What exactly did we rely on to win the US military in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea?
Logically speaking, the more we eat and the warmer we dress, the better our physical strength and combat effectiveness, but why are our volunteer soldiers cold and hungry and finally able to defeat the US army?
The first six episodes of the TV series "Meritorious Service", "Noh Wen Neng Wu Li Yannian", explain these reasons well.
Li Yannian, born in November 1928, male, Han ethnicity, Changli people, Hebei, member of the Communist Party of China, recipient of the Order of the Republic. He joined the army in October 1945 and was formerly the deputy political commissar of unit 54251. After the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea began, Li Yannian's unit was incorporated into the Chinese Volunteer Army to fight in Korea.
A section in the first episode of "Meritorious Service" vividly reproduces the characteristics of Li Yannian's ability to write and fight, to speak the Tao, and to be good at doing the ideological work of officers and soldiers.
On October 8, 1951, Li Yannian, instructor of the 7th Company of the 3rd Battalion, 418th Regiment, 140th Division, 47th Army of the Volunteer Army, was ordered to counterattack the lost 346.6 Heights.
After 7 connected to the mission, a warrior named Little Anton escaped. After Xiao Anton was arrested, the company commander drew his gun in anger, but Li Yannian followed the good example and took advantage of the situation.
One of the passages is impressive, tearful and blood boiling!
Li Yannian said: "The reason is very simple and cruel, simple everyone understands that to live a peaceful and happy life, only to win the battle!" The cruel thing is that when peace comes, many of us can no longer see that happy scene and cannot be reunited with our relatives... But the motherland will remember us, our relatives will be grateful to us, it is we who let them live a peaceful and happy life, and we let the enemies know that our country is incomparably strong and cannot be bullied! ”
"Meritorious Service" uses only this one fragment to clearly show why the volunteer soldiers' will to fight is so firm.
In contrast, the U.S. military is not fighting to defend the country, so the will is not so firm.
XiHong recorded in the "Battlefield Diary of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea" that there was a soldier named Murata in the POW camp of the Volunteer Army at that time, holding a watch to calculate the time of his capture, he wrote: "Until 12:00 p.m. on June 17, 1951, a total of 197 days, equivalent to 4728 hours, 283680 minutes, 17020800 seconds, 20424960 heartbeat. "Through the words, we can all feel how homesick he is.
Many U.S. prisoners of war recall that most of the newly trained U.S. soldiers did not want to be combatants, but competed to be cooks and drivers. Some American soldiers have not yet gone to the battlefield, they learn how to pronounce "surrender" in advance, and learn how to accurately surrender to the volunteer army when they are cornered.
This contrast is evident.
Why are volunteer soldiers who nibble potatoes in the ice and snow better than american soldiers who eat a big meal?
Perhaps the basic connotation of the spirit of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea is the best answer: the patriotic spirit of putting the interests of the motherland and the people above all else and fighting for the dignity of the motherland and the nation; the spirit of revolutionary heroism of being brave and tenacious and forgetting death; the spirit of revolutionary optimism of always maintaining high morale despite hardships and hardships; the spirit of revolutionary loyalty in generously dedicating oneself to the mission entrusted by the motherland and the people; and the spirit of internationalism in striving for the cause of peace and justice for mankind.
As we enjoy today's peaceful and happy life, please do not forget that it was the heroic martyrs who made us live a peaceful and happy life, and the tenacious martyrs who let the enemy know that our country is incomparably strong and cannot be bullied!
Li Yannian was originally an ordinary person, and became a hero when the country needed it. Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger once lamented, "Chinese are always well protected by their bravest men." In fact, the bravest people are never "superheroes", but thousands of "ordinary heroes"!