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Cold War: A Survey of panoramic battles at the Battle of Chosin Lake

Recently, I received a lot of text messages from friends asking me to write about the Chosin Lake War.

To this end, I took the time to carefully read most of the articles on the Internet sent by friends. Suddenly sighed and sighed.

Summer worm language ice, in fact, is not a miracle, the Internet is all over the mountains, those who have written emotions, written gossip, written mood, written chicken soup writers are obviously temporary intentions, in order to rub a wave of the movie "Chosin Lake" traffic, you can change the word order, shout slogans, write a number of articles on the Battle of Chosin Lake, this is a miracle of Internet culture.

In fact, the Korean War involved the Potsdam Conference in World War II, the occupation of Japan by the Soviet Union and the United States in World War II, the War between the Chinese Nationalists and the Communists, and so on. It is very difficult to write about the Korean War.

The Battle of Chosin Lake was the most controversial battle of the Korean War at the historical, military and other levels, not one of them, but the most.

In that year, during the Battle of Chosin Lake, tens of thousands of officers and men of the 9th Corps fought with plane infantry, in the harsh environment of extreme cold and hunger to challenge the limits of human survival, against the well-equipped and well-trained 3 regimental combat groups of the US 1st Marine Division, as well as the US 90th Task Force Behind the 1st Marine Division, as well as nearly 300 fighters of the US Army Aviation, Naval Aviation, and Marine Corps Aviation.

With such a huge disparity in strength, such an extreme climate, and such poor logistics, it is inevitable that the officers and men of the volunteer army will fight in bloody battles to defend their families and defend the country, and sacrifice heavy sacrifices.

Yes, full of the belief of defending the family and defending the country, the volunteer army fought and killed the battlefield of Chosin Lake, and it was undoubtedly a very difficult thing to win the battle.

On December 8, 1950, near the end of the Battle of Chosin Lake, Song Shilun, commander of the 9th Corps, reported to Beijing hezhisi the at the Jiangjie Headquarters on the downsizing of the 27th Army and other units participating in the Battle of Changjin Lake, as well as the dangerous situation that the whole army was frozen and starved extensively, and the whole army was close to running out of food.

This was the first time since the Battle of Changjin Lake that Song Shilun had made a detailed report to Beijing and Peng Dehuai on the situation of the war.

At that time, shocked to learn of the 9th Corps' attrition, heavy battle losses, and the fact that the whole army had run out of grain, Peng Dehuai immediately called the 9th Corps and asked it to withdraw to a warmer area and withdraw to the direction of Huangcaoling under the guidance of the Korean local government.

At the same time, the war on Chosin Lake was stopped one after another:

"The encirclement of the enemy's one-time aid plan should be stopped immediately."

At the end of the Battle of Chosin Lake, the main force of the 9th Corps turned to rest, and the mechanized corps of the North Korean Army continued to be the main force of the attack...

After 9 December, the remnants of the 9th Corps retreated to the Yellow Grass Ridge area.

At this time, their enemy is no longer the Us army, but pure hunger and cold.

It is true that during the Battle of Chosin Lake, the officers and men of the Volunteer Army were fighters against the American army on the battlefield, but they were also unable to resist natural disasters.

Therefore, as human beings, they are like the US military and the Korean military and civilians in the Chosin Lake area, who are victims of natural disasters.

From mid-November to mid-December 1950, the Gaima Plateau was threatened with severe cold and blizzards that had not been encountered in a century, and for this reason, the Chinese Volunteer Army and the US Army paid a heavy price.

For years, China, the United States, North Korea, South Korea, and others have avoided talking openly about the history of the Battle of Chosin Lake.

To some extent, the core battle of chosin lake was actually a battle against nature Chinese, Koreans, Americans and British.

As one of the most important battles of the second campaign, at the end of the Battle of Chosin Lake, the main force of the volunteer army pushed forward in the western front and directly approached Pyongyang and Seoul. The 9th Corps suffered heavy attrition on the Eastern Front and did not achieve the campaign goal of annihilating several enemy divisions.

This achievement will not affect our respect for the officers and men of the 9th Corps of the Volunteer Army.

After all, although they were covered by a small number of scattered North Korean tanks and fighters, the volunteer army fought with infantry against the US army, navy and air force, and at the same time, due to logistical support, its own heavy weapons were left at home, and the army lacked winter clothes and food.

