Volume 7 The Smoke of Gunpowder on the Peninsula Chapter 88 Catching a Turtle in an Urn
At 20 o'clock Beijing time on the 27th, Sinuiju, North Korea. 【】
The press conference held by Choe Joon-chol, the head of the DPRK provisional government, lasted only one minute, and although Choe Jun-chul did not answer the questions of Choe Jun-chol or mentioned anything substantial, hundreds of officials from all over the world smelled a strong smell of gunpowder from Choe Jun-chol's words.
Five minutes after the end of the press conference, he took the lead in making a commentary report.
According to the report, Choe Jun-chol's statement emphasized that the DPRK "takes Seoul as its capital," resolutely pursues a "friendly policy with China," firmly supports "the squadron's combat operations in the DPRK," and accomplishes "national and national reunification" in various ways, proving that China will "carry the peninsula war to the end," and that the ultimate goal is not to fight back to the 38th parallel, but to help the DPRK "annex" the ROK, and the scale of the peninsula war will continue to expand.
Other television stations were quick to make relevant comments, all of which believed that the war on the peninsula would not stop at the 38th parallel.
At 20:30, when the press was still hotly discussing when, where, and in what way the Chinese Army would cross the 38th parallel, the Ministry of Defense of the Republic announced the latest "results" in the form of a war report.
The US Paralytic Fleet, which entered the territorial waters of the DPRK in Ganghwa Bay, was annihilated by the Air Force of the Republic!
Global public opinion was in an uproar.
As soon as the DPRK provisional government declared its sovereignty over the entire Korean Peninsula, the Chinese Air Force wiped out the US fleet that had entered the "territorial waters of South Korea." This is obviously a premeditated action, the Chinese Air Force has long wanted to kill the Habitat Fleet, and the statement of the Provisional Government of the DPRK is only providing China with a reason to strike at the Habitat Fleet!
The eyes of the press immediately turned to the White House and the Pentagon.
Although the United States did not release information on the ground of the Habitat Fleet. But there is a "lesson from the past" of the 2nd Amphibious Fleet. None of the media doubted the fate of the Habitat Fleet.
China's Ministry of Defense dared to mention the word "annihilation" in its press release. The Primal Fleet is definitely more than lucky.
The press eagerly awaited news from the United States. The battle in Haizhou has entered a white-hot state.
The 773rd Brigade reached the outskirts of Haizhou as quickly as possible. Ling Yunxiao didn't give the enemy time to prepare. Before the 1st Panzer Division organized an assault. One armored battalion and one infantry battalion of the Quick Reaction Brigade were the first to break into the urban area of Haizhou. Advance to vital ports.
The U.S. 1st Panzer Division was not slow to respond. Immediately organize 1 armored battalion and 1 infantry battalion to counterattack.
The first half of the night. The two sides have been fighting over the Ningjiang Bridge to the east of Haizhou. This is the only way to enter Haizhou. If the US military is allowed to occupy the bridge. The ground troops that broke into the urban area of Haizhou will be completely besieged. Ling Yunxiao sent an infantry battalion to guard the bridge. Two armoured battalions were deployed to the west of the bridge. Fight a mobile defensive battle with US armored forces.
In terms of combat effectiveness, a fast counter-brigade with only wheeled armored combat vehicles is certainly no match for heavy armored forces.
Fortunately, the main force of the 1st Armored Division had just left Shaliyuan and was on its way to Haizhou. The U.S. military had only 2 battalions and less than 50 tanks, and the threat to the 773 Brigade was not great.
The battle continued until 22:30, when Ling Yunxiao asked the troops who had broken into the city to switch to defensive operations on the spot.
It was only at this time that Pei Chengyi was sure that the Habitat Flotilla had been completely annihilated, and not a single American ship could only reach the port of Haizhou. Under these circumstances, the capture of the port of Haizhou no longer makes much sense. If the U.S. military wants to evacuate, it can only use helicopters and tilt-rotor planes to pick up the troops. Because the air supremacy over Jianghua Bay was in the hands of the Republican Army, the US military did not dare to rashly send airlift forces to Haizhou. Pei Chengyi did not let the 773 Brigade retreat, because as long as the 773 Brigade was "nailed" in Haizhou, the 1st Armored Division of the US Army would have to leave most of its troops in Haizhou and hold the flank defense line, so that the 1st Army of the ROK Army would take on the main combat mission of attacking Qinghe.
With the combat effectiveness of the South Korean army, it is impossible to defeat the Blue Crane guarded by the Airborne 163 Brigade and the Quick Counter 772!
The 1st Armored Division of the US Army has become a turtle in an urn, and Pei Chengyi once again adjusted the deployment of the campaign. The 6th and 24th armies have already entered Pyongyang and are clearing the ROK troops in the interior of the city in preparation for the return of the Korean provisional government to Pyongyang. The vanguard of the 27th Army arrived at Longgang, north of Nampo, at about 22 o'clock, because the 1st Armored Division of the US Army had already withdrawn from Nampo, leaving behind 1 South Korean infantry division, so Bae Seung-yi did not let the 27th Army immediately attack Nampo, but first assisted the 61st Army and the 24th Army to clear the South Korean army that had entered Pyongyang. The 21st Army arrived at the field at 22:30 and was advancing in the direction of Yantan, and was expected to arrive at Yantan at about 2 a.m. on the 28th. The 373rd Brigade and the 383rd Brigade arrived at Xinxi and could join the combat operations of the 1st Army of the ROK Army at any time.
The question in front of Pei Chengyi is whether to eat the 2nd Army first or the 1st Army first.
