In October 1950, the 20th Army, which was originally on the outskirts of Shanghai, was relieved of its offensive mission to attack Taiwan.
Originally planned to go to Yanzhou, Shandong Province, for three months to repair, but unexpectedly, due to the change in the situation on the Korean battlefield, just after entering November, the troops received orders and began to move north on the 7th.
At that time, the cotton clothes of the troops were the standards of the area south of the Yangtze River, with large brimmed hats, flipped leather shoes, and cotton coats, all of which contained only a thin layer of cotton.
For wearing the clothes of the south to fight in the north, the troops took into account.
Therefore, according to the plan, we went to the Meihekou area in the northeast, and then briefly repaired for a week to give the troops time to change their equipment and prepare supplies.
However, the situation in Korea changed too quickly, the troops were still on the train, the General Staff issued an urgent order, and the 20th Army immediately entered The Dprk.
As a result, the troops not only did not have the repair time of a week in the Meihekou area, but the key was that the equipment and materials were too late to replenish.
At that time, even the pre-war mobilization was carried out on the train.
The train roared, pulling a group of warriors dressed in thin southern clothes, and entered the northeast, which was already a cold winter moon.
The train had just arrived in Shenyang, and the deputy commander of the Northeast Military Region got on the train to see the preparations, but he saw that the soldiers in front of him were about to enter the DPRK wearing thin clothes.
It was a place colder than the northeast, and as far as the soldiers were wearing, they could be regarded as cotton clothes in the south such as Shanghai.
When this comes to the north, it is at best an autumn coat.
He said with a serious look, "What's wrong with this, why is this getting, just wear such clothes, let alone go to a place where the ice and snow are fighting, even if you hide in the house and sleep, you can't bear it." ”
He asked the train to stop at Shenyang Station for two more hours and immediately go back to mobilize the organs of the military region to go back and rummage for cotton clothes.
In addition to the inventory in the warehouse, he mobilized cadres and fighters to take off his fur hats, boots and coats.
In this way, the troops finally received some warm clothes, but compared to the large troops, it was still a drop in the bucket.
Not only that, because the time is too tight, but also a temporary emergency, most of the soldiers who receive clothes are not matched, either large or small.
But the cold did not stop the soldiers, who had no hesitation and crossed the Yalu River at night with their guns.
At that time, we wanted to guarantee a secret march.
The enemy is blatantly on the road, and we can only go over the mountains and quietly hide from the occasional plane in the sky.
This led to logistical difficulties in supplying, and our grain was transported from the northeast to the river boundary, and then we could use a small cart to manually carry the grain and cross a Guangcheng Ridge for forty miles up and down.
When soldiers want to fight, the task of transporting grain naturally falls on the logistics personnel, but the logistics personnel are not enough, and the female comrades of the cultural and labor corps are also on it.
One person carried dozens of pounds on his back, and when he was halfway up the mountain, he couldn't move his back, so he sat in place and cried for a while.
Enough crying, wiping away tears, and continuing to carry grain up the mountain.
It was so easy to climb to the mountain, but there was really no strength to go down the mountain.
It is said that it is easy to go up the mountain and difficult to go down, and the female warrior who is tired and has no strength has come up with a way to roll down with a rice bag.
But the troops have been advancing, and such logistical supplies are difficult to keep up with.
Moreover, the combat area is sparsely populated, and there is little way to get any supplements there.
The rice bag carried by a warrior will be eaten in five or six days.
Local cadres mobilized the masses to give grain to the troops, but the local area was too poor, and the people could only come up with a few potatoes.
At that time, the area where the 20th Army was fighting was Chosin Lake, and the average altitude was 1,000 to 2,000 meters, and in the winter, it was a cold area of high mountains.
That year, the Siberian cold snap struck, and the lowest temperature dropped to minus 40 degrees.
In these cases, the Volunteers did not have any reference material at all.
Even the 1:5,000 operational map is only a copy of the military command.
Because of the inaccuracy of the information, such an incident occurred during the period.
The battle plan of the 58th Division was to enter the combat area through Dongbai Mountain, which, according to the information provided by the people, could pass through the army, and some people confirmed that there were Japanese troops who had walked through it.
But when I arrived at the foot of the mountain, I found that the snow had closed the mountain and could not pass at all.
That year the Japanese army passed in the summer and autumn, and now it is the time of severe winter.
As a result, the Eastern Front could only postpone the launch of the battle by one day.
The bitter cold did not stop the warriors a little, and they marched resolutely towards the designated place of the mission.
The hungry stomach did not block the belief of the warriors, who were really hungry, and grabbed the snow and stuffed it into their mouths, which was more or less something to eat.
On November 21, after more than ten days of long-distance raids, the 20th Army of the Ninth Corps, which had been hastily launched, lurked in the southwest of Liutanli near Chosin Lake.
At this time, all the commanders and fighters had not eaten or drunk for several days in a row, and in the environment in which they were located, the cold wind was still cutting at the body like a knife.
They stand still, even when they get up and warm up, they are also extravagant when they are lurking.
On the 26th, heavy snow suddenly fell around Chosin Lake.
Although this is more conducive to the soldiers to hide, the temperature has also plummeted to minus 40 degrees.
You know, if we can freeze meat and other foods in the refrigerator to a hard state, it is only about minus 18.
In such an environment, more than a thousand soldiers were frozen to death, and countless frostbite were injured.
At dusk on the 27th, the warriors who were lurking in the Chosin Lake area finally received the order to launch a general offensive, and they could stand up and move their fists and feet to warm up.
But some warriors found that one foot could not move, and he dragged and limped towards the enemy.
Some people also found that the gun freeze could not be used, how to pull the trigger at the finger, the gun just did not sound.
Picking up their bayonets and using them as cold weapons without firing, they rushed into the enemy.
However, the long period of cold and hunger left the warriors without any strength.
But the cannons and tanks on the other side, as well as the enemy with sleeping bags, leather coats, and steaks, were not affected by the weather.
This battle lasted for three days and three nights.
The enemy could not bear the tenacity of the volunteers and began to retreat.
The soldiers of the Twentieth Army immediately began to pursue and intercept according to the situation.
Braving the bitter cold and starving, the two-legged volunteer army, crossing the mountains and mountains, also surpassed the mechanized marching enemy.
Then, they can reach the designated location as soon as possible, so that it is convenient to set up an ambush in advance to intercept the enemy.
The volunteers, with their steely will, pestered the enemy in pursuit and fiercely.
The direct enemy retreated more than 500 meters in a day.
On the battlefield, commanders and fighters can be seen everywhere fighting hard to kill the enemy and bravely moving forward.
Many people ran off their shoes and continued to fight barefoot in the snow.
Frostbitten on the legs, unable to walk, the soldiers hung grenades all over their waists and lay on their backs on the road with the American tanks...
There were also some soldiers in charge of ambushes, lying on their stomachs in the snow, and they could not get up again.
A company of the 58th Division responsible for the ambush, more than a hundred officers and men, all froze to death on the front of their ambush.
They turned into ice sculptures, and each of them was still holding weapons and watching the direction of the enemy in front of them.
And now, I want them to see the sunshine of our happy life in heaven.
At that time, the warriors did not have a map, and they were easily lost in the deep forest.
But they always show up on the battlefield in time, because they know that where the gun is fired, they are going.