UNSTOPPABLE Chinese Soldier who Blocked a Machine Gun with his Body - Korean War

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    While both North and South Korea and their allies fought fiercely for control of the Korean peninsula, heroes emerged on both sides of the conflict. No matter what uniform they wore, their deeds are worthy of remembrance. Amidst this terrible war of attrition, a Chinese soldier named Huang Jiguang made the ultimate sacrifice and would become a national hero in China for years to come.
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Комментарии • 913

  • @Simplehistory
    @Simplehistory  7 месяцев назад +96

    The Simple history YOUTOOZ is OUT NOW! available for only 9 more days! www.youtooz.com/products/simple-history

    • @beepboop204
      @beepboop204 7 месяцев назад +3

      would you ever do Bao Ninh (Hoàng Ấu Phương) and his fictionalized memoir Sorrow of War?

    • @eulseuls835
      @eulseuls835 7 месяцев назад +2

      CAN YOU COVER THE BATTLE OF YULTONG

    • @IAMAliIbrahim
      @IAMAliIbrahim 7 месяцев назад +3

      it takes courage to honor your enemy, love your videos, I have been watching them even after I got into medical school

    • @user-zb9yb3iq1h
      @user-zb9yb3iq1h 7 месяцев назад +1

      You need to do an version of my country too . Điện Biên Phủ 1954

    • @JonathonMitchell-ig4bv
      @JonathonMitchell-ig4bv 4 месяца назад

      I told you a story about a war horse of North Korea

  • @johnyricco1220
    @johnyricco1220 7 месяцев назад +647

    I had dinner with a Korean War vet and he recounted a story that three Chinese soldiers had crawled yards from a machine gun pill box and dug a hideout under it. They hid in there all day waiting to attack at night. He said that was the bravest thing he ever saw in the war. Even if they succeeded it was suicide. Decades later he and his wife visited China often and he made friends with many Chinese veterans of that war.

    • @LP18888
      @LP18888 7 месяцев назад +100

      Years ago, I also had the pleasure talking to this Korean War vet who told me he was saved by Chinese Soldiers when the North Koreans tried to execute the American POWs. The Chinese soldiers yelled at the Koreans and told them to step down. A lot of crazy stories from that gentleman, I hope he is still well.

    • @zenden9
      @zenden9 7 месяцев назад +55

      @@iridium8341 Hey Bot, be graceful and acknowledge both side heroic act in war. If PVA were not brave. They wouldn't able to hold whole UN forces at 38th parallel line thru out the 3 years war.

    • @justinlu7062
      @justinlu7062 7 месяцев назад +19

      @@iridium8341 lol go play fortnite lil bro or whatever it is you kids do these days

    • @antoniussamuelson3748
      @antoniussamuelson3748 7 месяцев назад +11

      @@zenden9 it's better if china didn't intervened. With that, Korea will be reunited and north Korean wouldn't live under dictatorship of kim dynasty.

    • @michaell1438
      @michaell1438 7 месяцев назад +21

      @@antoniussamuelson3748ok go back and change that then

  • @sethjr9815
    @sethjr9815 7 месяцев назад +46

    My grandpa was on the Chinese side as a captain in the Korean War, I served in Australia and my Chaplin was a private back then and them two would have most likely faced each other not knowing, how small the world is sometimes

  • @extrastout1111
    @extrastout1111 7 месяцев назад +548

    Pretty cool you actually covered an opposition soldier. As you said politics aside, end of the day they were everyday people who tried their best to serve their countries. Deserve recognition from both sides.

    • @user-pn3im5sm7k
      @user-pn3im5sm7k 7 месяцев назад +23

      Unless it's from Germany or Japan. Even though there's a mountain stack of incredible valor stories from both nations. We instead over-exaggerate their crimes and hide our own like cowards
      I find that channels like Yarnhub cover these without bias, much needed in the YT history community

    • @almaz.8802
      @almaz.8802 7 месяцев назад

      @@user-pn3im5sm7k you must be one of those dumb guys who thinks the Nazis are based or something 😂

    • @joecanteen7428
      @joecanteen7428 7 месяцев назад +12

      @@user-pn3im5sm7k I agree they are fanatic and brutality savage, Sad thing is many of them go unpunished now the japanese just play the victims.

    • @Isaac-ho8gh
      @Isaac-ho8gh 7 месяцев назад

      ​@@user-pn3im5sm7kalthough Yarnhub does it well as you mentioned, their animations are fucking terrible though lol

    • @femboyshitposter676
      @femboyshitposter676 7 месяцев назад

      Mentally ill cu*t not all of them were SS soldiers and not all of the Germans voluentarily joined conscription is a thing yknow?@@user-pn3im5sm7k

  • @chokingornot
    @chokingornot 7 месяцев назад +21

    我的父亲之前在PLA作为少校在第十五军的某团服役,黄继光营就是这个团所辖的一个营。是的,PLA后来用这位英雄的名字命名了他所属的营。

  • @NoName-sb9tp
    @NoName-sb9tp 7 месяцев назад +260

    The First Indochina War also had a hero who did the same heroic deed. He was Phan Dinh Giot, a Vietnamese soldier who fought in the battle of Dien Bien Phu in 1954. He used his body to cover up a machinegun nest to make way for his comrade. He died at the age of 32, posthumously awarded the "Hero of the People's Armed Force".

    • @BNVodkaFPS
      @BNVodkaFPS 7 месяцев назад

      Má từ chối hiểu luôn, anh hùng kháng chiến chống ngoại xâm không nêu tên mà sản phẩm tuyên truyền của Trung Quốc trong cuộc chiến tranh giành ảnh hương Đông Á thì lại...

