With the hit movie "Chosin Lake", the Battle of Chosin Lake was pushed to a hot word for a while. What's more, many people began to study and discuss the Battle of Chosin Lake. As a result, the "Chosin Lake" movie and the Battle of Chosin Lake were naturally twisted together, and it has become the hot topic that people have been talking about most in recent times. This phenomenon is in stark contrast to the silence of the Chosin Lake Campaign for many years. It can be said that if there is no "Chosin Lake" movie, many people do not even know that there is such a battle. Then, we can't help but ask, why was such a famous battle at Chosin Lake once so unknown?
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="17" > one: assist direction, focus less than the main attack. </h1>
Although the Second Campaign to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea was divided into two relatively independent battlefields, one on the Western Front and the other on the Eastern Front. However, judging from the overall campaign planning arrangement at that time, the focus of the entire campaign was still on the Western Front. We can corroborate this from Chairman Mao Zedong's telegrams with Peng Dehuai on combat planning.
Of course, with the determination of the battle objective of the Chosin Lake Battlefield on the Eastern Front as the annihilation of the US Ace Marine Division, the Eastern Front battlefield cannot be simply defined as a subordinate and cooperative battlefield. Even so, judging from the operational weight and influence of the entire second campaign, and from the overall positioning of the battlefields on the eastern and western fronts by the history of the war, the western front is heavier than the eastern front and is the main campaign direction. This is an indisputable fact.
We know that there are two relatively separate battlefields, but internally, because there is a distinction between the primary and secondary directions, it is clear that the focus of the main direction is easier to focus and more easily remembered.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="18" > two: the casualties were too great, and the battle was won tragically and tragically. </h1>
The Battle of Chosin Lake, which was not so famous before, was also a battle that neither side wanted to mention.
The U.S. army did not want to mention it, after all, its ace 1st Marine Division was beaten by the 9th Corps and fled. One of the polar bear regiments was also wiped out. Moreover, the entire front withdrew to the vicinity of the 38th Line. Our army does not want to mention that the main reason is that the casualties are too large. And this kind of too much is not a combat attrition, but a frostbite reduction. This made the Chosin Lake Campaign "accomplish a huge strategic task" in the words of the chairman, but the cost of the completed task was too great after all, and the combat and non-combat attrition was too great, which undoubtedly left a tragic and tragic mark and color on the entire campaign.
This kind of tragedy and tragedy can also be used as a simple analogy: the Battle of Menglianggu should be regarded as a battle with relatively large casualties. We suffered 12,000 casualties and annihilated more than 30,000 men of the nationalist 74th Division. The numerical ratio is about 1 to 3. At the Battle of Chosin Lake, we suffered 40,000 to 50,000 casualties and annihilated more than 12,000 enemy troops. Although fighting the U.S. army is not on par with fighting the Kuomintang army. However, the comparison of casualty figures still has certain reference significance.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="19" > third: reluctance to mention, film and television and literary propaganda is weaker. </h1>
It is also a sub-campaign of the second campaign to resist THE United States and aid Korea, and the previous film and television literature themes reflected the situation on the western front battlefield more publicity. Including Wei Wei's "Who is the Cutest Man", which is included in the middle school textbook, the movie "Surprise Attack", and so on. This makes the fierce battle stories on the battlefield on the Western Front, such as the fierce battle sansholi and the bloody battle Songgufeng, well-known and familiar. In particular, Peng Dehuai's "Long Live the 38th Army" has pushed the revolutionary hero effect and influence of the Western Front battlefield to the extreme.
Another point is that when we studied the history of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, we found that the history of the war was very colorful in its introduction to the battlefields on the Western Front, but not much on the Battle of Chosin Lake on the Eastern Front. Judging from the memoirs of senior generals who participated in the battlefields of the eastern and western fronts, the various memoirs of the same western front are very plump and thick, while the memories of the Battle of Chosin Lake on the eastern front are not many.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="20" > fourth: review and reflection, the battle feels heavier. </h1>
After the end of the Second Campaign to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, judging from the summary after the war, in addition to peng Dehuai's aforementioned remarks of "long live the 38th Army," the Central Military Commission also specially forwarded the combat experience of the 38th Army to the whole army. It should be known that in the name of the Central Military Commission, the experience of military-level combat is extremely rare. From these, it can be seen that from the headquarters of the command to the headquarters of the Volunteer Army, the battlefield on the Western Front is regarded as a completely victorious battle, as a classic battle.
In stark contrast, although Chairman Mao Zedong fully affirmed the operations of the 9th Corps on the Eastern Front, saying that it had "completed a huge strategic task." However, the headquarters of the 9 corps and the three military departments that participated in the war were not satisfied and proud of the chairman's affirmation and encouragement. On the contrary, after the Battle of Chosin Lake, when Song Shilun, commander and political commissar of the corps, reported that he was not doing well and reviewed five reasons.
As for the military level, "Zhang Renchu, commander of the 26th Army, also made a review, and the commander of the 88th Division and others were also dismissed." Zhang Yixiang, commander of the 20th Army, Liao Zhengguo, deputy commander of the 27th Army, peng Deqing, commander of the 27th Army, and others also felt that the battle was not fought well. You must know that these people are the most capable warriors in Sanye. For these generals who have fought countless big battles and fought hard battles and vicious battles, and for these generals who have led soldiers to fight for many years and cherished the lives of soldiers, although they have the affirmation and comfort of the chairman to "accomplish a huge strategic task," their hearts are certainly contradictory and complicated.
One is a big book and even the Experience Forwarded by the Central Military Commission, and the other is a review and reflection within the Corps. This made the popularity of the two battles on the east and west lines form a sharp contrast, and later to the point where the mention of the Battle of Chosin Lake was somewhat secretive.
Looking back, the popularity of the "Chosin Lake" movie this time, and incidentally promoting the study of the Battle of Chosin Lake, Shuai Ke believes that this is a very good phenomenon. Its significance is not only a simple issue of bringing the Chosin Lake Campaign to a fever, but also an issue that enabled us to more comprehensively and deeply appreciate the hard-won issue of the great War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, and to promote the issue of national defense education at present in a more comprehensive and in-depth manner.
Main References: "Mao Zedong's Military Writings", "Peng Dehuai's Biography", "History of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea"