With the help of Soviet weapons and equipment, the Korean People's Army had seven infantry divisions, 1 tank brigade, 1 border security brigade and 1 motorized regiment. Not only is the strength twice that of the south Korean army, but the quality and morale of the officers are incomparable with the south Korean army. Most of its soldiers come from veterans who have participated in War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, North Korean soldiers who have participated in War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, China and the Liberation War, and even new recruits are mostly newly liberated workers and peasants. The political advantage made the Korean army show amazing strength at the beginning of the war.
In the direction of Gaolangpu, the South Korean No.1 13 regiment suffered 90% casualties in the first wave of fighting, and the tanks of the People's Army quickly broke through the positions of the South Korean army.
In the direction of Linjiang, the South Korean First Division, under the command of US military advisers Lieutenant Colonel Rodwell and Bai Shanye, deployed its position in Linjiang Jiang Nanan, waiting for the defeated 12 regiment, and then reorganized its resistance. As a result, the defeated troops of the 12 regiment flocked in, followed by the pursuers of the 1 division of the Korean People's Army. South Korean engineers quickly pressed the button to blow up the Linjin River Bridge, but the cable was cut, and the People's Army flooded in and occupied this strategically important bridge.
The direction of the government is an extremely important geographical corridor in the military, and tanks can be deployed. This direction is the last barrier in Seoul. South Korea's Seventh Division stationed here faces the most elite third and fourth divisions of the Korean People's Army. Two divisions of the People's Army launched an attack at the same time. Under the cover of tanks and self-propelled artillery, engineers destroyed bunkers on both sides of the road. The infantry climbed the steep cliff along the road and penetrated behind enemy lines. The tanks on the road resolutely attacked, and the front position of the South Korean army quickly disintegrated.
Only the South Korean army in the direction of Chuncheon made a partial counterattack against the attack of the Second Army of the Korean People's Army. However, due to the rout of the south Korean army in the direction of the government forces, Chunchuan has become an isolated and prominent part, and it is too late to escape, so it gave up its only resistance.
The performance of the South Korean army, which was called "Asian hero" by Brigadier General William Robert, the head of the US military advisory group, shocked Americans rather than disappointed the advisory group when the war broke out. In the torrential rain, the south Korean army that has not yet been established can be seen everywhere fleeing south. At this time, the US military advisory group received a report that shocked them even more: several Soviet-made Jacques propeller planes of the People's Army flew over Seoul and Gimpo Airport, the control tower of Gimpo Airport and a US C-54 transport plane were hit, and an oil tank caught fire; Another small airport near Seoul was also attacked, and seven of the airport's ten trainers were hit. Worst of all, the planes at these airports have started flying northwards along the highway and shooting at low altitude over the frightened South Korean army, turning the original rout into a terror that stretches for dozens of kilometers. In a telegram sent to MacArthur, the US military advisory group said: "The North Korean army has completely collapsed, both militarily and psychologically."
On the evening of June 25, when MacArthur was watching a movie in Tokyo, the defeated South Korean army really set up a sniper position in the Mi 'ari area in the north of Seoul, which was called the "Mi 'ari Defense Line" in history. South Korean troops tried to make use of the hilly terrain around the Jingyuan Highway in this area to make a final resistance to defend Seoul. This is indeed the last resistance. The fighting continued until noon on the 27th, when the Korean People's Army finally broke through the Cangdong Line in front of the Millary Line. As soon as it got dark, the People's Army soldiers infiltrated the entire defense line on a large scale, and Millary's defense line completely collapsed.
MacArthur predicted that Seoul would soon fall.
Sure enough, it was followed by a fiasco in Seoul, where the defeated army plunged thousands of miles, and the refugees joined the army, which was in chaos.
It is America's turn.
North Korea and the United States mainly fought the following wars:
The Battle of Wushan was the first confrontation between North Korea and the United States, which ended in the victory of North Korea. The process is as follows:
At 8: 00 16 on July 5th, a howitzer from the 2nd1battalion of the 24th division of the US Army popped out of the chamber, which was the first shell fired by the US ground forces during the Korean War.
