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In 1950, 260,000 volunteer soldiers secretly infiltrated North Korea, and the U.S. military was fooled and was caught off guard.
Previously, the arrogant United States stubbornly believed that China would not dare to send troops and that there were no Chinese soldiers in North Korea. It wasn't until a few days later, when the Chinese and American armies were in close proximity, that they realized that China had really made a move.
Even so, MacArthur, the invincible five-star general, was still stubborn, estimating that the volunteer army would only be 50,000 to 70,000.
He never dreamed that under the noses of the US military, our soldiers would descend from the sky like divine soldiers, and before they knew it, 260,000 people would enter North Korea.
How did our soldiers do it? Why did China have to send troops to aid North Korea?
In June 1950, the Korean War broke out. In the early days of the war, the Korean People's Army took more than 90 percent of the Korean Peninsula in just two months.
The hasty and sudden outbreak of war in the DPRK immediately aroused the attention of the international community, and China, as a friendly neighbor, naturally attached great importance to this matter.
At first, China took a wait-and-see attitude towards the battle, until September, when MacArthur landed at Inchon with the United Nations forces, the situation turned drastically and the whole East was overshadowed by US imperialism.
In the final analysis, the Korean War was a derivative of the struggle for hegemony between the United States and the Soviet Union. After World War II, the United States and the Soviet Union imposed military occupation of their respective surrender territories in accordance with wartime agreements.
South and North Korea — the so-called Republic of Korea and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea — came into being. The essence of the Korean War was a struggle between capitalist and socialist countries in the Central Plains.
The United States sent United Nations troops to North Korea, which was said to be supporting the South Korean army, but the United States imperialism extended its claws to the whole of Asia, and China bore the brunt of it.
Let's start with a scary timeline. On June 25, the Korean Civil War broke out, and just two days later, U.S. President Harry S. Truman publicly announced that the United States would intervene in the Korean War with armed force.
At the same time, Truman also announced a bombshell news: the US Seventh Fleet sailed into the Taiwan Strait.
In the following July, MacArthur visited Taiwan and was warmly welcomed by Chiang Kai-shek, and the two sides met for 22 hours and had a very pleasant conversation.
Chiang Kai-shek regarded MacArthur's visit to Taiwan as a major victory, believing that he could use the power of the United States to counterattack the mainland.
If it is said that the US military is sending troops to the DPRK to support Syngman Rhee, then to win over the Taiwan authorities is to nakedly target New China, and it seems that the purpose of the US intervention in the war is not simple.
In the face of the US transgression, the Chinese government strongly protested and condemned it, but the next attitude of the United States completely angered China.
On 27 August, US warplanes flew over the border between China and North Korea and carried out indiscriminate bombing of China's Dandong area, causing monstrous fires, destroying civilian houses and killing innocent Chinese people tragically under US military fire.
Chairman Mao was furious! The Party Central Committee was furious! It was imperative to resist US aggression and aid Korea.
It is true that at this time, there was a huge disparity in strength between China and the United States, and the US military possessed all kinds of high-precision, sophisticated and modern weapons, as well as absolute air supremacy.
However, Chairman Mao still decided to aid North Korea, and the leader's words are still deafening: "Fight with one punch, lest a hundred punches come."
Chairman Mao believed that once the United States ruled Korea, it would be across the river from China, and the northeast would be in danger at any time.
At the same time, the United States also wooed Taiwan, and then threatened East China and Shanghai. The United States can intervene militarily in North Korea today, and tomorrow it can find an excuse to invade China.
Peng Dehuai, commander-in-chief of our Volunteer Army, highly agreed with Chairman Mao's view, and in the words of Mr. Peng, it was: "When a tiger eats a human depends on its appetite, and we cannot sit idly by." ”
From the time of preparation to the time of departure, our huge contingent of volunteers was fully equipped and ready to go in less than three months.
How did the first batch of 260,000 soldiers enter the DPRK and sneak into the DPRK without knowing it, killing the US troops by surprise?
The first 260,000 volunteer soldiers infiltrated North Korea, but the U.S. military was unaware of it and suffered heavy losses.
The Korean War broke out suddenly, and under such circumstances, the formation of the Volunteer Army was also temporary and hasty.
Even so, our soldiers still completed the assembly in an orderly manner, and the mighty Chinese army entered Korea without making a sound, and the super high military quality was vividly displayed.
What's going on?
