"The best and fastest way is to change from centralization to decentralization, let the troops raise food in various places, arrange the work of interpreters, concentrate logistics forces, and go down to the units to participate in the food raising."

Director Wu thought of a good way for Zhang Zhongping.

In the past two days, Zhang Zhongping's sorrowful things were broken by Director Zhang's words, he clapped his hands and said excitedly: "Good way, just do it!"

As a result, the army's logistics department uniformly issued a grain raising certificate, issued some Korean currency, and organized various units to raise grain, and organized logistics comrades to go down to various units to help the troops raise grain.

At this time, the main force of the 38th Army had already assembled on the front line of Moshadong, Matsushita-ri, and Chichangdong.

At this moment, the various units that have received the grain, oil, and salt distributed by the military logistics are generally making dry food, which cannot be eaten immediately, and needs to be made into dry food, so that they can take a bite anytime and anywhere.

They ground the corn into flour with stones and baked it into cakes.

This method is one of the most common ways to make dry food in the army, and it is also the simplest and most time-saving, and such dry food is easy to fill, easy to store, and easier to carry.

Li Zhongxin, deputy commander of the 112th Division, heard that a train of white noodles had been brought from the motherland and asked the troops to collect them, he was very happy, and he had not improved the lives of the troops for a long time, and he told the regiments that whoever wanted to eat white noodles should send people to carry them, and there was no need to open a receipt, and they could carry as much as they could, otherwise they would have to throw these noodles to the enemy when the troops retreated.

When Fan Tianen, the commander of the 335th Regiment, heard this, he immediately called the comrades in the regiment's logistics to carry the white noodles.

The noodles were carried, but the troops moved to Miaoxiang Mountain, and there were few families nearby, so they could neither eat dumplings nor steamed steamed buns, and dry food had to be made, otherwise it would be wasted.

The people who have always been thrifty have experienced the hard days of starvation after the last battle, eating grass roots and stones, how can they watch this food go to waste, even if they risk their lives, they have to make it into edible food.

As a result, the regimental logistics mobilized everyone, offered suggestions and suggestions, and finally came up with many good methods.

The cold wind swept in the mountains and fields, swirling back and forth between the valleys, and the soldiers were so cold that their hands and feet hurt, but the scene of rushing to make dry food was very moving.

Some companies couldn't borrow pots, so they used shovels to dig trenches as pots, and some picked up thin slate as axes, dug smokeless stoves and began to make cakes.

There are too many people who make cakes, and the smokeless stove is not completely without the slightest trace of smoke, there is always some smoke gathering, floating over the mountains, and encountering the blind US Air Force, I may not find it, but it is not good to be able to be a pilot, and a few eyes are not good.

When the enemy plane flew into the sky with the smoke of the cooking, the soldiers put aside the cooked cakes, and then covered the fire with shovels, and when the planes left, they lit the fire again, continued to fry the cakes, and played hide and seek with the enemy.

The enemy also knew that there were volunteers in this valley, but the smoke was gathering over the valley, and it was difficult to find out where the source was, and it could only hover overhead.

However, progress is still quite slow, and it is strange that people are in a hurry.

Two of the warriors found a large iron sheet in a mine, which made them very happy, and with this iron sheet they could bake several people's back-up cakes at a time, which was much more efficient than using a shovel to bake cakes.

Although the iron sheet was rusty, and it quickly burned when pasted, it was finally able to cook the cake, which was dirty and ugly, and no one ate it now, but when it came time to fight the Americans, the dry food on the body was eaten, and such a cake could be taken out and chewed in the mouth.

Before the 38th Army prepared to launch a general attack on the enemy, the troops finally made dry food from the white flour transported from the motherland and corn and soybeans borrowed from the Korean people.

In the middle of the night when there was heavy snowfall, Comrade Liu of the Military and Political Affairs accompanied Comrade Han, deputy director of the Comrades Department, to the 335th Regiment of Miaoxiangshan to inspect the deep valley of Jingudeshan to inspect the combat readiness of the troops.

This is a sparsely populated mountainous area, and all combat units of the 38th Army sleep in the forest and valley, relying on bonfires to keep out the cold and spend the night.

Plus the supply of food in the rear is not

Many companies relied on corn, soybeans, sweet potatoes, and potatoes borrowed from the local masses to satisfy their hunger, and even the leading comrades of the 38th Army could hardly eat the biscuits and canned food brought from the motherland.

A few days ago, when the division and regimental cadres came to the military headquarters to report on the preparations for the campaign, Comrade Liang took out a handful of fried soybeans from his pocket and said to everyone: "I don't have anything to entertain you today, I can only eat some soybeans.

Today, Comrade Liu and Comrade Han saw the soldiers baking corn tortillas on shovels or bluestone slabs, or fried soybeans, corn flowers, or baked potatoes in fried sand.

They also saw the soldiers sleeping in the woods at night, so cold that they were huddled in a ball in their mattresses, and they were moved by the soldiers' spirit of hardship and hard work.

"With such a lovely warrior, why can't you defeat the enemy!"

"If you don't defeat the Yankees, you won't die in the line of fire!"

As night fell, scattered snowflakes fell in the sky.

Comrade Han and Comrade Liu followed Regiment Commander Fan to inspect the position of the Third Company, and they met Xia Yuan, who had shocked the military department before, and saw such a young face, and the two of them sighed with emotion, and the future was terrifying.

At the same time, I am also quite happy that there are talented people from all generations, and I really hope that there will be more and more such people, and the combat effectiveness of their troops will become stronger and stronger.

The two of them did not stay in the position of the third company for too long, and the time was limited, so they had to go to other positions to have a look.

The second battle will not be long before it breaks out, and they want to see how these front-line troops look.

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Zhi Siwei's tactics of showing weakness and arrogance to the enemy in order to lure the enemy into the depths achieved very successful results.

The U.S. Army and the Li Puppet Army followed the path drawn by the High Command and almost touched the enemy thoroughly.

Our volunteer army led the 'bull's nose' and led the two armies of the US Ninth Army, the US First Army and the puppet army, a total of 7 divisions and 2 brigades, across the Qingchuan River and the Datong River.

The U.S. puppet army was assembled in a wide area from Nyongyuan and Tokugawa in the east to Unsan, Taecheon, and Naqingting in the west, which greatly dispersed the enemy's forces and created favorable conditions for the annihilation of the enemy in large numbers.

In front of the 38th Army in Tokugawa, the Puppet 7th Division, the 2nd Regiment of the Puppet 6th Division, and the 1st Division of the Puppet 8th Division, with a total of about 12 battalions, were preparing to launch a general attack on the positions of the 38th Army.

Looking at the entire Korean battlefield, the enemy has already set up a posture of marching towards the Yalu River, and the front-line troops are particularly prominent, and the distance between them and the rear is constantly widening, like a few protruding leads, just waiting for the volunteers to ignite.

At this time, MacArthur was intoxicated with the "victorious advance," and his dream of dominating Korea was getting deeper and deeper, and he received a telegram from the front that the enemy was still retreating to the rear, and that their troops had occupied Tokugawa, Unsan, and other places, and could continue to attack the Yalu River.

MacArthur was so pleased that on the morning of 24 November, he proudly issued a special communiqué announcing that he was about to launch a general offensive to end the Korean War on the Korean battlefield.

He then led Lieutenant General Strattmeyer, commander of the Fifth Air Force, Brigadier General Wright, chief of operations, Major General Willoughby, secretary of intelligence, and Major General Whitney, director of civil affairs, to the US Eighth Front by plane with Western correspondents in Tokyo.

Accompanied by Lieutenant General Walker, he inspected the U.S. military units and ordered a 'general offensive to end the Korean War' at 10 o'clock.

He asserted: "The Chinese will not get involved in this war on a large scale, and this war will definitely end in two weeks."

Two weeks later, it was Christmas, which is why the offensive was called the 'Christmas Homecoming Offensive'.

The American news agency triumphantly reported: "The Chinese and North Korean people's armed forces were no longer able to fight, and under the pursuit of the joint tanks, they fled into the snowy forest."

How rampant it is now, how embarrassing it will be later.

How ridiculous and stupid these self-deceptions are now.

During the Korean War, many of the children of U.S. officers also came to the Korean battlefield, so MacArthur talked to a group of U.S. officers

Triumphantly announcing that the Korean War could be ended by Christmas, a military commander asked him, "If this operation is successful, we will hopefully send our children home."

MacArthur had no doubts about his victory, and he told the officers with certainty: "I can tell you responsibly that they can go home for Christmas!"

After giving the order to attack, he himself flew back to Tokyo to wait for news, but he did not let the plane fly to Tokyo immediately after boarding, but flew towards the Yalu River.

MacArthur also recorded in his memoirs: "I boarded my landline and instructed the pilot, Major Tony Storey, to fly over the Yalu River."

On the plane on both sides of the Yalu River, where snow was covered and everything was so calm, he said to the reporters accompanying the army: "I ordered the Eighth Army to advance to the Yalu River, and now there is no force that can stop this attack!" I'm going to put the vice-like stuff together here in the short term!"

In the evening of the same day, he flew back to Tokyo, where he immediately reported to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff that the general offensive had begun, and issued a 'dusk communiqué' in Tokyo, in which he unashamedly declared:

"The new offensive of the Korean border coalition is progressing as planned, our losses are extremely light, the morale of the officers and men is high, and the general offensive is expected to be completed quickly."

"If it succeeds, it should be said that it will effectively end the war."

