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Very good read. I like how the fighting is detailed in this story. Can't wait for the next one!!
The 2nd Korean War was rapidly turning in favor of the ROK and its US allies. The North Korean Airforce had long been swept from the skies as the USAF JASDF and ROKAF wiped out the North Korean air force its antiquated aircraft unable to compete against the ultra-modern planes of the US and Asian allies as for the first time since Vietnam pilots began to attain Ace status including a colonel Malcolm Granger. It wasn't long before the ground forces of the DPRK were under constant air attack as the Norths SAMs systems and SPAAGs were ripped apart by SEAD missiles as US B1 Lancers began low level runs over DPRK formations. Casualties numbered in the ten of thousands, yet the forces of the North continued on. By the end of the 4th day, well over 10000 vehicles lay destroyed or wrecked along the DMZ victims of SABOT, or HEAT warheads or mines or missiles. Byt his point it was clear to everyone that the war was going to be the end of the DPRK. Everyone knew it the Chinese, the Russians, and most certainly the United States finally pleased to be able to put an end to the on and off madness occurring on the Korean Peninsula.
McChord AFB just south of Tacoma was a flurry of activity. Nonstop flights were being made as C5 Galaxies and C17 Globemasters transported soldiers, supplies, and equipment to embattled allied forces on the Korean peninsula, hardly anyone had the time or even cared to notice tarp covered shapes being moved onto a squadron of C5 Galaxies. Those shapes were US Army M1A4 Abrams MBTs being sent to the Korea for testing in combat conditions with its new PALADIN point defense laser system and new M341 120mm auto-loaded high-pressure cannon, they were the latest in US army technology. Korea would be their baptism of fire. As the C5s rumbled into the air. They would be joined by two more C17s joined them carrying civilian contractors and maintenance crews for America's latest tools of war.
The Munsan Corridor leads directly from the DMZ to the South Korean capital of Seoul. It is this unfortunate accident of geography that led to Seoul being a battleground time after time during the Korea War. Third Army, arguably the Republic of Korea’s strongest and best-equipped force, is responsible for defending the corridor. Over the last 72 hours, they had seen constant action defending Soul to the best of their ability. But, they had been worn down. The 101st Separate Infantry Brigade Armored battalion was a forward deployed unit and had barely survived the events of the last 3 days. They were being pulled back for rest and replenishment, the 1st Tank Battalion 1st Marine Division all equipped with the shiny new M1A4 was relieving them along joined the rest of the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force. They were facing down the DPRKs latest offensive. 4 full armored divisions just as command had promised. 744 tracked vehicles against 58 tanks, 16 TOW equipped humvees, and 34 Javelin teams. It looked to be a massacre in the making. It was. 15 minutes later the last DPRK track exploded, a victim of a TOW missile. Four of the Korean tanks, all knock-off of the Russian T-62, had escaped, all were damaged, all victims of the Javelin crews. The remaining 740 tracked DPRK vehicles had been destroyed. None had made it closer than 1500 meters to the American lines. None of the Abrams had fired over twenty rounds, half of their original magazine load. For a moment, it looked like victory.
Then the DPRK infantry appeared in its thousands. The Abrams gunners quickly took stock of the number of “beehive” rounds they had aboard while the tank commanders and loaders verified the readiness of their machine guns and activated the anti-infantry mode on their Point Defence Lasers. Frantic calls began for artillery support, only to be answered by the horrible news that there were other in worse, WORSE, need. As the enemy reached fifteen hundred meters the men the 1st Tank Battalion settled in for what looked to be a remembered fight. That was when it happened. A miracle.
North Korean infantrymen approaching at a steady trot, simply fell over. Some screamed a few grasped their heads as they few. Strangely, bizarrely, seemingly for no reason, cloth covers on NK infantry helmets burst into flames. The clothing of some of the fallen enemy also began to burn, not everywhere, but where it was touched by gun barrels, or belt buckles or anything metal. Following troops reached the piles of corpses and flopped over, joining them in death. The affair then began to show a pattern. The infantry advanced, filling the field below the defensive position, then, just before reaching the edge of the minefield, the magic swept over them, ushering them from this life. One group would cry out, with many grabbing at their helmets as smoldering fires spontaneously appeared, The next group would just die, no muss, no fuss. Alive one second and dead the next. None of the Marines or Koreans pulled a trigger after the first smoking group fell over, Everyone simply watched, too fascinated to turn away even as their minds began to shriek at what they were watching.
The DPRK troops tried eleven assaults before they finally broke and ran, more afraid of the American magic than of the Dear Leader’s secret police. Fifteen thousand men simply fell over and died, struck, it seemed, by the Angel of Death Herself. It was as though the hand of God had reached out and swept the field of the enemy. What had begun as two divisions of crack active duty infantry had descended into a terrified mob beyond all logical thought or control.
The Marines of the 1st Tank Battalion were one of the first to witness the deployment of the Active Denial System and the DPRK had been the first to experience it. The Microwave tank as it would come to be known in the GWOT. They would not be the last.
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