"Ice and snow, I will never succumb to you. Even if I freeze to death, I will stand proudly on my position." On the Death Eagle Ridge position on the Korean battlefield, 125 ice sculpture soldiers stood. They were lying on the position, their guns were consistent, and their firm faces were already covered with frost. The thin volunteer army cotton jackets were tightly attached to their cold bodies. By the time they were discovered by the follow-up troops, they had all frozen into ice cubes, and the 125 people only left a note full of Chinese characters. This was written by one of the soldiers, Song Amao. These few short sentences were also the patriotism of all the volunteers and their determination to defend their positions.
1950 On November 28, 1950, in order to cooperate with the smooth development of Changjin Lake Battle, 6th Company of the 1st Battalion of the 177th Regiment of the 59th Division of the 20th Army of the Volunteer Army, received an order from the superior to attack the Deying Ling position. Their mission was to take the position and block the US Marine Division's 1st Fleet south.
1950, the winter in North Korea was extremely cold. The soldiers gritted their teeth and walked in the ice and snow at minus 30 to 40 degrees Celsius. The heavy snow like cotton balls in the sky fell wildly on the volunteer soldiers. After the Volunteer Army entered North Korea, the US military relied on its own land and air advantages to continuously destroy the logistics supply of the Volunteer Army, resulting in a serious shortage of logistics supplies for the Volunteer Army. These soldiers who were shuttled through the mountains and forests could only wear thin cotton coats. They were hunched over and trembled in the thick snow. Every step required great courage.
And after the soldiers of the Sixth Company tried their best to capture the Death Eagle Ridge position, under the instructions of the company commander, they grouped and found the appropriate cover and waited for the arrival of the enemy. The heavy snow like goose feathers in the sky was still falling, and soon the soldiers of the Sixth Company were covered with ice and snow. Before that, in order to complete the superior's mission, they hid in the day and went out at night, and took the position in a severe lack of supplies. Now, they have not eaten a bite of hot rice for many days. When they are hungry, they rely on eating ice and snow to fill their hunger. The temperature around them is still falling. The soldiers can only overcome the difficult conditions and quietly lie in the snow and wait for the arrival of the enemy.
In fact, this situation not only happened to the Sixth Company, but also many volunteer army troops were facing the same situation on the battlefield at that time. In November 1950, after the first battle of resisting U.S. aggression and aiding Korea, Peng Dehuai, commander and political commissar of the Chinese People's Volunteer Army, analyzed the situation on the Korean battlefield at that time, and concluded that the " United Nations Army " led by the United States would not be good at slapping off and would definitely launch a more fierce attack. Therefore, in order to stabilize the results of the Volunteer Army's first battle into North Korea, Peng Dehuai immediately asked the Central Military Commission: In order to better stabilize the situation on the Korean battlefield, the Chinese Volunteer Army should lure the enemy into depth and do its best to annihilate the main force of the "United Nations Army".
After listening to Peng Dehuai's report, Chairman Mao immediately gave instructions: In order to combat the arrogance of the "United Nations Army" and create strong conditions for the long-term combat of the Volunteer Army, the Volunteer Army should fight at the same time on the east and west lines, continuously annihilate the "United Nations Army" corps, and advance the front line to the Pyongyang and Yuanshan . After
, according to the highest instructions of the Central Military Commission, the Ninth Corps of the People's Liberation Army was assigned to the Volunteer Army sequence and set off from Jiangnan to Shandong for training. According to the original plan, they would enter North Korea to fight after the training was completed. However, due to the fierce offensive of the United States' "United Nations Army" on the front line, the Volunteer Army was under too much pressure. After the Ninth Corps arrived in Shandong, they drove out of the Korean battlefield before they had time to train.
On the other hand, in order to prevent the volunteer army from reinforcements, the United States used its air force to bomb the railway and highways on the Korean battlefield. The Ninth Corps, which had just entered North Korea, suffered a serious test. In desperation, the soldiers had to give up taking the train and instead go on foot.
At that time, the difficulties faced by all the volunteer army were huge, first of all, the planes that were constantly hovering in the sky of the enemy.After all, the large-scale marching target is too large and it is easy to be discovered by the US fighter . In this way, the legion became a living target in front of the Air Force. In order to solve this situation, the Volunteer Army decided to use companies as units to continuously intersperse the battlefield to reduce targets and avoid the US Air Force's reconnaissance.
The second is cold weather. When the volunteers entered North Korea to fight, it happened to be winter in the northern hemisphere. The average temperature in North Korea was minus 30 to 40 degrees Celsius. In such weather, the volunteers only wore thin cotton coats. According to the results of post-war investigation, the soldiers who were frozen to death on the Korean battlefield reached more than 30% of the frost-injured soldiers.
is hungry again. The US Air Force has too great advantages. Many strategic materials from the Volunteer Army cannot be delivered to the front line as soon as possible. Countless soldiers interspersed on the battlefield can only rely on the snow to fill their hunger. At that time, the food that the volunteer army carried the most was potatoes. In the extreme weather of minus 30 to 40 degrees Celsius, the potatoes were frozen into ice and could no longer provide effective energy. The last and most dangerous thing is the US Army scattered on the Korean battlefield. They are like hungry wolves, constantly harassing the volunteer army in the snow, causing great casualties to the volunteer army.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Volunteer Army was like an airborne division, and the US Army's ace troops were wiped out.
After the Ninth Corps entered North Korea, the "United Nations Army" led by the United States also made great moves. They divided into two groups to continue fighting northward, reaching Jiangjie, where the North Korean Provisional Government was located. After the US military landed in Xingnan Port, the combat plan of the "United Nations Army" to destroy the Jiangjie area was officially implemented. However, due to terrain restrictions, their mechanized corps could not be launched on a large scale. In order to cross natural dangers such as the Wolf Forest Mountain Range, the "United Nations Army" chose to continue north from the valley between the Wolf Forest Mountain Range and the Go Zhanling.
In addition, in order to penetrate this northward route, the US military decided to let the strongest Marine First Division 1 and the Polar Bear Regiment of the 7th Division break through from the front. The remaining troops divided into two groups along Changjin Lake , one along the west side of Changjin Lake to Xinxingli, and the other along the east side to Liutanli.
Regarding the conspiracy of the US military, the commander-in-chief of the Volunteer Army Peng Dehuai quickly discovered the intention of the US military by analyzing the battlefield situation. In order to prevent the "United Nations Army" led by the US military from continuing to move north, the volunteer army decided to block the Changjin Lake area, the only way the US military has passed.
Then, Peng Dehuai gave instructions on this, setting the Changjin Lake area as the final battlefield, and the volunteers took the method of luring the enemy into depth, leading the US army to the Changjin Lake area, and striving to annihilate it. At this time, the 42nd Army, which received instructions from the front line of the battlefield, quickly changed its combat mode. They had already had a fire with the US military as planned, but at this time, in order to ensure the smooth development of the Changjin Lake Battle, they fought and retreated, and continued to induce the US military to go deeper according to the new strategic deployment.
At this time, the Ninth Legion also received the highest instruction. Their mission was to enter the Changjin Lake area in advance and fight the strongest Marine Division of the US military, and strive to keep them in Changjin Lake forever. At that time, the Volunteer Army's Ninth Corps was commanded by commander Song Shilun , and it was under the command of four armies, 20, 27, 30 and 33. On the evening of November 27, when the US Marine Division and the 7th Infantry Division were still walking in the valley in a long line of wind and snow, the 20th Army and 27th Army of the Volunteer Army had successfully entered the western, northern and northeastern Changjin Lake.
The terrain around the Changjin Lake area is dangerous, and the US military cannot deploy on a large scale. When passing through the valley, they can only line up in long columns. According to later Volunteer Army recalls, the column formed by the US military was 50 kilometers long. After listening to the report of scout , the 20th Army and 29th Army quickly entered the state of combat. They had been staring at this team for a long time along the way, and now they can finally let it go.
On the night of November 27, 1950, Commander Song Shilun gave the order, hundreds of thousands of volunteers hiding in the valley rushed towards the US army with lightning speed. Seeing so many volunteer troops suddenly rushing out of the valleys on the left and right sides, the US military was panicked and was cut into five parts by the volunteers without any defense.The ones surrounded were the US Marine Division 1 and the Seventh Infantry Division. They never thought that the Volunteer Army would appear in front of them like magical weapons. It was incredible that it could still take the initiative to attack in such a arduous environment as the Korean battlefield.
During the day on November 28, 1950, the troops were cut into five parts and could not be connected to the ends. In order to connect the positions, the US military also began to fight back. They continued to attack the encirclement of the Volunteer Army, and the battlefield instantly turned into two parts, black and white, black was scorched earth blown out by shells, and white was thick snow.
