After the Battle of Shangganling, facing the lost battle, the commander of the American Army said this: "There are 9,600 people in a volunteer regiment, who can win?"

On October 1, 1949, the People's Republic of China was established. After experiencing the Anti-Japanese War and the War of Liberation, this newly established country was devastated and in need of reconstruction. At that time, many Western imperialist countries were eyeing the newly established People's Republic of China.

After the outbreak of the Korean War, the United Nations forces led by the United States ignored my country's repeated warnings and extended the war to the border between my country and North Korea, seriously violating my country's territorial sovereignty and the safety of life and property of the people on the border.

At the beginning of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, the US military did not care about our country's participation in the war. But the Chinese People’s Volunteers used their bravery and perseverance to break the myth of the US military’s invincibility. After the Shangganling Battle ended, facing the lost battle, the commander of the American Army said this: " The volunteer army has a regiment of 9,600 people, who can win?"

Showdown Operation

In October 1952, with the unremitting efforts and tenacious struggle of the Chinese People’s Volunteers, the Volunteer Army soldiers successfully reversed the fighting situation on the Korean Peninsula and gradually took the initiative in ground operations.

Such a situation is very unfavorable for the US military. James Allward Van Fleet, the commander of the United Nations forces stationed in South Korea at the time, was very concerned about the situation on the Korean Peninsula. In order to turn the tide of the battle, Van Fleet wrote a letter to Far East U.S. Commander Clark on October 6, urging him to quickly adopt an attack with limited objectives on the front lines of the U.S. Ninth Army. plan, that is, "Operation Showdown."

At that time, the volunteer soldiers set up a fortification less than three kilometers north of Jincheng. Less than two hundred yards opposite the fortification was the U.S. military's station. In order to improve the situation on the defense line north of Jincheng, Van Fleet decided to eliminate the volunteer soldiers stationed north of Jincheng.

But in the middle of the two sides' camps, there is a mountain range extending from northwest to southeast - the Sniper Ridge Mountains. At that time, the Sniper Ridge Mountains happened to be controlled by our army. Sniper Ridge played a very important military role. It contained the US military's attack on our army.

After Clark approved the "Showdown Plan", Van Fleet dispatched 16 artillery battalions 280 cannons and more than 200 fighter planes and infantry in an attempt to seize the Shangganling position.

According to Van Fleet's plan, it only took them five days to seize the Shangganling position and end the battle with more than 200 casualties. However, in the actual battle, the number of troops invested by the US military and the number of casualties far exceeded Van Fleet's expectations.

The Battle of Shangganling

The Battle of Shangganling lasted for 43 days. The entire battle was divided into three stages, namely the battle for surface positions, the battle to persist in the tunnels, and the counterattack to consolidate the position. In the first stage of the battle, the US 7th Division and the Korean 2nd Division began to attack the Sniper Ridge area.

On October 14, 1952, the US military dispatched 320 artillery pieces, 47 tanks and more than 50 aircraft to launch a frontal attack on the volunteer soldiers stationed at the Shangganling position. They launched a particularly fierce bombing on the 597.9 and 537.7 heights on the front of the Five Sacred Mountains, using 300 artillery , 27 tanks and 40 aircraft.

According to the memories of the volunteer soldiers stationed at these two positions at the time, the firepower density of the US military's bombing of the two highlands was as high as six rounds per second.

The fierce artillery fire made the soldiers hidden in the tunnels feel like they were riding in a small boat on a rough sea. The powerful bombardment of the shell explosion broke the lips and tongues of many volunteer soldiers in the tunnel, and a 17-year-old volunteer soldier was shocked to death.

The enemy sent out infantry to charge after an hour of shelling, but the volunteer soldiers were not afraid of this and repelled the enemy's attacks again and again.

Until October 17th, the US military still failed to completely capture our positions. The battle was very fierce. Positions were gained and lost, and lost and regained. There would be many fierce battles in one day, and the entire position was littered with corpses. , the blood dyed the entire mountain red.

Because the enemy's firepower was too fierce, our army was on the losing side in the battle for superficial positions. Although the US military has occupied the surface position, the tunnels are still in the hands of our army. There are three large tunnels, eight small tunnels and more than 30 simple anti-gun tunnels in the 97.9 highland . These were always used by us at the time. The military controls.

The soldiers in the tunnel cooperated with the soldiers outside, which made the US military uneasy. The volunteer soldiers who stood firm in the tunnel organized eleven night attacks in fourteen days, seriously disrupting the deployment of the US military.

In order to destroy our army, the enemy bombed and blocked the tunnels. The lack of food and water was the biggest danger our army faced at that time. In order to change the dangerous situation at that time, on November 1, 1952, the Twelfth Army of the Volunteer Army came to the 597.9 Highlands to participate in the battle.

They and the soldiers in the tunnel cooperated internally and externally, and began to launch a strategic counterattack against the US military. On November 25, 1952, during the heroic struggle of the volunteer soldiers, the US military suffered heavy losses and could no longer attack our army. The "showdown plan" was successfully broken by the volunteer soldiers, and the soldiers won the battle of Shangganling!

A regiment of 9,600 people

After the Battle of Shangganling, faced with the question of why the U.S. military lost the Battle of Shangganling, a U.S. Army commander wrote in his memoirs: "The failure of the U.S. military was due to the numerical superiority of the volunteers. , their group has 9,600 people, who can win this battle? "

So does a group of volunteer soldiers really have 9,600 people? This is not the case. According to relevant data, at that time, the total number of the 15th Volunteer Army was only more than 50,000 people, which was more than 10,000 fewer than the number of the United Nations Army. The total number of the entire army was only more than 50,000 people. One regiment How could there be 9,600 people?

Moreover, the US military dropped 400,000 artillery shells on our positions in one day. How could our army be stupid enough to use human sea tactics to fight the US military. This statement about human wave tactics is nothing more than an excuse for the US military to justify its failure.

In the Battle of Shangganling, the volunteer soldiers were not afraid of hard work or sacrifice. Although our army's weapons and equipment are not as good as those of the enemy, our army's morale is high. We have countless national heroes like Huang Jiguang who dare to fight and are not afraid of sacrifice! This is also the reason for our army's victory!

Summary:

The victory in the Battle of Shangganling completely shattered the US military's "Golden Chemical Offensive" and dealt a heavy blow to the arrogant US military. After the battle, the U.S. military never launched an attack larger than a battalion on our soldiers. The victory in the Shangganling Battle laid a solid foundation for the victory of the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea, and greatly enhanced our country's national prestige!