In the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea in two years and nine months, the Chinese Volunteer Army made great sacrifices, but how big were the casualties of the United States that provoked this international local war? Judging from the information released by the US media, non-governmental organizations and officials, it has always been difficult to be consistent, and the performance of the United States "holding the pipa and half covering its face" has revealed the truth through scientific practical comparative analysis many years ago.
The United States provoked an international local war in Korea, and both sides paid a heavy price
The Korean War was supposed to be a civil war on the peninsula, and the intervention of US hegemonism eventually turned the civil war into an international local war.
After the end of World War II, the Korean Peninsula, which had been enslaved by Japanese colonies for more than half a century, finally ushered in the opportunity for freedom and independence. However, due to the intervention of the Great Powers of the United States, the Soviet Union, and Britain, in this square inch of Northeast Asia, a proxy regime attached to the major camps was formed.
According to the Yalta Treaty, on the 38th Parallel of the Korean Peninsula, a separate state power was eventually formed, namely the Democratic People's Republic of Korea in the north and the Republic of Korea in the south, and behind these two regimes stood the two superpowers of the United States and the Soviet Union.
In June 1950, south-north war broke out as South Korean President Syngman Rhee repeatedly instructed South Korean troops on the 38th Parallel to launch military provocations against Korea. The Korean People's Army dealt a heavy blow to the South Korean army in the war, launching five battles south of the 38th Parallel in Seoul, Han River, Daejeon, Nakdong River, and Busan, squeezing the South Korean army and the US 24th Division that helped Rhee into the narrow Busan defense circle in the southeast corner of Korea.
On September 15, 1950, MacArthur, commander-in-chief of the United Nations Far East and commander-in-chief of the United Nations Forces, led the United Nations forces to launch a blatant war of aggression against Korea, landing at Inchon on the west coast behind the Korean People's Army, thus turning the internal war in Korea into a war of aggression by the United States.
The armed intervention of the United States threatens the overall environment of China's national defense security and economic construction, and under this grim situation, the Chinese Government has "passively" chosen the only means of defense to resist the United States and aid Korea and defend the country. On October 19, 1950, China officially invaded Korea, beginning the Korean War for two years and nine months.
In the course of these two years and nine months of war, the Chinese Volunteer Army and the Korean People's Army have organized and launched five large-scale campaign operations and the summer offensive, autumn offensive, strangulation battle, Shangganling and finally the Battle of Jincheng to resist the attack of the United Nations army, causing huge casualties to the United Nations army, and the Chinese and Dprk coalition forces have also paid a heavy price.
The war finally returned to its starting point, and the two sides signed an armistice agreement on July 23, 1953, using the 38th Line as the boundary. In terms of the warfighter loss data calculated by the two sides after the war, it was found that there was a significant difference. What is the case when the volunteers and the Korean People's Army announced that the losses of both sides were basically the same, while the casualty figures released by the US Pentagon and the US media were very different?
The phenomenon of "concealment" in the United States is closely related to the domestic political ecology
We all know that the political system in the United States is a public opinion election system, whether it is a Republican Party or a Democratic Party, whether it can become the ruling party that comes to power depends on the public opinion election, so in order to get votes, the ruling party often disguises or hides unfavorable information through various means.
The Korean War did not gain much support among the American people, but it was just an unjust war waged by the U.S. government and Western anti-communist forces and militaries in order to gain hegemonic domination in the international arena. In order to mitigate the political impact of the casualties caused by the war, the White House and military leaders will try their best to cover up such passivity and play with words and numbers.
After a Korean War, the United States did not care about high military expenditures and huge financial consumption, but it was cautious about casualties. After the war, the number of deaths, wounds and captured losses of uncommunicated troops counted by China and north Korea was 1093839, of which 397543 from the United States, plus 29,003 from South Korean 667293 and UN troops;
The figures released by the Associated Press are 1474269, of which more than 142091 U.S. casualties, captured and missing people; and on the Korean War Veterans Memorial on the National Plaza in Washington, D.C., the casualties of U.S. servicemen in the Korean War are: 54,246 dead, 7,140 captured, 8,177 missing, 103284 wounded, with a total of 165707 casualties; in the book "History of the Korean War" by the South Korean Ministry of Defense, The number of U.S. troops lost throughout the Korean War was determined to be more than 169,300, including 33,629 killed on the battlefield, more than 20,600 deaths from other causes, 103248 wounded, 3,746 repatriated after being captured, and 8,142 missing.
By comparison, it is not difficult to find that the United States, whether official or media, is artificially shrinking the number of deaths, which is not difficult to understand why they do this. The death of a U.S. citizen in the war is bound to inflict psychological trauma on the family of the deceased, and the emotions generated by this trauma can radiate pessimism from neighbors to the left and the right, which in turn may have an impact in the region, which creates a great deal of uncertainty about the direction of votes for future elections, and this is just one of the reasons.
In the United States military on the identification of war casualties, there is a very strict system, as long as there is no military hospital treatment of various injuries can not be regarded as war losses, even if you are seriously injured without treatment in the field hospital, it can not work, which led to many American soldiers shot by volunteer light weapons, but did not cause wounds through the bone skin trauma and penetrating wounds, the treatment of this wound only needs front-line health soldiers to deal with, this kind of injury is not in the statistics.
Then there is the statistics of missing people, as long as the body is not found, it is not considered to be the death data, no matter how long the time has passed, it can only be regarded as missing if it is not found. Therefore, the loss data given by the US official has a great component of shrinkage, and it can only be said that the level of Americans playing numbers and word games is unparalleled.
Some people say that the phenomenon of "concealment and underreporting" in the United States is serious, in order to reduce the high pension compensation, in fact, the author believes that for the United States, as long as it can be solved with money, it is "really not a thing", and political needs are the direction they value most. In fact, in many local wars in the world, the US government has become the norm in this way to fool the people and the opposing media, and in the later Vietnam War, they still played numbers and word games to hide the sea.
The UN army was stretched thin, and MacArthur wanted "Chiang Kai-shek" to help
After the outbreak of the Korean War, Truman was worried about whether the war would stimulate China and join the battlefield, when MacArthur requested a resolute dispatch of ground troops, Truman specifically asked the five-star general, MacArthur with "Red China if it dares to foolishly throw themselves into the Korean War, will beat them back to the Stone Age", this vow to comfort his president, and arrogantly said that there is no need to use local and European military power to solve the Korean problem, which gave Truman a reassuring pill. But he insisted that MacArthur's military operations must not cross the 38th Parallel, for which MacArthur did not seriously consider the president's request.
When he ordered the UN forces to cross the 38th Parallel to launch a final blow against the Kim Il Sung regime, the first units of the Chinese Volunteer Army had already assembled on the Sino-North Korean border. On October 19, 1950, 250,000 troops of the Volunteer Army quietly crossed the Yalu River into the Korean battlefield.
A week later, on October 25, the Chinese general Peng Dehuai launched the first campaign, which brought the UN forces back to the Qingchuan River, and in the second and third battles organized in succession, the Volunteers attacked the UN-controlled Sanqi Line. MacArthur was beaten to death by Peng Dehuai, and after explaining to Washington that "China is a formidable opponent", he began to ask for local troops, which made Truman feel incredible about the defeat in North Korea.
The US military has invested the heavy military strength of the 1st Army, the 9th Army, and the 10th Army of the Eighth Army in the Korean battlefield, and together with the military strength of the United Nations Army, it is completely possible to fight a war of annihilation, how can it be so badly beaten by the Chinese army armed with light weapons.
