The Chinese soldiers, clad in white cloths, rushed out of the forest in droves, they must have been frozen, moving extremely slowly, we aimed our machine guns at them and began to shoot violently, and they began to fall down in rows. But they never seemed to be able to finish fighting, and before we could change the bullets, a lot of people rushed out of the woods and pounced on us. By the end, our firepower was completely unable to stop them, the barrels were red, and they were still running as hard as before, I had never seen such a soldier who was not afraid of death, and that night, I knew that we were going to lose this war.
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This is the memory of an American veteran after the Korean War on the Battle of Chosin Lake, Chosin Lake, as the most tragic battle on the Korean battlefield, has always been the last thing the volunteer soldiers are willing to mention, so how tragic was the real Chosin Lake Battle in history, and what happened at that time? How exactly did the volunteer soldiers with millet plus rifles defeat the American army? If you're also interested in this topic, you might as well press and hold the like button for three seconds, and we'll move on.
Volunteer soldiers
In 1950, in order to establish its position as a global hegemon and strike at the development momentum of international communism, the United States raised troops into the Korean battlefield on the pretext of helping South Korea, and the Korean War officially broke out. The flames of war gradually spread to the border areas of the mainland, and the Chinese government's repeated warnings were ignored by the US military, and even the disapproving US military also wantonly harassed the people in the mainland border areas under various banners. In the face of such an arrogant US military, the mainland decided to send troops to Korea to resist the United States and aid Korea, and in this way, in the astonished eyes of the whole world, the soldiers of the Chinese volunteer army crossed the Yalu River with great strength and vigor.
In November 1950, as the War in Korea became tighter, Chairman Mao ordered the Ninth Corps to rush into Korea to fight in order to support the front. At this time, the commander of the Ninth Corps was Song Shilun, and after receiving the chairman's order, Song Shilun immediately led all the soldiers of the Ninth Corps to set off and rushed to the Dandong area of Shenyang overnight to be on standby. The soldiers of the Ninth Corps lived in the south for many years, their clothes were relatively thin, and they had never had the experience of fighting in the winter in the north, so when the soldiers set out, they only wanted to bring a little more combat materials to resist the enemy, but they forgot to bring themselves some thick clothes to protect themselves from the cold.
Before the Ninth Corps entered the Korean War, in order to ensure the logistical supply of the Chinese Volunteer Army, the General Logistics Department of our army promptly conveyed to the major military regions the winter clothing tasks that needed to be completed. According to the original arrangements of our army, at that time, the munitions and supplies of the whole country would be concentrated in the northeast region, and the troops participating in the war would be unified to receive supplies from our northeast military region, that is to say, according to the original plan, the Ninth Corps had enough time to prepare for the war, and the winter clothes of the soldiers were not a problem at all.
Strategic shift
However, the rapid changes on the battlefield completely disrupted our army's original planning arrangements, and the originally stable war situation changed again and again, and our army was suddenly in a disadvantageous position. In order not to delay the progress of the war, the Central Military Commission had to issue an order to the Ninth Corps in advance to enter the KOREAN War, and the soldiers of the Ninth Corps had to wear single clothes on the Korean battlefield. Winter combat is a taboo for soldiers, not to mention that in such an urgent situation, the psychological pressure and even physical pain endured by the soldiers of the Ninth Corps can be imagined.
Volunteer soldier lying on the snow
It is worth mentioning that when the soldiers of the Ninth Corps arrived in the northeast, He Jinnian, deputy commander of the Northeast Military Region, looked at the trembling soldiers and shouted in surprise: "If you wear a single suit to the battlefield, even if you are not killed, you will be frozen alive." Subsequently, he ordered people to collect less than 30,000 coats from the major warehouses of the military region and put them on the soldiers. But despite this, there were still many soldiers who had no clothes to wear, and He Jinnian took off the cotton clothes of himself and more than 600 logistics soldiers and handed them to the soldiers of the Ninth Corps. Looking at the soldiers' frozen purple lips, He Jinnian, who had fought most of his life, quietly turned his head and shed two lines of hot tears.
More fatal than the lack of winter clothes is the lack of experience in winter combat by all the officers of the Ninth Corps. Before the war officially began, the artillery regiment of the 58th Division of the 20th Army, because it did not understand how to treat the wounded in an extremely cold environment, blindly soaked the soldiers' frozen hands and feet in hot water, and before the soldiers had time to wait for their hands and feet to warm up a little, they completely lost their intuition, and when they woke up, they had completely lost their hands and feet, and the artillery regiment also lost its combat effectiveness.
But even so, as a soldier, the soldiers of the Ninth Corps had to carry the biting cold and come to North Korea. According to the relatively narrow terrain of Chosin Lake, Song Shilun decided to adopt the tactic of "detouring and cutting off, encircling and annihilating". In order to successfully block the enemy army, Song Shilun led hundreds of thousands of volunteer troops over the mountains to the predetermined ambush site. To avoid letting the enemy's reconnaissance planes find clues, the soldiers quietly lay motionless on the snow in thin clothes. It was the first time these young warriors had seen snow, and the last time they had seen it.
