Why collect troops? As the old saying goes, the soldiers are tricky, because it is basically That Is Li Qiwei who put a pie for us, just waiting for us to bite down, and then stab us with a knife.
Can we be fooled? No, you can't! Old Marshal Peng Dehuai saw through Ridgway's little trick at a glance, and quickly collected the troops to avoid major losses.
Of course, we can see it, but it doesn't mean that North Korea and Soviet advisers can see it, and when we collect troops, they still clamor for us to continue to fight, and the typical layman gives advice to the insider.
Well, if the little friends are interested in listening to the small editor to give you nagging about this, you will listen to the small editor to tell you.
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In other words, in the first two battles, we fought very smoothly. After all, MacArthur, like the proud little rooster, didn't take anyone seriously.
U.S. President Harry Truman asked MacArthur, "What if Chinese go to war?" ”
MacArthur replied, "Impossible! ”
Speaking of this, it is estimated that many friends have to ask: "Why did MacArthur come up with such an answer?" ”
Quite simply, in MacArthur's eyes, could he fight? Isn't it the barrel of the gun who is thick, and who has more bullets in the barrel? Then push all the way and you're done.
You look at our conditions at that time, or the military industry? Don't mention, originally at the end of the Qing Dynasty, our industrial foundation was thin, before and after the light war we fought for more than a hundred years, the family foundation has long been thinner. This is not to mention that when Chiang Kai-shek was leaving, all the gold and silver, and what machinery and equipment were all pulled to the boundary of the small bend.
We can say that we are poor and have nothing, so you don't have to talk about the military industry.
Another one, MacArthur felt, he cleaned up the Japanese in the Pacific, and we did not kill the Japanese at that time, before and after a comparison, I feel that we are much worse than the Japanese.
So MacArthur didn't look at us in the right eye.
Of course, MacArthur also made a supplementary explanation to the question of US President Truman: "Even if Chinese participate in the war, I can make the Korean Peninsula a slaughterhouse with one hand!" ”
oh! You can imagine MacArthur wearing big sunglasses and biting into his corn pipe that he would never smoke, so he was so angry that he said, "Lads, I promise that before Christmas, you can end this war and go back to roast chicken and eat tortillas!" ”
As a result, after the two battles, many of MacArthur's boys were lying in the ice and snow of North Korea, and MacArthur began to throw pots everywhere, and even the U.S. government did not escape the fate of being pressed by him.
In the face of failure, the U.S. government was mad, so in history, we have seen that Walker died in a car accident and ran to the Korean Peninsula with Ridgway, which was ready to take over MacArthur's affairs.
So the third battle is a contest between Ridgway and our first round!
Then in the process of this contest, the Americans were beaten by us because of the previous two battles, and their noses and faces were swollen, and their morale was sparse. One of the things the soldiers wanted to do most was to hurry back home in a steamship with black smoke, not wanting to stay on the Korean Peninsula at all, they felt that this was a hell, not the place where these angels who fired guns on other people's land should stay.
Then If Ridgway wants to take over, he is bound to rectify the army, and this rectification is not a one-sentence thing, it will take time.
Then there is the fact that he still has to face the attack we launched.
So in the third campaign, Ridgway took the approach of retracting.
Next, let's start answering the main question.
Turning over history, in the third campaign, Ridgway wanted to shrink and rectify, so the situation that appeared was that the attack was unusually smooth.
The U.S. army did not resist much, so it retreated. Even in Seoul, the capital of South Korea, we all put up an offensive posture, thinking that the Americans would have to symbolically fight with us, and as a result, the Americans did not fight, so they retreated, and did not even do a fool's defense.
In this situation, in front of our ordinary people's eyes, it is inevitable that there will be such an idea.
This all crossed the three-eighth line, and also pushed the front line to the third and seventh lines, which if according to the situation of the third battle, as long as they attacked forward, they could almost push the sixteen United Nations troops carried by the Americans into the sea.
In fact, that's what North Korean and Soviet advisers thought at the time.
However, as an old marshal peng Dehuai who has experienced hundreds of battles and came out of the war, he keenly feels that this matter is not right, things are abnormal, and he must have a demon.
In addition, if the front line is stretched too long, our logistics will not be able to keep up, there will be no logistical supplies for the war, no food and no drink, no bullets, what do you take to fight with the Americans?
In fact, Ridgway also holds this thought, give us a set?
So Peng Dehuai ordered the troops to stop and collect the troops! Rest the troops!
As soon as North Korea heard that we were not going to fight any further, it was still anxious, so it came to theorize.
The general meaning is that the volunteer army does not need to rest at all, as long as it exerts a little effort, there will be no Americans on the Korean Peninsula, and it will be directly pushed into the sea by us.
Why? War where there is such a good thing, many wars are a hundred miles and a half ninety, failure is often the last step, how much you win in the front of this does not count.
In the end, Peng Dehuai refused the NORTH Korean request, and our troops were determined to stop and rest, after all, they had been fighting for such a long time, and the troops were tired.
The North Korean side stopped doing it and went to Stalin to file a complaint, and as for what was done, we will not say it in a nutshell.
Why? In fact, at the beginning of the Korean War, South Korea and North Korea fought, and later South Korea also had the help of the US military. This North Korea fought well, but it was guilty of rushing to make quick gains, thinking of resolving the battle as soon as possible and driving the Americans and South Korean soldiers out of the sea.
This lengthened its own front, and there were few defensive troops on the central front, allowing the Americans to land at Inchon.
Moreover, after all, the US military is a unit that came out of World War II, not mud-kneaded, and it cannot be crossed by breath.
The previous lessons have been learned enough, and this is rushing to let us go their old way, and I don't know what they think.
North Korea ran to Stalin to complain, and Peng Dehuai reported his judgment to the country.
The general meaning of this report is that the Retreat of the Americans always maintains a distance of one day with us, no more and no less, and it is not easy for us to chase at this distance, so the US army is an organized retreat, and it is not possible to see the panic, if we continue to pursue, the battle line is lengthened, and this logistical supply will be worse, which will require a full set of Chinese Americans.
What about Stalin? Stalin, who also fought from World War II, and with the Germans, also saw that there was no Road drawn by the Americans here, so he supported Peng Dehuai's judgment and replaced the Soviet advisers by the way, so as not to affect Peng Dehuai's judgment.
In the end, the development of events was like Peng Dehuai's judgment.
Ridgway took advantage of this organized and rhythmic retreat, pulled out the time, to raise morale, and by the way also concentrated the scattered troops, which is equivalent to the beginning of the slap into a fist.
You see your fists clenched, what's next? Of course it was played out and smashed.
And what about us? If the supply line is elongated and the ammunition is exhausted, our strong combat effectiveness will decline.
As a result, in history, we have seen the Fiftieth Army desperately guarding the south bank of the Han River, that is, a battle against the water.
How strong the battle was, I don't need to say it.
At that time, in the winter, the ground was so hard that the shovel could not dig even a decent trench.
It can be said that the entire Fifty Army was exposed to the Us aircraft cannons for defense, and Peng Dehuai originally planned to let the Fifty Army defend for ten days, but it could not move and let the Thirty-eighth Army resist, and as a result, our Fifty Army resisted for fifty days.
In the end, the troops did not even have any food, and could only eat snow, while the Fifty Army did not say a word, and did not even have a demand on its superiors.
After the end of the fifty-day battle, more than twenty thousand were sacrificed, seven companies, thirty-one platoons, and one hundred and thirty-eight squads were all exhausted.
There are nearly five hundred heroes who have made great achievements.
When the military commander Zeng Zesheng saw Peng Dehuai, Len was crying.
The Fifty Army was an excellent unit, and at the time of the Battle of Taierzhuang, it held its position for more than twenty days. Peng Dehuai saw this and let the Fifty Army shoulder this heavy burden, and it turned out that Peng Dehuai was not wrong.
These fifty days of fighting have also stretched out sufficient time for the transfer of our volunteer army, otherwise we will suffer losses.
Therefore, after three battles, it is really necessary to follow the north Korean idea and then fight down, and the consequences are unimaginable.
In other words, the matter of fighting a war must be handed over to professionals, and laymen should not interject.
After three battles, it became difficult for us to fight the US army, and I have to say that Ridgway is a good opponent who is good at summarizing.
After three battles, we saw our weaknesses and fought back against our weaknesses.
This also allowed some of our previous advantages to be erased by the US military.
Of course, later it was a little more difficult, he also had to see who his opponent was, and in the next two battles, we didn't let Ridgway get much cheaper.
Otherwise, why can we force the Americans to honestly sit at the negotiating table and negotiate with us?
Moreover, after we later purchased weapons from the Soviet Union and re-equipped our troops, the gap in equipment was shortened, and we fought the Americans quite smoothly.
Especially later, when negotiating with the Americans, when it was a question of who was on this hill on the 38th Line, the United States quarreled with us at the negotiating table, making unreasonable trouble, and had to say that the mountain was theirs, we simply ignored him, the witnesses under the knife and gun, the next day we had to let the Americans pinch their noses and admit it, the mountain was ours, because one night, the mountain was occupied by us.
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