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Chapter 121 An international sensation and uproar!

While the Volunteer Army was frantically attacking the outer positions in Xiajieyu, the situation inside the airport was also grim.

Mr. Smith was on the observation deck, looking at the red sky of the distant mountains, his eyes were extremely quiet.

"Sir?"

An officer walked over quickly behind him and handed over the document report.

Smith turned around and took it, flipping it hastily:
"How's the situation on the front line?"

"It's still not optimistic. Our team has been fighting for a day and two nights, and is still slowly breaking through. Reports from all over the place are asking for reinforcements, but our reinforcements are many and..."

"what happened again."

The officer said cautiously: "Being held back by the Chinese who appeared out of nowhere, the troops heading to Gutuli, Zhenxingli, and Liutanli were blocked all the way, and their progress was slow."

Smith put down the report, threw it on the table, and turned his gaze to the sky in front of the observation deck window:
"Where is Lieutenant Colonel Rich?"

Rich is the supreme commander of the garrison forces in the Xiajieyu area appointed by Smith, and he has unified command of all defensive skirmishers near the airport.

The officer also looked at the half-dark sky that was red as if about to bleed, and quickly reported: "Commander Thomas Rich said through the radio that the overall defense is in good condition. No Chinese troops have broken through from Xiajieyu, and the airport is still safe."

He thought for a while, then stopped talking: "However, there is a different message from the communication battalion detachment..."

"Say."

"They reported that E Company and F Company, which were at the forefront of the position, were knocked out by a Chinese vanguard, and several infantry platoons were knocked out. The casualties were heavy. Fortunately, the machine gun company arrived in time. The artillery battalion of a division headquarters still has the upper hand, preventing the Chinese from rushing forward."

"At the same time, the aviation control team reported that the Chinese were attacking fiercely, and they hoped to request a backup fighter group after the snow fell."

"Yes, contact the Navy in advance."

Smith looked at the snow at night and the sky slowly turning to dawn in the early morning, and nodded.

He finished speaking and continued:
"In addition, inform the whole division of the Marine Warfare Division that we will immediately stop the damn plan to go north, and the teams that are divided and surrounded will make good land-to-air contact after dawn. We must break through the encirclement of the Chinese army today!"

"Yes!"

In fact.

After the battle was started by the Chinese on the night of the 27th, their 28-mile-long northward troops had been forced to transform into a full-line defense throughout the whole day on the 50th.

Just trying to break through the encirclement of the Volunteers, it took more than a day, but it didn't work.

Smith looked at the airstrip outside the glass. The defenders here were all very vigilant. Hearing the sound of fighting in the distant mountains, the atmosphere at the base became even more tense.

"All medical staff, please assist the wounded to the airlift point..."

"Repeat, emergency order, all the wounded retreat to the rear of the observation deck on the west side, waiting for the boarding order. Repeat, emergency order, all the wounded..."

The order to retreat was repeated over and over again on the airport broadcast.

Soldiers carried the stretchers of the wounded to the plane one by one. Most of these wounded were injured by the Chinese homemade grenades during the retreat, and the rest had frostbite and were scratched by bullets.

The firepower of the Chinese is not very fierce, but under the intensive attack, it still caused serious damage to the Marine Corps.

Smith did not agree with the plan to advance northward from the very beginning. The severe cold weather and the elusive Chinese had always made him suspicious.

Tonight, after the news that the Polar Bear Corps had lost contact or had been wiped out, many soldiers in the Marine Corps who were dispirited everywhere were unwilling to fight. This scene made Smith even more determined to retreat the entire army.

He looked at the panic-stricken people below, turned his head, and said loudly to the busy crowd in the airport control room:

"Everyone, mobilize all forces to defend the runway, and we must let our plane fly!"

"Yes, sir!"

The staff in the hall fell silent, and there was some excitement in the silence.

In fact, these people are soldiers who have first-hand access to battle reports from various places, and they are actually the people who know the current urgent situation best.

No one wants the horrors of the fighting that happened everywhere, to happen to themselves, and they also don't want the Chinese to fight in front of them.

After Smith finished speaking, he called in a correspondent:
"Put me on the phone, I want to talk to Tokyo."

"Code 1034, already through, General."

.........

Tokyo (Tokyo).

In Chiyoda District, in the splendid Capitol, the Emperor's Hall is holding a special event at this time.

All the guests arrived, the reporters gathered, and nobles from all over the US military and Japanese high-level officials gathered here.

They were celebrating, drinking, and talking. In the middle of the wine pool, there was a Japanese girl painted in white powder dancing slightly. The Japanese smiled and flattered the entourage who came here with General MacArthur.

There is an old white man who is in charge of hosting the master of ceremonies:

"Ladies and gentlemen! Today is our special day. This is the fifth year of peace in the world since [-]. On this special day, we have one person to thank, that is - our five-star MacArthur Admiral!"

While introducing, he winked urgently at the people next to him, because he couldn’t see MacArthur coming down for a long time, so he could only continue to talk about his achievements slowly:

"Mr. MacArthur has always been committed to international peace. From the Pacific War to the present, he has won the reputation of the people of Japan, the United States, and the United Kingdom. We always believe in his far-sightedness, and he has achieved this great cause..."

"Sir, there is an emergency call from the front line!"

Douglas MacArthur was receiving the call in the side hall upstairs.

"This is MacArthur."

"what?"

"You want to retreat?"

"I said the fight must go on, no retreat, absolutely no retreat! The little Chinese are definitely not a problem, Smith... Shut up! If you can't defend Xiajieyu, you must defend it. This is war. The damn war is not your child's play!"

