"Collection Number" | [This article has a total of 2,058 words, and 10 real old photos of the period of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea will show you the grandeur of that historical period]
When it comes to the five-star general of the United States, MacArthur, many people must be very familiar with him, as a big person like a "star" in the United States, his hands and feet can be on the front page of major newspapers in the United States. For example, the phrase "I will be back" after being expelled from the Philippines during World War II, or accepting the surrender of the Japanese on the Missouri as a representative of the Allied forces at the end of World War II, made it an object of american attention in that era, and his personality became the talk of people after tea.
Temperament is uncertain
MacArthur had always been an elusive personality, and his remarks were always full of contradictions, such as in the Korean battlefield in late 1950, when he initially believed that Chinese would never dare to enter Korea, and after the first battle, he shouted at the "White House" that if he did not send air forces to bomb bridges across the Yalu River, his troops would be destroyed.
A few days later, however, he said lightly Chinese only 50,000 to 60,000 people can cross the river, and our air force has enough ability to use them as "living targets." So what did he think of the South Korean forces, his ally at the time?
The Rok army was about to collapse at a touch
At the beginning of the war, he had said that the Rok army could not be counted on, but at the same time he had said on different occasions that the Rok army had a trustworthy combat effectiveness and was enough to deal with the Chinese alone, but in fact even his own officers did not believe this statement. In this history, when the South Korean army first encountered our troops in the early stages of the war, it was almost a touch, and they panicked and panicked on the battlefield.
For example, when the second battle broke out, the Rok army was defeated, and even some officers ran directly back to Seoul from the Yalu River and brought bottles containing the water of the Yalu River to Rhee. "But I don't know how this 70-year-old man will feel when he holds a bottle full of river water in his hand and faces the defeat of the allied forces and the failure of the dream of reunifying the peninsula."
Of course, the Americans knew that south Korean troops could not fight, first of all, the composition of the South Korean army in the early stage of the war was mostly police and other personnel left over from the Japanese occupation of Korea, who had been expanded but had not received good training and combat experience.
In the face of most of our wolf-like veterans, the ROK army was naturally powerless to resist, and the reason why the F.S. army with weak combat effectiveness advanced simultaneously toward the Yalu River was based on MacArthur's belief that the war would end effortlessly and victoriously. He was convinced that there would be absolutely no Chinese on the road to victory, and this unprovoked confidence, if he had to find some reason, could only blame MacArthur for being too blind.
Because whether it is intelligence, reports submitted by the front line, or the concerns of the White House, they all provide a lot of evidence that our army has entered the battlefield, but a vanity and empty-eyed attitude toward victory and all boasting of imminent victory make MacArthur act in excess of self-confidence. Not only did the Coalition forces continue to advance north on the left and right flanks in November 1950, but even the South Koreans, who lacked the will to fight, were sent to the forefront by the Americans, not just "picking up leaks" in the rear, mostly acting alone on the Allied flanks, thus leaving an opportunity for volunteers looking for fighters.
Second, the Tokyo Coalition Headquarters at the time believed that victory was inevitable, and the troops marching north had formed a highly dispersed formation due to the north korean terrain, so the senior officials decided that several South Korean troops should be inserted in the middle of the route to guard the coalition flank, which was the need of the situation at that time, because the total number of the coalition forces was not large.
At the same time, it can also make the military map on the wall look a little more beautiful, which is really strange.
"The argument that the battle map can look a little more beautiful because of the addition of the Rok army," has been seen in many books, such as the American book "The Korean War in the Eyes of the Americans" as written. In fact, this attitude is nothing more than the high-level people's carelessness about the victory is close at hand, and their pride and complacency will eventually bear their own consequences.
This made General MacArthur, as commander of the Coalition Forces, an unshirkable responsibility for changes in the situation on the battlefield, but for our army, it was the best record.
Although this deployment was very satisfactory to the top, in fact, american soldiers on the front line often felt insecure about the presence of Koreans on the flanks, because their combat effectiveness was known to everyone, and often became an uncertain factor on the battlefield, and their routs were sometimes even more terrible than the enemy's attack.
It should be known that warplanes are rapidly changing, and those who seem arrogant and light on the enemy will often leave many such flaws, and the volunteers who have experienced the tests of war and beaten with rich combat experience are obviously veterans who are good at grasping fighters.
In this way, when our volunteers had just entered Korea, once the Rok troops exchanged fire with us, their front would soon be dispersed, and the volunteers who were good at fighting mobile warfare would destroy the flanks and rear of the allied forces.
In that period of history, we are more familiar with the battles of Songkufeng and Sansoli, that is, our soldiers broke through the Korean defense line, detoured back to the rear of the coalition army through a rapid march, cut off their retreat and blocked reinforcements, causing certain damage to the enemy.
Although our casualties were equally heavy, after the second battle we also recovered a large area on the northern side of the peninsula. It is really not easy for these ordinary soldiers to "return" the coalition forces to the demarcation line without extremely inferior equipment, extreme logistics, and no air support. Their will to fight and tactics surprised MacArthur and stunned the allied forces, the exploits of their predecessors deserve to be paid tribute to future generations, and their efforts should not be forgotten.
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