In July 1953, Panmunjom signed the Korean Armistice Agreement, an event that announced to the world that the United States did not win the Korean War, a shocking result. As the world's largest power, the United States has military resources that no other country can match, while its rivals China and North Korea are two weak countries that have not been established for a long time. China played the most important role in this war, and without China's resolute and resolute efforts to resist US aggression and aid Korea, today's Korean Peninsula would be a different situation.
China's victory sparked curiosity around the world, especially the Germans, who showed a very high enthusiasm for research. Germany suffered losses in World War II, and under the subsequent American economic system, they had to look at the face of the United States to live, so they wanted to understand: What is the secret of China's defeat of the United States? After a long period of research, Germany believes that there are eight incredible things about the Chinese volunteers. First of all, the participation of the Chinese volunteers in the war was inconceivable, because before the Chinese volunteers crossed the Yalu River, everyone did not believe that China would dare to fight with the United States.
In fact, in the face of US hegemony, the vast majority of countries in the world will choose to compromise. Before aiding North Korea, China was already a thorn in the side of the United States, because China is a socialist country, and the political ideas that run counter to the United States have led the United States to carry out layers of blockade against China, encircle and suppress it economically, and isolate it diplomatically. At that time, China was poor and white, and on the surface, it did not have any capital that could compete with the United States.
Not to mention, the United States had already developed nuclear ** at that time, and in the eyes of outsiders, the United States could pinch China to death as long as it moved its fingers. Even so, there was a lot of controversy within China about whether to send troops to North Korea. But *** believes that this battle must be fought, and that a war can lay the foundation for fifty years of peace. If we don't fight, then we will let the United States occupy North Korea, and after that, our country will be exposed under the noses of others. There was also a famous saying at the time: "Fight with one punch, lest a hundred blows come."
The commander-in-chief of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea also said that even if this war was lost, it was only a few years later than the victory of the Liberation War. It was with this desperate determination that China finally sent troops. The performance of the Chinese volunteers in the Korean War is amazing. There are four things that are unusual. First, China had the courage to decide to intervene in the war. Although China was still very backward at that time, it dared to challenge the powerful United States. History has shown that this seemingly dangerous decision was exchanged for peace for decades to come. Second, the squadron is good at intelligence warfare.
Before the war, the Western world was not aware of this advantage of China. However, Chinese intelligence forces still completed the tracking of the movements of US troops on the Korean battlefield. Therefore, on the battlefield, China's actions can often contain the US military. Third, it is the mobility of the squadron. Despite the lack of high technology, the Chinese volunteers were able to move quickly on the battlefield. This frightened the US military, because they did not know when the squadron would appear in front of them. Fourth, the squadron is good at night battles.
Night combat was an unfamiliar word to Western countries at that time, but the squadron was able to operate at night and did not need to use a lot of lighting tools. The above four points are the foundation laid by the squadron during the agrarian revolution, and they are also one of the squadron's housekeeping skills. On the Korean battlefield, these advantages allowed the squadron to win repeatedly on the battlefield. The commander of the Volunteer Army soon discovered the weakness of the US army in night battles after the Volunteers entered Korea, and our breakthrough point was precisely the weakness of the US army.
Therefore, since the Korean War, we have waged numerous night campaigns with fruitful results. The U.S. military knew that we had seized on their weaknesses, but the Korean War had lasted intermittently for many years, and the U.S. military was helpless against our night tactics, and could only use planes and tanks to parry them. However, these high-end** are also greatly less aggressive at night. With the update iteration of our **, the US military's aircraft and artillery have lost their advantage. In the end, the U.S. military was forced by us to patrol and guard at night, which can be regarded as the ultimate irony of the United States.
In addition, the military discipline of the volunteer army also has unique characteristics. In contrast, American GIs are notorious for their military discipline, and many countries have suffered atrocities by American soldiers. In the garrison, the American GIs raped and plundered, committed all kinds of evil, and did not look like soldiers. Although they are under the banner of the righteous army, in terms of behavior, they are actually aggressors. In addition, the military atmosphere in many Western countries is also not good, and they take pleasure in bullying the people in the areas where they are stationed, and the relationship between the military and the people is extremely bad.
Within the armed forces, there are also a large number of bullying behaviors, bullying superiors and subordinates. The United States was arrogant on the Korean battlefield, believing that it was a simple war that only needed to reap the fruits. As a result, the jurisdiction over US GIs is even more lax. Therefore, as soon as the US soldiers arrived in North Korea, they committed many amazing crimes. But they shamelessly take pride in it, believing that all armies in the world are the same, as long as they have guns in their hands and as long as they have the protection of power, they can bully others at will. However, the consequences of such an act are clear.