When the U.S. military launched an air raid on Northeast China without emphasizing martial virtues, Chairman Mao made a wise decision with foresight and sagacity in addition to his anger -- the formation of the Northeast Frontier Army.
As the name suggests, the primary task of the Northeast Frontier Army is to defend the territory of the Northeast and if necessary, to wave the North Korean army and show the sword to US imperialism.
In Premier Zhou's words, this is called "being prepared but not used, being prepared." ”
However, with the rapid spread of the war, the next step is to burn into one's own doorstep, and it is imperative to resist US aggression and aid Korea, and it is a sure thing that the Northeast Frontier Army will enter the DPRK to fight.
At that time, only the 42nd Army was stationed here in the entire northeast to engage in production and construction, and the army commander was Wu Ruilin.
It can be said that the 42nd Army is the vanguard of the entire Volunteer Army, and Wu Ruilin has shouldered the pre-war preparations of the Volunteer Army before going abroad, and has made great contributions.
Regarding entering the DPRK, Chairman Mao's instructions were only four words, "the whole process will be kept secret." Before the battle began, the military operation was to be kept absolutely secret, and no propaganda reports were allowed from any relevant parties.
At this time, Wu Ruilin took the initiative to ask for help to go deep into North Korea to survey the terrain and open the way for the volunteers.
Without saying a word, Wu Ruilin took the reconnaissance chief, the operations chief, and several staff officers disguised themselves as conductors and set off from Andong by train to Pyongyang via Sinuiju.
Along the way, they carefully examined the terrain, drawing and recording as they went, and looked at it again on the way back.
Where there are rivers, where there are holes, where there are bushes, where there are villages, all remember it clearly.
Even how wide the river is, how big the hole is, how many people there are in the village, and how far the village is from the railway, everything is clear.
This provided great convenience for the combat operations of the volunteers after they entered the DPRK, and the US military called the volunteers "moving ghosts," which could not be seen or touched, and Wu Ruilin made great contributions.
When the train reached the Yalu River, Wu Ruilin saw someone wading across the river, and Wu Ruilin immediately came to the riverside to investigate.
He personally went into the water and walked back and forth, and found that the shallow part of the water was only below the knee, and the depth was only above the knee.
However, the soldiers are very fast, and at the same time, they have to evade the reconnaissance and strafing of enemy aircraft. Thus, a great invention was born to resist US aggression and aid Korea, which was the underwater bridge.
On the evening of October 16, the 42nd Army, the vanguard of the Volunteer Army, took the lead in secretly crossing the river from the underwater bridge and arrived in North Korea.
At this time, there were still three days before the official entry of the large army of the Volunteer Army, and the 42nd Army completed the crossing of the river in only seven hours according to the predetermined plan.
During this period, the US military launched three aerial reconnaissance raids, but all of them were perfectly concealed by the 42nd Army and did not cause any losses.
Finally, on October 19, the assembled Northeast Frontier Army was renamed the Chinese People's Volunteer Army.
The 13th Corps has four corps and artillery units under its jurisdiction, with a total of 260,000 troops.
In order to maintain secrecy, the various troops crossing the river began to move at half past six in the evening, had to finish at four o'clock in the morning, and had to be fully concealed before five o'clock, so they quietly entered North Korea.
From the time of entering the DPRK until the first shot was officially fired, our volunteer soldiers came and went without a trace, all of them marched at night, and during the day, they avoided roads and used tunnels, caves, mines, and villages to hide.
In order to avoid lighting fires and cooking smoke to attract US troops, all our soldiers brought their own dry rations, and it was not a problem for them to be self-sufficient for five days.
Afterwards, the Americans also wondered, didn't the Chinese soldiers have to eat? Not even a trace of life could be captured.
However, the shock that the volunteers brought to the US military was far more than that. When the battle began, the U.S. military was collectively stunned.
Prior to this, the US intelligence agencies repeatedly packed the ticket and said that China would not send troops to aid the DPRK, so the US military swaggered and flaunted its military might in the DPRK as if there was no China as an opponent.
When the volunteers launched an encirclement and suppression of the US military from all directions, the US military still did not want to believe that the intelligence was wrong, and it was not until they were beaten and fled that they really realized that they had been deceived.
Why, then, is the United States so sure that China will not send troops? The light enemy of the United States has also laid the groundwork for the victory or defeat of this battle?
In 1950, 260,000 volunteers quietly entered North Korea secretly, giving the U.S. military a dismount.
