The night was dark.

Tracer bullets flew around in the night sky, marking distinct traces.

The stretcher team and the three companies halfway up the mountain are touching the mountain.

The whole process was very smooth.

When they touched the mountain, they were not surprised, the position was empty, and there was not a single enemy.

It turned out that the enemy had retreated to a tent at the bottom of the mountain.

In the Korean battlefield, the enemy relied on airplanes and artillery to strengthen their courage, they were afraid of field battles, close combat, and at night for fear of a sneak attack by the volunteers, so they often withdrew from their positions and waited until dawn before entering their positions.

The enemy thought that through this method, he would be able to avoid being attacked by the volunteers.

But this time, Head Sun obviously did not intend to let go of this opportunity.

The soldiers followed the wires laid by the enemy on the ground and found the village, where the existing enemy danced with the soldiers in the tents and houses.

Some are drinking, some are sleeping.

The astute warriors first cut the enemy's telephone lines and retrieved some of the wires, which is a good thing.

They then attacked in groups, entering the houses and tents where there were enemies, throwing a few grenades at all the villages and tents where the enemy lived, and withdrawing after the fight, without staying long, without the slightest drag and water.

Amid the explosion of grenades, none of the fighters in charge of the night attack were killed or wounded, and they returned victoriously.

In this battle, they did not know how many enemies they had destroyed, but for three consecutive days, the enemy did not attack, and they rested peacefully for a few days.

In the first battle, our volunteers annihilated more than 15,000 enemies.

At the same time as the victory of the Volunteers on the Western Front, the 42nd Army, which served as the blockade on the Eastern Front, fought tenaciously and fiercely with the enemy for 13 days and nights, resisted the attack of three divisions of the US Army and Syngman Rhee's army, annihilated more than 2,700 enemy troops, completely smashed the enemy's attempt to detour the river boundary, and effectively cooperated with the operation on the Western Front.

In this campaign, the Volunteers hastily entered the Korean war under the extremely serious situation of the Korean War.

After 13 consecutive days and nights of hard fighting, the enemy's aggressive edge was thwarted, and it was driven from the Yalu River to the south of the Cheongchon River, which shattered MacArthur's dream of occupying all of Korea on Thanksgiving, bought time for the reorganization of the Korean People's Army, and likewise, enabled our army to gain a firm foothold in Korea.

The first time he fought with the US military, he also gained valuable experience, which created favorable conditions for the next operation.

In this battle, the 38th Army won the first battle.

In the middle of the night after the end of the first battle, Comrade Han, deputy director of the Zhi Division, came to the military headquarters of the 38th Army and held a meeting, at which the cadres of the 38th Army listened to Comrade Han's account of the international reaction to the situation of the Korean War and explained the significance of winning the Korean War.

Later, Comrade Liang was asked to talk about the reason why the 38th Army did not fight this battle.

The 38th Army won a battle, but it was only a small victory, and compared with the big victory in terms of the total annihilation of the enemy, it was obvious that the 38th Army did not fight well.

Comrade Liang did not say anything, and as soon as the other cadres were about to explain some of the situation, he spoke: "We have not fought well, and there is nothing to say about this." ”

The chief of staff held that it is necessary to speak truthfully and reported three points to Comrade Han.

First, they did not understand the enemy of Heecheon, and did not quickly verify the information of the 'black group' obtained from below.

Second, in the process of detour, some troops lost time by fighting in love.

Third, the main force responsible for the roundabout task was unable to keep up in time, and there were too few troops to move forward.

These three points were important reasons why the 38th Army was unable to completely annihilate the enemy.

In particular, when the troops first entered Korea, they all wanted to make great contributions, to destroy the enemy, and to completely annihilate the enemy, which caused many troops to be greedy for battle and missed the time to encircle and intercept the enemy.

Comrade Han attached great importance to these situations, and he asked all the cadres of the 38 th Army to sum up their combat experience so that they could fight again.

November 13th.

Comrade Liang went to Zhisi to attend the operational meeting, and Comrade Liang felt very sad that the 38th Army did not successfully complete its mission in the first battle, but in the end it occupied Feihu Mountain, and in terms of the number of traitorous enemies, it was not inferior to the brother troops, and he felt a little comforted.

Unexpectedly, at the meeting, after Shiji finished talking about the victory and significance of the first battle, he actually ordered his life.

"Is Comrade Liang from the 38th Army here?"

"Here!"

Comrade Liang stood up from the crowd.

