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The movie "Chosin Lake" continues to be screened, which has greatly stimulated everyone's strong patriotism, and for a long time everyone was reluctant to recall that tragic history.
Set against the background of the Battle of Chosin Lake in the Second Campaign of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, the film tells a magnificent history: 71 years ago, the Chinese Volunteer Army rushed to the Korean battlefield, and in the extremely cold and harsh environment, the eastern front combat troops pursued all the way with their iron will and heroic and fearless fighting spirit, bravely killed the enemy and reversed the battlefield situation, and played a military might.
Many netizens commented: "After reading it, I fell into that period of history, looked through various materials, and I really need to know more about the motherland." "Chosin Lake" is not only a simple war film, it should be an epic film with a thick history. Before watching the movie, it is necessary for everyone to understand that history. Chi Haotian, a participant in the Battle of Chosin Lake and former vice chairman of the Central Military Commission and minister of national defense, said: For the first time, I saw that the soldiers' eyes were very wide, and their faces were full of ice. It is true that I have never seen such a scene, and I have never seen so many people freeze to death at one time.
At 8:00 a.m. on December 8, the retreat of the main American force in Gutuli began as scheduled.
In this area, the 58th Division of the 20th Army of the Volunteer Army took Huangcaoling as the core and relied on the favorable terrain on both sides to block the southward retreat of the US army.
Before dusk, the advance of the 1st Battalion of the 7th Marine Regiment of the US Army was met with stubborn resistance from the Volunteers, and due to the heavy snowfall, the visibility dropped to 20 meters, not to mention air support, and even the impact point of the mortar could not be seen clearly, so the 1st Battalion stopped the attack near the 1304 heights and built fortifications to prepare for the night.
The sharp drop in temperature on the night of the 8th caused a large number of frostbite and loss of personnel in the volunteer army, so the resistance encountered by the US army on the 9th was relatively reduced. The 1st Battalion of the 7th Marine Regiment broke through the slight resistance along the way and went all the way south to the Watergate Bridge.
On the high ground overlooking the Watergate Bridge, a battalion of the 172nd Regiment of the 58th Division of the 20th Army of the Volunteer Army was almost completely frozen, and the position was easily seized by the American army, thus ensuring the smooth erection of the MZ rutted bridge by the American engineers on the Watergate Bridge.
When all the U.S. troops withdrew from Gutuli, the U.S. 92nd Field Artillery Battalion in Zhenxingli concentrated all its artillery fire on Gutuli and almost razed Gutuli to the ground.
On the afternoon of the 10th, the 58th And 60th Division of the Volunteer Army's 20th Army between Gutuli and Zhenxingli went through days of bitter fighting, and the two divisions together could not fight more than 200 people, and they were simply unable to prevent the US 1st Marine Division from retreating south.
Zhang Yixiang, commander of the 20th Army, was really unwilling and ordered Cai Qunfan, chief of staff of the 60th Division, to lead the more than 200 people in pursuit.
But to no avail.
Hill 1081, stuck on the retreat route of the U.S. 1st Marine Division, has been occupied by Chinese troops, a plateau that is further away from the Chinese army's supply lines.
In order to seize this high ground, the U.S. military sent a strong attack force to repeatedly compete with Chinese soldiers for the high ground in the snow and ice.
The cold made it impossible to fire automatic rifles and carbines, and 40% of them could not be used even after being roasted with fire.
Highland 1081 is only 800 meters from the road, but the snow depth reaches 20 centimeters, and the American army transports the wounded down from the offensive front, and the slope of several hundred meters takes 7 hours.
It is not known how the Chinese soldiers on the high ground survived in such extremely harsh conditions without food supplies and without warm clothing, but their lives were still able to burst into a fierce fighting spirit in battle.
Hill 1081 was finally surrounded by U.S. troops on all sides, and in every direction around the heights, there were a large number of U.S. aircraft drawn by U.S. air guidance.
On the ground, the Americans used a battalion of troops to charge the top of the mountain.
The American soldiers who participated in this battle said of the Chinese soldiers they saw on the 1081 high ground on that day: "These Chinese soldiers faithfully carried out their tasks, none of them surrendered, fought tenaciously to the end, and all held their positions until they died in battle, and none of them survived. ”
On this day, the temperature of Chosin Lake plummeted to minus 38 degrees Celsius, and the troops of two companies of the 58th Division of the 20th Army blocked the American troops on the high ground next to the Watergate Bridge.
The 1st Marine Division was also aware of ambushes in the surrounding highlands and sent its vanguard to reconnoiter before crossing the bridge.
When the American soldiers touched the top of the mountain, they were also shocked by the sight in front of them:
On the high ground near the Watergate Bridge, the officers and men of a company of the Volunteer Army scattered in a battle formation, lying down in the snow, everyone was watching the front with a weapon in hand, and none of them fell backwards, all frozen to death on the mountain, all turned into crystal ice sculptures.
A company of more than a hundred men, the survivors were merely a fallen soldier and a communicator who delivered orders. Looking at the history of world wars, only China, and only Chinese military personnel, have such a fighting spirit.
When the volunteer pursuers reached the Pratunam Bridge, they witnessed the tragic scene of their comrades.
Among the frozen soldiers, there was a soldier from Shanghai named Song Amao, who found a piece of paper in his jacket pocket and wrote the following words: I love my relatives and the motherland, and I love my honor even more, I am a glorious volunteer soldier! Ice and snow! I will never submit to you, even if I freeze to death, I will stand proudly on my position!
After the war, the U.S. military translated a summary of the war in the Eastern Front of Korea by the Chinese 27th Army, which included the following account: insufficient food and living equipment, soldiers could not stand the cold.
This has resulted in a non-combat attrition of more than 10,000 people, and the inability to use weapons effectively is also the reason.
During the battle, the soldiers camped on the snowy ground, their feet, socks, and hands frozen as white as snow balls, and even the pull rings of the grenades could not be pulled out. The fuze did not fire, the mortar barrel contracted due to the cold, and 70% of the mortar shells did not explode. The skin of the hand is glued to the shell and the body of the cannon.
Even so, the U.S. Marine Corps' most elite Marine Division, the 1st Marine Division, was devastated by the Chinese forces, which had forced it to make a massive retreat on the Eastern Front.
At this point, no one can think of this "peasant armed" army in China as a force that can be easily insulted.