Lao Qin released yesterday "What is the "Ten Thousand Enemies"? Nine Chinese Soldiers, Frightened the U.S. Army to Abandon Thousands of Cannons and Flee in a Hurry" to "Qin Shiyong Says History", which talks about the famous Sansholi Longyuanli Resistance Battle in the Second Battle to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea.
In this battle, our 113th Division used only a dozen mortars, several hundred machine guns, and several thousand rifles and bayonets to intercept the US 2nd and 25th Divisions, the remnants of the Turkish Brigade, and the 1st South Korean Division of the US 1st Cavalry Division that had retreated from the Western Front, completely crippling the US 2nd Division.
The strength of the US Second Division that fled back was only 20 percent of its establishment.
All the hundreds of tanks, hundreds of artillery pieces and thousands of vehicles assigned to the division were discarded.
Of course, the catastrophe for the US military is far from over.
The 42nd Army of the Volunteer Army quickly plunged into Suchuan and Shunchuan.
When MacArthur heard the news, his blood seemed to freeze.
Because, once the way back from Suchuan and Shunchuan was cut off, the Eighth Army had no choice but to jump off the Yellow Sea of China.
To this end, he telegraphed and ordered the 1st US Cavalry Division to stop this Chinese unit from penetrating into Suchuan and Shunchuan at all costs.
The equipment of our 42nd Army was very poor, and the soldiers were running in the ice and snow, and the rubber shoes on their feet were broken, so they simply continued to run barefoot.
Even so, they still inflicted heavy losses on the 1st Division of the American Cavalry.
Under the fierce attack of the 39th and 40th armies, the US Ninth Army was terrified, discarded all 2,000 vehicles, hundreds of tanks, and thousands of artillery pieces, and turned around lightly to join forces with the Western and American First Army......
The entire Eighth Army fled south in panic along the coastal highway along the Suchuan line, and Walker, the commander of the Eighth Army, was in a car accident because of the speed of the car during the escape, and the car was destroyed and killed.
In the words of US Secretary of State Acheson, this retreat of US troops is "the longest retreat in US history."
In ten days, the American army retreated 300 kilometers!
It is particularly worth mentioning that in this campaign, in the entire US army, only the commander of the Eighth Army, Walker, was slightly clear-headed, and when Tokugawa and Ningyuan were occupied by the Volunteer Army, he was faintly aware of Peng Dehuai's intention to gather and annihilate the Eighth Army.
Lao Qin said in the article "The Second Battle, the U.S. Army Is About to Collapse, and the Top Leaders Urgently Held the "Most Strange Meeting" released the day before yesterday that although Walker had already smelled the smell of danger, he was summoned by MacArthur to Tokyo to hold a "revolving meeting" at the most critical juncture of the war.
However, before leaving, he gave the order to the whole army to retreat to the Qingchuan River.
General Kurd, the commander of the U.S. Ninth Army, was reluctant to retreat at first, and he slowly demanded that the troops build a defensive line every 5 kilometers or so, and then retreat one by one.
General Kaiser, commander of the US Second Division, reminded at the right time, saying that "if we do not retreat in one fell swoop, there will certainly be a danger of annihilation of the entire army."
In the early morning of the 29th, the U.S. 2nd Division received an order from Tokyo to retreat to Shunkawa.
There are two routes to choose from to retreat from Gunyu-ri to Suncheon: one is the main road through Sinanju-Sucheon-Suncheon, and the other is the road that goes directly to Suncheon along the valley of the Trough River through Samso-ri.
Kaiser considered that the US First Army and the US 25th Division would take the first route above, and was worried that there would be many villains on the road, so he decided to take the second route.
Soon, he regretted the path he had chosen.
In the valley of the trough bucket, they were fiercely blocked by the 112th Division of the 38th Army of the Volunteers.
Ancient Indians caught enemy captives, usually with warriors holding leather whips, lined up in two long lines, and then had the captives pass through the middle to be whipped by the warriors in two lines.
This punishment was called the "gauntlet."
Kaiser later recalled their crossing of the Trench Valley, saying: "We were like prisoners of war who had been punished, walking on the 'Indian flogging ground,' and every step was a bloodstain. ”
I have to say that Kaiser's metaphor is very vivid and vivid.
The Japanese, who like to write the war histories of various countries in the world, praised it, and with great interest, they included a schematic diagram of the flogging of the Indians in the historical materials compiled.
The valley was later named the "Indian's Flogging Ground".
The U.S. Second Division had completely disintegrated on the banks of the Trough Barrel River, and after its rout and regrouping with the remnants of Shunchuan, the total number was less than 20% of the establishment!
The vast majority of the troops were wiped out in the valley of the Sunchon Highway, which the U.S. military called "Flank Ridge."
Kurds and Kaiser were dismissed from their posts at the same time.