### Summary of Reasons for the Failure of the U.S. Military Raid on Beijing in the Year 200x
The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the U.S. Military made a summary before the U.S. Congress:
This failure is not only a strategic failure but also a tactical failure.
1. Our army carelessly used the Beijing Tourist Map from the Beijing Municipal Tourism Bureau, the Beijing Traffic Map from the Beijing Public Transport Company, and the Beijing Topographic Map from the Beijing Geological Exploration Center. We mistakenly thought that the things used by the Chinese for themselves, although not very good, would never deceive their own people. However, we were wrong. The very first day we got these few maps doomed that we were going to fight a wrong war at a wrong time, in a wrong place, and in a wrong country.
1. The 3rd Battalion, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, which was originally supposed to land at Tsinghua University, was mistakenly airdropped into Kunming Lake in the Summer Palace. Those who could swim surrendered, and those who couldn't drown. None of the 533 people escaped.
2. After the 10th Mountain Division captured the Yungang area, it carried out the order to destroy the Third Research Institute of China Aviation Group as per the original plan. The 1st Battalion of the 1st Regiment searched the Yungang Town for nearly a day and failed to find the exact location of the Third Research Institute of China Aviation Group. As a result, the entire 1st Regiment had to be added to the search, causing the unit to fail to complete the combat plan. When the main force crossed the Yongding River, since the airborne unit failed to deliver the pontoon bridge unit on time, it had to stay at the crossing place for 7 hours. After the pontoon bridge unit arrived, it was discovered that the so-called Yongding River had no water at all. And the 1st Regiment didn't know until the retreat that they had been circling in the compound of the Aerospace Third Institute for four whole days!
3. The heavy armor group of the 3rd Marine Division broke through the position of the 26th Army of the Chinese defense forces and entered the outskirts of Beijing from the Badaling Expressway. It encountered an unprecedented traffic jam at the junction of the 5th Ring Road and the Badaling Expressway. It failed to move forward for 15 consecutive hours and was defeated by the Chinese reinforcement forces.
4. The paratroopers of the 502nd Regiment, 101st Division, who landed in Datun chose to land on the green spaces, clubs, swimming pools, and lakes on the community planning map. As a result, when they landed, they found that they all landed on the rooftops because the developer arbitrarily changed the plan, building buildings where the originally promised green spaces, clubs, swimming pools, and lakes were supposed to be in order to sell more units. What was even more tragic was that these damn community plans caused countless casualties among the unfortunate paratroopers when they parachuted and landed. The surviving paratroopers fought with the militia through the skylights on the rooftops all night, and most of them were killed in action.
5. The 501st Regiment, 101st Division, which was the only one airdropped within the 4th Ring Road, landed in Chaoyang Park. It was the only open area within the 4th Ring Road. After landing, it was discovered that the terrain in this area was rugged and definitely not an open area. The heavy equipment airdropped could not be transported out of the park, so it had to abandon the original combat plan and hold out in the park waiting for rescue. They were the first unit to be captured as a complete formation in this battle.
6. When fighting巷战 (urban combat), the apartment floor plans used for advertising by real estate developers by our army were seriously distorted. All the internal spaces of the apartments were so narrow that it was terrifying, and heavy weapons could not be transported into the rooms selected as fortresses before the battle; and the strength of the buildings was seriously insufficient to be used as combat fortifications.
7. It is particularly worth mentioning that when the SEAL Team raided Anzhen Building, the special forces young men rushed along the fire escape, but the fire escape was blocked or converted for other uses by the property management company. After breaking several pliers, they had to declare the mission failed and withdraw.
