Seventy-one years have passed since the Volunteer Army entered the Korean War. Seventy-one years ago, a group of the most adorable people crossed the Yalu River, in the ice and snow, between the mountains and rivers, and fought against the seventeen-nation coalition army that was several times more equipped than themselves, and many soldiers were still just experiencing World War II.
Seventy-one years later, some people say that the war was made by the number of people, some people say that the United States and its allies "did not give their full strength", is this really the case?
Shortly before the outbreak of the Korean War, someone once confidently said before a major battle:
But soon after, he was punched in the face at the speed of light.
Is it the UN forces that do not contribute? MacArthur was removed from his post with more than 600,000 dead, and if the UN forces really came to fight casually, it would obviously be unfair to the families of the more than 600,000 people who died in the battle. What's more, decades later, the U.S. military spent a full two decades in Afghanistan, facing much weaker adversaries, just as desperate.
As a literal superpower, the United States was once able to directly support the operation of a regime thousands of miles away, and could directly change a country's flag. Especially in the 1950s, World War II devastated most countries, but the United States was almost completely untouched, and the industrial scale almost reached its peak. At that time, China had just experienced the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the War of Liberation, most of the domestic industries had not yet recovered, bandits were rampant in remote areas, and the Kuomintang forces in many areas were still resisting.
It was this contrast of forces that the volunteers and the Korean military and civilians exerted their organizational strength and will to fight to the extreme. Usually, infantry dispersed marches are often only found in small groups of special forces or reconnaissance units, and large-scale dispersed marches are prone to scattered formations or tactical inability to unfold. However, the Volunteer Army was able to disperse as a division, assemble at the battle site and launch a battle, relying on amazing organizational strength.
In the Tieyuan Blockade Battle, in order to slow down the marching speed of the US armored troops, the 63rd Army scattered the troops into small detachments to block Ridgway's troops in layers, but a small detachment faced with a formed heavy armored unit with an almost zero survival rate, and when the three- or five-person detachment faced the heavily armored troops of the entire US Army of more than 70,000 people, it knew that it had died nine times, but there was still no one to retreat, and in this battle, the 63rd Army lost more than 20,000 people, leaving only more than 3,000 people.
In ancient warfare, a more than half of the casualties basically meant that the army lost its combat effectiveness. It was very difficult to keep the spirit of concentration and be undaunted by the impending death as the opposing troops advanced in a crushing manner and watched their comrades in front of them fall one by one, but the volunteers did it.
The reason is that in the old society, an ordinary peasant, a craftsman, a small businessman, or a big soldier in the army could easily become the price of a power struggle, or a submerged part of social unrest, even if he died, it was not clear, and even the powerful masters would point to the tombstones and laugh, if there were tombstones.
But in new China, there are no superior chiefs, no humble and noble theory, everyone can read, everyone has the right to be treated, everyone will be treated as a complete person, if the "foreign adults" come in, the life they have just gained will be respected, taken care of, and protected will disappear. If you die in battle, you will be regarded as a hero, your family will be taken care of; if you retreat, you will become a walking dead with no one to rely on. Fighting is the best option for anyone, and such an army would obviously explode with amazing combat effectiveness.
In fact, every great power that still exists has had a moment of astonishing combat effectiveness, the British fleet has been defeated by every colony, but it has also won the last battle; the French Napoleonic cavalry has swept through Europe, and most of Europe has been sidelined; Russia has staged the "coming winter" several times when the Moscow soldiers are approaching the city; the United States has pushed back all the way back after the White House was burned black, repelling the well-formed and well-armed British army with a not very neat team.
And China, in this war, told the world: We are not afraid of any challenge, even if the other side is the world's first power, the only nuclear weapon holder at that time.
In the Korean War, there was a 50th Army, which was originally a nationalist rebel unit, after being transformed, it fought two battalions on the Korean battlefield to defeat a whole heavy unit of the British Army, captured and destroyed more than twenty tanks, and later this unit even took the lead in marching into Seoul! "The civil war has not been won, the foreign war has not been lost" is the characteristic of this unit.
Conversely, if a unit lacks the will to fight, or even knows what it is fighting for, it is likely to stagnate in the case of absolute superiority. After all, for ordinary soldiers, if they exchange their lives for other people's promotions and wealth, then they do not have to risk their lives to do anything, the US military in Vietnam, Afghanistan, in the Middle East, have encountered such problems, so there is a magic scene of "bandits can not be suppressed, nor can they be completely suppressed".
The reason why East Asia can become today's "monster room", the courage to fight is indispensable, and the evolution of "monster level" cannot be achieved by relying on advanced equipment alone. Seventy-one years ago, we had less steel and more gas, and we still defeated US imperialism with more steel and less gas; seventy-one years later, we are not short of steel, so why did we have a large number of "Muyang dogs" and "leading the way party" that worshiped the United States and were afraid of it? I can't figure it out!