"Sir, the enemy's armored forces have broken through the third division's defense line and are coming towards us." The staff officer of the 1st Marine Division had just received the information from the front line and was immediately frightened.
Major General Smith of the 1st Marine Division closed his eyes helplessly, knowing that the situation had become extremely bad - the enemy was indeed extremely ferocious and ambitious, and its armored assault force was unimaginably powerful.
He rushed to the vicinity of Xingnan Port where the headquarters was located.
The two armies facing each other on the Korean battlefield are very different in their command systems and methods. Due to weak logistics and communications, the Volunteer Army has even the division-level headquarters at the front. Even the Volunteer Army headquarters is only one or two hundred kilometers behind the front.
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In contrast, the U.S. military's command system is far away from the front line. For example, part of the 1st Marine Division's headquarters moved to Hajieyuli, but the main personnel stayed with the Tenth Army headquarters more than 100 kilometers away.
Xingnan Port. And the boss of the United Nations Army spends most of his time squatting in Tokyo, Japan.
Therefore, when someone broke through the numerous defenses and rushed to the gate of the headquarters overnight, this was truly unique in the history of U.S. military warfare, and it made Major General Smith and other senior officers very angry.
The staff officers were trying to persuade their superiors to go to the Navy warship, but Rear Admiral Smith asked: "Do we have any troops that can stop the enemy's armored force?
"The Third Division still has a regiment and two tank battalions guarding Hamhung City. We also have two divisions from the First Army of Nam Bang that can be mobilized. One of them is the First Division with the best combat effectiveness in Nam Bang." Staff Sgt.
said.
"Nan Bang? Alas..." Major General Smith was really dejected as if he was at the end of his rope and was at the end of his rope.
Currently, the main force of the Tenth Army is on the main battlefield around Changjin Lake. Now a partial enemy division is coming to attack. Only the third division with low combat effectiveness is defending the army headquarters. And the third division is being violently attacked by the enemy.
The senior U.S. military generals found themselves in a position where they could only mobilize the Nanbang Division to save their lives.
The staff officer once again asked his division commander to take a helicopter to the naval aircraft carrier outside Xingnan Port, and said that the commander, Major General Almond, had already led the team away.
When things have reached this point, Major General Smith is extremely helpless. The US military has five divisions with nearly 100,000 men on the Changjin Lake battlefield. The most capable 1st Marine Division is surrounded, and the second most capable 7th Division is just playing tricks.
, the third division, which was somewhat capable of fighting, was bombed by one of our own men, and now there are two divisions in the south...
No matter how you look at it, the two Nanbang divisions are even more unreliable. They are not as good as the third division that had just been bombed and was so furious that it almost rebelled.
Major General Smith could only "do his best" and ordered: "Let the Third Division resume its formation as soon as possible. Let the Nanbang Army send one unit to support the Third Division, and the other unit to tightly defend the port and delay it as long as possible until dawn. As long as it gets dawn, we will
Can fight back."
Taking advantage of the chaos in the Third Division's defense line, Zhou Qingfeng was leading his fast column into the depths of the enemy's formation. More than 300 of his men were fully motorized and moved extremely quickly. And after passing Wulaoli, the road became very open.
, ahead is Hamhung City in North Korea, and Hungnam Port is to its southeast.
But on the way into the city, Zhou Qingfeng was suddenly stopped by a river called Chengchuan River. The enemy illuminated 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 river bank.
If only tanks and anti-tank guns were not afraid, the front of the IS-7 was basically immune to the current tank guns of the US military. But Zhou Qingfeng had the courage to cross the river, and several powerful grenades were fired from the opposite side.
These grenades exploded into a crater with a diameter of fifty meters. If it were not for the poor accuracy during the test firing, one shot would have sent Zhou Qingfeng to the west.
The people in the fast column were also shocked, and the 'Old Machine Gun' shouted fearfully on the radio: "The enemy must have dragged out the heavy howitzer."
"The old American has a lot of artillery shells. This is really hateful!" Zhou Qingfeng hurriedly reversed his car to escape from the enemy's sight. The enemy even summoned artillery to blow up all the positions where he might be. This crazy style is indeed unique to the US military.
Waiting to finally save a small life, Zhou Qingfeng looked back at the crater blasted by the enemy, and said with the same click: "Howitzer? This is not just a howitzer, I bet there are also naval guns outside Xingnan Port. This is at least
It’s a 2.03mm thick pipe, we can’t compare to it no matter what.”
In order to support the First Marine Division, the U.S. military parked up to seven aircraft carriers outside Xingnan Port. These aircraft carriers had more escort warships. In the end, they even mobilized the battleship USS Missouri. And even the smallest light cruiser among them carried a large number of escort warships.
Pile of artillery, any one of them has more firepower than IS-7.
Finding that the enemy had prepared large-caliber artillery to serve him, Zhou Qingfeng had to retreat. But the purpose of his attack was Xingnan Port, not just to stay by the river and enjoy the scenery.
"We can't cross the bridge." Zhou Qingfeng retracted his turret and spread out the map. He now not only had the problem of enemy artillery on the opposite side, but also the fact that the bridge on the Chengchuan River could not bear the weight of the IS-7 of nearly 70 tons.
, it will cross as soon as you press it.
"We can't enter Xingnan Port from the front." Zhou Qingfeng rowed his finger along the Chengchuan River towards its mouth. "We have to continue south from the west bank of the river and see if we can go around it?"
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 via radio, and also learned that the 179th and 180th Regiments following him were fighting violently.
The U.S. Third Division in chaos.
The leader of the 60th Division told Zhou Qingfeng not to be too reluctant. If he could get into Xingnan Port, he would get in and make a fortune. If he couldn't get in, he would eat the Third Division. This piece of fat was satisfying enough.
The rumble of artillery was ringing from Hamhung. 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 was a US military unit, equipped with a battalion of 155mm.
caliber self-propelled howitzer, its firepower and range are extremely amazing.
"Batalion Commander, what should we do?" Zhao Jingsheng, who served as the battalion instructor, asked on the radio. He was not a tank soldier and stayed in the truck behind to command the infantry.
"Go south, let's go to the beach." Zhou Qingfeng did not give up and decided to walk south along the west bank of the Chengchuan River until he reached the beach.
Because he was in the heart of the enemy, Zhou Qingfeng did not let the low-mobility "Pershing" follow him. He only took three IS-7s with him.
But when we arrived at the boundless sea, the sparkling water reflected the moonlight, and the salty sea breeze blew in. It was plain and quiet, without the slightest smell of war.
Wait..., who said there is no atmosphere of war?
Zhou Qingfeng poked his head out of the turret and looked into the depths of the sea with his telescope. He saw a large number of warships parked on the sea about seven or eight kilometers away. Some of the warships were even taking off night fighters.
"Oh my God, I bumped into the U.S. Navy fleet supporting the Tenth Army. I saw the enemy's aircraft carrier!" Zhou Qingfeng grabbed his hair and screamed excitedly. He remembered the embarrassing situation when he was bombarded by the enemy's naval guns just now. But he shouted proudly in his heart: "Navy guns, right? I have them too!"