readx; [422] Seoul falls

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Seeing the success of the Inchon landing, the media in the West, especially in the United States, were jubilant, and the whole United States was filled with excitement as unfamiliar Asian place names were constantly conquered in the newspapers, and new bullets with poor pronunciation were added to the war reports.

On August 12, just before the Inchon landing, the foreign ministers of the United States, Britain, and France held a meeting in New York that lasted until August 18, at which Acheson gave a speech explaining to America's allies the importance of crossing the 38th parallel.

"Gentlemen, here is another Greece!"

With a confident smile, Acheson slowly glanced at the British and French representatives.

"Stalin didn't say a word; Gromyko was lying and threatening; The Chinese are shouting in anger; Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Malik told reporters who asked him whether the Soviet Union would send troops to intervene, saying that "the opportunity has not come."

"The opportunity has not come" gentlemen!

Even when we have succeeded in landing at Inchon and cut off Kim Il Sung and his army in the south of Korea to die! ”

Speaking of this, Acheson humorously cocked his mustache, and British Foreign Minister Bevan also laughed.

Acheson bowed slightly, and said to French Foreign Minister Schumann encouragingly:

"Yes, yes gentlemen, they are afraid.

If I'm not mistaken, Napoleon said "no chance, this is really the best pronoun for the weak." ”

Everything that is happening now, in any case, is because they are powerless about the situation in North Korea, and under the powerful offensive of the multinational forces, they can only accept the fact that there will be only one North Korea in the world in the future! ”

Acheson's words quickened: "The USSR was not ready at all, crossing the Siberian steppes for a war in the Far East and the free world, and China is so far less than a year away from announcing the establishment of their ridiculous Russian puppet regime."

Gentlemen! We have to cross the 38th parallel, yes, we have to cross the 38th parallel and stand on the edge of Manchukuo, which is worthy of the military expenses and sacrificed soldiers we have paid.

China's attempt to deny the loans they have defaulted on to banks in various countries will not work! They promised to open the market, but it was not enough, gentlemen, it was not enough! ”

British Foreign Secretary Bevan nodded and said, "I agree with this proposal, and now we can no longer divide North and South Korea." ”

French Foreign Minister Schumann nodded heavily: "Yes! It's time for the Chinese to pay for their stupidity on the Indochina peninsula! ”

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The meeting ended successfully, and the United States got the "consensus" he wanted.

The focus of the Western allies was all on MacArthur.

Truman and Acheson knew that MacArthur, who was struggling eastward at Incheon, must be unreservedly supported at this moment.

By sea, large quantities of supplies and supplies of soldiers were constantly unloaded from the Incheon wharf.

In the air, more than 70 transport planes of the C-54 transport aircraft group in Tachikawa City, Tokyo City, carried out non-stop airdrops to Almond's 10th Army. Of course, the temporary airport in Incheon is also under emergency construction, but the temporary airport is obviously unable to complete the support for the C-54 Airmaster transport aircraft, and the K-1 airport in Busan, which was previously ravaged by the C-54, has repeatedly caused damage to the runway due to the take-off and landing of the C-54, and has to close the airport for emergency repairs several times.

As a result, the U.S. military had to bring in a large number of C-47 transport planes with extremely low runway requirements, that is, the master versions of the DC-3 and Li-2 transport aircraft, to cooperate with the temporary airport runway that was about to be completed in the Incheon area.

With abundant logistical personnel and material supplies, General Almond ordered the 10th Army to do whatever it took to wipe out the KPA holding out in Seoul.

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On the side of a small three-story building that was bombed down in Seoul, an infantry squad of the 1st Battalion and 2nd Company of the 2nd Marine Regiment of the 1st Marine Division was carrying out a clean-up mission.

The squad leader, Second Lieutenant Hans, did not dare to probe, leaned against the wall and shouted sideways to the entrance of the building: "Barker! Buck! Can you hear me? Buck! …… Damn it! ”

Second Lieutenant Hans knew that his comrades who had just rushed in must have died in the burst of gunfire.

He turned his head angrily and shouted to his subordinates, "Damn it! Tune up the flamethrower team! Steve! Steve! Burn me! Burn these bitches' yellow-skinned pigs! ”

Steve is the flamethrower operator for the flamethrower team in the infantry squad, and is paired with a teammate Peter with an M3 submachine gun to form a two-person flamethrower team.

Peter held a submachine gun and stretched out a hand at the entrance of the staircase, and swept it away without looking. Then Steve rushed to the door, spread his legs apart, and immediately sprayed a fire dragon mixed with gasoline and viscous into the hallway with a flamethrower that was still dripping burning gasoline.

All of a sudden, flames filled the building, black smoke billed from the windows of the upper floors, and shattered glass thunderbolted down from the rooftops and smashed onto the steel helmets of the American soldiers. There was a creepy scream from the building.

"Fireteam! Rush, rush, rush! ”

With the order of Second Lieutenant Hans, three soldiers in the infantry squad with M3 submachine guns rushed into the corridor that had just been roasted by tongues of fire. Behind him, U.S. troops with Garand semi-automatic rifles followed suit. Bursts of M3 machine guns rang out in the building, and English shouting and swearing were chaotic.

"It's clean!"

Ensign Hans breathed a sigh of relief, leaning against the wall and taking down his steel helmet, which had been soaked with red hair from the hot September weather on the Korean Peninsula.

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Such battles for buildings are still going on, but more often than not, the artillery fire of the American army destroys everything that stands as if it were not for money.

Someone no one shoots first, and this has become an unwritten rule in the US military.

F4U pirates who have taken over the skies are dancing like locusts over Seoul.

They used napalm to slaughter streets, iron bombs to destroy buildings, and low-altitude dive flights to hit the windows of buildings with rockets. The KPA continued to lose ground under such powerful firepower.

