After the end of the Third Campaign to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, the battlefield was calm again, but Li Qiwei could not sit still. The intelligence services told him that there were at least 180,000 volunteer soldiers in front of the 8th Army, but why did it suddenly disappear?
They went**? Ridgway decided to personally go to the position of the Volunteers to inspect, and the commander of the 5th Air Force, Partridge, personally piloted the old AH-6 trainer plane, carrying Ridgway to search for the Volunteers within a depth of several tens of kilometers.
However, no matter how they searched, they didn't find a single figure. Between the mountains, snowfields, and pine forests, there is no campfire smoke, no rut marks, not even trampled snow.
Of the situation, Ridgway recalled: "It was very difficult for me to find a living organism that had neither campfire smoke, nor rut marks, or even snow that had been trampled. ”
On the way back, Li Qiwei suddenly thought of a strategy: "Only by letting the 8th Army advance to the north can the enemy's assembly place be revealed!" His idea was to send small units for fire reconnaissance, in this way to determine the specific location of the volunteers, and then send a large force to attack.
However, Ridgway always felt that something was missing, so he carefully examined the records of the first three battles that night. The first battle began on October 25 and ended on November 2, the second battle began on November 25 and ended on December 2, and the third battle began on December 31 and ended on January 8, with an almost identical interval of 8 days.
After reading these materials, Li Qiwei suddenly realized that due to the weak supply lines of the volunteers and the fact that they could only fight at night, their offensive could only last for 8 days. Therefore, Li Qiwei formulated "magnetic tactics" and "sea of fire tactics", and planned to implement them when the volunteer army was most tired and supplies were cut off.
In order to eliminate the weak zone of the American army, Ridgway ordered the 8th Army to march in unison and adopt the method of front-line pushing. Although this method is not advanced, it has regained control of the battlefield.
Despite the fact that the Volunteer Army was in the first.
Four or five battles were difficult, but Ridgway was still more shrewd and cautious than MacArthur. However, Ridgway was unaware of the challenges faced by the volunteers.
In contrast to the mechanized march of the American army, the volunteer soldiers could only march on two legs, carrying more than 40 kilograms per person and carrying rifles, bullets, grenades, water bottles, and several days of food.
Tan Bingyun old hero recalled that once he crossed the Yalu River, he couldn't sleep normally, even if he was tired and collapsed, the rest time was only 1-2 hours, and it was almost impossible to take ** to the house to rest.
In war, eating becomes the greatest challenge. Huang Shuqing recalled that the troops could only find food in the local area during the battle, and many Korean civilians had fled, and the soldiers had to find food on their own.
North of the 38th parallel, they had already returned the borrowed grain, but south of the 38th parallel, they could not return it. In the third battle, the Volunteer Army regained Seoul and hit the 37th parallel, but under great pressure, Mr. Peng decided to stop the offensive.
He didn't want more volunteer soldiers to lose their lives. He sent a telegram to Beijing, expressing his helplessness and concern about the war.
Mr. Peng's ** was confirmed, and the volunteers at that time were facing a serious dilemma. Moreover, the follow-up troops have not yet arrived, and many wounded have not yet been transported, which is also the most worrying problem for Mr. Peng.
After the Volunteer Army regained Seoul, a major problem was put in front of everyone, that is, more than 8,000 wounded had not been transported, and most of these wounded were not far from the front line, and the Volunteer Army could only draw a large number of personnel to take care of the wounded again.
At that time, Yu Kaizhi was sent to take care of the wounded, and he was responsible for taking care of a total of 14 wounded people, including a squad leader whose legs were blown off. For the first two days, the squad leader could only moan in bed, but on the third day, he said, "I want to untie the big hand!" ”
Yu Kaizhi is not a professional nurse, and he doesn't know what to do, so he said to the squad leader: "You are the old squad leader, I am a new soldier, you tell me what to do, I will assist you!" ”
Squad leader, don't thank me, it's nothing for me to work hard, as long as you suffer less, I'll be satisfied. ”
In Yu Kaizhi's eyes, the condition of the wounded of the volunteers is only a small part of the cruelty of the war and the harsh environment, and it also reveals the existence of the joint ** prisoners. Although the policy called for leniency for prisoners, in the eyes of the wounded of the volunteers, they were irreconcilable with the enemy.
Especially when the prisoners were eating, the wounded of the volunteers were even more angry, eager to destroy them. For this situation, Yu Kaizhi has a headache. The wounded said to him: "Nurse, you can eat this meal, you can throw it away, but you must not give it to the enemy." ”
Don't give them food, starve them to death! But Yu Kaizhi chose to silently provide food to the captives after the war. That's why the battle flag is so picturesque, it was the blood of heroes who stained her red!