Chapter 15 Submarine Tactics: The Key to China's First Victory

The war machine rumbled into action.At this time, Mao Zedong, as the commander-in-chief, thought about it day and night, and thought hard. He can't sleep. Head-to-head is absolutely not acceptable. It is even more unacceptable to be soft against hard. How to touch it?What to touch? In the early morning of October 21, in less than an hour and a half, Mao Zedong sent three consecutive telegrams to Peng Dehuai. In the telegram, Mao Zedong gave the answer. He said that in order to achieve victory over a powerful opponent, it is necessary to confuse the enemy and "take advantage of the suddenness that the enemy did not expect at all."

This policy has become the key to the volunteer army's victory in the first battle. In fact, when China wanted to send troops, it had already issued a clear warning to the United States in advance, and it had warned many times, but Truman and MacArthur just didn't listen to you.People don't believe it at all-don't fool me, you think you can fool me into America?Come on this. "Soldiers are deceitful." Since he didn't believe it, Mao Zedong made full use of Truman's unbelief, caught him by surprise, and attacked him by surprise—hitting you by sending troops secretly.

In other words, the Volunteer Army did not cross the Yalu River with arrogance and arrogance. According to Mao Zedong's instructions, the volunteers stayed day and night, hid during the day, and marched at night. Moreover, hundreds of radio stations have all been silenced, including the top frontline commander Peng Dehuai's.So that when the war started later, Commander Peng Dehuai couldn't find the commanders of the army, and the commanders of the army couldn't find their subordinates, so the boss Peng was so anxious that he screamed. In this way, a division of 260,000 tigers and wolves secretly crossed the Yalu River and marched to the Korean battlefield.

With an army of 260,000, if four people line up in a row, they can line up for about 50 kilometers! At that time, the enemy's reconnaissance planes were flying in the sky every day, and there were advanced electronic reconnaissance on the ground, but there was no trace of the Chinese army. The Americans did not notice such a large-scale troop mobilization.So many advanced equipment, why go there? There is only one reason: it's not that the equipment is poor, or that they are sloppy in their work, but that they simply don't believe that China dares to send troops! In order to keep it secret, Mao Zedong also called the central bureaus, saying that we will send troops secretly, "in the current few months, we will only do it and not talk about it."

The troops have crossed the Yalu River, let alone; Hand in hand with the enemy, do not say; I won the first battle, but I still don't say it. A typical stuffy gourd jar. It was not until November 7 that Xinhua News Agency reported for the first time that "the Chinese people's volunteer troops to resist US aggression, aid Korea and defend their country participated in the war", but it was only an understatement. Regarding the battle report, Mao Zedong clearly instructed Peng Dehuai on November 5: "In order to confuse the enemy, it is still not appropriate to publish the battle report in the name of the joint command, but in the name of the Korean People's Army General Command."

On November 17, Mao Zedong sent a special letter to Hu Qiaomu, director of the General Information Administration: "All news about the main battlefield in North Korea should be related to the Korean People's Army and the Chinese People's Volunteers." It was not until December 5, that is, 40 days after the war started, that the second battle achieved a major victory and the situation in the Korean War was fundamentally reversed. Mao Zedong gave instructions and officially announced the designation of the "Chinese People's Volunteers" and the news of sending troops to fight.

Mao Zedong's "suddenness" is what people often call "submarine tactics." China's submarine tactics have become the main reason why the Volunteer Army and the United Nations Army won the first battle. "We thought we knew everything, but in fact we knew nothing. But the other party knew everything, so the war began." Marshall, then US Secretary of Defense, said very annoyed. This is exactly why Americans have been annoyed afterwards - why not listen to China?Why didn't others fool us, but we became lame after fooling ourselves? Because of this, during the Vietnam War, when China said something, the Americans would never think it was fooling.

Xinhua News Agency did not let him cross the 17th parallel north latitude, so he obediently dared not cross it. In recent years, there has been a voice saying that China is engaging in a sneak attack, which is no different from Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, and is not something to be proud of. Actually, it's not the same thing at all.China had informed the U.S. government of the volunteer army's raid on the United Nations Army in advance through various channels and even public statements, but the Americans didn't believe it at all, and they didn't believe that China dared to send troops.The Pearl Harbor incident was entirely the result of the despicable sneak attack by the Japanese military circles.

As for when China will send troops, how many troops will be sent, and where they will send troops, that is naturally a military secret, and there is absolutely no need to tell others, and there is no need to use the radio to broadcast to the world like the arrogant General MacArthur. On this point, the Americans also admit it.