The US military stationed in Asia is known for its amphibious landing combat capability. The Volunteer Army, which lacks mobility capabilities, will inevitably be able to withstand it again, similar to the amphibious combat flanking attack of the Inchon landing, especially when it is not prepared. Therefore, Commander Peng must not allow the tragedy of the Inchon landing to be repeated.

Commander Peng said: "You can't counterattack too far to the south, as soon as the enemy lands, my throat will be contained!" "Because at that time, the main railway supply line of North Korea was on the west coast, close to the sea. As soon as the U.S. troops landed, they would cut off the transportation lines of the volunteers. Therefore, Commander Peng said: "Even if I hit Pusan head-on, I will have to be forced to retreat, so I can't advance far south." ”

It was necessary to seize the front of the US troops to fight at the landing site and exert pressure on them on the front of the battle line in order to smash the US army's attempt and eliminate the threat behind the flank of the squadron, which became an important reason for Commander Peng to insist on starting a new campaign immediately. In view of the "lack of success" of the volunteer army during the Fourth Campaign, especially the weakness of insufficient troops, Zhong Yang Jun Wei mobilized troops to Korea to the maximum extent that the logistics could guarantee at that time, and from mid-February to early April, the 3rd and 19th Corps, the 47th Army, as well as the newly formed four ground artillery divisions and four antiaircraft artillery divisions, entered the DPRK one after another. Soon, the 120,000 additional troops drawn from the domestic troops all arrived and replenished the troops.

The Korean People's Army was also reorganized and expanded, and soon, Commander Peng's mood improved with the arrival of additional troops in the country. Commander Peng, in his report to the Great Leader on the plan for the Fifth Campaign, said: "This campaign is extremely important, and it is a great battle. Even at the cost of 50,000 or 60,000 men, several divisions of the enemy must be destroyed......"

The great leader was much calmer, and he said with concern: "The situation of our previous battles has proved that it is difficult to achieve the goal of annihilation by encircling several divisions, an entire division, or even a regiment of the US army at a time, and in the first stage of this campaign, it is planned to annihilate five divisions of the enemy, including three divisions of the US army, which may be objectively difficult to achieve...... but finally approved Commander Peng's battle plan.

At the beginning of April 1951, Commander Peng urgently summoned Wen Yucheng, commander of the 40th Army, and said: "Originally, your 40th Army had fought very hard, and you should go to the back to rest and recuperate, but now for the victory of the battle, I want to keep you to continue to participate in the fifth campaign, and I hope you will hold on for a while." ”

During the preparation of the fifth campaign of the Volunteer Army, which lasted for more than a month. The logistics units continued to deliver supplies to the front line, and even after being attacked by the US military, they were still stubborn. The Americans were surprised by the persistence of the volunteers, and when the railway was blown up, the Chinese and North Korean soldiers and civilians repaired it on the same day, bombed and repaired it again, and kept repeatedly. According to U.S. military intelligence, the Chinese and North Korean forces have amassed about 700,000 troops, and they also have a premonition that a major battle of unprecedented scale is coming. Reconnaissance intelligence also found that China and the DPRK are building airfields, and it seems that they want to challenge the air superiority of the US military. It was also discovered that the Chinese side had mobilized some armored units, and the US military was ready for a possible armored battle.

At the beginning of the Fifth Campaign, the forces of China and North Korea were already unprecedentedly strong. At this time, there were 950,000 volunteers in the DPRK, and the Korean People's Army also had 340,000 after reorganization. The strength of the Chinese and DPRK sides was 1.3 million, and the number of troops engaged in the offensive on the front line of operations was as high as more than 700,000, which was larger than the number of troops invested in the Huaihai Campaign during the War of Liberation.

However, the situation on the American side changed by this time, Ridgway was promoted to commander-in-chief of the Far East, and Van Vliet, who advocated attack, took over as commander of the US Eighth Army on April 14, 1951.

Van Vliet was a man who was a great advocate of firepower, that is, to increase the use of dan yao during combat. The U.S. military's firepower was already strong enough, but Van Vliet also increased such firepower to five times, coining the saying "Van Vliet dan yao". His logic is to exchange dan yao for human life, that is, to spend more money and die less. With such a large amount of dan yao, how can the volunteers afford it?

From April 22 to April 29, the Chinese and North Korean armies launched the first phase of the fifth campaign, and our volunteer army first held a fan gong on the western front, because Van Vliet had just taken office, he still continued to use the tactics of his predecessor to deal with it, and the whole line retreated 70-80 kilometers. Our Chinese and North Korean armies sent the "United **" back to the vicinity of Seoul.

After the first battle began, the US military did not encounter the expected air and armored battles, and still used the traditional tactics of sea of fire against sea of people. Because the air raids of the US army made it impossible for the volunteers to effectively use the airfield and conduct large-scale armored operations. The offensive launched by the Volunteers was extremely fierce, focusing on the areas defended by the South Korean army. The South Korean army was quickly repulsed, and the flanks of the American forces were exposed. The U.S. military desperately encircled the gap, while the volunteers desperately tried to expand the gap, and the two sides were at a stalemate. After seven days passed, the volunteers ran out of food and ammunition, but the US army still had enough food and ammunition and its firepower did not decrease in the slightest.

After the Fourth Campaign, the US military knew that the logistics and supply of the Volunteers were backward, and coupled with the bombing of the US planes, it was even more overstretched, so the characteristics of the "one-week offensive" were formed, that is, the Volunteers and the US Army would run out of ammunition and food after fighting for a week at most. Although the volunteers were under Seoul, the offensive of the Chinese and North Korean armies had reached the end of their strength. So in the second phase of the offensive against the Chinese and North Korean armies, Van Vliet changed his tactics, no longer retreating one by one when defending, but sticking to the first-line position, no longer giving up Seoul, and putting himself in a stepped formation towards Seoul. As a result, on the Eastern Front, that is, in the direction of the main attack of the Chinese and North Korean armies, a large depression was formed.

The Chinese and North Korean armies originally thought that the U.S. military would continue to use "straight-line tactics" to carry out the fangong, so its transfer plan was still the same: some troops were delayed in a defensive battle in motion, and the main force was covered to rest in the rear.

But Van Vliet's "maneuver tactics" completely disrupted the predetermined plans of the Chinese and North Korean forces. His tactics were to establish a US "task force" with tank units as the backbone, which quickly penetrated into the depths of the Chinese and North Korean forces, threatened the flanks of the Chinese and North Korean troops, and even cut off their retreats.

On May 20, the US 1st Army on the Western Front began to counterattack, forcing the 19th Corps of the Volunteer Army to withdraw in advance, resulting in a big gap in the junction between it and the 3rd Corps on the Central Line!

On May 23, the US 9th Army on the central line began to counterattack, advancing 50-80 kilometers in 3 days, encircling the blocking force of the 3rd Corps of the Volunteer Army, the 180th Division!

On May 27, the Chinese and North Korean armies readjusted their plans, transferred the entire front to the defense, and transferred the 42nd and 47th armies from the rear to strengthen the defensive line. Baidu takes a look at the latest chapter of "Men's World Masterpiece Literature" to read for free for the first time.