Chapter 69 If you can't understand it well, you can't understand it correctly

In the first battle, the Americans who were about to hit the Yalu River were beaten so hard that they couldn't find their way north. As the saying goes, leadership is a meeting. When there is no mantra, like many Chinese officials today, Americans also hold meetings.The military conference in the United States began on November 3, and it lasted for a week. It seems that it is not just Chinese cadres who like to hold meetings. The Joint Chiefs of Staff of the United States is equivalent to the enlarged meeting of the Central Military Commission of China.The meeting quarreled for many days, and they wanted to clarify two things: 1. China's strategic goals, that is, what exactly are the Chinese people going to do?2. What is China's military strength, that is, how many troops does China have in North Korea to participate in the war?

The meeting was very lively, but in the end, nothing was clarified. There are two main sources of information about how many Chinese combat troops entered North Korea. According to the report provided by the United Nations Far East Command, the number of volunteers who entered North Korea ranged from 20,000 to 60,000, with a maximum of no more than 100,000.Commander MacArthur also provided one of the most convincing reasons: If there are more than 100,000 troops, the clairvoyance of the US Air Force will definitely be able to find it.This seems very reasonable. A large number of troops were dispatched. How could American aircraft and modern reconnaissance equipment fail to detect it!

As for why it was 100,000 instead of 60,000, or even 200,000 to 300,000, Mai Shuai did not explain.In fact, by the second battle, the number of Chinese troops entering North Korea had reached as many as 380,000, far exceeding 100,000, while the U.S. Air Force and those modern reconnaissance equipment knew nothing about it.Therefore, this statement should be understood in reverse. With so many Chinese troops participating in the war, why didn’t your MacArthur’s air force clairvoyance notice it? Director Smith of the US Central Intelligence Agency provided another kind of information: Although the intelligence agency cannot determine how many troops participated in the war in China, and cannot obtain accurate figures, it feels that the Chinese army is large and with the support of the Soviet Union, they can completely compete with the United States in North Korea. some.

His reasoning is simple: I don't know how many troops participated in the war in China, but what I know is that there may be a lot of troops dispatched by China!Is this intelligence?Is this what the intelligence chief said?This is clearly the brother on the street talking about international affairs. In fact, the judgment made by Mr. Director is nothing more than bluffing a little more seriously, saying it a little more scary, so as not to say too little, if something goes wrong, I will get a board on my ass! As for China's motives for sending troops, there are more opinions. Mr. Bradley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said that there are three motives for China to send troops: first, to defend the power facilities of the Yalu River;

He judged that the first possibility was the most likely.Because the new China has just been established, the backward China and the Chinese army have no guts or strength to start a war with the powerful American army. He also murmured, and came up with arguments, saying that China did not dare to announce the use of regular troops when sending troops, but in the name of volunteers, and that the troops participating in the war did not use the main force, which is the best evidence. Look, as expected by Mao Zedong, fighting in the name of the Volunteer Army really caught the Americans. Among those who participated in the discussion, there was one person who was most familiar with China and the Chinese Communist Party, and that was Secretary of Defense Marshall, who had been to China and had direct dealings with the Chinese Communist Party.

Understand to understand. Minister Marshall made the opposite judgment. He believed that: Mao Zedong's strategy is that if you don't fight, you will win, and if you fight, you will win.Therefore, it is better to be careful about the Korean War. This time, Marshall, who knew Mao Zedong well, was right. But most people don't think so, and they still tend to have limited goals for the Chinese.In the end, the Americans who made collective decisions agreed with Commander MacArthur and made a major decision that the United States should "continue to attack and end the war."

As soon as he left the conference room, Secretary of Defense Marshall looked worried. He said, "This decision is a bad idea for the president..."