Reuters correspondent Bates believed MacArthur's hype, saying in a report: "The troops of the United States, Britain and South Korea, thanks to General MacArthur's personal command from the front and his promise to return home by Christmas, are expected to break through the main line of defense within 24 hours!"

After the morning of the US Ninth Army to meet MacArthur and his party, the whole regiment felt optimistic about the prospects of the offensive, and the morale of the officers and men was high, and from 10 o'clock in the morning, they began to march in a overwhelming manner, as if the Yalu River was in front of them.

While MacArthur was carried away by the 'victory', Shiji had already completed the campaign deployment of the Chinese People's Volunteers:

The main forces of the 50th, 60th, 39th, 39th, 40th, and 42nd armies of the Western Front and the 38th Army, where Xia Yuan was located, have been transferred to the northwest of Dingzhou, Guicheng, Taichuan, Yunshan, north of Tokugawa, and northeast of Ningyuan!

On the Eastern Front, all three armies of the Ninth Corps entered Korea and secretly completed the campaign assembly without being noticed by the enemy, and the enemy was amazed by the enemy "a miracle in the history of contemporary warfare"!

After the Volunteers lured the enemy to a predetermined area, Zhi Si decided to concentrate the forces of 9 armies and 30 divisions to launch a second campaign in the east and west of MacArthur against MacArthur's east and west tiger vises, and mainly on the western front, concentrating 6 armies and 18 divisions to participate in the battle.

The 42nd Army and the 38th Army were under the command of Comrade Han, deputy secretary of the Zhi Division, and first annihilated the puppet 6th, 7th, and 8th divisions of Tokugawa, Ningyuan, and Monsan, respectively.

The 40th Army moved eastward to the area north of Sindong-ri and Somin-dong, and accepted the defense of Xia Yuan's 112th Division with one division, and the main force of the 40th Army went to the west of Tokugawa to prevent the US army from coming to the east.

The other armies also moved eastward one by one, waiting for the opportunity to destroy one of the enemy.

The time of the offensive on the Western Front was set for the evening of the 25th, and on the Eastern Front it was the evening of the 26th.

The 38th Army had completed preparations for the attack on 23 November in accordance with the requirements of the Zhiji, and the military headquarters had been transferred from Heshou Rock in the east and west of the stadium to Jinxian Cave in the northeast of Tokugawa, and Comrade Han also followed the commander of the 38th Army here.

On the morning of 23 November, Comrade Han presided over a pre-war operational meeting here, and according to the operational thinking of the rear, the first step was to fight the puppet army, and ordered one division of the 38th Army and the 42nd Army to attack the enemy at Tokugawa.

Comrade Liang and Comrade Liu were holding back their strength, firmly believing that the officers and men of the 38th Army would be able to win this battle, and even that they would be sure that they would complete the task of attacking Tokugawa alone, and that there was no need to disperse the forces of the 42nd Army to cooperate with the 38th Army.

Last time, they suffered a loss in Tokugawa, missed the best opportunity, and let go of the enemy in Tokugawa, so this battle can be said to be a shame for the 38th Army.

Comrade Liang said heroically, "Da Tokugawa, we have it!"

Comrade Han also wanted to provoke this guy and said, "Up

This time you let go of the Tokugawa enemy, this time I specially asked a division of the 42nd Army to come and cooperate with you, and you in the province will let the Tokugawa enemy go again!"

Comrade Liang was really anxious, and his eyes widened, "No way! This time, I vow to take down the enemies of Tokugawa! I promise!"

Comrade Han looked at Comrade Liang with a smile.

At 10 o'clock on 24 November, Comrade Han further revised the battle plan, saying: The puppet 7th Division is likely to be attracted by our 38th Army to the Dechuan and Ningyuan areas, and it is possible to open up the connection between Ningyuan and Hamxing, and then advance north.

He decided to use the 40th Army to insert into the south of Sumindong, Duriling, and Jiuzhengli to cut off the connection between the US army and the puppet 7th and 8th Divisions, and the 38th Army aimed at encircling and annihilating the enemy and the puppet 7th Division of Tokugawa, and the 42nd Army encircled and annihilated the enemy and the puppet 8th Division of Ningyuan.

Backed by the Datong River, Tokugawa is located in the transportation hub area, where five highways converge, and the east can lead to Ningyuan and Xianxing, which is the support point of MacArthur's east and west tiger vises, and the geographical location is extremely important.

Once the Volunteer Army captured Tokugawa, it would not only restrain the American forces on the Western Front, but also cut off the connection between the enemy on the Eastern Front and the enemy on the Western Front.

Once MacArthur's vise lost its support point, the vise extending to the front fell apart, making it easier for the volunteers to annihilate each other.

Therefore, the first battle of Tokugawa was a key battle in the campaign, and if the enemy of Tokugawa was eaten, it could be changed from passive to active, and it can be said that the second battle was a decisive battle.

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