Chapter 403 The Defeat of the Seventh Division

The sound of guns, shouts and moans are the most wonderful symphony that formed the war of this era, making countless generals so drunk.

Blood, black land, white smoke, and occasional flashes are intertwined, enough to consume countless canvases of painters.

War, in the eyes of many people, is an art, an art written with life.

However, for those soldiers on the battlefield, this is not art, this is hell on earth!

Under the threat of the machine guns of the rear supervision team, and led by the sabers of the officers, the soldiers rushed towards them with panic, numbness or extremely excited expressions. They turned a blind eye to the bullets flying by and did not care about the smoke and dust stirred by the land under their feet. They only It's towards them. It seems that nothing can stop their pace!

Then no matter how numb and excited an army is, as pieces of heavy machine gun bullets spread towards them, and when their comrades before and behind them fall one after another, they will also collapse.

When he saw that his own soldiers who launched the attack in front of him retreated from the front of the Feng army's position again after heavy casualties, Lei Zhenchun could no longer see any angry expression on his face.

In the past few days, Lei Zhenchun has gone through too many such things. If he has to jump like thunder every time, he will probably be alive.

He just sighed deeply, and then said in a calm tone, "Change to the twenty-seven regiment!"

A colonel next to him showed concern: "The 27th Regiment just rushed once and suffered a lot. If they rush again now, I'm afraid..."

But before he finished speaking, Lei Zhenchun interrupted him: "If we don't continue to rush, are we going to stay here and wait to die?"

The current situation of the Seventh Division of the Two Rivers is very bad. It was blocked by the 36th Regiment of the Feng Army, followed by the 33rd and 34th Regiments of the 17th Brigade of the Feng Army. It is rude to say that the current 7th Division of the Liangjiang Army has fallen into the encirclement of the Feng Army. If it can't break through the 36th Regiment of the opposite Feng Army, then There is only one result waiting for the Seventh Division of Liangjiang: that is, the destruction of the whole army!

When Lei Zhenchun was in Jiangbei, he had already tried the feeling of fiasco. Now he absolutely does not want to try again. Anyway, he wants to break through the obstruction of the opposite Feng army and then take out the 7th Division of the two rivers, even if the casualties are worse than the destruction of the whole army.

However, not every officer and soldier of the Anhui army has the same decisive combat confidence as Lei Zhenchun, when Lei Zhenchun commanded two regiments to launch a tide-like attack on the 36th Regiment of the Feng Army, trying to break through the obstruction of the 36th Regiment and strive for a way for the army.

The 25th Regiment of the Anhui Army, which served as the blocking task in the rear, had something unexpected. Facing the fierce attack of the Feng army, and when they learned that their side had been surrounded and that they were still part of the back unit, the officers and soldiers of the 25th Regiment were desperate.

What does the broken army represent?

That means that they have been abandoned by Lei Zhenchun, who wants to use the sacrifice of the 25th Regiment to fight for the rest of the 7th Division.

The officers and soldiers of the abandoned 25th Regiment are not very personal loyal to Lei Zhenchun or Duan Qirui. They are just soldiers to eat food. Under normal circumstances, there is no problem for them to fight hard, but it is certain to let them take on the deadly combat task. Of.

In fact, it's not only them. Most of the other troops in the contemporary country have this problem, that is, these domestic troops, including the Feng army, actually lack national consciousness, lack of nationalism, religion and other beliefs. There are generally two aspects to maintain their morale. One is the idea of eating food as a soldier. This idea is common among the soldiers. In their eyes, being a soldier is a profession to support their families. Duan Qirui or Zhao Dongyun pay them to support their families, so these soldiers will work for them.

In the officer class, although some people have national and national consciousness, they are not strong. There are generally two reasons for them to work for Zhao Dongyun or Duan Qirui. One is personal loyalty, and the other is the desire for power and personal future.

Taking the Feng army as an example, most of the officers of the Feng army have a little national and national consciousness, but this is not enough to be the main reason for their loyalty to Zhao Dongyun. Meng Enyuan, Chen Guangyuan, Yang Deming and other senior generals are loyal to Zhao Dongyun because they have the same interests as a whole. Only when the Soviet system is good for them. Only when the Su system is in China can they become the founder of the country. For those students, private loyalty plays a greater role. They are self-respecting as Zhao Dongyun's students and the direct line. They are not loyal to the Su family, but for Zhao Dongyun's personal loyalty.

In a specific contemporary environment, the centripetal force formed by many domestic warlord forces is actually limited, which is far from being compared with those powerful forces with national, ethnic, religious, doctrine and other beliefs.

