1949 I am from the future

[403] Hard battle is coming

On Yongxing Island, a small island with 4000 residents, Captain Clark formed his own "Youth Corps", which consisted of more than 150 children from the age of 14 to 18 who had received "nationalized education" in South Korea. After getting their first salary, they also got a promise from the South Korean translator that "if they succeed, they will become heroes", provided that this kind of light promise works.

Clark selected 40 sentinels from the children's regiment and asked them to patrol around the island. Who would pay attention to these half-grown children?And the boundless energy and keen observation skills of these half-grown children are precisely the most suitable for guarding.

Clark selected another 8 people and divided them into two groups, and set up two heavy machine guns on the island where they could wade across the sea when the tide was low, to be responsible for security tasks.These eight older children were exposed to heavy machine guns for the first time, but after simple training, they excitedly learned how to use the sights to catch the target and pull the trigger.Clark hoped that in case he needed to flee by boat, these two sets of heavy machine guns could stop the People's Army for a while and buy him some time.

The rest of the children's regiment members were issued with guns and began to follow Clark, accepting dispatch to perform reconnaissance missions.

Clark decided to grab the "tongue" first.But the target is not to choose North Korean soldiers, but fishermen, so it is not easy to scare the snake.After capturing three fishing boats with assault boats, Clark confirmed from the fishermen that there were no mines in Incheon Port.

Combined with the huge tidal drop of Incheon Port and the rapid current of the Flying Fish Channel, Clark has no doubts about this.

Laying mines is a professional and dangerous job. Without professional minelaying ships, professionals, and detailed hydrographic drawings, it is basically impossible to implement effectively.

In history, after the Chinese Volunteers entered the DPRK, Mr. Peng specifically asked the Navy to send personnel to lay mines on the Qingchuan River to prevent the US armed gunboats from attempting to block the retreat of our volunteers along the Qingchuan River.Later, two US gunboats were indeed bombed and sunk. Mr. Peng predicted that the enemy was ahead of him, which can be said to be clear.

At that time, the navy dispatched only a few professional mine-laying personnel and a five-member officer corps who had served as the navigator of the minesweeper boat to carry out depth measurement and underwater laying on the Qingchuan River for days before completing the task of mine deployment.

Deploying sea mines is definitely not the way you take it for granted, just throw it in and you're done. There is no such leisurely laying method in reality.Moreover, sea mines belong to the kind of things that "as time goes by, the previously deployed sea mines disappear quickly, and no one knows where they went...". If the purpose of blocking is to be achieved, mines need to be replenished repeatedly. There are many dangers, maybe by accident, your mine-laying boat somehow hit the mine that you had laid down before being engulfed by the current and tide...

Back to the topic, before the scheduled attack date, Clark's "Youth Corps", or the Children's Corps, finally helped him find out the deployment of troops in Incheon Port:

——There are more than 1000 militiamen at the Incheon Wharf, setting up checkpoints everywhere, blocking all roads to the inland, so the strength of the rear troops is unknown.

——There are two anti-aircraft guns, seven machine guns, and three artillery pieces above 60mm on Wolmido Island.

——There are 20 coastal guns in the concrete fortification of Wolmido Island.

——There are 25 machine guns and 5 120mm howitzers on Xiaoyuewei Island.

——There are a total of about 2000 troops on Xiaoyuewei Island. The designation is unknown, and it seems to be militia.

——Balmido Island Lighthouse was not destroyed, but the battery wiring was cut off.

After arresting two North Korean policemen, Clark heard that the Incheon port was very weak.

At this time, Clark thought that the investigation was almost done, so he sent a telegram and reported his investigation results in detail.At the same time, it was agreed that on the evening of August 14, he would light the lighthouse on Palmido Island, which was previously closed by the North Korean army.

There is no doubt that Captain Eugene Clark's reconnaissance was worthy of the Navy Cross he was later awarded for it.

While Clark's reconnaissance operation was in progress, the US military's feint attack also began.

MacArthur ordered U.S. bombers to launch a violent air strike on the coastal road and railway in the Gunsan Port area suitable for landing.All radio broadcasts and newspapers and magazines began to publish news compiled by US military intelligence agencies.

"Here is the latest report from the Associated Press. General Walker declares that after being supplemented by three infantry divisions, the Pusan ​​defense circle will shift from defense to full-scale counter-offensive in mid-October..."

"Here is the latest news from Kyodo News. The coalition's stockpiling of supplies in Busan has been completed, and the full-scale counteroffensive is expected to begin on October [-]th..."

"The Washington Post estimates that the coalition's October counterattack will be overwhelming..."

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A string of news hinted that the U.S. military will start a full-scale counterattack from Busan in October.

