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In the previous stage of the battle, the volunteer tanks and self-propelled anti-tank guns that caused the US military a headache have now disappeared without a trace.Low-altitude reconnaissance cannot be carried out, and high-altitude visual inspection and photography are not easy to distinguish tanks that have undergone anti-aircraft camouflage. However, Van Fleet knows that the tank troops of the Volunteer Army have not been severely damaged, and there must be a lot left.

In Van Fleet's view, the current situation on the Western Front is extremely unstable. If the Volunteers send a large number of reinforcements from the rear, they can use armored forces to tear a big hole in the U.S. defense line overnight. into passivity.This is the main reason why Van Fleet was unable to move the Eighth Army headquarters into Seoul.If two tank divisions of the Volunteer Army suddenly appeared in Dongducheon one day, when Van Fleet woke up, the muzzle of the T-8 might be facing his tent.

The only way to solve this unstable situation is to continue to concentrate on attacking forward, completely wipe out the volunteers in these mountains, and occupy Dongducheon and Paocheon, so that the US military can sleep peacefully in the Han River Plain.

But Van Fleet couldn't continue to attack.The instructions from the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Li Qiwei are on the one hand, on the other hand, the US military is running out of shells on the Korean peninsula...

In the Greek Civil War, he experienced the role of heavy artillery in mountain warfare, and Van Fleet intensified after arriving in North Korea.During the Battle of Gapyeong, 18 artillery battalions fired 22 to 3 shells a day, and when they returned to Pingwon on the Han River, [-] artillery battalions were assembled, firing more than [-] shells a day.

After fighting, the inventory of heavy artillery shells on the entire Korean peninsula was insufficient, and artillery shells began to be shipped from Japan and Okinawa.

By May 5, the shells in Japan and Okinawa were almost gone...

Now Van Fleet only has 2 base shells in his hand, so he dare not use them casually. According to his style of play, these shells can be wiped out in a day's battle.

The transport ship carrying artillery shells from Hawaii and Southeast Asia to North Korea is still on the way and will not arrive for at least a week.

After much deliberation, Van Fleet still gave the staff a task: "During the suspension of the offensive, the deployment of the front-line troops needs to be adjusted again. First, the headquarters of the 25th Meibu Division will be moved from the castle in Yangzhou City. Move to the north of Uibu or just in Uibu. I know the headquarters of the 3rd Mibu division is there, so let’s merge it together. Second, the headquarters of the 2nd Mibu division moved south to Jinjie. Our army camps and support points have all retreated 1 to 2 kilometers to put our infantry in a safer position."

Chapter 158 We got beat by a rapper

"Li Qiwei now appoints Lieutenant Turner Joy, commander of the US Far East Navy, as the chief representative of the United Nations armistice negotiations. Turner Joy was ordered to form a negotiating team. In addition to him, there are four other key members, namely the Far East Navy. Major General Orrin Burke, Deputy Chief of Staff, Major General Lawrence Craig, Deputy Commander of the Far East Air Force, Major General Henry Hodge, Deputy Chief of Staff of the 4th Army, and Major General Liu Jae-hung, Commander of the 8st Corps of the South Korean Army. Well, the South Korean Army The negotiator should have been Bai Shanye, but unfortunately Lao Bai is now in a prisoner-of-war camp in Dandong."

Tang Hua opened the next book.

"Ridgway chose Turner Joy as the chief representative because he has dealt with China for more than 20 years. Turner Joy is a Missouri native who graduated from the US Naval Academy in 1916 and participated in World War I. In 1923, he was transferred to the Far East and served as an assistant to the commander of the Yangtze River Fleet in the United States. In the 30s, he was transferred back to the United States. After the outbreak of World War II, he first served as the captain of the heavy cruiser 'Louisville', and soon he was promoted to the commander of the squadron. The end of World War II At that time, he led an amphibious fleet to fight against Japan along the coast of China. Turner Joy was born in a professional class. He is not like an academic intellectual officer at all, but is rude in words and deeds, and he is full of foul language on most occasions, but because of this, he is very down-to-earth and is supported by the bottom sailors and sergeants. Turner Joy is rude and even vulgar His characteristics are exactly the reason why Li Qiwei took a fancy to him and chose him as the chief negotiator."

Turner Joy had a lot of intersections with China, so in this era, it is not particularly difficult for Tang Hua to collect his information.Turner Joy spent a full year at the negotiating table with the Volunteers, and Chinese and North Korean negotiators alike were impressed by the brusque rogue.Tang Hua was equally impressed with Turner Joy. Who asked this old man to publish a book "How to Negotiate with the Communist Party" after the Korean War to share his negotiation experience with everyone, and it was scanned online...

Qiao Guanhua: "Then his negotiating style is to play hooligans as soon as he gets to the negotiating table."

After Qiao Guanhua finished speaking, he laughed first.Li Kenong continued: "Some time ago, they had to quarrel for three days about the location of the negotiations. It can be seen that the Americans are not modest and gentlemen, and they will definitely cheat where they can."