This cannot but admire the Chinese leader Mao Zedong and personally create the confidence of victory that has been passed down to this army with firm revolutionary faith and iron will to fight. The Americans don't understand it, the South Koreans don't understand it, and neither does the Un Army. MacArthur went to Taiwan to learn from Chiang Kai-shek, and finally found someone who understood. After fighting Mao Zedong and the Communist Party for decades, and after losing to Taiwan, he realized where he had fallen, the people's hearts!
The situation on the battlefield deteriorated, MacArthur's available forces were stretched thin, and he began to seek to "release" Chiang Kai-shek and allow nationalist troops to enter the Korean battlefield, a proposal that was rejected by Washington. Marshall, who was well acquainted with Chiang Kai-shek's disposition, told Truman that he would only bring trouble to the United States.
Chiang Kai-shek was extremely excited after receiving MacArthur's permission to enter Korea, relying on the strength of the United Nations army, he felt that this was the perfect opportunity for the Kuomintang to return to the mainland. When he learned that his dream of counterattacking the mainland through the Korean War was snuffed out by the White House, he scolded Truman and Marshall as a bunch of out-and-out "Niang Xipi." ”
On April 11, 1951, while the Fourth Campaign was in progress, MacArthur was relieved by Truman of his duties as Commander of the Far East and Commander of the United Nations Forces, thus ending the five-star general's military career and shattering Chiang Kai-shek's dream of counterattacking the mainland.
Chen Geng used a rigorous scientific attitude to analyze the truth of the US military's "number game."
In the later stages of the Korean War, Chen Geng, deputy commander of the Volunteer Army and commander of the Third Corps, took charge of the overall situation of the Korean battlefield, and he vigorously promoted the "tunnel tactics" adapted to local conditions in the whole army of the Volunteer Army, which not only greatly reduced the casualties of the volunteer army, but also gave full play to the advantages of the terrain and landform, causing major casualties to the United Nations army.
In the Battle of Shangganling in May 1953, our 15th Army took advantage of Chen Geng's tunnel warfare to face the strong blow of VanVleet's "super-saturated ammunition volume", and in the 43 days of combat, it not only held the Shangganling Heights, but also achieved a great victory in annihilating 15,000 UN troops.
The Korean War gave the Central Military Commission a new understanding of the modern war situation, and in order to speed up the construction of the command system of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, Mao Zedong's demand for the establishment of military academies also became more urgent, and a large amount of financial, material and manpower was invested in the construction of military academies.
After returning from Korea, Chen Geng became the first president of Harbin Military Institute of Military Technology, the only senior PLA general who had fought with the US, British, and French militaries, and in his speech to the teachers and students of the military academy in 1954, he specifically mentioned the great war to resist the United States and aid Korea, which although we have made great sacrifices, has also made the Western society led by the United States no longer dare to despise the existence of China's armed forces.
In response to the data released by the Associated Press in 1953 on the war losses of the US military, Chen Geng believes that this is the number that US politicians need. Chinese Volunteer Army put more than a million troops into the Korean War, and in five battles, we did not have the advantage of the U.S. air force and heavy artillery, and still gave the United Nations army great damage.
After five battles, China has received a lot of military assistance from the Soviet Union, although there is still a big gap with the military superiority of the US military, the combat strength has far exceeded the time of the five battles, China's logistics and transportation lines under the protection of the Soviet Air Force and our Air Force, material supply losses have been reduced to the minimum, in this environment to fight, the combat potential of the Chinese volunteers has been maximized, more than 165,000 casualties, obviously not in line with the actual situation.
How many UN troops did we wipe out in five campaigns? The second campaign alone annihilated more than 24,000 American troops. At the end of the five campaigns on June 10, 1951, in the following two years of operations, our logistics were perfect and our armaments were strengthened. At the end of the day, Americans are not telling the truth in this regard. In Chen Geng's view, even without the casualties of South Korean and other countries, the number of casualties of the US military alone exceeded 300,000.
More than seventy years have passed since the end of the war, and in the past seventy years, China has gained precious time for peaceful development, and its comprehensive national strength has been increased beyond imagination, all of which are closely related to the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea.