"This is General Wu Ruilin."
"This is General Wu Ruilin."
"We Americans are no strangers to General Wu's name, and we even know that you have a nickname!"
"This is General Wu Ruilin."
"We Americans are no strangers to General Wu's name, and we even know that you have a nickname!"
The prime minister on one side wondered, "What nickname?" ”
"This is General Wu Ruilin."
"We Americans are no strangers to General Wu's name, and we even know that you have a nickname!"
The prime minister on one side wondered, "What nickname?" ”
(Note: General Wu Ruilin was crippled by his wounds in the 1939 battle against the Six-Way Siege of the Japanese Army.) Because he was still strong in battle, the Japanese army fearfully called him "Wu Lame Zi")
"This is General Wu Ruilin."
"We Americans are no strangers to General Wu's name, and we even know that you have a nickname!"
The prime minister on one side wondered, "What nickname?" ”
(Note: General Wu Ruilin was crippled by his wounds in the 1939 battle against the Six-Way Siege of the Japanese Army.) Because he was still strong in battle, the Japanese army fearfully called him "Wu Lame Zi")
This is the opening remarks of Kissinger's secret visit to China. General Wu Ruilin was then the executive deputy commander of the Navy and was one of the people responsible for receiving Kissinger. So what exactly did he do that even Kissinger knew of his prestige?
"This is General Wu Ruilin."
"We Americans are no strangers to General Wu's name, and we even know that you have a nickname!"
The prime minister on one side wondered, "What nickname?" ”
(Note: General Wu Ruilin was crippled by his wounds in the 1939 battle against the Six-Way Siege of the Japanese Army.) Because he was still strong in battle, the Japanese army fearfully called him "Wu Lame Zi")
This is the opening remarks of Kissinger's secret visit to China. General Wu Ruilin was then the executive deputy commander of the Navy and was one of the people responsible for receiving Kissinger. So what exactly did he do that even Kissinger knew of his prestige?
Speaking of which, this goes back to the period of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea.
"This is General Wu Ruilin."
"We Americans are no strangers to General Wu's name, and we even know that you have a nickname!"
The prime minister on one side wondered, "What nickname?" ”
(Note: General Wu Ruilin was crippled by his wounds in the 1939 battle against the Six-Way Siege of the Japanese Army.) Because he was still strong in battle, the Japanese army fearfully called him "Wu Lame Zi")
This is the opening remarks of Kissinger's secret visit to China. General Wu Ruilin was then the executive deputy commander of the Navy and was one of the people responsible for receiving Kissinger. So what exactly did he do that even Kissinger knew of his prestige?
Speaking of which, this goes back to the period of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea.
As we all know, after the Inchon landing, the elite Korean People's Army gathered in Busan was cut off from the rear road, immediately fell into chaos, and was subsequently defeated by the United Nations army. Although tens of thousands of people still returned to the north alive with stubborn faith, their weapons and equipment were almost lost and they could not continue fighting. Deng Hua, Hong Xuezhi, Lai Chuanzhu, Xie Fang, du ping, these senior generals of the Northeast Border Defense Army, took precautions, and in order to cope with the possibility of war, they sent General Wu Ruilin, commander of the 42nd Army, to Korea to see the terrain. General Wu Ruilin knew that the terrain played a decisive role in the victory or defeat of the war, so he spent seven or eight days to turn around the north of Korea, and wrote down all the militaryly significant places such as villages, bridges, and culverts along the way, and made a military mission.
"This is General Wu Ruilin."
"We Americans are no strangers to General Wu's name, and we even know that you have a nickname!"
The prime minister on one side wondered, "What nickname?" ”
(Note: General Wu Ruilin was crippled by his wounds in the 1939 battle against the Six-Way Siege of the Japanese Army.) Because he was still strong in battle, the Japanese army fearfully called him "Wu Lame Zi")
This is the opening remarks of Kissinger's secret visit to China. General Wu Ruilin was then the executive deputy commander of the Navy and was one of the people responsible for receiving Kissinger. So what exactly did he do that even Kissinger knew of his prestige?
Speaking of which, this goes back to the period of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea.
As we all know, after the Inchon landing, the elite Korean People's Army gathered in Busan was cut off from the rear road, immediately fell into chaos, and was subsequently defeated by the United Nations army. Although tens of thousands of people still returned to the north alive with stubborn faith, their weapons and equipment were almost lost and they could not continue fighting. Deng Hua, Hong Xuezhi, Lai Chuanzhu, Xie Fang, du ping, these senior generals of the Northeast Border Defense Army, took precautions, and in order to cope with the possibility of war, they sent General Wu Ruilin, commander of the 42nd Army, to Korea to see the terrain. General Wu Ruilin knew that the terrain played a decisive role in the victory or defeat of the war, so he spent seven or eight days to turn around the north of Korea, and wrote down all the militaryly significant places such as villages, bridges, and culverts along the way, and made a military mission.
However, when the volunteers were intensively preparing to enter the war in North Korea, the US military commander MacArthur underestimated this. They believe that the national strength of New China, which has only been founded for one year, is weak and it is simply unable to send troops. Moreover, after the US troops landed in Inchon, the favorable opportunity to send troops has long passed. Therefore, the United Nations army led by the US army not only advanced at an extremely fast speed, but also did not have the most basic vigilance, and hundreds of people dared to run around the front line with two or three cannons in tow.
"This is General Wu Ruilin."
"We Americans are no strangers to General Wu's name, and we even know that you have a nickname!"
The prime minister on one side wondered, "What nickname?" ”
(Note: General Wu Ruilin was crippled by his wounds in the 1939 battle against the Six-Way Siege of the Japanese Army.) Because he was still strong in battle, the Japanese army fearfully called him "Wu Lame Zi")
This is the opening remarks of Kissinger's secret visit to China. General Wu Ruilin was then the executive deputy commander of the Navy and was one of the people responsible for receiving Kissinger. So what exactly did he do that even Kissinger knew of his prestige?
Speaking of which, this goes back to the period of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea.
As we all know, after the Inchon landing, the elite Korean People's Army gathered in Busan was cut off from the rear road, immediately fell into chaos, and was subsequently defeated by the United Nations army. Although tens of thousands of people still returned to the north alive with stubborn faith, their weapons and equipment were almost lost and they could not continue fighting. Deng Hua, Hong Xuezhi, Lai Chuanzhu, Xie Fang, du ping, these senior generals of the Northeast Border Defense Army, took precautions, and in order to cope with the possibility of war, they sent General Wu Ruilin, commander of the 42nd Army, to Korea to see the terrain. General Wu Ruilin knew that the terrain played a decisive role in the victory or defeat of the war, so he spent seven or eight days to turn around the north of Korea, and wrote down all the militaryly significant places such as villages, bridges, and culverts along the way, and made a military mission.
However, when the volunteers were intensively preparing to enter the war in North Korea, the US military commander MacArthur underestimated this. They believe that the national strength of New China, which has only been founded for one year, is weak and it is simply unable to send troops. Moreover, after the US troops landed in Inchon, the favorable opportunity to send troops has long passed. Therefore, the United Nations army led by the US army not only advanced at an extremely fast speed, but also did not have the most basic vigilance, and hundreds of people dared to run around the front line with two or three cannons in tow.
The eastern front is the US 10th Army and the ROK First Army, a total of four divisions, pointing directly at Huishan and Tumen River on the border between China and North Korea. On the western front, the US 8th Army, under the jurisdiction of the US First Army and the ROK 2nd Army, a total of six divisions, a brigade and an airborne regiment, the troops pointed directly at Sinuiju, Chushan and other places on the border between China and North Korea. The two enemy lines, separated by the steep Wolf Forest Mountains and the Taibai Mountains, were more than eighty kilometers apart.
"This is General Wu Ruilin."
"We Americans are no strangers to General Wu's name, and we even know that you have a nickname!"
The prime minister on one side wondered, "What nickname?" ”
(Note: General Wu Ruilin was crippled by his wounds in the 1939 battle against the Six-Way Siege of the Japanese Army.) Because he was still strong in battle, the Japanese army fearfully called him "Wu Lame Zi")
This is the opening remarks of Kissinger's secret visit to China. General Wu Ruilin was then the executive deputy commander of the Navy and was one of the people responsible for receiving Kissinger. So what exactly did he do that even Kissinger knew of his prestige?
Speaking of which, this goes back to the period of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea.
As we all know, after the Inchon landing, the elite Korean People's Army gathered in Busan was cut off from the rear road, immediately fell into chaos, and was subsequently defeated by the United Nations army. Although tens of thousands of people still returned to the north alive with stubborn faith, their weapons and equipment were almost lost and they could not continue fighting. Deng Hua, Hong Xuezhi, Lai Chuanzhu, Xie Fang, du ping, these senior generals of the Northeast Border Defense Army, took precautions, and in order to cope with the possibility of war, they sent General Wu Ruilin, commander of the 42nd Army, to Korea to see the terrain. General Wu Ruilin knew that the terrain played a decisive role in the victory or defeat of the war, so he spent seven or eight days to turn around the north of Korea, and wrote down all the militaryly significant places such as villages, bridges, and culverts along the way, and made a military mission.
However, when the volunteers were intensively preparing to enter the war in North Korea, the US military commander MacArthur underestimated this. They believe that the national strength of New China, which has only been founded for one year, is weak and it is simply unable to send troops. Moreover, after the US troops landed in Inchon, the favorable opportunity to send troops has long passed. Therefore, the United Nations army led by the US army not only advanced at an extremely fast speed, but also did not have the most basic vigilance, and hundreds of people dared to run around the front line with two or three cannons in tow.
The eastern front is the US 10th Army and the ROK First Army, a total of four divisions, pointing directly at Huishan and Tumen River on the border between China and North Korea. On the western front, the US 8th Army, under the jurisdiction of the US First Army and the ROK 2nd Army, a total of six divisions, a brigade and an airborne regiment, the troops pointed directly at Sinuiju, Chushan and other places on the border between China and North Korea. The two enemy lines, separated by the steep Wolf Forest Mountains and the Taibai Mountains, were more than eighty kilometers apart.
Dividing up troops and advancing has been a taboo in the use of soldiers since ancient times. The top brass of the volunteer army headed by Peng Dehuai immediately made a decision at the sight of the situation, so he decided to adopt the method of attacking from the east to the west, that is, three of the first four armies to enter the DPRK, that is, the 38th Army, the 39th Army, and the 40th Army, were concentrated to surround and annihilate the enemy troops on the western road, and Wu Ruilin led the 42nd Army to be responsible for blocking the enemy troops on the eastern road and ensuring the safety of the flanks of the volunteer army on the western front. The main blocking place that Wu Ruilin chose was a place called Huangcaoling.
"This is General Wu Ruilin."
"We Americans are no strangers to General Wu's name, and we even know that you have a nickname!"
The prime minister on one side wondered, "What nickname?" ”
(Note: General Wu Ruilin was crippled by his wounds in the 1939 battle against the Six-Way Siege of the Japanese Army.) Because he was still strong in battle, the Japanese army fearfully called him "Wu Lame Zi")
This is the opening remarks of Kissinger's secret visit to China. General Wu Ruilin was then the executive deputy commander of the Navy and was one of the people responsible for receiving Kissinger. So what exactly did he do that even Kissinger knew of his prestige?
Speaking of which, this goes back to the period of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea.
As we all know, after the Inchon landing, the elite Korean People's Army gathered in Busan was cut off from the rear road, immediately fell into chaos, and was subsequently defeated by the United Nations army. Although tens of thousands of people still returned to the north alive with stubborn faith, their weapons and equipment were almost lost and they could not continue fighting. Deng Hua, Hong Xuezhi, Lai Chuanzhu, Xie Fang, du ping, these senior generals of the Northeast Border Defense Army, took precautions, and in order to cope with the possibility of war, they sent General Wu Ruilin, commander of the 42nd Army, to Korea to see the terrain. General Wu Ruilin knew that the terrain played a decisive role in the victory or defeat of the war, so he spent seven or eight days to turn around the north of Korea, and wrote down all the militaryly significant places such as villages, bridges, and culverts along the way, and made a military mission.
