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

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  • Опубликовано: 14 янв 2025

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  • @Simplehistory
    @Simplehistory  Год назад +102

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

    • @beepboop204
      @beepboop204 Год назад +4

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

    • @eulseuls835
      @eulseuls835 Год назад +2

      CAN YOU COVER THE BATTLE OF YULTONG

    • @IAMAliIbrahim
      @IAMAliIbrahim Год назад +3

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

    • @AddictedtoChess
      @AddictedtoChess Год назад +1

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

  • @johnyricco1220
    @johnyricco1220 Год назад +703

    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 Год назад +114

      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 Год назад +61

      @@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 Год назад +21

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

    • @antoniussamuelson3748
      @antoniussamuelson3748 Год назад +12

      @@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 Год назад +24

      @@antoniussamuelson3748ok go back and change that then

  • @extrastout1111
    @extrastout1111 Год назад +574

    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 Год назад +25

      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 Год назад

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

    • @joecanteen7428
      @joecanteen7428 Год 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 Год назад

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

    • @femboyshitposter676
      @femboyshitposter676 Год 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

  • @Frankie2012channel
    @Frankie2012channel Год назад +323

    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!

  • @NoName-sb9tp
    @NoName-sb9tp Год назад +273

    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 Год 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 Год назад +21

      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 Год 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 Год назад +5

      thanks you for telling a interesting history fact

    • @uctaivannguyen9519
      @uctaivannguyen9519 Год назад +7

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

  • @sethjr9815
    @sethjr9815 Год назад +53

    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

  • @TacSon
    @TacSon Год назад +110

    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 Год 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 Год назад +2

      @@thefinalboss2403It obscures the vision of the gunners.

    • @nekorider6730
      @nekorider6730 Год назад +1

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

    • @tungleson7066
      @tungleson7066 Год 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 Год 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 Год назад +62

    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 Год 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.

    • @Kitanaiunagi
      @Kitanaiunagi Год назад +3

      God bless your family, from Seoul.

    • @richcarp8403
      @richcarp8403 Год назад

      @@Kitanaiunagi thank you 🙏

    • @nothanks9503
      @nothanks9503 Год назад +2

      @@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 10 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 Год назад +81

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

    • @AICW
      @AICW 11 месяцев назад +4

      Unlike Infographics Show which has become a shameless propaganda channel.

  • @DaniMacYo
    @DaniMacYo Год назад +101

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

    • @Thatswildpimp
      @Thatswildpimp Год назад +1

      ok commie

    • @linshitaolst4936
      @linshitaolst4936 10 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

    • @vincentxu4709
      @vincentxu4709 5 месяцев назад

      @@ThatswildpimpBro literally this channel is western, this have American, Chinese, and German and other countries history and its hero’s💀

  • @AudieHolland
    @AudieHolland Год назад +8

    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.

    • @潘公子-o5m
      @潘公子-o5m 20 дней назад

      一伙强盗从地球的一边跑到地球的另一边去杀人放火,然后还说那些反抗他的人是强盗😂

  • @neofulcrum5013
    @neofulcrum5013 Год назад +24

    War brings out the craziest stories

  • @sandymckerchar3287
    @sandymckerchar3287 Год назад +36

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

  • @chokingornot
    @chokingornot Год назад +35

    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。

    • @marcsus2484
      @marcsus2484 2 месяца назад

      只不過是個人球而已

    • @chokingornot
      @chokingornot 2 месяца назад +1

      @ 你所侮辱的不会是黄继光,不会是PLA,你侮辱的只有你自己和你的父母

    • @一个普通的人-d4m
      @一个普通的人-d4m 11 дней назад

      @@chokingornot支持

    • @skipclassfordota3361
      @skipclassfordota3361 День назад

      对啊 和你一样。
      区别就是你的生命和承载的思想没有任何意义而已。​@@marcsus2484

  • @user-op8fg3ny3j
    @user-op8fg3ny3j Год назад +113

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

    • @doggydude2668
      @doggydude2668 Год назад +1

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

    • @potatokilr7789
      @potatokilr7789 Год назад

      Arab isn't a country

    • @Huajierenmeiluziye
      @Huajierenmeiluziye Год назад +2

      Japan?

