Chapter 104 Unruffled in danger is the character of a great military strategist

Unprepared is chaotic. According to common sense, Peng Dehuai should have panicked and "chaos" when the United Nations army suddenly attacked aggressively without any precautions. But General Peng is General Peng, perhaps because of his many years of experience in the war, or perhaps because of his nature, General Peng not only did not panic in the face of unexpected changes, but showed an unexpected calmness. He judged the battle situation calmly: At present, the volunteer army is exhausted, soldiers are waiting to be replenished, ready to go, and food and ammunition are all short.

In this case, the best thing to do is to take a defensive position, stabilize the front line first, and prevent the enemy from attacking, so as not to retreat too much and cause the entire line to retreat.At the same time, actively prepare the reserve army, deploy troops in the country, wait for a large number of reinforcements to come up, and then beat the heads of the Americans. He proposed that for the fourth battle, we must "strive to stop the enemy's attack, steadily open the battle situation, step up preparations from all aspects, and make long-term and arduous plans." This is the combat policy of the Volunteer Army.

How to stop the large-scale attack of the United Nations army? It's easy to say, but difficult to do. The volunteers have already punched out their fists, and they have no power to punch again. Even at this time, the strength of the Volunteer Army is about to be exhausted, and the strength of the defenders is very small. Peng Dehuai took the senior generals of the Volunteer Army to a meeting all night to discuss strategies to defeat the enemy.Soon, they unified their understanding.I believe that to break this extremely passive situation, we must not fight to the death and defend to the death, and we cannot defend wherever the enemy attacks.

The wise method is: while defending, there must be offense. Even though defending, there must be offense; Specifically, it is to block a strong enemy in one place and take a defensive position; while in another place, concentrate superior forces to attack a weak enemy, chop off a finger of the enemy, and take an offensive, so as to make the enemy's fist retract. . Peng Dehuai saw that the focus of Li Qiwei's attack was on the western front, the heavy corps was deployed on the western front, and the eastern front was dominated by South Korean troops. Moreover, the offensive on the western front is fast, while the offensive on the eastern front is slow.

Therefore, the head of the Volunteer Army formulated an active defense strategy of "West to the East" in a pragmatic manner. That is: use a small number of troops to block the enemy on the western front, and gather a large number of troops on the eastern front, hit the eastern front hard, shake the western front, and thereby disarm the enemy's attack. Can the tactics of the Volunteers be able to achieve what they want?