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In 2021, the release of the movie "Changjin Lake" can really be described as rave reviews, looking at the volunteer soldiers who are not afraid of death, looking at the heroes of the ice sculpture company who would rather be frozen to death than defend their positions without moving, no descendant of Yan and Huang will not be moved.
But outside of the movie, have you ever thought about one thing? That's why our soldiers fight in single clothes, and why do they not even have a single piece of clothing to protect them from the cold in the climate conditions of minus forty or fifty degrees?
Hearing this, I believe that some people will think that it was caused by the fact that New China had just been established and the economy was too weak, indeed, this is a reason, but in fact, in addition, there are some human factors that cannot be ignored!
So what's going on here? Who is the first person responsible for the tens of thousands of soldiers who froze to death, and who should be responsible for such a huge **?
Background to the Battle of Changjin Lake
Let's talk about the answer first, in the blogger's personal opinion, there are three people who should be most responsible for the volunteer soldiers who froze to death in Changjin Lake, they are the commander of the North Korean side who set the time to start the war, MacArthur, the commander-in-chief of the US army in the early stage, and Song Shilun, the military commander of this war!
Hearing these three names, I believe that everyone's hearts must be full of doubts, of course, the inside story of this matter is complicated, if you want to explain, then we still have to start with the ins and outs of the Battle of Changjin Lake.
On June 25, 1950, due to repeated provocations by the ROK and the US forces stationed in Korea, the North Korean People's Army finally sounded the clarion call for war and launched a fierce attack on South Korea on the same day.
The initial offensive of the North Korean side was very smooth, and the Korean army, which had been fought in less than a month, was defeated one after another, so that it finally retreated to the coast of Japan, and could only wait helplessly for forced reunification.
However, what the North Korean side never expected was that the United States did not hesitate to choose support, not only themselves, but the entire Western world invested in it, forming the so-called "United **" and landing at Inchon in mid-September of that year, and blowing the horn of ** with the defeated South Korean army.
Against the South Korean army, the North Korean People's Army is like an adult beating a child, and against the North Korean army, the view of "joint **" is the same, under their strong interference, the tide of the war was reversed in an instant, the North Korean side was defeated and retreated, and was driven to the Yalu River without even fighting back.
In fact, the war can be over at this point, and MacArthur, who has won a great victory, can completely return to Japan and continue to be his "emperor", but unfortunately, he has long been carried away by the current victory, and he completely ignored the instructions issued by the United States, and only wanted to annihilate the Korean army and calm the war on the peninsula forever.
Such a move can be called tolerable and unbearable, not to mention that the US military has burned the war to the other side and hurt my innocent people in the Northeast, so out of the truth of cold lips and teeth, for the sake of future generations, ** and *** also made a decision on the spot, and issued an order to resist US aggression and aid Korea to protect the family and defend the country!
In this way, the Chinese People's Volunteer Army crossed the Yalu River mightily and launched a joint **, before this battle, no one thought that our army could win, and the world still thought that the Chinese were the sick men of East Asia, but the actual situation slapped everyone in the face, in this first battle into the DPRK, our army not only won, but also won a complete victory, while severely damaging the US 1st Cavalry Division, completely crushing MacArthur's "Thanksgiving Plan"!
This battle can be regarded as stunned the whole world, especially the United States**, when they found out that New China really had the ability and courage to defeat themselves, they also had the idea of taking it when they saw it, hoping to let MacArthur withdraw his troops, and at the same time retain his achievements on the Korean Peninsula through diplomacy.
In fact, if MacArthur really agreed, it would be difficult for our country to do, after all, the US military is not fighting, even if the DPRK suffers, we have no name to continue to help them, but fortunately, MacArthur did not listen to the advice of the White House, but directly came to the drama of "the general will not be affected by the life of the foreign monarch", insisted on going his own way, and made a so-called "Christmas offensive", intending to completely defeat the volunteers before Christmas, and lead the soldiers home.
