In the conference room, several people smoked cigarettes silently, too lazy to speak.

Almond has been doing well on the Eastern Front.

On November 21, the U.S. 7th Division invaded Huishan on the bank of the Yalu River, and he led the division commander Barr to congratulate him, and saw the long green water of the Yalu River, the snow-capped shore, and saw that the river bridge had been blown up by them, and the wreckage remained on the river.

Standing on the banks of the Yalu River, looking at the Chinese border, he reported to MacArthur, who was overjoyed and sent a congratulatory telegram: "Edward, congratulations, sincere congratulations, and please tell Major General Barr that the US Seventh Division has achieved the greatest success." ”

However, only a few days later, the troops on the eastern and western fronts were divided and surrounded.

MacArthur had to draw up a plan for retreat, and the United Nations forces would fortify the front line of Pyongyang and Wonsan, first reorganize the troops, and then draw up a counteroffensive plan.

As a result, a large number of U.S. troops on the western front fled from the north of the Cheongchon River to Gunyu-ri and Yuancheon, and the U.S. and Li puppet troops on the eastern front retreated to Yuanshan in an attempt to stop the defense line of Yuanshan and Pyongyang.

MacArthur exclaimed to Washington at this time that the Chinese had dispatched a large number of elite troops, and at the same time made a statement abroad about the sudden change in the situation of the war.

On the morning of the 29th, MacArthur declared bankrupt the 'General Offensive on Christmas Homecoming'. 、

"Due to the southward advance of the Chinese army, it is difficult to expect an early end to the Korean War."

On the afternoon of the 29th, the 114th Division captured Xiayang Station, broke through the defense line of the Turkish Brigade, and prepared to continue the attack in the direction of Junyuli.

"In order to alleviate the pressure of the 113th Division in Sansholi and Longyuanli, you will temporarily abandon the enemy in Junyuli and quickly move closer to the 113th Division."

The phone hung up, and the head of the military headquarters, together with the deputy division and cadres of the 14th Division, deployed the march of each regiment, and ordered all regiments to quickly abandon their original plans, and now immediately turn around and march in the direction of Longyuanli and Xinglongli, occupy positions on the west side of the railway, and block the enemy fleeing south side by side with the 113th Division.

At the same time, he also told the commander of the 112th Division, Yang Dayi, that in addition to containing part of the current enemy, the main force of the division would move south along the railway and highway, and block the enemy fleeing south side by side with the 114th Division in Longxingli.

He also told the two divisions to encounter the enemy on the way, and to take advantage of the fact that the enemy's entire line was not moving, and to adopt regiments, battalions, and companies to fight separately, and to block and annihilate the enemy wherever he went.

At that time, the commander of the 114th Division was commanding the battle in the 340th Regiment, and the military headquarters ordered him to come back immediately.

After the division commander returned, after a meeting and discussion, he immediately decided to lead the troops directly into the area of Xinglongli, in order to avoid encountering the enemy and delaying the support of the 113th Division, the troops took a small road and went straight to Xinglongli after departure.

At this time, Sun Hongdao, the commander of the 342nd Regiment, was overly sleepy and dizzy due to continuous fighting, which caused hearing impairment and could not even hear the sound of artillery clearly, but he had to carry out the order of the division commander and lead the troops to Xinglongli, but his body was really difficult to support, and he fell on the side of the road while walking, so he had to be supported by two guards and kept advancing on the rugged mountain road.

On the right side of the road through Valekawa was steep and high mountain, and on the left was the riverbed, which the enemy had tightly sealed with platoon artillery in order to stop the advance of the 114th Division.

Sun Hongdao immediately made a decision and ordered his troops to advance lightly, quickly wading through the riverbed, passing through the enemy's artillery blockade, and advancing along the path on the east side.

In order to speed up the advance of the troops and save the trouble of finding a road, he ordered the regimental staff officer to lead two messengers to open the road first.

Sun Hongdao explained: "In order to act covertly, you must do three things that are not allowed. Don't look for a guide, don't take the road, don't alarm the dog, the odd soldier can win! ”

At any time of war, there is no shortage of traitors in any country, and some guides who seem to be active in guiding the way to the volunteer army may also be traitors.

In order not to alarm the barking of the dogs, the regimental staff officers walked around the village and into the wilderness.

Without a guide, he had to follow the azimuth to grasp the direction, and after walking for a while, he checked the map and guided the team to move forward quickly.

The night was dark, the map could not be seen, and the light of the flashlight was needed, so in order to avoid revealing the target, he asked two guards to put on raincoats, and when necessary, they formed a circle and covered them with raincoats.

Due to the concealment of the 342nd Regiment's actions, the enemy did not discover that the 114th Division of the Volunteers had crossed the Yangtze River and was heading south, but still tightly blocked the road with artillery fire, and the artillery fire did not stop all night.

