Chapter 422 Over conquering Sentence

On April 6, the Jinling War, which lasted for more than half a month, was still in full swing. In the southwest urban area of Jinling City, An Yulong enthusiastically commanded the 3rd Battalion of the 11th Regiment of his 3rd Division to attack an urban area controlled by the Anhui army.

Since the day before yesterday, the 3rd Division and the 14th Division cooperated with each other to launch an attack on Jinling City, although it was once blocked a lot, it was still relatively gratifying, especially on the side of the 3rd Division, which has pushed forward several blocks steadily. Gu Lanyu of the 3rd Division even attacked Meng Enyuan**hai In another five days, he will be able to enter the center of the city and make everything in the city into two.

However, the operation of the third division in the city was smooth, but Meng Enyuan in the rear did not put the hope of victory on the third division, because even if the third division's offensive was smooth, it would still be hindered by many obstacles in the city, resulting in great casualties. If the casualties were only those recruits of the 14th Division Meng Enyuan will not worry about anything, but it is very cost-effective to waste elite troops such as the Third Division in the urban attrition war.

So although the offensive of the Third Division was relatively smooth, Meng Enyuan did not put too much pressure on Gu Lanyu, and even let the Third Division slow down and wait.

What are you waiting for? The first mixed brigade was in place, waiting for the Ninth Division to keep up with the pace of the first mixed brigade, and then bypassed the eastern suburbs of Jinling.

Fengjun is good at attacking, but urban combat is still not their specialty. What they are really good at is field attack.

In the process of attacking Jinling, in fact, Meng Enyuan only invested a small half of his troops in the urban area, while the first mixed brigade and the ninth division invested in the periphery of Jinling, that is, the eastern part of Jinling, to be precise, the line from Jinling to Jurong.

Although the Jinling Campaign was carried out around the battle for Jinling, in fact, the branch of the battle that contained more than 100,000 troops on both sides was extremely open, with a front line of more than 50 kilometers all day.

The Feng army actually launched an attack on Jinling, Jurong and Lishui at the same time, and stopped the enemy's second mixed brigade in Dangtu.

At present, the 4th Mixed Brigade and the 33rd Regiment of the 9th Division are on the front line of Dangtu. The second cavalry brigade goes south to Lishui, and the 1st mixed brigade marches towards Jurong. The 9th Division is between Jinling and Jurong. The 14th Division is responsible for the main offensive against Jinling City. The third division is engaged in Jinling City, and the other brigade It is to cooperate with the Ninth Division.

In this battle with a battlefield width of more than 50 kilometers, the attack on Jinling itself is actually only one part of it. The importance of the battle in the direction of Jurong, Lishui and Dangtu is actually more important than the battle in the direction of Jinling.

Just when Meng Enyuan launched a heavy attack on the front line of Jurong and Jinling, Bao Guiqing, Lin Yongquan and other generals did not disappoint Meng Enyuan. They launched an attack on the Anhui army that exceeded their own strength. The Anhui army was retreating steadily. The first mixed brigade captured Jurong, the eastern part of Jinling, on April 8. Peripheral cities.

The first mixed brigade successfully conquered Jurong, which is related to the deployment of the Anhui army in this direction. There are only two main forces of the Anhui army. The second mixed brigade is in Dangtu, and the fourth division is shrinking in Jinling to resist the attack of the third and 14th divisions of the Feng army. In this way, Duan Qirui can be transferred out to resist the first The only troops of the mixed brigade and the Ninth Division are those of the Anhui Liangjiang Provincial Army.

Although the combat effectiveness of the first mixed brigade is not as good as that of the third division, it is still the old Beiyang army. After more than a year of fierce battle, it has rich combat experience. It may be difficult to conquer the defense line of the fourth division, but it is still not possible to conquer the Liangjiang Army. Be captured.

The loss of the sentence made the strategic layout of the Anhui army deteriorated all of a sudden.

In Jinling City, Duan Qirui looked at the sky with his hands behind his back. At this moment, his face was very heavy, and the fall of Jurong suddenly turned many strategic layouts into nothing.

In his strategy, it is to delay the offensive of the Feng army with the Jinling and Jurong lines, so as to wait for the second mixed brigade to break through the front line and directly attack the back road of the Feng army. In this way, under the two sides, the Feng army will not die. Even if the situation is not smooth, it can at least solve the danger of Jinling.

However, although the second mixed brigade was relatively smooth in the direction of Dangtu, as if it could break through the defense line of the Feng army the next day, what disappointed Duan Qirui day by day was that no matter how hard the second mixed brigade tried, it seemed that it could not finally break through the defense line of the fourth mixed brigade of the Feng army.

The second mixed brigade was delayed, which made the passively defensive Anhui army unable to regain its strategic initiative. After barely supporting it for more than half a month, it finally lost its sentence.

"Did you innocently abandon me?" In the face of such a bad strategic situation, Duan Qirui couldn't help but feel pessimistic.

