Following Li Qiufan's order, the air defense regiment withdrew from the Jinguli area.
After seeing the Volunteer Army's air defense forces withdraw, the enemy pilots thought of continuing to bomb the Volunteer Army's ground forces.
But at this time, the ground was already in chaos. The Volunteer Army was completely entangled with the Second Infantry Division of the Beautiful Country and the First Division of the Southern Dynasty, and they had no way of starting.
The enemy pilots had no choice but to report to the commander of the beautiful country, and then received the order to return.
After receiving the news, the commander of the beautiful country knew that the battle in Jinguli was a foregone conclusion.
If the bombing continues, once one of his own soldiers is accidentally injured and the news is spread, then he, the commander-in-chief, can be dismissed.
After giving the order to retreat to the pilots, the beautiful country commander contacted the 1st Cavalry Division, 1st Marine Division, 3rd Infantry Division, Airborne Regiment and the 6th Southern Division, asking them all to retreat to Seoul to establish a defense line.
After receiving the order, the First Marine Division immediately stopped entangled with the Second Army and withdrew directly towards Seoul.
The same was true for other enemy units. After breaking away from the battle, they began to retreat under alternate cover and rushed towards Seoul.
But there was only one unit that didn't leave, and that was the American Airborne Regiment.
The Beautiful Country Airborne Regiment was pinned to the Golden Valley by the Fourth Army and could not withdraw at all.
Because Li Xiping now also knew about Zhao Gang's serious injury, and learned that it was caused by the beautiful country's airborne troops, after Li Qiufan gave the order, he personally led the troops to keep him.
Although the Fourth Army did not carry any heavy weapons and equipment due to the insertion, the same was true for the American Airborne Regiment, which only had carbines, machine guns, and rocket launcher mortars.
In terms of weapons and equipment, the two sides can be said to be evenly matched, but in terms of military strength, the Fourth Army has the advantage.
Although the Fourth Army has only about 20,000 people left after many battles, the strength of the two divisions is still very rich compared to the American Airborne Regiment.
The airborne regiment of the beautiful country only has more than 3,000 people, but the two divisions of the Fourth Army have more than 13,000 people. In comparison, the opponent has only a fraction of the Fourth Army.
Today's Jinguli area is very lively. The Second Army and the 38th Army are encircling and suppressing the Second Infantry Division of the Beautiful Country and the First Division of the Southern Dynasties.
However, the Fourth Army opened a new battlefield nearby to encircle and suppress the beautiful country's airborne regiment.
At this time, the enemy's desire to resist was no longer very strong, because they knew there was nothing they could do after seeing the plane withdraw.
After half a day of encirclement and suppression, the battle in Jinguli finally ended. A total of more than 8,000 people from the 2nd Infantry Division of the Beautiful Country, more than 3,000 people from the First Division of the Southern Dynasties, and more than 3,000 people from the Beautiful Country Airborne Regiment were captured. Totally wiped out.
Moreover, a large number of howitzer shells were captured in this battle, which made Li Qiufan grin from the corners of his mouth to his ears.
Because at the beginning of the battle, Li Qiufan ordered the Third Heavy Artillery Brigade to attack the artillery positions of the Second Infantry Division of the Beautiful Country, destroying several enemy artillery positions in advance.
Therefore, the enemy's howitzer shells did not consume many, and most of them were retained.
Coupled with the fact that the air defense regiment held back enemy aircraft, the Second Army and the 38th Army advanced very quickly.
And it directly inserted into the depth of the enemy's position, which prevented them from destroying the supplies and retained a large number of artillery shells.
After learning the news, Li Qiufan almost jumped for joy.
Because during the previous encirclement and suppression of the 24th Infantry Division and the 1st Marine Division, Li Qiufan did not capture many artillery shells because most of them were consumed by the opponent.
Therefore, Li Qiufan directly asked the Third Heavy Artillery Brigade to bombard the depths of the Beautiful Country's Second Infantry Division this time, first destroying the opponent's artillery positions.
Moreover, Li Qiufan's heavy artillery brigade originally did not have much artillery shell reserves. Fighting all the way from Dongduchuan could be said to have emptied all the money in the family.
Now that I finally saw the money to turn around, I once again had a large reserve of artillery shells, and I was confident for the next battle.
After counting the seizures, Li Qiufan arranged for the troops to send all the prisoners to the rear, where they would be taken into custody by the 39th Army who was resting in the rear.
Then, after a short rest, the armies rushed towards Seoul.
"Correspondent, send a report to the Volunteer Army Headquarters to ask where the other units have advanced at this time."
On the way to Seoul, Li Qiufan suddenly had an idea while looking at the map, and then asked the correspondent to ask the Volunteer Army Headquarters about the current locations of other troops.
The commander-in-chief was very confused after receiving Li Qiufan's telegram. He didn't understand why he asked this, but he still replied to the location of other units.
Although the troops on the eastern front are currently attacking very smoothly, they have not yet broken through the Qingpingchuan line and are left behind by Li Qiufan.
After learning the location of other troops, Li Qiufan looked at the map and fell into deep thought.
"Correspondent, inform all armies to stop advancing when they reach the outskirts of Seoul. I'm going to the Volunteer Army Headquarters. Before I come back, the armies are not allowed to launch attacks without authorization!"
"After I left, the commander of the 38th Army took over the command of the Western Front for the time being. I told Lao Liang that if the enemy takes the initiative to attack, he will retreat with his troops and not to entangle with him. We will wait until I come back to tell him everything!"
After pondering for a while, Li Qiufan decided to go to the Volunteer Army Headquarters to meet the Commander-in-Chief and discuss his thoughts with him to see if it was feasible.
Then he issued an order to the correspondent and temporarily handed over the command of the Western Front to the commander of the 38th Army.
As for why it was handed over to the commander of the 38th Army instead of Er Hu, Lu Ming and others, it was due to the qualifications of several people.
The seniority of the commanders of the armies of the Thirteenth Corps were higher than those of Er Hu, Lu Ming and Li Xiping, not even Li Qiufan himself.
But as the commander of the corps, Li Qiufan also held the title of first deputy commander and deputy political commissar of the Volunteer Army. In addition, after entering the peninsula, he commanded the annihilation of a large number of enemy troops, so everyone was more convinced of him.
But if Erhu or Lu Ming and Li Xiping were to take command temporarily, problems would easily arise.
Fortunately, the commander of the 38th Army, after all, they have fought side by side so many times and are already very familiar with him.
But the others had just transferred to the Western Front and fought two battles, and they were definitely not convinced by Erhu and others.
Therefore, in order to avoid trouble after he left, Li Qiufan gave command to the commander of the 38th Army.
After receiving orders from Li Qiufan, no one in the troops raised any objections.
The Thirteenth Corps had no objection to this because the commanders of the armies and the commander of the Thirty-eighth Army were all old comrades in arms and were familiar with him.
On the First Corps side, the Second Tigers did not consider this at all, as long as they obeyed Li Qiufan's orders.
