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"On March 3, our staff began to formulate a combat plan for advancing to the 15th parallel. According to General Ridgway's proposal, the phased goal of advancing northward to the 3th parallel was set on the Kansas line, that is, from the Han River to the Linjin River. From the junction, head east through the Huachuan Reservoir, turn southeast, and finally reach the east coast. On March 27, the details of the Kansas line operations were further clarified. The 1st and 9th armies were responsible for the operations from the Linjin River to the west bank of the Huachuan Reservoir. The 10th Army is responsible for the operations from the Hwacheon Reservoir to the Soyang River Valley, and the Korean 1st and 3rd Army Corps are responsible for the operations from the Soyang River Valley to the Yangyang area.”

The chief of staff of the 8th Army took out the combat plan initially drawn up a month ago and introduced it to Van Fleet and Li Qiwei.

"After the whole army reaches the Kansas line, there are two options for the next phase of operations: defending on the spot and continuing to advance."

Li Qiwei: "If we continue to advance, what is the operational plan? What is the purpose?"

"The next destination to continue to advance is the Utah line, and the next destination is the Wyoming line." The chief of staff opened up the next operational plan, "The main point of the advance is to continue to advance towards the Iron Triangle area, to the south of Cheorwon, Gao From the north of Mount Tai, extending to the southeast through Guangde Mountain and Baiyun Mountain, this front is named the Utah Line. The Utah Line is to prepare for the complete capture of the Iron Triangle area. Once the Utah Line is fully advanced, we will use the 1st Army and the 9st Army The main force of the [-]th Army launched an attack on the Iron Triangle area, annihilating the Chinese army in this area or driving them out, so that the front line, the Wyoming line, can be fixed."

Van Fleet: "This is a proactive offensive posture. I think that when our army advances to the Kansas line, we should make advance preparations for the next two stages of advancement. Including the main forces of the 1st Army and the 9th Army Move closer to the Iron Triangle area, move the logistics supply line forward, and call on the Air Force to implement a stricter blockade and bombing of the Iron Triangle area."

Li Qiwei: "...In fact, defending in place may not be a bad choice. How is the situation of the new batch of Chinese troops entering North Korea?"

Intelligence staff officer: "From the beginning of April, our radio monitoring system discovered that a new batch of radio stations appeared in North Korea. From the analysis of the number of radio stations, there are at least three troops entering North Korea, and they are slowly moving forward."

"The intelligence from radio interception is not necessarily accurate. Judging from historical records, your predictions are often too optimistic." Li Qiwei said, "If you think there are at least three armies, then the Chinese army that actually entered North Korea may have five armies." ,even more."

Chief of Staff: "There is a possibility of error. However, the air force reconnaissance confirmed that the three Chinese troops that entered North Korea were all infantry troops. They are the same as the Chinese troops that fought with us before. They bought tanks and self-propelled artillery from the Soviet Union. Probably because of the air strikes, it has not been seen on the Korean battlefield."

Intelligence staff officer: "We observed a suspected Chinese tank unit stationed in Andong in early April, and it may be preparing to enter North Korea. This cannot be neglected or ignored."

Li Qiwei stopped the chief of staff and the intelligence staff from singing and singing (talking to each other).

"The east and west lines continue to advance according to the scheduled combat plan. You will be given 11 days to arrive at the Kansas line on May 5. Then turn to defense. First, wait and see and build fortifications for a week to prepare for the Chinese army's tactical counterattack. Whether the army is reinforced with three armies or five armies, they will certainly counterattack. After defeating their counterattack, we will return to the Kansas line and prepare to occupy the Utah line and the Wyoming line."

Intelligence staff officer: "We must especially guard against the tactical counterattack of the Chinese army. According to the current intelligence speculation, the Chinese army may change its tactics."

"How to change tactics?" Van Fleet said, "The Chinese army has excellent infantry, probably one of the best infantry in the world, and the Chinese have also adjusted their infantry equipment to the best condition with some gizmos. There are many small arms that are easy to come by...but they are infantry after all. They are the targets of massacres in front of cannons and aircraft. The gap between the Chinese army in terms of heavy equipment cannot be changed by cleverness."

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Li Qiwei and Van Fleet finished discussing the next phase of the offensive plan, then left in a hurry and flew back to Tokyo.

After Ridgway and Van Fleet left, the intelligence staff was still in the war room, frowning and thinking about the problems that he hadn't come up with.Perhaps it was caused by intuition, he was always faintly uneasy, there must be a danger hidden somewhere that could cause devastating consequences, but neither Ridgway nor Van Fleet found it.His instinct felt uneasy, but he couldn't figure out where the uneasiness came from.

Just last week, the intelligence staff accidentally picked up a seized Volunteer Army walkie-talkie placed in the corner of the war room during his spare time, subconsciously found a small screwdriver, and took the walkie-talkie apart.

The internal structure and circuit board of the D-1 small radio walkie-talkie were displayed in front of the intelligence staff.

