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Conjure Elemental:
If your concentration is broken, the elemental doesn’t disappear. Instead, you lose control of the elemental, it becomes hostile toward you and your companions, and it might attack.
Does this mean it becomes indifferent against its previous targets, and hostile toward you, or hostile toward everyone?
In other words, would it stop attacking the creature that has already damaged it several times just to come after you, or not?
The elemental doesn't become indifferent against its previous targets. It was indifferent. The only thing that made it attack the target was the caster's will. Now, when the caster's concentration is broken, their will enslaves the elemental no more.
The elemental is angry toward the caster, who pulled it out of its plane. It even might attack the caster or one of his/her allies. But nothing in the rules says it must (or will) attack. What the elemental will do is up to the DM.
It's just hostile to you and your companions.
By RAW, the conjure elemental will only make the elemental friendly or hostile to the caster and their companions. It doesn't affect, under any circumstances, the disposition of the elemental to any other creatures.
I would say that the intent of this effect is generally that a hostile elemental stops being beneficial to the caster and becomes a problem. So as a DM I would generally have the elemental focus on making life bad for the caster rather than continuing to obey the orders it was given. The elemental likely would have no feelings one way or the other about the creature it was previously attacking.
