Is the Yankee right? I use a cannon! Ace Cold Gunner killed 400 US troops with a single shot!

This year marks the 70th anniversary of the War of Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea. A series of TV documentaries and movies were put on the agenda. One of the movies caught the attention of netizens: Zhang Yimou’s "The Coldest Gun". This movie describes the Chinese People’s Volunteers’ sniper operations during the War of Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea. s story.

Netizens who understand history can tell at a glance that the prototype of this movie is the well-known battle hero Zhang Taofang. In the cold gun and cold gun activities carried out by the volunteers, Zhang Taofang killed 214 enemies and became a generation of snipers.

But many people only pay attention to Leng Gun, but they don't know much about Leng Gun's story. In fact, the record of Cold Cannon is no worse than that of Cold Cannon Movement, especially the volunteer gunners born in Cold Cannon Movement, who once killed 400 US troops with a single artillery and became a veritable "sniper gun god"!

The largest sniper operation in the history of this war took place on the Korean battlefield from 1952 to 1953.

After the end of the five battles, the Korean War entered a stalemate. There has been no large-scale offensive and defensive war between the two sides, only fierce battles surrounding a few positions. At the same time, the two sides began truce negotiations.

But the Americans wanted to get it back on the battlefield. In order to get enough bargaining chips for the negotiation, the Americans took advantage of their powerful artillery fire to begin uninterrupted shelling of the volunteer positions.

The wealthy Americans did not take the artillery shells seriously, especially Van Vleet, and ordered a saturation of 5 times the amount of ordinary artillery ammunition to strike our position, and fired the famous Van Vleet ammunition.

▲The empty cartridge of the US artillery

The Volunteer Army’s artillery is very weak and easily suppressed, so it can’t fight the US army head-on. At first, it was completely passive.

This is more troublesome. Volunteers have casualties every day, but it is difficult to cause casualties to the US military. The negotiations are in a very unfavorable situation.

To this end, in order to mass destroy the enemy’s viable power and at the same time strive for favorable conditions for later negotiations, the Volunteer Army Headquarters issued an instruction on January 29, 1952: "In a confrontation with the enemy, against the enemy’s small group of targets and general targets. , The designated shooters on duty every day specifically seek to shoot targets, which will cause great damage to the enemy.” This is the beginning of the cold gun and cold gun movement.

▲Volunteers are using dummy to lure U.S. snipers

The so-called cold gun and cold gun, needless to say, can be understood as a large-scale sniper operation. The cold artillery movement can be understood as a guerrilla warfare of artillery. The formed artillery unit is dismantled into a roaming artillery group, and if the opportunity is caught, it will be shot and then moved quickly.

This style of play is very suitable for the volunteers. The first is not to cover the artillery, but to fire a few shots sporadically, which saves ammunition. The second is to run after the fight. When the enemy finds the shooting position and conducts retaliatory shelling, we have already withdrawn from the position. Third, it can also cooperate with the cold gun movement, specializing in the bunkers and positions that the cold gun can't handle.

After a period of exploration, this cold artillery movement was superbly played by the volunteers and formed a system of cold artillery combat tactics.

▲Sniper tank

For example, the Volunteer Army has planned a division of labor for various artillery. Generally, recoilless guns are arranged in the front, and they use the characteristics of direct fire to directly attack the enemy within 500-1000 meters. Mortars and mountain artillery are arranged in the back to deal with enemy infantry and trenches within a range of 1000-1500 meters. Behind is the wild artillery, which mainly uses the high rate of fire to block roads within the range of 1500-3000 meters, and finally the howitzer, which uses its large-caliber and powerful advantages to attack enemy fortifications and armored vehicles within the range of 3000-5000 meters.

In this way, whether it is forward or rear, the enemy is always within the range of our army's artillery fire.

▲ Artillery observers are observing enemy targets

Under this meticulous tactical arrangement, cold artillery operations have also begun to become as superb as sniper operations. They have also cooperated with snipers tacitly. The guns are coordinated, the enemy is forced out of the hole, and the enemy is gathered on the spot. Very good results have been achieved. .

For example, Gao Kui, the platoon leader of the 133rd Recoilless Artillery Platoon of the 15th Army, made his American M-18 57mm and M-20 75mm recoilless guns superb. One day the infantry company found him and said that under the attack of Volunteer snipers, the U.S. troops shrank in trenches and bunkers every day, making the snipers sigh.