However, when the volunteers were intensively preparing to enter the war in North Korea, the US military commander MacArthur underestimated this. They believe that the national strength of New China, which has only been founded for one year, is weak and it is simply unable to send troops. Moreover, after the US troops landed in Inchon, the favorable opportunity to send troops has long passed. Therefore, the United Nations army led by the US army not only advanced at an extremely fast speed, but also did not have the most basic vigilance, and hundreds of people dared to run around the front line with two or three cannons in tow.
The eastern front is the US 10th Army and the ROK First Army, a total of four divisions, pointing directly at Huishan and Tumen River on the border between China and North Korea. On the western front, the US 8th Army, under the jurisdiction of the US First Army and the ROK 2nd Army, a total of six divisions, a brigade and an airborne regiment, the troops pointed directly at Sinuiju, Chushan and other places on the border between China and North Korea. The two enemy lines, separated by the steep Wolf Forest Mountains and the Taibai Mountains, were more than eighty kilometers apart.
Dividing up troops and advancing has been a taboo in the use of soldiers since ancient times. The top brass of the volunteer army headed by Peng Dehuai immediately made a decision at the sight of the situation, so he decided to adopt the method of attacking from the east to the west, that is, three of the first four armies to enter the DPRK, that is, the 38th Army, the 39th Army, and the 40th Army, were concentrated to surround and annihilate the enemy troops on the western road, and Wu Ruilin led the 42nd Army to be responsible for blocking the enemy troops on the eastern road and ensuring the safety of the flanks of the volunteer army on the western front. The main blocking place that Wu Ruilin chose was a place called Huangcaoling.
At that time, because there was no aircraft cover, our army had no air superiority, the troops could only drive at night, and there were few cars, so all the way relied on the two legs of the soldiers. It takes at least 6 to 7 nights to complete 400 km of the 60 to 70 km per night, and it is difficult to capture the Yellow Grass Ridge before the motorized enemy forces. Commander Wu Ruilin made a fierce effort, "Order the troops to increase the speed of marching one hundred and thirty miles per night to one hundred and eighty miles per day." "Thus, while the enemy was still grinding and staggering forward, our forwards had reached Yellow Grass Ridge and repaired the fortifications.
"This is General Wu Ruilin."
"We Americans are no strangers to General Wu's name, and we even know that you have a nickname!"
The prime minister on one side wondered, "What nickname?" ”
(Note: General Wu Ruilin was crippled by his wounds in the 1939 battle against the Six-Way Siege of the Japanese Army.) Because he was still strong in battle, the Japanese army fearfully called him "Wu Lame Zi")
This is the opening remarks of Kissinger's secret visit to China. General Wu Ruilin was then the executive deputy commander of the Navy and was one of the people responsible for receiving Kissinger. So what exactly did he do that even Kissinger knew of his prestige?
Speaking of which, this goes back to the period of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea.
As we all know, after the Inchon landing, the elite Korean People's Army gathered in Busan was cut off from the rear road, immediately fell into chaos, and was subsequently defeated by the United Nations army. Although tens of thousands of people still returned to the north alive with stubborn faith, their weapons and equipment were almost lost and they could not continue fighting. Deng Hua, Hong Xuezhi, Lai Chuanzhu, Xie Fang, du ping, these senior generals of the Northeast Border Defense Army, took precautions, and in order to cope with the possibility of war, they sent General Wu Ruilin, commander of the 42nd Army, to Korea to see the terrain. General Wu Ruilin knew that the terrain played a decisive role in the victory or defeat of the war, so he spent seven or eight days to turn around the north of Korea, and wrote down all the militaryly significant places such as villages, bridges, and culverts along the way, and made a military mission.
However, when the volunteers were intensively preparing to enter the war in North Korea, the US military commander MacArthur underestimated this. They believe that the national strength of New China, which has only been founded for one year, is weak and it is simply unable to send troops. Moreover, after the US troops landed in Inchon, the favorable opportunity to send troops has long passed. Therefore, the United Nations army led by the US army not only advanced at an extremely fast speed, but also did not have the most basic vigilance, and hundreds of people dared to run around the front line with two or three cannons in tow.
The eastern front is the US 10th Army and the ROK First Army, a total of four divisions, pointing directly at Huishan and Tumen River on the border between China and North Korea. On the western front, the US 8th Army, under the jurisdiction of the US First Army and the ROK 2nd Army, a total of six divisions, a brigade and an airborne regiment, the troops pointed directly at Sinuiju, Chushan and other places on the border between China and North Korea. The two enemy lines, separated by the steep Wolf Forest Mountains and the Taibai Mountains, were more than eighty kilometers apart.
Dividing up troops and advancing has been a taboo in the use of soldiers since ancient times. The top brass of the volunteer army headed by Peng Dehuai immediately made a decision at the sight of the situation, so he decided to adopt the method of attacking from the east to the west, that is, three of the first four armies to enter the DPRK, that is, the 38th Army, the 39th Army, and the 40th Army, were concentrated to surround and annihilate the enemy troops on the western road, and Wu Ruilin led the 42nd Army to be responsible for blocking the enemy troops on the eastern road and ensuring the safety of the flanks of the volunteer army on the western front. The main blocking place that Wu Ruilin chose was a place called Huangcaoling.
At that time, because there was no aircraft cover, our army had no air superiority, the troops could only drive at night, and there were few cars, so all the way relied on the two legs of the soldiers. It takes at least 6 to 7 nights to complete 400 km of the 60 to 70 km per night, and it is difficult to capture the Yellow Grass Ridge before the motorized enemy forces. Commander Wu Ruilin made a fierce effort, "Order the troops to increase the speed of marching one hundred and thirty miles per night to one hundred and eighty miles per day." "Thus, while the enemy was still grinding and staggering forward, our forwards had reached Yellow Grass Ridge and repaired the fortifications.
As mentioned above, the enemy army on the western road consisted of the 10th Army and the First Army of the Roks. But for the battle-hardened 42nd Army, the former was the most difficult to deal with. Because its main forward force is the 1st Marine Division.
"This is General Wu Ruilin."
"We Americans are no strangers to General Wu's name, and we even know that you have a nickname!"
The prime minister on one side wondered, "What nickname?" ”
(Note: General Wu Ruilin was crippled by his wounds in the 1939 battle against the Six-Way Siege of the Japanese Army.) Because he was still strong in battle, the Japanese army fearfully called him "Wu Lame Zi")
This is the opening remarks of Kissinger's secret visit to China. General Wu Ruilin was then the executive deputy commander of the Navy and was one of the people responsible for receiving Kissinger. So what exactly did he do that even Kissinger knew of his prestige?
Speaking of which, this goes back to the period of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea.
As we all know, after the Inchon landing, the elite Korean People's Army gathered in Busan was cut off from the rear road, immediately fell into chaos, and was subsequently defeated by the United Nations army. Although tens of thousands of people still returned to the north alive with stubborn faith, their weapons and equipment were almost lost and they could not continue fighting. Deng Hua, Hong Xuezhi, Lai Chuanzhu, Xie Fang, du ping, these senior generals of the Northeast Border Defense Army, took precautions, and in order to cope with the possibility of war, they sent General Wu Ruilin, commander of the 42nd Army, to Korea to see the terrain. General Wu Ruilin knew that the terrain played a decisive role in the victory or defeat of the war, so he spent seven or eight days to turn around the north of Korea, and wrote down all the militaryly significant places such as villages, bridges, and culverts along the way, and made a military mission.
However, when the volunteers were intensively preparing to enter the war in North Korea, the US military commander MacArthur underestimated this. They believe that the national strength of New China, which has only been founded for one year, is weak and it is simply unable to send troops. Moreover, after the US troops landed in Inchon, the favorable opportunity to send troops has long passed. Therefore, the United Nations army led by the US army not only advanced at an extremely fast speed, but also did not have the most basic vigilance, and hundreds of people dared to run around the front line with two or three cannons in tow.
The eastern front is the US 10th Army and the ROK First Army, a total of four divisions, pointing directly at Huishan and Tumen River on the border between China and North Korea. On the western front, the US 8th Army, under the jurisdiction of the US First Army and the ROK 2nd Army, a total of six divisions, a brigade and an airborne regiment, the troops pointed directly at Sinuiju, Chushan and other places on the border between China and North Korea. The two enemy lines, separated by the steep Wolf Forest Mountains and the Taibai Mountains, were more than eighty kilometers apart.
Dividing up troops and advancing has been a taboo in the use of soldiers since ancient times. The top brass of the volunteer army headed by Peng Dehuai immediately made a decision at the sight of the situation, so he decided to adopt the method of attacking from the east to the west, that is, three of the first four armies to enter the DPRK, that is, the 38th Army, the 39th Army, and the 40th Army, were concentrated to surround and annihilate the enemy troops on the western road, and Wu Ruilin led the 42nd Army to be responsible for blocking the enemy troops on the eastern road and ensuring the safety of the flanks of the volunteer army on the western front. The main blocking place that Wu Ruilin chose was a place called Huangcaoling.
At that time, because there was no aircraft cover, our army had no air superiority, the troops could only drive at night, and there were few cars, so all the way relied on the two legs of the soldiers. It takes at least 6 to 7 nights to complete 400 km of the 60 to 70 km per night, and it is difficult to capture the Yellow Grass Ridge before the motorized enemy forces. Commander Wu Ruilin made a fierce effort, "Order the troops to increase the speed of marching one hundred and thirty miles per night to one hundred and eighty miles per day." "Thus, while the enemy was still grinding and staggering forward, our forwards had reached Yellow Grass Ridge and repaired the fortifications.
As mentioned above, the enemy army on the western road consisted of the 10th Army and the First Army of the Roks. But for the battle-hardened 42nd Army, the former was the most difficult to deal with. Because its main forward force is the 1st Marine Division.
The 1st Marine Division was created in 1846 and is almost as long as the history of the United States. As an elite unit of the U.S. Marine Corps, the 1st Marine Division participated in the Eight-Power Invasion of Beijing and suppressed the Boxer Rebellion. However, what really made it famous in the world was the Battle of Guadalcanal during the Pacific War.
"This is General Wu Ruilin."
"We Americans are no strangers to General Wu's name, and we even know that you have a nickname!"
The prime minister on one side wondered, "What nickname?" ”
(Note: General Wu Ruilin was crippled by his wounds in the 1939 battle against the Six-Way Siege of the Japanese Army.) Because he was still strong in battle, the Japanese army fearfully called him "Wu Lame Zi")
This is the opening remarks of Kissinger's secret visit to China. General Wu Ruilin was then the executive deputy commander of the Navy and was one of the people responsible for receiving Kissinger. So what exactly did he do that even Kissinger knew of his prestige?
Speaking of which, this goes back to the period of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea.
As we all know, after the Inchon landing, the elite Korean People's Army gathered in Busan was cut off from the rear road, immediately fell into chaos, and was subsequently defeated by the United Nations army. Although tens of thousands of people still returned to the north alive with stubborn faith, their weapons and equipment were almost lost and they could not continue fighting. Deng Hua, Hong Xuezhi, Lai Chuanzhu, Xie Fang, du ping, these senior generals of the Northeast Border Defense Army, took precautions, and in order to cope with the possibility of war, they sent General Wu Ruilin, commander of the 42nd Army, to Korea to see the terrain. General Wu Ruilin knew that the terrain played a decisive role in the victory or defeat of the war, so he spent seven or eight days to turn around the north of Korea, and wrote down all the militaryly significant places such as villages, bridges, and culverts along the way, and made a military mission.
However, when the volunteers were intensively preparing to enter the war in North Korea, the US military commander MacArthur underestimated this. They believe that the national strength of New China, which has only been founded for one year, is weak and it is simply unable to send troops. Moreover, after the US troops landed in Inchon, the favorable opportunity to send troops has long passed. Therefore, the United Nations army led by the US army not only advanced at an extremely fast speed, but also did not have the most basic vigilance, and hundreds of people dared to run around the front line with two or three cannons in tow.
The eastern front is the US 10th Army and the ROK First Army, a total of four divisions, pointing directly at Huishan and Tumen River on the border between China and North Korea. On the western front, the US 8th Army, under the jurisdiction of the US First Army and the ROK 2nd Army, a total of six divisions, a brigade and an airborne regiment, the troops pointed directly at Sinuiju, Chushan and other places on the border between China and North Korea. The two enemy lines, separated by the steep Wolf Forest Mountains and the Taibai Mountains, were more than eighty kilometers apart.
