On April 22, 1951, Peng Dehuai decided to launch the Fifth Campaign to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea in accordance with the instructions of the Central Committee. At this time, the situation was very favorable to the volunteer army, because at this time, our army, whether it was equipment or morale, was raised by a notch compared with before, so many people felt that the situation was very good.
But in the end, the outcome of this battle was not satisfactory, and Wang Jinshan, who had just led troops into Korea to participate in the war, also planted a big heel in this battle.
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In March 1951, Wang Jinshan led the troops into the Korean War as the deputy commander of the Third Army, Wang Jinshan was a fierce general, known as "Wang Tiger", who was famous for daring to fight hard battles, and he had always been a subordinate of Liu Bocheng, who had long been taught by Liu Bocheng, the "god of war", and his combat quality was needless to say, so after Wang Jinshan's arrival, Peng Dehuai had high hopes for this general, hoping that he could play a high level.
But this time, Wang Jinshan did not fight a beautiful battle as Peng Dehuai expected. After the start of the war, Wang Jinshan misjudged the situation between the enemy and ourselves, because the main task of the troops led by Wang Jinshan was to advance to the middle road and divide the Us army, so Wang Jinshan believed that he only needed to lead the 180th Division to achieve the goal. What about the rest of the soldiers and horses? In a rash manner, Wang Jinshan actually distributed his main force to other combat teams.
Wang Jinshan later concluded that he had made two mistakes, one was to only focus on attacking and not defending, which led to irreparable defeat later. The second problem was a major mistake made by the entire volunteer team during the Fifth Campaign, which was to ignore the importance of the supply line.
At that time, the commander of the American Army was replaced by MacArthur to Ridgway, and ridgway, after taking office, quickly noticed a fatal shortcoming of the Volunteer Army- insufficient supplies. At that time, the volunteer army did not have air superiority, so the supplies could only rely on ground transportation, but due to the blockade of the US army, our supply line could not meet the needs of the front line, so the entire volunteer army had to save money to prepare for the needs of wartime.
After observation, Ridgway found that the limit of the supply of materials for the volunteer army is seven days, and generally more than seven days, the volunteer army will face the problem of shortage of materials and a decline in combat effectiveness, so Ridgway made a plan and decided to lure the volunteer army to go deeper step by step, and once again widened and lengthened the supply line that was already unbalanced between supply and demand, so that the volunteer army was trapped in a situation of running out of ammunition and food.
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Unfortunately, the volunteer army walked into Ridgway's trap, and Wang Jinshan's troops were one of the fastest and fiercest teams, which led to the crisis faced by Wang Jinshan's troops more serious than other volunteer troops. When Wang Jinshan's troops marched for several days, Peng Dehuai realized that things were deceitful, so he urgently ordered Wang Jinshan to lead his army to retreat, but this could not prevent the failure from coming.
Moreover, Wang Jinshan repeatedly misjudged in the battle, and he initially thought that the battle had a great chance of winning, so he did not personally make detailed arrangements for the troops, but directly transmitted the instructions of the General Headquarters by telegram, and finally these mistakes led to the evacuation or a step too late, the volunteer army was stopped by the blockade line of the US army, although Wang Laohu was a good hand at fighting hard, but after the forced fight, Wang Jinshan found that the strength of the US troops on the opposite side exceeded his own prediction, and the love of the war made the troops suffer more painful losses.
After seven days and seven nights of fierce fighting, Wang Jinshan finally led the soldiers to escape, but the troops he led suffered the cost of sacrificing 7,000 people, and this loss far exceeded normal estimates, and also made the 180th Division led by Wang Jinshan the unit with the highest rate of losses during the entire War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea.
After Wang Jinshan returned to the headquarters, he was very frustrated in his heart, the volunteer army was a tactically advanced team, but now it was calculated by Li Qiwei, although under the all-out battle of the soldiers, the war was still victorious, but the price of this victory was also unprecedentedly heavy. Peng Dehuai was also very angry at Wang Jinshan's frequent mistakes in this battle, and felt that he had regarded "barbarism" as a tactic in this battle, and Peng Dehuai severely criticized Wang Jinshan: "Are you a soldier brought out by Liu Bocheng? Liu Bocheng is the most tactical, did he teach you to fight like this? ”
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Peng Dehuai's criticism made Wang Jinshan feel more remorseful in his heart, he knew that he really failed to play his due level this time, and his shame was just that, the key was to tire the lives of so many soldiers, Wang Jinshan thought bitterly, found Peng Dehuai to analyze the reasons for the defeat in the battle, and promised that he would definitely fight a victorious battle in the future to wash away the shame of today.
Chairman Mao also told Wang Jinshan when he met him after the war: "The problem of the losses suffered in the Fifth Campaign and the 180th Division has now all been ascertained, and the main responsibility is not yours. You are a victorious general, but you cannot take the enemy lightly and be proud. ”
Later, in Shangganling, Wang Jinshan once again led his soldiers into battle, which was the battle between Wang Jinshan and the volunteer army, and in the Battle of Shangganling, the US army mobilized intensive troops and firepower and launched an extraordinary attack on the volunteer army. This time, Wang Jinshan showed his past hard work on the battlefield and fought tenaciously with the US army on the position, and finally guarded the victory of the volunteer army.
However, although Shangganling was wang jinshan's snow shame battle, Wang Jinshan himself rarely mentioned it, because shangganling was one of the most tragic wars in human history, and its bloodiness was no less than that of the "Verdun meat grinder" in the First World War, and the volunteer soldiers exchanged blood for the final victory. In his later years, Wang Jinshan could never watch the movie "Shangganling" in its entirety, because as soon as he recalled the battlefield of that year, the iron-blooded general could not help but feel sad in his heart.
Even if a tiger general like Wang Jinshan has witnessed a tragic past in blood and fire in the Korean battlefield, the soldiers and generals of the volunteer army know that they are tragic and still fight hard, because behind them, they are the motherland and people they love deeply, and they can give everything for the oath of defending the country.
We never welcome war, but we are not afraid of war, and when war threatens the borders of the motherland, heroic sons and daughters will stand up. We should remember all the victories and defeats in this war, because that is the precious legacy left to us by our predecessors, the history is not far away, and today, defending the country is still a topic that will never go out of style.