    • @kiana_kaslana12
      @kiana_kaslana12 Год назад +3

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

    • @BruhTNT4258
      @BruhTNT4258 Год назад +2

      @@kiana_kaslana12
      In WW1

  • @frankyfeuilles3511
    @frankyfeuilles3511 Год назад +23

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

  • @Prem-el2jr
    @Prem-el2jr Год назад +233

    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 Год назад +12

      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. Год 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 Год назад +1

      Agreed

    • @apollow_g1025
      @apollow_g1025 Год назад +2

      what about black people? even them!?

    • @intergalacticolive
      @intergalacticolive Год назад +1

      Don’t say he or she. Say they.

  • @oliversherman2414
    @oliversherman2414 Год назад +13

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

  • @JohnnyRico118
    @JohnnyRico118 Год назад +38

    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 Год 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 Год назад +7

      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 Год назад +6

      ​@@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 Год 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 Год назад

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

  • @pokefan-ix7sh
    @pokefan-ix7sh Год назад +13

    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.

  • @ShawSann
    @ShawSann Год назад +115

    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 Год назад +43

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

    • @Goremize
      @Goremize Год 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 Год назад +16

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

    • @stompstompstomp9394
      @stompstompstomp9394 Год назад

      we don’t revere communists. especially chinese communists.

    • @antoniussamuelson3748
      @antoniussamuelson3748 Год 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.

  • @mikeh3753
    @mikeh3753 Год назад +18

    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 10 месяцев назад +1

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

    • @johnkongsaisy7014
      @johnkongsaisy7014 5 месяцев назад

      The Nationalist Army hired numerous German advisors. Prior to the Sino Japanese invasion Chiang had 11 or more Wehrmact standard divisions. Only stopping support at the request of Japan

  • @jhvkjhvkjv
    @jhvkjhvkjv Год назад +6

    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

  • @aa1944-k2r
    @aa1944-k2r Год назад +8

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

  • @larryalvares1369
    @larryalvares1369 Год назад +58

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

    • @Michael-vl8gx
      @Michael-vl8gx Год назад +3

      Real

    • @user-op8fg3ny3j
      @user-op8fg3ny3j Год назад +6

      Cursed images

    • @pabcu2507
      @pabcu2507 Год назад +35

      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 Год назад

      @@user-op8fg3ny3j where is blessed images

    • @diowheel
      @diowheel Год назад +12

      it might be left over equipment from ww2 or captured

  • @flopez7695
    @flopez7695 Год назад +9

    I love the unbiased nature of this channel

  • @ernestw2474
    @ernestw2474 Год назад +3

    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.

  • @madjack1748
    @madjack1748 Год назад +12

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

  • @b01tact10n
    @b01tact10n Год назад +48

    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 Год 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 Год назад

      @@blacksheepshepherdchill bro, he’s just being wholesome

  • @caffezine
    @caffezine Год 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

  • @ives3572
    @ives3572 Год назад +22

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

  • @ZacharyBurgard
    @ZacharyBurgard Год назад +55

    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

    • @aa1944-k2r
      @aa1944-k2r Год назад +9

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

    • @elliottbaker201
      @elliottbaker201 Год назад +13

      ​@@aa1944-k2rbecause it took over 200,000 to do it.. that's why

    • @outofturn331
      @outofturn331 Год назад +5

      ​@@elliottbaker201that's all they had then

    • @elliottbaker201
      @elliottbaker201 Год назад +2

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

    • @EastAsiaCreativeMedia
      @EastAsiaCreativeMedia Год назад +1

      Is that why Yall lost??? LOL

  • @MasterQ18
    @MasterQ18 Год назад +6

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

  • @thanhliemliemkhiet9037
    @thanhliemliemkhiet9037 Год 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 Год назад +1

      Brainwashed fanatic communist.

    • @brycewalker709
      @brycewalker709 Год 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 Год 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.

  • @jamesmortimer4016
    @jamesmortimer4016 Год назад +9

    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

  • @vapour_xs9235
    @vapour_xs9235 Год 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.

  • @michaelhowell2326
    @michaelhowell2326 Год назад +28

    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 Год назад +9

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

    • @hahdgabfhbsjcnsncnnsdbbzbs
      @hahdgabfhbsjcnsncnnsdbbzbs Год назад +1

      @@potatokilr7789 Go live in north korea then boy

    • @Kraed3
      @Kraed3 Год 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 Год 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 Год назад +3

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

  • @corymorimacori1059
    @corymorimacori1059 Год назад +28

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

    • @kittycatwithinternetaccess2356
      @kittycatwithinternetaccess2356 Год назад +4

      truman should've listened

    • @BruhTNT4258
      @BruhTNT4258 Год назад +2

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

    • @digitalronin7787
      @digitalronin7787 Год 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 7 месяцев назад

      ​@@BruhTNT4258 Comment above you are so immature.

