<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="27" > is another year of National Day file, and major theaters are in full swing. Among them, "Chosin Lake", which was expected to "save the city", was finally released as scheduled. "Changjin Lake" is a film co-produced and directed by Chen Kaige, Xu Ke and Lin Chaoxian, starring Wu Jing and Yi Qianxi, duan Yihong specially starring, and Starring Zhu Yawen, Li Chen, Hu Jun and Han Dongjun. </h1>
Poster for the movie "Chosin Lake"
This film can be said to have attracted much attention from preparation to production to release. On the day of the release, there was no suspense to come out on top. As of 00:00 on October 1, the box office of the movie "Chosin Lake" has exceeded 300 million, and the "overwhelming" schedule of more than 50% on the first day also confirms the expectations of the market and audiences for this movie.
The second campaign of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea
The film is set in a battle in the Chosin Lake area during the Second Campaign of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea. The 100,000-strong army of the Ninth Corps of the Volunteer Army was ordered to enter the DPRK in an emergency and conceal itself, setting up a net of heaven and earth around Chosin Lake, and waiting for the US 1st Marine Division and the 31st Regiment of the 7th Army Division to enter the pocket array to the north. The Volunteers originally wanted to eat the US 1st Marine Division in one go, but obviously this goal was a bit difficult, so the 9th Corps adjusted its psychological expectations, attacked and ate the emerging American Polar Bear Regiment, and hit the morale of the US army hard.
On the night of November 27, 1950, on the east bank of Chosin Lake, the Volunteer Army and the Polar Bear Regiment engaged in a fierce street battle. In addition to its own strength, the Polar Bear Regiment was equipped with the 57th Field Artillery Battalion and a tank company, as well as the 1st Battalion of the 32nd Regiment led by Lieutenant Colonel Fiss. When the volunteers launched the charge, Lieutenant Colonel Feith had just fallen asleep when he was awakened by the sound of gunfire, and he asked the adjutant: Go and see, is the South Korean army beating itself again!? Hitting yourself is the norm for the U.N. military, which in U.S. military telegraph parlance is called "Blue on blue," meaning being mistakenly hit by friendly forces. In the Battle of Chosin Lake, South Korean soldiers liked to huddle in scattered pits and shoot at the slightest movement. Even if the U.S. military officers saw the South Korean soldiers standing guard asleep in the scattered pit, they did not dare to wake them up with their feet, for fear that they would shoot indiscriminately in terror and kill themselves.
The volunteers were encircling and annihilating the enemy
During the Battle of Chosin Lake, obscurity seemed to haunt the Polar Bear Regiment, and the regimental commander McLean did not expect the volunteers to touch his command post, and when he heard the movement, he came out to shout, and as soon as he appeared, he was killed. Lieutenant Colonel Feith of the 32nd Regiment became the acting commander of the Polar Bear Regiment, and he called for air supplies, but the parachute of the airdrop bag failed to open, killing a South Korean soldier. He called on the plane to throw napalm bombs at the volunteers, but the petrol bombs fell on the American soldiers, causing a ghostly wolf howl. Even more tragically, twenty days after the Polar Bear Regiment was annihilated, Lieutenant General Walker, commander of the U.S. 8th Army, was on the way to defeat and retreat, and his jeep collided with a fleeing South Korean truck and died on the spot. An hour before his death, Walker was still joking with the people around him in the car: I think the most incredible thing is that people like Patton actually died in traffic accidents.
What a "Blue on blue" after another!
Lieutenant General Walker, commander of the U.S. 8th Army
The unfortunate polar bear regiment panicked during the breakout, and the mechanized troops tried to walk the frozen surface of Chosin Lake, but the ice collapsed violently, and the American troops in the car fell into the lake and froze to death. Even Lieutenant Colonel Fiss himself was seriously injured by a grenade during the breakout and died in the car soon after. Because Feith's body was not directly found, Lieutenant Colonel Feith was also included in the "missing" list by the U.S. military. It was not until 2013, when the United States and South Korea cooperated to excavate the remains of the U.S. military in the Korean War, and DNA comparison confirmed his death.
In this battle, the volunteers boldly interspersed the attack and used the night raid to destroy the regimental headquarters of the "Polar Bear Regiment". This is a bit like the situation in the Liberation War, when the Northeast Field Army interspersed into the Hu family shack and took down Liao Yaoxiang's command post in one fell swoop. At that time, Western experts said: "This is the 'divine pen' sent by the 'Hand of God' to the Higashino troops, and the loss of the polar bear regiment in the Battle of Chosin Lake is also a stroke of God."
The flag of the "Polar Bear Regiment" captured by our volunteers
While cleaning up the battlefield, Zhang Jiqing, the commander of the communications squad of the 3rd Battalion of the 239th Regiment, picked up a piece of blue cloth of one square meter, and in the center of the blue cloth was an eagle with wings spread, and the ribbon held in the eagle's mouth was embroidered with Latin, meaning "for the sake of the country", and there was a white polar bear figure above the eagle, and the ribbon below the eagle was written with the unit number "31st Infantry Regiment". Zhang Jiqing saw that this piece of cloth was full of bells and whistles, and there was no practical use, so he used it as a bag, and he remembered that the cooking squad leader of the battalion headquarters before the war had given him a special task, saying, 'When you are fighting, find me a piece of cloth, I will steam steamed steamed buns', fortunately, the translator Liu Guangrui recognized this flag and handed it over to the regimental headquarters; at present, this flag is preserved in the Military Museum of the Chinese Revolution and is listed as a national-level protected cultural relic. The entire regiment was destroyed, the regimental flag was surrendered, and the regimental commander was killed, which was unique in the history of the US military, and the annihilation of the Polar Bear Regiment was the first time in the history of our army that it was formed to annihilate a reinforced regiment of the US army.
Captured U.S. troops
So, why is the 31st Regiment of the 7th Infantry Division of the U.S. Army called the Polar Bear Regiment? Some sources say that the Polar Bear Regiment successfully invaded Russia's Siberia in World War I and was awarded the title of Polar Bear Regiment by US President Wilson. Such a narrative is easy to cause ambiguity, because in the First World War, the United States and Russia were Allies and allies, how could the US military send troops to attack the ally's Siberia?
In fact, the polar bear regiment's visit to Siberia was an intervention by the United States after the October Revolution in Russia. After the outbreak of the October Revolution, the Tsarist regime was overthrown, the Soviet Union announced its withdrawal from the Allies, and the United States and Britain were very dissatisfied with the withdrawal of Soviet Russia from the war, because this would allow Germany to draw troops from the Eastern Front to infiltrate western Europe, so the Allies were ready to send troops to intervene in the Soviet power.
Tsarist army in World War I
In July 1918, U.S. President Wilson agreed to send U.S. troops to intervene in the Russian Revolution, with 5,000 U.S. troops forming the North Russian Expeditionary Force and 7,000 U.S. troops forming the Siberian Expeditionary Force. There is also a title called the Polar Bear Expeditionary Force, which is composed of the 339th Infantry Regiment of the US Army, because most of them are from Michigan, so military commanders think they can cope with extreme weather, and this force is deployed near the port city of Arkhangir under the Arctic Circle, so they call themselves polar bear expeditions. Some of the soldiers of the 339th Regiment were buried in a white church near Detroit, and a white statue of a polar bear was erected near the cemetery. Due to the arrival of the cold current, the morale of the American troops in the port was low. General Graves, commander of the U.S. Siberian Expeditionary Force, has also avoided involvement in the war. Before Graves left the United States, War Secretary Newton Baker personally handed him a copy of Wilson's memorandum of understanding about the task, saying: Be careful of the steps, you will walk on eggs filled with bombs.
The American Siberian Expeditionary Force in World War I
In fact, the Siberian Expeditionary Force, where the U.S. 31st Regiment is located, has another mission, which is to keep a close eye on Japan's growing military presence here in order to safeguard U.S. interests in the Far East. The U.S. Expeditionary Force was also unprepared for the long and cold winter in Russia, and many soldiers were frostbitten and amputated.
In any case, in this military operation, the 31st Regiment received a medal of honor and 15 outstanding service crosses, and the 27th and 31st regiments were nicknamed Wolf Ring and polar bears.
American troops often had many formal or informal nicknames, such as the honorary title of the Seventh Infantry Regiment as cotton baler, which was derived from the regiment's defense of the chest wall made of cotton bales in the Battle of New Orleans in 1812 to block the british attack. During World War II, the Polar Bear Regiment participated with the U.S. 7th Division in the Battles of the Aleutian Islands, marshall Islands, and Okinawa in the Pacific Theater. Outstanding combat achievements, well-equipped, equipped with a tank company, artillery company and other powerful configurations. At the end of June 1919, the army was drawn to France, and when they got there, most people referred to themselves as polar bears to commemorate the harsh torture they endured in the winter of northern Russia.
