Republic of Korea in Yeokcheon - Chapter 339



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#339. Our kids will get tired first

“Hoo!”

Lin Biao sighed as he looked at the front line, which was once again receiving heavy artillery fire as night fell.

After personally experiencing the incredible power of the South Korean artillery force in the daytime battle, he ordered that troops not be gathered as much as possible, but in fact, he himself knew that it was nonsense to give such an order.

Because there was no place to disperse.

As many as 3 million people were pushed into just 100km of the front line.

It was an inevitable choice for him, as he wanted to break through the enemy’s front line by concentrating his overwhelming force, which was the People’s Liberation Army’s only advantage, even at the cost of considerable sacrifice.

However, the artillery of South Korea, which I had only heard about, was much more powerful than expected.

With an army of about 1 million men, it was hard to understand where all that artillery came from, and the firing range was so long that the artillery of the Northeast Army fired shells at places we couldn’t even get close to, so we could only take them on helplessly.

The losses inflicted in the fighting this afternoon were enormous.

In just half a day of fighting, 300,000 troops lost thousands of tanks, armored vehicles, and trucks.

No, the loss of 300,000 troops was not that regrettable.

If we could just break through the front lines of the South Korean bastards, it would be a worthwhile deal even if we lost 1 or 2 million.

However, they were only able to blow away 300,000 troops without causing any damage to them, and this made Lin Biao worry even more because there was no guarantee that the situation would improve in the future.

And there was another concern.

The point is that in today’s battle, their air force was nowhere to be seen.

The enemy’s air force was not only rated as the strongest in Asia, but also the second strongest in the world, after the US military, and was known to be incomparably stronger than the British Air Force, which was rated third.

Both quantitatively and qualitatively.

So, Lin Biao never even thought about air power from the beginning.

Because the People’s Liberation Army could not afford to blow up the air force that it had painstakingly built up over a dozen years in a fight that was not even worth fighting.

So, if the South Korean Air Force attacked, they had no choice but to get hit, but the only fortunate thing was that the enemy’s air force did not have bombers.

Therefore, even if some loss is forced upon them, it is thought that it will not have a decisive impact on the world.

Moreover, the People’s Liberation Army was accustomed to fighting in situations where the enemy had superiority in the air.

Even though they suffered greatly from Kuomintang fighter planes during the Chinese Civil War, it was the Red Army that ultimately won the war.

If only those damned Americans and fucking South Koreans hadn’t intervened, the Red Army could have pushed Chiang Kai-shek and his men back across the sea.

Still, it was strangely unsettling that the enemy’s air force was not even visible in the daytime battle.

It was a bit of a relief in a situation that was on the verge of collapse.

Eventually, he issued an air defense alert to all troops and prepared 37mm and 57mm anti-aircraft guns, but Lin Biao was still anxious.

It was such a shame that the Soviets never sold us the S-75 (SA-2) anti-aircraft missiles they had deployed in large quantities, even though we had asked them to do so.

And as if they had noticed Lin Biao’s thoughts, at midnight the enemy’s artillery fire stopped and a loud noise began to be heard from the sky.

Kwaaaaang!

At some point, the small noise of the jet engine changed into a tremendous roar, and the heavens and the earth began to shake.

Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeng!

“Air defense! Air defense!”

Loud sirens blared, and gunners in the Northeast Army’s air defense positions hastily aimed their anti-aircraft guns at the sky.

And soon, hundreds of searchlights began to light up the sky, and anti-aircraft guns began to fire.

Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!

As if fireworks were being set off, flames began to burst across the dark sky, but as if to mock them, South Korea’s Air Force fighter-bombers calmly flew high in the sky and soon dropped the bombs that were hanging in clusters.

Swoosh! Boom! Kwaang! Kwakwak!

“Eww!”

Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!

“Kwaaaaak!”

“Shoot! Keep firing anti-aircraft fire!”

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Lin Biao consoled himself by saying that it was fortunate that there were no bombers in South Korea, but it was far from the truth.

The bomb load of the Republic of Korea Air Force’s F-3 bomber is a whopping 10 tons.

Of course, no fighter jet goes on a mission with its bomb load fully loaded as specified.

This is because, in an actual operation, if we did that, there would be various problems such as the cruising range being drastically reduced, but even so, we were able to pack a considerable amount of bombs into today’s night air raid operation.

First of all, since the People’s Liberation Army Air Force was no match for them, the air strike fighter-bombers could take off from airfields close to the front lines, and after takeoff, they did not need to fly low; they only had to climb straight to cruising altitude and maintain that altitude throughout.

In the end, the F-3 bomber could carry a whopping 7 tons of its 10-ton bomb load as aerial bombs, which was enough to carry more than 20 500-pound bombs, a full load of self-defense machine guns, and a basic air-to-air armament.

This was possible because the Republic of Korea Air Force installed as many hard points as possible for armament from the beginning when developing the F-3 fighter-bomber. Some fighter-bombers went into operation carrying not only 500-pound bombs, but also more than ten 1,000-pound bombs.

Are you glad there are no bombers?

The later G-type B-17 bomber, which reduced Germany to ashes during World War II, could only carry 4.5 tons of bombs for short-range bombing, and could only carry 2 tons of bombs for long-range operations of over 1,000 km.

The later B-29 was no different.

The maximum bomb load was 9 tons, which was 1 ton less than that of the F-3 bomber, and in reality, it was common for the aircraft to go out on air raid missions without even half that amount loaded.

It is said that after Stone Age enthusiast Curtis LeMay took office as commander of the 21st Bomber Command, which was responsible for the bombing of Japan, he had the machine guns and ammunition removed from the B-29 bombers and even the gunners were not allowed to board them.

This is because the bomb load of bombers during World War II was much smaller than expected.

So how amazing was it that the F-3 bomber was carrying over 7 tons of bombs?

Even the F-1 bomber, which has a maximum armament weight of about 5 tons, was equipped with basic weapons and carried a bomb weighing 3.5 tons.

There were a whopping 200 of these bombers, which is as far from Lin Biao’s thoughts as Andromeda.

Swoosh! Boom!

Boom! Boom! Boom!

“Kwaaah!”

“All the anti-aircraft positions are being destroyed!”

“The radar position has been destroyed!”

“The entire oil storage facility is on fire!”

“The howitzer positions are flying away!!”

Kwaaaaang!

Suddenly, a large explosion occurred that could not have been created by the bombs of the bombers attacking, and a storm swept through the command center that was watching the air raid in front in sorrow from the rear.

“Ta, the ammunition depot has exploded!”

“Wow, how on earth did they get that much accuracy in a night raid… … .”

The ammunition depot was blown away.

A large ammunition depot built in the northwest of Tangshan, 120 km away from the front line, out of fear of enemy air raids.

Of course, a considerable amount of ammunition had been distributed in advance, and several smaller ammunition depots than the one just blown up had been hidden here and there, but that large depot contained a quarter of the ammunition that would be used by an army of six million men.

So it became clear as day that from now on we would suffer from a severe ammunition shortage.

“Rain, damn it!”

Lin Biao was so shocked that he couldn’t help but curse.

As someone said, I couldn’t understand how they could achieve such crazy accuracy in air strikes at night.

After a while, the scene after the 200-strong air raid was indescribably gruesome.

It’s hard to tell if this is the front line or the rear.

“Report the damage.”

“We have to check each one to be exact, but 60% of the anti-aircraft positions were destroyed. All radar positions were destroyed. It is also estimated that more than 30% of the howitzer positions were destroyed.”

“… … .”

These are radars that were barely purchased after making a death noise in the Soviet Union.

All those radars flew away.

“And the ammunition depot in the rear was blown away, and more than half of the food warehouse was also destroyed. More than a hundred tanks and armored vehicles were destroyed or damaged to the point where they could not move for a while. Oh, and more than half of the fuel depot was also burned.”

“Ah, damn it! Put out the fire and save at least one more!”

“Oh, I understand.”

But then it happened.

Eeeeeeeeeeng!

Suddenly a siren began to blare.

“Sir, really? Again?”

That prediction was right.

Kuuuuuuuuu!

Again the heavens and earth began to shake with a loud noise.

“Air defense! Air defense! Air defense!”

“oh my god!”

Swoosh!

Boom! Boom! Boom!

As the bombs fell again, they began to destroy the few remaining key targets.

“How could this be… … .”

Lin Biao really felt like he was going to collapse.

That night, the South Korean Air Force launched three air strikes over two hours, destroying the anti-aircraft gun positions and howitzer positions of the Northeast Army, destroying almost all of the anti-aircraft guns and 80% of the large-caliber howitzers, including the 152mm.

What was even more painful for the People’s Liberation Army was that more than half of the Northeast Army’s ammunition was lost, and more than 60% of its fuel storage facilities were burned.

And that wasn’t the end of it.

“Commander! The Air Force’s air strikes have ended.”

“Really? You really are good at hitting, huh?”

“Hahaha! Now we can just push forward at breakneck speed.”

“Don’t be too fond of it. If you do, accidents will happen.”

“all right.”

“So, did our kids get a lot of rest?”

“Well, two hours is a decent amount of rest.”

“Okay! Then let’s start again! The method is the same as before! Let’s keep firing in turns.”

“All right.”

Boom! Boom! Boom!

“firing!”

Boom! Boom! Boom!

The front was ablaze again, and this insane level of South Korean artillery fire continued until 4:30 in the morning.

“Cease fire!”

“Cease fire!”

“Now stop shelling and rest until morning. If we continue like this, our children will get tired first.”

“ha ha ha!”

“Let them get a good rest until 8 in the morning! In particular, tell the artillerymen to sleep until 9! We’ll be shelling them again around 10.”

“All right.”

While the People’s Liberation Army on the front lines was running around here and there, exhausted and trying to control the battlefield, the Northern Army of the Republic of Korea on the other side had only posted a minimal number of guards and were all fast asleep.

surprise attack?

Is that even possible?

Albatross 2 of the Sky has moved to the front line and is watching for 24 hours?

Chief of Staff Lim Cheol-hwan fell asleep, thinking that the war was truly unfair.

The command center also needed to take a break now.