On March 6, 1952, U.S. President Harry S. Truman ordered that Maridgway be relieved of his post as commander-in-chief of the "United Nations Forces" and in May of the same year, he became supreme commander of NATO's armed forces. His post as commander-in-chief of the "United Nations Forces" was succeeded by Clark of the United States.
Coincidentally, on April 7, Peng Dehuai, commander of the Chinese Volunteers, left for China due to illness and presided over the daily work of the Central Military Commission. On the recommendation of Peng Dehuai, the commander of the volunteer army was temporarily presided over by Chen Geng.
By April 1952, China and the United States had basically entered a stalemate phase, and in April, the US army attacked the volunteers more than 60 times with small units, and none of the Chinese positions were lost.
In 1985, at the request of the United States, the two sides each provided figures on casualties on both sides during the Korean War, in which the data provided by the US military to the Chinese military was that in the Korean War, 60 percent of the casualties of the US military were caused by artillery fire, and the casualties caused by our artillery to the enemy finally exceeded the casualties caused by the infantry to the enemy, which is precisely the embodiment of the earth-shaking changes in the weapons and equipment of the Chinese army.
Among the information provided by each side, there is a small battle that has attracted the attention of experts in the war history of both sides, because the information on both sides has been checked almost incorrectly.
This very simple battle took place on the night of July 8, 1952, when a reconnaissance team of five men was ordered to escort an artillery reconnaissance platoon leader and a signal corps behind enemy lines to survey American pillboxes and positions. Provide intelligence for artillery attacks.
The group secretly evaded the US artillery blockade, crossed the middle ground between the two sides, and drilled to the left front of the old bald mountain in the continuous blind strafing of US machine guns. The reconnaissance group completed the escort task on time, and the rest was the affairs of Liu Jianhua, commander of the artillery reconnaissance platoon, and Li Baojiang, the signal soldier. In the second half of the night, Liu Jianhua and Li Baojiang finally quietly climbed the 346.6 heights behind the old bald mountain with binoculars and a walkie-talkie weighing more than ten kilograms.
It is great that the two volunteer soldiers chose the reconnaissance site, and the American military fortifications on the reverse slope of the old bald mountain are at a glance! The United States has built a large number of dark forts behind the old bald mountain, and if it wants to lay down the old bald mountain, it must first raze these dark forts, and two volunteer soldiers came for this purpose.
In the dark, the two warriors found a good hiding place under a large tree that grew on a steep slope. Li Baojiang used the whistling of machine gun bullets fired blindly by US soldiers as a cover, climbed up a large tree to set up an antenna, and then slipped down the tree to hide in the camouflage bunker dug by platoon leader Liu Jianhua in the thorn bush. Before dawn, Liu Jianhua discovered the twenty-two dark bunkers of the US army at once! Many circles were immediately added to the coordinate paper in his hand, and Li Baojiang immediately drilled his head into the machine bag and used code words to transmit the coordinates of the US bunker to the artillerymen tens of kilometers away.
And the artillery of the volunteer army fired shelling at the US troops according to the intelligence transmitted by Li Baojiang, and the first shell hit a hundred meters near the enemy's command bunker, which was a long-range shot of 8,000 meters! In this regard, the US army did not have any ideological preparation, and the shells of our army were like eyes, and the shells blasted the American soldiers out of the bunker.
Just as the shelling entered its climax, the signal soldiers' walkie-talkie actually "froze." The walkie-talkie became dumb, and the rear artillerymen lost their target designation and had to stop firing, at this time only half of the bunker group of Old Bald Mountain was knocked out. Together, the two Chinese soldiers decided to go back at night to change planes and then return to kill the remaining bunkers of the American soldiers. At 12 o'clock that night, two volunteer soldiers returned to the regimental command post. I changed the walkie-talkie and returned to the same place. Early the next morning, American GIs received shelling from volunteers.
During the shelling, eighteen of the twenty-two American reinforced concrete bunkers had been completely destroyed by noon, three more had collapsed, and the command bunker had also been blown up. What the US military is puzzled about is why the artillery of the volunteer army is so accurate. The possibility of intelligence leakage does not exist. It wasn't until 35 years later that the U.S. military woke up like a dream.
I am Gillian Shimizu, the watchman of history. Looking forward to your attention and comments.