Dividing up troops and advancing has been a taboo in the use of soldiers since ancient times. The top brass of the volunteer army headed by Peng Dehuai immediately made a decision at the sight of the situation, so he decided to adopt the method of attacking from the east to the west, that is, three of the first four armies to enter the DPRK, that is, the 38th Army, the 39th Army, and the 40th Army, were concentrated to surround and annihilate the enemy troops on the western road, and Wu Ruilin led the 42nd Army to be responsible for blocking the enemy troops on the eastern road and ensuring the safety of the flanks of the volunteer army on the western front. The main blocking place that Wu Ruilin chose was a place called Huangcaoling.
At that time, because there was no aircraft cover, our army had no air superiority, the troops could only drive at night, and there were few cars, so all the way relied on the two legs of the soldiers. It takes at least 6 to 7 nights to complete 400 km of the 60 to 70 km per night, and it is difficult to capture the Yellow Grass Ridge before the motorized enemy forces. Commander Wu Ruilin made a fierce effort, "Order the troops to increase the speed of marching one hundred and thirty miles per night to one hundred and eighty miles per day." "Thus, while the enemy was still grinding and staggering forward, our forwards had reached Yellow Grass Ridge and repaired the fortifications.
As mentioned above, the enemy army on the western road consisted of the 10th Army and the First Army of the Roks. But for the battle-hardened 42nd Army, the former was the most difficult to deal with. Because its main forward force is the 1st Marine Division.
The 1st Marine Division was created in 1846 and is almost as long as the history of the United States. As an elite unit of the U.S. Marine Corps, the 1st Marine Division participated in the Eight-Power Invasion of Beijing and suppressed the Boxer Rebellion. However, what really made it famous in the world was the Battle of Guadalcanal during the Pacific War.
At that time, the main force of the Japanese combined fleet still existed, and the air and sea supremacy were not lost. As a result, the U.S. military does not have an advantage here, and its supply lines are often cut off. In addition, the Japanese troops attacking Guadalcanal at that time were all elite in hundreds of battles, so the 1st Marine Division was extremely difficult in the initial days. On several occasions, the Japanese broke through the American lines, but they were all beaten out by the 1st Marine Division, and they paid the price of 7500 casualties. Later, the U.S. military launched a full-scale counteroffensive in the Pacific Theater. The 1st Marine Division also participated in the Battle of Okinawa, which was no less intense than the Battle of Guadalcanal, and also achieved good results.
"This is General Wu Ruilin."
"We Americans are no strangers to General Wu's name, and we even know that you have a nickname!"
The prime minister on one side wondered, "What nickname?" ”
(Note: General Wu Ruilin was crippled by his wounds in the 1939 battle against the Six-Way Siege of the Japanese Army.) Because he was still strong in battle, the Japanese army fearfully called him "Wu Lame Zi")
This is the opening remarks of Kissinger's secret visit to China. General Wu Ruilin was then the executive deputy commander of the Navy and was one of the people responsible for receiving Kissinger. So what exactly did he do that even Kissinger knew of his prestige?
Speaking of which, this goes back to the period of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea.
As we all know, after the Inchon landing, the elite Korean People's Army gathered in Busan was cut off from the rear road, immediately fell into chaos, and was subsequently defeated by the United Nations army. Although tens of thousands of people still returned to the north alive with stubborn faith, their weapons and equipment were almost lost and they could not continue fighting. Deng Hua, Hong Xuezhi, Lai Chuanzhu, Xie Fang, du ping, these senior generals of the Northeast Border Defense Army, took precautions, and in order to cope with the possibility of war, they sent General Wu Ruilin, commander of the 42nd Army, to Korea to see the terrain. General Wu Ruilin knew that the terrain played a decisive role in the victory or defeat of the war, so he spent seven or eight days to turn around the north of Korea, and wrote down all the militaryly significant places such as villages, bridges, and culverts along the way, and made a military mission.
However, when the volunteers were intensively preparing to enter the war in North Korea, the US military commander MacArthur underestimated this. They believe that the national strength of New China, which has only been founded for one year, is weak and it is simply unable to send troops. Moreover, after the US troops landed in Inchon, the favorable opportunity to send troops has long passed. Therefore, the United Nations army led by the US army not only advanced at an extremely fast speed, but also did not have the most basic vigilance, and hundreds of people dared to run around the front line with two or three cannons in tow.
The eastern front is the US 10th Army and the ROK First Army, a total of four divisions, pointing directly at Huishan and Tumen River on the border between China and North Korea. On the western front, the US 8th Army, under the jurisdiction of the US First Army and the ROK 2nd Army, a total of six divisions, a brigade and an airborne regiment, the troops pointed directly at Sinuiju, Chushan and other places on the border between China and North Korea. The two enemy lines, separated by the steep Wolf Forest Mountains and the Taibai Mountains, were more than eighty kilometers apart.
Dividing up troops and advancing has been a taboo in the use of soldiers since ancient times. The top brass of the volunteer army headed by Peng Dehuai immediately made a decision at the sight of the situation, so he decided to adopt the method of attacking from the east to the west, that is, three of the first four armies to enter the DPRK, that is, the 38th Army, the 39th Army, and the 40th Army, were concentrated to surround and annihilate the enemy troops on the western road, and Wu Ruilin led the 42nd Army to be responsible for blocking the enemy troops on the eastern road and ensuring the safety of the flanks of the volunteer army on the western front. The main blocking place that Wu Ruilin chose was a place called Huangcaoling.
At that time, because there was no aircraft cover, our army had no air superiority, the troops could only drive at night, and there were few cars, so all the way relied on the two legs of the soldiers. It takes at least 6 to 7 nights to complete 400 km of the 60 to 70 km per night, and it is difficult to capture the Yellow Grass Ridge before the motorized enemy forces. Commander Wu Ruilin made a fierce effort, "Order the troops to increase the speed of marching one hundred and thirty miles per night to one hundred and eighty miles per day." "Thus, while the enemy was still grinding and staggering forward, our forwards had reached Yellow Grass Ridge and repaired the fortifications.
As mentioned above, the enemy army on the western road consisted of the 10th Army and the First Army of the Roks. But for the battle-hardened 42nd Army, the former was the most difficult to deal with. Because its main forward force is the 1st Marine Division.
The 1st Marine Division was created in 1846 and is almost as long as the history of the United States. As an elite unit of the U.S. Marine Corps, the 1st Marine Division participated in the Eight-Power Invasion of Beijing and suppressed the Boxer Rebellion. However, what really made it famous in the world was the Battle of Guadalcanal during the Pacific War.
At that time, the main force of the Japanese combined fleet still existed, and the air and sea supremacy were not lost. As a result, the U.S. military does not have an advantage here, and its supply lines are often cut off. In addition, the Japanese troops attacking Guadalcanal at that time were all elite in hundreds of battles, so the 1st Marine Division was extremely difficult in the initial days. On several occasions, the Japanese broke through the American lines, but they were all beaten out by the 1st Marine Division, and they paid the price of 7500 casualties. Later, the U.S. military launched a full-scale counteroffensive in the Pacific Theater. The 1st Marine Division also participated in the Battle of Okinawa, which was no less intense than the Battle of Guadalcanal, and also achieved good results.
The history of the war records that the total strength of the 1st Marine Division was more than 20,000 at the beginning of the war, which was similar to the military-level units of the Chinese Volunteer Army. However, when it comes to weapons and equipment, our army is far inferior. At that time, the entire Volunteer Army lacked a few tanks and several heavy guns, while the 1st Marine Division had 70 tanks and three 105 mm howitzer battalions and a 155 mm howitzer battalion. In addition, the regimental units of the 1st Marine Division also have a 114 mm multi-pack rocket artillery company and a large number of anti-aircraft weapons such as anti-aircraft guns. The battle between the two armies was waged under such a disparity in the balance of forces.
"This is General Wu Ruilin."
"We Americans are no strangers to General Wu's name, and we even know that you have a nickname!"
The prime minister on one side wondered, "What nickname?" ”
(Note: General Wu Ruilin was crippled by his wounds in the 1939 battle against the Six-Way Siege of the Japanese Army.) Because he was still strong in battle, the Japanese army fearfully called him "Wu Lame Zi")
This is the opening remarks of Kissinger's secret visit to China. General Wu Ruilin was then the executive deputy commander of the Navy and was one of the people responsible for receiving Kissinger. So what exactly did he do that even Kissinger knew of his prestige?
Speaking of which, this goes back to the period of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea.
As we all know, after the Inchon landing, the elite Korean People's Army gathered in Busan was cut off from the rear road, immediately fell into chaos, and was subsequently defeated by the United Nations army. Although tens of thousands of people still returned to the north alive with stubborn faith, their weapons and equipment were almost lost and they could not continue fighting. Deng Hua, Hong Xuezhi, Lai Chuanzhu, Xie Fang, du ping, these senior generals of the Northeast Border Defense Army, took precautions, and in order to cope with the possibility of war, they sent General Wu Ruilin, commander of the 42nd Army, to Korea to see the terrain. General Wu Ruilin knew that the terrain played a decisive role in the victory or defeat of the war, so he spent seven or eight days to turn around the north of Korea, and wrote down all the militaryly significant places such as villages, bridges, and culverts along the way, and made a military mission.
However, when the volunteers were intensively preparing to enter the war in North Korea, the US military commander MacArthur underestimated this. They believe that the national strength of New China, which has only been founded for one year, is weak and it is simply unable to send troops. Moreover, after the US troops landed in Inchon, the favorable opportunity to send troops has long passed. Therefore, the United Nations army led by the US army not only advanced at an extremely fast speed, but also did not have the most basic vigilance, and hundreds of people dared to run around the front line with two or three cannons in tow.
The eastern front is the US 10th Army and the ROK First Army, a total of four divisions, pointing directly at Huishan and Tumen River on the border between China and North Korea. On the western front, the US 8th Army, under the jurisdiction of the US First Army and the ROK 2nd Army, a total of six divisions, a brigade and an airborne regiment, the troops pointed directly at Sinuiju, Chushan and other places on the border between China and North Korea. The two enemy lines, separated by the steep Wolf Forest Mountains and the Taibai Mountains, were more than eighty kilometers apart.
Dividing up troops and advancing has been a taboo in the use of soldiers since ancient times. The top brass of the volunteer army headed by Peng Dehuai immediately made a decision at the sight of the situation, so he decided to adopt the method of attacking from the east to the west, that is, three of the first four armies to enter the DPRK, that is, the 38th Army, the 39th Army, and the 40th Army, were concentrated to surround and annihilate the enemy troops on the western road, and Wu Ruilin led the 42nd Army to be responsible for blocking the enemy troops on the eastern road and ensuring the safety of the flanks of the volunteer army on the western front. The main blocking place that Wu Ruilin chose was a place called Huangcaoling.
At that time, because there was no aircraft cover, our army had no air superiority, the troops could only drive at night, and there were few cars, so all the way relied on the two legs of the soldiers. It takes at least 6 to 7 nights to complete 400 km of the 60 to 70 km per night, and it is difficult to capture the Yellow Grass Ridge before the motorized enemy forces. Commander Wu Ruilin made a fierce effort, "Order the troops to increase the speed of marching one hundred and thirty miles per night to one hundred and eighty miles per day." "Thus, while the enemy was still grinding and staggering forward, our forwards had reached Yellow Grass Ridge and repaired the fortifications.
As mentioned above, the enemy army on the western road consisted of the 10th Army and the First Army of the Roks. But for the battle-hardened 42nd Army, the former was the most difficult to deal with. Because its main forward force is the 1st Marine Division.
The 1st Marine Division was created in 1846 and is almost as long as the history of the United States. As an elite unit of the U.S. Marine Corps, the 1st Marine Division participated in the Eight-Power Invasion of Beijing and suppressed the Boxer Rebellion. However, what really made it famous in the world was the Battle of Guadalcanal during the Pacific War.
At that time, the main force of the Japanese combined fleet still existed, and the air and sea supremacy were not lost. As a result, the U.S. military does not have an advantage here, and its supply lines are often cut off. In addition, the Japanese troops attacking Guadalcanal at that time were all elite in hundreds of battles, so the 1st Marine Division was extremely difficult in the initial days. On several occasions, the Japanese broke through the American lines, but they were all beaten out by the 1st Marine Division, and they paid the price of 7500 casualties. Later, the U.S. military launched a full-scale counteroffensive in the Pacific Theater. The 1st Marine Division also participated in the Battle of Okinawa, which was no less intense than the Battle of Guadalcanal, and also achieved good results.
