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The tanker turned his head, "Where are these big ears? These are wrapped in cloth..." Then he stopped talking.

"Haha, what are these big ears, ah no, the two big beards are for, can you tell me?"

Tanker: "...Secretary discipline, don't ask what you shouldn't ask! I'm leaving, goodbye."

Chapter 132, Unexpected rollover

In April 1951, the first tank division of the People's Liberation Army (also the first tank division in the history of the Chinese army) assembled in Andong; the world's first organic anti-aircraft missile force assembled in Andong.A new round of war on the Korean peninsula is gaining momentum.

Also in Anton, at the same time, in the rear hospital of the Volunteer Army, a young man who was seriously injured in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea was about to recover after several months of treatment and recuperation.

On November 1950, 11, the Zhisi garrison was attacked by the US military, and the confidential officer "Xiao Cao" was injured while transferring confidential documents.After being bandaged and rescued by the field hospital, Xiao Cao was sent to Anton for treatment.His right leg was fractured and a large muscle torn, but after surgery, the leg can be saved, and the function should not be affected after the injury.The more troublesome thing was internal bleeding. The field hospital found that Xiao Cao vomited blood from time to time after waking up, feeling that the injury was not simple.A detailed examination at Andong Hospital proved that there were multiple rib fractures, damage to the lungs, gastrointestinal tract and other organs, requiring a long period of hospitalization for recovery.

Xiao Cao still used a pseudonym when he was hospitalized, and the doctors and nurses only regarded him as a confidential member of the volunteer army. Even though Xiao Cao’s stepmother came to visit the hospital two months ago, the doctor didn’t think there was anything unusual, because the stepmother didn’t come to visit him when she came. Hug back, the battle is very small.As for the chairman, although he missed his eldest son very much, he really couldn't spare time to visit Anton, so he just wrote a few letters to comfort and encourage him.

Xiao Cao's legs recovered before his body. Since March, Xiao Cao has been able to walk out of the ward by himself and walk in the hospital for physical recovery.The right leg stretched and stretched gradually, and there was no pain, but there was still some chest tightness and pain after walking for a while.After practicing for a month, my legs and feet became more and more flexible, and the discomfort in my chest also decreased.Xiao Cao pondered, after a while he would report to his superiors to apply for rejoining the team.

This morning, Xiao Cao started his routine morning and evening foot training again.While walking around the building of the inpatient department, Xiao Cao saw a person he was very familiar with, but he never guessed that he would meet here.

"Peng... Mr. Peng?"

Mr. Peng, who was sitting in a wheelchair, turned his head and caught a glimpse of Xiao Cao, but he didn't say much, just let out a "hmm".

Xiao Cao signaled the nurse pushing the wheelchair to leave, and he came to support the wheelchair, and the two moved to a clean corner.

"Mr. Peng, something happened to Zhisi again?"

"No, Shiji is safe. Shiji hasn't been bombed since the last time you were injured."

"then you……"

"My car flipped over."

In the fourth battle, the logistics supply of the Volunteer Army was more difficult than the previous three battles. The soldiers could not be replenished for a while, and the ammunition and food delivered to the front were so small that Mr. Peng even slapped the table and scolded his mother. On March 3, after the Hengcheng-Topingli-Wuanzhou continuous counterattack ended, Mr. Peng sent a telegram to the central government, requesting to return to Beijing to report to the chairman in person.The central government approved Mr. Peng's request and prepared to hold an enlarged meeting of the Politburo. On March 4, Song Shilun took over as the commander of the Ye Group. Ye Ting returned from the Eastern Front. On the 3th, Mr. Peng took a jeep from Zhisi via Pyongyang and returned to Andong. On March 14, he arrived in Beijing by plane.

In Beijing, Mr. Peng first went to Zhongnanhai to meet with the chairman.Seeing Mr. Peng's sunken eye sockets, sallow complexion, and rough skin—now even Zhisi's food supply has problems, and he can only live on half fried noodles and half compressed dry food, the chairman asked Mr. Peng to eat first.The guards delivered the food and asked Mr. Peng to eat three bowls of rice in Jingmingyuan before the two discussed the situation of the Korean War.

