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Van Fleet pointed to a mountain road on the east side of Baochuan on the map. This road twists and turns and leads to a village called Shangshang, and continues southeast to Cheongpyeongcheon and then to Gapyeong.

Next to Gapyeong is Chuncheon, and withdrawing to Gapyeong means joining the 40th and 45th Mibu divisions on the Eastern Front.

"The British 27th Brigade stopped attacking the Linjin River Ferry, approached the 24st Cavalry Division, and then carried out a diversionary attack to the north. After the 25th, 3th, and [-]rd Divisions were safely withdrawn, the [-]st Cavalry Division and the British and Turkish troops also evacuated southward." Van Fleet added, "We are also evacuating to the south, and we are preparing to leave now. We will sort out this plan and report it to Admiral Ridgway immediately."

Van Fleet decided that the headquarters of the Eighth Army would also withdraw from Seoul, and all troops would withdraw to the south of the Han River, leaving Seoul first.

The telegram was sent, and Van Vleet and the chief of staff waited nervously for a response.Fortunately, although it was past 11 o'clock in the evening, after waiting for less than 20 minutes, Li Qiwei's call back came.

"Agreed, act now! Our army no longer has any additional advantages during the day, and must begin to retreat tonight and get stuck on the tactical points that must be relied on for the retreat. The 3rd, 24th, and 25th divisions discarded excess baggage and equipment. Start moving south in the hour!"

……

Dongducheon and Paocheon are one east and one west. Although the straight-line distance is only 12 kilometers, there is a mountain between them.

On the morning of May 5, after the 1th Corps occupied Dongducheon, they continued to raid Paocheon. The tanks took a U-shaped route, starting from Dongducheon, walking south to east, and going to a place where the mountains were not too steep. A small village named Su Yi climbed over the mountain, and then turned up to capture Baochuan.

However, although the mountain between Dongducheon and Baochuan blocked the motorized troops, for the infantry units of the 9th Corps, this mountain could be climbed.When any of the two small cities is attacked, the 9 infantry divisions of the 7 Corps that broke into can support back and forth.

In fact, the two military artillery regiments have already been deployed into the mountains in the middle. Whether it is a 75mm light howitzer or a 108mm rocket launcher, they can be maneuvered or transported in the ravine.

Even the 32nd Artillery Division was deployed by Song Shilun to the mountainous area east of Dongducheon, but this area is not a particularly steep mountain, it is still a quarry, and there is a road built for heavy artillery pulled by cars.

The biggest advantage of this is that after the 32nd Artillery Division is deployed to the quarry, its artillery fire can not only take care of the surroundings of Dongducheon, but also provide fire support for the battle in Baochuan.

On May 5, the casualties and losses of the 1th Corps were within a controllable range.

突破临津江打垮南1师没费多大力气。对土耳其旅的战斗中损失2辆T-34-85。对美骑一师的战斗中损失6辆SU-100，但是之前被美骑一师的榴弹炮砸得有点疼，当面的58师和60师各有一个团损失比较严重。这也没有办法，一共只有不到3个小时的时间挖战壕修工事。

The full Pershing tank of the US Cavalry Division is still quite a headache, and the T-34-85 is completely unable to confront it head-on.

"One, two, hey! Open!"

At a foothill near Dongducheon, volunteer soldiers from the 79th Division were responsible for cleaning the battlefield. It took a few minutes under the moonlight to finally open the cockpit of an F-80C that crashed here.The fighter-bomber caught fire after it fell to the ground during the day, and now the fire has been extinguished. The volunteer soldiers saw that the pilot hadn't parachuted and was still in the cockpit. He was not particularly busy at the moment, so he decided to help contain the pilot's body.

The leader of the second row climbed onto the plane first, and tried to grab the pilot's dark arm and lift it up, but then there was a "click".The squad leader sighed, shook his head, threw his arm down for the soldiers to catch, and called up another soldier to break it off together, and threw the pilots down one by one, and packed them in sacks, including the dog tags and pistols.

"Pa—" A signal flare hit the sky from the side of the mountain in the distance.Then the platoon leader's walkie-talkie pinned to his shoulder began to blare.

"All of the 237 regiment, finish cleaning the battlefield, return to the camp, gather your weapons, and prepare to go to battle!"

……

The unprecedented night operations of the U.S. military made the Volunteers a little uncomfortable.

Especially the two armies of the 9th Corps that were inserted by surprise.

The U.S. military is now upside down day and night, but the 20th Army and the 27th Army are living a normal schedule today...

The battle lasted from 5:1 a.m. to 6:9 p.m. on May 9. After fifteen hours of marching and fighting, the 9th Corps was tired enough.Persist until 7 o'clock in the evening. Except for some troops who are on duty, patrolling and cleaning the battlefield, the rest of the ministries find a place to wash their feet and sleep. The top of their heads is safe and they can sleep peacefully.Unexpectedly, at one o'clock in the middle of the night, Zhisi's phone call woke up Song Shilun, the commander of the [-]th Corps, and Song Shilun used the walkie-talkie to wake up all the commanders of the [-] divisions.

It's a big deal, the U.S. military is going to retreat at night!

On the north side of Dongducheon, the night attack of the 3rd Corps has not stopped.However, the 25th Meibu Division and the 3rd Meibu Division each drew a regiment and immediately got on the train and headed south.

The battlefields of the five campaigns on the Western Front were narrow.After half an hour of running along the highway, the 3th Regiment of the 5rd Meibu Division and the artillery unit arrived at the north of Baochuan.The 25th Regiment of the 24th Division of Meibu advanced to Xiawanshan Cave to establish a security position, overlooking the road that must be passed for retreat, and it must not be occupied by volunteers.

