Rebirth: I am in Jin-Cha-Ji

Later, after discussion and revision by the General Staff, the plan became more and more perfect.

However, we still need to discuss this with these frontline generals.

Chen Zhonghe gave everyone a detailed explanation of the tactics of tunnel warfare. The generals present had fought for many years, and while they were more familiar with mobile warfare, that didn't mean they hadn't fought positional warfare. So they quickly began to express their opinions.

Wei Hongjun watched everyone discuss heatedly without interrupting.

Before leaving Korea, Wei Hongjun needed to stabilize the Korean War situation. One key step was to improve logistics and transportation, and another was to perfect frontline positional warfare. As long as these two points were achieved, the Volunteer Army would have no problem maintaining its position. This meeting lasted two days, and the final version of the tunnel warfare strategy was finally produced.

Especially those troops who have crossed the 38th parallel and are currently in the Seoul area need to dig tunnels as soon as possible.

And all troops must be familiar with tunnel warfare.

At the end of the meeting, Wei Hongjun said, "The tunnel warfare plan currently being formulated by the General Staff of the Zhisi Army is still at the theoretical stage. You must constantly identify and resolve problems in practice, and then report them to the Zhisi Army. The Zhisi Army will summarize these issues and then gradually implement them throughout the army. Therefore, you, the frontline commanders, must listen carefully to the opinions of your officers and men."

"Yes."

"Comrades, we must seize the opportunity now that there is no fighting and dig various tunnels as quickly as possible. Only in this way can we reduce casualties when the US military launches an attack."

858 prepares for spring offensive

Since the Chinese and North Korean troops captured Seoul, the Korean Peninsula has entered a long period of peace.

Of course, this peace is relative.

While there was no large-scale ground war on the Korean Peninsula, the US military's stranglehold on the Korean War continued. General Ridgway launched a massive bombing campaign against the Volunteer Army's logistics lines, mobilizing over 2300 aircraft and carrying out 1400 bombing sorties almost daily.

The scale of the bombing is larger than any other in history.

In November 1950, the US bombing campaign was so frequent and large-scale that transportation on major railways and roads came to a standstill. Of course, while Ridgway was bombing these transportation lines on such a large scale, he would also bomb Pyongyang on a large scale.

Pyongyang was reduced to ruins in a short period of time.

The US Air Force has experience bombing cities. They bombed Japanese cities and accumulated a wealth of experience. Therefore, when they bombed Pyongyang, they used not only aerial bombs but also a large amount of napalm.

If this thing is thrown down, it will cause incredible damage to the city.

Of course, the US military also did not let go of the bombing of the volunteer army. The US military sent a large number of reconnaissance planes to investigate the positions of the Chinese and North Korean troops. They wanted to find the command headquarters of the Chinese and North Korean troops, including the location of their heavy weapons.

As long as the reconnaissance aircraft suspected that a certain place was a military headquarters or a place where heavy weapons were hidden, the US Air Force would immediately go there and carry out large-scale bombing.

November 1950 was really a bad time.

Logistical supplies were constantly running low, and many troops were increasingly short of food. If it weren't for the extensive preparations made before entering North Korea, the troops' non-combat casualties would have undoubtedly increased rapidly.

Wei Hongjun was very anxious at the front line.

Several requests were made to the Soviet Air Force to increase its strength and protect the logistics of the troops.

Soon, air battles began to occur every day in the skies over North Korea.

The Soviet Air Force began to increase its strength. The size of the air force stationed in Northeast China had reached seven air force divisions, with more than 500 fighter planes. Together with the Chinese Air Force and the recently rebuilt North Korean Air Force, they joined forces to fight against the US Air Force.

Although Stalin ultimately backed off and didn't actually send more than 20 air force divisions to the war, he did strengthen his support for the Chinese and North Korean air forces. After the Korean War broke out, Soviet military production surged, and various fighter jets continued to flow into China.

China seized this opportunity and began a major expansion of its air force. In less than a year, the Chinese Air Force had formed 22 fighter regiments. North Korea's air force was smaller, but it also had four fighter regiments.

To ensure the maintenance of so many air force aircraft, the Soviet Union dispatched a large number of ground crews to China, numbering over 4000. However, even this was insufficient to meet demand, so Soviet ground crews began training Chinese Air Force ground crews on a large scale in China. They also helped the Chinese Air Force establish the Shenyang Aviation Industry School, merging various aviation schools previously located in Northeast China. This began formalizing the training of personnel needed for the Air Force.

Compared with the US military, the air forces of China, the Soviet Union and North Korea are relatively simple.

Most of them are fighter jets.

Because the US military is to bomb the logistics transportation lines of the Volunteer Army, and the air forces of China, the Soviet Union and North Korea are to protect the logistics transportation lines. Therefore, the air forces of China, the Soviet Union and North Korea do not need to be equipped with too many bombers at this stage.

Air battles between the two sides occurred almost every day, and both sides lost more and more aircraft. Of course, the number of American pilots captured by the Chinese side also increased. However, at this time, the United States and the Soviet Union were really competing with each other.

The US military continued to replenish its Far Eastern Air Force, swelling the US Air Force's presence there. Nearly a quarter of the US Air Force's forces were deployed there. While the Soviet Union didn't deploy air forces on the same scale as the US, they wanted to give their pilots more experience fighting the US Air Force. Therefore, Stalin decided to maintain a constant presence of six to ten air divisions in Northeast China. However, the Soviet Air Force wasn't stationary, but rather deployed on a rotating basis.

As a result, North Korea really became a big stage for the competition between the US and Soviet air forces.

Hundreds of aircraft of all types engaged in combat daily. The Chinese Air Force, now a considerable force, participated daily alongside the Soviet Air Force. Actual combat is the best way to train troops. Many Chinese Air Force pilots lacked sufficient training time and were rushed into battle due to the demands of the war. However, through actual combat, each pilot developed rapidly.

In addition to supporting the construction of the Air Force, the Soviet Union's support for the air defense forces of China and North Korea is also increasing.

Large quantities of air defense weapons and equipment are equipped to the Chinese and North Korean armies.

China once again organized ten anti-aircraft artillery regiments, which began to enter North Korea after a period of training. These anti-aircraft artillery regiments were deployed along North Korea's major railways and highways to participate in the protection of railways and highways.

Of course, the army’s peace is not real peace.

Instead, both sides were preparing for the next battle. Wei Hongjun was currently concerned with only two tasks: the transformation of logistics and transportation, and the preparation of tunnel warfare for the frontline troops.

The Central Committee agreed to the request of the Volunteer Army Command and agreed to send more engineering troops into North Korea.

Chen Shiqu, commander of the Engineering Corps, traveled to Northeast China and communicated with the Volunteer Army Logistics Command. He then began arranging for the various engineering corps to enter North Korea. The first batch of engineering corps to enter North Korea consisted of ten divisions, whose mission was to assist the Volunteer Army Logistics Department in building large and small military depots and large underground hospitals.

At the same time, the highway needs to be widened and various car shelters need to be built along the highway.

After the ten engineering divisions entered North Korea, they began to build military depots and various vehicle shelters along the way. This was the first batch of engineering troops, and the Military Commission soon organized another five engineering divisions to enter North Korea.

Engineering troops can be seen everywhere in North Korea.

They are not only upgrading and renovating North Korea's original main roads, but are also quietly upgrading and renovating some previously neglected small roads in order to increase logistics and material transportation routes.

The efficiency of the engineering corps is still very high.

Less than two months after entering North Korea, they had secretly widened several obscure roads, turning them into relatively hidden logistics routes. As the Soviet, Chinese, and North Korean air forces grew in strength, their ability to protect transportation routes increased significantly.

Starting in December, the army's supply slowly began to recover. By January 12, the logistics department had more and more ways to deal with the bombing of the US Air Force.

The number of cars lost is also decreasing.

During the worst of the crisis in November, even though the logistics department canceled large-scale logistics transport, the number of vehicles lost per day still exceeded 11 to 4000 vehicles per month. However, by January, the number of vehicles lost per day was only 1 to , while the amount of materials transported increased several times.

It can be said that after three months of hard work, the logistics capabilities of the Volunteer Army have reached a new level.

Although there were no large-scale combat operations, the various units of the Volunteer Army were very busy, and each unit had its own tasks.

Especially digging trenches.

Besides training, the troops spent their time digging tunnels. Within a few months, they had dug hundreds of kilometers of tunnels.

The Volunteer Army was busy, and so was Ridgway.

