Chapter 78 Commander MacArthur

When Commander MacArthur ordered the United Nations to launch an attack, General Walker, who was rich in combat experience, had a hunch that "the Chinese army must be waiting for us somewhere" based on the intuition that the Chinese army suddenly disappeared on the battlefield after the first battle. The news that the Tokugawa defenders were defeated by the Volunteers confirmed General Walker's ominous premonition.The premonition was confirmed, and the situation began to become clear. It is a good thing for General Walker to judge the situation of the battle, but it may be that he believes too much in the combat effectiveness of the US military, or underestimates the combat effectiveness of the Chinese army. Breaking out in a cold sweat, he just generally sent a regiment of the 1st Cavalry Division and a Turkish brigade to break the siege of Tokugawa.

Can a regiment plus a brigade deal with the two main forces of the wolf-like Chinese People's Volunteers? At this time, no matter how calmly General Walker judged, he still greatly underestimated the combat effectiveness of the Chinese army.It's just that General Walker is not completely in a daze like MacArthur, who still stays half awake and half drunk. Of course, General Walker's 8th Army soon lost its head and was beaten by the 39th, 40th, 50th, and 66th armies of the Chinese People's Volunteers. On the evening of the 25th, the Volunteers crossed the Qingchuan River and launched a fierce attack on the US positions.According to the military history of the U.S. military: "The Chinese army fired heavily with rifles and machine guns, and threw out what appeared to be an inexhaustible supply of grenades. They rushed to the U.S. positions and stabbed U.S. soldiers to death in foxholes with bayonets."

In this battle, the spirit of the US military was broken, and there was a large-scale surrender.There was a black company, from the company commander down to the cook, who were all captured. A total of 115 black soldiers surrendered collectively. This was the only fully-organized American company that surrendered to the volunteers during the Korean War. Three months later, the extremely angry U.S. Department of Defense passed an investigation, attributed the crime to blacks for fear of death, and disbanded the 24th Infantry Regiment, which was composed entirely of blacks.Since then, the U.S. military no longer forms black soldiers alone, and all blacks and whites are mixed in formation.

In fact, not only black people are afraid of death, but white people are also afraid of death. How can you not be afraid of death if you go to the territory of another country to fight your life? ! Although the large-scale attack launched by the Chinese army made General Walker a little flustered, he was still relatively calm.Because he knows his troops very well, he knows the equipment of his troops, and he basically understands the equipment of the Volunteer Army. What General Walker never dreamed of was that the equipment of the Chinese army was too poor, but the tactics of the volunteer army were too creative, and the morale of the volunteer army was too high!

The Volunteer Army almost never attacked from the front, but ran to the rear butthole of the 8th Army and stabbed a knife. Leading the head in the front and stabbing the butt in the back, this will kill the 8th Army!These U.S. generals had just participated in the Second World War, and they were all proficient in battlefield tactics. It wasn't that they couldn't fight, it wasn't that they couldn't fight, but on the Korean battlefield, they never expected the Chinese generals to play their cards like this, and the Chinese soldiers to fight like this. Why can't I think of it?

MacArthur and General Walker understand military affairs but not politics, understand real power but not psychological power, and have great talents but no general plan. Just as Walker and General Almond were too busy on the front line, Commander MacArthur in Tokyo began to make random decisions. On the 28th, in the face of the chaotic battle situation, Commander MacArthur did not go to the front to study the situation, but recalled two front-line commanders, and quickly went to the Japanese headquarters in Tokyo, thousands of miles away, for a meeting. Regardless of whether it was in the two world wars or in the Incheon landing operation at the beginning of the Korean War, Commander MacArthur was not like this. He always commanded from the front.

It is his usual style to place the headquarters at the front. But at this moment, when the front was facing collapse and the whole army was facing annihilation, Commander MacArthur was uncharacteristically summoning the frontline commanders to the rear to talk empty words. There may be a more appropriate explanation for his strange behavior beyond the norm, that is: this experienced commander was really beaten. Because this completely exceeded his expectations, beyond his psychological expectations. It was obvious that the United Nations Army launched a general attack, so why did the Chinese army also launch a general attack on the United Nations Army?

Who is attacking and who is defending?