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The NKPA field almost two battalions of INF and SMG in an attack on a US artillery position on a 40m hill. The US deploy about two companies of INF reinforced by a few tanks and a battalion of artillery in strong points to cover the possible attack routes. The Koreans try to use a ridge line for cover to drive right at the heart of the US position, but some quick local counterattacks and massive artillery barrages wipe out most of the first wave, including a SMG company that died charging up the slope the guns were emplanted on. The first wave attack left the US slightly out of position to stop the second wave, arriving in trucks from the west, except for the Colonel, who with a macchinne gun platoon occupied a forward point over looking the western road. He directed withering fire at the first NKPA reinforcements to arrive, while the rest drove hell for leather through the fusillade, disembarking in front of the US artillery position after running a gauntlet of opportunity fire from every available US rifle. It looked like the Korean gambit to risk it all on a truck borne charge into the heart of the US position was paying off, when the big guns barked again. 15 minutes later the reinforcements had been wiped out. The stragglers of the first wave were attempting to consolidate a position on the westernmost hill but they were utterly spent. Major US victory. |
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