As we all know, Van Vleet is a famous general in the United States, he has participated in many wars, has also achieved many brilliant achievements, and has a high status in the American military circles. However, it was such a famous general who made great mistakes during the Korean War. Faced with the heroic Chinese Volunteers, Van Vliet naively thought that it was like all previous wars, so in the Korean War, empiricism cost Van Vliet a great loss.
In that world-famous war, our volunteer soldiers exerted great initiative, applying geographical conditions to the extreme, even in the face of the powerful
"United Nations Army"
, can also be with a long time, plus
Van Fleet
Wrong tactics, in the end we got a great victory.
Korean
The war was mainly embodied in the tunnel war, and before the war began, Van Vleet had arrogantly shouted:
"Bring the experience of Iwo Jima over and we'll win!"
So, what's going on here?
After the outbreak of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea,
Volunteer soldiers
They rushed to Fight in Korea, facing a completely different environment from the country, the volunteer soldiers still looked a little strange, but the time was tight, there was no more time left for the volunteer soldiers to adapt to the environment, so as soon as they entered the DPRK, the volunteer soldiers began a difficult war.
The volunteer soldiers were fighters from all over the country, most of them had participated in many wars, so they were quite familiar with many tactics, and in the entire War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, the volunteer soldiers adopted a variety of tactics, whether it was a large-scale movement war or a small-scale ambush war, the volunteer soldiers fought very beautifully.
Compared to our volunteer soldiers,
They have a lot of advantages, they are elite troops from various countries, they have participated in many wars, and they all have strong military strength. However, such a unit has a disadvantage, that is, it believes in its own firepower superiority and does not know how to sum up experience.
Therefore, in the early War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, the "United Nations Army" suffered many losses.
In 1951, due to changes in the war, the volunteer soldiers began to turn to the position of offensive and defensive warfare, and it was during this period that the tunnel stations of our army began to shine.
Tunnel warfare is a technical term that means fortifications in the era of hot weapons, and to put it bluntly, it is strategic defense through activities such as digging tunnels.
Tunnel warfare was introduced as early as World War II, but at that time the United States was far away from the Far East, and at most it faced such tactics in the battle against the Japanese army. In the Battle of Iwo Jima, the American army still won the victory in the face of the Japanese army's tunnel tactics. Therefore, during the period of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, seeing that our army also adopted this tactic, the US military thought that it was enough to fight the Same Japanese army as it did at that time.
However, at that time, the volunteer soldiers had already upgraded the tunnel warfare to form a complete defense system.
On this basis, our army has developed it into both offensive and defensive, not only able to protect itself, but also to take effective blows against the enemy within a certain period of time. But at that time, the US army did not know this, and this tactic was a secret of our army, which was a key killer skill.
Nor is it mediocre,
He graduated from the prestigious Military Academy at West Point
This school is equivalent to our Whampoa Military Academy, and there are countless famous warriors who have come out of this school, including them
Eisenhower.
After the end of World War II, the United States became one of the two superpowers, drawing a lot of benefits from World War II, coupled with the development of its own country, the United States after World War II was very powerful both militarily and economically.
Such national strength is also a self-confident support for Van Vleet as a soldier, and the US government will always spend a large amount of money to develop military strength, so Van Vleet is very proud of its own military strength.
Speaking of Van Vleet, everyone should be most familiar with it
"Van Vliet Ammo Quantity"
Regarding this term, Baidu Encyclopedia's interpretation is like this
"A huge amount of ammunition is invested in a unit time to carry out intensive bombardment to achieve a devastating impact on the local area."
As a soldier, Van Vliet is crazy, he is extremely willing to win, and this character is also vividly expressed in the Korean War, whenever his attack is blocked, Van Vleet will always come up with more fire support and frantically bomb the other side.
However, FanVleet's crazy tactics were hit in front of the volunteer army.
Yes, no matter how powerful the United States is and how advanced its military equipment is, it will not frighten the heroic Chinese Volunteer Army. Chairman Mao's one sentence summed it up very precisely
"The United States has more steel and less gas, and we have less steel and more gas."
During the Period of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, the indiscriminate bombardment of the US army did cause our army a lot of hardships and caused great casualties to our army, but our volunteer soldiers were never afraid, because they knew their mission, they came to Korea to defend their homeland, behind them was the northeast, and behind them was the motherland.
If Van Vleet has brought any benefit to our army, it has caused us to suffer from "phobia of insufficient firepower", and for many years after that, our army has been working to strengthen itself. We have seen the harm caused by insufficient firepower, and in order not to let the imperialist jackals bully us again, we must develop ourselves, and we must be tough ourselves!
August 1951, in with
Mr. Peng
After pulling for a while,
Ridgway
He was transferred and came to take over
That's it
。
VanVerly
When the special took over, it was the time when the US military could not take us, in order to solve this problem, Van Vleet just came and used his housekeeping skills, that is
Van Vleet adopted this tactic in key battles such as Shangganling. at
During the Battle of Shangganling
，
In order to win the victory, like a gambler at the table, desperately throwing the most firepower, after the war,
Upper Ganling area
The mountains were even flattened a lot by Van Vleet's firepower.
Battle of Shangganling
In the face of Van Vliet's indiscriminate bombardment, our volunteer soldiers were once beaten to the point of being unable to lift their heads. The U.S. military mainly relied on air power and artillery fire in the rear, and they fired ammunition without interruption, blowing up our positions to pieces.
Van Vliet confidently believed that with such firepower, even the volunteer troops who could fight back and forth with the American army could not resist. However, Van Vleet ultimately failed, and
It also became a joke.
