyond the expectations of the volunteers, causing the volunteers to panic and produce chaos and disorderly fighting or rout. The officers and men of the Volunteer Army endured an indescribable emotional torment.

Commander Peng believes that there can be no more retreat, whether it is military or political, whether it is moral or psychological. So Commander Peng decided to hold the last line of defense in the high mountains and dangerous places in central Korea. Who will be sent to guard it? The losses of the armies were serious, and only the 63rd Army led by the 36-year-old army commander Fu Chongbi was slightly better.

The most tragic page of the 63rd Army was opened. On one side is the flesh and blood of Chinese soldiers, and on the other side is the steel dragon of US tanks, rolling and tearing on both sides. The officers and men of the 63rd Army built a Great Wall with flesh and blood, which is famous - the "Cheorwon Blockade Battle"

Iron is burning! The tragedy of the war made the 63rd Army fill in almost all the combat forces, and finally the communicators and cooks were organized to go to the battlefield. The heroic fighting of the 63rd Army bought time for stabilizing the entire front. According to statistics, during the battle, the 63rd Army and its 187th, 188th, and 189th divisions killed, wounded, and captured 21,580 American, British, and South Korean troops, and 20,000 volunteers resisted the attack of 50,000 enemy troops head-on! It set the record for the highest lethality of all the armies participating in the battle on the eastern and western fronts of the Fifth Campaign.

The brutal blocking battle of the 63rd Army, this earth-shattering battle lasted for 13 years before it ended! In the end, the 63rd Army successfully completed the task assigned by the Volunteer Army Headquarters, and the attack of the American army was blocked. Commander Peng personally greeted the 63 officers and men who came down from the front. The soldiers' clothes had turned into strands of cloth, and many were left with bloodstained trousers. As soon as Commander Peng said "the motherland thanks you," many officers and soldiers of the Volunteer Army cried, because they remembered their comrades-in-arms who had fallen on foreign soil.

On June 10, "United ** captured Cheorwon and Jinhua." The campaign ended only after the "Iron Triangle," the logistical point of the Volunteer Army, could no longer play its role.

During the transfer phase, 20,000 volunteers were missing, including 16,000 from the 3rd Corps, while the U.S. military claimed to have captured 17,000 volunteers in late May, accounting for more than 80 percent of the total number of volunteers captured in the Korean War.

In the fifth battle, the Volunteer Army lost more than half of the troops participating in the battle, while the American army only paid the price of a few thousand men, which was the result of the disparity between the tactics of the sea of people and the tactics of the sea of fire. We always like to emphasize that the human element is more important than the weapon factor, and this battle is full of the importance of weapons. On the Korean battlefield, the difference between Chinese and US weapons is mainly in terms of quantity, and the difference in quality is not large. The quantitative difference is enough to tip the scales in favor of the United States. In the environment of the southern plains of the Korean Peninsula, the US military was well-equipped, and the superiority of mechanized combat after the baptism of World War II was immediately manifested.

After the fifth campaign, the Soviet side proposed armistice negotiations, and the Chinese side did not hesitate and quickly accepted. On several occasions before, one of the parties proposed armistice negotiations, but the other side rejected them. This is because it was the losing side that proposed an armistice, and the victorious side wanted to gain more, so it did not agree to the armistice. The first time was after the Inchon landing, the DPRK proposed negotiations, but the US side did not agree. The second time was that after the second battle, the United States wanted to negotiate, but the Chinese side did not agree. This time it was different: the winning side had to negotiate, and the losing side was happy to accept it, and in the end, after two years of negotiations, the Chinese side accepted all the conditions that the United States had initially put forward.

At that time, the Chinese did not value face in the Korean War, even more than Lizi. An interesting story is that there was a small episode during the first time the United States and China were negotiating in Kaesong. The American walked into the negotiating hall with a big grin, pulled over a stool and sat down. After the Chinese and DPRK representatives came in, they refused to sit down for a long time, and when they asked them the reason, they refused to say, so they had to part unhappily.

Later, it became clear that the stool on which the US representative was sitting happened to be sitting in the direction of the north facing the south, and if the Chinese representative sat down opposite the US side, it would become a person facing the north and facing the north, and according to the ancient Chinese practice, he would become a vassal facing the north. However, I was embarrassed to tell the US representative in person, and it would not be enough to change the stool, because such a practice would really not be put on the table. The American personnel who made the second monk puzzled had no choice but to say:

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