The U.S. military intelligence agency even released smoke bombs in U.S. newspapers, suggesting that it will land in Incheon in mid-October. Considering the current situation of the U.S. military’s violent bombing of the mountains, it is easy to mislead North Korea into thinking that Incheon is not the landing point chosen by the U.S. military, or the landing time window It was October, not August, which was just around the corner.

Negative emotions are contagious, and a qualified general will never show his weakness in front of his subordinates.Therefore, even though Kim Il Sung was depressed, he still showed everyone his confident side.

However, the battle for Mashan on the outskirts of Busan has been going on for more than a month since the end of June.

After days of fighting, despite the huge results against the U.S.-South Korea coalition forces, the People's Army itself has suffered heavy losses. Since the start of the war, the total casualties have exceeded 6. With many casualties, the exchange ratio is fairly high.But if you calculate carefully, the casualties of the People's Army are mainly due to the US military, and the US military is still increasing troops in Busan.

After the Americans quickly popularized and equipped with the super bazooka, 200% of the more than 34 t-50 tanks of the People's Army have been lost, and there are only more than [-] left, completely losing their magic power at the beginning of the war.Looking at it like this, the people's family fortune will all be placed in Busan.

Although Kim Il-sung personally came to the front line to command the battle to boost morale, the American artillery coverage and aircraft bombing made every step of the people's progress bloody.The Baishuidong position captured before the Battle of Mashan was lost under the counterattack of the US military.Not only Masan, but the entire encirclement of Busan has fallen into a stalemate.

As a last resort, Kim Il Sung ordered the troops to start overhauling the fortifications, preparing to fight in Busan for a long time.

Kim Il Sung couldn't care less about landing in Incheon, so he decided to take a gamble. He felt that Incheon could become the second Busan at worst. If it fought well, it might even wipe out the US military in Incheon.The battle there was left to Deputy Commander Cui Yongjian.Ten newly recruited militia divisions with about 11 people and one main division have been deployed in Incheon, preparing to encircle the US troops after landing.

If it hadn't been for China's generous support of the second batch of 20 rifles and [-] grenades following the first batch of [-] rifles from the [-] divisions, Kim Il Sung, who was already struggling at this time, would not be able to form a new army. up.

Since the start of the war on June 3, the average loss of weapons of the People's Army participating in the war has reached [-]% to [-]% every month. Currently, the loss of rifles alone is as high as more than [-].After the factory in the rear was bombed by the US military, the production capacity of firearms repair and accessories was only [-]% to [-]% of the previous one.

Jin Richeng used to look down on the miscellaneous army and hoped to use a full set of Soviet weapons to unify his equipment, but now facing the massive increase in US troops, he has no mood to hold back anymore.

He has already ordered that all the US military materials seized before be unsealed, and together with the US-made rifles aided by China, large-scale and continuous arming of militia divisions with all US weapons, Su weapons are only used in the main infantry divisions.

On the basis of maintaining about 11 soldiers in ten main infantry divisions and 10 people in ten militia divisions, for a total of 21 soldiers, another ten militia divisions will be built.In this way, the total strength of the People's Army will reach 30, which is already the mobilization limit of North Korea's 800 million population. With North Korea's weak national strength, it is really impossible to support more soldiers.

Because of constant attrition, the troops are increasingly short of heavy weapons.Kim Il Sung, who began to rely on grenades, was determined to fight a people's war with grenades and rifles with the multinational forces led by the US military...

Deputy Commander Cui Yongjian once had a brilliant combat experience in the Northeast Anti-Japanese Alliance. He once led the army to kill the captain of the Japanese Army Major General in combat.

By studying the Pacific War materials provided by Chinese comrades, Deputy Commander Cui understood that trying to stop the US military by building defensive positions on the beachhead is no different from directly sending them to death.Facing the absolute dominance of the U.S. military's sea and air firepower, even if concrete bunkers were built on the beach in Incheon, they could not stop the coverage of iron bombs and naval guns.What's more, where did I get the steel and concrete to build the bunker?Just give him materials, how can he repair it in a short time?

There is no doubt that it is the best policy to retreat inland, build deep positions where the US naval guns cannot reach, and dig countless tunnels and caves for hiding soldiers.Just like the Japanese Kuribayashi Tadamichi did in the Iwo Jima battle information provided by the Chinese comrades.

However, in the battle of Iwo Jima, the Japanese army was trapped on an island alone. Not only did they not have support from the navy and air force, but they did not even have land support. Failure was inevitable.And Cui Yongjian has already dug countless transportation trenches between the trenches like a mole in the past one and a half months, digging the road from Seoul to Incheon, extending in all directions like a spider's web.

This time, even those great men who knew history from far away in the north were not sure whether the U.S. military could reach Seoul quickly.

When Xiaoqiang asked Commander-in-Chief Zhu, the Commander-in-Chief said, "The next step is to see how firm the US military's intention to take Seoul is."

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