When the arrogant and conceited Mike Arthur decided to cross the 38th line and pursue the North Korean army, he had already lost.
Who is Mike Arthur?
The five-star general of the U.S. Army, the supreme commander of the Southwest Pacific Theater of the U.S. Army during World War II, created the " island hopping tactic". Because of his existence, Japanese imperialist aggression was blocked everywhere. At the surrender ceremony of Japan in 1945, It was he who signed on behalf of the United States.
After the war, he was responsible for the military occupation and reconstruction of Japan. When the Korean War broke out 5 years later, when the US army decided to intervene, he was appointed commander to direct the battle.
He is so famous in history, he naturally has some strength.
When the North Korean army had occupied 90% of the Korean peninsula and was about to complete unification, Mike Arthur commanded the US army to conduct a gambling-style landing in Incheon .
He won the bet, and the U.S. army was able to appear in the middle of the North Korean army. The North Korean vanguard was attacked back and forth and had no choice but to retreat.
After an easy victory, Mike Arthur was not satisfied. Originally, the war could stop there. He wanted to lead his army to chase and defeat the retreating Korean army and invade the Korean territory.
If North Korea is occupied by the US military,The United States can directly threaten neighboring Chinese territory.
Mike Arthur threatened to reunify before Christmas, but he did not expect China to send troops to help North Korea.
At the end of 1950, the two ace armies of China and the United States launched a fierce battle in the Changjin Lake area of North Korea. The history is called "Battle of Changjin Lake" .
2021 movie " Changjin Lake " , it will take 176 minutes to reproduce the classic war against the United States and aid Korea.
From our own perspective, it may not be objective enough to see how the People’s Volunteers have overcome many difficulties and defeated the well-equipped and invincible American army.
So before watching the movie, you might as well get familiar with the background of "Lake Changjin" from the perspective of an American and with the help of related documentaries, in order to better understand what the war is going on.
From a more comprehensive perspective, we can be more certain. Back then, the volunteers gave the Americans a great head. It was really not our own.
There is indeed the rationality of "win the strong with the weak".
In "Changjin Lake Breakthrough" , it is clearly mentioned that the emergence of the Chinese army was a turning point in the Korean War.
Mike Arthur had received information about the assembly of volunteers at the border, but he selectively ignored it.
Perhaps in his opinion, the Chinese army is just pretending, and has no guts to attack, confronting the powerful US army. ?
However, he ignored the background of the US military's battle.
Only five years have passed since the end of World War II. The United States is in a period of economic recovery and has no intention of experiencing another large-scale war.
The number of US troops has been reduced from 12 million to 1 million.
so that many of the soldiers sent to the Korean War were inexperienced.
So when confronting the US army, Chinese Volunteers have an absolute advantage in number and quality of soldiers.
Mike Arthur thought he was invincible with tanks, aircraft and artillery,He only wanted to fight and make merit, but in fact, for Americans, this is a wrong time for .
The high-risk strategy of Incheon Landing is just a bet win, and the goddess of luck will not always look after one of them.
The waiting volunteers stood by and waited for the rabbits, and made an ambush in North Korea.
As we all know, our army is very good at fighting this kind of ambush. Mike Arthur's continued chasing without a brain is undoubtedly sending sheep into the mouth.
The brave battle of the Chinese army caused the US army to encounter a stumbling block. With superb strategy and tactics, the Volunteers caught the US army by surprise.
This time, Mike Arthur lost the bet.
He bet that China will not attack, disperse the main force, and want to make a quick fight;
And the volunteer army is not only a superior number, but also a high-quality force that understands strategy. It is a mistake in the US military. Under the decision, it is entirely possible to beat the American soldiers to the ground.
In this way, Mike Arthur sent his soldiers into the crisis of being annihilated.
"Changjin Lake" ’s protagonist group is the Seventh Company Warriors,And the Americans also have their own heroes.
In their documentary, a team called "G Company" became the key.
However, as far as the US military is concerned, it is already a victory for them to avoid being wiped out.
Because since the volunteers fell from the sky, the US military has been passive.
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If it weren't for the US military with the most advanced equipment at the time, it might have been wiped out long ago.
The poor G company can only go to rescue the trapped friendly forces under heavy siege by the volunteers.
An American war veteran revealed that a bullet hit the underside of his comrade's helmet, killing him in one shot.
The level of volunteer sharpshooters can be seen.
This was said by the opponent himself.
"Lake Changjin" set up a sniper role, it seems to be a reference to the information.
900 troops,When we reached the destination, there were only more than a hundred people left.
And this is just the beginning of the nightmare.
With the coming of winter, even if you are not killed by the sharpshooters of the volunteer army, you will be frozen to death in minutes.
But in fact, to some extent, it is precisely because of this kind of weather that can freeze people to death, that saves the US military.
The severe cold caused the fighting between the two sides to become stalemate, and the US military got a chance to breathe and escape.
After experiencing this fiasco, Mike Arthur was very upset. He threatened to launch a nuclear bomb against China in 1951 in an attempt to launch a nuclear war.
then US President Truman fired him immediately, and a generation of celebrities stepped down from the altar.
Many years later, he reflected in his memoirs and admitted that the US military had encountered a powerful opponent in the Korean War that it had never had before, and that was the Chinese People's Volunteers.
The weather is also the enemy of the volunteers.
When all American soldiers wore cotton-padded jackets, the volunteers were basically thinly dressed in order to be able to ambush.
and the food conditions are far inferior to the US military.
"Changjin Lake" "Two Armies Rivalry Edition" preview has a sharp contrast,The U.S. Army drinks coffee and eats chicken, but our Army can only eat potatoes.
In this difficult situation, it is no easy task for the volunteers to destroy the well-equipped American army.
If the soldiers on both sides exchange positions, the American soldiers may not even be able to cross the Yalu River.
Chinese soldiers have worked hard from the War of Resistance to the Civil War. Their iron will is the capital of their bloody abuse of the US military.
For the volunteers, it is also quite difficult to complete tactical commands and fight against aircraft and tanks.
As for how difficult it is, that is what "Changjin Lake" wants to express.
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