After retreating thirty kilometers, many people did not understand the news and were not happy about it mentally. However, when an order is given, they must be resolutely implemented, even if they are not happy about it mentally.
Not long after, Comrade Liang gave them the next step of deployment and asked them to return to the division and report to the chief in charge.
After Li Zhongxin returned to the division and made a report, the division commander called and asked the regiment leader Fan Tianen to come to the division for a meeting.
Fan Tianen had just expressed his determination to the entire regiment cadres, and was afraid that he would shake the morale of the troops by leaving the position, so he requested that the deputy commander be allowed to accept the task.
The division commander understood his feelings and said firmly on the phone: "The task is important, you must come in person, and I will be responsible for all consequences!"
When Fan Tianen heard this, he didn't waste any time. After putting down the phone, he called the deputy commander, arranged the affairs of the regiment, and hurried to the division headquarters with the guards.
After Fan Tianen arrived at the division headquarters, he immediately became anxious when he heard that he had to retreat 30 kilometers: "We have worked hard to prevent the enemy from taking a step forward. Now we are retreating 30 kilometers. If we retreat further, we will not be able to reach the Yalu River! Soldiers!
Our regiment has just received ammunition supplies and the morale of the soldiers is strong. We should take the initiative to attack and teach the enemy a lesson!"
The division commander said seriously: "This is an order, it cannot be changed, and it must be carried out resolutely!"
Fan Tianen remained silent.
He was worried in his heart, and so was his teacher.
As commanders and fighters, we all feel uncomfortable thinking, let alone the soldiers. If we want the soldiers to retreat thirty kilometers safely, this ideological work must be done well!
But at present, the military has not disclosed the detailed combat mission to them, and it is probably still in the confidentiality stage. They make random guesses and can't guess why.
I just feel that retreating thirty kilometers would make no one feel happy.
Fan Tianen returned to the regiment headquarters with worries and first assigned tasks to each battalion.
At this time, the position of the fifth company was still firmly in the hands of the soldiers. The commander of the fifth company happily reported the situation to the regiment headquarters. After listening to it, Fan Tianen said: "Okay! You have worked hard and successfully completed the mission!"
Company Commander Han firmly promised: "Commander, don't work hard, we promise to prevent the enemy from advancing and not lose an inch of ground!"
Fan Tianen hesitated for a moment, then spoke: "Very good, I'm very happy that you have this determination, but you can withdraw now, don't leave the wounded behind!"
Captain Han was stunned: "Ah? Retreat? We..."
Fan Tianen said simply: "This is an order!"
No one can tell exactly how many enemy attacks were repelled on this day. They only know that the position is still there and not an inch of ground was lost.
But now that the troops are suddenly ordered to transfer from defense, they must not only explain to the soldiers, but also to the Korean people who have supported the troops. They need a reason. For this reason, this transfer can only be defined as a strategic transfer.
They didn't really retreat, but they wanted to fight back.
The instructor of the Second Battalion explained the reasons for the transfer of the 335th Regiment to the chairman of the local Workers' Party Committee, and sent people to assist the local government in explaining to the Korean people that the transfer of troops was to eliminate more enemies and encourage the people to persist in the struggle.
With approval, they also left some guns and ammunition for the local people for self-defense.
Troops were also dispatched to cover the movement of people into the mountains.
After doing this, Fan Tianen felt relieved and began to make arrangements for the retreat.
If someone retreats, someone must stay to stop the enemy.
The trump card of the 335th regiment was originally the 2nd Battalion, which was also an important force holding the main peak of Feihu Mountain. However, after these days of fighting on Feihu Mountain, it was obvious that the 1st Battalion's combat capabilities were particularly outstanding, especially the 1st Battalion and 3rd Company.
Xia Yuan showed his talents at Feihu Mountain, and the Third Company suddenly became the company with the strongest combat effectiveness among all the companies in the 335th Regiment.
Just one company attacking the enemy's station at night and seizing a regiment's ammunition supply is something that other companies cannot do.
Fan Tianen was very happy to have such a strong company, but he did not give the task of breaking the rear to the Third Company. After all, the task of breaking the rear in Feihu Mountain was not very heavy, so he gave this task to the Third Battalion.
The sky had darkened and the enemy's attack had stopped. The 335th Regiment took advantage of the cover of night and began to retreat to the rear.
The third battalion was the last to leave.
After the 335th Regiment withdrew, the enemy shelled Feihushan again the next day, and then began to attack Feihushan. Only this time, they successfully rushed to the Feihushan position, but could not see a single enemy figure.
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The 335th Regiment has retreated, and the Korean people here have also moved into the mountains, and the enemy has missed them.
