Did we win the battle of Shangganling? Wang Jinshan, the founding lieutenant general, was worried about the war when he died. He was in a coma at that time, but it seems that he has returned to the era of fighting. He asked his son, "Where did the enemy hit?" Who is there (holding on)? His son held his hand and told him "Uncle Li is there". Wang Jinshan said, "I'm relieved that Li Desheng is here. "From then on, Wang Jinshan fell into a deep sleep.
As we all know, the historical prototype of Li Yunlong is Wang Jinshan. So, the real Wang Jinshan was a Iliad who died when he heard Li Desheng's name. It can be seen from here that Li Desheng is also a Iliad. As a general, Li Desheng once commanded an important battle. Although he won the battle, he kept silent about it, so that many people didn't know his role in the battle.
This important battle is the Battle of Shangganling. The Battle of Shangganling is a key battle in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea. 1952 and 10 broke out for 43 days. Under the tenacious struggle of our volunteers, our army finally won the battle of Shangganling, which dealt a heavy blow to the United Nations, and Li Desheng was the frontline commander of this crucial battle.
195 1 March, Li Desheng was ordered to enter the Korean battlefield. When he first entered the Korean battlefield, Li Desheng was the commander of the 35th Division of the Volunteer Army 12, and their division just happened to catch up with the fifth battle. Li Desheng led the 35th Division to annihilate19,000 people in the Korean battlefield, which turned the volunteers from defending to attacking. Li Desheng was promoted to the vice commander of 12 Army because of his outstanding exploits in the fifth campaign.
At the beginning of the Battle of Shangganling, Li Desheng did not participate in the Battle of Shangganling. At that time, I was ordered to guard Jincheng. Li Desheng successfully completed the tasks assigned by his superiors, and withdrew to Gushan area to rest and enrich his troops at the end of 1952 and 10 as originally planned. At that time, the Battle of Shangganling had already broken out 13 days. At this time, Li Desheng suddenly received an order from his superiors, asking his 12 Army to immediately go to the battlefield in Shangganling as a reserve for the 15 Army that is fighting in Shangganling. Li Desheng was also appointed commander-in-chief of the Battle of Shangganling, commanding 12 Army and 15 Army to guard Shangganling.
Although the order was a little sudden, after receiving the order, Li Desheng did not hesitate, and immediately devoted himself to the preparations for guarding the battle in Shangganling. Li Desheng has an idea. After becoming the commander-in-chief of the front line, he ignored the report and went to the front line to see the casualties of soldiers in person.
In the process of inspecting the front line, Li Desheng focused on the fortifications built by the soldiers. He found that some classes had few casualties in combat, mainly because they built different fortifications. The classes with few casualties built deeper fortifications and tunnels, which made it easy for the enemy to hide when attacking, and it was also possible to counterattack in time, so there were few casualties. Moreover, the tunnels of other fortifications are connected in series, which can support other teams in time, and there are fewer team members who build such fortifications.
Li Desheng called all the front-line cadres at the regimental level together to study the construction methods of advanced fortifications, so as to extend advanced fortifications to the whole army and reduce the number of combatants. Under the command of Li Desheng, the volunteers successfully defended Shangganling and won the battle of Shangganling.
The influence of shangganling campaign. Intensity of exercise
The enemy mobilized more than 60,000 troops, more than 300 cannons, 170 tanks and more than 3,000 planes, and dumped more than10.9 million shells and more than 5,000 bombs on the volunteer positions of two companies with an area of about 3.7 square kilometers. The campaign intensity is unprecedented, especially the artillery firepower density, which has exceeded the highest level in World War II. The top of our position was cut down by two meters, and the earth and stone in the highlands were blown away by 1-2 meters, becoming a scorched earth, and many tunnels were shortened by five or six meters.
Second, military power.
The world-famous Battle of Shangganling lasted 43 days, and the enemy and I fought for positions 59 times repeatedly. Our army repelled the enemy more than 900 times, and played a national and military power in the battle of Shangganling, showing the world the heroic and tenacious fighting style of the volunteers. The 7th Division of the United States and the 2nd Division of North Korea suffered heavy casualties in the battle, which completely eliminated the worries of whether China and North Korea could hold their positions under the overwhelming firepower of the US military, and made the front more stable. Moreover, because the volunteers reported that they defeated the last reserve team of the United States in North Korea-187 Airborne Regiment, 15 Army was later reorganized into an airborne army, although according to the records of the US military, this one1.
Third, the campaign commander.
15 Army Commander Qin Jiwei misjudged the attack direction and intensity of the US military at the beginning of this campaign, resulting in huge consumption of the 45th Division (self-reported loss of 4,000 people, reported casualties of 8,000 people, and reported loss of 2,000 people by the US military). When Wang Jinshan, commander of the Third Corps, said that he could give up Shangganling, he resolutely refused (from the point of view of the Corps, the five mountains are the most important), and finally forced the Americans who dared not compete to retreat, and finally became a member of the the Central Military Commission of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and the Minister of National Defense.
Li Desheng, deputy commander of 12 Army, participated in the campaign in the second half of the year and was later promoted to commander, deputy commander of Nanjing Military Region, director of General Political Department, commander of Beijing Military Region, commander of shenyang military area command, and political commissar of National Defense University.