at this point basically the corrine and war changes dramatically. the game changer was the entry of china into the war and macarthur had basically told president truman that the chinese would not intervene, and even though intelligence had indicated that it would, a lot of that information wasn't set up the chain of command were it was dismissed or denied. there's a lot of different theories about it, but the men of the eighth army as well as the tenth corps or pushing north towards the river and into basically one of the great traps of the 20th century. instead of, you know, 50 or 60,000 chinese, the macarthur anticipated crossed the river almost 300 to 400,000 chinese soldiers marched 150 miles over the rugged terrain, hit in their movement and lead basically an insidious trap for both of the eighth army as well as bob's unit at the chosin reservoir. and it's here that george company makes one of its epic great stands that basically the first marine division is task for moving out towards and put chosin reservoir is over 70 while rhodes that goes