War scenes
Li Boqing, a veteran soldier of the support army, recalled that it was really too cold at that time, and for the first time in my life, I felt that cold could penetrate deep into the bone marrow, all of our feet and legs were frozen and could not move, and some of the soldiers' ears were exposed to the outside of the frozen hard state, and they fell off when they touched it, but they themselves did not have any consciousness. In order to prevent the smoke from igniting and rising by the enemy's reconnaissance plane, the soldiers could not even eat a mouthful of cooked food, could not drink a mouthful of hot water, grabbed a handful of fried noodles in their pockets to eat when they were hungry, and ate a mouthful of snow to quench their thirst when they were thirsty.
Ice Sculpture Company Soldiers
Our army has already laid bait for the US troops, just waiting for them to bite the hook, and at this time, without knowing that the enemy's First Marine Division is still dreaming of going home for Christmas, and even makes a bold statement: "The US First Marine Division has the quality of being a typical US army and holds the most sophisticated weapons in the world, and if anyone can defeat this army, then he can win the Korean War or even win the war in the whole world, but unfortunately there is no such army in the world at present."
On November 27, the war officially began, and in a short time, countless signal flares flew into the air, and the volunteer soldiers who had already been ambushed immediately surged out from everywhere, and the rustle of the snow was endless. Looking at the volunteer soldiers who kept rushing out, the previously indispensable American troops were completely panicked, they thought that the equipment of the volunteer army was so rudimentary, it was impossible to ambush for so long in the ice and snow, and there was no trace of it.
Ice Sculpture Company Warriors
It was too late, it was fast, and countless volunteer soldiers, dressed in single clothes and pants, holding rifles, jumped up from the snow and pounced on the American army like crazy. Where the US army had seen such a position, it immediately scattered and fled, but many US soldiers found that although these volunteers were menacing, their movements were much slower than before, and some fighters could not even stand up in battle, as if they were squirming on the ground.
warrior
It turned out that the bodies of the volunteer soldiers had already frozen unconsciously, and they wanted to get up and attack the enemy, but they could not make a little strength in any way, and could only redden their eyes, roaring and struggling on the snow, cheering for the other soldiers. As soon as they saw that there were American troops falling next to them, they immediately bit their arms or legs fiercely to prevent them from getting up and attacking other comrades. They were frozen, but as soldiers, as an iron-boned Chinese man, they did not fall, they were fighting in their own way, even if it was to pay for their own lives.
Battle scenes
Under the strafing of the American machine guns, countless soldiers fell, but countless more soldiers rushed up, and each of them roared and ran forward, pounced on the American machine gunners like hungry wolves. Looking at such a desperate volunteer army, Smith, the general of the First Marine Division, finally understood what kind of unit he was facing, no matter how rudimentary the guns in their hands were, and he had already lost by the spirit of combat alone.
Ninth Corps
Seeing that the US First Marine Division gradually fell into the enemy's encirclement, Smith knew that there was no chance of attack, so he immediately adjusted the operational strategy, changing the original offensive state of the troops to a defensive state, relying on the cover of the army's peripheral tanks, the US army formed a temporary circular construction on the battlefield, opposing the volunteer army, constantly looking for the weak point of the volunteer army's firepower, trying to break through in one fell swoop.
American
But for this cooked duck, how could the volunteers let it fly away so easily? Volunteer soldiers began to spontaneously form death squads, tied with explosives, and rushed to the American camp one after another, launching an extremely powerful offensive against the American army. After a fierce battle, the famous polar bear regiment in the US army, the 31st Regiment of the US Seventh Division, was killed before and after two regimental commanders, the entire regiment was annihilated, and even the regimental flag was captured by the volunteers.
Seeing that the general trend of the war was over, the US First Marine Division hurriedly turned around and broke through to the south. In the Battle of Pratunam Bridge, the US First Marine Division, relying on its own strong logistical strength, built a large bridge for the passage of heavy equipment, escaping the encirclement and interception of our army. The American troops who escaped from death were completely afraid, in order to prevent another ambush, specially sent scouts to investigate in advance. Looking at the white snow, the American scouts crept slowly and crept, because he did not know when and from where a group of volunteer soldiers would rush out.
Suddenly, the scouts found that there were many volunteer soldiers lying neatly on the snow ahead, their eyes fixed on the front, their guns in hand, as if ready to attack at any moment. Seeing this, the scouts were frightened and crawled back to the troops, but strangely, until the American troops approached, the volunteer soldiers were still lying motionless on the ground, as if frozen. Some Us soldiers had the audacity to go forward to check it out, only to find that these people had already been frozen alive and frozen into ice sculptures of soldiers.
The image of a warrior in a film and television drama
The commander of the US army, who was interviewed by reporters after the war, said: "Until this moment, I understood that the Chinese army is impossible to defeat, they are like devils crawling out of hell, it is really terrible." In fact, not only the commander of the US army, all the US generals have suddenly woken up, even if they are armed to the teeth of the equipment, they can not win this war in any way, in the face of these soldiers who have become ice sculptures, the US military invariably took off their hats and saluted. As enemies, they had no way to show mercy to each other, but as soldiers, they deserved to respect the world's strongest Marines. At about 6 p.m., under the cover of large troops, the US First Marine Division, which had been flaunting its might, slipped out of the snow-capped mountains of the Chosin Lake area.
The ice sculpture company has forever become a nightmare for the US military, and it has also become a pain in the hearts of countless Chinese people, and they are real heroes. There has never been any good time in this world, just someone to carry the burden forward for us, and what we have to do is to remember history, remember heroes, forge ahead, and carry forward the spirit of our predecessors again!
Split stone cemetery on the shore of Lake Chosin
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