The main army of the South Korean army was beaten by the volunteers, and the battle loss exceeded 90

Mondo Military Updated on 2024-02-05

In the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, the strongest opponent of the Volunteer Army was undoubtedly the US ** team, and the South Korean ** team often acted as cannon fodder on the battlefield due to the poor quality of the soldiers, especially the lack of training in the early days. Although the strength of the South Korean army is poor, but after receiving the assistance of the American allies, the equipment is very sophisticated, and before 1952, the volunteer army has not been equipped with a large number of advanced Soviet-style equipment, so it has become the norm to focus on attacking the positions of the South Korean army and capturing the enemy's American-style ** supplies, and the South Korean army has repeatedly suffered heavy defeats and abandoned its armor. In the fifth battle in 1951, a regiment of the South Korean army was disbanded by the Volunteer Army, which was regarded as a great shame by the South Koreans for nearly 70 years. What's going on?

During the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, the regiment was a high-level tactical unit, and its third corps had four main divisions, which was equivalent to a small corps of the Kuomintang Army during the Liberation War in terms of size. Considering the population of South Korea and the overall size of the South Korean army at that time, a corps is already a very important main force, especially the South Korean Third Army Corps, which still left the homeland and received American-style training in Japan, equipped with a full set of advanced American weapons (no wonder it became the target of the volunteers), and was pinned on by South Korea, and the US military also hoped that this specially trained South Korean army could withstand the attack of the volunteers.

However, in 1951, the Fifth Campaign was held, and the South Korean Third Army was wiped out. In this campaign, the Volunteers launched a full-scale attack on the US and South Korean forces on the 38th Parallel, and the eastern front guarded by the ROK Army was the enemy's soft underbelly, and the Ninth Corps of the Volunteers, with the cooperation of the DPRK's friendly forces, focused on attacking the ROK Army and launched a fierce pounce on the positions of the South Korean Third Army Corps. Due to the blocking of the Third Corps of the Volunteer Army in the middle, the enemy was unable to quickly increase troops on the Eastern Front, and the ROK army faced a situation of being beaten. Although the South Korean Third Army Corps had the advantage of American-style artillery, it was frightened by the volunteers, and soon after the battle began, it retreated several dozen kilometers on its own, completely handing over the initiative to the Chinese and North Korean troops. The Third Army only fought for less than 10 hours, and the entire army suffered more than 90% of the battle losses, and the rest of the rout scattered into the mountains to hide, and the full set of American-style ** were captured by the volunteers. This main army of the South Korean army existed in name only within a day.

In fact, when the intensity of the war is high, it is not uncommon for some troops to be severely damaged or even completely annihilated by the other side, and it is a big deal to withdraw or rebuild. However, after the South Korean 3rd Army was attacked, it was not the ROK army that revoked its number, but was ordered to disband by its American allies. Ridgway and Van Vliet angrily disbanded the South Korean Third Army after the battle because of the uselessness of the South Korean army.

This is extremely embarrassing: the US military's approach is actually overstepping its authority, and the United Army, including the US military, is nominally going to the Korean Peninsula to support the South Korean army in combat, so how can it have the right to disband the host team? This shows the hegemony of the US military and the injustice of the war. Of course, due to the objective strength and status of the United States and South Korea at that time, the ROK military dared not speak out against the US approach, and could only silently accept the absurd situation of its own army being dismantled by the Americans on its own soil, which has been regarded as a great shame and humiliation for 70 years and cannot be forgotten.

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