Chapter 987: Strict Defense

"Sir, the enemy's armored forces have broken through the defense line of the 3rd Division and are coming at us. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 info "The staff officer of the 1st Marine Division had just received information from the front and was immediately shocked.

Major General Smith of the 1st Marine Division closed his eyes very helplessly, knowing that the situation had become extremely bad - the enemy was indeed extremely fierce and ambitious, and its armored assault force was even more powerful than it was unimaginable, and he easily rushed to the vicinity of the port of Hungnam, where the headquarters was located.

There is a great difference in the command system and methods between the two armies facing each other on the Korean battlefield, and the volunteer army is at the forefront of even the division-level headquarters because of its lack of logistics and communications. Even the headquarters of the Volunteer Army was only one or two hundred kilometers behind the battle line.

In contrast, the U.S. military chain of command is far from the front line. For example, part of the headquarters of the 1st Marine Division advanced to Xiajieyuli, but the main personnel stayed with the headquarters of the 10th Army at Xingnan Port, which was more than 100 kilometers away. And the boss of the United Nations forces is squatting in Tokyo, Japan most of the time.

Therefore, when someone broke through many defenses and killed the command department overnight, this incident was really unique in the history of US military warfare, and it made Major General Smith and other senior officers very annoyed.

The staff officer was trying to persuade his commander to go to the Navy's warship, and Rear Admiral Smith asked rhetorically: "Do we have any other troops that can hold back the enemy's armored forces?"

"The Third Division also has a regiment and two tank battalions guarding Hamxing City, and we still have two divisions of the First Army of Nanbang that can be mobilized, one of which is the first division with the best combat effectiveness in Nanbang." The staff officer said.

"South Stick? Alas....... "Major General Smith really has a kind of desperation that the mountains and rivers are exhausted, and the donkey skills are poor.

At present, the main force of the Tenth Army is pressed on the main battlefield around Changjin Lake, and now one of the enemy's partial divisions has come to the door, and only the third division with low combat power is the Gongwei Army Headquarters. The Third Division was being attacked by the enemy, and the senior generals of the US Army were so close that they could only mobilize the Nanbang Division to save their lives.

The staff officer again asked his division commander to take a helicopter to the Navy aircraft carrier outside the port of Hungnam, and said that the commander, Major General Almond, had already led the team away.

Things have developed to this point, and Major General Smith is extremely helpless. The US army had five divisions of nearly 100,000 men on the Changjin Lake battlefield, the 1st Marine Division, which was the most capable of fighting, was surrounded, the 7th Division, which was the second capable of fighting, was fighting soy sauce, and the 3rd Division, which was slightly capable of fighting, was bombed by its own people, and now the two divisions of Nanbang .......

No matter how you look at it, the two divisions of Nanbang are even more unreliable types, and they are not as good as the third division, which has just been bombed and almost wants to rebel.

Major General Smith could only 'do his best' and ordered: "Let the Third Division return to formation as soon as possible." Let the South Stick Army send one to support the 3rd Division, and the other to defend the port tightly, and drag it out until dawn as long as possible, as long as dawn we can counterattack. ā€

Taking advantage of the chaos of the third division's defensive line, Zhou Qingfeng was leading his fast column into the depths of the enemy formation. More than 300 of his men were completely motorized and moved extremely quickly. And after Goro-ri, the road becomes very open, and in front of you is the city of Hamhung in North Korea, and the port of Heongnam is in the southeast.

But on the way into the city, Zhou Qingfeng was stopped by a river called the Chengchuan River. The enemy lit up the west side of the river bank with flares, and then ambushed dozens of tanks and anti-tank guns behind the east side of the riverbank.

If it is only tanks and anti-tank guns, it is not afraid, and the front of the IS-7 is basically immune to the current tank guns of the US army. But Zhou Qingfeng had the courage to cross the river, and several powerful grenades were bombarded on the opposite side.

