Chapter 401 Strange Calm

The sun in early spring has slowly set on the mountain, leaving only the red sunset glow in the sky. Under the sunset glow, Ma'anshan on both sides of the Yangtze River are constantly drawing meteor-like light trails. These are cannonballs fired by the artillery units of the Feng army on the north coast. Nearly 100 cannons are fired continuously, and countless shells fly towards the south bank to support The 17th Brigade and the 18th Brigade on the south coast launched a counterattack.

That's right, it's a counterattack!

Since the Anhui army saw that the situation was not good and took the initiative to stop the large-scale offensive, Pan Luanqing in front of him decisively issued an order to launch a counterattack, especially the 34th Regiment, which was reinforced by the two battalions of the 18th Brigade, launched a number of offensives. Although it did not kill many enemies, but It was successfully recaptured of two positions.

Just as the 17th Brigade launched a counterattack, Lin Yongquan also stepped on the pontoon bridge accompanied by a group of senior officers.

Although limited by his weak tactical ability, Lin Yongquan was quite low-key in this river crossing battle. In the previous days of the battle, Meng Enyuan personally issued various combat instructions to Pan Luanqing, and Pan Luanqing was fully responsible for commanding the offensive and defense operations of the crossing troops. Lin Yongquan, the commander of the 9th Division His sense of existence is quite weak. Although Lin Yongquan was unwilling to do this, he also knew his own affairs and asked him to personally command the 17th Brigade to carry out beach defense operations. In the face of the attack between the 4th Division and the 7th Division of Liangjiang, eight out of ten was defeated. In addition, Zhao Dongyun also sent him a private one before the war. The secret electricity also hinted that he should not interfere too much in Pan Luanqing's command in the battle of crossing the river, but to do appropriate decentralization.

Therefore, in the early crossing of the river, he was very low-key and gave Pan Luanqing great independent rights, and did not show any dissatisfaction with Meng Enyuan bypassing his direct command of the 17th Brigade.

However, Lin Yongquan is the division commander of the 9th Division, and now the 18th Brigade has also crossed the river, which means that all the combat troops of the two brigades of his 9th Division have crossed the river. Naturally, the division commander will follow him across the river in order to personally command the war of the 9th Division.

Lin Yongquan's crossing of the river means that most of the crossing of the river of the 9th Division has been completed. The next step is to transport artillery and cavalry troops across the river, but the cavalry is okay. The cavalry can lead their horses across the pontoon bridge, but the artillery is a little difficult.

At present, the floating bridge built by the task force has only been preliminarily completed, and the carrying capacity is still very limited. If you want to barely pass through those 75mm field guns weighing more than one ton, it may cause too much trouble.

Therefore, the operation of crossing the river of the Fourth Army is also first. The first batch of crossing the river is the heavy troops of the 9th Division. They will send urgently needed ammunition, grain and other supplies to the 17th and 18th Brigades on the south coast in time, and the rest is the mountain artillery battalion of the 9th Division.

Although it is also 75mm in diameter, the weight of the mountain cannon is much lighter than those field guns. With the current pontoon strength, it is barely possible to transport these mountain cannons across the river.

As for those field guns, they continue to be deployed on the north coast. On the one hand, they cannot be transported across the river, and on the other hand, the Feng troops on the south bank also need uninterrupted artillery support.

A large number of officers and soldiers of the 9th Division, who walked on the pontoon bridge with Lin Yongquan, held torches and walked slowly on this simple pontoon bridge across the Yangtze River for several kilometers. At night after seven o'clock in the evening, a spectacular river scene was lit up.

The pontoon bridge built by the task force starts from the beach on both sides. After crossing the pontoon bridge about 700 meters on the north bank, it is the Little Yellow Island across the center of the river. Because the terrain on the Little Yellow Island is quite muddy, the Task Force laid boards on the predetermined passage. This section of the board passage is about two kilometers, and then Take the southpontoon bridge again, which is about one point three kilometers.

The two sections of pontoon bridge and the wooden passage on the Little Yellow Island are about four kilometers long.

Since the current pontoon bridge is only a simple pontoon bridge, which can accommodate limited personnel and goods passing at the same time, the speed of the 9th Division's follow-up river crossing troops is also limited. When Lin Yongquan finished walking this long pontoon bridge and just stepped on the land on the south bank, Pan Luanqing and other 9th Division officers who had already been waiting for We have already greeted them.

"Shuai Quan, is it okay to go along the way?" When Pan Luanqing saw Lin Yongquan coming, he immediately took the initiative to come forward and greet him respectfully. Immediately after Pan Luanqing, other middle and high-ranking gold officers of the Ninth Division also greeted him in unison.

