Back to the Republic of China as a commander

Feng Guozhang withdrew to Wuhu before the main force of the army. At this time, the latest news came. Through Li Chun's dispatch and command, the newly formed Beiyang Sixth Division, together with Dingwu Army and Anwu Army, a total of 4 horses, successfully entered Pukou. At this time, Bai Chongxi's vanguard was still more than 70 miles away from Pukou.

This latest news made Feng Guozhang very annoyed. The reason why he hastily withdrew the main force before was because of the youth army's sneak attack on the headquarters, but it was not enough to cause him chaos.The real source of his panic was Bai Chongxi's aggressive marching posture, and the youth army's night attack like luck made him feel that the youth army had already rushed towards him like a big one.Years of experience made Feng Guozhang, the old master, have the illusion that Tao Zhiyue had started a big chase under Zhao Yong's chaotic punches, so he ignored the objections of Wang Zhanyuan and others, and very nervously issued an order to retreat across the board, even blocking the rear of the palace. The troops are not arranged.What followed was a great chaos, and the Beiyang Army was in chaos. If Guo Songling hadn't immediately set up a law enforcement team to maintain traffic, it might have been a big question mark whether the Beiyang Army could be organized and returned to Wuhu.

Perhaps it was because of God's pity for Feng Guozhang's misery, this time Goddess of Luck smiled at him, Tao Zhiyue was also confused, he didn't know what the Beiyang Army was going to do, and turned around in front of his own army?How could Feng Guozhang make such an idiotic move?Tao Zhiyue concluded that a veteran and famous general like Feng Guozhang would definitely not be stupid, so he didn't know whether it was a trick of dragging the knife or an empty city.Tao Zhiyue thought over and over again, considering some of his own difficulties, Tao Zhiyue cautiously made a decision that he regretted unceasingly, and watched Feng Guozhang withdraw to Wuhu.

And when Zhao Yong and the others escorted Yang Shande back to Tongling's army position and asked Tao Zhiyue and Li Zongren for credit, Tao Zhiyue realized what a big mistake he had made.This is simply dereliction of duty. It was this fatal mistake that made the youth army miss the best opportunity to easily defeat the Beiyang army.As for Tao Zhiyue personally, it also greatly reduced his position in the heart of the commander-in-chief who was originally highly regarded by Wang Zhenyu.In the army in the future, Tao Zhiyue began to gradually move away from the core. Although his position was constantly promoted, he never got the opportunity to command a campaign or battle alone. This is a great regret.

The only thing that can be remedied now is to hope that the No.11 Division can really complete the large-scale interspersed tasks as Li Zongren's order requires, cut off the passage from Wuhu to Nanjing in time, and cut off Feng Guozhang and his nearly 11 Beiyang troops from fleeing back. Nanjing's return route to the north, so as to make up for the fault of the first division's escape from the enemy.However, the No. [-] Division is the weakest unit in the entire youth army, which is really difficult for people to entrust with important tasks.

So what is the No.11 division who has been given high hopes doing?

The current head of the 111th Regiment is He Yingqin. This is also Lu Diping's decision after communicating with him several times, because Lu Diping found that He Yingqin's military quality is very good, and his psychological quality is even better.In the end, Lu Diping resisted all opinions and appointed He Yingqin, an airborne cadre from Anjiang, as the chief of staff of the No. 11 division and the head of the 111 regiment.

In the ensuing outflanking operations, He Yingqin proved Lu Diping's unique insight with his actual actions.

At this moment, the 111th regiment shouldered the heavy responsibility of the whole division to assault the road between Wuhu and Nanjing, and Zhang Zizhong, the commander of the first battalion, rushed to the forefront as the vanguard of the whole regiment.As for Lu Yongxiang's Beiyang [-]th Division, which was originally in front of them, Lu Diping chose to turn a blind eye and ignore it, given that they were all busy evacuating towards Zhejiang.

The final blocking location was personally determined by Lu Diping, who Wang Zhenyu called a clever guy, in Ma'anshan.The reason is that although the Beiyang Army did not dare to go by water, it must return to Nanjing by sticking to the Yangtze River, because this is the safest way.And then this suggestion was transmitted by Lu Diping to the Right Route Army Command through the radio station of the division headquarters, and then reported to Li Zongren, the commander of the Southeast Front Army Command level by level.

At this moment, Li Zongren has a lot of things to do. As the commander of the front army, he cannot only be responsible for military operations like the headquarters of the left and right armies. He is also responsible for politics.Since the troops were dispatched in December last year, the most direct impact of the youth army's rocket-like marching speed is not the shock of the whole country, but the vacancy of political power in a large number of newly liberated areas.

Under the protection of security forces, a large number of National Socialist Party cadres as the main body took over the power in these areas, but a lot of trouble followed.

On the one hand, these work teams composed of the National Socialist Party have to compete with the original local forces for the actual dominance of the area. Military pay and supplies.After all, as the battle line continued to stretch, it became extremely unrealistic to expect many materials to be transported through Anjiang.

This request itself may not be contradictory. If it is a comrade with strong ability, then he will do these two things together.First, suppress those local powers that should be suppressed, and win over those that should be wooed, and then the local order will naturally stabilize, and the task of raising supplies will not be difficult to complete.It's a pity that not all comrades in the work team are so strong. The good side of human beings determines that they habitually choose to compromise and give in when facing the original local hard forces.However, history tells them cruelly and mercilessly that this is raising tigers.Li Zongren has this problem in Anhui now. After the work teams in many places are dispatched, they are tortured by the local tyrants and evil gentry.Squeezing out, listening to the tune and not listening to the propaganda is still a relatively good state. What is more serious is even playing the banner of Sun Yat-sen to organize local armed forces, openly expelling them by force, and attacking the work teams sent by the National Socialist Party, causing many bloody incidents.

This caused Li Zongren to greatly reduce the time to think about the war, and his nominal chief of staff happened to be Bai Chongxi, a part-time job leading troops on the front line.This forced him to spend his energy on mobilizing security forces to suppress them every day, and meeting with representatives of the gentry group who are willing to cooperate with the government. Contact, because the last and most critical step in the whole battle is to enter Shanghai.

When Lu Diping reported the plan and sent it to Li Zongren, Li Zongren felt that he was indeed a little negligent about this war.It seems that my side seems to have a sure chance of winning, but in fact, Feng Guozhang has only lost the initiative on the battlefield since the beginning of the war. The main force of the Beiyang Army still exists. If he continues to be so careless, he may give his opponent a salty fish If there is a chance to turn around, then his reputation in the world in this life will be all over.Therefore, this situation must not be allowed to happen. Li Zongren opened the map and looked at it. He personally measured the amount with a ruler and estimated the marching speed of the Beiyang Army. , ordered the Ministry to rush to Hongmu Mountain in Ma’anshan before 11:111 am on April 4, and then stick it there like a nail.”

The telegram was sent directly from the Front Army Command to He Yingqin, the commander of the 111th Regiment, who was performing a high-speed interspersed mission, bypassing the Right Route Army Command and No.11 Division Division.He Yingqin was very surprised when he saw this telegram, because it was already twelve o'clock at noon on April 4rd, and he and his army had just arrived at Guquan Town, which was a full distance away from the blocking location requested by Commander Li. There is a straight-line distance of 3 miles, the actual distance plus the sudden encounter with the enemy on the road, as well as the normal rest time, it is almost impossible to complete this order within the remaining 120 hours matter.And there is another outstanding situation. Feng Guozhang is only more than 80 miles away from this place in a straight line, and the actual distance is no more than one hundred miles. Moreover, they will start to retreat at any time.This is quite a problem, but He Yingqin thought about it for less than 3 minutes, and tried his best to suppress the idea of ​​appealing, because he knew that as a member of the youth army, he had to complete this task, and there was no room for bargaining, just how to do it Implementation is negotiable and flexible.

One-third of the officers and soldiers of the 111th regiment are northern soldiers, and most of them are concentrated in Zhang Zizhong's first battalion. They are tall and leggy and have good marching ability. Possibility of getting lost.So He Yingqin decisively ordered Zhang Zizhong's first battalion to throw away all pots and pans, and only take dry food and ammunition, and set off immediately, and must arrive at Hongmu Mountain by eight o'clock tomorrow morning.

Zhang Zizhong's military quality was fully demonstrated at this moment. Although he realized that this order was extremely unreasonable after a little thought, he still accepted the order without any objection.This moved He Yingqin very much. He secretly made up his mind that if he had a chance to be promoted in the future, he must not forget to support this young man from Shandong.

He patted Zhang Zizhong on the shoulder and said: "My whole regiment will follow behind your first battalion. After you arrive at the place, as long as you persist for two or three hours, we will be in place, so go ahead and do it boldly."

When Zhang Zizhong returned to the first battalion, he announced the order, then assembled the team and set off. While marching, Zhang Zizhong made a marching plan.He asked all ministries to rest for half an hour every two hours, and they rested in rotation. He adopted the method of solitaire. After a company surpassed all the companies, it rested and recuperated, and he himself led the whole battalion with a sharp knife platoon.

At this time, Feng Guozhang was still hesitating in Wuhu. Was he setting up a blocking position here?Or retreat to Nanjing across the board, and then cross the river to the north?History made a merciless joke here, that is, the news of Lu Yongxiang's withdrawal to Zhejiang was only known to Feng Guozhang late at night on April 4, and it was too late to do anything at this time.