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Stalin asked the Soviet Army to send an inspection team from the General Staff Headquarters. First, they went to North Korea to inspect the battlefield, then went to the POW camp to see Walker and Kaiser Lawrence, and then visited the General Staff in Beijing.

However, when he arrived in Beijing, Shtemenko was not polite at all, and began to point out the "unprofessional" aspects of the General Staff of the People's Liberation Army.

"In my opinion, the General Staff of your army is now a Miscellaneous Affairs Management Department. Only the War Information Center in Zhongnanhai has the appearance of the Operation Department of the General Staff." Shtemenko said.

"Hmm..." Nie Shuai pondered for a moment, but didn't answer right away.

The Soviet Army has experienced frequent wars since its founding, and all of them were industrialized wars. It realized the role of the General Staff Headquarters earlier. Therefore, at the central level, it began to purify the General Staff Headquarters very early, clarify combat responsibilities, and hand over administrative responsibilities. carried out by other departments.From this point of view, the headquarters of the Soviet Union is more subdivided, and its management is more professional.For the Soviet Union, what is important is not the division of command at the center, but the fact that the General Staff commands a military region that has both command and administrative functions.

Xu Shuai is the chief of the general staff, and Nie Shuai is the deputy chief of the general staff, because Xu Shuai often has to go to the hospital to report and lie down for half a month as soon as he reports, and Nie Shuai is often the acting chief of the general staff.

The current general staff compound does not command operations, and the combat situation center has command functions, and Nie Shuai also knows it.

In fact, this is also a unique tradition of our army.The chairman's military ability is much stronger than that of Stalin. Stalin is only responsible for making combat determination and giving the Soviet army the will to fight, while the chairman can also grasp the macro military mobilization at the campaign level.This is the case at the central government, and so is the field army/sub-bureau. During the War of Liberation, most of them were adjusted to the secretary of the branch bureau, that is, one of the main commanders of the field army or even the chief military officer.

As for why there is a combat situation center in Zhongnanhai...it seems to be the chairman's request.At the request of the chairman, the Communications Department of the General Staff connected the line of the 50th center, and various radio stations were connected in turn, making the combat situation center the main information node of the Korean battlefield information network in Beijing.

Where did the concept of information network and master information node come from?Nie Shuai continued to think.

……

"No way! How could it be like this!"

When Shitemenko participated in Nie Shuai's face-to-face conversation, Tang Hua, who had been back to China for several days, finally had time to watch the progress of the fourth battle.

After returning from the Soviet Union, Tang Hua felt that he could stop looking at the details of the battle situation on the front line, keep an eye on the training of the anti-aircraft missile troops, and keep advancing several projects of the Electronic Information Industry Bureau in his hand, and that's it.When he had time to pick up the telegram compilation of the fourth battle, Tang Hua found that due to equipment improvements and one-way transparency of combat information, there was really nothing to worry about in the fourth battle.but……

The fourth battle was so different from the history that Tang Hua almost couldn't recognize it!

Chapter 130, Hengcheng-Toping-ri-Wuanzhou Continuous Counterattack

The fourth battle was an active defensive battle implemented by the Volunteers to wait for the second round of battle troops to be in place. They used short counterattacks and layers of blocking, and traded space for time to ensure the smooth launch of the fifth battle.

For the fourth battle in history, our army stuck to the south of Seoul on the western front, and lured the enemy + short counterattack on the eastern front.The front line on the Eastern Front is long, and even if the United Nations forces push slowly in groups, there are still many gaps in the middle that can be exploited.

Hengcheng was the Volunteer Army's first counterattack on the Eastern Front, and it fought very well. It wiped out [-] enemies, and its own casualties were less than [-]. Two South Korean divisions died on the spot, and an American infantry battalion also suffered two-thirds of casualties.

After the Hengcheng counterattack, the second counterattack was fought against another salient part of the United Nations Army-Topingli.This battle was not over, and the 40th Army and the 42nd Army gritted their teeth and collapsed.

The failure of the toppingli battle, the worst impact is not that our army suffered more than 3000 casualties, and the 40th Army once lost its combat effectiveness. The worst thing is that the U.S. military regained its confidence in fighting the volunteers, because Li Qiwei and the U.S. military finally understood that regiment-level troops When being surrounded by volunteers, as long as you don't panic and surround yourself to the death, under the blessing of superior artillery fire and tanks, the volunteers generally can't move the US positions, and then the nearby troops quickly move over to break the siege.

