970 Korean War Twenty Unsan bombing

The news of the rediscovery of the Chinese naval fleet in the Taiwan Strait was quickly transmitted by telegram to the headquarters of the Japanese and Korean forces in Pyongyang.

Later, more precise information came from the Naval Command Department in Tokyo. The Chinese naval fleet that appeared in the Taiwan Strait this time was much larger than the battleship formation that had previously passed through the Taiwan Strait. After reconnaissance by submarines and reconnaissance aircraft of the Japanese Navy, a huge formation of more than 200 ships was discovered, including at least 10 aircraft carriers! There are also at least 5 so-called "landing ships", as well as more than 100 large transport ships...... It is clear that this time it is not only the naval fleet that will pass through the Taiwan Strait, but also a large number of landing troops! The Chinese will soon land on the west coast of Korea!

There was also a fierce debate between the Korean Army Headquarters and the Army General Staff Headquarters in Miyakezaka, Tokyo, over the impending landing battle and the strategic decision for the next step of the entire Korean War. In a rare move, Prince Hiroin Miyae-in of the Army General Staff Headquarters broke with the practice of not directly directing operations at the Japanese General Staff Headquarters, and in the name of "guidance" demanded that the Korean army immediately shrink its defensive line, abandon the Unsan Campaign, and withdraw its troops to the Cheongcheon River-Myohyangsan Mountain-Front-Line of the Battle Ridge, and at the same time free up troops to strengthen the defense of the west coast of Korea. In particular, the valuable mecha army must be preserved intact and used to counterattack the landing of the ** squadron!

Marshal Okamura Ninji, commander of the DPRK Army, expressed resolute opposition to such "guiding opinions." Okamura believes that the Battle of Unsan has reached a critical moment, and it is absolutely impossible to give up, and there is no way to give up...... If the mecha army is withdrawn from the Yunshan front line now, by the early morning of the day after tomorrow at the latest, a Chinese armored division will advance west through Yunshan, cutting off the retreat of more than 10 Japanese divisions! By December 20, more armored divisions will reach the Unsan area via the Chusan-Unsan road, and when they attack to the south or west, they will be able to turn the deployment of the North Korean army upside down! The Chinese don't even need to launch any landing, and the North Korean army will collapse. Therefore, there is only one way out in front of the North Korean army now, and that is to resolutely counterattack! Defeat the Chinese Panzergrenadier Division and the subsequent Chinese Panzer Division at Yunshan, then calmly adjust the deployment and slowly retreat to a place where a new line of defense can be established.

As for the landing that the squadron will launch soon, Okamura Ninji believes that there is no need to worry too much...... As long as the North Korean army can temporarily repel the frontal enemy, a small number of Chinese landing troops will not cause a complete collapse of the situation on the entire Korean Peninsula! After all, the DPRK army has a strong strength of 1.5 million troops, which is by no means something that tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of landing troops can shake. The real danger lies in the collapse of the front!

"Tell Yoshida and Kawabe Shozo that they must attack as soon as possible with the utmost determination and at all costs to defeat the Shina army around Unsan! In order to save the Korean army from a critical situation. ”

Having just rejected Prince Zaihito's guidance with a telegram, Okamura could not wait to give an order to Yoshida on the front line, urging the Japanese troops on the Unsan side to launch an attack during the day, risking the strong air superiority of the Chinese army.

Ishihara walked up to his boss, who had turned white in just two or three days, and his whole body was haggard, and said in a low voice: "Your Excellency, it will be dark in a few hours...... It's better to wait a little longer, the losses of the daytime attack will be very large, the air superiority of the Chinese army is too powerful, and the two independent tank brigades of the mecha army lost more than 100 combat vehicles in the transfer this morning. ”

