Chapter 72 Find the right combination point and pinch MacArthur's life

Peng Dehuai is indeed a practical military strategist who has been fighting on the front line for a long time. He is keenly aware that there are fatal flaws in the operation of MacArthur's offensive deployment, that is: The United Nations troops are divided. They are split in two. On the surface, the United Nations Army's massive attack to the north at the same time was a fist attack. However, due to the constraints of the terrain in northern North Korea, the United Nations Army advancing northward along the peninsula plane was objectively divided into two parts, east and west. Between the troops on the western front and the troops on the eastern front, a mountainous gap of 80 to 130 kilometers was formed.

Dividing the troops into two reduced the combat effectiveness by more than half. The United Nations army was passively divided, and the possibility of breaking through each appeared. At this time, the United Nations Army also had a big problem in terms of campaign command coordination. The Western Front of the United Nations Army is under the command of General Walker, commander of the 8th Army; The Eastern Front of the United Nations Army was under the command of Commander Almond of the U.S. Tenth Army. The coordination of the two armies must be commanded by Commander MacArthur who lives in Tokyo, Japan.

In this way, the cooperative combat capability is bound to be greatly weakened. At this time, the command system of the Chinese army is completely efficient. On November 5, 1950, Mao Zedong decided to let the 9th Corps enter the DPRK.In the telegram to Peng Dehuai and Deng Hua, Mao Zedong made the issue of command power very clear: "The corps is directly commanded by you, and we don't control it remotely." The important thing is that Mao Zedong, who reads North Korean maps in Beijing every day, not only saw the fatal flaw of the division of the United Nations Army like Peng Dehuai, but also saw another fatal flaw caused by this fatal flaw—as long as a strong force is dispatched By seizing the joint point in the middle of the two fronts, the two fronts of the United Nations Army can be completely separated, making it impossible for things to look at each other.

By that time, MacArthur could be said to be unresponsive every day, and the ground was not working. Tokugawa is the junction of the two fronts of the United Nations Army, and it has become the lifeblood of the United Nations Army. Therefore, Mao Zedong wrote an extremely important telegram to Peng Dehuai, telling Peng Dehuai that "the Tokugawa side is very important", that is to say, Tokugawa must be seized. The story of the volunteer army seizing Tokugawa was staged.