In the fourth battle, our army was originally actively defending and exchanging space for time, but because the Battle of Topingli gave the United Nations army blood, although our side also retreated while blocking the attack, the speed of losing space... a bit quick.The prominent part of Toppingli has not been flattened, but it has become more prominent. If you go west, you can threaten the 50th Army and 38th Army that are blocking the south bank of the Han River, and if you go east, you may surround the two armies of the Deng Group. Withdrawal, Li Qiwei crossed the 4th Parallel on April 2nd, the Volunteer Army bit the bullet and carried it to death, not allowing the United Nations Army to cross the 1951th Parallel too much, and finally carried it to April 4, 22.

But now, Tang Hua saw the battle report on April 1951, 4, and Li Qiwei was still far away from the 4th parallel...

We still have to start from the beginning of the fourth campaign.

In the fourth campaign, which began on January 1, the defense on the western front and the counterattack on the eastern front were still the same deployment.The western front can only be defended to the core. The United Nations occupied Pyongyang for 31 days, and our occupation of Seoul should not be less than 49 days.

The 50th Army and 38th Army that blocked the south bank of the Han River had to withstand the frontal attack of the 3rd, 24th, 25th, and 2st U.S. Cavalry Divisions and 5 British brigades.On average, each army is opposed to two U.S. divisions. In terms of numbers alone, the two U.S. divisions with a full staff of 50 exceed the current total number of 38 and 38 armies. The 50th Army was fine. For the 50th Army, which was born as an insurrectionary force, the battle of the Han River was indeed the tempering of the Phoenix Nirvana. The second and third battles upgraded the combat effectiveness of the 50th Army from the second to third ranks to the second rank, and the south bank of the Han River blocked If the test of the war is passed, the [-]th Army will become a first-class main force in the sequence of the People's Liberation Army.

The Ye Ting Group on the Eastern Front faced the 7th, 40th, and 45th Meibu divisions, the Turkish brigade, and several South Korean divisions.

Due to the fear of the Volunteers and the unfamiliarity of the 40th and 45th Divisions who had just arrived in your area, the United Nations Army on the Eastern Front advanced relatively slowly.However, after advancing tens of kilometers north from Wonju, there was still a gap between the troops of the United Nations Army.

2月15日夜，叶集团在横城实施战术反击。9兵团的5个师从4个方向穿插，66军在外围望风（阻援）。9兵团的76师攻占上物安里、石子洞，击溃南朝鲜军一个营，为88师打开直攻横城的通路；77师穿插到横城西南的芥城、回岩峰，94师攻占古广田，81师攻占圣智峰。2月16日天亮的时候，横城地区的近两万美韩军就被包围了。

On the night of February 2, the Volunteers took advantage of the situation to launch a full-scale attack. After the 16th Corps entered the DPRK, the difficulty of doing the questions was reversed. The first battle was fought by the U.S. Army in an extremely cold environment, and it was the 9st Marine Division.After fighting for half a month, I walked for two months, from Jangjin Lake to Chuncheon and Hongcheon, and the next battle was... the South Korean Army.What is the South Korean Army?

In the early morning of February 2, the South Korean Army in the Hengcheng area completely collapsed.In the morning, the reconnaissance plane sent by the U.S. military flew over the battlefield, and only saw the fleeing South Korean soldiers all over the mountains and plains in the snow. There were four to five thousand soldiers in one valley and one hillside. Thousands of North Korean soldiers were surrounded by submachine guns, light machine guns, and bayonets from the volunteers. These thousands of rout soldiers were either killed on the spot, or captured with their hands raised, and some rolled down the mountain and fell to their deaths.When the reconnaissance plane returned and the lookout told Clovis Byers, the commander of the 17th Army, what he saw, Byers was silent for a long time and didn't know how to answer.

In the first battle of Hengcheng, the three regiments of the 8th Division of South Korea, which had just been rebuilt and restored their forces, were all wiped out. Two regiments of the 5th Division of the South and one regiment of the 2rd Division of the South were also wiped out. The United Nations Army lost 3 people. The department suddenly became the depression of Hengcheng.

