Chief reporter of Jimu News Rong Yu Jimu News reporter Chen Qian
Correspondent Liu Yujie
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"The seventh interspersed company should be 157 people, and the actual number is 1 person!" On February 10, the movie "Chosin Lake's Water gate Bridge" broke through the 30 mark at the box office, and this line in the film cruelly told the tragic ending of the seven companies of warriors played by Wu Jing and others in the film.
This tragedy exists in the movie, but also comes from reality, which is a heroic epic that every Chinese should remember, and it is also the heartache memory of the elderly Li Dongde, who witnessed the Battle of Chosin Lake.
Recently, a Jimu news reporter walked into the Recuperation Center for the First Retired Cadres of the Hubei Provincial Military Region in Wuhan and asked the 90-year-old Li Dongde to recall the magnificent scene when he participated in the Battle of Changjin Lake. When the old man saw the water gate bridge data map displayed by the reporter, he immediately said: "There is a reservoir here, and we were stationed on the south side of it at that time." ”
Gunshots are heard
I knew it was time to go to war
As for the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, most Chinese people may be more familiar with the western front war depicted in the movie "Shangganling". It was not until the movie "Chosin Lake" debuted in the National Day file last year that many people realized the cruel combat environment faced by the troops on the Eastern Front.
In the winter of 1950, Li Dongde, a veteran of Henan who had performed well in the Battle of Huaihai and other battles, boarded a train bound for Korea as a guard of the 180th Regiment headquarters of the 60th Division of the 20th Army of the 9th Corps. But until the moment the train left, Li Dongde and his comrades did not know where the destination of the trip was and what everyone was facing.
"At that time, the troops came to mobilize, said that they wanted to go out for training, let everyone go lightly, and waited until they got on the train to announce that they were going to the northeast." Along the way, everyone was quiet in the carriage, and it was strictly forbidden to make noise, until it was almost time to reach the Yalu River Bridge, and when we heard the sound of gunfire, we veterans realized that this was going to be a war. This scene in Li Dongde's recollection is exactly a plot after the opening artistic creation of the movie "Chosin Lake".
When he arrived in North Korea, Li Dongde and his comrades-in-arms were thinly dressed, there was not enough cold equipment at all, and the dry food they carried was only a small amount of fried soybeans, "At that time, let us go to collect cotton clothes, but everyone wanted to go into battle lightly and quickly enter the battle, so many people did not lead, so they went to the Yalu River Bridge." ”
Li Dongde still remembers that when the large troops crossed the bridge, they were greeted by many North Koreans who had taken refuge, "They knew that we were going to help, so they all took the initiative to give way to us and were very enthusiastic about us." ”
After arriving at the Area of Huangcaoling at the southern end of Chosin Lake, Li Dongde's team received the order to "only encircle and not fight", "We occupied a high ground on the edge of the cliff, opposite the Americans, and our superiors demanded that we surround the enemy and not allow them to run." Because there is war going on the Western Front, we can neither let these Americans escape nor let them come to their aid. ”
Li Dongde recalled that at that time, he and his comrades-in-arms were particularly anxious, always wanting to go out and fight with the enemy, and the enemy was also very anxious, often sending planes to bomb, "As soon as they blew up, we moved to the woods, and when the plane left, we would come back." ”
Comrades-in-arms frozen into "ice sculptures"
He was still with a gun at the time of his death
In Li Dongde's view, in the Battle of Chosin Lake, the soldiers of the Chinese Volunteer Army fully embodied the spirit of "less steel and more gas". "The enemy has tanks and planes, we only have rifles and grenades, whether it is weapons and equipment or logistical supplies, we can't compare with the enemy." We didn't eat anything for 24 days, not even fried noodles, just some fried soybeans. I was a guard, and I always thought about leaving a little food for the chief, so the soybeans were eaten in a few pieces. ”
In addition to the lack of rations, the cold climate of the Chosin Lake area as low as minus 40 degrees Celsius also made Li Dongde unforgettable. "At the top of the hill where we were stationed, there was a company of warriors in ambush, because it was so cold that some of the soldiers were frozen into ice sculptures. But until the moment of death, they still maintained the posture of holding their guns to the enemy. ”
Li Dongde said that he was very lucky, he seriously frostbitten two lower legs in the process of ambushing the enemy, and once faced the danger of amputation, fortunately he "eased" with the help of doctors, and after several months of injuries, he resolutely returned to the front line of battle.
Lee Dong-tak remembers that when he first arrived in Korea in 1950, he and his comrades-in-arms made up a slip of the tongue: "After 24 days of hard struggle, north Korea was successfully liberated." "But unexpectedly, he finally fought in North Korea for 3 years, and he almost stayed in that land forever."
"I remember it was in the fifth battle, we were blocking the enemy, a cannon bombarded, shrapnel went straight into my head, knocked me unconscious by the river. Fortunately, I was lying unconscious, and if I had been leaning over in the water, I would have died there. The reporter saw that there is still a deep wound near Li Dongde's left temple, according to him, he did not operate to remove the shrapnel until 3 years ago, "The doctor said that if the shrapnel position is down, I will be blind; a little bit towards the brain, I will die." ”
When entering Lake Chosin
Be prepared for sacrifice
In the movie "The Watergate Bridge of Chosin Lake", the soldiers of the Seventh Interspersed Company played by Wu Jing and Yi Yanqianxi bombed the Watergate Bridge three times, using their lives to intercept the withdrawal of american troops. According to the data, the 7th Company of the 3rd Battalion, 240th Regiment, 80th Division, 9th Corps, 27th Army, 9th Corps of the Chinese Volunteer Army, is one of the prototypes of the troops that undertook this task.
When the reporter showed the old man Li Dongde the information picture of the Watergate Bridge, he immediately recognized the fortress land. Located south of the Huangcao Mountains, the Pratunam Bridge is not a natural bridge, but the site of a dam. The water of Chosin Lake is channeled downstream through several huge water pipes of the dam to generate electricity, and the Shuimun Bridge is the only passage above the dam that allows cars to pass, and it is also a necessary place for the US military to retreat, if it is blown up, the US tanks, cars and other mechanized equipment will have no way out.
Li Dongde's company was stationed on the south side of the Watergate Bridge at that time, and although he did not undertake the task of blowing up the bridge, he was also well aware of the difficult and cruel nature of this task. In fact, from the moment he entered the Chosin Lake area, Li Dongde was ready to sacrifice, "Even if I finally fight with the enemy face to face, I will change one by one, and it is absolutely impossible to be a prisoner." This is clear, I'm ready to sacrifice there. Fortunately, Li Dongde finally returned to the motherland alive.
Li Dongde told reporters that he usually did not dare to recall the details of the battles in North Korea in those years, and he could not help but shed tears when he thought about it, "I can't think backwards, I can only look forward." When I look back and think about those things, my heart is really uncomfortable. ”
Why did the Volunteers win the battle when the equipment conditions were so disparate? Li Dongde's biggest feeling is that Chinese willpower is unmatched, "What we think in our minds is to defend the country, we must defeat the enemy, we don't think about anything else, and we are ready to sacrifice at any time." We have won the battle by faith, and the enemy cannot compare with us ideologically. ”
Now is the best of times, as you wish. Li Dongde, who had been teaching at a military academy all his life and had been retiring, told reporters that if there was an afterlife, he was still willing to be a Chinese soldier and guard this hard-won era of peace.
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