Mr. Peng put down his chopsticks and complained. When he drove to Anton, he saw a large amount of food and ammunition piled up in Anton, but he couldn’t transport them to the front line. If he could transport 2 more shells to the front line by the end of February, an American division would be able to fight them. Lose.Mr. Peng summed up the differences between the Korean battlefield and the civil war.First of all, this is a real outside battle. You can't collect food or soldiers on the spot, but some cadres in the logistics and military service departments still say, "Can't you recruit some liberation fighters?" Mr. Peng wanted to curse people when he mentioned this.Second, except for some guns and ammunition, most of the heavy equipment of the US military cannot be used and cannot be used as a supplement to our military equipment.The third is the air superiority of the U.S. military. The U.S. Air Force is not like the national army back then. It is really terrible to blow up people.

In the end, Mr. Peng said bluntly that it is impossible to win a quick victory on the Korean battlefield, and we must be prepared for a long-term battle.

At the expanded meeting of the Politburo a few days later, Mr. Peng repeated these words and slapped the table again, asking the rear to solve the logistics and transportation problems, otherwise the second round of combat troops would be replaced, and the battle situation at the front would not be the same. What an improvement.

At this time, the central government's judgment on the situation of the Korean War has also changed a lot from the second and third battles. At the end of 1950, due to the contagion of the optimism of our army and the more optimistic sentiment of the Soviet Union, all campaign goals were formulated with the goal of liberating all of Korea, and even liberating all of Korea in a short period of time.In the late stage of the third battle, the extreme difficulties faced by our army's logistics began to appear. Even though a series of continuous counterattacks were completed in the fourth battle, they could only retreat alternately in the end. The battle must be fought in a different way. up.

The enlarged meeting of the Politburo is over, and Mr. Peng is about to rush back to Zhisi.I flew from Beijing to Andong, then took a jeep from Andong, and entered North Korea at night. Unexpectedly, there was an accident on the first night of driving, and I encountered a car accident on the road near the Qingchuan River.

On the Korean battlefield, car accidents are not uncommon at all. (Historical) Walker died in a car accident, which was overturned by a panicked South Korean truck; Deng Hua, the deputy commander of the Volunteer Army, also overturned the car. Deng Hua seriously injured his jaw and almost crushed his head.This is because almost all vehicles of the Volunteer Army can only be on the road at night, and they cannot turn on big lights.Only half of the drivers who died during the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea were killed by enemy plane bombing, and the other half were killed in car accidents.

In order to hurry up, Mr. Peng even let the jeep speed up as much as possible.As a result, a large rock was lifted up by a bomb and fell on the road during the day, but the patrolman didn't find it in time, and the jeep rolled over when it ran over it.Fortunately, shortly after leaving Anton, Mr. Peng was quickly found by the rescue medical team, and was immediately transported back to China to recuperate in Anton.

Mr. Peng is now sitting in a wheelchair with his left foot raised and covered with a thick plaster cast. The depression on his face can be smelled 30 meters away.

"It's not easy to hurt your muscles and bones. You are also in an old age, so you can rest for a while, or there will be sequelae."

"Huh," Mr. Peng pulled his face and said unconvinced, "It's just a broken leg, I can't die. After the plaster is removed, the leg can be bent, and I can get on the jeep. I'll go back. How are you?" ?”

"I'm going to make a report to apply for rejoining the team." Xiao Cao said.

"Return to the team, do you still want to return to the team? You don't know. After you were injured and went to the rear for treatment, I sent a telegram to the central government, suggesting that you go to the headquarters or the 50th center to work after your injury."

When Mr. Peng sent this telegram, he also attached a letter of self-criticism.This is the chairman's son, it's too dangerous, a mistake is a big deal.

……

"Luring the enemy deep, luring the enemy deep, how can it be so easy to lure. If you hold back at Chuncheon and let it pass at Dongducheon, the U.S. military will definitely flank Chuncheon from Dongducheon and level the front before crossing the [-]th parallel. Unless The U.S. military is stupid."

In the Beijing Combat Situation Center, Su Yu, the deputy chief of staff, was looking at a map while rubbing his temples with his belly fingers.

Mr. Peng was injured when his car overturned, which brought a lot of trouble to the combat command system of the Volunteer Army for a while.Now Ye Tign is temporarily serving as the acting commander of the Volunteer Army, and according to the suggestion of the Chief of Staff of the Soviet Army Shtemenko, the staff work in Beijing should be strengthened. Appointed Su Yu to sit in Beijing, discuss with Acting Commander Ye Ting and Chief of Staff of the Volunteer Army Xie Fang how to end the final stage of the fourth campaign and how to start the fifth campaign.

