In March 1937, the main unit of the Korean People’s Revolutionary Army made an expedition into Fusong and was besieged by the enemy’s “punitive troops” in Shaotanghe.
When the night set in, the Shaotanghe valley closely surrounded by the enemy turned into a sea of flames owing to their campfires.
Officers were going to get ready for a life-and-death battle, as they had already undergone all sorts of circumstances in the previous battles, saying that it was the first time to get helplessly trapped by a large unit of the enemy.
President Kim Il Sung, however, looked out on the sea of flames in the valley and seized up in a moment their weak point.
In fact, the enemy disclosed their forces and tactical scheme by making a sea of flames in Shaotanghe valley. It was tantamount to getting an operation map stolen by an opponent.
The President said to the officers that the enemy wouldn’t likely be in neighboring villages and highway as they had concentrated thousands of their forces and wouldn’t imagine that the KPRA found its way through the highway as they had been directing their attention to the thick forest only and that the main unit should take advantage of the vacant area made by the enemy to move quickly into Dongjiang secret camp.
As a result, the main unit evacuated the valley quietly along the “road” marked by “campfire map” of the enemy, the vacant area between campfires and entered the highway and then marched toward Dongjiang forest passing the vacant villages like an express runs on the railroad at full speed.
It was really the 400 kilometers rush- march marching a long distance at a step on the highway.
