"Chosin Lake", the seventh company led by Wu Qianli, encountered a brutal encounter as soon as it entered the DPRK.
A fraternal force attacked the U.S. military garrison and tried to blow up the U.S. communication tower, but was suppressed by the enemy's powerful fire and could be completely destroyed within 20 minutes.
Qilian did not hesitate and went up to help.
Company commander Wu Qianli, fire platoon leader Yu Congrong, sharpshooter Pinghe, god pitcher Wu Wanli, artillery platoon leader Lei Daddy... Each shows its might.
The first battle was fought quite hotly, and throughout the history of Chinese cinema, in terms of the depiction of battle scenes, I am afraid that it is unparalleled.
Stills from "Chosin Lake"
Grab the tank, drive the tank, shoot the tank, and suddenly "Wolf Warrior 2".
A few to a few, hand-to-hand combat in a small space, male hormones bursting, reminiscent of "Daredevil".
All kinds of situations that cannot be lucky, have been overcome by the skillful hands, quite a superhero feeling, and can immediately be linked to "Wise Tiger Mountain".
The recruits who went to the battlefield for the first time, with the accuracy trained by throwing stones in their hometowns, used grenades to turn all the enemies in the fortress into fools.
At first, the recruit egg Wu Wanli, who could not even take a gun
Volunteer soldiers can use the recoilless guns left behind by the Us army and use them skillfully.
The result, of course, was a win.
Cinema is art, which brings together various theatrical elements and adds the wishes of its creators. The real Chinese Volunteer Army, there are some differences.
They are experienced in hundreds of battles, well-trained, heroic and fearless, but they are ordinary flesh and blood, easy to be injured, easy to die.
They were not so familiar with tanks; they had never seen anything about the most advanced recoilless guns in the world at that time;
The U.S. First Marine Division is well-equipped
They had never seen whites or blacks before, and the engagement could not have been so calm. In the early days, a small unit of the volunteer army touched the tent of the US army camp, saw the black man sleeping in the sleeping bag, thought that he saw a ghost, frightened and scattered, and ran away without firing the gun;
The first thirty-eighth army to enter the DPRK, because of whether there was a problem with a black regiment, directly caused the commander Liang Xingchu to miss the fighter, was scolded by Peng Dehuai, and the whole army could not lift its head for several months, until it completed the fierce task of blocking in the second battle.
The cutest people, in front of the U.S. military, are quite old-fashioned, and that's a fact.
To say this is not to criticize this good movie, nor to belittle the volunteer army, but to tell the audience that the real Korean battlefield is a hundred times more cruel than what you see in the movie.
Because of this, the people in that war are more worthy of our distant tribute.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="48" > China as a whole</h1>
Shortly after the opening, the military and civilians in the border city of Anton were seen being bombed by Us military aircraft, but within a minute or two, an audience member was already in tears.
If you fall behind, you will be beaten.
The film says through the mouths of volunteer soldiers that American devils look down on us, and we let them see whose fists are hard.
This is the historical fact that modern warfare is a game of white people in the West, and the number of people in the East has not had many examples of victories in hundreds of years. From the Opium War to the founding of New China, more than a hundred years of poverty and weakness, China has never won a final victory in the war with the whites.
The people's children are not the old-style army, but in the eyes of the Americans, they are no different. Therefore, after the outbreak of the Korean War, China did not intervene at first, but American planes still crossed the border and bombed China indiscriminately. One is to look down on you, and the other is to warn you not to meddle.
When it destroyed Korea, the industrial center of New China was completely exposed to the scope of its military strikes. Both China and the United States are very clear about this, and the Soviets are also watching the fire.
The Americans believed that China did not dare to fight, and that it had missed the best time to fight — before the Inchon landings — while the Soviets were sitting in chairs engaged in psychological warfare — a direct threat to China, who had time to wait.
For China, it is not just a question of the industrial center, but if this time it swallows its anger, the second and third times, the second and third countries of the third country, it can be predicted.
The complete solution of the problem of being bullied by arbitrary countries, under arbitrary pretexts, and endlessly is one of the core tasks of the Chinese revolution.
Only by understanding this strategic background can we understand the Korean War.
Therefore, the Battle of Chosin Lake was part of the second campaign of the Volunteer Army, and when it occurred, more than a month had passed since the invasion of North Korea, and it was even further away from the painful decision-making process of participating in the war.
The War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea is a major event of a country's overall nature, and China is united in the hearts of the people from top to bottom. In the movie, Chairman Mao Zedong said very clearly that for the sake of the present, he did not want to fight, and for the sake of the future, he had to fight.