After the counterattack of Hengcheng-Toping-ri-Wonju ended, the fourth battle entered the second stage, and the Central Hezhi Division was planning the plan for the fifth battle.Considering the extreme fatigue of our army's front-line troops, the fifth battle must be dominated by the second round of battle troops, but how to carry out counterattack operations?After Suyu took over the staff job, he felt that there were many details of the campaign that were still to be discussed.

The first is whether luring the enemy to go deep to the end can disperse the various units of the United Nations Army and obtain the opportunity to intersperse and divide.The area where the two sides are currently fighting on the Korean Peninsula is in a very regular shape. The United Nations forces have advanced tens of kilometers, and the width of the peninsula has not increased significantly. Some parts have even been recessed, and the width of the battle line has also shortened.If you really want to get a wider front, the Volunteer Army and the People's Army probably have to retreat to the city of Pyongyang on the west front, and retreat to the city of Wonsan on the east front.The risk of such a retreat is very high, because it means that the Volunteer Army will give up the iron triangle area of ​​​​Tieyuan-Pingkang-Jinhua to the United Nations Army.

The second is to lure the enemy all the way to the top, whether it will tear apart the advancing line of the United Nations Army and create a protrusion that can be surrounded.Su Yu analyzed the actions of the United Nations Army in the first four battles, especially Li Qiwei's deployment of troops in the fourth battle, and thought that this chance was not great.The Hengcheng counterattack is purely useless by the South Korean army itself; the turning back at Toppingli is the double result of the US military's tactical mistakes and our army's intelligence advantages. The US military has suffered from the turning back and running. Here's the chance.

“宋兵团76、77、81、88、94师应立即脱离春川战斗，该地的防御战由66军和40军接管。上述5个师在金化-金城一带休整20天，与宋兵团再度投入战斗的6个师汇合。”粟峪给志司发报。

After the second battle of the 9th Corps, the 5 divisions continued to move forward, and the 6 divisions rested. Now the 6 divisions have finished their rest, and the 5 divisions that fought the fourth battle. There is not much food and ammunition left, but the troops have not suffered serious losses.If you can return to the Iron Triangle area for sufficient supplies and rest, you can continue to fight.If the entire corps can participate in the fifth battle intact, then our army's attack power will be further enhanced.

"Currently, we need to continue to lure the enemy deep. The 39th Army and 40th Army on the western front should withdraw to the next line of defense in a few days later. Our side in the direction of Chuncheon on the eastern front can retreat step by step synchronously according to the plan, or carry out several rounds. Stop it from the sky." Zhisi Xie Fang and Ye Ting jointly sent a telegram.

Su Yu still rubbed his temples, thinking for a long time. "Since the enemy's most recent stage, both the U.S. and South Korean troops have kept advancing in a straight line, strictly limiting the attack speed of the troops, with no protrusions, and no gaps between the troops. The tactical principles of the previous three battles should also be adjusted accordingly. First, The annihilation of the South Korean Army will not seriously shake the determination of the United Nations Army in future operations. The main purpose of the five campaigns should be to annihilate a part of the U.S. Army and make the United Nations Army lose its ability to attack; means, but it should be advanced from the night attack penetration method to the method of firepower breakthrough combined with rapid interspersion; third, the detour distance should be greatly increased, and some troops should implement large-depth penetration and encirclement operations of more than 50 to 60 kilometers, while others should implement The original 20-kilometer small-scale interspersed operations; fourth, the choice of strike targets. There are only 40 and 45 US Army Divisions near Chuncheon on the Eastern Front. Although there are 4 U.S. divisions on the western front, once they are interspersed and divided, the rest of the U.S. troops will pose little threat to us. It is recommended to focus on the counterattack on the western front to formulate a combat plan. Su."

At Su Yu's request, the 50 Center-Zhisi-Beijing telegraph line is no longer in the next door, but directly pulled into the War Situation Center. After Su Yu finished speaking, the staff officer wrote down the telegram and handed it over to the dispatcher after sorting out the manuscript. issue.Less than 5 minutes after Didi's telegram rang, Zhisi called back:

"The guidance coincides with the discussion of our front committee and the staff department, and we are already drawing up a specific combat plan. Ye"

Chapter 133, Unexpected Dismissal

1951 4 Month 11 Day.

Was MacArthur suddenly fired by Truman?Probably not.

