[369] Who will grow weaker and weaker?

Just as the 6th Infantry Division and the 5th Militia Division of the KPA broke through the defense line on the side of Baissu-dong in Masan and attacked the central area of Masan, the US forces had already blown up three southbound bridges on the Nakdong River -- a railway bridge and two highway bridges. Based on the results of aerial reconnaissance and the KPA's reckless offensive at Masan, the U.S. Eighth Army correctly deduced Kim Il Sung's intentions. Two of the three main infantry regiments of the U.S. Army's 25th Infantry Division were thrown into the Battle of Masan, along with a large number of South Korean troops incorporated into the 25th Infantry Division.

After receiving the order, each U.S. infantry company was to bring two South Korean infantry companies with it to be mixed. These South Korean soldiers were first used as cannon fodder for the charge when attacking, and when they retreated, they had to be sacrificed to ensure the safety of the American troops.

These South Korean soldiers were armed by the United States with World War II leftovers, and they wore American military uniforms and carried American rifles. Among them, those who were skilled in military skills were assigned to Garand semi-automatic, and the recruits who were pure cannon fodder carried the Springfield-"Springfield" bolt rifle that the US army replaced after World War II.

This practice has led to a big discrepancy between the KPA's statistics and those of the US-ROK coalition forces. The KPA also did not know whether the bloody corpses were genuine foreigners or natives.

Historically, the KPA counted 34,420 enemies annihilated and captured in the first month of the Busan siege, while the figures reported by the United States and South Korea were much lower.

The reason is simple, these South Korean soldiers who have been incorporated into the US military neither belong to the US military establishment nor are they part of the South Korean Army establishment, and they are the saddest "anonymous people" in this war. Neither the U.S. nor the South Korean military were killed, which made the results of the U.S.-South Korean coalition even more prominent.

In this way, around the Busan ring of defense, the two sides hoarded 200,000 infantry, squandering their lives in a tug-of-war. At this moment, as the People's Army rushed into Mashan, the feeding port of this meat grinder was opened in advance. Human life has lost much meaning here, just a string of symbols and numbers that rise in the list of the dead.

Major General Keane, commander of the 25th Infantry Division of the US Eighth Army, gave an angry order over the radio:

"Yoman! I order your 355th Regiment to immediately lead your two brigades of South Koreans in a counter-charge! Remember! It's the offense! Not a defensive !! You must cooperate with the 356th Regiment to recapture the White Water Cave. Again, I don't care about the Northerners pouring in behind you! Hand them over to the reinforcements to deal with! I just want the whitewater hole! ”

Upon reconnection, Major Keane would continue to order:

"Colonel Hood! You take the 6th Heavy Tank Battalion, cooperate with the 356th Regiment and the 303rd Communications Reconnaissance Battalion of the Group Army, and mix with the newly formed 12th Division of South Korea, and give me the Beiyan's top that rushed into Masan! I don't care how many casualties the 12th Division will have, I only care about the result! You have to do it! ”

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Masan, the city of Odawara, known as Busan, has become a slaughterhouse, and lives are constantly lost in the shuttle of bullets and exploding artillery fire.

The KPA has suffered a very serious attrition of troops, and both the main infantry division and the militia division are struggling in blood and fire, and every step forward has to pay the price of more than a dozen young lives.

Looking at the two US M1919A4 heavy machine guns in front of him, Battalion Commander Han Zhihuan of the 107th Battalion under the Sixth Infantry Division of the People's Army was so hated that he almost cried blood. The crossfire formed by the two heavy machine guns kept his troops immobile under the dirt slope. If it weren't for the night, the two heavy machine guns might have caused more casualties to Han Zhilian's soldiers.

Just as Han Zhihuan gave the order to ask the mortar team to immediately eliminate the firing point, the signal soldier brought news that an outflanking force rushed from his right flank, which was Li Puppet's army.

"! Fang Douxi, you take a platoon and use soil to destroy the oil drums lit by the enemy in front of you! That thing was so bright, and all of our stormtroopers were illuminated! ”

After Han Zhihuan scolded briefly, he immediately ordered the organization to defend on the spot. He could no longer order his soldiers to charge, and the previous three tough charges had cost him more than 200 casualties.

