Compared with Douglas's cautiousness, the new commander-in-chief of the US army, Li Qiwei, is much bolder, and he has already touched the lifeblood of the attacking volunteer army: that is, the Chinese logistics supply system can only support about a week at most, as long as his US military team can support more than five days after the Chinese attack, it can quickly survive the most painful phase of stalemate, launch a counterattack against the Chinese, and put them to death, so General Li Qiwei was extremely angry when he heard the news that his subordinate Douglas suspended the attack, General Li Qiwei, who thought that Douglas was too timid and was frightened by the offensive of the volunteers, and that he would lose in vain the fighters that annihilated a large number of volunteer troops, immediately ordered Douglas to continue to pursue the Chinese troops in the direction of the three provinces, capture the Songtouling area, cut off their retreat from the half-waist of the Chinese army, and then join the US Third Division advancing on the flank, and surround this volunteer army Douglas, who received Li Qiwei's order, had already sent the retreat order at this moment, He still insisted that at this moment, the enemy situation in front of him was unclear and he could not advance rashly, and it was safer to suspend the attack.
But General Ridgway, as his immediate boss, clearly countered the order is definitely not good, then he will definitely not be able to eat and walk around, Douglas turned his brain, hurriedly thought of a way, and sent out two US regiments from the left and right flanks to outflank, just behind the feint US regiment to watch, once found that the Chinese had an attempt to surround themselves, they quickly retreated, on the contrary, if they found that the Chinese did not have so many troops, then they could also be besieged by random circumstances.
General Douglas's idea was good, but as soon as he moved, Zhou Wu on the opposite side immediately noticed that something was wrong, and asked the scout brothers to go to the front to check carefully, Zhou Wu knew in his heart, it turned out that the Seventh Division of the US Army wanted to play hide and seek with him, so well, let's accompany them to the end, Zhou Wu immediately ordered the fat men over there in the three provinces to deliberately show weakness, lure the frontal US troops into the ambush circle, concentrate their forces, and surround the US legion that feinted up, and the two US legions on the other flanks don't care about them, Forgive them and dare not rashly launch an attack on the position of the 11th Army, their 11th Army is waiting for them on the way from Hengcheng to Seoul, and strive to wipe out the American army this time, after receiving this order from Zhou Wu, he immediately asked the signal corps to pass the order to the commander of the third battalion in front of the three provinces who was blocking the US troops, asking him to immediately abandon his position and withdraw in the direction of the three provinces.
He had a big dish in the three provinces waiting for those Yankee three battalion commanders to immediately arrange the position after receiving the fat man's retreat order, when the US reconnaissance plane transmitted the information of the three battalion commanders and their evacuation to General Douglas, he was a little unconvinced of his eyes, and hurriedly sent out several teams of US scouts to see what was going on there, and the scouts came back to report that the front position was in shambles, and the Chinese eyes ran away General Douglas only then believed the information from the reconnaissance plane just now, Thinking that this was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to pursue, he immediately telegraphed to the US regiment under his command that was feinting head-on, immediately catch up, capture the positions of the Chinese troops, and without rest, immediately march to the three provinces, and before dawn to conquer the positions of the US troops in the three provinces, the regiment of the front head of the US army heard that the Chinese volunteer troops in front of them had run away, and immediately came to life again, urging the big trucks of the US soldiers to quickly rush to the three provinces, and the mobility of the US troops is really not covered.
The twenty-kilometer journey took three or four hours to arrive, and when they arrived near the three provinces, they found that they had hardly encountered any attacks from the Chinese, thinking that this time the cunning Chinese had really withdrawn, so they hurriedly reported to General Douglas, and General Douglas, who received the information of the forward team, could not suppress the excitement churning in his heart, and hurriedly ordered the two regiments serving as the left and right wings to move closer to the three provinces, so that all the troops of General Douglas's American Seventh Division entered the pocket carefully set up by Zhou Wu for him, On the left and right flanks, there are Ge Sanmin and Xiao Zheng's two divisions waiting for the two regiments of the US Seventh Division, which have formed an absolute advantage of three to one or even four to one in terms of numbers, although it is not guaranteed that the two US regiments will be completely annihilated at the same time, but at least these US troops can be defeated and defeated, and half of the division of the fat man and the division of Lao Tian are quietly waiting for the arrival of the regiment on the front of the US army in the three provinces, and the fat man serves as the commander-in-chief of the frontal battlefield.