Every thin wire inside is arranged very regularly, but there are few long straight wires, and most of them have made a few bends, bypassing some fixed parts and wandering in the intercom casing.The parts on the main circuit board are as small as a pinhead and as large as a soybean, and they are densely packed but neatly arranged on the circuit board.

The intelligence officer examines the components on the small circuit board.Both the circuit board and the casing are printed with Chinese characters, but some tiny parts are engraved with simple letters or initials.Near a small part the size of a mung bean, the intelligence staff found a line of small characters printed on the corresponding circuit board: Diode (diode).

The intelligence officer's hand trembled, he quickly picked up the screwdriver, and pried off the components on the circuit board one by one.

A diode the size of a mung bean, a capacitor the size of a soybean, a radio transceiver the size of a matchbox, a resistor the size of a pinpoint...

This is the exquisite small weapon that Van Fleet just said was designed by the Chinese for infantry?A neat little invention of a country so backward that it can only dispatch infantry?

Chapter 136, The 9th Corps is back

Ridgway and Van Fleet first had a meeting in a secret room, and then convened the staff to conduct a combat study, but in the end Ridgway did not clearly express his support for the plan to cross the Kansas line and march towards the Utah line and the Wyoming line.

The last sentence Li Qiwei said at the meeting was: "All follow-up combat plans must wait until our army has established a firm foothold on the Kansas line before making decisions."

If the United Nations Army crossed the [-]th parallel and entered North Korea, then the combat environment Ridgway had to refer to was not the magnetic tactics + steady advance of the [-]th parallel, but Qingchuan River and Changjin Lake.

On the Qingchuan River, the 8th Army lost a whole division.Except for about 2 logistics and auxiliary troops in the rear of the 18000nd Meibu Division who escaped, the 2 people dispatched to the front line were basically wiped out.In Changjin Lake, the 7st Marine Division lost a combat group consisting of 2500 Marine Regiments, and the [-]th Meibu Division lost a regiment-level combat team of [-] people.

With such lessons learned, Li Qiwei can only be more cautious.

However, during the secret talks, Van Fleet still put forward different views.His main point is: the 2nd Meibu Division was not completely wiped out at one time, but was gradually lost in several battles.On the first night of the second battle, the 2nd Mibu Division was smashed by the 40th Army. The 40th Army defeated and finally wiped out a regiment in the Xinxingdong battle. The 40th Army and the 39th Army chased and attacked the 2nd Meibu Division all the way. When they reached Qichuan, the 2nd Meibu Division was cut down to only 2 regiments with serious losses.In fact, the 2nd Meibu Division was finally surrounded by 11000 troops, which was not as large as the 5th and 7th regiments of the 15000st Marine Division in Changjin Lake, which had a solid [-] troops.

Van Fleet believes that the attack capability of the Chinese army, without foreign aid, will take 3 to 5 days to eliminate a regiment-level combat group, and 5 to 7 days to eliminate a combat group composed of two regiments. If the combat group follows Ridgway's later Deployment, thinking about breaking out and retreating from time to time, but defending in place and waiting for reinforcements, the persistence time can be greatly extended.For example, in Changjin Lake, the 7st Regiment of the 31th Meibu Division hurriedly retreated after discovering that it was surrounded, and wanted to return to Xiajieyu to join other troops, but was annihilated while moving.The 5th and 7th regiments of the [-]st Marine Division also consumed a lot of lives and ammunition in the process of retreating in the direction of Xiajieyu-ri (attacking in the other direction) during the battle.

The two finally unified their opinions with difficulty: the 8th Army had fought the 5th parallel, and fully occupied the Kansas line on May 5, waiting for a new batch of Chinese troops to attack.If the Chinese army does not counterattack, the United Nations will attack.

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While the U.S. military continued to attack, the Volunteer Army Command was busy dispatching first- and second-line combat troops.

第五次战役的主力是第二番作战部队，有新入朝的第3兵团、第19兵团、坦克第一师、炮兵32师，以及原来就入朝但二次战役后进行了轮换休整的9兵团、炮兵第8师。

The 3rd Corps is the Chen Geng Corps, which is composed of the 12th, 15th, and 60th Armies, and the elite army of the Second Field.

The 19th Corps is the Yang Dezhi Corps, which has jurisdiction over the 63rd, 64th, and 65th armies, which are the three main forces of the North China Field Army.

Before the first tank division set off, all the night vision devices were carefully wrapped in canvas, arrived in Andong in early April, and arrived in Cheorwon on April 4.

炮兵32师是第一个用苏式炮兵装备组建起来的全摩托化炮兵师。与之对应，休整轮换过的后炮兵第8师，是用美式炮兵装备组建起来的全摩托化炮兵师。志愿军光155毫米榴弹炮就缴获了81门，不用起来多可惜呀。炮兵32师下辖2个122毫米榴弹炮团和1个152毫米榴弹炮团，炮兵第8师下辖2个105毫米榴弹炮团和1个155毫米榴弹炮团。

"Now the 24th and 25th divisions of the US Army are at the forefront, but they are not alone. The connection between the 25th Division of the US Division and the 3rd Division of the US Division can be a fuss, but it is still difficult to completely cut off and divide it. Chen Bingtuan can face to face The enemy carried out a small-scale counterattack, but the main breakthrough point of the campaign was still implemented as originally planned. By April 4, the first division of the 28th Corps-level tanks could be deployed as planned. Ye, Xie."

