General Walker's adjutant fired warning shots again and again, but to no avail, the puppet army truck that was like a drunk did not slow down at all, and still rushed straight towards General Walker's American jeep, and General Walker, who was sitting in the car, saw the truck rushing towards the jeep in a daze, and felt that something was wrong, and shouted out of his mouth: "over", and the big truck crashed into the jeep with a strange and even "bang", and the jeep was smashed on the road, and General Walker and the adjutant driver were all thrown out and died General Walker, the joint commander-in-chief of the DPRK, died in a car accident on the way to inspect the front line, and this death was the same as General Walker's old superior, General Patton, the "tiger dog" General Walker went to God to see Patton, and the master and apprentice finally met above.
The front-line war was defeated one after another, and he originally planned to spend Christmas by the Yalu River, but he did not expect that it was impossible to spend the New Year on the 38th parallel, and the anxious Truman dismissed MacArthur from all his posts and appointed Li Qiwei as the new joint commander-in-chief of Korea to stabilize the war near the 38th parallel As soon as Li Qiwei took office, he found that the situation was even worse than he had imagined, and the united forces retreated to the south like a group of frightened and frightened dogs; in the eyes of the officers and men of these teams, only by fleeing southward could they get rid of the pursuit of the Chinese and North Koreans behind, and the morale of the joint team was unprecedentedly low, and there was only one belief in their minds: that is, how to get rid of the pursuit of the Chinese behind them as quickly as possible and escape to safety.
Li Qiwei tried to stop this rout of the United States, and if it continued to retreat endlessly, it would certainly not work, because the Korean Peninsula would be so small, and if it retreated, it would be the sea, and in this way, the favorable situation since the US troops landed at Inchon would come to naught, and the Korean War would end in a fiasco of the United Nations However, the continuous news of defeat and retreat from the front made Li Qiwei unable to return to the sky, so he had to first withdraw the US troops and other joint forces towards the 38th parallel, and urgently mobilized reinforcements from Japan and the Pacific to land at Incheon Port again to withstand the onslaught of the Chinese and Koreans.
At this time, South Korea, which saw the joint retreat, was anxious and hurriedly approached the US ambassador to Seoul, expressing his concern over the joint retreat and hoping that the US military and other "freedom fighters" would not give up on South Korea.
When Li Qiwei learned of this situation, he said to the American ambassador: "Tell that old man that we are temporarily retreating, and our strategy is shifting, and we will still come back when the reinforcements from behind arrive."
On the side of the Volunteer Army, when General Walker, commander-in-chief of the U.S.
Eighth Army, died in a car accident on the way south and MacArthur, who threatened to end the Korean war by Christmas, was dismissed, most commanders thought that the U.S. army was leaderless this time.
The Volunteers and the Korean People's Army should take advantage of the victory and pursue them all the way south, drive all those alliances that invaded Korea into the sea, and recover the entire Korean Peninsula In particular, the top brass of the Korean People's Army is very optimistic about the prospects of the war and believes that it is necessary to immediately seize this opportunity to pursue the South Army, drive all the US troops and the South Korean puppet army into the sea, and liberate the entire Korean Peninsula However, the commander-in-chief of the Volunteer Army, Mr.
Peng, is very aware of the actual situation of the pursuit of his troops, and the combat march in the past few days has already exhausted the physical strength of the soldiers, and they must rest on the spot for a period of time before they can continue to pursue, and the most fatal thing is that the logistics supply line of the Volunteer Army has been stretched a lot at once, which makes the already overstretched supply line even more unsmooth, and the railways and highways have been bombed by US planes all the time, although some Air Force fighters of the Volunteer Army have joined the Korean battlefield.
However, because the scale is too small and the number is too small, it is impossible to solve the problem of the wanton and indiscriminate bombing of logistical supply lines by US planes in the air, and without logistical support, even if they rush forward hard, it will be useless, and there may be a danger of being counterattacked and besieged by the US military taking the opportunity.
General Peng immediately ordered that all troops on the front line immediately slow down the speed of pursuit, and attack the area from the 38th parallel to Seoul as the boundary, and must not pursue further south However, when General Peng's order to delay the pursuit was issued, three or four corps of the Volunteer Army and the corps of the Korean People's Army had already captured Kaesong, crossed the 38th parallel, and were making great strides towards Seoul and Incheon, including Zhou Wu's 11th Army, which had already rushed to the city of Seoul at this moment, and was waiting for the corps to issue the siege order on the outlying positions.