Okamura frowned and didn't answer Ishihara, but just said to himself: "The Shina Grand Fleet passed through the Taiwan Strait early this morning, and it should start landing tomorrow morning at the latest." 100 large ships with at least 100,000 landing troops! There are also 10 aircraft carriers, 3 battleships to provide fire support...... The landing will definitely be successful, and the North Korean army will soon be exposed to the enemy! Speaking of this, he abruptly increased his tone: "Now it's time to fight against the water!" We have concentrated 12 divisions, 5 brigades, 1 cavalry group, more than 250,000 troops, and more than 1,000 combat vehicles near Yunshan. At most, the Chinese army had two divisions and less than 40,000 troops, and at most 600 tanks. I have absolute superiority in troops, and there is no reason for me to fail! As for the air superiority of the Chinese army...... Tell Lieutenant General Jean Tokugawa Yoshitoshi to protect it at all costs! ”

Ishihara Wan'er was shocked in his heart, and the marshal in front of him looked like he was going to fight hard! Not only has the old capital on the ground been pressed, but even the little capital in the air has been invested, which is to decide life and death in a war with the Chinese!

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Report. Commander Lee of the Korean Army Group telegraphed that the position of the 3rd Panzergrenadier Division in Unsan was suddenly under heavy shelling by the Japanese army! Commander Lee asked the Air Force to go all out to help in the war. The staff officer's loud report suddenly made the atmosphere in the Beiyang Front Headquarters in Shenyang Beidaying a little tense.

Bai Chongxi took the telegram and glanced at it, frowned and said, "Okamura is going to fight for his life!" Saying that, he turned his head to Luo Yaoguo and said: "The victory or defeat of the Korean War is just these few days, and there are more than 200,000 Japanese troops concentrated in Yunshan, which should include their mecha army...... Brother Fuwen, is it time to invite those three great gods to come out? ”

"God, please?" Luo Yaoguo frowned and muttered, but did not answer. Just looking at the sand table over and over again, the staff officers below began to whisper a little. The "three great gods" that Bai Chongxi said refer to are the three atomic bombs that Luo Yaoguo personally mastered! However, in this headquarters, only a very small number of people knew this, so most of the staff officers were a little confused when they heard Bai Chongxi's words. However, Luo Yaoguo, who knew the true power of the "Great God", was still hesitant to give the order to put it on. It's not that he found it out in his conscience, but the current power of the atomic bomb is not too great, and the "Great God" type atomic bomb that China currently has is only about 20,000 tons of yield, and the radius of destruction is only about 10 kilometers...... Moreover, Yunshan is surrounded by mountainous areas, and the deployment of the Japanese army is uncertain, so I am afraid that one will not be able to kill too many people, which seems to be a bit of a waste!

He twisted his eyebrows and asked Bai Chongxi: "If you don't use the 'Great God', can you win the Battle of Yunshan?" Bai Chongxi thought for a moment and nodded: "Of course you can win, but the casualties of the 3rd Panzergrenadier Division will be very large." And...... Those three 'great gods' don't use them now, and when will they be used? "Well, listening to Bai Chongxi's tone, he was planning to drop three 20,000-ton atomic bombs near Yunshan in one go! He is truly a diehard in the opposition......

Luo Yaoguo asked lightly: "It's best to surround hundreds of thousands of millions of Japanese devils somewhere, and then use them!" Can it be done? ”

Bai Chongxi was stunned when he heard this, and said in his heart: "My brother is really cruel!" To surround a million Japanese and drop the atomic bomb! That's not about killing a million people at once! Thinking of this, he nodded: "You can try it, I estimate that the Japanese will definitely implement a general retreat after the defeat of Yunshan, and the target may be Busan Port!" ”

Luo Yaoguo nodded and said, "I'll send planes to bomb Busan tonight...... During the bombing, leaflets were thrown out, saying that we were going to destroy Pusan for the sake of war and asking the North Korean people there to evacuate! However, Busan's port facilities are not allowed to be bombed. Also, the Navy was ordered to send submarines to lay mines outside the port of Busan. ”

Bai Chongxi glanced at Liu Fei, who was a little stunned on the side, Liu Fei hurriedly recorded the order dictated by Luo Yaoguo, and then handed it to Bai Chongxi to sign and hurriedly left the war room to deploy. Luo Yaoguo gently patted the edge of the map table with his hand at this time, hanging his head, as if he was thinking about something, and in a blink of an eye, he raised his head, looked at Bai Chongxi and asked in a deep voice: "There will definitely be no accidents on the Yunshan side, right?" ”

Bai Chongxi Wanfang said with certainty: "There will definitely be no problem, Shi Wei has 15,000 people in a division, more than 100 assault guns, and nearly 200 artillery pieces of various kinds, as well as overwhelming air superiority." Moreover, our bombers and attack aircraft can also be dispatched at night, and they can attack under the instructions of flares...... The Japanese did not know this, otherwise they would not have fought this battle. Luo Yaoguo knocked on the sand table and said in a deep voice: "Yunshan is one against ten...... Tell the commander of the Air Force Lee Soon Eun to send all the planes that can be mobilized to support Yunsan! It's better to kill all the Japanese from the air! ”

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"Airplanes! Countless planes! ”

The shouts of panic suddenly sounded in the southwest of Yunshan, and the advance command post of the Japanese mecha army rang out. Yoshida raised his binoculars and looked at the northern sky, and the scene in front of him stunned him. "This ...... That's impossible! Impossible! ”

Yoshida suddenly felt his blood congealed by the terrible sight in front of him. Through the trembling telescope, he saw countless planes exploding a huge formation in the sky, which seemed to cover the entire sky, roaring and surging from the sky! There were dive bombers of the A-4 family that he was very familiar with

Attack aircraft, there are fighters of the famous Sky Overlord FW-190 family, with two engines

The F-110, the Ju-88 and the He-111 are even more of a four-engine behemoth that has never been seen before! From a distance, the entire sky has been occupied by these boundless Chinese military aircraft! It seems that the planes of the whole of China have now flown to this battlefield. As for the Japanese Army's Type Zero and Type 97 fighters, they have long been missing.

"Commander, hide quickly......" A voice that seemed to be the chief of staff of the Mecha Army, Masao Terada, suddenly sounded, and then Yoshida was pressed to the ground by two big hands, and there was a dead sandbag-like thing on his body.

At this moment, a large number of Chinese planes had already flown over the Yunshan battlefield, and seeing such a scene, all the Japanese on the ground rushed around to find suitable cover. However, the reality is always very cruel, due to the rush of time, the Japanese army attacking Yunshan did not build a solid starting position at all, nor did they dig a large number of anti-artillery shelters and air-raid shelters...... The Japanese soldiers, who could not find suitable cover, had to lie down on the spot one by one, holding their heads, closing their eyes and screaming in their mouths, or chanting words, or simply gritting their teeth and waiting for the moment when they became gods.

No one can imagine how shocking the scene of nearly 2,000 fighters and bombers sent by the two Chinese air forces appearing over a field battlefield and starting to drop bombs at the same time! Although the efficiency of this kind of bombing is really a bit low, it is the simplest and most effective way that the air force can think of to provide maximum air support for the defenders of Yunshan in the shortest possible time - drowning the Japanese army with bombs and a sea of fire! Thousands of bombs exploded on the Japanese positions almost simultaneously, and the powerful shock wave carried countless metal fragments to the ground like raindrops, and the Japanese officers and soldiers who did not find shelter and did not stay in the craters or trenches disappeared into the sea of fire and bullets one by one. And by luck, there was a hiding place, and the Japanese soldiers all shrank into a ball, holding their steel helmets tightly with their hands, trembling there!

And the Japanese artillery position, which exposed the target in the artillery battle just now, has become the top priority of the bombing without any suspense! Groups of dive bombers roared and pounced on them, bombing and strafing. In the midst of the shaking of the mountains, the bullets rained down around the Japanese artillery groups hidden in the trees, villages, and the anticline of the hillside! On the ground, the Japanese anti-aircraft guns, anti-aircraft machine guns, and even ordinary heavy machine guns and crooked light machine guns are doing their best to fire into the air, and a string of fire rises from the ground and soars into the sky, covering the artillery groups that are being bombed, but the A-4 Thunderhawk dive bomber with a solid fuselage of the squadron has a strong survivability at medium and low altitudes, and it seems that it can shuttle freely in the fire network composed of Japanese ground firepower, diving down again and again, bombs, machine gun shells, and machine gun bullets pouring down. Plough through the ground into the corridors of hell where flesh flies. Groups of Japanese artillery were killed by aerial fire on the gun emplacement, a door of mountain heavy artillery was blown into a state of parts, the military horses dragging the cannon neighed and crashed everywhere, and from time to time there were huge mushroom clouds rising from the ground with an earth-shaking roar, that is, the ammunition piled up by the Japanese artillery was hit and exploded!

