Because the first battle was not fought well, Liang Xingchu was severely criticized by Peng Zong, and he was almost "beheaded". Therefore, the 38th Army was full of strength up and down, ready to fight a turnaround battle. After the second battle began, the 38th Army was ordered to attack Tokugawa, and Liang Xingchu used all three divisions in his hand, and the three hammers quickly smashed the Han 7th Division. At the same time, the 42nd Army, under the command of Wu Ruilin, also broke through the enemy in front of it and captured Ningyuan.
The rapid rout of the ROK army caused a large gap in the flank of the US 8th Army, and the volunteer units took the opportunity to launch a fierce attack on the American army, and Walker, who felt that the situation was not good, ordered a full retreat. In order to block the enemy's escape route, the 113th Division of the 38th Army was ordered to intersperse Sansoli and Longyuanli. Because this task was too crucial, Han Xianchu, deputy commander of the Volunteer Army, personally spoke to Yangtze River Chao of the 113th Division.
"You are all veterans, and you all know the weight of this mission, but I would like to say a few more words to you, this task is too important, and the success or failure of the Western Front is here." This task is too arduous, you will be attacked on all sides, and you will have to withstand the attack of several times the enemy and dozens of times the firepower. Therefore, I must make it clear to you that you must complete the task without compromise! ”
"Yes!" Jiang Chao held up the earpiece in his hand and stood upright.
Han Xianchu began to dictate the order sentence by sentence.
"First, you must ensure that before 6 o'clock this morning, you will set out from the spot and make a detour to the three houses, and will you hear clearly?"
"Clear!"
"Second, no matter how many difficulties and casualties there are on the road, you can only move forward, forward, and without fear!" The remaining one person must also be inserted into the three houses! Hear clearly? ”
"Third, when you get to the three houses, no matter what the cost, you must resolutely intercept the enemy!" Whether this campaign can be won a big victory or not, and whether the plan of the headquarters can be successful or not, all depends on you. ”
"Clear!"
"After the battle, I will check your fighting style according to these three points, and let's go!"
After Jiang Chao put down the phone, he immediately led the whole division to rush to sansholi and handed over the task of avant-garde to the 338th Regiment. After several days and nights of running and fighting, the 338th Regiment was exhausted. When he received the order, Zhu Yuehua, the regimental commander, was eating breakfast, he was holding a bowl of porridge in one hand, stirring with chopsticks in the other, and suddenly his eyelids sank and he fell asleep, and a bowl of porridge was all spilled on the table. Political Commissar Xing Zefu was very unbearable to see this scene, but he had to call Zhu Yuehua up with a fierce heart, and the soldiers were also extremely sleepy, and many people fell asleep while walking during the march.
In the end, 338 relied on tenacious perseverance to force 145 miles of troops day and night, and arrived at Sansholi on time. Zhu Yuehua, the regimental commander, looked down at his watch, at 7 o'clock in the morning of the 28th. Drenched in sweat, Zhang Fu, the director of the division and newspaper who fished out of the water, immediately set up a plane to issue several sets of passwords prepared in advance according to the regulations:
"Our troops arrived at Sanshouli first!"
"The enemy is trying to retreat through sansholi."
"Please show me the task of the department."
Pieces of information flew into Peng Dehuai's hands like snowflakes. "Call back immediately," Peng Dehuai ordered, "give me a nail there like a steel nail!" ”
The gates at which the enemy had fled south from Sanshori were closed.
The American troops who had collapsed from the western front were stunned, and the US 2nd Division, the 25th Division, the remnants of the Turkish Brigade, the US First Cavalry Division, and the South Korean First Division were all encircled on three sides. The Americans, anxious to escape, began to become particularly crazy: the shells could not be taken away, all shot out! A support artillery battalion fired 3,206 rounds in 22 minutes, setting a world record of 8 rounds per minute for a single shot! The infantry all rolled out of the car and charged! At the same time, hundreds of aircraft were also dispatched in an emergency, taking turns to bomb the positions of the 113th Division.
This frenzied firepower was stunned by even the American soldiers, who believed that there could be no more human survival in the highlands of hellfire, but when they were about to occupy the highlands that seemed empty, they were immediately shot and assassinated by the officers and men of the 113th Division, and the American troops retreated like a tide of fear.
Just a few minutes later, the U.S. military began a new round of artillery bombardment. After the artillery plough was ploughed, dozens of tanks covered more than a thousand American infantry to launch a new charge. Seeing that the enemy was about to spread to the forward position of the three companies. Suddenly, with a loud bang, blue smoke of grenades rose from the enemy pile, followed by dozens of volunteer warriors with dangling bayonets shouting and rushing toward the enemy, and the American army once again collapsed.
Under the stubborn resistance of the 338th Regiment, the American troops failed to move forward for a full 6 hours! Recently, the besieged US troops have been able to see the white star emblem on the reinforcement tanks that have come to the rescue from the north, but even this short few hundred meters cannot rush through, because there are more than a thousand warriors of the 338 Regiment guarding here!
So the Americans turned around and rushed to Longyuanli, but they were blocked by the 337th Regiment of the 113th Division, and they could not advance one step. In the night, the general offensive of the 38th Army began. Deputy Yangtze River Yonghui climbed the mountain, and the scene in front of him made his blood boil.
"I stood on a high place, looking south, the cold moon and the cold stars reflected the position, and the explosions of thunder tore through the sky. On the tens of kilometers of the battle line, strings of tracer bombs, flares and flares intertwined in the night sky, and the scream of shells and the muffled explosions of grenades, explosive canisters and explosive packs echoed endlessly in the canyon. The fierce battle between the enemy and us along the highway was a majestic and magnificent scene that I had never seen in decades. The enemy's abandoned artillery, tanks, armored vehicles, and cars of all sizes stretched out without looking at a glance, and were littered with documents, paper, photographs, shells, U.S. flags, puppet army gossip flags, and other military supplies. ”
In this battle, the US 2nd Division was finished, and the number of troops fleeing back was only 20% of its strength. Both the U.S. 25th Division and the 1st Mounted Division were also severely damaged. The remaining U.S. troops left behind 2,000 cars, hundreds of tanks, and thousands of cannons, and escaped from Suchuan along the path lightly. Knowing that the US army had been defeated so badly, old Jiang laughed and said to the people around him: The Americans are the real transport brigade leaders! Unfortunately, because there were too few people in the volunteer army who could drive cars and tanks at that time, it was a pity that enemy planes flocked to the battlefield after dawn and blew up most of the cars, cannons and tanks that the volunteers had not been able to transport.