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[330] The 24th Division of the U.S. Far East arrives

As one of the first war correspondents to arrive in Seoul, Sidney Smith, a reporter for the Daily Express newspaper in London, wrote excitedly in a communication sent back after a few days of shock in Korea: "With the North Korean side of the 1st Corps (that is, the 1st Army) and the 2nd Corps (2nd Army) surrounding the eastern part of Seoul and the Northern Capital, and began to bombard the outlying fortifications of Seoul, the whole of Seoul has now fallen into a complete hysterical chaos......

At the moment, the situation in Seoul is very bad, and like all cities that are at war, everything is terrible. What I saw before my eyes was very strange, I saw the officers in snow-white gloves, holding the swords of old Japanese officers in one hand and American umbrellas in the other, sitting in the trucks preparing to flee south. They are indifferent to the atrocities committed by the nearby South Korean soldiers who force the people to take off their clothes and drape them over themselves to cover up the South Korean military uniforms they are wearing, looting and killing are taking place throughout the city, the police have been sent to the front line as an army, and the troops on the front line are constantly fleeing, there is no law and order here......"

As four Yak-1 fighters of the Korean People's Army roared towards the Gimpo airport and opened fire, the control tower of the airport was hit, billowing black smoke billowed up; The airfield oil storage tank was also accurately dropped by small bombs mounted under the wing of the fighter, which exploded and caught fire; An American-made C-54 transport plane parked near the airport was also shot in the wing under machine-gun fire from the Jacques plane.

The Presidential Office of the Republic of Korea

Rhee didn't want to sit down at all, he stood there and shouted in horror: "We must retreat immediately!" If I fall into the hands of the supply party, it will be a disaster for the revolutionary cause of the Republic of Korea! ”

Acting Defense Minister Shin Seung-mo sat in a position where his butt was not even hot, and said: "Seoul has not yet been lost, and if you leave now, Your Majesty, the morale of the troops will plummet, and the entire temporary defense line will face a complete collapse!" ”

U.S. Ambassador Joy Moore, who had been urgently invited, also hurriedly dissuaded: "Mr. President, if you leave now, not a single soldier in the whole of South Korea will have the courage to raise a gun to resist, and the only remaining armed formations of the South Korean Army will collapse immediately." ”

Syngman Rhee glared at Shen Xingmo fiercely, as if he wanted to use his gaze to rip a piece of flesh off him.

Then he looked at Joy Moore again, and then shut his mouth like a resentful woman, and sat down in his chair without saying a word.

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After the meeting, Joy Moore returned to the U.S. Embassy and arranged for the embassy personnel to prepare for the evacuation.

Just as the U.S. Embassy was preparing to evacuate, Syngman Rhee, a man like the wind, fled to Daejeon by special train with several relatives and soft belongings at the speed of the wind.

When Joey Moore heard the news, he was immediately stunned: "This son of a bitch bastard!" ”

At this moment, South Korean Prime Minister and Defense Minister Lee Beom-seok, who was waiting for the dispatch by Joy Moore's side, said with a bitter face: "Mr. Ambassador, what can I do now?" Mr. President, he ......"

Joy Moore waved his fist and said angrily, "Since even your president is a coward, let Seoul be to hell!" ”

After that, Joy Moore changed his original Jihua to go to the radio to give a morale-boosting speech, and no longer mentioned nonsense such as 'desperate resistance, the United States is behind you'. Instead, he turned around and returned to the embassy, and organized and led all the embassy personnel to retreat immediately.

In the South Korean presidential palace, another meeting was forced to be held hastily.

Cai Bingde, chief of the General Staff, said with a face like ashes: "I think that Seoul is no longer defensible, so let's retreat quickly." The Han River Bridge is the only road bridge over the Han River, and it must be blasted immediately to cut off the enemy's pursuit route. ”

Li Fanzao, the prime minister of the cabinet who was sitting in a daze, said anxiously: "But there are still a large number of refugees and troops in Jiangbei who have not been withdrawn, and if they are blasted now, what will happen to these people?" ”

South Korea's acting defense minister, Shin Seung-mo, slapped the table irritable and shouted, "I think ...... to die and come back to life."

On June 3, on the Han River Bridge, three long lines of vehicles wrapped around soldiers and refugees struggled to move on the Han River Bridge, and on the north bank behind them, there were eight rows of vehicles and countless troops and refugees waiting to cross the bridge. On the bridge, people were constantly pushed down by the crowd and trampled under their feet, and under the trampling of countless legs, feet and wheels, they struggled to swallow their breath and became meat mud......

The sky was gloomy, the cannon fire in the distance was still rumbling, and the gunfire outside the city was still fiercely contesting.

Suddenly, two huge dark red fireballs rose into the sky from the pillar on the south side of the Han River Bridge, and the entire Han River Bridge let out a rumbling and mournful sound, and the Kulala began to perish. The South Korean military's blasting jihua was successfully implemented.

The huge destructive force shattered and broke the Han River Bridge from the south side of the foundation pillar, and the nearly 100-meter bridge deck began to collapse and collapse in an instant, breaking into several pieces, and countless vehicles and refugees were thrown into the turbulent Han River in June, and in the blink of an eye, they were swept away by the rolling waves.

On the north bank, countless soldiers and refugees fell to their knees, crying and crying, and countless refugees who could not hold their feet were pushed by the crowd behind and fell into the Han River under the broken bridge.

Major Chen Maoshan, Major of the Operations Bureau of the South Korean Ministry of National Defense, stood by the bridge on the south bank and insensitively gave a simple order to the demolition company he led:

"Let's go!"

The crowd then slapped their butts and left.

