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Korean War The US military was defeated, and Chiang Kai-shek sighed to the sky: No one in this world is Chairman Mao’s opponent!
After the end of the Korean War, the Americans withdrew in a panic and signed an agreement on the armistice agreement. A superpower that was the world's number one at the time was eventually defeated by a backward, dilapidated, newly established agricultural country and had to sign a ceasefire agreement, which was quite embarrassing for the United States.
Logically speaking, Chiang Kai-shek relies on the United States and heard the news of the defeat of the US military, he should be furious. But what no one expected was that after receiving the battle report, Chiang Kai-shek actually sighed to the sky: No one in this world is his opponent!
Why did Lao Jiang sigh like this? What helplessness is behind him?
1. Chiang Kai-shek, the hero in troubled times,
When it comes to Chiang Kai-shek, everyone will think that he is an incompetent loser. After all, some of his behaviors are really too straits from the current perspective. Especially some of his mysterious operations in the military were ridiculed by everyone as a "Micro-Job Master".
If you want to say that Chiang Kai-shek's military command is not good, it is indeed a matter of fact. However, Chiang Kai-shek was not an incompetent person. , at least in terms of skills, the way of controlling people, and some related aspects, Chiang Kai-shek was a temporary hero.
Although Lao Jiang was born in a wealthy family, his family property was taken away by his brothers. Although he also held positions in the early days of the National Army, he was simply an inequality junior with many veterans of the National Army and even among the Tongmenghui elders. However, with such a background, he forced many veterans and powerful factions of the National Army step by step and became the president of the Republic of China.
This was quite difficult at the time.
Moreover, since the Qing Dynasty was exterminated in 1912, China has been in a state of division and cannot be unified in name. But after Chiang Kai-shek came to power, he actually completed the nominal unification of after some operations, which made many warlords, including Northeast King , at that time, admit that they accepted Chiang Kai-shek's leadership. These can be said to be quite difficult.
During the Anti-Japanese War, although Chiang Kai-shek fought badly at the beginning, he gradually stabilized the situation later. Finally, we seized the change in the international situation and successfully defeated the Japanese army. It can be said that for such a long time, Chiang Kai-shek has played the role of a winner in life, and he himself feels that he has been moving from victory to victory.
2. Life nemesis, since facing a great man, Chiang Kai-shek has never won
. However, when the War of Liberation began, Chiang Kai-shek began to doubt himself and even began to deny himself.
At that time, he held a large army of 4 million and had a large number of advanced weapons provided by the United States; while our army had only more than one million people, and the weapon level was very backward. How could it be compared with him? But in such a war, Chiang Kai-shek fought and retreated step by step, and even eventually defeated the four million troops completely. This huge frustration is quite painful.
What's even more painful is that saw that Chiang Kai-shek beat him so badly, everyone else stood up to scold Chiang for being incompetent.
This includes Li Zongren , Bai Chongxi and other powerful national military factions, as well as some "outsiders", , such as Americans, . They saw that Chiang Kai-shek had such a big advantage and was defeated on the battlefield. They all thought Chiang Kai-shek was a fool and even plotted to replace Chiang Kai-shek with Sun Liren.
3. A dog that lost its family, wagging its tail under the United States and begging for mercy
. They did not shy away from this. They even contacted Sun in front of Chiang Kai-shek, and ordered Chiang Kai-shek to vigorously promote Sun Liren, asking Chiang Kai-shek to hand over all the military and political power to Sun Liren. Chiang Kai-shek was very disgusted with this.However, the situation is stronger than that of others. He has to rely on the United States at this time, so how dare he refuse the unreasonable demands of Americans?
so I can only do it timidly according to the Americans, watching my power be emptied step by step.
Chiang Kai-shek could be said to be extremely painful, but there was no way to do so. It was not until June 1950 that Chiang Kai-shek began to have hope. Because the war broke out on the peninsula, Chiang Kai-shek felt that his value had increased, and there was even a certain probability that his counterattack plan might be realized.
And when the United States personally sent troops to the peninsula, Chiang Kai-shek felt even more excited. Once the Americans intervene, there is a high probability that they will cause a full-scale war between major powers. Then he can naturally take advantage of this opportunity to enhance his identity and status.
4. In the unpredictable Korean battlefield, Chiang Kai-shek saw hope. What made him even more excited was that the great man ordered the volunteer army to cross the Yalu River and launched a vigorous movement to resist U.S. aggression and aid Korea. In the eyes of Chiang Kai-shek at that time, this was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for him. - the United States' weapons were so advanced at that time, and our army's weapons were so backward. From the perspective of Chiang Kai-shek or an ordinary person, it can basically be judged that the volunteer army would lose. Not only Chiang Kai-shek judged this way, but almost most of the national army war criminals at that time believed so.
