Even if New China had been founded, Chinese soldiers were still fighting for the peace of the country. In order to ensure the territorial security of our northeastern border, more than two million volunteers left their homeland to defend their homeland. And one-tenth of them never returned; and the fiercest battle in the whole course of the battle must have been the Battle of Shangganling.
The outbreak of this battle caused both sides to suffer huge casualties, but in the case of huge differences in hardware strength, the Chinese volunteers stubbornly resisted the repeated bombardment of the Us army. It also gave them a strong counterattack to a certain extent; and the final victory of the volunteers also greatly shocked Chiang Kai-shek, saying that "no one can defeat the People's Liberation Army."
When it comes to the development process of the Korean War, we have to mention the historical development of the Korean Peninsula. The Korean Peninsula remained a Japanese colony until World War II, and was later separated by the United States and the Soviet Union at thirty-eighth degrees north latitude, which is later referred to as the 38th Parallel. The United States occupied the southern region, and the Soviet Union occupied the northern region.
After the United States occupied the southern region, it did not change the original management system and still followed the style of the Japanese colonists. Such acts of oppression aroused strong resentment among the people in the south, and small democratic movements began to erupt.
The original leader of the North, Cho Wan-sik, was imprisoned by Soviet troops for opposing the democracy movement and was directly killed in 1950; Kim Il Sung's power has since grown. The Communist Party in the south, on the other hand, was constantly being compressed under the pressure of the U.S. military, with the aim of establishing a regime that they could control.
Both the North and the South of the Korean Peninsula were formally established in 1948. To the south is what is now South Korea, while to the north is North Korea. U.S. and Soviet troops also withdrew from the Korean Peninsula that year; it seemed that the dispute on the Korean Peninsula was resolved peacefully, but in fact, the real dispute had just begun.
Since the beginning of 1949, disputes between the North and the South have begun over the demarcation line. Until the official outbreak of the Korean War in 1950, there were more than two thousand minor disputes and military confrontations. In June 1950, the largest military confrontation ever launched on the peninsula.
It was clear at the outset that the North Koreans had the upper hand; the jury is still out as to who fired the first shot in the battle. The North Korean army was so overwhelming that the attack was fierce; Seoul, the capital of South Korea at the time, was broken in just three days. In order to resist further attacks by the Koreans, they had to blow up the Han River Bridge and divide the battlefield to give themselves a chance to breathe.
However, the situation on the battlefield was changing rapidly, and the combined forces led by the US army received news and rushed to the aid of South Korea; they landed at Inchon and quickly launched a counterattack against North Korea. The situation immediately changed, and North Korea was defeated and retreated; it was forced by the United Nations forces to the vicinity of the Yalu River, and if it continued, it would threaten the northeast border area of our country.
It was also until this time that china decided to send troops to aid the DPRK. In fact, before that, many people in China, whether they were senior leaders or low-level people, did not support this volunteer action. Because New China has just been founded, sending troops to aid will cost huge manpower, material and financial resources.
However, on the one hand, the US army directly bombed the Dandong area of liaoning, and on the other hand, the frontal battlefield of Korea is constantly moving backwards and is approaching china's border. Considering the principle of defending the country's territorial security, New China decided to raise troops to aid Korea; but these soldiers were collectively called volunteers, rather than the original unit numbers.
After the volunteers joined the battle, they mainly launched five major battles; the most fierce of which was the Battle of Shangganling. After the previous battles, it was clear that the Chinese volunteer side occupied the more active side; so the American side decided to take the initiative in order to get rid of the passive situation.
The United Nations Corps, led by the United States, quickly gathered a large number of troops, as well as advanced military combat readiness including aircraft, tanks, artillery, etc. On the other hand, the Chinese Volunteer Army, although Shangganling was under Chinese control at that time, only two companies of defensive forces were defended.
The first large-scale attack of the U.S. military began in the early hours of October 14. Since it was the first attack, the result would affect not only our army, but also the morale of the combined army; so in order to take Shangganling, the intensity of artillery fire at that time reached six bullets per second. Attackers of this intensity cannot show their heads at all, because once they do, they will undoubtedly die.
But the Chinese soldiers did not give up resistance, and batch after batch of volunteers died on the battlefield. When the telephone line is broken, it is connected with life little by little; the ammunition and grain trucks cannot enter, so they are carried by manpower little by little. And how difficult were the conditions at that time? As long as you can smoothly transport an apple into the tunnel of Shangganling, you can get second-class merit.
The volunteer army has endured many losses, re-acquisitions, losses and re-re-re-acquisitions throughout the Shangganling area; but no matter how difficult it is, the Volunteers have never given up. In the process, the intensity of the battle's artillery fire exceeded that of World War II; a small part of Shangganling had long been covered with corpses.
The Shangganling War lasted for forty-three days, and the final result was that the Volunteer Army held the Shangganling area. They fought with the combined forces close to sixty times, and the crazy attacks of the combined forces amounted to nearly a thousand. After the end of the war, the casualties on both sides were about 15,000 people, but the Chinese side played an advantage in a weak situation, and also played a role in China's national and military prestige.
The Korean War involved many countries, so it also attracted the attention of the world; Chiang Kai-shek, who was far away in Taiwan, was naturally also very concerned. He fought with the Communists for most of his life and finally had to retreat to Taiwan, and his heart was definitely not convinced.
He knew that the combined army was inevitable, and he knew the difference in strength between the two sides; so in his view, this was a war without suspense. But when he got the war report from Shangganling, he was dumbfounded; he studied the contents of the newspaper repeatedly. Finally, he saw the reality clearly and realized the real strength of the Chinese army.
Not only for this battle, Chiang Kai-shek remembered the many battles he had fought with the People's Liberation Army; in fact, there were many battles in which Chiang Kai-shek's army was stronger. But the result was always an unexpected victory for the People's Liberation Army, and Chiang Kai-shek could not help but exclaim that "no one in this world can defeat the People's Liberation Army."
In fact, the People's Liberation Army is not victorious in every battle, or that each of their victories is hard-won. Because since the beginning of the War of Resistance Against Japan, the enemies they have faced in every battle have been several times stronger than themselves.
But even so, the officers and men of the People's Liberation Army never flinched and were discouraged; they had the determination and will that the Kuomintang and imperialist armies did not have. The most fundamental reason why the People's Liberation Army is strong is people. Victory in war is not the strength of the ship, but the strength of the people's hearts.