.On the night of the 16th, the second battle ushered in the first turning point.

The first thing to report the results to the headquarters was not the Sixty-Fifth Army, but the Fifty-Fourth Army on the Central Front.

Although he encountered some trouble during the attack, especially the large-scale bombing of the coalition forces, which caused great losses to the troops, the Fifty-fourth Army only took an hour more than the prescribed time to capture Yangde and encircled and annihilated thousands of Korean troops guarding this strategic location.

At this time, the vanguard of the 39th Army had arrived near Yangde.

The 39th Army did not participate in the battle, but was busy repairing the railway line that was blown off by the coalition forces. You should know that before this, the logistics support of the Volunteer Army relied entirely on road transportation. Only by repairing the railway line can the front-line combat troops obtain more effective logistics support.

After the 54th Army occupied Yangde, the 39th Army moved westward.

According to the combat plan, the 54th Army will keep the main force in Yangde, guard the logistics department's supply line, and shoulder the important task of restoring the railway line. When the 39th Army attacked westward, it will also send reconnaissance troops to the south to keep an eye on the Korean army entrenched in the southern mountainous areas.

However, after receiving the battle report from the 54th Army, Huang Zhibo adjusted his combat plan.

The Fifty-fourth Army did not stay, but continued to advance south.

The reason is very simple. In the previous battles, the 54th Army suffered not much losses, and the troops still had strong combat effectiveness. Although Yangde was an important strategic stronghold on the railway line from Yuanshan to Pyongyang, it was still far from the 38th parallel, and it was difficult for the 54th Army to provide cover for the 39th Army. More importantly, if the coalition forces mobilized the 7th Infantry Division deployed in Kaesong, the deployment position of the 54th Army would be too far behind, and the pressure would be concentrated on the 39th Army and the 47th Army.

To be on the safe side, Huang Zhibo decided to let the 54th Army continue to advance.

This decision reflects Huang Zhibo's talent, especially his ability to grasp the situation on the battlefield.

In the subsequent battles, his arrangement played a crucial role.

The problem is that after the 54th Army headed south, Yangde's defense was very empty. Although Huang Zhibo had reason to believe that the 39th Army and the 47th Army would definitely withstand the counterattack of the US military. Even if the US military uses all its main forces, it would not be able to turn the situation immediately, and the 65th Army's attack on the Eastern Front would not fail immediately. However, between the east and west lines, Yangde was the only junction, and the battlefield south of Yangde was more than 100 kilometers wide. Such a huge gap would definitely become the target of the coalition's counterattack.

It is very risky to let the Fifty-fourth Army stand in front alone.

When adjusting the combat plan, Huang Zhibo had two choices: one was to let the 16th Army or the 13th Army, which acted as the combat reserve, go south to fill this loophole; the other was to let the 15th Airborne Army, which was not suitable for ground combat and was already difficult to use.

To be on the safe side, Huang Zhibo should use a main army.

For the subsequent combat considerations, the 15th Airborne Army should be used.

However, Huang Zhibo made a completely incomprehensible decision: let the 16th Army and the 13th Army each send a brigade of troops to Yangde with the 43rd Airborne Division of the 15th Airborne Army, with the 43rd Airborne Division being responsible for guarding, and the two brigades acting as reserves for the offensive forces.

This arrangement just reflects Huang Zhibo's arrangement for this battle.

Yangde was the first breakthrough on the battlefield of the coalition's western front and the most important breakthrough. Although Huang Zhibo did not have much hope for the 54th Army when formulating the plan, and did not even think about letting the 39th Army attack westward on the second day of the battle. According to the previous arrangement, the 16th Army and the 13th Army were mainly assisting the 24th Army in combat. To put it simply, the breakthrough was made in the 47th Army, forcing the coalition to use the Second Infantry Division and the Seventh Infantry.

After the division, the 39th Army will be responsible for flanking detours, first surrounding these two troops, then concentrating forces to encircle and annihilate the Third Infantry Division and the Fourth Infantry Division, and finally dealing with the Second Infantry Division and the Seventh Infantry Division, so more troops are needed to be invested in the front battlefield. However, when the situation of the war changed, that is, the coalition forces did not dispatch the Second Infantry Division and the Seventh Infantry Division in time, Huang Zhibo adjusted the combat arrangements in time and decided to focus on the south and ignore the two divisions in the north for the time being.

In fact, this was Huang Zhibo’s original battle idea.

However, at this time, the situation was still not clear enough, so when arranging combat forces, Huang Zhibo retained some reservations and did not allow the 16th Army and the 13th Army to be fully dispatched.

After making this deployment, the volunteers have taken a big step towards victory.

Although the troops sent to Yangde were not allowed to arrive on the afternoon of the 17th, the 54th Army set out south after 10 o'clock on the night of the 16th.

At this point, the coalition forces are only one step away from failure.

Regardless of whether Pete saw Huang Zhibo's campaign clearly, the coalition forces did not have many choices.