The soldiers wittily said: "The Turkish brigade is really a friend, and it has been sending us to our destination with a 'salute'." ”

At dawn, the 342nd Regiment of the 114th Division entered the area around Xinglongli, and as soon as they arrived, they encountered the enemy fleeing south, and they were advancing on the highway in a mighty way.

The 114th Division approached Longyuanli and cooperated with the 113th Division to strengthen the force of blocking the enemy's escape from the south and the north, and forcibly controlled the distance between the enemy who tried to flee south and the enemy who tried to go north to support him at one kilometer.

The two sides could almost see each other, but at a distance of one kilometer, they were suffering from the fierce penetration of the frontal troops of the 38th Army, and were in a state of confusion of division and breakage.

At this time, the 112nd Division was rapidly advancing towards Fengmingli.

At 16 o'clock on the 29th, the 25th Division of the enemy was defending the enemy in Fengmingli, and fled to the west and southwest in two ways, and the enemy's tanks frantically blocked the advance of the 112th Division.

The 334th Regiment launched a fierce attack on the tank group in order to open the blockade line formed by the enemy's tanks.

The 6th Company of the 334th Regiment did not have anti-tank weapons, but the fighters had long had experience in dealing with tanks in China, and they made grenades into cluster grenades, stuffed them into tank tracks, and blew up the enemy's leading tanks in one fell swoop, and the second company demolition team blew up the rear tanks one after another.

After two hours of fierce fighting, he successfully occupied Fengmingli.

At 20 o'clock on the 29th, the 3rd and 34th Regiments and the 3rd Battalion occupied Zhengtong Mountain and engaged in a fierce battle with the 1st Division of the 2nd Division of the US Army, which had fled south.

At 3 o'clock, the main force of the battalion arrived, the troops turned from defense to attack, and the battalion commander ordered the 6th and 9th companies to attack from the front, and the 7th company flanked in a roundabout, determined to eat the enemy.

The cunning enemy used tanks and cars to form a fortress and fired heavily at the troops of the three battalions.

The commander of the third battalion was in a hurry and decided to organize firepower to blow up the cars in front and behind, forcing the enemy infantry to lose the barrier of cars and tanks, and exposing them to the fire of the third battalion.

Therefore, the comrades of the 6th and 9th companies first concentrated their firepower on the cars, which were easier to fight than tanks and easier to ignite.

Under the concentration of fire, the enemy's cars were set on fire one after another, and the enemy's cars and tanks were close to each other, and the raging fire endangered the tanks at once, and the left and right sides were deep ditches and cliffs, and the roads were narrow, and the tanks panicked, the first tank rushed on the burning car, and the second tank crashed into the first tank because of the excessive speed, and also burned.

The soldiers of the third battalion took advantage of the confusion of the enemy to launch a fierce attack, destroying more than 200 enemies, intercepting more than 400 cars and more than 30 cannons.

Without the harassment of the enemy on the periphery, Val Chuan was exposed to the guns of the 112th Division.

Then, Yang Dayi commanded the troops to attack the price, they stood on the mountain, condescending, and saw the enemy in the priceriver clearly, he found that the enemy was going west from the city, and there were more and more tanks and artillery vehicles.

The cadres were anxious to attack, and they all hoped that Yang Dayi would quickly give an order not to let the enemy in Yuanchuan escape.

Yang Dayi pressed his hand and said, "Don't worry, let it run out of the city!" ”

Suddenly, they saw that the city was on fire, and something was ignited, accompanied by the sound of explosions, which were the materials left by the enemy, and they could not take them away, but could only destroy them.

Yang Dayi concluded that the enemy had all left the city, and ordered the 334th Regiment and the 336th Regiment to encircle this group of enemies from the left and right sides, and it only took an hour to annihilate this group of enemies.

Among them, there were the 2nd and 25th Divisions of the US Army, as well as the puppet army, which captured more than 200 cars, more than 20 cannons, and countless materials of all kinds.

As soon as the battle ended, Comrade Han and Comrade Liang of the 38th Army came, and the soldiers who had been running around and fighting were already exhausted.

Comrade Liang said: "Now is not the time to rest, you must quickly advance towards Songgu Peak. ”

Yang Dayi received the order and promised: "Please rest assured, I have read the map here for a day, and I promise to arrive at Songgu Peak on time!" ”

At this point, the 38th Army severed the connection between the U.S. forces between Gunyu-ri and Yuanchuan, and the three divisions of U.S. troops were divided and surrounded by the 38th Army in the vast area between Fengming-ri, Yuanchuan, Sansho-ri, and Yongyuan-ri.

The armies of the fine line launched a fierce battle to encircle and annihilate the US troops on the banks of the Qingchuan River, starting from Xinanzhou in the west, as far as Gunyu-ri and Yuanchuan in the east, and as far as Longyuan-ri and Sanso-ri in the south.

