March 14th. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info Pyongyang.

More than a dozen cars rushed into the city of Pyongyang. There were many troops standing guard along the way.

The convoy did not enter the city center, but turned a corner and drove towards the Datong River.

This is the command of the trail. He was accompanied by Soviet and American military observer groups.

The headquarters of Xiaolu was originally set up in Shenyang, but it was soon moved to Andong, and after Pyongyang was taken, the headquarters quickly arrived at the Pyongyang airfield by plane. Today, the road to the Datong River also has a task, he wants to take a photo and hand it over to Yan'an.

The Northeast Coalition Army alone undertook the task of attacking North Korea, and the first stage of the task was completed, smoothly, as if training according to the training materials, almost exactly according to the plan.

Several other chiefs of the Northeast Coalition have taken photographs in the city of North Korea and sent them to Yan'an.

Propaganda, but also war.

The U.S. military observer group was also very happy, and they also came up and took pictures. A photo was taken at the head of the Datong bridge, and Xiaolu also wanted to shoot on the railway bridge, but was forbidden by the guards. Further south is dangerous.

The leader of the U.S. military observation group this time was the former John Smith, who was called Zhang San by Xiaolu. Today, his name is still John Smith, and Xiaolu still calls him Zhang San.

Xiaolu said: "Zhang San, are you going to take a look everywhere?" ”

John Smith: "Okay. I'll go and look around so I can write a report to our commander. ”

Xiaolu said: "I estimate that your previous report may have caused controversy, and they will doubt your position, say that you are ****, and say that you are a communist." You have to be careful. ”

John Smith: "It's okay. Whatever I see, I say. ”

Xiaolu: "I'll give you a suggestion, that is, don't add any comments at all, just write facts, and take more photos." ”

John Smith: "Thanks for the suggestion. I have a question. ”

Xiaolu: "Say." ”

John Smith: "You call me Zhang San, and this is China's John Smith, who is called by this name the most." But why is it the most common name? ”

Xiaolu: "The surname Zhang is the most numerous in the world, including North Korea, including Nanyang and Vietnam. Is that right? ”

John Smith: "Yes. But why is it called Zhang San? It should be Zhang Yicai. ”

Xiao Lu: "Zhang Yi? ”

John Smith: "Yes. From a probabilistic point of view, the probability of each family having the first child is greater than the probability of the third child. ”

When Xiao Lu heard this, he laughed: "Zhang Yi! Zhang Yi!! ”

John Smith: "What are you laughing at?" ”

Xiaolu said: "There is no such title as Zhang Yi in Chinese, if it is the first child of the Zhang family, the usual title is Boss Zhang." Three words, trouble. Zhang Lao Er is also three words. Zhang San is simple. Zhang San, don't leave recently, we will soon take Seoul, the capital of North Korea. How about the two of us taking a group photo at the Daedong Gate in Seoul? ”

John Smith: "The Great East Gate is a god horse?" ”

"It means the grand gate on the east side of the city." I definitely want to take pictures in Seoul. The photo just taken in Pyongyang is not worth publishing. ”

John Smith: "Okay. I just received a telegram from the Australian side, asking, where are you going to build an air base for us in North Korea? ”

This is the US Pacific Command's method of testing the truth: Can you firmly occupy the north of Pyongyang?

Xiaolu: "At the moment, you can choose one of several airports in the mountains east of Pyongyang and use it as a temporary base. After taking Seoul, we can choose one of the existing airfields of the Japanese army there as a permanent base for attacking Japanese territory. ”

Confidence is high. MacArthur, I'm going to stimulate you.

At this moment, there was the first bang on the riverside downstream, and I don't know what the explosion was. This was followed by a dense burst of gunfire, dominated by sparse gunfire.

John Smith had been in the Northeast for a long time and made detailed observations of this campaign. There were a few people from the Northeast Coalition who accompanied them around. In the past few days, after seeing Pyongyang, they took a large number of photographs, which were processed and printed together with the report, wrapped into a large bag, and transported back to the Allied Pacific Campaign Command.

March 17, 1945. Brisbane, Australia. Allied Command Building.

The building was so tall and majestic that MacArthur had made it his headquarters since he withdrew from the Philippines. Brisbane is a city on the east coast of Australia, far from the battlefield and far from the port of Darwin. It's safe here.

Because of MacArthur's connections, after the Allies lost Pearl Harbor, the main naval base was located here. It's different from history. Historically, the Japanese only bombed the port of Darwin. A while ago, the Japanese not only occupied the port of Darwin, but also attacked south along the coast to start a major battle with the Australian and American troops. Although it did not defeat any of Australia's major cities, it did fight several battles. Australia expended a lot of national strength to expel the Japanese army from Australia.

Three days after the occupation of Pyongyang, the report was flown to Australia and delivered to MacArthur.

