The First World War

The Chinese People's Volunteer Army won a decisive victory in the counterattack in western Korea, and the main US military force in the Far East, the US Eighth Army, was destroyed.

When the divisions of the American and British armies, the regimental commanders handed over their pistols and flags to their opponents on the battlefield, the military commanders of the various armies of the Chinese People's Volunteer Army. The Volunteers then took over the positions of the United States and Britain, drove into the defense area of the American army, and quickly collected their weapons, ammunition and military equipment. Centralize the officers at all levels. All the American soldiers were disorganized according to the squads, platoons, companies, and battalions of the Volunteer Army, and the squad leaders were elected among the prisoners of war, and the platoon leaders were sent out by the volunteers. Company commander, battalion commander. The work was carried out until noon the next day. The barbed wire fence of the U.S. military was then used to set up prisoner of war camps on the spot.

At the same time, the headquarters of the Volunteer Army Department notified Jin Yuecheng. In the northern part of Korea, except for the remaining more than 7,000 people of the US 25th Division and the Turkish Brigade, who are fleeing south of the 38th parallel with more than 3,000 wounded, the rest of the more than 130,000 people of the US Eighth Army that invaded the north have all been annihilated. Pyongyang has become an empty city, so the Korean People's Army is invited to quickly move to the 38th parallel and accept the area north of the 38th parallel. Jin Yuecheng's political axe set up in Sinuiju did not believe it at first, and the US Eighth Army, which had beaten hundreds of thousands of people's troops and fled, was wiped out by the [***] squadron in just a few days? Is this possible? Could it be that the US military is so vulnerable in front of the Chinese? Through the reaction of their intelligence networks at all levels, the Chinese have indeed completely annihilated the US military. The fighting has been stopped for more than a day.

On November 8, Jin Yuecheng ordered the withdrawal to Liaoning, northeast China. The 18th, 36th, 66th, 32nd, 37th, 38th, 42nd, 45th, 76th and 1 tank regiment of the Korean People's Army in Jilin area, a total of more than 100,000 people in 9 divisions and 1 Tan regiment. Immediately stopped the whole rest, and the troops were dispatched urgently in three directions, and marched to the 38th parallel at night. Along the way, they passed through the battlefield of the past few days, and saw bare mountains and forests that had been hit by artillery fire, the roads were full of bomb craters, the rails of the railways were blown up in all directions, the bridges that were blown up were desolate and desolate in the ice underneath, there were bombed crooked American and British tanks, and artillery that was overturned by artillery fire, and the wreckage of various cars was riddled with holes, and some of them still had the corpses of American soldiers in various postures, beside the craters on the scorched black earth. Scattered with human limbs and torsos and lying on the corpses of the unarrived and buried joint [***] officers and soldiers. In the field hospitals with the character "ten" painted on the side of the road, a large number of wounded volunteers lying in the open air in the cold season were only covered with quilts, waiting to be transferred to the rear. All this reveals how fierce and brutal the battle was at that time.

Groups of U.S. and South Korean soldiers, under the watchful eye of volunteer soldiers, carried and buried the bodies and wreckage of their comrades. According to the identification sign hanging around the neck of the corpse, several American soldiers carefully registered and recorded it in the register of dead American soldiers, and then handed the identification sign to the volunteer management personnel around them. Everything is going on tense and orderly.

While the Korean People's Army was marching, from time to time some officers and men rushed up to beat up the US prisoners, but they were severely stopped and reprimanded by the officers and men of Chiwon, who were guarding the prisoners of war. And what they saw the most was that the volunteer soldiers were holding beautiful weapons and looking around vigilantly, but from their faces blackened by the smoke of the war, it was not difficult to see that they were full of tired expressions, and these volunteer soldiers kept waving their hands and loudly urging them to pass quickly. Of course, there will also be some officers and soldiers of the Korean People's Army who have returned from China and meet some old comrades-in-arms who have fought together in China in the past, and they will come over to pat each other on the shoulder, chat a few words, and inquire about the current situation of the familiar comrades-in-arms. But everyone knows each other that this is impossible.

