Recently, with the further improvement of China's comprehensive strength, China and the Chinese people's desire to achieve the reunification of the motherland is getting stronger and stronger. At the same time, the situation in Taiwan is becoming increasingly tense.
As a special example of frequent intervention in the Taiwan issue, the United States first stated that it would "assist Taiwan" . In the meeting between the Chinese and US heads of state, it changed its attitude a few days later and reiterated its support for "Taiwan independence". Many people speculated: It seems that the unified time is about to be decided.
Treasure Island Taiwan’s issue has always been closely watched by the people of the whole country. Now after going through twists and turns, we finally see the dawn of the great cause of unification. It is inevitable that some people will sigh: If Korean War did not break out, then, could Taiwan be liberated in 1950?
Let us go back to the past, restore the original appearance, and find out.
Volunteer troops enter North Korea to fight
Why do you need to wear a horse and wrap your body?: The whole story of the Korean War
When it comes to the Korean War, everyone seems to suddenly realize it and blurt out the four words " Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea ". However, in fact, the third stage of the Korean War was to resist U.S. aggression and aid Korea.
The Korean Peninsula is located between China, Russia and Japan, and has formed a siege. It has long been a place where military strategists must fight for.
brushed away the dust of history. Japan invaded North Korea as early as Tang Dynasty , and Ming Dynasty made a comeback in the late tide. In modern times, Tsarist Russia also set his sights on this piece of fat and competed with Japan. It was not until before that Japan conquered the Korean Peninsula with its stronger military strength.
In the second half of 1943, as one of the fascist Axis powers, the overall situation of Japan's defeat was decided. The dispute between justice and evil will eventually be justice overwhelming the balance. At the end of the same year, the anti-fascist front alliance began to plan the post-war affairs.
As a weak country sandwiched among several powerful countries, North Korea has been under Japanese colonial rule for more than 30 years. Industrial development, military construction, etc. are more than a little behind. Even if the Japanese army surrenders, North Korea cannot spontaneously independent and expels the colonists, so it can only seek help from the major powers in the anti-fascist front alliance.
As representatives of the alliance, the United States and the Soviet Union naturally bear the brunt of the brunt. On the one hand, they assume the responsibility of being a member of the Justice League and helping the murdered countries achieve liberation; on the other hand, North Korea is a good place, and they also want to get a share of the pie and seek some benefits for their country.
Newspaper reports that the Soviet Union declared war on Japan
Both the United States and the Soviet Union took their own small plans and finally reached an agreement: The Soviet Union declared war on the Japanese army and launched a purge on the Japanese army entrenched on the Korean Peninsula.
So, on August 8, 1945, the Soviet Union launched a fierce attack on the Japanese army of North Korea. At the same time, the United States dropped the atomic bomb on the Japanese mainland, and the Japanese army's stupid attempt to occupy China and unify the world was long ago shattered. On any battlefield, the Japanese army was already at the end of its strength.
The Japanese army on the Korean battlefield gave up the fearless struggle early on, and the battle lasted only two days. On August 10, the Japanese army surrendered spontaneously. After discussion, the United States and the Soviet Union drew to define the dividing line for receiving Japan's surrender , which is commonly known as " 38th line ".
Anti-fascist war achieved a comprehensive victory, and the Japanese colonial army has been driven out of territory. It is time for the Korean Peninsula to consolidate its own regime. However, just like many countries that have been cheated by colonial governments, after winning the foreign struggle, it will take more energy and greater cost to resolve the situation of division of government within the country.
1htmlIn August 1948, Lee Seung-man announced the establishment of Republic of Korea in the south. In September of the same year, Kim Il-sung announced the establishment of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea in the north. Later, during the Cold War period, the United States and the Soviet Union each supported the two regimes in the south and north formed at both ends of the 38th parallel, which is the current South Korea and Korean People's Republic of Korea .
Lee Seung-man
The two regimes in the Korean Peninsula, each relying on the mountains and resolutely refuse to recognize the legitimacy of the other regime. At the same time, they insist that they enjoy the rule of the entire Korean Peninsula. In this case, forceful interference is inevitable. The Korean People's Army took the lead in launching an attack on the South Korean army, and the North-South Civil War broke out in full swing.
