Zhu Tian: Beginning to Cross the Changjin Lake

Chapter 178 The US military changes its commander!

As the war progressed to this point, the US government had actually already considered stopping the war. After all, their government was more concerned about its own interests, and continuing the war would do more harm than good to them.

Therefore, in recent times, although some statements issued by the US government were vague, they clearly showed the intention to cease fire.

At this time, Five Star Mike kept making irresponsible remarks, saying that the war would be carried out according to the original plan. He even threatened more than once to use mushroom eggs and even to carry out landing operations in our coastal areas to expand the war.

This move has undoubtedly threatened the fundamental interests of the United States.

Five Star Mike's repeated outrageous remarks finally made Lao Du unable to tolerate it anymore, so on April 4, he officially signed an order to revoke all of Five Star Mike's positions.

At that time, Five Star Mike was entertaining guests for dinner, and the adjutant walked in with a sad face.

Five Star Mike did not realize the seriousness of the problem and was still bragging about it to the guests.

Mike's wife walked over and the adjutant whispered something to her.

Mike's wife was also surprised. After hesitating for a long time, she finally walked up to Mike and whispered the news to him.

When Five Star Mike heard the news, he was struck by lightning. He was stunned and speechless for a long time.

His wife beside him kept comforting him softly.

The old man finally reacted and whispered, "Honey, we can finally go home now."

In this way, this immortal veteran finally ended his military career.

The news also reached Seoul, and the adjutant happily said to Lieutenant General Ridgway: "Commander, congratulations, you are now the commander-in-chief of the US Army in the Far East and the commander-in-chief of the Allied Forces."

When Lieutenant General Ridgway heard this, he was also confused.

The aide explained: "The president has signed an order. General Mike has been removed from office. You will take over his position."

Lieutenant General Ridgway said in surprise: "How could this happen? Is he crazy?"

Although Lieutenant General Ridgway had some opinions about Five-Star Mike, he also felt that it was inappropriate to remove him at this time.

Moreover, Lieutenant General Ridgway was totally unprepared to take over the position of Five-Star Mike.

However, the order still had to be carried out, and Lieutenant General Ridgway then took a special plane back to Japan to take up his post.

When handing over the work to Five Star Mike, Five Star Mike said to Ridgway: "Do you know about that thing?"

Lieutenant General Ridgway shook his head in confusion.

Five Star Mike explained: "A medical expert examined Lao Du and came to a shocking conclusion. This guy has a brain disease and probably won't live more than six months."

Lieutenant General Ridgway smiled bitterly and shook his head. It seemed that the conflict between the two men had reached an irreconcilable point, and they even began to curse each other.

Lieutenant General Ridgway did not want to get involved in their conflict and pretended not to hear what Five-Star Mike said.

Lieutenant General Ridgway became the commander-in-chief and left the front line, which meant that someone was needed to replace the commander of the Eighth Army to unify the command of the troops on the front line.

This task finally fell to Van Vleet.

Eventually, Lieutenant General Van Fleet replaced Lieutenant General Ridgway.

Lieutenant General Van Fleet was also a very capable enemy general, but he was also an unlucky guy.

During World War II, most of the famous generals of the US military who fought on various battlefields were promoted by General Marshall.

However, Marshall confused Van Fleet with another man with a similar name, who was known for his alcoholism. Therefore, Van Fleet was not reused at the beginning. Until the end of World War II, Van Fleet was only a regimental commander.

Fortunately, Van Fleet performed very well during the Normandy Landing.

With the help of his classmates, Marshall finally realized his mistake. So in the following period of time, Van Fleet was finally reused and his position was promoted as fast as a rocket.

However, he had fallen too far behind before, and as World War II was coming to an end, he did not have more opportunities to show his abilities.

Eisen and Bradley, who were in the same class as VanVleet, were already five-star players, but their grades in military school were not as good as VanVleet's.

Even his junior classmates who were two years younger than him, such as Collins, Ridgway, Clark and others, had already surpassed him and were very famous.

However, this time, Van Fleet finally got the opportunity to show his ability. Although his junior, Lieutenant General Ridgway, became his immediate superior, Van Fleet did not care and just wanted to win the war.

Lieutenant General Van Fleet arrived at the front and took over command of the front.

After a period of understanding, Van Vleet gradually became familiar with the situation on the front line.

Van Fleet stared at the sand table in front of him and said seriously, "In other words, they are still continuously sending reinforcements to the front line?"

A staff officer nearby said respectfully, "Yes, according to what we have learned, their forces on the front line are gradually increasing. We have also obtained some new enemy unit numbers through radio monitoring."

"In recent times, they have added at least 200,000 to 300,000 troops to the front line."

"These are the new recruits who just arrived."

Van Fleet nodded slightly and said, "From all indications, the enemy is gathering strength and preparing to launch a major counterattack."

"Yes!"

Van Vleet smiled and said: "This is good news for us!"

"good news?"

"Yes! Of course it's good news. We are not afraid of them launching an attack, we are just afraid that they won't come."

"I don't understand what you mean!"

Van Fleet explained: "In the past few months, we have been on the counterattack, and we have successfully pushed the front line from the 37th parallel to the 38th parallel."

"But not only did it take a lot of time, it also caused a lot of casualties, but it failed to destroy the enemy's main force and was unable to inflict serious damage on the enemy."

"However, if they launch a counterattack, we can take advantage of the opportunity to destroy the enemy on a large scale, thus achieving the goal of severely damaging the enemy."

"They are about to attack now. Don't you think this is good news?"

The staff officers present all nodded in agreement.

Van Vleet went on to say, "I think we can publicize it in the newspapers. I've even thought of a title. It's called..."

"General Van Fleet: Welcome the Volunteer Army's attack."

"Commander, will this alert the enemy?"

"No, they have carefully prepared for so long, how could they easily change the plan?"

Sure enough, the enemy published the article "General Van Fleet: Welcome the Volunteer Army's Attack" on the front page of the newspaper with a full-page headline.

(End of this chapter)