#水门桥还原了哪些触动人心的历史 #
#电影长津湖之水门桥 #
Why did the volunteers fight to the death to blow up the Watergate Bridge? Why should the U.S. military work hard to repair the Watergate Bridge at all costs? Why do the two sides have a deadly battle on the small bridge, which is only 8.8 meters long?
The Volunteers launched the Chosin Lake Campaign, and the initial military strategic purpose was to ambush and annihilate the enemy.
The volunteers besieged with three armies totaling 150,000 men. The enemy and us engaged in fierce battles such as Xinxingli and Shimogaru-ri.
After some stubborn resistance, the enemy's main force, the US First Marine Division, found that the chances of a counter-offensive were almost zero, and the best choice was to retreat and preserve the troops as much as possible.
Therefore, the American army hurriedly retreated south to reach the seashore and board the warship to evacuate.
The Watergate Bridge is the only way for the US military to retreat.
This bridge is a node of the Chosin Lake Reservoir water diversion project to the south, at the junction of the diversion canal and the mountain road, the terrain is steep.
At that time, the US military temporarily built this bridge for the convenience of the march.
It's actually an insignificant bridge. The length is only 8.8 meters, and the width of the bridge deck is only 4 meters.
However, this bridge spans the cliffs, with cliffs at both ends and ravines under the bridge. It can be said that it is a pattern of "one husband and one wife, and no one can open".
If it is blown up, it will block the retreat of the US army and become a turtle in an urn.
As a result, this usually inconspicuous small bridge became the lifeline of the US military at this time.
The volunteers, of course, also knew its importance, and first sent a small detachment to travel day and night, braving the bitter cold, and reached the location of the Watergate Bridge on December 1.
Due to the rapid march, the squad carried a limited amount of ammunition and only blew up the bridge deck.
This is a blow-up Watergate Bridge.
Immediately afterward, the American engineering unit arrived quickly, carrying the equipment for building the bridge, and it took less than a day to quickly repair the bridge.
The speed of the repair surprised the volunteers, so they lay in ambush in the nearby snow during the day to wait for the opportunity.
At night, our soldiers bypassed the warning of the US army and blew up the Watergate Bridge again, and also blew up some of the bridge repair materials stored by the US army.
This is the two-bombing Watergate Bridge.
However, to the deep surprise of the Volunteers, the American engineering unit quickly arrived again and brought more advanced equipment.
The U.S. military used the remaining bridge foundation, put in steel and wood planks and other equipment to quickly repair the Watergate Bridge again.
At the same time, the U.S. military invested a large number of troops and weapons on both sides of the bridge, including a batch of tank machine guns, to protect the bridge.
Apparently, the large retreating troops of the Us army are getting closer and closer.
This is a major test for the soldiers of our army.
The Volunteers saw the advanced bridge-building technology and speed of the American Army, and the bridgeheads at both ends were difficult to destroy.
In the case of time constraints, our soldiers can only choose to give up their lives and die, and strive to destroy the bridge again, thus delaying the pace of the US army's escape.
As a result, the volunteers increased the number of troops blowing up the bridge to two battalions.
In addition to dealing with the severe cold and hunger, on the one hand, the soldiers of our army must engage the US troops guarding the bridge and attract their troops and firepower, and on the other hand, they must seize the opportunity to do everything possible to blow up the bridge again.
In the end, the soldiers of our army paid a great price, blew up the Watergate Bridge again, and cut the grass and roots, and even the piers were also blown up.
This is the three-bomb watergate bridge.
It is reasonable to say that the US military has no way to the heavens and no door to the earth, and can only cry and faint and pray to God.
However, to the shock of the volunteers, the U.S. military quickly mobilized transport aircraft to airdrop the steel components of the bridge near the Watergate Bridge.
Using these components, the U.S. Army's engineers took about three days to build a new steel structure bridge.
It was later learned that it was the US military that urgently ordered the Mitsubishi plant in Japan to step up the manufacture of M2 rutted axle components. The construction of the Watergate Bridge required four sets of rutted bridges, each of which weighed one ton on the M2 rutted bridge.
Subsequently, the U.S. military mobilized heavy transport aircraft to transport the resulting 8 sets of rutted bridge components from Japan to the Korean battlefield, and then airdropped them near the Pratunam Bridge.
Soon after the completion of the new bridge with a load of 50 tons, the large troops of the 1st Marine Division and the 3rd Infantry Division of the US Army and the 3rd Infantry Division arrived.
A large number of soldiers, cars, tanks and other heavy weapons and equipment successfully crossed the bridge and continued to retreat.
At this point, the volunteers could only grit their teeth and hate.
The volunteers continued to pursue and fight along the way, but the remnants of the fleeing US First Marine Division and the Third Infantry Division were able to reach the seashore and escape on the receiving warship.
In fact, the Battle of Pratunam Bridge was a continuation and part of the Battle of Chosin Lake.
Our army and the US army fought a deadly contest at the Watergate Bridge, three bombs and three repairs.
In this battle, the volunteer army continued to withstand the test of ice and fire, reproduced the iron will and strong fighting spirit, and paid a heavy casualty price.
At the same time, the Battle of The Watergate Bridge demonstrated the strength of the US military's engineers to build bridges, and behind this is the support of American industrial technology and strong national strength.
Objectively speaking, in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, the disparity in strength between our army and the "United Nations Army" headed by the US military was quite large; our army's weapons and equipment were backward, and we could only rely on tactics and the will to fight, paying a very high price.
After the founding of New China, the mainland worked hard to build, and its industrial level and comprehensive national strength continued to improve.
Nowadays, bridge building technology is at the leading level in the world, and it has also become a powerful witness to the title of "infrastructure madness".
The world's highest suspension bridge, the world's largest single-span truss combined with stiffener girder suspension bridge, the world's largest span steel truss girder cable-stayed bridge, the world's first mountainous suspension bridge with a span of more than 900 meters, the world's highest bridge deck, etc., are located on the mainland.
At present, there are ten tallest bridges in the world, and eight of them are on the mainland.
For example, the Siduhe Bridge, located in the Enshi Mountains of Hubei Province, is the first extra-large suspension bridge in the mountains of the mainland, and the first "long-span suspension bridge pilot cable rocket throwing technology" was pioneered, which introduced rocket technology into the construction of suspension bridge pilot cables for the first time, and skillfully combined military technology and bridge construction technology.
In front of them, the Watergate Bridge of the past is just a steel plate.