Battle of Kamsong
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| 1942 Joyonghean Autumn Campaign | |||||||
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| Part of the Asianna and the Pacific Campaign of the Second Europan War | |||||||
 An Archadian AT gun bogging down Joyonghean tanks at Kamsong. | |||||||
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Battle of Kamsong (5 September - 15 September 1942) took place near the small town of Kamsong, just 30 kms from Samseong-dong. The battle was intended as an attempt by the Imperials to regain the advantage and force the Allies further East. The plan came from the advice of Archadian Marshal Hugo Cavallero. He saw the terrain of Kamsong offering the opportunity to trap the Allies. Upon hearing that a combined Joyonghean and Concordian force would spearhead the push, Marshal Hồ Danh Sĩ Quốc had hoped to nab the Allies of one of their more stronger forces in the theatre by attempting to annihilate Concordian forces at Kamsong.
When the Allies took Daejeon on 30 August 1942, General Douglas Tecumseh Stilwell ordered his formation to advance to secure territories ahead for the main Allied force but his Joyonghean counterpart General Namgung Wook-yun refused to stretch his forces ahead from the main Allied push, in which most were still recovering from the impact of Operation Hippocrene. Stilwell pushed his forces onto Kamsong by 5 September and after encountering light enemy resistance, his forces arrived at Kamsong by 8 September. When the news of Stilwell's arrival in the town came to the Imperials, they put their strategies into play. By the following day, the Concordians in the town came under attack from all sides. Stilwell did not anticipate the incoming attack and requested reinforcements. Upon hearing Stilwell's unauthorised attack on the town, Hanamura immediately ordered Wook-yun to send his forces to attempt to pull Stillwell's men out but not to relieve him, seeing as the Imperials had overwhelming strength around Kamsong. Wook-yun positioned his men to the west of the city, and opened a corridor for the Concordians to pull out of Kamsong. It took only 5 days for the entire Concordian forces in the area to puil out. Wook-yun continued to buy more time for Allied forces to regroup for the Autumn until in 15 September, when he finally ordered his men to retreat back to Daejeon.
The Imperials succeeded in inflicting heavy casualties for the Allies, capitalising on Stilwell's refusal to wait the rest of the Allies to move up to Kamsong. The entire Allied forces would have been in danger had it not for Wook-yun's plan to further delay Imperial forces by holding out for 3 more days. Although an Imperial victory, they were too late to move up to Allied positions around Kumgang and Daejeon as originally planned. 3 days after the end of the battle, General Edward Samegawa's forces were finally pushed into the scene finally took to the field and engaged with Imperial forces towards Kamsong and subsequently at Samseong-dong, where Allied forces finally secured control for Central Joyonghea until the Battle of the Gap, where Imperial forces capitalised on the winter to attempt to destroy the ZANAC forces at Songsinan.