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"Chosin Lake's Watergate Bridge" is being screened, leading the box office, and it should not be difficult to create a domestic and global box office miracle again.
Audiences who have seen the film have a common feeling: although it is not as big as the war scenes of the previous part, "Chosin Lake", the details are much crueler.
We see Li Chen and other protagonists of the warriors being burned into a ball of fire by incendiary bombs, or blown up by grenades, or crushed by tanks...
Using the weak against the strong, using flesh and blood against the aircraft, tanks, and artillery of the US army, this was the real situation of the war at that time.
Today, many years later, some people will always ask such a question: If our army had successfully intercepted the Watergate Bridge, would the 1st Marine Division have been completely annihilated?
"Chosin Lake's Pratunam Bridge" shows the war from December 1 to 6 of that year, that is, a week.
The scale of this war was actually very small, and the commandos formed on the basis of our company carried out three blow-ups of the Pratunam Bridge, specifically, "Chosin Lake's Pratunam Bridge" showed the destruction of the Pratunam Bridge from the second and third times.
The troops retreating from The Watergate Bridge were dominated by the 1st Marine Division, commanded by an old "acquaintance" of volunteers, Major General Smith. He was very cautious and built an airfield in Hagaru-ri before the Battle of Chosin Lake began, leaving enough room for the retreat of the army.
As the strongest unit of the U.S. Marine Corps, the U.S. Marine Division was strong and was able to maintain an orderly retreat after the Chosin Lake Operation, which added more difficulty to the Volunteer Army's resistance battle.
In contrast, our weapons are pitifully weak, there is no way, the soldiers can only use rifles and grenades to fight the enemy's "iron barrel array". With their iron will, they stubbornly blocked the enemy in this icy and snowy place, preventing them from escaping from the encirclement.
At the beginning of "Chosin Lake's Watergate Bridge", such a scene is shown: after the xiajie-ri airfield was occupied by the troops starring Wu Jing and Yi Qianxi, the Seventh Company had a new combat mission and continued to rush to the Watergate Bridge to blow up the enemy's retreat passage.
The Seventh Company carried out two consecutive bridge blows after the first blow,the last of which was very successful.
Smith, commander of the 1st Marine Division, was desperate when he heard the news of the third bombing of the Watergate Bridge, and he knew clearly that the Chinese volunteers did not simply want to drive the American troops out of Chosin Lake, their purpose was to completely annihilate the 1st Marine Division.
At this time, in the White House on the mainland of the United States, the most powerful people in the United States, including the president, gathered here to discuss: rescue the 1st Marine Division at all costs.
The United States used transport aircraft to drop 8 sets of M-2 steel beams, and under the full construction of the engineer battalion, at 4 p.m. on December 8, a steel-structured Watergate Bridge was re-established, and the heavy machinery of the US army could also be crossed, and the volunteer soldiers at this time could not afford to blow up the bridge again.
At that time, our army still had a hand, and the 58th Division of the 20th Army already had a unit that had been inserted into a high ground next to the Watergate Bridge in advance, ready to snipe the enemy and retreat. When the US troops passed through the Watergate Bridge, this unit did not fire a single shot, and the US troops successfully passed the Watergate Bridge and fled all the way to Xingnan Port.
"Chosin Lake" has a camera to show this scene: on the small highland near the Watergate Bridge, the soldiers of our army are crouching in one snow pit after another, pointing at the bottom of the road with guns brushed, but they have been frozen into "ice sculptures". These soldiers are still wearing thin cotton clothes from the south, with single layers of rubber shoes on their feet, and in order to keep out the cold, they hold their ears with towels, but in the weather of more than 50 degrees below zero in North Korea, there is no use at all, so they are sacrificed.
At the end of "Chosin Lake's Pratunam Bridge", it is shown that our army occupied Xingnan Port, and the 1st Marine Division had long disappeared into the vast sea...
According to the logistics supply capacity of our army at that time, it supported up to 7 days, that is, the "Sunday" offensive summed up by the US military Ridgway, the small battle of the Watergate Bridge has been fought for 7 days, and our army is basically in a state of running out of ammunition, occupying the entire Watergate Bridge in time, and unable to hold the position, and finally will be retaken by the US army.
There was also a result: our army occupied and defended the Watergate Bridge, and the U.S. military could burn the defenders of the Watergate Bridge with the use of high bombs and incendiary bombs by air superiority, and then use powerful heavy industry to build a Watergate Bridge.
On the surface, it seems that it is difficult to distinguish between victory and defeat in the Battle of Pratunam Bridge, and although our army has not achieved the strategic task of intercepting the us army's southern retreat, from the overall results, the US army chose to retreat after the defeat of the Battle of Chosin Lake, and even if their logistical ability is strong, it is still impossible to change the outcome of the defeat and retreat.
Judging from the situation in our army at that time, we have also realized that it is impossible to achieve a strategic plan to completely eliminate the US army.