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[370] Landing Prelude

When MacArthur was looking north in Suwon, apart from Seoul under fire and the rout of soldiers and refugees heading south, Incheon was what attracted his attention.

At this moment, he had already outlined in his mind that the only strategic maneuver plan for the US military to reverse the decline of the peninsula was the Incheon landing.

This is not MacArthur's epiphany, it is actually a successful landing operation in the Pacific War. He has firmly integrated this way of thinking into his personal combat mode, so that every time he sees a war, MacArthur always wants to Let's analyze the habit, where you can log in. After all, this habit is the same as that of a wolf sniffing for blood everywhere.

In Incheon, MacArthur smelled the familiar smell of blood.

In World War II, MacArthur, who had been beaten by the Japanese who had mastered the air and sea power, used the same landing tactics to beat the Japanese army to blood.

Masochism and sadism, the double experience of ice and fire, allowed MacArthur to master the landing operations.Learning the experience of war in the war made him understand that once he has a strong command of the air and sea, everything connected to the sea will be smooth!

MacArthur clearly knew that the reason why the landing operation is so powerful is that once our military force implements a sudden strategic maneuver against the enemy's weakly defended or even undefended strategic points, the psychological pressure on the enemy will be huge. How huge.

MacArthur, who personally commanded as many as eleven landing operations in the Pacific War, still remembers clearly every time he suddenly rounded the enemy's flank from the sea, landed from the enemy's rear, outflanked and cut off the enemy's back route. At this time, the enemy showed how helpful and vulnerable they were. They turned their heads to charge in despair, and collapsed in despair. They did not have the toughness and composure that normal infantry should have. It didn't take long, or even need to attack more. It will automatically disintegrate into a bunch of stragglers from the inside, until it falls apart when it is attacked. [

Yes!Landing in Incheon!

MacArthur is full of confidence at this moment. He is more convinced that as long as he lands in Incheon, North Korea will surely be defeated!

This is the intuition of a veteran who has experienced many battles. From the perspective of world military history, this kind of consciousness is either a big victory or a disastrous defeat.But when the strength contrast is so obvious, it seems that the only possibility is a big victory.

Although as many as ten countries participated in this unauthorized police operation led by the United States, most of them provided service troops, and no country was willing to send the most elite main combat troops to fill the first black hole line.

Lieutenant General Brooks, the Assistant Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army Staff Headquarters, told MacArthur bluntly that the work he is doing now is as difficult as rebuilding the U.S. Army.Because of MacArthur's demand for soldiers, all the plans designated by the United States to deal with possible contingencies in Western Europe and other parts of the "free world" became waste paper and completely failed.

This means that once the giant bear of the Soviet Union wants to do something bad in Europe, the United States will be unable to do anything except protest.

For Brooks' complaints, MacArthur was noncommittal.He just told Brooks that in addition to the 5 people who had just been transferred to North Korea to replenish the troops and make them fully staffed, he needed 382 million people.Of course, this is not the end.

Brooks had no choice but to MacArthur. This is a five-star general, and he can only try his best to meet his needs.

After MacArthur received the troops recruited by the Army, he formally organized the Landing Force Command, appointed General Almond, Chief of Staff of the US Far East Command, as the commander, and began to plan the Incheon landing with all his strength.However, the White House and the Joint Chiefs of Staff were not satisfied with this appointment. General Almond's appointment was too "MacArthur". Well, Almond's name was not even mentioned in the congratulatory messages from the White House and the Joint Chiefs of Staff.Of course, this is something for later, so I won’t show it for the time being.

This battle plan was of course also reported to Washington.

The White House's top political advisers told Truman that, after their analysis, they believed:

“…Aside from the military significance of the Incheon landing, politically speaking, any crossing of the [-]th parallel will arouse the opposition of the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union will ask the Chinese to send troops to help North Korea, and then hope that there will be a war between China and the United States. The Soviet Union will hide behind the scenes , to support China in consuming the strength of the United States..."

The report of the advisory group analyzed that:

"...Under such circumstances, as long as the U.S. military can gain an advantage, it should continue to fight and teach this proud and arrogant red dog a lesson. Then, depending on the subsequent development of the war, decide where the U.S. Army should stop... "

"...At the same time, the United States should immediately accuse China of being an aggressor in the UN Security Council and condemn China morally. After all, the Chinese have joined forces with the Soviet Union to continuously accuse the United States of invading North Korea and interfering in North Korea's internal affairs. Now, everyone's position on sending troops will be evened out, and the United States will no longer be accused by the "aggressor" called by international public opinion..."[

"...pay close attention to the [***] armed and political forces in China, especially in Manchuria, and be ready to support them. If it goes well, when the U.S. military is chasing the Chinese, it will enter Manchuria smoothly. , that is, when civil strife broke out in Manchuria requiring reading skills..."

