Chapter 421 Dead and Injured

It is said that it will be ten thousand bones. Yang Deming got Zhao Dongyun's 'He fought well', but the 14th Division paid more than 2,000 casualties.

More than 800 people were directly killed in the battle, and the rest were more slightly or seriously injured. It is not too much to say that the breakthrough of the 14th Division was paved with the bones of those soldiers along the way.

However, many people choose to ignore the many casualties of the 14th Division, especially the senior generals, including Zhao Dongyun, Meng Enyuan and Yang Deming. In fact, they don't care much about the deaths and injuries of thousands of people.

Zhao Dongyun needless to say, as the supreme commander of a military and political interest group, Fengjun has been reported how many people have suffered every day since he entered the customs, hundreds and thousands. Since Fengjun entered the customs last year, the cumulative number of casualties has exceeded 60,000, including more than 10,000 killed.

There are also tens of thousands of injured, many of whom were seriously injured and forced to amputate.

The tens of thousands of casualties mean that tens of thousands of families have lost their pillars, wives have lost their husbands, and mothers have lost their sons.

However, the pain of these families has never been taken seriously by Zhao Dongyun and senior generals.

Those living lives are just data in their eyes.

If there is a profession that is the most cold-blooded, there is no doubt that the soldiers are not soldiers, but those officers who are determined to win the battle, especially the high generals. Most of the famous generals from ancient times to the present are cold-blooded animals.

They regard life as a consumable, with bullets and shells.

The so-called meat bomb tactics of the Japanese army in the Russo-Japanese War fully reflect this thinking. In Nomu Hidian's view, soldiers are just consumables used to consume enemy bullets.

Although the senior generals in the Feng army are not as perverted as Nai Mu Xidian, they are not much better, and the higher the people are, the more they are. Yang Deming is not humble, but he is a war machine. When he personally commanded the 14th Division to launch an attack, he only cares about victory and the tenth. It is completely acceptable for the improvement of the combat effectiveness of the Fourth Division and the sacrifice of thousands of casualties for victory. In order to make the 14th Division quickly grow into the same army as the Third Division, even if ten new recruits are killed or injured, it is worth it in exchange for a veteran who has experienced the baptism of war.

Some people may say that this is a kind of reason, but reason is often the most cruel.

Maybe some people say that war is an art that deserves praise and praise, but war is actually a thing that ordinary people don't want to face.

It may be that ordinary people see how brilliant the war is in novels and movies, but you really let him walk around the real battlefield and see the corpses and fragmented bodies all over the ground, which are guaranteed to be a nightmare he will never have in his life.

Fortunately, when the Feng army cleaned the battlefield outside Jinling, there were no ordinary people. Those soldiers wearing masks piled up a set of fallen soldiers together, including Feng soldiers in blue-gray military uniforms and Anhui soldiers in dark blue military uniforms.

Although Feng Jun cleaned the battlefield relatively early, it has now entered April. In this sultry and wet land in the south of the Yangtze River, the bodies that have lost their lives rot very quickly, not to mention the many pieces of meat that can't even be spelled out.

The battlefield after the battle, coupled with the sunset, the land under the gray sky is like hell on earth.

Next to this hell on earth, there are many Feng soldiers in blue-gray military uniforms lined up to walk forward. Most of their faces are calm. Occasionally, someone will take a look at the bodies next to them, and then quickly take them back. These are the veterans of the Third Division.

Unlike the soldiers in the 14th Division, they are all new recruits. Most of the soldiers of the 3rd Division are veterans who have been in the army for many years and have experienced one battle after another. It is common for death. Most of them know that they may one day become one day they will become one of those corpses, but that Who knows what will happen in the future?

In addition, although the overall casualties of the Feng army are large, in fact, most of the casualties are new recruits. For example, these veterans of the Third Division, the proportion of casualties is actually quite low in smooth battles. As long as they do not encounter any hard battles and the troops are not defeated or even besieged and annihilated, these veterans will live to the war. There is a great chance of ending.

These veterans are moving forward with calm steps, and there are more fierce battles waiting for them in front of them.

Since yesterday, when the 14th Division took the lead in breaking through the peripheral defense line of the Anhui army and attacked Jinling City, the Anhui army has also contracted the defense line in order to strengthen the defense force of Jinling City and at the same time to avoid the semi-encirclement situation of the troops on the peripheral defense line, and voluntarily abandoned half of the other peripheral defense lines outside the city, and then All troops were evacuated from Jinling City and the outer defense area in the southeast of Jinling.

This is equivalent to giving up all the depth of several kilometers of defensive positions in the southwest of Jinling City.

The Anhui army took the initiative to withdraw, and the 3rd Division advanced nearly four kilometers without a single force. A few days ago, the 14th Division suffered more than 2,000 casualties in order to advance these four kilometers.

When the 3rd Division directly advanced rapidly by marching to keep up with the pace of the 14th Division, it was in the temporary headquarters of the Fourth Army in the rear.

Many senior generals of the Feng army who participated in the Jinling Campaign gathered together again to discuss the subsequent Jinling War.

As before, Meng Enyuan is still sitting in the main seat. On the left and right sides are Gu Lanyu, the commander of the Third Division, Lin Yongquan, the commander of the 9th Division, Yang Deming, the commander of the 14th Division, Bao Guiqing, the commander of the first mixed brigade, and several brigade commanders of several infantry brigades and several combat staff officers of the Fourth Army led by Gu Qizhi, the chief of staff of the Fourth Army. .

At this time, a lieutenant colonel staff of the Fourth Army was holding the command list to briefly introduce the current situation for these officers.

"In the northern line, after our 14th Division broke into Jinling City yesterday, the division has been competing with the Anhui army around the relevant tactical points of the Beicheng District, but the resistance of the Anhui army is very large, and the casualties of the 14th Division are large, so it is difficult to continue to launch a strong attack to make a breakthrough.

On the southwest line, due to the voluntary retreat of the Anhui army, the 3rd Division has advanced to the urban area without much resistance, and is expected to cooperate with the 14th Division to launch an attack tomorrow. The first mixed brigade is still in a roundabout way and is expected to arrive at the pre-ordered position tomorrow. The ninth division is behind the third division and the first mixed brigade, providing strategic support to these two units at any time!

And on the enemy's defense line, we have found the numbers of the enemy's five divisions, but according to our investigation, the numbers of these troops are a little messy. We can't know the detailed numbers of the enemy for the time being. We can only confirm that all three brigades of the enemy's fourth division have been Jinling. It is estimated that there are still more than 50,000 enemy troops!"

In fact, the Anhui army has invested far more than 50,000 troops on the front line of Jinling. In addition to the main force of the Fourth Division, Duan Qirui or the whole division, or a brigade or regiment, has transferred a total of more than 40,000 Liangjiang army troops from southern Jiangsu and northern Zhejiang.

This is not to mention the people and strong men who provide logistics transportation.

Of course, the Anhui army did not count this, nor did the Feng army. Generally, when counting troops, only the active forces are counted, and those strong men will not be counted.

Otherwise, if you count these civilian husbands, strong men and so on, the Feng army's strength on the front line in the south of the Yangtze River will be more than 300,000.

The Wan army has invested more than 100,000 troops on the front line of Jinling and Dangtu, and has lost at least 20,000 people together.

Among other things, the destruction of the whole army of the Seventh Division of the Two Rivers alone caused the direct loss of nearly 15,000 people to the Anhui army.

Subsequently, another 7,000 or 8,000 people were lost in the Battle of Jinling, resulting in the loss of more than 20,000 people.

Fengjun himself can't go there. The 9th Division and the 14th Division can be regarded as heavy casualties, and the combined losses of these two divisions are more than 5,000 people.

In addition to the losses of other troops, the total losses of the Feng army are also nearly 10,000.

It's just that the Ministry of Education has maintained a high-intensity military supplement to the front-line troops, which allows the departments of the Feng army to maintain a relatively sufficient number of soldiers.

From this point of view, the Feng army is much better than the Anhui army.

Due to the existence of the Ministry of Education, Fengjun can uniformly recruit, train and supplement new recruits. Front-line generals don't have to worry about new recruits at all.

However, the Anhui army is different. At a glance, the Anhui army and other warlord troops still stay in the mode of the old standing army in Beiyang. The troops are quite independent. They recruit, train and supplement by themselves. Duan Qirui doesn't care about it at all and can't control it.

So you will see many conscription stations set up by Anhui troops in various places in the south of the Yangtze River. In Jinling alone, there are more than a dozen military recruitment stations, most of which are different Anhui troops.

The ununity of new recruits has led to the fact that when the troops of the Anhui army can be supplemented during the war, it is up to themselves. What's more cruel is that they often can't get the supplement of qualified soldiers, so they can only forcibly recruit strong men and civilians on the spot.

This makes it difficult to recover no matter how strong the troops are during the war, once they suffer losses in strength.

Even Duan Qirui's direct troops like the Fourth Division are inevitable. If they want to recover, they can only recover after the war, and there is no way to lose their troops in the battle like the Feng army. The next day, the Ministry of Education sent the new soldiers in front of them, and the front-line generals don't have to worry about it at all.

And this has created a more interesting situation. Feng army generals often do not cherish the lives of soldiers more than Anhui generals.

Why? Because the Feng army general only needs to think about how to win, he added it to you the next day after the soldier died. The generals of the Anhui army generally pay more attention to casualties, because the soldiers under their command are recruited and trained by themselves. If they die, they will feel heartache, and if they die more, they will be in danger of becoming bald commanders.

"Since the attack of the 14th Division has been stubbornly resisted, let's slow down and wait until the 3rd Division is in place to launch a certain offensive appropriately. However, whether it can take down Jinling still depends on whether the first mixed brigade can successfully detour to the east of Jinling. As long as it can occupy the eastern part of Jinling, it can cut off the Anhui army. The connection between Jinling and Zhenjiang and other directions, even if the enemy of Jinling completely falls into our encirclement, and if Duan Qirui doesn't want to be trapped in Jinling, he can only retreat, and as long as he withdraws, then our Jiangnan strategy is half successful!"

After Meng Enyuan said, he turned his eyes to Lin Yongquan: "Master Lin, your ninth division should keep up with the pace of the first mixed brigade in time to ensure the safety of the flank of the first mixed brigade!"