The shell exploded in the tank group and a tank was hit.
However, the tanks of the North Korean army did not hesitate at all. It didn't drive off the road and didn't mean to slow down. It is still rumbling forward.
Close to 400 meters, American anti-tank rockets began to shoot. T-34 Soviet-made tanks continued to advance as if nothing had happened and climbed up the steep road. American-made 75mm anti-tank rockets seem to have little effect on T-34 tanks. After firing more than twenty rockets, a T-34 tank finally stopped and blocked the road. Three North Korean soldiers jumped out of the tank and raised their hands when they jumped out, but as soon as they landed, their guns fired immediately. Because of the close distance, a machine gun on the American position was killed. The young American who failed to leave his name in the historical materials was the first American soldier who died on the ground in the Korean War.
T-34 tanks have a lot of firepower. The 75 mm recoilless gun in Dai's hand was destroyed, his eardrum was shattered by a huge explosion, and blood ran down his cheeks. Within an hour, Smith's troops killed or injured more than 20 people. North Korean tanks began to rush down the mountain pass, and some tanks had already driven behind the artillery positions. Some young soldiers began to run away. The artillery officer personally loaded the ammunition, but still could not stop the attack of the People's Army tanks. At eleven o'clock in the morning, the North Korean tank column rushed through the US artillery position. Then, North Korean infantry swarmed in.
American soldiers didn't expect North Korean soldiers to rush at them in an instant. Tank shells began to fall on American positions, and some people rolled down from the positions in pain. Smith shouted, "shoot at that post!" " But after a burst of random shooting, he suddenly found that the North Korean flag had been flying on the mountain bags on the left and right wings of the position. Company c and company b began to compress. By twelve o'clock, Smith's original position of 1,200 meters had been forced to be compressed to within 700 meters. Smith called his artillery, but it was reported that the car radio was broken. The interruption of communication prevented the artillery from shooting-the American-style artillery command was ridiculed in the first battle of the Korean War.
At 0/3 pm, the North Korean army began to compress the encirclement. Smith instinctively realized that if he held his ground again, only death would wait for his team. He later recalled: "At that time, there was no hope, there were heavy casualties, communication was interrupted, transportation was insufficient, ammunition was exhausted, and there were North Korean tanks behind. In this case, the choice I face is: live or die with my position? Or find a way to lead the soldiers to break through? We can hold out for an hour at most, and then all the troops will be wiped out. I chose the breakthrough ... "Smith ordered the retreat and announced the order to retreat. However, the retreat of the first battalion was not carried out in order at all, and it was completely an escape. North Korea's Maxim heavy machine guns swept the scattered American troops, and American soldiers fell one by one. Smith finally resigned from this position. When he passed the artillery position, he found that the guns on the position were arranged intact, as if they were displaying American equipment, but there was no shadow of the guns on the position.
This was the first battle of American ground troops in the Korean War.
This battle was recorded again and again in various subsequent wars. Twenty-five years later, 1975 Time magazine published in Japan described Smith's Wushan Battle like this: "When American troops retreated, they only took the wounded and covered the dead with the stars and stripes. Many disabled soldiers, frightened, threw away their helmets and coats and even took off their shoes. Regarding the total annihilation of Smith's detachment, the US military headquarters did not truthfully announce it. I only said that among the nearly 600 soldiers, 150 were killed and 72 were captured, not counting the seriously injured. "
The third battle, the biggest battle between North Korea and the United States, ended in a great victory for North Korea, including the Battle of Daejeon. The following is the specific process:
The policy of the third campaign of the Korean People's Army is: the enemy is not allowed to occupy new defense lines, and the enemy is violently attacked with quick actions, breaking through the front lines of Jinjiang and Xiaobaishan, encircling the basic main forces of the enemy in Datian area and Xiaobaishan area, and liberating Quanzhou, Shan Lun, Wenqing area and the area south of Weizhen. Kim Il Sung, Supreme Commander of the Korean People's Army, moved his headquarters to Seoul to directly direct the third battle. The goal of the third campaign is clear: to go to Busan, drive the United Nations troops into the sea, completely wipe out the South Korean army, and realize the reunification of all Korea.