The War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea is a battle that has to be fought
The design of several details is very precise to present the value belief and realistic considerations of a whole China.
Mao Zedong said that if you punch open with one punch, you will not have to throw a hundred punches. This is a famous saying in history.
There is no other sentence in the film, which is the words of Premier Zhou Enlai: "We do not want the war to expand, it wants to expand, and there is no way." If our generation encounters the third world war, for the sake of our children and grandchildren, we have to bear it down and let our children and grandchildren enjoy peace forever. ”
As a grassroots response, Company Commander Wu Qianli said to his younger brother Wu Wanli, "The two of us (and my brother Wu Baili, who has already sacrificed), have fought all the battles that should be fought and will not let you fight."
A conversation between Wu Qianli and his younger brother Wu Wanli
Sharpshooter Hirakawa said, "I hope that the next generation will no longer live in an era full of gun smoke."
Mei Sheng, the instructor of the Seventh Company, said, "My daughter asked me why I was going to fight. If we don't fight this battle, our next generation will fight it. We are born and die so that they will not fight."
From leaders to ordinary warriors, it is not a big truth. But this kind of small truth directly benefits us today.
People who are familiar with history are also puzzled: Why in that era, people's hearts always thought of the next generation, thought of us, and created all the conditions that could be created for us?
No comprehensive answer was thought of, but one thing should be certain: they had been fighting all their lives, fully anticipated the long-term nature of the revolution, and never thought that this life would be able to do it once and for all.
This is the psychological source of the selflessness of countless revolutionaries. The facts after the Korean War also proved this point, and when peace came, we had to tighten our belts and engage in two bombs and one satellite.
It is not difficult for leaders to understand the strategic situation. How can their ideas resonate with the "ignorant and ignorant" ordinary people?
The reason is very simple, hidden in Wu Wanli, a 19-year-old boy who found the division commander and answered "why should I join the army":
"The Communist Party and Chairman Mao have divided up the land among our families, and now some people want to take it back, and this cannot be agreed."
Land is the most crucial part of the dignity of Chinese.
Wu Baili, Wu Qianli, Wu Wanli, and the three brothers all went to the battlefield, which was very common in the Red Army, the Eighth Route Army, the People's Liberation Army, and the Volunteer Army. As an echo of China as a whole, Mao Anying asked For Korea, Mao Zedong's son, who was also a Chinese disciple.
Volunteers rushed to the Korean battlefield
The social background is clear, let's take a look at how our ancestors rushed to the ideal with flesh and blood.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="269" > Chinese view of war</h1>
At the beginning of the movie, Wu Qianli went home to visit his relatives and returned to his hometown in Zhejiang.
East.
East China Field Army
The Ninth Corps of the Song Dynasty, the Third Field Army, was the main force of the original East China Field Army.
The Ninth Corps was under the jurisdiction of the Twentieth Army, the Twenty-sixth Army, and the Twenty-seventh Army, all of which were units that had experienced hundreds of battles (a year may not be less than a hundred battles) and had made great achievements.
The Twentieth Army, the earliest of which was the Independent Division of the Red Army in Eastern Fujian, was organized into the First Division of the New Fourth Army during the Anti-Japanese War, and the division commander was Su Yu, acting commander of the East China Field Army. During the Liberation War, it was the first column of Huaye and participated in the Battle of the Transitional River.
The Twenty-sixth Army, the original Eighth Column of Huaye, participated in the Battle of Menglianggu and the Battle of Huaihai, surrounded and annihilated Huang Baitao, attacked Du Yuming in general, and later participated in the Battle of Crossing the River.
The Twenty-seventh Army, formerly known as the local unit of the Jiaodong Military Region of the Eighth Route Army and the former Ninth Column of Huaye, captured Wang Yaowu, chairman of Shandong Province, alive in the Battle of Jinan, surrounded and annihilated Huang Baitao and Du Yuming in the Battle of Huaihai, and took the lead in breaking into downtown Shanghai in the Battle of Crossing the River, forcing the enemy to surrender.
The basis for the formation of the East China Field Army is the Shandong Field Army, with its base area mainly in Shandong and its headquarters in the Yimeng Mountains.
In the movie, when talking about Zhang Xiaoshan, a small soldier who died in the bombing of our troop train by enemy planes, he deliberately emphasized that he was a Yimeng native and lived in Gujia Village, Linyi.
When the artillery platoon leader played by Hu Jun was killed, the background music that sounded was "Yimeng Minor".