    • @tranquoccuong890-its-orge
      @tranquoccuong890-its-orge 7 месяцев назад +20

      as a VNmese who seldomly watch Simple History, i clicked in this video today just to find this comment about Mr Phan Đình Giót who blocked a machine gun from a French pillbox, he deserves a mention

    • @nguyenhongphuc5330
      @nguyenhongphuc5330 7 месяцев назад +21

      and that one guy who legit blocked an artillery piece from falling off injuring his teamate he died from it tho

    • @hououinkyouma1465
      @hououinkyouma1465 7 месяцев назад +5

      thanks you for telling a interesting history fact

    • @uctaivannguyen9519
      @uctaivannguyen9519 7 месяцев назад +7

      Ờ, bên Soviet cũng có câu chuyện tương tự, Alexander Matrosov =))

  • @Frankie2012channel
    @Frankie2012channel 7 месяцев назад +308

    Thanks for showing all sides of each conflict. I love hearing those stories I would never otherwise hear about soldiers, campaigns and heroism because they were 'the opposing armies', etc. Thank you!

    • @erikreber3695
      @erikreber3695 7 месяцев назад +12

      I agree. History is always written by the winners. Who knows what was lost to time?...

    • @LarryWater
      @LarryWater 7 месяцев назад +4

      @erikreber3695 There was no decisive winner or loser in the Korean war.

    • @jamesedwardladislazerrudo1378
      @jamesedwardladislazerrudo1378 7 месяцев назад +4

      ​@@erikreber3695 Korean war wasn't about "Winning" either

    • @azimisyauqieabdulwahab9401
      @azimisyauqieabdulwahab9401 7 месяцев назад +2

      So tragic story

    • @user-qp7ye2dx8k
      @user-qp7ye2dx8k 7 месяцев назад +5

      he was just a invader

  • @TacSon
    @TacSon 7 месяцев назад +104

    In my country Vietnam we also had a hero like this during the Indochina War called Phan Đình Giót whom used his body to block a machine gun nest to allow his comrades to advance forward into the French's trenches. This moment was also recreated in our mediocre video game titled 7554 released in 2011.

    • @thefinalboss2403
      @thefinalboss2403 7 месяцев назад

      All these bodies blocking mounted guns... as if the rounds wouldn't go through the body like a knife through hot butter.
      I think this is one of those war myths everyone tells. I would like to see this debunked because a single body is not going to provide you cover to move by blocking rounds.
      I think it's a story that was told to honor the man's sacrifice.
      Do I think it was brave? Yes.
      Do I think it was effective and saved the day? Absolutely not.

    • @TacSon
      @TacSon 7 месяцев назад +2

      @@thefinalboss2403It obscures the vision of the gunners.

    • @nekorider6730
      @nekorider6730 7 месяцев назад +1

      I really like the topic of this game but sad there are too many bugs to continue playing.

    • @tungleson7066
      @tungleson7066 7 месяцев назад +2

      ​@@TacSon No, his minced body jam the gun entirely.
      You don't block machine gun bullets with just a human body, nor does obstructing vision does anything for a gun designed for blind fire. He aimed to the bullet hole during a burst, intend to mince his own body and using the resulting marsh to jam the machine gun entirely, which is the only way to silent that encampment and allowing his comrades to charge forward.

    • @nothanks9503
      @nothanks9503 7 месяцев назад

      I will say even as American I gotta respect the bravery and sacrifice of the majority of soldiers in Vietnamese military history that seems to be the default

  • @richcarp8403
    @richcarp8403 7 месяцев назад +59

    My grandpa fought in this war.
    Forced to be a medic and fixed army jeeps he was a rancher had his own property received the Purple Heart

    • @TheBobasbro
      @TheBobasbro 7 месяцев назад +5

      Two questions just out of curiosity, how did he earn his purple heart and why/how was he forced to be a medic? Sounds like he had a very interesting story behind both.

    • @user-wl3qc7js2o
      @user-wl3qc7js2o 7 месяцев назад +3

      God bless your family, from Seoul.

    • @richcarp8403
      @richcarp8403 7 месяцев назад

      @@user-wl3qc7js2o thank you 🙏

    • @nothanks9503
      @nothanks9503 7 месяцев назад +1

      @@TheBobasbromine got shot out of a helicopter to get his Purple Heart and he got forced to serve because he stole a cop car while getting arrested and they gave him a choice prison or war

    • @linshitaolst4936
      @linshitaolst4936 5 месяцев назад

      Americans still do not know who the commander-in-chief of the Chinese army was in this war, Peng Dehuai, while modern Chinese young people know that the first commander-in-chief in the United States is MacArthur, and the second is ridgway

  • @mechacream
    @mechacream 7 месяцев назад +75

    Props to Simple History for showing stories from both sides of conflicts

    • @AICW
      @AICW 5 месяцев назад +3

      Unlike Infographics Show which has become a shameless propaganda channel.

  • @neofulcrum5013
    @neofulcrum5013 7 месяцев назад +23

    War brings out the craziest stories

  • @DaniMacYo
    @DaniMacYo 7 месяцев назад +98

    I’m so glad Simple History exists. It’s such an amazing channel. ❤

    • @AngryAmericano
      @AngryAmericano 7 месяцев назад +1

      ok commie

    • @linshitaolst4936
      @linshitaolst4936 5 месяцев назад

      The propaganda of this war by European and American media reflects the arrogance of Europeans and Americans towards Asians. They only know Mao, and any strategic decision made by China is Mao. In fact, Mao is just a politician. In the Korean War, the commander-in-chief of the Chinese army was Peng Dehuai, and Peng Dehuai's most glorious achievements were conquering Xinjiang, Qinghai, Mongolia...... It is obvious that in the eyes of Americans, only one person is enough to represent an Asian country

  • @oliversherman2414
    @oliversherman2414 7 месяцев назад +13

    It's good to see a video from the other side of the wa. Great work as always 👍🏻

  • @mikeh3753
    @mikeh3753 7 месяцев назад +17

    Damn this reminds of those deleted history ones "sihang warehouse" where units in German uniform strap with grenades jumping off to defend the warehouse

    • @edd-600
      @edd-600 4 месяца назад +1

      You'd better watch the translated version of the movie. You didn't understand the plot. Those are not German soldiers.

