In recent years, film and television works on the theme of "Resisting US Aggression and Aiding Korea" have sprung up on the screen, including the epic drama "Crossing the Yalu River" that shows the war scenes with a magnificent panorama, and the new film "Sniper", which replaces dragonflies with partial depiction and accurate portrayal.
While everyone is touched and deeply inspired by the indomitable will of the Chinese People's Volunteer Army on the screen to "use gas to overcome steel", we should also be vigilant that there are indeed some works that disregard facts, entrain private goods, one-sidedly pursue visual impact, and mislead the public. The most unbearable scene is the scene of the volunteer army group charging through the mountains and valleys, and it is these scenes that consolidate the misinterpretation and misreading of the "tactics of the sea of people" that are well known to be implanted in people's minds. Today Lao Hou wants to take you to appreciate the real command and combat art of the Chinese Volunteer Army, known as the "strongest army on the surface"!
Let's look at a set of numbers: This is the result of more than 50 years of statistics and actuarial calculations by the U.S. government, which is currently engraved on a monument at the Korean War Memorial Park in Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States. From top to bottom, the specific number of dead, wounded, captured and missing U.S. and United Nations forces (UN) were killed, wounded, captured, and missing.
The U.S. military and its vassal state, the United Nations 16th Army, totaled 1,161,523 dead (including missing) and 1,167,737 wounded, with a total of 2.33 million casualties (including missing).
For the number of volunteers killed in the Korean War, the mainland also gave a number that was accurate to the individual digits - 197,653! Casualties totaled 370,000, accounting for 15.4% of the more than 2.4 million volunteers who fought in North Korea, and on average, 2 of the 13 soldiers were wounded or killed.
Obviously, the actual casualty ratio of the Volunteer Army to the 17 countries was 370,000: 2.33 million, that is, 1:6.
In the process of writing this article, Lao Hou encountered some difficulties in examining the "casualty ratio" between the two warring sides. There is a lot of available information, including many official data, and it is reasonable to say that the credibility is absolutely fine (the reason will be mentioned in the following article), but the figures released by different officials, different periods and different occasions are far from each other. It may be because it is difficult to find a unified figure that some netizens have doubts about the actual number of sacrifices of the US Aid to the DPRK-China Chinese Volunteer Army, and then provide a breeding ground and a soil for the voice of "the tactics of the sea of people is poor equipment, and the pile of human life is piled up".
Take the Tieyuan Blockade War, known as "egg touching stone", as an example:
The UN army fought 60,000 people, mobilized 1,300 artillery pieces, 180 tanks, and hundreds of bombers that could be mobilized and provided air support at any time. The 63rd Army of the Chinese Volunteer Army fought only 24,000 men and 260 artillery pieces, without any tank or aircraft support.
In the eastern hilly positions held by the 189th Division of the 63rd Army, the "peacekeeper" VanVleet used five times the number of shells prescribed by the US army, firing an average of 320 shells a day per gun.
In the two months of the Battle of Shangganling, the 3.7 square kilometer position was dumped by the United Nations army with more than 1.9 million shells and more than 5,000 aerial bombs. It should be noted that these aircraft did not bomb indiscriminately, so the shells did not fall on this position evenly, but carried out targeted bombardment of the volunteer site, with an average of 74 shells per square meter.
In this case, if someone tells me again that the volunteer army launched the "man-sea tactics" to rush up in pieces, one after another? Lao Hou can only send you a blessing: the brain is a good thing, I hope you have it too.
"Tactics of the sea of people" was a neutral term in the early days, not referring to the chaotic and disorderly tactics of people on the battlefield where people were crowded and crowded, but that it was the highest art of war command to concentrate superior forces on the battlefield to annihilate the enemy, to quickly concentrate in local areas, and to launch a war of annihilation against several times the strength of our side.