The defeat at the Battle of Shangganling made Van Vleet completely desperate, he did not understand why the Chinese army that had just emerged from the ruins of the war could still win in the face of such a strong strength, and later, Van Vleet was even more red-eyed and tried to fight a larger battle against our army, but due to domestic problems in the United States, Van Vleet was transferred back to the United States.
Tunnel tactics
The army that defeated Van Vleet was the Volunteer Fifteenth Army, and the tactics they adopted were tunnel tactics.
On the eve of the battle, our army had anticipated that the American army would use large-scale bombing, which was the experience gained from the previous confrontation with the American army, so we were fully prepared before the battle began. On several high ground in the Shangganling area, volunteer soldiers built anti-slope settings.
In military terms, the inclination refers to a hillside surface facing us with its back to the enemy in a mountain offensive and defensive battle. Such anti-slope tunnels perfectly became the dead end of the UN army's artillery fire, with direct-aimed artillery fire falling in front of the mountain, while curved guns such as mortars were easy to hit the dead end of the inverted surface, and tunnels with a thickness of thirty meters did not hinder even if they were thinned by a few meters.
In that war, Van Vleet constantly commanded the fighters in the rear to take off at a rapid pace and bomb the Shangganling area, and everything was scorched in the sight of the American pilots.
However, this seemingly fierce offensive is actually not much damage to our army that has launched tunnel tactics, because the setting of the reverse slope, coupled with the tunnel tactics, a large number of bombings have only caused shock damage to our army.
In the Battle of Iwo Jima, in the face of the Tunnel Tactics of the Japanese army, Van Vleet adopted indiscriminate bombardment, and the victory of that year gave Van Vliet great confidence, so he did so in the Battle of Shangganling. However, the tunnel tactics at that time could not be the same.
The main tactic adopted by our army is to preserve the living forces, that is, when the Americans are bombing, they do not have a hard confrontation with the Americans, and hide in the tunnels waiting for the end of the BOMBing by the US troops.
When the American bombing was over and the infantry came up to search, the volunteer soldiers came out again and attacked the Americans. In this way, in the eyes of the US military, the volunteer soldiers who suddenly appeared were like divine soldiers descending from the sky, and they did not understand why there were so many volunteer soldiers after so many rounds of bombing.
In this way, the two sides have been fighting, and the positions have changed hands several times.
With the progress of time, the attack of the US army has also achieved certain results, at that time our army has sacrificed a lot of living forces, but the follow-up forces have not arrived. In such a situation, in order to preserve strength, the rear commander asked the front-line troops to withdraw immediately, but at that time, the volunteer soldiers had already put life and death aside, they did not want to withdraw, only wanted to fight until the last moment.
In this situation, the rear decided to send more support, and at the same time, the leaders of the front line all took up their guns and went to the battlefield. According to the commander of the XV Corps at the time
Qin Jiwei
Recall, that was the year
It was very tragic, the soldiers on the front line were exhausted, and in order to hold the position, many logistics workers went to the front line, and even many female soldiers and dolls were involved.
The battle was fought and fought all the time, and both sides did their best. In order to win the victory, the "United Nations Army" even took a very vicious measure, that is, poisoning. But even such a despicable tactic could not bring our volunteer soldiers to their knees.
The volunteer soldiers have always stood on the position, and the comrades around them have fallen one by one, but no one is afraid, and whenever a new enemy army rushes up, the volunteer soldiers will always climb out of the tunnel and come forward to meet the battle. When the bullets are finished, they are replaced by white-bladed battles, and the large knives cannot be lifted to resist the explosive packs. Under such a heroic and tenacious battle, the US army was gradually disrupted.
The battle came and went, and with strong fire support, the Americans gradually gained most of the positions. Faced with the loss of their positions, the volunteers were determined to restore their positions, and when the volunteer soldiers had completed their new assembly, a new offensive would begin.
Beginning late at night on October 30 of the same year, the volunteers launched a counterattack, and on the same night, the volunteers, relying on surprise attack tactics, recovered all their lost positions overnight. Seeing that the volunteer soldiers had killed back again, the "United Nations Army" was not willing to show weakness, and they also quickly organized a counterattack, and the two sides launched a tug-of-war. As the battle progressed, our army gradually stabilized the situation, which was the main battlefield of our army at night, and soon after, we stabilized our position.
This is a long war, in this war, we still won in the face of the powerful "United Nations Army", this battle gave the whole world a great shock, Western politicians do not want to believe that the strong United States can lose to a country that has just experienced more than a decade of war.
From the perspective of our country,
The failure seemed inevitable, first of all
Ben was an arrogant man with his back to the mighty United States, who did not take anyone seriously, who blindly believed in firepower superiority and rarely conducted in-depth research on local tactics. And it was seized
This one fatal weakness of our army has been formulated to correspond to it
"Tunnel Tactics"
With round after round of counterattacks, it was shattered
Sharpness.
In fact, van Vleet was more reluctant to believe than the military point of view that their army was inferior to the volunteer soldiers. The things that he could not understand were indeed easy for us to understand, because our volunteer soldiers were people who came out of the bottom, no one longed for a peaceful living environment more than them, the domestic war had just been won, everyone seemed to live a peaceful life, but the American army came, and they tried to cross
"38 Lines"
Breaking such a peaceful environment, in order to protect their hard-won happiness, they had to go to the battlefield again to defend their homeland.
Van Vleet did not understand this, he lived in a honeypot, and he could not understand the mood of our Chinese people.
As a result, we have won great victories and the volunteer soldiers will always be the loveliest people!