The 47th Army is still advancing towards Pyongyang, which is a transportation hub in the western region of North Korea. If the volunteer army conquers Pyongyang, even if it only attacks outside Pyongyang, the Third Infantry Division and the Fourth Infantry Division will have no choice but to defend Pyongyang.

The only way is to get the first mobile unit stationed in Nanpu to fight.

If the task of the 47th Army is to block the Third Infantry Division and the Fourth Infantry Division, then the task of the 39th Army that just arrived was to intercept the reinforcements of the coalition forces. Compared with the 47th Army, the 39th Army had a faster assault speed. More importantly, even if the 47th Army was blocked outside Pyongyang, after the 39th Army arrived, the 3rd Infantry Division and the 4th Infantry Division would be surrounded by the volunteer army.

Pi had no choice but to mobilize the second mobile unit of Shaliyuan.

While doing these two transfers, Pete also issued an order to the Fourth Infantry Division, which was to break through to Pyongyang as soon as possible and strive to arrive in Pyongyang on the afternoon of the 17th.

In his opinion, as long as the Fourth Infantry Division can reach Pyongyang in time, it can guard the retreat passage.

At that time, at most, you will be able to give up Pyongyang and let the troops retreat south as a whole.

However, the Third Infantry Division was not so lucky.

Under the fierce attack of the 24th Army, the Third Infantry Division could only defend the front line. If it retreated, the 24th Army not only followed the south, but also had the opportunity to break through the defense line of the Third Infantry Division and complete the tactical interspersed division, so that the Third Infantry Division would be wiped out before reaching Pyongyang.

In addition, when the Third Infantry Division and the Fourth Infantry Division retreated to Pyongyang, they had to pass through Shuncheon, and the defense line of the Third Infantry Division was more than 20 kilometers north of Shuncheon. If the Third Infantry Division retreated, even the Fourth Infantry Division could not escape, the Third Infantry Division could only make sacrifices.

According to Pitt's vision, after the Fourth Infantry Division arrived in Pyongyang, a new line of defense was established in the north of Pyongyang, and the Third Infantry Division was then retreated.

In this way, the Third Infantry Division will not retreat from the front until the 18th day at the earliest.

But, this is still not the biggest problem.

After discovering that the 54th Army did not stay in Yangde, but continued to move south, Pete realized that the purpose of the Volunteer Army's battle was not to kill the Third Infantry Division and the Fourth Infantry Division, but to encircle and annihilate all the US troops on the battlefield on the Western Front, otherwise the 54th Army would not continue to move south.

Given the situation at that time, if the 54th Army followed the 39th Army to advance westward and covered the flanks of the 39th Army in the south, it would be almost impossible for the coalition forces to withdraw the Third Infantry Division and the Fourth Infantry Division. The 54th Army to advance southward, it can only mean that the Volunteer Army would first look for the Second Infantry Division to fight the 7th Infantry Division and would not invest too much force in Pyongyang.

This means that behind the 54th Army, there must be the main army of the Volunteer Army.

It must be admitted that Pitt's judgment is very accurate, and it can be said that he is definitely inseparable.

The problem is that Pitt has no other choice when it comes to solving the problems.

To the south of the 54th Army, although there are more than 100 kilometers of mountainous areas, the towns along the way are not equipped with defenses. At most, there are only some Korean reserve troops with low combat effectiveness. With the assault capabilities of the 54th Army, I am afraid that it will be possible to reach the 38th Parallel in one or two days.

The volunteers confiscated the rear and the coalition forces were not far from being completely destroyed.

In other words, the coalition forces have to defend not only Pyongyang, but also Kaicheng on the north side of the 38th Parallel.

Because it is at the southernmost end of the coastal plain in the western Korean Peninsula, the terrain of Kaesong is very dangerous, and all major transportation routes are concentrated in narrow areas less than ten kilometers. If the volunteers are allowed to attack near Kaesong, the consequences will be unimaginable, and the volunteers must be blocked in the mountains.

At this point, Pete used the third mobile unit of the US military.

Although the last reserve team was used, there was no way to do so.

At this point, the coalition forces should consider the most not how to withstand the attack of the volunteers, but how to withdraw the combat troops deployed on the front line.

In fact, the coalition is not without hope.

Peter also knew that the logistics support problems of the Volunteer Army have always existed, and the ability to continue to attack is very limited. As long as the coalition forces can withstand the Volunteer Army's three axes, it will be easy to talk about next.

The question is, can the coalition forces withstand the Volunteer Army's three axes?

Pete did not have this confidence, nor did the coalition officers and soldiers.

It is more important to save combat troops than to lose some occupied areas. If the troops cannot retreat, it would be nice to be able to defend the 38th parallel, let alone occupy Pyongyang.

You should know that the US troops participating in the war are on the Western Front battlefield.

After the US military is finished, can the South Korean army hold on?

The South Korean army has no hope, so there is nothing to be expected of South Korea. Pete will never believe that the volunteer army will stop advancing on the 38th parallel.

You know, more than 60 years ago, the volunteer army once fought near the 37th Line and occupied Seoul.

This night, the battle on the Eastern Front made Pete no longer have any hope for the Korean army.
Chapter completed!