The first to bear the brunt is Longyuanli.

A large number of the enemy's main forces were blocked in Longyuan by the 113th Division and the 114th Division.

On the 29th alone, the 1st and 3rd Companies of the 337th Regiment fought with the enemy for a whole day and suffered heavy casualties.

The first company was mainly used against the enemy going south, and the third company was mainly against the enemy from the north.

With heavy casualties, the position was firmly held.

The day left the enemies on both sides overwhelmed and unable to move forward.

At dusk, the enemy retreated.

The cadres of the 113th Division estimated that tomorrow might be a vicious battle, and some advocated repairing fortifications, burying mortar shells on the road, and igniting the cap upward, so that the enemy's tanks could destroy the road with a single pressure, and they could also blow up the enemy's tank tracks.

Some advocated attacking at night, and the enemy should not be allowed to run away in vain, but after heated discussions, the opinion of attacking occupied the peak, and Jiang Chao agreed to attack.

He decided that the second battalion of the 337th Regiment would not move, the first battalion would fight along the road, and the third battalion would climb the mountains to find the enemy to fight.

The first battalion pursued along the road for more than ten miles, but did not touch the enemy, the enemy did not catch up, and the fortifications that were blown up by enemy shells during the day had not yet been built, and the first battalion turned back non-stop and built fortifications.

As soon as the troops returned to their positions, it was dawn, the fortifications had not yet been repaired, and a large number of enemies were surging, with tanks in front and military vehicles behind.

Everyone regretted that they shouldn't have attacked last night, but went to destroy the road.

As soon as the enemy concentrated artillery fire, 24 planes cooperated, and launched an even more frantic attack on the position of the third company in Longyuanli, which was held by the 114th Division.

Several cadres of the company were also swept away by the huge shock wave.

Zhang Youxi felt that the situation was not good, and immediately ran to the three-row position, and two gasoline bombs exploded in front of him, and the heat wave overturned him, and the burning flames ignited the cotton clothes on his body, and he didn't have time to extinguish them, so he directly tore the cotton clothes, threw them off, and ran forward in his shirt.

When he ran to the three-row position, he found that the land here had been plowed by enemy artillery fire, and there were blown tree trunks and rubble everywhere, and the craters were stacked one by one, most of the bunkers and fortifications were destroyed, and the leaders and deputy leaders of the seventh squad guarding the front line were all killed.

One of the soldiers cried out that the bodies of the two men could not be found, and that they were afraid that they had been blown apart by enemy shells.

Zhang Youxi's heart was heavy, but he didn't care about being sad, and immediately reappointed the acting squad leader on the position and organized the soldiers to resist the enemy's attack.

The enemy frantically attacked the positions of the 1st and 3rd companies several times in a frenzied battalion, but all of them ended in failure, and in a fit of anger, dozens of planes were called in to bombard the hills along the road.

On this day, the soldiers who stuck to the position in Longyuanli failed to see the sun in the sky for a day.

West.

The various units of the Volunteer Army formed a large encirclement of the American army, and only the southwest gap has not yet been blocked.

On the night of the 29th, 8 regiments and 24 battalions of the 38th Army, like dozens of sharp swords stuck in the encircled enemy, fought fiercely all night, forcing the enemy to retreat in the direction of Junyuli.

Junyuli was occupied by the 40th Army at 3 o'clock on the 30th, forcing the enemy to flee in the direction of Longyuanli.

The three divisions of the 38th Army were deployed in the areas of Longyuanli, Xinglongli, Qinglongli, and Fengmingli, and fought fiercely with the blocked enemy.

If the enemy wants to break through, the first thing to do is to tear through the defense line of the 38th Army, and only in this way will they have a chance to break through.

The battle on the 30th was unprecedentedly fierce, and MacArthur gathered more than 500 sorties of planes for the final desperate struggle, and took tanks as the lead to adopt a 'wave-like' group charge in a vain attempt to tear open the gap and escape from the encirclement.

An even more difficult battle unfolded in the 335th Regiment.

This is Songgu Peak.

Songgu Peak is located in the northeast of Longyuanli, and Sansholi, Longyuanli into a full trend, it is north to Junyuli, northwest Keda price river, geographical location is quite important.

The main peak is 288.7 meters high and extends 120 meters east from the summit to the road.

The road turns slowly here, forming a 'U' curve, which is a good terrain to hold off the traitors.

However, it is only a half-rocky, half-earth, bare mountain, and the slope is relatively small, and there are many rain cracks, which is not a surprising position.

But it was such an inconspicuous hill bag that became the place where the 9th Regiment of the 2nd Division of the US Army was destroyed.

Those who guarded this hill were the soldiers of the first battalion and three companies of the 335th Regiment.