No matter how strong they are, the local rebellion will not stop. This is a source of great distress for the United States. When the volunteers were first stationed in North Korea, the United States had a joke-watching attitude. They believe that if the Chinese army runs to the soil of North Korea, the North Korean people will definitely have a feeling of resistance. However, what happened next was incomprehensible to the United States. After the volunteers entered North Korea, they quickly got along with the local people. When the volunteers withdrew, the local people wept and called the volunteers "relatives".
This is because since the volunteers entered Korea, they have not caused any harm to the common people, and they have taken the initiative to help them take on a lot of farm work during the war. To this day, much of the DPRK's infrastructure is still built by volunteers. Therefore, for the Korean people, the volunteers are their benefactors and friends, while the US military is the real aggressor. Therefore, they welcomed the volunteers and risked retaliation by the US military to protect them. The will of the people is in sight, victory is in sight, but the United States is Xi to using hegemony to intimidate others, and may never be able to understand these emotions.
The sixth incredible is the will of the volunteers to fight beyond ordinary people. American GIs have never understood why the Chinese will fight to the last soldier and still fight with them stubbornly. During the period of resisting US aggression and aiding Korea, there were often heroic deeds of a person defending a position. Even ** did not dare to describe it so exaggeratedly, but on the battlefield to resist US aggression and aid Korea, these facts did exist. Death is feared in the hearts of ordinary people, so what sustains these warriors to keep fighting?
Americans do not understand, because through all kinds of data from World War I and World War II, they believe that if a unit is reduced by more than 10%, it is already close to collapse. Because 10%, although it may not seem like much, means that this force has already suffered a massive attack and has suffered irreparable losses. In this case, the soldier's first instinct should be to save his life. But this experience does not apply to the Chinese volunteers. Because deep in the hearts of the Chinese volunteers, they have the belief of defending their homes and defending the country.
Most of these fighters were young, some were on the battlefield for the first time, but they all loved their homeland deeply. They clearly know that what they are fighting is a just war, and only by winning this war can the motherland be stable and the people be safe. This belief is strong enough to overcome the fear of death, which the American GIs do not have, because they do not know why they are fighting this war, and more people know that it is an act of aggression, and this perception does not give them confidence, it only makes them uneasy.
The Chinese Volunteers demonstrated their impregnable defenses on the battlefield, most notably the fortifications and tunnel systems they constructed. For the U.S. team, which has the greatest advantage, the fortifications only play an auxiliary role, but they did not expect that the fortifications of the Chinese volunteers on the battlefield are extraordinary, and creatively use the new defense facility of the tunnel.
In many important battles such as the Battle of Shangganling, the tunnel played an unexpected role, not only to resist the indiscriminate bombardment of the US army, but also to provide the soldiers with long-term living needs, and to store a large amount of materials to keep them in combat condition at any time. This kind of comprehensive and efficient fortification became an original move of China. The clever tactics of the volunteers and the coordination of the fortifications made the American ** team helpless and unable to crack the tunnel. Many years later, the tunnel is still a hot topic in Western research, and its production is the crystallization of human ingenuity, and it also shows the strong efficiency of the squadron.
In addition, the huge area of tunnels built by the volunteers in North Korea demonstrated their extraordinary ability in engineering. Another amazing wonder is the squadron's ability to rebuild on the battlefield. Unlike most countries' armies, the Chinese Volunteers have an amazing ability to rebuild, and even if only two or three men remain, they can quickly assemble into a new force. On the battlefield, they often have a situation where after the sacrifice of senior leaders, the subordinates quickly rise to the top. When all the leading cadres are sacrificed, an ordinary soldier can also assume the heavy responsibility of commanding the overall situation on the battlefield.
Such a strong rebuilding capability made the U.S. military desperately realize that they had no way to completely eliminate the volunteers. The Volunteer Army had this spirit, thanks to the excellent system accumulated during the Red Army period. The quality of the soldiers of the Chinese People's Volunteers far surpasses that of any other unit in the world, and every soldier who joins the PLA has received a certain amount of military command training, and is able to spontaneously obey the arrangements of the organization and put the interests of the collective first. According to the research of German experts, the Chinese Volunteer Army became an unbeatable army on a strong basis.
They came to the conclusion that the United States had a good reason for its defeat that year, because the Chinese volunteers they were up against, although they looked fragile, were in fact the world's most remarkable army. Evidence for this conclusion can be found in reference materials such as Hu Haibo's Documentary of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea: A Memorandum of the Korean War, Luan Kechao's The Contest of Blood and Fire: A Documentary of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, and Wu Junquan's The Years of Beacon Fire: Memoirs of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea.