What's on Jasmine's mind- My leader, my regiment follow-up

(One)

When we came to the Korean battlefield, the first battle was over.The second battle was divided into two fronts, east and west. The offensive on the western front started on November 1950, 11, while the blocking battle on the eastern front began on November 25.The fighting on the Eastern Front ended around December 11th, with the US Marine Corps retreating from the Eastern Front; while on the Western Front, the Volunteers were in full swing, ending with the liberation of Pyongyang on December 26th.

Just at the end of the second battle, we accidentally saw an old acquaintance on the battlefield.We decided to follow him first to see how he and his company will fight in the next step.That acquaintance was a soldier in the Seventh Company of the Third, Fourth and Seventh Regiments of a certain division of the Volunteer Army. He had a name called Niu Tengyun, and his company, because of its heroic performance in the War of Liberation, has now been called by the superiors "" "Steel Company", that is the unit that Fanla used to be in.

The Seventh Company has always been responsible for the task of sharp knives. In the early stage of the third battle, they received a letter of challenge from the Brother Company Sixth Company.The letter is not long, as far as I remember, the content is as follows:

Dear Comrades of Steel Company!

The task of breaking through the Linjin River has arrived!We couldn't be happier!

You have made great contributions to the motherland and the people, we admire you very much and learn from you all the time!In order to jointly accomplish the glorious task entrusted to us by our superiors, we hereby present a revolutionary friendship contest to you, and propose the following conditions:

Open the breach and see who can occupy it first.

See who occupies the enemy's main position.

Let's see who takes more prisoners.

pay tribute!

Sincerely, all comrades of the Sixth Company

(two)

The purpose of the third battle: smash the enemy's defensive positions on the [-]th parallel, annihilate the four South Korean divisions on the first line of defense in the Imjin River and its north, and the Han River area. If it goes well, the camera will occupy Seoul.

The third battle was launched at 1950:12 on December 31, 17.On the north bank of the Han River, a string of dazzling flares flew across the snowy night of New Year's Eve.The artillery of the Chinese army began to fire.Although the shelling lasted only 10 minutes, it was the largest and most powerful shelling by the Chinese army since the beginning of the Korean War.

Volunteer soldiers who were waiting for the shock signal in the trenches stood up and moved their numb bodies.Seeing that half of the sky was reddened by their cannon fire, they all shouted excitedly.We are very familiar with this kind of passion. It is a kind of blood-pulling excitement that can only be experienced by people who have forgotten life and death at the moment of battle.

The engineers of the Volunteer Army will use this short period of 10 minutes to clear mines in the forward positions.As soon as the minesweeping team rushed down the hillside, they were immediately intercepted by dense machine gun bullets from the opposite bank.The sappers fell one by one, but the mines were also detonated in clusters.When the attack flares went up and the Chinese infantry shouted for the charge, the last engineer in the minefield sat up, turned his head and glanced at his comrades; then, he turned his body sideways, forward, towards the mines Get over there.The sound of explosions from landmines continued...

The Seventh Company rushed forward, and the leader in the front row was the deputy company commander, the battle hero Wang Fengjiang.The ice layer of the river where they broke through was very thick, and the soldiers kept slipping and falling on the ice, getting up and rushing forward.However, it didn't take long for the whole company to fall into the icy water, because the ice layer in the center of the river had been blasted away by fierce artillery fire.

Many soldiers held on to a piece of ice floe, half of their bodies were submerged in the water and moved forward, and the part of them exposed to the water soon froze with the ice.Wang Fengjiang, who was walking in the front, held the captured American-made guns in one hand, and freed up the other hand to help his comrades around him.When approaching the shore, there was a thick layer of ice again. It was not an easy task to climb up the ice layer again from the icy water. The soldiers who had been numb from the cold had no strength left.The blocked artillery fire and machine gun fire on the other side of the river became more intense, and wounded soldiers were constantly washed away by the river.