As early as the Spring and Autumn Period, it was recorded in Sun Tzu's Art of War and Conspiracy to Attack: "Therefore, the method of using soldiers is to encircle it with ten, attack it with five, divide it by multiples, and divide it by multiples, and the enemy can fight it, and if it is less, it can escape, and if it is not, it can be avoided." This means: In actual combat, if the strength of one's own side is more than ten times that of the other side, it is only necessary to carry out encirclement and annihilation; if one's own strength is five times that of the other side, it will launch a normal attack; if one's own strength is about twice that of the other side, the soldiers need to work harder in combat; if the enemy and we are evenly matched, we must try to disperse them and then break them one by one; in case the strength is weaker than the other side, we must avoid head-on confrontation.
In modern warfare, Lin Biao's usual "one point and two sides" and "three three systems" are flexible and vivid interpretations of the wisdom of the ancients. One point and two sides refer to concentrating superior forces, attacking the main targets, and focusing on encircling and completely annihilating the enemy after breakthroughs. The tactical organization form of the three-three system refers to a group of three or four people, led by a squad leader, combined with the terrain according to the situation of the enemy to be annihilated, dispersed operations, and the groups cooperate with each other - that is, tactical interspersed and scattered troops charge. The battlefield in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea was more than deep and not wide enough, and the 500-meter-wide battlefield was under the tactical command of the three-three system, but dozens of volunteer soldiers were lurking.
It is also because of the real three-three system formation, the personnel are too scattered, to the film lens can not frame people, can not shoot the director wants, the audience wants to see the group charge feeling. Thus, movies replaced the truth. I hope that the audience, who originally had some misunderstandings about the US aid to The DPRK, will be able to form a new understanding of it after reading this article, and will not "fake it when it is true."
Among the many well-known people who use "slang" to survive and suck up money and seek gold, there is a person who has widely spread his arguments about the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, saying: China has "lost money" in sending troops to Korea. The specific reason is that in the armistice agreement signed by the two sides, it was stipulated that the military demarcation line should be demarcated by the actual line of contact between the north and the south at that time, and that each side would retreat 2,000 meters to establish a demilitarized zone in this area;
To say, this public knows that he is telling the truth, but after he integrates the words, the taste that comes out again can change.
I believe that through Lao Hou's last article, we have already had a relatively clear understanding of the strategic goal of our Chinese Volunteer Army to fight in the DPRK, that is, to resist the enemy outside the gate of the country, defend the northeast heavy industry base, and show the world with their feet Chinese people stand up and are not just a shout from the upper floor of Tiananmen Square. Moreover, at that time, the flames of war had already burned to the yalu River, and in the case of the huge difference in strength between China and the United States, how could it not be a real victory to push 500 kilometers south.
As for the actual control of the region and so on, more and less, it is the problem of the brothers of North Korea and South Korea that have nothing to do with us, and China has no addiction to interfering in the internal affairs of other countries! If you have to give them a geography lesson: the part that South Korea occupies is Gangwon Province, which is basically mountainous; while the part occupied by North Korea is the west coast, which is more valuable.
In fact, it is very simple, to know whether the loss is not lost, to see who signed who is more sad and sad is not the end? Come on, Admiral Clark, don't keep a straight face and give everyone a laugh.
Next time, if you also encounter anti-thief arguments, you can refute it like this: "Lao Tzu made a business of tens of billions, and finally collected a few hundred yuan less, do you say that Lao Tzu lost money or made a lot of money?!" ”
If they fly kites in the bamboo forest again, if they are stirring up wild entanglements, they will be released as a turbid gas, from the middle and lower parts of the body. Sooner or later, those who do great things and sacrifice their lives to see small profits will be ruthlessly crushed into the soil by the wheel of history.
Or the sentence: How do you play me?
It is to make you unable to see through, guess through, anyway, the enemy will be annihilated, there is no return!
Text/Smart Dumplings
Reference: "This Is China", No. 77, Looking Back at the Great War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea
"Cultural Lecture Hall: The 60th Anniversary of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea"
"The First Contest -- Historical Review and Reflection on the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea"
Mao Zedong and the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea: Correct and Brilliant Strategizing