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In the fifth campaign, 85 volunteer troops participated in the battle, of which 60 were directly engaged in front-line combat, and 20 people from the People's Army participated in the battle, surpassing Huaihai and Liaoshen. It was the largest battle launched in the history of the People's Liberation Army.What the volunteers have to face is also the most powerful opponent they have ever encountered in history.

During the day on April 4, the 29th Meibu Division stopped in Lianchuan to build fortifications.Two hours later than the 24th Meibu Division, the 24th Meibu Division also entered Yunshanli to the east of Lianchuan.The 25rd Mibu Division, which fought against the blocking volunteers in Dongducheon for half a month, moved a little slower, followed behind the 3th Mibu Division, crossed the 25th parallel and turned southeast, and was to be deployed to the east of the 25th Mibu Division.

4月29日夜间，从第一次战役到第四次战役打满全场的39、40、42、66军脱离战斗，开往后方休整。其中42、66军前往平壤，39、40军则在铁三角地带原地休整。在汉江南北的阻击战中损失较大的38军和50军，则早在3月下旬就一路退回平壤休整补充了。

On April 4, the 30rd Meibu Division marched to Baiyun Mountain, becoming the third US division to reach the Kansas Line.These three divisions are already very close to Cheorwon. According to Li Qiwei's deployment, the U.S. military will stop here for about a week, and then rush to Cheorwon together. Li Qiwei even asked the US Cavalry Division to prepare for reinforcements at any time.Of course, it is impossible for the Volunteer Army to let the U.S. Army succeed so easily. In front of it are the 3th Army and the 3th Army of the 12rd Corps. To the west of the 60th US Infantry Division is the 24th Army of the 9th Corps. Between the 26rd US Army Division and the 3th US Army Division. The 40th Army of the Corps.

Further east of the 3rd Meibu Division, the 40th Meibu Division was still attacking Mapingli during the daytime on April 4. The 30th Parallel just passed through this town, so the U.S. troops on the Eastern Front generally had not yet reached the Kansas Line.

On the night of April 4th, Lianchuan.

美制155榴弹炮的轰鸣打破了夜晚的沉寂，在炮兵第8师两个团的火力支援下，12军和26军从两个方向，向美步24师发起攻击。在云山里，60军在一个独立坦克一团、炮8师一个105毫米榴弹炮团和军属炮兵团的火力支援下从美步24师和美步3师之间的连接处开始穿插反击。在马坪里，19兵团63军、64军徒步走山路，分别从马坪里东侧和西侧插上，做出对美步40师穿插合围之势。

The 1st Independent Tank Regiment is an armored force that has just entered North Korea. Due to the limited order quantity of night vision devices, the tanks of this regiment are all day combat types. In fact, this tank regiment is not worthy of its name. One heavy tank company, one ISU-34 self-propelled artillery company and two SU-85 self-propelled artillery companies.Moreover, because the road was too difficult to walk, the IS-122 and ISU-2 self-propelled artillery companies of the heavy tank company did not have time to move to the front line.

When Van Fleet and Ridgway received an urgent telegram from the front, there was a feeling that "the time has finally come".Since the volunteers counterattacked across the board, the U.S. military will first defend in place, consume the ammunition of the volunteers, and then look for opportunities to break through the encirclement.The 155mm and 105mm grenades, the Japanese 75mm field artillery, and the 108mm rocket launcher are all over the sky... A variety of artillery shells fell down. The U.S. military relied on the newly built field fortifications to not take the lead, but desperately projected firepower outside the defense circle to prevent the volunteers from infiltrating at night. attack.

In the early morning of May 5, at the mouth of the Gaolang Fuli River on the Linjin River, the 1th Division of the 9th Army of the 20th Corps of the Volunteer Army had all assembled west of the Linjin River, and the tanks of the 89rd Regiment of the First Tank Division were also ready to wade. A shoal of water fording across the river.

After the Battle of Changjin Lake, the four divisions of the 20th Army suffered heavy losses. According to the decision of Zhisi and the Central Committee, the entire 20th Army and the 27th and 79th Divisions of the 80th Army returned to the northeast for rest and re-entered the DPRK at the end of March. The other five divisions of the 3th Corps, which had been fighting in North Korea, reunited.

The interspersed division this time is quite a bit of "forced into the drama", because the three regiments of the 1st South Division are not completely separated from the 24th Division of Meibu. The northernmost regiment is only two kilometers away from the troops behind the 24th Division of Meibu. .

What the 9th Corps has to do is not to divide the 1st Southern Division and the 24th US Division, but to defeat the 1st Southern Division with the first blow, and then step over the corpse of the 1st Southern Division and continue to penetrate forward. Zhang Xiangyi, commander of the 20th Army, stood on the mountain behind the Gaolang Fuli Ferry, looking across the river with binoculars.Villages and lights can be seen faintly a few kilometers away, which should be the defensive position of the 1st South Division.

"From Changjin Lake to Linjin River, over four months, our 9th Corps, our 20th Army, are back again!"

Chapter 137, Spear and Fly Swatter

In North Korea on May 1951, 5, the First Tank Division and the 1th Army were the sharpest spears on the entire battlefield.

All the previous United Nations Army battlefield exercises were based on the fact that the Volunteer Army is an army that fights on foot and operates at night.Now it is the beginning of May, the daytime is already very long, and there are only 5 to 8 hours of dark time a day for the volunteers to march, intersperse, sneak attack, and break through.Considering that when the road is a straight line, the Volunteer Army may not be able to cross the mountain in a straight line, the speed of marching on the mountain road is slower than that on the flat ground, and the movement of large troops has to take care of heavy equipment and logistics. Li Qiwei believes that the limit distance that the Volunteer Army can cross overnight is 10 kilometers, if it is advancing at night while fighting, then the volunteers may only be able to advance 15 kilometers, and they must disperse and hide to avoid shelling and air strikes during the day.

而5月1日，坦克第一师和9兵团第20军集中所有汽车组成的摩托化快速纵队的突进距离不是5公里，也不是15公里，而是50公里。其间还有一些坦克绕路以解决一些小战斗，他们的机动距离高达70公里。

From the map, it is a knife inserted obliquely from the west line to the southeast, splitting the area north of the Hanjiang Plain into two halves, and the insertion depth is 40 kilometers (straight-line distance).

The U.S. military has two major blood vessels from Seoul to the Western Front, one for the 24th Mibu Division, the other for the 25th Mibu Division and the 3rd Mibu Division, all of which were cut off within a day.

The battle on May 5st began with the misfortune of the South Korean 1st Division in the early morning of that day...

Whenever the United Nations forces advanced, the South Korean army always acted as a flanking force for the US forces.They can only be used as flanks. At least for now, it is useless for the South Korean army to use it for the first-line attack.Based on the lessons learned from the Qingchuan River battle, Li Qiwei believed that the South Korean Army may not be reliable even as a flanking force. Therefore, on April 4, O'Daniel, the commander of the First Army of the Eighth Army, asked the Turkish Brigade to insert from the second line. Arrived on the east side of the lower reaches of the Linjin River on May 30, and jointly guarded the flank of the US military with the 8st Division of South Korea.

Before the Turkish brigade movement was in place, the fifth campaign was launched.When the Soviet 152mm heavy artillery shell crossed the Linjin River and hit Bai Shanye on the head, his intuition was very accurate, and the Chinese must want to open a breakthrough from him again.

On the Qingchuan River, Bai Shanye's 1st South Korean Division was cut by the volunteers once.In the north of Seoul, the rebuilt 1st Division of South Korea was used as cannon fodder on the front line, and Baek Sun Yeop was forced to escape in embarrassment.The location where the 1st Southern Division was destroyed for the second time is not far from where Bai Shanye is now stationed!The motherland has been beaten like this, Bai Shanye doesn't plan to escape this time, if he can't beat him, he might as well die here with his brothers.