As early as the beginning of the United States' decision to intervene with arms, it launched an assessment that China would not dare to send troops to aid North Korea.
MacArthur was even more arrogant in saying that the combat capability of the Chinese army is not worth being overestimated, and even if it comes, there is no need to be afraid.
However, the facts are slapping in the face, what happened?
When the Korean War broke out, less than a year after the birth of New China, there was another socialist country in the world, which was obviously undesirable for the United States, which wanted to take more benefits after World War II.
At that time, the United States took it for granted that New China did not have independence and that it had to ask the Soviet Union about everything before it could act.
Therefore, one only needs to test the attitude of the Soviet Union towards the Korean War, and the possibility of China sending troops can be deduced.
The United States symbolically carried out small-scale attacks on Soviet planes and airfields, but the Soviet Union's friendly attitude towards peace simply surprised the United States.
The United States also took it for granted that the Soviet Union was adopting a policy of non-intervention, and only then did it unleash its hands and feet to carry out a series of strategic deployments against the DPRK and China.
It is true that the attitude of the Soviet Union could not be called positive, and it originally said that it was willing to provide air force assistance to the volunteers, but before leaving, it suddenly repented.
But whether it was the Soviet Union or the United States, they did not understand China at all and completely underestimated the determination of the Chinese people to defend their country.
Putting aside the Soviet factor, the second reason why the United States firmly believes that China does not dare to send troops is that it fundamentally despises China and believes that China does not have the ability to fight across borders at this time.
The US Government believes that China is too busy to take care of itself, the domestic situation is grim, the Taiwan issue, the economy is lagging behind, the industrial base is weak, spies and banditry are rampant......
The piles and piles are enough to make the Chinese government anxious, and there is no leisure to help North Korea.
As a result, the CIA, the top intelligence agency of the United States at the time, said that there was no sign of China's entry into the war at present, and there will be no in the future.
But the fact is that when the CIA said this, our military commander Wu Ruilin had already had a clear understanding of the terrain of North Korea.
As for MacArthur, arrogance is his nature, and as the supreme commander of the United Nations forces, he should be cautious. However, the five-star general never thought about preventing trouble before it happened, which led to the collapse of the US army.
The Battle of Yunshan is the most typical proof of this. At the end of October, spies reported that a Chinese army of more than 2,000 people had been spotted in the southwest and was cutting off supply lines.
On 1 November, a security officer reported a group of 3,000 Chinese troops advancing 10 kilometres, and in the afternoon observers flying the plane spotted two more Chinese troops moving south.
At this time, the Chinese Volunteers had already taken action and attacked the South Korean Army in the Onjeong area, and the news that the Chinese soldiers had entered the Korean War was overwhelmingly attacking the US troops.
The eyebrows were about to burn, but the US troops in the Yunshan area still couldn't believe it, and they were collectively stunned on the spot, and their reaction was half a beat slower, and as a result, they were cut off by the volunteers and cut off their escape routes, and finally died, and those who were captured were captured.
At this juncture, MacArthur and the Eighth Army, including the intelligence department of the Far East Command, still felt that there was nothing to fear, and assessed that the number of Chinese troops entering Korea was between 5 and 70,000 at most.
This kind of erroneous judgment directly led to a major failure of the US military's strategic decision on the Korean battlefield.
On the other hand, from the moment Chairman Mao decided to resist US aggression and aid Korea, the entire Chinese army was engaged in war preparations in an orderly manner, and the high efficiency, the cautious deployment, and the cautious action were jaw-dropping and breathtaking.
On the other hand, after our volunteer soldiers won several major victories one after another, Chairman Mao's telegram, in addition to commendations, was a thousand exhortations to our soldiers, warning our soldiers not to rush for success, because the arrogant soldiers will be defeated.
Besides, when it comes to fighting, American GIs eat and drink spicy food, and they have too many good days, so how can they compare with the volunteer soldiers with extremely rich combat experience.
Which of our fighters did not go from the War of Resistance to the Liberation of the Whole Country, the quality of individual soldiers is strong, the per capita soldier is king, what lures the enemy to go deeper, positional warfare combined with movement warfare, and annihilation warfare, all of them are captured by hand, and they are fought as they say.
On the one hand, there is a cautious, steady, and powerful volunteer army, and on the other hand, there is an arrogant, loosely disciplined, and passable US army.
The most important thing is that our soldiers have a sincere heart to risk their lives to defend our homeland, and no amount of aircraft and artillery of the US military can shatter this precious heart.
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