These grenades blew up craters with a diameter of 50 meters, and if it weren't for the poor accuracy during the test firing, one shot would have allowed Zhou Qingfeng to go to the western sky.

The men of the fast column were also taken aback, and the 'old machine gun' shouted tremblingly over the radio: "The enemy has dragged out the heavy howitzer." ā€

"Lao Mei just has a lot of shells, this is really hateful!" Zhou Qingfeng hurriedly reversed to escape the enemy's sight, and the other party even summoned artillery to blow up all the positions where he might exist, this frenzied style is really only available to the US military.

Waiting for a small life to finally be retrieved, Zhou Qingfeng looked back at the crater blasted by the enemy, and said with the same smack: "Howitzer? It's not just howitzers, I bet there are also naval guns outside the port of Hungnam. That's at least a 203 mm thick tube, and we can't compare to it anyway. ā€

In order to support the 1st Marine Division, the U.S. military berthed seven aircraft carriers outside the port of Hungnam at most, and these aircraft carriers escorted a larger number of warships, and finally even mobilized the battleship USS Missouri. And even the smallest of them had a large number of guns, any of which were more powerful than the IS-7.

Finding that the enemy had prepared large-caliber artillery to serve him, Zhou Qingfeng had to retreat. But the purpose of his killing was Xingnan Port, not to stay by the river and watch the scenery.

"We can't cross the bridge." Zhou Qingfeng retracted into his turret and spread out the map. Now he is not only on the opposite side of the enemy's artillery, but also on the other side of the bridge, the bridge over the Chengchuan River cannot bear the weight of the IS-7 of nearly seventy tons, and it will be crossed as soon as it is pressed.

"We can't enter the port of Hungnam from the front." Zhou Qingfeng's fingers paddled along the Chengchuan River towards its estuary, "We have to continue south from the west bank of this river to see if we can make a detour?" ā€

Zhou Qingfeng looked at his watch and it was already ten o'clock at night, knowing that he had to speed up. He informed the leaders of the 60th Division of his current situation by radio, and also learned that the 179th Regiment and the 180th Regiment, which were following later, were violently attacking the 3rd Division of the US Army, which was in chaos.

The leaders of the 60th Division told Zhou Qingfeng not to be too reluctant, and if he could enter Xingnan Port, he would go in and make a fortune. If you can't kill it, you will eat the third division, this piece of fat is enough to be satisfying.

The rumbling of artillery was sounding from Xianxing, and Zhou Qingfeng deduced that it should be the heavy artillery of the US Third Division that was supporting the two regiments of the Third Division that were being beaten. After all, this is a unit of the US army, equipped with a battalion of 155 mm self-propelled howitzers, and its firepower and range are extremely amazing.

"Battalion commander, what are we going to do?" 'Zhao Glasses', who served as the camp instructor, asked over the radio. He wasn't a tank crew, he was in the back of the truck commanding the infantry.

"To the south, let's go to the beach." Zhou Qingfeng did not give up, but decided to walk south along the west bank of the Chengchuan River until he reached the seaside.

Because he was in the heart of the enemy, Zhou Qingfeng did not let the 'Pershing', who had poor mobility, follow him, and he only took three IS-7s with him.

And when they arrived at the boundless sea, the sparkling sea reflected the moonlight, and the salty sea breeze blew, plain and quiet, without the slightest breath of war.

Wait...... who said there is no smell of war?

Zhou Qingfeng poked his head out of the turret and looked into the depths of the sea with a telescope, and saw a large number of warships moored in the sea of about seven or eight kilometers, and some of them were even taking off night fighters.

"Oh my God, I ran into the U.S. naval fleet supporting the Tenth Army. I saw the enemy's aircraft carriers! Zhou Qingfeng grabbed his hair and screamed excitedly, he remembered the embarrassment that he had just been bombarded by the enemy's naval guns, but he shouted proudly in his heart: "Naval guns, right?" I have it too! ā€