Before the bloody battle between China and the United States at Chosin Lake, the Volunteer Army set a policy of luring the enemy deeper, hoping to trick the US First Marine Division and even the US Tenth Army into our pockets and wait for an opportunity to surround and annihilate them. The problem was that, despite MacArthur's constant urging, Lieutenant General Walker was letting the turtle crawl forward, burrowing too slowly into his pocket.
So we came up with the idea of releasing prisoners of war, and from November 18, 1950, the Volunteer Command issued an order to release prisoners of war. In fact, many of the troops below were already released before the order was given. Because when the prisoners of war are captured, they are happy and happy, but they have to serve these masters well, and it is really not okay to have some good things.
These young American soldiers didn't eat this or that, and they didn't eat the same thing as us, and our warriors were alive and well, and they lay down inexplicably in a few days. Those who are confused about the situation and think that we have abused them and will be criticized by the assembly when the time comes, so why should we?
Therefore, when the order to release the prisoners of war was issued, the officers and men at the grass-roots level were able to open their hearts. They gave full play to all their ingenuity, and they must let these prisoners of war go back, and convey back what they saw in our camp, what we wanted the American army to know. He Chuwu's "Blood Battle of Changjin Lake" explains some of the small methods of the warriors.
Some of the warriors directly turned on the mode of pretending to be pitiful: we really have no tricks now, we have no food or drink ourselves. You see what we've been eating these days, what's this meal called? We came over to dismantle some hydropower station equipment, now that the work is complete, we are going to go back to the house, and I hope you have a smooth wind all the way Oh, by the way to say goodbye to you, oh no, everyone still don't see each other again, let's go back to the fields.
There are also some fighters who have played their acting talents: before going abroad, they said that the US Empire was a paper tiger, but do you see how bullish their air force is? All of us were blown up by them, and then we all went on fighting and all of us were going to die here. Another soldier went up and gave him a big ear: You boy dares to disturb the hearts of the army, arrest me and shoot me! After going out, everyone was happy.
The prisoners of war reported everything they had seen in the Chinese army to Lieutenant General Walker, and Walker began to be optimistic: No wonder MacArthur kept urging me to march, it was like this, and I looked up to those dirt roads too much. Walker observed for two more days, and when he saw that the war seemed to be really coming to an end, he began to accelerate forward.
A total of 103 PRISONERs were released, including 27 U.S. prisoners of war. As for how many more troops were secretly released below, no one knew, because no one took this matter seriously. Isn't that how we fought in civil wars? Prisoners of war who really cannot be taken away are released on the spot, and some education and education have joined our army, which is our glorious tradition!
However, the problem is that the war to resist US aggression and aid Korea is completely different from the civil war, and the purpose of this war is limited, the scale is limited, the territory is limited, and the means are limited. The hard-won prisoners of war were a bunch of chips to sit down and bargain after achieving their limited purposes. The Americans will be trading on the prisoner of war issue in the future!
The release of the prisoners of war therefore had a very negative impact on the subsequent armistice negotiations. During the Panmunjom negotiations, the Americans said that prisoners of war should be returned in a 1:1 ratio, but many of our prisoners of war were put back, where are so many prisoners of war exchanged? Finally, for the sake of the prisoners of war, China and the United States fought for several months.
In fact, neither the Volunteers nor the United States realized that the two sides were opening up a whole new model of warfare. This mode of war will inject a new concept into future wars, and it will also become the most important mode of conflict on the earth after World War II, that is, modern local war or limited war.
In accordance with the Geneva Conventions, there would be no problems with the repatriation of prisoners of war. During the Gulf War, the US military captured 100,000 Iraqi prisoners, and they themselves were only captured dozens; after the battle, the Americans painfully and happily released people in accordance with the "Geneva Conventions" and why did they not let them go, and did not spend money on eating and drinking?
But once we're beaten up on the battlefield and don't get what they want, that's a different story. They directly started the mode of trickery, and they had to release the prisoners of war 1:1, what is the Geneva Convention? Why don't I remember? It turned out to be a lot of fire. So don't say that Americans are obedient, I think they are the most unruly.
