At the beginning of the Korean battlefield, the US military beat the Korean People's Army to the point of falling flowers and water, and gradually lost and retreated. Until the Chinese Volunteer Army entered the Korean War, the US army could not move forward any further, and from beginning to end suppressed the US army south of the "38th Line".
In this war, in addition to not using atomic bombs, the US military has almost put all the modern top weapons into the Korean battlefield, and the logistics support is also world-class, and the US military can use any strategic materials needed by the troops to use airdrops and continuously transport them to every position.
But the United States was unable to win the war in the end, because the U.S. military relied too much on their high-tech weapons, and once close combat and hand-to-hand combat were formed, their morale would immediately collapse, and their will to fight was even more different from that of the volunteers.
More important is the gap in tactics and tactics, especially the grass-roots commanders of the Volunteer Army, who use their wisdom to turn combat into art. At the beginning of the war, both sides did not know much about each other's tactical play, and after testing each other, the volunteer army gradually understood the characteristics of the US army and its weaknesses in battle, and brought into full play the tactics and tactics that China had summed up over the past two thousand years.
When the volunteer army had just entered the Korean War, the US military used its air superiority to indiscriminately bombard the volunteer army's logistics transport convoy, causing the volunteer army to suffer heavy losses, but soon the volunteer army used the method of "reality is virtual, virtual is real" in the art of war to cope with the US military's air strikes.
That is, in the key target area of the US military bombing, the use of camouflage false targets to confuse the opponent, deliberately lure the US military aircraft to carry out the wrong bombing, so as to cover the real target and consume the AMmunition of the US military.
Logistics units often used haystacks and sandbags to form platforms in prominent areas, covering them with canvas and disguised as distribution centers for food and supplies. Sometimes the volunteer soldiers also used their imagination to place some scattered waste oil drums between the grass and sand piles, creating a fiery effect to confuse the American army, while the volunteer soldiers enjoyed the American air show in the hidden trenches not far away.
In addition, the logistics unit of the Volunteer Army also pulled the destroyed cars to the transport line, disguised the cars as if they were transporting supplies, and waited for the US military aircraft to bombard these fake targets indiscriminately, and then the real transport vehicles drove out of the hidden place to complete the transport task.
However, the US military also found a clue, why the logistics supply of the volunteer army, after suffering such a huge blow, can still have a steady stream of materials to the front?
The U.S. military sent spies to understand the losses of the volunteers after the bombing, and when the information was passed back to the U.S. military headquarters, the U.S. general angrily scolded the street, a bomb for thousands of dollars, and replaced several haystacks for less than $1.
Later, when the US military ordered the pilots to carry out routine bombing missions, they began to pay attention to observation, and if any suspicious points were found, they could choose to terminate the bombing mission, and the volunteer army also began to take advantage of this hesitation of the US military to make a big fuss, when the cars driving on the transport line found the US aircraft, the driver turned off, all the personnel got out of the car and hid under the car, and the materials behind the car were also camouflaged, deliberately exposing branches, weeds and other things on the edge of the canvas to confuse the US pilots.
When the enemy pilots discovered these obvious disguises, they naturally thought that they had seen through the plans of the volunteer army, and they slowly flew away with confidence. When the plane was far away, the volunteer soldiers climbed out of the car and continued on their way. This kind of virtual and real tactics has made the Americans suffer a lot, he is not fried, not fried, can only scold Chinese "cunning.".
The logistics units of the Volunteer Army are "cunning," and the commanders at the grass-roots level in the combat units are even more "cunning within cunning."
In the Battle of Yunshan City in 1950, the eighth regiment of the US 1st Cavalry Division was surrounded by the 39th Army of the Volunteer Army in Yunshan City, and the Volunteer Army used the tactic of "encircling the point to fight for reinforcements" and used the Eighth Regiment as bait to repel the five regiments of the 1st Cavalry Division that came to reinforcement.
The US First Cavalry Division and the 39th Army of the Volunteer Army are the ace units of their respective teams, both of which have a long history and outstanding military achievements, but the us military's combat achievements rely on weapons to bully the weak, and the 39th Army's combat achievements rely on tactics to defeat the strong with the weak.
In order to eliminate the 8 regiments in Yunshan City faster, so as not to have a long night, the 39th Army ordered the 346th Regiment as the main regiment to take the lead in launching a general attack on Yunshan City. The commander of the 346th Regiment considered that Yunshan City was easy to defend and difficult to attack, and the number of tanks and trucks in the US army in addition to heavy artillery was also very large, if the strong attack on Yunshan City, the volunteer troops would have great casualties, and the best way was to mix into Yunshan City, blossom from the center, and attack inside and outside.
So the commander of the 346th Regiment ordered his sharp knife company to change into the costumes of the South Korean army and sneak into Unsan City at night. That night, the sharp knife company changed into the clothes of the captured South Korean troops, and under the leadership of the company commander, took advantage of the night to march towards Unsan City in a neat stride.
When he was about to reach the Santanchuan Bridge outside Unsan City, the company commander ordered all the members of the team, and the team became loose, slowing down and dragging, to give the enemy a feeling of looseness and collapse.