This war was divided into three stages: Korean Civil War , the joint army intervention, and the war against the United States and aid Korea. Five battles occurred during this period, with about 1.04 million casualties.
The first phase of the war can be summarized as the stage of the North-South Civil War.
On June 25, 1950, the North Korean army launched an attack on the South Korean army. The Korean People's Army launched a large-scale attack, and quickly captured a large area of land in the south. The South Korean army retreated step by step, and could only rely on the reinforcements of the US Air Force to continuously retreat to the rear, barely forming a circular defense line with boundary between Busan and Luodongjiang .
However, with the interests of the United States first and extremely domineering personality, it will definitely not allow any damage to its rights and interests. The day after the outbreak of the Korean Civil War, Truman 5 ordered the stationed naval and air force to support the South Korean army in combat. This entered the second phase of the war.
7 In July, the United States convinced UN to interfere in the Korean War. A few days later, the UN Security Council passed a resolution, and formed the 16 countries led by the US military, " UN Military " . At this point, the Korean War officially became an international war.
The intervention of the United Nations forces caused the war situation to reverse instantly, and the Korean People's Army was caught off guard. However, this did not force the North Korean army to retreat. Seeing the urgency of the situation, the US military had a sudden inspiration and launched the Incheon landing battle . The US military landed from the central part of the Korean Peninsula, and the Korean People's Army was unexpectedly cut into two sections. Caught off guard, let's do this, the North Korean army was instantly dispersed, and the dragons were headless and defeated everywhere.
US military Incheon landing
The military strength of the United Nations military has a crushing advantage compared with the North Korean military. After the successful landing operation, the South Korean army supported by the US military advanced unimpeded, advanced northward, crossed the 38th parallel, crossed the Yalu River, and , with a tendency to unify the north and south.
The Korean People's Army was isolated and had no help. It turned its attention to China, intending to seek help from China.
China, out of its own development and humanitarian concern for its neighboring countries, decided to join the war as a volunteer army. This is the third stage.
On October 19, 1950, the Chinese People's Volunteer Army crossed the Yalu River. On the 25th, the "Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea" war officially began. After three years, after countless arduous battles of all sizes and sizes, the invaders were driven out of the 38th parallel.
Chairman Mao can be regarded as analyzing the wise men
In fact, as early as May 1950, when Kim Il-sung planned to launch a war against South Korea, he secretly visited China. He came to Beijing according to the instructions of the Soviet Union and informed Chairman Mao that the Democratic People's Republic of Korea had planned to go to war with the so-called Republic of Korea!
As we all know, Chairman Mao is a great military strategist and strategist of a generation. After listening to Kim Il-sung's notice, he pondered for a while, indicating that in his opinion, this is not the mature time to start a war.
However, Kim Il-sung did not follow Chairman Mao’s advice, but chose to implement it according to the original plan.
But he didn't consider that this was not only a war on the Korean Peninsula. The Korean War gave the United States an excellent excuse to interfere in North Korea's internal affairs. The United States has always been inflated. The United States has targeted China, which is not far from North Korea, and extended its tentacles to China's internal affairs. China was simply implicated in innocently.
U.S. 7th Fleet
1950 On June 27, the second day after the US military sent troops to support the South Korean army, it sent the 7th Fleet of the US Navy to invade and station in Taiwan Strait with the intention of invading Taiwan territory in China. The United States' ambition is obvious: prevents Taiwan from liberation, and by controlling Taiwan, it is thus looking for opportunities to interfere with mainland China.
After that, during the war, the Incheon landing war launched by the US military won a complete victory. After the US and South Korean troops crossed the 38th parallel, the war quickly burned to . The northeastern border area of my country. At that time, the New China will be established and everything will be in trouble. As a key area for my country's heavy industry development, the Northeast is not unimportant.
Chairman Mao is far-sighted. He predicted from the previous trends of the US military that it is very likely to expand the Korean battlefield and then threaten China. So he thought carefully and issued a decision to support North Korea as a volunteer army.
