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He Daming heard what Zeng Yu said and waved his hand.

"Commander Zeng, Commander Xiao, you are too polite, I am just telling the truth.

If there is nothing else, I will go back."

Xiao Shang and Zeng Yu nodded. They actually admired He Daming from the bottom of their hearts.

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As for the US Joint Forces, after the subsequent reinforcements arrived, they immediately adjusted their deployment.

They began to dispatch a part of their forces to launch a counterattack, and began to counterattack towards Uijeongbu, Inje, and Cheongpyeongcheon, and then went on the defensive across the board.

Half a month later, it was May 5th.

The 9th Corps of the Volunteer Army advanced towards the Misan-ri area under the cover of the 2nd, 5th and 3rd Corps of the North Korean People's Army.

They successively defeated the South Korean 5th Division and 7th Division, and successfully captured the strategic Shangnanli.

By May 5, the South Korean 18rd and 20th Divisions, which were besieged in the county by the 3th Army, were wiped out with the cooperation of two corps of the North Korean People's Army.

With the destruction of four South Korean divisions on the Eastern Front, a breakthrough was opened on the entire battlefield.

The 9th Army, 12th Army, 27th Army of the 20th Corps and three corps of the North Korean People's Army quickly advanced towards the Sukshari area, trying to tear through the US-Junction Forces' defense line as quickly as possible and move the war southward.

At this time, the 15th Army and the 60th Army under the Third Corps located in the middle, as well as the 39th Army temporarily transferred, successfully occupied Fasoli north of the Hongcheon River.

This forced the US Joint Forces' Western Front troops to be unable to rush to the aid of the defeated South Korean Army on the Eastern Front in the first place.

By May 5, after four consecutive days and nights of raids, the Chinese People's Volunteer Army and the North Korean People's Army on the eastern front had their spearheads set on the area around Zhenfuli.

In order to deal with the aggressive volunteer army on the eastern front, the commander of the US 8th Army, Van Fleet, immediately dispatched the US 10rd Division under the main force of the US 3th Army to defend the area around Hajinfuli to make up for the series of adverse effects brought about by the South Korean army's defeat.

The 8th Division under the Second Corps, which was located in the rear of South Korea, set out from Daejeon and rushed to the Pyongyang area to cooperate with the US rd Division to re-establish defensive depth in the area of ​​​​Hajinfuli to prevent the Volunteer Army and the North Korean People's Army from continuing to move south.

Thanks to the excellent adjustments made by the 8th Army commander Van Fleet.

The US Joint Forces blocked the Volunteer Army's offensive.

At this time, the Volunteer Army, due to the large number of participants in the war, consumed astronomical amounts of ammunition and food every day. After a month of continuous fighting, the logistics could no longer keep up.

Every battle failed due to logistical problems.

After careful consideration, in order to seize the initiative on the battlefield and avoid greater casualties from the counterattack of the US Joint Forces, Zhisi ordered the front-line units to begin to retreat in an orderly manner towards the "38th Parallel". The purpose was to take a temporary rest, wait for the next batch of supplies to arrive, and then launch a counterattack again.

On May 5, the second phase of the fifth battle was officially declared over.

In order to cover the withdrawal of various corps to the "38th Line", each corps reserved 1 to three divisions of troops to conduct mobile defensive warfare to slow down the pursuit and attack of the US Joint Forces.

When the commander of the 8th Army of the United States Army, Van Fleet, learned of the retreat of the Volunteer Army, he burst into laughter.

“Hahahahahaha….”

He looked at Chief of Staff Cage,

"Cage, just as Commander-in-Chief Matthew predicted, as long as we can hold off the Volunteer Army's initial offensive, the enemy will surely retreat due to insufficient logistics. Now is our chance to counterattack.

You should immediately telegraph the entire army, except for some necessary garrison troops, all mobile and armored forces should launch a full-scale counterattack, do not worry about fighting for a mountain or a piece of land, and focus on destroying the active forces of the Volunteer Army. "

After hearing Commander Van Fleet's order, Chief of Staff Cage immediately said,

"Okay, Commander, I'll do it right away."

These American coalition forces had been holding back their anger for a month, and now that they could finally fight back, they were shouting with excitement.

In the early morning of May 5, the US Joint Forces concentrated the forces of four armies and approximately 23 divisions and launched a full-scale counterattack.

The advance team, led by armored tanks, began to move from Seoul, Yangpyeong, and Hongcheon under the cover of the air force of the aviation wing, towards Yeoncheon, Yanggu, Hwacheon and other places.

Because at this time, the Volunteer Army's marching speed was not as fast as that of the US Joint Forces.

Often, the same distance of 120 miles would take the Volunteer Army a day, while the US Joint Forces could arrive in just a few hours.

This made the Volunteer Army and the North Korean People's Army very passive during their retreat to the north. Often, before they reached the designated area, the US Joint Forces had already arrived.

What's even more bizarre is that the commander of the US 8th Group, Van Fleet, even imitated the tactics used by the Volunteer Army in the previous four battles, and tactically divided the Volunteer Army and concentrated firepower to encircle and annihilate it.

This caused heavy losses to the Volunteer Army.

Compared with the embarrassing situation encountered by the Central Army and the Eastern Front troops.

The 19th Corps and the 40th Army, located north of Seoul, were under relatively less pressure.

Since they had anticipated that the US Joint Forces would launch a counterattack, they built a large number of defensive fortifications, including trenches, traps, anti-tank wooden barricades, etc., which effectively delayed the counterattack of the US Joint Forces.

在5月27日，志愿军第9兵团旗下的第27军，在县里抵抗美第2师和南韩第5师的反扑，将其牢牢的限制在该处。

As for the 60th Army, it resisted the attacks of the US 7th Division and the US Army's st Division north of the Han River.

Due to the strong mobility of the US Joint Forces, they broke through the temporary defense circle of the Volunteer Army and successfully besieged the isolated 180th Division in the Jiade Mountain area.

The 180th Division could have broken out, but in order to buy time for the main force and numerous wounded to evacuate, it missed the perfect opportunity to break out.

In addition, due to the excellent prediction of the US Joint Forces commander, other rescue forces that came to rescue the 180th Division were blocked, which resulted in the entire 180th Division being heavily surrounded by the US Joint Forces.

Although the 180th Division finally broke through after a night of bloody fighting, its troops suffered great losses, with only less than two battalions of troops breaking through.

This was also the first time that the Volunteer Army suffered such a tragic defeat since the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea.