In 1950, a slogan of "Resisting US Aggression and Aiding Korea, Defending the Family and Defending the Country" resounded throughout the country. Beginning in July, the Chinese Volunteer Army crossed the Yalu River and came to a foreign country to start a war to strengthen our country's might. In the Battle of Chosin Lake, we heard many touching heroic stories, but until this person appeared, we did not know how cruel this battle was.
The Battle of Chosin Lake began and ended
The Battle of Chosin Lake was a battle that took place in the Chosin Lake area during the Second Campaign to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea. In the first campaign, although our army achieved great victories, the enemy was still very light on the enemy, so our army prepared to pretend to retreat and induce the enemy to pursue, so as to achieve the purpose of expanding the results.
At this time, the enemy troops on the western front had all been packed into the pockets of our army, and the Chosin Lake area on the eastern front was responsible for the Ninth Corps, which demanded that it annihilate the elite unit of the US army, the US First Marine Division, which claimed to have not been defeated.
On November 27, our army suddenly launched a surprise attack on the United Nations army, which was caught off guard and was defeated by our army. However, the US First Marine Division is worthy of being an elite trump card, and under the powerful offensive of our army, although it was defeated and retreated in the early stage, it still stood firm and took advantage of mechanization to form a confrontation trend with our army.
The two sides are deadlocked, our army can not form an effective offensive against the steel torrent of the US army, and at the same time, the US army can only be pinned down here.
At this time, the Western Front had frequently won victories, and the defending US troops knew that if they continued to hold on, they would eventually be dragged to death here, so the US troops were desperate to break out.
When our army saw that the US troops were going to flee, they constantly blocked the retreat of the US troops, but in the end, they still let the US troops escape.
Logically speaking, if the US military is so seriously wronged, General Peng should severely punish General Song Shilun. However, when Mr. Peng heard this story, instead of punishing General Song Shilun, he silently left tears.
All the members froze to death, not taking a step back
That year, the Gema Plateau was exceptionally cold in winter, with night temperatures even below minus 40 degrees. The volunteer soldiers wore thin winter coats to climb the ice and lie in the snow for many days, and even many people did not get up at the moment when the charge horn sounded.
The soldiers of our volunteer army were frozen to death, and tens of thousands of people were frostbitten, and what is even more sad is that three companies of soldiers were frozen alive on the positions and became "ice sculptures."
Zhou Quandi was the only surviving soldier in the Ice Sculpture Company.
But the price of surviving was the loss of his legs and hands.
In the cruel cold, his hands and legs lost consciousness, and the frozen infected tissue must be removed immediately.
According to Zhou Quandi's recollection, at that time, their company was given the task of intercepting the southward escape of the US First Marine Division and preventing the enemy from escaping on important routes and passes. When they ambushed at the designated location, their winter coats simply could not withstand the cold due to the very cold climate.
Although four or five soldiers can get a quilt, this quilt is usually not covered on the body, but spread on the ground to prevent frostbite.
In such bad weather, in order to hide from the enemy, they could not light a fire for warmth, and they ate potato pieces that had been frozen harder than a grenade. And the U.S. military?
Not only did they have thick cotton coats, quilts, tents, fires, and even hot beef nuggets.
Even if the conditions were so harsh, the ice sculpture even took on a fighting posture for every warrior, motionless until it froze to death, without changing the fighting posture.
Eventually, they finally waited for the enemy, but they had lost their lives. When the U.S. army passed by the ice sculpture company position, it lamented who the volunteers were, and it was really a wrong decision for them to come to the Korean battlefield. For Zhou Quandi, the only surviving warrior of the Ice Sculpture Company, his heart was even more painful.
Painful inside, tearful memories
The Battle of Chosin Lake was so fierce that it was really a blessing to survive. But for Zhou Quandi, this is not the case, and Zhou Quandi's inner thoughts can be said to be the inner portrayal of every volunteer soldier.
Zhou Quandi described his experience as follows:
"Everyone says it's a blessing that I survived, but for me, I didn't fire a single shot and I couldn't go to the battlefield again in my life, which made me feel devastated."
What kind of pure heart is this.
In the case of a major blow in my life and amputation of limbs, what Zhou Quandi thought was that I would not be able to go to the battlefield again in this life. Zhou Quandi's idea was not put out for the sake of interviews, he said exactly what every volunteer soldier had in mind.
At that time, China participated in the Campaign to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea under extremely unequal conditions. Even many people have wondered whether china, like the United States, is armed to the teeth, will the United States still be able to push it to the edge of the sea in the campaign to resist US aggression and aid Korea.
Although there are endless possibilities for results, in fact, we have won.
In the Campaign to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, we finally won victory, defeated the invincible United States, and won peace for our country for more than ten years.
epilogue
Facts have proved that our army has a kind of military soul that meets the brave and wins in a narrow way, and dares to fight with its life against the US army, and this spirit of not being afraid of sacrifice allows us to use extremely inferior equipment to drive the US army out of the third and eighth lines and win the victory in the war.