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Have you watched "Watergate Bridge" this Spring Festival?
As the hottest film in this year's Spring Festival file, "The Water gate Bridge of Changjin Lake" has welcomed more than 36.543 million people to watch the film, with a box office performance of more than 2.1 billion, both in terms of reputation and topic, it is a phenomenon-level film in the Chinese film industry this year.
@ Take History as a Mirror During the Spring Festival, I bought a ticket for IMAX to go to the big screen to see this blockbuster, and now I will briefly talk to you about the real history of this movie and the real war behind the movie.
In this film, the main line is that wu Jing plays the seventh interspersed company with a length of five thousand miles, and after the bloody battle of the previous "Chosin Lake", he continues to lead 157 soldiers of the seventh company to carry out the strategic task of interspersing and cutting off the retreat route of the First Marine Division of the United States Army - blowing up the Watergate Bridge.
This story is also true in history.
During the Second Campaign to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, the Ninth Corps led by Song Shilun surrounded the US First Marine Division in the Chosin Lake area, and Smith, commander of the First Marine Division, faced with a desperate situation, refused to admit to "retreating" and shouted the famous: "Attack in another direction!" "Led the Lu 1st Division to retreat to Xingnan Port, trying to escape by sea."
In order to encircle and eat Lu Yi's division, Song Shi sent a small group of volunteer troops to penetrate behind the enemy's back and blow up the only way for the enemy to retreat- the Watergate Bridge!
Carrying out this difficult task was Guo Rongxi, staff officer of the Operations Section of the 60th Division of the 20th Army of the Chinese Volunteer Army.
Guo Rongxi was a war hero during the Liberation War, an explosives expert, who once led the demolition squad to perform arduous tasks, and was awarded the Second Class People's Hero Medal of the East China Field Army.
After Guo Rongxi received the task, he took a platoon of fighters to the Watergate Bridge in the dark to carry out the mission.
Located south of Gutuli, at the Huangcaoling Pass, the Watergate Bridge is so dangerous that Ridgway once described it: "This is an extremely narrow, frightening sheep gut trail, with unattainable cliffs on one side and abysses on the other." ”
The Shuimen Bridge is actually a small cement bridge with a width of 8.8 meters, and there are water conservancy-related buildings on the bridge deck, and there are four huge pipes under the bridge, which are used to transport water from Chosin Lake to the hydropower station. Once the bridge is blown up, the mechanized corps led by the U.S. First Marine Division will be unable to move, and at least 1,000 tank armored vehicles will be wrapped in dumplings.
And it is interesting that before the war, this cement bridge did not have a name, and even when the volunteer army blew up the bridge, it only mentioned the bombing bridge, and the name of the Watergate Bridge was still the name given to it by the Volunteer Army according to the shape of the bridge when summarizing after the war - The Watergate Bridge.
During the Battle of Chosin Lake, the volunteer army's top brass repeatedly mentioned the order to "destroy the road and bridge".
On November 30, 1950, Zhang Yixiang, then commander and political commissar of the 20th Army, instructed that it was best to occupy the Huangcaoling Heights in the south to be beneficial to the blockade; it was necessary to completely destroy roads and bridges to ensure that tanks could not pass; and isolate the enemy, attacking if he could attack, and isolating if he could not.
On December 1, Tan Youming, deputy political commissar of the 20th Army, instructed that the task of breaking the road south of Huangcaoling in the north of Zhenxingli should be the primary task, and after the destruction, the control of the dispatch department would kill and injure the enemy who was building the road, and a small number (troops) would be sent to contact the enemy.
Guo Rongxi led the heroic volunteer soldiers, put the explosive package at the bridge head and the junction of the highway and successfully detonated, this time directly destroying the bridge deck of the Watergate Bridge, making the enemy's heavy equipment impassable, but Guo Rongxi was also twisted 180 degrees because of the explosion of the left calf fibula fracture and broken foot, and could only withdraw from the battle.
The Americans saw the retreat being bombed, immediately organized repair work, and engaged in brutal skirmishes with the volunteer soldiers who blew up the bridge.
In the end, the Americans, relying on their superiority in firepower and manpower, repelled the volunteer troops who blew up the bridge and successfully repaired the bridge deck with wood, which was the first time to blow up the bridge and the first time to repair the bridge.
The Volunteers then organized another bombing of the bridge, and on 4 December, they blew up the Pratunam Bridge again.
This record is mentioned in the histories of the wars between China and the United States, but unfortunately, as in the first time, there is no detailed record of the details of the battle.
However, the Watergate Bridge, which was blown up twice, was repaired again by the US military, and this time the repair for the first time appeared as a prefabricated pontoon bridge component of the "M2 treadway bridge".
Successive blow-up bridges were repaired, which had a serious impact on the encirclement and annihilation of the First Marine Division, and the 20th Army of the Volunteer Army began to make full preparations for the third blow-up of the bridge.
According to the documentary "Blood Colored Army Soul - Documentary of the Battle of Chosin Lake", on the night of December 6, 1950, Jiang Qingyun, commander of the 7th Company of the 3rd Battalion, 240th Regiment, 80th Division of the 27th Army of the Volunteer Army, led a commando team composed of an infantry platoon and a machine gun platoon, braving the powerful artillery fire of the US army, and finally blew up the Watergate Bridge for the third time with explosive packs.
This time the explosion of the bridge deck left a 29-foot (about 8.84 meters) gap, this damage for the volunteer army at that time, has been unable to repair in a short period of time, it can be said that the task of blowing up the bridge has been completed.
Under the powerful tank artillery machine guns of the United States, the Chinese Volunteers blew up the Watergate Bridge three times in a row with light weapons and explosives packages, which was already the limit of the light infantry.
At this time, although the United States lost the battlefield, the next operation reflected the background of the United States as the world's largest country at that time.
The day after the third blow-up of the Watergate Bridge, U.S. engineers experts took an observation plane to observe the broken bridge in the air and worked out a repair plan.
The U.S. military prefabricated a number of sets of pontoon bridge components through the large rear of Japan, and airdropped 8 groups of prefabricated pontoon bridge components over The Ancient Tuli through the C119 transport aircraft.
Of the 8 sets of components, one group fell to the ground and one group was airdropped to the volunteer position, but the US army successfully received 6 groups, which has exceeded the requirements for repairing the 4 groups of prefabricated pontoon components of the Watergate Bridge.
The Volunteers were determined to organize another bombing of the Bridge when they received that the Watergate Bridge was most likely to be repaired again, but by this time the large force of the US First Marine Division had reached Huangcao Ridge. On December 9, more than a thousand men of the 1st Marine Division used tanks, aircraft, and artillery to bombard our Positions in Huangcaoling, and the U.S. Seventh Division also began to attack.
In the face of the Americans who have begun to fight for their lives in order to escape, the small number of volunteer resistance troops have no time to blow up the bridge for the fourth time, and the volunteer soldiers who surround and block the attack turn into ice sculptures in the temperature of minus forty degrees...
Under such circumstances, the US First Marine Division could only be allowed to run all the way to Xingnan Port and withdraw to the south through the US Navy for repairs.
It can be said that the battle of the three-bombing Watergate Bridge was the most powerful warrior in the world at that time VS the most powerful logistics in the world at that time!
At that time, the great volunteer soldiers lacked the air force and navy, the logistics convoys and stations were often bombed by the US army, the front-line troops lacked food and clothing, and lacked heavy weapons... Even in such a difficult situation, we still drove the world's most powerful American army from the banks of the Yalu River all the way to the 38th Line.
Hats off to the great Chinese Volunteer Army!
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References/
How tragic was the "Battle of Watergate Bridge" in history? _ National Human History
Prototype of "Chosin Lake No. Pratunam Bridge"! The hero who first blew up the Watergate Bridge is still alive, 98 years old! - The Central Committee of the Communist Youth League
Dialogue with the descendants of the "Battle of Watergate Bridge": The father led the death squad to blow up the Watergate Bridge for the third time, and the merit and name of the 69 years are hidden - cover news