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In the period just after the end of World War II, the US military can be described as the general existence of "world masters", not only all kinds of advanced weapons and equipment, all kinds of novel tactics emerge in an endless stream, but also have a lot of wealth, and the united States in the whole world has not been seriously injured by the war, on the contrary, it has made a lot of war wealth and has become the world's number one hegemon.
Most awe-inspiringly, for some time after the end of World War II, the Soviet Union had not yet developed an atomic bomb, and only the United States had an atomic bomb. A strong militant force has emerged in the United States, advocating the transformation of the atomic bomb from a strategic deterrent weapon into a tactical conventional weapon, that is, the US military can use the atomic bomb whenever it is needed. These militants also clamored to take advantage of the fact that the Soviet Union had not recovered from World War II, to launch a Third World War as soon as possible and eliminate the socialist camp, including New China, in one fell swoop.
The clouds of world war are once again hanging over, and it was in this context that the Korean War took place.
New China has just been founded, it is in ruins to be rebuilt, it is poor and white, and it is in urgent need of construction and development, so there are two different views on whether to intervene in the Korean War, one is that the strength of the US military is too strong, and the strength of new China is too weak, and it should not take huge risks to send troops. In another view, if US imperialism burns the flames of war to the Yalu River, the people's army should defend the country without hesitation, and at the same time it should fulfill its obligations of internationalism, even if it fails, it will only be equivalent to a few years of liberation. Although the two views are different, it can be seen that both admit that the disparity in strength between China and the United States is too large, and both have doubts about whether they can resist or even defeat the US military.
At that time, there were indeed some fears of the United States, especially the atomic bomb, some rumors exaggerating the power of the atomic bomb, and some superstitious methods of dealing with the atomic bomb, which adversely affected people. Therefore, in the case of the instructors making a decision to send troops to Korea to resist the United States and aid Korea, it is imperative to quickly eliminate the fear of the US troops in the troops.
In order to eliminate this fear, we must find some people who have come into contact with the US military and are familiar with the advantages and disadvantages of the US army; the PLA is relatively lacking in this regard, and the best target is undoubtedly the officers of the former Kuomintang troops, especially the officers of the Chinese Expeditionary Force who went to the Battlefield of India and Burma during the War of Resistance.
So a person surfaced, he was zheng dongguo, the former changchun defender who rebelled in the Liaoshen campaign.
Zheng Dongguo, and Du Yuming are the first graduates of the Whampoa Military Academy, participated in the Northern Expedition, but also participated in the war to encircle and suppress the Soviet Union, but the highlight of his life was the War of Resistance Against Japan, in 1938, Zheng Dongguo became the deputy commander of the Fifth Army of the first mechanized army of the Kuomintang, after the outbreak of the Pacific War, at the request of the British and American allies, the Kuomintang sent the Chinese Expeditionary Force to Burma, the war situation was unfavorable, temporarily retired to India to accept the EQUIPMENT of the US army and make an adjustment. In India, several expeditionary force units were reorganized into the New First Army, and Zheng Dongguo became the commander of the New First Army.
This new First Army, unlike other Kuomintang "American ordnance units," was equipped with a lot of weapons aided by the United States (in addition to retaining a large number of miscellaneous weapons), but the command, training, and combat of the units were still the same old-fashioned tactics of the Kuomintang troops, and they did not come into contact with any new tactical ideas at all.
The new First Army is fundamentally different, the New First Army is completely under the command of the US Indo-Burma Theater Command, military expenditure, weapons and equipment, troop training, supplies... Even military uniforms are issued by the U.S. military. Moreover, the troops have US instructors directly down to the grass-roots level, hand in hand to train soldiers in accordance with the US military model, the combat mode is also deeply affected by the US military. It can be said that the New First Army is not only a "US ordnance unit" in the true sense, but even an "American-style unit" without exaggeration, and is the group most familiar with the US military in the Chinese.
Zheng Dongguo later became an uprising general in the Battle of Changchun in the Liberation War because of the uprising of the troops. In fact, Zheng Dongguo was a typical Kuomintang general with foolish and loyal ideas similar to Qiu Qingquan, who saw that the general situation had gone, and even wanted to commit suicide, but thanks to the obstruction of his subordinates, he did not succeed. It is conceivable how contradictory Zheng Dong's domestic heart once was. However, after the founding of New China, Zheng Dongguo began to reflect after witnessing the people's army and the people's government being completely different from the corrupt and incompetent Kuomintang, especially after receiving the cordial care of Chairman Mao Zhou, and Zheng Dongguo's domestic heart world changed.
After the outbreak of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, New China resolutely decided to send troops to Korea, which deeply shocked Zheng Dongguo, and under the call of his own national righteousness, Zheng Dongguo was determined to make some contributions to the motherland's battle against the world's number one power.
In October 1950, Chairman Mao cordially summoned Zheng Dongguo, asked him whether he smoked or not, Zheng Dongguo was an addict, answered smoking, Chairman Mao handed him a cigarette, and personally drew him a match to light a cigarette for him, Zheng Dongguo was very touched, and also very warm and uneasy mood calmed down. Chairman Mao asked him about his past during his time as an expeditionary force, and he wanted to ask him to talk about some of the situation of the US army. After all, in China, no one knows this better than he does. Zheng Dongguo then talked about the basic characteristics of the US military.
Zheng Dongguo said: In fact, the strength of the US military completely depends on its abundant national strength and financial resources, as well as its fine and advanced weapons, and the quality of the officers and men of the US military is particularly pampered and habitual, and they cannot cope with operations under difficult conditions and cannot fight hard battles. He gave a real case, a Sino-US coalition army marching in the mountain jungle, the US officers and soldiers left the car, marching on foot is particularly unbearable, tired of walking, constantly anxious to throw away the equipment on their bodies, not only weapons and ammunition were thrown all the way, and finally even the uniforms were thrown away, after arriving at the destination, only a large pair of pants remained! Anyway, the US military has sufficient weapons and equipment, throw it and then send it, so wasteful, no one should take it seriously!
Listening to the "virtues" of the US military, Premier Chairman Mao Zhou and the senior cadres of our army present all laughed with disdain, and it is not difficult for anyone to find out from them that there is a world of difference in the will quality and combat quality of the two Sino-US armed forces, and these huge differences are even greater than the gap in weapons between the Chinese and AMERICAN armies. Zheng Dongguo's introduction has cleared away some feelings of fear of the enemy and further strengthened our army's confidence in the victory of the just war to defend the family and defend the country! If you have any interesting insights, please feel free to leave a message below to discuss! (This article is Uncle Yi said the world series, interested friends, please use WeChat to search for the public number: the situation emperor, watch all the original articles of the Uncle Yi said the world series)