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Some people actually said that Mr. Peng couldn't beat Li Qiwei, so there was a truce to resist US aggression and aid Korea, and the truth cannot be slandered!
On Christmas Eve 1950, at a Pentagon meeting to discuss the Korean War, the audience was in a state of arguing over MacArthur's performance on the Korean battlefield.
When Li Qiwei saw such a scene, he was puzzled: "Why don't you just remove MacArthur who did not obey the command?" Everyone looked at each other, and the next day Li Qiwei took up the post of commander of the 8th Army in the Korean War. Will he be able to turn the tide of battle as everyone thinks?
After Li Qiwei went to the Korean battlefield on Christmas Day, he immediately summoned the commanders of all the armies under the Korean battlefield and the commanders of all divisions except the capital of South Korea.
He asked these high-ranking generals one by one, and the answers given by these people without exception were that any attack would fail no matter what method and tactics were used. Such low morale made Ridgway realize the seriousness of the problem.
Li Qiwei thought that these senior commanders were still so depressed, and the situation of the soldiers below must be even more serious, so he immediately went to visit the garrison of the soldiers in the barracks, and found that the soldiers were not the slightest guarded, and they were dressed in everything.
In the past, the American soldiers he saw would always be neatly dressed and carry their white gloves with them, and they pinned their sense of national honor on their white gloves, similar to the chivalry of Western countries.
And the American soldiers on the Korean battlefield sat without statues, some lost their hats, some did not wear gloves, some were in a daze, and more soldiers looked at the photos of their families and thought about others.
This fully reflects one thing, the soldiers here have no fighting spirit, the former national honor has been completely shattered, everyone from top to bottom feels that this battle cannot be won, and they look forward to returning home and reuniting with their relatives after the war.
Li Qiwei instantly realized that it was impossible for the current group of soldiers to win against the opposing volunteer army, and in order to win the war, the morale of this group of soldiers must be restored first.
In order to boost the morale of the soldiers, Ridgway, driving a jeep and wearing the clothes of the Marines, ordered the kitchen to be moved near the troops, so that the soldiers could have hot food at any time, and let the helicopters carry the letters written by the soldiers to their families to the United States.
But Li Qiwei knew in his heart that these actions could only temporarily alleviate the homesickness of the soldiers, and if they wanted to restore their morale, they must win the battle, but he did not have any operational information about the volunteers at all now.
It stands to reason that MacArthur, as the strongest five-star general in the United States, must have accumulated a lot of combat experience when fighting with the volunteers, so how could he gain nothing?
Li Qiwei, who was anxious to obtain information about the Volunteers' operations in order to discover the weaknesses of the Volunteers, did not have much time to think about this problem, and in order to quickly obtain the available information of the Volunteers, he encouraged the soldiers to constantly take risks and attack in order to obtain information.
After several rounds of exploration, Ridgway drew the following lessons from his own soldiers:
First, the firepower of the Chinese Volunteers is extremely weak, and the infantry is the backbone of the shock, well-trained, and good at reconnaissance; second, the tactics are flexible, and there are specially formulated plans for their own weak firepower; third, they are strong in mountain operations; and finally, on the opposite side is an army that has not yet been built into a modern army, and there are many weaknesses that can be exploited.
In view of the above four points, Li Qiwei began to think about what is the weakness of this extremely poorly equipped but extremely combat-capable team? After carefully studying the offensive nodes of the Chinese People's Volunteers, he found a weakness that could be exploited.
After the Volunteers marched into Korea, they began their offensive on October 26, and eight days later the American troops withdrew to the south of the Cheongchon River, attacked again on November 25 and stopped eight days later, and launched an offensive on December 31 and stopped eight days later.
During this period, the volunteers would launch an attack every month, and each attack lasted eight days. What does one month and eight days mean? After many investigations, Li Qiwei finally discovered the secret of the Chinese People's Volunteers.
The volunteers do not have the ability to attack for a long time! Because the United Nations forces have occupied the air battlefield and the non-stop bombing at any time has caused the supplies of the volunteers to keep up, the volunteers can only rely on themselves to carry food and ammunition, and once they run out, they must stop attacking and wait for supplies.
