Ridgway, a famous American general in World War II, when evaluating the performance of the Chinese and South Korean armies in the Korean War, one lifted to the sky and the other to the ground.
The Korean War was an important phase in Ridgway's military career. In 1956, the year after Ridgway's retirement, he published his autobiography, Matthew Lee. Memoirs of B. Ridgway".
In his memoirs, Ridgway made a pithy and brief assessment of the performance of the Chinese and South Korean armies on the Korean battlefield, which can be described as two extremes of the review.
To the volunteers, he said this: These Chinese soldiers are the toughest enemies I have ever encountered in my life, they are not only strong but also fierce, often launching countless attacks regardless of casualties, and they are the most respectable enemies, never killing wounded or abandoned wounded. They are civilized armies, never shoot and mistreat prisoners, and are respectable opponents.
To the South Korean army, he said this: Nothing but running, intercepting such a defeated army is like intercepting an avalanche, and they are fleeing three times faster than they are advancing.
Such a contrasting evaluation, although the words are quite disrespectful, truly embody the characteristics of the two armies. One is respectable, heroic and civilized, and the other knows nothing more than to run.
Ridgway has experienced countless battles in his life, made great achievements in battle, seen a variety of different opponents, resourceful, heroic and arrogant, he can evaluate the opponents who meet him with swords and soldiers, and you and I live, which shows that the Chinese volunteer army at that time was indeed not generally excellent.
In fact, the excellence of the Chinese army depends not only on weapons and tactics, but also on manpower and people's hearts!
After the outbreak of the Korean War, the Chinese Volunteer Army under the leadership of Peng Dehuai left the country and went to the Korean battlefield to fight side by side with the Korean People's Army.
It was also the victory of the excellent Chinese volunteer army in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea that proved to the world that the days when Western invaders could occupy a country for hundreds of years as long as they erected a few cannons on a coast in the East is gone.
There is a book called "Decisive Battle of Korea", in which the author Li Feng writes: "There was once a country in which the empress dowager and the emperor were driven around in their land by the eight-nation alliance of less than 20,000 people in the darkest period, and the people of this country were called the sick men of East Asia for the next fifty years, and this country was despised by the whole world." And in a great war, this nation crushed the sixteen-nation modern coalition army of millions of people in the land of neighboring countries, the whole world began to respect her, and began to re-evaluate the weight of this nation, the true appearance of the Chinese volunteer army getting stronger and stronger in the war, revealing the treacherous international situation and unknown secret operations at that time, the scene was grand, the momentum was magnificent, and the heroic feelings of the revolutionaries jumped on the paper, which could make people feel the fearless sentiment of the heroes of the Chinese volunteer army who sacrificed themselves to serve the country at close range