Judging from the progress of the war at that time, it was only a matter of time before the goal of North Korea's reunification was realized.
However, on this day, the UN Security Council held a formal meeting. In the absence of representatives of the Soviet Union and China, it adopted the Proposal on Establishing a Joint Command to Command the United Nations Countries Participating in the War, which was proposed by Britain and France and drafted by the US government: "It is recommended that all countries that provide military forces and other assistance in accordance with the above resolution hand over their troops and other assistance to a unified command under the command of the United States." At the same time, "request the US commander to send this force." The next day, President Truman appointed MacArthur as Commander-in-Chief of the United Nations Army. At this point, since the founding of the United Nations, the first army under the banner of "United Nations Army" was born.
Kim Il Sung showed great contempt for the United Nations troops declared by more than a dozen countries to participate in the war. Kim Il Sung's magic weapon is time. Because he knew that it was impossible for the Korean People's Army to maintain a strong offensive, and if it could not be fought in one breath until the whole of Korea was reunified quickly, unexpected problems would probably arise. In particular, at present, the United Nations troops have not established a foothold in North Korea, which is the best opportunity for the People's Army to defeat the enemy. Before the launch of the third campaign, Kim Il Sung resolutely replaced some senior generals who commanded the troops to advance slowly. And determined to give the American army a devastating annihilation in a place called Daejeon.
The United States used a large number of air forces on the front line of North Korea, and the United States Navy also swam directly along the coast of North Korea to participate in the war. However, the rout of the South Korean army has not slowed down at all. The commander of the front line in South Korea even issued the order that "as long as you see South Korea stragglers and don't go to the front line immediately, you will be killed", but the defense lines established by the US and South Korean troops collapsed one after another. In order to save the defeat, the US military began to send more troops.
On July 13, Walker, Commander of the Eighth Army of the US Army, formally established the US Army Command in Daegu. 2 1 Regiment 1 Battalion 24 Division failed, and the main force of this division has been pushed to Daejeon under the leadership of Dean. The 25th division arrived in Busan on 10, and the 1st division of American elite cavalry landed in Pohang on 1 8. According to MacArthur's orders, all South Korean troops are under the command of the US military.
Judging from the situation on both sides of the Korean battlefield, a big war is inevitable.
For Dean, the commander of the 24th Division of the American frontline commander, he was definitely upset when he decided to use Jinjiang as a natural barrier to stop the Korean People's Army. This is not only because his Smith task force was hit hard, but also because of the continuous sniper failure. More importantly, American soldiers have never seen a glimmer of "hope of victory" since they set foot on Korean territory. The simultaneous increase in casualties and missing persons illustrates this terrible reality. After all the bridges on the Jinjiang River were blown up and all the boats that could cross the river were burned, Dean's advice to his men was: keep in touch with neighboring troops, retreat when the situation is critical, and try to buy time to wait for reinforcements from the First Cavalry Division-although General Walker's written order was that the 24th Division should not retreat from the Jinjiang Line at any time.
At dawn on July 14, the vanguard troops of the Korean People's Army advanced to the north bank of Jinjiang. The L Company of the 34th Regiment of the 24th Division of the US Army and an artillery battalion on the south bank saw that only two barges were crossing the river, so they didn't take the attack of the People's Army soldiers seriously. However, when a large number of people's troops crossed the river at an alarming speed, they didn't know what was going on, and the back road was cut off instantly. The panicked company commander L ordered the retreat without firing a few shots, and completely surrendered the artillery battalion and the flank company to the People's Army. As a result, within an hour, the battalion commander of the 63rd Field Artillery Battalion and his 100 soldiers, together with 10 cannons and 86 cars, were all annihilated or captured by the People's Army.