We saw that deputy company commander Wang Fengjiang stood in the waist-deep ice water and pushed the soldiers onto the ice one by one, risking being shot at any time.And the last one to be pushed up was Niu Tengyun.

The soldiers who got on the ice again faced death and stumbled towards the river bank.

The cotton-padded clothes and trousers soaked in ice water of the Chinese soldiers who landed on the south bank of the Linjin River were immediately frozen as hard as stones, which made them look clumsy and stiff in the face of the dense bullets fired from the enemy bunker.The soldier who was shot fell heavily to the ground like a stone tablet.The river water poured into the barrel of the soldier's gun froze, making it impossible to shoot for a while.

"Piss! Pee on the gun!" We watched anxiously, and Milong shouted loudly.Fortunately, experienced veterans of the Volunteer Army are leading the way.However, it is not easy to urinate in the face of severe cold and flying bullets.However, once you can pee out, the effect of thawing the gun is quite good.

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(three)

At the beginning of January 1951, we followed the 1th Regiment of Qilian to Fuguli.This is a small town only [-] kilometers away from Seoul, the capital of South Korea, and it is an important three-way intersection on the highway leading to Seoul.The task received by the [-]th Regiment was to occupy this place.

The whole regiment immediately marched forward in four directions at the speed of a forced march, but the orderlies who urged them to speed up arrived one after another.Some soldiers fainted during the extreme running, and as soon as the order to "rest in place" was issued, the soldiers lay on the snow and randomly grabbed a few handfuls of snow and stuffed them into their mouths.

What the regiment encountered in Bugok-ri was the Royal Army Regiment of the No.20 Ninth Brigade of the British Army.It is an elite unit in the British Army and participated in the Normandy landing campaign in World War II.The uniforms of their officers and soldiers all wear the emblem of the regiment: a green tiger.

We pay attention to the Seventh Company. Since the Seventh Company is a sharp knife company, they are at the forefront of fighting the British army.The deputy chief of staff of the regiment went up to the position of the seventh company, but before he could understand the battle situation, the deputy company commander Wang Fengjiang shouted: "No. [-]! You go down! It's too dangerous here!" It exploded around him, and a piece of shrapnel sliced ​​into his head...

Bugok-ri is a depression, surrounded by mountains on three sides, controlling the highway from Uijeongbu to Seoul and a railway.The "Green Tiger Regiment" of the No. 20 Ninth Brigade of the British Army has already occupied the favorable terrain here, and is preparing to cover its main force to retreat southward if the battle situation changes.

The head of the regiment is going to send the Seventh Company up to take down a commanding height stuck on the road and hold it.As long as this commanding height is controlled, the British army will be locked in this depression in Fuguli.

At this time, the deputy company commander of the Seventh Company, the combat hero Wang Fengjiang who pushed the soldiers ashore in the icy river, had died.Li Fengtang, the commander of the seventh company, and Zhang Dingxian, the instructor, led the troops to control the small school on the side of the road first.The two of them climbed up the wall of the school and looked at the road, where there was a large black mass of cars.Company Commander Li knew that the car was the enemy's life, and escape depended on this thing. If the road and the car were guarded, the enemy would never be able to escape.Therefore, he led the soldiers to quickly occupy the small highland beside the road. As soon as he occupied the highland, the British army attacked before he could catch his breath.

Qilian, its life and death moment has arrived.

For the British army, this highland is related to their life and death.

The artillery fire of the British army was extremely fierce, and the snow more than a foot thick on the high ground immediately turned into hot muddy water.There was no way to build fortifications and bunkers, and the Chinese soldiers resisted the attacks of the British soldiers in the muddy water.The ammunition was about to run out, and all the soldiers sent by the regiment command post to deliver ammunition died on the road.The intensive firepower of the British army tightly blocked the road from the high ground to the regiment command post.

