Chapter 723: The Korean Campaign (5)

Shortly after the advance assault in the theater launched the attack, the Western Army in Dandong Town, the Eastern Army in Tawinburg, and the Southern Army on Jeju Island were all ready for battle, and the countdown to the general attack had arrived.

Due to the pressure of the Far Eastern troops, tens of thousands of Huben troops were stationed on the north bank of the Yalu River, and the Korean defenders increased their military strength in the border area on the south bank of the Yalu River. But ever since the peace talks between the Korean monarchs and the Far East, the Korean defenders on the south bank of the Yalu River have received orders. All units must not act on their own initiative to avoid provoking the Far Eastern Army, and no matter what moves the other side makes, they must refrain from restraint and restraint.

Although tens of thousands of North Korean "elites" have been gathered in the border areas on the south bank of the Yalu River in the Far East and strong fortifications have been built, the morale of the North Korean army is extremely low, and there are continuous desertions every day, and there are even cases where low-level generals lead troops to flee the front line.

The generals of the DPRK do not have the idea of fighting hard with the Far East, and the tens of thousands of "elites" in the DPRK are actually decorations. As long as the Far Eastern Army launched an offensive, tens of thousands of Korean troops would simply not be able to hold the defense line on the south bank of the Yalu River. Now that peace talks have begun between North Korea and the Far East, the North Korean generals on the front line are also breathing a sigh of relief. But they never dreamed that the Far Eastern Army would launch such a fierce attack at this time.

Half an hour before the general attack, everyone at the headquarters of each corps began to check their watches, and then everyone stared at the watches in their hands, waiting for the moment of the general attack. It was not until 4 a.m. that the front-line assault troops of the corps launched a lightning-fast attack from the east, west, and south.

"Boom...... Boom ......"

Bursts of heavy artillery fire were the first to break the silence of the early morning, and the Western Army, which launched a general attack, poured shells of various calibers on the heads of the Korean defenders on the opposite bank. Although the Corps' artillery preparation time was short given the weakness of the North Korean army, it was enough to scare any army of this era.

When the shells from the Far East fell, the North Korean troops were still sleeping. A loud bang woke them up from their dreams. Faced with an overwhelming number of shells falling down, the North Korean army was immediately in chaos. A group of North Korean generals desperately controlled their troops, barely using the dense bunkers on the south bank of the Yalu River to temporarily establish a defensive line.

The assault forces of the Western Army Corps in the Far East also began to attack, and the barges of the river steam deck carried the assault troops to the opposite bank. Artillery units are deployed in observation groups on airships over the battlefield. Constantly providing accurate shooting to the ground artillery units, one shell after another accurately landed on the defense line on the south bank of the Yalu River set up by the North Korean army.

More than a dozen delta-wing planes swept over the defense line of the DPRK army at a low altitude, and 120-millimeter mortar shells roared and smashed down, and one after another the DPRK fortresses were wiped out in an instant. In just 10 minutes of fire preparation, the well-built fortifications carefully built by the DPRK army were blown to shreds.

Inland steam-deck barges roared across the Yalu River and landed on the south bank. The twin water-cooled heavy machine guns equipped on the ship frantically suppressed the positions of the North Korean troops on the opposite side, and the covering assault troops quickly broke through the defense line, and in the shortest possible time on the opposite bank, three landing fields were established and the defense line was constructed.

The "elite" of the North Korean army on the opposite side organized several counterattacks, but as soon as they rushed a few hundred meters outside the defense line of the Far Eastern Army, they were met with frantic strafing fire from the intensive fire of the Far Eastern Army. Thousands of North Korean soldiers who participated in the counterattack will be slaughtered by the Far Eastern Army.

The engineer brigade directly under the Military Commission participating in the war, with the cooperation of the barges of the steam deck of the river waterway. Nervously construct the pontoon bridge needed for the main force to cross the river. The barges on the river deck were connected in a straight line, and the bridge plates connected many barges together, and it took only a very short time to build three pontoon bridges across the wide Yalu River.

As the main force of the Western Army continued to cross the Yalu River, tens of thousands of Korean elites scattered in a hurry, and the mountains were full of Korean deserters. The time to come. The Far Eastern Army's offensive did not meet any decent resistance at all, and apart from empty camps and supplies and weapons everywhere, the Korean defenders' defensive line was almost empty.

The military parade of the Far Eastern Army also officially kicked off, and several lines of soldiers and horses advanced at a very fast speed. The collapse of the defense line on the Yalu River made it impossible for the Far Eastern Army to encounter any decent resistance after penetrating deep into Pyongan Province, and in just a few days, the cavalry units of the Western Army Corps had rushed to the city of Pyongyang.

The Korean generals stationed here were quite responsible, he gathered a large number of deserters who had fled from the front line, and vigorously reinforced the fortifications in Pyongyang, trying to rely on the fortifications of Pyongyang to resist stubbornly, which was also the largest resistance encountered by the Western Army since the beginning of the war.

The Western Army Corps of the Korean Theater also attached great importance to this, and concentrated six 105-mm assault guns, 12 75-mm mountain guns, and dozens of mortars of various calibers to form an artillery group. Ten delta-wing aircraft were mobilized to provide tactical air support to the assault force.

After the general offensive began, dozens of artillery pieces of the Western Corps bombarded the North Korean defenders at the head of Pyongyang with heavy casualties in just a few rounds. Six 105-mm assault guns were pushed directly by the artillery to a few hundred meters below the city of Pyongyang, and concentrated their fire on a section of the dilapidated city wall. After only a dozen shells were fired, the walls of Pyongyang collapsed and a gap was blown open.

Immediately after that, a series of delta-wing planes, whistling at low altitude swept past the city of Pyongyang, and instantly turned the head of the North Korean city into a human purgatory, and the violent fire swept and devoured the North Korean defenders one by one, and the terrible howls completely broke the will of the North Korean defenders, and they threw away their weapons and turned to flee.

The Western Army Corps also did not expect that their carefully prepared offensive plan would end just after it began, and the time was unbelievably short. A battalion of the field division that served as the assault encountered almost no resistance, and easily occupied the gap in the collapsed city wall, and established a stable line to cover the subsequent entry of a large number of main forces into the city.

The generals in Pyongyang organized death squads to carry out several counterattacks, but in the face of the crossfire of several water-cooled heavy machine guns, countless North Korean officers and soldiers died in front of the gap in this section of the city wall, and the corpses left by the North Korean army were more than half a person high.

The Korean defenders in the city, seeing that the general trend had turned, could only lay down their arms and surrender to the Far Eastern Army in an organized manner. The Western Army easily took Pyongyang and continued to move south, all the way like a bamboo.

At the same time, the progress of several attack directions of the Eastern Army and the Southern Army was even faster, and the Korean army was completely rotten from top to bottom, even inferior to the Ming army, and the battle process was about to collapse. (To be continued......)