. Judging from the situation in China at that time, the four words "deliberate" were far from as simple as it seemed.
First of all, from the perspective of military offensive and defense. If the US military is allowed to cross the 38th parallel and press against the Yalu River all the way, then China will fall into a huge passive situation and be forced to deploy garrison forces on the Northeast border defense line, and at the same time strengthen border defense forces, build airports, increase troop strength, and strengthen military equipment.
General Peng Dehuai made an image metaphor for this: "Tiger always wants to eat people. When will they eat it depends on when their stomach and intestines are hungry." That's right, in the fight between a human and a tiger, it is impossible to give in. If you die or I die.
It is not difficult to imagine that with the US military's extremely domineering and provocative character, when its army is approaching and stationed on the Yalu River, it will inevitably find excuses and start wars at any time. There is a great possibility that the Northeast border area will face US aircraft bombing every day. And all of this is the newly established New China and needs to be avoided with great efforts.
On the other hand, the US fleet is still stationed in the Taiwan Strait. Although there has not been any news yet, under such a double attack, China must choose to resist and hold its position. This is what Chairman Mao said: "You should participate in wars and must participate in wars. If you participate in wars, you will get the best interests. If you do not participate in wars, you will definitely suffer great damage."
Chairman Mao's speech
. Facts have proved that Chairman Mao's decisions and analysis are correct. Volunteers entered North Korea and finally won a comprehensive victory in the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea. This victory greatly improved the international status of New China, and made the despised attitude that the United States and the Soviet Union have always maintained a great change, and they dare not look down on it from now on.
Secondly, from the perspective of military decision-making. Before China intervened in the Korean War and the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea broke out, China faced a US military attack from the north and south, and needed to fight on both the sea and the land.
At sea, in the southern part of the mainland, in the Taiwan Strait, the 7th Fleet of the US military was still openly parked there; on land, in the northeast of the mainland, the US military led the United Nations forces to become more and more arrogant after crossing the 38th parallel, and slowly approached the China-North Korea border regardless of the repeated warnings of the Chinese government. In this case, should I protect Taiwan or Northeast China? Is it to liberate Taiwan or send troops to North Korea? This really made the Party Central Committee stump. Finally, under the judging of the situation, Chairman Mao finalized the wise decision to resist U.S. aggression and aid Korea. He used his forward-looking strategic vision to implement the military idea of "eliminating the enemy and preserving himself", and ultimately preserved our country's territorial integrity and ensured that the people on the northeastern border of our country will no longer suffer from war.
Furthermore, from the perspective of military game. The US navy and air force were mature and had rich combat experience. It had already established a complete training and combat system, and was equipped with the most advanced weapons and equipment at that time. However, China's navy and air force at that time even had extremely limited number of troops, the relevant systems and systems were incomplete, and the military was extremely scarce and backward.
People's Liberation Army
Moreover, since in the past few decades, our army's combat battlefields were almost zero, and the combat experience of the navy and air force was almost zero.
In this case, if you choose to confront the US military in the Taiwan Strait and give priority to liberating Taiwan, you can only be outnumbered and you can't gain a slight advantage. If you are not careful, not to mention that Taiwan cannot be liberated, the liberated Chinese coastal inland will be threatened again.
However, if we choose to fight on land, our army will have rich combat experience and guarantee the number and quality of the army, which can maximize its advantages.
Overall, although sending troops to North Korea seems to delay the important opportunity to liberate Taiwan, based on the analysis of basic strength, environmental advantages, and military strength between the enemy and us, it was an important decision that could be made at that time to minimize losses.
For the US side, when learning that China sent troops to North Korea, the most puzzled thing is that such a backward country with a total industrial and agricultural production value only accounts for 1/28 of the United States and its military level is still in the "Millions and Rifles". How can we have the courage to compete with the United States, which has the world's top weapons and equipment and a complete and modern military system?
What is even more unbelievable is that China actually took the lead and won.
In fact, this way of judging military strength only through the other party's military equipment is a major misunderstanding of thinking in the US military. Before the war, the US intelligence community even made a guarantee that China would never send troops to North Korea.