He wants to entertain these American troops here, let them taste the taste of Chinese cuisine, but General Li Qiwei, the commander-in-chief of the US army behind him, did not realize that his subordinates had stolen his orders at this moment, and when he found that there were already three regiments of American troops advancing to the three provinces, he thought that General Douglas was faithfully carrying out his attack order, so he went back to sleep with confidence, I didn't expect that at this moment, the three regiments of the American Seventh Division under his command were falling into the trap carefully set by Zhou Wu for the Seventh Division step by step, Zhou Wu drew marks on the map according to the situation reported by the scout brothers in front of him, at this moment he was still not completely sure that he could pocket all the three American regiments, after all, he only had three and a half divisions of actual strength on hand, although he formed a three-to-one advantage over the American army in terms of quantity, but calculated by the equipment disadvantage of his own team and the American army, Three to one still can't achieve the best numerical advantage to be able to completely annihilate the US army, Zhou Wu thought of a sentence: instead of hurting his ten fingers, it is better to cut off one of his fingers and push back the three American regiments, it is better to concentrate forces to encircle and annihilate one of the regiments, so that they can hurt those American troops, so that they dare not continue to launch counterattacks against our volunteer army team Zhou Wu made up his mind, and immediately told Lao Xu and Lao Niu about his idea, and the two of them also nodded and agreed with Zhou Wu's suggestion to concentrate their forces to fight a regiment of the American army.
Zhou Wu hurriedly ordered Ge Sanmin and Xiao Zheng to give up contact with the American troops in front of them, and all of them withdrew to the area of Songtouling and the three provinces, Ge Sanmin and Xiao Zheng's main force of the division quickly rushed to the three provinces, lurked along the road, and waited for the military department's order to attack, without a clear order from the military department, Ge Sanmin and Xiao Zheng Even if they saw a large number of US convoys coming, they could not fire first, otherwise they would be disciplined on the battlefield After Ge Sanmin and Xiao Zheng received Zhou Wu's order, they immediately made some arrangements on the forward position, leaving a company as a broken rear, Anyway, this tactic of luring the enemy deep used in the past when fighting devils and fighting the Kuomintang army in China, for experts such as Ge Sanmin and Xiao Zheng, it is not a piece of cake to deceive the Yankees Ge Sanmin and Xiao Zheng and their team retreated, this situation has intensified General Douglas's judgment of the battle situation ahead, he believes that the Chinese are really as General Li Qiwei expected, unable to support the retreat, so that his own US Seventh Division can drive straight into and conquer the three provinces, Thinking of this, General Douglas triumphantly said to his subordinate officers: "You see, the Chinese have no air supremacy, they can't support the retreat after less than seven days of fighting, let's catch up and surround them" The morale of the infantry of the 7th Division of the US Army was high, in their opinion, the Chinese had run out of ammunition and food, and urgently needed to withdraw to rest, while their own team had enough food and ammunition, supplies could be in place at any time, and there were endless bullets and shells, It is more than enough to deal with those Chinese General Douglas's estimate is a little too optimistic, at this moment Zhou Wu's Eleventh Army still has three days of dry food, plus when capturing the town near Songtou Ridge, the fat man's division captured several material warehouses of the American army, got some canned food and grain, according to this calculation, the grain of the Eleventh Army can still support four or five days, and Zhou Wu gave his subordinates Fat Man and Ge Sanmin their target time for completing the battle is three days, within three days, In order to be more sure of the total annihilation of this American regiment, Zhou Wu ordered Zhang Ercheng of the military artillery regiment to bring all the artillery that could be pulled to the front and use it under the command of the fat man, and transferred all the artillery in Ge Sanmin, Xiao Zheng and Lao Tian to Zhang Ercheng under the command of Zhang Ercheng.
In this way, Zhang Ercheng is equivalent to the commander of all the artillery of the 11th Army, and there are about more than 300 artillery pieces of more than 75 mm or more, plus the shells brought by each division, which should be able to provide continuous and fierce artillery support for the regiment of the total annihilation of the US Army.
Li Qiwei immediately ordered the 3rd Division of the US Army and the other three South Korean puppet army divisions to immediately catch up and surround the Chinese volunteer troops in the Songtouling area, encircling and annihilating them t1706231537: