Meng Enyuan is the first in the contemporary Fengjun, and now there are only two real cards. One Meng Enyuan has a proud cavalry background. He is not limited to the cavalry command. In 1996, when the four northern warlords started to fight, he was the commander of the third division and became the top generals of Fengjun. In 197, he was the commander of the first army and led the troops to fight the Tangshan Campaign, the Jingshi Campaign, the Shijiazhuang Campaign and the Zhengzhou Campaign. Later, he was the commander-in-chief of the former enemy, coordinating more than 100,000 Fengjun battles in Jiangbei to connect Xuzhou and Suqian.
Maybe he doesn’t have any extraordinary specific tactical command ability. He may not be as good as Gu Lanyu or Yang Dehe, but his ability to co-ordinate a large-scale battle is the first in the army.
Now Gu Aquamarine, Gao, Yang De and others are at best generals with excellent tactical ability, but Meng Enyuan has grown into a commander-in-chief after years of tempering.
The difference between a commander-in-chief and a general is two levels.
Immediately after Meng Enyuan led the fourth army to cross the river, he commanded the troops to continue to March to the south!
But this time, the main force is not the ninth division, but the fourteenth division and the first Hunchenglv!
The ninth division suffered heavy losses in the first few days of the war. Although the Ministry of Education has already prepared 3,000 new recruits to supplement the war losses at any time, it will take some time for these new recruits to supplement them. In addition, the equipment loss is also large. Half of the heavy machine guns are lost, and the light machine guns and mortar guns are also lost. These need to be supplemented by the Ordnance Department.
So Meng Enyuan temporarily left the ninth division in Dangtu, on the one hand to rest, and on the other hand to guard against the second HunChengLv of Anhui Central Army coming from Wuhu.
According to the report of the fourth HunChengLv in Wuhu, the main force of the enemy’s second HunChengLv has come to Wuhu face to face, leaving only one brigade to defend.
It is very obvious that this second Huncheng brigade is going there, and that is to come to Dangtu.
Now the fourth army is like a knife inserted into the hinterland of the south of the Yangtze River. If the Anhui army does not stop the offensive of the fourth army, the fourth army will be able to kill all the way to Jinling and the sea.
Therefore, after learning that Fengjun crossed the river in Dangtu, Duan Qirui immediately dispatched the Fourth Division Supplementary Brigade and the Second Huncheng Brigade to Dangtu to try to stop Fengjun’s offensive.
At present, the strategic situation of the fourth army being attacked from both sides has not changed. The only difference is that the fourth army is no longer restricted by beaches but can take the initiative to attack.
On the same day, Yang De was ordered to launch an attack in the southeast with the 14th Division just crossing the river. In front of them, they retreated to this place. The 4th Division Supplementary Brigade just reinforced a brigade of Liangjiang Army.
The war between the two armies in Dangtu and Anhui just stopped for two days and broke out again!
This time, although the 14th Division is a new army and has not experienced the test of large-scale war, the training equipment level of the 14th Division, which is built according to the standards of the main division, is comparable to that of the 3rd Division and the 9th Division, which is just experience.
Relatively speaking, offensive warfare is easier to fight than defensive warfare. If new troops fight a difficult battle than defensive warfare, it is very easy to collapse. However, if they fight an offensive battle, it will be much smoother.
This can be seen from the performance of the Seventh Division of Liangjiang before and after. Like the 14th Division of Fengjun, the Seventh Division of Liangjiang is the main force to build a new army, and it also lacks large-scale combat experience. However, the Seventh Division of Liangjiang played a relatively good role in the attack two days ago, which forced Pan Luanqing’s 17th Brigade to be in danger for a time. However, when the Ninth Division launched a counterattack, the huge disadvantage to defend the roots could not be supported.
Knowing about the 14th Division, Meng Enyuan didn’t put too much pressure on Yang De, because he also knew that the 14th Division still needed time to grow, and pushing it too hard might backfire. He believed that the 14th Division could grow rapidly as strong as the 9th Division after several large-scale battles.
After all, although the 14th Division is a new unit, its officers are all drawn from various ministries in the army, especially officers at the battalion level, all of whom are experienced in combat, generals and soldiers are just recruits, and it is simple for recruits to become veterans. If they have not died from the threat of artillery shells and bullets, they will become qualified veterans.
Yu said that those recruits who died in the previous battles were directly ignored by senior generals such as Meng Enyuan, and the dead soldiers were added.
Although Fengjun lacks money to maintain too many troops, it doesn’t mean that Fengjun lacks troops. In fact, the Ministry of Education of the Soviet Union controls several new barracks and there are still tens of thousands of recruits training. Once the frontline troops are damaged, they can immediately replenish them.
