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War is a life-and-death struggle, and doing everything possible to eliminate the other side's living forces and war potential is an important goal of military struggle. But after all, humans are high-level animals, and most armed confrontations are only to make each other submit and change the pattern of interests, not to exterminate the dead. Therefore, even the most brutal war often has rules, and even there will be tacit moments between fights.
We can understand it as human instinct friendliness, or it can be summarized as the spirit of the contract in war, which has existed since civilization, such as the Chu army in the Spring and Autumn Jin-Chu War to help the Jin army repair cars and escape; the Christmas ceasefire between the German army and the British and French forces; and the Belgian town of Ipres for an hour a day war friendly football match.
In the battle of the Founding of the Korean Peninsula 70 years ago, the volunteer army and the US army also had a tacit understanding in the midfield.
Zheng Shiwen, a veteran of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, recounted: When the Volunteer Army and the United Nations Army were in a stalemate on the 38th Line, his company was stationed in Daqingshan, and there was grain, but due to terrain reasons, there was a shortage of water for domestic use.
Volunteer veteran Zheng Shiwen
There was a spring in the middle of the war zone, and at the beginning because of shooting at each other, many soldiers were sacrificed to each other when taking water, and considering that everyone would die of thirst in this way, our army first took out the attitude of a civilized division, found a wooden board to carve 7:00 to 9:00 US, and then put a fork on the submachine gun and put it on the edge of the spring. The U.S. military quickly understood our military's intentions, and also carved the words 2:00 to 4:00 and a thumbs up. After that, it belongs to their respective water time periods, you can be assured to take water boldly, you can also take a bath, and even greet and give souvenirs.
The tacit understanding between the volunteer army and the American army in the Korean War cannot help but remind people of the story of the Soviet army and the German army fetching water in "The Defense of Moscow". The two grass-roots combat units originally had a tacit understanding not to shoot each other's water soldiers, but a Sniper of the Soviet Army lost his mind because his brother died under german artillery fire, shot and killed the German water soldiers, and the treacherous behavior made the German army angry, and quickly transferred more than a dozen tanks and artillery to attack desperately, and the dangerous building that the Soviet army held fell to the ground.
Soviet snipers opened fire on water-drawn soldiers during the Defense of Moscow
Some people say that this is film and television, the real battlefield on the enemy side will desperately kill each other, look at the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh War, Assabad will blow up the Armenian ambulance, the Japanese baby will not let go, the Vietnamese army often shoots at my soldiers who take water...
Georgia ambulance destroyed by Azerbaijan in 2020
This perception is not correct, human beings have broken out no less than 10,000 wars, what is the proportion of such cases? Observance of the spirit of the contract in war is the embodiment of the overall quality of a country or nation, and it is the conscience of the soldier to control violence within a certain range. In battle, there is indeed no friendship, but humanity and humanity always exist, which is the biggest difference between man and beast, otherwise what should the Geneva Conventions do? Wars waged for massacres do not bring any people to their knees, and shameless people who flout the rules at all times cannot deny the rules because of those who break them.
The Times reported a news: in the third battle, the 50th Army of the Volunteer Army and a battalion of the British 29th Royal Heavy Tank Brigade met in a narrow road, the gunner Ross tank was hit by the grenade of the Chinese soldiers, jumped out of the tank on fire to escape, the Chinese soldiers not only did not shoot at him, but desperately tried to help him extinguish the fire before sending him to the prisoner of war camp. Why didn't the Chinese soldiers replenish their guns? The slaughter of enemies whose lives are in danger is despicable and tramples on human nature, and the volunteer army, known as the "most civilized enemy", was once the standard of the world army.
Volunteer soldiers who destroy the Royal Heavy Tank Battalion
After the Korean War entered 1953, the Volunteers fought less and less with the United Nations, mainly against Syngman Rhee's South Korean army. It is undeniable that under the creation of Van Vleet, the father of the Korean army, the combat effectiveness of the Korean army in the later period has been greatly improved, and there are also heavy equipment such as fighters, 155 howitzers, tanks, etc., and they think that they have broken through the cocoon into butterflies.
