In order to eliminate the American troops entrenched in the forest as soon as possible, the 54th Army and the 37th Army were in a general offensive. 【】

From 18 o'clock to 3 o'clock on the 25th, the armored forces of the 37th Army captured the headquarters of the 1st Marine Division of the US Army, and the positional offensive battle was fought for 8 hours and 35. The 37th Army successively dispatched 11 battalions from 2 brigades, and the 54th Army successively dispatched 7 battalions from 2 brigades, with a total of 18 battalions and more than 8,400 officers and soldiers participating in the battle; Together with the artillery, army aviation, and interspersed units that participated in the battle, the two armies invested a total of more than 16,000 combat personnel.

Capture the forest and participate in the battle of not 2 ground troops.

The 1611 Brigade and the 171 Brigade of the Air Assault successively dispatched low-altitude strike units to participate in the battle, the Air Force dispatched strategic bombers to drop hundreds of cruise missiles and long-range gliding bombs on the US positions in Linchan-ri at about 19 o'clock, and the long-range artillery units of the 61st Army provided fire support to the attacking troops after 211 o'clock.

After occupying Linchanli, Pei Chengyi asked the 37th Army to stay and sweep the battlefield, and ordered the 54th Army to advance towards liberation.

At this time, Pei Chengyi didn't realize that the siege and annihilation battle in Lin Shanli had set several records.

The 24-hour war of annihilation was the heaviest U.S. military battle since World War II. More than 12,000 U.S. troops gathered in the forest were all annihilated, 2,136 killed, 7,658 disabled, missing, and the remaining 1C0 officers and soldiers were captured. Compared to the last time the Chinese and American armies went head-to-head, the outcome could be described as a world of difference. In the Korean War in the 50s of the last century, the Volunteer Army dispatched an army to eat a US military battalion; Most of the time, the U.S. military was able to rely on strong air support and artillery support to break through the encirclement of the volunteers. Even in World War II, the most tragic battle of the Bulge, the opponent did not annihilate the strength of one division at a time.

Although the United States did not admit to losing a division in the forest, it was an indisputable fact that most of the 1st Marine Division was annihilated.

This was the most tragic battle fought by the Army of the Republic since the War of Liberation. In 24 hours, a total of 1,784 officers and soldiers were killed, 3,259 were disabled, 284 were missing, and 284 were captured. Although the casualty figure was only half of that of the US military, compared with all the battles since the founding of the People's Republic of China, the average number of officers and men killed and wounded per hour was definitely the most tragic and long battle. Compared with the Battle of Changjin Lake, which was the most tragic in the Korean War, it is absolutely surpassed.

It was the largest armored battle of the 211th century so far. The last large-scale armored battle was the "Desert Sabre" operation in the early 90s of the 20th century, when hundreds of tanks of the coalition forces and hundreds of tanks of the Iraqi army fought fiercely for more than one hour in the desert of Kuwait. Within 24 hours, the U.S. Army lost 427 tanks, 338 infantry fighting vehicles, and 329 other armored fighting vehicles, and the Republic Army lost 113 tanks, including 72 infantry fighting vehicles and 03 other armored fighting vehicles that could not be repaired after heavy damage.

There is another number of firsts that many people overlook: the first large-scale battle with electric equipment as the main force.

Although only the Army of the Republic massively used electric equipment. The U.S. military is still dominated by old-fashioned equipment. But the Republican team does not care whether it is a sky-high enclave helicopter gunship or a ground-running tank armored vehicle. All of them are mainly electric equipment. The Army of the Republic largely did not use old-fashioned equipment from oil-burning fields.

In the canonical history. The battle of Linsanli is rarely listed as an independent battle. Rather, it counts as part of the first campaign.

The Battle of Linsan-ri played a very important role in the first battle, known as the Battle of Seongcheon River by the U.S. military. It can be called the turning point of the entire campaign.

After the annihilation of the U.S. troops in the forest area. The situation on the battlefield has changed completely.

50。 The 54th Army and Ground Reinforcements arrived at the Liberation Railway Station. Quickly crush the U.S. Marines who were besieging Leevin's armored assault force.

Including Li Wen and Cheng Jicheng, only 11 officers and soldiers walked out of the railway station alive, 27 officers and soldiers were carried out lying down, and the remaining 93 officers and soldiers were all killed; Six DZ211 main battle tanks were destroyed, and another three ran out of shells. None of the 8DB22 infantry fighting vehicles were spared. When reinforcements arrived, a total of 52 Abrams main battle tanks, Bradley infantry fighting vehicles and 12 Stryker wheeled armored vehicles were placed inside and outside the station. When the troops cleaned the battlefield, they found the remains of 558 US officers and soldiers and 23 wounded US soldiers.

In Li Wendi's words, if the reinforcements had arrived one minute later, he would have rushed to the American tanks with artillery shells.

This shows how fiercely the battle for the liberation of the railway station was.

After advancing to liberation, Pei Chengyi made adjustments to the offensive operation.

As Du Qiwei expected, Pei Chengyi did not let the armored troops continue to move south, but asked the 54th Army to immediately organize an armored assault force, leave the highway line, and attack to the east of liberation. However, Pei Chengyi's purpose was not to cut off the railway line and highway line from the battle to Hamhung, but to capture Xinxing, the necessary place for the 2nd Marine Division stationed in the battle to go to Wulao.

It is also said that Pei Chengyi set his sights on the 2nd Marine Division on the east side of the battlefield.

Duchway did not anticipate this, because in his opinion, the army of the Republic that had just conquered the forest should rest for a few hours, or even days, before it was capable of attacking and going to war.

The 54th and 37th armies, which were engaged in the war at that time, really needed to rest.

