0154 Interrogation Report of the United Nations Army

Seeing that Wang Shuo was about to speak, the 'love rivals' in the comment area put forward their opinions.

"If you want to be the goddess's boyfriend, pass our level first, brothers, hurry up and solve the problem, you must stump him!"

"Let this kid talk about it!"

"We have to shed tears!"

"You can't read from the book, you have to go to the heart, tell the story with heart and affection, tell the connotation and tell the spirit. Let, the audience, come with Akagi's admiration and go with excitement. Let's focus, let's involuntarily applaud and nod in affirmative. It is necessary to let the young people of the new era consciously salute the military uniforms, and let the soldiers smile proudly when they see the strength of the army, and ...... Omit 1,000 words at the end......"

"Just serve the guy above."

"It feels a bit excessive, this request is too difficult for the little brother of the People's Liberation Army, right?"

"Six-six-six, it depends on the warrant officer's performance."

Wang Liang clasped his hands, in short, he had confidence in his grandson.

Lin Jia also looked at Wang Shuo expectantly, a soldier, who has always faced difficulties, and she looked forward to the subject being able to bring a unique explanation.

"Okay, then I'll tell you about a battle in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea today......" Wang Shuo began his story.

The most famous battle that took place in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea was the Battle of Shangganling.

There is not a military academy in the world that does not include this battle as a war example in its teaching materials.

The battle was tragic and tragic.

There are a lot of little-known facts and figures that have been kept secret for almost half a century.

On October 14, 1952, the Battle of Shangganling, the most famous battle to resist US aggression and aid Korea, began.

Wang Shuo's explanation is not empty, there are photos and cultural relics.

An oil painting by Fan Dikuan called "Immerse us in that period of history".

In the middle of this oil painting, the 1st Company of the 135th Regiment of the Volunteer Army was damaged by the enemy, Chen Zhiguo, a soldier of the 8th squad, grabbed the machine gun tripod, carried it on his shoulder, and used his body as a support, so that the deputy company commander could shoot, and shot a large number of enemies who rushed to the position, and then Chen Zhiguo died gloriously. Xue Zhigao, the deputy squad leader of the 5th Company, had his left leg blown off, and the soldier Wang Heliang's eye was blinded.

Shocking the world, crying ghosts and gods.

Before the battle began, both sides thought that it was just a small-scale offensive and defensive battle, with the Volunteers as the defenders and the American troops as the attacking side.

The U.S. military believed that the volunteers had become more and more obvious to seize the initiative in ground operations, and Van Vliet, the commander of the United Nations Forces stationed in South Korea and a well-known mountain warfare expert of the U.S. military, wrote a letter to his superior, Clark, then commander of the U.S. forces in the Far East.

In the letter, Van Vliet advised his superiors: "In order to turn the tide we must first take small offensive actions to put the enemy in a passive defensive position, which we are now taking in response to the enemy's attack, with the result that we have suffered heavy casualties in all the battles since October and November 1951." ”

Van Vliet proposed to adopt the plan of the 9th Army codenamed "Operation Showdown".

What is Showdown Action?

In order to regain the initiative on the ground and return the Volunteer Army to a passive defensive position, two battalions of the US 7th Division and the ROK 2nd Division were dispatched to seize part of the positions controlled by the Volunteer Army without paying huge sacrifices.

Van Vliet estimated that the operation would take six days, with a maximum of 200 soldiers to be sacrificed. With the support of 280 artillery pieces from 16 artillery battalions, more than 200 fighter sorties and bombers, the infantry would not encounter too many obstacles.

In this way, the superior, Krat, approved the operation.

But what he didn't expect was that what he thought was just a small-scale offensive and defensive battle turned into a flesh-and-blood battle, which lasted 43 days and caused 40,600 casualties on both sides.

Wang Liang, who participated in this battle, added for his grandson: "In fact, Van Vliet's estimate is accurate, although the strategic location of Shangganling is very important, the terrain is very narrow, there are only two high grounds, 597.9 and 537.7, and the defenders can only put two companies on it at most." Therefore, the 200 casualties planned by the US side are quite reasonable. ”

"But both sides made a lot of mistakes before the start of the battle, because in the days before the start of the battle, both sides had defected to the enemy and leaked military information to the other side. Unfortunately, the commanders on both sides did not pay enough attention, otherwise the situation of the entire Korean War might have changed as a result. After his grandfather's suggestion, Wang Shuo had a new idea.

Speaking of this, netizens immediately became interested, there are also traitors who defected to the enemy on the side of the volunteers?

It's hard to believe.

But history is like that, whether you believe it or not, it just happened, it became an established fact.

Before the start of the campaign, there were dozens of people who defected to the enemy on the side of the Volunteer Army, led by the commando cadre of the 340th Regiment of the 38th Army.

Tanaka Jiao revealed to the enemy that Shangganling had been replaced by the 44th Division of the 15th Army, which was newly arrived with all Soviet-style equipment.

Speaking of which, Wang Shuo took out a piece of information. Net starter

500th Military Intelligence Service Group

Interrogation Report KT No. 3831

Field Report 523MISCI-0443, 10th Army, October 6, 1952

Edited and remastered by the 500th Military Intelligence Service Group, October 28, 1952

Name of prisoner of war: Jiao Yanaka

Alias: Gu Yonglian

Prisoner of War number: 25

Rank: Deputy Platoon Commander officer

Position: Cultural Teacher

Unit: 38th Company, 3rd Battalion, 340th Regiment, 114th Division, 7th Army

Capture location: CT403397

......

Assessment: The POW was a deserter, healthy, alert, and quite cooperative during interrogation. He seems to be intelligent, observant, and sincere. The information provided should be reliable. It is recommended that the psychological warfare department and the commander further interrogate him.

Personal experience: In June 1949, he joined the army......

Troop organization and strength:

38th Army: 112th, 113th, 114th Divisions, and an artillery division of unknown number.

114th Division: 340th, 341st, 342nd Regiments, and an artillery regiment of unknown number.

340th Regiment: 1st, 2nd, 3rd Battalions, 1st and 2nd Artillery Companies.

Equip; 7.62mm Carbine, M1938, PPS-1943, 60mm mortar, 90mm bazooka, Japanese-made Type 92 7.7mm heavy machine gun, 57mm rear-action gun...... On 25 September, the 7th Company received 60 long de-tona-tor packets, with each soldier issued four grenades in addition to the original four. Most of the weapons were replenished with two bases of ammunition.

Location: 114th Division Headquarters: On 15 September 1952, the Political Office of the 114th Division and the OCS were located on the Chiktong-ni hill......

Communications: Each infantry company has a field telephone leading to the battalion headquarters. The company at the forefront was assigned two field radios, one at the company headquarters and the other to the platoon at the front.

Code Words: 340th Company, 3rd Battalion, 7th Regiment - Yellow River No. 7

Killed in battle - glorious

Wounded — great

A certain combat area - a certain factory

The 7th Company uses red, white, blue and yellow pyrotechnics as signals to communicate with the Reconnaissance Team, which varies from day to day or from operation to operation. A whistle is used for communication within the company, and a trumpet is used for the communication between the company.

All in all, the U.S. military quickly got the intelligence they wanted, very specific, very comprehensive.

But the ridiculous Van Vliet did not take this information.

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PS: War is like that, cruelty. Some people would rather die standing than live on their knees, while others would rather live on their knees. I won't comment much on this. Because we haven't been to that era, we haven't experienced it ourselves, so we are not qualified to comment on anything.

For the martyrs, we respect, admire, and that is enough.

We don't know what kind of value choices and value judgments we would make if we traveled to that era and that situation.