The 335th Regiment left a deep impression on the Korean people here. In the face of lack of food and ammunition, all the soldiers of the 335th Regiment fought bloody battles with the enemy to the end. With their tenacious will, they also left an indelible mark on the enemy.
impression.
After the Korean War, the Korean people built a monument in Feihu Mountain to commemorate the volunteers, with the following inscriptions on it:
"Thousands of tigers are flying on the Flying Tiger Mountain, heroes are loyal and wise, blood is shed on the golden soil of North Korea, and the friendship between China and North Korea shines brightly together!"
The 335th Regiment captured Feihu Mountain in one fell swoop and persisted for five days and nights, fighting against a puppet division and part of the U.S. Army, killing, wounding, and capturing more than 2,200 enemy soldiers, which shocked the enemy.
Even a book of celebrities published in Japan specifically evaluated Fan Tianen, which is enough to show the international impact of the Battle of Feihushan.
The night is depressing, the night is endless, and there is silence.
Scattered snowflakes fell, with a hint of coldness.
After several days of fierce fighting, the soldiers of the 335th Regiment, smelling strongly of gunpowder smoke, remained silent and hurried on their way seriously.
Among them, there are many dear comrades who will stay on Feihu Mountain forever.
Xiao Heping held the gun and stared around: "Are we going to the field hospital?"
Zhou Mao asked: "Why go to the field hospital?"
Xiao Heping said: "Look for the squad leader. I don't know if the squad leader's leg injury has healed."
Zhou Maodao: "We are retreating. I think the field hospital has also started to retreat. Let's go to the rear and have a look. Maybe we can meet Liu in the rear."
Xia Yuan rushed back from the company headquarters. When the two of them saw him, they hurriedly asked: "Xia Yuan, what's going on? Why did you retreat?"
Xia Yuan didn't say much, but simply said: "Strategic shift."
Strategic shift, this is also an old tradition taught by our army to the soldiers. After everyone heard this, although they felt uncomfortable mentally, they didn't say anything.
After all, there are not many strategic shifts in the domestic battlefield. In fact, everyone has become accustomed to it, but this time it was too sudden, and they have been fighting the enemy for so long, they have been passively beaten, and rarely take the initiative to attack.
The only one who took the initiative was the three-night attack on the enemy's garrison, which was a great victory.
Therefore, each company is looking forward to taking the initiative and making a great contribution.
Some company commanders even speculated to their superiors that they were holding on to Feihu Mountain to buy time for the rear, and they might launch an attack on Junyuli at some point.
The news of the launch of the attack did not arrive, but the news of the retreat came.
Xia Yuan counted the time and estimated that the second battle was about to begin. Is this retreat related to the second battle? There is a high probability that it is related to the second battle.
The Battle of Feihu Mountain was fought perfectly. Only one regiment was used to block a division of the Li Puppet Army, and the US military was also blocked on the other side of Feihu Mountain.
This bought the rear a lot of time to adjust the deployment of the army.
Xiao Heping suddenly felt a cold wind blowing over him. He raised his head and said, "Is the weather going to change? Why do I feel colder and colder?"
Xia Yuan raised his head, feeling the cold snowflakes falling on his cheeks, and licked his mouth: "It should be, it was raining and sleeting a few days ago, and now it's just light snow. It won't take long for the snow to get heavier."
It’s coming, maybe there will be heavy snowfall and the mountains will be closed by then.”
Heavy snow closed the mountains.
After listening to Xia Yuan's words, the surrounding soldiers raised their heads and looked at the sky, feeling that what Xia Yuan said was right.
After this period of development, Xia Yuan's status in the Third Company has skyrocketed. Many soldiers are full of admiration for this young soldier. In war years, worshiping powerful soldiers is a common phenomenon in the military.
Weapons and equipment are of inferior quality, and a strengthening policy prevails in the military to strengthen oneself and strengthen the individual combat capabilities of the soldiers.
The more powerful one's own policy is, the more the warriors worship powerful warriors.
"Xia Yuan still knows this."
A soldier said with a smile.
"I don't understand this, but the weather in North Korea is bad. The deeper the winter, the colder it becomes." Xia Yuan estimated that the second battle on the Eastern Front was about to begin, focusing on the campaign to encircle and suppress the 1st Marine Division.
It is estimated that during this period, in order to relieve the pressure on the Western Front, the enemy has begun to open battlefields from the Eastern Front in an attempt to find another shortcut.
In response to the enemy's opening of battlefields from the eastern front, the second batch of volunteers entering North Korea to fight was the Ninth Corps. They were going to Changjin Lake on the eastern front to contain or destroy the 1st Marine Division.
When the temperature drops sharply, and the temperature at night can reach minus 30 degrees, the Ninth Corps will stage a tragic and evocative war.