MacArthur now commanded a large force to attack the Philippines. A few months earlier, after landing in the Philippines in Leyte Gulf, he had commanded several campaigns. Now his command is mainly in Australia.

He is a man who cares about the global situation.

Although he did not participate in the Yalta Conference, he had an influence on the Yalta Conference.

The US president who attended the Yalta conference was already seriously ill. He suffered a stroke in the summer of 1944 and suffered brain damage. The resolution of the Yalta Conference has influenced the direction of US policy for 30 years, and his contribution can be described as enormous.

Historically, many American historians have criticized a deranged Democratic president for selling out vast swathes of Eastern Europe and Asia to the scheming Soviet leader Joseph Stalin.

However, MacArthur believed that the Soviet army should be drawn to the Pacific theater to fight. His idea was to sacrifice China's interests and give some of Japan's interests in China to the Soviet Union in exchange for the Soviet Union sending troops. Two to three months after the end of the war in Europe, the Soviet army sent troops to Asia.

However, the emergence of an opposition party in China completely shattered this assumption. If the Soviet army does not come to participate in the Pacific War, can the Chinese do it?

After the meeting, MacArthur was dissatisfied. He talked to many people in the Army, and even openly criticized the president, openly expressed dissatisfaction with the resolution of the meeting, and expressed concern about the outcome of the Pacific Campaign.

Now, MacArthur is not extremely inflated.

MacArthur was an extremely arrogant man, and his self-confidence was inflated to the extreme by his victories in the Pacific throughout history. He occupied Japan all the time, and was regarded as the Emperor in Japan. This experience further inflated his self-confidence, and he did not buy it at all from the US military, Congress, or even the new president. This arrogance determined his defeat in North Korea.

The other day when the Korean campaign broke out, he began to focus half of his attention on North Korea. He was well aware of the importance of the Korean battlefield. Victory on the Korean battlefield will contain the Japanese military strength and create opportunities for the Allies.

The other day, the Chinese announced with great fanfare that they had liberated Pyongyang, an important city in North Korea. Are you sure? The staff officer found the map, and after studying it carefully, he decided that it was an extremely important city. Indeed, the Chinese have achieved a phased victory.

After getting the report, MacArthur read it carefully, and several photos caught his attention. The photos were taken by the US military observation group, and they are many and very informative. Most of the photographs are of the Pyongyang battlefield, with the surrender of Japanese troops.

What caught his attention were several photographs of the weapons of the Chinese army. The armament of the Chinese army is not the same as the impression, they have submachine guns, bazookas, tanks. Wait a minute, what kind of tank is this, so huge? Looking at its artillery, the firepower must be very powerful.

One of the tasks of the U.S. representative was to collect information on the Northeast Coalition Forces and submit them to the Pacific Command to assess their combat effectiveness.

He finally believed that Pyongyang was real at the time of liberation.

He asked the U.S. military observer group to pay attention to this army in northeastern China, to pay attention to their equipment, and to pay attention to their new weapons. Pay special attention to their new tanks.

The report also recorded some of the words and deeds of some Chinese generals, especially the words of a young commander-in-chief with a young face but a mustache, which caught his attention.

This general was a general, and he had some prophecies about the war in the Pacific. On many occasions, when talking to the Americans, he expressed his admiration for MacArthur's strategy.

However, when MacArthur landed in Leyte Gulf in the Philippines last October, he made a strange comment: In order to stir up the hearts of the people in Asia, Allied generals must take pictures in the capital of one country, otherwise there is no point. I'm going to take a picture in Seoul and one in Tokyo, and I'm going to take a picture on horseback.

Reading this, he turned back to the previous pages, where the young Chinese opposition general took pictures in front of the representative buildings of each city he recovered.

When MacArthur read this, he thought to himself, "Soon, I'll be taking a picture in Manila." Didn't those guerrillas in Manila say that they hoped that our US troops would attack as soon as possible and hold a grand entrance ceremony in Manila. Okay, let's have a grand entrance ceremony in Manila.

It was a detail that no one paid attention to at all, only MacArthur noticed because the sentence touched him.

MacArthur noticed the young man early on, and even heard that the young man was friendly to the United States. However, this young man was unimpressed with some famous American generals and also dissatisfied with American tactics.

With MacArthur's self-esteem, he naturally reacted to this. His army's recent victories in the Philippines stand in stark contrast to the bitter war in Europe. In this regard, the Pacific theater of operations has become the pride of the Americans. Every time, the major news agencies had to cover the Pacific theater and write articles to boost the morale of the American people.

The staff officer consulted with him to publicize it. Originally, he was going to take a photo when he landed on the first Philippine island. Now, the mind has changed. Target, Manila.

To be a general at such a young age? Their ranks are really worthless.