When he arrived in Quancheng, Mu Haoyang realized that he had participated in this matter in a daze.

As a professional soldier, Mu Haoyang does not understand negotiation skills at all. On the battlefield, he never negotiates with the enemy. If you really want to calculate, the method used to interrogate prisoners of war should be more reliable. It is just that at the negotiating table, it is impossible to treat negotiating opponents by interrogating prisoners of war.

Fortunately, Mu Haoyang is not the main negotiator, and his work is just to explain the practical uses of electromagnetic weapons.

To be simple, it is to add some bargaining chips to the volunteer army.

There is no doubt that the negotiations are going very hard.

After entering the sharing negotiation stage, Mu Haoyang made a relatively complete explanation on behalf of the Volunteer Army, namely the huge value of electromagnetic weapons in war, which proves that electromagnetic weapons are an important war tool for the Volunteer Army, and the Volunteer Army will not give up this weapon for no reason.

It took only fifteen minutes to prepare for several days.

However, these fifteen minutes are crucial.

Subsequently, Lu Wen personally made an additional explanation, namely, the military uses of electromagnetic weapons, rather than weapons of mass destruction that have a comprehensive destructive nature.

Although theoretically, electromagnetic weapons are weapons of mass destruction. Taking the electromagnetic warhead installed by the Volunteer Army on ballistic missiles as an example, a warhead can completely paralyze a super metropolis like Seoul, causing immeasurable economic losses and accompanied by serious casualties. However, in Lu Wen's opinion, whether it is a weapon of mass destruction is not the scope and power of the weapon, but the way and method of using the weapon.

The basic principle of magnetic weapons is to use high-energy electromagnetic fields to destroy transistor electronic equipment, while the basic principle of nuclear weapons is to use the huge energy released by nuclear fission and fusion. The electromagnetic field can be used for communication, while nuclear energy can be used for power generation. Since devastating weapons like nuclear weapons can be used for correct and reasonable use, why can't electromagnetic weapons be used for correct and reasonable use?

Wen's defense had only one purpose: to prove that the volunteers did not point the gun at the civilians.

In order to strengthen Lu Wen's argument, the People's Army negotiators raised a more acute question, that is, the coalition forces had executed thousands of People's Army officers and soldiers without trial during the war.

This argument was immediately denied by coalition negotiators.

However, the representatives of the People's Army provided very conclusive evidence and even listed a detailed list of the People's Army officers and soldiers executed by the coalition forces.

Strictly speaking, the People's Army's views are also problematic.

The coalition did execute some prisoners of war, but according to the standards of the coalition, they were not prisoners of war, but non-governmental armed forces, that is, guerrillas who have been active in the battlefield behind enemy lines for a long time. However, according to the standards of the People's Army, they are soldiers, and they are soldiers who fight for the country. After being captured, they deserve the treatment of prisoners of war. The coalition has no right to execute guerrillas who put down their weapons and lose their combat capabilities.

After the debate began, the negotiations fell on the details.

This is how the negotiations are. Both sides are quarreling and see who makes sense.

However, this kind of negotiation that is entangled in details is difficult to achieve substantial results.

By October 5, the two sides still had serious differences on some key details. For example, the Volunteer Army insisted that electromagnetic weapons were legal and not mass destructive, and only promised not to use them in wars and refused to use them in accordance with the requirements of the coalition forces. For example, when dealing with captured guerrillas, the coalition forces refused to make concessions, insisted that the guerrillas were non-governmental armed organizations and were not legal, so the captured guerrillas were not qualified to enjoy the treatment of prisoners of war.

What is commendable is that on an important issue, the two sides reached an agreement, namely, exchanged disabled prisoners of war.

This problem was also very difficult at first.

Because the coalition forces have much more prisoners of war, especially the People's Army, there are nearly 400,000 prisoners of war in the People's Army, and the total amount of prisoners of war in the Volunteer Army and the People's Army is less than 50,000, of which the US military only has more than 20,000. Therefore, at the beginning, the Volunteer Army and the People's Army proposed to exchange prisoners of war in a ratio of one to ten, that is, one US military exchanges ten People's Army or Volunteer Army. The coalition forces firmly oppose this unequal exchange method and believe that the value of soldiers is the same and the human rights of soldiers are the same, so exchange should be carried out in a ratio of one to one.

Both sides know that exchanging prisoners of war is equivalent to enhancing the opponent's combat effectiveness.

Especially for the Volunteer Army and the People's Army, the prisoners of war that were replaced were likely to be armed again and be supplemented with combat troops at all levels.

Four hundred thousand people's army prisoners of war are equivalent to fifty infantry divisions!

After obtaining Chinese weapons and equipment, the combat effectiveness of these fifty infantry divisions is very considerable.

Even though the contribution of the People's Army is far lower than that of the Volunteer Army, and the coalition forces have less than 3,000 volunteer prisoners of war, the People's Army can undertake many non-combat tasks, such as transporting combat materials and guarding strategic areas in the rear, so that the Volunteer Army can concentrate its main force on the front line.

The infantry divisions of fifty people's army can replace at least 200,000 volunteer troops in the rear.

