Chapter 790: Covered Shortcomings

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There is also a 38th Army in the first batch of volunteers to enter the DPRK, Mr. Peng has long heard of this army, don't look at the long-term work in the Northwest Field Army, but as the deputy commander-in-chief of the whole army, Mr. Peng also has a certain understanding of the troops in the northeast, who can not know the famous 38th Army, in fact, Mr. Peng and the 38th Army have a shallow origin, and its main force 112th Division is his old foundation of the Pingjiang Uprising.

Of course, the first main force of Siye was given high hopes, and in order to speed up their march, the Volunteer Army Headquarters specially allocated a hundred Soviet-style trucks.

With 100 trucks, the 38th Army's march should be a little faster, but it still backfired, and the 38th Army's march was not fast but surrendered.

The narrow highway was full of fleeing people, among which there were some defeated and retreating KPA soldiers, these soldiers who had fled had already disrupted the formation, a group of three or five people, a group of more than ten or twenty people, with the flow of people backwards and retreated, it could be seen from Mu Ran's face that these so-called fighters had lost their fighting spirit.

The arrival of the 38th Army made the eyes of these soldiers light up with a glimmer of brilliance, but then they dimmed, because they saw that the weapons and equipment of the troops wearing what looked like the uniform of the People's Army were also very ordinary, and such equipment could not defeat the joint **.

The 38th Army, which was regarded as a newly formed unit of the People's Army, did not pay attention to these defeated soldiers, and the army commander Liang Xingchu ordered the troops to advance in full force and must arrive at the designated position according to the requirements of the Volunteer Army Headquarters.

However, the commander's orders are really difficult to carry out or have no way to carry them out, and the troops have to fight with the common people. From time to time, US planes came to make trouble in the sky, and there were only a few bomb craters of different sizes on the roads, which were not very good, and there were fewer ordinary people fleeing at night. But the headlights of the car still didn't dare to turn on, because there were still night planes on duty from the US military in the sky.

In the course of constant air defense, the 38 th Army's cars suffered huge losses, and the US planes were like pervasive flies laying eggs, and they went out less than 200 kilometers, and more than 100 cars that had just been transferred by the headquarters were lost, but fortunately, most of the drivers ran out. Otherwise, the casualties will be even greater.

By the time the 38th Army staggered to the ground, the United **, which had been designated to be attacked by them, had already fled, and the angry 38th Army had only knocked out one company and the remaining troops. Plus in one qiē is only a few hundred people.

The prestigious 38th Army only killed a few hundred people after a long-distance attack, and basically did not capture them, so this little result was not enough for tens of thousands of people in the whole army to stuff their teeth, for this reason. The whole army was in great flames. Even the most ordinary warriors are on fire, and they have never been like this.

The end of the battle of the 38th Army marked the end of the first battle between the Volunteers and the United Army, and this battle was called the first battle to resist US aggression and aid Korea in the history of China.

For the Chinese and American armies, the first battle was an encounter for which neither side was prepared, and with its own excellent suzhì, the squadron made the arrogant joint ** suffer, and what to drink the Yalu River and what to go home for Christmas became an empty word.

Relative to the squadron. A battle is a battle that is not big or small, say he is big. It is because the troops of the four armies were invested at one time, and they are all the elite of the army, not to say much, because the results of the battle are not big, and the battles of the four armies are basically a crushing battle, although the campaign effect has been achieved, but not many enemies have been annihilated, only the 39th Army has completely annihilated a regiment of the US First Cavalry Division in Yunshan.

At the post-war summary meeting, the 39th, 40th, and 42nd armies were all praised, and only the 38th Army, the first main force of Siye, was severely criticized.

The 38th Army is the first trump card of the four fields, from the commander to the soldier, everyone is very high-spirited, it is a bullish army, the army commander Liang Xingchu has two nicknames, one is called Liang Daya, and the other is iron.

Mr. Peng's angry scolding made this arrogant army commander really can't help it, and he collided with the boss at the meeting and said: "It's okay for you to scold me Liang Xingchu, but it's not okay to scold the 38th Army." ”

In any case, the battle was still won, the original purpose of the squadron to enter the DPRK had been achieved, and the troops had gained a firm foothold in Korea, but there was also a hint of concern in the victory, and the volunteers and the joint ** operations also exposed their own shortcomings and deficiencies, the most obvious is that the gap between the technical equipment and the enemy is too large, the mobility of the troops is not enough under the threat of the enemy's aircraft, and there is the lack of logistics supplies.

The victory of several battles was achieved by the volunteers by making full use of the terrain advantage, let's say, what if we did not have the advantage of the terrain and did not swing the effect of a surprise blow? The most obvious example is that the 40th Army was attacked by enemy planes in the final stage of the battle of Wenjing, and when the overall situation was decided, more than 2,000 casualties, all of them veterans of a hundred battles, were gone in less than half an hour, and their casualties made Deng Yue, the commander of the 118th Division, stomp his feet in distress.

