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Among the guerilla tactics created by President
It means to let the enemies fight themselves and watch them at a long range. In other words, the guerillas would let the enemies who appeared at the front and the back fight themselves and leave the area quietly. It was a very delightful tactics to fool the enemies.
The President used the tactics to destroy enemies who were attacking from both front and back at Hongtushanzi and who were chasing each other at the plateau of Puhumul.
The plateau was at the western side of the Beidadingzi mountain ranges as high as from 800 to 1 000 meters. The area covered was very vast.
Puhumul means a place with water resources. On the southern edge of the plateau flew Qidaogou rivulet and there were many other streams flowing in the area of Beidadingzi.
It was a day in early February, Juche 28 (1939). The President led the Korean People's Revolutionary Army and arrived at the plateau of Puhumul in Changbai County after the victorious battles of Qidaogou lumber station, Dayangche and Changbai highway.
After the lumber station in Qidaogou was attacked, the enemies, who were looking for the Korean People's Revolutionary Army around the station and Shisandaogou, traced the guerillas in the plateau of Puhumul and gathered all their men to assault them.
Thinking about the way to detach a large group of enemies viciously pursuing, the President ordered the unit to keep going around the edge of the plateau.
When the unit was doing the second lap, it already got dark and the distance between the guerillas and enemies became longer.
That time, another group of "punitive force" came in between the revolutionary army and the enemies who were already in their pursuit. It would take one day to go for a lap around the edge of the plateau so two groups of enemies were chasing the guerillas independently which was really amusing.
Grasping the situation quickly, the President gave soldiers instructions to cut down a sledge of trees each.
The soldiers marched with trees cut down without knowing what the matter was. Returning to the spot where they had first started going around, there were big stumps sparsely placed.
The President ordered to put the cut trees between the stumps and only step on them to go into the forest about 500m and remove them. He instructed to put a guard 300m in front of the unit and the unit to rest.
After a while, the guard reported that the enemies failed to trace the guerillas and started chasing each other following the edge of the plateau.
When the sun started to set, the enemies were exerted themselves to the utmost to catch the "revolutionary army" before it got darker.
When the latter "punitive force" caught up with the former, it was totally dark.
The latter was so impetuous that they started shooting at the former. Struck out of the blue, the former thought it was a counterattack of the guerillas and fired back.
While the soldiers of the Korean People's Revolutionary Army, with their bodies covered by white cloths, were having a rest on the skins of the roe deer in the forest, the enemies desperately fought with each other all night long.
That was how the Korean People's Revolutionary Army killed so many enemies without even firing but by just observing the stupid battle between the enemies themselves.
After having a hilarious and devastating loss, the enemies screamed that the revolutionary army was so protean thus impossible to "annihilate" them.
President
Indeed, the Arduous March was a comprehensive test ground of all military tactics created in the anti-Japanese guerilla war.
