After some discussion, everyone unanimously decided not to engage in a full-frontal entanglement with the enemy, but to use an interspersed and divided approach to break through the enemy's defense line.
Although they had previously eliminated the enemy's 24th Infantry Division and crippled the First Marine Division, the opponent still had a lot of troops on the western front, and they were still outmatched in terms of firepower.
The enemy's troops on the western front now include the Beautiful Country's 3rd Infantry Division, 1st Cavalry Division, 1st and 6th Southern Divisions, and the severely damaged 1st Marine Division.
And there is another piece of news that Li Qiufan doesn't know, that is, the Beautiful Country's Second Infantry Division was not transferred back to the center line, but was left on the western front by the Beautiful Country commander.
Li Qiufan also has six armies here, namely the First Army, the Second Army, the Fourth Army, the Thirty-eighth Army, the Fortieth Army, and the Forty-second Army.
The commanders of each army returned to their troops after the meeting. Li Qiufan asked them to rest for a day before launching an attack on the Uijeongbu area.
While other armies were resting, Li Qiufan was not idle. He asked his correspondent to contact the Volunteer Army Headquarters and asked Shisi to leave a fighter division for reinforcements on the Western Front, because he had a premonition that his side would be targeted again.
After the commander-in-chief learned about Li Qiufan's request, he immediately agreed.
Because he knew that Li Qiufan would not speak to him easily. Once he spoke, it would be really difficult.
After the troops rested for a day, they began to head towards Uijeongbu.
Responsible for the front are Li Qiufan's First Army and Second Army, the left flank is the Fourth Army and the 38th Army, and the right flank is the 40th Army and the 42nd Army.
The distribution of enemy troops is as follows: the 1st Cavalry Division and the 1st Marine Division are stationed in the Uijeongbu area, the 2nd Infantry Division and the 1st Namjo Division are stationed on the lines of Jil-ri and Iseok-ri, and the 3rd Infantry Division and the 6th Namjo Division are stationed. Jigu and Xinshanli line.
"It seems that the enemy is ready, so let's get to work and order the troops to start fighting!"
Li Qiufan's march was very fast, and it didn't take long to reach the Uijeongbu area, and then Li Qiufan issued the order to attack.
After the armies received the order to start fighting, they brazenly launched an attack on the enemy's defensive positions.
"Correspondent, notify the 40th Army and the 42nd Army on the right, and ask the 42nd Army to contain the enemy. The 40th Army will find an opportunity to pass between Xinshanli and Jigu to occupy Gaoyang!"
"In addition, order the Fourth Army on the left to let them penetrate directly into Zhenfali and let the 38th Army cover them!"
"Finally, I just told Lao Ma to give me a hard beating from the three heavy artillery brigades belonging to the armored division!"
After the various units entered the battle one after another, Li Qiufan once again issued interleaving orders to the 40th Army and the 4th Army, and at the same time ordered the three heavy artillery brigades to open fire.
This time, Li Qiufan's three heavy artillery brigades did not gather together, but provided artillery support to three attack directions respectively.
Although the armies of the Thirteenth Corps also captured a lot of howitzers, the firepower configuration of the American troops was still incomparable, so Li Qiufan divided two heavy artillery brigades for fire support.
On the enemy's side, while the Volunteer Army launched its attack, the American commander contacted the Navy Command to have nearly half of the carrier-based aircraft take off, with the target being the Volunteer Army positions on the western front.
Li Qiufan has also made arrangements. Two battalions of the air defense regiment have entered the frontline positions, and a fighter division is ready to take off at any time to support the western front.
The battle between the two sides became more and more intense, with fierce fighting in all three directions of attack.
Especially on the side of the Fourth Army, Li Xiping took action directly and organized a commando team to charge fiercely at Zhenfali several times, successfully entering in less than half a day.
"Order the Fourth Army to continue going deep, penetrate in the direction of Jinguli, and drive this nail into the heart of the enemy!"
"In addition, let the 38th Army send a regiment to take over Zhenfali, divide the enemy's left defense line, and help the Fourth Army retain a retreat!"
After receiving the news that the Fourth Army had successfully captured Zhenfuli, Li Qiufan immediately gave it the order to continue its penetration and let it continue to penetrate in the direction of Jinguli.
The Jinguli area is in the enemy's rear area. Once the Fourth Army successfully penetrates this area, there will be a lot to do.
At the same time, the 40th Army on the other side was also looking for opportunities to penetrate in the direction of Gaoyang, but it was much more difficult for them than the 4th Army.
Because the 3rd Infantry Division was already an old opponent and knew the Volunteer Army's tactics of interspersing and dividing, it was very concerned about the location of the junction. As a result, the 40th Army failed to break through the defense line several times in its attacks.
On the Uijeongbu side, the First Army and the Second Army were fighting the fiercest, because the enemy troops on the opposite side were the 1st Cavalry Division and the 1st Marine Division.
In order to deal with these two beautiful ace divisions, Li Qiufan concentrated the entire tank regiment here, cooperating with the first and second armies to launch the attack.
Originally, the firepower configuration deployed by Li Qiufan was unable to fight against the First Cavalry Division and the First Marine Division.
But fortunately, all the howitzers of the 1st Marine Division were left in Dongduchuan, and more than half of the mobile troops were lost, so Li Qiufan only left one heavy artillery brigade here.
As time went by, the fighting on the Uijeongbu side became more and more intense. The soldiers of the First Army and the Second Army were already jealous. Li Qiufan's tank regiment destroyed more than 20 tanks.
And at this stalemate, the enemy's plane arrived, and the sky in the distance was densely packed with small black dots flying towards the battlefield.
"Correspondent, inform the air defense battalions on the front line to prepare. The enemy's air support has arrived!"
"Also contact the Volunteer Army Headquarters and request the fighter division to take off immediately for support!"
Seeing that the enemy aircraft was about to arrive, Li Qiufan immediately ordered the correspondent to notify the frontline air defense battalion to prepare, and at the same time contacted Shiji to ask the fighter division to provide support.
As soon as Li Qiufan finished speaking, enemy aircraft had already entered the sky above the battlefield, and then they were preparing to bomb the positions of the First and Second Army.
At the same time, the soldiers of the air defense battalion controlled self-propelled anti-aircraft machine guns and opened fire brazenly, blocking enemy aircraft before they dropped aerial bombs.
The crossfire network formed by dozens of self-propelled anti-aircraft machine guns instantly blocked the enemy's aircraft with fire.
However, the enemy pilots had no intention of retreating. They avoided the fire of the self-propelled anti-aircraft machine guns and continued to fly towards the positions of the First Army and the Second Army.
The same scene also happened on the two flanks. Self-propelled anti-aircraft machine guns continued to shoot down enemy aircraft, while the enemy aircraft tried their best to break through the blockade and bomb the volunteer positions.
