MacArthur was hailed as the "legendary general" of the United States and praised by the Americans as a "veteran of a generation", but the two fiascoes he suffered in Asia were due to his self-righteousness, in the Philippine theater in the early days of the Pacific War, MacArthur lost the Air Dominance of the United States in the Philippine Theater due to his own caution and self-righteousness, and many years later suffered another fiasco in the Korean Battlefield due to his arrogance.
After the outbreak of the Korean War, MacArthur led the United Nations army to cross the 38th Line in spite of China's warnings, and on October 15, US President Truman, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Omar Bradley, Secretary of war Frank Pace, and Commander of the Pacific Fleet, Arthur Redford, flew to Wake Island in the Pacific Ocean to study issues related to the Korean War with MacArthur and discuss whether China would enter the war. MacArthur believed that if China intervened, then it would be the best time to enter the war within a month or two of the Korean War, and that would be decisive, but now that the war has reached this point, China has lost its opportunity, and the United States no longer worries about China's interference, because China has no modern weapons, no air force, and going south at this time is tantamount to suicide. Regarding MacArthur's analysis, neither the President of the United States nor the Chairman of staff raised objections and agreed.
In view of his speculation, the U.S.-led United Nations army bravely marched forward, occupying the areas of Hingnam and Hamhung north of Wonsan on October 17, Pyongyang on October 19, and Sucheon and Suncheon, north of Pyongyang, on the 20th, in an attempt to occupy korea and end the Korean War by Thanksgiving.
The volunteers came into battle unexpectedly
Apparently MacArthur guessed wrong and thought wrong. Chinese Volunteer Army entered Korea on October 19, according to the instructions of the Central Military Commission, the first period originally only intended to fight a defensive war, hoping to form fortifications in the north of Korea, but did not expect that the US army attacked too quickly, the DPRK defeated too quickly, the front of the US army was only 90-130 kilometers away from the volunteer army on the 20th, and the change in the battlefield situation made it impossible for the volunteer army to organize defense according to the instructions of the Central Military Commission.
At this time, the US army did not have the slightest awareness of the volunteer army's entry into Korea, and there was a mountain range between MacArthur's eastern and western fronts, so that the two lines of the US army were separated by 80 kilometers, which provided favorable conditions and opportunities for the volunteer army to annihilate the enemy.
Therefore, Chairman Mao sent a telegram to Peng Dehuai and Deng Hua hoping that in view of the current situation, the volunteer army would strive to win the first battle after going abroad and change the situation on the Korean battlefield.
To this end, Peng Dehuai concentrated the 38th, 39th, and 40th Armies and the 125th Division of the 42nd Army to annihilate the enemy who crossed the Cheongcheon River and crossed the Cheongcheon River northward on the western front, while the main force of the 42nd Army advanced to the area south of Chosin Lake on the eastern front to block the northward advance of the US 10th Army's troops and ensure the safety of the main force on the western front.
MacArthur did not encounter decent resistance in Korea, and even planned to celebrate victory on the Yalu River, and just as he marched toward the Yalu River, his bad luck also arrived, and on the night of the 25th, the South Korean army was completely annihilated by the 118th Division of the Volunteer Army in the Seosuidong area, and two divisions of the 40th Army of the Volunteer Army captured On the night of the night of the South Korean Army in the Seosuidong area.
On October 26, the troops of the 6th Division of South Korea opened fire on our territory, and under the command of Peng Dehuai, the 118th Division of the Volunteer Army annihilated most of the troops in Liuliangdong on the evening of the 29th, and from the evening of the 28th to the morning of the 29th, the main force of the 40th Army annihilated most of the four battalions reinforced by the 6th and 8th Divisions of South Korea in the area of Guitoudong, east of Ontyeong.
At the beginning of November, the 1st Cavalry Division of the US "ace" unit was almost completely destroyed under the powerful offensive of the 39th Army of the Volunteer Army, annihilating more than 2,000 enemy troops, including more than 1,800 US troops, destroying and capturing 28 tanks, more than 170 vehicles, and 119 guns of various kinds.
After the Volunteer 38th Army attacked the flank of the U.S. 8th Army, the 5th and 66th Armies blocked the British 27th Brigade and the U.S. 24th Division. On the Eastern Front, the Volunteer 42nd Army blocked the northward advance of 3 divisions of the American and South Korean armies. In the first campaign of the volunteer army into Korea, the volunteer army annihilated most of the South Korean 6th Division, severely damaged the 1st Cavalry Division of the United States, and annihilated more than 15,000 enemy troops on the east and west fronts.
For the participation of the volunteer army in the war, the Americans have not dared to believe that they can show off their might in the world with their modern weapons and equipment, and Chinese dare not brush their beards, but the reality is such a slap in the face, in early November, the Americans who were severely attacked by the volunteer army believed that the Chinese troops had joined the war, and the participation of the volunteer army caused a shock in the US White House and the Pentagon, which made them feel helpless for a while.
MacArthur thought that China only symbolically sent tens of thousands of troops, he was optimistic that he could eliminate the volunteer army entering North Korea, on November 8, the U.S. military carried out a devastating bombing of the bridge on the Yalu River in northern Korea and the towns along the edge of the Chinese coast, and on November 9, the U.S. National Security Council, according to the analysis of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, believed that "the Chinese army only sent small troops to intervene, and when they suffered a heavy sweep, they may have given up on the attempt to continue fighting." Later, it was decided to carry out MacArthur's plan to continue to occupy all of Korea militarily, launching an offensive or reconnaissance aimed directly at the Yalu River.
It was this decision that fueled MacArthur's pride and his failure, and he did not take the Chinese volunteers to heart, believing that his bombing could cut off China and North Korea, and the volunteers could not survive without follow-up support. To this end he intended to attack the entire front and completely eliminate the Volunteer Army within 10 days.
On November 9, 1950, the U.S. National Security Council approved MacArthur's erroneous decision to launch a general offensive to end the Korean War at Christmas on the Yalu River.
In response to MacArthur's self-righteous General Peng, he lured the enemy deep into the Qingchuan River on the Western Front, and after a hard battle on December 2, the battle ended, the volunteer army annihilated more than 7,000 people of the US 2nd Division, more than 5,500 men of the US 25th Division, and more than 2,200 members of the Turkish Brigade, and the US 2nd Division was crippled and lost its combat effectiveness. The 9th Corps, commanded by Song Shilun on the Eastern Front, surrounded the American troops on the shores of Chosin Lake, and finally gave the American troops a total annihilation of more than 13,000 enemy troops.
This defeat became the U.S. military."
One of the most shameful failures in history
MacArthur, a legendary general and military genius, was dismissed by Truman on April 11, 1951.
MacArthur's defeat was not the first time, in the Philippine theater during World War II it was precisely because of his self-righteousness that the US military lost air supremacy, and in the Korean battlefield it was precisely because of his arrogance that he intended to occupy all of Korea that the UNITED Nations army marched north and was surrounded by volunteers and suffered a crushing defeat, making the US army suffer "the most shameful defeat in history", and all this was the reason for his dismissal.
This was also the consistent style of the US government at that time to throw the pot and find the back pot man!
Therefore, the Americans are self-righteous in their own superiority and unscrupulous, but in front of the Chinese volunteer army, they are defeated again and again, relying on the bloody sacrifice of our ancestors! It depends on the hundreds of thousands of martyrs who have buried their bones in North Korea...