And the difference between the two is actually the difference between the modern army and the modern army. The biggest difference between the modern army and the modern army is not the weapon gap, but the belief gap.

In World War I and World War II, the forces of the great powers could launch a deadly charge for the sake of the country and the nation. The casualty rate often reached 40%, and 50 did not collapse.

For modern armies that lack faith, only 10% of the casualties often collapse. If the casualty rate exceeds 20%, the whole army will collapse.

The contemporary Feng army and Anhui army are very typical modern armies. The army generally lacks faith and can only rely on power, wealth and private loyalty to maintain. If such an army fights smoothly, it is enough to create ace units such as the 4th Division of the Anhui Army, the 3rd Division of the Feng Army, the 9th Division and the 10th Division. However, once it encounters setbacks, it collapses very quickly.

Relatively speaking, the ace troops in the two armies of Feng and Anhui are better, and they can more or less fight a tough battle. For example, the 17th Brigade of the 9th Division has been abruptly guarding the beachhead position for three days. However, other first-class troops can't do this.

Although the 7th Division of the two rivers has a good foundation, it is still some distance away from the ace troops. After being surrounded after many days of hard fighting, it is not easy for the troops to break out and launch a breakout battle. However, after the 25th Regiment was regarded as an abandoned son, it finally collapsed.

Under the leadership of the two battalion commanders, the soldiers of the 25th Regiment threw down their guns and raised the white flag. Seeing that the regiment could not stop the surrender of the troops, the regiment commander also immediately chose to give up the troops to abscond.

After receiving the surrender of nearly 2,000 remnants of the 25th Regiment of the enemy, Pan Luanqing, who supervised the battle on the front line, was also a little surprised. According to his previous combat experience with the 7th Division of Liangjiang, the 7th Division of Liangjiang was relatively good at fighting, but he did not expect to surrender so soon.

However, Pan Luanqing was not in the mood to guess why the 25th Regiment surrendered. For him, the surrender of the enemy was much better than the stubborn resistance. Immediately after disarming these surrendered Anhui troops, he handed over a small number of troops in the rear, and he continued to attack with the 17th Brigade.

In the evening, there was a scene of a very situation. Nearly 2,000 people were dejected, ashamed or numb or glad that the Anhui soldiers were under the detention of only more than 200 Feng soldiers, and consciously lined up in line.

Even the Feng soldiers who detained these Anhui prisoners are not combat soldiers, but the soldiers of the Ninth Division.

Influenced by the era of the old Beiyang standing army, the burden, engineering and other auxiliary forces of the Feng army are allocated rifles. When necessary, many front-line officers like to use these auxiliary forces as infantry to fight on the front line.

However, this kind of thing has been strictly restricted by Zhao Dongyun since last year. The command has even issued a formal order requiring the front-line generals not to use auxiliary forces as infantry, because these auxiliary forces are actually more difficult to train infantry. They should be used where they are needed, not as Infantry is used, but at present, this situation has not been greatly improved. When the battle situation is urgent, many generals of the Feng army will still temporarily organize auxiliary forces such as heavy and engineering, and then put them into the front line.

Previously, the 17th Brigade also temporarily organized several combat detachments as reserve troops, and put in two of the 33rd Regiment when the situation was critical.

However, since the reinforcements of the 18th Brigade crossed the river, the strength of the Feng army on the south bank has increased a lot. At the same time, the number of troops has increased, and it is more necessary to use auxiliary troops such as heavy vehicles to transport ammunition, so these auxiliary soldiers were withdrawn from the front line.

Now that nearly 2,000 Anhui military prisoners have been accepted, Pan Luanqing is naturally willing to pull out the main force as guards, so he let a heavy battalion of soldiers serve as guards.

As a result, more than 200 Feng army battalion soldiers escorted nearly 2,000 unarmed Anhui prisoners.

The surrender of the 25th Regiment prevented most of the soldiers of the regiment from death and injury, which is a good thing for the soldiers of the regiment, but for the whole Seventh Division of Liangjiang, the impact is disastrous!

The surrender of the 25th Regiment directly caused a big loophole in the rear defense of the 7th Division of the two rivers. The 33rd Regiment of the Feng army continued to advance westward all the way and could no longer encounter any large-scale obstruction.

When Lei Zhenchun in front of him learned that the 25th Regiment, which was on the blocking mission, had surrendered, he closed his eyes and once again felt the despair when he was in Jiangbei!

He knew that his seventh division of Liangjiang was finished!