During this period, Ridgway intensified the training of Syngman Rhee's puppet troops and Chiang Kai-shek's forces, and the results were satisfactory to him. Equipped with sufficient US military equipment, the number of tanks and artillery in the Syngman Rhee and Chiang Kai-shek forces increased significantly. Now, a single Syngman Rhee division could be equipped with 60 to 70 tanks.

In Ridgway's view, even if these two troops could not match the US military, they could still catch up to half of the US military. As long as they had half the combat effectiveness of the US military, Ridgway would be very satisfied. Because these two troops were numerous.

After Ridgway retreated to Busan, it was a big blow to the Syngman Rhee government.

One is the taxation issue, and the other is the military recruitment issue.

But Syngman Rhee was a man of his own skill.

He began spreading rumors throughout the southern regions, claiming that if the Kojo forces won, they would kill landlords and pro-Japanese farmers, and reclaim the land they had been allotted to North Korean farmers. At the time of South Korea's independence, apart from the landowners, about 10% of the population were farmers.

But they are not the self-employed farmers in China.

Japan ruled the Korean Peninsula for half a century, and these self-employed farmers in South Korea are similar to what people later call the middle class. In fact, many of these self-employed farmers in South Korea defected to the Japanese and helped them with some things. They were not rich and powerful, but they were also different from the poor.

Seriously speaking, they are indeed more pro-Japanese.

These people were already afraid of the Red regime in the north, and after Syngman Rhee's propaganda, they were all terrified. Syngman Rhee then said that as long as this war could be won, he would definitely take care of them on the issue of land reform.

It is land reform.

It was not just North Korea that carried out land reform. South Korea also started doing land reform in 1948. South Korea was not willing to do land reform, but was forced to do so. The land reform movement in North Korea was booming and the effect was very good. This caused the farmers in the south to be uneasy, and the left-wing groups there also clamored for land reform in South Korea. Today, the city publicly stated that the Korean Peninsula should hold a unified election to choose the leader of the Korean Peninsula. But Syngman Rhee did not dare to respond to this matter at all. It can be said that in the years after World War II, even

Until the 1960s and 1970s, the current regime in the northern part of the Korean Peninsula held the ideological upper hand and had sufficient institutional confidence.

Forced into a corner, South Korea also began land reform.

However, South Korea's land reform was plagued by problems from the outset. This was primarily due to the fact that many of the powerful figures who controlled parliament were from wealthy landowner backgrounds. They were unlikely to agree to North Korea-style land reform. Consequently, the final decision was to adopt "compensated confiscation and paid distribution." This meant purchasing land from landlords and then selling it to farmers. Although a compromise, many farmers were delighted to receive the land. After all, with installments over approximately 15 years, the land would be theirs.

Suddenly, Syngman Rhee began spreading rumors, frightening some previously pro-Japanese peasant farmers into actively supporting the Rhee government. Some farmers, who had recently received land, also worried that the city government would confiscate their land again. Many farmers had no idea what communism, socialism, or capitalism were. With a little encouragement, they became Syngman Rhee's favor.

Of course, Syngman Rhee’s methods were more than just that.

He suggested to Ridgway that they conscript men from Japan. Of course, the men Syngman Rhee wanted to conscript weren't Japanese, but Koreans in Japan. During Japan's rule of Korea, many people were conscripted from the Korean Peninsula to work in Japan. When Japan surrendered in 1945, there were nearly two million Koreans in Japan, primarily from the southern part of the Korean Peninsula.

Syngman Rhee took a fancy to this source of soldiers.

For the sake of the war, Ridgway agreed to Syngman Rhee's proposal. After discussing with MacArthur, he began to conscript men in Japan, and within a short period of time, he captured tens of thousands of men and brought them to Busan.

Now that he had the manpower, what else could he say? Syngman Rhee began a massive expansion of his puppet army. Building upon the 20st, nd, th, th, and Capital Divisions, he rebuilt seven more divisions: the rd, th, th, th, th, th, and th. By this point, Rhee's puppet army had expanded to twelve divisions, and with the addition of the th and nd Marine Regiments, the force had reached nearly men.

Although he suffered a major defeat, Syngman Rhee was now ambitious.

