As we all know, the recent hit TV series "Crossing the Yalu River" reflects the course of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea in an artistic way, and the author believes that this is a very excellent TV series that shows the spirit of the volunteer army that is not afraid of sacrifice. The author was very touched when watching the drama, especially the Iron Plains Blockade Battle broadcast on Sunday, which made the author very emotional.
The author believes that the film, in line with the principle that major events are not vain and small things are not informal, has 100 percent restored the historical facts of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, and some small historical details have been weakened and weakened, resulting in some historical facts and hard wounds.
First, on the issue of Admiral Hong's transfer to the Northeast Border Defense Army.
In the TV series, Admiral Hong was originally on a business trip to Beijing on behalf of Ye Shuai, and as soon as he got off the train, he met Deng Hua, who directly said that the Central Military Commission had an order to go to the northeast together, and within a few minutes General Hong got on the train.
According to General Hong's memoirs, General Hong was originally sent to Beijing by Ye Shuai to ask for instructions on the merger of the 15th Corps and the Guangdong Military Region. After General Hong got off the train, the first person he saw was Deng Hua, which was also reflected in the TV series.
But not as stated in the TV series, Deng Hua directly pulled him on the train from the north to the northeast. Deng Hua first pulled General Hong to Lin Zong's house, and Lin Zong announced to General Hong in person the order of the Central Military Commission to send him to the northeast, and asked General Hong to go to the northeast after lunch that day. Before leaving, Lin Zong also asked Admiral Hong to call Ye Shuai.
The author believes that General Hong's memoirs are more reasonable in plot, deng hua could not have directly announced his appointment on the railway station platform, and pulled general Hong to the northeast, which is not in line with the organizational relations between the upper and lower levels of our army at that time, because Deng Hua had already transferred to the thirteenth corps, while Hong Xuezhi still had the fifteenth corps. It would be more appropriate for Lin to announce the appointment. The TV series "Admiral Hong Xuezhi" filmed a few years ago reflects this detail.
2. A Battle of Wenjing.
The Battle of Wenjing was the first battle to resist US aggression and aid Korea, and it was of great significance. It is a pity that the details are not restored very satisfactorily in the TV series.
In the TV series, the story of the Battle of Wenjing is that the 118th Division of the 40th Army conducted an ambush in Liangshuidong, saying that it was a regiment that annihilated the enemy, and a small number of enemies escaped into Wenjing. The battle was very fierce, and the Rok army quickly returned fire after being ambushed, and also fought hand-to-hand with the charging our army, and the battle scene was specially filmed for several minutes.
In fact, the battle of The Two Water Caves ended in only 20 minutes, of which only the first five minutes were fire attacks, the Rok army was panicked after being ambushed, there was no organization of resistance, most of the soldiers hid under the car, and the volunteer army charged with one thing left - to pull the ROK soldiers out from under the car.
The result of the battle of Liangshuidong was not the annihilation of one regiment, but the annihilation of the third battalion of the second regiment of the Rokmen Sixth Division and the artillery detachment of the second regiment. The second regiment learned that the three battalions had been annihilated and quickly took refuge in The City of Wenjing. In the evening, our army transferred the 118th And 120th Divisions to the north and south, and completely annihilated the remaining two battalions of the Second Regiment.
The author believes that the performance of the 40th Army in a campaign is worth filming more, with the strength of one army, it annihilated 4 regiments of the ROK Army in one week, using two ambushes, one to lure the enemy to go deep, and one to encircle the point to help, worthy of the prestige of the whirlwind column, but unfortunately the TV series has too little ink.
3. Battle of Yunshan Mountain
The Battle of Unsan was the first time our army engaged the U.S. army, and the 39th Army annihilated the U.S. ace cavalry eighth regiment in more than ten hours. The most critical factor in winning a battle is to advance the attack time.
In the TV series, changing the attack time to the advance of the military commander Wu Xinquan proposed, and Peng made a decision. But in fact, General Manager Peng generally does not interfere with the specific fighting style of the troops at the bottom, it is impossible for one army to fight alone, and even the time of the general attack must be reported to General Manager Peng to make a decision. General Manager Peng is very open to the troops below, generally only arranging combat tasks, and the specific how to fight is determined by the column/army.
According to the military history of the 39th Army, wang Yang, commander of the 116th Division, found that the US army showed signs of retreat and proposed an early attack. In the Battle of Yunshan, Wang Yang's 116th Division undertook the task of frontal attack, so Wang Yang was particularly sensitive to the movements of the enemy inside and outside the city. Wang Yang reported the enemy's movements and suggestions for an early attack to Wu Xinquan, commander of the 39th Army, who made a decision.
It is a pity that there is a regimental commander Wang Fuzhi in the film, but there is no shot of the division commander Wang Yang, in the history of the war, the 116th Division can be said to be one of the strongest divisions in the volunteer army's record, Yunshan served as the main attack, and broke through the most dangerous beachhead of the Linjin River in three battles. The first to invade Pyongyang and Seoul served as garrisons in the capitals of the two countries. This is inseparable from the excellent command of Commander Wang Yang.
Decision-making for four or five campaigns
In the film, the decision-making process of the five battles is as follows: Xie Chief of Staff briefly introduced the enemy's situation, and then suggested that the enemy be put in Jinhua and Tieyuan to fight, and General Manager Peng quickly rejected this view, believing that the north of Jinhua and Tieyuan was the Pingkang Plain, and our army was unfavorable to the enemy there. After that, Deputy Commander Deng also nodded in agreement. Deputy Commander Hong sighed that the logistical pressure was great again.
But in fact, the decision to fight the fifth campaign was met with a heated debate.
According to General Peng's self-description and General Hong's memoirs, it was General Hong who first proposed to put the enemy into Jinhua and fight north of Tieyuan. After Admiral Hong proposed it, Deng, Xie, and Du all agreed. However, Peng Zong believed: 1. North of Jinhua and Tieyuan is a plain, which is suitable for the deployment of the enemy's mechanized troops; 2. There are a large number of materials stored in Wukaili near Tieyuan, and it is difficult to transfer materials by putting the enemy in to fight. 3. The enemy has an attempt to land from the flank and must attack to disrupt the enemy's deployment.
General Hong held that: 1. The Third Corps and the Nineteenth Corps have just entered the DPRK, are not familiar with the terrain, and have put the enemy in to fight, and our army has more time to prepare. 2. If we fight south of Jinhua and Tieyuan, and there are 200 kilometers of grain-free areas south of Tieyuan and Jinhua, the logistical pressure on our army will increase.
Admiral Hong made three suggestions, but Peng Zong still insisted on taking the initiative to attack south of Jinhua and Tieyuan.
After the end of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, General Peng summed up and admitted that General Hong's opinion was correct. In his later years, when writing his memories, he also specifically mentioned that Admiral Hong had proposed three times before five battles.
The fifth is a military hard wound.
First, let's talk about equipment.
In the film, Lu Chengfeng always holds a sniper rifle with a scope, which is actually a common problem in domestic war films in recent years. It is armed with the M1941 semi-automatic rifle, which is the favorite gun of the protagonist of the domestic anti-war film. However, the shooting accuracy of this semi-automatic rifle is actually not high, and it does not have the conditions for an optical sight and silencer. But in the play, not only the scope is added, but also the scope is mounted a few centimeters above the gun body, and the author wonders after watching it: how to aim this gun.
Secondly, there is a relatively small hard wound, in the Tieyuan Blockade Battle, perhaps the director wants to show our army with inferior equipment to resist the crazy attack of the US army armed to the teeth. The weapons of the volunteers in the film are still Czech light machine guns and 38 large rifles and other light weapons.
In fact, the Nineteenth Corps and the Third Corps had long since changed their armor before entering the DPRK, and in the spring of 1951, the Nineteenth Corps and the 3rd Corps received a total of 18 divisions of Soviet ordnance light weapons, fully equipped and carried more than one base of ammunition before entering the DPRK to fight.
With sharp weapons such as Bobosha, Shuilianzhu, and 107mm mortars, the 63rd Army was able to fight fiercely for 13 days with more than 50,000 people in a 25-kilometer-wide and 20-kilometer-deep area with the 1st Cavalry Division, the 25th Division, the British 28th Brigade, and the British 29th Brigade under the condition that the enemy was outnumbered.
Let's talk about tactics.
The author feels that the author regrets that the film does not show the offensive or defensive tactics of the volunteer army, especially the two blockade battles filmed - the blockade battle on the south bank of the Han River and the Tieyuan blockade battle, which were densely arranged by the volunteer army in the defensive trench, first bombed by the US aircraft cannon, and then stretched out to fight with the US army. When the US troops rushed up, the commanders and fighters raised their light machine guns and shouted to charge, and they could not run out of the common disease of domestic war films.
In fact, as the most defensive unit of the Nationalist army, the original 60th Army is still a very good defender of the 50th Army of the Volunteer Army, and it is still very defensive, and it is necessary to shoot it according to the TV series, and the 50th Army will not say that the top is a month, and the top few days will be blown up by the US aircraft artillery tanks.
Take the only regimental honorary unit of the Volunteer Army, the Baiyun Mountain Regiment, that is, the 447th Regiment of the 149th Division of the 50th Army, as an example, which defended Baiyun Mountain, Guangjiao Mountain, and Brother Peak.
Before the war, the regiment had anticipated in advance that it would be indiscriminately bombed by the US army, and had taken many measures to avoid artillery fire: the telephone lines all chose concealed lines to set up two-way lines, and the regimental headquarters could grasp the defensive situation of each company in real time; it urgently built 22 heavy machine gun firing points with cover, 47 light machine gun firing points, 22 mortar firing positions, 360 combat group shooting bunkers with covered units, and more than 50 personnel shelters. Bunkers and concealments were able to resist enemy guns on the ground, as well as enemy strafing and petrol flare-up in the air. A number of reserve positions and fortifications were built, and machine-gun mortar positions were quickly moved when they were fired.
When the enemy is firing artillery fire, except for a few troops to monitor, the rest are hidden in the shelter, and when the enemy artillery is transferred and the infantry is about to approach the charge, I enter the firing position again and suddenly open fire, so that I can repeatedly crush the enemy's attack and minimize casualties.
In the battle, the US military did not blindly charge in frontal clusters like in the film, which was a tactic used by the National Army. When attacking, the US army generally likes to use fierce artillery fire to cover the frontal attack of the squad with 3-5 tanks to test and attract the fire points of our army. One of the troops swerved back to the flank of our position and made a pinch attack. However, this tactic was defeated by the crossfire net of the Dian army's side fire combined with oblique and direct fire.