The heavy bombardment by the Chinese air force lasted about 30 minutes, which is equivalent to the duration of a most ordinary artillery battle, but for these Japanese officers and soldiers who were attacking Yunshan, this short 30 minutes seemed as if they were going to hell. Those who survived, uh, I wonder if the word "survived" is appropriate? Considering the nuclear button in our Luo Dashuai's hands, they actually missed a good opportunity to become gods with dignity. These Japanese officers and men who unfortunately survived the air raid, known as the "Yunshan bombing," were almost mentally broken. When the explosions have completely stopped. The battlefield was full of Japanese uncles and teenagers crying and scurrying around...... I really don't know how these recruits of Japan's "6 million army" unfortunately survived the overwhelming bombing just now?

As soon as the explosion stopped, Yoshida pushed away the adjutant who was pressing on him, and then found the telephone among the crooked belongings, shook the armored cluster headquarters, and shouted: "How is the situation of the tank troops?" Have you been hit by an air raid by the Chinese army? ”

Hoshino Toshimoto's anxious voice rang on the other end of the phone: "Is it Commander Yoshida?" The staging sites of four wings of our tank unit were bombed by the Chinese Air Force...... Three of them lost more than half, and one lost more than a third! ”

When Yoshida heard that the chariot troops had not yet been completely wiped out, he breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, and hurriedly asked: "When will the chariot troops be able to organize an attack again?" ”

Hoshino Toshimoto on the other end of the phone hesitated for a moment before he said, "Your Excellency Commander...... Is it possible to postpone the attack until dark? There are still quite a few Chinese dive bombers hovering over our positions. ”

"No way!" Yoshida replied without hesitation: "Give you an hour to reorganize the troops!" The artillery bombardment began at 3:30 p.m., the infantry charged at 4 o'clock, the chariot troops assaulted at 4:30 p.m., and tonight I will sleep in Yunshan City, do you understand! After finishing speaking, Yoshida hung up the phone headset, and then shook the phone of the three generals of the riverside, and asked about the situation west of the Jiulong River.

The river side told him that the Japanese troops west of the Jiulong River also did not escape the bombardment just now, and the troops suffered heavy losses! In particular, the infantry of the three wings that had just assembled to launch the offensive was attacked by the incendiary bombs of the Chinese army, and the entire starting position was in a sea of fire, which has not yet been extinguished, and it is estimated that the infantry of the three wings has been shattered! However, more than 100 light combat vehicles that had been mobilized to the west of the Kowloon River this morning were killed in the bombing, and the Chinese planes did not discover their hidden positions. Therefore, it only takes an hour to regroup the troops by the river and launch an attack.

After Yoshida told the other side of the new attack time, he called Major General Seiichi Yamada, the commander-in-chief of the Japanese artillery. "Yamada-kun, how's the situation with the artillery? Can you still fight? ”

Kiyoichi Yamada's trembling voice came from inside the phone: "I'm sorry...... Your Excellency General, Artillery...... The artillery has almost been wiped out from the air by the Shina bombers......"

"How many more cannons are available?" Yoshida asked in a deep voice.

"There are no more than 100 mountain heavy artillery pieces that can be used here in Yunshan. But...... There are more than 200 heavy artillery pieces on the way, and we should be able to ...... tonight."

"The shelling began at 3:30 p.m., and the artillery fire was prepared for 30 minutes! Yamada-kun, make good use of your 100 cannons! Yoshida didn't talk nonsense with him, and hung up the phone after giving the order in a few words.

At 3:30 p.m. on December 16, 1939, the artillery around Yunshan rose again, the sky was obscured by gunsmoke, and the scorching shells crossed the sky and exploded at the front of the positions of the Chinese and Japanese sides, and another unprecedented and tragic battle had begun!