    • @vincentxu4709
      @vincentxu4709 6 месяцев 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

  • @Mellowcanuck33
    @Mellowcanuck33 Год назад +16

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

  • @oliversherman2414
    @oliversherman2414 Год назад +4

    I love your channel keep up the great stuff

  • @aussiefreeman9829
    @aussiefreeman9829 Год 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)

  • @codyshi4743
    @codyshi4743 11 месяцев назад +2

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

    • @vincentxu4709
      @vincentxu4709 5 месяцев назад

      I think he is neutral for any side of countries, showing the true side of both countries hero’s

  • @Gerfreiter
    @Gerfreiter Год 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.

  • @William_luoma2010
    @William_luoma2010 Год 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.

  • @scottlamp3097
    @scottlamp3097 Год назад +4

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

    • @jxmai7687
      @jxmai7687 2 месяца назад +1

      Think about this story is in school book for every under 10 years old Chinese kids, then you will have some understanding of Chinese mindset, we never forget.

  • @Momo_Kawashima
    @Momo_Kawashima Год назад +3

    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

  • @mexyfry8210
    @mexyfry8210 Год назад +6

    Well spoken

  • @huyngoc40
    @huyngoc40 Год 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

  • @emperora9
    @emperora9 Год 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 Год 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 Год назад +2

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

    • @DeNihility
      @DeNihility Год назад

      Is it Sabaton worthy?

    • @applepie4287
      @applepie4287 Год 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

  • @realhuman4396
    @realhuman4396 Год назад +1

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

  • @codyadams3870
    @codyadams3870 Год назад +3

    I learned something new today

  • @chopstx4u207
    @chopstx4u207 Год назад +1

    Amazing story without bias, cheers.

  • @jamesbodnarchuk3322
    @jamesbodnarchuk3322 Год назад +3

    The definition of sacrifice wow

  • @cjyu2
    @cjyu2 Год 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.

  • @runaway_slav
    @runaway_slav Год 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

  • @johnathancoker8671
    @johnathancoker8671 Год назад +14

    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

    • @keou-n2o
      @keou-n2o Год 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

  • @Khornecussion
    @Khornecussion Год 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. "

  • @bobbiemanueldelapena4997
    @bobbiemanueldelapena4997 Год 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 Год 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 Год 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 Год назад

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

    • @antoniussamuelson3748
      @antoniussamuelson3748 Год назад

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

    • @BruhTNT4258
      @BruhTNT4258 Год назад +2

      China never used human wave tactics

  • @MCPRO752_3
    @MCPRO752_3 Год назад

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

  • @thundergod111
    @thundergod111 Год назад +4

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

  • @kriegsmanofthethsiegeartillery
    @kriegsmanofthethsiegeartillery Год назад +981

    I CLAIM THIS COMMENT SECTION FOR THE GOD EMPEROR OF MANKIND!

  • @vietcongnva1197
    @vietcongnva1197 Год назад +4

    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.

    • @vincentxu4709
      @vincentxu4709 5 месяцев назад

      Fr, like they always say 1 soldiers = 40,000 Chinese like if they didn’t lose when they were charging at the Longyuan hill

  • @lisaperez-figueroa8569
    @lisaperez-figueroa8569 Месяц назад +1

    My neighbor fought in the chosun resovior in the Korean war

  • @mrhonkhonk6116
    @mrhonkhonk6116 Год назад +4

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

    • @GaionSputro
      @GaionSputro 7 месяцев назад

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

    • @vincentxu4709
      @vincentxu4709 5 месяцев назад +1

      @@GaionSputroActually, M1 carbine is suppose to be automatic, not 2 ammo firing like a bolt action

  • @MikhailRovayev
    @MikhailRovayev Год назад +1

    The first guy to do such a feat was Alexander Matrosov (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Matrosov) during WWII. It's interesting to learn that the same stories were presented during Korean and Vietnam wars by other comunist sides. This makes you think that the whole archetype is the product of propaganda, instilling in soldiers the value of mindless sacrifice. If you think about it, no body (especially lifeless body) can be blocking a pillbox for more than a second, or two. It will be blown back by the machinegun bullets hitting it, or soldiers inside the pillbox would push it away quickly.

  • @Elyasomeedshan
    @Elyasomeedshan Год назад +4

    simple history 🗣🗣🔥

  • @shanebattles6132
    @shanebattles6132 Год назад

    Thank you for this video

  • @FeelinGoode
    @FeelinGoode Год назад +3

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

    • @kidgaminggaming5731
      @kidgaminggaming5731 Год назад

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

  • @ViceN53X
    @ViceN53X Год 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

  • @DefunctYompelvert
    @DefunctYompelvert Год назад +3

    Throws himself at 2X .50 cals: Doesn’t immediately get turned into dust. How?

    • @baha3alshamari152
      @baha3alshamari152 Год назад

      Will power

    • @Dawsonguidroz8538
      @Dawsonguidroz8538 27 дней назад

      bullet wounds are different when the bodys in front of the gun it also throws off the gunners place since he was killed pretty quickly 50 cals go throught skin when it is in bones it can go throught but it slows down the velocity im not a gun nut but ik

  • @daotrongkhanh1205
    @daotrongkhanh1205 Год назад +1

    "Follow the example of Lei Fong" intensifies!

  • @dienkhungtung
    @dienkhungtung Год 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

  • @Seouldrift7
    @Seouldrift7 Год назад +1

    I recommend a Korean War video on Unit 8240.

  • @ChadTanker
    @ChadTanker Год назад +19

    Imagine being the literal definition of canon fodder.

    • @Legamster3584
      @Legamster3584 Год назад +13

      Do you know what respect is?

    • @pyromike7237
      @pyromike7237 Год назад +1

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

    • @Thatswildpimp
      @Thatswildpimp Год назад +12

      @@Legamster3584 we don't respect commies

    • @Legamster3584
      @Legamster3584 Год назад +10

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

    • @Jake-dh9qk
      @Jake-dh9qk Год назад

      @@Thatswildpimp 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

  • @kaletovhangar
    @kaletovhangar Год назад +2

    There is story of famous Red army soldier during we2 who did the similar thing to save his comrades.

  • @YMC888
    @YMC888 Год 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 Год назад +5

      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 Год 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 Год назад

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

    • @antoniussamuelson3748
      @antoniussamuelson3748 Год 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.

  • @candidate3512
    @candidate3512 Год 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

  • @misshikari5294
    @misshikari5294 Год назад +3

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

    • @lee-afk
      @lee-afk 2 месяца назад

      At that time, China did not know that North Korea would become like this. At that time, China and the Soviet Union just wanted to prevent NATO from expanding eastward like Russia is doing now, and did not want to have a direct or long-term conflict with the Western camp.

  • @NorthernNorthdude91749
    @NorthernNorthdude91749 Год 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.

  • @GHST995
    @GHST995 Год назад +3

    None of the 'red chinese soldiers' starting at 0:25 look like reds. You got a blondy, a brunette, some bro with chops. Jeezus.

  • @dylan4ie
    @dylan4ie Год назад

    Looking forward to receive my Youtooz next year

  • @cannonball666
    @cannonball666 Год назад +5

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

    • @Taistelukalkkuna
      @Taistelukalkkuna Год назад

      Bolt-action M1 carbines even.

    • @ariqabia5036
      @ariqabia5036 Год назад

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

    • @vincentxu4709
      @vincentxu4709 6 месяцев 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

    • @roro-v3z
      @roro-v3z 2 месяца назад

      @@vincentxu4709 yes there were some supplies from the US in WW2, but by the time of Korean war, China was producing licenced copy from Soviets main rifle, also China had its own rifle too. But maybe some stocks from WW2 was still being issued. It was a poor country then, probably they did not let anything go waste

  • @kietvo2633
    @kietvo2633 Год назад +2

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

  • @bmorrow1142
    @bmorrow1142 Год назад +3

    In actuality he was quite stoppable

  • @ryleeculla5570
    @ryleeculla5570 Год назад +1

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

  • @thefinalboss2403
    @thefinalboss2403 Год назад +3

    So not a single person is going to question the logic of this story?

    • @redaug4212
      @redaug4212 Год назад +2

      Most Simple History viewers are either children or have the critical thinking capabilities of gold fish, so no lol

    • @joninator7858
      @joninator7858 Год назад +1

      @@redaug4212 So instaed of coming up with valid reasons for why the story might be fake or made up, you decide to insult people who haven't done you anything. Chillax and take a breath, kid.