"Chen Bingtuan and Yang Bingtuan's counterattack against the enemy in front of them can be fought earlier than the main breakthrough point to attract the attention of the US military. It is appropriate to advance 4 to 6 hours. Su."

After the general plan of the battle was finalized, the frequency of telegram exchanges between Ye Ting and Su Yu decreased, but there were still several exchanges a day.

On April 4, our army retreated a step in the direction of Dongducheon and Chuncheon, and the United Nations advanced immediately.Passing Dongducheon and going north is the 25th Line, and passing Chuncheon 10 kilometers to the north is also the [-]th Line.

On April 4, the 29th Meibu Division entered Lianchuan and became the first United Nations unit to reach the Kansas line.

"Let me tell you, girls in Tokyo have increased their prices. Three years ago, they wouldn't have spent so much money!"

Captain David Boyce of the 24st Regiment of the 21th Division of the US Army spit and summed up the five-day tour of Tokyo with the recruits around him.

In April, the U.S. military let the front-line U.S. troops return to Japan in rotation for 4 days, which can be called the largest human transportation project since the Korean War.In addition to the positions that they could not leave, a total of 5 to 5 U.S. soldiers and low-level military officers enjoyed a five-day public-funded trip from South Korea to Japan.Of course, the pocket money for American soldiers to travel in Japan is only a small amount. In order to transport the 8 to [-] people to Japan in five batches and then back, the logistics capacity used is enough to allow the volunteers to deliver food and ammunition for half a year.

不过日本5日游确实明显提高了美军士兵的士气和精神状态。从3月1日打到4月而显露疲惫之相的美军部队状态条又恢复了，此外釜山的后备兵员大本营也及时向7个美军师输送补充兵，3月4日被志愿军反击，一次就补充了四千士兵，3月4日到4月，又陆续补充了三四千个炮灰。

Zhisi and the General Staff once believed that our army has been fighting on the front line for three months, and the U.S. military has been fighting for two months. We are extremely tired, and the U.S. military should be relatively tired.This kind of thinking is of course wrong. If you look at the American soldiers strolling around the streets of Tokyo for leisure and entertainment in April, you will know that although the US military is fighting continuously, its personnel are far from exhausted, and its logistics supplies have never had any problems.

"In 1948, a box of C rations was enough to sleep with a Japanese woman for one night. Not anymore. In addition to C rations, you have to give him a little dollar. But! You are still giving too much money! This will disturb the market Yes...but there are more shops in the streets of Japan than there were a few years ago."

The rambling David Boyce is imparting experience to a few recruits around him. As an old fritter who has been in the Far East for more than 4 years, he personally feels that apart from the expensive prices in Tokyo, he also found that Japan’s economic recovery speed accelerating.From the outbreak of the Korean War in June 1950 to the first half of 6, the U.S. military handed over a large number of military supplies to Japan, and the manufacturing and service industries recovered at an extremely fast speed. Japan’s economic growth in the past year may have been worse than the end of the war. The next 1951 years add up to more.

While the 24th Meibu Division suspended and built fortifications in Lianchuan, the 9th Corps of the Volunteer Army quietly moved westward from Pingkang to the Jiuhuali area on the western front.Arriving at the same time as the 9th Corps were the 3rd Engineer Regiment, the 32nd Artillery Division and the [-]st Tank Division.

Among the three corps participating in the war, only the 9th corps had 11 divisions of three armies under its jurisdiction, and the other two corps had 9 divisions of three armies.

参战三个兵团中，也只有9兵团是从1950年的第二次战役一直打满全场（部分师没有参加第三和第四次战役）。不过比起3兵团和19兵团只调派了一小部分13兵团的有作战经验的指战员相比，9兵团可算是朝鲜战场上的老油子了。

志愿军第五次战役的部署，从西到东，依次是9兵团、3兵团、19兵团、人民军3、5军团。

美军/联合国军的部署，是英27旅、南1师、美步24、25、3、40、45、南3、5师和首都师、美步7师，密密麻麻地现在全部运动到了三八线附近，美骑一师拖后，在汉城一带作为西线总预备队。东线的预备队是南朝鲜军的3个师。

Jiuhuali, the assembly place of the 9th Corps, is located near Kaesong, facing the Imjin River, and on the other side of the Imjin River is the 1st Division of South Korea.

The combat mission of the 9th Corps was to contain the 24th US Army Division from the side with one army, and the two armies and the first tank division crossed the Linjin River, defeated the 1st South Korean Division, and then developed in depth.In addition, the 3rd Corps launched a counterattack against the 24th and 25th US Divisions, the 19th Corps launched a counterattack against the 3rd and 40th US Divisions, and the People's Army also launched a counterattack simultaneously.