He didn't understand why he worked so hard to expand and train his army. Why the army he still couldn't defeat the Anhui army? He didn't understand why so many people were so optimistic about Zhao Dongyun. The great powers gave him money to deal with the aftermath, and countless young people went north to serve Zhao Dongyun.

Those international students who have returned to China in the past two years, especially many official students sent in Yuan Shikai's era, will choose to go to the Southern Federation and the Anhui Army, and most of them will choose to work for Zhao Dongyun in the north.

If he is against Wang Yingkai, it's okay, but why does Zhao Dongyun?

Duan Qirui is unwilling, but what can he do now?

Many thoughts in my heart have not changed the reality that the Anhui army is in trouble now!

Looking at the map again, he couldn't help thinking, do he really want to give up Jinling, give up the whole Jiangnan, and then flee to Fujian, Zhejiang or even Guangdong?

What's the difference between yourself and Duanfang and Xiliang who were defeated by you?

Even if you fled to Fujian, Zhejiang and Guangzhou, how can you face the subsequent south offensive of the Feng army, and after losing the south of the Yangtze River, how can you rely on Fujian, Zhejiang, Jiangxi and Guangdong alone to support the army that has been enough to fight against the Feng army?

The importance of Jiangnan in this era is self-evident. Whoever controls Jiangnan can be said to control half of the world's wealth. Why did the Anhui army defend the Yangtze River? Why did the Feng army invest more than 100,000 troops to fight across the Yangtze River, not to fight for the ownership of the Jiangnan region.

Only now, Duan Qirui can no longer see his hope of victory.

Maybe it's time to consider the next strategy!

Duan Qirui sighed deeply, then returned and walked back. As he walked, he said to the outside, "Call them all in!"

He now needs the concerted efforts of many generals of the Anhui army to formulate the best follow-up strategy for the Anhui army.

When Duan Qirui faced the loss of Jurong and showed his sad face, other warlords in the country also learned that Jurong was captured by the Feng army one after another.

The warlords who can mix up in this era still have the most basic strategic vision. They only need to look at the map to know that the loss of Jurong is fatal to the Anhui army, because in the next step, Fengjun only needs to continue to move northeast, which is enough to cut off the land connection between Zhenjiang and Jinling, especially It is a crucial Nanjing-Shanghai railway.

Ninghu Railway, which was originally scheduled to open in the month, opened to traffic a month earlier than before due to the impact of the war, and opened to traffic at the end of February.

The reason why the railway was opened earlier than in history is inseparable from the support of Duan Qirui. Although this railway is built and operated by the British, it has great military strategic value for Duan Qirui. Therefore, since last year, he has been providing convenience for the British and even sent troops to recruit Zhuang. Ding helps the British build roads, and it's the kind that doesn't pay.

With the strong assistance of Duan Qirui, the Nanjing-Shanghai Railway was opened just after the Spring Festival, and this railway made the mobilization and logistics transportation of the Anhui army more convenient.

Especially in terms of logistical supplies, the Anhui army's ordnance ammunition mainly comes from two parts, some of which are imported like other warlords, mainly Japanese ordnance, and some German ordnances. These ordnances can only be disembarked in Shanghai now, because at present, countries have declared neutrality to China's civil war. Even under British pressure, he did not dare to blatantly use his own ship to help Duan Qirui transport arms in the Yangtze River. Duan Qirui also tried to use domestic ships and then used a British captain to drive, but he was still detained by Fengjun.

Although countries are currently neutral, the four countries, especially the United Kingdom, Germany, France and the United States, have still made their attitude clear, that is, they support Dongyun to unify China. Only Japan supports Duan Qirui out of the idea of the idea of causing China into chaos.

Therefore, for the sake of safety, Duan Qirui usually disembarks from ships in Shanghai, and then transports them by rail to major towns along the Yangtze River such as Jinling and Zhenjiang.

In addition to imports, another major source of arms of the Wanjun is self-produced, mainly Jinling Manufacturing Bureau and Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau. Jinling Manufacturing Bureau is backward in technology, old equipment and large-scale, and its output is limited, but the output of Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau is very large, and there are only two factories that can be self-produced in China at present. The 75mm field artillery factory, the ordnance produced by the bureau greatly supplemented the consumption of the Anhui army.

However, whether imported or self-produced, these ordnance ammunition need to be transported to Jinling by the Nanjing-Shanghai Railway.

If the Jinghan Railway, the sea transportation from Tianjin to Haizhou is the lifeline of the Feng army's southward troops, then the Nanjing-Shanghai Railway is the lifeline of the Jinling Anhui Army.

Especially after the Jinling War lasted for more than half a month and the ammunition stored by the Anhui army in Jinling City had been almost consumed, the ammunition transported through the Nanjing-Shanghai Railway became more important to the Anhui army.

Once the Feng army continues to march east and cut off the railway, the Anhui army in Jinling will lose extremely important ammunition supplies and can only be trapped in the dead city of Jinling.

At that time, even if the Feng army does not take the initiative to attack, I'm afraid that the Anhui army will take the initiative to retreat in order to avoid falling into annihilation.

These things can be simply judged on the map, and those warlords can also see them one by one.