On December 1, 1950, in order to prevent the American army from retreating from The Watergate Bridge, Song Shi took turns to send the 88th Division of the 26th Army to block the attack, the division commander made a mistake in commanding and missed the fighter, the 88th Division was canceled, and the division commander political commissar was dismissed!
At that time, during the Second Campaign to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, the Battle of Chosin Lake can be described as world-famous, in this battle, our army for the first time and the elite of the US army dueled, the first time the US army was defeated by our army and began to retreat to the south!
Our army took advantage of the victory to pursue, all the AMERICAN troops retreated to this place in Hagaru-ri, and on the way the US army retreated, there was a place called Gutuli, and Smith, commander of the US First Marine Division, felt that our army would definitely lay an ambush there, so he decided to change course and retreat by boat from the south road!
Although the straight-line distance from Gutuli to Zhenxingli is only 11 kilometers, the altitude is very high and the road is rough, only enough for a small car to pass.
On both sides of this road, there is a vital 1081 highland, which has become a place where the two armies are in contention, and whoever occupies it has the opportunity to change the tide of the war!
Of course, Song Shilun, commander-in-chief of the Ninth Corps of our army, knew very well the importance of this position in his heart and had long sent advance troops over, but the Korean Peninsula was very cold, and many soldiers were frozen to death before the battle could start!
In this way, the US army occupied the high ground effortlessly and gave them a head start in retreating.
In this way, the only last obstacle left on the road to the retreat of the US army is the Shuimen Bridge, six kilometers south of the Ancient Tuli of Chosin Lake! If the U.S. military can pass smoothly, then the U.S. army can safely escape Chosin Lake, but it is not so easy to cross the Pratunam Bridge, except that the bridge is very wide and narrow, and there is an abyss below!
If their tanks and armored vehicles all passed through the Watergate Bridge smoothly, then the front was a plain, and it was almost impossible to block it again, and the mechanized troops of the First Division of the Land Battle Would be invincible!
Therefore, if you want to completely annihilate the First Marine Division, you must blow up the Watergate Bridge! Of course, the U.S. military also knew the importance of the Watergate Bridge, after all, they were not fools, they sent a battalion of troops and more than 40 tanks, armored vehicles, to die near the Watergate Bridge.
Song Shilun ordered his troops to blow up the Watergate Bridge at all costs, and he sent 20 army engineers to blow up the bridge, and at the same time sent 26 troops to support.
The engineers successfully blew up the bridge as expected, but the US army built a wooden bridge in less than two days, so our army blew up the wooden bridge again, but the US army soon after, it built a temporary steel bridge with the boat bridge, and the US army began to continue to retreat.
Song Shilun was in a very anxious mood, and sent a death squad to blow up the Watergate Bridge and the base with their flesh and blood!
However, the 26th Army encountered obstacles in going to the support road again, and the US military raised its combat effectiveness from the US aircraft carrier and bombed bombers on the support road of our army, and successfully reached the front line only Wu Dalin's 88th Division!
At first, Wu Dalin did not pay attention to the collapse of the US army, but soon he saw the terrifying combat capability of the world's first army.
Wu Dalin, commander of the 88th Division of the 26th Army, and Gong Jie, the political commissar, each led a regiment to ambush the US troops, but unexpectedly, they were suppressed by the US tank fire just after the exchange, and then the US troops called for bombers from a distance, and the 88th Division was stunned that it could not lift its head!
Division commander Wu Dalin, worried that the US army would further strengthen, actually hid in a destroyed tank, causing our army to lose command, and nearly 10,000 people of the 88th Division did not organize an effective counterattack at all, and the casualties of our army were also very large!
In this way, the US army swung through the blocking circle of the 88th Division, and Wu Dalin's troops were almost completely destroyed.
After Song Shilun knew, he was furious, he had never fought such a wrongful battle, and let so many volunteers die in vain. On the other hand, the 20th Army that served as the bridge bomber also suffered heavy losses, and the US army even mobilized the Japanese army to provide eight sets of temporary bridge equipment to the Watergate Bridge overnight.
Song Shilun immediately ordered the commander and political commissar of the 88th Division to be dismissed from their posts and investigated, and prepared to shoot the division commander Wu Dalin, but fortunately, the surviving officers and men jointly wrote a letter to Chairman Mao to save the division commander Wu Dalin.
After this station, Zhang Renchu, commander of the 26th Army, publicly reviewed, Wu Dalin, commander of the 88th Division, and Gong Jie, political commissar, were dismissed, and the number of the 88th Division was cancelled!
Although our army won the victory in the Battle of Chosin Lake, it has to be said that it is a great pity that the 88th Division caused the main force of the enemy army to retreat!
