The Korean War was a major war at the beginning of the founding of our country, which was directly related to the security and stability of New China.
Among them, the Battle of Shangganling can be said to be the most brutal battle in the Korean War, and the intensity of its artillery fire cannot even be compared with World War II, and the remaining shells in the soil after the war need to be measured in tons.
In the face of the enemy's overwhelming artillery fire, the officers and men of the Chinese Volunteers did not flinch, but thoroughly implemented the idea of "guerrilla warfare" in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and launched the "cold guns and cold artillery" campaign in the form of sniper rifles, which terrified the US troops, thus greatly dealing a blow to their arrogance.
What is not known to everyone is that a recruit soldier of the Volunteer Army violated the order and could not bear to shoot a shot, and actually fired the famous "cold gun and cold cannon" campaign, and made great contributions.
The Korean War was the first major war since the founding of the People's Republic of China, when China, which had just been established, faced with the invasion of North Korea by the United States, made a decisive decision to send troops to North Korea to defend the country!
North Korea shares a land border with China, and once North Korea becomes the sphere of influence of the United States, then China itself will be in danger, so defending North Korea and blocking the United States and the "international coalition forces" is also defending our own homeland and giving us valuable space for development.
Before the founding of the People's Republic of China, there were constant frictions between China and Western countries, but because China's strength in all aspects was relatively backward at that time, these Western countries also held a contemptuous attitude.
China's victory in resisting US aggression and aiding Korea not only recovered the land on which the people of Northeast China depended for their survival, but also greatly enhanced China's international status and made this new regime firm.
At that time, the United States had the world's most advanced munitions**, and also had the world's most elite troops, and in the face of the U.S. army's machine guns and artillery, China could only use backward rifles, grenades and some sniper rifles with low accuracy.
Because it was too backward in terms of armaments, it was unimaginable at the time to be able to defeat a strong enemy like the United States, and it can be said to be one of the miracles in the history of human warfare.
At that time, China was facing a complex international situation, and the Soviet Union and the United States were eyeing China, because Stalin was very angry about the proposal to abolish the previous unequal treaties and recover the land in the northeast.
So he ostensibly agreed, but secretly wanted to force China into the Korean War in order to continue to gain domination of the Northeast.
However, the plans and conspiracies of these countries have all dissipated and disintegrated in the face of the volunteers who are not afraid of sacrifice, and China hopes to defeat the United States, so it can only be afraid of hardship and death.
North Korea's land is not as vast as Chinese mainland, and many of the tactical methods explored in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression may not be able to play a role in North Korea.
In many cases, the victory can only be decided by a hard-fought way, and the equipment of the volunteers lags far behind that of the United States, so they can only rely on the fearlessness and sacrifice of the soldiers to rise to the top.
Looking at the entire Korean War, the Battle of Shangganling was the most brutal and fierce, and the ferocity of its artillery fire could not even be compared with the most brutal battle during World War II, and the bullet casings on the ground were piled up.
In this place, too many American troops have lost their lives, and at the same time, the Chinese volunteers have also paid too many sacrifices, even if it is not an exaggeration to say that it is "bloodshed".
The heroic sacrifices of countless volunteer soldiers have made the US military deeply afraid, such as the well-known names of Huang Jiguang and Qiu Shaoyun, martyrs, who died heroically in this cruel war.
In the complex terrain of Shangganling, the construction of tunnels is an extremely important task of the volunteers, and it is precisely with large and small tunnels that the volunteers can obtain some roundabout space, and among them, the "cold guns and cold guns" movement has also played a huge role, causing the US troops to make a lot of noise and run around.
And in the Battle of Shangganling, there was such a recruit, he violated military discipline, shot rashly, and was not punished in any way, but won the title of first-class meritorious hero awarded by the state, what is going on?
At that time, the United States was far stronger than the Chinese volunteers in terms of ammunition, so they adopted the tactics of artillery bombardment, trying to wipe out all the volunteers by covering them with shells.
In the face of the overwhelming artillery shells of the US army, the volunteers at that time responded with tunnels, and were in a strategic defensive posture.
In this way, even though the land in Shangganling was plowed all over again, it never dealt any effective blow to the volunteers.
In just a few months, the volunteers dug a total of more than 300 underground tunnels with a total length of 20 kilometers, which is undoubtedly a sharp weapon to resist the US military.
At that time, the army had an order that no one was allowed to shoot, because shooting could lead to the exposure of one's own position, which could cause a greater **.
In the face of the response of the volunteers to "avoid but not fight", the US military has a headache, looking at the huge amount of artillery consumed every day, but with little effect, the US ** officer can't help but be very anxious.
So they came up with all kinds of ways to try to break the fighting spirit of the volunteers, or provoke the volunteers in a provocative way.
First of all, the U.S. military carried out psychological tactics, they found people who could speak Chinese, asked them to record the voice of persuasion to surrender, and kept ** with a loudspeaker, trying to completely deny the significance of this battle: "Your ** is too backward, don't struggle anymore, think about your wives and children, is it worth dying here?" ”
However, the joint ** led by the US military obviously underestimated the determination of the volunteers, and no one was shaken by these words, but made their attitude more resolute.
Seeing this, the US military changed its tactics and adopted a provocative strategy in an attempt to provoke the volunteers and expose their positions, so a strange scene appeared on the battlefield: the US soldiers were basking in the sun in the open space as if they were on vacation, drinking and singing every night, and even held a wrestling match in front of our army's formation.
This did arouse the anger of many volunteers, but according to the regulations of the 15 th Army, no one was allowed to shoot.
Chen Fenglou is a recruit in the 15 th Army, although he is a recruit, he has extraordinary sniper skills, every day watching the enemy in front of him act recklessly, he is very angry, in his eyes this behavior of the US military is a kind of humiliation, which makes him angry, who has always been strong-blooded.
