On October 1, 1949, the People's Republic of China was founded. After a century of humiliation, the Chinese people can finally get rid of their burdens and start a new life.
However, the newly established China is actually not peaceful. There are a large number of bandits and reactionary forces in China. Western powers and capitalist countries led by the United States are still eyeing the new China. They are unwilling to accept that the old China, which was bullied by others, disappeared like this, so they have always wanted to make a comeback.
In June 1950, the originally calm Asia suddenly fell into war again. The two parties involved in the Korean Peninsula launched a war. However, what no one expected was that it was just the internal affairs between the ethnic groups on the Korean Peninsula that eventually turned into an international local war .
From the heart, the New China had just come out of the shadow of the war at that time and didn't want to intervene too much in this war. However, the American imperialists were unstoppable. They tried to borrow the Korean Peninsula and then inserted a nail in Northeast Asia to restrain the Soviet Union and China. Later, the United Nations intervened in Korean War under the control of the United States.
In order not to let the scene of Sino-Japanese War resolutely staged in New China, the leaders of the New China finally resolutely sent troops to aid Korea, and the great war of resisting U.S. aggression and aiding Korea began.
The first batch of volunteer army that entered North Korea was adapted by the Northeast Frontier Defense Forces, plus the 50th and 66th armies that later joined, plus the 38th, 39th, 40th and 42nd armies of the former 13th Corps, a total of 260,000 troops.
was extremely outstanding in the first and second battles, especially the 38th Army and the 39th Army. Later, it became the ace of the Volunteer Army. The 50th Army also made great achievements in the defense of the Han River, and the remaining two troops were not talked about one by one.
The first batch of troops entering North Korea had nearly 260,000. Since this is the case, a large-scale march will inevitably cause discovery by the US military. Even American soldiers experts later recalled: "There was no notice in advance, and fierce and sudden strikes followed one after another, so that many troops were defeated before they could figure out what happened. It was a miracle that the Volunteer Army could be so hidden."
So why did the Volunteer Army not discover it at all?
The volunteer army was hiding during the day and exiting at night and had strict discipline
When the Korean War broke out, the central government had already expected that the volunteer army would enter North Korea to fight, but because the candidate for the head commander of the volunteer army was not finalized at that time, it was not until the end that General Peng entered North Korea.
At that time, North Korea was in a critical situation. In order to be able to get ahead of the United States, General Peng shortened the preparation time that had only 20 days to 10 days, and made all preparations for going abroad within 10 days.
In order to ensure the strictness of the plan, only a few people in the central government know the departure time and specific route of the Volunteer Army. In order to ensure the secret, the Volunteer Army chose to cross the Yalu River at night. The scene of the Volunteer Army crossing the Yalu River is like the Jingke on the Yishui back then. Even though they knew that the road ahead was long, they still went there resolutely.
In addition to adopting a strict confidentiality system in terms of marching methods and operation time, the Volunteers are also very cautious in marching methods. In order to strengthen the concealment of the troops, they adopted the method of hiding out at night. Since most of the Volunteers were light infantry at that time, there were few heavy weapons such as tanks , armored vehicles , which also reduced the burden on the troops to a certain extent.
Some supplies are also pulled by mules and horses. For the US military who are accustomed to mechanized operations, they could not imagine that there was such a "backward" mode of transportation, so even if they encountered it, they would think it was a fleeing people.
In order to better conceal the marching route, the superiors require that people must be arranged to clean up the marching route after the marching, and do not expose the traces and clues left by the marching, and are not allowed to make fires and cook during the day. Everyone eats dry food they carry at any time. In this way, under the special arrangements of the Volunteer Army and the Central Committee, they escaped numerous reconnaissances of the US military.
The US military's underestimation of the enemy
In fact, to be precise, the US military was the most powerful country at that time, and it was impossible for them to say that they did not find out at all that the volunteer army entered North Korea.
In fact, at that time, there were many signs that the volunteers had entered North Korea, and they also reported these messages to MacArthur and Walker . However, these famous generals who have experienced many battles were too arrogant. They thought that the army like beggars could not appear on the Korean battlefield at all. What's the use if they came?
McCas even shouted arrogantly: "If China participates in the war, it will fight China back to the ancient times."
Not only is MacArthur, but the US military is like this from top to bottom. In addition, the US military's reconnaissance technology was restricted by the times at that time, and there were no reconnaissance tools at night. They could only hit the flares into the sky, but they still couldn't see the crowd below clearly.
It is precisely because of the arrogance of the US military that gave the volunteer army a chance. When thousands of volunteer soldiers appeared on the Korean battlefield, the US military finally felt what the "peak of light infantry" is.
.26 million volunteers quietly entered North Korea, finally changing the crisis on the Korean battlefield and creating a miracle in the history of world wars.
