On November 15, 1952, Chinese 500 prisoners of war from 14 countries gathered here to participate in the Olympic Games of the Chinese Volunteer Army Bitong Prisoner of War Camp, which has never been seen before in human history. Many of the PRISONERs were athletes before the war, such as John Thomas, a PRISONER of War in the United States Army, who ran 10.60 seconds in the 100 meters, only 0.4 seconds slower than the world record. However, what is surprising is that all the medals in the 3000-meter run were all covered by South Korean prisoners of war, who proved the legend of "contemptible people are good at running" with practical actions.
South Korean prisoners of war, who had won a 3,000-meter medal, celebrated victory
It's no secret that the Korean army is good at running. The first shot of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea was the ambush of a battalion of the 2nd Regiment of the 2nd Regiment of the 6th Han Division by the 354th Regiment of the 118th Division of the 40th Army of the Volunteer Army. It is reasonable to say that such a prepared annihilation war should be a total annihilation for a weak brigade like the Rok army, but the final result was to kill 326 people and capture 161 people.
Deng Yue, commander of the 118th Division, was suspicious when he heard the news, and the ROK army had a battalion of eight or nine hundred people, so they annihilated such a few people? Afterwards, the advisers of the US military stationed in the 2nd Regiment (Wing) confirmed that there were more than 400 people running back, almost half of them, and such a high escape efficiency made the US military also marvel.
Han Jun in the film and television drama looks quite professional
At the same time that the volunteers surrounded and annihilated the 2nd Regiment of the Han 6th Division, the retreat route of the 7th Regiment was also cut off. But instead of rescuing or retreating, they stayed where they were and basked in the sun. The sun was basked for 3 days, until the volunteers freed up their hands to surround them. After only an hour of fighting, the 7th Regiment collapsed and began to flee for their lives.
According to the volunteer soldiers, the Korean prisoners were indeed difficult to capture, because their escape was scattered and fled all over the mountains, and they had to be captured one by one. And their escape is almost desperate to escape, throwing away all weapons and equipment on the run, many people are also from peasant backgrounds, physical strength is quite good, desperate escape, it is really difficult to catch.
In fact, in the early days, they were like this, and they looked very amateurish
After chen Yuqing, a volunteer soldier, stabbed an enemy soldier to death with a bayonet, he chased after a big man. Already chasing to the point of the front foot and the back foot, he reached out and grabbed the man's collar. Not wanting the clothes to be zippered, the other party pulled open the zipper to take off the clothes to Chen Yuqing and continued to run away. Angry, Chen Yuqing raised his hand and shot him in the leg, and the man lay on the ground and pretended to be dead, taking advantage of Chen Yuqing's lack of preparation to get up and continue running, and was finally captured.
The warrior Wei Chuncai chased after an enemy soldier, and after reaching out several times to grab the collar, he was dodged by the man, and later it was only by relying on two other comrades to encircle the prisoner from three sides.
The gun reached the chest before he surrendered
The soldier Wang Lijun chased after a Korean soldier and ran straight out of the way for more than a kilometer, the man ran only out of breath without breathing, rolling his eyes and spitting white foam at his feet, and finally with the help of his comrade-in-arms Qian Mingtai, the two men chased after each other before catching this person. After being caught, the man's legs were shaking and he couldn't stand.
The soldiers came back and concluded: The Rok captives were very difficult to capture, and their desire to escape was too strong, unless the gun was on the chest and the hand grabbed the collar, they would definitely continue to escape. For example, the 7th Regiment of the 6th Division of the Han Dynasty, in the case of being surrounded, more than 3600 people also escaped more than 900 people, and the US military was envious of this, admitting that it was not as "good at running" as the ROK army.
The commander of the standing division must have this ability, and he will not be a prisoner
In addition to being good at running, Han Jun is also good at hiding. Among the so many people who escaped, not all of them relied on their legs, and many of them took advantage of their familiarity with the terrain to hide. Some hid in the fields, some in tree holes, some in discarded sleeping bags, and some even in villagers' homes. The volunteer army's mobile operations usually do not clean up the battlefield for a long time, which creates opportunities for these "hide-and-seek" masters.
After the volunteer troops left, these people would come out of their hiding places, and many of them would return to their original units to continue fighting with the volunteers. To this end, the volunteers came up with a new method, that is, the "hair-turning tactic", after the main force left, sent second-line troops to search the mountains and catch these hidden enemy troops like voles.
Young volunteer soldiers escort a group of Roon soldiers who look happy
In the third campaign, a division of the 42nd Army captured nearly 1,900 enemy troops hiding from caves, paddy fields, dense forests, villages and other places. If the Volunteer Prisoner of War Olympics had a "peekaboo" event, they would have won all the medals.