The Japanese Self-Defense Forces Cadre School has a compulsory textbook " Introduction to Combat Theory " , in which an example of a Sino-AMERICAN ace duel in the Korean War is recorded , with international influence.
The most interesting thing about this duel between the ace forces is that when the war began, the Chinese army did not know that the opponent was an American soldier, thinking that it was the South Korean army. At first, the U.S. forces were not sure that the opponent was the Chinese army, thinking that it was the Korean People's Army.
When the battle reached a white-hot point, the two sides confirmed the opponent. What is more interesting is that this duel is the first battle between Chinese and American soldiers on the Korean battlefield, which is of great significance and breaks the myth of the invincibility of the US army.
Five-star Admiral MacArthur
This was the first battle after Chinese soldiers entered the DPRK. At this time, when The Commander-in-Chief of the United Nations Army, MacArthur, was at his most arrogant, the Inchon landing pushed the world-famous military career to the most brilliant peak, and no one in the world could enter his eyes.
If someone says, "God is first, Mai Shuai is second", he will be very angry, God can only be second, and the first must be Mai Shuai. He asserted that China would never dare to send troops to North Korea. He said that if the Chinese army entered the DPRK, it would be either a battle or a carnival massacre of Americans.
So he announced to his soldiers: Thanksgiving end the war, go home and do what to do.
MacArthur's arrogance also spread to his generals, the commander of the Eighth Army, Walker, who later died on the Korean battlefield, and on October 28 received a report from Lieutenant General Milburn, the commander of the First Army, that Chinese troops had entered Korea and were advancing rapidly around Unsan.
The report was from Pak Sun Yeol, commander of the South Korean First Division, the first enemy general on the Korean battlefield to be convinced that the Chinese army had entered the war.
However, after Walker read the report, he laughed and threw it directly into the trash: "These damn North Koreans, always lose the battle, and once they lose the battle, they Chinese, cowards!" ”
Walker did not hesitate at all, and immediately ordered the ace force, the First Cavalry Division, to rush to Unsan, through the defense of the South Korean First Division, to attack the enemy, drink horses on the Yalu River, and win the class before Thanksgiving.
Arrogant enough!
No wonder Walker is so arrogant, what kind of existence does the First Mounted Division have in the United States? She was founded by Washington, the father of the nation, and during the Revolutionary War, was known as the "Founding Fathers of the United States". In the two world wars, it has made outstanding military achievements, never lost, and has the reputation of "always winning division"!
Guy, commander of the First Cavalry Division, was the chief of staff of the famous General Patton in World War II, and was known as an "armored talent" in the American military circles. Of course, the First Cavalry Division was no longer a cavalryman, but a powerful heavy mechanized infantry division, but retained the honorary title of the First Cavalry Division.
So, which Chinese unit is about to fight against the First Cavalry Division? Among the Chinese troops, this is an ace force, she is the 39th Army of the Volunteer Army reorganized from the 39th Army of the People's Liberation Army.
The predecessor of this team was the Red 25th Army, which was known as Xu Haidong, and hundreds of PLA generals emerged in this unit, and Han Xianchu, who was then the deputy commander of the Volunteer Army, was one of them.
This powerful brigade once created a miracle in the history of the People's Liberation Army, when the Red Army March, all the troops were reduced by more than half, only the Red 25th Army, a unit of only 3,000 people, fought a bloody battle all the way, and when it reached its destination, there were hundreds more people than when it set out.
This contingent, which experienced the Long March, was baptized by the flames of war in the War of Resistance Against Japan, reorganized into the 39th Army in the War of Liberation, participated in the Liaoshen and Pingjin Campaigns, and made outstanding achievements for the establishment of the Republic.
Lieutenant General Wu Xinquan
Wu Xinquan, the current commander of the 39th Army, was a double-material chief officer who served as the political commissar of the 39th Army, and was appointed as the commander of the army after being reorganized into the Volunteer Army. After the first battle began, the other brothers' troops were frequently reported, and he was ordered to secretly surround Yunshan, but he did not wait for the order to attack, and his heart was already itching.
Unsan's strategic position is very important, it is the transportation hub of northern Korea and the entrance to the northern mountainous areas. The battle began on the morning of the 11th.
On this morning, the Area of Yunshan was foggy and visibility was extremely low, and the Volunteer Army did not find that the Eighth Regiment of the First Cavalry Division had reached Yunshan. However, a telegram was received from the headquarters saying that the 1st Cavalry Division was marching towards Unsan.
Wu Xinquan immediately sent the Confucian general Wang Fuzhi to lead his troops south to cut the enemy's rear road at Yunshan Mountain. This rapid marching contingent was spotted by enemy reconnaissance planes. Guy, the commander of the First Cavalry Division, was astonished, this was the back road for the Eighth Regiment. He hurriedly ordered the fifth regiment to occupy Ojin - to hold the retreating stronghold of Juren Bridge.
When Wang Fuzhi's troops arrived at the position, before the fortifications could be dug, Colonel Johnson's fifth regiment of cavalry also arrived, and a bloody battle began. This battle was fought until dusk, and the fifth regiment of the riding regiment could not advance half a step, and successfully cut off the retreat of the eighth regiment.
Outside Yunshan City, Wu Xinquan gave the order to attack. During the engagement, it was discovered that the opponent was an American soldier, who had always thought it was a South Korean force. Eating meat and gnawing on the bone, wu Xinquan learned that it was the American ace riding division, Wu Xinquan couldn't help but be arrogant: "Lao Tzu is the trump card!" ”
The attack began at 3:30 p.m., and it was fought until the early hours of the morning, when the American force of the Eighth Regiment began to collapse and could no longer organize an effective counterattack.
On the other side, on the position of the Fifth Cavalry Regiment, two senior generals came, one was the commander of the First Army, Milburn, and the other was the commander of the First Cavalry Division, Guy, who personally came to the Cavalry Fifth Regiment to supervise the battle.
Colonel Johnson, the commander of the Fifth Cavalry Regiment, personally led the attack, only to encounter a mortar shell and be torn apart on the spot. The attack of the fifth regiment had no effect at all.
Milburn looked at the positions of the Chinese army, knew that the general trend was gone, and personally ordered the attack to be stopped and immediately retreated. Guy cried and rode eight regiments to the end.
In this ace-to-ace duel, in this first Sino-American clash, the 39th Army won a big victory, and the First Mounted Division suffered its first fiasco since its creation. The third battalion of the Eighth Cavalry Regiment was annihilated.
On November 6 of that year, the U.S. Army announced in frustration that the third battalion of the Eighth Cavalry Regiment would be abolished, and there would be no third battalion of the Eighth Cavalry Regiment.
For a unit, being forced to revoke its title is a great shame. But the U.S. Army First Mounted Division encountered the Chinese Army's 39th Army and could only accept such a disgrace!
In the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, the Volunteer Army created many classic examples of defeating the strong with the weak with backward equipment, and this time the 39th Army against the First Cavalry Division was only one of them.
In "Decisive Battle of Korea," a work documenting the Korean War, many such classic examples of warfare were disclosed, and many of them were written into the military textbooks of many military powers.
The book "Decisive Battle of Korea" reproduces the whole process of the Korean War in a panoramic manner, not only recording the combat of the volunteer army, but also recording the whole process of the modernization of various services and services in the Korean War.
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On the Korean battlefield, this duel between the 39th Army and the 1st Cavalry Division will forever go down in history!