Recently, the "Chosin Lake" and "Pratunam Bridge" series of films that have attracted great attention have attracted great attention. The tragedy of the Korean War, which has passed for several decades, has been brought to the screen, and people now have experienced the hardships of fighting in north Korea and the hard-won victory.
When it was seen that the volunteer army could only be passively beaten under the suppression of the enemy's powerful firepower, and countless casualties were killed or wounded, it also made countless people feel uneasy. Was the gap between China's military strength and that of the United States really so great at that time? Don't we even have a decent plane? Doesn't it mean that the Soviet Union also participated in the Korean War? Why is there no Soviet figure in the whole movie? As the big socialist brother at that time, what was he doing?
Before China mobilized its forces to aid North Korea, china and the Soviet Union had reached an agreement on issues related to the Korean War, with China sending troops to aid North Korea with the participation of the army in the war, while the Soviet Union mobilized its powerful air power in the rear to provide air supremacy and fire support for the volunteers. However, the actual trend is contrary to the consultation, the central government urgently mobilized 400,000 volunteer troops to cross the river into the DPRK, while the Soviet Air Force was delayed in arriving, resulting in the volunteer army directly facing the steel torrent of the US army with flesh and blood. Under the premise of insufficient equipment and no air force support, our volunteer soldiers could only be passively beaten and watched the enemy planes fly overhead arrogantly.
In September 1950, under the leadership of the famous American general MacArthur, the United Nations army launched the Inchon landing, which destroyed the Korean People's Army and instantly rescued South Korea, which was in danger of being destroyed. As the war progressed, the North Korean forces were gradually defeated, and even lost the capital Pyongyang for a time. At the critical juncture, Kim Il Sung urgently appealed to the mainland and the Soviet Union for help. At that time, New China had just been founded, and it was very difficult at home, and the damage to national strength by continuing to participate in large-scale wars was enormous, but the lips were cold, and if Korea was occupied by the US military, it would bring new China a more severe international situation.
In this regard, the CPC Central Committee decided to urgently send troops into the DPRK to fight, and when the volunteer army first arrived in Korea, it gave the UN army a head-on blow on the battlefield, repelling the UN army from the Yalu River to the south of the Cheongcheon River, gradually stabilizing the situation in Korea, but also paying a tragic price of nearly 10,000 sacrifices. Completely shattered MacArthur's vision of a quick war. After dispelling the illusion of occupying all of Korea before Thanksgiving, the United Nations army changed its eager thinking of war, and the pressure on the volunteer army on the frontal battlefield increased sharply.
The winter of that year was very harsh, because there was no air superiority, the supply line of the Volunteer Army was often blown up by the American Army, and in the case of extreme shortage of supplies, in order to consolidate the gains of the war, the Volunteer Army launched a second large-scale campaign. The Battle of Chosin Lake depicted in the film is part of the second large-scale battle. In the case of completely losing air supremacy and far inferior to the enemy's weapons and equipment on the ground, the Ninth Corps mobilized 150,000 troops and fought to the death of about 100,000 enemy people for more than 20 days in the severe cold of minus 30-40 degrees. And relying on the tenacious will to fight and the spirit of not being afraid of sacrifice, he repelled the most elite ace unit of the US army, the Tenth Army.
According to post-war statistics, the Ninth Corps suffered as many as 50,000 casualties in this battle, of which the non-combat attrition due to weather reasons reached a staggering 30,000. From this, we can imagine how harsh the combat environment was at that time. Although the Volunteers did not have Soviet weapons support, they were far from the United Nations army in terms of equipment level and heavy firepower configuration, but they still gave the enemy the enemy a head-on blow with their amazing will to fight. The Thirty-eighth Army relied on its tenacious will to attack 70 kilometers overnight, preemptively occupying Sanshouli and delaying the Eighth Army on the battlefield like a nail.
The victory at the Battle of Chosin Lake meant that all the United Nations troops were expelled from northeast Korea, and the War I reversed the war situation in Korea and became an inflection point on the Korean battlefield. This battle of great disparities shocked the world. Stalin saw the volunteers' will to fight and the dawn of victory in the war from the victory at the Battle of Chosin Lake, which prompted him to decide not to wait and see, and quickly mobilized his air force to join the Korean battlefield, hoping to achieve victory as quickly as possible.
After the Soviet Air Force joined, air supremacy gradually tilted toward our side, and at the beginning of the war, it was one-sided and bombed indiscriminately, and it appeared less and less. Under the attack of the Soviet Air Force, the United States lost thousands of warplanes, and in the northwestern part of the mainland, along the Border with North Korea, it formed a "MiG Corridor" that made the US Air Force talk about it. The logistical supplies of the Volunteer Army were also fully delivered to the soldiers on the front line. Since the Soviet Union did not publicly declare its entry into the Korean War, the Soviet MiG fighter jets were painted with Volunteer Fighters before being sent to the Korean Battlefield.
Summary:
Decades have passed, the smoke of war on the battlefield has been blown away, and the volunteer soldiers who participated in the war are dying of old age, but we still cannot forget the great sacrifices made by the revolutionary martyrs for today's peaceful situation. As the great man said, "Peace is to be fought, not from heaven."