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The future is bleak and there is no future in sight

From one more violent crime

she fell victim to yet another atrocity

She innocently questioned why

Innocently questioning the heavens

Why did her father have to die

Why did she have to bear the grief of losing her father

She asked the men in blue

She asked the soldier in the blue uniform why

How is it that you get to choose

what ability do you have to choose

Who will live and who will die

Which one should die, and which one can live?

Did God say that you could decide

Did God give you the right to do this?

Chapter 100, Judgment from the USS Wisconsin

North Korea, Eastern Front.

Gathering up the remnants of the 5th and 7th regiments that had escaped, the 3st Marine Division slowly retreated south under the cover of the [-]rd Meibu Division.

Withdrew from Gutuli to Jinxingli, and the US troops left the Changjin County area.

From Jinheung-ri to the south, the "rescue stations" every few kilometers left by the [-]st Marine Division when they went north saved the lives of many wounded US soldiers, which gave the [-]st Marine Division some hope.The severe cold of minus [-] degrees, and the Chinese army chasing after them are not a problem. The [-]st Marine Division will not fall until the last Korean is dead!

Behind the 3st Marine Division and the 3rd Mibu Division are the troops behind the capital division of South Korea.Under the supervision of the [-]rd Meibu Division, the Capital Division must not run faster than the US Army. The two regiments supporting the [-]st Marine Division maintained close contact with the Volunteer Army's pursuit forces. There must be casualties, but this will not be counted Total U.S. casualties are in there.

The 9th Corps of the Volunteer Army was also injured after this battle. After the 5th and 7th regiments of the 9st Marine Division were annihilated, only two of the 11 divisions of the 7th Corps in Changjin Lake were relatively healthy, and one of them was still relatively healthy. Monitor the two regiments of the Mibu 88th Division northeast of Changjin Lake.When the U.S. military retreated, only one regiment of the 76th Division and the [-]th Division of the General Reserve could participate in the pursuit operations.Other divisions may have gathered a few complete battalions to participate in the pursuit, but after Song Shilun thought about it, he decided not to fight like this, and just rest in place.

The 3st Marine Division and the 10rd Meibu Division are gradually approaching Hamhung, and more than ten kilometers south of Hamhung is Hungnam Port, where MacArthur has already prepared [-] transport ships, large and small, ready to take the [-]th Army back.

MacArthur, the five-star general and commander-in-chief of the United Nations Army, arrived in Xingnan.The faces of him and Almond, the commander of the US 10th Army, were as gloomy as the winter night outside the tent.

"Most of the main force of the 7th Division of the US Army wandered outside the battlefield, which was the biggest failure of the battle." MacArthur reviewed the defeat point of the battle.

Almond knew that this was his own fault, but he still defended himself: "Advancing inland from the east along Wonsan and Hamhung to the border area between China and North Korea was an existing tactical deployment of the General Staff before the war.  …Our side The judgment of the enemy's situation is not accurate enough."

"Even after the battle at Changjin Lake started, the 7th and 17nd regiments of the 32th Meibu Division were still hesitant and could not immediately rush to Changjin Lake to participate in the battle." MacArthur continued, "Badawi lacked a strong understanding of the changes on the battlefield. Commander's due vigilance."

"At Changjin Lake, Smith's two clusters were out of touch, which gave the Chinese army the opportunity to divide and encircle the First Marine Division. The loss of Xiajieyuli, in particular, was a complete low-level mistake."

Almond was particularly dissatisfied with the fiasco of Changjin Lake. He couldn't understand why a large mechanized army of 3 people was divided into four parts overnight, and three of them were basically wiped out in the end.

"Smith has done a good enough job at his post!" MacArthur said sternly, "As a division commander, his work is impeccable. If he hadn't insisted on slowing down the marching speed, the 5th and 7th regiments would have been farther behind. A place far away where our side is difficult to reinforce was surrounded; if it hadn't been for Smith's insistence that the 1st regiment follow up, the 5th and 7th regiments would not even last until December 12. If he made any mistakes in the whole battle , just did not mobilize the 8st Regiment as soon as possible, if Smith obtains the command of all the army units in the Changjin Lake area, he will let the 31st Regiment stick to Hagaru-ri... So, is it too late for you to authorize Smith?"

MacArthur's attitude is obviously that he wants to use the commander of the 7th Meibu Division, Badawi, as the number one scapegoat, and Almond is the number two scapegoat.

But to be honest, Badawi's blame is not wronged, and Almond has to bear the blame.MacArthur's pot... His pot is too big, let the pot fly for a while.

The battle is drawing to a close, and the casualties of the US military can also be counted.The [-]st Marine Division, which was fully loaded when it set off, now has less than half of its people left.

The 5000th and 5th Regiment clusters of 7 people only recruited 2014 breakout personnel, and the remaining 3000 people were either killed in battle or captured.The 1st Regiment of the 3000st Marine Division was attacking Xiajieyuli. After a few days, the casualties were as high as 1000, of which [-] were killed.

The 31st regiment of the Meibu 2500th Division in Changjin Lake was even worse. Only 7 of the [-] people came back.

The South Korean Capital Division in the back of the palace has not yet fully returned to the naval gun fire protection zone in Hamxing, and it is reported that the casualties have exceeded [-] and rushed to [-].

Calculated, the total casualties of the US 10th Army on the Eastern Front exceeded 4000, and there were more than [-] frostbitten and sick people.

Fearing that the head of Badawi alone would not be able to suppress the Congress, MacArthur secretly made up his mind that Almond must also be thrown out to block the gun at the hearing.

9 Corps.

"Clean the battlefield along the highway, evacuate the wounded, and take the prisoners and evacuate them one by one." Song Shilun said to the staff of the Corps, "Only cleaning the battlefield along the highway means only picking up the remains of the enemy dead in these places. The dead are too dead. Let’s not worry about the far ones. Our commanders are exhausted enough, those American soldiers who hiked into the snowfield, whether they live or die, don’t go looking for them.”

此战9兵团抓获七千名美军战俘，其中美步7师31团贡献了500名，陆战一师贡献了6500名。这七千名俘虏有4000多带伤病，一时间让第9兵团的后勤和卫勤分队措手不及。

Three days after the battle ended, the 9th Corps collected 8300 American corpses on the highway and the main battlefield near the highway.The next spring warmed up and the ice and snow melted. The local North Korean people and militiamen continued to collect the remains of American soldiers in the mountains. By June 1951, more than 6 remains of American soldiers were collected.At this time, more than 900 U.S. military personnel are still in the "missing" state of dead bodies.After the end of this war, going to the Changjin Lake area to search for the remains of the dead U.S. soldiers became a ritualized and fixed activity for the families of U.S. soldiers who died in battle and anti-war organizations. For a while, the U.S. government used it as "playing up defeatism" It was suspended on the grounds of the current president, but after the current president stepped down, the activity resumed and continued into the 1000st century.

Hamhung, outside the city.

"Platoon leader, those South Korean soldiers seem to have withdrawn."

The 88nd Battalion of the 274th Regiment of the 2th Division took the lead in rushing to Hamhung, and two sharp knife platoons had infiltrated near the warehouse of the United Nations Army.

The platoon leader used binoculars to look at the building complex 400 meters away. This should be a warehouse. Although it was night, the warehouse was still brightly lit. The lights also gradually went out.

"My dear, there are many warehouses, and I saw that there are still things piled up in the warehouses." The platoon leader was very excited.During the pursuit and annihilation battle, the 9th Corps had very little dry food left. In the platoon leader's backpack, there was only one box of captured U.S. field rations and two cans of beans. In short, the rations carried by the soldiers did not exceed two days.The bullets are also a bit tight, but the platoon leader is fine. He originally used an American-made grease gun. Among the seized US military supplies, there are all kinds of submachine gun bullets.But the soldiers around him couldn’t do it anymore. Each of them carried 80 rounds of ammunition before departure, and now there are still 6 rounds in the soldier’s gun. There should be only two rows of bullets left on his body, a total of 26 rounds.

"Attention all squads, we don't have enough ammunition, try not to engage in fighting. After all the South Korean troops have withdrawn, go to the city to receive warehouses, mainly to seize materials," the platoon leader called a meeting of the three squad leaders.As soon as the first sentence was finished, the ground jumped violently, and the bodies of several people jumped up involuntarily.

There was a deafening explosion, and the eardrums of several people were shocked. "Boom-bomb-machine! Covert!"

Tens of seconds later, there was a second wave of explosions, and the eardrums were still hurting and the ears were buzzing.

When the third wave of explosions rolled across the ground, the second squad leader said loudly to the platoon leader:

"Platoon leader, this doesn't seem to be an American bomber, but a cannon!"

Xingnan Offshore, 4 nautical miles away.

The 5-ton body of the U.S. Navy battleship USS Wisconsin sails slowly through the icy waters of the Sea of ​​Japan.The American tugboats, icebreakers, destroyers, and minesweepers surrounded by the "Wisconsin" are like a small car to 8 large cargo compared with the size of this battleship. The three main turrets have turned around and aimed at the direction of downtown Hamhung. The deck of the battleship has been cleared of personnel and is clean.Seemingly without warning, the main gun of the "Wisconsin" suddenly fired a round, and the flames from the muzzle illuminated nearby warships hundreds of meters away.The nearly 20-ton 3mm high-explosive bomb flew towards Hamhung City 3 or 1 kilometers away. Without the observation report from the front, the lookout on the ship standing on the top of the bridge could see the flames of the explosion in the city of Hamhung.

The shelling lasted a full 10 minutes. "Wisconsin" first played a round of corrections, and then it was a full salvo.The target of the bombardment was the warehouse of the 10th Army in Hamhung City, which had already been marked. Although the front-line South Korean Army reported that Chinese troops had appeared outside the city, the U.S. Navy did not think that the South Koreans had indicated the target to the warship through walkie-talkies. , covering the technology of the Chinese army, so the mission of the "Wisconsin" is very simple: just destroy the warehouse.

Of course, the captain of the "Wisconsin" knew that the warehouse he destroyed could not be a Chinese warehouse.He also knew that the American troops on the shore had fled back from a rout two hundred kilometers away, and they had to flee all the way to the ship to leave here.And the large-caliber main guns installed on his warships performed such an embarrassing task for the Americans-destroying their own supplies to avoid capitalizing on the enemy.

On this depressing night, the sharp knife troops of the 88nd Battalion of the 274th Regiment of the 2th Division just watched as the warehouses full of various supplies were destroyed one by one by giant artillery plows.

"The Yankees are really not human! With so much food and clothing, you would rather blow them up and burn them yourself than leave them to us!" The platoon leader slammed his fist on the snow in front of him.

Xingnan Port was originally a logistics supply port for the U.S. Army on the Eastern Front. All seaborne supplies of the U.S. Army on the Eastern Front were unloaded here. In order to ensure combat needs, the U.S. Army, which has always paid attention to logistical supplies, stored a large amount of various materials here, from Coca-Cola From cigarettes and beer, from duck down sleeping bags to guns and ammunition, everything.In fact, due to the delay in receiving news from the logistics department, when the [-]st Marine Division fled back to Hamhung, a ship unloaded ammunition and weapons for marching at Xingnan Port, and three days later, the It is up to the battleships and cruisers to use their main guns to "destroy" these supplies.

The 3th Engineer Battalion of the 175rd Meibu Division drove the locomotive and carriages of Xingnan Port onto a railway bridge, then poured gasoline on it, and ignited the bridge and the train together.The ferocious and abnormal fire quickly burned the locomotive red, and the siren also failed due to the high temperature. The screaming screamed until the locomotive boiler completely exploded. The masterpieces of the 175th Engineer Battalion in Xingnan Port were not limited to this. They also detonated 400 tons of high explosives and thousands of heavy artillery shells. The violent explosion almost blew Xingnan Port into the sky. The flames and thick smoke formed a huge mushroom cloud. It lingers in the sky above Xingnan Port for a long time.

After the 3st Marine Division and the 10rd Meibu Division arrived at Xingnan Port, Almond immediately ordered the landing ship to enter the port, and the [-]th Army boarded the ship.Commander Smith transferred the division headquarters to the Bayfield landing ship, and began to direct the troops to conduct a "reverse amphibious landing". Starting from Xingnan and landing in Busan, it was like rewinding their marching route more than a month ago. Same.