.Chapter 55 Preparation

When Huang Zhibo arranged troops and prepared to fight a big battle in the Sea of ​​Japan to prevent the coalition from landing on the east coast of North Korea, General Aron, the commander-in-chief of the coalition forces, was also dispatching troops to prepare for landing operations.

The combat plan was ready-made. More than 60 years ago, United ** fought a beautiful landing battle in Yuanshan.

The battlefield situation was very favorable. Most of the main forces of the People's Army were concentrated on the Western Front battlefield and were preparing to defend Pyongyang to the death. The ground troops of the Volunteer Army had not yet entered North Korea. The defenses in the Wonsan and Hamhing were very empty, with only one infantry division of the People's Army and an under-packed armored battalion.

At this time, stabbing the People's Army in the back will definitely be extraordinary.

But Allen has his own ideas on how to fight this landing battle, or it is influenced by Chandler.

According to the combat plan approved by Lindberg, the coalition forces will choose between Wonsan and Ham Hung. Because Wonsan's port facilities are relatively complete, Yongxing Bay to the north can accommodate hundreds of ships, while Xingnan Port in Hamhung is just an ordinary port. The East Korean Bay is facing Hamhung Bay, and the ships inside are easily attacked by submarines, so the conditions in Wonsan are more ideal and are the number one choice for landing locations.

On the second day of the war, a U.S. Navy attack nuclear submarine used a "harpoon" anti-ship missile to sank two People's Army speedboats hiding in Ham Hing Bay.

In order to create the illusion of landing in Ham Hung Hung, the US military focused on bombing Ham Hung Hung and Xingnan in the following days.

These deception methods have had a good effect. The People's Army not only put hundreds of mines at the exit of Hamxing Bay, but also sank two cargo ships carrying cement, blocking the deep water channel.

Because Yuanshan was not hit hard, the People's Army missile speedboats deployed here also launched several "suicide attacks".

Landing on Yuanshan, the coalition forces can gain a foothold within two days, capture Yuanshan, and then head north.

In terms of military input, a land combat division is enough. As for the subsequent battle, it can be completely used to give the Korean team that arrived later.

So, where is the second land warrior used?

Assist the Korean army in the attack north?

In terms of combat efficiency, this is definitely not an ideal choice.

After the coalition forces land, the People's Army will definitely adjust its defense deployment.

If there are too many coalition forces on Yuanshan, the People's Army will definitely shrink its defense line and place heavy troops on the Yu Zhanling Mountains and Langlin Mountains to prevent the coalition forces from going north to attack Cijiang Road and Liangjiang Road, and buy time for the volunteers to enter North Korea. If there are not many coalition forces on Yuanshan, the People's Army may give it a try and set up defense lines in the Beidafeng Mountains to prevent the coalition forces from advancing westward, and may even counterattack Yuanshan.

If you want to fight quickly, you must lead the People's Army out and fight to the main focus on eliminating the living forces.

The former is obviously not an ideal choice.

Chandler's view was clear: after landing in Yuanshan, the coalition forces first advanced westward, and put in a stance to cut off the People's Army's strategic defense line in half, forcing the People's Army to forge defense in the Beidafeng Mountains, or let the People's Army counterattack Yuanshan, give full play to the air superiority of the coalition forces in mobile warfare, and eliminate the People's Army's vitality.

After restraining the main force of the People's Army, the coalition forces then invested heavy troops on the northern battlefield.

At this time, you can choose to attack Xianxing from Yuanshan north, then make an appointment with the Gaima Plateau to attack Jiangjie and Huishan. You can also choose to land in Jince or Qingjin, and sweep the south bank of the Yalu River from north to south. If the troops are sufficient and the battle is smooth, you can also sweep the south bank of the Tumen River.

Chandler's military talent cannot be underestimated. Before he became Director of CIA, he was the most experienced general in the US military.

This combat concept not only makes full use of the advantages of the coalition forces, but also tries to avoid the shortcomings of the coalition forces.

From the perspective of combat capabilities, the most outstanding advantages of the coalition forces are air supremacy and sea supremacy. Although the combat effectiveness of the coalition ground forces is not bad, and it is easy to defeat the People's Army, it is difficult to increase the attack speed when focusing on ground wars, and it is impossible to complete combat operations in a timely manner.

Only by fully leveraging the coalition's naval and air superiority can North Korea be occupied as fast as possible.

Needless to say, the air superiority is not enough. The active actions of the Volunteer Air Force did not reverse the situation on the battlefield, but only forced the coalition forces to invest more air control forces.

The key is to control the sea power, to be precise, how to use the sea power.

In Chandler's combat vision, the combat idea of ​​making full use of sea control was clearly reflected: fight more landing wars, try to shorten the length of the ground supply line, strive to annihilate the main force of the People's Army in offshore areas, and actively open up a new battlefield in the east coast of North Korea.

The advantages are outstanding, and the disadvantages are obvious.

This combat method is definitely easy to fight the People's Army, but it is too risky to use it to fight the Volunteer Army.

Log in at multiple locations, each login field is independent of each other, and the landing troops can only fight alone.

