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One night in August 1945, the breeze was blowing and the stars were shining. (Please search, or enter directly to see the latest chapter)

On the eve of Japan's surrender, in order to ensure the interests of the United States in the Far East, the State Department, the Sixth Military Department, and the Admiralty held consultations together, and since it was impossible to enter Korea before the Soviet Red Army, it was necessary to come up with a practical plan to negotiate with the Soviets, which could not only satisfy the wishes of the Soviet Union, but also not disappoint the United States.

The two young staff officers were given the task of being ordered by the Department of Defense to come up with a research proposal for the American and Soviet minds to debate in less than an hour.

It happened very suddenly, and the two career officers were dumbfounded, because they had never been to or paid attention to this country before, and they did not know the people of this Far Eastern Peninsula country, and they stood on the side of the Americans, and they thought, does the life or death of the Koreans have anything to do with our great America!

After a few minutes of confusion, a young US military staff officer skillfully picked up a red and blue pencil and drew a straight horizontal line on the map of North Korea in front of him, dividing North Korea into two.

Since then, the Korean peninsula has never been reunified, and the struggle between the people of the South and the North has continued into the 21 st century.

This line completely coincided with the line that divided Korea between Japan and Russia in the past, that is, the 38th parallel -- that is, the 38th parallel, which was later famous, and the name of this young US military staff officer was Dean Risk.

The territory of the DPRK that passes through the 38th parallel is about 250 kilometers, and it is a demarcation line artificially created in complete disregard of political, economic, military, humanistic, geographical, and other factors.

The dividing line divides the mountains, rivers, roads, railways, and countless villages and kinship of the suffering country from different angles.

After June 1950, countless eyes from all over the world were watching here, including Americans, Chinese, and Japanese. There were Soviets, of course, and Li Yong, the brigade commander of an independent brigade of the People's Liberation Army in Tibet.

The war lasted less than three months from the beginning of the northern march to the time when it was cut off by the waist, most of the forces of the Northern People's Army after Yinchuan Deng6 were annihilated, more than a dozen infantry divisions and brigades formed with the former Chinese People's Liberation Army as the main force were completely lost (three Korean divisions in Siye), and the north had lost the strength to organize large corps operations.

The Almond Division of the US Tenth Army from Yinchuan and Walker's Eighth Army from Pusan were the main forces, plus a large number of Korean civilian ** troops. Under the cover of ground-to-air firepower, the north and south flanked and quickly regained the South Korean capital Khan City, which had not been lost for a long time, and then went all the way north, approaching the 38th parallel, the dividing line between North and South Korea.

Wake Island

Wake Island is a small island in the Pacific Ocean with an area of only nine square kilometers, 3,000 kilometers west of Tokyo, Japan, and 7,000 kilometers east of San Francisco, United States. The island is rich in tropical fruits such as bananas and coconuts, and is home to hundreds of indigenous people, as well as some American troops, and if it weren't for the war, few people in the world would have known about this place, although its scenery is beautiful.

On this day, in the roar of aircraft propellers, two big names came to this remote island, one was the commander-in-chief of the 6th Army in the Far East of the United States. Five-star General MacArthur, the other is the current president of the United States, the titular commander of the three armed forces, Truman.

After the outbreak of the Korean War, President Truman was very eager to hear about General MacArthur's advice and wanted to interview him personally, but MacArthur, who was in high esteem in the US military, did not give him face as a president, and repeatedly refused the president's invitation for various reasons.

The General Staff, the Department of Defense, the State Department, and President Truman and his staff all became dissatisfied with the arrogant general.

But it can only be dissatisfied. After the end of World War II, with General MacArthur's power in the army, even the president was dissatisfied with him.

It was a matter of the overall situation, and it was necessary to meet with the commander-in-chief of the front, but the commander-in-chief of the front did not give face to the president, and in desperation, Truman decided to deign to go to Tokyo to negotiate with Mai Shuai.

The president made a decision. However, the aides believe that letting the president of a country, the commander-in-chief of the three armed services, visit a general will damage the president's face. Later, after planning, the meeting place between the president and the general was chosen on Wake Island in the vast Pacific Ocean, which was a delicate balance for both sides.

The first question of the president is how the situation in the Korean War will evolve after the Yinchuan Deng6, and how the situation in the Far East will change.

MacArthur's proposal is: "Since the US military ascended to Yincheon on 6, the overall situation has been decided, our army has not only restored the entire territory of the Republic of Korea but also eliminated 300,000 North Korean communist troops, and now the North Korean army has less than 30,000 personnel, and most of them are newly recruited soldiers, who have not been trained, and their combat effectiveness is low. ”

The president's second question was how China would respond if U.S. troops crossed the 38th parallel.

President Truman was mainly concerned about the second issue, because the Chinese side had already sent a message to the United States through India several times that the US military could restore the territory of the Republic of Korea, but not cross the 38th parallel, otherwise China would not sit idly by.

The general's advice is: "According to the intelligence of the US Far East Headquarters, China has more than 300,000 troops stationed in its northeast, including 120,000 on the side of the Yalu River, and according to the carrying capacity of the Yalu River Bridge, it can provide support for about 60,000 people, that is to say, if China wants to intervene, it can only retain about 60,000 troops in North Korea. ”

The US Far East garrison collected very detailed intelligence on the Sino-North Korean border, especially the Yalu River Bridge, and made a careful analysis, from which MacArthur's judgment came from.

According to the analysis of the intelligence headquarters of the US forces stationed in the Far East, China can only maintain an army of about 60,000 troops in Korea, and no matter how many personnel there are, there will be big logistical problems.

The analysis is not detailed, and it is also very consistent with the logic of reasoning, but the US Far East garrison has forgotten one thing, their intelligence analysis is based on their own analysis, that is to say, the Yalu River Bridge can only provide support for 60,000 people is calculated according to the standard of the US military, not the standard of the squadron, according to the standard of the first person, how many people can be supported by the Yalu River Bridge to cross the river and fight is unknown......

(The spirit of the Chinese people who can fight a war with a handful of fried noodles and a mouthful of snow is something that the Americans can never understand, and the gap is too big to calculate the ** squadron according to the standard that the US military needs logistics supplies)

The president's third question is whether the USSR will intervene.

The general replied: "No, because the Soviet Union has only an air force in the Far East and no 6 armies, and the air force has limited intervention capabilities and cannot win a war alone." ”

The president's fourth question: What if the Soviet Union sent out the air force, China sent the 6th Army, and the two armies fought together?

General MacArthur laughed: "The president thinks too much, this is absolutely impossible, because the 6-air joint operation is a difficult tactical action, and it is difficult to meet the standard without training, and our intelligence shows that the Chinese and Soviet armies do not have 6-air joint combat exercises, and if they rush to send troops, I can guarantee that the bombs of the Soviet Air Force will generally be thrown on the heads of the Chinese." ”

After the question was asked, President Truman's hanging heart was also relaxed, and before leaving, he said: "General Gao Jian convinced me, since I have predicted that China and the Soviet Union will not intervene, the general can boldly go north." ”

After the meeting between Truman and MacArthur at Wake Island, the US military intensified its attack, and before the meeting, the US military demanded that the troops that had crossed the 38th parallel must be the troops of the Republic of Korea in the front, and the US troops would follow behind.

In the past, this was not simply asking the Koreans to be cannon fodder, but it had a very strong political connotation, and the US military wanted to prove to the world that they were invited by the Koreans to uphold the UN Charter.

Facts have proved that the combat effectiveness of the South Koreans is really unsatisfactory, the attack is weak, and the progress is slow under the harassment of the northern partisans of the DPRK, but this situation changed after the meeting on Wake Island, and MacArthur, who was far away in Tokyo, Japan, ordered his troops not to follow behind the butts of the Koreans, but to use the 1st US Cavalry Division as the vanguard, and quickly capture Pyongyang, the capital of Korea, without giving the opponent a chance to breathe.

Pyongyang, which is translated in Chinese as flat land, is the political, economic and cultural center of northern Korea, and since the U.S. military Yinchuan Deng6, the KPA has deployed most of the remaining main forces here, hoping to build a large defensive circle with the capital to ensure that Pyongyang is not lost.

The total number of defenders in Pyongyang was about 20,000, and they built a large number of fortifications using mountains, rivers, houses, and other buildings, and fought to the death with the American troops here.

The opponent of the Pyongyang defenders is the first cavalry division of the US army, the first cavalry division was established in the founding years of the United States, and has made countless military exploits in more than 200 years, and is the first trump card of the US 6th Army, known as the founding fathers of the country, the first cavalry division has long been without war horses, and has achieved mechanization, but in order to maintain the honor, the US Department of Defense specially let them keep the number of the cavalry division, and embroider a horse head logo on the armband of each soldier.

The First Cavalry Division is the most powerful unit in the minds of countless American people and soldiers, and it is the trump card among trump cards, and the military also favors it, and its personnel and equipment are inclined to it, and all the new equipment can be selected by the First Cavalry Division, and it is given whatever it wants; by 1950, the First Cavalry Division had more than 20,000 soldiers, more than 200 tanks and armored vehicles, more than 600 artillery pieces, and more than 3,700 automobiles.