8. The battlefield commander over-relied on the official Chinese road maps, which led to the loss of control of troop deployment, and he was irreversibly responsible. For example, the 4th Heavy Division advanced from Tianjin towards Beijing, planning to take the Jingtong Road and Jianguo Road to go along Chang'an Avenue; however, countless missing manhole covers on the road made it difficult for our army's vehicles to move forward. There were even phenomena where continuous manhole cover groups got the wheeled infantry fighting vehicles and tanks stuck. The remaining tank unit ran wildly along the famous Jingtong Expressway. When it reached Sihui, it had been shaken apart. It was rushed by a group of people who seemed to be militia riding cart boards (a nearly primitive transportation tool used by Chinese farmers). (It was confirmed after the battle that although they showed amazing combat effectiveness at that time, they were not militia but waste collectors.) They were all taken to the waste recycling station.
9. The 82nd Airborne Division responsible for raiding Beijing Capital International Airport entered the urban area along the Airport Expressway after occupying the airport. When passing through Siyuan Bridge, due to the poor quality of the bridge, the drivers of the heavy equipment did not dare to pass, so they had to abandon the vehicles and move forward lightly. Facing 36 confusing red lights and several hours of traffic jam at Sanyuan Bridge, the soldiers who were sunburned and got heatstroke scattered to find water to drink. A large number of soldiers, unable to endure the thirst, had to drink the seriously polluted underground water in Beijing, and they foamed at the mouth and had limb convulsions, unable to control themselves to pick up the guns and shoot randomly, and shouted: "Oh my God, which son of a bitch from the Pentagon ordered the attack here? I'm going to kill him! Can people live here? We traveled all the way here to fight, it's really asking for trouble!!!"
10. The entry of our mechanized units into the city was simply a disaster. There were more than a dozen toll stations of all sizes along the way that required payment, and the payment was based on tonnage. Similarly, for passing vehicles, the damn Chinese army paid at least half less money than us!!! Moreover, there were checkpoints everywhere to check the road maintenance fees. After entering the city, they were fined by the traffic police, and the toll collection personnel had low quality, unable to distinguish between U.S. dollars and RMB, and they demanded the same amount of money regardless of what currency it was! This made our army regard entering the city as a dreaded thing (it should have brought the Japanese here earlier).
The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the U.S. Military made a summary before the U.S. Congress:
This failure is not only a strategic failure but also a tactical failure.
1. Our army carelessly used the Beijing Tourist Map from the Beijing Municipal Tourism Bureau, the Beijing Traffic Map from the Beijing Public Transport Company, and the Beijing Topographic Map from the Beijing Geological Exploration Center. We mistakenly thought that the things used by the Chinese for themselves, although not very good, would never deceive their own people. However, we were wrong. The very first day we got these few maps doomed that we were going to fight a wrong war at a wrong time, in a wrong place, and in a wrong country.
1. The 3rd Battalion, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, which was originally supposed to land at Tsinghua University, was mistakenly airdropped into Kunming Lake in the Summer Palace. Those who could swim surrendered, and those who couldn't drown. None of the 533 people escaped.
2. After the 10th Mountain Division captured the Yungang area, it carried out the order to destroy the Third Research Institute of China Aviation Group as per the original plan. The 1st Battalion of the 1st Regiment searched the Yungang Town for nearly a day and failed to find the exact location of the Third Research Institute of China Aviation Group. As a result, the entire 1st Regiment had to be added to the search, causing the unit to fail to complete the combat plan. When the main force crossed the Yongding River, since the airborne unit failed to deliver the pontoon bridge unit on time, it had to stay at the crossing place for 7 hours. After the pontoon bridge unit arrived, it was discovered that the so-called Yongding River had no water at all. And the 1st Regiment didn't know until the retreat that they had been circling in the compound of the Aerospace Third Institute for four whole days!
3. The heavy armor group of the 3rd Marine Division broke through the position of the 26th Army of the Chinese defense forces and entered the outskirts of Beijing from the Badaling Expressway. It encountered an unprecedented traffic jam at the junction of the 5th Ring Road and the Badaling Expressway. It failed to move forward for 15 consecutive hours and was defeated by the Chinese reinforcement forces.
4. The paratroopers of the 502nd Regiment, 101st Division, who landed in Datun chose to land on the green spaces, clubs, swimming pools, and lakes on the community planning map. As a result, when they landed, they found that they all landed on the rooftops because the developer arbitrarily changed the plan, building buildings where the originally promised green spaces, clubs, swimming pools, and lakes were supposed to be in order to sell more units. What was even more tragic was that these damn community plans caused countless casualties among the unfortunate paratroopers when they parachuted and landed. The surviving paratroopers fought with the militia through the skylights on the rooftops all night, and most of them were killed in action.
5. The 501st Regiment, 101st Division, which was the only one airdropped within the 4th Ring Road, landed in Chaoyang Park. It was the only open area within the 4th Ring Road. After landing, it was discovered that the terrain in this area was rugged and definitely not an open area. The heavy equipment airdropped could not be transported out of the park, so it had to abandon the original combat plan and hold out in the park waiting for rescue. They were the first unit to be captured as a complete formation in this battle.
6. When fighting巷战 (urban combat), the apartment floor plans used for advertising by real estate developers by our army were seriously distorted. All the internal spaces of the apartments were so narrow that it was terrifying, and heavy weapons could not be transported into the rooms selected as fortresses before the battle; and the strength of the buildings was seriously insufficient to be used as combat fortifications.
7. It is particularly worth mentioning that when the SEAL Team raided Anzhen Building, the special forces young men rushed along the fire escape, but the fire escape was blocked or converted for other uses by the property management company. After breaking several pliers, they had to declare the mission failed and withdraw.
8. The battlefield commander over-relied on the official Chinese road maps, which led to the loss of control of troop deployment, and he was irreversibly responsible. For example, the 4th Heavy Division advanced from Tianjin towards Beijing, planning to take the Jingtong Road and Jianguo Road to go along Chang'an Avenue; however, countless missing manhole covers on the road made it difficult for our army's vehicles to move forward. There were even phenomena where continuous manhole cover groups got the wheeled infantry fighting vehicles and tanks stuck. The remaining tank unit ran wildly along the famous Jingtong Expressway. When it reached Sihui, it had been shaken apart. It was rushed by a group of people who seemed to be militia riding cart boards (a nearly primitive transportation tool used by Chinese farmers). (It was confirmed after the battle that although they showed amazing combat effectiveness at that time, they were not militia but waste collectors.) They were all taken to the waste recycling station.
9. The 82nd Airborne Division responsible for raiding Beijing Capital International Airport entered the urban area along the Airport Expressway after occupying the airport. When passing through Siyuan Bridge, due to the poor quality of the bridge, the drivers of the heavy equipment did not dare to pass, so they had to abandon the vehicles and move forward lightly. Facing 36 confusing red lights and several hours of traffic jam at Sanyuan Bridge, the soldiers who were sunburned and got heatstroke scattered to find water to drink. A large number of soldiers, unable to endure the thirst, had to drink the seriously polluted underground water in Beijing, and they foamed at the mouth and had limb convulsions, unable to control themselves to pick up the guns and shoot randomly, and shouted: "Oh my God, which son of a bitch from the Pentagon ordered the attack here? I'm going to kill him! Can people live here? We traveled all the way here to fight, it's really asking for trouble!!!"
10. The entry of our mechanized units into the city was simply a disaster. There were more than a dozen toll stations of all sizes along the way that required payment, and the payment was based on tonnage. Similarly, for passing vehicles, the damn Chinese army paid at least half less money than us!!! Moreover, there were checkpoints everywhere to check the road maintenance fees. After entering the city, they were fined by the traffic police, and the toll collection personnel had low quality, unable to distinguish between U.S. dollars and RMB, and they demanded the same amount of money regardless of what currency it was! This made our army regard entering the city as a dreaded thing (it should have brought the Japanese here earlier).
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考虑问题复杂化，解决问题简洁化。
