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On April 4, US Eastern Time, Truman asked US Secretary of the Army Pace to hand over the letter of dismissing MacArthur to MacArthur in Tokyo.But Pace walked a little slower, and while he was still on the road, the news of MacArthur's dismissal had already made headlines in the Chicago Tribune.

The rare (probably the only) battle between the president and the general in American history has come to an end.

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Beijing.

"James Alward Van Fleet, a West Point cadet, participated in World War I. He didn't have a serious military job for a few years after the end of World War I. He even worked as a football coach and coached the Florida Gators. After the United States participated in World War II, he served as the commander of the 4th Infantry Regiment of the 8th Division of the U.S. Army and the rank of colonel. From 1941 to 1944, his position and rank were not promoted. The reason why Van Fleet could not be promoted is inexplicable: he His name was similar to another alcoholic and disciplinary officer in the U.S. Army, so Marshall, the U.S. Army Chief of Staff, crossed it off as soon as he saw it on the promotion list. Until Eisenhower wondered why Marshall was not promoted to Van Fleur Special, once the two communicate, the misunderstanding will be resolved."

The news that Truman dismissed MacArthur and Ridgway became the commander-in-chief of the United Nations Army spread all over the world within 24 hours. With the assistance of the General Staff Intelligence Department and the Soviet Union, the information that Van Fleet was transferred to the commander of the Eighth Army was also quickly obtained by China. up.What is the origin of the new commander of the 8th Army?Can you fight?Is it stronger than Li Qiwei, or worse than Li Qiwei?

Tang Hua pinned a photo of Van Fleet on the blackboard, juxtaposed with Li Qiwei's photo.The photo was taken in 1945. At that time, Van Fleet was the commander of the 3rd Army under Patton's command. He captured a German city and held a news report when he entered the city.

"After Marshall cleared up the misunderstanding, Van Fleet was promoted from colonel to brigadier general to major general in just a few months. In November 1944, he was appointed commander of the 11rd Army. In 23, he was transferred to Patton's Third Army as the commander of the 1945rd Army. , has been fighting in Europe, and was in Germany at the end of the war. After World War II, Van Fleet was sent by Truman to Greece as a military adviser to provide advice in the Greek Civil War and manage $3 million in military aid. Because in the Greek Civil War, the government The Army unexpectedly defeated the Greek Democratic Army led by GONGCHANDANG. In 4, Van Fleet was promoted to lieutenant general. After the Greek Civil War ended, in August 1948, Van Fleet served as the commander of the Second Army of the US Army."

"So, this Van Fleet has both experience in mechanized warfare with regular large corps, and experience in anti-guerrilla operations?" Tang Hua simply finished Van Fleet's historical records, and Su Yu asked a question first.

"Van Fleet has won both regular mechanized warfare and the Greek Civil War, but the combat style he admires and is the most used to is still the mechanized warfare of the large corps." Tang Hua said.

"The Greek Civil War cannot be fully defined as a battle between government forces and guerrillas. The Soviet Union did not intervene in the Greek Civil War, but from 1946 to 1949, Yugoslavia implemented direct assistance to the Greek Democratic Army. The turning point of the Greek Civil War was in early 1948. The Greek Democratic Army Mistakenly formulated the line of 'abandoning guerrilla warfare, implementing positional and fortified warfare, and shifting the focus of struggle to organizing and launching urban armed uprisings', concentrated a large number of troops, launched a frontal regular battle with the Greek National Army, and finally forced an offensive When Konica failed to capture Konica, it suffered a setback militarily. As for the Greek government army, Van Fleet’s job in it was more to ensure the integrity of the Greek military and political system. He held all the money and materials aided by the United States Once it is discovered that there are people in the government army who are greedy and enriching their own pockets, they will stop the aid and remove these people from the Greek military government with very cruel means.”

"Will such a person be uncomfortable in North Korea?" the Prime Minister asked a question.

"However, Van Fleet's years in Greece may still be of great help to his combat command, mountain warfare." Su Yu continued, "During World War II, he fought in the plains of Western Europe, and in Greece he fought in mountainous regions. If he can master the principles of large corps mechanized warfare and mountain warfare, then it will be very useful experience for his operations in North Korea.”