In contrast, Chairman Mao was far ahead of the United States' strategic decision-making at that time, analysis of the situation of resisting U.S. aggression and aiding Korea, and grasping the time for sending troops.
Chairman Mao
On the one hand, this incident proves that military strength not only requires the judgment of military equipment strength, analysis ability, far-sighted gaze, etc., all need to be taken into consideration; on the other hand, the Chinese people must be excited and praised Chairman Mao’s strong analytical ability.
The outbreak of the Korean War is not the fundamental reason for the failure to liberate Taiwan
To understand Taiwan issue , we will first start with On the eve of the founding of New China, the Chiang Dynasty declined and had to flee to Taiwan, and regard Taiwan as a "life-saving island" .
After the end of the War of Resistance Against Japan, although China has no foreign enemies, its country is still in chaos. As a ray of light that illuminates China that has experienced a darkness, the People's Liberation Army of China shoulders the great task of liberating the whole of China and establishing a new China. The previously active Jiang family dynasty has long become a mouse in the shadows and fled everywhere.
The situation is hopeless, and mainland China has no place for the KMT to live in. Chiang Kai-shek had to temporarily put away his ambitions and flee to Taiwan with the remaining KMT troops.
In fact, long before Chiang Kai-shek officially fled to Taiwan, Chairman Mao's wise and sharp eyes had already seen through his attempts. In March 11949, Chairman Mao first put forward the slogan of "liberation of Taiwan". Soon after, the Battle of Kinmen broke out, and the People's Liberation Army and the Kuomintang confronted each other in Taiwan for the first time.
Kinmen Battle
0On April 23, 1949, the Chinese People's Liberation Army Navy was officially established. From the timeline, it may be said that the establishment of the People's Navy was taken as an opportunity to liberate Taiwan. The establishment of the navy is a very morale thing. Not long after, the People's Liberation Army occupied northern Fujian and southern Fujian .
When the People's Liberation Army laid the foundation and prepared for the liberation of Taiwan, the Kuomintang was not idle either. Starting from June 1949, they built a large number of fortifications on Kinmen Island . Two months later, Chiang Kai-shek ordered to "guard Kinmen" and sent a corps to garrison the Kinmen area.
In October of the same year, the People's Liberation Army made preliminary preparations and landed in Kinmen between Longkou and Guningtou, but unexpectedly fell into the ambush of the Kuomintang army. The People's Liberation Army was defeated in the Battle of Kinmen, and only two survived after the fierce struggle.
On October 26, the Party Central Committee sent two companies to provide reinforcements, but due to wind direction problems, only more than 100 people successfully landed, and the battle situation was still fierce. Not long after the landing, the reinforcements seemed to be ambushed by landmines. After the explosion, the combat troops on Kinmen Island completely lost contact with the mainland.
Early the next morning, the Kuomintang took the initiative to launch an attack, and the People's Liberation Army was exhausted and the entire army was wiped out. The Battle of Kinmen ended with the People's Liberation Army's defeat.
Kinmen Battle
Kinmen Battle’s disastrous defeat made the Party Central Committee truly feel the difficulty and pressure of crossing the sea. For some time after that, the People's Liberation Army was in the recovery period after the heavy blows of the Kinmen Battle. The Party Central Committee temporarily suspended the pace of liberating Taiwan, and first developed strong naval and air force as its main task at this stage.
On December 31, 1949, Chairman Mao issued "Letter to the Frontline Soldiers and Compatriots in the Country to Congratulate the New Year", , which pointed out: "The Chinese People's Liberation Army, as well as the Chinese people, the combat mission of the next year is to liberate Taiwan, Hainan Island and Tibet, annihilate the remnants of the Jiang family bandits, and complete the great cause of unifying China." What excited the people of the whole country was that in May 11950, our army won a comprehensive victory in the Hainan Island Battle , and Hainan Island was fully liberated. Next, we will regain the treasure island of Taiwan. However, what made everyone regretful was that no one expected that the Korean War suddenly broke out, and the US military made a thrust into a thrust and forced the PLA to regain Taiwan's great cause.