Zhiji's eyes were sharp, and he criticized the 38th Army mercilessly: "In the battle on the field, the two regiments of the puppet army had been cut off by me to retreat, but the 113th Division only went to one regiment, and the main force of the division rested in an area twenty or thirty miles away, causing the enemy to flee. ”

In terms of campaign, the movement of the 38th Army was slow. Especially in the fight against Heecheon, tell you that the enemy in Heecheon has only one battalion, you say that there is a black regiment in Heecheon, what black regiment? Hack yourselves! The time of the attack was postponed, and the enemy was not annihilated, the important thing is that the time to plunge into Junyuli and Xinanzhou was delayed! ”

Zhiji's criticism was very harsh, which made Comrade Liang feel more and more heavy the more he listened.

Comrade Liang has always heard praise and has never been criticized by his superiors.

If others criticized him, he should have jumped, but now he had been listening calmly, and he was also very angry about the problems of the 38th Army in a battle.

However, he was not entirely convinced by Shiji's criticism, because Shiji did not fully understand the situation.

Although he was not convinced, he didn't say it, and listened quietly, his fists already clenched.

He thought in his heart that the 38th Army had never been frightened by the enemy in battle, and let's see, sooner or later the 38th Army would answer with a new victory.

When the criticism was over, when Shiji sat down and began to talk about the plan for the second campaign, Comrade Liang's attention was focused on the next combat mission.

The unexpected appearance of the Chinese People's Volunteers on the Korean battlefield and their initial victory not only greatly disrupted the pace of US imperialist aggression, but also caused anxiety within the enemy's camp.

In order to prevent the large-scale entry of Chinese troops into Korea, Macas advocated 'bombing all the bridges and southern ends of the Yalu River' in Manchuria and 'all means of transportation, military installations, factories, cities, and villages', while Britain and France strongly opposed it, believing that it would provoke a world war, and they advocated the establishment of a 'buffer zone' on both sides of the Yalu River.

Then it will be resolved through political means.

MacArthur vehemently refuted the British suggestion, saying, "To abandon any part of North Korea in the face of Chinese aggression would be the greatest defeat of the free world in modern times, and in fact, to reduce it to such a humble position would undermine our image and influence of leadership in Asia, and to deprive us of our political and economic position." ”

Ignoring the British and French proposals, Truman finally approved MacArthur's proposal and continued to rapidly occupy all of Korea by military offensive.

The enemy is preparing for war in a frenzy.

The Volunteer Army is also adjusting at the moment.

Since the establishment of the Red Army, there has been the idea of 'learning war from war', so after the end of the first stage, the Volunteer Army has held a number of meetings to sum up the shortcomings in the first stage of the battle, sum up experience, observe the enemy, understand the enemy, and so on.

When the volunteers first arrived in Korea, they were not yet able to fully adapt to the new operational environment, and they were not familiar with the enemy's situation and terrain, so it was very difficult for them to display their military might as expected.

Therefore, although the first battle caused setbacks to the US army and Syngman Rhee's army, it failed to deal a painful blow to the enemy, so that the general headquarters of the invading enemy army still regarded this as a symbolic dispatch by China, and even MacArthur thought that "the Chinese are bluffing to save face."

It has to be said that MacArthur switched between the two faces with ease.

Internationally, MacArthur has always maintained an arrogant and arrogant side, which makes his soldiers blindly confident. Internally, however, he wrote a report to Washington, detailing the hundreds of thousands of troops stationed in the Red Northeast, and the urgency to send long-range bombers to bomb the bridges over the Yalu River, factories, cities, and military areas in the Northeast.

MacArthur wanted to expand the war!

He believed that the participation of the red in the battle was limited, so he adjusted the battle line and prepared to immediately switch to the offensive, and in order to cut off the reinforcements and supplies of the enemy troops, first bombed the bridge over the Yalu River.

Then, in order to realize MacArthur's ambition to invade and occupy all of Korea, the deployment of the army was readjusted: the 1st US Marine Division, the 7th US Division, and the Puppet Capital Division on the Eastern Front continued to attack Huangcaolyeong, Banshan, and Myeongcheon, and the US 3rd Division was transferred from Japan to strengthen the forces on the Eastern Front.

Western Front, with the pseudo-7th Division. The puppet Sixth Division and the US Eighth Army Corps, and the US Ninth Corps and the Turkish Brigade were transferred to the front line to carry out a frantic counterattack on the front of the 38th Army more than 50 kilometers east of the Qingchuan River.

A general offensive is planned for November 15!

Occupy all of Korea!

MacArthur also ordered his air force to be fully dispatched to launch a two-week 'air campaign'.

On 8 November alone, the US Air Force flew 600 sorties to bombard Sinuiju and blow up the Yalu River Bridge.

On the 10th, the bombing continued.

Feihu Mountain was also tragically attacked by enemy planes, and the position turned into a sea of fire, and the ferocious fire spread in the pine forest, and billowing smoke enveloped Feihu Mountain, which did not disperse for several days.

On the 12th, the enemy's B29 bombed the pier of the Yalu River Iron Bridge with 1,000 kilograms, and after that, the enemy dispatched a large number of B29 bombers to bomb the communications and supply centers of major towns. The destruction of North Korean cities and towns is very serious.

Manpo was 95% destroyed, and as far as the eye could see, it was in ruins.

75 percent of the Jiangjie was destroyed, 60 percent of Sinuiju was destroyed, and 85 percent of Chusan was destroyed.

However, some changes occurred during this period, and MacArthur had planned a general offensive on November 15.

However, because the U.S. Ninth Corps was interfered with by the Korean People's Army guerrillas and was unable to reach the front within the scheduled time, MacArthur changed the total time to November 24 and began what he called the Christmas General Offensive to end the Korean War.

When the enemy deploys troops, based on the changes in the enemy's army, Shiji has already gained insight into the enemy's intentions.

In order to smash the enemy's general offensive, Zhi Si Chengzhu grasped the enemy's miscalculation of the strength and intention of our volunteers to enter the war in Korea, adopted the strategy of showing weakness to the enemy, indulging the enemy, and making him proud, and planned that when the enemy launched an offensive, the troops disguised themselves as invincible, lured the enemy to the Unsan and Onjeong areas, and then dealt a severe blow.

Therefore, the 38th Army was ordered to maintain contact with the enemy with small units, and the main force began to withdraw 30 kilometers north from its existing positions on 9 November, and moved to the mountainous areas around Jingudeshan, Langhuling, Miaoxiangshan, and Brother Peak, where it was concealed and waited for.

Temporarily cede to the enemy the towns and villages between Tokugawa, Kaniling, and Duri Ridge north of the Cheongchon River and Datong River, and between the courts.

It is planned that the eastern front will lure the enemy to the old Jinli and Changjin lines and annihilate them!

The Gyeongbuk side approved Shiji's plan and demanded that one or two battles be fought on the eastern and western fronts within one month from this month to early December, and a total of seven or eight enemy regiments would be annihilated, so as to push the battle line to the area of the railway line between Pyongyang and Wonsan.

At the same time, it was pointed out that if this goal can be achieved, our army will be fundamentally victorious.

Enemy forces adjusted.

Volunteer Army Adjustment.

Both the enemy and our armies have opened a decisive battle posture.

In order to maintain the leading image of US imperialism in Asia, MacArthur would never give up without putting the Chinese People's Volunteers to death.

The Volunteers must turn the tide of the Korean war as soon as possible in order to gain a firm foothold in Korea.

Whether or not we can break the myth that the US military is invincible and whether we can turn the tide of the Korean War will have a bearing on the future development of the Korean War.

The prelude to the second battle is about to begin!

Flying Tiger Mountain was a natural barrier for the enemy to defend Akutagawa, so after the 335th Regiment captured Flying Tiger Mountain, the enemy launched a frantic counterattack.

During the time period when the enemy planned to launch a general attack, Feihu Mountain became a battleground for the enemy, and if the mountain of Feihu Mountain was left alone, once the counterattack began, the enemy would inevitably be blocked by the volunteers on the mountain if he wanted to advance along the Feihu Mountain road.

Therefore, the enemy's superiors ordered the puppet 7th Division and the US Army to recapture Feihu Mountain.

The 335th Regiment suddenly switched from offensive to defensive, and the first difficulty it encountered was that there were no shovels and picks to dig fortifications.

This is because when attacking Feihu Mountain, no one expected that it would suddenly switch to defensive operations, and the shovels and pickaxes were thrown away when they were lightly armed. When building fortifications to defend against the enemy, the soldiers wore wet cotton clothes, braved the drizzling rain, nervously stabbed the soil and stones with their bayonets, and then used their hands to dig the soil and move the stones, digging bunkers and bomb shelters.

The warriors' fingers were grinding out blood and sticking to the dirt, but none of them cried out in pain.

The situation of the third company was relatively better, after occupying the hill, they captured a lot of American things, including the American sapper shovel, when they put the American army's supplies on the position, went to the military corner, and later received the order to retreat, and returned to the position, the battalion left the sapper shovel at that time to them.

Therefore, the situation of the triple company is better.

In the subsequent battles, Xia Yuan led a company to eliminate the enemy on the road, and also captured a lot of good things, including sapper shovels.

These captured sapper shovels became the only fortifications built by the 335th Regiment.

(End of chapter)