"...But all these assumptions can only be established on the premise that the Soviet Union does not intervene. Whether the Soviet Union will acquiesce in the reading of Manchuria remains to be seen. If the Soviet Union strongly opposes it, then the US Army should stop at the border between China and North Korea. But the operations of the U.S. Air Force and Navy, as well as the activities of intelligence personnel, should not be restricted by borders. …

The senior advisory group continued to analyze the situation of the Soviet Union sending troops:

"...In another case, the Soviet Union will personally send troops to occupy North Korea, and make a joint statement with the North Korean government, vowing to defend the territory of North Korea to the death. A large group of Soviet troops will either openly or secretly enter North Korea to participate in the war, Under such circumstances, MacArthur should be ordered to implement defensive tactics immediately, and not to take any steps that may worsen the situation, simply put, not to cross the [-]th parallel..."

When Truman took the report of the senior advisory group to the Joint Chiefs of Staff, MacArthur stated that he had no interest in the plans of China or the Soviet Union. What he hoped was to completely wipe out the North Korean army and wipe this country from the world.

After receiving a detailed analysis report from the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Truman approved MacArthur's Incheon landing plan submitted by the War Department.

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After a night of fighting, the People's Army held Baishui Cave, but could not move forward. Combined, the militia divisions and infantry divisions had suffered a total of 4000 casualties.Jin said Chengnai and ordered to temporarily stop the attack and stick to the spot.

Obviously, the U.S. military does not agree with Jin Yuecheng's idea. It is a good time to give full play to air superiority during the daytime. B-26 "Marauder" and B-29 "Super Sky Fortress" have been dispatched to continue to launch strategic bombing of the rear of the People's Army .

Since the U.S. military entered the war, the bombing of North Korea’s hinterland has never stopped, but it is not as large as this time. The main mission of the U.S. bombers before was to carry out air strikes against the People’s Army on the southward communication line, the Nakdong River front, and the Pusan ​​defense circle. .Although the bombing of North Korea's hinterland was carried out regularly, it was unable to spare a large-scale destructive bombing.After all, although the U.S. Air Force’s monthly sorties at this time dominate the world, they are only more than 7000 sorties. Compared with the desert storm that was launched against Iraq decades later, the dispatch scale of more than [-] sorties a day is far worse. .

No doubt this was because the siege pressure on the Eighth Army at Pusan ​​was too great.Lieutenant General Walker recently complained, "...we've been stepmothers all this time..."

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Just before June 25, according to the secret infiltration and reconnaissance operations of American airdropped intelligence personnel in Northeast China, MacArthur’s intelligence minister, General Willoughby, officially reported to him:

"...China has been moving troops from central China to Manchuria for some time, which shows that they are preparing to enter the Korean battlefield. . . .

...The regular army in Manchuria has about 246 million people, organized into nine corps, with a total of 37 divisions...

...Our intelligence personnel found that, just like their Taiwan garrison, the Chinese are equipped with some t-54 heavy tanks, a large number of new assault rifles similar to the German stg44 assault rifles, new "camouflage" uniforms...

…There is no doubt that the Soviets armed them, and there may have been a tacit agreement between the Chinese and the Russians that once we crossed the [-]th parallel into North Korea, the Chinese would send troops to defend the country and try to keep it from perishing...”

MacArthur sneered at this information, and he completely looked down on the nation in which most of the people in his impression still had braids.

"Unfortunately, Chang Kaishen is gone. He is a representative of the few civilized people in China. If he ruled that country..." Thinking of this, MacArthur sighed somewhat disappointed.Chang Kaishen died before he had time to repay the gold bars that Chang Kaishen gave him when he came to Tokyo last time.After losing Taiwan, MacArthur didn't smile all week.

"If the Chinese dare..." MacArthur clenched his fists, first thinking of the horror scene experienced by the Seventh Fleet in the Taiwan Strait...

Therefore, MacArthur ordered the Far East Air Force Command to investigate the deployment of the Chinese on the border as soon as possible.

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The B-29 commanded by Captain Daniels was on an air reconnaissance mission. According to the instructions of the Far East Air Force Command, it was reconnaissance near the Yalu River to see if there was a [***] squadron in action.The formation was accompanied by four Mustang p-51s to perform escort missions.

Daniels was optimistic because Edwards, the squadron leader of the accompanying P-51 Mustang fighter jet, told him:

"If the Chinese dared to shoot a reconnaissance plane in the sky, he would rush down and use a machine gun to cut off the pig tails that the Chinese left on the back of their heads."

"Haha, I bet those Chinese are going to cry like pussies for losing their braids!"

"Hahaha……"

This conversation made everyone happy at the time.

The pilots were laughing and laughing, as if they saw the scene of the Chinese crying and crying because the braids on the back of the head were knocked off by the old Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Edwards...

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