ahh here's comes Korea, the only military achievement you could be proud of. which is 70+ years ago. and basically a stalemate with a huge loss of lives on your side.
PLA's surprise attack tactic only worked at the start of Korean war, when everyone know how PLA's surprise attack tactic work, then even French troops can wipe out PLA men easily. PLA quickly suffered very high casualty (53,000 PLA men killed) in less than 1 month
The only thing Mao could do next was just begging for more support from Soviet.
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But the offensive was soon blunted by US
IX Corps at
Chipyong-ni in the center.
[251] The US
23rd Regimental Combat Team and the
French Battalion fought a short but desperate
battle that broke the attack's momentum.
[251] The battle is sometimes known as the "
Gettysburg of the Korean War": 5,600 South Korean, US, and French troops were surrounded on all sides by 25,000 PVA.
UN forces had previously retreated in the face of large PVA/KPA forces instead of getting cut off, but this time they stood and fought, and won.[256]
In the last two weeks of February 1951,
Operation Thunderbolt was followed by
Operation Killer, carried out by the revitalized Eighth Army. It was a full-scale, battlefront-length attack staged for maximum exploitation of firepower to kill as many KPA and PVA troops as possible.
[251] Operation Killer concluded with US
I Corps re-occupying the territory south of the Han River, and IX Corps capturing Hoengseong.
[257] On 7 March 1951, the Eighth Army attacked with
Operation Ripper, expelling the PVA and the KPA from Seoul on 14 March 1951. This was the fourth and final conquest of the city in a year's time, leaving it a ruin; the 1.5 million pre-war population was down to 200,000, and people were suffering from severe food shortages.
[257][198]
On 1 March 1951,
Mao sent a cable to Stalin emphasizing the difficulties faced by Chinese forces and the need for air cover, especially over supply lines. Apparently impressed by the Chinese war effort, Stalin agreed to supply two air force divisions, three anti-aircraft divisions, and six thousand trucks. PVA troops in Korea continued to suffer severe logistical problems throughout the war. In late April Peng Dehuai sent his deputy,
Hong Xuezhi, to brief Zhou Enlai in Beijing. What Chinese soldiers feared, Hong said, was not the enemy, but having no food, bullets, or trucks to transport them to the rear when they were wounded. Zhou attempted to respond to the PVA's logistical concerns by increasing Chinese production and improving supply methods, but these efforts were never sufficient. At the same time, large-scale air defense training programs were carried out, and the
People's Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) began participating in the war from September 1951 onward.
[258] The Fourth Phase Offensive had catastrophically failed, in contrast to the success of the Second Phase Offensive and limited gains of the Third Phase Offensive. The U.N. forces, after earlier defeats and subsequent retraining, proved much harder to infiltrate by Chinese light infantry than they had been in previous months.
From 31 January to 21 April, the Chinese had suffered 53,000 casualties.[259]
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