Such a move can be called arrogant, but it is understandable, who let the army of Chiang Kai-shek of the Kuomintang in the past be too weak and leave a very bad impression on the Americans?
Therefore, even if it was a failure, MacArthur did not take it seriously, but immediately planned the next stage of the offensive strategy, should it be said that he, a five-star general, is really not covered, just a few days a perfect idea was drawn by him on the drawings, that is, taking advantage of the winter freezing climate characteristics of Changjin Lake, from the west and northwest two directions to flank our army, forming a pincer offensive, and destroying the Sino-Korean coalition forces in one fell swoop!
Bloody battle at Changjin Lake
The Korean War broke out too quickly, and the situation was also quite confusing, but it was a pity that MacArthur, a generation of five-star generals, did not realize what a powerful enemy he was about to face, and under his insistence, the Battle of Changjin Lake finally began.
Continuing from the above, MacArthur's "pincer offensive" can be called invulnerable, if he succeeds, maybe the war will really end before Christmas, of course, this is his reliance, how can it not be an opportunity for our army to expand the results of the war? And the factor that can determine the outcome of the battle is obvious, that is, who can control the Changjin Lake area!
For this reason, ** and Mr. Peng both know it, so a plan is also on paper, that is, to lure the enemy deeper, let the vanguard of the US army enter the Changjin Lake area, and then our army will close the door and fight the dog, and wipe it out in one fell swoop!
Under the command of Mr. Peng, our 42nd Army quickly entered the main battlefield and fought with the US army.
The 1st and 7th Divisions fought together, and then feigned defeat and successfully introduced these two ace elites into the Changjin Lake area.
After that, everything was logical, MacArthur did not realize the seriousness of the problem at all, and still ordered the Eighth Army to pursue frantically, and when they found out that there was an ambush, it was too late, and our 38th Army took the lead in attacking, and in only a moment it defeated the South Korean army on the Western Front, which was the vanguard, and as for the Eastern Front, it was also full of mountains and rains, and both sides of the enemy and us had already set up positions, and the American side appeared in the land battle just mentioned.
The 1st and 7th divisions, and our army also sent the old main force of the East China Field Army, that is, the third army.
Obviously, this battle is the key to determining the direction of the battle, in this regard, the commanders of both sides are also full of confidence, both believe that their side will achieve the final victory, but the result is self-evident, since the beginning of the battle on November 27, our army has the advantage, in the case of multiple ambush points effective, the two elite divisions of the US army were directly divided into four sections, and then surrounded in Xinxingli, Gutuli and other areas.
After the enemy's formation was chaotic, our brave soldiers also lived up to expectations, and it took only 48 hours to lock the victory, and MacArthur saw that the attack was blocked, and the morale of the troops had been weakened, and in desperation, he had no choice but to give the order to withdraw his troops.
Since then, the Battle of Changjin Lake has come to an end, and the war of our volunteers in North Korea can be said to have achieved a lot of results, completely annihilating a formed polar bear regiment of the US army, plus the annihilation of more than 10,000 people, not to mention, but also so that the morale of the United ** people is low, and they are full of distrust of MacArthur who cannot go home before Christmas, so that many troops have mutinied, and they want to end the war and "go home for the New Year".
However, on the other hand, the losses of our army in this battle are really not small, even higher than the US army, according to official statistics, our army's 9th Corps killed more than 7,000 people in battle, and 1 of the wounded in battleMore than 40,000 people, more than 30,000 frostbite wounded, and the total attrition is as much as more than 50,000 people!
Obviously, this was a crushing victory, and the question arises that attrition is inevitable, but why are there 20,000 people who have frozen to death and frostbitten alone?
Three responsible
In the Battle of Changjin Lake, relying on the tactics of luring the enemy deep and closing the door to fight the dog, my volunteers in North Korea won a succession of battles and quickly won the second victory, but it is also not to be underestimated, especially the soldiers who froze to death and frostbitten were very wronged, and they had not yet entered the battlefield, they had not killed the enemy, and they died in such a daze, how could this not make people angry, how could it not make people question?
