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Why can the People's Liberation Army defeat the 8 million national troops with American equipment? Sasha Q&A Episode 155
Because the national army with 8 million American equipment does not exist in history.
WWII ended, the US military only had 8.3 million people.
So, how much American equipment does the National Army have?
Let’s take a look.
First, 39 divisions during the War of Resistance Against Japan.
According to the Sino-US agreement during the War of Resistance Against Japan, the United States should provide American weapons and equipment to the national army with 90 divisions to help us fight against the Japanese invaders.
According to one division, there are more than 10,000 people, and the 90 American equipment masters should be more than 1 million.
just, this is a blank check.
The US government has always been wary of China and believes that there is no difference between China and Japan, as a yellow man in East Asia.
China has huge development potential. Once the war stops and the development is intensive, it will be difficult to estimate its ultimate strength.
In other words, at this stage, Japan is the enemy of the United States, but the enemy in the future is likely to be China.
Therefore, the United States is not willing to give too much military assistance to the national army and does not want to make China's army strong. The first phase of the
plan, the United States provides equipment from 30 Chinese domestic divisions, mainly equipped with the Chinese Expeditionary Force in western Yunnan, and also with the equipment of 6 divisions, equipped with the army stationed in India in northern Myanmar.
Why is the United States giving priority to the equipment of these 36 divisions? Because they need the Chinese Expeditionary Force and the Indian troops stationed in India to counterattack northern Myanmar and realize the strategic interests of Britain and the United States. After the weapons and equipment of these 36 divisions were delivered to China, the United States and the Soviet Union reached an agreement to send troops to attack Japan.
At this time, the United States believes that Japan will collapse, so there is no need to continue to provide a large amount of weapons and equipment to China.
Then the United States only provided weapons and equipment for only 3 divisions, and lost the remaining 41 divisions.
So, the National Army obtained a total of 39 divisions of weapons and equipment, with about 600,000 troops, that's all.
military uses these American weapons to equip 13 US-Armed Army and 7 and a half US-Armed Army.
What is the semi-American Army?
only has a part of American equipment, and the rest are domestic, Japanese and Soviet-style messy weapons.
Second, these American weapons are greatly discounted.
The weapons provided by the United States are not their current equipment, but mostly second-rate or even inventory station weapons.
Take the rifle as an example. Everyone knows that in 1945, the US military had already owned a Garland semi-automatic rifle.
However, the US military aided China's rifles, only the old Springfield M1903 rifles and M1917 rifles, are both single-shot hand-pulled rifles.
Both types of rifles were equipped by the US military in in , and were locked into the warehouse after the war as a strategic reserve.
Among them, the US military has never used the M1917 rifle in World War II, but is only used to aid friendly countries.
There are many other weapons like this.
For example, on the 155mm artillery , the US military used the M1 155mm howitzer newly studied during World War II, which is powerful and has a long range. What
gave China was the M1918 heavy artillery manufactured during World War I, and its performance in all aspects has long been outdated.
If the equipment is just behind, this is understandable. After all, Americans use first-class people themselves, and it is reasonable to use second- and third-rate weapons to help others.
But the Indian Army originally had a tank unit equipped with the M3 Stewart light tank and the M4 Sherman medium tank.
Unexpectedly, when returning to China, the United States detained all Sherman medium tanks and was not allowed to take them back.
This is to openly weaken the strength of the national army and is unwilling to allow the Chinese to have more advanced American weapons and equipment.
Third, after the War of Resistance Against Japan, how much US military supplies did the National Government get?
is pitifully rare.
Many people don’t know that during the War of Liberation, the United States imposed a long-term arms embargo on the National Government.
After July 1946, the United States suddenly announced an embargo on China and used its strong international influence to make Britain stop transporting weapons to China. It was not until 1948 that American arms were transported to China.
However, during the most critical period of the War of Liberation, the national army could not buy American weapons and ammunition at all.
After the end of the War of Resistance Against Japan, the United States refused to deliver the remaining 41 divisions of weapons and equipment.
The Kuomintang army had no choice but to pull out the bill.
During the War of Resistance Against Japan, China built a large number of airports and other facilities, spending a total of US$300 million.
Americans admit the claim, but are unwilling to give money. They asked the National Government to search for so-called "remaining war materials" to offset the debt.
For the US military, the so-called surplus capital is the war garbage that should be destroyed. Most of the materials have expired, been scrapped, or are close to scrapping. It costs a lot of money for the US military to transport them back to China or find them on site to destroy them.
Instead of spending money to deal with it, it is better to do a favor and let the Chinese pick up rags.
results. China searched thousands of hospital beds, medical supplies, helmets, , barbed wire, military food, military uniforms and gas masks, etc., among which there were only a few weapons and ammunition.
However, the US military announced a total price of US$1.3 billion, with the weapons and ammunition inside being worth 600 million.
Let me ask, can such a shrewd country in the United States sell 1.3 billion US dollars of supplies as $300 million?
After the outbreak of Civil war , the United States imposed an arms embargo, and the national army was immediately stretched and there was a serious shortage of various supplies.
Seeing that the U.S. military and U.S. troops were about to be completely ammunition and rescued, the U.S. government made some goodwill in order not to abandon the moral face of its allies.
In June 1946, the U.S. government agreed to continue selling surplus supplies worth $825 million on the Pacific Islands for $175 million.
These materials are not weapons and ammunition at all, but medical equipment, medicines, military food, cars, fuel, clothing, and even hundreds of landing boats, , without even a single bullet.
Then in July 1946, Marshall announced that it would stop providing US aid to the National Government and not be officially lifted until November 1947.
At this time, the national army had been completely defeated, and the battle situation was very unfavorable.
In April 1948, the United States passed the China Aid Act, allowing the National Army to use US$125 million to purchase arms, which can equip about 15 divisions.
National Army was ecstatic and immediately purchased 50,000 tons of ammunition to rescue the emergency.
The first batch of ammunition of US$20 million was not transported to North China until November 1948 and handed over to Fu Zuoyi.
At this time, the People's Liberation Army had won the Liaoshen Battle victory, occupied the entire northeastern territory, and the other two major battles had begun.
In the Battle of Pingjin , the national army had only 500,000 people, while Lin Biao had an army of 1.08 million. His strength was very different and it was impossible to win.
Even in Huaihai Battle , the real strength of the Chinese army was not 800,000, but more than 500,000. On the contrary, by the late stage of the war, the People's Liberation Army's troops had soared to more than 700,000. In this battle, the People's Liberation Army had the advantage of strength to always maintain the initiative to attack, while the National Army was tired of resisting.
Since will definitely lose in the three major battles of , it is useless to add 100 divisions of equipment at this time, let alone a mere $20 million ammunition.It was March 1949 when the second batch of weapons and ammunition was shipped to China.
At this time, the three major battles had already ended, ending with a crushing defeat by the national army. The national army suffered losses of more than 1.54 million people, and the main forces were basically destroyed, and none of the five main forces survived. The end of the mainland's rule has entered the countdown.
To sum up, during the Anti-Japanese War, the US military provided weapons and equipment of 39 divisions.
During the War of Liberation, the US military provided equipment of 15 divisions, but the shipment was too late and had no impact on the situation.
Even if we count these 15 divisions, there are 54 divisions in total, which is about 900,000.
That is to say, the US military forces are 900,000, not 8 million.
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