In this battle of blood, ice and snow, the volunteer soldiers wore thin cotton-padded clothes and fought bloody battles with the US troops in the extremely cold environment of MINUS 4 degrees. Even if the blood of the advance soldiers is frozen with the body, it can't stop the endless forward charge of the follow-up troops! In the face of the fully armed and mechanized-assisted American Marine Division, the Volunteers fought to the death, and with extremely backward weapons and equipment, they created a miracle of adowing an entire regiment of the US military.
The 1st Marine Division suffered its first heavy blow in 2 years, forcing the enemy to start an unprecedented fiasco. However, the volunteers suffered heavy casualties in the battle, and even 125 soldiers were frozen into sculptures. What kind of fierce battle is this? What kind of history of blood and tears have volunteers experienced?
In the battle of Changjin Lake, the volunteers relied on the flesh and blood to completely defeat the well-equipped and armed American Marine Division. At that time, the enemy's courage was cracked, and he had to flee across the board in horror! With the success of the battle of Changjin Lake, the volunteers not only successfully recovered the area north of the 38th parallel, but also completely repelled the mighty United Nations troops to the Qingchuan River south of the 38th parallel.
The great victory in the battle of Changjin Lake not only saved the situation of the war on the Korean Peninsula, but also showed the world the iron will of the volunteers to risk their lives and the invincible real strength of China soldiers! Do you think the volunteers are heroic and invincible? If you deeply agree, please leave the words "the volunteers are mighty and domineering" in the comment area!
But now the question comes again. Why do volunteers have to start the battle of Changjin Lake? In extremely harsh environment, and under the condition of backward equipment; How did the volunteers annihilate the American ace troops and what kind of nightmare did they leave for each other? In this video, Grassroots will lead many friends to review the tearful history and explore the hidden secrets behind the epic battle of Changjin Lake.
As we all know, after the conflict broke out on the Korean peninsula, the Korean People's Army won successive victories with absolute strength, and successfully captured Seoul, the capital of South Korea. It seems that reunification of the whole peninsula is just around the corner. Unexpectedly, the United States joined forces with Japan, Britain, Australia and other countries to form a 17-country Coalition. After successfully landing in Incheon, it quickly changed the battlefield situation in North Korea. At the same time, the United States also attempted to spread the war to the border of our country.
At the last straw, the great leader decisively sent more than 3, volunteers to fight in the DPRK, which dealt a great blow to the arrogance of the United Nations army. In November 195, the first campaign to resist US aggression and aid Korea came to an end. What achievements did we achieve? The volunteers forced the United Nations army by thunder, and had to flee from the Yalu River to the south of Qingchuan River. This foiled the enemy's attempt to occupy the Korean peninsula in an all-round way on the eve of Thanksgiving.
will the U.N. army headed by the U.S. army give up? This matter is naturally not so simple! The ambitious American army made a comeback again, so it made a more careful general attack plan and tried to end the Korean War before Christmas. What kind of operational deployment does the enemy have? The us military decided to send a small group of ground troops first to carry out a tentative attack on our defensive areas.
Then he ordered the 1th Army and the 8th Army to split into two roads and launch a general attack on the northern region along the eastern and western lines respectively. Facing the menacing stubborn enemy, the volunteers still maintained a calm attitude; We give full play to our own advantages, adopt the strategy of luring the enemy in depth, and skillfully use the method of combining positional warfare, guerrilla warfare and mobile warfare to break the enemy one by one. However, the tactics of the volunteers are far more than that. We also delayed the enemy on the battlefield for a long time by means of tactics such as perfect division and encirclement, interspersed circuitous and total annihilation.
To lay a foundation for the follow-up troops to carry out circuitous and interspersed operations and realize the overall encirclement of the enemy. Among them, in the western battlefield, the 13 th Corps of Volunteers fought bravely and successfully defeated all the United Nations troops with six troops. As for the legion that undertakes the task of the Eastern Front, it is the third army of the Ninth Corps led by Song Shilun.
Since the defeat in the first battle, MacArthur, Commander-in-Chief of the United Nations Army, has always been hard to get over it, so he quickly launched the second battle. He always believed that his army could defeat Kun in World War I, and then happily returned to his hometown for Christmas! With the defeat of the western front, MacArthur pinned his hopes on the eastern front.
In order to confuse the enemy, the 42nd Army of the Volunteer Army not only voluntarily abandoned the south of Changjin Lake, but also deliberately reduced the results on a large scale, showing a gesture of fear of fighting. Sure enough, MacArthur, who has always been conceited, is even more carried away; He thinks that the volunteers are really exaggerating, and the previous attack situation is just a symbolic attack! Based on this situation, the United Nations Army Headquarters urged the Eastern Army to accelerate its advance.