Especially after seeing batches of American weapons being equipped to their own troops, they became more and more confident. Paik Sun-yup saved the most important pseudo-division of Syngman Rhee's puppet army, so Syngman Rhee appointed Paik Sun-yup as the commander of the pseudo-First Army and incorporated the main forces of the pseudo-First Division, the pseudo-Second Division, and the pseudo-Fifth Division into the pseudo-First Army.

Of course, what pleased Ridgway most was the arrival of the 40th and 45th Divisions from the United States, along with the reconstruction of the 2nd and 7th Divisions. By this time, Ridgway had the 2nd, 3rd, 7th, 40th, and 45th Divisions under his command, giving the Eighth Army five more American divisions.

In addition to the various direct tank battalions, artillery battalions, infantry battalions, etc. established by Ridgway in the Eighth Army, as well as allied forces, infantry battalions composed of Koreans, logistics troops, etc., the number of troops under the Eighth Army was nearly 20.

With enough troops, Ridgway began to make moves.

In the end, General Ridgway decided to launch a spring offensive against the Chinese and North Korean troops to regain the initiative in the Korean War.

859 Dangtou-Bang

In April 1951, with all preparations made, General Ridgway led the United Nations forces to launch the spring offensive.

This time, he wanted to defeat the Chinese army squarely and prove to the world that the US military's previous defeat was merely an accident. He wanted to completely wash away the shame of the US military's previous defeat. For this spring offensive, Ridgway had all Nationalist troops dressed in the uniforms of Syngman Rhee's puppet army, transforming them into his own. Even the Nationalist army's unit numbers were copied from Syngman Rhee's puppet army: the Fifth, Sixth, and Seventh Armies.

The puppet Fifth Army was composed of the puppet 12th Division, the puppet 13th Division, the puppet 14th Division, and the puppet 15th Division; the puppet Sixth Army was composed of the puppet 16th Division, the puppet 17th Division, the puppet 18th Division, and the puppet 19th Division; the puppet Seventh Army was composed of the puppet 20th Division, the puppet 21st Division, the puppet 22nd Division, and the puppet 23rd Division.

A total of twelve divisions were formed.

Anyway, everyone knows it, but they don't say it out loud.

The Soviet Air Force's participation in the war was known to the entire world, including its rival, the United States. However, the Soviet Air Force wore Chinese Air Force uniforms, and even painted Chinese Air Force insignia on their aircraft, allowing them to openly appear on the Korean battlefield under the name of the Chinese Air Force.

The US Air Force knew that the enemy was the Soviet Air Force, but they also thought they were the Chinese Air Force. Both sides had a tacit understanding not to reveal each other's identities.

The same goes for Ridgway.

Although Chiang Kai-shek's troops and Syngman Rhee's troops were both trained by US military advisors, they were different in every way. But what difference did it make? Chiang Kai-shek's troops could just put on the uniforms of Syngman Rhee's puppet troops, and they would be South Korean troops, ready to go directly into battle.

This time, the United States also made up its mind.

The US military has deployed every troop it can, from the Navy to the Air Force, to the Korean Peninsula. The US Air Force alone has deployed over 4000 aircraft of various types in the Far East. This time, we must defeat the Chinese military and show the world that the United States remains the world's foremost power, and the US military remains the world's most powerful military.

Ridgway dispatched nearly 6 troops from six divisions of Syngman Rhee's Third and Fourth Armies to encircle and suppress Fang Hushan's Fifth Corps, which was operating in the south. Originally, Ridgway had been reluctant to send so many troops, as Fang Hushan's Fifth Corps was only a detachment and the frontline troops were more in need. However, Syngman Rhee disagreed.

Syngman Rhee had witnessed the combat effectiveness of Fang Hushan's troops. In the early days of the Korean War, Fang Hushan and his troops were incredibly ferocious. Furthermore, after Fang Hushan's advance southward, the chaos he caused was truly disruptive to Rhee's rule. Therefore, Rhee had to quickly eliminate Fang Hushan's troops and stabilize the region.

Fang Hushan was a political cadre. While in Northeast China, he served as a military political commissar and concurrently held positions in the local Party and government. He performed exceptionally well in all areas of his work. He organized a training corps to train over a thousand military and political cadres, formed local armed work teams to participate in bandit suppression, established local democratic governments, and participated in local land reform. It can be said that Fang Hushan possessed extensive experience in this area.