From the perspective of consolidating the regime, fifty infantry divisions were enough to allow the North Korean authorities to control all areas and help the volunteers control the lost land they recaptured.

Both sides had to make concessions, that is, before formally signing the armistice agreement, they would only exchange disabled prisoners who had lost their combat capabilities.

Even so, the contradiction still exists, and it is still the exchange ratio.

According to the information provided by the coalition forces, among the captured People's Army and Volunteer Army officers and soldiers, there were about 65,000 disabled people, while the Volunteer Army and the People's Army had only 17,000 disabled prisoners. If the coalition forces were required, that is, exchanged in one-to-one manner, the Volunteer Army and the People's Army would not gain any advantage.

At the end of the conversation, both sides made compromises.

According to the agreement reached between the two sides, the exchange ratio between the US military and the Volunteer Army is one to one, the exchange ratio between the US military and the People's Army is one to ten, the exchange ratio between the Volunteer Army and the South Korean Army is one to five, and the exchange ratio between the People's Army and the South Korean Army is one to one. The two sides will exchange the first batch of disabled prisoners within 24 hours after the negotiations, and all exchange work will be completed within four seasons. Therefore, the ceasefire time will be extended to four seasons after the negotiations are over.

After this agreement is reached, the negotiations will be almost done.

Because the differences on other issues were too huge and both sides were unwilling to make substantial concessions, the negotiations were announced to be recessed on October 7th.

According to the previous agreement, the temporary ceasefire will be extended to 23:59 on October 9th.

If neither side proposed a new negotiation intention before this and was recognized by the other party, the war would rekindle in the early morning of October 10th.

The negotiating delegation between the Volunteer Army and the People's Army did not stay. After the negotiations were over, they left Quancheng and returned to Xianzhou.

After staying in Xianzhou for a few hours, Mu Haoyang, Lu Wen and others took a small transport plane back to Xinyizhou.

According to the ceasefire agreement, during the ceasefire, the coalition forces will not attack small transport aircraft used to transport important personnel, but the flight routes of the transport aircraft must be notified to the coalition forces in advance.

When he returned to Shinyiju, Mu Haoyang became busy.

The first thing he did was to report the negotiations to Huang Zhibo.

"Major, according to your understanding, will the coalition forces use electromagnetic weapons in a tit-for-tat way?"

"Absolutely, there is nothing to doubt." Mu Haoyang replied very affirmatively, "Although the coalition forces repeatedly emphasized the huge harm of electromagnetic weapons to civilian facilities and the safety of civilian life during the negotiations, after we insisted, the coalition forces did not propose reciprocal exchange conditions, that is, they did not do their best to prevent us from using electromagnetic weapons. It is enough to prove that the coalition forces either mastered the methods of fighting electromagnetic weapons, or used electromagnetic weapons in a tit-for-tat way. I have talked with Lu Gong that there are not many ways to deal with electromagnetic weapons, and the coalition forces are highly dependent on information systems and cannot use low-standard communication and command systems like us to deal with modern wars."

"So you think the coalition forces will use electromagnetic weapons?"

Mu Haoyang nodded and said, "This may be the only way for the coalition forces to deal with it."

Huang Zhibo thought for a while and turned his gaze to Qi Kaiwei sitting on the other side.

"If this is true, we have to be fully prepared." Qi Kaiwei was also thinking about the problem. "Although the coalition forces use electromagnetic weapons on a large scale, we will not lose the initiative, but the advantages will be significantly weakened, and the difficulty of combat will be greatly increased. The three newly arrived armies may not be able to adapt."

"Where are the original three armies?"

"The problem should not be big. The 39th Army and the 65th Army have gained sufficient practical experience, and the 16th Army has also adapted to this war. The problem is that the supplementary troops of the 39th Army and the 65th Army have not yet been in place, and the supplementary officers and soldiers also need training, and it is difficult to act as the main force."

"That depends on how these three armies are used." Huang Zhibo smiled and said to Mu Haoyang, "Major, you have to recover as soon as possible. After the second battle begins, the task of the special forces will definitely be very heavy. If you have time, learn more about the latest technological progress from the land workers. If the coalition forces plan to fight against us, we have to bloom in full swing and let the coalition forces know how to use electromagnetic weapons."

Mu Haoyang nodded and stood up to say goodbye.

"By the way, your promotion order has been completed, go to the Personnel Office to complete the procedures."

“Promotion?”

"Yes, you are already a lieutenant colonel, and I signed the promotion order myself."

Mu Haoyang was stunned and quickly said, "Thank you, Commander-in-Chief."

"What are you thanking, this is what you deserve." Huang Zhibo smiled and said, "Go quickly and get a new military uniform by the way. This one should be replaced."

Mu Haoyang smiled and nodded in agreement. He was still wearing the military uniforms of the Volunteer Army when he first entered the court, that is, the military uniforms of the People's Army. In order to distinguish them from the People's Army, Huang Zhibo specially asked the General Logistics Department to build a batch of military uniforms, which looked much better than those of the People's Army.
Chapter completed!