20军和坦克第一师并没有考虑现在白善烨内心的感受。炮兵师和军属炮兵团进行火力准备的同时，89师三个步兵团轻装涉水过河，坦克第一师30余辆安装通气管的T-34-85也从临津江的浅滩过河。当坦克和轻步兵顺利上岸，工兵第3团就开始架设4座浮桥。

"Chinese infantry have crossed the Linjin River!"

"The whole second regiment counterattacked, and the first battalion of tanks and the armored reconnaissance company also all went out. The Chinese must be wiped out by the river!" Since Bai Shanye did not plan to retreat, he must take out all his old books and fight to the end.

In the dark night, more than 1 "Shermans" and 30 M14 light tanks of the 24st South Division rumbled out, rushing towards the battlefield where flames and explosions were constantly emitting by the Linjin River.

The tanks of the South Korean Army fired while rushing, and 400 meters away from the Linjin River ferry, all of these tanks were gone.

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At 5 o'clock in the morning, when the first ray of sunshine in late spring and early summer shone on both sides of the Imjin River, the 1st Division of South Korea was falling into the abyss of destruction. The officers and soldiers of the 89th Division and the 58th Division who had just come from the pontoon made the sound of mountains and tsunami, and with the cooperation of dozens of tanks, they chased and wiped out the remnants of the 1st Division of South Korea.On the Linjin River, two ordinary pontoon bridges and two heavy pontoon bridges have been busy. T-34-85 tanks, SU-100 self-propelled anti-tank guns, and SU-76 self-propelled artillery passed the bridges continuously. In addition, there were troops from the 9th Corps The truck towed 75mm mountain artillery, 85mm cannon, and 108mm rocket launcher waiting to cross the river. The position of the 32nd Artillery Division was closing down. Go to the ferry and cross the Linjin River on the pontoon bridge. On the ordinary pontoon bridge, you can't see the flow of people and pack horses. Both the 122th Army and the 152th Army have 20 divisions under their jurisdiction and are basically full of staff. Now nearly 27 people have to cross the river from here, stabbing the heart of the United Nations Army.

When the motorized torrent, which is unprecedented in the history of the people's army, was in operation, the soldiers also found that several trucks at both ends of the pontoon bridge had driven off the road and parked in a gentle field 200 meters away from the road.The volunteer soldiers who got out of the car were busy at a very fast speed, untying the canvas on the truck.Soon, a small radar on top of one truck spun, as did the strange machinery on the beds of two trucks.Soon two more trucks drove over to dock with it, and after a while, four pointed metal sharp arrows appeared on the cargo bed of the two trucks.

"what is this?"

"Comrade, what's in your car?"

"We are all from the 62nd Division of the Anti-aircraft Artillery."

"That thing of yours is an anti-aircraft gun? I don't see it."

"Hehe, anyway, our thing is for flying."

在临津江渡口东西两侧，共部署了4套红旗-1防空导弹和8门37毫米高炮。高炮第62师其余的20套防空导弹和高炮部队，继续跟随摩托化纵队向纵深行进。

……

Seoul, Eighth Army Headquarters.

"The Chinese army broke through the Linjin River. The Chinese army has tanks." The staff officer put down the phone and turned around to talk to Van Fleet.

These two sentences are Bai Shanye's final report to the 8th Army.

Van Fleet looked at the combat map, and asked at the same time: "The front of the British 27th Brigade, is there any Chinese or North Korean troops trying to cross the river in Wenshan?"

"The shelling started early this morning."

"It must be a deceptive move by the enemy on the other side. They opened up a breakthrough, and they will not open a second one. Order the British 27th Brigade to ignore the safety of Wenshan, and quickly attack the southeast, hitting the place where the Chinese army may cross the river. area. Where is the First Turkish Brigade?"

"We are marching northward from Uijeongbu, and we will arrive near Dongducheon within an hour."

