Chapter 405 Jiangnan I'm Coming

Just an hour later, Fang Biyong, the chief general of the staff, entered Zhao Dongyun's office with this war report. As soon as he entered the door, he said happily, "President, and the state's victory!"

Zhao Dongyun, who was giving instructions to the public, raised his head and said, "Oh, have you won the battle with the state?"

Although his tone seemed bland, his face was already happy.

Fang Biyong also said, "It's a great victory. The 9th Division of the Fourth Army began to launch a counterattack yesterday, and today it completely destroyed the enemy's 7th Division of Liangjiang. Lei Zhenchun, the enemy division commander, was defeated and committed suicide!"

Hearing the word complete annihilation, Zhao Dongyun, who had been determined to exercise in recent years, couldn't help sitting up: "Have you completely annihilated the enemy's 7th Division?"

"It's true. This is the good news from the front-line village. Take a look!" Fang Biyong was also a little rude at this time. He directly came forward and handed the telegram that still smelled ink to Zhao Dongyun.

After Zhao Dongyun took it, he glanced at one side, then looked at it carefully several times, and finally put down the telegram: "Okay, this Pan Luanqing is really a fierce general!"

"This is a good thing, good publicity to inspire our military morale!" Zhao Dongyun is not to be blamed for being ecstatic, because this is the first time since the Feng army entered the customs and has surrounded and completely annihilated an enemy division. Although it has been severely damaged a lot in the past, it has also been established to destroy one division or even more enemy troops, but it has never directly surrounded and completely destroyed an enemy division as it is now.

After saying that, Zhao Dongyun felt that it was not enough, and immediately shouted again, "Mr. Yang, come in!"

Then, Yang Debiao came in. As soon as he came in, Zhao Dongyun said, "Give a message to Quan Xu and award Pan Luan Qingxun three people and a one-star White Lion Medal."

Fang Biyong, who was beside him, couldn't help showing envy when he heard Zhao Dongyun's words. Although there are many people who have been awarded three people in the Soviet system, and nearly 20 civil and military officials have been awarded three people, you should know that Pan Luanqing was just awarded four people two days ago. In two days, it is estimated that the people who went to receive the medal had not yet arrived at the front line to officially award Pan Luanqing. This immediately became three medals again. In the past two days, they have been upgraded to two medals, which is also the first time in the Soviet system.

The one-star White Lion Medal is also envied by Fang Bi. Although the medal system was implemented early in the Feng army and awarded medals according to the size of military merit, at present, no one can get the top Golden Dragon Medal for the time being. Even the two stars and three stars of the White Lion Medal have not been awarded. At present, it is awarded by the Feng army. The highest level out is the One Star White Lion Medal. Gu Lanyu was the first to receive this medal. In addition, six people won the medal.

Now Pan Luanqing has become the seventh general of the Feng army to receive the medal. What does this mean? It means that his combat achievements are enough to squeeze into the top ten of the Feng army.

However, Fang Bi is always envious, but he also believes that Pan Luanqing's award of the one-star White Lion Medal is well-deed. Although there are many senior generals who participated in the battle command in the battle of Dujiang in the front line of Hezhou and Dangtu, Meng Enyuan, the commander of the Fourth Army, and Lin Yongquan, the commander of the 9th Division, are all actual commanders, but Pan Luanqing has been fighting. On the front line, he led the 17th Brigade to hold the crucial three days to ensure the smooth construction of the pontoon bridge. Subsequently, during the counterattack, the 17th Brigade was already injured and in poor condition, and was still able to launch a fierce offensive, directly forcing the 25th Regiment of the enemy to surrender, resulting in two The whole line of the 7th Jiang Division collapsed, creating the most direct favorable conditions for the complete annihilation of the division.

This credit is enough to write a strong sum on each general's qualification book, but Pan Luanqing did it all in just three days.

To put it rudely, Pan Luanqing was the first to make it possible for the Fourth Army to successfully cross the river and encircle and annihilate the Seventh Division of the Two Rivers.

As for several other senior generals, such as Meng Enyuan and Lin Yongquan, they are at most meritorious in overall planning, while other lower-level officers, such as several regimental commanders who participated in the war, such as Fang Qingkun, although they are also meritorious, they can only be regarded as tactical credit and are not enough to affect the overall situation.

Zhao Dongyun's reward for meritorious soldiers has always been generous. Except for Pan Luanqing, other meritorious generals are also a reward, but not as conspicuous as Pan Luanqing.

And a few people, such as Pan Luanqing and Fang Qingkun, also received one of the most important rewards, that is, they showed their abilities with practical actions, thus entering Zhao Dongyun's key cultivation scope.

If nothing happens, Zhao Dongyun intends to further raise Pan Luanqing, Fang Qingkun and other people to hold important positions.

After Pan Luanqing received the telegram from Jurentang, he knew that the future division was only a short distance away.

However, although there is a good future waiting for him, there is still something more important for Pan Luanqing, that is, after cleaning up the Seventh Division of Liangjiang, he still has to continue to lead the troops all the way west. According to Lin Yongquan's latest order, he needs to continue west to occupy Dangtu.

When the 17th Brigade continued to operate, the 18th Brigade also refocused its attention on the supplementary brigade of the 4th Division of the Anhui Army. Since the Feng army broke through the combination of the 4th Division and the 7th Division of the two rivers, the supplementary brigade of the 4th Division also tried to counterattack, but in the face of the defense of the 35th Regiment of the Feng Army, in a short time There is no possibility of sudden defense at all. In addition, the seventh division of Liangjiang was defeated too quickly.

The Seventh Division of Liangjiang, with tens of thousands of people, was completely annihilated without holding on for a whole day, which caused a great shock to the officers and soldiers of the fourth division's supplementary brigade, so they began to take the initiative to retreat.

At this time, the commanders of the supplementary brigade of the 4th Division also knew that they could not stop the Feng army in Ma'anshan alone, let alone launch an attack to drive the Feng army off the Yangtze River. In order to preserve their strength, the 4th Division's supplementary brigade retreated 15 kilometers to the southeast in order to reinforce the rear. Other Anhui troops converged and reorganized the defense line to block the Feng army's offensive.

The 7th Division of Liangjiang was annihilated, and the supplementary brigade of the 4th Division took the initiative to retreat, which gave the Feng army crossing the river, which had been in crisis, the first real safe time.

The 9th Division led by Lin Yongquan did not pursue with the active retreat of the fourth division's supplementary brigade, but only advanced a few kilometers and stopped after expanding the beach defense to ten kilometers.

The Fourth Army needs time, and the Ninth Division also needs time!

The previous Ninth Division has fought hard for many days. Although it has achieved a proud record of destroying the Seventh Division of the Two Rivers, its own casualties are also great. More than 10,000 combat soldiers crossing the river now have only 8,000 soldiers left to fight.

The Ninth Division needs time to replenish the soldiers and restore their physical strength. More importantly, it needs to resupply ammunition and wait for the 75 field artillery battalions of the two divisions to cross the river.

Otherwise, with only mountain artillery battalions and mortars, and away from the north coast, the 9th Division will not get enough artillery support.

In these days of war, artillery is the key. Basically, if possible, no general is willing to choose to let the infantry fight alone without artillery support.

The Anhui army took the initiative to retreat, and the Feng army did not pursue on a large scale, so the battle of crossing the river, which lasted for nearly five days, came to an end. In the future, the two sides will fight around another series of tactical targets, but for now, the crossing of the Yangtze River of the Fourth Army has been a perfect success!

In the next two days, a large number of people and materials of the Fourth Army continued to cross the river. Tens of thousands of people crowded in Hezhou and Ma'anshan, a small area on both sides of the north and south of the Yangtze River. A large number of soldiers with guns stepped on the pontoon bridge and walked towards the south bank, while civilians carrying or pushing unicycles sent a large number of supplies to the south bank. At the same time, after two days of emergency construction, the task force finally reinforced the pontoon bridge again, so that the pontoon bridge was strong enough to pass through the heavy 75mm field guns.

As soon as the pontoon bridge was reinforced, the field artillery battalion waiting on the side began to cross the river, dragging the heavy artillery or ammunition truck onto the still pontoon bridge, and then slowly passed through the four-kilometer-long pontoon bridge, although there were some minor accidents in the middle, resulting in a 75mm field gun falling down. In the Yangtze River, many horses dragged away were also drowned in the falling river, and most of the field guns still crossed the Yangtze River undamaged.

As a large number of 75mm field guns of the Fourth Army also crossed the Yangtze River, it means that the Fourth Army has officially crossed the natural danger of the Yangtze River, and the front of the soldiers pointed directly to the core area of Anhui: the Jiangnan region!

Meng Enyuan, who followed the artillery to cross the river, finally set foot on the land of Jiangnan for the first time, standing on the land of Jiangnan, as if the air he was breathing was particularly fresh!

Meng Enyuan, who was in a good mood, turned over and stretched out his right hand to the south: "Jiangnan, I, Meng En, am far away!"

Several officers who followed him also took the opportunity to flatter!

"In this battle, our army successfully crossed the river in one fell swoop, and also annihilated a seventh division. Such achievements have been rare since ancient times. Looking at the domestic generals, no one can compare with such great achievements as the village commander!"

"Yes, since we entered the customs, we have transferred to Zhili, Henan, Jiangsu and Anhui provinces. We have won a series of victories and not lost a single battle. His position as marshal is just around the corner!"

The compliments of his subordinates made Meng Enyuan feel better. He himself felt that he was the first person in the Feng army since he entered the customs. If the future president wants to award the rank of marshals to the generals of the Feng army, he must be qualified to take one.