If the volunteer army launches a counterattack, the scattered landing forces will easily be defeated by each one.

This situation occurred in the last Korean War. After the Volunteer Army entered North Korea, the second battle revolved around the U.S. Marines advancing alone on the Western Front, almost annihilated the First Marine Division. Then, taking advantage of the opportunity of the U.S. military's unstable foothold, advanced the front to the south of the 38th Line in the third battle, and once captured Seoul, forcing the United Nations to launch a large-scale counterattack in the fourth battle.

It’s not that Chandler doesn’t know about this issue, but that he attaches great importance to it.

When making suggestions to Allen, Chandler clearly mentioned that whether to launch a landing battle again depends on the situation on the battlefield. If the volunteers fail to enter North Korea in time and cannot enter North Korea in time, the coalition forces can use the second landing battle to speed up the advancement. If the situation is just the opposite, they must place heavy troops in Yuanshan and strive to block the Volunteers' progress near the 39th direction of the north latitude.

Chandler's suggestion was very pertinent, but Allen had other plans.

The choice before him was: after the landing of Yuanshan was successful, if the second landing division was invested in time and the second landing field was opened, he would have the opportunity to occupy the entire North Korea before the volunteers entered North Korea; if the heavy troops were placed in Yuanshan, it was very likely that they would stop and advance at the 39th line of north latitude.

Is it positive or conservative?

Allen didn't understand it, but whether it was positive or conservative, he had to come over as soon as possible to prepare for the offense.

Unlike the Army, the division-level units of the U.S. Marine Corps are even larger.

An army division usually has only 14,000 officers and soldiers, and even heavy troops like the First Armored Division, there are only 18,000 people. Because most of the time, the Marine Corps had to fight back and forth without reliable support and cooperation, the Marine Corps' organization was even more huge and complex. The scale of a Marine Division was between 20,000 and 22,000 people. If strengthened, thousands of officers and soldiers would be added.

Personnel is not a problem. The US military has enough transport aircraft and can also requisition civil aviation passenger aircraft.

The key is weapons and equipment, especially heavy weapons and equipment that cannot be transported on a large scale.

This issue is more prominent in the Marine Corps.

When the "lightweight" làngcháo, former Minister of Defense Rumsfeld, was popular in the army, the Marine Corps was not greatly affected. The Second Marine Division had a fully-organized armored regiment equipped with more than 100 main battle tanks and more than 200 armored vehicles, and the other two regiments also had a large number of heavy preparations. Including several independent armored battalions, the number of main battle tanks equipped by the entire division was as high as 474.

It’s not that these heavy equipment cannot be transported by air, but that the air transportation efficiency is too low and the cost is too high.

Take the "Abrams" main battle tank for example. A C-17c can only be airlifted one at a time, and every four vehicles must be airlifted with one C-17c additional equipment. Including tank support equipment, etc., airlifting an armored battalion with thirty-two main battle tanks requires at least 474 tanks of the C-Second Land Division, which requires 1,400 flights. All more than 100 C-17cs of the US military are dispatched. According to the calculation that two rounds a day, it will take five days to deliver all the main battle tanks to Busan.

The heavy equipment of the Second Land Warrior Division is not only the main battle tanks, but also a larger number of armored combat vehicles, self-propelled artillery, armored engineering vehicles, heavy engineering vehicles, maintenance vehicles, etc. If all air transport is all airlifted, it will take fifteen days for more than 100 C-17cs to be dispatched!

This is not Allen's problem, but the US military's own problem.

The construction standards for the US military's airlift force are: deliver all the equipment of a heavy duty trooper within one month, as well as fifteen days of combat consumption.

Fortunately, the US Marine Corps has never been mainly air transport.

In order to deliver the "cumbersome" Marines, the US military built dozens of rapid transport ships and vigorously built larger strategic pre-set ships. A rapid transport fleet can deliver all the main combat equipment of a marine division to a battlefield thousands of kilometers away within a few days at a speed of 24 knots. A strategic pre-set ship can carry the main combat equipment equivalent to a brigade and deploy it to hot spots in advance.

Before July 23, a fast transport fleet of US troops arrived in Naha and then sailed to Busan.

Three days later, five strategic pre-set ships carrying all the main combat equipment of the Second Land Division arrived in Busan, and the rapid transport fleet had already unloaded the goods in Busan.

According to Allen's arrangement, the express transport fleet will set sail back to Naha on July 27.

After loading combat supplies, the fleet will set off with five strategic pre-set ships on the night of July 29. Their destination is not Busan, but direct to Wonsan.

If everything goes well, the First Land Force will land on Yuanshan on the morning of July 30th.

When the transport fleet arrived, the First Land Force Division had completed the landing operation and might have occupied Wonsan. The rapid transport ship would deliver the cargo to the landing troops and then return to Busan to transport the next batch of combat supplies. The Second Land Force Division was transferred to the amphibious fleet during this period.

Only then will Allen need to consider where to send the Second Land Force to.

The coalition's combat deployment is very compact and meticulous. Under the operation of efficient command agencies, the power of the maritime transportation system is fully utilized.
Chapter completed!