The fourth incredible thing proposed by Japanese military scientists is how the original logistics system of the Volunteer Army equipped and supplied troops. In the Korean War, although the volunteer army marched all the way, many times, as the front line became longer and longer, it had to face a very real problem, and it was impossible to keep up with several lines and lack logistics.
In fact, in the early days of the war, the volunteer logistics staff was seriously insufficient, and one logistics personnel had to supply at least a few hundred volunteer soldiers, compared with the level of 13 logistics personnel to supply four American soldiers. Why, then, was the logistics of the Volunteers so strained?
It turned out that on the Korean battlefield, the logistics line of the volunteer army was often bombed by the American army. To this end, our army has learned from the West and gradually established an independent and complete logistics system. This logistics system has its own security forces, its own anti-aircraft weapons and sufficient personnel to carry out logistical tasks. In addition to transporting supplies, the speed at which they can repair various formulas is even more shocking.
As soon as the railroad was destroyed, they repaired it as fast as they could, so fast that the U.S. military had the illusion that they had blown up the wrong place. In order to prevent air raids by the US military, the Volunteer Army also invented air raids. Liao Wang, who had more than 20,000 officers and men, set up a sentry post every 1.5 kilometers to observe the situation. The effectiveness of this approach has been remarkable. In the early days of the Korean War, the volunteers lost more than 40 percent in supplies.
Since the establishment of the Liao Wang sentry, the loss rate has plummeted to 0.5%, which is no wonder it is called a miracle. Since then, the volunteer army has had a logistics supply line that cannot be broken or destroyed, and can continue to support the soldiers in battle. In addition, it is worth mentioning that the volunteer army also invented a magical food fried noodles. The seemingly unassuming fried noodles actually play a huge role, it solves the problem of the volunteer army's eating, and maintains the life of the volunteer army.
Stir-fried noodles are simple to make, mainly 70% wheat flour mixed, 30% corn or soybeans, sorghum flour added 0.5% salt and fried. It is easy to carry, easy to use, will not deteriorate after a long period of transportation, and most importantly, it can be supplied in large quantities. During the war, U.S. aircraft continued to bombard, preventing the Volunteers from cooking during the day. Fearing that the fire would be exposed, fried noodles became the food of the volunteers.
The soldiers ate this simple food, beating the American troops eating canned meat and losing their armor. I have to say it's a miracle. The Volunteer Army not only had a unique logistical skill, but also a tactical masterpiece. One of the most famous is the volunteer army's night combat capability, which is the fifth incredible, chinese army's excellent night combat skills proposed by Japanese military experts.
Looking at the key battles of the entire Volunteer Army to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, almost all of them were carried out at night. On October 19, 1950, the volunteer army crossed the Yalu River at night, starting from the Battle of Yunshan, to the night crossing of the Linjin River by the volunteer army, crossing the 38th Line, and the five battles experienced by the volunteer army were launched at night. The victory or defeat of the Battle of Shangganling was also decided at night.
The final battle of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, the Battle of Jincheng, was also fought at night. In fact, night fighting is also a helpless choice of the volunteer army forced by reality. Because the US military occupied absolute air superiority during the day, once the volunteer army had any wind and grass, it was followed by a wild bombardment of US aircraft. According to statistics, when the volunteers attacked the American troops during the day and at night, the casualties were ten times different under the same number.
With such a disparity, the Volunteers naturally chose to attack at night. Choosing night combat can not only be unexpected, but also can use the concealment of the night to approach the opponent's position and fight with the US army at close range, making it difficult for the US military to play an advantage. Under this guideline, the night battles of the Volunteers achieved excellent results almost every time. On the night of November 1, 1950, the first engagement between the Chinese and American armies began in the Battle of Yunshan, and the volunteer army fully carried forward our army's experience in night combat, taking advantage of the night, boldly attacking, rapidly dividing, and rapidly attacking, and soon formed a scorching situation with the US army in which the enemy had us and the enemy had the enemy.
The US planes could not be dispatched at night, the artillery did not dare to open fire indiscriminately, and the firepower and mechanical power could not play a role, while the volunteer army gave full play to the specialty of night combat and annihilated most of the eight regiments of the US first cavalry division in one fell swoop, and the 12th regiment of the first division of the South Korean army avoided the enemy by step more than 2,000 people. In addition, our army also has classic examples of leaf warfare such as annihilating the Polar Bear Regiment, raiding the White Tiger Regiment, and encircling and annihilating the British ace Royal Army Double Emblem Battalion. What is more interesting is that after the end of the Korean War, the US military suffered from night warfare on the battlefield, so it began to spend a lot of effort to study night warfare, purchased a large number of night combat equipment such as night vision goggles, and often conducted night combat drills.
After a long period of actual combat training, the US military has now become a night combat expert, and now the night vision goggles have become a common equipment of the US military, and with the help of equipment, even the dark night that cannot see the five fingers has become as bright as day. However, from the side, the behavior of the US military also confirms how superb the night combat level of the volunteer army was, and even became a long-lasting shadow in the hearts of the US army.
In addition to the miraculous night combat level, what makes the Volunteers even more incredible is the speed of the Volunteers' mobility. In the famous Battle of Sansoli, the 113th Division of the 38th Army of the Volunteer Army rushed hundreds of miles in one night, running through the fully mechanized American army, creating the peak in the history of human light infantry. So this is the sixth incredible, inconceivable, speed of agitation and pursuit of the Chinese army in the absence of mechanical transport.