Lei Gong died while on a mission
The reason for this is the background of this heroic fighting force.
Seven companies and a company, full of about 150 people, the latest soldier Wu Wanli, is the 677th soldier of the company. In addition to emphasizing the spirit of sacrifice, it also shows that this is a steel company with a long history, and their performance is not accidental.
The East China Field Army was the main executor of the Huaihai Campaign, and the situation at that time was also icy and extremely arduous, and it was forced to besiege and annihilate the elite Kuomintang Huang Baitao Corps and Du Yuming's group, which were far better equipped than their own, which was comparable to the situation of Changjin Lake.
The truth is fundamentally different.
Marshal Chen Yi once said that the Huaihai Campaign was pushed out by the masses of the people with small carts, saying that in the domestic battlefield, the people's army has a broad rear and has won the support of the people, and millions of ordinary people have taken the initiative to provide logistical support to ensure the supply of ammunition and military food in the front.
In the Korean battlefield, everything can only rely on the self-sufficiency of the troops. No cotton coats, no heavy weapons, no food, no air supremacy, no tanks, no chariots.
The Korean battlefield was difficult to supply and the conditions were very difficult
The film presents a strong contrast with the language of the lens.
The main opponent of the Battle of Chosin Lake, the U.S. Marine Corps First Division, was a raging stream of iron and endless ammunition, while the new volunteer soldiers received bullet casings.
The First Marine Division's cuisine was sumptuous, and the meal was like a grand buffet, while the volunteers each received 3 potatoes, and in the weather of minus tens of degrees, they froze as hard as stones and broke their teeth.
If you're familiar with the history of the Korean War, you know it's true. In many cases, potatoes are not. Because we did not have planes, the rear supply lines were basically undefended, and only 30% or 40% of the supplies transported could reach the front, and the soldiers transporting the supplies were lying on the ground along the way.
But for war, the philosophy that the people's army has always believed is that the human factor is the most critical.
Thousands of volunteers went to the battlefield to fight for the country
During the period of the Red Army, the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, and the Period of the War of Liberation, all of them were backward in weapons, but they were never defeated, and they became stronger and stronger along the way, and the reason for this was the spirit.
Especially during the Liberation War, until the beginning of 1949, Chiang Kai-shek still believed that "the advantage is in me", and the main consideration was weapons and equipment, "only weapons theory".
The people's army, on the other hand, never believes in evil. Of course, there is a thirst for good equipment, and without good weapons, there is no fear.
The second phase of the Battle of Chosin Lake was the most difficult period for the Volunteer Army. The intelligence advantage of concealed trails and surprise attacks had been exhausted in the first battle, while the significant weaknesses of supply difficulties and lack of air support had not been compensated.
So we see in the movie an important feature that does not explain the reason: the battles take place at night.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="270" > Moon night warrior</h1>
The Battle of Chosin Lake is a typical feature of volunteer combat in the Korean battlefield, and it is a bit surprising to choose such a battle as the background of the movie.
Because the most expressive way to make war movies is heroism, highlighting individuals, or a very small number of people, and personifying war with a complete personal story.
The Battle of Chosin Lake is obviously not a good material, in contrast, the Yellow Grass Ridge and Songbone Peak Blockade Battles will be more suitable for film presentation. The back-and-forth sawing of the blockade battle and the concentration of the scene will make the protagonist image of the protagonist particularly distinct. The reason why the film of the same name in Shangganling has become a classic is largely because it conforms to the above ideas. And Yang Gensi, a real-named combat hero in "Chosin Lake", appeared in the local blockade battle.
Battle hero Yang Gensi
However, in the Korean battlefield, especially in the first three battles, the main occurrence was the large army attack operation, and Chosin Lake was only one example. The offensive operations of the large corps are characterized by dense formation attacks, rushing up from all directions, using flesh and blood to fight against the enemy's advanced weapons, and with fearless spirit to forge a bloody road.
In such battles, individuals are rarely highlighted, and most of the victims fall silently in a collective charge.
No one cared whether the sudden was protruding or not, when the charge horn sounded, it was a series of lives rushing forward, wave after wave of bodies falling down, until the enemy really could not kill, and the soldiers behind them rushed into the enemy position.
Once in close quarters, it is the moment when the enemy is finished.
That's what we said earlier, such a battle is far more brutal than what the movie presents. Such a simple, nameless sacrifice is actually the most moving.
On the night of the moon, the flesh and blood attacked fearlessly like a tidal wave
Perhaps, this is the reason why Tanzi, played by Duan Yihong, suddenly became serious when the battalion commander heard Wu Wanli call himself "the hero who can't die".