South of Dongducheon, the positions of the 58th Division and the 60th Division were bombarded again for no reason.All the howitzers of the 27st U.S. Cavalry Division, the British 29th and 90th Brigades, and the Turkish Brigade each had an artillery battalion, and they also joined the artillery.Not only the howitzers, but the "Pershing" of the US Cavalry Division [-] also rumbled to a place two kilometers away from the volunteer army's defense line, fired howitzers with [-]mm tank guns, and joined the shelling ranks.All shelling is a bluff with only one purpose, which is to attract the attention of the Chinese army here.

After the 3rd Corps and 15th Army were criticized by Zhisi in the evening, the commander gritted his teeth and said that he would never show up in battle in the future. The 45th Division rushed in lightly that night. group.

After discovering that Xiawanshan Cave had been seized by the US military, the 45th Division immediately organized a night attack.

The 45th division is not aggrieved now, but puzzled.After some close combat, I found that this group of American devils was a bit strange:

Why do these American soldiers look like Heitan? !

Unable to see where the African-American soldiers were at night (and unfamiliar with the battlefield terrain), the 45th Division's first wave of attacks retreated.

……

The 25th Regiment of the 24th Division of the US Army, the only regiment-level organized black unit in the United States composed of all blacks, became the backbone of saving the two divisions of the US Army that night.

The history of the 24th Black Regiment dates back to 1866.After the Civil War, Congress specifically passed a bill stipulating that as long as the 24th regiment is in active service in the U.S. Army, it should be composed of blacks.Of course, although Lincoln liberated black slaves in legal texts, the image of black ghosts in the hearts of white Americans cannot be changed.In North Korea, it is better for black groups to do dirty work and quick death.

The two divisions saved by the Black Regiment were the 25th Meibu Division and the 3rd Meibu Division, but failed to save the 24th Meibu Division.

天一擦黑，12军34师就狠狠插入了美步24师和25师的连接处，沿着山间小路一口气向南穿插了6公里，完全掐断了美步24师向美步25师靠拢的通路。美步24师惊骇之下加派了1个步兵团向东猛打，看见美步24师将所有部队都挪走了，在西侧监视已久的9兵团26军立即强渡临津江。这中上游的临津江比20、27军渡河的地方更窄更好渡河，很快就有两个团的部队加入到追打美步24师的行列。

The previous night battles of the US military were all passively involved, and this is the first time that the US military has carried out an active night attack tonight.They are not proficient in tactics. The two regiments of the 24th Division of Meibo went together, but they failed to break through the position of the 34th Division in the end.

Before dawn, the 24th Division of Mibu was surrounded by the 12th Army, the 26th Army, and the 79th Division in the north of Dongduchuan in the south.

Not being able to get closer to the 25th Meibu Division means that you cannot retreat from the passage east of Baochuan with the 25th and 3rd Divisions.If you can't retreat...

Li Qiwei didn't dare to think about the future.

反倒是范佛里特毫无感情波动，下令放弃美步24师，其余两个师先从撑起来的通路跑走再说。两个师以团为单位，依次从东豆川以东的公路撤离。四个主力步兵团撤走后。在报川卡位阻拦9兵团的两个榴弹炮营收摊撤走。接着是美步3师5团收摊撤走。轮到最后一个团——在下万山洞卡位的美步25师24团撤退的时候，15军44师和29师87团追上了45师的脚步，两个师零一个团将美步25师24团围了个水泄不通。

1952年5月2日中午，美步25师第24黑人步兵团1300余名士兵放下武器，向志愿军第3兵团第15军投降。

In Beijing, Su Yu, who stayed up all night without sleep, frowned and commented: "I made a pot of rice, but I only ate one bowl."

In Tokyo, Li Qiwei, whose eyes were bloodshot from the same boil, stretched out his arms angrily, and swept all the paper, pens, ink bottles, teacups on the desk...to the floor.

The reason for Li Qiwei's anger was not only that the 24th Meibu Division was in a tight siege, nor was it just that another regiment-level unit was wiped out by the volunteers, but also the [-]st Meibu Division.

Last night, the U.S. Army's [-]st Cavalry Division changed from a heavy mechanized infantry division to a motorized infantry division.

Chapter 142, T-34 Shadow Special Edition

The OODA cycle, also known as the Boyd cycle, was originally a military tactical theory (now abused by business textbooks and success studies).

The basic point of view of the Boyd cycle can be summed up in 8 words: martial arts in the world, only fast can not break.

The four letters OODA stand for Observation, Judgment, Decision, and Action.Boyd believes that every step of military action can be divided into these four stages.The successful implementation of all four stages means that the cycle of one-step military operations has been completed.Whoever can execute a cycle faster and more accurately on the battlefield can make the battle proceed at his own pace, while the enemy's combat rhythm is disrupted.

For example, in the Battle of Huaihai, President Jiang observed that several columns of Huaye had finished fighting Jinan and went south; he judged that Huaye would cut off the Jinpu Road within two weeks; the decision was to let Huang Baitao retreat to Xuzhou; execute it.

As a result, the implementation was too slow (the national army officials had to deal with their own private salt business), Zhang Kexia and He Jifeng revolted, and Hua Ye suddenly accelerated to go south, and he retreated to Xuzhou and could not execute it. The OODA loop of the national army was interrupted.

President Chiang was forced to adjust and start from scratch.

Observed that Huaye divided Huang Baitao's corps; judged that Huang Baitao could last for 10 days at most; made a decision: Either the Xuzhou Group went west to clear the Zhongye, or went east to relieve the siege...

The Ministry of National Defense just discussed and made a decision, chua~~ Nakano captured Su County.

Guojun: No, no, it's all messed up, start over...