In the second campaign to resist the United States and aid Korea, the 113th Division of the 38th Army of the Volunteer Army was ordered to detour to Sansholi to block the retreat of the American troops on the western front, and to buy time for the main force to surround and annihilate the enemy, which was almost an impossible task, because the 113th Division had to reach the target point before the American troops could pass.
The problem was that at this moment, the US troops had retreated by car, and the volunteers could only rush on foot; after receiving the order, they immediately pulled out, and the officers and men of the whole division rushed all the way, and after ten hours, the physical fitness of the officers and men of the whole division had basically reached its limit. With tenacious willpower to step forward, they have only one goal, three in the house. However, due to the speed of the attack, some volunteer soldiers directly fell to the ground in shock, some directly tired and vomited blood, and some soldiers fell to the ground tired, waiting for their comrades to wake up and then get up and then run.
There are also artillerymen carrying heavy equipment, they can't even stand up straight, but they have not taken a step away from the reinforcements, it is simply to break through the limits of human physiology, and then use a running, daytime march, very vulnerable to bombing by US aircraft. But now that time was pressing, the 113th Division decided to take a gamble and ordered all the officers and men of the division to throw away all their camouflage, take no preventive and control measures, and advance on the highway in a bright and upright manner. Surprisingly, this trick really worked wonders.
Although there were multiple American planes circling overhead from the Volunteers, none of them dropped a bomb. Originally, the American pilots thought that the volunteers did not dare to fight in the daytime, so they regarded the 113 lions as South Korean soldiers. The 113th Division on the road no longer had to cross the mountains to avoid reconnaissance, and the speed of the march was significantly accelerated. After 14 hours of uninterrupted rapid marching, the vanguard regiment of the 113th Division finally reached Sansho-ri before the Americans. When the news reached headquarters, the chiefs shouted excitedly that it was a miracle.
The soldiers of the 113th Division ran 145 miles in 14 hours with their feet, creating a miracle that no one had ever done before. Immediately after, they launched the Battle of Sansoli and the Battle of Longyuan, which shocked the world, and they were the most critical link in the victory of the western battlefield of the second battle. To this end, after the end of the campaign, Mr. Peng personally issued a commendation order, directly calling the 38th Army of the 113th Division as the Banzai Army, which can be described as the supreme honor in the People's Liberation Army.
Of course, in addition to speed, the most admirable and touching thing about the volunteer army is the fighting spirit of seeing death as a homecoming, which is also the basis for the volunteer army to create miracles many times. And this is also the seventh incredible, forward-going, death-defying spirit proposed by Japanese military experts. During the Korean War, countless fighting heroes emerged in the volunteer army who could sing and cry.
In the Battle of Kokoryeong on Chosin Lake. Yang Gensi, commander of the 58th Division of the 20th Army and the third company of the 172nd Regiment, led a full platoon to repel eight U.S. attacks, and when the U.S. army launched the ninth attack, he picked up the last explosive pack and rushed into the enemy group, died with more than 40 enemies, held his position, and completed the task of blocking the enemy's retreat. As a result, Yang Gensi became the first special meritorious hero and special combat hero of New China. In the Battle of Shangganling, Huang Jiguang, a correspondent of the Sixth Company of the Second Battalion of the 135th Regiment of the 15th Army, seized the main peak position of Zero, blocked the perforation of the bunker with his chest, cleared the way for the troops to charge, and won a major fighter, and Huang Jiguang became one of the only two special combat heroes in the volunteer army.
Of course, there are countless combat heroes represented by Yang Gensi and Huang Jiguang, in addition to that, there are also Qiu Shaoyun, who was burned to death by the fire in order not to expose the troops, Yang Liandi, who created an unprecedented steel rail pontoon bridge in the history of bridge repair, yang Baoshan, who pulled the anti-tank grenade and died with the enemy. In the most brilliant years of their lives, their generous father and son became the brightest light of that era, and there were many living legends of special merit.
For example, Hu Xiudao, who repelled the enemy's 41 attacks and annihilated more than 280 enemy troops in one day, led 12 people and seven members of the White Tiger Regiment, the strongest ace of South Korea, only thirty-two days, killed 214 Sniper Zhang Taofang of the US Army, and shot down Zhang Jiji, the top ace pilot of the US Air Force. According to statistics, in the entire War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, 302724 meritorious personnel have emerged in the whole army of the Volunteer Army, of whom 494 have been awarded the title of heroic model and 217 have been awarded the title of meritorious heroes, and behind each of them is an earth-shattering miracle, and even some first-class merits are called shocking.
For example, in the Fifth Campaign to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, Liu Guangzi alone captured 63 British troops. There are countless such examples, and these are the most shocking miracles of the volunteer army, and Japanese military scientists will find these incredible. Their incomprehension is a powerful proof of the strength of the volunteer army.
The Korean War was undoubtedly the greatest victory since the founding of New China. After the allied forces composed of the strongest countries in the world with super will and command defeated the world's strongest countries, the volunteer army experienced the thrill of the Battle of Yunshan, the blood of the Battle of Sansholi, the fierceness of the Battle of Chengjinhu, the tragedy of the Han River Blockade Battle, the shock of the Tieyuan Blockade Battle, and the miracle of the Battle of Shangganling, the Volunteer Army confirmed a sentence that the US Army once said, wanting to defeat China, unless God personally wears a steel helmet to participate in the battle.