Chapter 382: Cai Ning's Confusion

readx; Yang Shande gathered so many troops in the Liling area and it was not for the sake of sightseeing, as soon as the assembly was completed, he launched a large-scale attack on Liling, with the support of more than 30 artillery pieces of two artillery battalions, the Beiyang Army began to progress smoothly, and the second mixed brigade of the Nationalist Army once lost part of the defense line in Liling. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

However, soon the 320th Regiment of the Third Mixed Brigade of the Fourth Army sent by Lin Chengkun arrived in the Liling area for reinforcements, making the national army defenders in the Liling area reach more than 7,000 people, plus the terrain advantage, so although the strength is still at a disadvantage, it can be regarded as recovering the previous decline, so that the battle line in the Liling area has stabilized again, thus forming a continuous stalemate between the two sides.

By mid-August, Yang Shande saw that Liling could not be attacked for a long time, so he once again reinforced the remaining brigade of the First Division of the Hunan Provincial Army to the front, and sent a regiment to prepare to bypass Liling to capture Pingxiang, but at that time Lin Chengkun had already sent the remaining regiment of the Third Mixed Brigade of the Fourth Army to Pingxiang. There were casualties between the two sides in the fighting, but a stalemate remained largely maintained.

At that time, the pressure in Hengyang was extremely great, and Yang Shande could not transfer more troops except for the two newly trained supplementary regiments and some troops directly under the Fourth Division, so Yang Shande had no choice but to ask Duan Zhigui in Hubei for help.

However, in August, Duan Zhigui was busy rectifying Hubei and training his descendants, and he was also busy sending troops into Sichuan, and then more importantly, he was sending troops to the east. In this way, there are not many troops left under Duan Zhigui's command, after all, he does not dare to send all his troops to the front line, and some important areas in the rear should always be reserved as reserves and threat places, otherwise who knows when those local troops will rebel. In addition, there was still a desire to preserve troops, so only one brigade was sent into Hunan.

But after the fall of Hengyang in mid-September, Duan Zhigui also gasped after learning the news: "This Hengyang has been guarded for a month, how can it be lost now!" ”

Immediately afterwards, he received another telegram from Yang Shande asking for help: Please help my brother!

This will be he will not dare to stay out of the matter, immediately sent another brigade to prepare to enter Hunan, Hengyang is lost, but Changsha can not be lost, if Changsha is lost, then it means that Hunan is also lost, after Hunan is lost, it will have a significant impact on the entire Chinese situation, and for Duan Zhigui, the biggest impact is that after Hunan is lost, his Hubei will have to directly face the attack of the National Army.

Sending troops to reinforce Hunan, in the final analysis, is still for himself, as for Yang Shande's life and death, it has nothing to do with him Duan Zhigui, if Yang Shande's army is defeated this time, he doesn't mind taking Hunan into his pocket, of course, the premise is that he has to block the attack of the national army in Hunan, if he can't stop Hunan, even Hubei will be in danger every year.

After the war in Hunan continued, the forces of both sides slowly began to develop in Changsha, and it was bound to be a large-scale decisive battle, but most of the time Chen Jingyun's focus was not on Hunan, but on the Anhui war, the national army launched an attack on Hefei after taking Chaohu, and then the fifth division and the first division and the fourth division combined forces to force Tang Tianxi's tenth division back, and the fifth division was able to continue north to reinforce Hefei. At the same time, the 4th Division of the 1st Army was blocked by the 2nd Mixed Brigade of the Beiyang Army 20 kilometers west of Pukou in Nanjing, and could not continue to move north or attack, and then the 1st Division also encountered Tang Tianxi's 10th Division in the Wugang area.

As a result, the 1st and 4th Divisions of the 1st Army engaged Tang Tianxi's 10th Division and the 2nd Mixed Brigade on a front of nearly 30 kilometers from Wugang to Shiyang.

In addition to the Fifth Mixed Brigade resting in Chaohu Lake in the rear and serving as a rear reserve, the Sixth Division of the Second Army was in Feixi, the Ninth Division was located in the area of Changle Township in the southeast of Hefei, and the Eighth Division was around the east and northeast of Hefei. The Fifth Division was positioned behind the 9th and 8th Divisions as a reserve, forming a three-way offensive that stretched for dozens of kilometers.

However, Cao Kun is also a veteran general who is good at fighting, relying on the remaining main force of the Third Division, the remaining brigade of the First Division of the Anhui Provincial Army, and the two supplementary regiments he recruited in a short period of time, with Hefei City as the core of the defense, ready to wait for the Eighth Division in northern Anhui to go south for reinforcements, and also expected Xu Shuzheng's Eleventh Division to go south for reinforcements. In addition to holding on, the Third Cavalry Regiment under his command was also sent out, not to engage the main infantry of the Nationalist Army, but to roam the vast wilderness area around Hefei, attacking the Nationalist army's logistical supply lines and small troops.

This third cavalry regiment can be regarded as causing considerable trouble to the second army, the supply line from Chaohu to Hefei was attacked many times, the logistics and transportation personnel suffered heavy casualties, and the materials were looted and destroyed, and the second army had no choice but to send a large number of troops to escort it, and also set up a temporary wharf on the shore of Chaohu Lake south of Changle Township, and then used the method of transporting supplies from Chaohu Lake (lake) to avoid the attack of the enemy cavalry in the open wilderness area from Chaohu Lake to Hefei that was thirty or forty kilometers long.