However, due to the restrictions on the terrain and the continuous attack of the volunteers, the US mechanized troops could not be deployed, and they could only advance at a speed of 500 meters per hour in the Changjin Lake area. As the layers of encirclement and blockade were intercepted, the morale of the US military began to slowly decline. On November 30, the Volunteer Army annihilated the 31st Regiment of the 7th Division besieged in Xinxingli at the cost of reducing the entire army by 10,000 people, and seized the team's regiment flag, achieving the only glorious battle example of annihilation of a regiment of the US military.
You should know that the 31st Regiment of the 7th Division of the US is not simple. It was established in 1916 and entered the Siberian in August 1918, helping the Tsarist Russian White Army to fight against the Soviet Red Army. Within two years, it defeated the Soviet Red Army many times and won the title of Polar Bear Regiment for its outstanding military achievements. In World War II , this army fought against the Japanese army in Pacific battlefield for another four months and successfully repelled the fierce Japanese army. From this we can see that this is a legion that has experienced countless war baptisms.
In 1950, under the control of the United States, the Korean battlefield broke out. The polar bear regiment landed in in Incheon. During the Battle of Changjin Lake, the polar bear regiment, the 32nd US Regiment and several other combat battalions and companies of the 7th Infantry Division formed a 31st Regiment-level combat group, with a total number of more than 3,000 people.
But in the face of the heroic people's volunteers, this polar bear regiment, which is known as the ace force of the US military, was eventually annihilated. At that time, the Volunteer Army adopted the 33 tactics to completely divide the polar bear regiment and wipe out one by one. According to post-war statistics, the combat reduction of 31st Regiment of the US reached 90%, all heavy weapons were destroyed, and commanders McLean and Fis even died under the artillery fire of the Volunteer Army.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- They took three days to withdraw from Liutan to Xiajieyuli.
In fact, there is only 22 kilometers between Liutanli and Xiajieyuli, but it is these 22 kilometers that have put the US military in despair. Basically, every step they take will be bombarded by the volunteers. On this road, 1,500 US military casualties. After the war, the US military recalled that it was a road to death.
It is worth mentioning that after the first battle in the Xian Zhantian, MacArthur, commander of the "United Nations Army", proposed a plan to end the war before Christmas and let the US military go home to celebrate the festival. In order to realize this plan, he sent many elite troops to launch a crazy offensive on the Korean battlefield. However, the US military began to retreat after being divided and surrounded in the Changjin Lake area. Finally, on Christmas Eve on December 24, retreating from Xingnan Port by boat was also considered a disguised implementation of MacArthur's plan.
On December 25, 1950, the volunteer army occupied Xingnan Port and the one-month battle of Changjin Lake ended. With the effective cooperation of the volunteers who entered North Korea, the second battle on the Korean battlefield came to an end. In this fierce struggle, although the volunteers crushed the sinister intentions of the "United Nations Army" led by the United States, they also paid a heavy price. It can be said that the victory of this war was exchanged for the lives of martyrs.
In September 1952, when the Ninth Corps of the Chinese People's Volunteer Army returned to China, Commander Song Shilun stood on the Sino-North Korea border for a long time. He took off his hat and bowed deeply to the east of the Yalu River. When he got up, the guards next to him found that he was already in tears. Everyone around them knew that the commander was watching silence for the martyrs who died in Korean War , and at the same time, they also thought of those comrades who would stay on the battlefield forever.
That is the warriors who have frozen into ice sculptures in the snow and ice. In order to complete the tasks assigned by their superiors, they lay motionless in the cold snow, enduring the cold and hunger, and finally merged with the ice and snow. After the war, according to statistics, there were as many as three ice sculptures in the Korean battlefield. In addition, in the first special meritorious official of the New China and the special combat hero of , Yang Gensi, in the Xiaogaoling position in Xiajieyuli, in order to cut off the US military's journey to escape south, he alone picked up a 10 kilogram of explosives pack and rushed into the enemy group, died with more than 40 American soldiers, and defended the position with his own lives; and in order not to expose the troops were burned to death; Huang Jiguang, who bravely blocked the enemy's machine gun before dawn...
War to resist the U.S. aggression and aid Korea was the founding battle of the new China. In this battle, in order to protect the newly established New China, the People's Volunteer Army fought desperately and successfully repelled the US military to the vicinity of 38th parallel with its full love for the motherland, which was the great China already standing in the east of the world.
