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The world is always full of coincidences and accidents for one reason or another.

On March 3, the decisive battle between the Youth Army and the Beiyang Army, which had been postponed for various reasons, finally started.

The battle actually took place in four places at the same time. In this era when the promotion and use of radios have not yet been popularized, such a coincidence is indeed extremely surprising.This made military scientists who studied this war in later generations feel that it was very informative, but after digging deeper, they realized that it was indeed a coincidence and accident. They had to lament that history is so full of charm.

The historically famous decisive battle in the southeast took place on four battlefields simultaneously. According to the order in which the battles started, they are:

The Chaohu battlefield on the Caohe and Xuwanzi lines, the Hexian battlefield on the Jiecun and Chenxia lines, the Tongling battlefield on the Guanhushan and Tiehuzui lines, and the Nanling battlefield on the Yaoduntou and Yijiang lines.

The youth army invested in the first division Tao Zhiyue, the third division Li Pinxian, the fourth Liao Lei division, the seventh division Bai Chongxi, the ninth division Cheng Qian, and the No.11 Lu Diping division, a total of six main field divisions There are also 16 security troops including He Wenchang and Long Yunfei's two cavalry detachments, a total of [-] troops.

The Beiyang Army invested four main field divisions, including Wang Zhanyuan of the Second Division, Yang Shande of the Fourth Division, Zhang Huaizhi of the Fifth Division, and Lu Yongxiang of the Tenth Division, as well as Zhang Xun's Dingwu Army with 1 troops, Ni Sichong's Anwu Army 19 The first and second divisions of the Jiangsu Army and one division of the Zhejiang Army invested a total of [-] troops.

There is not much difference in the strength of the two sides. It can be said that they are evenly matched. Now the competition is who is more ruthless and who is more fierce!

War is always full of accidents, but some accidents are man-made.For example, the start of the Chaohu battlefield was a man-made accident, which fully reflected Cheng Qian and Cheng Songyun's character.

When Bai Chongxi took Cheng Qian aside and only asked him to monitor the changes of Zhang Huaizhi's Fifth Division, Cheng Qian, who was very dissatisfied with this, began to plan.So on the day of March, Cheng Qian naturally did something that made Bai Chongxi extremely angry. He actually launched an attack on Zhang Huaizhi's Beiyang Fifth Division before Bai Chongxi launched a general attack on He County. And also Without going through him, the commander-in-chief of the Left Route Army, he went directly to the Southeastern Front Army Command in Tongling and the General Staff Headquarters in Anjiang to report on the battle situation. When Bai Chongxi learned about it, he cursed angrily: "Cheng Songyun, you better have nothing to worry about. I have it in my hand, or you will look good."

Cheng Qian is not a good boy, not to mention Bai Chongxi, even if Wang Zhenyu himself came, Cheng Qian would not take it seriously.Since Bai Chongxi didn't give him what he wanted, he went to get it himself.

The Ninth Division can now be said to be the largest division among the eleven field armies of the entire Youth Army.There are [-] troops alone. Almost the Hunan People's Army and some of the Jiangxi People's Army during the Revolution of [-] were included in the Ninth Division. Under the Ninth Division are the four brigades of Tang Shengzhi, Song Hegeng, and Zhang Xiaozhun (he went ashore from Guangzhou to join Cheng Qian before the MIB arrested him in Shanghai) and Ye Kaixin.Relying on the superior strength of the fourth brigade and ten regiments in hand, coupled with the timely allocation of supplies and military pay from Anjiang, especially the equipment of an artillery regiment, although skilled gunners are not easy to train, these big guys who eat people but don't spit out their bones But now Cheng Qian felt that his waist was much thicker.

Therefore, Zhang Huaizhi, who has a military force of less than 2 people, really doesn't pay attention to him. He fought this battle with more confidence than anyone else.And judging from the battle process, his self-confidence is not completely unreasonable.

With a cannon in his hand, Tang Shengzhi naturally wanted to use it, and he bombarded Zhang Huaizhi's position indiscriminately.By convention, the infantry charged after the shelling.Zhang Huaizhi hurriedly drove the troops into the field to resist, but what happened?After another bombardment, Zhang Huaizhi's Fifth Division lost hundreds of people at once.After repeating this several times, the Beiyang military officers drove the soldiers to the battlefield again, but these soldiers were unwilling.

But at this time, Tang Shengzhi led the first independent brigade to take advantage of the emptiness and rushed to the front line, breaking through Zhang Huaizhi's first-line position with ease. Zhang Huaizhi was so angry that he vomited blood and scolded Cheng in front of all the officers of the division. Shameless and obscene, playing cards not according to the rules.

Next, Zhang Huaizhi gathered the two regiments to go all out to counter-attack, and with the support of artillery fire, they launched an attack on the lost position.

Tang Shengzhi withdrew all of them after a little resistance. Before the Beiyang Army had time to be happy, it was another bombardment.

As a result, in one day, Zhang Huaizhi's casualties directly exceeded 400, while Cheng Qian's Ninth Division lost only [-] people.With such a deficit, the morale of the entire Beiyang Fifth Division became low. . .

Compared with Cheng Qian's scheming, Bai Chongxi's fight on the Hexian battlefield was very difficult.The combat effectiveness of Zhang Xun's Dingwu Army has obviously been underestimated a lot, because up to now, the youth army has paid a price of more than 700 people in a full morning, but has not been able to occupy a few positions.Both sides come and go, every inch of land must be fought, so naturally the fight is inextricable.Often, just as the youth army took a position, the Dingwu army over there organized a damn team to take it back. Hundreds of people were killed and wounded on both sides, but they returned to the original point. Thinking about it, both sides felt discouraged.

But Bai Chongxi was not in a hurry, because he didn't let the fourth division launch such an attack to compete with Zhang Xun, that was not his style.The reason why he disregards the lives of soldiers is because he has a principle of obtaining the greatest victory at the least cost, thereby avoiding greater casualties and attrition.And in order to achieve this goal, the smallest price is negligible in his eyes.So Bai Chongxi didn't intend to break through Zhang Xun's position at all, but just wanted to attract the opponent's attention.After this day of bloody fighting, before Zhang Xun had time to praise his subordinates, he discovered that Bai Chongxi had moved the Seventh Division to his rear, and he and the Dingwu Army under his command were defeated by the youth army with three The troops of the division were surrounded by water.Bai Chongxi did not launch an attack overnight, but sent a liaison officer to persuade Zhang Xun to surrender.

As a result, the monster Zhang Xun not only refused to surrender, but also tied up the liaison officer and was about to shoot him.But several generals persuaded him fiercely before they beat up the liaison officer and sent him out.

Bai Chongxi's mood has been extremely bad recently, and he has suffered from severe lack of sleep. He is only in his 20s, and his head has started to lose hair.And Zhang Xun's behavior broke the bottom line of Bai Chongxi's patience, so a crazy plan came out.

"From [-] o'clock in the morning tomorrow, launch an attack across the board and wipe out Zhang Xun's troops as quickly as possible." Then Bai Chongxi left a room full of stunned officers and walked away. . .

But on the right, Nanling was the first to strike.

Lu Yongxiang, the commander of Beiyang Tenth Division, is different from Zhang Huaizhi. Zhang Huaizhi belongs to Duan Qirui, and Lu Yongxiang, at best, is only half of Duan Qirui. Otherwise, Feng Guozhang would not acquiesce in letting Lu Yongxiang be the new member The division commander of the [-]th Division and concurrently served as the Zhejiang Military Affairs Supervisor.

At the beginning of the war, under Duan Qirui's behest, both Lu Yongxiang and Zhang Huaizhi were passive and sabotage their work.As a result, Feng Guozhang's layout was delayed, and the subsequent situation made the shrewd Lu Yongxiang realize that this cannot go on like this.Because the youth army is obviously not the scabies disease that Chief Duan said, but a serious illness in his heart. ***, is there a mange disease with more troops than ours in Beiyang?Moreover, Lu Yongxiang's ambition is to control Zhejiang, a wealthy place, but if he doesn't help Feng Guozhang defeat the youth army, then under this overwhelmed nest, will there be any other eggs?Only by defeating the youth army can the team return to Zhejiang and repel the attack of Sun Yat-sen's revolutionary coalition forces on Zhejiang.So Lu Yongxiang finally chose to stand on the side of light and justice (light and justice?).

Therefore, the attacking force mainly composed of the 11th Beiyang Division and the [-]st Patrol Division of the Zhejiang Army pressed down on Lu Diping's Youth Army No. [-] Division without hesitation.

Compared with the Ninth Division, the No.11 Division is almost the weakest unit of the Youth Army. First of all, it is made up from officers to soldiers, including the original Hunan Mine Police Corps, the 39th Beiyang Brigade and its own The old parts are combined.The supplies have not been fully replenished, and the officers have not been retrained, and even the political cadres have not been fully dispatched (the political cadres are also out of stock!).

But that's it. Under the onslaught of the Beiyang Tenth Division and the Zhejiang First Division, the No. 11 Division was desperately resisting.

The 111st Battalion of the [-]th Regiment commanded by Zhang Zizhong is at the core of the entire offensive storm at this moment --- Doujia Village. . . .

And where is the key point of the whole battle?In Tao Zhiyue's place, in Tongling, this is the key point that determines the entire battle.

To live or die, to win or to lose, to glory or shame?All of this fell on Tao Zhiyue's shoulders, and on the head of the entire First Division.

The performance of the officers and soldiers of the First Division at this moment is absolutely worthy of their shining numbers, their beautiful uniforms, their generous treatment, and their excellent equipment.

The Beiyang Second Division, which was in charge of the offense, could be said to be the trump card of Beiyang, but when the attack was launched, they realized how stupid it was to attack such an opponent. It caused huge and unbearable casualties to oneself.And after several crazy attacks, the middle and lower rank officers and soldiers of the Second Division refused to attack at all. This is not how this battle was fought.Wang Zhanyuan was so angry that he finally had to order the bonus to be increased to 10 yuan, and a 15 yuan ocean attack salary was issued first.