Annihilation (3)
"Report to the army commander, the 6th South Korean Division is assembled between Sunchon and Sinchang-ri. It was preliminarily judged that the division would pass through Sinanju to Bocheon and its western area, and then go to Sinuiju. "The staff officer reports to the army commander Wu Xinquan." Sixth Division? Wu Xinquan looked at the map, the latest information in his mind, and immediately said, "Call the nearest troops to destroy it!" "The closest unit to the Sixth Division is the Liu Xiaoshan Brigade of the Eighth Division, as well as the First Artillery Regiment of the Eighth Division!" The staff officer said. "Just call Liu Xiaoshan to go, although it is very close to the Sixth Division, but the artillery can't pass, the First Artillery Regiment continues to move south, tell Liu Xiaoshan to overcome difficulties and resolutely eliminate the Sixth Division!" Wu Xinquan said. "Yes!" The staff officer immediately ran to deliver the order. "Wait a minute!" Wu Xinquan said, "Tell him, don't defeat him, he must be annihilated!" ”
The ROK 6th Division had already attacked west from Heecheon and took Onjeong on the same day. Then, the 2nd Infantry Regiment of the 6th Division prepared to march from Wenjing to Beizhen, while its 7th Infantry Regiment set off from Wenjing to Guchang, directly threatening the communication lines of the Volunteer Army. Since the United Nations forces had not yet realized that the volunteers had entered the war in Korea, and the Korean People's Army was expected to be unable to launch a resistance, there was no greater coordination among the various forces. But in such a situation, the troops under the 7th Regiment of the 6th Division of Han also directly arrived on the bank of the Yalu River, completely ignoring the new threats in the surrounding area, which gave Liu Xiaoshan the opportunity to suddenly strike at them! Liu Xiaoshan, who received the order, did not hesitate at all, and did not flinch because the other party had a division, but directly turned around and pounced. Liu Xiaoshan was not reckless, and sent his reconnaissance company to move forward and open the way!
The 3rd Battalion, which was the vanguard of the 2nd Regiment of the 6th Division of the ROK Army, was already in position, and then the regimental headquarters ordered the troops to attack Bukzhen. When the 3rd Battalion set off under the leadership of the battalion commander, Major Song Dahou, it ran into Liu Xiaoshan's reconnaissance company at Liangshuidong, north of Wenjingli, and became the first South Korean unit to come into contact with Chinese troops in the Battle of Wenjing. At first, the South Korean soldiers thought that the other side was only a small force of the Korean People's Army, so they got out of the car and prepared to shoot away, but Liu Xiaoshan's reconnaissance company was not afraid of the other side's forces at all, and condescendingly launched a fierce attack from the high ground that had been occupied. The gunfire of the reconnaissance company alarmed Liu Xiaoshan, and Liu Xiaoshan didn't say a word, led his two regiments to speed up, and finally caught up with the footsteps of the reconnaissance company! "Send a special battalion to detour back to the enemy's rear, and the others will follow me and resolutely destroy the enemy in front of me!" Liu Xiaoshan ordered!
When the headquarters of the 2nd Regiment of the ROK Army learned that the 3rd Battalion had been heavily attacked, it immediately ordered the 2nd Battalion to go to support and at the same time transferred the 1st Battalion back to Onjeong. Although the 2nd Battalion encountered Liu Xiaoshan's special battalion of the 3rd Battalion on the way to the march, it was unable to advance due to strong resistance from the special battalion, and several officers were captured by the special battalion in the chaos. The second battalion that encountered the resistance was first blinded, and from the surrounding charging horns and the earth-shattering shouts of the volunteers, it was reported to the commander of the second regiment of the South Korean army that the Chinese troops around the road had reached 10,000, but after the battle of Liangshuidong began, the sixth division of the South Korean army still ordered the second regiment to stick to Wenjing and wait for reinforcements!
When Liu Xiaoshan eliminated his third battalion, he found that the other party was running away as soon as he opened fire, and basically did not intend to resist stubbornly. After the people of the third battalion of the Korean army ran backwards, they found that there was still a blocking attack behind them, and they began to run back again, directly hitting Liu Xiaoshan's muzzle, and Liu Xiaoshan, who was overjoyed, went on a killing spree and killed the Korean army sticks in the third battalion without leaving a piece of armor! After the battle, Liu Xiaoshan led his two regiments non-stop and began to flank the second regiment of the ROK army on both sides, and occupied Wenjing two to three hours later. Although the colonel of the second regiment of the South Korean army was driven out of Wenjing by Liu Xiaoshan, he was inexplicably unwilling and tried to regroup his troops five kilometers east of Wenjing, but the colonel still underestimated Liu Xiaoshan's bravery. Liu Xiaoshan did not stop after occupying Wenjing, and continued to move forward after leaving a company! The 2nd Regiment of the ROK Army, which had just gathered its troops and occupied a village to block the Chinese troops and held on to the reinforcements, saw a large group of volunteers on the opposite side covering for them before they had time to build fortifications!
