The movie "Chosin Lake" has been released for several days, and the editor has not yet found the time to look at it, but there has been a certain amount of study and understanding against the US war to aid Korea, and from an objective and rational point of view, there are the following 6 details that need to be familiar:
First, there is no doubt that strategic planning, campaign command and tactical operations are perfectly coordinated. If you have to find out the deficiency, it is the gap in equipment, because even if the volunteer army surrounded the US army and cut the US army into many sections, the US army still relied on the hard shell to protrude outward, and the volunteer army could not eat him, and as a result, it still escaped from the South China Sea of Xianxing and Xingxing. This is also the reason why the volunteer army later changed its tactics and adopted the tactic of "zero knocking brown candy".
Second, from a macro point of view, where is Chosin Lake? Along the border line between China and North Korea to the middle of the 38th Line of the Korean Peninsula, a demarcation line is made in the north-south direction, and the eastern part of the demarcation line belongs to the eastern front, that is, the eastern front combat area, which belongs to the 9th Corps of General Song Shilun, while the areas of Chosin Lake, Huangcaoling and Zhizhan Ridge are near the border of the eastern front. These places are above 1,000 meters above sea level, and the mountain roads are rugged, which is convenient for concealed ambushes, so the 2 regiments of the 1st Marine Division and the 31st Regimental Combat Team of the 7th Division ventured in and were "wrapped dumplings" by the volunteer army.
Third, some people will ask, why don't you bring cotton clothes? Why don't you give out winter clothes? At the beginning, the 9 corps was to prepare for the liberation of Taiwan Island, but due to the needs of the war situation to resist US aggression and aid Korea, it was temporarily transferred; originally the southern troops had no concept of cold, and the clothing was thin cotton clothes, so there was no thick clothes, or there was no thick clothes at all, and when they arrived in the northeast, they were going to suspend the change of clothes, but because of the tightness of the war, they went straight past. Later, why it was not sent over, two reasons, one is the bombing of the US army, the rear can not be sent in at all; the second is that at that time it was really too poor, where there are any reserves, are temporary financing, for a while and a half can not take out so many cotton clothes, which is why there is no thick cotton clothes.
Fourth, we won this battle, but we also hurt many of our own people. The main combat opponents of this campaign were 2 regiments of the 1st Marine Division under the US 10th Army and the 31st Regimental Combat Team of the 7th Division, and the 31st Polar Bear Regiment was destroyed in an integrated structure, and the remaining remnants fled from Xingnan. This was largely controlled on the Eastern Front, and later fighting took place mainly on the flat terrain of the Western Front.
However, in this battle, the 6th Company of the 177th Regiment of the 59th Division of the 20th Army, the 2nd Company of the 180th Regiment of the 60th Division, and the 5th Company of the 242nd Regiment of the 80th Division of the 27th Army, a total of 3 companies, except for the fallen and the communicators, all froze to death and died heroically. Since then, the "Ice Sculpture Company" has become a spiritual monument and a cultural symbol. The American troops passing by were touched by the feats of our volunteers and saluted the sacrificial volunteers.
Fifth, Song Amao's brilliant letter, the kind of love for the motherland, that ordinary people cannot understand, is deeply touching. While cleaning up the battlefield, a martyr named Song Amao wrote this suicide note: "I am a glorious volunteer soldier, ice and snow! I will never submit to you, even if I freeze to death, I will stand proudly on my position!
Sixth, the guilt of General Song Shilun, commander of the 9th Corps on the Eastern Front. In September 1952, the 9th Corps, which was responsible for the Battle of Chosin Lake, returned from Korea, and when it reached the Yalu River, the commander of the corps, Song Shi, got out of the car, looked into the distance, stood silently in the direction of Chosin Lake, and then took off his hat and bent down and bowed deeply. The staff around them found that the commander of the Chosin Lake Campaign was in tears.
Hats off to the heroes!