Qiao Guanhua: "It doesn't matter if Americans are gentle, courteous, or swearing at each other, even if they roll all over the floor, there is nothing they can't deal with. If he is a hooligan, don't respond to him like a gentleman. The more peaceful and gentle you are, The higher his tail is raised."

After China and the United States established communication channels, the two sides first talked over the air.The first thing to do when negotiating over the air is where to negotiate.

Generally speaking, the negotiation is of course at the junction of the two sides' control lines. The Volunteer Army suggests that the negotiation site should be either in Dongducheon or Yangzhou, or build a few houses somewhere between Dongduchuan and Yangzhou for temporary negotiations. Place.The United States refused, neither Dongducheon, Yangju, nor between the two cities, and did not give reasons.

"Did he think we don't know the reason without saying the reason?" Su Yu said after knowing it, "After the U.S. military completes adjustments and supplies ammunition, they will definitely attack Dongducheon."

Dongducheon and the mountains on the east and west sides are controlled by the volunteers, making the U.S. military feel uncomfortable no matter how they deploy their troops.After the truce negotiations started, even if everyone had not yet reached a ceasefire agreement, a safe zone had to be set up at the negotiation site and the surrounding kilometers to allow negotiators to enter and exit.So, with a safety zone of a few kilometers, how can the US military attack and retake Dongducheon from here?

The Dongducheon-Pocheon-Yangju area cannot be used as a venue for negotiations.Volunteers did not go to Gapyeong under the control of the US military.Kaesong—Unfortunately, Kaesong is now inside the area controlled by China and North Korea instead of near the line of control.Therefore, the U.S. military is not willing to go to Kaesong.

After several rounds of negotiations and quarrels, the two sides finally reached a consensus on the location of the negotiations: on the eastern front near the center of the peninsula, in Hwacheon County, Gangwon Province.

At the end of the fourth battle, the U.S. military once attacked the city of Hwacheon.At the beginning of the fifth battle, the 19th Corps drove the U.S. troops out of Huachuan in one breath, and pressed all the way south to the vicinity of Chuncheon, but failed to capture Chuncheon. The 19th Corps circled in the mountains outside Chuncheon City.In the second stage of the fifth battle, the 19th Corps transferred two armies from Chuncheon to the east, and finally defeated the United Nations Army in Yangkou County. Go, and immediately arch to the north, and by the end of the battle on May 40, marched to a place close to Hwacheon.

The marathon-like truce negotiations began in Hwacheon.

However, although it is called the Hwa Chuan Negotiation, the specific location is not in the county town of Hwacheon County, but in a town called Lavali on the south bank.

Hwacheon is a small county town developed from Hebu, facing the Bukhan River, a tributary of the Han River in the south.After the five battles, the main force of the Volunteer Army retreated to Hwacheon County, but the US military did not dare to push to the river. Instead, it occupied a small Hebu village called Yuanquanli 10 kilometers downstream of the Bukhan River and southwest of Hwacheon.In this way, the volunteers in Hwacheon crossed the river and arrived at the negotiation site, and the rear could overlook the negotiation site from the top of the hill.The U.S. military came by boat, and the support group could also drive a motorboat and assault boat to watch the negotiation scene from the water.

——Where did the Volunteers negotiate with the U.S. military?

—Negotiate in lava.

When he was busy preparing for the Huachuan negotiation, every time these two sentences flashed in his head, Tang Hua wanted to laugh.

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Tang Hua: "Prediction of the U.S. military's negotiating requirements and the bottom line of the negotiation. At the beginning of the negotiation, Turner Joy will definitely open his mouth to ask for land that the U.S. military has never obtained on the battlefield. What he asked for was to return to the third party." What about the eighth line? Or the Kansas line, or something farther?"

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Pentagon.

Ridgway set off from Tokyo and made four plane transfers to rush back to Washington.Today is a special discussion meeting of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on the previous period of the Korean War.

In other words, it's called a campaign review meeting.

In the original fifth battle, after the Volunteer Army and the People's Army were exhausted on May 5, Van Fleet's powerful oblique counterattack caused the U.S. military to quickly push back. He was nailed in place by the desperate blocking of the 22rd Army.Frustrated and unable to move forward, the United Nations agreed to negotiate a truce.

In the current fifth battle, the Joint Chiefs of Staff only have three things in mind: first, the U.S. military has lost a lot, second, the U.S. military has suffered a lot, and third, the U.S. military has really suffered a lot...

The 24th Meibu Division was wiped out, the 100st Meibu Division suffered heavy losses, and the rest of the divisions also suffered varying degrees of casualties.The Far Eastern Air Force lost more than 25 aircraft.Oh, and the black regiment of the [-]th division of the United States has also been wiped out.