  • @Prem-el2jr
    @Prem-el2jr 7 месяцев назад +224

    Every brave man and woman should be recognised for his or her valour despite being whatever the uniform, race ,creed he or she belongs .

    • @Ghosts1129
      @Ghosts1129 7 месяцев назад +11

      Always has been, since the beginning of warfare that no matter what side you are on you will be recognized for the brave acts you did. Pretty sure WW2 when someone made a german officer shocked for bravery, that very officer wrote the brits and said "this man deserves a medal".
      No matter what, a persons bravery once noticed, should be shown... Sure they may be on an evil side, but to them we are the evil side.

    • @Mr.Ambrose_Dyer_Armitage_Esq.
      @Mr.Ambrose_Dyer_Armitage_Esq. 7 месяцев назад

      The bravest women remain at home seeing to nurturing of the children left behind by the brave men fighting to ensure they have a future...for one to eschew her reproductive responsibilities in the face of mass depopulation through casualty so she can play feminist hero and "show up the boys" is neither brave nor valourous, it's cowardice and stupidity.

    • @ryanbernemann5489
      @ryanbernemann5489 7 месяцев назад +1

      Agreed

    • @apollow_g1025
      @apollow_g1025 7 месяцев назад +2

      what about black people? even them!?

    • @dallas_pandora4206
      @dallas_pandora4206 7 месяцев назад +1

      Don’t say he or she. Say they.

  • @frankyfeuilles3511
    @frankyfeuilles3511 7 месяцев назад +19

    Qiu Shaoyun is another popular war hero in the korean war, he essentially self-immolated to not give away his squad's position

  • @pokefan-ix7sh
    @pokefan-ix7sh 7 месяцев назад +11

    Huang Jiguang was a highly-decorated Chinese soldier, considered a war hero for sacrificing himself to block an enemy machine gun emplacement with his body during the Korean War.

  • @user-op8fg3ny3j
    @user-op8fg3ny3j 7 месяцев назад +107

    Good to see heroes on all sides of wars being recognised, be they Chinese, German, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Arab

    • @doggydude2668
      @doggydude2668 7 месяцев назад +1

      i guess im just not looking right because i only hear about Germans, allied soldiers, and now a chinese one

    • @potatokilr7789
      @potatokilr7789 7 месяцев назад

      Arab isn't a country

    • @Huajierenmeiluziye
      @Huajierenmeiluziye 7 месяцев назад +1

      Japan?

    • @kiana_kaslana12
      @kiana_kaslana12 7 месяцев назад +3

      So should the nazis be held as hero's too? (This is how dumb you sound)

    • @bruhtnt4258
      @bruhtnt4258 7 месяцев назад +2

      @@kiana_kaslana12
      In WW1

  • @ShawSann
    @ShawSann 7 месяцев назад +109

    What a legend Huang is. The fact we haven't heard of him in the west, me included until I watched this video, is a crime.

    • @tafariyoung1729
      @tafariyoung1729 7 месяцев назад +41

      That's how war is, do you think that China talks about American soliders?

    • @Goremize
      @Goremize 7 месяцев назад +1

      Exactly, its not like the people who he caused the deaths of on the UN's side would celebrate the actions of someone killing them and their friends. War is horrible for both sides, as much as this person is a communist hero its more of a history lesson then saying he's a "legend", its more learning about people of the past.
      If these people won, we'd all be dead or have no freedom.

    • @excelsior4025
      @excelsior4025 7 месяцев назад +16

      @@tafariyoung1729In fact, do you think they talk positively of US soldiers lmao

    • @stompstompstomp9394
      @stompstompstomp9394 7 месяцев назад

      we don’t revere communists. especially chinese communists.

    • @antoniussamuelson3748
      @antoniussamuelson3748 7 месяцев назад

      huang involvement in korean war only to brought north korean dictator back to power and make korea remain divided. if only china didn't intervened when US and korean troops reached yalu river, korean will united under ROK and north korean wouldn't live under dictatorship of kim family. chinese involvement in korean war didn't bring aby good for korea. huang didn't deserved to be known as hero and you shouldn't being crazy that you never heard about him.

  • @AudieHolland
    @AudieHolland 7 месяцев назад +3

    British historian Max Hastings made a documentary about the Korean War in 1988, 'The War in Korea.'
    Many veterans recounted their combat experiences and what struck me was the story of a British unit, tanks and infantry that was literally being chased by the whole Chinese Army (or so it must have felt to the British).
    The commander told how they were on a road, the tanks in the rear rolling at a soldier's walking speed so the infantry could keep up.
    Every time, a group of Chinese soldiers would appear on the road running at them, and every time, the rear tank fired a tank round into that group, killing all.
    As they reached a plateau, the British found they were surrounded on all sides.
    Hesitating what to do next, the British noticed the Chinese were firing around them, not at them.
    That gave the British commander the sense to order his men to destroy their weapons and surrender and the men followed suit.
    This story has remained in my memory for all those years since I saw the documentary.
    When we see Chinese Communist troops charging UN positions, we only see a faceless mob of probably murderous villains who mean to wipe out all.
    But as this case shows, the pursuing Chinese, even though having suffered probably more losses than the retreating British, still suggested the British surrender so no further lives would be wasted. That's my own conclusion.

  • @sandymckerchar3287
    @sandymckerchar3287 7 месяцев назад +35

    As a history major who specializes in the Korean War, I'm so happy to see more Korean War Simple History videos.

  • @scottlamp3097
    @scottlamp3097 7 месяцев назад +4

    I am surprised how much this story effects me. Respect.

  • @JohnnyRico118
    @JohnnyRico118 7 месяцев назад +33

    WW2 in China and the Korean war sound like they were wild, but western media basically acts like it didn't happen. I'd like to see more movies about it. The 800 movie was really good.

    • @CommissarMoody1
      @CommissarMoody1 7 месяцев назад +2

      Which version, they made 3 versions of that movie. Look up brotherhood of war. It's a Korean war movie made in Korea about some brothers drafted into different sides of the conflict.

    • @Huajierenmeiluziye
      @Huajierenmeiluziye 7 месяцев назад +6

      Before 1949, China was a weak, exhausted, disorganized country invaded by Japan. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, although the country was still poor and backward, there was a steel-like faith and people had light in their eyes。

    • @DeNihility
      @DeNihility 7 месяцев назад +5

      ​@@HuajierenmeiluziyeSay what you will about the PRC, but the results of their people's struggles, labor and sacrifice in making China into the nation it is today cannot be denied. They went from a backwards rural and argrarian society to a bustling metropolis amongst the world's most technological and infrastructurally advanced nations in the world. They also have a rich and long history. It's quite interesting really.

    • @Huajierenmeiluziye
      @Huajierenmeiluziye 7 месяцев назад +2

      @@DeNihility China was the poor kid in that school who came to enlightenment after being bullied and insulted by a group of classmates。If China's recent history is a tragedy, then in CPC's story line, China is a legend。
      The Mao zedong flag is flying high。

    • @nononnon123
      @nononnon123 7 месяцев назад

      ​@@DeNihilityROC:lmao to watching they revolution others and develop😂

  • @madjack1748
    @madjack1748 7 месяцев назад +12

    always like your videos for historical accuracy and unbiased story telling.

  • @oliversherman2414
    @oliversherman2414 7 месяцев назад +4

    I love your channel keep up the great stuff

  • @timothy1949
    @timothy1949 7 месяцев назад +7

    everyone was afraid, but some chose to be brave, made them heroes

  • @flopez7695
    @flopez7695 7 месяцев назад +8

    I love the unbiased nature of this channel

    • @NotNormal654
      @NotNormal654 7 месяцев назад +2

      This channel is always biased

  • @b01tact10n
    @b01tact10n 7 месяцев назад +45

    Dear Fallen Soldiers,
    Thanks for your service to your countries whatever urged you into making the ultimate sacrifice may God have mercy upon your souls.
    If I could I would, not for me for my family, and for them.
    Thanks for this upload👍👍

    • @blacksheepshepherd
      @blacksheepshepherd 7 месяцев назад

      What countries you talking about? Your country wasn't yours to begin with. Only for those in power. And you will fight for them.

    • @Jadeerai738
      @Jadeerai738 7 месяцев назад

      @@blacksheepshepherdchill bro, he’s just being wholesome

  • @MCPRO752_3
    @MCPRO752_3 7 месяцев назад

    Amazing video! I hope more Korean War vids get published. Maybe one about the battle of yultong?

  • @caffezine
    @caffezine 7 месяцев назад +5

    theres also a Lion-hearted vietnamese soldier named Phan Dinh Giot whom also use his body to block the battlements but he bring an explosive charge with to drag the french inside to the afterlife in order to save his comrades in the Dien Bien Phu war

  • @michaelhowell2326
    @michaelhowell2326 7 месяцев назад +26

    I'm team USA always, but it is pretty interesting to hear enemy accounts of the battles. To be honest I haven't heard very many.

    • @potatokilr7789
      @potatokilr7789 7 месяцев назад +9

      being nationalist and only knowing about your own country's history go hand-in-hand

    • @NotNormal654
      @NotNormal654 7 месяцев назад +1

      @@potatokilr7789 Go live in north korea then boy

    • @Kraed3
      @Kraed3 7 месяцев назад +8

      ⁠@@potatokilr7789a country that you grew up in and the people you from there friends or family is always worth fighting for

    • @potatokilr7789
      @potatokilr7789 7 месяцев назад +7

      @@Kraed3 Imagine being born in North Korea, and even better, having terrible parents and horrible friends. Would you gladly root for your country just because you grew up in it?

    • @NorthernNorthdude91749
      @NorthernNorthdude91749 7 месяцев назад +3

      ​@@Kraed3Not if that country is evil, like America.

  • @larryalvares1369
    @larryalvares1369 7 месяцев назад +53

    I like how all of the Chinese infantry are armed with M1 Carbines

    • @Michael-vl8gx
      @Michael-vl8gx 7 месяцев назад +3

      Real

    • @user-op8fg3ny3j
      @user-op8fg3ny3j 7 месяцев назад +5

      Cursed images

    • @pabcu2507
      @pabcu2507 7 месяцев назад +34

      Could be weapons used by the nationalist army during the Chinese civil war and utilized by the PLA when they took over as America supplied China with weapons during it’s war against Japan

    • @Michael-vl8gx
      @Michael-vl8gx 7 месяцев назад

      @@user-op8fg3ny3j where is blessed images

    • @diowheel
      @diowheel 7 месяцев назад +12

      it might be left over equipment from ww2 or captured

  • @shanebattles6132
    @shanebattles6132 7 месяцев назад

    Thank you for this video

  • @chopstx4u207
    @chopstx4u207 7 месяцев назад +1

    Amazing story without bias, cheers.

  • @thanhliemliemkhiet9037
    @thanhliemliemkhiet9037 7 месяцев назад +6

    In Vietnam, we are also proud because there is a hero who blocked the enemy's bunker with his body. His name is Phan DINH GIOT. He sacrificed at Dien Bien Phu in 1954 to help our army fight. military victory

    • @khanhgiapham-mi4hg
      @khanhgiapham-mi4hg 7 месяцев назад

      Brainwashed fanatic communist.

    • @brycewalker709
      @brycewalker709 7 месяцев назад +4

      @@khanhgiapham-mi4hgThey weren’t even really communist during that war, they were just fighting for independence from France. So you might want to read up on your history.

