[420] Stalemate

After landing at Incheon, the focus of the U.S. offensive was on two sides, Pupyeong and Gimpo airports.

Despite the KPA's courageous resistance, Bupyeong, sandwiched between Inchon and Seoul, was quickly blown up by the combined firepower of the US army. Unlike in the past, when the US military seized more than 2,000 tons of American-made bullets and artillery shells in Pupyeong, this time, with China's assistance, the People's Army was equipped with a large number of American weapons, and the captured and sealed American-made ammunition was unsealed, and the American-made ammunition was distributed, and the shells were used as bombs to destroy the Gyeongin Highway. The nearly 1,000 tons of artillery shells that the People's Army has mothballed have completely destroyed the Gyeongjin Highway, and it is almost as difficult to repair it as it is to build a new one.

"Damn the Northerners, their damage to the highway is worse than termites!"

When he saw with his own eyes the bombed-out and shattered Gyeongin Highway, Lieutenant General Almond, commander of the newly formed Tenth Army of the United States, gathered his face around the tip of his nose.

Major General Douton, the combat staff officer of the Tenth Army beside Almond, scraped his lower lip with his front teeth and said in embarrassment: "This damn highway is completely useless now, and it has lost its significance marked on the map. It would take a battalion of engineers to repair it all over the line, and I said it was only a preliminary repair. ”

Almond nodded and said: "At present, I don't care about the road, after all, this is not far from Seoul, and now Fupyeong has been taken by us, but the harassment and warfare of the northern Yankees have not stopped for a moment, and the fortifications on the periphery of Fupyeong are very thick."

As a result, we had to temporarily construct a new defensive line on the periphery of Bupyeong City to confront the North Koreans. Dodon, it seems that we will not be able to reach Incheon safely until we take Bream Mountain east of Bupyeong. ”

Major General Dowton said frankly: "The North Koreans have dug countless fortifications on Bream Mountain, hid a lot of artillery in the anti-artillery holes, our tanks cannot go up, the infantry attack losses are very large, every day there are dozens of soldiers who die because of the attack on this 16 highland Bream Hill position, and more are wounded, according to statistics, the number of wounded has increased to 472 at present!"

From the very beginning of the landing, we found that there were fortifications of the Yankees in every mountain, and they were digging holes everywhere like moles, and soldiers were constantly rushing out of the caves to attack the rear of our forwards, and so far more than 500 people have been killed. If it weren't for the fact that our firepower was strong enough, the casualties would have been greater.

Combined with the efforts we had made to capture the Juncheon Mountain in the eastern part of Incheon, it was more than half of the 4,000 men of the 17th South Korean Infantry Regiment and more than 2,000 people, and the casualties of the coalition forces had exceeded 3,000.

Due to heavy casualties, the 17th South Korean Infantry Regiment has been broken up and replenished into the four South Korean Marine Battalions, which are currently at the vanguard of the attack. ”

Almond angrily clenched his fist and slammed it on the front cover of the jeep, saying, "Intensify the fire!" Boost your firepower! In this case, I can only order to increase the firepower, tell the navy, let the carrier-based aircraft not stop for a moment, and shoot rockets into every hole dug by the North Yankees in the mountains! Every single one!

Tell General MacArthur that I need the full support of the Army Air Corps. Now we can't take care of Lieutenant General Walker, let him find a way to hold Busan on his own! We must concentrate all the Air Force liliang on this passage to the east of Incheon! As long as we keep east, victory is ours! ”

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At this time, Choe Yong-jian, deputy commander of the Korean People's Army, had not closed his eyes for three days and three nights, and in order to hold this line of defense and fight a good resistance battle, the 110,000 troops in his hands were taking turns to launch counter-charges against the US-ROK coalition forces again and again, fighting for every trench, and in the face of the amazing firepower intensity of the US troops, the battle situation was extremely tragic.

In the headquarters of the People's Army in Seoul, the radio was constantly ringing.