Tang Hua nodded in agreement.

What Su Yu said was fully demonstrated in the original fifth battle on the Korean battlefield.After the second phase of the five campaigns, the U.S. military initiated the third phase on its own initiative. Van Fleet’s large oblique insertion almost killed several troops of our army that had penetrated into the Eastern Front. In the end, only one 180th division was sacrificed, and the rest of the troops were basically withdrawn as a whole. , it was a bit of a fluke.

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"Tang Hua?"

After the meeting was over, Tang Hua packed up his belongings and walked out of the meeting room, while Su Yu quickly walked over a few steps behind.

"Chief of Staff Su."

"Before the start of the Second Battle on the Eastern Front, you sent that telegram back?"

"Yes... At that time, the General Staff and Zhi Division misjudged the US military's organization and tactics, which may have a very adverse impact on our army in the battle."

Su Yu smiled, and pointed at Tang Hua: "For several days in a row, the central government sent telegrams saying that the central government's judgment was wrong...you know the US military very well."

"Ah, the chairman didn't tell you?" Tang Hua also smiled, "I... graduated from the Virginia Military Academy in 1945. After returning to China, I went to Yan'an 46 years later, and then went to the Soviet Union from Yan'an."

Su Yu snorted, and after thinking about it, he added: "It's not easy to figure out these things after a few years of military school in the United States. Do you have any position in the Revolutionary Military Council?"

Tang Hua shook his head.

"This is actually easy to solve. Since you are a member of the Kuomintang, why can't you be the secretary of Vice Chairman Cheng Qian who handles the affairs of the Military Commission, or the secretary of General Cai Tingkai?"

Chapter 134, Just Three Words: Want Tanks!

General Su is now the deputy chief of the general staff, and later served as the chief of the general staff.

General Zhang Aiping wrote in his memoirs: "The period when Su Yu was the chief, that is, from 1954 to 1958, was the best period for the General Staff."

The General Staff during this period played a major role in the regularization and modernization of the People's Army.For this formalization, the first thing to do is to have rules and principles in everything, and it cannot come randomly.

Even the chairman has to follow the rules.

If you don't comply, General Su will argue with the chairman face to face.

In the past war years, everything was kept simple, and the chairman also opposed too complicated red tape. The command system was highly centralized. At most, a few members of the Military Commission could meet to make a decision. At the beginning of 1949, the chairman and the prime minister met with Fu Zuoyi in Xibaipo. During the chat, the four of them felt very speculative, so they began to discuss the front-line military situation. .At this time, there are still several months before Lao Fu officially enters the Revolutionary Military Council.

Tang Hua... also belongs to this situation.In the eyes of General Su, it is also a manifestation of "irregularity".The meaning of General Su's words was to let Tang Hua quickly settle the legitimate reason for his presence here.

These words are actually reasonable, and Tang Hua is ready to implement them.General Su also gave a feasible route, which is worth referring to.

The highest military organ of the country is the People's Revolutionary Military Commission of the Central People's Government.Among the vice-chairmen of the Military Commission and the members of the Military Commission, members of the Kuomintang Revolutionary Committee include Cheng Qian, Zhang Zhizhong, Fu Zuoyi, Cai Tingkai, Long Yun, and Liu Fei (don't ask too much about Liu Fei's current identity, just ask the Kuomintang uprising general).

Then Cai Tingkai, Uncle Cai.In fact, Tang Hua is not very familiar with the others.

The Democratic Revolution was first convened and established by Li, Cai, and Tan. However, after 1949, as long as they were anti-Chiang uprisings and supported our party’s Guomindang leaders, the central government would all be dragged into the Democratic Revolution, so the Democratic Party It is normal for members of the Kuomintang to be unfamiliar with the members of the Kuomintang.

Once a decision is made, the rest is much easier.

At least modems are much more complicated than that.

Modem, Modem, Chinese people in the 90s called it a "cat", which was the main way of surfing the Internet at that time.

The function of the modem is to translate the digital signal of the computer into an analog signal that can be transmitted along the ordinary telephone line and telegraph line, and these analog signals can be received by another modem at the other end of the line, and then translated into a language that the computer can understand.This process means that the communication between the two computers is completed.

The modem was originally developed by the United States in the 50s for the semi-automatic ground air defense system to connect terminals at different bases. At the end of the 50s, the modem was used in the automatic airline ticket booking system and began to enter the civilian commercial field.

Now Tang Hua plans to use it to connect the computers of the Jiaohe 50 Center and the Beijing War Situation Center.

If the connection is successful, Tang Hua even wants to send a computer to Zhisi, so that information from the three places can be sent and received in seconds.

Now the T51 computer is still a big cabinet with a height of two meters, and it is possible to put it in Zhisi, but when it is time to change the headquarters, it is really difficult to transfer the computer.If it can be equipped two months later, Tang Hua intends to launch the T51S ahead of schedule.

T51S is the "beggar's version" T6 with 51 computing units.With 6 fewer computing units, the height of the T51 cabinet has also been reduced a lot.If the volume and weight can be reduced, and the cabinet can be disassembled into three or four parts, it can be transported by a pack horse. This can probably be called a "pack horse mobile communication computer system".

While Tang Hua was tinkering with frequency dividers and analog-to-digital-to-analog conversion, General Su’s life seemed to have returned to the time of the Penghu Battle in June 1950, and it was intense pre-war planning again. Zhisi kept exchanging messages by telegram.After studying the battle situation all day and all night, there was another faint headache.

Suyu first had to consider a question, how to end the Volunteer Army's fourth campaign, or in other words, where is the final stop line of our army's retreat-blocking cycle.

As long as this line is drawn, the first combat troops will be nailed to this line and will not retreat, waiting for the second round of combat troops to plug in, change positions, and launch an attack.

As far as the six armies currently conducting blocking warfare on the front line are concerned, although they face many difficulties, as long as Zhisi gives an order, it is okay to be stuck on a certain front line for a few days.

But if the stop line is too south, the U.S. military has not yet dispersed, and the U.S. military's logistics supply line is short, while our army's attacking corps' logistics supply line is long.

If the stop line is too far north, then the Second Corps of our army will feel uncomfortable, just like being hugged by an opponent in a boxing match. Your fist will not have enough distance to exert force, and you will not be able to swing it, even if you barely punch , and the hammer does not hurt people.

The original fifth campaign was launched under insufficient conditions. The reason was that the United Nations Army was advancing too hard to the north. The positions of the 3rd Corps and the 19th Corps were not very good, so they had to bite the bullet and launch an attack .Not only is the position uncomfortable, but the time is also uncomfortable. The tank soldiers and Soviet guns bought with a lot of money are still on the way.But if we don't attack immediately to beat the U.S. troops back, the front line may continue to collapse.

Of course, it is not as embarrassing as the fourth battle in history, so Su Yu and Ye Ting still have a choice.

The second question is what campaign goals to achieve in the fifth campaign.

The unification of North Korea by the United Nations is definitely a dead end, and the Volunteer Army’s elimination of the South Korean puppet army was also vetoed after the enlarged Politburo meeting at the end of March.So now the warring parties actually have a similar goal: to achieve a satisfactory result, then defend on the spot, and fight for a long time. If they don’t want to fight anymore, they will probably sit down and negotiate.

Therefore, where the fifth battle will be fought, how many enemy troops will be wiped out, and whether the US military or the South Korean army will be wiped out, it has become a matter that must be considered clearly first.

When Tang Hua greeted the guards, pushed a T51 computer to the next door of the combat situation center, and then installed the bits and pieces of input and output equipment, Su Yu in the combat situation center turned the chair upside down, with his legs crossed. Kai Kai sat on the chair and took a long time to examine the map of North Korea on the wall.

On the map, the United Nations Army is lined up near the 3th parallel. From west to east, they are the 24rd, 25th, and 27th divisions of the US Army, the 40st Division of South Korea, and the 45th British Brigade (Western Front); 7th, 187th Division, Turkish Brigade, French Battalion (Eastern Front), wandering behind the front is the 7st US Cavalry Division of the reserve team and the 3th Airborne Regiment.In addition, the [-]th Meibu Division is advancing eastward to the coastline, where three South Korean divisions are advancing in groups.