    • @khanhgiapham-mi4hg
      @khanhgiapham-mi4hg 7 месяцев назад

      @@brycewalker709 They were communist dictatorship at core. France at the time was blocking the communists from taking over the territory, so it's reasonable for communists to wage war against France.

  • @ives3572
    @ives3572 7 месяцев назад +20

    Nothing but respect for all those brave souls who fought valiantly and gave up their lives for something greater than themselves.

  • @vapour_xs9235
    @vapour_xs9235 7 месяцев назад +1

    My grandfather attended this war as a naval private, glad to see some light shone on this more forgotten time in history. Not really sure if he's seen any action, but then again he doesn't really like to remenise on his past.

  • @dylan4ie
    @dylan4ie 7 месяцев назад

    Looking forward to receive my Youtooz next year

  • @MasterQ18
    @MasterQ18 7 месяцев назад +6

    My grandpa fought in the same war and he personally new huang jiguang

  • @mexyfry8210
    @mexyfry8210 7 месяцев назад +6

    Well spoken

  • @aussiefreeman9829
    @aussiefreeman9829 7 месяцев назад +5

    oh hey that's kinda same case in the First Indochina War between the viet minh and the french army, with a Viet minh soldier named "Phan Đình Giót" who also blocked the french machine gun bunkers using his own body for his comrade to keep moving (and obviously he died from there)

  • @jamesmortimer4016
    @jamesmortimer4016 7 месяцев назад +8

    The north koreans actually send volunteers to the chinese civil war, since they already had an established nation and military durring it´s tail end. The chinese decided to repay that favor... 10 fold

  • @edwardboylan4187
    @edwardboylan4187 7 месяцев назад +8

    You see a lot of this type of media, 1 'hero' sacrificing themselves for many in recent CCP propaganda, worrying.

  • @jamesbodnarchuk3322
    @jamesbodnarchuk3322 7 месяцев назад +3

    The definition of sacrifice wow

  • @TrumpGaylord69
    @TrumpGaylord69 7 месяцев назад +1

    In the end, soldiers from both side served their country. That’s something to be proud of.

  • @codyshi4743
    @codyshi4743 6 месяцев назад +1

    I’m surprised by how balance Simple History is now with China. Hope this channel continues to be this balance with world history.

  • @johnathancoker8671
    @johnathancoker8671 7 месяцев назад +13

    im happy to see such respectful impartialness. politics and opinions aside, these people fight and died for something greater than themselves, usually for the well being of their brothers in arms rather than political ideals. you can disagree with their leaders and ideals all you want as long as you respect that these are still humans sacrificing their lives. be it americans, nazis, soviets, confederates, or what have you. lets try not to lose our humanity in our idealogical squabbles

    • @user-hm7uy7uj3r
      @user-hm7uy7uj3r 6 месяцев назад

      你只看见这些?中国的一带一路政策与各国友好和平发展。不正好推动中国的影响力。中国游戏有王者荣耀,原神都是资本主义圈钱的工具而已。就像你看不了中国的哔哩哔哩和中国的抖音 这些都是迎合国内市场

  • @Mellowcanuck33
    @Mellowcanuck33 7 месяцев назад +16

    I shook the hands of a veteran of the battle of hill 355. I think I surprised him.

  • @ernestw2474
    @ernestw2474 7 месяцев назад +1

    His action and sacrifice was indeed an unknown to the outside of China. Not only Huang Jiguang, but also Qiu Shaoyun who was burned to death without giving away his comrades' position in the same war. Also, another Chinese soldier, Dong Cunrui who blew himself to destroy the enemy's bunker during the Chinese Civil War. Indeed any soldiers from any sides who sacrificed themselves deserve some respect.
    Two mistakes: Chinese soldiers were members of People's Volunteer Army (PVA), not People's Liberation Army and they never flew Chinese national flag, but only plain red flag and sometimes they flew North Korean flags.

  • @codyadams3870
    @codyadams3870 7 месяцев назад +3

    I learned something new today

  • @ZacharyBurgard
    @ZacharyBurgard 7 месяцев назад +53

    My grate grandfather was in Korea for four tours of combat he said that most enemy soldiers were under 18 and he did parse the North Korea and Chinese soldiers for there fighting spirit although it was futile and reckless 90% of the time

    • @timothy1949
      @timothy1949 7 месяцев назад +8

      the chinese made the US army to have the longest retreat in their military history, how is it futile?

    • @elliottbaker201
      @elliottbaker201 7 месяцев назад +12

      ​@@timothy1949because it took over 200,000 to do it.. that's why

    • @outofturn331
      @outofturn331 7 месяцев назад +4

      ​@@elliottbaker201that's all they had then

    • @elliottbaker201
      @elliottbaker201 7 месяцев назад +1

      @@outofturn331 but, more importantly, that's how many it took.. against roughly 50,000🤷🇺🇲

    • @EastAsiaCreativeMedia
      @EastAsiaCreativeMedia 7 месяцев назад +1

      Is that why Yall lost??? LOL

  • @Gerfreiter
    @Gerfreiter 7 месяцев назад +7

    My great uncle was in the Chinese soldier during the Korean War. He said that his finger was shot off during a battle against Americans ans he managed to get the finger reattached but it was deformed for the rest of his life. He also said he remembers the freezing cold winters and how many of his comrades died due to the cold each passing day.

  • @Momo_Kawashima
    @Momo_Kawashima 7 месяцев назад +2

    Reminds me of the story of a spanish (maybe portuguese) guy that was assaulting a moor holdout thingy, they were closing the doors so he just jammed himself between the doors and got crushed to death, but his body stopped the doors to be closed and his buddies just pried them back open and took the fortress

  • @lanztersgaming9653
    @lanztersgaming9653 7 месяцев назад

    Glad to see an account of the other side.

  • @vietcongnva1197
    @vietcongnva1197 7 месяцев назад +3

    and American still cope with: "They fight by spamming masses of cowards" when they talk about Korean War, or any war other they ever touch in East Asia.