Zhao Dongyun can recruit hundreds of thousands of new recruits at any time if he wants to.
Of course, the same situation also applies to other warlord troops, Duan Qirui. What can be done to re-establish an army with more than 200,000 troops in less than half a year after Jiangbei’s defeat? Isn’t there a shortage of people?
What can I say? The Chinese army is short of guns and guns, that is, it is not short of being cannon fodder soldiers!
However, the fact that there is no shortage of people does not mean that a limited number of troops can be maintained, because it costs money to maintain troops, but people have to receive salaries. In the contemporary Chinese army, the salary of troops is a big part
It’s not feasible to recruit soldiers and play vigilantes without money now in China. Even if you blow cattle to the sky, people won’t work for you. If you want to play vigilante system, it will be implemented honestly after the people have the most basic national and national consciousness.
Although the recruits of the 14th Division are valued, they are just cannon fodder before they grow into veterans!
Even Yang De, the commander of the 14th Division, didn’t show much when he saw that his troops had suffered great casualties after attacking. Unfortunately, because he knew that soldiers who had been honed by blood and fire were the root of the 14th Division’s ace troops.
When the 14th Division launched a frontal attack, Bao Guiqing’s First Hunchenglv also played the old tactics of serving the army, that is, circuitous attack.
Although Bao Guiqing No.1 Hunchenglv was formerly a direct army, it has been different from him after more than a year of war. The training and fighting will of soldiers belong to the second-line level in Fengjun and the trump card force of the ninth division of Fengjun, but it is still slightly stronger than the new force of the fourteenth division. This is also the reason why Meng Enyuan made Bao Guiqing No.1 Hunchenglv detour.
When the 14th Division attacked head-on, the first Hunchenglv made a detour from the side, and the other brigade of the 4th Division, the Anhui Army, saw a bad situation. Instead of stubbornly resisting, they simply retreated again.
Although Jinling Duan Qirui was very dissatisfied with the battle situation in Dangtu, he did not express dissatisfaction with the withdrawal of the Fourth Division Supplementary Brigade, because he would have chosen to take the initiative to withdraw if he had personally commanded the troops.
Now that the success of Fengjun crossing the river is a foregone conclusion, it is no longer like driving Fengjun out of the river to destroy the fourth army, but like blocking the offensive of the fourth army to defend a series of important towns in the south of the Yangtze River, such as Jinling.
At present, the Anhui army is deploying troops from all directions to Dangtu, which will take some time to consume the troops bit by bit before the time is ripe, and it is very reckless in the fourth army war
The active retreat of the Anhui army is to let the fourth army offensive people stop it!
In just three days, the 14th Division loved the one that had made a 20-kilometer dash to the northeast and arrived in the area of Lulang Town, and the 1st Huncheng Brigade on the right wing of the 14th Division also captured Zhumen Town.
In addition, the Second Cavalry Brigade under the jurisdiction of the Fourth Army swept a large area in the east of Zhumen Town all the way forward.
The above three parts have formed three sharp points and launched an attack towards Jinling!
The ninth division in the west continued to rest in Dangtu, and according to the report of the ninth division, the trail of the second Hunchenglv of Anhui Army was found in the south of Dangtu.
The ninth division didn’t take the initiative to attack, but heavily deployed dangtu county City and a hilly hill to the east of the county seat. Lin Yong intended to fight a defensive battle against the Liguxi River. Although the Guxi River is a tributary of the Yangtze River, it is also enough to form the second hybrid brigade. The major obstacle is the natural fortifications that can be made by Fengjun, plus a hilly hill to the east of the county seat. If the second hybrid brigade wants to attack Dangtu, it will be hit by heavy artillery fire from Fengjun before it enters the starting position.
The ninth division has been hit before, and Kobayashi will come back to restore the fighting capacity of the ninth division when necessary. This battle is not for victory but for safety!
However, after arriving in the south of Dangtu, the second Hunchenglv of the Anhui Army did not rashly launch an attack directly, and tentatively sent a battalion to conduct a fire test attack. After being hit by the heavy fire of the Fengjun army, they simply gave up the large-scale attack and then turned around and headed east to try to find a place with weak Fengjun troops to cross the river.
After all, there are many places to cross the river in Dangtu, and it is impossible for a mere ninth division of Fengjun to build dozens of kilometers of defense lines like iron drums
The fourth army’s war on the east and west lines was carried out in accordance with the strategic plan formulated by the high command war department at the beginning, and several other troops serving the army were not idle.