At this time, both the Chinese and North Korean armies and the US military hoped for a ceasefire, and it was not in any national interest to fight endlessly, but Syngman Rhee shouted about reunifying the Korean Peninsula and not "going it alone," as if the 480,000 ROK troops were natural soldiers. Only to forget that the ROK military expenditure is borne by the US military, and the opposite volunteer army has grown from the "king of light infantry" to a world-class army with a large number of fighters, heavy artillery and long-range strike forces.
Volunteers fighting with gas masks
On June 8, 1953, representatives of China, North Korea, and the United States and South Korea were present, but Rhee did not want to be "controlled" by the United States and privately ordered South Korean negotiators to withdraw. The US military simply pulled in the Thai general to sign for the ROK, and both sides looked at each other and smiled, and both believed that the general was the "representative of South Korea." During the negotiations, the US military also gave up an additional 140 square kilometers, which shows that it is very sincere to end the war.
Rhee's ambitions were not to die, and on June 18, he detained 27,000 prisoners of war and incorporated them into the Rok army, deliberately sabotaging the ceasefire, and the US commander Clarke was on fire: "Then let the Chinese army teach the Koreans a lesson." In mid-July, after receiving that the volunteer army was about to launch the Battle of Jincheng, Taylor, commander of the US 8th Army, ordered all the US troops to withdraw to the second line, and was happy to watch the ROK army annihilate 53,000 people in ten days, and it was not until the last few days that a small group of troops was sent to symbolically fight a few battles.
Captured Roks
Some Western newspapers once referred to the volunteer army as "angels among the devil", and the writing was very admirable: "Maybe they do not understand gentlemanly and chivalrous spirit, but they have noble ethics and good professionalism, and they practice morality more than the German army..."
The U.S. military has committed many war crimes in the Korean War, including the massacre of prisoners of war and civilians, and the use of M-47 napalm bombs to attack Chinese and North Korean troops in violation of the Geneva Conventions, but not every U.S. soldier has done so. After the end of the Korean War, he was reluctant to repatriate the 21 American prisoners of war who remained on the mainland, first-class soldier Arie. Pete, who was captured after working with two volunteer soldiers to rescue the old Korean man Kim Ji-hyun, was praised by some soldiers of our army as "the bodhisattva among the devils".
In Li Qiwei's memoir "38th Parallel", when the volunteers returned seriously wounded prisoners to the US army, they always carried them to the side of the road on a stretcher, waiting for the US medical soldiers to pick up the wounded, and then turned to leave.
On another occasion, our anti-aircraft artillery damaged a US plane, and the pilot parachuted, and this pilot was an ace pilot. People were still floating in the air, and the US army organized 100 people to grab comrades. Of course, that's not okay, whoever captures more prisoners on the battlefield has the greater say in the negotiations, and the 60-man capture team of our army also runs wildly. After encountering each other on the road, the two sides have been running side by side, and they have also abided by the running rules, and neither one has fired a shot. Our soldiers grabbed the pilot one step ahead, and the breathless American soldier shrugged his shoulders and returned the same way, without much use of people to fight.
The U.S. 155 howitzer opened fire instantly
War is cruel, and it is precisely because of its cruelty that there should be more laws to avoid joint destruction, otherwise, with the nuclear weapons and other powerful weapons that human beings now possess, it is enough to return the earth civilization to the Stone Age in an instant. However, if we want peace, we must have a sharp weapon to stop war, and the spear and shield are the fundamental guarantees for the dignity of a big country, and we hope that the spirit of the Chinese People's Volunteer Army will be passed on from generation to generation.
Reference: Korean War
"History of the Chinese People's Volunteer Army to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea"
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