Friends who may be familiar with history know that under the leadership of General Manager Peng, the volunteer army has won five battles and successfully fixed the battle line in the area of the 38th line. At this moment, both the enemy and us reached a moment of exhaustion, and the two sides formed a stalemate. Thus, there was a situation of negotiations, of course, during the negotiations there was occasionally a little friction between the two sides, but there was no large-scale battle. However, even as the negotiations between the two sides continue to last, everyone wants to control the right to speak. So what to do, only by winning a victory in the military can we gain weight in the bargaining chips.
It was under such conditions that the famous Battle of Shangganling broke out. Participating in this battle was General Qin Jiwei, commander of the 15th Army of the Volunteer Army. After receiving the battle order, he immediately led his troops to garrison Shangganling to build fortifications and wait for the enemy. In order to obtain more bargaining chips, the US imperialist side mobilized elite troops to fight a decisive battle in Shangganling, and equipped with a large number of heavy weapons. For example, there are more than 300 guns of 105 mm caliber or above. 2 battalions of tanks, more than 170 vehicles. There is 1 group of aviation units, about 100 aircraft, and a total of about 3,000 sorties. The Volunteer Army also invested in the Second Artillery Division, the Seventh Artillery Division, and a total of 11 artillery battalions. Among them, it also includes one unit of the 601st Anti-Aircraft Artillery Regiment and one 610th Regiment, the 20th Independent Battalion of Anti-Aircraft Artillery and the 35th Independent Battalion, with a total of 47 anti-aircraft guns.
Judging from the combat weapons invested by both sides, the Battle of Shangganling was destined to be a very fierce and vicious battle. In such a large-scale combat weapon, in the 43-day battle, the US imperialists fired a total of 1.9 million shells, while the volunteers invested 16,000 tons of combat materials in the Battle of Shangganling, of which 5,530 tons of ammunition were consumed, with an average daily consumption of 128 tons, and the battle fired more than 400,000 shells. The density of artillery firepower was the largest since the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, exceeding the highest level in World War II. It is enough to see that the fierceness of the Battle of Shangganling is unprecedented, according to the recollections of the veterans who participated in the battle, the entire Shangganling area is like a sea of fire, the ground is like scorching, and the corpses that are too late to be disposed of are burned.
It was precisely because of the fierceness of the Battle of Shangganling that the 15th Army of the Volunteer Army that participated in the battle suffered heavy losses, lost its combat effectiveness, and withdrew from the battlefield, replaced by the 12th Army of the Volunteer Army, and continued to fight with the enemy. Both units were from the Second Field Army during the Liberation War. The 12th Army of the Volunteer Army was the sharp knife ace unit of Nino on the battlefield of liberation, and it had a strong combat effectiveness. Therefore, in the following Battle of Shangganling, the 12th Army of the Volunteer Army, under the command of Deputy Commander Li Desheng, began to counterattack the enemy army, relying on its tenacious will to fight, and engaged in round after round of fighting with the enemy.
In the end, the volunteer army won the victory in the Battle of Shangganling, which had a greater impact in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea. After this victory. Militarily, the volunteers completely crushed the other side, adding chips to the next negotiations and grasping the initiative in the negotiations. Shortly thereafter, the 20th Corps of the Volunteer Army launched a counterattack at Jincheng and won another victory. In the end, the US imperialists had to sign the armistice agreement, and the campaign to resist the United States and aid Korea was officially concluded.
However, as commanders of the Battle of Shangganling, General Qin Jiwei and General Li Desheng. Because of their great contributions to the victory against the United States and aid to Korea, the two generals developed well after returning to China. Friends who may know history know that Qin Jiwei served as commander of the Grand Military Region, minister of national defense and other positions, became a popular figure in the army in the 80s, and was awarded the rank twice. (Lieutenant General in 1955, General in 1988)
General Li Desheng did not develop badly, served as the commander of the Grand Military Region, and was also a popular figure in the army from the 1970s to the 1980s. He was also a founding general who was awarded the rank twice. (First major general rank in 1955, second rank of general in 1988)