In 1992, an overseas Chinese wrote in World Military that the second battle forced the enemy to turn to defense and thus turned the tide of the Korean War. At the same time, it is hoped that national heroes such as Song Shilun and Liang Xingchu and their soldiers will be inscribed and set up.
The Chinese also said: This is the first time in modern China that we have defeated a Western power by our own strength. After this war Chinese stood up completely. We did lose during the Opium War, but now we are victorious. The Battle of Qingchang (Battle of Chosin Lake) is something that each of our descendants must be proud of.
How fierce the Battle of Chosin Lake was fought, He Chuwu and other three people wrote "Blood Battle of Chosin Lake" summarized the casualty data of the Ninth Corps: 19,202 combat casualties, frostbite and 29,854 casualties, of which more than 1,000 died. More than 3,000 people died due to frostbite and too late treatment, and the total number of attritions was 32.1% of the total number of corps.
The end result of this war was that the US Tenth Army suffered a major blow, staged a total rout, and completely failed to achieve the strategic intentions of the United States. However, Chinese basically achieved the goal of the battle, and they used the blood of countless martyrs to make the Chinese people stand on top of the world again.
On December 17, General Song Shilun, who was still in Korea, received a telegram from the Central Committee of the Party, which read: Your operations have accomplished a huge strategic task under very difficult circumstances. We miss you so much that you overcame the cold weather, the lack of supplies, and the attrition of more than forty thousand men in the fierce fighting.
Judging from the telegrams sent by the Central Committee to the Ninth Corps, no one criticized the Ninth Corps for suffering so many frostbite and attrition, nor did they mention what kind of responsibilities the commander Song Shilun should bear. The founding generals of new China knew very well that the situation on the battlefield was not subject to the will of the people. After all, we have just been established, and there is no emergency mobilization mechanism. The Ninth Corps hastily entered The DPRK, and it was difficult to avoid such a large-scale non-combat attrition.
Although the central authorities spoke highly of Song Shilun and the Ninth Corps, later experts also said that in the Battle of Chosin Lake, Song Shilun resolutely handled the difficult and difficult situation, completed surprising strategic tasks, showed extremely responsible revolutionary concepts, and was an outstanding senior commander. However, General Song Shilun has been grumpy because of the large number of non-combat attritions at the Battle of Chosin Lake.
If we can wait a little longer in Shandong, if we can stay a little longer in the northeast, if we give full play to our expertise in using everyone's brains and do everything we can to buy winter clothes, will the outcome of this war become a different look? If one of these became a reality, how many fewer people would we sacrifice? It's just a pity that there are no ifs in this world. Because this war is not what we want to fight, it is imposed on us by others, we have no choice.
At the end of "Blood Battle of Chosin Lake", it is recorded that one day in September 1952, when General Song Shilun was about to return home from the Yalu River, he bent down and took off his hat facing the direction of Chosin Lake, and bowed 90 degrees deeply to the comrades he knew and his comrades who were buried there. When he looked up again, the people around him found that the iron-blooded general's eyes were already filled with tears.
Song Shilun once said this: The bloody battle of Changjin Lake is a history that we will always remember, because it is the glory of the Chinese nation. But do we really remember? On September 17, 1991, General Song Shilun transformed into a star in the sky and continued to guard this great China!
The "Bloody Battle of Chosin Lake" by military expert He Chuwu interviewed 28 veterans of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, all of whom were witnesses of the Battle of Chosin Lake. Now these people have all died, following our General Song Shilun. But their heroic souls are still there, their glory lives on forever, everything is in "Blood Battle Chosin Lake", click on the link below to buy.
Blood Battle of Chosin Lake Korean War Series
