Which is more tragic, the Battle of Shangganling or the Battle of Changjin Lake?

The battle of Changjin Lake was even more tragic than the battle of Shangganling.

After a night of fierce fighting in the Battle of Changjin Lake, the US military was horrified to find that the US military had been surrounded by layers, and in Liutanli, Li Xinxing, Xiajieli and other places, it was divided and surrounded by volunteers into five pieces!

The sky is getting brighter, and the operational advantages of the US military are highlighted. It uses tanks and armored vehicles to set up circular defensive positions, organizes howitzers and heavy machine guns to build an absolutely superior firepower network. At the same time, the aircraft was called to carry out air fire support to stop the crazy attack of the volunteers. In addition, the U.S. military has absolute air superiority and can guide aircraft to drop ammunition, food, winter clothes and other materials at any time.

In contrast, the equipment of the volunteers is inferior. Light weapons are only rifles, grenades and a small amount of light machine guns. Because the trench equipment can't be carried in the emergency March, the only heavy weapons and light mortars can't be used because of the cold weather. Volunteers can only use the hidden terrain and brave spirit to launch a charge.

Moreover, the freezing weather of MINUS 30 degrees also brought a fatal threat to the volunteers. The Ninth Corps was originally stationed in East China. Due to the emergency of the war, the logistics support of winter clothes in the north, such as cotton-padded clothes, cotton shoes and quilts, failed to keep up in time, resulting in volunteers wearing only single clothes and rubber shoes on the front line, and quilts were pitiful. At night, only a few soldiers can huddle together to keep warm in case of freezing.

Before the fighting started, the phenomenon of non-combat attrition of volunteer soldiers was very serious, such as frostbite and freezing to death. Many soldiers lay in ambush in the snow and never stood up and froze to death. When the battle started, some soldiers' legs were frozen in the snow, and some soldiers' hands were frozen with guns. So the panic attack of the volunteers was extremely hard, and the confrontation between the two armies gradually formed.

Extended data:

1950 12.24, on Christmas Eve, Asian time, the US Army 10 withdrew from Nanxing Port, and the volunteers occupied Nanxing the next day. The battle of Changjin Lake, which lasted nearly a month, started on the eastern front of the second campaign to resist US aggression and aid Korea, and the whole second campaign came to an end.

1September, 952, the 9th Corps returned to the Yalu River from North Korea, and the commander Song stopped the driver. After getting off the bus, he stood silently in the direction of Changjin Lake for a long time, then took off his hat and bowed deeply. When he looked up, the guards found that the gray-haired general was in tears and could not control himself. This sad scene is undoubtedly the best annotation to the tragic degree of this battle.