Because the defense line of the 34th regiment was broken, the connection with the 19 regiment was torn. The dean quickly ordered the 19 regiment to resolutely stop it. The 19 regiment was built during the American Civil War, and Dean served in this regiment when he was a captain. The head of the 19 regiment was Colonel Mayer, who later became the general commander of the US military stationed in South Korea. On the night of 15, the soldiers of the People's Army used all available means to cross the river, braved the air and ground artillery fire of the US military to forcibly cross Jinjiang, and stubbornly rushed to the position of 19 regiment. The fighting continued until the morning of 16, and the position of 19 regiment was broken in many places. The us military launched several counterattacks, but the effect was not great. By ten o'clock in the morning, the People's Army finally blocked the only retreat of the 19th regiment. The fierce fighting lasted all day. At dusk, most of the troops of 19 regiment fled in flight, and a staff officer drove the last tank with seriously injured Colonel Mayer to break through. In Tanqueray, Mel learned that Winstead, the acting head appointed after the injury, died in the battle, and the deputy head broke through by jeep. There is no commander in the army now. Through the observation window of the tank, Colonel Mayer saw at least 100 American vehicles burning on the road, and groups of American soldiers scrambled to escape. He ordered Captain Hughes Tamaha, the operational staff officer, to organize desertion, but the captain soon died in the disorderly gun, and American soldiers began to flee in large areas. The loss of this battle 19 regiment is that C Company 17 1 22 people did not return to the team. All the equipment of the regimental headquarters, the first battalion and the mortar company was lost. Mel, the head of the team, said in the summary report: The mistake is that he used the reserve team prematurely.
At this point, the three main regiments of the 24th Division of the US Army suffered serious losses. Dean, the teacher, realized that stopping the North Korean army's attack was like "trying to prevent water from leaking from the fishing net". After he was forced to order all troops to retreat. At this moment, however, General Walker gave him an almost impossible task: to stay in Daejeon until the 20th, waiting for the 1st Division of American Cavalry to take over. "Daejeon guards the main throat leading to the southernmost tip of the Korean Peninsula." Of course, if you think it is a last resort, you can give up Daejeon before the 20th. "Walker finally said. However, Dean is a professional soldier, and he knows it's just courtesy. He and his 24th Division must stick to the 20th Division.
1July 20th, 950 is an unforgettable day for Dean.
The People's Army launched a new round of attack from the night of 19. The People's Army still adopts the tactics of frontal attack and two-wing infiltration, and the position of the 24th Division is in a hurry again and again. The junior officers asked for evacuation many times, but Dean refused. At three o'clock in the morning, the People's Army broke through the frontier of Daejeon defense, and the T-34 tank even ran over the tent of a US battalion. At this time, an interesting thing happened: the 24th Division of the US Army stationed in Daejeon was equipped with an 89mm anti-tank rocket launcher, which was specially used to deal with North Korean tanks. They were loaded on a plane in California on July 8 at MacArthur's order. The new weapons arrived in Daejeon on 10 and were distributed to the 24th Division on 12. Before the Battle of Jinjiang, American soldiers deployed this rocket launcher on the roadside. However, when the North Korean tank appeared, the trained 89mm rocket launcher disappeared. As a result, not only did the North Korean tanks not be stopped, but a battalion of the advancing American troops was scattered in an instant.
