On the 120th, the vanguard of the 7712th and 7714th battalions entered Hamhung

Relying on the miniature unmanned reconnaissance aircraft they carried and the battlefield information obtained through the military data system, the vanguard ignored the US troops blocking along the way and went straight to the headquarters of the 2nd Marine Division. [Full text reading]

At 15:27, wheeled anti-tank guns were the first to enter the headquarters of the 2nd Marine Division.

While the infantry of the 7714th Battalion stormed the command post, Gater was still ordering the Marines to attack Xianzhou.

At 15:38, Getter handed over his gun to Lieutenant Colonel Kuang Jianguo, commander of the 7711th Battalion, and ordered the US officers and men to stop resistance and surrender to the Republic Army on the spot.

This was the end of the first campaign.

Although the reckless assault caused the vanguard to suffer heavy losses, at least more than 20 combat vehicles were destroyed, and hundreds of officers and men were killed and wounded, this combat operation, known as "the last assault of the first campaign," not only enabled the Republic Army to win one hour ahead of schedule, but also saved many officers and men of other participating units.

Among them was Lieutenant Lee Dong-seok of the 153rd Airborne Brigade.

At that time, 3||, who was sent to the position for the third timeFighting with the US military. When the US troops suddenly stopped their offensive and quickly withdrew from their positions, Li Dongshi did not dare to hesitate in the slightest and immediately ordered the officers and men of the entire platoon to withdraw to their underground bunkers. At this time, Li Dongshi only had 5 fighters in his hands, including Zhang Zhi, and the whole platoon was reduced by 70%. Of the 17 soldiers killed, 11 were killed in the first bombing by US strategic bombers.

The tense battle left Lee Dong-seok with no time to think about other issues.

Company commander Liu Qingzheng personally came over to announce the news that the US troops had surrendered. Li Dongshi and the other 6 exhausted soldiers breathed a sigh of relief.

Until this time. Li Dongshi was extremely remorseful.

If I had thought earlier, the US military would have dispatched strategic bombers to drop giant thermobaric bombs. Those 11 comrades will be killed. At least not all of them!

Remorse to remorse. Frankly. Li Dong Shidi 3||Already very lucky.

When the battle ended. Among the more than 50 officers and soldiers of the 153 Airborne Brigade participated in the battlefield. Including brigade headquarters and logistics units. Only one made it out of the battlefield alive. Another 1864 wounded were carried out of the battlefield. All officers and soldiers of the brigade were killed. More than 300 people are missing. 3 in all platoons of the camp. Li Dongshi has the highest "survival rate" in the 3rd row of land. Except for 6 officers and soldiers who were not disabled. There were also 3 wounded; Nearly half of the platoon fought to the last officer and soldier. Officers alone lost 78 people!

Before dawn. The Airborne 153 Brigade ran out of supplies. Not only are the shells gone. There was not even enough ammunition to be supplied to the infantry. When the logistics unit is put into battle. U.S. guns had to be used from the battlefield. If according to Pei Chengyi's battle plan. The 383rd Brigade arrived at night. The officers and men of the 153rd Airborne Brigade are likely to fight the enemy with bayonets, sapper shovels, and even fists and teeth.

The fierceness of the battle can be imagined, and the US military has paid several times the price for it.

When the 383rd Brigade arrived, 283 "Abrams", 348 "Bradley", 116 "Strykers" and 642 armored "Humvees" were placed on the defensive positions of the 153 Airborne Brigade, and as many as 6,732 bodies of officers and soldiers were abandoned by the US military, 1,763 bodies of dead officers and soldiers were brought back by the US military, and according to the combat records of the US military, at least 548 US troops were missing.

The U.S. troops who surrendered in front of the position of the 153 Airborne Brigade totaled 3,849 people, including 276 wounded.

The U.S. military has fought with all its strength, and even if Gatet does not order surrender, it will quickly exhaust the last bit of combat capability.

The combat effectiveness of the Airborne Forces was vividly displayed, and the shortcomings of the Airborne Forces were also exposed at a glance.

In a positional defensive war, the Airborne Forces are definitely the most powerful "infantry". The problem is also here, the Airborne Forces belong to the "infantry" with special means of delivery, and even if there are strong defensive positions, it is difficult to compete with the armored forces.

This is precisely the main reason why the United States does not pay much attention to the Airborne Forces.

In the past, due to technological limitations, it was difficult to fundamentally solve the inherent defects of the Airborne Forces. With the progress of technology, especially the gradual applicability of new materials and new power technologies, the airborne forces will inevitably usher in a second spring.

In the battle of Nonghei, the 153rd Airborne Brigade was famous throughout the army.

Five old battles, airborne 153 brigade shocked the world.

A seemingly fragile airborne unit held off three times the size of the U.S. military for 60 hours in a makeshift defensive position.

That's the U.S. Marine Corps, not a rabble!

After the war, the commander of the 82nd Airborne Division of the United States admitted that under equal circumstances, the 82nd Airborne Division would hold out for a maximum of 12 hours.

When the fighting of the five elders had a very significant impact on the exhibition of the airborne troops of the Republic, and the countries of the world also attached importance to the airborne forces again, the army of the Republic already possessed an airborne force that was enough to make all enemies fearful, and spared no effort to create the most superior conditions for the exhibition of the airborne troops.

Of course, that's all for later.

