The biggest regret of the Battle of Chosin Lake: the Watergate Bridge was bombed three times, but the US 1st Marine Division escaped!
Lake Chosin
The story of "Three Bombs of the Watergate Bridge", and the Total Annihilation in the Battle of Chosin Lake"
Polar Bear Regiment
"Just as wonderful, as singable and weeping, as full of legends!"
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Ice sculpture even
It happened during the "Three Explosions of the Watergate Bridge.".
In the Battle of Chosin Lake, the 9th Corps of the Song Dynasty Wheel beat the US 1st Marine Division to a terrible end, the famous "Polar Bear Regiment" was completely annihilated, and even the commander of the long-experienced battle front, McLean, was killed in the ice and snow of the Korean Peninsula.
After the "Polar Bear Regiment" was completely annihilated, the US 1st Marine Division, known as the ace of the US Army, suddenly felt a biting cold: there were pursuing soldiers in the rear, and there were blockades in the front, and it was facing the trend of being caught between the front and the back, and it was likely that the volunteers wrapped the dumplings and swallowed them in one bite. It must do everything in its power to escape the encirclement of the volunteers.
Polar bear flag
Watergate Bridge – the throat of the American escape
The 1st Marine Division, which had been crippled by fear, was ordered to retreat south at full speed and to the Hamhung area.
In order to retreat safely to the Xianxing area, they must pass through
Shimogaku-ri
and
Guturi,
This was the only route for their retreat. On this road that hangs the lives of the US military in the balance, there is a key point that is a one-man pass and no one can open, which is the famous Watergate Bridge in history.
It is not too much to compare the Watergate Bridge to the throat of the U.S. army on the way to retreat, if the volunteers are stuck here, the U.S. army will not be able to run away. Therefore, a small detachment was sent to arrive here day and night, and as long as the Watergate Bridge was completely destroyed, the US troops would be unable to fly.
Pratunam Bridge
Pratunam Bridge is indeed a bridge.
This is a bridge built on the water pipe of Chosin Lake, which is extremely dangerous, and the bridge is very narrow, only less than 9 meters wide, which is the width of three standard lanes.
It is reasonable to say that the explosion of this bridge does not seem to be very difficult, because the bridge is not large, and it is a suspended bridge erected on the water diversion pipe of Chosin Lake, and both sides of the bridge are abysses.
Therefore, once the Watergate Bridge is blown up, it is equivalent to declaring the destruction of the US military!
Volunteers entered Korea
A blast of the Watergate Bridge
After the volunteers learned of the escape route of the American troops, they immediately made a decision and immediately sent a small detachment to brave the cold of minus forty degrees celsius to rush to the Watergate Bridge to carry out the task of blowing up the bridge.
The detachment marched at high speed as best they could, and by the time they reached the Watergate Bridge, there was still time, and the large troops of the American army had not arrived.
Explosions sounded one after another, and smoke rose over the Watergate Bridge.
This is the "one-bomb watergate bridge" in the famous "three-bomb watergate bridge"!
However, the bombing of the bridge did not achieve the expected purpose and failed to stop the pace of the withdrawal of the US troops.
The volunteer detachment that blew up the bridge was too small, and marched at high speed in the ice and snow, without any mechanical equipment to help them carry explosives, so they had to rely on the soldiers to carry the explosives, and in the end, the explosives used to blast were far from enough to blow up the Watergate Bridge. Only part of the bridge deck was blown up - but in the average person's perception, this was enough to delay the retreat of the American army, because according to the estimates of the soldiers, it would take at least ten and a half days for the enemy to repair the bridge deck.
However, the logistics engineer capabilities of the US military were seriously underestimated by us, and the US military only used one day to use local materials and use the surrounding wood to restore the bridge deck that was blown up by the volunteers!
Pratunam Bridge geographical location
Two blow-ups on the Watergate Bridge
The failure to blow up the Watergate Bridge and the sight of the American sappers repairing the Watergate Bridge in just one day made the Volunteer soldiers hidden in the snow-covered mountains and forests heartbroken.
After learning from the experience, the volunteer soldiers once again carried out the task of blowing up the bridge, this time they analyzed the reasons for the failure of the last blowing bridge, increased the amount of explosives, and, after the explosion, they also destroyed the wood available near the Watergate Bridge very carefully - now it is up to you to do!
It is difficult for a woman to cook without rice, there is no wood, see what you take to build the bridge!
Schematic of the Battle of Chosin Lake
But what the volunteers did not expect was that a miracle had happened!
The well-equipped and well-trained U.S. Army engineers used the steel they carried with them to repair the destroyed Watergate Bridge overnight!
All this stunned the volunteer soldiers! In the army, there are many veterans who have fought against the enemy for many years, some of whom have experienced the baptism of the War of Liberation, and some of whom have even participated in the more distant War of Resistance Against Japan, but they are still seeing engineers with such advanced equipment and such high efficiency.