Not long ago, at the same time as the fierce battle at Feihu Mountain, the battles in Yuanli, Zengshan, Yuefengshan and Panasonic were also very difficult.
The mountain in the courtyard is to the north of Junyuli and in the northwest corner of Feihu Mountain. The 1st Battalion of the 336th Regiment captured the courtyard and eliminated a battalion of Li Puppet Army. In order to ensure the safety of Feihu Mountain's flanks, they immediately moved into the courtyard.
Deploy the position.
We passed the most difficult days and nights.
Chen Ji, a machine gunner of the Third Company, recalled this period of his career and said: "These seven days and nights of combat life were my first lesson in the Korean battlefield. I didn't sleep a wink for the first few nights. I dozed off as soon as I sat down, and sometimes I took a nap.
, if you fall to the ground with one head, you will hit a big bag on your head."
"At that time, tobacco leaves were very refreshing, and everyone relied on them to stay awake, but there were not many tobacco leaves. After smoking them, they had to pick up grass leaves on the ground and roll cigarettes to ward off drowsiness."
"The rice that was served was corn kernels boiled in water. It was cold at that time, and the rice that had just been cooked turned into ice lumps when it was delivered to the battlefield. When eating, I used grenades to break the ice into pieces and put it in my mouth like chewing.
The rock candy is crunchy and crunchy. Sometimes I eat the ice lumps while attacking the enemy, and I have to divide the meal into several times to finish it."
"At the back of the fight, there was nothing to eat and no water to drink. The cook could only bring one or two pots of water, which was not enough for everyone to moisten their throats."
"Lack of water was a big problem in the position at that time. There was a small river at the foot of the mountain in the forward position, but you had to climb over the road and railway to get to the river, and it was right under the enemy's nose for a long time.
The soldiers risked their lives and took turns carrying water in the small river."
"I was the first to go. I saw that the lips of my comrades were chapped, so I asked the platoon leader to go down the mountain to carry water. Considering the danger of carrying water, the platoon leader initially refused to let me go. He only made repeated requests.
Agree to let me go."
The enemy's artillery fire slowly blocked the intersection, and the hillsides and roads flashed with the light of exploding shells from time to time.
Chen Ji crawled on the ground, climbed the road at the bottom of the mountain, and then crossed the railway. As soon as he touched the river, he suddenly tripped something under his feet. He threw his body forward and pressed something cold with both hands. He looked carefully.
After touching it, it turned out that there were two corpses. These were corpses left by the enemy and had not been removed in time.
He touched the dead body and did not find the gun dropped by the enemy, but he found two steel helmets.
Chen Ji was a little happy, but he was worried that there were too few people holding bottles of water.
He tore off the lining of the helmet, carried it to the river, filled two water bottles first, and then filled the helmet, and ran back with it. He was so happy that he didn't notice that two more corpses were lying on his feet.
He tripped and the water in the helmet spilled out.
Chen Ji angrily scolded the corpses of his enemies, saying that if they were still alive, he would harass them, but if they were dead, he would still harass them.
Not satisfied, I replenished my feet again and went to drink water again with two steel helmets. This time I knew to be careful, I walked and touched, and returned to the position without any danger.
Although the smell of sweat in the helmet was strong, the comrades still felt very sweet when drinking the cool river water.
Life on the battlefield is difficult, but everyone's fighting mood is very high, and no one is willing to leave the position.
During a difficult positional battle, his assistant Xiao Zhang was injured. He crawled over to bandage Xiao Zhang's wound. Seeing that he was seriously injured, he advised him: "Go down and rest peacefully."
Unexpectedly, Xiao Zhang got angry when he heard this. He endured the bursts of pain from the wound and said: "What? After crossing the Yalu River, I was wounded by the enemy just now, and they told me to rest! I won't go. I insist on this small injury.
You can live in it.”
"I still want to make meritorious deeds!"
They fought well when they first came into contact with the enemy. In the first two days, they had almost no casualties and killed more than 40 enemies.
On the third day, the battle became fierce. The company commander and the platoon commander died heroically. The instructor continued to organize the whole company's battle. Chen Ji's machine gun could be fired and played a unique role, defeating the enemy's charges more than ten times in a row.
The angry enemy poured steel frantically, almost flattening the mountain.
An artillery shell exploded near Chen Ji. Chen Ji was knocked unconscious on the spot, and the machine gun was covered with loose soil. When he woke up, the enemy had already rushed to him. Chen Ji, who reacted, jumped up, grabbed the machine gun, and slapped it.
When the loose soil was removed from the machine gun, there was a click, and the machine gun made the sound of a collision of instruments.
The enemy discovered Chen Ji and were horrified to see the black muzzle of the machine gun.