On April 4, Truman dismissed MacArthur, and Ridgway was promoted to Commander-in-Chief of the United Nations Army.Also on the same day, Van Fleet was appointed commander of the 11th Army, succeeding Ridgway, who took office on April 8.Van Fleet's successor was Li Qiwei's proposal to the Joint Chiefs of Staff after being selected among several active-duty lieutenant generals in the U.S. Army, rather than what he wrote in his official article, "It happened so suddenly, so irresistible, Moreover, to blatantly and unnecessarily hurt the general's pride by means of a rude dismissal... ".

There is only one truth: when the fourth battle started and the UN army stopped its retreat and began to regain lost ground, MacArthur's official position was in jeopardy at this time.When Ridgway continued to march north step by step in the next two months, although he did not wipe out the Volunteer Army or the People's Army in large numbers, he kept advancing. When the 4th Parallel was in sight in April, Washington felt that there was enough reason to send MacArthur Go ahead and lift Li Qiwei, who has a really good record, to the position of commander of the United Nations Army.Not only did Truman have the idea of ​​changing the commander, but he may have revealed his idea to Li Qiwei in advance, so Li Qiwei had time to consider who should take over as the commander of the 8th Army after he was promoted.

Perhaps only MacArthur was kept in the dark. On April 4, he was suddenly dismissed from his post and returned home.This is actually not certain. Maybe MacArthur, based on his decades of official intuition, also had a premonition that he was going to be the commander of the United Nations Army. Therefore, in the last few months, he beeped more frantically, beeping, beeping and beeping all the failures. Blame the restrictions on him by the US government in order to create the impression in the public eye that I was fired by Truman not because of a war embarrassment, but because of political differences.If the water is muddied, no one will pay attention to the truth that "MacArthur actually doesn't know how to fight", and the diehard anti-Soviet hawks in China will try their best to package MacArthur so that he has an excellent reputation in his later years.

In the last two months of his tenure in the UN military, MacArthur has been advocating the expansion of the war, believing that the Korean War did not only happen on the Korean peninsula, but that China and the Soviet Union behind North Korea were the key to the problem.

MacArthur believes that the South Korean Army is vulnerable, and believes that the National Army that has fought against the Chinese GONG for more than ten years is more useful than the South Korean Army (it seems that he has never paid attention to the War of Liberation), and issued a statement without authorization, inviting Taiwan to participate in the Korean War .Chairman Chiang Kai-shek, who was nestled in Taiwan, responded positively. The spokesperson told MacArthur that 4 troops are already in place here. As long as you come to receive North Korea, you can start fighting. But in exchange, can you give me [-] more Destroyers, the People's Liberation Army troops assembled in Penghu pose too great a threat to Taiwan Island.

MacArthur also continued to demand the bombing of the other side of the Yalu River, and even proposed...bombing Dalian to blow up Dalian Jianxin Company, which has become the main ordnance production place of the Volunteer Army.He has held this view since the end of 1950, revisiting it every few months.

In March 1951, when MacArthur was interviewed by reporters, he simply suggested that Truman use atomic bombs to bomb China.why?He felt that the Soviet Union's atomic bombs had not yet been deployed to the Far East. As long as the United States used the atomic bombs first, the Soviet troops stationed in China would not be able to fight back for a while.Moreover, the Soviet Union may not support North Korea and China by throwing nuclear weapons at each other with the United States.

Defense Secretary Marshall could not stand MacArthur's remarks at first.

"MacArthur violated the order issued by the President that 'no one shall make public statements about foreign policy without permission'." In the small meeting with Bradley, Marshall felt that he had to say this. "MacArthur's behavior is not only a blatant defiance of the country's highest decision-making body and decision-makers, but also a challenge and contempt for the authority of the president given by the Constitution. In addition, a more serious mistake is that MacArthur is challenging the regime. Interfering in the capacity of a military general U.S. foreign policy, forgetting that the military should be led by a civilian government."

"I have no doubts that the general is hopelessly rebellious and has no respect for Truman's opinion," Bradley echoed Marshall.

While preparing the report to Truman, Marshall sent a telegram directly to Ridgway, obliquely asking him to pay attention to the candidates for the successor general of the Eighth Army.

On April 1951, 4, Truman convened a meeting with Secretary of State Dulles, Secretary of Defense Marshall, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Bradley. At the meeting, both Marshall and Bradley advocated firing MacArthur immediately, and Dulles also said that MacArthur was too difficult to manage.