Chapter 94 I can't see you in the mountain circuit

At the command post of the Volunteer Army Headquarters, Peng Dehuai was both happy and heavy watching the report on the victory of the Eastern Front. The 9th Corps suffered more than 40,000 casualties. Among them, nearly 30,000 people died of frostbite. It is said that as many as 4,000 people died of freezing. Mao Zedong was very distressed by the loss of the 9th Corps.Both he and Peng Dehuai sent messages of condolences to the eastern front troops...Mao Zedong also sent Chen Yi, the old chief of Song Shilun, to appease them in person.There is no specific record of the meeting between Chen Yi and Song Shilun, but it is conceivable that for a general, it is painful and uncomfortable for so many subordinates to be frozen to death and frostbite.

General Song Shilun, commander of the 9th Corps, has experienced many battles and regards death as an ordinary thing. However, this tough man has always been hard to let go of the battle of Changjin Lake.So many lives were frozen to death and frostbite, it made him worry too much!Before the Korean War was over, he offered to resign. No one accused General Song Shilun of being responsible for so many cases of frostbite and freezing to death in the Battle of Changjin Lake, nor should he bear any responsibility. The war is so urgent, and it is the bounden duty of a soldier to die for the country.However, General Song Shilun, as a front-line commander, felt sad and painful all his life because of this.He even had a lot of assumptions, if he had found a way to raise or purchase winter clothes since he received the order to prepare for combat in North Korea, if the original plan could complete the three-month replenishment in Shandong, if he could complete the two-week training in the Northeast and carry out necessary Supplies, will the number of people frozen to death and frostbite be much smaller, and the results of the battle will be much greater?

One day in September 1952, General Song Shilun, who was about to return to China, stood by the Yalu River, took off his hat and bowed in the direction of Changjin Lake. He was saying goodbye to his comrades who were buried on that land, and he was paying tribute to those great national pride. When he raised his head, General Song Shilun was already in tears. When the second battle started, the Confucian general Deng Hua faced the snow-covered mountains and the snow-capped mountains. He became very excited and recited a song "Send off the King at the East Gate of Luntai" by Cen Shen:

This ancient poem from thousands of years ago reminds people of those soldiers of the Chinese People's Volunteers who challenged the limits of human beings, those who fought the enemy bravely despite the severe cold, and those soldiers of the Chinese People's Volunteers who died on the banks of Changjin Lake in the second battle. You can't see you when the mountain circuit turns around, and you stay in the horse's place on the snow...