Chapter 57 It's easy for the volunteers to win, and it's easy for the U.S. military to lose

The Battle of Yunshan was not a large-scale battle. The Volunteer Army severely damaged a division of the US Army and wiped out more than 2,000 United Nations troops. But this battle is indicative. After all, this is the first contest between the armies of China and the United States on the Korean battlefield; After all, the weak Chinese army won, and the super strong American army lost; After all, the US commander of this war is Commander MacArthur, a world-renowned military strategist, while China's Commander Peng Dehuai is still unknown to the world. After two days and three nights of fighting, the 39th Army of the Volunteer Army severely damaged the American ace army-the Army's 1st Cavalry Division.

The results of the battle are as follows: more than 2,000 American and Korean troops were killed, wounded, and captured.Among them, more than 1,800 American soldiers were eliminated, 3 aircraft were shot down, 4 aircraft were captured, 28 tanks, more than 170 cars, and 119 artillery pieces were destroyed and captured. This is also the worst defeat in the history of the US 1st Cavalry Division. During the Iraq War, the U.S. 1st Cavalry Division became "Mawei" again, and did a very good job on the Iraqi battlefield. Commander Peng Dehuai said happily: "The 1st Cavalry Division of the US 'Ever-Victorious Division', which has never been defeated, has suffered a defeat this time, at the hands of our 39th Army!"

The news that the US trump card army was defeated by the Chinese army on the Korean battlefield quickly spread throughout the world through radio waves.The whole world was shocked! Joe, then Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army?General Collins wrote in his memoirs: "As a subordinate of General George Patton, Commander Hobart Gay swallowed a cup of bitter wine with a heavy heart." General Patton, who is General Patton?That is the mighty general of the United States!His titanic language of "I will use my troops as a grinder and grind the German soldiers into a pulp" still sounds creepy to this day.

Regarding the tactics of the Volunteer Army, a captured U.S. officer said to the Volunteer Army interpreter in amazement: "You have used the tactic of encircling and roundabouts well, blocking the front and blocking the rear. This kind of combat has never been seen in history." The soldiers of the Volunteer Army retaliated with his words: "This is our style of play, which is called 'you fight your mechanization, and I fight my ingenuity'." Decades later, a U.S. military officer who participated in the Battle of Unsan still said with lingering fear in an interview with reporters:

"Yunshan? My God, that's a Chinese funeral!"