On November 24th, the 1th Army of the United States launched an offensive to the north along the highways of Xianxing and Changjin Lake. What exactly is the origin of the US Tenth Army? It should be noted that the 1th Army consists of the 1st Marine Division, that is, the 1st Marine Division, and the 3rd and 7th Infantry Divisions. During the Second World War, the Third Infantry Division participated in the Battle of North Africa in Europe, the Landing War in South France and the Landing War in Sicily, and had quite rich combat experience.
The 7th Infantry Division has fought with the Japanese army in the Pacific for many times, and is known for its precision and reliability, and is praised by the world as the "drip-drip division". However, the most powerful fighting force in the 1th Army of the United States is the 1st Marine Division, which is undoubtedly the trump card army among the American trump cards. The success of the First Marine Division in World War I also originated from the Pacific battlefield.
This army fought fiercely with Japanese troops stubbornly clinging to Guadao, Peleliu and Okinawa, and seriously dampened the Japanese spirit. It is relying on the heroic exploits and fearless spirit that the First Marine Division has won three commendation orders from the President. After the end of World War II, the First Marine Division also went to North China to help Kuomintang troops capture cities, and it was not until September 1947 that they all left China.
Generally speaking, the 1st Marine Division has witnessed the fighting capacity of Japanese and national armies on the battlefield. In view of this, they don't seem to pay attention to the volunteers in front of them. However, not long after, this army will soon be severely taught by the volunteers at the peak of light infantry in history. How will our army resist the powerful offensive of the 1 th Army of the United States? In order to completely smash the enemy's attack, the Ninth Corps of Volunteers will launch a fierce fight against the US in the vicinity of Changjin Lake!
Before describing this battle, it is necessary to know the general situation of Changjin Lake. Changjin Lake is located in the northern part of the Korean Peninsula and belongs to an artificial lake located in the upper reaches of Changjin River. The average altitude of the location of Changjin Lake is quite high, which can reach at least one kilometer. The mountains around here are mountainous and covered with vast forest vegetation, so the roads that can pass are very limited.
What's even more frightening is that when the winter came in 195, Changjin Lake ushered in the coldest and chilly weather in history. And suffered a cold current that has not appeared in 5 years, so that the minimum temperature can reach MINUS 4 degrees. In such a harsh environment, even a normal life is difficult; The volunteers are about to fight fiercely with the American army here, and the difficulties they face can be imagined. However, in the vast snowfield, there are nearly 15 thousand people in three armies under the jurisdiction of the Ninth Corps, and they have been quietly waiting for the appearance of hunting targets.
The Ninth Corps of Volunteers was able to lurk here smoothly. It really experienced a narrow escape. Why do you describe it like this? In the context of the shortage of cold-proof materials, we have to set foot on the journey ahead of time in order to gain the initiative in the battlefield. In the first week of entering the Korean peninsula, the weather of the Ninth Corps was too cold, which led to more than 9 soldiers sleeping here forever.
However, in the eyes of the heroic volunteers, there is no reason to retreat and fear even if there are many swords, mountains and seas ahead. In this way, our soldiers, with unparalleled tenacious belief, simply climbed over one snow mountain after another on two legs. In order to avoid being discovered by enemy reconnaissance planes, the volunteers insisted on not making a fire or cooking during the March; When you are really hungry, you can only eat frozen potato pieces every day, or you can eat fried noodles with snow.
Being in extremely cold environment, even American troops with excellent warm-keeping equipment are complaining. However, in the face of the test of life and death, the volunteers have always maintained a speed of 3 kilometers per day; After ten days in a row, they finally gathered quietly near Changjin Lake under the nose of the US Tenth Army.
when hundreds of thousands of our troops advanced into the eastern front, the American army was still unaware of it. This textbook-level military action of our army was highly praised by the world afterwards and was praised as a great miracle in the history of contemporary war! When the ninth corps arrived at the scheduled combat position in Changjin Lake, it initially found out the enemy's deployment after careful investigation. When everything is ready, we can attack the first marine division of the United States.
at 1 o'clock in the middle of the night on November 27th, our army dispatched eight divisions of the 2th Army and the 27th Army under the jurisdiction of the 9th Corps, and launched a fierce exchange of fire with the 1th Army of the US Army. Smith, the division commander of the First Marine Division, looked at the volunteers from all over the mountains, and at that time it was hard to accept the facts. He racked his brains and couldn't understand how the volunteers marched in secret and then fell from the sky.
while the American army was in chaos, our army decided to seize the fighter plane in time and apply the tactics of dividing and encircling the enemy. After a night-long fierce attack, the first division and the seventh infantry division of the United States Marine Corps were gradually cut off by our army into five parts. At that time, the tenth army of the United States had not yet found out the battlefield situation, and it was completely caught in the encirclement of the volunteers.
does the us military still have the ability to break through at this time? As the elite of the American elite, the First Marine Division can't speak for itself. The U.S. military, which has slowed down, quickly stabilized its position and is not willing to sit still; So they rely on tanks to organize three circular positions, and under the cover of various light and heavy machine guns and howitzers, they rely on dense and powerful crossfire nets to stop the volunteers from attacking.
after a short respite, the commander of the 1th Army of the United States made a decisive decision and ordered all teams to break through the southern gap and achieve a perfect retreat as quickly as possible. Can our army effectively stop the enemy from fleeing? It should be noted that if the US military wants to complete its retreat, it must cross Dead Eagle Ridge.