The history of the war records that the total strength of the 1st Marine Division was more than 20,000 at the beginning of the war, which was similar to the military-level units of the Chinese Volunteer Army. However, when it comes to weapons and equipment, our army is far inferior. At that time, the entire Volunteer Army lacked a few tanks and several heavy guns, while the 1st Marine Division had 70 tanks and three 105 mm howitzer battalions and a 155 mm howitzer battalion. In addition, the regimental units of the 1st Marine Division also have a 114 mm multi-pack rocket artillery company and a large number of anti-aircraft weapons such as anti-aircraft guns. The battle between the two armies was waged under such a disparity in the balance of forces.
During the day, the U.S. military controlled the air superiority, first repeatedly ploughing the volunteer positions with deadly napalm bombs, then ordering long-range artillery bombardment, and finally sending infantry to attack under the cover of armored vehicles and tanks, while the volunteers resisted with miscellaneous light weapons and grenades such as the "Type 38" rifle captured during the War of Resistance, the Taisho Eleven-year machine gun (commonly known as the crooked handle), and the homemade explosive pack. In the evening, the volunteers came up with guerrilla tactics against the Japanese, constantly sending small groups of troops to the American camp to find sentries and destroy american tanks, artillery, jeeps and other ordnance materials. Sometimes, the volunteers would use nature to make surprise attacks on the U.S. military.
"This is General Wu Ruilin."
"We Americans are no strangers to General Wu's name, and we even know that you have a nickname!"
The prime minister on one side wondered, "What nickname?" ”
(Note: General Wu Ruilin was crippled by his wounds in the 1939 battle against the Six-Way Siege of the Japanese Army.) Because he was still strong in battle, the Japanese army fearfully called him "Wu Lame Zi")
This is the opening remarks of Kissinger's secret visit to China. General Wu Ruilin was then the executive deputy commander of the Navy and was one of the people responsible for receiving Kissinger. So what exactly did he do that even Kissinger knew of his prestige?
Speaking of which, this goes back to the period of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea.
As we all know, after the Inchon landing, the elite Korean People's Army gathered in Busan was cut off from the rear road, immediately fell into chaos, and was subsequently defeated by the United Nations army. Although tens of thousands of people still returned to the north alive with stubborn faith, their weapons and equipment were almost lost and they could not continue fighting. Deng Hua, Hong Xuezhi, Lai Chuanzhu, Xie Fang, du ping, these senior generals of the Northeast Border Defense Army, took precautions, and in order to cope with the possibility of war, they sent General Wu Ruilin, commander of the 42nd Army, to Korea to see the terrain. General Wu Ruilin knew that the terrain played a decisive role in the victory or defeat of the war, so he spent seven or eight days to turn around the north of Korea, and wrote down all the militaryly significant places such as villages, bridges, and culverts along the way, and made a military mission.
However, when the volunteers were intensively preparing to enter the war in North Korea, the US military commander MacArthur underestimated this. They believe that the national strength of New China, which has only been founded for one year, is weak and it is simply unable to send troops. Moreover, after the US troops landed in Inchon, the favorable opportunity to send troops has long passed. Therefore, the United Nations army led by the US army not only advanced at an extremely fast speed, but also did not have the most basic vigilance, and hundreds of people dared to run around the front line with two or three cannons in tow.
The eastern front is the US 10th Army and the ROK First Army, a total of four divisions, pointing directly at Huishan and Tumen River on the border between China and North Korea. On the western front, the US 8th Army, under the jurisdiction of the US First Army and the ROK 2nd Army, a total of six divisions, a brigade and an airborne regiment, the troops pointed directly at Sinuiju, Chushan and other places on the border between China and North Korea. The two enemy lines, separated by the steep Wolf Forest Mountains and the Taibai Mountains, were more than eighty kilometers apart.
Dividing up troops and advancing has been a taboo in the use of soldiers since ancient times. The top brass of the volunteer army headed by Peng Dehuai immediately made a decision at the sight of the situation, so he decided to adopt the method of attacking from the east to the west, that is, three of the first four armies to enter the DPRK, that is, the 38th Army, the 39th Army, and the 40th Army, were concentrated to surround and annihilate the enemy troops on the western road, and Wu Ruilin led the 42nd Army to be responsible for blocking the enemy troops on the eastern road and ensuring the safety of the flanks of the volunteer army on the western front. The main blocking place that Wu Ruilin chose was a place called Huangcaoling.
At that time, because there was no aircraft cover, our army had no air superiority, the troops could only drive at night, and there were few cars, so all the way relied on the two legs of the soldiers. It takes at least 6 to 7 nights to complete 400 km of the 60 to 70 km per night, and it is difficult to capture the Yellow Grass Ridge before the motorized enemy forces. Commander Wu Ruilin made a fierce effort, "Order the troops to increase the speed of marching one hundred and thirty miles per night to one hundred and eighty miles per day." "Thus, while the enemy was still grinding and staggering forward, our forwards had reached Yellow Grass Ridge and repaired the fortifications.
As mentioned above, the enemy army on the western road consisted of the 10th Army and the First Army of the Roks. But for the battle-hardened 42nd Army, the former was the most difficult to deal with. Because its main forward force is the 1st Marine Division.
The 1st Marine Division was created in 1846 and is almost as long as the history of the United States. As an elite unit of the U.S. Marine Corps, the 1st Marine Division participated in the Eight-Power Invasion of Beijing and suppressed the Boxer Rebellion. However, what really made it famous in the world was the Battle of Guadalcanal during the Pacific War.
At that time, the main force of the Japanese combined fleet still existed, and the air and sea supremacy were not lost. As a result, the U.S. military does not have an advantage here, and its supply lines are often cut off. In addition, the Japanese troops attacking Guadalcanal at that time were all elite in hundreds of battles, so the 1st Marine Division was extremely difficult in the initial days. On several occasions, the Japanese broke through the American lines, but they were all beaten out by the 1st Marine Division, and they paid the price of 7500 casualties. Later, the U.S. military launched a full-scale counteroffensive in the Pacific Theater. The 1st Marine Division also participated in the Battle of Okinawa, which was no less intense than the Battle of Guadalcanal, and also achieved good results.
The history of the war records that the total strength of the 1st Marine Division was more than 20,000 at the beginning of the war, which was similar to the military-level units of the Chinese Volunteer Army. However, when it comes to weapons and equipment, our army is far inferior. At that time, the entire Volunteer Army lacked a few tanks and several heavy guns, while the 1st Marine Division had 70 tanks and three 105 mm howitzer battalions and a 155 mm howitzer battalion. In addition, the regimental units of the 1st Marine Division also have a 114 mm multi-pack rocket artillery company and a large number of anti-aircraft weapons such as anti-aircraft guns. The battle between the two armies was waged under such a disparity in the balance of forces.
During the day, the U.S. military controlled the air superiority, first repeatedly ploughing the volunteer positions with deadly napalm bombs, then ordering long-range artillery bombardment, and finally sending infantry to attack under the cover of armored vehicles and tanks, while the volunteers resisted with miscellaneous light weapons and grenades such as the "Type 38" rifle captured during the War of Resistance, the Taisho Eleven-year machine gun (commonly known as the crooked handle), and the homemade explosive pack. In the evening, the volunteers came up with guerrilla tactics against the Japanese, constantly sending small groups of troops to the American camp to find sentries and destroy american tanks, artillery, jeeps and other ordnance materials. Sometimes, the volunteers would use nature to make surprise attacks on the U.S. military.
Once, General Wu Ruilin buried hundreds of kilograms of high explosives in the cracks in the mountains on both sides of the US army's inevitable road, and when the US army came, a telephone set exploded, and as a result, 13 US tanks were damaged at once. It is said that because the enemy did not find out what kind of weapons were used by the volunteers, the ground troops did not dare to move for five or six days. In this way, for 13 consecutive days, the 42nd Army, which attacked day and night, inflicted unspeakable hardship on the US army, making it unable to advance a step forward and ensuring the smooth progress of the first campaign to resist US aggression and aid Korea.
"This is General Wu Ruilin."
"We Americans are no strangers to General Wu's name, and we even know that you have a nickname!"
The prime minister on one side wondered, "What nickname?" ”
(Note: General Wu Ruilin was crippled by his wounds in the 1939 battle against the Six-Way Siege of the Japanese Army.) Because he was still strong in battle, the Japanese army fearfully called him "Wu Lame Zi")
This is the opening remarks of Kissinger's secret visit to China. General Wu Ruilin was then the executive deputy commander of the Navy and was one of the people responsible for receiving Kissinger. So what exactly did he do that even Kissinger knew of his prestige?
Speaking of which, this goes back to the period of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea.
As we all know, after the Inchon landing, the elite Korean People's Army gathered in Busan was cut off from the rear road, immediately fell into chaos, and was subsequently defeated by the United Nations army. Although tens of thousands of people still returned to the north alive with stubborn faith, their weapons and equipment were almost lost and they could not continue fighting. Deng Hua, Hong Xuezhi, Lai Chuanzhu, Xie Fang, du ping, these senior generals of the Northeast Border Defense Army, took precautions, and in order to cope with the possibility of war, they sent General Wu Ruilin, commander of the 42nd Army, to Korea to see the terrain. General Wu Ruilin knew that the terrain played a decisive role in the victory or defeat of the war, so he spent seven or eight days to turn around the north of Korea, and wrote down all the militaryly significant places such as villages, bridges, and culverts along the way, and made a military mission.
However, when the volunteers were intensively preparing to enter the war in North Korea, the US military commander MacArthur underestimated this. They believe that the national strength of New China, which has only been founded for one year, is weak and it is simply unable to send troops. Moreover, after the US troops landed in Inchon, the favorable opportunity to send troops has long passed. Therefore, the United Nations army led by the US army not only advanced at an extremely fast speed, but also did not have the most basic vigilance, and hundreds of people dared to run around the front line with two or three cannons in tow.
The eastern front is the US 10th Army and the ROK First Army, a total of four divisions, pointing directly at Huishan and Tumen River on the border between China and North Korea. On the western front, the US 8th Army, under the jurisdiction of the US First Army and the ROK 2nd Army, a total of six divisions, a brigade and an airborne regiment, the troops pointed directly at Sinuiju, Chushan and other places on the border between China and North Korea. The two enemy lines, separated by the steep Wolf Forest Mountains and the Taibai Mountains, were more than eighty kilometers apart.
Dividing up troops and advancing has been a taboo in the use of soldiers since ancient times. The top brass of the volunteer army headed by Peng Dehuai immediately made a decision at the sight of the situation, so he decided to adopt the method of attacking from the east to the west, that is, three of the first four armies to enter the DPRK, that is, the 38th Army, the 39th Army, and the 40th Army, were concentrated to surround and annihilate the enemy troops on the western road, and Wu Ruilin led the 42nd Army to be responsible for blocking the enemy troops on the eastern road and ensuring the safety of the flanks of the volunteer army on the western front. The main blocking place that Wu Ruilin chose was a place called Huangcaoling.
At that time, because there was no aircraft cover, our army had no air superiority, the troops could only drive at night, and there were few cars, so all the way relied on the two legs of the soldiers. It takes at least 6 to 7 nights to complete 400 km of the 60 to 70 km per night, and it is difficult to capture the Yellow Grass Ridge before the motorized enemy forces. Commander Wu Ruilin made a fierce effort, "Order the troops to increase the speed of marching one hundred and thirty miles per night to one hundred and eighty miles per day." "Thus, while the enemy was still grinding and staggering forward, our forwards had reached Yellow Grass Ridge and repaired the fortifications.
As mentioned above, the enemy army on the western road consisted of the 10th Army and the First Army of the Roks. But for the battle-hardened 42nd Army, the former was the most difficult to deal with. Because its main forward force is the 1st Marine Division.
The 1st Marine Division was created in 1846 and is almost as long as the history of the United States. As an elite unit of the U.S. Marine Corps, the 1st Marine Division participated in the Eight-Power Invasion of Beijing and suppressed the Boxer Rebellion. However, what really made it famous in the world was the Battle of Guadalcanal during the Pacific War.
