The Second Campaign We employed the tactic of purposely showing ourselves to be weak, increasing the arrogance of the enemy, letting him run amuck, and luring him deep into our area. While some small units of our army remained in contact with the enemy troops, our main force assembled in areas east and west of Bukjin and made use of the fable terrain to build camouflaged positions 30 kilometers from the point where the enemy set out to attack us.

One day in mid-November, Douglas MacArthur came over on a reconnaissance flight. His command headquarters said in a broadcast to his troops: "Get ready, push to the Yalu River, and be home before Christmas." (Douglas MacArthur became Commander-in-Chief of the "United Nation Forces" in July 1950 in the war of aggression against Korea. He advocated an attack on China. His setbacks in Korea brought about his dismissal.)

His attack came around November 20. We sent small units to engage the enemy and to lure him to come after these units. It was nearly dusk when the enemy troops penetrated to the Unsan-Kusong line -- the place we had planned for our counterattack. The enemy troops had been worn out after a day's fighting and were not ready to dig themselves in when small detachments of our troops began to strike at their rear. Then our main force swept into the enemy ranks with the strength of an avalanche and engaged the enemy at close quarters with grenades and bayonets. The superior firepower of the enemy became useless. Over-turned and damaged enemy vehicles were strewn over the road, blocking the retreating enemy troops. This method of fighting, which the enemy troops had never experienced before, took them by surprise. Thus our troops won a major victory in the Second Campaign. The enemy lost no fewer than 6,000 motor vehicles and well over 1,000 tanks and gun-carriers. We captured only a small part of the equipment because most of it was later burned by the enemy with napalm bombs. The enemy troops fled south in panic, abandoning Pyongyang and falling back on the 38th Parallel. This campaign laid the foundation of victory in the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea recovered all the lost territory by the end of the campaign