readx; At about 11 o'clock in the morning of October 21, 1945, in the small town of Quechach, Austria, near the northern border of Italy, a fierce military conflict broke out between China, the United States and Austria, and the Austrian and Chinese forces in the coalition jointly dispatched about 13,000 people, with the support of nearly 200 various tracked armored vehicles and hundreds of medium and large-caliber artillery pieces to launch a fierce attack on Kerchach, and at the same time, the Chinese air force units in the coalition also dispatched about 300 combat and bomber units to provide air support and cover for the ground troops. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info.

After an initial half-hour of panic, the U.S. Army's Ninth Division conducted a stubborn defensive operation and was supported by hundreds of sorties from the U.S. Army Air Corps.

The two sides fought fiercely around Kochakh for about two hours, and the core battle of this conflict was between some units of the Chinese Army's 3rd Division B Combat Group and the 47th Regiment Infantry Regiment and the 751st Tank Battalion of the 9th Division of the US Army.

Although Zhao Lindong did not invest many troops at the beginning, only one infantry battalion, one tank battalion and artillery support units in the rear, but with the reinforcements of the 47th Regiment and the 751st Tank Battalion of the US Army, Lieutenant Colonel Zhao Lindong was approved to continue to reinforce troops to expand the scale of the battle after requesting the division headquarters, and then Zhao Lindong invested the 334th Infantry Battalion used as a reserve, and the 17th Infantry Regiment of the 6th Division of the Austrian Wehrmacht was also reinforced and put into battle.

Relying on the superiority of troops and the advantage of surprise attacks, Zhao Lindong completely captured Kechakh an hour and a half after launching the battle, and repelled a large-scale counterattack by the US 47th Infantry Regiment and the 751st Tank Battalion.

And as Zhao Lindong's troops completely took Quechakh, this military conflict was temporarily suspended, because during this time, if the U.S. Ninth Division wanted to recapture Quechakh, it had to reinforce more troops to Quechakh, and the reinforcements would have to reinforce at least one regiment or more, and this would take time.

So this gave this conflict an extremely important respite, during which the U.S. Ninth Division mobilized the 60th Infantry Regiment for emergency reinforcements, while the 767th Tank Battalion, originally deployed in the rear, was also urgently reinforcing the front line in Quechach. Although the distance of these reinforcements is not too far, and it will not take half a day for urgent reinforcements to pass, which is enough for a large-scale war, but for a sudden temporary military conflict, the cucumber vegetables will be cold after five or six hours.

When Zhao Lindong had just taken Kechakh, Du Yanpeng, who had been following the battle of Kechakh in the headquarters of the Ninth Army in Zagreb, was finally relieved, although Zhao Lindong took Kechakh half an hour longer than the scheduled hour, but this extra half an hour was still within the tolerable range. Immediately, Du Yanpeng immediately reported the real-time situation to Marshal Song Junpeng of the European Command of the Allied Forces and to Nanjing.

At the same time, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Nanjing, Gu Weijun, who had been nervously waiting for news from the front line, immediately picked up a protest document that had already been drafted and printed and went straight to the US Embassy, and then made the most stern protest to the US Ambassador to China, protesting that the US troops of Quechach had launched an attack on the local coalition forces without regard to the friendship between China and the United States since ancient times, and the peace and freedom that the people of the world were looking forward to, in order to ensure the freedom and personal safety of the Austrian people and the people of the world. The Chinese Army was forced to accept the invitation of the Austrian Wehrmacht to launch a counteroffensive against the enemy in front of Kchach. At the end of the protest, he wrote that he hoped that the US authorities would clearly recognize the general trend of the need for peace in the world, face up to the traditional friendship between the Chinese and American peoples, and seriously deal with the murderers who provoked this military conflict.

This is playing diplomacy, and it is playing more shameless than anyone!

said that Gu Weijun clearly knew that this was a military conflict that China jumped on its own, and even he himself participated in it, but he still accused the Americans of provoking this military conflict first!

China not only provoked the war first, but also blamed the Americans, which made the Americans how could they bear it, and immediately put forward a more fierce protest, and bluntly said that this was a military conflict in which China jumped first, and declared that the military strength of the Allies in Europe was no longer enough to ensure the strategic security of Europe, and the United States would continue to send additional troops to the Mediterranean theater and the French theater.

At 14 p.m. European time that day, a battalion of the 47th Infantry Regiment and the 60th Regiment, a tank company of the 751st Tank Battalion and the 767th Tank Battalion of the 9th Division of the U.S. Army launched a large-scale counteroffensive against Quechach under the cover of two artillery battalions and hundreds of aircraft. The Allied Chinese 3rd Division B Battle Group and the Austrian Wehrmacht's 6th Division had completed the core fortifications in the Quechach area, firmly blocking the counterattack of the US 9th Division.

After the evening, as the diplomatic tussle had already begun, the top leaders of China and the United States, in addition to raising the combat readiness of the troops, also ordered the troops not to carry out large-scale offensives. First of all, Marshal Song Junpeng ordered the 3rd Division not to take the initiative to attack except for holding on to Kechakh.

And on the American side, the commander of the 5th Army of the US Army, Mark ? Wayne? Clark looked at the telegram from the mainland of the United States in his hand, and his face showed sadness and indignation: the Chinese shamelessly launched a sneak attack on us, so that hundreds of soldiers died, but those politicians in Washington told us to maintain restraint and not even counterattack!

Clarke's ideas undoubtedly did not take politics into account, and in his opinion, since they were all attacked by the Chinese, and it was not a small-scale military conflict of a few people and dozens of people, it was a large-scale battle involving tens of thousands of troops, and it would be absurd to say that this could not be called China's declaration of war on the United States. Even if it really can't be seen as a declaration of war and no all-out war, at least in Kochakh there will be a counteroffensive to recapture Kochakh.

However, these ideas are only the thoughts of a soldier of the United States, not those politicians in Washington, USA! And at this time, it can be seen that even if it is the idea of a soldier, this Clarke's idea is not the opposite of what a senior general at the level of a four-star general should have, but more like the idea that a middle-level officer at the rank of a colonel should have.

The reason is also simple, that is, Clark's time as a senior general is still too short to adapt to the thinking mode that a senior general should have. After the outbreak of World War II, on the eve of the United States' entry into the war, that is, in 1940, he was promoted to lieutenant colonel, but after the United States entered the war, his military rank soared, and he was promoted to brigadier general in 1941, lieutenant general in 1942, and general in 1945, that is to say, he was promoted from lieutenant colonel to general in five years. You must know that during World War II, although China also rose a lot of generals, and a few people were promoted very quickly, but even if they are these promising star third-generation generals, they have only been promoted to one or two levels in recent years, such as Li Yuting, who was less than twenty years old during the civil war, was a major, and was only promoted to major general in 1939 and lieutenant general in 1945, that is to say, even if he is a proud son in the army like Li Yuting, At the rank of major general to lieutenant general, it still took six years to accumulate seniority. It can be said that during the short period of five or six years during World War II, there were many people who were promoted to three or four levels in a row at the rank of lieutenant officer and colonel officer of the three armed forces of China, but there were very few generals who were promoted to two levels in a row, and as for Marshal Lu Jian of the Navy, it can only be said that it was a special case, because this person was a supporter of Chen Huatian, and Chen Jingyun made an exception to let Lu Jian be promoted two levels in a row out of order to let Chen Huatian better obtain naval support, and most of them could only be promoted to one level, and very few jumped two levels in a row.

However, in the U.S. Army, even jumping three levels of this kind of thing can not be regarded as a special case, but a common case, and even jump four, five or even six levels of people are a lot of people, here is a very important reason is that the United States before the war Army is too small, and the corresponding senior generals are naturally few, after the outbreak of World War II, the United States Army from more than 100,000 people before the war suddenly soared to nearly 10 million, the demand for senior generals naturally increased a lot, what to do if there are no senior generals, quickly promoted, Therefore, before the war, a large number of American colonels and even lieutenants were quickly promoted to generals, and these people changed from commanding a company or battalion to commanding an army and a group army in just four or five years, which led to the fact that the seniority of senior generals in the US Army was much less than that of several other major participating countries, such as the German Army, the Soviet Army, and the Chinese Army.

In World War II, there were a large number of famous generals of the German army and the Soviet army, and although there were not many new generation famous generals in the Chinese army who became famous in World War II, the veterans of the twenties and thirties are still there, and the new generation of senior generals in the middle are also full of information and outstanding military achievements.

Only the U.S. Army, the senior generals are all novices, although there are a few outstanding ones, but there is still a big gap from the famous generals, which also leads to the U.S. Army in World War II is rarely to implement difficult tactics, basically the U.S. Army is fighting all the way to the past, there is no tactical surname at all.

On the one hand, of course, the US Army's firepower is strong, the logistics are sufficient, and it can be pushed all the way through without various tactics, but on the other hand, it is also related to the lack of ability of the senior generals and officers of the US Army, which is unable to organize all kinds of dazzling tactical arrangements.