0155 Battle of Shangganling

The defector on the enemy's side was Li Jieqiu, a staff officer of the Han 2nd Division.

He explained to the volunteers the secret that the US army would attack the Wusheng Mountain in Shangganling, but unfortunately this information was also ignored.

Wang Shuo: "This is completely understandable, because the intelligence department of the Volunteer Army receives hundreds of pieces of information every day, and there is a mixture of truth and falsehood. Screening takes time. ”

The mistakes of both sides led to the fact that the US military did not understand the defensive deployment of the volunteers at the beginning of the battle, and the volunteers could not accurately judge where the US troops would launch the attack.

In the early morning of October 14, 1952.

The 7th Division of the US Army and the 2nd Division of the ROK Army successively launched a fierce attack on the 597.9 Heights and the 537.7 Heights Beishan in the Shangganling area with seven battalions and under the cover of aircraft and artillery.

Indiscriminate bombardment by enemy aircraft artillery.

The density of fire is up to six rounds per second.

The heavy artillery fire made the volunteer soldiers hidden in the tunnel feel as if they were riding in a small boat on the turbulent sea, and the strong shock wave stirred the tunnel.

Many of the warriors' teeth were cracked on their tongues and lips.

There was a seventeen-year-old soldier who was shaken to death.

The scene at that time can be described as hell on earth, terrifying.

In addition to this, there is ground fire, tank attacks in turn.

The officers and men of the 15th Volunteer Army who held their positions were not afraid, refused to give up an inch of land, stubbornly resisted, and repeatedly fought with the enemy from position to position, trench to trench, and even bomb crater.

The US military committed 7 infantry battalions, 18 artillery battalions, 200 sorties, dropped 600 aerial bombs, and fired 300,000 shells.

The Volunteer Army responded to the battle with two companies of the 15th Army plus a platoon, knocking out more than 40 rounds of bullets and nearly 10,000 grenades.

Eventually, the 537.7 heights were lost.

The Volunteers suffered 550 casualties, while the US-ROK coalition on the attacking side suffered even heavier casualties, as many as 1,900.

Immediately afterward, the battle began in full swing.

Shangganling has become a place of corpses and a sea of blood, and the repeated tug-of-war has made both sides red-eyed.

In Shangganling, a narrow area of less than 3.7 square kilometers, the US-ROK coalition forces have deployed more than 60,000 troops, fired more than 1.9 million artillery shells, and dropped more than 5,000 bombs.

The hill was cut down two meters, and the rocks were blown into powder more than 30 centimeters thick.

It is no exaggeration to say that he grabbed a cut of soil from the ground and counted more than 30 pieces of shrapnel from it.

A battle flag, passing through a full three hundred and eighty-one shrapnel.

As he spoke, Wang Shuo showed everyone a photo of the battle flag covered with 381 bullet holes and the tree stump on the Shangganling position.

"The warheads, shrapnel and bullet holes on this stump are the best proof of the fierceness and cruelty of the war at that time."

The stump, most of which had been charred, was riddled with bullet holes and cracks, and more than 20 warheads and shrapnel remained to this day.

What is tragic, this is called tragic.

This is not a divine drama, this is real history, real battlefield scenes.

It's just that it's too far away from our time, and many people find it unbelievable when they say it, and many people can't imagine that kind of picture.

Some entertaining anti-Japanese war dramas make young people feel that war is not so cruel, and everyone has the halo of the protagonist......

Wang Shuo, who is also a young man, is very different in this regard, he has never seen war scenes, but he has heard his grandfather tell the description since he was a child.

He understands, he understands, now, at this moment, he can describe.

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During the campaign, the Volunteers successively invested more than 40,000 troops, fought fiercely for 43 days and nights, repelled more than 900 attacks organized by the enemy, annihilated more than 25,000 enemy troops, and firmly nailed their positions to the 38th parallel.

Van Vliet's original plan to use only two battalions of troops to take Shangganling in five days was completely shattered.

Shangganling has become the sad ridge of the US military.

Shangganling has also become a heroic place of the Chinese nation.

In this battle, the military prestige was played.

Let those invincible Western countries see the determination of the Chinese to defend national sovereignty.

During the entire Shangganling Campaign, not a single plane of our army appeared in the sky.

There is also no record of the participation of tanks of our army in the battle.

The sum of all the artillery of the Volunteer Army in the late battle was only a quarter of that of the enemy at the beginning of the battle.

In a single battle, the United Nations forces fired more than 1.9 million artillery shells and more than 5,000 aerial bombs.

The Volunteer Army only had more than 400,000 shells, and all of them were used in the later period.

After the Battle of Shangganling, the U.S. Army never launched an attack on the Volunteer Army above the battalion level.

Since then, the situation in the Korean War has stabilized at the 38th parallel, and this battle has laid the northern and southern boundaries of Korea.

In this battle, the 45th Division of the 15th Army, which was originally a second-class unit, was basically wiped out.

But since then, she has stepped into the ranks of the first-class main force of the Chinese People's Liberation Army.

"My grandfather told you "Hymn to Heroes" before, telling the story of Wang Cheng, and now, I want to talk about Wang Cheng in the eyes of Americans." Wang Shuo has been chasing his grandfather's live broadcast after training, and he feels that Wang Cheng's story can be told from another perspective.

Wheat? Callahan, a private in the U.S. Army, was a first-hand witness to the Battle of Shangganling.

He survived the battle and survived until the end of the war.

But he lost a little thing, his left leg.

During the tug-of-war for the high ground, McCalahan's left leg was blown off by a shell from the Chinese People's Volunteers.

A few years later, he returned to Shangganling and scattered a purple ribbon to mourn his deceased friend in the place where he had fought.

This is where the memories begin.

It was late autumn in 1952.

At the age of 23, McCallahan was with the main force and assembled near the 38th parallel south of the Shanggan Mountains.

At that time, the Korean war was in a stalemate stage, in order to win control and bargaining chips at the negotiating table, the United Nations forces led by the United States launched a round of attacks on the defenders of the volunteers on a certain high ground in Shangganling, and the volunteers were very tenacious, successfully repelled many attacks by the coalition forces, and caused heavy losses and hundreds of casualties to the coalition forces.

Superior orders Mai? Callaghan's company immediately threw itself into battle.

Backed by aircraft, tanks, and artillery, Callaghan's company finally took the hill that had been impregnable for a long time.

When Callaghan, who was at the front, rushed to the top of the hill, he saw an astonishing scene.

Only more than thirty corpses and one unarmed volunteer soldier remained on the entire position.

To this day, Callahan cannot forget the appearance of that volunteer soldier.

He looked very young, like an immature teenager, his back was leaning against a trunk that had no branches and leaves, and his face was covered in dirt.

He was trembling all over, not out of fear, but from a serious injury.

The warrior's eyes were filled with anger and hatred.

The warrior's mouth kept talking, and even though he didn't understand Chinese, Callahan could tell that the boy was scolding them.