Li Qiwei, the new commander-in-chief of the joint garrison stationed in Incheon, is dispatching troops, and through a period of his research on the Chinese volunteers, he found that the Chinese army is brave and good at fighting, has strong combat effectiveness, and has a very tenacious will to fight, more tenacious than all the opponents he has encountered before, they are different from the Japanese army, the tenacity of the Japanese army is just a stupid suicidal charge, this is easy to deal with, as long as the defender has uninterrupted and dense firepower, the Japanese suicidal charge can be defeated, and these Chinese troops are different, They know very well how to provide tactical cover, they are flexible and flexible, and they are full of tricks, so that the US troops with super firepower are overwhelmed and have a great headache; now they have rushed to the city of Seoul, the capital of South Korea, and they are only a few dozen kilometers away from the port of Incheon, where they are stationed, and the situation is dangerous But Li Qiwei also found the flaws of the Chinese, found that their logistics supply lines are not very smooth, all rely on the northeast region of the country through the railway and road transportation in northern Korea, because the US military aircraft in the air supremacy over North Korea, those railway lines in the north of Korea were almost bombed, and prompted the Chinese army to only use shoulder hands to carry manpower to transport logistics materials to the front, this trend further south, the more obvious, Li Qiwei roughly estimated, The weapons, ammunition and supplies carried by the Chinese can only support their needs for a week at most, and after a week, they need to replenish and recuperate, otherwise it will be difficult to support a large amount of attrition in the movement war and turn to defense, so that they will have a way to deal with the Chinese, first pretend to be unable to fight, and then retreat to the line of the Nakdong River south of Seoul, arrange all the combined troops that have come up with reinforcements there, wait for the arrival of the Chinese army, and then quickly form a large encirclement of the Chinese army and annihilate their main force in one fell swoop In fact, when he was ordered to march to Seoul, Zhou Wu already felt that something was not quite right, this battle was getting smoother and smoother, and the enemy on the opposite side, whether it was the South Korean army or the American army, did not see them chasing them, so they abandoned the city and ran away, Seoul is also the capital of South Korea, but when Zhou Wu and they rushed to the city of Seoul, the defenders in the city had already run out of money a day ago, and even the main force of the South Korean puppet army, which had always clamored to live and die with the capital, slipped away overnight.
This anomaly attracted Zhou Wu's attention, he felt that this situation was too abnormal, and it was estimated that the enemy on the opposite side had some conspiracy or was preparing for some big action, otherwise it would be impossible for them not to resist in Seoul, and now there was no even symbolic resistance, which was also too strange Zhou Wu immediately sent a telegram to the corps headquarters, reporting his doubts to Commander Song, Commander Song replied, he also felt that something was wrong, Mr.
Peng had ordered to postpone the southward advance, but there were still many friendly troops who ventured forward, and some teams had even crossed Seoul and rushed up to the front of the 37th parallel, and were skeptical of Mr.
Peng's order to postpone the southward advance, saying that if he did not take advantage of the victory to pursue the attack, he would lose the fighter Commander Song asked Zhou Wu to enter Seoul first to see, but it was really not possible, so he defended on the spot, and the south of Seoul was a plain area.
It's not easy to keep.
After receiving the order of the Song commander, Zhou Wu immediately ordered the 11th Army to attack Seoul, not so much an attack, but it was better to enter the city directly without any obstacles, Seoul was the economic center of South Korea at that time, under the operation of the Japanese for nearly half a century, it was already a certain scale, after entering the city, Zhou Wu ordered all the troops to be stationed outside the city, and the ranks of the Korean People's Army were stationed in the city, after all, they were familiar with the way, and it was much more advantageous than their own team to stay in the city.
At this time, Zhou Wu received an urgent telegram from Commander Song, saying that in the area of Hengcheng on the south bank of the Luochuan River south of Hancheng, a volunteer division was surrounded by the American troops who suddenly surrounded it, and was desperately trying to break through to the north, and the Volunteer Army Headquarters asked the Ninth Corps to send a capable team to reinforce the 181st Division in Hengcheng and fish them out of the encirclement of the American army Commander Song thought about it for a long time, and felt that only Zhou Wu's 11th Army could do this task, and the other teams of the Corps had either not been inserted into the area of Seoul and were too far away from Hengcheng, or their combat effectiveness was not as strong as the 11th Army. deliberately sent a team to lure the volunteer army team to attack them, and then when the volunteer army arrived at the logistics food and ammunition supply, it suddenly stopped evacuating, and turned to launch a counter-encirclement to the volunteer army that caught up, and they relied on the fire superiority in the air and the ground, they were soon able to break through the defense line of the volunteer blocking force that was almost exhausted, and divided and surrounded the volunteer army that rushed forward, and the 181st division of the volunteer army in the direction of Hengcheng was one of them, They are the volunteer army that rushed to the front, and they have already passed the 37th line Just when the brothers of the 181st Division celebrated that they had rushed through the 37th parallel and were about to catch up with the large army of the enemy who had fled, the situation suddenly changed, a large number of American troops appeared out of nowhere, surrounded their front, back, left and right, radio communications were seriously interfered with by the US army, and for a time they even sent out a telegram, and the commander of the 181st Division, Zheng Division, who was surrounded by the enemy, hurriedly sent out dozens of soldiers, and with the help of the soldiers of the Korean People's Army, disguised themselves as the South Korean puppet army and mixed out of the encirclement.
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