However, the shortcomings and hidden worries of the volunteers did not attract enough attention, and they were covered up by the victory of the Great Battle.

Although the news of the Chinese People's Volunteers' departure to fight had not yet been announced, the army's senior commanders were fully aware of it, and it was an open secret among the troops, and even a certain independent brigade of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) in Shigatse, Tibet, had heard the news.

The arrogant United ** was beaten head-on by the squadron **, and retreated in disgrace, this news made political commissar Wang Chengde and others rejoice.

The commander of the first battalion, Li Jiangguo, grinned and discussed: "What the hell is the joint **, it's all bullshit, it's like a bear with a bayonet, I mention yì, let's also report to the superiors, and also go to North Korea to bump the joint **." ”

The most cheerful people were undoubtedly the most belligerent boys of the Independent Brigade, such as Ma Changsheng, the commander of the third battalion, Wei Gang, the commander of the machine gun battalion, and Gao Xiang, the commander of the artillery battalion, all thought that Li Jiangguo's mention was very correct, and they argued that it was better to go to North Korea, and it was really boring to stay in Shigatse to make a fight.

By the way, there is also He Cuihua, the instructor of the baggage battalion, who coaxed with the deputy battalion commander of their battalion, saying that Shigatse is a place where rabbits don't, and the independent brigade is a waste of food when stationed here, and a few bandits and bandits can solve the problem by dispatching a few platoons of a reconnaissance battalion, and the bones of our large army are sore.

The Independent Brigade is indeed accustomed to fighting, and since its establishment in four or seven years, it has been living in war non-stop, fighting large and small, and after being idle, it will be uncomfortable, and it will always feel that there are shortcomings, and from the perspective of later psychology, what kind of war syndrome is this.

However, not everyone is like this, the independent brigade still has delicate and steady commanders, such as the second battalion commander Ma Quanyou, the fourth battalion commander Ning Jinshan, and the fifth battalion commander Wang Laohu, who will not make trouble with them, especially the fifth battalion commander Wang Laohu, not only did not make a coax with Li Jiangguo but also refuted his opinions, Wang Laohu believes that the independent brigade is purely nonsense to report to the higher authorities and ask to go to North Korea, and the higher authorities are not fools, so why would they get a brigade of them all the way to North Korea, and he does not think that the independent brigade is the most capable of fighting in the PLA.

There were cheers in the headquarters of the independent brigade, only the brigade commander Li Yong sat there silently, and the careful political commissar Wang Chengde soon saw that Li Yong's expression was a little strange, such a big thing, why is this guy so calm, there must be a problem.

Wang Chengde moved Li Yong's head over, and said with a heartfelt voice: "Hey, Dayong, you guy has a problem in his head, I want to open it and take a look." ”

As soon as the political commissar reminded everyone, they also noticed it, yes, what's the matter with the brigade commander, why are we not happy about our big victory.

Li Yongxin said, what is there to be happy about, I know all these things, this is the first battle abroad, and the hard days are still to come, besides, the US military is not all bears as Li Jiangguo said, and when the Americans react and grasp the operational characteristics of our army, the battle will become more and more difficult to fight.

Brigadier Li's thoughts were difficult for no one to understand, or there was no way to say them, so he could only quietly pretend to be in his heart.

There are only two people in the 10,000 independent brigades who have a certain understanding of the US army, one is Brigade Commander Li Da, and the other is Jiang Tiexiong, the battalion commander of the tank battalion.

Jiang Tiexiong is different from other commanders from Tubalu, he is an authentic armored corps professional, and his understanding of the weapons and equipment of the US army can be said to be the first in the whole brigade, and even the brigade commander Li Yong only saw the written materials in the materials of later generations.

Seeing the excited commanders in the room, Jiang Tiexiong wanted to say something and quietly swallowed it back, first, he didn't want to discourage everyone's enthusiasm, second, he still had some scruples about his identity, not like a commander from the old Eighth Road who could say whatever he wanted, and third, Jiang Tiexiong thought that the Korean War had nothing to do with the Independent Brigade, and it was the same whether he said it or not.

The victory of the first battle also made the Korean People's Army and the Soviet Military Advisory Group rejoice, and the Supreme Leader of the People's Army High Command Kim XX and the head of the Soviet Military Advisory Group Viksky sent a message of condolences to the headquarters of the Volunteer Army, and encouraged the Volunteer Army to take advantage of the victory to pursue and drive the United ** into the sea to complete the reunification of Korea.

Different from the boiling mood of the friendly army, Peng Dehuai, commander-in-chief of the Volunteer Army, was not carried away by the victory, this veteran soldier of his life has reached the point of reaching the peak of the battle situation, in the eyes of the friendly army command and the Soviet advisers, the squadron not only did not take advantage of the victory to pursue but also retreated. (To be continued......)