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195 1 June, the fifth battle ended, and the Chinese and American armies were tied in the fifth battle, because neither side could achieve the expected strategic goals.

At the same time, since the US military and we both realized that neither side had the strength to eat the other in this battle, China and the United States entered the stage of armistice negotiations.

Just after the fifth campaign, Mr. Peng had to return to China for physical reasons and handed over the headquarters of the Volunteers to General Deng Hua, the first deputy commander at that time.

However, General Deng Hua deeply felt that the responsibility to resist US aggression and aid Korea was great. At first, he was worried that he was not qualified for the job, so he proposed that General Su or General Chen Geng should take the place of himself to command the battle.

Of course, because the two men did not command the front line at first, the central government finally decided to let General Deng Hua continue to command the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, and General Chen Geng could not get out because of domestic problems.

However, General Deng Hua's suggestion was indeed carefully considered by the Central Committee, and as a legendary general of our army, General Chen Geng's experience is even more legendary.

During the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression period, he stuck to the front line with the Japanese devils. At that time, during the mopping-up, the Japanese devils specially posted the slogan "Specially hit the 386th Brigade", showing the Japanese devils' fear of General Chen Geng.

After the founding of New China, the environment of New China was not peaceful at this time, and there were many bandits in the vast southwest. Abroad, French colonists tried to make a comeback after recovering their vitality in World War II, reoccupy Vietnam and become French colonies.

For the safety of new China, China had to send a military advisory group to Vietnam for support, but Ho Chi Minh said, "I only want Chen Geng."

On the Korean battlefield, the appearance of General Chen Geng left the United States at a loss. When they saw the fortifications arranged by General Chen, they couldn't help sighing: "He didn't come to fight, he came to repair the Great Wall."

1949, all Japanese troops stationed in Vietnam were wiped out, and Vietnam was finally liberated from the invaders.

I don't know, Vietnam's good days didn't last long. 1950, the French took the opportunity to occupy northern Vietnam, and the Vietnamese people began to actively fight against the French under the leadership of Ho Chi Minh.

However, France at that time was, after all, an established power. Although it was defeated by Germany for a month during World War II, it is precisely because of this that the military strength of the French army is still quite strong.

Vietnam, which was fighting alone at that time, could not confront the French. Therefore, Vietnamese leaders Ho Chi Minh and Wu Yuanjia longed for the new China to help them and appointed General Chen Geng to go to Vietnam.

After arriving in Vietnam, General Chen Geng found that the command of the Vietnamese army was completely disorganized, and the soldiers' fighting quality and fighting will were not as tenacious as those of our PLA soldiers. In the face of the French elite, they have repeatedly lost and fought.

Chen Geng arrived in Vietnam, according to the battlefield situation. He first commanded the Vietnamese army to annihilate a handful of elites, and then continued to expand the scale of the campaign.

At the same time, under the guidance of General Chen Geng, he helped Vietnam to train an ace teacher, because General Chen Geng is a well-deserved "military god" for the Vietnamese.

When the situation in Vietnam stabilized, General Chen Geng handed over the command to Marshal Wu Yuanjia and his military advisory group and hurried back to China.

After returning to Beijing, General Chen Geng pleaded with the Central Committee and asked to enter North Korea before he had time to rest.

At that time, although the situation in North Korea improved to some extent, it had not yet passed the "critical period". After careful consideration, the Central Committee finally agreed to General Chen Geng's suggestion.

So at the end of 1950, General Chen Geng entered the Korean battlefield for the first time.

At this time, the second election has ended. Although our army won a great strategic victory in the second battle, it also paid a heavy price.

In this battle, our volunteers are not afraid of sacrifice or difficulties. The 38 th Army of the Volunteers marched 70 kilometers overnight, occupying Miyake five minutes earlier than the US military, blocking the retreat of the US military. On the eastern front, in Changjin Lake, the 9th Corps of the Volunteers starved, crawled on the ice and lay in the snow in the freezing weather of minus 40 degrees, and defeated the Marine 1 Division with the strongest fighting capacity of the US military, which made the Marine 1 Division experience the most difficult retreat in history.

However, although our army achieved amazing results in this battle, it still failed to destroy the enemy because of insufficient supplies in the later period.

The 9th Corps could have played a greater role, but the US Marine Corps 1 Division was released due to the cold weather and insufficient logistics supply.

However, General Chen Geng could have continued to play a greater role in the Korean battlefield. However, due to the further deterioration of the situation in Vietnam, General Chen Geng had to choose to end North Korea's implementation and make plans after the situation in Vietnam stabilized.

However, after this month's trip to North Korea, General Chen Geng made full preparations for the next work after inspecting the topography and geography of North Korea.

Shortly after General Chen Geng left the Korean battlefield, Chinese people's Volunteer Army launched its fourth campaign. Due to the failure of the first three battles of the US military, US President Truman was very angry with MacArthur, and MacArthur's arrogance at this time was too great to fail. Therefore, MacArthur was removed from his post in the fourth battle and replaced by Li Qiwei.

This Li Qiwei is not an idle generation. He is keenly aware of the disadvantages of the logistics support of the volunteers, and thinks that the volunteers who fight alone can't last seven days of crazy attack without logistics support. He called this rule "worship offense".

It is precisely because of this that the volunteers did not fight smoothly in the fourth campaign, and the US military did not achieve the expected strategic goals in the fourth campaign. Let's just say that in the fourth battle, both sides were tied.

In February of the same year, Mr. Peng reported the fourth battle to the Central Committee, and at the same time requested the Central Committee to quickly transfer General Chen Geng's Third Corps to fight in North Korea.

However, it backfired. Just as General Chen Geng was on his way to North Korea, his early leg disease broke out on the battlefield at this time, and it was too cold to even walk. Therefore, he had to stop his trip to North Korea and go to Beijing for first aid, and then make plans after his leg illness recovered, while the Third Corps was led by Wang Jinshan, the deputy commander, to fight in North Korea.

1950 At the beginning of June, General Chen Geng's leg injury improved slightly and he was able to walk in the fields. He immediately packed his bags and went to North Korea, ready to direct operations.

The arrival of General Chen Geng made the whole situation in North Korea look brand-new. In the fifth campaign, Li Qiwei launched a worship offensive against the weaknesses of the volunteers, such as insufficient logistics, which led to the siege of the 180 Division. Although the 63 rd Army swore to defend Tieyuan, the problems exposed by the volunteers also need to be solved urgently.

At this time, according to the battlefield situation, the US military also entered the stage of strategic stalemate with us. At this time, General Chen Geng did find many problems after entering North Korea:

First, the supply line of the volunteers is too long, and the logistics materials can't keep up. Moreover, American planes kept bombing our transportation lines, which caused great losses to the logistics team and only a small amount of materials were sent to the front.

Second, although our army and the U.S. army fought a war damage ratio of 1:2 and 1:3, our army suffered heavy casualties, especially in Li Qiwei's summer offensive.

For our army, every soldier is a living life, and the lives of soldiers must not be sacrificed in vain.

So after that, General Chen Geng adjusted his operational deployment according to the situation in North Korea.

After a preliminary investigation, he found that there are many local mountains in North Korea. Due to the lack of heavy weapons in our country, if we engage in frontal positional warfare with the enemy, it will definitely increase the casualties of our army.

Van Frith, commander of the Eighth Army of the US Army at this time, was a madman who advocated the theory of "firepower wins". He never counted the ammunition in the war, and he bombed indiscriminately, causing heavy casualties among our soldiers.

In order to prevent our army from reducing casualties, General Chen Geng decided to "transform" the fortifications by taking advantage of North Korea's mountainous area. He remembered the "cat's ear hole" and "trench tactics" in War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression's time, and transforming them can definitely contain the enemy's fire offensive.

The so-called "trench tactics" is to build surface fortifications and build a solid defense system. A "cat's ear hole" is a hole dug in the side wall of a trench, which can be used to hide itself and store ammunition, and soldiers can live in it. The combination of these two methods will greatly improve the ability of attack and defense.

So at the suggestion of General Chen Geng, Mr. Peng accepted the suggestion. At this time, due to Mr. Peng's increasingly weak body, he had to return to China in advance and hand over the construction of this fortification to General Chen Geng.

So during the acting commander's period, General Chen Geng led the soldiers to build a tunnel with a length of more than 200 kilometers, and at the same time delivered logistics materials to the tunnel continuously, so that the soldiers finally didn't have to go hungry, and even could eat fresh vegetables in the tunnel.

Li Qiwei never thought that the tunnel built by General Chen Geng was so strong and durable. In the past, the firepower advantage was useless in front of General Chen Geng's tunnel. The volunteers actually fought positional warfare with the US military. Li Qiwei could not help but sigh: "Where did he get the fighting capacity? Obviously, he is here to build the underground Great Wall! "

However, just as General Chen Geng was preparing to show his talents in North Korea, some domestic mistakes forced him to end his trip to North Korea.

Just when General Chen Geng thought that there would be no chance to compete with the US military in North Korea, by chance, the Central Committee decided to let General Chen Geng show his skill in the Korean battlefield, which was his third visit to the DPRK.

Because of the long-term fighting, General Deng Hua, the commander of the Volunteers of the Times, also fell ill. At this time, North Korea needed an experienced general, so the Central Committee urgently sent Chen Geng to North Korea.

When General Chen Geng entered the DPRK, he improved the tunnels in the DPRK, not only for fire prevention, waterproof, anti-virus and explosion-proof, but also for restaurants, toilets, warehouses and other areas, which solved the problem of "whether we can fight", increased the strategic depth and gained more initiative in the battlefield.

Soon, "the test standard came." 1952 in the second half of the year, the volunteers and the us military launched the battle of shangganling. The famous American General Van fleet bombarded the surface of Shangganling with a gun density of 42 rounds per square meter. However, in front of General Chen Geng's tunnel, Van Frith's ammunition lost its former role.

After that, the volunteers used the tunnel to launch a "cold shot movement" against the US military, which made the US military too scared to go out to the toilet.

Because of General Chen Geng's tunnel warfare, the US military's combat system was completely disrupted.

However, just after this trip to North Korea, the Central Committee asked General Chen Geng to go back to build Harbin's military industry, and he also briefly ended his trip to North Korea.

For everything on the Korean battlefield, he later recalled: "All this is the experience that soldiers exchanged with past blood and tears." This sentence also shows how difficult our previous battle was.