He picked up the sniper rifle in his hand, although it was an old-fashioned optical lens with a very limited magnification, Chen Fenglou was confident that he would lock the enemy's life with one blow, but when he remembered the order of "no shooting" in the army, he held back again, after all, he didn't want to violate the discipline of the army.
However, the strategy of the volunteers to avoid the war caused the US troops to become even more intensified, some of them stripped off their clothes and walked around, or lay comfortably on the grass and sunbathed, and even went in the direction of the 15th Army and a company, peeing in front of the volunteers!
Chen Fenglou couldn't bear it, this time he set up the sniper rifle, angry but always kept the composure of the movements in his hands, he had already locked on the head of this peeing soldier!
Bang! With a crisp sound of gunshot, a bullet flew out of his lagging sniper rifle and hit the soldier's head with precision, and the peeing soldier lost his life instantly.
The U.S. troops in front obviously didn't react, didn't understand what was happening, and didn't expect that the volunteers who were usually "cowering" would dare to shoot first, and some soldiers were even stunned in place.
Seeing this, Chen Fenglou did not stop, but shot at the remaining soldiers at a very fast speed, and in such a short period of time, Chen Fenglou alone actually killed five American soldiers.
After firing a few shots of this sniper, Chen Fenglou and his comrades-in-arms immediately hid in the tunnel, no matter how the US troops who reacted later bombarded indiscriminately, all of them had no effect, and the US troops could only be impotent and furious.
On the volunteer side, Chen Fenglou knew that he had made a big mistake, and took the initiative to go to Qin Jiwei, the commander of the 15th Army, to be punished, but after hearing about this, Qin Fenglou not only did not punish Chen Fenglou in any way, but praised him vigorously.
Commander Qin said that everyone should Xi learn from Chen Fenglou and avoid a frontal battle with the US army, but instead use this sniper method to give full play to the advantages of "guerrilla warfare" in the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and strike at the US army that cannot be prevented.
Therefore, after Chen Fenglou's angry shooting, the Volunteer Army launched the famous "cold gun and cold artillery" campaign, which means to make a surprise attack by sniping when the enemy is not paying attention.
The "cold gun" movement was a war strategy with unique tactical influence in China's War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, in which "cold gun" refers to shooting in a covert sniper way outside the enemy's range, while "cold artillery" refers to firing artillery shells in a hidden and accurate way to destroy the enemy rather than firing them blindly.
This strategy has greatly improved the efficiency of the strike, reduced unnecessary attrition, hit the morale of the US military, and even affected the trend of the war to a certain extent.
At that time, the army set off a trend of imitating Chen Fenglou, and the officers and men of the volunteer army practiced Xi long-distance sniping, and achieved very remarkable results.
At that time, the positions of the two armies were generally very close to each other, generally within a range of four or five hundred meters, and the nearest place was even only more than 100 meters. ”
And this also created an excellent space for the development of the "sniper" tactics of the volunteers, and also created a lot of legendary marksmen, and the volunteers at that time even carried out live target competitions to compete who killed the most enemy soldiers with the least bullets.
According to relevant documents, there is a soldier named Zhang Taofang from the Eighth Company, who once annihilated more than 200 enemies with more than 400 rounds of ammunition, setting a record of killing the enemy with a "cold gun" in Shangganling.
Whether it is a recruit or a veteran, after a period of training, the hit rate has improved significantly, the veteran only needs two or three bullets to kill an enemy on average, and even a recruit can do six or seven bullets to eliminate an enemy.
Sometimes, they will even be cold when they go to the toilet, and every time this happens, it will cause a panic among the soldiers, they don't even dare to go out to the toilet, and the excrement is thrown out in cans, and the whole camp is stinking.
They began to doubt every bush, every hill, and even every shadow, and they gradually lost their self-confidence and even courage in the war.
In terms of "cold artillery", the Volunteers also dealt a heavy blow to the US army, destroying thousands of enemies and destroying more than 10 tanks by relying on "cold artillery" alone.
Among them, the most prominent is Tang Zhanghong's soldier, who only relied on a mortar in his hand to destroy more than 400 enemies, becoming a model for our army at that time.
During a reconnaissance operation, the scouts of the Volunteer Army discovered the enemy's temporary command post hidden in the depths of the forest, and he did not make a noise, but reported the matter to his superiors, who also attached great importance to this, and immediately deployed "cold artillery", planning to hit the enemy hard before the sun rose tomorrow morning.
At dawn, when the sun had not yet fully risen, and the soldiers at the US command post slept the deepest, the "cold artillery" of the volunteers began, and a number of accurate shells were fierce at the US command post, causing panic among the American soldiers, who woke up, but could not find the first of the artillery fire.
The "cold gun and cold artillery" tactic is widely used in the squadron, so that the US military is always in fear and unease, greatly weakening their combat effectiveness, but also hitting their arrogance, the influence of this tactic is not limited to the battlefield, but also let the world see the determination and resourcefulness of the squadron, so that the United States has to reconsider its military strategy in Korea.
Chen Fenglou didn't expect that his angry bullet would turn into a vigorous military campaign, which made the U.S. military scream and hug their heads.
It is true that as a recruit, it is wrong for him to violate orders, but in the context of that war, the fighting spirit of daring to fight is the most important, Chen Fenglou's bullet ignited the grievances and anger in the hearts of the volunteer soldiers, and the US army was also seriously hit.
A soldier can be killed, but not humiliated. "The repeated provocations of the US military have completely aroused the spirit of not admitting defeat in the bones of the Chinese, and also caused them to encounter the fiercest counterattack.
The victory of the Korean War has won precious time for the development of our country, and also won the recognition and respect of the international community for the country.