"This is an order, no retreat, retreat is treason! I will say it again - retreat is treason, stop all retreat actions! If you understand clearly, don't call again, understand..."

In the huge reception room, at this moment, the reporters and guests who were waiting for General MacArthur himself to speak looked at each other in blank dismay.

"This morning, there was a rumor on the international headlines that the situation in the Far East was not ideal. I didn't expect it to be true..."

"Is it time to retreat?"

"Does he know we can hear him?"

Some reporters looked incredible.

The senior old reporter next to him was desperately taking pictures of the figure upstairs who was on the phone: "Hey, what do you care about him? Don't take pictures quickly-this is international news!"

"Don't shoot, don't shoot!"

Immediately, some military officers saw that the atmosphere of the scene was not right, and stepped forward to stop these crazy reporters from taking pictures and recording.

"Play music, play music! Turn up the volume..."

The reception hall, which had a peaceful atmosphere, became a little restless at this moment. The restless ones were the reporters, and the restless ones were the officers.

The Japanese present were even more complicated when they heard that the country that was also in the Far East seemed to have resisted the powerful war of the Americans. Their entire country is now humbly prostrate at the feet of the Americans. This is the case now, and it will still be the same decades later.

In the hall, there was noise, shouting and questioning, the sound of shutters, whispers, and the sound of the symphony orchestra, and the source of everything came from the tall and straight white figure upstairs.

……

It is midnight in North Korea, but it is more than ten o'clock in the morning in the United States.

In fact.

Beginning on the 28th, one after another war correspondents on the North Korean side, one after another manuscripts and urgent battlefield reports that cannot be ignored have spread to the United States, Europe, and even the entire Western world.

The Associated Press reported: "This is not a rumor, this is not alarmist - this is a major international event that is happening around you without knowing it! Under the circumstances that we did not know, under Mr. MacArthur's 'wise guidance', we The ace of the 'Polar Bear Regiment' seems to have disappeared from the US military's order of battle forever!"

A telegram from the News International Morning Post obviously threw criticism directly at MacArthur:

"After learning about our reporter's front-line message, the entire newspaper office lamented and couldn't believe it. Now the soldiers of the entire Far East Expeditionary Army are anxious in the atmosphere of terror from bottom to top. They are under the control of the Chinese. During the horror attack, I realized that the hope of returning home for Christmas is so far away! But now only our Mr. MacArthur is unaware, he himself is still in Tokyo at the moment, and he doesn’t know what will happen to his "friends in Tokyo" after knowing the news How to react? But there is no doubt that this is the biggest lie told by MacArthur in this century, and it is also the worst war situation that the United States has suffered since World War II.”

The title of "Time" magazine is even more terrifying: "We have lost the battle-yes, you read that right, the Americans have lost the battle for the first time against the Chinese who are full of potatoes and hand grenades."

The British "Guardian" is happy to hear it, and their reporters' press releases in North Korea are also piled up like a mountain.

They gloated so much: "This is the harshest winter the Americans have ever suffered. General Douglas is leading the entire Union Army and seems to be heading towards an irreversible dark abyss. The latest news from our frontline reporters in Japan seems to be that the General himself Not willing to retreat, the officers of the British Union forces on the front line have already protested, the continuous planes and tanks did not bring a sense of security to the army, MacArthur seems to use the lives of our British soldiers to make up for the mistakes he made..."

The Soviet "Pravda" in a secluded place in Eastern Europe only published a black-and-white funny cartoon on the head: a bald eagle with half of its wings broken, retreating crazily in the sky with an American flag in its mouth, and the eagle was wearing MacArthur's distinctive star and white stripes Crusader cap.

Next to it is a small Moscow comment - 'The Americans fought the wrong war in the wrong place. '

After the shocking start on the Korean battlefield was reported back to the United States, public opinion was even more uproarious. More and more news came, and the American people were emotional.

Before the war, many American parents personally sent their sons to the battlefield, but at this time they discovered that such a nightmare war was coming, countless people were petitioning, and countless people rushed to the streets to protest.

"Make love, not war!"

"War is the business of barbarians!"

"We want peace, we want my son (we don't want war, we want our children)!"

In front of the steps of the Congress Square, some people held placards and held a sit-in. The police cleared the way on the street. A large number of Americans joined the parade.

The people of the United States are in chaos, and the Department of Defense and the Pentagon have also received repeated letters of reprimand from sixteen allied countries, and urgent inquiries from various departments have piled up. They are urgently dispatching orders to try to communicate with the Far East front. get in touch.

After the reception, MacArthur hurried from Tokyo to North Korea. Countless reporters were chasing his plane, and calls from the Ministry of National Defense and the president hit him one by one.

In this regard.

He didn't say a word, but replied with a few words in a telegram:

"No one understands the Orientals better than me, we will never retreat, we will never lose!"

Similarly, international news flew to all parts of the world like snowflakes, and people as far away as Beijing, China, soon learned of the news.

evening.

From somewhere in the Nanhai compound, hearty laughter came from.

The teacher served dinner with many news articles, and under the lights of Beijing night, he happily wrote a congratulatory message to the Ninth Corps:
"I heard about the current situation. Our Ninth Corps has fought for several days and has achieved great victories. Not only have we basically wiped out the [-]st Marine Regiment and several other reinforcements, but we have also completely wiped out a regiment of the US [-]th Division in the Xinxingli area. I hope that the Song Dynasty will continue to work hard. If our army can annihilate the other troops in Xiajieyu, it will bring about great changes in the Korean War..."

(End of this chapter)