At dawn on the 20th, the Korean People's Army invaded Daejeon. The People's Army and the US Army "launched a difficult and bloody street battle in this burning city". The dean still believes in the effect of the 89 mm rocket launcher. He personally led a rocket launcher team to fight the tanks of the People's Army. The effect is there, but it is not as magical as the manual says. The rocket in the front of the T-34 tank rattles, and it doesn't work at all as long as the shooting angle is slightly biased. However, a North Korean tank was destroyed by an anti-tank team led by Dean. Now in Daejeon, South Korea, this tank is on display as an exhibition. The instruction board reads:1July 20th, 950, which was destroyed under the supervision of General W·F· Dean. However, on this day in July of 1950, Dean's tragedy soon came. The People's Army has tightly surrounded Daejeon, but the peripheral troops that Dean expected never came to rescue him. He can't even tell whether the positions around Daejeon are still in the hands of the US military. By afternoon 17, Dean got a report: "The head of the 34th regiment is missing." Dean was exhausted to the extreme, so he left the command post and fell asleep in a shabby room full of rotten soil and feces. When it was dawn again, Dean woke up and saw American soldiers still running around. Dean began to break through after sending an encrypted telegram requesting reinforcements. On Daejeon Street, he pulled a 75mm recoilless gun and fired at the North Korean tank, but all the shells were gone and nothing was found. Extremely impulsive, he even pulled out a pistol and shot at the tank. By six o'clock the next morning, the acting head of the thirty-four regiment who covered the retreat took the wrong road in the urban area and walked into a dead end. The follow-up troops finally reached a tunnel held by 2 1 regiment. As a result, the tunnel has been occupied by the People's Army, and the American troops who broke through fell into the trap arranged by the People's Army. Dean and his party got on the southbound expressway in the hail, but he immediately realized that they were going in the wrong direction, because people's army troops appeared in front, and intensive shooting scattered them in an instant. Dean fled the road and went up the mountain. Since then, until the armistice of the Korean War, the US military has not received any news from this American general.
In the fourth campaign, North Korea pursued victory and expanded its advantages, including the Battle of Luodongjiang. The specific process is as follows:
The main direction of the fourth campaign was Jin Quan and Daegu. His campaign policy clearly stated Kim Il Sung's ultimate ideal, that is, to completely destroy the enemy and create conditions for the general attack: "Defeat the enemy defense forces in Yongtong, Site and Anton areas, liberate the vast areas north and west of the Luodong River, and quickly cross the Luodong River to create favorable conditions for the final elimination of the enemy."
Kim il sung's headquarters moved forward again, and he personally arrived at the front line headquarters in the south of Chungju to take command. He particularly emphasized on strengthening the circuitous and infiltration tactics other than the main force advancing along the highway, with only one purpose, that is, to further speed up and not give the enemy any chance to breathe. Kim Il Sung knows that the time of the Korean People's Army is extremely precious. Because "every day, more American soldiers, guns, tanks and planes will arrive in the Korean battlefield."
On the 29th, the People's Army broke through Qiufengling, destroyed the defense lines of American and South Korean troops, successively occupied Jin Quan, Jinzhou, Anton and other important towns, and marched on the north bank of Luodong River.
The Luodong River defense line is a peripheral line that leads about 160 km to the north and 80 km to the east and west. Behind it is Busan, the last stop of South Korean troops and United Nations troops on the Korean coast. Therefore, the Luodongjiang defense line is the "last line of defense" in the eyes of the US military. If it retreats, it will retreat to the sea.
On the 29th, General Walker, commander of the 8th Army, personally rushed to the headquarters of the retreating 25th Division of the US Army and delivered a speech entitled "Defending the Position to the Death" to the officers and men of the whole division. He said: "We are fighting for time now, and we are not allowed to retreat because of battlefield preparations or any other reasons. There is no retreat in our rear ... retreating to Busan will mean the biggest killing in history. Therefore, we must fight to the end. "
When Walker said "buy time", he meant win more UN troops.
After completing the scheduled goal of the fourth campaign, the Korean People's Army forcibly crossed the Luodong River on August 8 in order to completely wipe out the enemy in the narrow area in front of Busan. The 1st Division, 25th Division and 2nd Division of American cavalry retreated again, and the People's Army approached Mashan, the gateway of Busan.
The fourth battle of the Korean People's Army ended on August 20th. At this time, the people's army has compressed the enemy in a very limited space. Although the planned goal of the fourth campaign of the People's Army was not fully realized due to the increasingly tenacious resistance of the US and South Korean troops, in the fourth campaign, the North Korean army destroyed more than 30,000 enemies and occupied 90% of South Korea's land.
