Chapter 777 - If you don't fight, you can't do it

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The eight-year War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression (14 years in the Northeast) shattered a little industrial base accumulated from the end of the Qing Dynasty to the early years of the Republic of China, and the Westernization Movement, which brought a glimmer of fresh hope, was destroyed in the flames of war, and the Kuomintang army blew up a large number of factories before retreating. (Please search, or enter directly to see the latest chapter)

In 195o, less than a year after its founding, China had a failed grain harvest due to years of war, bandits were rampant in the northwest and southwest, and hundreds of thousands of bandits shouted slogans to cooperate with the Kuomintang counteroffensive in Taiwan, and thousands of grassroots workers of the People's Liberation Army and local governments were killed, including two division-level PLA cadres, one of whom was about to become ambassador of a certain country.

The new government has too many things to do, and most of its energy is focused on the first five-year plan, except for the suppression of bandits, which is to boost the economy, to sow seeds on large tracts of uncultivated land, and to provide food to the common people in both the cities and the countryside.

At that time, the total industrial and agricultural output value of New China was only more than 50 billion yuan, which was less than a fraction of the output value of the United States when converted into US dollars, and the electricity consumption of the whole country was not as good as the installed capacity of a hydropower station on the Tennessee River in the United States.

The People's Liberation Army is still an army armed with millet and rifles, and the supply of "millet" is not sufficient, and the rifles are also made of different models. Composition of vintage rifles of different calibers, different nationalities.

There is a huge disparity in national strength. The technical equipment of the army is not at the same level, what should I do? Faced with the crying plea of the North Korean envoy, New China was once again caught in a dilemma.

Korea, since ancient times, has lived under the wing of the powerful China, the sons and daughters of China have a natural sense of mission to protect this weak and small nation, in the last years of the Qing Dynasty, because of the weakening of the national power, the nation on the peninsula became a Japanese colony. Today, do we want to let history repeat itself?

If New China does not come to its aid, there is no doubt that the Korean Peninsula will become the sphere of influence of the United States, and the United States is full of hostility towards New China, and as soon as the Korean War began, the Seventh Fleet of the US Navy entered the Taiwan Strait. As a result, the People's Liberation Army's operational plan to liberate Taiwan has been repeatedly put on hold.

Once the United States, which is full of hostility to New China, occupies the Korean Peninsula, the consequences will be too great and too great, and China has a border of more than 1,000 kilometers with the DPRK, and in order to guard against the attack of the opponent, the border garrisons will have to wait day and night, even so. The strength of the opponent also makes the Chinese border guards have to keep their spirits tight at all times, because behind them is China's largest industrial area.

Most of China's heavy industry is in the northeast, and most of the industrial base in the northeast is in southern Liaoning, and the steel city of Anshan accounts for half of the country's steel production, and if you add Benxi, it will reach 80 percent of the country. Fushun, the coal capital, has the largest coal mine in the country, and the large thermal power plant in Fuxin, the electric city, is the main power plant of the Northeast Power Grid. There are more than 2,000 large and medium-sized factories in the central city of Shenyang, and these cities are only 300 kilometers away from the border between China and North Korea. However, they were all within the combat radius of US fighter-bombers, and the consequences of being bombed were unbearable.

What is facing New China is that if the war continues, it will not be a question of whether to fight or not, but whether it will not work.

In order to lighten the burden on the country, many units have been mobilizing veterans to demobilize since the beginning of the 50s, so that the scarred veterans can return to work in their localities.

These veteran soldiers are accustomed to staying in the army, they think that the army is their home, and they do not know what they can do after they go back, so the mobilization work is very difficult to do; in order to emancipate their minds, some cadres set an example, saying that they will go home with the demobilized soldiers, and that they will do the same revolution and build new China when they return to the localities.

Every sign is that peace is really coming, but are these real?

The mobilization work continued until June of '50, when it suddenly stopped, and what was even more strange was that the troops not only did not want the old soldiers to be demobilized, but also wanted the cadres who had previously mobilized them to return to their homes to remobilize them and return to the army to serve as soldiers.

The news that the news leaked out is too strange, and even a little weird, the cadres and soldiers of the People's Liberation Army are all battlefield masters who have fought for many years, and their sense of smell of war is extremely sensitive, and some people guess that it is very likely that there will be another war, otherwise what would we do with this group of veterans who have been discharged from the army and returned home?

Indeed, as soon as the Korean War began, the leadership of New China began to make preparations to be prepared, and there were many of the four major field armies and more than 5 million troops who could fight tough battles, but among them, the best equipment, the largest number of personnel, and the most powerful combat effectiveness had to be said to be the four field troops.

The 13th Corps is one of the most capable of fighting in the four fields, the corps has jurisdiction over the 38th, 39th, and 40th, three armies, these three armies are also the original first, second, and third columns of the four fields, and they are trump cards, known as the three fierce troops (slamming, rushing, and chasing) are the hard bones of the PLA troops, and there are multiple Red Regiments in the main division, such as the main force of the 38th Army, which has the old foundation of the Pingjiang uprising of Mr. Peng.

After the founding of New China, the Central Military Commission mobilized the 13 th Corps, which had strong combat effectiveness, and chose Henan, the place to be stationed for them, because Henan is located in the hinterland of China's Central Plains, and if there is something in the surrounding area, the 13 Corps can go out to support from the Central Plains.

The specific arrangements were that the 38th Army was stationed in Xinyang, the 39th Army was stationed in Piaohe, and the 40th Army was stationed in Luoyang.

(Of course, these are the original plans, they are plans that have not been realized, and the current deployment is that the 38th Group Army is stationed in Baoding, the 39th Group Army is stationed in Liaoyang, the 40th Group Army is stationed in Jinzhou, and Henan is the territory of the 54th Group Army, stationed in Xinxiang, and it is also the old army of Siye, which is all a later story, haha, it is also declassified information)

The veterans who are about to be demobilized are guessing the intentions of their superiors, guessing whether they are going to fight somewhere again, but where is the enemy? Who are we going to fight? The little devils are gone, the Kuomintang is gone, who else is our opponent? The officers and men at the grassroots level were puzzled.

The same is true of an independent brigade of the People's Liberation Army far away in Tibet, brigade commander Li Yong does not come out of the war room all day long, and he doesn't know what he is tinkering with.

The soldiers were very puzzled, don't look at Tibet's distance from the interior, but the commanders of the middle and high-level levels had long known from their internal reports that there was a country called North Korea outside the great northeastern border of the motherland that was fighting a war, and it was still very fierce, but did this have anything to do with us?

The northeast is so far away from Tibet that the soldiers do not understand their brigade commanders studying the enemy situation all day long.

What is there to study, even if the superiors want to send troops abroad to fight, it is a matter for the Northeast Army, and it has something to do with one of our troops far away in Tibet, so we don't believe it, and the superiors can transfer our independent brigade from Shigatse to the Northeast!! That's.

The higher authorities really did not mean to transfer the independent brigade from Xigaze, but Brigade Commander Li still nested in the war room every day and did not come out, and it seemed that the whole spirit was put into it, but fortunately, the independent brigade had entered a stage of steady development in Xigaze, and when there was no war to fight, political commissar Wang Chengde contracted most of the trivial work, and Li Yong, as the commander of the first brigade, let him toss it casually.

Having said that, once they encounter a war, it is different, and the commanders at all levels of the independent brigade, that is, those veterans, are not as calm as the political commissars, but go to see the brigade commander when they have time or not, to see what Li Yong is doing, and they also say that they want to see what the brigade commander is doing.

Li Yongzhi didn't think too much about it, the Korean War was a major event that affected the entire history of the 20 th century, and although it has nothing to do with himself and the Independent Brigade from the current point of view, as a military commander, it seems to be a very normal thing to study both the enemy and us.

On the morning of this day, Li Jiangguo, commander of the first battalion, Ma Changsheng, commander of the third battalion, Wei Gang, commander of the machine gun battalion, Gao Xiang, commander of the artillery battalion, and others all ran over.

A group of more than a dozen people burst in.

There are wall charts and sand tables in the brigade headquarters, except for the border areas that the independent brigade is now guarding, most of them are about the northeast and North Korea, and Brigade Commander Li is busy alone.

Ma Changsheng, the commander of the third battalion, sat down and shouted in a loud voice: "Brigade commander, we all know that there is a war on the North Korean side, but what does this have to do with us?" If we really want to fight, we will report to our superiors and pull our entire brigade over, which will also save us from being idle here. ”

Li Jiangguo, the commander of the first battalion, knocked Ma Changsheng's head, and said in a long voice: "You kid is messing around, report to your superiors?" And you want to pull our brigade away? Could it be that the superiors are stupid? ”