This is the reason why each attack of the volunteers can only last one hour. After Li Qiwei knew the biggest weakness of the Chinese army, he immediately began to prepare for battle, this time, will the US army be victorious? And is Mr. Peng really afraid of Li Qiwei?
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Some people say that the armistice to resist US aggression and aid Korea is because Mr. Peng can't beat Li Qiwei, and the truth cannot be slandered!
On April 7, 1952, the victory of the Korean battlefield was decided, Mr. Peng returned to Beijing for treatment, and in May of the same year, Li Qiwei left the Korean battlefield according to the instructions of his superiors, and was replaced by Clark, and an armistice agreement was signed on July 27, 1953.
In a later interview, Clark said: "I was the first general to sign an armistice in a war that was not won. ”
What happened on the Korean battlefield, and why did you replace Li Qiwei, who had achieved a certain victory on the Korean battlefield?
This brings us back to the "magnetic tactics" of Ridgway, who became famous in the world in one fell swoop on the Korean battlefield. It was this tactic that made the once unknown Li Qiwei the world's top ranked general on the Korean battlefield.
Ridgway's style of fighting was very different from that of his predecessor, MacArthur, who did not care about the casualties of his soldiers, and saw only victory and "a magnificent self" in his eyes.
Li Qiwei was different from him, during his tenure, Li Qiwei not only personally went into battle and led the soldiers into battle, but also cared very much about the names of the soldiers, and after he took over the Korean battlefield, the casualty rate of American soldiers plummeted.
It was this emphasis he attached to the fighters that allowed the American soldiers to gradually regain a certain level of morale. Li Qiwei seized the opportunity and immediately prepared to launch a counterattack.
In order to ensure that the soldiers had a strong morale from top to bottom, Li Qiwei issued five military orders in a row, replacing all the commanders of the 1st, 2nd, 7th, 24th, and 25th divisions of the US army.
The tactics of the South Korean Army taking the lead and the US forces attacking in the rear were completely overturned, and the battle method of using the US forces with fierce firepower as the main attack was adopted, and the charge called "Operation Thunderbolt" was launched.
According to his previous understanding of the U.S. military, if the volunteers do not charge, the U.S. military will not take the initiative to attack, so Mr. Peng plans to rest for two months before launching a charge.
Li Qiwei took advantage of the loophole that the volunteers had no supplies and could not fight for a long time, and began to charge, and three days later, Mr. Peng called Chairman Mao to ask if he could retreat 15 to 30 kilometers.
The tide of the war on the Korean battlefield began to turn around from this moment, and Li Qiwei ordered the US troops to stick tightly to the volunteers and keep a distance of 30 kilometers from them.
The volunteers have no ammunition and food supplies, and every charge requires our army to exert great strength, and our army is good at fighting at night, but the distance between the US army and our army is kept at about 30 kilometers, which is exactly the longest distance of our army's night march.
As a result, our army's superiority in night operations came to naught, and often before the battle began, the day dawned, and the combat superiority was completely lost. Whenever our army does not attack, the US military will launch an attack after our army has recuperated for seven or eight days, when it is running out of ammunition and food.
Such a bad tactic led to about 7-80,000 casualties in our army, and this incident also became one of the most tragic battles in Mr. Peng's life, and countless soldiers lost their lives because of running out of ammunition and food.
However, Mr. Peng's own fighting ability was undoubted, and he finally won the battle, and Li Qiwei saw that there was no hope of victory in the Korean War, so he secretly called Eisenhower, hoping to transfer him from the Korean battlefield.
Eisenhower was preparing for the U.S. election at the time, and he naturally loved his general who made him famous, and seeing that the defeat on the Korean battlefield was decided, he didn't want his famous general to be tainted and affect his election, so he transferred him.
After Ridgway withdrew from the battlefield, Clark signed an armistice not long after taking office, becoming the target of the American people. However, under the protection of the people behind him, Li Qiwei successfully maintained the face of the Americans and became the god of war that the Americans admired incomparably.
At this point, a question will arise, it is obviously Mr. Peng who won the final victory on the Korean battlefield and most of the battles, why did the Americans let Mr. Peng be below Li Qiwei in the ranking of the world's famous generals?
The answer to this question can be used to explain why there are rumors that Mr. Peng can't beat Li Qiwei. We live in China, and the perspective of the Korean War is generally based on the idea that we want to defend our homeland and defend our country.