  • @Elevator829
    @Elevator829 7 месяцев назад +6

    The Korean war was kind of like WW1 in terms of how the infantry fought each other. Its a shame it so forgotten.

    • @redaug4212
      @redaug4212 7 месяцев назад

      Outside of South Korea, no one wants to offend China.

    • @Eversgarden
      @Eversgarden 7 месяцев назад

      @@redaug4212China makes movies about the Korean War, it doesn’t offend them

    • @redaug4212
      @redaug4212 7 месяцев назад

      @@Eversgarden lol naturally

  • @CHUCKLONG131
    @CHUCKLONG131 7 месяцев назад +2

    We need more content like this. Great episode!

  • @huyngoc40
    @huyngoc40 7 месяцев назад +1

    In Vietnam also had person who use his body to cover bunker hole in Dien Bien Phu. His name is Phan Dinh Giot, his family now just only his adopted son

  • @bobbiemanueldelapena4997
    @bobbiemanueldelapena4997 7 месяцев назад +12

    Speaking of the Korean War, can you also do a video on the Battle of Yultong, where a force of less than a thousand Filipinos held the line against a combined Chinese and North Korean human wave attack.

    • @jamesedwardladislazerrudo1378
      @jamesedwardladislazerrudo1378 7 месяцев назад +1

      In reality 900 Filipinos for PEFTOK squadron cut to due to reassignment and 2,000 Chinese volunteers went fighting throught hills plus 500 K.I.A Chinese and 5 P.O.W.

    • @rickyboy6390
      @rickyboy6390 7 месяцев назад

      Not just the Philippines but also Malaysia and turkey because the battle of yultong was won by and alliance but I don't get why this event focus on the Philippines rather then Malaysia or turkey but base on what I know both Malaysia and turkey retreated either cause they where swarm with lots of Chinese troops but retreated cause they either ran out of ammunition and had to withdraw

    • @someone1949
      @someone1949 7 месяцев назад

      because overproud pinoys cry for attention all the time
      @@rickyboy6390

    • @antoniussamuelson3748
      @antoniussamuelson3748 7 месяцев назад

      @@jamesedwardladislazerrudo1378 but the question is who won that battle. According to information from wikipedia, it's filipino who won the battle.

    • @bruhtnt4258
      @bruhtnt4258 7 месяцев назад +1

      China never used human wave tactics

  • @runaway_slav
    @runaway_slav 7 месяцев назад +9

    The original of fame for this was Alexander Matrosov, who blocked a pillbox in Chernushki 1943 to allow an advance, and then Soviet Mi-24 pilots in Afghanistan were named "Mandatory Matrosovi" as the Mi-24 pilots deliberately drew fire to expose mujahadeen positions decades later

  • @Khornecussion
    @Khornecussion 7 месяцев назад +2

    I mean say what you will if you're on the Allied nations side, but... that man was a beast and even a somewhat patriotic American like myself can look at that and go " You put it all out there for your country and that's honorable. "

  • @beinggayisoverrated
    @beinggayisoverrated 7 месяцев назад +5

    I’m Chinese and this is the first time I’ve heard of a Chinese war hero (on the communist side) and it was very interesting to me in my opinion

  • @William_luoma2010
    @William_luoma2010 7 месяцев назад +1

    My Grandpa was in the army during the Korean War, he didn’t take part because when his unit left he missed the train and was unable to catch up. When the war ended and his unit came back, a lot of his friends lost their lives in that war.

  • @dienkhungtung
    @dienkhungtung 7 месяцев назад +3

    First Indochina War got the same tale like this one and they keep drilling us that in school _ _'
    One Viet Minh soldier used himself to cover French MG bunker hole during Dien Bien Phủ

  • @lien_vietnam
    @lien_vietnam Месяц назад

    This happened earlier in Vietnam during the final days of the resistance war against the French. A brave young soldier used his body to block a French soldier's bunker to help soldiers attack the enemy.

  • @realhuman4396
    @realhuman4396 6 месяцев назад +1

    The heroes didn't fight for territory but they also fought for the recognition of their country.

  • @emperora9
    @emperora9 7 месяцев назад +28

    Just a reminder: those things were meant to plow through infantry like a chainsaw.
    This man ate it like Curtis Jackson.
    If that wasn't metal, I don't know what is.

    • @jaromswenson7541
      @jaromswenson7541 7 месяцев назад

      "those things were meant to plow through infantry like a chainsaw." which makes this sound like chinese propaganda.
      gun meant to harvest meat doesn't harvest meat in this moment?
      also, gun crew who clearly pushed away dirt from their vision decide not to do the same to the soldier who is obviously dead?
      nothing about this makes sense.
      there is luck in war that can lead to interestingly true tales of valor...
      and then there is bending reality physics for your propaganda.
      this was probably told to make poor soldiers fight harder because someone totally absorbed hundreds of bullets because starving chinese soldiers can now stop bullets with their emaciated bodies?
      if this did happen, it probably was a random cannon fodder communist who just happen to die infront of a pillbox that ran out of ammo at that time. they probably ran out of ammo because communists tend to send waves upon waves of soldiers into the meat grinder with little regard.

    • @redaug4212
      @redaug4212 7 месяцев назад +2

      Yea, a Human body isn't stopping a .50 cal bullet at point blank range. This is typical CCP bunk.

    • @DeNihility
      @DeNihility 7 месяцев назад

      Is it Sabaton worthy?

    • @applepie4287
      @applepie4287 7 месяцев назад +1

      @@DeNihility Maybe? Though I struggle to recall Sabaton covering any East Asian nation other than Japan. Would love to hear one about the Sihang Warehouse

  • @corymorimacori1059
    @corymorimacori1059 7 месяцев назад +26

    MacArthur: Nuke em!
    Truman: No!
    MacArthur: NUKE EM!
    Truman: NO!
    MacArthur: AH COME ON!
    Truman: You’re fired!

