Chapter 112 The round of battle has improved the stretched military strength

On February 25, Zhou Enlai presided over an enlarged meeting of the Central Military Commission and made a series of important instructions on strengthening the strength of the Volunteer Army and logistics supply. In order to better ensure the source of troops and achieve the purpose of training troops, the Central Military Commission decided to take turns to fight. The nine armies that are fighting in North Korea will be used as the first volunteer army. The three armies of the 19th Corps, the two armies of the 20th Corps, the three armies of the first batch of the Second Field Army transferred to the north, and the 47th Army that is now suppressing bandits in western Hunan, a total of nine armies, will serve as the second volunteer army.

From March 13th to 14th, the 1st Corps of the Korean People's Army voluntarily abandoned Seoul in accordance with the order of the China-North Korea Joint Command. Because it was a planned retreat, the troops left in an orderly manner. By the beginning of April, the Chinese and North Korean troops had basically withdrawn to the north of the 38th parallel. At this time, Li Qiwei discovered that a large number of follow-up troops from China had reached the front line, so he ordered to stop the attack. On April 21, the fourth battle ended. The fourth battle lasted for 87 days. The United Nations army used artillery fire to clear the way and launched a fierce attack on the volunteers, advancing a total of more than 100 kilometers, about one kilometer a day.

In this battle, the United Nations Army suffered 78,000 casualties, of which 1,200 were captured by the U.S. Army and 7,800 by the Korean Army. The Chinese and North Korean troops lost a total of 53,000 people, of which 42,000 were lost in the volunteer army and 4,379 people were missing. During the fourth battle, a major event happened, that is, the dismissal of MacArthur, the commander-in-chief of the United Nations Army. On April 11, Commander MacArthur angered the President by expressing different views on the Korean War from President Truman and the U.S. government, and issued an ultimatum to China. He was dismissed and returned home without prior notice.

The U.S. government believes that the war with China cannot be expanded.Bradley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, explained: "To extend the war to Communist China would involve us in the wrong war in the wrong place, at the wrong time, with the wrong enemy." When a large number of domestic works quoted this sentence, the previous qualification was deleted, and the meaning was completely twisted, and it was wrong to turn it into fighting China in North Korea. In fact, they did not mean that. It is natural for a front-line commander to talk nonsense beyond his authority and be dismissed.

MacArthur's dismissal is undoubtedly a good thing for China.Because the American general was finally distracted by the fight, the militant United Nations commander and the famous MacArthur was dismissed and returned home.At the same time, there are bad things in good things.Just because Commander MacArthur was dismissed, Peng Dehuai's strongest and most difficult opponent-Li Qiwei came on the stage. In the Korean War, he was a hundred times stronger than MacArthur. Some people say that his playing has cost the volunteers tens of thousands more, which is by no means unreasonable. The United States is basically satisfied with the results of this battle.

Because the United Nations Army has the confidence to fight on.