Chosin Lake was a great and tragic battle. This hard-won victory was forged by the blood and faith of every volunteer soldier. Many films have been made about the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, but the movie "Chosin Lake" is the first film about the Battle of Chosin Lake of the Volunteer Army. This film is bound to become a new industry benchmark.
The best part of the film is that all the extras are veterans, have undergone strict military training, and hundreds of veterans have participated in the performance. Moreover, in the severe cold of minus 20 degrees, the training was carried out for half a year in accordance with the techniques and tactics of the People's Liberation Army that year.
All the techniques and tactics are strictly trained according to the 50 years of volunteer army techniques and tactics, and almost perfectly restore the volunteer soldiers of that year, which can be seen as a military teaching film. Because everyone knows that each of them is going to play a volunteer soldier, the recognized "light infantry peak", this burden is too heavy, this mission is too heavy.
Judging from the battle scenes, the movie Chosin Lake is the best looking. First, in the battle of Xinxingli, for the first time in the movie, the complete US army circular position was shown. A very layered defense system, in the middle of the circular position, there are also tanks, artillery and infantry ready to counterattack.
Second, around the circular positions were dense points of machine gun fire. In the film, the Volunteers encounter a storm of machine gun bullets as they attack Xinxingli. This is no exaggeration! In the real Xinxingli battle, there were two telephone poles on the position of the 1st Battalion of the 238th Regiment of the Volunteer Army, and after the battle, the soldiers counted and left more than 30 machine gun bullet holes on it. You can imagine the intensity of U.S. machine gun fire.
Third, how, then, did our volunteers break through such a dense machine-gun firepower? This is another first time, the first time that a domestic film truly reflects the technical and tactical combat method of the 60 mm mortar. Five mortars quickly seized positions and bombarded the U.S. machine gun fire points.
Fourth, for the first time in the film, the US tank counterattack tactics appear. Volunteer soldiers engaged in hand-to-hand combat with tanks, hitting tanks with grenades and stuffing grenades into tank cockpits and into tank tracks. Use light weapons to fight tankers for life and death.
Fighting in the real Xinxing, the 240th Volunteer Regiment, which blocked the american retreat, engaged 12 American tanks in a fierce short-term battle. The Volunteers used discarded American vehicles to form barricades, forcing American tanks to slow down. At this time, a sudden attack was launched, and a rocket launcher was used at a distance of more than ten meters to attack the US tanks.
At the same time, the abandoned cars of the US military were ignited, and the thick black smoke blocked the observation field of the US military. Forced the U.S. army to open the tank hatch to observe the advance. It was at this time that the volunteers rushed into the tank with grenades and stuffed them into the tanks.
Fifth, for the first time in our films, there was an aerial counterattack by the US military against the attacking troops of the Volunteer Army. The entire valley was covered with U.S. warplane machine guns, bombs, and napalm. And our thousands of volunteer soldiers didn't have even an anti-aircraft gun.
In the real emerging battle, the main force invested by the US military is the F-84 and F-86 fighters, which is to bully us without anti-aircraft weapons. They all flew very low, and a blast was a large piece.
Sixth, in the film of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, the real white-knife hand-to-hand combat is embodied, in a small space, the volunteer soldiers hold bayonets, hold daggers, submachine guns and AMERICAN bayonets in a bloody battle. Some say the scene is too bloody, but the real battle is even bloodier than this.
In real-life Xinxingli battles, many volunteer soldiers who had run out of ammunition used bayonets and shovels to engage in close combat with the Americans. In the cold of the night, use sharp sapper shovels to cut off the heads of your enemies. Another soldier named Wang Weiji rushed directly into the hidden room of the US army with a bundle of cluster grenades, pulled the cluster grenade, and died with the enemy.
In combat, because the U.S. military has air superiority. The volunteers' ammunition replenishment was extremely inadequate, especially the supply of artillery shells, so that the volunteers could not take advantage of the condescending and favorable situation to carry out artillery suppression and attack under the condition of controlling the surrounding highlands, which greatly increased the difficulty of combat.
Finally, I would like to say that some people say that in the battle of attacking Xinxing in the movie, the volunteer army is too dense, which is a tactic of the sea of people, and does not reflect the combat style of the three-three system.
In fact, it is not necessary to have a three-three system at all times, when opening the gap in the enemy's defense line. That is, in the shortest possible time, the maximum number of troops should be invested to rush into the enemy's position. Then form the depth of each combat group in all directions to develop.
At the same time, in the real Xinxing, the volunteers lacked logistics and only 5 minutes of artillery cover, so it was necessary to let the most troops burst through the gap in the shortest possible time. After entering the interior of the US ring position, various combat groups will be launched to fight.
At the same time, the 238th Regiment and the 239th Regiment were put into battle that day, and the American artillery fire was too strong, and many telephone lines were blown off, and they could only rely on human communication. The Volunteers lacked effective communications, so many units fought on their own, striking violently at the sight of an opportunity. The charge horn sounded, and wherever the gunshots rang, they rushed to wherever they went.
Realistically speaking, the movie "Chosin Lake" is the best war movie in recent years. Created a lot of domestic war movies for the first time, and 3 hours of movies, the whole process of no urine point, has been nervous for 3 hours! When the stormtrooper sounded in the middle of the night at Chosin Lake, my heart was lifted.
The famous American journalist David Haberstam interviewed U.S. army veterans in the documentary book "The Coldest Winter". A veteran of the US army said: In the icy North Korea, the real fear of US soldiers is a weapon that has never been seen before, because as soon as it is blown, the Chinese volunteer soldiers will charge like crazy.
This scene was almost perfectly recreated in the movie "Chosin Lake". Such an excellent movie is worth every one of us Chinese go into the theater to watch it repeatedly.