    • @kittycatwithinternetaccess2356
      @kittycatwithinternetaccess2356 7 месяцев назад +4

      truman should've listened

    • @bruhtnt4258
      @bruhtnt4258 7 месяцев назад +2

      @@kittycatwithinternetaccess2356
      And then what? USA gets nuked by Soviet Union?

    • @digitalronin7787
      @digitalronin7787 7 месяцев назад

      Sure then ww3 happens and humans will be extinct and don't forget that time is the strongest peak of red army's military might​@@kittycatwithinternetaccess2356

    • @GaionSputro
      @GaionSputro 2 месяца назад

      ​@@bruhtnt4258 Comment above you are so immature.

    • @vincentxu4709
      @vincentxu4709 Месяц назад

      ⁠@@GaionSputroImmature?
      Nah it’s true since if like America nuked china or some part of vladistok, America or maybe South Korea will be nuked by the soviets, considering how the Soviets developed a bigger nuke
      But if you’re saying the first reply of the comment then still, it’s not immature

  • @bossfightnaminh1730
    @bossfightnaminh1730 6 месяцев назад +2

    He reminds me of the hero Phan Dinh Giot

  • @daotrongkhanh1205
    @daotrongkhanh1205 7 месяцев назад +1

    "Follow the example of Lei Fong" intensifies!

  • @FeelinGoode
    @FeelinGoode 7 месяцев назад +3

    As a WW2 buff, so many insane stories coming from the Korean war.

    • @kidgaminggaming5731
      @kidgaminggaming5731 7 месяцев назад

      "ww2 buff" you probably only know surface level sheet about ww2

  • @YMC888
    @YMC888 7 месяцев назад +13

    Thank you Simplehistory for sharing the story of Huang Jiguang, He was a special-class combat hero of the Chinese People's Volunteer Army, all students in China have learnt about his heroic deeds and the craziest part is that my grandparents witnessed his self-sacrifice during the Battle of the Triangle Hill in 1952! A hero never to be forgotten!

    • @antoniussamuelson3748
      @antoniussamuelson3748 7 месяцев назад +4

      he is a hero for north korean dictator but not for korean people especially in south. his involvement only to make korea remain divided in the eyes of korean people.

    • @applepie4287
      @applepie4287 7 месяцев назад +1

      @@antoniussamuelson3748 Agreed, except for that last part since you could say if it wasn't for the US, Korea wouldn't be divided to this day.

    • @realhuman4396
      @realhuman4396 6 месяцев назад

      ​@@antoniussamuelson3748When you say Korean people you only mean the south. Look at how much the other was carpet bombed.

    • @antoniussamuelson3748
      @antoniussamuelson3748 6 месяцев назад

      @@realhuman4396 no. when i say korean people, i mean the whole korean people. both north and south. do you think north korean love the situation right now where their country still divided north and south? i think no korean would like to see their country divided. if north korean want to know who should be blamed for this, they would blamed china for intervened to save north korea from reunification with south. because korean people in north and south korea before korean war just wanted reunification, no matter under the country reunfied communist dictator kim ill sung or under capitalist ROK.

  • @ViceN53X
    @ViceN53X 7 месяцев назад +2

    I wonder what other Korean War vets my gramps got to know personally. I never heard much about his experience back then as a Korean War vet himself since I was too young

  • @bakixavirists4561
    @bakixavirists4561 7 месяцев назад +1

    The bing chilling is strong with this one!

  • @cannonball666
    @cannonball666 7 месяцев назад +4

    I can see some Chinese soldiers shooting PPSh41s but why are most shooting US M1 carbines?

    • @Taistelukalkkuna
      @Taistelukalkkuna 7 месяцев назад

      Bolt-action M1 carbines even.

    • @ariqabia5036
      @ariqabia5036 7 месяцев назад

      It's even more worse, unlike before the video was quite accurate than today, they should make the video historically accurate

    • @vincentxu4709
      @vincentxu4709 Месяц назад

      I don’t know why people forget, but the reason why is because of America supplied the KMT with their guns and ammunition since made in china wasn’t a thing for the 1900s(because chiang kai shek shiny head can’t think of one good technology other than infrastructure) and because soviets always pick up foreign supplies after killing the enemy, so that’s why they have M1 carbine, but maybe the creator of this video forget to like maybe make another bolt action gun, or the editor got lazy and did M1 carbine

  • @thundergod111
    @thundergod111 7 месяцев назад +3

    Are Mosin Nagant and SKS rifles and too difficult to render or something?

  • @cjyu2
    @cjyu2 7 месяцев назад +1

    My wife's grandpa fought in the Korean War for the Chinese in a mortar squad and I believe he was only 16 years old. Long story short he received minor injury in the leg by a shrapnel and was sent home, however the rest of his company all died that day.

  • @maxturbo45
    @maxturbo45 7 месяцев назад

    I love thw commitment of you mouthing your ad reads, its fuckin awesome LMAO

  • @mrhonkhonk6116
    @mrhonkhonk6116 7 месяцев назад +3

    5:41 what is this gun is this a M1 carabine with a bolt action ??

    • @GaionSputro
      @GaionSputro 2 месяца назад

      You not know very much about gun, don'chu?

  • @bmorrow1142
    @bmorrow1142 7 месяцев назад +3

    In actuality he was quite stoppable

  • @Seouldrift7
    @Seouldrift7 7 месяцев назад +1

    I recommend a Korean War video on Unit 8240.

  • @kietvo2633
    @kietvo2633 7 месяцев назад +2

    He is not only one do that , in VietNam there is a guy name Phan Dinh Giot do that too .

  • @ChadTanker
    @ChadTanker 7 месяцев назад +18

    Imagine being the literal definition of canon fodder.

    • @Legamster3584
      @Legamster3584 7 месяцев назад +12

      Do you know what respect is?

