Chapter 699: It's Too Late
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At the urging of the Chinese side, the DPRK sent two regiments of troops back to defend Incheon, but such a small number of troops had no chance of winning at all in the case of a ground assault by a large US army and the suppression of naval and air force firepower.
Relying on its strong industrial production capacity and the baptism of World War II, the US military's combat experience and weaponry have reached the point of perfection, and the cooperation between the landing force and the navy and air force is extremely tacit.
Aircraft carpet bombarded, and naval artillery covered infantry assaults.
The sailors of the cāo guns on the warships are skilled, the explosion points of the shells are extremely accurate, and the unlimited supply of ammunition allows them to squander as much as they want.
The pilots of carrier-based attack planes even participated in World War II, and they were old vultures in the air who had drunk countless tons of aviation fuel (they inhaled too much pure oxygen at high altitudes and high speeds, so that their brains were bald, and they were nicknamed vultures), and they even dared to dive with napalm dozens of meters in front of the attacking troops.
A large corps of more than 70,000 people, more than 200 warships, several thousand large-caliber naval guns, and several hundred carrier-based fighters made it impossible for the people's troops of the two regiments to raise the will to resist.
As the old Chinese saying goes, the U.S. military does not understand the ancient Chinese tactics, but it is a good interpretation of this qiē, every battle must use absolute superiority, so that the opponent does not dare or feels unable to resist and give up.
One of the most typical examples of World War II, the Iwo Jima landing battle, the total strength of the United States participating in the attack was five times that of the Japanese army, 27 times the navy, and 32 times that of the air force.
Under the overwhelming blow, the two regiments of the Korean People's Army were quickly wiped out, and Inchon was lost.
Inchon in the rear was lost. The troops in front of them were shaken, and the officers and men of the People's Army knew that they had reached the last moment, and they all took one as ten, bravely took the lead, and worked hard, they knew that only by taking Busan there was still a way to live, and there was still a chance to turn the tide of the war, otherwise, the consequences would be unimaginable.
The battle was fierce. In order to conquer Pusan as best possible and to turn around against the U.S. landing force on the Inchon side, the KPA officers and men launched wave after wave of charges against the heavily defended Busan position.
Attacking, non-stop attacking, KPA fighters fight the enemy with flesh and blood. But with little success, most of the attacking troops fell into a network of ground-to-air fire consisting of heavy artillery and aircraft. The corpses of the fighters were piled up. Rivers of blood.
What is the war fought? In the final analysis, what is being fought is the comprehensive strength of a country, and compared with the powerful United States, North Korea, which is still in the agricultural era, may not even be able to talk about the strength of half a continent of the United States, let alone talk about confrontation.
In the early days of the war, the KPA had some weapons supported by China, and heavy equipment relied on the Soviet Union. The momentum of the attack was fierce, but after a few months of fighting, the equipment was almost exhausted, and the tanks and artillery of the front-line combat units were almost exhausted. There was also a sharp decline in the number of aircraft.
After several months of continuous fighting, the KPA lost more than half of its veteran soldiers and equipment, and the newly replenished soldiers and weapons were far from meeting the needs of the war.
At this time, frightening news came from the rear, the Korean People's Army High Command hoped to hold back the US troops in the Seoul and Suwon areas but did not complete the task, although they resisted desperately, but because of the great difference in strength, the position fell into the hands of the US troops, Seoul and Sugwon all fell, the KPA's rear route has been completely cut off, and ammunition and supplies can no longer be delivered.
Kim Il Sung, knowing that the general trend had gone, ordered the troops to abandon the attack and retreat overnight.
However, it was already too late, and as soon as the momentum of the KPA attack was loosened, the US Eighth Army, which was stationed in Busan, was keenly aware of the change in the shape of the battlefield, and Commander Walker ordered the US Eighth Army to change defense to attack, force the Nakdong River, and advance northward.
The commander of the US army, who had just finished World War II, had a very clear view of the battlefield situation, and Walker, commander of the US Eighth Army, was not only not stupid but also a very strategic commander.
Walker first commanded the troops in Pusan to use strong fortifications and powerful firepower to kill and injure a large number of KPA living forces, and when he sensed that the KPA could not hold on, he resolutely ordered the troops to attack.
With the US Eighth Army pursuing behind the buttocks and the 10th Army of the US landing force in front, the KPA suffered from the enemy on its back and finally tasted the bitter fruits of being landed by the US troops at Incheon.
However, it was too late to regret it, because if we had listened to China's advice earlier and deployed heavy troops at Incheon, the battlefield would have been very likely to be in a different situation, and if the US landing force had ordered the troops on the front line to retreat as soon as they occupied Incheon, most of the main forces would still have been able to withdraw.
