In other words, in late March 1945, the US armored forces broke through the "Siegfried Line" on which Hitler leaned on the Great Wall in one fell swoop, and reached the Rhine River ahead of the British.
General Patton walked up to the pontoon bridge over the Rhine with American sappers and reached the middle of the river, when he suddenly became a childlike and said to his men: "Now I should do something about what I want to do." With that, he unbuttoned his pants and peed into the river with a "whoosh".
Everyone was stunned.
After a shiver, he triumphantly said to his colleagues, "This is what I dream of doing." ”
Patton's move was photographed by the reporters accompanying the 3rd Army and soon appeared in the newspaper.
It is not difficult to see that Patton is insulting the defeated as best he can in the posture of a victor.
The American troops who followed followed suit, undressed one by one, and peed into the Rhine to their heart's content.
"Peeing on the Rhine" has been a topic of conversation among American soldiers for a long time.
And the American soldier who once urinated in the Rhine also cited it as a kind of glory in his military career.
It was November 1950.
The day before yesterday, Lao Qin published an article entitled "The First Campaign to Aid Korea: We Captured More Than 1,000 Prisoners, and Due to Various Reasons, All of Them Were Released" to "Qin Shiyong Talks History." The article said that after Peng Dehuai won the first battle to resist US aggression and aid Korea, he made full use of the arrogant and arrogant characteristics of MacArthur, commander of the "United Nations Army," pretended that the supply line was cut off and the supply line could not be continued, and instead of advancing and retreating, he lured the enemy into the depths and prepared to encircle and annihilate the enemy on the predetermined battlefield.
MacArthur did not know what to do, and he excitedly raised the slogan of "a general offensive to end the war by Christmas" and waved his army to cover it up.
For a time, the "United Nations Army," which included five corps, 13 divisions, three brigades, and an airborne regiment of the United States, the British, the Turkish, and the South Korean Army, with a total strength of 220,000 troops, advanced on the eastern and western fronts on the Sino-Korean border.
Peng Dehuai was afraid that MacArthur would become suspicious during the pursuit, and while ordering the main force of the Western Front to retreat and rest and wait for the moment, he asked the 38th, 39th, and 40th armies to carry out a continuous attack with one division each, and to retreat while fighting.
In this way, the 112th Division of the Western Front, which lured the enemy, took the initiative to abandon the Feihushan position on the Qingchuan River on November 9.
On 10 November, our 119th and 117th Divisions abandoned the positions north of the Qingchuan River, Ningbian, and Bochuan, respectively.
The main force of the 42nd Army, which had resisted the enemy on the Eastern Front, also abandoned its position south of Changjin Lake and withdrew north.
As a result, the progress of the "United Nations Army" has been extremely smooth.
MacArthur boasted to the news media with smugness: "[The Chinese] are not insultable, and their troops entering Korea are only 60,000 or 70,000. ”
He eagerly urged his troops to speed up, saying, "Boys, get home for Christmas and eat turkey!" ”
As a result, the "United Nations Army" on the Western Front advanced to the "attack starting line" on November 21 and completed the campaign.
Among the "United Nations Army" on the Eastern Front, the Seventh Infantry Division was even more unbeatable and made rapid progress.
The commander of the 7th Infantry Division was Major General David Barr, who served as the head of the advisory group of the U.S. Army in China during the Liberation War and considered himself to know the Chinese army well. In fact, all he came into contact with was the Kuomintang army, and he still knew nothing about the Communist army.
He commanded the 7th Infantry Division to rush and fight violently, and at once rushed to the northernmost point of the Korean Peninsula.
The 17th Regiment, the spearhead, arrived at the Yalu River on the 21st, and came to the Chinese border, which was only separated by a river from New China.
On June 10, 2024, Lao Qin released the article "US Major Commands Soldiers to Strafe into China, and Tears Fall After Being Captured: I Am a Civilized Man" to "Qin Shiyong Says History", which says: The South Korean Sixth Division and the Seventh Regiment "very unfortunately" passed through the gap between the hundreds of thousands of troops of the Chinese army in the first battle to resist US aggression and aid Korea, and came to the Yalu River. As a result, Deng Yue's 118th Division was killed and annihilated by the surging river.
This time, it was the American army that came.
This was also the first time that U.S. troops reached the Yalu River in the Korean War.
When he heard the "good news" that the vanguard of the Seventh Division of the Eastern Front had advanced to the bank of the Yalu River, he was inexplicably excited, and hurriedly drove nearly 50 kilometers to the place without touching the ground, and called Barr, Brigadier General Henry Holtz, deputy commander of the Seventh Division, Brigadier General Homer Cheever, commander of the artillery of the Seventh Division, and other leading officers to stand happily by the Yalu River to take a group photo.
MacArthur, too, called Almond with a fluttering eyebrow: "Your Seventh Division has won the jackpot!" ”
As a result, the 7th Infantry Division fell into a state of turmoil from top to bottom.
Countless U.S. soldiers, imitating Patton's peeing on the Rhine River back then, urinated on the Yalu River.
After the news of the peeing made the front page headlines of American newspapers, officials and generals in Washington were misled into thinking that the war was over.
As a matter of fact, the second campaign to resist US aggression and aid Korea has not yet officially begun, and soon, the US troops on the banks of the Yalu River, and even all the "United Nations troops" that are rushing forward, will taste the might of the Chinese volunteers, and the end will be tragic.