War movie The Battle of Changjin Lake is a hit in China

512 million yuan, or $ 80 million! It is the recipe that the war film "The Battle of Changjin" just recorded for its Chinese National Day release, totaling over 11 million viewers, one cubit from the record set by Avengers: Endgame in 2019 with $ 81 million in revenue on the day of its release in China. The film deals with an epic battle along the Yalu River during the United Nations-led counter-offensive of the United Nations in 1950 that pushed the North Korean People's Army to the brink of collapse, and provoked China's entry into the war, in the form of "volunteers" sent to support the effort of the North Korean communist ally.

Resulting from the effort of the Chinese authorities to stimulate nationalist sentiment among the population while tensions with the United States and the West are growing, it traces the journey of a handful of these "Chinese volunteers" during the Battle of Changjin Lake, also known as the Battle of Chosin Reservoir in the United States, when on November 27, General Song Shi-Lun's 9th Chinese Army surprised General Almond's 10th U.S. Corps stationed near Chosin Reservoir (forces American then used Japanese maps, which had translated the Korean Changjin by Chonsin, which became Chosin for American history). the 30.000 UN soldiers under American command fought for 17 days, with temperatures sometimes reaching -40 °, nearly 120.000 Chinese volunteers, or 12 divisions of 10.000 men. The battle was marked by many fierce engagements, and ended in the evacuation from the port of Hungnam of the United Nations forces of North Korean territory, after they had succeeded in breaking the Chinese encirclement. It left 5.900 dead or missing on the American side, and at least 19.000 on the Chinese side, some estimates speaking of 30.000 dead.

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