The Battle of Watergate Bridge Watergate Bridge is located about 6 kilometers south of the ancient soil of Changjin Lake, with a width of only 8.8 meters. Under the bridge is an abyss.
This bridge is the only way for the US Army's 1st Marine Division to retreat. All personnel, vehicles and tanks must cross this bridge.
Crossing the Watergate Bridge and Huangtuling means that the US military has completely fled from the Changjin Lake area, with the Ma Pingchuan Plain in front, which is very conducive to the retreat of the US mechanized troops.
Therefore, our army must blow up the Watergate Bridge and cut off the enemy's retreat if it wants to completely annihilate the 1st 1 Marine Division in Changjin Lake area.
But don't American troops know the importance of the bridge?
To this end, the vanguard troops retreating from the US Army's First Marine Division have been stationed here first, guarding the Watergate Bridge with a battalion of troops and 40 tanks.
One wants to escape, the other wants to stop. At this time, both the enemy and the enemy have realized that the Watergate Bridge is the bridge of life and death that determines their own victory or defeat.
At that time, General Song, commander and political commissar of the Ninth Corps, issued a strict order: No matter how difficult it is, it is necessary to blow up the Watergate Bridge at all costs and block and annihilate the first division of the US Marine Corps.
On February 24th, 1950, 1950, the 10 Army of the US Army withdrew from Nanxing Port, and the volunteers occupied Nanxing the next day. The "Battle of Changjin Lake", which lasted for nearly a month, officially came to an end.
According to post-war statistics, the US military suffered heavy losses in the Changjin Lake area. The First Marine Division was full of 25,000 people, with about 7,000 casualties, including about 2,500 captured and missing people and more than 7,300 frostbite casualties.
The first revelation of the Watergate Bridge campaign was that logistics support played a key role in this enemy-enemy confrontation. During World War II, the US military often dropped vehicles, tanks and other large machinery. They can easily drop these bridges on the Korean battlefield. Therefore, from the perspective of logistics support, the US military can easily solve this problem, while the logistics support of the Volunteers in previous battles is very fragile, and China's national strength can not meet the requirements of modern warfare. If the volunteers had cotton-padded clothes at that time, if there were several heavy guns at that time, if there were several fighters or bombers at that time, the US Marine Corps 1 Division would have been cancelled long ago.
Second, the tenacious fighting spirit of the volunteers is admirable. Although the enemy's equipment and technology are advanced, our volunteers are backward in weapons and equipment under cold conditions, posing a serious threat to the enemy. If the equipment technology is the same, if our army has stronger firepower. If the volunteers had cotton-padded clothes at that time, if there were several heavy guns at that time, if there were several fighters or bombers at that time, I am afraid that the designation of the first marine division of the United States would no longer exist.