"Rush! Rush! Rush! Don't let the enemy run away, let go of a man and kill him! Liu Xiaoshan led people to the new stronghold of the Korean army in one go. In fact, the village chosen by the Second Regiment of the South Korean Army is not small, according to the idea of the Second Regiment of the South Korean Army, after the other side occupies Wenjing, it should consolidate its position, at least rest for the whole hour, and he can seize the time to build fortifications outside the village, and fight in the streets of the village without knowing it, as long as he can resist it here to the death, and wait for the main force of his division to come up, he can destroy the more than 10,000 volunteers in front of him! But before he came back to his senses, Liu Xiaoshan's bayonet was on the tip of his nose, not to mention the fortifications outside the village, when the troops were still in chaos in the village, Liu Xiaoshan broke through with a charge outside the village, and then there was no suspense, the second regiment of the South Korean army was beaten miserably, Liu Xiaoshan was in a mere hour, and he captured his new stronghold after an hour. At this time, the second regiment no longer had a single intact company-level unit, and it was almost wiped out, more than half of the 3,100 men of the regiment were annihilated, and several hundred fled in the direction of the Qingchuan River. Lieutenant Jones, an American adviser to the 3rd Battalion of the 2nd Regiment, was unable to escape and became a prisoner, eventually dying in a prisoner of war camp in Korea, and another adviser, Captain Paul Lyles, was also taken captive. The news of the catastrophic blow to the 2nd Korean Regiment reached MacArthur, the commander of the United Nations forces, on the same day.
In fact, MacArthur didn't care about what happened to these two Korean regiments that were not intended to come in handy, but the Captain Paul of the Second Regiment was the nephew of his friend Lieutenant General Max, which made MacArthur very angry, so he forced the commander of the Second Army of the South Korean Army to immediately order the Sixth Division of the South Korean Army to counterattack, and the commander of the Second Army was forced by the situation to instruct the other two regiments of the Sixth Division to return to Wenjing and rescue the arms and equipment left in the local area. However, after the two regiments felt Wenjing, they were defeated by Liu Xiaoshan's counter-charge, and the two regiment commanders of the Korean army, who were frightened, immediately ordered the two regiments to retreat south with the headquarters of the Sixth Division! MacArthur didn't want to say anything about such a result, because it was in vain! At the same time, Peng Dehuai, commander-in-chief of the Volunteer Army, arranged a plan according to the battlefield situation!
When they heard that the ROK Second Army was heading north, in order to catch the ROK 2nd Army, the 188th Division of the Volunteer Army was ordered by Peng Dehuai to besiege the ROK 6th Regiment in the vicinity of Chushan and Guchang, while the 119th Division and the 120th Division attacked the area south and east of Wenjing respectively. At this time, the headquarters of the Chinese People's Volunteer Army believed that in addition to the ROK 6th Division, its 1st Division might also go to Onjeong via Yongpo-dong to form a three-way joint attack formation in the east, south, and southwest, so it formulated a new plan to use the 353rd Regiment, the main force of the 188th Division, to attract ROK troops to *dong, Tateseok-dong, Cheonsu-dong, Yongpo-dong and other places in Wenjing, and then dispatch a joint outflanking attack from the east and west, and dispatch two regiments, the 119th Division and the 120th Division, to concentrate on destroying the ROK reinforcements from all roads in Wenjing. The Special Service Battalion of the 118th Division cut off the road from Onjeong to Guchang, intending to cut off the southward retreat of the ROK reinforcement corps and isolate it, so that the ROK army's fuel supply convoy was wiped out and did not reach the reserved supply site of Wenjeong at all.
In one day, the Korean troops who rushed to Wenjing were stubbornly resisted by Liu Xiaoshan's troops, and the repeated attacks of several regiments only left hundreds of corpses behind, and did not take a single step forward from Liu Xiaoshan! A regiment of the 120th Division encountered the 19th Korean Regiment and two regiments sent west from Heecheon at *dong east of Wenjing, but in order to attract the rest of the 6th and 8th Korean Divisions to come to their aid, the regiment only mobilized part of the regiment's forces to confront it. By the evening of the same day, the development of the situation was not as Peng Dehuai had planned, and the Han Second Army only dispatched one of its 10th regiments and two other battalions to the *hole, and the main force of the whole army remained in the stadium hole, while the Han 1st Division only stayed north of Yunshan, unwilling to take a step forward!
When Peng Dehuai found that the ROK 2nd Army had not been hit, he ordered the 119th and 120th Divisions to destroy the 10th and 19th battalions of the ROK 2nd Army, while the 188th Division was responsible for working with the 148th Division of the 50th Army to annihilate its 6th Division. The 119th and 120th Divisions rapidly attacked two battalions of their 10th and 19th Regiments east of Onjeong, while the Chinese roadblocks forced the retreating South Korean soldiers to abandon their vehicles and artillery in order to get out of the area. After a day's fighting, the ROK army was already in a fierce battle by four battalions of the 10th and 19th ROK regiments, and the volunteers intercepted more than 20 guns, more than 60 military vehicles, and captured more than 400 people.
I didn't expect to be able to fight so big this time, Liu Xiaoshan was very satisfied, and happily drank the seized Korean wine. But Peng Dehuai was not satisfied, he originally planned to destroy Han's Second Army, at least to eliminate his main force, but he didn't expect to eliminate only four of his battalions. Of course, compared to MacArthur, Commander-in-Chief Peng Dehuai's mood can be regarded as a sunny day, because until now, on the entire western front of Korea, the enemy forces north of Unsan have been completely defeated or wiped out! After learning about the performance of the Second Army of South Korea, he angrily scolded the Korean stick for what he could not do, and what he ate was not enough!
Angered, MacArthur decided to order the 1st Cavalry Division of the US Army and the 1st Han Division of Yunshan to change their defenses to ensure that Yunshan was not lost. This deployment made the first collision between the Volunteer Army and the U.S. Army!