In the face of the more than 100 South Korean soldiers who came from the flank, Han Zhihuan couldn't help but sigh that now the will to fight of the Li puppet army seemed to have become stronger than before. In the past, it was possible to suppress the opponent's charge by only firing a platoon of guns, but now it is necessary to keep fighting until about thirty meters, and after starting to lose grenades, the opponent can be suppressed, and it almost has to develop to the level of fighting bayonets to repel the opponent.

Han Zhihuan knew from his captives that once his opponent retreated, he would face summary execution. Therefore, the enemy's counterattack became more and more fierce under the courage of the US military and the severe punishment.

Before Han Zhihuan finished sighing, another wave of stragglers of more than a hundred people arrived. Seeing the arrival of enemy reinforcements in waves, they constantly used charges to disrupt the advance of the KPA. Han Zhilian's heart became impatient, if he continued like this, it would be difficult for him to take down the opposite firepower point, or to withstand the attack from the flank.

The stretcher teams in the battalion were already busy, and the wounded were constantly being carried down and taken to the newly occupied Baishuidong in the rear. There were more corpses of the soldiers, one by one dragged and dropped behind the dirt slope where Han Zhilian was. Most of these corpses were bloody and muddy, some of the soldiers' corpses were dragged down with white brains flowing out of the back of their heads, and some of the soldiers' corpses were knocked off half of their stomachs by heavy machine guns, and their stomachs flowed from the old ......

Han Zhilian's hard-hearted heart that had been beaten by the war was also shattered by the corpses that covered the ditches under the miserable white moonlight.

"Are these brave warriors sleeping like this?"

The smell of blood, the smell of feces and urine, the pungent gunsmoke, and the smell of the earth are mixed together in Mashan at the moment, which is the smell of the living human purgatory and meat grinder.

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James Bell, a war correspondent for Time magazine in the United States, wrote in his "War Documentary":

"The U.S. soldiers were ordered to retake Baesu-dong and push the North Korean army back to the Nakdong River. Otherwise, the entire defense of the Masan area will collapse, and the entire Busan ring of defense will probably disintegrate with it.

…… The American soldiers climbed along the bare hillside, the Grim Reaper was always with them, and people were constantly hit by bullets, lying on the spot and wailing in a low voice, they did not dare to be too loud, for fear of attracting the accumulation of bullets in this dark night shrouded in death......

…… Ten minutes later, under the intensive fire and grenade throwing of the North Korean soldiers, the soldiers were forced to withdraw, they scolded the field artillery units in the rear, complained that there were too many remnants of the North Korean soldiers on this hill, I noticed that the South Korean soldiers who were at the front of the line did not seem to have been able to withdraw, I don't know where they are now, if they do not surrender, may God bless them......

…… After a long artillery bombardment that lasted for ten minutes, the commander of the 356th regiment, Greg, went on the offensive again. This time his tone was harsh, and the attacking force became even more numerous. This time the battle lasted a long time, and the soldiers held out for a long time, and although they kept losing money, they never withdrew...... They repeat forward, stop, lie down, get up, and keep going......

…… I saw Captain Mack, whom I had interviewed earlier, being lifted down, his throat being pierced from the side, and the blood was constantly rushing into his trachea, which caused his mouth to be constantly foaming with blood, and after the doctor intubated his larynx, he finally calmed down for a while......

…… This brutal battle continues......"

In order to recapture Baishuidong, senior US pilots were ordered to go out at night and bomb the area with napalm and rockets hanging from fighter attack planes. The B-29 and B-26 bomber formations far away in Japan were also ready to take off as soon as dawn to carry out rear strikes against the KPA, targeting the Pyongyang shunting yard, the Sariwon Arsenal, the Najin wharf, the Wonsan Oil Refinery, the Sungjin Iron and Steel Plant, the Jinnampo Aluminum Plant, and the Hennam Synthetic Chemical Plant......

MacArthur demanded that the U.S. Far East Strategic Air Force turn North Korea into a weakened and seriously ill patient before launching a landing counterattack......

North Korea, which is weakening in constant attrition, is in critical condition.

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Heartfelt thanks to the lazy snake Lao Kai for the reward!

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