If we really respect the volunteers, we should respect this sad and tragic history.

In particular, it respects the will to fight in history, the officers and men of the volunteer army to fight against extreme climates such as ice and snow and extreme cold, and to fight with the super strong military strength of the US army, sea and air force.

Leaving aside political, ideological, and other elements, there is no doubt that the officers and men of the Volunteer Army entered the war in Korea to defend their homeland and national belief.

For this reason, the extremely tragic and painful sacrifices made by the officers and men of the Volunteer Army in the Battle of Chosin Lake should all be the high point of history that the nation looks up to.

However, this high point is far from shouting slogans, and then copying the plot of the movie to write fragmented, emotional, passionate and other fragmented articles can be easily expressed.

Unfortunately, in recent days, this kind of article hastily written for the purpose of rubbing traffic, and the article related to the Battle of Chosin Lake, which is too far away from history, is indeed full of sweat and cattle, and the more I see it, the more I can't help but feel very embarrassed.

After all, many writers who play with emotions, gossip, paint moods, boil chicken soup, and brush chicken blood have a flash of inspiration, shout loud slogans with seven hands and eight feet, stand on the spot, lie on the internet, and pretend to be a militia shooting gun. In fact, their neglect of history may not be very clear about many of the problems of the Korean War.

For example, how did the Korean War break out? Who fights with whom?

They would think that the Korean War broke out because of the U.S. invasion of Korea. At the same time, this war is a war between China and the United States.

Not really.

The Korean War broke out in a war of unification initiated by North Korea on its own initiative against South Korea south of the 38th Parallel.

The reason why the Chinese Volunteer Army crossed the Yalu River with great vigor was because the United Nations army, which was mainly the United Nations army, took the lead in Korea, counterattacked at Busan, landed at Inchon, severely defeated the North Korean army, fought the 38th line, and rushed north along the way to the border between China and north Korea and the Soviet Union.

To this end, Beijing deliberated and finally decided to send volunteers to participate in the war.

At that time, China had almost ended the war, and the country was indeed poor and white, and the economy, industry, and military were too far away from the United States.

However, the Eastern Bloc, led by the Soviet Union and with the world's military-industrial powers Poland, East Germany, Czechoslovakia and other countries, stood firmly behind China.

This was the end of World War II, the fall of the Iron Curtain, and the first hot war opened by the Cold War, which was a head-on confrontation between the Western camp dominated by the United States and The United Kingdom and the Eastern camp led by the Soviet Union and China.

When it was learned that China had sent volunteers to participate in the war, the Soviet Union opened all trans-Siberian railway transportation and fully guaranteed the Korean War.

Before a large amount of arms had been transported from Europe to Asia, the Soviet army allocated the first batch of cars, fuel, shells and other munitions and other materials to the volunteers in Boli, Lushun and other places, which were used by the volunteers to participate in the war in Korea, and later in the first and second battles.

Without the full assistance of the Soviet Union, the volunteer army would not have been able to assemble, maneuver, go abroad to participate in the war in just one month, and launch a second offensive such as the first and second campaigns in a row.

Obviously, this should be a matter of common sense.

However, many people still think that the Korean War was purely a single challenge between China and the US imperialists, and even when it comes to Soviet aid, they all think that it was after the Fourth Campaign.

To imagine the Korean War so superficially and simply is indeed a habit of thinking without knowledge gaps and lack of common sense, which makes a historical cold joke about Xia Worm Bing.

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Recently, I wrote:

Cold War: A Strategic Gain and Loss at the Battle of Chosin Lake

As a veteran and simple historian of civil warfare, I have been studying the Korean War and the Chosin Lake Campaign intermittently and intensively for no less than 30 years since I was young.

In the past, whenever I get updated materials and materials, I will think that I have gained something new.

I believe that in the deduction of the Battle of Chosin Lake, as a wandering oak tree focusing on military history, I naturally have some views that distinguish it from other friends.

This history can be written as a story, a script, a military treatise, or lyrical prose.

In short, whether from the left or the right, this history is after all our Chinese our own past, which should be known and respected as Chinese.

In view of the fact that the previous writing has been deleted a lot and more information has been added, I will write about the Battle of Chosin Lake in a panoramic way from the perspective of military and campaign as appropriate.