The soldiers of the sharp knife company are veterans of the battle, and they "enter the drama" for a second. This loosely disciplined and listless South Korean army faced the American troops stationed on the bridge for a while, "the front rut does not turn, and the rear rudder turns to the Smecta."
Some of the fighters also waved warmly with the US troops, and in a burst of "Hello, Hello" responses, the sharp knives drove into Yunshan City. The consequences can be imagined, Yunshan City was breached, and the Battle of Yunshan ended with the victory of the volunteer army. Eventually, the three battalions of the Eighth Regiment of the 1st Cavalry Division, which were completely crippled, were withdrawn, and the commander of the United Nations Army, MacArthur, was removed from his post after the battle.
Not only do our commanders have superb combat skills and witty minds, but even the personnel of non-combat units will be virtual and unpredictable with the US army.
After the fifth battle, the defeated American troops launched an autumn offensive against the volunteers in order to have more say at the negotiating table. The US army used tanks and air superiority to launch round after round of attacks on the volunteer positions, and the soldiers of our volunteer army were brave and tenacious, vowed to resist to the death, and repeatedly repelled the enemy's attacks, and even the boulders on the positions were blown into powder, and you can imagine how fierce the battle was.
At night, the US army was already a flag, one of the hygienists and two stretcher bearers of the unit returned to the unit, inadvertently met with 4 Scattered American soldiers unexpectedly, hesitated at night, the US army could not tell whether it was the volunteer army or the South Korean army that came to them, they greeted them in English and the opposite side, and the Hygienist who knew English quickly let the two stretcher bearers lie down and hide, and told them that they were US troops.
At this time, all three of them were nervous, because the three of them only had a stretcher in their hands and no weapons. The four men of the American army were also alert and walked slowly in the direction of the three of them. The hygienist whispered to the two stretcher bearers, who first removed the two poles of the stretcher, held them in their hands, and stared dead in the direction of the American troops.
When the U.S. troops approached, suddenly the hygienist threw his school bag in the direction of the American soldiers, who thought it was an explosives package and fell down. The hygienist and stretcher man took advantage of the opportunity to rush out of the hidden point, and as soon as the first American troop looked up, he was stunned by a stretcher man with a stick, and the hygienist picked up his gun and shouted "Give up the gun" and rushed over.
The two stretcher bearers, who did not know English, also learned the hygienist while shouting "one fritter", "fritter one" while rushing towards the US military. When the three remaining American soldiers were still pondering what the "fritters" were, they saw two men rushing towards them with a long barrel in their hands, and the three men thought that the volunteer soldiers were holding the explosive canister to die with them, and they were frightened and immediately fell to their knees and surrendered. In this way, the hygienist and two stretcher bearers captured 4 American soldiers alive without any weapons, and these Americans did not understand what "fritters" meant in the end.
In addition, after the end of the third campaign, the U.S. army took advantage of the fact that the volunteer army was resting, gathered troops to prepare to open the passage to Seoul, sent troops to attack the volunteer army's South Hill position in the grass, the garrison volunteer soldiers had a clear division of labor, put heavy weapons in the center to involve enemy fire, sent two squads to ambush on the flank, used grenades to kill and injure the enemy in large numbers, and repelled a total of 6 enemy attacks in one day.
But the ammunition of the volunteer soldiers was also depleted very quickly, and the commander reacted quickly, ordering the troops not to use their weapons for the time being when the enemy began to attack the next day, and to throw only a small stone at the enemy. Sure enough, on the second day of the attack, the enemy found that the volunteers were only throwing stones to fight back, and the American troops were overjoyed and cheered that the volunteers had no ammunition, so they tried to charge the volunteer positions.
When there were still 40 meters from the position, larger stones rolled down from the front of the volunteer position, and it seemed that the volunteers were indeed out of ammunition, and the American army began to accelerate its charge unscrupulously. When the U.S. troops came to a range of 30 meters from the position, the light and heavy machine guns of the volunteers opened fire at the same time, and the grenades roared at the heads of the American troops, and the unsuspecting American troops were caught off guard, and the living American troops retreated to the foot of the mountain in the street. In three days and nights, the Americans lost more than 500 people on this position, and let this volunteer force calmly change defenses and withdraw from the battle.
There are many examples of this flexible use of tactics and tactics, and the use of less to win more. The U.S. army, which was stunned, has been clamoring that the volunteer army is irregular in fighting. In fact, if there is any formality or irregularity in the war, it is simply a strong word, and the reason why the war cannot be won is because I do not understand China too much.
In China 2,000 years ago, there were two masterpieces of "Sun Tzu's Art of War" and "Sun Zhen's Art of War", and in the following two thousand years, after the refinement and summary of successive generations of military experts, the essence of these tactics can be mastered in future generations of military generals.
Due to the cultural differences between the East and the West, it is difficult for Americans to understand and learn the wisdom of these Chinese, so they call it "irregularity." Because of this, the Americans have never understood that the key to winning or losing a war is to find tactics and tactics that suit them, not only relying on high-tech weapons can affect the success or failure of the war, for the Chinese army, more than tactics than wisdom, Chinese has never lost.