Chapter 139 The "artificial radar" invented by the Volunteer Army

How to defend against enemy planes flying and bombing everywhere? The Volunteers gave full play to their manpower advantages and invented "artificial radar". This invention was approved by Mao Zedong. The Volunteer Army logistics force set up an air defense post every 1,500 meters to 2,500 meters on the Wanli Highway in North Korea.When the enemy plane is in the air, it immediately fires guns and whistles to warn.After the car driver heard the alarm gun, he immediately hid in the car shelter and other places to hide. The American plane couldn't find the target and had to wander around.

In order to build "artificial radar", the Volunteer Army mobilized more than 20,000 officers and soldiers.The anti-aircraft post not only keeps watch, but also guards against enemy agents and clears the four-legged spikes specially designed to tie car tires scattered by enemy planes. This innovation full of Chinese wisdom has brought huge benefits. After the "artificial radar" was established, North Korea's roads became clairvoyant, and the speed of the volunteer army's vehicles increased to 120 kilometers per night, and soon stabilized to more than 200 kilometers.Automobile loss rates plummeted.In the first year of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, 40 vehicles were bombed for every 100 vehicles. In the third year, only 0.5 vehicles were bombed.

Li Qiwei lamented: "With incredible perseverance, the Communist Party transported supplies to the front line and created amazing miracles." The contract road repair method is also an invention. Ordinarily, industrial projects engage in contracting, but military projects generally do not engage in contracting. The Volunteer Army engaged in a "secondary" contract. The highway was bombed every day, and the road construction project was too large to be completed by the engineers. Hong Xuezhi approached Chen Geng, deputy commander of the Volunteer Army: "It is recommended that the whole army build roads together. Except for the front-line troops, no matter whether it is an agency, a troop, or a miscellaneous personnel, it must be involved. Every army, every division, and every regiment Clearly set a section and complete it within a time limit to ensure the smooth flow of the road!"

Chen Geng, who acted resolutely, held a meeting immediately, and made it clear that "just like fighting, road construction is also a combat task. You can't finish it during the day, but you can do it at night, day and night, and go all out." After reading the road construction plan, Peng Dehuai beamed with joy: "I'm worrying about the transportation line! This is a good idea!" Immediately, hundreds of thousands of officers and soldiers from 11 armies, 9 engineering regiments, and 3 engineering brigades of the second-line Volunteer Army, with the assistance of millions of North Koreans and 200,000 people's troops, set off a rush to repair roads. Twenty-five days later, the original roads that were washed away by floods and destroyed by enemy planes were all restored.Moreover, many detour roads have been newly opened, making North Korea's roads into a dense network.

With the struggle between strangling and anti-strangling, the logistics officers and soldiers of the Chinese army represented by Hong Xuezhi continued to innovate in the cruel actual combat test and came up with brilliant ideas one after another. More importantly, through the Korean War, the Chinese military explored and established a complete set of modern logistics system and accumulated a complete set of modern logistics management theories. It laid the foundation for the logistics development of the Chinese People's Liberation Army.