The Korean People's Revolutionary Army (KPRA) was marching in mountains through waist-deep snow before it fought a battle in Hongqihe, China with enemies persisting in offensive against it.

As it approached Damalugou, it had run out of provisions and clothes and shoes of its members were all worn out.

It attacked the "punitive" force in Damalugou by surprise and captured an enormous amount of trophies.

The news alerted the enemy forces in the Antu and Helong areas, who were hell-bent on annihilating the KPRA.

The President anticipated that they would follow in its wake by all odds and then made up his mind to strike the "Maeda punitive force" in a valley on the Hongqi.

He ordered each unit to climb down to the valley, then climb up the heights again, erasing their uphill footprints before lying down in the designated positions for the ambush and sent a decoy party to resume marching along the valley, leaving as many footprints as possible.

A group was positioned on the northern side of the first height in the valley to cut off any enemy retreat.

When the main body of the enemy was pouring steadily into the area of the ambush, men of the KPRA opened intensive gunfire.

Half of the enemy was killed by the very first strike.

Surprised by crossfire from the right and left sides of the valley, Maeda instantly dispersed his marching column on the spot and attempted to direct his main force to the height in the north to capture it, but was frustrated by the flanking fire of the guerrilla army from the bushes in the west.

In the heat of the battle, anti-Japanese heroine Kim Jong Suk saw some enemy soldiers approaching to the headquarters and lured them to the opposite side to shoot them dead with her excellent marksmanship.

In the battle the enemy drank a truly bitter cup.

They learned the harsh lesson that, however zealously they might track the KPRA, no victory would await them and that instead they would experience a painful end, as the "Maeda punitive force" had done.

The battle demonstrated the political and military might of the KPRA to the full and inspired the people in northeastern areas of Mt. Paektu and the homeland with a firm confidence in the victory in the revolution.