In 1950, after the Volunteer Army successfully blew up the Watergate Bridge three times, the US military urgently produced eight sets of M-2 steel beam structures, airborne the Watergate Bridge, and built the bridge again in just one day!
At that time, Smith did not expect that the bridge he had quickly built had been blown up by the volunteers, and he was dumbfounded, and in discouragement, he sent a message to MacArthur, and was ready for the destruction of the whole army.
When the Pentagon learned of this, it was also very depressed, and Truman even wanted to drop the atomic bomb, but the United Nations opposed it, so Smith thought of parachuting steel frames to build bridges.
When the volunteers saw what was being parachuted in, they didn't know what the U.S. troops were going to do, and then they spent a day under the cover of the air force to build the bridge again.
The volunteers could only watch as 10,000 U.S. troops and thousands of vehicles passed. They couldn't understand why so many volunteers had come to blow up the bridge.
In fact, in October, hundreds of thousands of volunteers from our army secretly entered Korea, when MacArthur wanted to end the war before Christmas, but at the beginning he was caught off guard by our army.
He did not expect that our army would have already sent the Ninth Corps into The DPRK and waited for the US troops in the Chosin Lake area.
When the US 1st Marine Division arrived in Liutanli, the US army was still immersed in the fantasy of returning home at Christmas, and our army had already been ambushed in the area of Chosin Lake.
Overnight, countless volunteers rushed to the US positions, and Song Shilun planned to divide the US First Marine Division and the Seventh Infantry Division into five encirclements, and then completely annihilate them!
Unprepared, the U.S. army was wondering why there were so many volunteers, so the 31st Regiment of the Seventh Infantry Division of the US Infantry, known as the Polar Bear Regiment, was completely annihilated by our army!
After the division commander Smith reacted, he panicked, if he did not retreat, then their elite troops would be destroyed! So they quickly retreated in the direction of Xingnan Port, MacArthur even sent hundreds of bombers to open the way for them, and prepared 193 ships for them at Xingnan Port, including 7 aircraft carriers to meet them.
The road to the retreat of the US army is full of difficulties, our army will not give up letting them escape, sniper ambushes everywhere along the way, at the 1017 heights, our army Yang Gensi Company, hold the position, they repelled 8 attacks of the US army, the whole company has few people.
In the final attack, he watched the fighters fall one by one, and finally rushed to the U.S. army with the bomb, and died with more than 40 American troops.
The sniper attack of the volunteer army made the US army more and more afraid, bent on breaking through the encirclement of our army, although the US army had the advantage of artillery weapons during the day, but at night it was the advantage of our army, and the volunteer army took advantage of the night to counterattack again and again to retake the positions lost during the day.
In this way, under the crazy sniper of our army. The U.S. army only moved 500 meters a day!
When they were about to reach the Watergate Bridge, Smith had already arranged a battalion and 40 tanks in advance to protect the Watergate Bridge, and our army had long noticed the bridge, so it ordered the 127th Regiment of the 58th Division of the 20th Army to blow up the bridge.
On December 1, Smith received news that the Watergate Bridge had been blown up, so a U.S. army began to repair the bridge, and in only half a day the bridge deck was repaired and vehicles could pass.
This surprised the volunteers, who thought it would take half a month to fix it, but the U.S. military used it for half a day, but on December 4, Smith received another notice that the bridge was blown up again!
It turned out that on the night after the US military was repaired, our army took advantage of the night to arrange for people to quietly explode. This time it should take half a month to fix it, the volunteers thought.
And what is surprising is that the US military has repaired the bridge again using steel materials this time. This time, the commander of the US army remembered that in order to prevent being bombed, a tank battalion was sent to hold it.
On 6 December, the Volunteers again received orders to blow up the bridge again at all costs. That night, Jiang Qingyun, commander of the 7th Company of the 3rd Battalion, 240th Regiment of the 80th Division of the 27th Army, led several soldiers and touched them overnight, and this time they all had bombs strapped to their bodies and regarded them as if they were dead.
After several chargebacks, the soldiers of the 7th Company once again completed the mission and lived up to expectations, and the company commander was also seriously wounded.
This time, the volunteers thought, they still want to run, let you build the bridge again!
But who would have thought that when the US military parachuted into a huge behemoth and the volunteers were still wondering what it was, the US military only took half a day to repair it!
This time, the volunteers could not blow up the bridge, they could only watch them cross the bridge, in order to prevent the volunteers from chasing, the US army blew up the bridge after crossing!
Although the Battle of Chosin Lake did not achieve total annihilation of the US army, the volunteer army played a national prestige and changed the direction of the war! Hats off to the volunteer soldiers!
