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As the front of the Volunteer Army moved forward, the headquarters of the Volunteer Army also moved forward, advancing from the area near the border between China and North Korea in the north of Qingchuan River to 100 kilometers southeast of Pyongyang.

Li Qiang also led the communications corps of the Communication Department of the General Staff to pull the high-density military telegraph line to Kongsidong, and established a confidential line from the 50 Center-Zhisi-Beijing.The three radio listening stations in North Korea planned by Li Qiang long ago have also been completed.

In Kongsidong, Mr. Peng and Ye Ting both looked ugly.

The volunteer army occupied Seoul, broke through the Han River, hit Suwon on the west front, and Pingchang on the east front, which has exceeded the limit of our army's logistics supplies.

On the other hand, the United Nations Army has also recovered from the panic, and has stabilized its position in the past few days. Although our side is advancing every day, the number of enemies wiped out is very small, and there is no entire US military system that has been surrounded or wiped out. , not even one.It seems that this newly replaced Li Qiwei has two brushes.

During the day today, the United Nations Army simply launched a cautious counterattack across the board.

"...The situation of our army: food and ammunition have not been replenished. The front-line troops can only get 4 pieces of compressed dry food and 1 bag of fried noodles for each supply, and they can only last for 3 to 4 days. All ammunition is in short supply. Semi-automatic rifles. The number of projectiles in this battle is twice that of the past. 108 rocket shells and 40 rocket shells are always in short supply. Even if the reserve ammunition depot of the military division is not replenished, and only the number of ammunition carried by the frontline troops is completed, the 13th Corps needs to replenish 40 [-] rocket shells. Rockets. If there is not enough rockets, our army will not be able to effectively resist the impact and penetration of US tanks."

“9兵团目前完成休整，81、88师已投入东线与人民军2、5军团并肩作战，76、77、94师已从兴南开赴东线，预计3日内抵达参战。但9兵团其余6个师虽经过了休息，但一线战斗人员减员较大，一直未得到后方兵员补充。这些部队每个师只能当两个或一个团来使用。”

"The third campaign has already brought some reluctance, and if the fourth campaign is carried out, it will have even greater reluctance."

Shiji's telegram was sent to the 50 Center and the Beijing War Situation Center.

The 50 Center has been deciphering and sorting out the US military's tactical radio stations and military-level radio stations, and sending them to Beijing Hezhi Division after summarizing and analyzing the enemy's situation.

“联合国军的此次试探性进攻代号为‘狼狗行动’，其主要部署为：以位于平泽、安城、天安地区的美步25师、美步3师、土耳其旅，攻击我50军前哨阵地发安场、乌山里、金良场里、阳智里一线。位于长湖院里一带的美步24师、美骑一师、南朝鲜第6师及澳大利亚营，向我38军112师前哨阵地利川地区作试探进攻。南朝鲜第1军团的首都师、第9师在北洞里至玉溪的地段展开，沿东海岸向北试探进攻。美步7师的1个团向横撑、阳德院里方向进攻，1个团原地待命。另美步7师一支搜索部队在向原州方向窜扰。”

The map of the Beijing Combat Situation Center quickly marked all the offensive postures of the United Nations Army. Good guy, from west to east, a 200-kilometer-long front is full of blue shears.

Immediately after the end of the third battle, it was learned that the United States had reinforced two divisions from the mainland to North Korea.The Military Commission and Zhisi reached a consensus on this: the United States must not be reconciled to defeat on the battlefield, and the United Nations will not automatically withdraw from North Korea.For this reason, it is best for the Volunteers to rest and reorganize near the 3th line, and then prepare for the spring offensive.However, on January 2, the U.S. military blocked the advance of the Volunteers, and on the 1th, a small-scale tentative counterattack was launched across the board. The speed of this counterattack exceeded previous estimates.

"The U.S. military's tentative counterattack is hitting at a critical time when our front-line troops cannot provide logistical support. If the front-line troops do not retreat, it may cause heavy casualties. If the U.S. military intersperses with mechanized troops, some divisions and regiments will be killed." The danger of being divided and surrounded." Xu Shuai said, "Now we should retreat 40 to 50 kilometers to put our army in a more favorable position. But our army's retreat may turn the United Nations' tentative attack into a real counterattack Therefore, it is suggested that some troops of the 13th Corps and the 9th Corps organize defensive operations, and some troops take a rest. After depleting a certain amount of enemy forces in the position defense battle, choose a prominent point in the front line to counterattack, seeking to surround and annihilate a part of the enemy. .”

"Retreat 100 kilometers, where is the retreat?" the Prime Minister asked.

The chairman went to look at the map and found the location. The west route was on the south bank of the Han River, and the east route was in the Hengcheng area.