In addition, the Second Army also organized several divisions of cavalry battalions, trying to integrate into a large-scale cavalry to confront, but the cavalry quality of the Nationalist Army and the cavalry quality of the Beiyang Army was very different, and the cavalry of the Nationalist Army suffered heavy losses after several cavalry encounters.

It has to be said that the Third Cavalry Regiment under Li Dianrong caused considerable trouble to the Second Army of the Nationalist Army, forcing the Nationalist Army to spend a lot of manpower and material resources on logistics and transportation, and making the supply of front-line troops slow, after the general attack on Hefei was launched only once, the time of the second general attack was pushed again and again, and it was not until mid-September that the second general attack on Hefei was launched, and the second general attack on Hefei was concentrated on the first day of the second army's general attack, and then the Eighth and Ninth Divisions launched an attack.

"The fighting on the front lines is fierce! The casualties of the 8th Division were somewhat heavy! Shen Gang roughly explained in a small sub-map that Anhui Hefei said after the war: "The General Staff has added the second batch of recruits to the Anhui front this month!" ”

After hearing this, Chen Jingyun said: "It is not so easy to take Cao Kun's Hefei, and certain casualties are also expected. The replenishment of personnel on the side of the General Staff must be timely, so that the front-line troops must be kept in good condition! In addition, in the transportation of logistics materials, it is not a way for the supply line to be always disturbed, and if the supply line is not safe, the logistics materials cannot be safely transported to the front-line troops! This problem needs to be solved as soon as possible! ”

Chen Jingyun said this, and Shen Gang also nodded yes: "The General Staff has instructed the Air Force Department to increase air strikes against the enemy cavalry at this point, and the Navy has sent several small gunboats into Chaohu, and the Logistics Department is also increasing the transportation force in Chaohu, I believe it will not take long to improve this problem." ”

Shen Gang came out of Chen Jingyun's office not long after, and Yu Shifeng walked up: "Brother Shen, this is the end of the report, you will also go over to Yu Ruofei in the evening, right?" ”

Shen Gang thought for a moment when he heard this: "I can't finish the affairs in my staff department, this time Yu Ruofei is happy with the wedding, I naturally want to go over to congratulate one or two!" But you also know that my staff is busy, and it may be late! ”

Yu Shifeng said: "I heard that Yu Ruofei married the daughter of the Yi family this time, and I have long heard that the daughter of the Yi family is beautiful and solemn, but it can be regarded as a cheap boy!" ”

"Hehe, who says it's not!" Shen Gang and Yu Shifeng walked out on the side, but they happened to see Cai Ning on the way, and they were stunned at first and then asked Yu Shifeng: "Who is this person?" ”

Yu Shifeng smiled when he heard this, and then said a little mysteriously: "My name is Cai Ning, and I am Cai Dan's sister!" I just joined the secretariat last month, and now I am the second secretary! ”

Cai Dan was Chen Jingyun's accompanying secretary before, although Shen Gang didn't know him very well, but people had seen and spoke, but this Cai Ning seemed to be a little weird, he only came to the secretariat last month, and now he has become a second secretary in just a month? Shen Gang also knew a little about this secretariat, and knew that it was not easy for the third-level secretary who had just come in to be promoted to the second-class secretary, even if she had an identity background, she would have to stay up for three or five months, but this girl only took a month, looking at her beautiful appearance although she was without makeup, and then connected with Yu Shifeng's mysterious expression when he talked about this person just now, Shen Gang muttered in his heart, is she the president's house?

Although he muttered in his heart, Shen Gang consciously didn't say a word, Chen Jingyun's private life was not something he could comment on.

However, when he walked over, he still smiled at Cai Ning, and then said two greetings about her brother Cai Dan, if she was really Chen Jingyun's private woman, although he Shen Gang didn't need to please her, but it was okay to say a few good words in Chen Jingyun's face, after all, there would be nothing wrong with having a good relationship.

Then I went out with Yu Shifeng!

Leaving Cai Ning there, frowning and thinking about something, and then after taking a breath, she returned to her own work, in fact, she began to be surprised that she was inexplicably promoted to the second secretary, because she had also inquired before and according to the example of her brother Cai Dan, there was only one director in the secretariat, Yu Shifeng was in charge of the entire secretariat, and then there were three first-class secretaries, but these four first-class secretaries were all secretaries accompanying Chen Jingyun on duty 24 hours a day, and Cai Dan was one of them before. Then there are four or five second-class secretaries, each responsible for a small direction, and these second-class secretaries are the main managers of the secretariat, and there are nearly twenty third-class secretaries under them.

Cai Ning thought that even if she was appreciated by her boss again, it would take at least a year and a half to be promoted! But I didn't expect to be promoted in just one month, and the time of promotion was also extremely ingenious, but two days after meeting Chen Jingyun that time, he was promoted to second secretary by Yu Shifeng.

This made Cai Ning quite puzzled, but what happened immediately made her even more confused.