The soldiers had no choice but to watch once again as the U.S. military repaired the Watergate Bridge. Moreover, what frustrated the volunteer soldiers was that this time the US army also learned to be obedient, and after repairing the bridge, they were afraid that the volunteer army would come back to blow up the bridge again, so they set up heavy troops near the bridge for protection, and even arranged heavy tanks!
Zhang Hanyu plays the Song Shilun
Three-blown Watergate Bridge
After the first two blows up of the bridge were unsuccessful, the soldiers were in a hurry, and they braved the dense rain of bullets like the fire net fired by the enemy's light machine guns, and the former servants followed and launched a charge again and again at the Watergate Bridge, with the purpose of blowing up the bridge at all costs, making the US army invisible, and annihilating the enemy's ace, the US Marine 1st Division, at the Watergate Bridge.
On this night, the wind was freezing and freezing, and a company of volunteer soldiers, without any heavy weapon cover, slammed into the Watergate Bridge from different directions with explosives.
This time, the bridge was blown up so thoroughly: even the base of the bridge was blown up into the air!
This time, it is the turn of the US military to be anxious, and now the Watergate Bridge has been completely blown up, and he is about to be wrapped in dumplings by the volunteers, which will be an unprecedented disgrace in the history of the United States!
Commander smith of the 1st Marine Division
Smith, commander of the US 1st Marine Division, was trapped in a beast, and he rescued his superiors, demanding that this US ace division be rescued no matter what, otherwise the United States would lose face in the world!
If the 1st Marine Division is completely annihilated at The Watergate Bridge, then the so-called invincible US Army will be reduced to a laughingstock in the world. You know, the volunteer army they faced was basically a group of baby soldiers, with no strong fire support, no advanced armed equipment, and no developed economic foundation, and more seriously, many of them, without even a decent cotton coat, wore single clothes and jackets to run in the cold of minus forty degrees in North Korea...
In a hurry, the US military command thought of a way, they urgently customized a batch of special M-2 steel beams for bridges in Japan, and airdropped the bridge group weighing up to ten tons to the Watergate Bridge - this is something that the volunteers cannot believe and the last thing they want to see!
MacArthur
The U.S. sappers put into work as soon as the bridge components were in place, and soon after, an all-steel bridge with enough access to any heavy machinery was repaired again!
The U.S. military escaped!
The U.S. 1st Marine Division avoided the fate of being completely annihilated by World War I, and the face of the American army was barely saved, or their bottoms were not pulled down by the volunteers.
After passing through the Watergate Bridge, the officers and men of the US 1st Marine Division saw a scene that was enough to make their souls tremble, a company of volunteer soldiers, lying still in the ice and snow, motionless, the entire company maintained a combat formation, and the weapons were still tightly held in their hands...
But they could no longer move, and all the soldiers of this company froze to death in their positions, and to the death they all remained in a state of combat!
An officer of the Operations Division of the US 1st Marine Division once said with great emotion:
Fortunately, Chinese did not have enough logistical support and communication equipment, otherwise the 1st Marine Division would never have fled Lake Chosin...
Yes, before entering Korea, the time left for the volunteers was too hasty, not to mention weapons and ammunition, and even the cotton clothes of the soldiers of the 9th Corps of the Song Dynasty Wheel were seriously insufficient, which directly caused a large number of non-combat attritions; we did not have air supremacy, and the logistics supply lines of the volunteers were often exposed to the US fighters and bombers; the communication equipment of the volunteers was not only backward, the number was seriously insufficient, the key was not systematic, and it was difficult to effectively command the rapidly changing battlefield.
But it is such a ragged unit that dares to face the world's most powerful US army head-on, and sheng sheng beat the other side back to the three or eight lines, without falling behind!
Perhaps it is appropriate to paraphrase a sentence said by Wu Jing in the movie "Chosin Lake":
An egg is plucked from the outside and is destined to be eaten. If you can peck yourself out of it, it's probably an eagle
！ This sentence applies as big as a newborn country to as small as a recruit egg.
Wu Jing starred in the movie "Chosin Lake"
"Three Bombs of The Water Gate Bridge" may be a sequel to "Chosin Lake"
Wu Jing,
The fire of "Changjin Lake" starring Yi Qianxi and Hu Jun has reached the 5 billion yuan mark.
Through the wonderful interpretations of the artists, we know the tragedy and tragedy of the Battle of Chosin Lake, but what is less known is that the three explosions of the Watergate Bridge are the end of the Battle of Chosin Lake. Not being able to completely annihilate the US Ace Marine 1st Division is Chosin Lake's biggest regret.
If we are writers and directors, we can imagine that perhaps the sequel to "Chosin Lake" is "Three Bombs of Water Gate Bridge", the predecessors and successors of the bombing bridge squad, the touching of the ice sculpture company, the panic of the US military and their super powerful logistical supply capabilities, I believe that these are the highlights of this "movie".
And the bridge bombing squad should naturally be the remaining soldiers of the "Steel 7 Company" led by Wu Jing...