However, these are all assumptions, and the actual situation is that the KPA did not listen carefully to China's opinions, did not retreat in time after the successful landing of the US troops at Incheon, and fantasized about conquering Pusan in one go, and did not order a retreat on all fronts until it saw that the attack was hopeless and the retreat routes behind it, Seoul and Suwon were completely cut off.
The People's Army ran out of ammunition and food, its morale was low, and it was impossible for the large forces to withdraw completely.
When it came to the scattered breakthrough of Cheng Dù, it showed that the organized fighting of the People's Army had come to an end, artillery, tanks, automobiles, weapons and equipment had been abandoned all the way, and when the 38th parallel was withdrawn, only 20,000 or 30,000 troops of the 100,000 troops remained, and the rest were either wiped out or captured.
During the entire Korean War, the U.S. Army's Inchon landing operation was the largest harvest and the largest capture, tens of thousands of people's fighters were captured, and the reason for the stalemate in the negotiations in the later period was also here.
(The condition of the Chinese and North Korean side is that as long as the war is armisted, the two armies will release all the prisoners, no matter how many, and all of them will be released, but the US military side believes that they have many more prisoners in their hands than the Chinese and North Korean sides, and it is too much of a loss to put them all back, so they must be exchanged in a one-to-one ratio)
In September, Dihua, the capital of Xinjiāng, was filled with an atmosphere of peace, and the fighting on the distant peninsula was far, far away, and the cadres and soldiers of the Duli Brigade of the First Corps of the People's Liberation Army were still training and living as usual, with smiles and flowers everywhere.
I don't know for some reason, the Corps Headquarters once again held a meeting of senior commanders, and vehicles of various styles were parked outside the headquarters, of course, there were mostly American-style jeeps, because the equipment of our PLA came from the capture, and most of the good things that could be captured were from the United States to support the Kuomintang, and then they were given to the PLA by Chiang Kai-shek, the captain of the transport brigade.
The soldiers in charge of the vigilance were suspicious, good guys, it seems that the leaders of the whole corps above the division and brigade level have arrived, is there something big about it? But it's not right, since the Usman bandits were exterminated, the vast Xinjiāng area has been calm, the military and civilian life is very stable, and the chickens don't bark and the dogs don't bite, what can be a big deal.
However, some soldiers said, you all know a fart, we don't know a lot of things, I recently heard a little gossip, saying that it is possible for our first corps to collectively turn into a peasant corps, and take root in xinjiāng for a lifetime, and I also heard that our commander has put forward a lot of conditions with zhongyāng because of this matter.
The guards of the corps are all well-informed guys, and one soldier asked a little unconvinced: "Are you talking nonsense?" Where did you know what the commander said? Beware of the Security Section coming to you for an investigation. ”
"Investigation is investigation, I am not a spy of the Kuomintang, besides, this is not a secret, you can also inquire about it, there are more people who know about it."
The previous soldier asked a little embarrassedly: "Haha, I am wrong, if there is any news, you should notify us first, don't let us feel like a cat scratching our hearts." ”
Somewhat a little proud, the soldier who spoke in a low voice: "I heard it from our fellow countrymen, this is not a military secret, so he also told me a little, our commander and the superior put forward the condition that if you want the troops to take root in xinjiāng for a lifetime, you must solve the problem of the soldiers' wives, how can you take root without a wife, xinjiāng is an area inhabited by ethnic minorities, people's living habits are very different from ours, and the possibility of intermarriage is very rare, besides, Even if the girls from other ethnic minorities are willing to marry us, there are not so many, we are a big army. ”
Wow, the soldiers who heard the news were surprised, but wasn't it, this is really a big problem, it makes people's heads hurt to think about it, and a soldier answered:
"Damn, the commander's job is really not easy to do, if I were the commander, it wouldn't take a day for the hair on this head to turn white."
Some fighters asked, "How can that be done?" If the superiors let us take root, we will take root, but it will be too miserable to fight a single for a lifetime, besides, when we die of old age in the future, who will defend Xinjiāng?
The soldier who knew the news said proudly: "Hey, you kid don't be afraid, the commander has taken this into account, maybe the superior will transport his wife to you from the mainland, and then your kid will wait to enter the cave room as a groom." ”
While the soldiers of the headquarters guard unit were talking nonsense, the senior commander of the 1st Corps in the large conference room didn't think about whether he was a wife or not, because there were more important things waiting for them.
The chief of staff pointed to the map on the wall and explained:
"The situation is very uneasy, and the news just learned that a large corps of the US army, armed with heavy weapons, has successfully landed at Incheon, the flank of the KPA, and captured the Seoul and Suwon areas, that is, the Korean KPA on the front line has been cut off."
There is less than a day to go, please, bow, make a move, anyway, it's too tired to want to "like", Lao Ba feels a little annoying, but there is no way, it will be too unjust to be on the last day, anxious.