As the trucks of the demolition team of the Combat Bureau desperately rushed through the crowd on the south bank that were stunned by the tragic situation of the bridge blasting, behind them, the bombed Han River Bridge and thousands of innocent people and soldiers who were gradually moving away. The earth-shattering cries could be heard even outside the city.

Kim Il-sung in the front line command received a report of the blasting of the Han River Bridge, and was stunned when confronted with the strange news of the self-slaughter of South Korea! He opened his mouth and stood still for a while, before he scolded in shock:

"Ah~West~Hachi......"

Shocked, Jin Il-sung immediately ordered: "Inform the First Army to speed up the rolling offensive rhythm of the two infantry divisions under it, the fifth and sixth tank companies will no longer enter the city from the north, and take the Gaoyang Railway Bridge in the west, and the rest of the tanks and motorized troops will remain unchanged, and cross the river south from the Nanyang Railway Bridge in the east!" ”

That night, under the successive offensives of the People's Army, after the news of Syngman Rhee's flight spread, and stimulated by the blowing up of the Han River Bridge, the defense line of Seoul completely collapsed, and the red flag of the People's Army was planted in the presidential palace. Remarkably, all senior South Korean officials were evacuated unscathed.

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Truman looked at the telegram from Joy Moore, which read: "Since Syngman Rhee and his senior officials have left the defense forces of Seoul and fled south. And Syngman Rhee's confidant military attaché asked Joy Moore about the possibility of going to Japan to establish a government-in-exile. The entire U.S. Embassy has also had to evacuate Seoul. And Seoul was completely occupied by the KPA five hours ago......"

"Shit! Syngman Rhee, this eggless! He actually threw the soldiers down and fled with his possessions! I should have thought that this bastard and Chang Kaishen are all the way! This son of a bitch! F**K！ F**K！ F**K！ ”

Truman scolded so excitedly that his hair fell loose and draped over his forehead, under which his two charming blue eyes were now sparkling.

After blurting out three Fwords in a row, Truman, who was in a slightly better mood, said to Acheson:

"Some nations have defended their freedom in even more sinister circumstances! North Korea, I mean South Korea! Strong leadership is needed to survive the crisis. ”

Acheson understood the meaning of Truman's words, which were somewhat incoherent.

"Mr. President, I will convey your intention to General MacArthur. But Syngman Rhee is still useful to us now, so let's hang him there first. ”

After saying that, Acheson tried to make Truman happy, and said: "At present, the first US Air Force to arrive in Korea from Japan has begun to fight, just yesterday, our F-80 shot down a Yak fighter, and in addition, a bomber group of 12 B-26 bombers also successfully destroyed a number of trains on the Wenshan railway line near the 38th parallel yesterday. However, the anti-aircraft fire of the Korean People's Army was very intense, and every B-26 that flew back was wounded. ”

When Truman heard this, his mood finally improved.

He was silent thoughtfully for a moment, and then suddenly asked, "What about MacArthur's Jihua?" The Air Force has already started fighting, and I haven't received his combat jihua yet! He just complained again and again, saying that Washington was 'slow to act' and asked me to inject 'a shot in the arm against North Korea, otherwise the war would be over in a few hours', hmph, alarmist guy! ”

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After MacArthur received Acheson's Truman's opinion, the first person who came to mind was Cai Bingde.

When he landed at Suwon Airport and asked how South Korea was going to deal with the collapse of the 100,000 South Korean troops, Choi Byung-deok, chief of the South Korean General Staff, a fat guy with a fat brain who actually held the combat power of the South Korean army, actually said that he was going to recruit 2 million North Korean youths into the army and deal a devastating blow to the north.

MacArthur pinched his corn stalk pipe, spat contemptuously on the ground, and muttered, "This unrealistic idiot......"

Two days later, Cai Bingde was dismissed.

And Truman, too, got MacArthur's combat jihua.

MacArthur intended to gradually slow down the offensive in the north by constantly increasing the number of troops deployed in the south, increasing the number of American troops, and building defensive positions. When the Liliang of the American army is enough to consolidate the defensive position, the two sides will enter a stalemate phase. Next, using his best amphibious landing tactics, he conducted an amphibious landing operation from Incheon, 50 kilometers west of Suwon, which he had previously inspected. Rapid advance along the Gyeongin Highway from Seoul to Incheon, which was previously aided by the United States, and take the Seoul ......"

Truman breathed a sigh of relief that MacArthur's operations were generally satisfactory, and that the situation over North Korea was now becoming more and more favorable to the United States. After the US F-80 fighter jets shot down the Korean People's Army's Yak-1 fighter many times, the Korean People's Army no longer dares to carry out air attacks. However, the B-26 of the US army bombed the rear railway supply lines of the People's Army again and again. It seems that the day is not far off when the two sides will move to the stalemate stage.

The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Army Chief of Staff Omar Bradley, leaned back on the couch in the Oval Office and said cautiously: "At present, the 24th Infantry Battalion of the 21st Infantry Regiment of the 600th Division has landed from Busan, and the commander is Lieutenant Colonel Smith. Lieutenant Colonel Smith landed with the 1st Detachment of the 52nd Field Artillery Battalion under the Far Eastern Command, as well as the 1st Company of the 1st Medium Tank Battalion of the 24th Division.

At present, they have reached the preset positions in the Wushan area, and have begun to dig trenches and lay mines.

The remaining 24th Infantry Regiment of the 34th 19th Division, as well as the other two infantry battalions of the 21st Infantry Regiment, have also been embarked in Japan under the command of Brigadier General Dean, and it is expected that in ten days, we will have a complete combat division in Korea! ”

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