Since the release of the movie "Chosin Lake", it has caused great repercussions at home and abroad, and it can be said that many people did not understand the Battle of Chosin Lake before this, and even said that it was rarely mentioned in the history books. It was not until the release of the film that the battle that dealt a heavy blow to US imperialism and also inflicted heavy losses on our army gradually entered people's sights. The picture of the volunteer army being frozen into ice sculptures in the movie made many viewers leave tears, such a scene was shocking and heart-wrenching, so what was the historical Battle of Chosin Lake?
It doesn't matter if you hang high
Since the beginning of World War II, the United States has been playing the role of "bystander" in the international community, it seems that everything that happens in this world has nothing to do with it, even the americans themselves believe that no matter how fierce the war situation outside, as long as they "don't care about themselves", they can enjoy the good life in front of them freely.
But it has to be said that the United States is smart, during World War II it can not only use its neutral position to make a fortune by selling weapons to both sides of the war, but also the United States can judge the situation when the war is glued, go down to the war in time, and let itself stand in the camp of the victors.
Sure enough, after the end of World War II, the camp of the United States as the victors of the war also began to carry out its own "jurisdictional division" in the Far East for its own benefit. The Korean Peninsula was divided in two by 38 degrees north latitude under the "bad intentions" of the United States, and North Korea was officially divided, with the Soviet Union controlling the northern part of Korea and the United States itself controlling the south. Since then, the Korean Peninsula has formed two regimes, exercising completely different political systems.
But America's ambitions have not been satisfied by the division of the 38th line, and it wants more. Soon, under the repeated provocations of the United States, a civil war broke out on the Korean Peninsula over the issue of the transfer of dominance, and the United States began a new round of "investment".
In the first half of the Korean Civil War, the Korean army fought bravely with the support of the Soviet Union and China to kill the enemy, and by the beginning of September 1950, the South Rhee's South Rhee's South Korean army was defeated and lost its combat effectiveness, and the generals of the US 24th Division stationed in South Korea were captured. In order to "protect" the hard-won interests and status in the Far East, the United States simply jumped directly to the front of the curtain and not only transported a large number of military supplies to the Korean War through the Japanese garrison, but even directly transported the troops to the Korean battlefield and participated in the Korean Civil War. This act also made the wolf ambitions of the United States clear.
In order to help Syngman Rhee's troops turn around the situation as soon as possible, in addition to direct support in the frontal battlefield, the United States also gathered more than 70,000 troops to land on the west coast of Korea, forming a two-sided attack with Syngman Rhee's Rok troops, and for a while the rear flank of the Korean army was cut off from the retreat and fell into an embattled situation.
Seeing that the previous victories of the North Korean army have been wiped out and the Korean battlefield has gradually become controllable, the US military has ignored the repeated warnings of the Chinese government and began to harass and harass the border cities bordering China and North Korea one after another, which is very provocative. In the eyes of the United States, the newly founded new China was "insufficient in strength", and the previous liberation war lasted too long, so it did not dare to openly "sing the right stage" with the United States.
However, the United States could not imagine that Chinese had a firm belief in its own country's sovereignty and territorial integrity, so in the face of the repeated advances of US imperialism, the Chinese leader decided to gather troops to form a volunteer army, cross the Yalu River, and go to the Korean battlefield to support Korea, completely smashing the PLAN of US imperialism to seek hegemony in the Asia-Pacific region.
MacArthur, a senior American general who had openly shouted after warnings from the Chinese government to return China to the Stone Age, was so overwhelmed in the first game with the Chinese and North Korean armies that he was forced to lead his troops back to the south bank of the Cheongcheon River.
The battle in Korea in Asia was fierce, and whether it was China, the Soviet Union or other countries in Asia, they were closely concerned about the war. In contrast, in the United States, the performance of the US military in the Korean War was only reported by a few media reports, and its popularity was even surpassed by a cosmetics that had just been launched. Maybe the Americans were enjoying the hard-won life after World War II, or maybe they didn't think that the U.S. military, which had always been invincible, would suffer defeat on the Korean battlefield.
Until the end of a battle... The Americans realized that the Korean battlefield was not within their control at all.
Battle of Chosin Lake
Lake Chosin is located on the high ground on the eastern side of the Langlin Mountains, so the temperature is low and it is covered with snow all year round. The area around Lake Chosin is also covered with highlands and cliffs, and the terrain conditions are very complex.
Although the first confrontation between the U.S. army and the Chinese and North Korean forces failed, the arrogant MacArthur believed that the victory of the Chinese and North Korean volunteers was just a fluke. Because in his view, both the military strength and the number of Chinese and North Korean troops are in a weak position, and the support troops sent by China this time are no more than 6 divisions.
Driven by this idea, MacArthur misjudged the current situation in the Korean battlefield, believing that as long as the UNITED States and South Korea combined forces attacked with all their might, the Chinese and North Korean armies would be powerless, and the arrogant MacArthur even thought that the war could end before Christmas.
On November 25, 1950, the second head-on confrontation between the two sides officially began, and the United States and South Korea Sent 400,000 people, more than 1,000 aircraft, and more than 300 warships. What the US and ROK troops, with their confidence in victory, did not expect was that even the "United Nations Army" with such military strength was hit and collapsed by Chinese and North Korean troops on the right side on the first day of the war, and the "United Nations Army" was forced to withdraw completely.
The Chinese and NORTH Korean armies realized that if the "United Nations Army" was successfully withdrawn this time, then the next battle would be very difficult, so the Chinese and North Korean troops surrounded and blocked the "United Nations Army" everywhere, and the blockade battle became the main theme of the second campaign, the most famous of which was the Battle of Chosin Lake.
Normally, the temperature of Chosin Lake at this time in previous years was only about minus 3 degrees, but in 1950, Chosin Lake encountered the largest cold wave in Siberia in 50 years, and the temperature reached more than minus 30 degrees. This meant that the Ninth Army of the Volunteer Army had to block the US First Division in such extreme weather.
Although the Ninth Army had received winter coats to withstand the cold, in the face of such extreme weather, winter clothes were not enough to withstand the cold. In order to be able to complete this blockade mission well, nearly 100,000 people of the Ninth Army ambushed in the ice and snow for 6 days before finally waiting for the famous First Marine Division of the US Army. On November 27, the U.S. Marine Division was suddenly attacked by Chinese volunteers, and after reaching the second day of the war, the U.S. Marine Division was completely encircled by the Volunteers, and without any counterattack, all of them were captured.
The US Marine First Division is an ace unit of the United States, is the united States through the selection of elite troops, after the outbreak of World War II, the U.S. Marine Division in the Pacific theater outstanding performance, but also won the presidential commendation three times, it can be said that the first Marine Division is the ace of the US military is also the symbol of the HONOR point of the US military.
Therefore, when the news of the capture of the First Marine Division came back to the United States, American public opinion was in an uproar, the newspaper would be updated several times a day, the Americans would no longer be a posture of not caring about themselves, and for a time the demand for newspapers surged, and everyone began to care about the direction of the Korean War, and more concerned about the fate that the FIRST Marine Division of the US Military would face.
The U.S. Military's First Marine Division was surrounded and disgraced by the U.S. Government, and U.S. President Harry S. Truman, who was "embarrassed and angry," even shouted at the Chinese Volunteers: "If the First Marine Division is not released as soon as possible, then the United States will not hesitate to use nuclear weapons." It can be seen that the siege of the US Marine Division is a heavy blow to the United States.
Obviously, Truman's nuclear blackmail did not threaten the Chinese government, let alone the Chinese volunteer army in the Korean battlefield, but on the contrary, the day after Truman's threatening voice was issued, the 27th Army of the Volunteer Army also completely annihilated the POLAR bear regiment of the US army in Chosin Lake Xingli, and severely slapped Truman.
Although in the end, the US military took advantage of the extreme weather of Chosin Lake and the powerful military force to forcibly rescue the US Marine Division, but at the same time, the US troops, which were chased and intercepted by various volunteers, also experienced their "longest retreat", and its retreat speed cannot be described as the crawling speed of snails.
After the Battle of Chosin Lake, Colonel Alpha Bowser of the US Marine Division said: "I really dare not imagine that if China's equipment is comparable to ours, then the outcome of the final First Marine Division will be, maybe it will be a nightmare, maybe we will never be able to return to the United States!" ”
MacArthur, who had been arrogant and arrogant since the beginning of the Korean War, also wrote in his later memories: "The defeat on the Korean battlefield makes us sad, it can be said that this is the shame of the US military, such a big defeat is the first time after the Taiping Battlefield of World War II, which is impressive." This is a shadow for the U.S. military. ”
The Chinese Volunteers not only completely broke the myth of the undefeated 1st Marine Division of the United States Navy, but also after this battle, most of the area north of the 38th Line was also recovered, coupled with the general offensive of our army in all directions of Korea, the joint forces of the United States and South Korea finally had to retreat completely. It can be said that the Battle of Chosin Lake was a turning point, which not only dealt a painful blow to the arrogant and arrogant American army, but also laid the foundation for victory in the future armistice and peace talks.
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