However, according to the analysis of the Korean War above, the US military did not make a temporary decision, but was already coveting China's Northeast and Taiwan while sending troops to North Korea, and was pursuing the abacus of splitting China. The connection between the United States and Taiwan is not just as simple as ordering the 7th Fleet to invade the Taiwan Strait.
Chiang Kai-shek and the Kuomintang were planning their own way out early. Considering the close ties with the United States before, in order to gain support from the US military, Chiang Kai-shek turned his attention to Taiwan.
In order to pave the way for himself, he did two things when he fled to Taiwan: Chen Cheng hosted Taiwan and transported a large amount of gold and silver to Taiwan.
Chiang Kai-shek
Taiwan has just escaped from the clutches of the Japanese colonial army, and then welcomed the Kuomintang army. On the one hand, the people of Taiwan have no feelings for the People's Liberation Army, which increases the difficulty of liberating Taiwan by force; on the other hand, the Kuomintang's sufficient gold, silver and money, and the political status represented by Taiwan Island, will surely be helped by the US military.
From this aspect, Chiang Kai-shek was able to defend Taiwan, that is, the People's Liberation Army was unable to recover Taiwan. There are the following main reasons:
First, the Battle of Kinmen caused a heavy blow to the People's Liberation Army, which is of great reference significance, resulting in the subsequent changes in the combat plan against Taiwan, and it was difficult to pay attention.
In order to avoid repeating the mistakes of the Kinmen Battle, Su Yu, the commander of the Battle of Liberating Taiwan, even said bluntly: "If you do not have absolute certainty in capturing Taiwan, you must not launch an attack easily. You would rather postpone it than act recklessly."
Therefore, when the plan for the war against Taiwan is still being revised, the Korean War came, and the best opportunity for the battle against Taiwan has been missed.
Secondly, the construction gap of the Navy and Air Force is too big and cannot be built overnight, and it is extremely difficult to land and combat.
Only in early 1949, our country's navy was established. Due to the lack of naval talents, the training and construction of the army have always stagnated, and the ability to develop more modern weapons, equipment and armed ships, and there is no standardized combat system within the navy.
Taiwan Strait is about 400 kilometers long, with the widest mouth of about 400 kilometers and the narrowest mouth of about 130 kilometers. With the strength of China's naval and air force at that time, it would be almost impossible to land across the Taiwan Strait for combat.
Third, Taiwan's underground party organizations were completely wiped out, the internal intelligence network was broken, and there was no internal intelligence support, making the battle against Taiwan even more difficult.
At the critical moment of liberating Taiwan, Taiwan’s party organization had a traitor: member of the Taiwan Working Committee Chen Zemin was arrested and betrayed the Kuomintang, confessed Cai Xiaoqian . After Cai Xiaoqian was arrested, he also betrayed and confessed a large list of underground party members. Wu Shi, the agent, who was the most rooted agent, was also on the list.
Cai Xiaoqian
In this way, the committee established by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China in Taiwan Province suffered a devastating blow. The plan to collapse the enemy's strength from the inside and the outside was declared to be defeated.
Fourth, the Soviet Union did not support mainland China, and the mainland was isolated and helpless, while the Kuomintang in Taiwan received strong support from the US military.
After World War II, the world was included in the Yalta system, and the two major powers of the United States and the Soviet Union participated in almost all political and economic activities that infiltrated other countries. With the United States supporting the Kuomintang, if New China wants to liberate Taiwan, it will inevitably receive support from the Soviet Union to compete with it.
However, when Chairman Mao first visited abroad in 1949, he made a request to Stalin to obtain support from the Soviet Union, but was excused.
cannot get help from the Soviet Union, have no foreign aid in military affairs, and lose internal response. At the same time, the PLA's own army needs time to grow. These factors are combined together, which is the fundamental reason why Taiwan failed to liberate successfully. The Korean War was just a coincidence.
China Taiwan
However, even though the Taiwan issue has existed for many years, the people on both sides of the Taiwan Strait have always worked together to adhere to the "one China" principle. I believe that in the near future, the great cause of national reunification will surely be realized.