Pei Chengyi is very aware of this, the question is, if at this time

The more than 13,000 divisions gathered to fight will attack southward at the fastest speed, go all out to attack Wulao, defeat the 153rd Airborne Brigade, and break out of the encirclement.

According to the deployment of the General Staff, the main purpose of the first campaign was to destroy the living forces of the American army.

In order to achieve this goal, the 1 US officers and men who went to the war must not be let go.

When ordering the 54th Army to organize an armored assault force, Pei Chengyi issued different combat missions to the other three armies.

Originally, it was planned that the 37th Army would send troops to Shuitianli and Daxing, and the 611th Army would undertake the combat operations, and after the 1611 Brigade and the 171 Brigade of the Air Assault Brigade left behind the guard troops, they immediately withdrew to Wenyueli to prepare to participate in the later combat operations. The 373rd Armored Assault Brigade of the 37th Army, as well as two other armored brigade ground combat units, advanced to liberation and served as reserves for the 54th Army. The 38th Army must capture Beiqing before 12 o'clock on the 25th, and then send the 383rd Armored Assault Brigade to make a high-speed assault, and be sure to capture Xianguanling and its Lingfengli to the west before the early morning of the 26th.

All the transfers and deployments were to draw troops as much as possible to encircle and annihilate the 2nd War Division.

In the eyes of everyone, Pei Chengyi's appetite was amazing, and even the commanders of the four armies secretly sighed that this colonel staff officer of the General Staff Department was "not simple".

In fact, Pei Chengyi had not yet made the most important decision at that time.

The mobilization of a few armies that have already participated in the war can only be regarded as a campaign-level decision.

At 5:30, Pei Chengyi had a phone call with Xiang Linghui and asked for the 7711th Rapid Reaction Brigade to be transferred to carry out combat missions.

The 77th Army is a reserve at the strategic level and will not be immediately sent to the field without absolute necessity. Although Xiang Linghui handed over the command of the front line to Pei Chengyi, Pei Chengyi had to ask Xiang Linghui if he wanted to mobilize the strategic reserves.

The Chief of the General Staff approved Pei Chengyi's request to let the 7711 Brigade come into play.

Pei Chengyi gave this rapid reaction force composed entirely of wheeled armored vehicles one of the tasks: to reach Daxing as quickly as possible along the road line that had been controlled, at that time the 611th Army had occupied Xichuan and Ningyuan, opened the ground passage to Daxing, and then assaulted in the direction of Xianzhou, and must capture Xianzhou before 18 o'clock on the 25th.

At that time, the 7711 Brigade was still in Jiangjie.

Immediately after receiving the order at 6 o'clock, the brigade went out. From Jiangjie to Xianzhou, the distance is a total of kilometers. Even if they didn't encounter any trouble along the way, and took Xianzhou without a single shot, they would march thousands of kilometers within 12 hours, not to mention that the armored forces could not do it, and even the armored assault troops could not do it.

Although Xianzhou is a small town with a population of less than 2,000, hundreds of U.S. troops are stationed.

Excluding the attack time, the 7711 Brigade must march in 8 hours, and the average marching speed is close to 60 kilometers per hour!

In the end, the 7711 Brigade took only 7 and a half hours.

For decades, the speed record of the 7711 Brigade has not been broken!

It was only at this time that Pei Chengyi showed his trump card and made his intentions clear.

Xianzhou is located south of Hamxing and is a necessary passage for US troops to withdraw south.

All previous combat operations were aimed at annihilating the US field troops on the Gaima Plateau. Only by capturing Xianzhou did the US troops really close the door to escape, and not only did the two marine divisions have wings and could not fly, but even the 1st Air Assault Division with "wings" was also in danger.

There is no doubt that Pei Chengyi's goal is to kill 3 US military divisions and swallow more than 60,000 US officers and soldiers in one bite!

Not to mention that Dudgway couldn't think of it, even the generals of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the US Army couldn't think of it.

At 8:30, the 54th Army-Ground Armored Assault Force reached the northwest of Xinxing. Without any stops, the assault force changed formation and went on the attack.

What is doubly surprising is that the US military did not resist!

To be precise, it was not until the assault force entered the emerging that the US military suddenly woke up.

Immediately after interrogating the prisoners of war, the armored assault force turned north to engage the armored battalion of the 2nd Marine Division, which was about to arrive in the new type. At that time, the fledgling American troops received word that an armored unit of the Marine Corps was about to arrive. As a result, the US army took the armored forces of the 54th Army as a friendly force!

Dudgway's deployment of additional troops to Xinxing showed that he was aware of the danger, but not the greatest one.

After 0:00, when he received information from a reconnaissance satellite, Duchway learned that the opponent had dispatched a rapid reaction force.

At this time, the 7711 Brigade had already reached the underwater area north of Ningyuan and was advancing towards Daxing at the fastest speed. Even if Du Qiwei immediately adjusted his deployment, it would not be too late to organize a defense in Xianzhou.

At 0:25, Dudgway left Hamhung on a VC22 tiltrotor specially prepared for him.

Because the whereabouts of Major General York, the commander of the 1st Marine Division, were unknown, it was confirmed that York was killed in the melee in the forest and became the highest-ranking fallen general of the US Army after World War II, so the chief of staff of the 2nd Marine Division, Brigadier Gate, became the highest-ranking front-line commander.

Before leaving, Dudgway privately told Getter that he could surrender to the squadron if necessary.

At that time, it was not that Du Qiwei was afraid of death and fled, but the commander of the 8th Army, Pibrooke, ordered him to immediately return to the headquarters of the American forces in Chuncheon in Korea to accept more important tasks.

At this point, the U.S. military basically gave up the rescue operation of the 2 Marine Divisions and the 1C11th Air Assault Division