38th Army.
This is a unit that can fight well and has been in the battlefield for a long time, a unit that has fought bloody battles with the US army on the Korean battlefield, and a mighty division that will never accept defeat and never give up. There have been many experienced commanders in this unit, such as today's "protagonist" - Fan Tianen. As the commander of the 335th Regiment of the 112th Division of the 38th Army, Fan Tian'en once commanded the Battle of Feihu Mountain in Korea, and also fought the brutal Battle of Songkuofeng, which can be said to be properly commanded and distinguished. So why would such a figure be criticized on the battlefield? Is it because you can't beat the Americans?
In fact, the answer is very simple, it is not at all that the Americans cannot be beaten, but the reason is really tearful.
Criticized
This is the commander of Fan Tian'en privately gave his soldiers 5 trucks of consorted nutrients captured in Xichuan, including biscuits, whiskey, sugar cubes, and cans, although the amount is not large, but it is still a rare treasure for the hungry soldiers.
However, we know that in the people's army there has always been a discipline of "all captured to the public", and this discipline has become an "iron" military order when our troops were still guerrillas, so The unauthorized handling of captured materials by Commander Fan Tianen violated military discipline and was criticized.
Although this practice of making decisions without permission is somewhat inappropriate, it is also excusable. Because......
First: the supply is unfavorable
At that time, the task faced by the 335th Regiment of the 38th Army was to attack Feihu Mountain, where the Koreans defended, and the volunteer army was already short of food and ammunition after several days of brutal fighting, and the supply could not keep up because the march was too fast. At the same time, logistics in the process of transportation is very easy to be bombed by the US Air Force, many materials on the road suffered a lot of damage, in the face of the dilemma of supplies can not be delivered, replaced by anyone will be racking their brains for the problem of supplies.
Second: Compared with guns and bullets, food consumption is faster, which is also the most difficult and urgent problem to solve
According to past experience, our troops have always raised food on the spot in battles, and this method has supported the people's army's fighting at home. But the Korean War is different, here we have no popular base abroad, and even if we have, we can't get supplies.
Because at this time, the DPRK had been repeatedly tug-of-war, the fields had long been deserted, no one had cultivated, and at this time it was winter, in addition to the snow in the field, many people had also left their homes in the chaos of the war and become refugees, not to mention providing food to the volunteer army, even the DPRK's own people's army was extremely short of military food.
In this situation, the volunteer army basically went everywhere it was ten rooms and nine empty, most of the people were gone, the soldiers had no food to raise, and the logistics could not come up. Looking around, there was no life in the winter, in the wilderness, and the soldiers had to endure hunger and starvation, and there was no way. You can only eat a few cooked corn kernels a day, but even this is not guaranteed to be available every day.
And a unit without food supplements could never fight the American army, so Fan Tianen sent the 5 car foster care to his soldiers.
Flying Tiger Mountain Blockade Battle
When the early hours of November 4, 1950 came, the undersupplied force once again engaged in new operations, and began to storm Flying Tiger Mountain, which was guarded by the 5th Regiment of the 7th Division of the Republic of Korea, and took it in one fell swoop.
In the following 5 days, the vast number of officers and men of our 38th Army fought a full 5-day blockade battle here, stubbornly defending against the indiscriminate bombardment of a Rok division and a US military unit with the cooperation of aircraft and artillery, and also hit the outstanding military might of our 38th Army.
It can be said that the cruelty of the war made us understand the difficulty of the volunteer army at that time, these soldiers were ordinary people, the sons of their parents, the fathers of their children, and the husbands of their wives. But in North Korea, they used their will to fight to compose a song of burning passion. They were the "loveliest people" of that era, the opponents who feared the enemy the most, and the best soldiers to defend their families and the country.
Although Commander Fan Tianen was criticized, the reason was not that he could not defeat the Americans, but that he could not bear to be hungry by his subordinate soldiers, and as a commander, he had to find ways to solve the problem of the soldiers' hunger, so his unauthorized decision to send away the captured materials made people tear up and feel sorry for the soldiers we were starving in that era.
South Korea: The enemy 38th Army fled, and Chinese was always defeated by us! Netizen: To be funny?
At what time did the US military cross the "line" and go north? What was Kim Il Sung doing at the time?
South Korea: We will not give up until we kill the Yalu River, even if the US army does not pass the line, the ROK army must continue to advance