Americans are really mechanized and defeated. Mechanization freed them from the pursuit of Chinese infantry, but excessive mechanization directly buried the entire polar bear regiment.
According to the "Blood Battle of Chosin Lake", on November 30, the general Tao Yong led the 80th Division, the main force of the 81st Division and all the artillery of the 27th Army launched a fierce attack on Xinxingli, where the 31st Regiment was entrenched. The fighters screamed forward with the only heavy weapon grenade, breaking through the enemy tank defense circle and engaging the American short soldiers.
By the afternoon, Colonel McLean, the leader of the US 31st Regiment, knew that the trend was gone, and the previous self-confidence had vanished. He hoped to take more than ten tanks as the guide and break through to the south under the cover of more than forty fighters. By this time the 80th and 81st Divisions had also reached the end of their crossbows, and some regiments had only a few dozen men left, but they still braved the bombardment from the sky and the ground to continue to fight, and Colonel McClawn was killed that afternoon.
Here appeared the fifth company of one of the three ice sculpture companies of the Volunteer Army, which was the unit of the 240th Regiment of the 80th Division. The fifth company was firmly suppressed by the enemy's strong fire in the attack, and when the charge was sounded again, none of the whole company stood up, and they were all frozen to death on the position. It was later discovered that they were all armed with weapons in a posture of preparing to charge, and none of them had their bodies thrown back, not even their necks back. Only one messenger and one fallen soldier survived in their company.
Although experts agree that two legs cannot run on four wheels, too many wheels also have its problems. The Americans never imagined that it would be their own wheels that would eventually bury him. At that time, Chosin Lake had just unsealed and could not run cars, but the cars of the 31st Regiment were full of people, and the pressure was too great, that is, the pressure we said was too strong, which directly led to the collapse of the lake, so a large number of American soldiers happily went down to chat with Wang Ba.
This is nothing more than natural anger, followed by human resentment. The soldiers of the 31st Regiment ran to the Houpuli area and then encountered an ambush by the first battalion of the 22nd Regiment of the 81st Division, where they finally greeted the final apocalypse of the 31st Regiment, including Lieutenant Colonel Feith, who took over as the regimental commander, where our army was killed.
From this moment on, the 31st Infantry Regiment of the United States can be said to be completely over. The battle wiped out 3,191 enemy men and captured 384 enemy men. According to U.S. military history, only more than a thousand people escaped back to the South alive.
Wait a minute, let's do the math. According to this casualty data, the 31st Infantry Regiment has a full 5,000 people, how is this possible? Is it a reinforcement regiment? Here "Blood Battle of Chosin Lake" is explained in this way.
The U.S. 31st Infantry Regiment was not a simple team, but a regimental combat team. It consisted of the 1st Regiment of the 31st Regiment, the 1st Battalion of the 342nd Regiment of the 3rd Battalion and the 57th Artillery Battalion of the Division. These units are mainly the 31st Regiment, so they are called the 31st Regimental Combat Team. Don't think that this is just a regiment of more than a thousand people, which is almost the same as half of our division.
Even the regimental flag of the 31st regiment was captured by us, and we almost threw it into the pot by the old leader of the cooking class as a steamed bun. After the news of the collapse of the 31st Regiment reached The ear of General Peng, General Peng was overjoyed and ordered to commend the Ninth Corps and the 27th Army, and the battle fought by Song Shilun really played the prestige of the volunteer army.
46 years later, the soldiers who had grown into the 27th Group Army came to the scene of the Jiujiang Blockade Breach, and they used the steel-wood combination dam to successfully block the breach, creating a feat in the history of the world's flood resistance. These officers and soldiers who fought and killed in the flood inherited the tenacious spirit of their ancestors and became a typical picture in countless film and television works.
The "Blood Battle of Chosin Lake" written by military expert He Chuwu shows everything about the Battle of Chosin Lake in a detailed way. This is a battle that neither China nor the United States wants to mention, because the fight is too fierce. The book refers to a large number of materials and makes a detailed analysis of the composition of Sino-US preparations, logistical support, and strategic planning and deployment. It is the most detailed documentary work on the Battle of Chosin Lake, and can be purchased by clicking on the link below.
Blood Battle of Chosin Lake Korean War Series
