On the 120th day, the vanguard of the 7712th Battalion and the 7714th Battalion attacked Hamxing

Relying on the micro unmanned reconnaissance aircraft it carried and the battlefield intelligence obtained through military data systems, the vanguard ignored the US troops blocking along the way and rushed to the headquarters of the 2nd Marine Division.

At 15:27, wheeled anti-tank guns were the first to enter the 2nd Land Warfare Division.

When the infantry of the 7714th Battalion rushed into the command post, Gate was still ordering the Marines to attack Xianzhou.

At 15:38, Gate handed over a gun to Lieutenant Colonel Kuang Jianguo, the commander of the 7711th Battalion, ordered the US military officers and soldiers to stop resisting and surrender to the Republic Army on the spot.

The first battle came to an end here.

Although the desperate assault caused significant losses to the vanguard troops, at least more than 20 tanks were destroyed and hundreds of officers and soldiers were injured and killed, this combat operation, known as the "last assault in the first battle", not only won the Republic Army an hour ahead of schedule, but also saved many officers and soldiers from other participating troops.

This includes Lieutenant Lie Dongshi, who was airborne in the 153rd Brigade.

At that time, 3~|, who was sent to the position for the third time, were fighting against the US military. When he found that the US military suddenly stopped attacking and quickly withdrew from the position, Li Dongshi did not dare to hesitate at all and immediately ordered all the officers and soldiers of the platoon to withdraw to the underground bunker. At this time, Li Dongshi only had five soldiers, including Zhang Zhi, and the total number of crew members was reduced by 70%. Among the 17 soldiers who died, 11 died in the first bombing of the US strategic bomber.

The tense battle left Li Dongshi no time to consider other issues.

Company Commander Liu Qingzheng came here in person to announce that the US military had surrendered. Only then did the six exhausted soldiers breathe a sigh of relief.

It was not until this time that Li Dongshi was extremely regretful.

If I had thought earlier that the US military would dispatch strategic bombers to throw giant thermocompression bombs, the 11 comrades would have been killed. At least they would not have all been killed!

Repentance. To be honest, Li Dongshidi 3~|| is already very lucky.

At the end of the battle, among the more than 50 officers and soldiers of the 153rd Brigade airborne, including the brigade and logistics forces, only ones walked out of the battlefield alive. In addition, 1,864 wounded soldiers were carried out of the battlefield. The entire brigade was killed, and more than 300 missing people. Among all the platoons in the 3rd camp, Li Dongshi's 3rd Company platoon had the highest "survival rate". In addition to 6 officers and soldiers without any disabled areas, there were 3 wounded; nearly half of them were squatting to the last officer and soldier. 78 officers alone died!

Before dawn, the 153rd Brigade airborne used up all its supplies. Not only was the shells gone, but there were not enough bullets provided to the infantry. When the logistics troops entered the battle, they had to use the US military guns obtained from the battlefield. If Pei Chengyi's combat plan, the 383rd Brigade of the 383rd Brigade arrived at night. The officers and soldiers of the 153rd Brigade airborne were very likely to use bayonets, engineer shovels, or even fists and teeth to fight the enemy.

The tragic level of the battle can be imagined, and the US military paid several times the price for it.

When the 383rd Brigade of the Carriage arrived, there were 283 "Abrams", 348 "Bradley", 116 "Strick" and 642 armored "Hummers" on the defensive positions of the 153rd Brigade. There were as many as 6,732 bodies of officers and soldiers abandoned by the US military, and 1,763 bodies of officers and soldiers brought back by the US military. According to the US military's combat records, at least 548 US troops were missing.

The U.S. troops surrendered before the 153rd Brigade position, including 276 wounded, totaling 3,849.

The US military has fought all its strength, and even if Gate does not order surrender, it will soon exhaust the last little combat capability.

The combat effectiveness of the airborne troops was fully demonstrated, and the defects of the airborne troops were also exposed at a glance.

In position defense warfare, airborne troops are definitely the most powerful "infantry". The problem is also here. Airborne troops are ultimately "infantry" with special delivery methods. Even if they have a solid defensive position, it is difficult to compete with armored soldiers.

This is also the main reason why the United States does not pay much attention to airborne troops.

In the past, due to technical limitations, it was difficult to fundamentally solve the inherent defects of the airborne troops. With the advancement of technology, especially the gradually applicable new materials and new power technologies, the airborne troops will inevitably usher in the second spring.

In the battle of Nonghei, the 153rd Brigade was airborne and the entire army was well-known.

The five elders fought and the airborne 153rd Brigade was so powerful that the world was shocked.

A seemingly fragile airborne force actually blocked the US military three times its own for 60 hours on a temporary defensive position.

That's the US Marine Corps, not a mob!

After the war, the commander of the 82nd Airborne Division of the United States admitted that under the same circumstances, the 82nd Airborne Division would last for up to 12 to hrs.

The battle of the five elders had a very significant impact on the development of the Republic's airborne troops. When countries around the world once again attached importance to the airborne troops, the Republic's army had already had an airborne troops that could make all enemies afraid of, and spared no effort to create the best development conditions for the airborne troops.

Of course, these are all later stories.

