Chapter 387: Ten Miles of Bloodstained Seoul
Wei San and Fang Yumin approached the Governor's Palace, and it was already 10:15 p.m. at this time, and at this time, there were already rumbling cannons outside the city, and there were bursts of gunfire.
Originally, the U.S. military was ready to be attacked by the volunteers at night, but under Li Qiwei's order, the U.S. troops closed their doors and wanted to wait for the rabbit, but they didn't see any major movement of the volunteers until 9 o'clock in the evening.
The line of defense of the Volunteer Army was still as calm as during the day, which made the US military wonder, what is the situation? Why don't you come to fight?
After Li Qiwei learned about the situation, Li Qiwei concluded that the time for the volunteers to launch an attack should be set in the second half of the night, and it was not yet the time to mobilize, he guessed correctly, it was indeed not the time to launch an attack, because the volunteers were busy digging the soil at this time!
Why Dig Soil? If you don't dig the earth, do you really plan to fight the tank with your flesh and blood?
In the calm daytime, Shiji had already ordered the temporary formation of eight engineer regiments, what was their task?
Dig tunnels!
From the first line of defense occupied, digging behind the second line of defense of the American army!
It was an unimaginably large task, but after the first shovel of the engineer regiment, this task gradually became possible!
If it was north of the 38th parallel, Shiji would never have made this decision, because the south of the 38th parallel belongs to the plain area, and the soil is soft, and after finding a suitable location, it is not completely impossible to dig three ten-mile-long tunnels.
In one day, plus half a night, in this short period of time, the engineer regiment will dig three tunnels ten miles long, which is equivalent to digging thirty miles of soil, 15,000 kilometers!
If this is replaced by the US military, it will definitely not use such a stupid way to sneak attack, not to mention the large amount of work, once discovered by the enemy, the people in the tunnel will be either drowned or poisoned in the tunnel.
However, some people did this, and the engineer regiment used multi-point excavation, dug the tunnel to the front of the US military position in one day's time, left the US army's mechanical troops behind, and took advantage of the last time to advance the tunnel for several hundred meters, until at 10 o'clock in the evening, three underground tunnels connecting the Chinese and American positions were dug up.
In the first half of the night, the U.S. troops were still waiting for the volunteers to die by themselves, and by the second half of the night, a force of tens of thousands of people had appeared in their rear, and the number was still increasing.
It is not easy to dig tunnels, but the volunteers have become good at digging air-raid shelters in North Korea, and it is difficult for them to dig tunnels, first of all, choose the terrain as much as possible to choose half sand and half soil, so easy to dig, and then when digging, there is also a special approach, how to shovel, how to pour the soil, how to dig fast and save effort, the tunnel war in the anti-Japanese period is about to shine in North Korea.
The U.S. military thought they were ready for everything, but they still ignored behind them, and the confrontation between the two armies naturally put the spearhead in front of them, and what did they have behind their backs?
It can be said that there is no defense!
So, the attack predicted by Ridgway was distributed at midnight, but what Ridgway didn't expect was that the attack was so tricky and unexpected!
As soon as the signal for the attack was issued, the army immediately moved, imagining that the tsunami-like offensive did not appear, but there was a great commotion in the rear of the enemy, and from the very beginning of the Battle of Seoul, the volunteers expressed an attitude, we are going to enter Seoul from the front!
And in fact, they did exactly that, although Li Qiwei also made corresponding arrangements, but still did not guess this step, the enemy appeared, front and rear, even on their own positions, at the moment when the volunteer army attack was launched, there was a South Korean army suddenly mutinied, and later Li Qiwei learned that the troops that originally belonged to his own side were all captured by the Chinese, and they also stripped off their clothes, and thousands of people made up and infiltrated!
After knowing the offensive method of the Chinese troops, Li Qiwei immediately guessed the end, originally he expected his tank to crush the corpses of the Chinese, after pushing the battle line back to the 37th line, the most unfortunate will be to recapture the lost first line of defense, this is good, let alone recapture anything, I am afraid that the second line of defense will be lost tonight, and the next will inevitably be a strangulation battle in Seoul!
The result of stabbing the US army in the back is very significant, at least the US army's defense line has cracked in a short period of time, and soon there is a situation of collapse, without the suppression of the infantry, how much can those tanks and tanks do?
After a moment of power, how much combat power can there be? By that time, they'll be just pieces of iron that can run at best!
After the chaos in the formation, Li Qiwei weakly gave an order: "Withdraw, prepare for a civil war in the city!" ”
At this time, Li Qiwei still believed that his plan was feasible, and from ancient times to the present, fighting a war would inevitably be inseparable from grain and grass, and he was now waiting to see if the volunteers could still adhere to such a spiritual outlook tomorrow.
After the military order was issued, the fastest and most surprising thing was the US army's combat vehicle......
After the defeat was like a mountain, and the American troops lost their defensive line, hundreds of thousands of troops suddenly withdrew into Seoul, and the tactical defeat made the American army demoralize again.
When they withdrew to the city, the GIs were still thinking, when did the Chinese get behind them?
Kill them and they won't think about how this is done, even if they tell them the truth, will they believe it? One day and half a night, digging 15,000 kilometers?
No one will believe this if it is changed, this is simply impossible!
In terms of civil engineering, the US military is not comparable to the Chinese in ten lifetimes, and they even look down on such a way of fighting, in the impression of the Americans, the battle should be a face-to-face confrontation, just like the western cowboys, two people face each other, and then a duel, that is the war between men.
Or, than technology, than whose firepower is fierce, whose fist is bigger, and then pull out the formation, compete, the first to admit defeat is the loser.
This kind of thinking is simple, and it is precisely because of this kind of thinking that there will be US troops on the Korean battlefield who have surrendered in formation, and if we can't win, we can surrender~
In this less than 500-year-old country, there are many people who have never even heard of Sun Tzu's Art of War, which is really sad, the battlefield in their minds is just to work to earn income, and it is difficult for anyone to escalate the war to the level of the state, because ...... They are aggressors!
With their thinking, if the United States is invaded one day, I believe that there should be no fewer American traitors, after all, the country is just a name and an identity in their hearts, and they have not had the opportunity to experience the horror of losing the country, and no one has come to let them appreciate what it means to be a businesswoman who does not know the hatred of the country!
(End of chapter)