Therefore, for us, the Korean War was a just war to protect the motherland and let the Chinese people stand up in the world from now on. But not for Americans.
What would the Korean War look like from their point of view?
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The truth cannot be slandered, the armistice to resist US aggression and aid Korea, is it because Mr. Peng can't beat Li Qiwei!
On June 25, 1950, the Korean Civil War broke out, and the whole world was concerned about whether we would send troops.
In the end, Chairman Mao made up his mind that this battle must be fought, and when asked who was willing to fight this battle, only Mr. Peng straightened his waist in the silence and took this battle with almost no chance of winning lightly.
In the Korean War, why did China have to send troops?
It all started with the war of liberation that we fought, when the People's Liberation Army and the Kuomintang army were in the stage of confrontation with each other, but the Soviet Union, which was far away in Europe, issued orders one after another, demanding that we stop fighting and stand on a separate river with the Kuomintang.
This order made Chairman Mao angry, how could he liberate the oppressed people if he did not wipe out the Kuomintang in general. So Chairman Mao did not listen to the instructions of the Soviet Union, but drove the remnants of the national army all the way to Taiwan.
At the same time, we declare to the world that we will not recognize the annulment of a series of treaties signed by the previous government. This made Stalin angry.
Because the Soviet Union signed a treaty with the Kuomintang long before the Liberation War, ceding Dalian and Arthur ports to the Soviet Union in exchange for the Soviet Union's equipment support for the Kuomintang.
Yes, it was also socialism, and it was also under the banner of communism, but at that time, for its own interests, the Soviet Union chose to support the Kuomintang with weapons and equipment, and turned a blind eye to us who also believed in communism, and even wantonly bullied and oppressed.
In December 1949, Chairman Mao sent an envoy to the Soviet Union to ask the Soviet Union to return to Dalian and Lushun, but the Soviet Union refused to cooperate. At this time, the United States sent good news and issued a series of statements that it was willing to recognize China's international status and so on.
The purpose of the United States was to sow discord between the socialist countries, and the Soviet Union was afraid of completely losing its prestige in the socialist countries, and the mainland took advantage of this to take Lushun back, but at the same time offended the Soviet Union.
The Soviet Union did not die of thieves in the three eastern provinces and other places, hoping to get these large ports to make the international status of the Soviet Union more stable, in today's world, it is impossible for a country without large seaports to develop its economy very well, and the Soviet Union just did not.
He dreamed of a large seaport to develop the economy, but the mainland wanted the port back, and the Soviet Union naturally would not give up. Therefore, it was designed that when the Korean Civil War broke out, if China did not send troops to obstruct the US military, the Soviet Union would go up and fight the US army on its own.
Near the border of the 38th parallel, once the Soviet troops were stationed, the three eastern provinces and other places became the pockets of the Soviet Union, but China had just been established at that time, and under the oppression of many years of war and semi-colonial and semi-feudal, the mainland could not even assemble a professional army.
Not to mention the fact that there are far more American troops than the mainland to fight. If we do not fight, we will cede the three eastern provinces to the Soviet Union, and if we lose, China is likely to become a defeated subordinate of the US military and become the territory of the United States.
After China entered the war, the whole world was watching the outcome of this battle, and the United States at that time defined this battle as a contest between isms and isms, with South Korea representing capitalism and North Korea representing socialism.
Victory or defeat in this battle means which doctrine is the most advanced and which doctrine is the most suitable for the world. No one expected that this war would turn out to be our victory.
We took the millet plus rifle and defeated the United States, the strongest country in the world at that time. The American people were shocked because they never thought they would fail.
If they had been defeated by the Soviet Union, they might not have been so shocked, but at that time, China was poor and weak, and the United States sent its strongest general, MacArthur, to be beaten without the power to fight back, which was unacceptable to the proud American people.
Later, Li Qiwei and Clark were replaced, only Li Qiwei had a few victorious battles, and after Clark took office, he presided over the only major battle, the Battle of Shangganling, and was beaten without any defense.
As a result, in later American narratives, singing the praises of Ridgway became the only way to save the United States from this unjustifiable failure. By lifting up one of Ridgway's few victories, he eased the vanity of the loser who had nowhere to put him.