When Li Dongshi followed the troops out of the position, Lieutenant Li Wen of the 54th Army also took the "free ride" back to the country.

When Gate ordered his surrender, the armored forces of the 37th Army and the 54th Army were launching the seventh attack on the US Marines on the battlefield.

Li Wen did not participate in the battle, but treated the wound at the battalion medical station.

Li Wendi's first reaction to the news of the surrender of the army was that he did not believe it. Then he ordered troops at all levels to be prepared to return to the country. Only then did Li Wen realize that the battle belonged to the 54th Army had ended.

Compared with the attack on the US Marines that airborne the 153rd Brigade and the battles that attacked Linchan, the battles in the battle were even more tragic.

The airborne tanks of the 153rd Brigade were not considered armored forces at all, and the US military did not have to worry about their opponents launching defensive counterattacks. When attacking Linchanli, because the 54th Army destroyed most of the armored forces of the 1st Marine Division in the field, there was no need to worry about the US tanks rushing out from behind the defensive positions. When they went to the battle, neither of these situations existed.

In addition to killing some of the US armored forces in Xinxing and Jaebali, almost all the armored forces in the 2nd Marine Division were concentrated in the areas to go to war. The US military learned from the lessons of defense operations in Linchanli and did not send the armored forces out to fight against the opponents, but left the armored forces behind the positions for defense and counterattack.

Very ordinary and very effective defense tactics.

The first six attacks of the 37th Army and the 54th Army were defeated by the US armored troops that launched counterattacks from the flanks, and hundreds of tanks and armored vehicles were also lost.

At that time, the 37th Army and the 54th Army were also fighting to the death. When they fought to the back, the two sides fought for will.

Whoever persists will win the final victory.

If it weren't for the rapid rebel 7711 Brigade that captured the US military headquarters at a rapid speed and made Gate give up resistance, I'm afraid the 54th Army would have fought to the point where only the "skeleton" was left.

It served as the main force in two consecutive encirclement and annihilation battles, and the 54th Army had a great momentum to win the "First Army of the Republic".

Although the officers and soldiers of the 38th Army will not recognize that the 54th Army is the "boss" of the Republic's Army, and the officers and soldiers of the 37th Army, the 27th Army, the 36th Army, and the 77th Army will not agree, the 54th Army, which has made great achievements in the old wars and Vietnam Wars, once again showed shocking combat effectiveness, while the 38th Army did not perform outstandingly in the first battle. Many people have regarded the 54th Army as the number one ace unit of the Republic's Army.

According to the history of the 54th Army, in the first battle of the Peninsula War, the entire army wiped out a total of 23,174 enemy soldiers!

Although the 54th Army also suffered 6784 casualties in this battle, compared with the number of enemies annihilated, this casualties are nothing.

According to the data released by the Republic and the United States, in the battle, the US military was injured and captured, with a total of 53,218 missing officers and soldiers (including 21,674 missing persons), and 124 types of combat equipment were lost (excluding light weapons); the Republican team suffered casualties, were captured, and a total of 22,537 missing officers and soldiers (including 5,873 killed and missing persons and soldiers, and more than half of the 153rd Brigade airborne accounted for), and 3,784 types of combat equipment were lost (excluding light weapons).

Because many data have not been verified and cannot be verified, there are differences in the data published by both parties, so the actual number of casualties is likely to exceed the published data.

The first battle set many records.

This was not only the battle with the largest casualties between the two sides after World War II, but also the most casualties in the history of the US military (more than the number of casualties in the Battle of Iwo Huangdao in World War II), and it was also the battle with the Republic to achieve the greatest success after its founding.

The significance of the first battle is not just how many US troops were wiped out.

The status of the Republic Army as "big brother" was consolidated. Even if the US Army did not participate in the war, it would dispel the idea of ​​competing with the Republic Army. The subsequent performance of the US Army more or less confirmed this. Looking longer, the tragic result of the first battle (including several battles in the late Peninsula Wars where the US military participated) allowed the United States to no longer compete directly with the Republic in the next few decades, fundamentally eliminating the threat of global wars to world peace and stability, and winning decades of development for many countries, including the Republic.

To put it in the press comments: the two most powerful countries re-reached each other in the most tragic battle.

The Republic paid a heavy price to win the first battle, not only to win the Peninsula War, but also ensured the national security of the Republic from a more basic level and safeguarded the national interests of the Republic.

Even if you look closer, the more violent the first battle is, the more beneficial it will be to the Republic.

No matter how different the US incumbent president and the elected president were, after the first battle, Frederick and Westwood came to the same conclusion: the US military must be withdrawn from the Korean Peninsula as soon as possible to prevent more American soldiers from becoming cannon fodder in wars half of the earth.

On the 25th, Frederick issued orders to withdraw troops one after another.

In the evening of that day, the first batch of US military wounded (almost all of them are lightly wounded on combat field) returned from Busan on a transport plane.

However, the smoke from the battlefield on the peninsula did not dissipate.

As soon as the first battle ended, Pei Chengyi issued an order to launch the second battle site at the front line command.

The two sides compete for speed again, not the speed of fighting for the battlefield, but the speed of advancing and withdrawing troops! (To be continued,)
Chapter completed!