The title of the powerful commander sounds strange, but it still sounds interesting. Calling someone a commander is a popular name among the armed forces of warlords in contemporary China.

The names of modern Chinese people are still relatively complex and chaotic. Later generations generally can't figure it out. For example, when Zhao Dongyun is modest, he will call himself his own name Yun or Dongyun. When he is arrogant, he will call himself President. When outsiders call him, the enemy will call Zhao Dongyun Zhao Guangtou, and ordinary people will call him President Zhao. Some people call him 'Zhao Suqian' by his place of origin. His subordinates are generally called the president and marshal, while students call Zhao Dongyun his teacher. Different people generally use different names for Zhao Dongyun.

As for Zhao Dongyun's words, Yuan Shikai can only call him 'Ziyang' in the past. As for now? No one in modern China is qualified to call him by word.

Zhao Dongyun is a marshal and marshal, and with some customs of the former Qing Dynasty and other warlords, so some senior generals in Fengjun will generally be respected as a commander, but there is no fixed way to call him. Some people call Meng Enyuan 'village commander'. This village is the second word of his word Shu Village, and there is People call him the 'military commander', and this army represents that he is the head of the Feng army.

The division commanders and brigade commanders who come down are generally similar, often a word or a word in the name. After that, with Shuai as the honorific title, Lin Yongquan is respected by his subordinates to face.

This style of calling can be said to have a strong feudal tradition, but it can't be changed for a while, because Beiyang, an interest group, is actually a continuation of the feudal tradition, which is naturally different from the so-called revolutionaries of later generations.

Pan Luanqing and others are very respectful.

Although the whole Fengjun knows that Lin Yongquan's tactical command ability is average, everyone knows that Lin Yongquan is the first veteran general to start his family. In order to support Lin Yongquan to take office, Zhao Dongyun spent a lot of time to supplement Lin Yongquan's own command ability. Zhao Dongyun specially assigned a large number of professional combat staff to the 9th Division, so no matter what Lin Yongquan's own ability is, he is a serious general of Zhao Dongyun.

And Lin Yongquan has always been more self-aknowledgeable. When commanding operations, he usually discusses and formulates plans with his subordinate officers and staff officers. He will not say that he is arbitrary. Therefore, Lin Yongquan has been the commander of the 9th Division for a long time, but the Ninth Division is not because of Lin Yong. What are the examples of defeat due to the lack of power's own ability?

Lin Yongquan did not put on any airs. He immediately talked to the officers who came to greet him. When he came to Fang Qingkun, he smiled and said, "I can see Anqing's performance this time. When the war is over, I will personally ask the grand marshal for credit for you!"

Although Fang Qingkun's thick face remained calm, he still couldn't hide his joy!

Since the Wan army took the initiative to stop attacking for two hours, Fang Qingkun knew that the credit of this battle had been achieved. No matter what, it would be possible to rise again in the future. It is possible to become a division commander or even a military commander in time.

In fact, it is true. The war in Ma'anshan is not over yet. When Zhao Dongyun of the Beijing Division received a telegram from the front that the Anhui army had stopped attacking and the pontoon bridge had been successfully set up successfully, he immediately ordered Pan Luanqing to add the rank of general and Xun four.

The rest of the meritorious soldiers who crossed the river will receive generous rewards. All officers and soldiers of the 17th Brigade who participated in the war will be given an additional month's pay as rewards, and the rest of the 4th Army's direct or indirect participation in the operation will be given an additional half month's will be paid. All soldiers killed and injured soldiers will be given preferential pensions to show Zhao Dongyun's preferential treatment.

After the Beijing's reward telegram reached the 9th Division on the front line, the officers and ordinary soldiers, including Pan Luanqing, were full of joy. The officers were happy for the bright future, and the soldiers were happy for the additional money. As for whether the families of the fallen were happy or sad when they received the generous pension, this is no longer under Zhao Dongyun's consideration.

When a large number of heavy troops and mountain artillery troops of the Ninth Division crossed the river overnight, Ma'anshan and the front line of Rentouji fell into a strange calm. The Anhui army stopped taking the initiative to attack and began to dig fortifications, and the Ninth Division was also exhausted because of the hard work for many days. France launched a large-scale counterattack, so the two sides fell into a strange calm.

However, when the front line of the two sides was calm, the light of the torch never stopped on the pontoon bridge built by the Feng army on the Yangtze River.

In contrast, a large number of torches have also appeared in several directions in the east, south and west, which are all reinforcements from Jinling, Wuhu and other places.

Both sides are accumulating the greatest energy at this time in order to achieve the greatest combat effectiveness in the subsequent battle.

On the south bank of the Yangtze River, in the temporary headquarters of the 9th Division, the middle and senior generals of the 9th Division rarely sit together, and the combat staff are explaining the current war in detail.