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It can be said that our army has always been an ironclad team in history, and this contingent has excellent combat quality, tenacious military style, and strict military discipline, and can pay at all costs for victory. Moreover, it has always been a team that gives preferential treatment to prisoners, and in war our army has a policy of "surrendering guns and not killing, and giving preferential treatment to prisoners."
Battle of Unsan
"These policies have also become an important means to disintegrate the enemy's psychological defense line and strike at the enemy's will to fight." However, in the combat history of our army, there are also some "flaws" in the treatment of prisoners for some objective reasons. For example, in the Battle of Unsan, which was the first time it fought against the US military during the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, not only a certain number of American soldiers were captured in this battle, but even many South Korean troops were captured, and there were many more than the US troops.
The Battle of Unsan broke out on November 1, 1950, when the Korean Peninsula had entered nine cold days, and this year coincided with a cold current on the Korean Peninsula that had not been encountered in a century, which made both sides of the battlefield exhausted by the bitter cold weather and unusually cruel fighting.
Our army also failed to replenish supplies because the blizzard was too severe, and many troops lacked ammunition and food. Although this battle was the first battle between China and the United States, there were also a large number of Rok troops on the flank of the US army, so the Chinese and South Korean troops also fought.
Capture of South Korean prisoners
The 119th Division of our 40th Army, near Qubo-in temple on the north side of the peninsula, surrounded two regiments of the Roksan 8th Division, which were reinforcing the town of Unsan, and these Rokyoke troops were moving closer to Unsan to support the 8th Regiment of the 1st Cavalry Division there, because they were stubbornly attacked by our 39th Army and suffered heavy losses.
But what the ROK army that went to reinforcements did not expect was that the sudden appearance of our 40th Army completely broke the ROK reinforcement plan. This encounter made the Korean army suddenly powerless to resist, and the beaten rout was scattered, and it fled in a hurry. Our volunteer army began to take prisoners all over the mountains, and too many South Korean soldiers were captured by our army, and only one company of our army took more than 200 prisoners in a row.
Hungry and crooked
Due to the sheer number of prisoners and the insufficient supply of the volunteers, there was not much food for them. As a result, the South Korean soldiers were so hungry on the way to the POW camp that they ate all the cabbage stored by the people's homes along the way, even the corn hanging under the eaves of the houses.
In the eyes of our army, this kind of behavior of being hungry and crooked everywhere to disturb the people to find food and food is a serious violation of the discipline of the masses, and if they are always sent to the prisoner-of-war camps behind them, they will certainly do more such stealing and robbery. In the end, in desperation, the volunteers confiscated all the weapons they were wearing and released them all.
It can be said that our volunteer army did not treat prisoners preferentially, but its own conditions were limited, and during the period when our army entered the DPRK, due to the lack of logistics and the continuous bombardment of the US Air Force. As a result, our army was seriously short of ammunition and food, and these South Korean soldiers did not have the strict discipline of our army. What they did in the eyes of our army violated the duties of soldiers, and finally had to let these people go.
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