On October 14, 1952, the "Battle of Shangganling" broke out, the two sides were the Chinese Volunteer Army and the "United Nations Army" led by the United States, this war that the United States seemed to be able to win easily became a nightmare for the United States, in just 43 days, the "United Nations Army" launched more than nine hundred charges against our army's positions, without exception were repulsed by our army, the United States and South Korea coalition forces left more than fifteen thousand corpses, our army position is still rock solid, In the end, the United States lost this crucial position battle in the Korean War!
Nearly seventy years have passed since the end of the "Battle of Shangganling," but the Americans still can't figure out why the weapons of the "United Nations Army" crushed China, and Shangganling could not be defeated.
Today we will review this classic battle of "military prestige and national prestige"!
An "expected" war – the Korean War
After the end of the Second World War, the United States and the Soviet Union divided the Japanese colony of the Korean Peninsula into two by the 38th parallel north latitude in accordance with the "Yalta Agreement"; North Korea established the Democratic Republic of Korea with the support of the Soviet Union and implemented the socialist system; South Korea established the Government of the Republic of Korea with the support of the United States, implementing the capitalist system, and the emergence of two countries of different natures on one island laid the groundwork for future wars.
Sure enough, the two countries continued to dispute, military conflicts occurred from time to time, and as the conflict escalated, the two countries finally broke out a large-scale war on June 25, 1550, which was the "Korean War"!
After the outbreak of the Korean War, the North Korean army was overwhelming, South Korea was defeated all the way, unable to resist, after ninety percent of the Korean Peninsula was occupied by North Korea, the United States finally could not sit still, and the "United Nations Army" led by it carried out the Inchon Landing War on September 15, and the Korean War developed into an international war.
A war of "absolute stability"
After the United States entered the war, in spite of China's warnings, it repeatedly "burned" the flames of war to China's borders, and finally directly dispatched its air force to bomb China's Anton, in order to defend the country, the Chinese People's Liberation Army entered the DPRK in October 1950 in the name of the volunteer army.
In August 1951, the Summer Offensive and the Autumn Offensive began, and the famous "Battle of Shangganling" broke out during this period.
According to the "Battle of Shangganling", since 1952, the United States has successively invested 60,000 troops in the Shangganling area, more than 300 artillery pieces, more than 170 tanks, more than 3,000 aircraft sorties, and poured more than 1.9 million shells and more than 5,000 bombs on the two companies of the Volunteer Army on a position of about 3.7 square kilometers! Under such intense artillery bombardment, our position was cut down by two meters!
Compared with the United Nations army, our army invested a total of 43,000 troops, except for the artillery, there was no air force and tank unit support, but our army relied on the tunnels, artillery, grenades "three treasures" in the 43 days of fighting to repulse the enemy more than 900 times, although the positions changed hands many times but finally firmly in the hands of our army, the United Nations army after more than 15,000 casualties still could not conquer our army positions, helplessly can only stop the attack, november 25, 1952, the Battle of Shangganling finally ended in the victory of the volunteer army!
After the end of the Battle of Shangganling, the U.S. military was no longer able to wage a war on a battalion scale or above, and on July 27, 1953, with the signing of the Korean Armistice Agreement, the Korean War officially ended.
Under the circumstance that the weapons and equipment are far inferior to those of the United States, why can our army hold Shangganling?
In the Battle of Shangganling, the United States took into account the superiority of troops, weapons, and even the coordinated operation of various arms, but only did not take into account the role of "faith and will", Mencius stated as early as a thousand years ago in "More Help and Loss of Wisdom": "The sky is not as good as the location, the location is not as good as the people", in a war, "the time of day, the place, and the people" are all crucial, but it is "people" that play a decisive role, and our army has defended Shangganling with firm faith and strong will!
According to the "Korean War", in the Korean War, only the Fifteenth Army of the Volunteer Army has emerged a total of 12,347 combat heroes at all levels represented by the special hero Huang Jiguang.
It was driven by these examples that the volunteer army held out in Shangganling for forty-three days with strong will and firm faith!
brief summary:
Faith and will, as if illusory, play a vital role, as Barkin says: the power that governs a warrior's actions is faith, and he can still endure all the hardships and pains to reach his chosen goal.
References: "Korean War", "More Help for the Lost"
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