Soon, the instructor Zhang Ding died first.Then, the platoon leaders also all died.When the heavy machine gun was broken, the company commander Li Fengtang fell down with serious injuries.There were no cadres left on the battlefield, and Company Commander Li was speechless looking at Niu Tengyun who was bandaging him, but Niu Tengyun understood the company commander's eyes, and the company commander was saying to him: Go to command the battle!

(four)

The person Niu Tengyun admires the most in this company is the deputy company commander Wang Fengjiang, the fighting hero.The day before breaking through the Linjin River, he had a long chat with the person he admired most in the hidden cave.From the moment he knew that Wang Fengjiang had sacrificed, he felt that he had lost something forever, and his heart ached all the time.

Niu Tengyun gathered the people on the battlefield, and there were still 13 people who could persist in fighting.He divided the thirteen men into fighting groups, with his group at the forefront, and appointed a man who would succeed him in command after his death.

The British attack resumed after several mortar bombardments.The tanks on the road aimed their muzzles at the high ground for aiming and shooting, and the British soldiers climbed up to the high ground in row after row in skirmish formation.

Niu Tengyun ran on the ground: "Fight! Fight! If you win, you will enter Seoul tomorrow!".

After repelling several attacks by the British army, he found that there were no bullets on the ground, so he decided to collect bullets from the enemy's corpses.

This soldier's movements are quick and flexible, and he has a lot of tricks. He crawls around among the corpses of the British army, while the British army's machine guns almost follow his figure and shoot back and forth.He kept jumping into the crater to avoid it, and finally he used a branch to pick up his military cap and shake it, and the cap was smashed into pieces by the bullets.He carried back a dozen bullet pouches and a bunch of grenades from the enemy's corpse.

While he was distributing the ammunition, he found that six more people had died.

There was a momentary silence on the plateau.

On the road, the cars of the British army are still there, and the cars are full of British soldiers.

Since this highland is still in the hands of the Chinese, the British army still cannot escape.

Niu Tengyun distributed the last bit of dry food in the dry food bag to everyone, and then waited for the last moment.

The British army launched the last attack. Six tanks participated in the attack on the high ground, and the number of infantry was several times that of the previous attacks. The British were ready to put all their eggs in one basket.

When the British helmet was clearly in sight, he gave the order to fire.

The remaining seven Chinese soldiers stood up and fired almost at the same time, and when the British soldiers rushed to the position, all the Chinese soldiers raised their bayonets.

Suddenly, Niu Tengyun ran to the highest place in the position, stood there, and blew the bugle.With all his might, he blew the bugle at full volume.

The sudden sound of the horn made the British soldiers puzzled for a moment, and then they immediately turned and ran back.

The Chinese soldiers who were about to face death felt strange: the enemy who was about to occupy the high ground heard the sound of the trumpet, suddenly stopped attacking, and rushed down as if a catastrophe was imminent!

Niu Tengyun blew the bugle over and over until his lips bleed, blowing the enemy onto the road.There was already a fire on the road, and the cars of the British army began to burn under the blow of the main force of the regiment.

The Seventh Company, at the cost of almost all casualties, stood on this high ground for a day and a night, and finally waited for the main force, and wiped out a battalion of the Royal First Regiment of the No. 20 Ninth Brigade of the British Army here.

Later, the regiment flag of the British Royal "Green Tiger Regiment" was displayed in the Military Museum of the Chinese Revolution.At the same time, there is also the small brass horn that Niu Tengyun blew on the battlefield.

The Volunteer Army Headquarters awarded the Seventh Company the title of "Steel Seventh Company".A banner with this title is still hung in the honor room of a certain company of the Chinese army.

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With a thunderbolt and a sword, a group of fierce tigers steel seven companies;

The will of steel is the iron man, the iron and blood guards the country and protects the homeland.

The sound of killing frightens the enemy's courage, and the reputation of being victorious in every battle is passed on.

The attack must be conquered, the defense must be strong, and the enemy's bones must be stepped on to sing a triumphant return.