Chapter 426 Battle of Wu Song

The 15th Division is the latest newly programmed main force in the Feng army. Although the officers in it are all excellent officers with rich combat experience drawn from various troops, the combat experience of ordinary soldiers is full of zero eggs, even though Cao Kui has conducted frequent and intensive training for them before. But training and practical experience are two different things.

If such a force directly encounters the main force of the Anhui Army, such as the 4th Division and the 2nd Mixed Brigade, the end will be 100% tragic. This kind of thing has been fully proved in the 7th Division of Liangjiang. This unit is almost similar to the 15th Division and 14th Division, fully equipped and the soldiers are all good family members. After Good training, however, when the seventh division of Liangjiang met the ninth division, it was beaten and retreated, and finally completely annihilated. Even the division commander was defeated and committed suicide. It does not have the opportunity to slowly accumulate combat experience and grow gradually like the 14th Division. It is the most fierce offensive and defensive battle, and the tragedy in the end is natural.

In this operation, the 15th Division did not encounter the main force of the 4th Division and the 2nd Mixed Brigade of the Anhui Army. When it landed in Shanghai, it met a large number of Liangjiang Army in the Anhui Army.

The Fourth Division of Liangjiang is stationed in Shanghai, Wusong Fort and other places. This unit is also a relatively long-established force. At the beginning of last year, after Duan Qirui went south to the two rivers, he used a large number of southern federal soldiers to form a batch of Liangjiang troops. The fourth division of Liangjiang was established at that time and is already an adult. More than a year.

However, since its establishment, this force has been stationed in the Jiangnan area, first stationed in Zhenjiang, and then moved to Shanghai. What does this stationing experience represent? It means that it did not participate in the subsequent operations of the Anhui army in the south to Fujian, Zhejiang, Jiangxi and other directions. That is to say, this unit is actually a newcomer in large-scale combat experience like the 15th Division of the Feng Army.

In this way, two troops with no large-scale combat experience collided in Shanghai!

On April 16, the first 15th Division did not march towards Shanghai, but directly attacked the Wusong Fort nearby.

Although the 7th Brigade of the 4th Division of the Two River Division stationed at the Wusong Fort tried its best to resist, it still failed to stop the attack of the 15th Division. The Wusong Fort, which was painstakingly managed by the Anhui Army, was declared lost for less than two days.

The loss of Wusong Fort is equivalent to the Feng army completely opening the entrance of the Yangtze River. Without the threat of Wu Song Fort, Cheng Biguang's fleet could go up the river and reach Jiangyin Fort.

Although Cheng Biguang's fleet could not directly resist Jinling to provide support for the Fourth Army in the bitter battle because of the obstruction of Jiangyin Fort, at least along the river in Shanghai, the Soviet navy has been enough to run unimped and provide a large amount of artillery support for the army troops in the landing battle, which will strongly support the army's operations.

Although the current Chinese navy is weak, the Soviet navy only has a few cruisers and gunboats, but the naval firepower has always been unmatched by the army. The Soviet navy not only has an eight-inch fleet on the Haiqi, but also has a large number of six-inch, five-inch and four-inch fleets, and quite a considerable number of A three-inch-level secondary gun.

It is not an excessive for the Fourth Army to say that it has concentrated more than half of the main force of the Feng army!

The fourth army has concentrated so many main forces, and its purpose is very obvious, that is, to take Jinling and completely establish the victory of Jiangnan strategy.

In addition to these four armies, the Feng army also has many troops under the command of the commander, most of which are troops deployed in Zhili and Northeast China, mainly a large number of mixed brigades, including the 5th Mixed Brigade, the 17th Division adapted by the 7th Mixed Brigade, the 9th Mixed Brigade, the 18th Division adapted by the 10th Mixed Brigade, and the 11th Mixed Brigade. The brigade and the first cavalry brigade.

Although the adjustment of the reorganization of the front-line troops from division and military levels is relatively large, in fact, these troops were already in place to fight before Zhao Dongyun issued a formal transfer order, because it is not said that it will have any negative impact on the operations of the front-line troops.

The Second Army officially landed in Shanghai and took two days to capture the Wusong Battery, which caused a great shock within the Anhui army. After Duan Qirui learned of the fall of the Wusong Fort, he immediately dismissed the brigade commander of the 7th Brigade of the Fourth Division of Liangjiang and strictly ordered the Fourth Division of Liangjiang to defend Shanghai.

Duan Qirui did not let the Fourth Division of Liangjiang counterattack Wusong Fort or something, because he also knew that it was reluctant to rely on the Fourth Division of Liangjiang to defend Shanghai, and it was impossible to say that he had the ability to counterattack Wusong Fort.

If you want to counterattack Wusong Fort and even defend Shanghai, it is absolutely impossible to rely on the Fourth Division of Liangjiang alone. Duan Qirui is bound to draw troops from other directions to reinforce Shanghai.

And what impact this will have will mean that the Anhui army originally transferred these troops to the front line of Jinling for reinforcements, but now after being forced to be transferred to Shanghai, it has indirectly affected the war in Jinling.

This is the most direct purpose for Zhao Dongyun to venture to send troops directly to Shanghai, relieve the strategic pressure of the Fourth Army in the direction of Jinling, thus creating favorable conditions for the Fourth Army to take Jinling and even destroy the Fourth Division. Of course, it is also a strategic goal to take the opportunity to take Shanghai and then directly capture the whole southern Jiangsu.

Duan Qirui mobilization of the Ninth Division stationed in Suzhou and Wuxi to quickly go south to reinforce Shanghai in order to defend Shanghai and stop the westward pace of the Second Army of the Feng Army.

In just a few days, a series of unexpected things happened in the Jiangnan War. First, the fourth mixed brigade of the Feng army was defeated, and then the first mixed brigade of the Feng army cut off the supply line of Jinling, which made the fourth army of the Feng army complete the strategic encirclement of Jinling. At the same time, the second mixed brigade of the Anhui army quickly advanced eastward and sandwiched The attack on the fourth army of the Feng army made the battle in the direction of Jinling extremely dangerous for the two armies of Feng and Anhui.

At this time, the Feng army took the risk of landing in Shanghai, which directly broke the strategic balance of the original Jiangnan war. The two divisions of the Feng army's second army quickly took the Wusong Fort and launched an offensive against Shanghai, which not only made the strategic security of the Anhui army in Shanghai and Suzhou extremely dangerous, but even affected it. The reinforcement of the Anhui army in the direction of Jinling.

In addition, there is a more important impact that the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau is in Shanghai, which supplies more than half of the ammunition consumption and ordnance of the Anhui army. In addition, Shanghai is also the main port for the Anhui army to obtain imported arms. Once Shanghai is captured, the Anhui army in Jiangnan will lose an extremely important weapon. Ammunition supply point.

This series of changes has made the war in the south of the Yangtze River more complicated and confusing, which makes other warlords in China unable to see clearly and figure out who will win.