In order not to be so politically embarrassing, Van Fleet and Ridgway made the Western Front counterattack the focus of the entire campaign. Although Seoul has been recaptured, the four divisions participating in the war have paid enough casualties to make the Pentagon feel painful.With this kind of casualties and the efficiency of regaining land, if the fight continues, it may become a Soviet-Finnish war.However, the land won by the Soviet Union during the Soviet-Finnish War belonged to the Soviet Union for its own use, and now what the Americans bleed down is the territory of South Korea.It is no longer possible to use American blood to help Koreans seize land.

In addition to the embarrassment at the battle level, there were two other battles that deeply disturbed the Joint Chiefs of Staff.The first was the air-to-ground battle on the North Plain of the Han River, and the second was the Dongducheon-Yangju night battle in the early morning of May 5.

The first meeting of the special seminar was to review the intelligence gaps in the Korean battlefield.

"Due to the negligence of the intelligence system and the deliberate concealment of the Chinese side, the intelligence of China and the Chinese military in the previous stage was very imperfect."

High-level intelligence officials from the U.S. military, U.S. officials, and civilians were all present, and Charles Willoughby, head of the Far East Intelligence Command, clarified the clues for everyone.

"At the end of 1950, we once believed that the supreme commander of the Chinese army was Lin Biao. This was outrageously wrong information. The supreme commander of the Chinese army fighting in North Korea was Peng Dehuai. The first of a Chinese."

Charles Willoughby posted Peng Dehuai's mugshot on the blackboard.

"Peng Dehuai has been one of the senior commanders of the Chinese Red Army since the Nanchang Uprising (??) in 1927. In 1937, he served as the deputy commander of the 8th Route Army, which was the only Chinese Communist Party at that time. The national government approved the armed forces that were allowed to exist. After that, he was the de facto commander of this army until the end of World War II. During the Civil War between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, Peng Dehuai finally served as the supreme commander of the First Field Army, the First Front Army, which is the five front armies of the People's Liberation Army. One. During the civil war, the First Field Army was not the most powerful front army of the PLA. The strongest was the Fourth Field Army in Manchuria, with Lin Biao as its supreme commander. The second was the Third Field Army in East China. The strength of the First Field Army and weapons and equipment are quite poor, and the national army they have to face is very powerful, and the strength of the two sides is very different. However, Peng Dehuai actually won the victory and defeated the enemy who was much stronger than him. It is probably because of this reason, Mao sent him to North Korea and put him in command of the Chinese army — the Fourth Field Army, the most powerful of the PLA, to fight the United States.”

Charles Willoughby took up the second picture.

"The second person we ignored was Ye Ting. He...is a very story-telling general."

"Ye entered the military earlier than Peng. He joined Sun Yat-sen's rebel army in 1916 and raised troops against the northern government in southern China. In 1922, Ye was already the captain of President Sun Yat-sen's bodyguard. However, in 1927 he He chose to leave Sun Yat-sen and joined the Red Army in an uprising. But within a year, the team he led was completely defeated in Guangzhou. He left the Red Army and went into exile abroad. After nearly 1 years of sojourn life, he returned to China and served as the commander of the New Fourth Army to fight against Japan. The New Fourth Army is the second armed force approved by the Chinese government to exist. Peng’s Eighth Route Army was the first. Three years later, in January 10, Chiang Kai-shek announced that the New Fourth Army was a rebel army and sent 1941 people to attack the headquarters of the New Fourth Army. Ye was captured and spent 1 years in prison. Released in 5, Ye's military command career started all over again, and in 5, Ye was deputy commander of the First Field Army and commander of the First Corps, Peng's partner."

"The reason why he is a figure ignored by our intelligence system is because the United Nations Army, which failed in North Korea in the previous stage, actually faced him as an opponent."

"There is a lot of information that Peng may have been injured or seriously ill in April, and he left North Korea to recuperate in China. The counterattack launched by the Chinese army was carried out under the command of Ye. Judging from the combat style of China's counterattack, There is an extremely obvious difference from the previous six months, especially the breakthrough of the Linjin River and the long-distance and deep penetration afterward-this action has greatly changed the situation on the Western Front and made it difficult for the US military to travel-this is not Peng's style. "

The photos of Mr. Peng and Ye Ting were pinned on the blackboard in the meeting room. The two black and white photos, their sharp eyes and chilling expressions, seemed like real people watching everyone in the meeting.

Charles Willoughby: "The third person we ignore is Tang Hua. He is a scientist and weapon expert who has emerged in recent years and is active in the academic circles of China and the Soviet Union. His invention, the night vision goggles on the Soviet tanks purchased by China, is also very likely made by Tang Hua."

Charles Willoughby hesitated, but took the third picture and pinned it on the blackboard.

This photo is in color.The three photos are lined up on the blackboard, no matter how you look at them, they don't fit well.

A young man with crooked hair and casually wearing a black shirt, with an exaggerated electric guitar on his back, with a cool expression on his face, looking into the distance.

...It seems to be the cover of an album from a few years ago...

Ridgway: "Oh, that's him? Is it true? But it's great, we got beat by a rapper, what a day, my god, this rapper seems to be taunting me. What are you doing? Let me go "