Indeed, many soldiers died in vain, so let's talk about the person responsible for this battle.
First: the person who set the time for the war to be launched by the Korean army.
Why is it said that the person who set the time for the start of the war is the first person responsible? The reason is very easy, that is, they ignore a key element, that is, the intervention of the United States, you know, June is the time when the spring flowers are blooming on the Korean Peninsula, and there is nothing wrong with starting a war at this time, but the problem is that they are easy to fight, and the US military is also easy to fight. It can be said that the reason why the US military chose to participate in the war so happily is that the weather is also crucial.
In mid-September, the autumn was crisp, and the joint ** launched a counterattack, but by the time our army entered the DPRK to fight, it was already the end of October, and the weather in North Korea became colder and colder, and the US army had down jackets, duvets, and thousands of people were frostbitten, not to mention our army, which was poor and white?
Therefore, if the North Korean side can give more consideration and postpone the time of launching the war for a few months, preferably in the middle of winter, it is likely that everything will be very different, and the ** of our army will not be so serious, and the US army will not be able to rely on its equipment superiority to defeat the main force of the North Korean army so quickly, and maybe the war will end in a short period of time.
Second: MacArthur.
In fact, even if New China has just been established, many ordinary people are still poor and can't eat, but if it is to win the war, our country will not be unable to gather hundreds of thousands of sets of cotton clothes, but the problem is that this battle was fought too hastily!
Just when the first battle was won, Mo said that it was our country, and the whole world thought that the conflict on the Korean Peninsula was about to end, and MacArthur was about to withdraw his troops.
Third: Song Shilun.
Of course, MacArthur, as the chief general of the enemy army, can be regarded as anticipating the enemy first, so then again, he is anticipating the enemy first, isn't Song Shilun, the military commander of our army, negligent?
On the one hand, he miscalculated the situation on the Korean battlefield and thought that the next battle would break out in a long time, and there might not even be another battle at all, so he did not make early preparations in Shandong and prepare cotton clothes for the soldiers of the Ninth Corps.
On the other hand, because Song Shilun is a native of Hunan, he has never been to the north until the Korean War, so like many southerners today, he made a fatal mistake, that is, he misestimated the degree of cold weather, thinking that North Korea was cold and could be cold to the end? This cooling soldiers will definitely be able to overcome this, so he didn't think too much about it, and asked the friendly troops in the northeast to prepare more winter clothes for the Ninth Corps.
In the end, it was precisely because of the misjudgment of the severe cold weather that Song Shilun issued an order for covert operations, asking the soldiers not to expose their strategic intentions too early, not to move a single inch in the snow, and hide in the snow for a day and night in the weather of minus forty or fifty degrees, not to mention that they were wearing single clothes, even if they wore ten down jackets, they couldn't bear it!
To sum up, although Song Shilun was also unaware, although he was also very guilty, and made many reviews after the war, saying that he should be responsible for those soldiers who froze to death and suffered frostbite, but a mistake is a mistake, and this is the reason why the blogger listed it as the first of the three responsible persons for the tragic victory in the Battle of Changjin Lake.
However, having said that, in fact, there are many unavoidable objective reasons why our army froze to death in Changjin Lake, such as the US army's equipment superiority is too great, and we have to win through tactics in order to win, that winter was too cold, and the temperature dropped by nearly 10 degrees compared with the lowest temperature in previous years, and all roads and railways in northern Korea were blown up, leaving only one road to transport supplies, resulting in too slow supply, and so on.
Of course, these problems are also well known, so after this battle, they did not directly criticize Song Shilun, but decided to offset their merits and demerits, and did not commend their military exploits and did not mention their faults.
It's no wonder, after all, so many soldiers who froze to death and frostbitten, the most heart-wrenching thing is him Song Shilun himself, these are all elite veterans he brought out single-handedly! It is glorious to die on the battlefield, and die quietly in the snowdrift, can he, the military commander, not feel distressed?