The fifth battle, also known as Busan Battle, was the last battle of North Korea against the United States. Landing in Incheon, USA, North Korea won first and then lost. This battle also reflected MacArthur's talent. The specific process is:
Incheon is a port on the west coast of central Korea, only 40 kilometers away from Seoul, located in the narrowest "bee waist" zone in the east and west of Korea. If the U.S. military successfully landed and deployed troops here, it would be tantamount to cutting off the Korean territory behind the Korean People's Army, encircling the Korean army on Korean soil, and being attacked by two sides on the fan-shaped battlefield launched by Busan. Then, even the people with the least military knowledge will know what the consequences are.
However, if the US military landed from Incheon, it would violate the basic military common sense in theory, because Incheon Port is "one of the most unsuitable ports for landing operations in the world", because it has 24 kilometers of silt formed by huge tidal range. Perhaps it was this that made Kim Il Sung ignore Incheon Port and caused his army to suffer heavy losses soon.
At two o'clock in the morning, the Incheon landing operation order was issued.
MacArthur boarded the flagship bridge.
At this point, the entire fleet has entered the narrow channel of Incheon Port, and all the naval guns are aimed at Incheon Port in the dark.
With a fire and a loud noise, the fire preparation for landing began, and its unprecedented scale stunned reporters. Four cruisers and eight destroyers were very close to the coast. In less than forty-five minutes, they poured 2,845 shells on the island at the end of the moon. Naval guns are so powerful that naval pilots in the air can't see any targets on the ground at all. The result is that "the whole island seems to have been plowed from beginning to end" and "the life on the island at the end of the moon is gone". At the same time, the air force began to drop bombs on the whole Incheon, and the number was "exactly equal to the number of shells dropped on Omaha beach before Normandy landed."
But to the surprise of the Americans, when the American landing combat troops began to crawl on the muddy coast of Incheon, they were stubbornly blocked by the North Korean army. Relevant war history records: "Under the command of Captain Li Daxun, officers and men of the People's Army Coastal Defence Artillery Company persisted in fire fighting until the gun body was bent or blown up by enemy shells, sinking and destroying four enemy ships. After the artillery was damaged, the artillery commanders and soldiers, together with the infantry, launched a fierce hand-to-hand battle with the enemy who began to land. On the morning of September 15 10, at the end of the moon, the hero guardian of the island at the end of the moon charged for the last time ... "
After the US military successfully occupied the island at the end of the month, the engineers began to work. At this time, the tide receded and the fleet retreated to the high seas. This is a critical moment because the landing operation has been made public. If the North Korean army strikes back at this time, it is hard to say what will happen. To this end, all US carrier aircraft rushed out to block and bomb targets within 40 kilometers of Incheon, especially roads. Afterwards, it was learned that the Korean People's Army did reinforce troops in the direction of Incheon, but it was violently blocked by the US Air Force and could not move forward for a whole day.
Incheon port has become a sea of fire, especially the oil storage tanks in the port have been hit, and the raging fire seems to be burning in the whole city. The United States Marine Corps began to seize the beach by landing craft. "They used wooden or aluminum ladders to climb down from the landing ship and then climbed the concrete seawall around Incheon." An American Time reporter followed the story of the Marine Corps. He later described: "The seawall of 1000 feet long red beach looks as high as the ABC building."
At 7: 30 p.m/kloc-0, the first American marine landed on the land of Incheon.
After landing, Marine Corps Captain B Lopez broke into Incheon. When attacking a sniper position of the Korean People's Army, he was shot in the arm and "the Grenade in his hand fell to the ground". Captain Lopez "jumped on the Grenade that was about to explode" for the comrades in the same row around him.
American troops soon occupied Incheon.
Then, for a whole night,18,000 US Marines, a large number of supplies and dozens of tanks all landed in Incheon. In the next four days, more than 50,000 UN soldiers landed from Incheon.
After the successful landing of Incheon, the US military immediately made a dash in the direction of Seoul.