With the successful construction of pontoon bridges by the U.S. engineering troops, the tank vanguard crossed the Han River, and then, with the cooperation of small boats and landing craft, the infantry crossed the Han River one after another, and established positions on the northern bank of the Han River, which had been basically blown into white ground by this time.

The People's Army's control of the city of Seoul was now in name only.

Most of the ten militia divisions and one infantry division in the hands of Deputy Commander Cui Yongjian have been lost, and the rest have been scattered in various mountain fortifications, basically withdrawing from holding on to the city.

Cui Yongjian's command also had to retreat north.

After all, compared to Stalingrad, Seoul was too small in size, the houses were too low, there were only a few sewer systems, and the rest were shallow open ditches covered with cement slabs on the ground, and the firepower of the KPA was not comparable to that of the Soviet army at that time.

Finally, on September 10, General Almond informed MacArthur against his will that "Seoul has been largely occupied." ”

This was exactly the end of MacArthur's five-day period.

Although there were still sporadic gunshots in Seoul and the resistance of the KPA was not completely over, MacArthur couldn't wait to get off the ship and drove to Seoul with Syngman Rhee in great excitement.

Under the heavy armed guard of a large number of Marines, MacArthur and Syngman Rhee arrived at the bombed Capital Building, which was reduced to a load-bearing frame.

The U.S. military erected a makeshift platform in front of the building and brought all the South Korean "citizens" they could find in the city to sit on the ground and await Syngman Rhee's "liberation speech."

A little boy sat on the concrete floor in front of the building, looking at the bullet-riddled, tattered-black frame of the building behind the makeshift oratorium, chewing gum issued by the US military, looking up at his mother and asking, "Mom, when are you going to eat?" ”

"Kid, wait, when the big man finishes speaking, he will send us American bread."

The child looked horrified at the building, where corpses were still being carried out, closed his eyes, and focused his thoughts on the bread that he would receive in a moment.

When MacArthur and Rhee arrived, the ceremony began.

Facing the refugees in the audience, MacArthur spoke first.

"God blessed, our army, fighting under the banner of the American Stars and Stripes, the greatest symbol of hope and sustenance of mankind, has liberated this ancient capital of Korea."

As soon as these words came out, the US troops in the audience whistled in a chaotic manner, and burst into laughter and laughter.

After currying favor with the soldiers, MacArthur asked the crowd to recite the Lord's Prayer with him.

After a chaotic meeting between Korean and English, whether they can memorize it or not, they are all confused.

MacArthur became even more excited after the endorsement.

He glanced at Syngman Rhee beside him, and said loudly to the American soldiers and refugees in Seoul below: "Mr. President, on behalf of the U.S. government, I am happy to return the capital of your country to you......

After listening to MacArthur's footcloth-like words, Rhee was already moved to tears, and while wiping his tears, he grinned loudly, bared his teeth, hugged MacArthur's sleeve and shouted: "General MacArthur!" We, the Korean people, admire you! We want to love you as the savior of the nation! ”

With that, he let go of the hands that were holding MacArthur's sleeves, raised his fist into the sky and said, "Onboard!" MacArthur! Onboard! America! ”

The disgraced refugees in the audience were also inexplicably arguing at the moment, following Syngman Rhee, shouting loudly in a chaotic manner.

It was probably because the sound was too loud that a piece of glass that had been crumbling before fell on the Capital Building behind the podium and smashed it on the ground behind the stage, causing Rhee's neck to shrink in fright......

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After the ceremony, the newly formed South Korean troops brought from Busan formed the "Security Corps" and began to administer the people of Seoul.

To put it bluntly, these soldiers, who were mainly street hooligans, reactionary landlords, puppet Manchu officers and soldiers, and traitors during the Japanese occupation, were violent gangs, and robbery, murder, and rape began to be staged in every corner of the city, and citizens who had cooperated with the People's Army, regardless of age, were slaughtered, their property confiscated, and women were humiliated and executed.

More than 600 trainee workers in Seoul were nailed to wooden planks and stabbed to death with bayonets because they had welcomed the KPA into the city.

Seoul's prisons, police stations, movie theaters, and churches are already filled with all kinds of "red bandit" prisoners, who are locked up in makeshift buildings when they can't fit in. Seventy or eighty people are tortured to death every day, and their bodies are dragged away by trucks and thrown into the Han River.

Revolutionaries among the peasants who had been divided into the land in the countryside around Seoul were openly slaughtered in batches and with extreme cruelty.

First gouge out their eyes, then cut their tongues, then cut their noses, and the women have to cut their **, the masses were so frightened that they trembled with fear by the "human sticks" cruelly concocted by the "security regiment" rolling in the mud, and dared not speak out in anger.

In order to provide "logistics" for the US military, Syngman Rhee's security regiment arrested 300 women at one time and sent them to condolences.

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Black clouds hung over Seoul,

The devil is wreaking havoc here,

Humanity and conscience become a joke here,

The wheel of time of the Korean nation has regressed to the barbaric period of Japanese occupation,

The second hand of human civilization began to reverse in Seoul.

The domestic media in the United States were overwhelming, full of praise for MacArthur's courageous and meritorious deeds.

MacArthur was made into a great hero in the eyes of the Americans at the moment.

In an interview with reporters, Syngman Rhee shouted wildly:

"We must advance to the Manchurian border!

Until there is not a single enemy soldier in our country! We don't stop there! ”

Senate Republican whip William Nolan shouted: "If you don't chase and beat the North Koreans, you will appease the party members!" Resolutely destroy this satellite country of the supply party! ”

At this moment,

Truman ordered,

Empower MacArthur,

Cross the 38th parallel!

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