"I don't believe that there are tasks that can't be completed, I don't believe that there are difficulties that can't be overcome, I don't believe that there are enemies that can't be defeated!"
"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! ”
Of these two sentences, the first sentence is the "three disbelief" proposed by the martyr Yang Gensi, and the second sentence is the suicide note left by the ice sculpture company martyr Song Amao, the two martyrs probably did not know each other before they died, but they both died in the Battle of Changjin Lake.
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The Battle of Chosin Lake was one of the most tragic battles in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, and the volunteer soldiers stubbornly fought against the US army in a low temperature of minus forty degrees, paid a huge casualty price, and won the final victory. In this battle, countless heroes emerged, such as Yang Gensi, who led the whole platoon to repel the enemy's three attacks, and when the troops were sacrificed to the point of being left alone, they rushed into the enemy position with explosives packs and died with the enemy. For example, the ice sculpture company warriors who maintained their fighting posture in the low temperature until the last moment, and froze to death in the snow.
The people's fighters drive away the tigers and leopards, sacrificing their lives and forgetting their deaths to preserve peace. No matter how many years have passed, the stories of these heroes will bring tears to their eyes, but some people have put forward different insights, and some people ask, why Yang Gensi and Ice Sculpture would rather sacrifice than retreat? Did the volunteers have to fight until they were sacrificed in order to complete the mission?
Those who raise such questions probably underestimate the determination of the people's fighters to defend their homes and defend the country, and also underestimate the heroic bones; of course, the great spirit of the volunteer army need not be said, we all know it. But we can start from another perspective, that is, the perspective of the reality of the war, to explain why Yang Gensi and the Ice Sculpture Lian did not retreat until death.
First of all, Yang Gensi, the place where the martyr Yang Gensi martyrs died was called "Xiao Gaoling on the southeast side of the 1071.1 Highland on the shore of Changjin Lake" on the military map, don't even look at this small Gaoling ridge does not even have a name, its location is very dangerous, because this small Gaoling can control the only road under the mountain, and after the battle starts, if the US army wants to flee south, it will inevitably have to reach the highway through Xiaogaoling.
Therefore, this small high ridge must be firmly in the hands of our volunteer army, because in the Battle of Chosin Lake, we paid a very high price, if we could not annihilate the main force of the US army, but let them escape, with the manpower and material resources of the US army, the fleeing troops could soon recover their vitality and become a combat effective force again, then we fought in vain.
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Because of this, the US army also mobilized a very powerful force to attack Xiaogaoling, Yang Gensi led three companies and three platoons of fighters, in terms of the combat effectiveness of the volunteer army and the number of people that Xiao Gaoling could accommodate, this number is not very small, and it is enough to resist the general attack, but the difficulty of this battle is that the number of enemies faced by Yang Gensi and other fighters is unknown.
When the volunteers launch an offensive, the entire strength of the US First Marine Division plus a part of the US Seventh Division will be completely trapped in the encirclement of the Volunteer Army, the total number of the First Marine Division alone will reach 25,000 people, our army adopts the encirclement and annihilation tactics, and the American troops in the encirclement are almost completely annihilated, but before they are annihilated, these tens of thousands of American troops who did not die may become the enemy that Yang Gensi will face.
Because the encirclement and annihilation speed of our army did not meet expectations, coupled with the crazy counterattack of the US army, the three platoons suffered an incomparably fierce attack, although the three platoons as a defensive side had the advantage, but because of the huge gap in numbers and equipment, the soldiers were all sacrificed in the end. But their sacrifice is not meaningless, Yang Gensi led the soldiers to hold on to Xiaogaoling for a day and a night, for the troops to annihilate the American army to win a lot of precious time, the victory of the Battle of Chosin Lake, they should remember a great contribution.
In the Battle of Chosin Lake, there was more than one ice sculpture company, and the most representative one was the 6th Company of the 2nd Battalion, 177th Regiment, 59th Division of the 20th Army of the Volunteer Army, and this company and the Yang Gensi Company were in the same area - Hagaru-ri. But their tasks were different, Yang Gensi was to prevent the American troops inside the encirclement from escaping, and the ice sculpture company was to prevent the American troops outside the encirclement from entering the rescue.
The tactic of encirclement and annihilation must strictly prevent contact between the enemy inside and outside the encirclement, otherwise the inside and outside should be combined, and the US army may launch a counterattack against us, so after successfully encircling the US First Marine Division, the volunteer army mobilized troops to block the reinforcements outside the encirclement.
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Similarly, how long Yang Gensi fought, the ice sculpture company fought for about a long time, they need to hold out the same time in this battle, because the tasks they performed all pointed to the same purpose, to ensure that the American troops in the encirclement were completely annihilated.
For the soldiers of the Ice Sculpture Company, they not only need to resist the enemy, but also resist the low temperature environment, because they do not know when the enemy will appear, so they have to maintain a fighting posture in the snow for a long time, while ambushing, while preparing for battle. In order to speed up their speed, some fighters simply take off their shoes and socks and snipe the enemy barefoot in the snow. At night, the temperature was even colder, and many fighters silently maintained their fighting posture and stopped breathing.
The next morning, a team of American troops searching in the snow found the traces of the ice sculpture company, and after a cold night, the ice sculpture company had no living mouth left, and the soldiers held the guns in their hands and turned into a sculpture in the snow, which made the always arrogant American army feel shocked.
Later, Song Shilun mentioned the ice sculpture company in the campaign report: "After the battle began, none of the company stood up, and when it came to clean up the battlefield, it was found that all the cadres and soldiers of the company froze to death on the position in a combat formation, and the body was carefully examined without any wounds and blood. ”
Can't they retreat? Theoretically, it is possible, between life and death, people are of course more willing to choose to live, but between the survival of the state and the life and death of the individual, how will people choose?
Yang Gensi and Ice Sculpture Lian did not hesitate to choose the country, we believe that these young people who sacrificed for the country, they love life and cherish life more than anyone, but they are willing to dedicate their lives to the motherland, they sacrifice themselves to fulfill the oath of defending the country.
The snow and wind of Chosin Lake buried them, but their great spirit will not be forgotten, and those great warriors sacrificed for the motherland, for us.