"Send a report to the Turkish brigade, don't go to the Imjin River after arriving at Dongducheon. The Korean division they want to support is finished. Intercept the Chinese army at the mountain pass on the west side of Dongducheon. The US Cavalry Division 1 will be ready within [-] hour Combat preparations, starting from Seoul, the destination is also Dongducheon. Send a report to Tokyo, let the air force immediately bomb the ferry crossing the river for the Chinese army."

"The attack plane that took off from near Busan should have already reached the sky above the Imjin River."

"Pusan ​​doesn't have enough planes. I want all the planes available, from South Korea to Japan, from fighter-bombers to A-26s, all available."

……

It took only half an hour for two RF-5 reconnaissance planes of the 2th Air Force of the U.S. Air Force to fly north of Seoul from Busan.According to the general radio positioning and map identification, the pilot quickly found the Linjin River and lowered the altitude to patrol along the river. The pilots of the RF-80 have been in combat for nearly a year, have flown over 80 times over North Korea, and are very familiar with the terrain and landmarks.When I passed the suspicious area for the first time, I found several floating bridges on the river.This is actually very easy to find, the distance between these pontoons is very close, and there are a large number of vehicles on the banks at both ends of the pontoons.

Although the RF-80 is a reconnaissance aircraft converted from an F-80, the 12.7mm machine gun has not been removed. According to the previous habit, after the reconnaissance is completed, the ground situation is reported, and the photo is taken, the pilot will turn around and lick the ground with the machine gun. , more or less can manage.

RF-80 pulled up slightly in the air in order to turn so that its track was parallel to the direction of the pontoon.At this time, a large ball of flame suddenly rose from somewhere on the ground, and two or three seconds later, another large ball of flame burst out from the same place.The bewildered pilot then felt the plane vibrate violently, and all controls in his hands were disabled.

At the Linjin River Ferry, the engineering soldier and traffic coordinator who had been directing the vehicles to get off the bridge just now was looking at the scene in the sky dumbfounded.

The reconnaissance plane flew close, the lookout sent out a signal flare warning, and all personnel and vehicles were evacuated to avoid the bombing.After arranging the trucks that had just got off the pontoon, the traffic coordinator ran a few steps and got into a nearby depression.At this time, a few hundred meters away from him, the machinery on the strange truck that had been turning left and right suddenly emitted flames and loud noises. When the smoke cleared, the traffic coordinator saw that the iron arrows on the truck were missing by two. pieces.The two missing iron arrows have already flown in the sky, heading towards the two American "oil pickers"!

"Oil Tiaozi" turned desperately in the sky, and almost made a semicircle with its fuselage slanted, but the two iron arrows also turned along with "Oil Tiaozi".Soon the Iron Arrow caught up with the "oil picker" one after the other, duang, duang two explosions, the American plane was like a phoenix shedding its hair, and it burst into flames and hit the ground.The other "Oil Tiaozi" was overtaken by two iron arrows from a truck on the other side of the river, and there were two explosions. The "Oil Tiaozi" struggled to fly two or three miles away with smoke coming from its buttocks, and finally fell to the ground. The sharp-eyed traffic controller also saw the large parachute that the American pilot jumped out and opened.

In less than a minute, the two American planes in the sky were finished.However, the signal flares and buzzers of the lookout post are still roaring.Sure enough, two or three minutes later, there were four more "oil pickers" in the sky.

"These "oil pickers" are carrying bombs. The one just now was a reconnaissance plane. Be careful! Get out of the car!"

The driver of the 20th Army Automobile Regiment drove the truck off the road, and the 105mm howitzer towed by the truck was also dragged to the field, where it stopped crookedly. The driver turned his head and shouted loudly to the artillery squad soldiers sitting on the truck.

Seven or eight soldiers hurriedly jumped out of the truck and spread out and crawled on the ground, but the soldiers still secretly raised their heads uneasy and glanced at the situation in the sky.Just when they glanced at it, what they saw were two "oil pickers" falling from the sky with smoking buttocks.