There are no heroes who can't die, many heroes have died silently, but you haven't heard his name.
In the movie, Mao Anying said: Those who go to the battlefield are heroes.
The fighting took place at night because there was no air power and no air defense capability. Night, which made it impossible for U.S. aircraft to fly, offset its air superiority. The Chinese military has spent decades hiding from airplanes, accustomed to night combat, with a little moonlight, and its eyes are as bright as wolves. At night, the enemy and the enemy were inseparable, and the superior firepower of the US army was partially offset.
Night combat offsets U.S. superiority
The sound of the stormtrooper on the night of the moon, and the sound of thousands of pairs of rubber shoes stepping on the snow, is the nightmare of the US military, and for them, the sound is like coming from hell, and it is terrifying.
Take a look at the description of Wang Shuzeng, the military adviser of this film, in the book "Korean War":
In the darkness, they heard the footsteps of the Chinese soldiers' rubber shoes on the ice and snow, and it was not until they saw the black shadow of the Chinese soldiers that they pulled the rope of the tripwire flares. In the suddenly white light, the impact of the Black Pressure of the Chinese soldiers stunned the American soldiers. ”
"None of the Chinese soldiers took a step back, and the American soldiers would rush towards them even if their faces were covered in blood and their eyes were blind."
Battle scene of Chosin Lake
The most popular weapon for Chinese soldiers is the grenade, and once they get close, thousands of grenades are thrown out and torn open through the breakthrough. Of course, he often blows himself up with him.
It's good to have rubber shoes.
Some warriors have no shoes and wrap their feet in cotton; some shoes and feet have been completely frozen together, unconscious, and do not care; some arms are frozen to the point of blood clotting, black one, swollen several times...
How cold is it on the battlefield? The US military has a warm sleeping bag, still frostbite and frostbite, has not frozen to death, immediately transfusion, found that the transfusion can not be entered, because the plasma has frozen, and finally can only wait for death.
Many people in the Chinese army did not even have cotton clothes, but they lurked motionless in the ice and snow for a week, quietly waiting for the order of the general attack.
In the movie, the scene where Smith, commander of the First Marine Division, sees the Chinese resistance troops collectively freezing to death on the battlefield and still maintaining a fighting posture, which is a historical fact.
Thinly clad, volunteers waiting on a battlefield of minus tens of degrees
The time they could fight was very limited, they had to withdraw from the battlefield before dawn, tens of millions, hundreds of thousands of people quickly disappeared into the snowy fields of Linhai, and when the US aircraft could be dispatched, they could find nothing.
This limited time prevented the expansion of the results.
The Battle of Chosin Lake wiped out an organized regiment of the U.S. Army, which was of great significance to the Volunteer Army, but the three armies besieged a marine division and still failed to annihilate it, the most important reason was the lack of air power.
The chief of operations of the First Marine Division said: "If the Chinese army has a certain amount of air power and sufficient logistical support, the Marine Corps will certainly not want to run out alive." ”
This is the ancestor who fought for the next generation, that is, for us more than 70 years ago.
Seven companies, full name is the seventh interspersed company, it can be seen that they are good at interspersed combat.
Interspersing behind enemy lines, circumventing and encircling, and dividing and annihilating are the tactics that the Chinese army is proficient in, and they are the experience of movement warfare developed from guerrilla warfare.
A passage in the modern Peking Opera "Surprise Attack on the White Tiger Regiment" shows the war skills of the volunteer army:
"Take advantage of the night to break through the defensive line, and violently intersperse the clever detour to divide the encirclement. After entering the enemy, it cut off its escape route, and it was bound to make it difficult to worry about it and could not reinforce it. Annihilating the enemy tonight, we will never let the Us and Li bandits escape alone. ”
Behind the tactics is also helplessness. There is a joke that says, "The poor are interspersed with roundabouts, and the reach is covered by firepower.". If the weapons are inferior to those of people, they can only run more errands.
Chairman Mao Zedong's tactical thinking of "concentrating superior forces and annihilating the enemy each one" was brought into full play on the Korean battlefield.
It was not until the end of the Korean War, when the volunteers had complete tunnels, air power in place, and greatly improved weapons and equipment that the hours of artillery preparation before the charge became a reality. At this time, it is the most "top" scene of the warriors.
The real volunteer army is not the same as in the movie.
Author | Li Shaowei, editor-in-chief of Nanfeng Window New Media
Edit | Lu Ming
Typography | Xiwen