Everyone knows that Changjin Lake's sequel "Water Gate Bridge" will be released soon, but I believe that many people may not have heard of this place before, let alone this battle, we will not spoil today, just help you in Add some real historical knowledge before watching the movie.
"Water Gate Bridge" is actually a very important battle node of Changjin Lake Battle The seventh division has been crippled by us. They were really scared and wanted to escape, but if they wanted to escape from the Changjin Lake area, they had to pass the "Water Gate Bridge". This bridge is not big, only 8.8 meters long, but it is located in a dangerous place. Without this bridge, all the troops in the Changjin Lake area of the US military will be wiped out by our volunteers. So in early December 1950, the Chinese Volunteer Army and the US-led United Nations Army launched a tug-of-war on the bridge.
First, the volunteers blew up the bridge on December 1, but the US military quickly repaired it. Then on December 4th, the Volunteer Army blew up the bridge again. This time the US military was in a hurry. They not only repaired the bridge, but also sent a tank battalion with more than 40 tanks to guard the bridge. The Volunteers were also in a hurry, so on the evening of December 6, Changjiang Yunqing, 7th Company, 3rd Battalion, 240th Regiment, 80th Division, 27th Army of the Chinese People's Volunteers, brought an infantry platoon and a heavy machine gun platoon. With more than ten kilograms of explosives tied, he launched an attack without hesitation. At a heavy price, the Watergate Bridge was finally blown up again, this time not even the foundation of the bridge was blown up.
But in the end, no one expected that the U.S. military actually rushed a batch of M2 steel beams weighing 1.1 tons each from neighboring Japan overnight, and airdropped them to the battlefield with the C-119 transport plane . In the end, the bridge was built two hours before their main force arrived, and they fled in embarrassment.
maybe you are about to ask,Can't our volunteers ambush him? At that time, it was the 172nd Regiment of the 58th Division of the 20th Army of the Volunteer Army who was in charge of the ambush, but the snowstorm was too heavy at that time, and the lowest temperature that night had reached minus 38 degrees. The soldiers of the Volunteer Army were exhausted and lacked winter coats. After a long journey, they reached the top of the hill overlooking the Watergate Bridge, but they did not fire a single shot. Huang Chaotian, the division commander of the 58th Division, was angry and wanted to shoot the head of the 172nd Regiment. When he knew the situation, he burst into tears. Because of the more than 100 people in the whole company, all of them were in combat formation, lying prone on the ground, with their guns in a shooting position towards the Watergate Bridge, but they had all died. was frozen alive. This is what we call a ice sculpture with .
But did you know? In the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea, the Chinese People's Volunteers did not have only this ice sculpture company; they had 5 companies in total. They are: 9th Corps, 20th Army, 59th Division, 177th Regiment, 6th Company; 9th Corps, 20th Army, 60th Division, 180th Regiment, 2nd Company; 9th Corps, 27th Army, 80th Division, 242nd Regiment, 5th Company; 6 companies; a subordinate company of the 172th Regiment of the 58th Division of the 20th Army of the 9th Corps. Five companies with nearly a thousand people on different battlefields, in order not to expose the large troops, were motionless and frozen to death on the ambush points on various battlefields. This is not an independent heroism. It is the inheritance of the genetic blood of our Chinese nation.
So, we have to remember them and continue to tell their stories to our descendants. It was them who, with sacrifices one after another, made the bright future of our decades!
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