"Report to the commander, the commander of the 14th Militia Division, Li Hanyong, came to order, his position was attacked by the US army for two hours in a row, and the casualties were very large! He demanded that the order to launch a counterattack after the air raid be canceled! ”

"Tell him he can't cancel! This counterattack was jointly launched by the 1st Regiment of the 15th Militia Division on the 511th Heights north of Incheon, and how could it be done without the cooperation of the 14th Militia Division in the east! Tell Li Hanyong to fight back resolutely and thoroughly! ”

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"Report to the commander, the 9th Militia Division is here, their defense line on the west side of Gimpo Airport is no longer able to withstand it! Half of the division's casualties have already passed! The terrain was too flat, and the U.S. forces were repeatedly attacking with artillery and tanks. ”

"Tell them that as long as they stay until dark, the 6th Militia Division will come to their aid! What if they withdraw, let the 10th Militia Division to the south! ”

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"Report to the commander, the rear hospital is full of wounded and can no longer be sent!"

"Tell them to transfer all the lightly injured to their homes in the countryside, and only the seriously injured will be left in the hospital!"

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"Report to the commander, the 2nd Infantry Division's counterattack on the 1st Regiment of Fuping is currently in a stalemate with the US Army, the US Army has built fortifications on the outskirts of Fuping City, and the 2nd Infantry Division requires another 10,000 grenades, and they specify that they want that powerful Chinese product!"

"Order the militia convoy to transfer them immediately! Hold on! ”

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"Report to the commander, China has agreed to provide an additional one million grenades."

"Great! That's great! Order the railway to speed up the repair, ignore the air raids of the American devils, and be sure to bring the second batch of grenades quickly! ”

Hearing the news of China's additional aid of 1 million grenades, Deputy Commander of the People's Army Cui Yongjian was overjoyed. During this time, the reason why the KPA was able to hold the second line of defense from Gimpo Airport to Bream Hill after losing the first line of defense was because the first batch of 100,000 grenades provided by China finally reached the front line through the nearly paralyzed railway line bombed by the US military.

For this Type 67 wooden-handled grenade, which has a killing radius of seven meters, the People's Army gave it the affectionate nickname "Chinese hand cannon". The Type 67 grenade was transported to the front for the first time, and the KPA on Bream Hill used raindrops of grenades to suppress the charge organized by the 1st Marine Division on the slope of the mountainside, and blew up more than half of the 1st Marine Battalion of the South Korean Marine, which took the lead, and killed and wounded more than 500 people.

"So many guns, grenades, and medicines, this favor, alas, owes too much......" Cui Yongjian shook his head. Re-engage in command.

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MacArthur was still on the cruiser "Mount McKinley" at this time, waiting for the good news that the Tenth Army led by General Almond had taken Seoul.

However, five days in a row passed, and what was waiting for was a gradual stalemate in the fighting situation, and all 75,000 troops of the Tenth Army had landed at this moment, and more than 10,000 military vehicles and more than 80,000 tons of supplies had been transported to the Incheon wharf. However, MacArthur's envisioned scenario of smashing the Yellow Dragon did not appear, and the US Tenth Army encountered the KPA blocking in all the Fangxiangshang, and as long as there was a mountain, even if it was just a mountain bag, it would definitely encounter the KPA coming out of the cave to block it.

Facing the KPA on the line of Juncheon Mountain, seven kilometers east of Incheon from the coast, the US military used the 17th South Korean Infantry Regiment as a death squad, and the US Navy took advantage of the danger and dumped all the remaining shells from as many as 12 warships on the sniper position.

However, the consequence of this was that the navy would have to return to Japan for replenishment, and there would be a week-long period of weakness in naval fire support, and only the BB-62 and BB-63, who had just joined the war group from afar, still had a belly of shells.

The BB-62 New Jersey and the BB-63 Missouri were both Iowa-class battleships, and the BB-62 New Jersey and two other Iowa-class battleships, the BB-61 Iowa and the BB-64 Wisconsin, were all ordered to be unsealed after the outbreak of the Korean War. For a super monster like the Iowa class, the U.S. Navy also has the ability to enter the factory for maintenance with three of them, and the Iowa class, which was the first to complete the docking maintenance and unsealing, was hurriedly sent over before the paint dried.

In contrast, the BB-63 Missouri was more than adept, as the only Iowa-class battleship to remain in service after the war, the Missouri cruising the Atlantic Fleet, deterring the Soviet North Sea Fleet and suppressing the Soviet Union's access to the Atlantic. After the outbreak of the Korean War, the Missouri did not stop for a moment, and directly drove towards Japan with two other light cruisers and a supply ship in the Atlantic Fleet.

The two steel behemoths are each 270 meters long, and the height of the water is close to 50 meters, which is equivalent to a 20-story building on the sea level. If you miss, every time you hit, it is a 3-meter deep pit, and the killing radius reaches 50 meters.

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