The remnants of the 9 divisions of the KPA in the area near the 38th parallel were also active at this time. They have organized to occupy the areas abandoned by the US-led coalition [***].

the 46th and 47th Divisions, the 105th Tank Division, the 17th Tank Brigade and 1 Reading Regiment of the KPA in eastern Korea; The 3rd Army Corps has more than 100,000 people under its jurisdiction over the 1st Division, the 3rd Division, the 8th Division, the 12th Division, the 13th Division, the 15th Division, the 41st Division, the 1st Brigade of Haiphong, the 71st Reading Regiment, and the Workers' Tank Regiment. It also quickly occupied the Hamhung area. Then the 46th and 47th Divisions of the People's Army, the 105th Tank Division and 1 Reading Regiment were left to garrison the Hamhung area, and they marched towards Wonsan. The U.S. Tenth Army, commanded by Almond, withdrew by sea to Pusan, with the help of naval ships, and burned the supplies that could not be taken away like a hill.

On 9 November, the vanguard of the Korean People's Army returned to Pyongyang, and on 12 November, the vanguard troops advanced to the 38th parallel and joined up with the remaining nine divisions in the area near the 38th parallel.

Each army of the Chinese Volunteers participated in the war sent a regiment to escort the captured more than 450 American and British tanks, more than 100 armored vehicles, and more than 3,000 artillery pieces of various kinds, including 221 155-mm and 105-mm howitzers, more than 360 direct-fire guns, more than 500 mortars of various kinds, 186 antiaircraft guns, and more than 1,600 simple barrels, including more than 1,000 artillery pieces of caliber of 70 mm or more (including tank guns). There are more than 40 liaison aircraft, 3,688 radios of various types, 445 cipher machines, and more than 600 wireless telephones and corded telephones. More than 7,000 cars of various kinds were withdrawn to the country in advance with captured materials and prisoners of war. In the country, two divisions were set up to form a mechanized motorized infantry division of the United States. As a result, our army's mobility and rapid reaction capability have been greatly strengthened. Subsequently, China rebuilt the first and second branches of the 90 Arsenal into a U.S. Ammunition Factory.

At this point, the counterattack of the Volunteers in western Korea ended with a complete victory for the Chinese side.

Subsequently, the 66th, 50th, and 42nd armies of our volunteer army were stationed in the Sucheon, Sunchon, and Chengcheon areas south of the Cheongchon River. Semi-permanent fortifications were built in this area. It is the first line of defense for our country.

The 38th, 39th, and 40th armies retreated to the north of the Qingchuan River, Dingzhou, Guicheng, and Hexichuan, and the Jiangjie area as the second line of defense of our country.

The Chinese People's Volunteers won a victory far beyond expectations in the western counterattack, inflicting heavy losses on the US 25th Division in the western part of the Korean Peninsula, destroying more than 6,000 of the division and more than 4,000 of the Turkish Brigade, forming a total of the Second South Korean Army and the First South Korean Division, and more than 60,000 South Korean troops. The 1st US Cavalry Division, the 2nd US Division, and the 24th US Division totaled more than 50,000 people, and the British 27th Brigade had more than 10,000 people. The U.S. Navy's two aircraft carrier fleets have more than 10,000 people. More than 160,000 enemies were annihilated. Among them, 26,453 American soldiers were captured and 7,813 were captured in the 27th Brigade of the British Commonwealth. The South Korean army is more than 40,000 people. Essentially wiped out the main military forces of the US military in the Far East . It fundamentally turned the tide of the Korean War. Restored all the territories of the Korean Myeongjo People's Republic. However, the Chinese People's Volunteer Army, our volunteer soldiers also paid nearly 70,000 casualties. In just one week of fighting, there were 32,601 of the best sons and daughters of the motherland, and our loveliest people left their lives forever on the land of Korea.