When Li Dongshi withdrew from the position with the troops, Lieutenant Li Wen of the 54th Army also took a "free ride" to the place of returning to China.

When Gate's surrender was ordered, the armored units of the 37th and 54th armies were launching their seventh offensive against the U.S. Marines on the battlefield.

Li Wen did not participate in the battle, but treated his wounds at the battalion headquarters medical station.

When Li Wendi heard the news of the surrender, Li Wendi's first reaction was not to believe it. After the order, the troops at all levels were ready to return to China, and Li Wen learned that the battle belonging to the 54th Army had ended.

Compared with the U.S. Marine Corps attacking the 153rd Airborne Brigade and the attack on Linchan-ri, the battle was even more tragic.

The airborne combat vehicles of the 153 Airborne Brigade are not armored forces at all, and the US military does not have to worry about the opponent fighting a defensive counterattack. During the attack on Linchan-ri, because the 54th Army had wiped out most of the armored forces of the 1st Marine Division in the field, there was no need to worry about American tanks rushing out from behind the defensive positions. When it came to going to war, neither of these situations existed.

With the exception of Xinxing and Pullie that wiped out some of the U.S. armored forces, the 2nd Marine Division's ground armored forces were almost all concentrated in the area where they went to fight. The U.S. military learned the lesson of the defensive operation in Linshan-ri and did not send armored units out to fight field battles with the opponent, but left the armored units behind the positions for defensive counterattacks.

It's a very ordinary, but it's also a very effective defensive tactic.

The first six attacks of the 37th and 54th armies were all routed by the American armored forces that counterattacked from the flanks, and they also lost hundreds of tanks and armored fighting vehicles.

At that time, the 37th Army and the 54th Army were also fighting hard, fighting to the back, and the two sides were fighting for their will.

Whoever persists will win the final victory.

If it weren't for the rapid reversal of the 7711 Brigade to capture the US military headquarters at a rapid speed and make Gatet give up resistance, I am afraid that the 54th Army would really fight to the point where only the "skeleton" remains.

Serving as the main force in two successive encirclement and annihilation battles, the 54th Army has the momentum of winning the title of "First Army of the Republic".

Although the officers and men of the 38th Army and the local army will not admit that the 54th Army is the "boss" of the Republic Army, and the officers and men of the 37th Army, the 27th Army, the 36th Army, and the 77th Army will not agree, the 54th Army, which has made major achievements in the old war and the Vietnam War, once again displayed shocking combat effectiveness, while the performance of the 38th Army in the first battle was not outstanding, and many people have regarded the 54th Army as the number one trump card unit of the Republic Army.

According to the history of the 54th Army, in the first battle of the Peninsula War, the whole army captured a total of 23,174 enemy soldiers!

Although the 54th Army also suffered 6,784 casualties in this battle, this casualty was nothing compared to the number of enemies destroyed.

According to the data released by the Republic and the United States, in this battle: the total number of US officers and soldiers killed and wounded, captured and missing was 53,218, of which 21,674 were killed or missing, and 124 units of various combat equipment were lost, excluding light weapons; The Republican Corps suffered a total of 22,537 casualties, captured and missing officers and men, of which 5,873 were killed or missing, the 153rd Airborne Brigade accounted for more than half, and 3,784 units of various types of combat equipment were lost, excluding light weapons.

Because many of the data have not been confirmed and cannot be confirmed, and there are discrepancies in the data released by both sides, it is very likely that the actual number of casualties exceeds the published data.

The first battle, many records were set.

This was not only a battle in which the two belligerents suffered the largest casualties after World War II, but also a battle in which the heaviest casualties in the history of the US military surpassed the number of casualties of the US army in the Battle of Iwo Jima in World War II, and it was also a battle in which the Republic achieved the greatest results after the founding of the People's Republic of China.

The significance of the first campaign was more than just how many American troops were eliminated.

The Republican Army's status as the "big brother" was consolidated, and even if the U.S. Army did not participate in the war, the idea of competing with the Republican Army would be discouraged. This was more or less confirmed by the subsequent performance of the US Army. Taking a longer view, the tragic results of the first battle, including several battles involving US troops in the later stages of the Korean Peninsula War, prevented the United States from directly confronting the Republic for decades to come, fundamentally eliminated the threat of global war to world peace and stability, and won decades of time for many countries, including the Republic.

In the words of the press: the two most powerful countries reacquainted themselves with each other in one of the most tragic battles.

The Republic paid a heavy price to win the first battle, not only to win the war on the peninsula, but also to ensure the national security of the Republic and safeguard the national interests of the Republic at a more basic level.

Even if we look closer, the more brutal the first battle, the more favorable the outcome will be for the Republic.

Regardless of the differences between sitting and elected presidents of the United States, after the first battle, Frederick and Westwood came to the same conclusion: American troops must be withdrawn from the Korean Peninsula as soon as possible, so that more American GIs do not become cannon fodder for wars born half a world away.

On the 25th, Frederick gave the Pentagon an order to withdraw troops one after another.

In the evening of the same day, the first batch of American wounded, almost all of them were lightly wounded who could still fight, and returned home from Busan by transport plane.

However, the smoke of gunpowder on the battlefield on the peninsula has not dissipated.

As soon as the first battle ended, Pei Chengyi issued an order to move the second battle site at the front-line headquarters.

The two sides are fighting for speed again, not for the speed of the battlefield, but for the advance and withdrawal of troops