1September, 950 16, the day after Incheon landed, MacArthur landed on the coast of Incheon. The general gloated in front of the reporter's camera. On the battlefield covered with burned tanks and soldiers' bodies, he directed a little drama himself. MacArthur's first words were: I want to find a colonel named lewis puller, who is a head of the Marine Corps. I want to personally present a medal to this head. When Lewis was informed that he was attacking a mountain, the MacArthur admirer said to the officer who came to ask him to receive the medal: "We are fighting! If he wants honor, let him come! " MacArthur not only didn't get angry because of the arrogance of the leader, on the contrary, he appreciated his performance very much. MacArthur immediately took a jeep to the direction of the gunfire, and no matter how his men dissuaded him, he wouldn't listen. It was not until in a thatched shed surrounded by gunfire that MacArthur saw Lewis covered in smoke. "They saluted each other happily." . Journalists are ecstatic, because there is no hero story that can interest readers more than this.
MacArthur's gambling and acting were both successful.
When the whole Incheon landed, 203 Americans were killed or injured, and the Korean People's Army was killed or captured 1594.
Next, a bigger blow is still waiting for the Korean People's Army, which has rushed to the southern tip of the Korean Peninsula.
After the American troops landed in Incheon, the People's Army, which was under attack between Scylla and Charybdis, immediately adjusted its deployment: on the one hand, it stubbornly blocked the attack of the eighth American army on the Luodongjiang defense line; On the other hand, they mobilized troops to reinforce Seoul in an attempt to "destroy the enemy in Ren Jing".
However, apart from the disparity in logistics supply between the Korean People's Army and the United Nations Army, the People's Army is also at an absolute disadvantage in strength. By mid-September, the strength of the United Nations Army had reached 15 1000 men, 500 tanks and 1000 guns, and was supported by the Fifth Air Force of the United States Air Force 1200 aircraft. At this time, the People's Army had only about 70,000 troops, of which about half were recruits recruited to supplement the war losses, and its equipment also suffered serious losses in the battle, and the equipment rate was only half of the establishment.
The People's Army, under the command of North Korea's frontline commander General Jin Ce, stubbornly persisted in the confrontation line of Luodongjiang for six days. With the continuous frustration of the defense lines in Luodong River, the signs of the collapse of the people's army have been revealed. /kloc-on the evening of 0/8, the right wing of the first army of the People's Army began to retreat in an orderly manner. On the 22nd, after struggling for two months in Busan's narrow defensive circle, the US Eighth Army, which was almost driven out of the sea, finally broke through the People's Army's defense line and crossed the Luodong River in a big way. In the hopeless situation of rebuilding the defense line, on the 23rd, Kim Il Sung issued an order to retreat all the way to the vicinity of the 38th parallel.
When Kim Il Sung issued this order, his painful feelings can be imagined, because only a month ago, the prospect of reunification of all Korea seemed very clear. At that time, no one believed that the south Korean army, which had lost its fighting spirit, would survive, even with the continuous support of the US military. A month ago, Busan's narrow defensive circle was like a small life buoy in the sea of Wang Yang.
According to the information disclosed after the war, MacArthur did make a detailed plan to retreat from the Korean peninsula in August, and the US Navy has made large-scale preparations for this.
But now, the withdrawal of the Korean People's Army is still late.
On the 27th, the U.S. army, which was rushing northward along the Kyushu-Bashu Highway, joined forces with the Marine Corps who landed in Incheon. The retreat of the People's Army was blocked by the whole line. The besieged People's Army troops stubbornly broke through, many troops were scattered, and soldiers entered the mountainous areas to become guerrillas.
The Associated Press reported on the 28th that "the whereabouts of the North Korean army became a mystery and the southern front disappeared overnight": "How the North Korean army got rid of the pursuit of the United Nations troops is a mystery in the war situation." At that time, Japanese newspapers also reported: "The North Korean army into thin air did not catch a single soldier."
In fact, the losses suffered by the people's army are enormous and fatal. According to post-war statistics, more than 70,000 troops retreated to the north of the 38th parallel, with less than 30,000 troops. Among the lost soldiers, there were 1 10,000 casualties,10.2 million people were captured, and nearly 20,000 people became guerrillas. Moreover, almost all the heavy equipment of the People's Army was lost.
In this way, the victory in North China was completely lost because of Kim Il Sung's imprudence, and the opportunity to unify the whole country slipped away, followed by volunteers to help Korea!