Although Zhang Huangxin said it was already very serious, in fact, the situation on the front line was far more serious than Zhang Huangxin's description!

Just when the Volunteer Army advanced its troops to the Seoul-Wonsan line again, the American troops, who had already retreated near the 37th parallel and had been heavily replenished, began to counterattack.

Their first target was a certain corps of volunteers on the Eastern Front!

The US offensive was more mature and sharp than in the fourth campaign, and a certain corps that had just entered the Korean War and had a large proportion of new recruits was suddenly blinded in the face of the sudden fierce offensive of the US army.

By the time they reacted, the left and right flanks had been outflanked by the high-speed advancing armored mechanized units of the US army, and even several important supply lines had been cut off.

In desperation, Zhi Si could only order the troops of the corps to break out immediately.

Although Shiji's order was not untimely, the situation on the battlefield was changing rapidly, and when Shiji's order was conveyed to all units, the cutting-edge division of a certain corps was no longer surrounded by the US legion, so the eastern front of the Volunteer Army was knocked a big hole by the US army.

Li Qiwei, who had already taken over as commander-in-chief of the United Nations Forces, immediately seized this gap in the battle line and immediately transferred the armored mechanized units belonging to the 1st and 25th Divisions of the US Marine Corps to form a powerful armored assault battle group.

As a result, several elite combat divisions of the Volunteer Army in front of Seoul were completely wiped out in the area south of the 38th parallel.

For this reason, while Ridgway continued to strengthen the left hook on the Eastern Front, he could order the main force of the US Eighth Army south of Seoul to immediately launch a long-awaited offensive against the Volunteer Army in front of him.

Lieutenant General Van Vliet, who had just taken up the post of commander of the Eighth Army, had long been impatient with waiting, and after receiving Ridgway's order, he immediately used unimaginable artillery fire to baptize the volunteers who were advancing 20 kilometers north of Seoul like combing their hair.

Immediately, the armored units of the US 1st Cavalry Division quickly moved north, replacing the British 7th Brigade, which had been defeated, and rushed towards the forward troops of the Volunteer Army.

The Volunteers were suddenly attacked by the US army, but they did not panic at first, and in the face of the frantic artillery fire of the US army, they still fought a strange tiger with the enemy in front of them.

However, just over 20 hours later, the situation took a sharp turn for the worse, because the flank of the Western Front Volunteers was suddenly attacked by the US army, and they were caught off guard and tore a hole more than 10 kilometers long.

In this way, if the volunteer army on the Western Front insists on fighting, it will be in danger of annihilation, and there is no choice but to retreat!

But the volunteers wanted to retreat, but the U.S. army did not agree, you must know that the U.S. army had been fighting hard with the volunteers for nearly a year before they encountered such a good opportunity to encircle and annihilate the main force of the volunteers.

As long as all the elite main forces of the Volunteer Army on the Western Front can be annihilated to the south of the 38th Parallel, the situation in North Korea will be completely reversed at that time, and it is not impossible to attack the north of the 38th Parallel and drink the Yalu River again.

It was precisely because of this opportunity that the US troops, from General Ridgway, commander-in-chief of the United Nations Forces, down to the extraordinary American GIs, all launched fierce attacks again and again on the volunteers in front of them.

As a result, the Volunteer Army suffered heavy casualties during the retreat!

However, fortunately, the volunteer troops on the Western Front were all trump cards played in the civil war, and the commanders and fighters had rich battlefield experience and dealt with the situation decisively, although there were heavy casualties, but under the alternate cover of several troops, the US army never achieved its wish.

Until May 6th......

"Woo~~~whoosh~~~boom~~~"

After a burst of explosions, Old Tang shook his somewhat swollen head, and the thick soil that fell on his body fell in a slump, but Old Tang didn't care about this, and immediately reached out and pulled up the messenger next to him from the ground, just about to give an order.

But I found that my hand was light, and when I looked again, I realized that what I was holding in his hand was only the broken arm of the young communicator, and as for me, I had already been blown up by the artillery fire just now.

Although Lao Tang was accustomed to seeing life and death during this time, when he saw that the signal soldier who showed two tiger teeth all day long as he only smiled was blown up beyond recognition, his tiger eyes couldn't help but turn red, and he solemnly placed that arm next to the body, and muttered: "Brother, let's go!" ”

He stood up and hurried out of the company's anti-artillery holes, and immediately shouted at the soldiers of the heavy firepower companies who rushed out of the various anti-artillery holes: "Put the son of a son of a bitch into the fight!" ”

"Yes~~"

The fighters spoke in unison......

Forty minutes later, Lao Tang snuggled in the anti-artillery hole of the second platoon and the third squad, snorting and panting, the artillery fire of the American army came too fast, so that the soldiers who repelled the American attack did not have time to catch their breath, and rows of shells whistled and smashed over, so Lao Tang could only hide in the anti-artillery hole of the third squad nearby.

At this time, Wu Chen, the leader of the third squad, listened to the artillery fire outside one after another, and couldn't help but look a little dazed, and then turned his head and asked loudly at Old Tang: "Company commander, do you think we can still rush out?" ”

As soon as these words came out, the surrounding soldiers all looked at Old Tang, and Old Tang couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, in fact, why didn't he ask this question in his heart?

But whenever he unconsciously asked himself, the answer he gave was yes and despair, because they were surrounded by American legions that were several times their size......

The left hook of the American army finally hit, and a certain main division of the Volunteer Army, which was responsible for covering the retreat of the other two divisions, was besieged by both flanks of the American army, and was even surrounded.

For this reason, a certain main force division immediately ordered its subordinate units to break through from several directions in battalions and companies as units, and the heavy firepower company was arranged in the direction of Lin'andong in the west.

However, when the heavy firepower company withdrew to Lin'an Cave, the back was cut off again, at first the old Tang didn't feel anything, ready to take advantage of the unstable foothold of the American army, so the trick was repeated to rush out again, only to find out that this force of the American army can be said to be prepared, not only to withstand the offensive of the heavy firepower company, but also to further compress the old Tang.

At the same time, an armored battle group of the 1st Cavalry Division of the US Army, together with the remnants of the 7th Brigade of the British Army, also surged from the south......