At the same time, in the early morning of February 2, an artillery regiment of the 17th Army and the 40st Artillery Division launched an attack on the first part of the 1th Division of the US Army stationed in Topingli.The 40th division of Meibu immediately reported for help.After Li Qiwei learned that there was an infantry regiment, an artillery regiment, and a tank battalion of the 40th Meibu Division in Topping, he strictly ordered the regiment not to retreat, relying on fortifications to stick to it, and at the same time ordered the 40th Meibu Division and the remaining 7 regiments of the 40th Meibu Division. Attack from the east and west, and hit Topping Li. From the night of February 2th to the early morning of February 2th, there was constant gunfire around Topingli, and the infiltration and attacks of the Volunteers continued.But in the daytime of February 17th, the 2th Meibu Division and the 18th Meibu Division discovered that all the volunteers had run away...

Ran……

Ran……

The 50 Center clearly heard that in addition to the 40th regiment of the 160th Meibu Division, Topping also had the designation of an artillery regiment and a "Pershing" tank battalion. It also knew that the 7th Meibu Division and other units of the 40th Meibu Division formed The two spikes were poking at the sides of the volunteer army. If I didn't run away at this time, I thought I was stupid.

Seven hours later, that is, at dusk on February 7, the Volunteers stabbed again on the Eastern Front.This time the 2th Army and the 18th Corps switched over. The 66th Corps looked out to prevent the 9th Division of the US Army from reinforcing, and the 9th Army focused on attacking Yuanzhou from Hengcheng south.The remaining two regiments of the South 45rd Division and the headquarters of the South 66th Division were in Wonju. The three divisions of the 3th Army fought chaotically overnight. By the morning of February 8, the two regiments of the South 66rd Division were defeated. The division commander fled in a hurry with the division headquarters.

Ye Ting had known for a long time that the actual deployment of troops in Toping Li had been fought in Toping Li to contain the 7th and 40th Meibu Divisions.It was Ye Ting's plan before the war to attack Wonju without encircling the siege and only fight it into a rout. It is indeed difficult for the volunteers to support it now, and the ammunition has dropped below the red line.

After capturing Wonju, the Volunteers on the Eastern Front and the U.S. Army formed a pattern similar to Tai Chi. The 66th Army captured Wonju and dug deep into the front line of the United Nations Army, but if they wanted to cut off the retreat of a large group of American troops in the north, the 66th Army would not be able to fight westward and take down Lizhou.Standing between Lizhou and Yuanzhou are two regiments of the 45th Division of Meibo.If the U.S. military wants to cut off the retreat of the Volunteer Army's Wonju troops, the 40th Meibu Division and the 7th Meibu Division have to fight eastward sideways, and then occupy Hengcheng.However, the 42nd Army fought from the front, and the 40th Army fought from the side, and the U.S. military did not dare to move horizontally in front of the enemy.

The newly restored offensive posture of the United Nations Army was reversed on the Eastern Front. Li Qiwei weighed again and again, so he had to temporarily withdraw the 38st American Cavalry Division, which was carrying out the task of attacking the 45th Army on the south bank of the Han River. The 40th Mibu Division converged and launched an attack from the west of Wonju; the 7th Mibu Division and part of the 187th Mibu Division retreated and launched an attack from the northwest of Wonju. The French battalion marched westward by motorization, cut off the retreat between Wonju and Hengcheng, and tried to encircle the six Chinese divisions that had entered Wonju.

After completing all these campaign deployments, the U.S. military moved in three directions, and the 187th Airborne Regiment, which was about to cut off the rear of Wonju, was blocked first. On February 2th, the 28nd Regiment and 7th Division of the 32th Meibu Division approached the city of Yuanzhou, and found that the 40 Chinese divisions that were here had run away again...

Well, although the volunteer army was not caught, the shape of Tai Chi was finally smoothed out.