    • @WangMingGe
      @WangMingGe Год назад

      No American ever questions even the most outlandish stories of their soldiers doing something in Vietnam or Afghanistan (even though they lost...or perhaps because they need to compensate for that).

  • @CHUCKLONG131
    @CHUCKLONG131 Год назад +2

    We need more content like this. Great episode!

  • @koltonroofe4411
    @koltonroofe4411 Год 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 Год 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

  • @jaydenisaidiot07
    @jaydenisaidiot07 Год назад +1

    my great uncle fought in the korean war but was unfortunately killed while his bunker was surrounded by Chinese troops and they threw a granade in it

  • @LuigianoMariano
    @LuigianoMariano Год назад +3

    Alexander Matrosov: WOW YOU CHINESE THINK YOU'RE SO ORIGINAL BY RIPPING OFF MY ACT OF HEROIC SACRIFICE

    • @lee-afk
      @lee-afk 2 месяца назад

      There are many such things in reality. I recommend watching "Eight Hundred", "Garland on the Mountain" and "The Battle of Shangganling". Although they have been artistically processed, they are all adapted from real people and real events.

  • @zillsburyy1
    @zillsburyy1 Год назад +1

    those thick winter coats helped

  • @DD-vn2ev
    @DD-vn2ev Год назад +3

    Polish American volunteers in France, The Blue Army. Please

  • @kail4997
    @kail4997 Год назад +1

    One minor mistake, it’s the PVA(people’s volunteer army) not PLA in Korean War, little difference in name only but worth mentioning

    • @NorthernNorthdude91749
      @NorthernNorthdude91749 Год назад +3

      The difference in name was only political in nature. The PVA was for all intents and purposes, the PLA.

    • @ernestw2474
      @ernestw2474 Год назад

      Also, they flew simple red flags not the Chinese national flag, otherwise it indicates that China is officially at war with United States and South Korea, but I understand that flying Chinese flag is meant to represent them as Chinese faction.

  • @ryancruz6386
    @ryancruz6386 Год назад +4

    bro m1 carbine

    • @JasonBaker-r3b
      @JasonBaker-r3b Год назад +1

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

  • @bossfightnaminh1730
    @bossfightnaminh1730 Год назад +2

    He reminds me of the hero Phan Dinh Giot

  • @jeffhsu6677
    @jeffhsu6677 Год назад +12

    Chinese here, and it's just political propaganda. No way that human body can block a .50 cal

    • @adam68756
      @adam68756 Год назад

      you are a Chinese SB

    • @vincentxu4709
      @vincentxu4709 5 месяцев назад

      I mean his comrades witnessed him sacrificing his life for them

    • @raininginside
      @raininginside 2 месяца назад

      Yup, it's the same propaganda in every communist countries.

  • @SCORPION5O
    @SCORPION5O Год назад +2

    +10 social credit score

  • @McGovern1981
    @McGovern1981 Год назад +15

    I wouldn't call that unstoppable he became pretty dead.

    • @genericscout5408
      @genericscout5408 Год назад +5

      It's probably pro chinese propaganda youtube loves that stuff sometimes. If they pay you 800 extra dollars for a few different words I can see why it's posted here.

    • @McGovern1981
      @McGovern1981 Год назад +2

      @@genericscout5408 nooo never! Look how nice North Korea and China are to "the people" they'd never copy a Soviet movie fo propaganda....oh wait the cited a movie....ALL HAIL WHINNIE THE POOO....

    • @PurpleDoritos666
      @PurpleDoritos666 Год назад

      @@genericscout5408Oooo one video about China automatically makes this channel pro Chinese propaganda 😂😂😂😂 I was expecting you crybabys were gonna be in comments and I was right 😂😂😂😂

    • @d.i.m.eproductions6925
      @d.i.m.eproductions6925 Год назад +1

      Shhh, you’re not supposed to expose the propaganda

    • @questionable8981
      @questionable8981 Год назад

      average brainless "patriotic" westerners^^^^

  • @adamamato4889
    @adamamato4889 Год назад +1

    Thank tou for finally showing your show

  • @adriannaranjo4397
    @adriannaranjo4397 Год назад +4

    STANDING HERE
    I REALIZE