At that time, the main force of the Japanese combined fleet still existed, and the air and sea supremacy were not lost. As a result, the U.S. military does not have an advantage here, and its supply lines are often cut off. In addition, the Japanese troops attacking Guadalcanal at that time were all elite in hundreds of battles, so the 1st Marine Division was extremely difficult in the initial days. On several occasions, the Japanese broke through the American lines, but they were all beaten out by the 1st Marine Division, and they paid the price of 7500 casualties. Later, the U.S. military launched a full-scale counteroffensive in the Pacific Theater. The 1st Marine Division also participated in the Battle of Okinawa, which was no less intense than the Battle of Guadalcanal, and also achieved good results.
The history of the war records that the total strength of the 1st Marine Division was more than 20,000 at the beginning of the war, which was similar to the military-level units of the Chinese Volunteer Army. However, when it comes to weapons and equipment, our army is far inferior. At that time, the entire Volunteer Army lacked a few tanks and several heavy guns, while the 1st Marine Division had 70 tanks and three 105 mm howitzer battalions and a 155 mm howitzer battalion. In addition, the regimental units of the 1st Marine Division also have a 114 mm multi-pack rocket artillery company and a large number of anti-aircraft weapons such as anti-aircraft guns. The battle between the two armies was waged under such a disparity in the balance of forces.
During the day, the U.S. military controlled the air superiority, first repeatedly ploughing the volunteer positions with deadly napalm bombs, then ordering long-range artillery bombardment, and finally sending infantry to attack under the cover of armored vehicles and tanks, while the volunteers resisted with miscellaneous light weapons and grenades such as the "Type 38" rifle captured during the War of Resistance, the Taisho Eleven-year machine gun (commonly known as the crooked handle), and the homemade explosive pack. In the evening, the volunteers came up with guerrilla tactics against the Japanese, constantly sending small groups of troops to the American camp to find sentries and destroy american tanks, artillery, jeeps and other ordnance materials. Sometimes, the volunteers would use nature to make surprise attacks on the U.S. military.
Once, General Wu Ruilin buried hundreds of kilograms of high explosives in the cracks in the mountains on both sides of the US army's inevitable road, and when the US army came, a telephone set exploded, and as a result, 13 US tanks were damaged at once. It is said that because the enemy did not find out what kind of weapons were used by the volunteers, the ground troops did not dare to move for five or six days. In this way, for 13 consecutive days, the 42nd Army, which attacked day and night, inflicted unspeakable hardship on the US army, making it unable to advance a step forward and ensuring the smooth progress of the first campaign to resist US aggression and aid Korea.
MacArthur was also obstinate, and suffered such a fierce counterattack from the volunteers, still believing that the Chinese participating forces were partial and limited, with a maximum strength of about 70,000 people. Therefore, he still ordered the 10th Army to continue to pursue northwards, and the 8th Army continued its offensive after resting, in a vain attempt to end the war before Christmas. Peng Dehuai found out the movement of the US army, determined to take advantage of the enemy's strong and proud mood, adopted the policy of "luring the enemy to go deep, and seeking opportunities to break through each other", lured the enemy to the predetermined battlefield, and then launched a sudden counterattack, annihilated the enemy in the movement, smashed the enemy's offensive, and pushed the front line to Pyongyang and Wonsan in one fell swoop.
"This is General Wu Ruilin."
"We Americans are no strangers to General Wu's name, and we even know that you have a nickname!"
The prime minister on one side wondered, "What nickname?" ”
(Note: General Wu Ruilin was crippled by his wounds in the 1939 battle against the Six-Way Siege of the Japanese Army.) Because he was still strong in battle, the Japanese army fearfully called him "Wu Lame Zi")
This is the opening remarks of Kissinger's secret visit to China. General Wu Ruilin was then the executive deputy commander of the Navy and was one of the people responsible for receiving Kissinger. So what exactly did he do that even Kissinger knew of his prestige?
Speaking of which, this goes back to the period of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea.
As we all know, after the Inchon landing, the elite Korean People's Army gathered in Busan was cut off from the rear road, immediately fell into chaos, and was subsequently defeated by the United Nations army. Although tens of thousands of people still returned to the north alive with stubborn faith, their weapons and equipment were almost lost and they could not continue fighting. Deng Hua, Hong Xuezhi, Lai Chuanzhu, Xie Fang, du ping, these senior generals of the Northeast Border Defense Army, took precautions, and in order to cope with the possibility of war, they sent General Wu Ruilin, commander of the 42nd Army, to Korea to see the terrain. General Wu Ruilin knew that the terrain played a decisive role in the victory or defeat of the war, so he spent seven or eight days to turn around the north of Korea, and wrote down all the militaryly significant places such as villages, bridges, and culverts along the way, and made a military mission.
However, when the volunteers were intensively preparing to enter the war in North Korea, the US military commander MacArthur underestimated this. They believe that the national strength of New China, which has only been founded for one year, is weak and it is simply unable to send troops. Moreover, after the US troops landed in Inchon, the favorable opportunity to send troops has long passed. Therefore, the United Nations army led by the US army not only advanced at an extremely fast speed, but also did not have the most basic vigilance, and hundreds of people dared to run around the front line with two or three cannons in tow.
The eastern front is the US 10th Army and the ROK First Army, a total of four divisions, pointing directly at Huishan and Tumen River on the border between China and North Korea. On the western front, the US 8th Army, under the jurisdiction of the US First Army and the ROK 2nd Army, a total of six divisions, a brigade and an airborne regiment, the troops pointed directly at Sinuiju, Chushan and other places on the border between China and North Korea. The two enemy lines, separated by the steep Wolf Forest Mountains and the Taibai Mountains, were more than eighty kilometers apart.
Dividing up troops and advancing has been a taboo in the use of soldiers since ancient times. The top brass of the volunteer army headed by Peng Dehuai immediately made a decision at the sight of the situation, so he decided to adopt the method of attacking from the east to the west, that is, three of the first four armies to enter the DPRK, that is, the 38th Army, the 39th Army, and the 40th Army, were concentrated to surround and annihilate the enemy troops on the western road, and Wu Ruilin led the 42nd Army to be responsible for blocking the enemy troops on the eastern road and ensuring the safety of the flanks of the volunteer army on the western front. The main blocking place that Wu Ruilin chose was a place called Huangcaoling.
At that time, because there was no aircraft cover, our army had no air superiority, the troops could only drive at night, and there were few cars, so all the way relied on the two legs of the soldiers. It takes at least 6 to 7 nights to complete 400 km of the 60 to 70 km per night, and it is difficult to capture the Yellow Grass Ridge before the motorized enemy forces. Commander Wu Ruilin made a fierce effort, "Order the troops to increase the speed of marching one hundred and thirty miles per night to one hundred and eighty miles per day." "Thus, while the enemy was still grinding and staggering forward, our forwards had reached Yellow Grass Ridge and repaired the fortifications.
As mentioned above, the enemy army on the western road consisted of the 10th Army and the First Army of the Roks. But for the battle-hardened 42nd Army, the former was the most difficult to deal with. Because its main forward force is the 1st Marine Division.
The 1st Marine Division was created in 1846 and is almost as long as the history of the United States. As an elite unit of the U.S. Marine Corps, the 1st Marine Division participated in the Eight-Power Invasion of Beijing and suppressed the Boxer Rebellion. However, what really made it famous in the world was the Battle of Guadalcanal during the Pacific War.
At that time, the main force of the Japanese combined fleet still existed, and the air and sea supremacy were not lost. As a result, the U.S. military does not have an advantage here, and its supply lines are often cut off. In addition, the Japanese troops attacking Guadalcanal at that time were all elite in hundreds of battles, so the 1st Marine Division was extremely difficult in the initial days. On several occasions, the Japanese broke through the American lines, but they were all beaten out by the 1st Marine Division, and they paid the price of 7500 casualties. Later, the U.S. military launched a full-scale counteroffensive in the Pacific Theater. The 1st Marine Division also participated in the Battle of Okinawa, which was no less intense than the Battle of Guadalcanal, and also achieved good results.
The history of the war records that the total strength of the 1st Marine Division was more than 20,000 at the beginning of the war, which was similar to the military-level units of the Chinese Volunteer Army. However, when it comes to weapons and equipment, our army is far inferior. At that time, the entire Volunteer Army lacked a few tanks and several heavy guns, while the 1st Marine Division had 70 tanks and three 105 mm howitzer battalions and a 155 mm howitzer battalion. In addition, the regimental units of the 1st Marine Division also have a 114 mm multi-pack rocket artillery company and a large number of anti-aircraft weapons such as anti-aircraft guns. The battle between the two armies was waged under such a disparity in the balance of forces.
During the day, the U.S. military controlled the air superiority, first repeatedly ploughing the volunteer positions with deadly napalm bombs, then ordering long-range artillery bombardment, and finally sending infantry to attack under the cover of armored vehicles and tanks, while the volunteers resisted with miscellaneous light weapons and grenades such as the "Type 38" rifle captured during the War of Resistance, the Taisho Eleven-year machine gun (commonly known as the crooked handle), and the homemade explosive pack. In the evening, the volunteers came up with guerrilla tactics against the Japanese, constantly sending small groups of troops to the American camp to find sentries and destroy american tanks, artillery, jeeps and other ordnance materials. Sometimes, the volunteers would use nature to make surprise attacks on the U.S. military.
Once, General Wu Ruilin buried hundreds of kilograms of high explosives in the cracks in the mountains on both sides of the US army's inevitable road, and when the US army came, a telephone set exploded, and as a result, 13 US tanks were damaged at once. It is said that because the enemy did not find out what kind of weapons were used by the volunteers, the ground troops did not dare to move for five or six days. In this way, for 13 consecutive days, the 42nd Army, which attacked day and night, inflicted unspeakable hardship on the US army, making it unable to advance a step forward and ensuring the smooth progress of the first campaign to resist US aggression and aid Korea.
MacArthur was also obstinate, and suffered such a fierce counterattack from the volunteers, still believing that the Chinese participating forces were partial and limited, with a maximum strength of about 70,000 people. Therefore, he still ordered the 10th Army to continue to pursue northwards, and the 8th Army continued its offensive after resting, in a vain attempt to end the war before Christmas. Peng Dehuai found out the movement of the US army, determined to take advantage of the enemy's strong and proud mood, adopted the policy of "luring the enemy to go deep, and seeking opportunities to break through each other", lured the enemy to the predetermined battlefield, and then launched a sudden counterattack, annihilated the enemy in the movement, smashed the enemy's offensive, and pushed the front line to Pyongyang and Wonsan in one fell swoop.
According to the order, General Wu Ruilin led the generals of the 42nd Army and the 38th Army to undertake the strategic task of detouring behind the enemy and cutting off the enemy's retreat. This time, the opponents of the 42nd Army were mainly South Korean troops, so they fought more smoothly. On 24 December, the second battle ended in victory. The Chinese army successfully reached the 38th Line, and the Un Army suffered heavy losses, annihilating 36,000 enemy troops alone. MacArthur's arrogance was gone, and only a sluggishness remained, especially in the third and fourth battles that followed, and his incompetence led U.S. President Harry Truman to believe that MacArthur was simply unable to control the situation in Korea. As a result, a paper order arrived, MacArthur was dismissed, and his command was transferred to Ridgway, the commander of the 8th Army.
"This is General Wu Ruilin."
"We Americans are no strangers to General Wu's name, and we even know that you have a nickname!"
The prime minister on one side wondered, "What nickname?" ”
(Note: General Wu Ruilin was crippled by his wounds in the 1939 battle against the Six-Way Siege of the Japanese Army.) Because he was still strong in battle, the Japanese army fearfully called him "Wu Lame Zi")
This is the opening remarks of Kissinger's secret visit to China. General Wu Ruilin was then the executive deputy commander of the Navy and was one of the people responsible for receiving Kissinger. So what exactly did he do that even Kissinger knew of his prestige?
Speaking of which, this goes back to the period of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea.