A few extremely diehards are even ready to move, thinking that once the US military defeats our army's forces on the peninsula, they can start a crime here. and Chiang Kai-shek work together inside and outside to do something "big thing" . However, the wishes of Chiang Kai-shek and the war criminals of the Kuomintang soon broke down in the battle between the volunteers.
The same as the Kuomintang and Chiang Kai-shek thought, the US military basically believed that the New China would either not send troops or would be easily defeated by them. After all, the US military's weapons and equipment at that time were almost the world's top, and their comprehensive economic, technological and other comprehensive strength was far beyond that of the newly established New China.
There is no reason for them not to believe that they can easily defeat China.
However, when the battle really started, they found that everything was wrong quite outrageously. In the first battle launched by the Volunteer Army, MacArthur has not even figured out who the opponent was to defeat them. They thought they had encountered an elite North Korean army. But soon they discovered something was wrong, and the Chinese had officially sent troops.
However, MacArthur still didn't take it much in his heart. He felt that the reason why he was defeated by the Volunteer Army for the first time was because the Volunteer Army took a different approach, which led to them not having time to be prepared; now they know that the Volunteer Army, as long as they are fully prepared, they can definitely defeat the Chinese.
So, while he dispatched troops, he promoted to the media at that time that he would let American soldiers return to the United States for Christmas. When everyone saw that MacArthur was so confident, they all felt that the US military could win.
So the US military advanced on a large scale again, and General Peng took advantage of the situation to lure the enemy into depth. When the US military saw that the volunteers almost did not resist them, they even discarded some ragged weapons, which made the US military very excited and thought that the volunteers were no longer able to do so. So they kept rushing and attacking hard. After such a fierce charge, they went deep into our ambush circle.
So the situation changed again between the two sides - The ambushed volunteers rushed out, and the UN army defeated .
5. The Volunteer Army won consecutive battles, and the US military signed an armistice agreement.
Due to the defeats in the first and second battles, the confidence of the Volunteer Army was naturally upright, while the US military encountered difficulties in the formation. In addition, the Volunteer Army was extremely brave and had combat wisdom and combat skills far exceeding the US military. Therefore, in the subsequent battles, although the US military became much more cautious, it was still difficult for them to reverse the previous defeat.
They were even beaten to Seoul by us for a while.
This way, the United States was really anxious, so it sent someone to negotiate with us. However, after suffering such a huge loss, Americans certainly don’t want to just negotiate directly. Their peace talks are just coming to delay time and divert attention. While negotiating, they continue to organize battles, hoping to gain an advantage on the battlefield to increase negotiation chips.
The famous Shangganling Battle was launched under this background.
The Americans mobilized absolutely superior firepower and superior troops to attack crazily on the Shangganling , which our army was stationed. Although our weapons are far behind the US military, the number of defenders of the Shangganling Volunteer Army is more than 10,000 less than that of the US military. But our volunteer soldiers were like standing mountains, blocking the Shangganling Mountains, so that the US military could not advance in an inch.
Later, the US military launched several similar battles, but they were defeated by the volunteers each time.
Seeing that military adventures not only did not bring benefits to themselves, but instead brought them miserable defeats again and again, the US military gradually began to change its attitude. In the end, they had to decide that signed an armistice agreement with our army . It was precisely because of the signing of this armistice agreement that declared that the US military's military operation on the peninsula ended in failure . The news caused a sensation at the time.
6. With the Korean War, Chiang Kai-shek was proud in front of the Americans. As Chiang Kai-shek was very concerned about this matter, he asked his subordinates to report the situation on the peninsula every day, especially the situation of the United States and the New China, which was Chiang Kai-shek's most concerned issue at the time. and other staff also use important newspapers every day to allow Chiang Kai-shek at home to browse relevant information.
When the Americans suffered a crushing defeat on the peninsula came, the staff were a little nervous.
After Chiang Kai-shek came to the island, his temper became particularly prone to furiousness. Now that the US military has lost the war on the peninsula, will he be furious and then discourage himself?
However, after they handed the news to Lao Jiang, Lao Jiang did not furiously, but was silent on the spot for a long time without talking, as if he was thinking silently. Afterwards, he sighed meaningfully:
"No one in this world is his opponent! The United States said that I, Chiang Kai-shek, cannot do it, but what about them? I think Western countries are also a group of stupid pigs. The most elite troops of 16 countries were beaten so embarrassingly by him!"
Chiang Kai-shek's words, is really mixed with emotion, joy and sorrow : Not only did the Western countries belittle them, but they also felt unattainable about the power of great men. At the same time, he also said that great men are the pride of the Chinese and a genius that has been rare since ancient times, so "Only he can squeeze me on these small islands" .
This is probably also Chiang Kai-shek's joy in suffering! Using the power of the volunteers to kill the Americans, they also have their ambitions and destroy the Americans' prestige.