▲Volunteers use M-18 recoilless guns to hit tanks

Gao Kui immediately sneaked into the position, secretly calculated the distance and calculated the parameters, and then at a distance of 1100 meters, he used recoilless guns to hit two rounds. The bunker was blasted into a big hole. The frightened enemies fled, and then he became a volunteer sniper. The targets of the hunters were all killed in a short while.

Gao Kui's experience was quickly promoted. The various units of the Volunteer Army have created a series of new tactics combining guns and artillery, and the Volunteer Army "sniper artillery god" Tang Zhanghong was born.

▲ Tang Zhanghong looks childish, but he is a special hero

Tang Zhanghong is a native of Zhongjiang County, Sichuan Province. In 1951, when he was only 16 years old, Tang Zhanghong joined the Volunteer Army and was assigned to the 82nd Artillery Company of the Volunteer Army's 135th Regiment Artillery Battalion. He became an 82mm mortar gunner.

Tang Zhanghong's master was Gao Jinwen, a special-class hero, and a very good gunner. He once killed a senior US military officer with a single shot.

▲More than 60 years have passed

Tang Zhanghong met his master Gao Jinwen on CCTV

Under Gao Jinwen's training, Tang Zhanghong grew rapidly and became a master of artillery. In the days that followed, Tang Zhanghong wandered around the position with an 82mm mortar every day, and he would come when he saw an opportunity, making the enemy hard to defend.

Within 65 days, Tang Zhanghong wiped out 101 enemies with 79 artillery shells, completed the "Three Hundred Plan" ahead of schedule (destroying 100 enemies with 100 artillery shells in 100 days), and was awarded the honorary title of "Hundred Snipers".

Tang Zhanghong not only played well by himself, but also paid attention to cultivating newcomers, and summed up the cold artillery sniper tactics "six fast" and "four no strikes": "Fast observation reports, fast guns, fast aiming, fast corrections, fast launches, fast withdrawal . I’m not sure not to fight, far away, not to fight if calculations are not good, and not to fight if the aim is not accurate."

In order to deal with the enemy's revenge, they constructed camouflage fortifications, acted as stalkers, consumed the enemy, used real fortifications to fire artillery, and the camouflage fortifications used rope-pull grenades to explode firewood and smoke.

With the help of Tang Zhanghong, six more sniper gunners grew up. The famous "cold gunners" Peng Liangyi and Zhao Picheng were brought up in Tang Zhanghong.

Soon, the United Nations army could not stand the day and night, undefeated sniper operations, and began a large-scale attack on the position of the Five Holy Mountains. From October 14th, Tang Zhanghong cooperated with the infantry to hold on to the position and fired continuously, wiping out more than 200 shells in 2 hours.

At this time, the barrel was hot, he used urine to cool the barrel and continued firing.

Eight hours later, Tang Zhanghong fired nearly a thousand shells, and his hands were all burned. Suddenly, a bomb dropped by the enemy air force destroyed his artillery position. Tang Zhanghong was buried in earth and rocks and passed out, and all the other members of the artillery crew died.

Fortunately, the artillery around him rescued Tang Zhanghong, blocked most of the stones for him, and left a breathing space.

Seeing that Tang Zhanghong was buried, the comrades in the air-raid shelter hurried over to dig up the earth and rocks to rescue him. Tang Zhanghong insisted on climbing into the rock pile to dig out his own mortar, but due to the serious injury, he fainted again and the comrades hurriedly Give him a shot of morphine to wake him up.

At this time, I received a notice from the superior and asked to hold on for another 5 minutes. At this time, there were only 26 shells left, and the gun frame was also destroyed. Tang Zhanghong asked the remaining 6 people to take one shot as a grenade. To him.

I saw him standing next to the trench, hugging the barrel with his right hand, using his body as a support, measuring the position with his thumb, loading the bullet with his left hand, and shooting out all the remaining 20 rounds in 3 minutes.

▲This simple shooting method is still in use today

According to statistics, Tang Zhanghong used this gun to wipe out more than 420 enemies, and the Volunteer Army Headquarters recorded a special merit for him.

Although the Cold Cannon Movement is not as thrilling as a sniper duel, it is equally lethal. If the Volunteer Snipers made the arrogance of the U.S. military go away, then the cold gunners made the U.S. military hiding in the bunker insecure. This creative attack method has also become a myth in the history of war. Maybe now China Playing sniper grenade is the spiritual inheritance of the cold cannon movement of the volunteer army.