    • @pyromike7237
      @pyromike7237 7 месяцев назад +1

      ​@@Legamster3584imperialist invaders trying to install a communist dictatorship doesn't deserve respect 😂

    • @AngryAmericano
      @AngryAmericano 7 месяцев назад +11

      @@Legamster3584 we don't respect commies

    • @Legamster3584
      @Legamster3584 7 месяцев назад +9

      @@AngryAmericano I don’t respect what he fought for but I respect him as a person

    • @Jake-dh9qk
      @Jake-dh9qk 7 месяцев назад

      @@AngryAmericano We really live in a world where we honor colonial empires but hate communist states for wanting equality. Talk about bootlicking
      The commies literally existed to bring power back to the poor and oppressed, it never wanted to conquer or colonize any one... and yet modern media somehow was able to make it seem like it's worst than imperialism lmao

  • @sepantahashemi3712
    @sepantahashemi3712 7 месяцев назад +5

    In iran when we were fighting iraq we had mohammad hossein Fahmide he was 13 years old he took a bomb and went under an iraqi tank and sacrificed him self for saving others i hope you could make a video about it❤❤🇮🇷🇮🇷

  • @zillsburyy1
    @zillsburyy1 7 месяцев назад +1

    those thick winter coats helped

  • @NorthernNorthdude91749
    @NorthernNorthdude91749 7 месяцев назад +1

    An amazing example of heroism, risking his life and doing his part to help stop American imperialism and protect the people's revolution.

  • @DD-vn2ev
    @DD-vn2ev 7 месяцев назад +3

    Polish American volunteers in France, The Blue Army. Please

  • @fuckhandles1233
    @fuckhandles1233 7 месяцев назад +7

    Idk man, it just doesn't seem physically possible that a human body would do much to stop .50 cal bullets

  • @contactico
    @contactico 7 месяцев назад

    I would love to see a Simple History video on the Battle of Kapyong Blue, specifically the Australian point of view

  • @candidate3512
    @candidate3512 7 месяцев назад +2

    We also have the same story like this in vietnam war. While they seems very possible, i just dont understand why they use a heavy machine gun just 7mm for a bunker, not the mighty .50caliber gun

  • @koltonroofe4411
    @koltonroofe4411 7 месяцев назад +16

    My Grandfather fought in the Korean War. I never heard much at my age from him but my mother told me how brutal his service was. Men were tougher back then

    • @skylargray455
      @skylargray455 7 месяцев назад +9

      Wdym men were tougher back then. Men will be men in times of need just look at those kids currently fighting in Ukraine

  • @danielgonzales5618
    @danielgonzales5618 7 месяцев назад +7

    +10 social credit for your channel

  • @blitzaurora3393
    @blitzaurora3393 7 месяцев назад

    The day we get a Simple History and Yarnhub collaboration will, in my book, be a holiday

  • @ryancruz6386
    @ryancruz6386 7 месяцев назад +3

    bro m1 carbine

    • @user-iv4uy4qz4b
      @user-iv4uy4qz4b 7 месяцев назад +1

      Lend Lease, some of their medals show Chinese with American rifles on them.

  • @adriannaranjo4397
    @adriannaranjo4397 7 месяцев назад +4

    STANDING HERE
    I REALIZE

  • @misshikari5294
    @misshikari5294 7 месяцев назад +2

    What an irony, they helped built North Korea make it like a 'large prison' for the North Korean people to suffer until now

  • @ryleeculla5570
    @ryleeculla5570 7 месяцев назад +1

    Will you talk about these men are the forgotten hero’s of history like many others in the forgotten war

  • @theromanorder
    @theromanorder 7 месяцев назад +6

    please do a video on these
    (this is a copy and paste list for a few channels)
    units and tactics/evaluation of loadouts of troops (from different jobs (and other branches)
    like the 82 snd 101 airborne units
    or infantry tank units, (or when tanks were assigned a infantry unit like i think earlier war Russia then all tanks were formed into there own units wich meant the infantry no longer knew the true strength of there own tanks but alowed tank units to fight more efficiently)
    the tank doctrine of countries
    evaluation of tank veiw ports
    evaluation of tanks/armored vehicles of different countries
    evaluation of aircraft types of different countries,
    different between navil and army/air force fighters
    logistics units of the axes and allied powers in ww2
    ww1 estern front tactics
    Russian Civil war tactics and strategies
    navil ship cross sections (all the rooms and how it all works)
    evaluation of types of ships
    or evaluation of navil warfare
    air craft carrier strike group formations exsamples (from different countries)
    ancient persan ships,
    ancient veneti ships (gauls that fought ceaser)
    ships used by genoa and the vernesain republic
    the vernesain republic government
    all sailing ships, (i know theres many on yt but some contradict each other and i think theres more left out)
    cast vs welded vs rivited tank armor
    2b9 vasilyok morter
    tactics used so far in the Ukraine war,
    better for squads to be 2 teams of 5 or 3 teams of 3,
    and probably the easiest, better to keep troops well feed or starved like an animal
    how dose age effect comsnders eg napoleon got older so took less risks,
    ancient urban warfare
    ww2 tactics in Asia, tactics in the Chinese age of warlords, (and Chinese civil war)
    tactics in the ruso jap war
    cold war navil tactics,
    Korean war tactics,
    strange tactics or unque battles from the American war of independence and America civil war
    how were 17th centry sailing ships build
    types of bombs lunched by drones
    comands given on sailing ships (like ease the sheets and get ready to chine, or slack n beases, basically things you hear movie capitns say)
    why did the nazis never return (or a video on best occupations)
    why did the Japanese empire fall, dont just say "America" like things like how there army and navy argued alot
    alot more on the Polynesians and māori, but please learn pronounceations if you do this

  • @HUANG-NENE
    @HUANG-NENE 7 месяцев назад +4

    黄继光是中国家喻户晓的英雄

  • @WOOKY27
    @WOOKY27 7 месяцев назад +1

    They should make PLA figures out of funko POP!