The combat plan proposed by Zhisi is that the 38th and 50th armies on the western front will build defensive positions on the south bank of the Han River and hold their ground, while all our troops on the eastern front will fight and retreat, luring the United Nations forces on the eastern front to advance, and finally in the horizontal The city formed a salient, and the volunteers counterattacked and divided the enemy forces surrounding the salient.

The chairman found the blocking position on the south bank of the Han River, but shook his head, moved his finger upwards on the map, passed Seoul, passed Uijeongbu, and stopped at the north of Uuijeongbu.

"If we lure the United Nations troops here, their forces will be more dispersed, and it will be easier to divide, encircle, and eliminate them."

After hearing the plan from the chairman, Xu Shuai also took a closer look.In this way, our army is tantamount to taking the initiative to retreat in great strides. The western front retreated to the mountains of Dongducheon north of Seoul in one breath, and the eastern front almost retreated to the Chuncheon-Hwacheon line.

However, this plan means that they must voluntarily abandon Seoul and leave this burden to the United Nations Army, and then the Volunteers will take advantage of the convenience of being closer to the end of the supply line, fill up their ammunition with enough food and drink, and find the weakness of the United Nations Army to fight back.

"Abandoning Seoul will create a relatively strong public opinion environment for the ceasefire negotiation conditions proposed by the United Nations yesterday, and will bring relatively greater pressure to our diplomacy."

The factors mentioned by the Prime Minister cannot be ignored.

Now, the United States is manipulating the United Nations Political Committee to propose a new truce proposal, which is actually no different from the "ceasefire first and then negotiations" proposed in December.But if the United Nations Army takes back Seoul, then...the United Nations Army may choose to cease fire by itself.The United States itself has ceased fire first, should we continue to chase and fight?

If you can't give up Seoul easily, you still have to use the plan proposed by Zhisi. The 50th Army and the 38th Army will die on the south bank of the Han River.

But in fact, the chairman is still making big strides to withdraw Dongducheon's plan... This is how the second and third anti-encirclement campaigns were fought, what a joy.

Making decisions is still a nerve-wracking business.A few people stayed up until dawn before the Beijing War Situation Center wrote the telegram to Zhisi.

"[-]. Our army must prepare to launch the fourth campaign, with the goal of annihilating [-] to [-] U.S. and South Korean troops and resuming the offensive to the south. The two-month rest and reorganization work originally arranged should be stopped immediately and transferred to combat. "

"Second, the western front of this campaign must maintain Incheon and the south bank of the Han River to ensure Seoul and attract a large number of enemy troops in the Suwon and Icheon areas."

"Third, this battle was carried out under quite difficult conditions, such as the cold weather, the troops generally want to rest and reorganize, the ideological preparation for the battle is insufficient, and the soldiers, food, and ammunition have not been replenished, etc. It is hoped that general political mobilization will be carried out, and it will be used with great efforts. Our efforts ensure the complete victory of this battle.”

"Fourth, the key points of the campaign are to hold on to the west and counterattack from the east. The battlefield of luring the enemy and counterattack on the eastern front is complex and ever-changing. It is recommended that Ye Ting go to establish the headquarters of the Eastern Front Group to take charge of the 40th, 42nd, 66th Army and the 9th Corps fighting on the Eastern Front. For each division, Song Shilun is the deputy commander-in-chief of the Eastern Group."

Chapter 115, The Great Demon King is about to appear

In the fourth campaign, it was finally decided to switch to the defense on the spot and retreat partly one by one to lure the United Nations army into pockets as the general policy.

Judging from the current international situation, the attitudes of the Korean People's Army and the Soviet Union, the expectations for the Volunteers are far greater than "withdrawing after less than a month of occupying Seoul."

However, fortunately, the losses caused to the United Nations Army in the second and third battles were too great. The 2nd Meibu Division was not defeated but disappeared directly. The 40st Marine Division lost two-thirds, so even if Li Qiwei found The correct tactics gradually stabilized the position and began to counterattack. Before the 45th and [-]th American Bu Divisions arrived in South Korea, Li Qiwei was not strong enough to launch a violent attack.

In Washington, Truman grew impatient with MacArthur.Not only did Truman want to get rid of MacArthur, but the Joint Chiefs also wanted to get rid of him.

In November, MacArthur thought he could easily occupy all of Korea.After running 11 kilometers from the Qingchuan River and losing Pyongyang and Seoul, MacArthur backhanded Washington with two choices: "Either go to war with China, or withdraw from North Korea."

An all-out war against China means: strictly blockade China's coast; use the navy and air force to destroy China's coastal cities and eliminate China's industrial capacity for war; let Taiwan's army launch a diversionary attack on the mainland...

