"Source of this article: China Xiaokang Network"
"No guns, no cannons, the enemy makes us", this classic "Guerrilla Song" is very appropriate to MacArthur. Since the end of the Fifth Campaign, MacArthur and his colleagues have "sent" 4954 cars to the Volunteer Army, including jeeps, 2 and a half-ton transport trucks, and 4-ton tractors. If we look at the U.S. military structure, these 4954 vehicles are enough to arm 3.5 U.S. divisions. In addition to these 4954 various vehicles, there were 50 armored vehicles and 187 tanks, with a total of 279 heavy howitzers of 105 mm and 155 mm calibers. In addition, MacArthur also sent 2854 guns of various calibers and uses, all of which were the standard weapons of the US army at that time.
Being able to obtain such a wealth of supplies was inseparable from MacArthur's own "blind command". Due to MacArthur's excessive contempt for the Volunteer Army, the United Nations Army led by the UNITED States and South Korea Suffered heavy casualties in the "movement war" stage of the initial Volunteer Army. It should be known that in addition to the capture of the volunteers above, the United Nations army led by the UNITED States and South Korea was also destroyed by the volunteers an additional 1367 various vehicles, 348 tanks of various types and 27 armored vehicles. At the end of an ambush, except for the ESCAP Un troops, which broke through the siege, other equipment and supplies were opened to the battlefield for the volunteers to clean. Although the U.S. military will also send aviation to bombard those battlefields full of materials, there will be an interval of half an hour or even an hour or two in the middle. Taking the operation in December 1950 as an example, the 1st Marine Division abandoned nine 155 mm howitzers on the battlefield after being severely beaten by the 20th and 27th Army of the Volunteer Army, and the Volunteers quickly put these nine howitzers into the battle to shell the Rok positions after clearing the battlefield.
During the stage of mobile warfare, the volunteers often replenished themselves in this way of fighting. During the second campaign, the 113th Division of the 38th Army captured 200 trucks of supplies in the Battle of Tokugawa, and the division's "driver platoon" drove these trucks to the road and directly replaced the equipment of the 113th Division, which passed along the way and lacked guns and ammunition. After the replenishment of these 200 vehicles, the 113th Division has achieved sufficient combat readiness of 120 rounds of rifle ammunition, 1200 rounds of light machine guns and 60 rounds of 60 mm mortars. Subsequently, the 113th Division took all-American armament and equipment for a long-distance attack of 145 miles and inserted three directly into sanshuo, blocking the retreat of the US 9th Army. In the Battle of Longyuanli, the US 9th Army was annihilated by more than 3,000 people, and more than 20,000 enemies were annihilated in other directions. On the eastern and western fronts, our army captured/destroyed more than 2,000 vehicles, more than 100 tanks, more than 500 artillery pieces, and more than 5,000 firearms of various types. After the war, our army, which lacked supplies, once again received a good supply.
For this failure, foreign researchers generally put the blame on MacArthur, even if he was replaced by Ridgway after the second battle, but the failure still has a lot to do with him. When the third campaign broke out, Ridgway wanted to make a quick change of the battlefield and reinvigorate the decadent United Nations army. But these troops had become birds of prey, and when Ridgway's "magnetic tactics" were just beginning, in order to lure the volunteers to attack and order their men to slowly withdraw from the battlefield, most of the troops retreated backwards, because these troops were already scared by the volunteers when MacArthur took command of the troops. Moreover, some of the U.S. ace divisions, such as the First Marine Division and the First Cavalry Division, lost a lot of veteran resources in the early stages, and the new recruits who were replenished could not be compared with those veterans who were annihilated by the volunteers, whether they were individual or battlefield skills.
In addition, the commanders of the United Nations Army, including Ridgway, generally have an irreparable gap with Peng Dehuai, Chen Geng and other famous generals in the command level, and in the time they have fought with them, the volunteer army has become stronger and stronger, and the ability to grasp the information and environment of the United Nations Army has become better and better. Although the later fronts of both sides were consolidated on the 38th line, the actions of the Volunteers at that time were all in response to the negotiations, and in addition to continuing to interact with the United Nations army on the battlefield, the Volunteers actually maintained a huge offensive capability. At that time, the Soviet armaments arrived one after another, and the equipment system was gradually improved, if the volunteer army launched a new round of attacks, there was indeed a great possibility of victory.