In order to peace, the Chinese people's volunteer army held high the banner of justice against aggression, valiantly, proud, across the Yalu River, and the Korean people and army side by side, after two years and nine months of bloody struggle, finally won a great victory.

 

Why would the newly formed new China go abroad to fight a war so unequal between the two sides? Why can this "founding war" for peace be won? What does this hard-won victory mean for us to realize our great dream in the new era?

 

1. Should go to war, must go to war

 

October 19, 1950, night, Yalu River. "Cross the river!" In the faint starlight, the nerves of Wu Ruilin, then commander of the 42nd Army of the Chinese People's Volunteer Army, have been tense. Four months ago, he was still in the Greater Khingan Mountains to expand the land, he did not expect that the days of farming would come to an end. From this day on, the Chinese people's volunteer Army went abroad to fight, the great war against the United States and aid Korea kicked off.

"The Chinese people love and cherish peace, and this is a war imposed on the Chinese people by the imperialist aggressors." Gong Shaoshan, deputy director of the Memorial Hall, said that in June 1950, when the Korean Civil War broke out, the United States immediately carried out armed intervention, sent the 7th fleet to invade China's Taiwan Strait, and then sent aircraft to repeatedly bomb China's northeast border. Despite repeated warnings from the Chinese government, it blatantly crossed the 38th parallel and brought the flames of war to the Yalu River.

On 27 August 1950, four American aircraft invaded Linjiang County, Liaodong Province (today's Linjiang City, Jilin Province), strafing the county seat and station. Two American aircraft invaded Andong Airport, killing three workers and wounding 19 others. On August 29, after the reconnaissance, the US military aircraft shot at the civilian boat, killing 4 fishermen... The North Korean memorial docent high Zhenzhen told reporters about the scene of the American bombing, "my grandfather was 18 years old, in Andong city (today Dandong city) three road shops apprentice, the plane bombing will blow out a big pit, the blood of the crater in the water dyed red.

 

The newly born People's Republic of China has many things waiting to be done. In the face of aggression, retreat, compromise or fight? At the request of the Workers' Party of Korea and the Korean government, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Korea made a decisive decision under extremely difficult circumstances: "We should and must enter the war. Great interests to participate in the war, do not participate in the war to harm the great "to resist the United States and aid North Korea to defend the country's wise decision.

At the critical moment related to the fate of the nation, in the face of the powerful and brutal aggressors, the Chinese Communists did not be intimidated, but to "fight a fist to open, lest a hundred fists to" the heroic face. History tells us that to advance the great cause of rejuvenation, we must unswervingly uphold the Party's leadership over all work. 

2. Be brave and good at fighting

At the Memorial Hall to Resist the United States and Aid North Korea, a floor-to-ceiling glass display displays the comparison of military equipment between China and the United States.

Us Army: tanks, aircraft, advanced modern weapons, well-made boots, coats...

Chinese People's Volunteer Army: "made in all countries" guns, ordinary cotton clothes, yellow rubber shoes...

As soon as the People's Republic of China rose from the ruins of the war, it was under such extremely difficult and asymmetrical conditions that the Chinese People's Volunteer Army, in close cooperation with the Korean army and people, fought five battles in succession, including the first battle of Yangshudong, the fierce battle of Unsan Seong, the battle of Cheongchon River and the fierce battle of Changjin Lake, and drove the enemy back from the Yalu River to the "38th parallel".

"I do not believe that there are impossible tasks, difficulties that cannot be overcome, and enemies that cannot be overcome." When Yang Gensi, commander of the 3rd Company of the 172nd Regiment of the 58th Division of the 20th Chinese People's Volunteer Army, shouted the slogan, applause burst out at the mobilization meeting.

"Behind three unbelievers are three believers." "Believing in the decisions of the Party Central Committee, believing in the intelligence of the soldiers, believing that the people will win, all this is precisely the party's decisive role in the people's army," Gong told reporters. To "steel less gas more" to overcome "steel more gas less", the majority of volunteer soldiers obey the leadership of the Party, play to the advantages of military democracy, came up with a brilliant plan to break the enemy.

North Korea's Garil Mountains are covered in snow in December. As one of the key nodes in the second battle, the hill position was always the focus of the two sides. Before the battle, in order to prevent the sound of cotton shoes and snow to expose the target, Jin Haifang, commander of the 4th Company of the 340th Regiment of the 114th Division of the 38th Army, ordered the platoon to go up the mountain with bare feet and hide the enemy. "The enemy did not notice us until we reached the top of the mountain," Jin recalled. "We could solve the battle in a moment."

In the face of risks and challenges from all sides, and in the face of various pressures, the sons and daughters of the Chinese nation have always been able to cut their way through mountains, build Bridges across rivers, and forge ahead with great ingenuity and courage to "fight our way through". With close combat, night combat to break the enemy firepower advantage, with air-raid shelters, air defense posts to solve the enemy air problems, the vast number of volunteers in the anti-American aid in Korea has been a great play. At the Battle of Shanggan Ridge, the volunteers' skillful tunnel tactics defeated Van Vliet, known for his "fire superiority doctrine," and the American army realized that the Korean War could not be won. The Battle of Chosin Lake was the longest retreat in the history of American forces.

 These four problems, one by one, were solved. The stronger our military was in Vietnam."

On July 27, 1953, the Korean Armistice was signed.以上翻译结果来自有道神经网络翻译（YNMT）· 通用领域