As we all know, after the Inchon landing, the elite Korean People's Army gathered in Busan was cut off from the rear road, immediately fell into chaos, and was subsequently defeated by the United Nations army. Although tens of thousands of people still returned to the north alive with stubborn faith, their weapons and equipment were almost lost and they could not continue fighting. Deng Hua, Hong Xuezhi, Lai Chuanzhu, Xie Fang, du ping, these senior generals of the Northeast Border Defense Army, took precautions, and in order to cope with the possibility of war, they sent General Wu Ruilin, commander of the 42nd Army, to Korea to see the terrain. General Wu Ruilin knew that the terrain played a decisive role in the victory or defeat of the war, so he spent seven or eight days to turn around the north of Korea, and wrote down all the militaryly significant places such as villages, bridges, and culverts along the way, and made a military mission.
However, when the volunteers were intensively preparing to enter the war in North Korea, the US military commander MacArthur underestimated this. They believe that the national strength of New China, which has only been founded for one year, is weak and it is simply unable to send troops. Moreover, after the US troops landed in Inchon, the favorable opportunity to send troops has long passed. Therefore, the United Nations army led by the US army not only advanced at an extremely fast speed, but also did not have the most basic vigilance, and hundreds of people dared to run around the front line with two or three cannons in tow.
The eastern front is the US 10th Army and the ROK First Army, a total of four divisions, pointing directly at Huishan and Tumen River on the border between China and North Korea. On the western front, the US 8th Army, under the jurisdiction of the US First Army and the ROK 2nd Army, a total of six divisions, a brigade and an airborne regiment, the troops pointed directly at Sinuiju, Chushan and other places on the border between China and North Korea. The two enemy lines, separated by the steep Wolf Forest Mountains and the Taibai Mountains, were more than eighty kilometers apart.
Dividing up troops and advancing has been a taboo in the use of soldiers since ancient times. The top brass of the volunteer army headed by Peng Dehuai immediately made a decision at the sight of the situation, so he decided to adopt the method of attacking from the east to the west, that is, three of the first four armies to enter the DPRK, that is, the 38th Army, the 39th Army, and the 40th Army, were concentrated to surround and annihilate the enemy troops on the western road, and Wu Ruilin led the 42nd Army to be responsible for blocking the enemy troops on the eastern road and ensuring the safety of the flanks of the volunteer army on the western front. The main blocking place that Wu Ruilin chose was a place called Huangcaoling.
At that time, because there was no aircraft cover, our army had no air superiority, the troops could only drive at night, and there were few cars, so all the way relied on the two legs of the soldiers. It takes at least 6 to 7 nights to complete 400 km of the 60 to 70 km per night, and it is difficult to capture the Yellow Grass Ridge before the motorized enemy forces. Commander Wu Ruilin made a fierce effort, "Order the troops to increase the speed of marching one hundred and thirty miles per night to one hundred and eighty miles per day." "Thus, while the enemy was still grinding and staggering forward, our forwards had reached Yellow Grass Ridge and repaired the fortifications.
As mentioned above, the enemy army on the western road consisted of the 10th Army and the First Army of the Roks. But for the battle-hardened 42nd Army, the former was the most difficult to deal with. Because its main forward force is the 1st Marine Division.
The 1st Marine Division was created in 1846 and is almost as long as the history of the United States. As an elite unit of the U.S. Marine Corps, the 1st Marine Division participated in the Eight-Power Invasion of Beijing and suppressed the Boxer Rebellion. However, what really made it famous in the world was the Battle of Guadalcanal during the Pacific War.
At that time, the main force of the Japanese combined fleet still existed, and the air and sea supremacy were not lost. As a result, the U.S. military does not have an advantage here, and its supply lines are often cut off. In addition, the Japanese troops attacking Guadalcanal at that time were all elite in hundreds of battles, so the 1st Marine Division was extremely difficult in the initial days. On several occasions, the Japanese broke through the American lines, but they were all beaten out by the 1st Marine Division, and they paid the price of 7500 casualties. Later, the U.S. military launched a full-scale counteroffensive in the Pacific Theater. The 1st Marine Division also participated in the Battle of Okinawa, which was no less intense than the Battle of Guadalcanal, and also achieved good results.
The history of the war records that the total strength of the 1st Marine Division was more than 20,000 at the beginning of the war, which was similar to the military-level units of the Chinese Volunteer Army. However, when it comes to weapons and equipment, our army is far inferior. At that time, the entire Volunteer Army lacked a few tanks and several heavy guns, while the 1st Marine Division had 70 tanks and three 105 mm howitzer battalions and a 155 mm howitzer battalion. In addition, the regimental units of the 1st Marine Division also have a 114 mm multi-pack rocket artillery company and a large number of anti-aircraft weapons such as anti-aircraft guns. The battle between the two armies was waged under such a disparity in the balance of forces.
During the day, the U.S. military controlled the air superiority, first repeatedly ploughing the volunteer positions with deadly napalm bombs, then ordering long-range artillery bombardment, and finally sending infantry to attack under the cover of armored vehicles and tanks, while the volunteers resisted with miscellaneous light weapons and grenades such as the "Type 38" rifle captured during the War of Resistance, the Taisho Eleven-year machine gun (commonly known as the crooked handle), and the homemade explosive pack. In the evening, the volunteers came up with guerrilla tactics against the Japanese, constantly sending small groups of troops to the American camp to find sentries and destroy american tanks, artillery, jeeps and other ordnance materials. Sometimes, the volunteers would use nature to make surprise attacks on the U.S. military.
Once, General Wu Ruilin buried hundreds of kilograms of high explosives in the cracks in the mountains on both sides of the US army's inevitable road, and when the US army came, a telephone set exploded, and as a result, 13 US tanks were damaged at once. It is said that because the enemy did not find out what kind of weapons were used by the volunteers, the ground troops did not dare to move for five or six days. In this way, for 13 consecutive days, the 42nd Army, which attacked day and night, inflicted unspeakable hardship on the US army, making it unable to advance a step forward and ensuring the smooth progress of the first campaign to resist US aggression and aid Korea.
MacArthur was also obstinate, and suffered such a fierce counterattack from the volunteers, still believing that the Chinese participating forces were partial and limited, with a maximum strength of about 70,000 people. Therefore, he still ordered the 10th Army to continue to pursue northwards, and the 8th Army continued its offensive after resting, in a vain attempt to end the war before Christmas. Peng Dehuai found out the movement of the US army, determined to take advantage of the enemy's strong and proud mood, adopted the policy of "luring the enemy to go deep, and seeking opportunities to break through each other", lured the enemy to the predetermined battlefield, and then launched a sudden counterattack, annihilated the enemy in the movement, smashed the enemy's offensive, and pushed the front line to Pyongyang and Wonsan in one fell swoop.
According to the order, General Wu Ruilin led the generals of the 42nd Army and the 38th Army to undertake the strategic task of detouring behind the enemy and cutting off the enemy's retreat. This time, the opponents of the 42nd Army were mainly South Korean troops, so they fought more smoothly. On 24 December, the second battle ended in victory. The Chinese army successfully reached the 38th Line, and the Un Army suffered heavy losses, annihilating 36,000 enemy troops alone. MacArthur's arrogance was gone, and only a sluggishness remained, especially in the third and fourth battles that followed, and his incompetence led U.S. President Harry Truman to believe that MacArthur was simply unable to control the situation in Korea. As a result, a paper order arrived, MacArthur was dismissed, and his command was transferred to Ridgway, the commander of the 8th Army.
Ridgway was more cautious than MacArthur and was particularly strong in tactical judgment. After he arrived, after a period of observation, he issued two orders. First, in view of the logistical difficulties of the Volunteer Army, its officers and men carried ammunition and food for up to one week. Therefore, he wanted the U.S. military to use a war of attrition as much as possible. Second, Ridgway believed that the Volunteers were good at close combat and that the number of heavy weapons was insufficient. Therefore, he promulgated the famous magnetic tactic, that is, in the process of fighting the volunteer army, the US army took the initiative to pull away a distance of 10 to 20 kilometers, taking advantage of its long-range artillery and air force fighters. At the same time, you can't pull the distance too far. It has to be said that these two orders did play a role, increasing the combat difficulties of the volunteer army. Afterwards, for Ridgway's two orders, Mr. Peng commented: "This is the real enemy." "But it was such a difficult enemy who was almost captured alive by General Wu Ruilin."
"This is General Wu Ruilin."
"We Americans are no strangers to General Wu's name, and we even know that you have a nickname!"
The prime minister on one side wondered, "What nickname?" ”
(Note: General Wu Ruilin was crippled by his wounds in the 1939 battle against the Six-Way Siege of the Japanese Army.) Because he was still strong in battle, the Japanese army fearfully called him "Wu Lame Zi")
This is the opening remarks of Kissinger's secret visit to China. General Wu Ruilin was then the executive deputy commander of the Navy and was one of the people responsible for receiving Kissinger. So what exactly did he do that even Kissinger knew of his prestige?
Speaking of which, this goes back to the period of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea.
As we all know, after the Inchon landing, the elite Korean People's Army gathered in Busan was cut off from the rear road, immediately fell into chaos, and was subsequently defeated by the United Nations army. Although tens of thousands of people still returned to the north alive with stubborn faith, their weapons and equipment were almost lost and they could not continue fighting. Deng Hua, Hong Xuezhi, Lai Chuanzhu, Xie Fang, du ping, these senior generals of the Northeast Border Defense Army, took precautions, and in order to cope with the possibility of war, they sent General Wu Ruilin, commander of the 42nd Army, to Korea to see the terrain. General Wu Ruilin knew that the terrain played a decisive role in the victory or defeat of the war, so he spent seven or eight days to turn around the north of Korea, and wrote down all the militaryly significant places such as villages, bridges, and culverts along the way, and made a military mission.
However, when the volunteers were intensively preparing to enter the war in North Korea, the US military commander MacArthur underestimated this. They believe that the national strength of New China, which has only been founded for one year, is weak and it is simply unable to send troops. Moreover, after the US troops landed in Inchon, the favorable opportunity to send troops has long passed. Therefore, the United Nations army led by the US army not only advanced at an extremely fast speed, but also did not have the most basic vigilance, and hundreds of people dared to run around the front line with two or three cannons in tow.
The eastern front is the US 10th Army and the ROK First Army, a total of four divisions, pointing directly at Huishan and Tumen River on the border between China and North Korea. On the western front, the US 8th Army, under the jurisdiction of the US First Army and the ROK 2nd Army, a total of six divisions, a brigade and an airborne regiment, the troops pointed directly at Sinuiju, Chushan and other places on the border between China and North Korea. The two enemy lines, separated by the steep Wolf Forest Mountains and the Taibai Mountains, were more than eighty kilometers apart.
Dividing up troops and advancing has been a taboo in the use of soldiers since ancient times. The top brass of the volunteer army headed by Peng Dehuai immediately made a decision at the sight of the situation, so he decided to adopt the method of attacking from the east to the west, that is, three of the first four armies to enter the DPRK, that is, the 38th Army, the 39th Army, and the 40th Army, were concentrated to surround and annihilate the enemy troops on the western road, and Wu Ruilin led the 42nd Army to be responsible for blocking the enemy troops on the eastern road and ensuring the safety of the flanks of the volunteer army on the western front. The main blocking place that Wu Ruilin chose was a place called Huangcaoling.
At that time, because there was no aircraft cover, our army had no air superiority, the troops could only drive at night, and there were few cars, so all the way relied on the two legs of the soldiers. It takes at least 6 to 7 nights to complete 400 km of the 60 to 70 km per night, and it is difficult to capture the Yellow Grass Ridge before the motorized enemy forces. Commander Wu Ruilin made a fierce effort, "Order the troops to increase the speed of marching one hundred and thirty miles per night to one hundred and eighty miles per day." "Thus, while the enemy was still grinding and staggering forward, our forwards had reached Yellow Grass Ridge and repaired the fortifications.
As mentioned above, the enemy army on the western road consisted of the 10th Army and the First Army of the Roks. But for the battle-hardened 42nd Army, the former was the most difficult to deal with. Because its main forward force is the 1st Marine Division.
The 1st Marine Division was created in 1846 and is almost as long as the history of the United States. As an elite unit of the U.S. Marine Corps, the 1st Marine Division participated in the Eight-Power Invasion of Beijing and suppressed the Boxer Rebellion. However, what really made it famous in the world was the Battle of Guadalcanal during the Pacific War.
At that time, the main force of the Japanese combined fleet still existed, and the air and sea supremacy were not lost. As a result, the U.S. military does not have an advantage here, and its supply lines are often cut off. In addition, the Japanese troops attacking Guadalcanal at that time were all elite in hundreds of battles, so the 1st Marine Division was extremely difficult in the initial days. On several occasions, the Japanese broke through the American lines, but they were all beaten out by the 1st Marine Division, and they paid the price of 7500 casualties. Later, the U.S. military launched a full-scale counteroffensive in the Pacific Theater. The 1st Marine Division also participated in the Battle of Okinawa, which was no less intense than the Battle of Guadalcanal, and also achieved good results.
The history of the war records that the total strength of the 1st Marine Division was more than 20,000 at the beginning of the war, which was similar to the military-level units of the Chinese Volunteer Army. However, when it comes to weapons and equipment, our army is far inferior. At that time, the entire Volunteer Army lacked a few tanks and several heavy guns, while the 1st Marine Division had 70 tanks and three 105 mm howitzer battalions and a 155 mm howitzer battalion. In addition, the regimental units of the 1st Marine Division also have a 114 mm multi-pack rocket artillery company and a large number of anti-aircraft weapons such as anti-aircraft guns. The battle between the two armies was waged under such a disparity in the balance of forces.
During the day, the U.S. military controlled the air superiority, first repeatedly ploughing the volunteer positions with deadly napalm bombs, then ordering long-range artillery bombardment, and finally sending infantry to attack under the cover of armored vehicles and tanks, while the volunteers resisted with miscellaneous light weapons and grenades such as the "Type 38" rifle captured during the War of Resistance, the Taisho Eleven-year machine gun (commonly known as the crooked handle), and the homemade explosive pack. In the evening, the volunteers came up with guerrilla tactics against the Japanese, constantly sending small groups of troops to the American camp to find sentries and destroy american tanks, artillery, jeeps and other ordnance materials. Sometimes, the volunteers would use nature to make surprise attacks on the U.S. military.
Once, General Wu Ruilin buried hundreds of kilograms of high explosives in the cracks in the mountains on both sides of the US army's inevitable road, and when the US army came, a telephone set exploded, and as a result, 13 US tanks were damaged at once. It is said that because the enemy did not find out what kind of weapons were used by the volunteers, the ground troops did not dare to move for five or six days. In this way, for 13 consecutive days, the 42nd Army, which attacked day and night, inflicted unspeakable hardship on the US army, making it unable to advance a step forward and ensuring the smooth progress of the first campaign to resist US aggression and aid Korea.
MacArthur was also obstinate, and suffered such a fierce counterattack from the volunteers, still believing that the Chinese participating forces were partial and limited, with a maximum strength of about 70,000 people. Therefore, he still ordered the 10th Army to continue to pursue northwards, and the 8th Army continued its offensive after resting, in a vain attempt to end the war before Christmas. Peng Dehuai found out the movement of the US army, determined to take advantage of the enemy's strong and proud mood, adopted the policy of "luring the enemy to go deep, and seeking opportunities to break through each other", lured the enemy to the predetermined battlefield, and then launched a sudden counterattack, annihilated the enemy in the movement, smashed the enemy's offensive, and pushed the front line to Pyongyang and Wonsan in one fell swoop.
According to the order, General Wu Ruilin led the generals of the 42nd Army and the 38th Army to undertake the strategic task of detouring behind the enemy and cutting off the enemy's retreat. This time, the opponents of the 42nd Army were mainly South Korean troops, so they fought more smoothly. On 24 December, the second battle ended in victory. The Chinese army successfully reached the 38th Line, and the Un Army suffered heavy losses, annihilating 36,000 enemy troops alone. MacArthur's arrogance was gone, and only a sluggishness remained, especially in the third and fourth battles that followed, and his incompetence led U.S. President Harry Truman to believe that MacArthur was simply unable to control the situation in Korea. As a result, a paper order arrived, MacArthur was dismissed, and his command was transferred to Ridgway, the commander of the 8th Army.
Ridgway was more cautious than MacArthur and was particularly strong in tactical judgment. After he arrived, after a period of observation, he issued two orders. First, in view of the logistical difficulties of the Volunteer Army, its officers and men carried ammunition and food for up to one week. Therefore, he wanted the U.S. military to use a war of attrition as much as possible. Second, Ridgway believed that the Volunteers were good at close combat and that the number of heavy weapons was insufficient. Therefore, he promulgated the famous magnetic tactic, that is, in the process of fighting the volunteer army, the US army took the initiative to pull away a distance of 10 to 20 kilometers, taking advantage of its long-range artillery and air force fighters. At the same time, you can't pull the distance too far. It has to be said that these two orders did play a role, increasing the combat difficulties of the volunteer army. Afterwards, for Ridgway's two orders, Mr. Peng commented: "This is the real enemy." "But it was such a difficult enemy who was almost captured alive by General Wu Ruilin."
(The anti-aircraft gun above can be used for short-range air defense within 3500 meters and can be used against fighters, bombers and dive bombers)
"This is General Wu Ruilin."
"We Americans are no strangers to General Wu's name, and we even know that you have a nickname!"
The prime minister on one side wondered, "What nickname?" ”
(Note: General Wu Ruilin was crippled by his wounds in the 1939 battle against the Six-Way Siege of the Japanese Army.) Because he was still strong in battle, the Japanese army fearfully called him "Wu Lame Zi")
This is the opening remarks of Kissinger's secret visit to China. General Wu Ruilin was then the executive deputy commander of the Navy and was one of the people responsible for receiving Kissinger. So what exactly did he do that even Kissinger knew of his prestige?
Speaking of which, this goes back to the period of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea.
As we all know, after the Inchon landing, the elite Korean People's Army gathered in Busan was cut off from the rear road, immediately fell into chaos, and was subsequently defeated by the United Nations army. Although tens of thousands of people still returned to the north alive with stubborn faith, their weapons and equipment were almost lost and they could not continue fighting. Deng Hua, Hong Xuezhi, Lai Chuanzhu, Xie Fang, du ping, these senior generals of the Northeast Border Defense Army, took precautions, and in order to cope with the possibility of war, they sent General Wu Ruilin, commander of the 42nd Army, to Korea to see the terrain. General Wu Ruilin knew that the terrain played a decisive role in the victory or defeat of the war, so he spent seven or eight days to turn around the north of Korea, and wrote down all the militaryly significant places such as villages, bridges, and culverts along the way, and made a military mission.
However, when the volunteers were intensively preparing to enter the war in North Korea, the US military commander MacArthur underestimated this. They believe that the national strength of New China, which has only been founded for one year, is weak and it is simply unable to send troops. Moreover, after the US troops landed in Inchon, the favorable opportunity to send troops has long passed. Therefore, the United Nations army led by the US army not only advanced at an extremely fast speed, but also did not have the most basic vigilance, and hundreds of people dared to run around the front line with two or three cannons in tow.
The eastern front is the US 10th Army and the ROK First Army, a total of four divisions, pointing directly at Huishan and Tumen River on the border between China and North Korea. On the western front, the US 8th Army, under the jurisdiction of the US First Army and the ROK 2nd Army, a total of six divisions, a brigade and an airborne regiment, the troops pointed directly at Sinuiju, Chushan and other places on the border between China and North Korea. The two enemy lines, separated by the steep Wolf Forest Mountains and the Taibai Mountains, were more than eighty kilometers apart.
Dividing up troops and advancing has been a taboo in the use of soldiers since ancient times. The top brass of the volunteer army headed by Peng Dehuai immediately made a decision at the sight of the situation, so he decided to adopt the method of attacking from the east to the west, that is, three of the first four armies to enter the DPRK, that is, the 38th Army, the 39th Army, and the 40th Army, were concentrated to surround and annihilate the enemy troops on the western road, and Wu Ruilin led the 42nd Army to be responsible for blocking the enemy troops on the eastern road and ensuring the safety of the flanks of the volunteer army on the western front. The main blocking place that Wu Ruilin chose was a place called Huangcaoling.
At that time, because there was no aircraft cover, our army had no air superiority, the troops could only drive at night, and there were few cars, so all the way relied on the two legs of the soldiers. It takes at least 6 to 7 nights to complete 400 km of the 60 to 70 km per night, and it is difficult to capture the Yellow Grass Ridge before the motorized enemy forces. Commander Wu Ruilin made a fierce effort, "Order the troops to increase the speed of marching one hundred and thirty miles per night to one hundred and eighty miles per day." "Thus, while the enemy was still grinding and staggering forward, our forwards had reached Yellow Grass Ridge and repaired the fortifications.
As mentioned above, the enemy army on the western road consisted of the 10th Army and the First Army of the Roks. But for the battle-hardened 42nd Army, the former was the most difficult to deal with. Because its main forward force is the 1st Marine Division.
The 1st Marine Division was created in 1846 and is almost as long as the history of the United States. As an elite unit of the U.S. Marine Corps, the 1st Marine Division participated in the Eight-Power Invasion of Beijing and suppressed the Boxer Rebellion. However, what really made it famous in the world was the Battle of Guadalcanal during the Pacific War.
At that time, the main force of the Japanese combined fleet still existed, and the air and sea supremacy were not lost. As a result, the U.S. military does not have an advantage here, and its supply lines are often cut off. In addition, the Japanese troops attacking Guadalcanal at that time were all elite in hundreds of battles, so the 1st Marine Division was extremely difficult in the initial days. On several occasions, the Japanese broke through the American lines, but they were all beaten out by the 1st Marine Division, and they paid the price of 7500 casualties. Later, the U.S. military launched a full-scale counteroffensive in the Pacific Theater. The 1st Marine Division also participated in the Battle of Okinawa, which was no less intense than the Battle of Guadalcanal, and also achieved good results.
The history of the war records that the total strength of the 1st Marine Division was more than 20,000 at the beginning of the war, which was similar to the military-level units of the Chinese Volunteer Army. However, when it comes to weapons and equipment, our army is far inferior. At that time, the entire Volunteer Army lacked a few tanks and several heavy guns, while the 1st Marine Division had 70 tanks and three 105 mm howitzer battalions and a 155 mm howitzer battalion. In addition, the regimental units of the 1st Marine Division also have a 114 mm multi-pack rocket artillery company and a large number of anti-aircraft weapons such as anti-aircraft guns. The battle between the two armies was waged under such a disparity in the balance of forces.
During the day, the U.S. military controlled the air superiority, first repeatedly ploughing the volunteer positions with deadly napalm bombs, then ordering long-range artillery bombardment, and finally sending infantry to attack under the cover of armored vehicles and tanks, while the volunteers resisted with miscellaneous light weapons and grenades such as the "Type 38" rifle captured during the War of Resistance, the Taisho Eleven-year machine gun (commonly known as the crooked handle), and the homemade explosive pack. In the evening, the volunteers came up with guerrilla tactics against the Japanese, constantly sending small groups of troops to the American camp to find sentries and destroy american tanks, artillery, jeeps and other ordnance materials. Sometimes, the volunteers would use nature to make surprise attacks on the U.S. military.
Once, General Wu Ruilin buried hundreds of kilograms of high explosives in the cracks in the mountains on both sides of the US army's inevitable road, and when the US army came, a telephone set exploded, and as a result, 13 US tanks were damaged at once. It is said that because the enemy did not find out what kind of weapons were used by the volunteers, the ground troops did not dare to move for five or six days. In this way, for 13 consecutive days, the 42nd Army, which attacked day and night, inflicted unspeakable hardship on the US army, making it unable to advance a step forward and ensuring the smooth progress of the first campaign to resist US aggression and aid Korea.
MacArthur was also obstinate, and suffered such a fierce counterattack from the volunteers, still believing that the Chinese participating forces were partial and limited, with a maximum strength of about 70,000 people. Therefore, he still ordered the 10th Army to continue to pursue northwards, and the 8th Army continued its offensive after resting, in a vain attempt to end the war before Christmas. Peng Dehuai found out the movement of the US army, determined to take advantage of the enemy's strong and proud mood, adopted the policy of "luring the enemy to go deep, and seeking opportunities to break through each other", lured the enemy to the predetermined battlefield, and then launched a sudden counterattack, annihilated the enemy in the movement, smashed the enemy's offensive, and pushed the front line to Pyongyang and Wonsan in one fell swoop.