The Battle of Chosin Lake was fought at The Battle of Xinxingli
However, in the Battle of Chosin Lake, the 31st Regiment (31RCT) of the 31st Regiment (31RCT) based on the 31st Regiment was annihilated by the 7th Infantry Division of the US Army. This was because the units of the U.S. 7th Infantry Division at that time were too dispersed in the Chosin Lake area, and had to form the 31st Regiment Detachment of the 31st Regiment, the 31st Battalion of the 31st Regiment (missing the E Company, replaced by the 1st Battalion B Company), the 1st Battalion of the 32nd Regiment, the 57th Field Artillery Battalion (missing C Company, replaced by the D Company of the 15th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Battalion), and the heavy mortar company and tank company of the 31st Regiment, all of which were under the command of Colonel Alan McLean, the commander of the 31st Regiment. It was tasked with combat operations on the eastern shore of Lake Chosin. The detachment of the 31st Regiment consisted of a total of 3 infantry battalions, 1 artillery battalion, 1 heavy mortar company, and 1 tank company, with a total strength of 3288 men (including 2773 American troops and 515 ROK troops). At this time, the 1st Battalion of the 31st Regiment was still far east of Chosin Lake along the coast to the Huishan area, and did not enter the Chosin Lake area. Some sources also refer to the 31st Regiment detachment as the Reinforcement Regiment, which is obviously even more wrong, because at that time the standard establishment of an infantry regiment in the US Army was 3 infantry battalions, 1 artillery battalion and the regiment's direct subordinate units, with a total strength of 3781 people, 500 more than the 31st Regiment detachment. If it is a regimental combat group that strengthens the nature of a regiment, it is a temporary increase in the number of subordinate units on the basis of the original infantry regiment, and the strength of the troops will usually reach about 5,000 people.
The flag of the "White Tiger Regiment" captured by the Volunteers
As mentioned earlier, the volunteers captured the regimental flag of the Polar Bear Regiment, and it was the American army that suffered humiliation. In the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, the Volunteer Army also captured another regimental flag, that is, the White Tiger Regimental Flag of the South Korean Army. The White Tiger Regiment was the first regiment in the capital of South Korea, but it was an ace regiment that became famous in the battle of The Yangyang garrison north of the 38th Parallel. At that time, South Korean President Syngman Rhee personally awarded the Tiger Head Flag, and since then it has been named the White Tiger Regiment.
Syngman Rhee
South Koreans revere the tiger, and many units use this as a title, such as the title of the 60th Division is the Flying Tiger Unit, the 36th Division is called the Rising White Tiger Unit, and the Capital Division is called the Tiger Unit. However, during the Battle of Jincheng, this White Tiger Regiment was beaten into a dough by the volunteer army.
After the Battle of Jincheng began, the White Tiger Regiment was defeated, and when advancing toward the White Tiger Regiment headquarters, the Volunteer Army considered that the action of the large troops was easy to expose the target, so 11 volunteers and two liaison officers of the People's Army formed a reconnaissance detachment, under the leadership of deputy platoon leader Yang Yucai, disguised as the regimental headquarters of the South Korean Army directly into the alarming White Tiger Regiment.
Yang Yucai
Because Yang Yucai is tall and has a big nose, he plays the role of an adviser to the US military.
While passing through the enemy blockade area, Yang Yu found that there was an extra tail behind the team, and it turned out that it was a South Korean soldier with the wrong troops. From his mouth, he asked that the Rok army's password for this evening was "Gulen-Oba" (meaning "cloud hail"), and Yang Yucai used this password to intersperse all the way, destroying the regimental headquarters of the White Tiger Regiment in one fell swoop and killing the leader of the Mecha Regiment.
"Surprise Attack on the White Tiger Regiment" squad
Later, the story of the surprise attack on the White Tiger Troupe was adapted to a scene and became a popular Peking Opera model play. In the model play, Yan Weicai's prototype is the first-class combat hero Yang Yucai.
In the film of the Surprise Attack on the White Tiger Regiment, there is also an actor who plays Kim Dae-yong, a reconnaissance soldier of the Korean People's Army, who was still unknown at the time, but later shined, that is, the professional Hu Xie Weicai who played General Su Yu.
General Su Yu plays Xie Weicai