U.S. Army Archives Revealed Pro-Acceptance: The Army Can’t Beat the Volunteers, Only the Soviet Union

[Talking about the military world] In the Korean War, the volunteers moved forward hundreds of kilometers through five battles. The U.S. military could "go home for Christmas" from the very beginning, and is still stationed in South Korea today. If it were not for the saying that the U.S. Navy and Air Force are powerful, the U.S. Army has long been scrapped," then how does the U.S. military view this war? Let's take a look at it together.

The US Army Archives Revealed Pro-Acceptance: The Army Can’t Beat the Volunteers, Only the Soviet Union Is Possible Assessing Taiwan’s Intentions (April 1952), two files are declassified. They mention the navy that was still very backward at the time and the developing air force, but let’s focus on our views on our army.

The U.S. report stated that the Volunteer Army at the time: "It can prevent any country's offensive except the Soviet Union in order to defend homeland security; and the Chinese army has the ability to initiate active offensives at any time, and can defeat any army except the Soviet Union. The military of the country, including the alliance of multiple countries." The statement

is very easy to understand. In terms of the army, only the Soviet army and the volunteer army were opponents at that time, and the US army itself was not counted among them. At that time, the advantage of the Soviet army was the strong mechanized power and the assault ability of the armored group. This is also the focus of our military's homeland defense for a long time. Z1z

said from Jun Hyuk-kun: Many people have a "misunderstanding" of Volunteer infantry tactics. It’s very simple to understand. A large-scale oppressive attack on a position with a large concentration of troops and a way to break through the line of defense with the advantage of troops is the most common in the trench warfare of World War I. However, as far as ground combat is concerned, machine guns have The infantry formation has extremely strong group lethality.

In the open area in front of the position, the fire killing area composed of artillery and machine guns is very effective for the infantry on the charge. In the several famous battles in World War I, most of the casualties were in units of 10,000. , And the result may not necessarily be able to break through the opponent's line of defense, on the contrary, it will cost a very heavy casualty.

During and after World War II, the semi-automatic and automatic firepower of the infantry platoon unit, coupled with the support firepower of mortars and artillery, is very powerful. This is the most "feeling" Japanese army has engaged in a large-scale charge, such as In the Battle of Guadalcanal, in the Battle of Henderson Airport in October 1942, the Japanese army used more than 7,000 troops to attack the positions of the two US battalions. As a result, the Japanese army suffered "fire coverage" and killed as many as 1,500 people. , The injuries are not counted, only 60 US troops were killed.

In the era before and after World War II, the Japanese army has always been used more by infantry groups. It originated from the "pigs" charge in the Russo-Japanese War from 1904 to 1905. In fact, not only was the casualties of the Japanese army very alarming at that time, but In World War II, when the Battle of Nomenkan took place in 1939, the night assault launched by the Japanese army against the Soviet army fell on the same large scale before the dense firepower network of the Soviet army. At that time, the German military attaches who watched the battle called the Japanese army still using the World War I era. Tactics, and this description did not appear in World War II and other armies after World War II.

In fact, our military has always changed its tactical methods. In the anti-US aggression and aid to North Korea, facing the superior equipment of the US military, it often boldly interspersed tactics and interspersed between the joints of the US military units. Use infantry tactics alone. Therefore, the US military will try to "advance side by side" to avoid protruding US troops from being "encircled and beaten", or the gaps between the various defense areas are too large to be penetrated deeply by the volunteers.

In the Korean War, the volunteers most commonly used night battles, but unlike the charge of the Japanese army in World War II, our army was divided into a minimum of three combat teams, full of hillside "swishers", and then after blowing the whistle Fire together. Think about the picture. The US military is in "Miss West". As a result, the mountains and plains open fire. The US military thinks that the Volunteers have a lot of troops on the offensive.When fighting back, I didn’t know where to fight because I couldn’t see the focus of the volunteers’ offensive, so I just kept firing anyway.

Here is the issue of casualty statistics. The military statistics of various countries do not actually go out of the position to "count the heads", but when the grassroots combat units report the combat situation, they report the estimated force of the opponent’s participation. Our own firepower is estimated to calculate the killing effect, and the specific statistical method will not be discussed.

is more intuitive. In the American TV series "Brothers Company", Captain Dick Winters led a platoon (strengthening machine gun squad) to attack a German company in the "Crossroads" battle (the German army was actually basking in the open air at the time. None of the guards), a large number of Germans in one company were killed, and in conjunction with artillery fire, the Germans of the retreating company were also scrapped. In post-war statistics, it is estimated that the artillery attack severely damaged an entire German battalion.

However, this kind of estimation is easy to make mistakes in the dark night of the Korean battlefield. After all, the firepower is full of mountains and plains. There is only one company on the US military side. It intuitively thinks that the volunteers have sent out one battalion or more, but it is actually just the same company. Therefore, in the statistics of battle results, the number of kills calculated by the US military is often more than the actual number of volunteers participating in the war.

In fact, the three members of our army dared to intersperse with each other’s command and were surprised that they "not only did not surrender, but also dared to fight back"; of course, for some people who "pretended to be asleep", the behavior of trying to wake up was always It was in vain.