According to the order, General Wu Ruilin led the generals of the 42nd Army and the 38th Army to undertake the strategic task of detouring behind the enemy and cutting off the enemy's retreat. This time, the opponents of the 42nd Army were mainly South Korean troops, so they fought more smoothly. On 24 December, the second battle ended in victory. The Chinese army successfully reached the 38th Line, and the Un Army suffered heavy losses, annihilating 36,000 enemy troops alone. MacArthur's arrogance was gone, and only a sluggishness remained, especially in the third and fourth battles that followed, and his incompetence led U.S. President Harry Truman to believe that MacArthur was simply unable to control the situation in Korea. As a result, a paper order arrived, MacArthur was dismissed, and his command was transferred to Ridgway, the commander of the 8th Army.
Ridgway was more cautious than MacArthur and was particularly strong in tactical judgment. After he arrived, after a period of observation, he issued two orders. First, in view of the logistical difficulties of the Volunteer Army, its officers and men carried ammunition and food for up to one week. Therefore, he wanted the U.S. military to use a war of attrition as much as possible. Second, Ridgway believed that the Volunteers were good at close combat and that the number of heavy weapons was insufficient. Therefore, he promulgated the famous magnetic tactic, that is, in the process of fighting the volunteer army, the US army took the initiative to pull away a distance of 10 to 20 kilometers, taking advantage of its long-range artillery and air force fighters. At the same time, you can't pull the distance too far. It has to be said that these two orders did play a role, increasing the combat difficulties of the volunteer army. Afterwards, for Ridgway's two orders, Mr. Peng commented: "This is the real enemy." "But it was such a difficult enemy who was almost captured alive by General Wu Ruilin."
(The anti-aircraft gun above can be used for short-range air defense within 3500 meters and can be used against fighters, bombers and dive bombers)
On that day, scouts from the 42nd Army discovered a situation while on duty. More than a dozen enemy planes, covering two helicopters, were hovering over the volunteer positions. It looked like it was going to land on a nearby highway. After receiving the report, General Wu Ruilin immediately issued an order, "Each artillery group will eliminate these two helicopters with intensive artillery fire." After the Soviet anti-aircraft gun group received orders, one fire rushed, and when even one helicopter was shot down, the other helicopter fled in a hurry. I thought that the two planes were only transporting military supplies, but two days later, the volunteers received such a message from the radio and telecommunications receivers: The commander-in-chief, General Ridgway, and others had returned safely to the camp from Height 281.2. It turned out that the Commander-in-Chief of the United Nations Army was in these two helicopters. That is, from then on, Ridgway no longer dared to rush to the front line to reconnoiter.
"This is General Wu Ruilin."
"We Americans are no strangers to General Wu's name, and we even know that you have a nickname!"
The prime minister on one side wondered, "What nickname?" ”
(Note: General Wu Ruilin was crippled by his wounds in the 1939 battle against the Six-Way Siege of the Japanese Army.) Because he was still strong in battle, the Japanese army fearfully called him "Wu Lame Zi")
This is the opening remarks of Kissinger's secret visit to China. General Wu Ruilin was then the executive deputy commander of the Navy and was one of the people responsible for receiving Kissinger. So what exactly did he do that even Kissinger knew of his prestige?
Speaking of which, this goes back to the period of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea.
As we all know, after the Inchon landing, the elite Korean People's Army gathered in Busan was cut off from the rear road, immediately fell into chaos, and was subsequently defeated by the United Nations army. Although tens of thousands of people still returned to the north alive with stubborn faith, their weapons and equipment were almost lost and they could not continue fighting. Deng Hua, Hong Xuezhi, Lai Chuanzhu, Xie Fang, du ping, these senior generals of the Northeast Border Defense Army, took precautions, and in order to cope with the possibility of war, they sent General Wu Ruilin, commander of the 42nd Army, to Korea to see the terrain. General Wu Ruilin knew that the terrain played a decisive role in the victory or defeat of the war, so he spent seven or eight days to turn around the north of Korea, and wrote down all the militaryly significant places such as villages, bridges, and culverts along the way, and made a military mission.
However, when the volunteers were intensively preparing to enter the war in North Korea, the US military commander MacArthur underestimated this. They believe that the national strength of New China, which has only been founded for one year, is weak and it is simply unable to send troops. Moreover, after the US troops landed in Inchon, the favorable opportunity to send troops has long passed. Therefore, the United Nations army led by the US army not only advanced at an extremely fast speed, but also did not have the most basic vigilance, and hundreds of people dared to run around the front line with two or three cannons in tow.
The eastern front is the US 10th Army and the ROK First Army, a total of four divisions, pointing directly at Huishan and Tumen River on the border between China and North Korea. On the western front, the US 8th Army, under the jurisdiction of the US First Army and the ROK 2nd Army, a total of six divisions, a brigade and an airborne regiment, the troops pointed directly at Sinuiju, Chushan and other places on the border between China and North Korea. The two enemy lines, separated by the steep Wolf Forest Mountains and the Taibai Mountains, were more than eighty kilometers apart.
Dividing up troops and advancing has been a taboo in the use of soldiers since ancient times. The top brass of the volunteer army headed by Peng Dehuai immediately made a decision at the sight of the situation, so he decided to adopt the method of attacking from the east to the west, that is, three of the first four armies to enter the DPRK, that is, the 38th Army, the 39th Army, and the 40th Army, were concentrated to surround and annihilate the enemy troops on the western road, and Wu Ruilin led the 42nd Army to be responsible for blocking the enemy troops on the eastern road and ensuring the safety of the flanks of the volunteer army on the western front. The main blocking place that Wu Ruilin chose was a place called Huangcaoling.
At that time, because there was no aircraft cover, our army had no air superiority, the troops could only drive at night, and there were few cars, so all the way relied on the two legs of the soldiers. It takes at least 6 to 7 nights to complete 400 km of the 60 to 70 km per night, and it is difficult to capture the Yellow Grass Ridge before the motorized enemy forces. Commander Wu Ruilin made a fierce effort, "Order the troops to increase the speed of marching one hundred and thirty miles per night to one hundred and eighty miles per day." "Thus, while the enemy was still grinding and staggering forward, our forwards had reached Yellow Grass Ridge and repaired the fortifications.
As mentioned above, the enemy army on the western road consisted of the 10th Army and the First Army of the Roks. But for the battle-hardened 42nd Army, the former was the most difficult to deal with. Because its main forward force is the 1st Marine Division.
The 1st Marine Division was created in 1846 and is almost as long as the history of the United States. As an elite unit of the U.S. Marine Corps, the 1st Marine Division participated in the Eight-Power Invasion of Beijing and suppressed the Boxer Rebellion. However, what really made it famous in the world was the Battle of Guadalcanal during the Pacific War.
At that time, the main force of the Japanese combined fleet still existed, and the air and sea supremacy were not lost. As a result, the U.S. military does not have an advantage here, and its supply lines are often cut off. In addition, the Japanese troops attacking Guadalcanal at that time were all elite in hundreds of battles, so the 1st Marine Division was extremely difficult in the initial days. On several occasions, the Japanese broke through the American lines, but they were all beaten out by the 1st Marine Division, and they paid the price of 7500 casualties. Later, the U.S. military launched a full-scale counteroffensive in the Pacific Theater. The 1st Marine Division also participated in the Battle of Okinawa, which was no less intense than the Battle of Guadalcanal, and also achieved good results.
The history of the war records that the total strength of the 1st Marine Division was more than 20,000 at the beginning of the war, which was similar to the military-level units of the Chinese Volunteer Army. However, when it comes to weapons and equipment, our army is far inferior. At that time, the entire Volunteer Army lacked a few tanks and several heavy guns, while the 1st Marine Division had 70 tanks and three 105 mm howitzer battalions and a 155 mm howitzer battalion. In addition, the regimental units of the 1st Marine Division also have a 114 mm multi-pack rocket artillery company and a large number of anti-aircraft weapons such as anti-aircraft guns. The battle between the two armies was waged under such a disparity in the balance of forces.
During the day, the U.S. military controlled the air superiority, first repeatedly ploughing the volunteer positions with deadly napalm bombs, then ordering long-range artillery bombardment, and finally sending infantry to attack under the cover of armored vehicles and tanks, while the volunteers resisted with miscellaneous light weapons and grenades such as the "Type 38" rifle captured during the War of Resistance, the Taisho Eleven-year machine gun (commonly known as the crooked handle), and the homemade explosive pack. In the evening, the volunteers came up with guerrilla tactics against the Japanese, constantly sending small groups of troops to the American camp to find sentries and destroy american tanks, artillery, jeeps and other ordnance materials. Sometimes, the volunteers would use nature to make surprise attacks on the U.S. military.
Once, General Wu Ruilin buried hundreds of kilograms of high explosives in the cracks in the mountains on both sides of the US army's inevitable road, and when the US army came, a telephone set exploded, and as a result, 13 US tanks were damaged at once. It is said that because the enemy did not find out what kind of weapons were used by the volunteers, the ground troops did not dare to move for five or six days. In this way, for 13 consecutive days, the 42nd Army, which attacked day and night, inflicted unspeakable hardship on the US army, making it unable to advance a step forward and ensuring the smooth progress of the first campaign to resist US aggression and aid Korea.
MacArthur was also obstinate, and suffered such a fierce counterattack from the volunteers, still believing that the Chinese participating forces were partial and limited, with a maximum strength of about 70,000 people. Therefore, he still ordered the 10th Army to continue to pursue northwards, and the 8th Army continued its offensive after resting, in a vain attempt to end the war before Christmas. Peng Dehuai found out the movement of the US army, determined to take advantage of the enemy's strong and proud mood, adopted the policy of "luring the enemy to go deep, and seeking opportunities to break through each other", lured the enemy to the predetermined battlefield, and then launched a sudden counterattack, annihilated the enemy in the movement, smashed the enemy's offensive, and pushed the front line to Pyongyang and Wonsan in one fell swoop.
According to the order, General Wu Ruilin led the generals of the 42nd Army and the 38th Army to undertake the strategic task of detouring behind the enemy and cutting off the enemy's retreat. This time, the opponents of the 42nd Army were mainly South Korean troops, so they fought more smoothly. On 24 December, the second battle ended in victory. The Chinese army successfully reached the 38th Line, and the Un Army suffered heavy losses, annihilating 36,000 enemy troops alone. MacArthur's arrogance was gone, and only a sluggishness remained, especially in the third and fourth battles that followed, and his incompetence led U.S. President Harry Truman to believe that MacArthur was simply unable to control the situation in Korea. As a result, a paper order arrived, MacArthur was dismissed, and his command was transferred to Ridgway, the commander of the 8th Army.
Ridgway was more cautious than MacArthur and was particularly strong in tactical judgment. After he arrived, after a period of observation, he issued two orders. First, in view of the logistical difficulties of the Volunteer Army, its officers and men carried ammunition and food for up to one week. Therefore, he wanted the U.S. military to use a war of attrition as much as possible. Second, Ridgway believed that the Volunteers were good at close combat and that the number of heavy weapons was insufficient. Therefore, he promulgated the famous magnetic tactic, that is, in the process of fighting the volunteer army, the US army took the initiative to pull away a distance of 10 to 20 kilometers, taking advantage of its long-range artillery and air force fighters. At the same time, you can't pull the distance too far. It has to be said that these two orders did play a role, increasing the combat difficulties of the volunteer army. Afterwards, for Ridgway's two orders, Mr. Peng commented: "This is the real enemy." "But it was such a difficult enemy who was almost captured alive by General Wu Ruilin."
(The anti-aircraft gun above can be used for short-range air defense within 3500 meters and can be used against fighters, bombers and dive bombers)
On that day, scouts from the 42nd Army discovered a situation while on duty. More than a dozen enemy planes, covering two helicopters, were hovering over the volunteer positions. It looked like it was going to land on a nearby highway. After receiving the report, General Wu Ruilin immediately issued an order, "Each artillery group will eliminate these two helicopters with intensive artillery fire." After the Soviet anti-aircraft gun group received orders, one fire rushed, and when even one helicopter was shot down, the other helicopter fled in a hurry. I thought that the two planes were only transporting military supplies, but two days later, the volunteers received such a message from the radio and telecommunications receivers: The commander-in-chief, General Ridgway, and others had returned safely to the camp from Height 281.2. It turned out that the Commander-in-Chief of the United Nations Army was in these two helicopters. That is, from then on, Ridgway no longer dared to rush to the front line to reconnoiter.
Reference: Memoirs of General Wu Ruilin: The Forty-second Army in Korea