Speaking of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, even americans have to sigh that this is an incredible war. Because the gap in military strength between the two sides is really too big, the United States, which has just experienced World War II, has reached the point of pure fire in both military strategy and tactics, coupled with modern equipment armed to the teeth, which made the Soviet Union, the boss of the socialist camp at that time, dare not underestimate, but it was such a superpower, in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, was actually defeated by China, which was poor and white at the time, and the US military changed commanders one after another, and never took the slightest advantage on the Korean battlefield, which had to make the world look at China with astonishment!
In the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, there was a very unpopular unit that undertook the task of blocking the attack in the fourth campaign but fought a beautiful turnaround battle, which became a model for the main army of our volunteer army, and this army was the 50th Army of the Volunteer Army.
Speaking of the 50th Army, everyone may not know much about its origin, its predecessor was the 60th Army of the Kuomintang Miscellaneous Army, in the Changchun Campaign that year, the 60th Army revolted on the battlefield, and was later reorganized into the 50th Army of Dongye, and the commander was Zeng Zesheng, the commander of the 60th Army of the original Nationalist Army.
Zeng Zesheng and his 60th Army were not Chiang Kai-shek's concubines, and they were ostracized in the army, plus most of the soldiers in the army were Yunnan people who liked to smoke, and most of the soldiers would carry two guns in the process of fighting, one was a smoking gun and the other was a weapon, so the 60th Army was often ridiculed and ridiculed by other units, mocking them as two-gun generals and 60 bears, but what everyone could not imagine was that such a "small army" that had been poorly disciplined and had low combat effectiveness was actually trained into an iron army in the hands of the People's Liberation Army!
After the uprising of the 60th Army, our army straightened out its discipline and work style, and finally lost its shame in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea and get rid of the stigma of the "60 Bear."
After the outbreak of the Fourth Campaign to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, Commander-in-Chief Peng Dehuai, considering that the 50th Army was not the main force, placed it in a defensive position and was responsible for blocking the US forces on the western front, and also served as the 38th Army.
The 50th Army regarded this battle as its own battle of shame, and before the war, the commander Zeng Zesheng made a mobilization speech to all the soldiers:
The commander of the Volunteer Army placed my 50th Army in the forefront south of the Han River, which is a trust in our 50th Army, and the whole army must conscientiously make all kinds of combat preparations!
Although Zeng Zesheng's 50th Army has always been ridiculed, it has been held for 20 days in the Battle of Taierzhuang, and the whole army has suffered more than half of the casualties, and still does not retreat from the battle, Peng Dehuai is also eyeing Zeng Zesheng's spirit of not retreating from the battle, and he dares to hand over such an important defensive task to Zeng Zesheng. Defensive warfare is more arduous than offensive warfare, and attacking troops can retreat at any time if they cannot be captured, but defensive warfare is not so lucky, not only to accept the enemy's repeated attacks, but also to face the danger of running out of ammunition, and a little carelessness will affect the overall situation.
So it is conceivable that the task of the 50th Army is not easy, Zeng Zesheng is also facing huge ideological pressure and unlimited difficulties and challenges, it was the middle of the Winter Festival in Korea, the soldiers of the 50th Army arrived at the position and found that they could not even dig trenches, the low temperature of minus tens of degrees made the soil under their feet harder than steel, helpless, the 50th Army soldiers had to use snow as a cover, and because there was no underground tunnel, this made the 50th Army almost exposed to the AIRcraft cannons of the US Army, which was also the reason for the heavy losses of the 50th Army in this battle.
On January 25, 1951, the war officially began, the United Nations army under the cover of aircraft artillery, launched a cruel attack again and again, did not give our soldiers a chance to rest and breathe, the 50th Army was once caught in a bitter battle, the Defense of the Han River was destined to be very cruel.
What Peng Dehuai did not expect was that the 50Th Army had actually defended for 50 days in a row, filling the hunger with snow without food, relying on flesh and blood to defend the position without shelter, and countless shells flew from the opposite side again and again, the explosions in the ears were continuous, and the Han River had become a hell on earth, but the 50 Army was stunned and did not put forward any difficulties and demands on Peng Dehuai. This is probably what Chiang Kai-shek did not expect, his eight million troops were beaten to the ground within a few years, and Taiwan was defeated, and the "60 bears" who were accused of low combat effectiveness actually held the Han River for 50 days.
This group of Yunnan Hanzi knew for the first time the significance of the soldiers, used bloody battles to justify their own names, washed away the humiliation of the past, the US army was blocked by the 50 Army, delayed in advancing, and learned that the opposite defenders were once Chiang Kai-shek's old troops, and even went to great lengths to contact the Kuomintang authorities, sent a beautiful woman to the battlefield to do counter-offensive work, hyped up the surrender of the 50 Army, and claimed that all those who surrendered were given knighthoods and rewards of gold.
All the soldiers of the 50th Army were not moved, a mouthful of fried noodles and a mouthful of snow, hard to carry through 50 days, the Han River Defense War has also become a typical case in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, and the 50th Army has also won the honor of the Iron Army, in this battle, the 30,000 soldiers of the 50th Army killed and wounded 11,000 enemy personnel, captured 61 people, destroyed more than 70 tanks and armored vehicles, 15 aircraft, captured more than 1,800 guns, 17 cars, 34 artillery, and a large number of military materials, so that the 50th Army was humiliated. The number of heroes who have made great achievements in the military alone has reached 476.
However, the price paid by the 50th Army was also heavy, and the 50th Army lost more than 20,000 people in this battle, 7 companies, 31 platoons and 138 squads were all wiped out, and most of the soldiers who died were not named.
When the gray-headed Zeng Zesheng tearfully went to General Peng to report on the battle situation, Peng Dehuai tightly held Zeng Zesheng's hand and said several times in a row: The 50th Army fought well, you commanded well, how many soldiers you lost, how many soldiers I will give you to make up for how many soldiers, new weapons arrived, you give priority to picking! When Zeng Zesheng heard this, he cried even harder, and he said a sentence that made everyone feel sad:
We tried our best, and we were able to raise our heads in front of the fraternal troops!
This sentence contains infinite grievances and heartaches, and it is precisely because of his identity as a surrender that other field armies have some contempt for this miscellaneous army, Peng Dehuai listened to it and comforted Zeng Zesheng and said:
What is this saying? Is it because the 50th Army is a Kuomintang uprising unit? Like you, Peng Dehuai, came out of the miscellaneous army of the old army, and I never regarded you as a harem! Go back and tell the troops, I Peng Dehuai bowed to the heroes of the 50th Army!
What Zeng Zesheng did not expect was that Peng Dehuai very solemnly bent down and bowed deeply to Zeng Zesheng; after returning to China, the chairman personally received Zeng Zesheng and directly praised him for the good fighting of his 50th Army on the Korean battlefield. It was because they saw with their own eyes the spirit of the volunteer soldiers who were not afraid of death and suffering on the battlefield, which was also the secret weapon that the volunteer army could defeat the Americans!
In 1955, Zeng Zesheng was awarded the rank of lieutenant general, receiving the highest honor of his military career!
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