Initially, Pei Chengyi decided to fight the 1st Army first to prepare for the next attack on Kaicheng. The most important thing is that if the 1st Armored Division is ready to retreat from Haizhou, it must first cut the 1st Army on the western battlefield and send at least 2 armored assault brigades to the direction of Haizhou to assist the 773rd Brigade to prevent the 1st Armored Division from "escaping".
The situation took a turn for the worse, and the 1st Panzer Division Ken
Dropped.
Pei Chengyi adjusted the operational arrangements and decided to take out the 2nd Army first.
Judging from the overall battle situation, in order to defeat Seoul, after Korea declared Seoul as its capital, the Republic changed the name of the official document to Seoul, and it was best to annihilate the ROK 2nd Army first, make a breakthrough on the eastern front, and pose a threat to the ROK 3rd Army defending Seoul from the flank. If the South Korean army can be forced to abandon Seoul on its own initiative, it will be able to occupy Seoul bloodlessly and push the battle line 100 kilometers south.
Compared with dealing with the US army, which has only more than 20,000 troops, the 2nd Army, which has more than 200,000 troops, is much more "troublesome".
Even if the South Korean army does not make any resistance, it will take several days to absorb more than 200,000 South Korean troops!
The battle to encircle and annihilate the 2nd Army of the ROK Army began in the early morning of the 28th, with the 36th Army and the 173rd Airborne Brigade serving as the main forces, and the Air Assault Brigade carrying out the task of dividing and interspersing the campaign. In order to leave enough troops for the advance to Kaesong, Pei Chengyi did not let the 373rd Brigade and the 383rd Brigade of the Armed Assault enter the battle, but sent the reorganized 5411 Brigade and the 542nd Armored Brigade to Wonsan to serve as a battle reserve.
Unlike in the first campaign, the two brigades attached to the 54th Army were "mixed brigades", and both were under full strength.
At that time, Pei Chengyi could not find other reserves, so he could only ask the 54th Army, which was being reorganized in Hamxing, to reorganize 3 brigades into 2 brigades and go to the front line as soon as possible. At the same time, the brigades of the 37th Army and the 38th Army were also reorganized, but the reorganization work did not go smoothly and did not reach Wonsan in time.
By this time the second battle had been fought, the outcome was already very obvious.
It was only a matter of time before the ROK-US coalition forces north of the 38th parallel were wiped out.
At 4:30 a.m. on the 28th, Major General Hecker, commander of the 7th Infantry Division of the US Army, handed over his pistol to Brigadier General Lee, the commander of the 1st Brigade, and ordered the officers and men of the 7th Infantry Division to stop resistance and surrender to the Republican team. According to the operational records of the 7th Infantry Division, a total of 17 officers and men surrendered, including 6,439 seriously wounded.
By dawn on the 28th, the low-altitude assault unit had completed the campaign division of the ROK Army's 2nd Army.
More than 200,000 South Korean troops were cut into 3 parts. There are about 50,000 people in the western group gathered in the vicinity of Houpingli, about 10,000 people in the central group gathered in the vicinity of Ta Rang ri, and about 60,000 people in the eastern group gathered in the vicinity of Xiaokunli.
In order to reduce the pressure on the 173 Airborne Brigade, Pei Chengyi decided to annihilate the largest Central Group first.
It was not the armored forces that took the lead in the attack, but the artillery and aviation, including the army aviation.
The battle began at 7 o'clock on the 28th, and the first round of artillery fire preparation lasted almost 120 minutes. Nearly 2,000 artillery pieces and rocket artillery of various types and calibers from the long-range artillery brigade directly under the 3 armies and the 1C artillery battalion of the 5 brigades continued to project hundreds of thousands of ammunition into the positions, barracks, material hoarding points, and armored clusters of the South Korean army, with a total amount of nearly 50C0: ammunition! During this period, the Air Force and Navy flew nearly 200 sorties and dropped about 4,500 munitions. Not to be outdone, the army aviation fleet launched hundreds of helicopter gunships to attack the ROK army's fortifications and armor in a "targeted killing" manner.
The largest firepower blow since the start of the Korean Peninsula War has completely broken the morale and fighting spirit of the ROK army.
Although the aviation forces have undertaken a large number of strike missions, the strike capabilities of the "God of War" cannot be denied by anyone. The artillery units of the Army of the Republic proved with an extremely gorgeous performance that no combat force can truly replace artillery, which still holds an unshakable position in a large-scale war!
According to outside estimates, it only takes 3 to 5 days for the Republic Army to "eat" the 2nd Army of the ROK Army!
Outside estimates turned out to be too "optimistic".
On the 28th, the 36th Army and the 173rd Airborne Brigade received a total of nearly 20,000 prisoners of war.
With no power to fight back, the South Korean army can only choose to surrender if it wants to save its life.
On the afternoon of the 28th, the 611th Army completed the "purge" of Pyongyang. During the 2nd assault in the direction of Hwangju, more than 1 officials of the DPRK Provisional Government, led by Choe Joon-chol, returned to Pyongyang accompanied by the commander of the 611th Army, Major General Choe Sui-kang.
Xiang Linghui gave Cai Suikang a very special task: to confirm the whereabouts of Kim Chol-nam and other former North Korean leaders.
With the help of some former North Korean government officials, the officers and men of the 611th Army quickly took control of dozens of villas, estates and secret hideouts of the "Kim family" in North Korea. For the sake of secrecy, the search was carried out by the special forces of the General Staff led by Lu Chengwen, and the 611th Army was not allowed to interfere.
A few days later, Lu Chengwen handed over a very detailed report to Xiang Linghui and Li Cunxun.
The report was then placed in the top secret files of the Military Intelligence Agency and sealed for one year. In other words, it will not be released to the public within 00 years. After 1C0, it will depend on the situation to decide whether to announce it to the public.
Although the second campaign has not yet ended, the General Staff has already begun to work on the operational plan for the third campaign