The Joint Chiefs of Staff thought MacArthur was crazy.China's military supplies have never been transported by sea. Behind them are the Soviet Union and the Siberian Railway.There are no large industrial bases along the coast of China, and it doesn't matter whether the coastal cities are bombed or not except Dalian.Bomb Dalian?There was a Soviet fleet, hundreds of planes and a panzer army...

As for using the Kuomintang army to launch a counterattack to the mainland, now that Penghu is occupied, and the two military forces stationed in the Penghu Islands are sharpening their knives at any time, I am afraid that the Kuomintang army is preparing to counterattack Zhoushan by boat, and our army from Penghu will also start to land in Tainan by boat. ...

Therefore, in Truman's view, there are only two ways to go: one is to defend South Korea, and the other is to withdraw to Japan.After all, Japan is much more important than South Korea, and keeping Japan is not the worst outcome.

Pyeongtaek, Eighth Army Command.

Not only did Truman hate MacArthur, but Li Qiwei, who was MacArthur's subordinate for the time being, was also very annoying to Old Mai.

On January 1, Li Qiwei launched a tentative counterattack. By the 17th, almost all the places where the counterattack was launched, the volunteers were retreating.Of course, the Volunteer Army's retreat was orderly, and the United Nations Army did not achieve any decent results.But this kind of counterattack actually recovered the land of South Korea, and from the perspective of others, the Volunteer Army really retreated. This is an incredible victory for the United Nations Army and the Western countries behind it.

At this time, MacArthur flew from Tokyo to South Korea.

He also hugged a group of reporters.

"So, I just ordered a resumption of the offensive. We have launched a new offensive operation code-named 'Operation Wolfhound' to launch counterattacks against Chinese forces on all fronts. Ultimately our goal is to reach a new line - the 'Kansas Line' '. This line is basically parallel to the [-]th Parallel, north of the [-]th Parallel."

In front of the reporters, MacArthur talked eloquently about the situation of the UN Army's counter-offensive, which had initially achieved results, as if he personally led and directed the counter-offensive on the spot.

MacArthur's revelation caused Li Qiwei's self-esteem to be greatly hurt.He remembered the comments of his colleagues who had dealt with MacArthur and worked under MacArthur before he took office.He is always trying to perpetuate his public image, and he doesn't hesitate to divulge combat secrets or take credit for his colleagues and subordinates.

Every time a large-scale combat operation is about to start, MacArthur will fly from Tokyo to show his face on the front line, which has become a rule.Moreover, his special plane is extremely ostentatious when flying, requiring fighter escorts, and four at a time, all of which are F-4s.Ridgway feels that this will almost certainly expose his flight plan to the Chinese and North Koreans, and then the opponent will know in advance that the United Nations will launch a new offensive.

Of course, even if Li Qiwei hated his teeth itchingly, he wouldn't show it, Li Qiwei is a man of culmination (city) and support (house).

Li Qiwei thought to himself, let's just let you dance for a while, don't think that you are the only one in Washington...

Now the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Truman have reached the limit of their patience with MacArthur, but there is no suitable future to replace him as the commander-in-chief of the United Nations Army.As long as Li Qiwei pushes forward in the next battle so that the United Nations Army will not be driven out from the Korean Peninsula, then the credit for "keeping South Korea" will be his own, and no one can take it away. At that time, his shoulders will be One more star, and then top MacArthur.

Li Qiwei is now starting to think about who to bring in to replace him as the commander of the 8th Army that was vacated after he was promoted to the commander-in-chief of the United Nations Army.

On January 1, during a fierce daytime battle, the United Nations Army's limited counterattack continued to repel the Volunteers and moved forward.Reporters from Truman to the Associated Press felt a vertigo-like sense of relief as the news reached Japan and then quickly returned to the United States.

Some tabloid reporters even exaggerated the significance of "Operation Wolfdog" as a turning point in the most critical moment of the Korean War.Even more reasonable people believe that for the first time, the United States is no longer pessimistic because it is about to be kicked out of North Korea, at least for a short time without considering the withdrawal of troops.

Still, press bragging is one thing; with Truman, money was spent.On this day, Truman signed an increase in appropriations of $220 billion for interim defense spending in 1951.Originally, the U.S. defense budget in 1951 was 250 billion U.S. dollars, but now it is 470 billion U.S. dollars.

Then, Truman asked Congress to review the "Military Manpower Act", which extended the service period of active-duty soldiers and reintroduced compulsory military service.

During World War II, the United States implemented a compulsory military service system, which was abolished immediately after the war and replaced by a conscription system.Five years later, the conscription began again.