This year marks the 72nd anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, and during this National Day holiday, there was a movie that sparked a craze. "Chosin Lake", a film set in the Battle of Chosin Lake in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, has touched hundreds of millions of Chinese sons and daughters. After watching the movie, people also wondered why in the Battle of Chosin Lake, the US army was able to survive some soldiers, but not the entire army?
As the saying goes, the time and place are favorable, and these three factors are indispensable on the battlefield. There was a Major General Smith in the so-called elite 1st Marine Division of the US Army, and it was his presence that allowed the US Army to survive a part without a fiasco. Had smith not been very careful, the outcome of the battle would have been completely different. In other words, if Smith was not the military commander of this unit, then this unit, known as the ace of the Us army, would be buried by the powerful Ninth Corps of the People's Volunteer Army in the Battle of Chosin Lake!
In this part of North Korea, which was experiencing a cold that was rare in fifty years, and in stark contrast to the cold weather, The American general MacArthur was constantly urging the army to march toward the Yalu River, hoping to end the battle as soon as possible with great force. The American general actually had greater ambitions, and he wanted to march all the way into Chinese territory, which was obviously a very reckless and unrealistic plan, and Truman certainly would not agree.
But some of the commanders of the U.S. army were not all reckless, MacArthur's orders were like bullshit here in Smith, the strongest ace of the U.S. army, the 1st Marine Division, was slowly advancing under the command of Major General Smith, and the soldiers of the 1st Division, although they were confused, obeyed the order. Smith's move had its own reasons, but the emperor was not in a hurry, and Smith's superior, the commander of the U.S. Tenth Army, repeatedly urged him to speed up his pace. First, he wanted to compete for military merit in the front, and second, he was afraid that MacArthur would be angry, and if he did not rush to the Yalu River as soon as possible, MacArthur's anger he could not bear.
Smith appeased his superiors, but he was born cautious and believed more in the ship of ten thousand years. Therefore, he said it very well verbally, but in private he still slowly swallowed it forward, and did not take the words of his superiors to heart at all. But the suspicious Smith still had to swallow the bitter fruit of defeat, he underestimated the tenacious will of our volunteer soldiers, and did not expect that the Ninth Corps of the People's Volunteer Army had been secretly hidden in the vast white snow, a desolate mountain forest, and would almost become the burial place of this ace army.
Under Smith's orders, American soldiers slowly advanced, and in the snow of the Gaima Plateau, the volunteers had been hiding for days in extremely harsh conditions. On October 27, 1950, the two armies finally met, and the volunteer army rushed out of the mountain like a fierce tiger, pounced on it to kill the enemy bravely, completely annihilated a complete reinforcement regiment of the US army, and wrote a magnificent and brilliant stroke in the history of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea.
The volunteers won the battle under extremely harsh preconditions, when the weather in North Korea was cold and the temperature was as low as minus thirty or forty degrees. In order to hide, the Ninth Corps overcame all kinds of difficulties, lacked food and weapons, and bravely rushed forward with a passion for blood, not afraid of suffering and two fears of death, which created the myth of the Battle of Chosin Lake.
However, due to the early deployment, the cold weather caused great damage to the warriors, resulting in the inability to take advantage of the victory and completely annihilate the enemy in the later stages of the battle. The slow advance of the American troops and the failure to follow MacArthur's orders were, in another sense, a reason for their escape.
However, this victory still greatly boosted the morale of the volunteer army, and it should be known that the gap in firepower between the backwardly armed volunteer army and the well-equipped American army is not a star and a half, and this time it can make the US army flee in the wilderness, which is the first time in history! Not only was the morale of the U.S. military low because of this fiasco, but the news also caused an uproar in the United States, and soon MacArthur returned from the disastrous Korean battlefield. His military career was his pride, but it also withered away after this point in time.
The great victory at the Battle of Chosin Lake was a remarkable victory that showed the world the strength and unity of the Chinese people. But most importantly, to give a voice to the world, Chinese people will never back down! Chinese people stood up!