As the only way for Changjin Lake to connect with the outside world, there is a spacious highway line at the bottom of Dead Eagle Ridge, which can meet the transportation and driving of large mechanized equipment. In the early morning of November 28th, the 1st Marine Division of the United States acted around Eagle Ridge. Under the attack of the enemy's super-strong artillery, the volunteer soldiers resisted wave after wave of attacks. Seeing that it had been impossible to break through, the US military used air power to carry out indiscriminate bombing of our positions.
the war has developed to a white-hot stage, and the bombing time of American warplanes has continued to increase; At that time, the position of Siyingling had already been annihilated in the raging fire. Under the destruction of countless shells and petrol bombs, every piece of land had already turned into black scorched earth; Even the thick ice layer frozen at MINUS tens of degrees quickly melted and sublimated under the impact of artillery.
Unfortunately, after five days of defending the position of Dead Eagle Ridge to the death, there are only more than 6 volunteers left. Dai Kelin, commander of the 59th division of the 2th Army, knew that his position could not be held, so he made the last special arrangement specially. He ordered the soldiers of the 117 th regiment, the 1 ST battalion and the 6 th company to circle a high ground behind Death Eagle Ridge, thus ambushing the fleeing enemy. For volunteers, it is difficult to go to Korea to fight; The gap between the enemy and ourselves in many aspects is really too wide. What are the specific points?
firstly, the heavy weapons of the volunteers are too backward; Take the First Marine Division of the United States as an example. The army has three marine regiments, two of which are actually equipped with five tanks and 24 guns. The other is an artillery regiment with 72 1-mm heavy guns. The impact radius of howitzer shock wave is 1 meters, and the effective killing radius can reach 5 meters.
Not only that, the 1st Marine Division also has more than 7 tanks to form a tank battalion. On the other hand, the artillery division of the ninth corps of our army has only one mountain artillery battalion; Only a dozen mountain guns, old-fashioned rocket launchers and mortars are equipped; How can such crude equipment break through the tank armor protection?
Second, the individual firepower of the volunteers is too weak; The US military is equipped with the M1 Garland rifle, which can be loaded with eight bullets at a time, and it only takes four seconds to fire all of them. Volunteers have only one submachine gun in each class and only one light machine gun in each row; Most of the weapons in the hands of ordinary soldiers are Chinese official rifles and March 8 covers; And some soldiers are still using hanyang guns made in the late Qing dynasty.
thirdly, the information communication of volunteers is difficult; The American infantry division is equipped with more than 1,6 radio stations, which can be accurate to each row and class; Our army only has a dozen radio stations, and units below battalion level can only rely on bugles and whistles for communication, which has delayed many fighters. Fourth, the logistics support of volunteers is difficult; The US Tenth Army owns more than 4, automobiles and 4 armored vehicles. And we not only have hundreds of cars, but also are often bombarded by enemy planes, and most of the time we rely on human transportation.
fifthly, the volunteers are seriously short of warm materials; Due to the emergency of the ninth corps, most of the soldiers fought in thin cotton-padded clothes; In contrast, the US military not only has complete warm clothes, but also cold clothes, duck down sleeping bags and so on. Perhaps the U.S. military knows the difficulties faced by the volunteers, so it has been trying to get through the cut-off positions. How will the volunteers who are more and more brave respond?
Song Shilun, commander of the Ninth Corps, certainly won't give the enemy a breathing space, and then ordered all ministries to concentrate their superior forces and implement the method of annihilation one by one against the enemy; In this process, the 79th Division of the 27th Army was responsible for containing the 1st Division of the US Marine Corps in Liutanli. The eightieth Division and the eightieth Division attacked the eastern section of Changjin Lake and wiped out the Seventh Normal University of the United States, which was besieged in Xinxing Lane. As everyone knows, the main force of the division is the 31 ST regiment; This group participated in the war against Russia and was awarded the title of "Polar Bear Group" by the President for its excellent record.
Even so, this ace army is still vulnerable; The volunteers raided the Polar Bear Corps on December 2, and successfully killed Colonel McClane, the head of the corps, and seized his regiment flag. It is worth mentioning that the war achieved the brilliant record of our army's only wipe out the American elite group on the Korean battlefield. The American army, whose morale was badly damaged, was still dying. Under the protection of the powerful firepower network, the First Marine Division finally broke through the layers of defense of the volunteers and fled to Xiaqiaoyuli area three days later.
From December 6th, the United States began to retreat slowly in the direction of Gutuli. You know, there is only more than 2 kilometers between Xiajieyuli and Gutuli.