3月1日夜，刚刚收付原州的美步7师、美步40师不得不又掉头往砥平里跑。因为这天晚上，40军和42军对砥平里的美步7师31团发动了全线进攻。

在2月28日，志愿军后勤部队千辛万苦，从清川江-平壤-铁原-春川一路走过来，终于将4000发108毫米火箭弹送到了40军和42军手里。

The 7st Regiment of the 31th Division of the United States was wiped out once in Changjin Lake, and then the US military formed a regiment at the domestic training base, changed the designation to the 31st Regiment, and shipped it directly to North Korea.The designation of the 31st regiment is really a magnet for the Volunteer Army. The 40th Meibu Division turned back to attack Wonju, and the 31st Regiment took over the topping-ri position of the 160th Regiment.

In the early morning of March 3, the breakout of the 4st Regiment of the 7th Division of Meibu was broken.

31团大部及美步7师两个炮兵营、1个坦克连共2900人依李奇微的命令死守砥平里，然而志愿军不计代价的阻援让美军周围部队始终无法解除围困，31团也成了美军在朝鲜战争中唯一两次被全歼的团级部队。

However, the battle in Topingli also put the Volunteer Army's ammunition logistics into a situation where "not a single drop can be squeezed out".Of the 4000 rounds of rockets that had just been delivered, more than 3700 rounds were destroyed in the siege of Toping-ri, and the stocks of other shells, bullets, and food continued to decline.Many soldiers on the front line carry 50 and a half, with a selected Garand or M1 carbine in their hands.Every time I receive supplies, there are only a few bullets for the squad machine gun. The 50-type semi-automatic on my back has no bullets, but I am reluctant to throw it away. Maybe I need to use the bayonet.

The 50th Army and the 38th Army on the Western Front, because the Han River was about to thaw, began to alternately cover when the battle at Topyongli started, and gradually withdrew to the north of the Han River to establish a new line of defense.

As soon as the Toppingli battle ended, the Ye Group on the Eastern Front also closed their stalls and moved 20 kilometers north.

"During the Battle of Topping-ri from March 3st to 1th, the 4st Regiment of the 7th Division of Meibu suffered a devastating blow. The prelude to this battle will begin with the fall of Wonju on February 31th..." Li Qiwei telegraphed Zhong admitted that the advancement of the Eastern Front was a mess, and it was not as good as the fortified battle on the south bank of the Han River on the Western Front. Although the progress was slow, it was not bitten back.

The Volunteer Army was far away from the logistics base, lacked food and ammunition, and the troops were seriously fatigued. With one tactical counterattack and two slams to mobilize the U.S. troops, they wiped out two South Korean military divisions and basically wiped out a U.S. infantry regiment. For half a month, the complex battle of Hengcheng-Tepingli-Wuanzhou was named "Hengcheng Jitba" by reporters and military history researchers afterwards. The United Nations Army and the Volunteer Army jumped between these three points. The two twirled and danced, and finally lost the 2st regiment of the 7th Division of Meibu.

In the Volunteer Army Staff Headquarters, this series of battles was called "Hengcheng Donkey Lamo".

On March 3, the United Nations Army finally reached the banks of the Han River on the western front, crossed Hengcheng on the eastern front, and confronted the volunteers on the Hongchuan River.After half a month of fighting, the Volunteers abandoned Seoul on the west front and Hongchuan on the east on March 16 to establish a flexible defense line in Chuncheon.

The 39th Army, as the reserve force on the western front, has finally been mobilized to face the United Nations Army and set up a line of defense at Dongducheon, north of Uijeongbu. Then head north from Pyongyang and retreat to a safe place to rest.

Dongducheon and Chuncheon are both south of the [-]th parallel. The United Nations wants to restore the [-]th parallel?Then climb slowly.

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"I've finished reading it, Chief of Staff Nie." Tang Hua returned the telegram collection.

"Zhisi obviously used intelligence again, this is the second time." Nie Shuai didn't mention the fourth battle, he was concerned about other things.

"There are three divisions of U.S. troops in Topping-ri, Wonju, and Lizhou, and there are South Korean troops on the flanks. It is difficult to grasp the interspersed gaps. But if you don't fight a beautiful counterattack in Hengcheng-Toping, The 7 divisions of the U.S. Army kept advancing all the way, and it was difficult to complete the established campaign plan. Therefore, upon the application of the Zhisi Division and the approval of the Central Committee, the Ye Group accurately used intelligence to find the enemy's weak points and interspersed to mobilize the enemy. Fortunately, they fought well in the end , Four counterattacks stunned the UN Army."