Xie Jiazhuang, a new round of offensive being carried out by the 3rd Regiment of the Guards Division. The defense of Jiejiazhuang was a subsidiary unit under Feng Guozhang, mainly composed of nearly 1,000 soldiers from the baggage battalion and the engineering battalion. In Feng Guozhang's defense plan, Xie Jiazhuang, Deng Jiao, Huang Zhuang, and Xia Zhuang united together, relying on the rear of Taishan Town to form a complete defensive front. In this nearly six-kilometer-long front, it was thought that because Jiejiazhuang was too far away from Taishan Town, and it was not the focus of Feng Guozhang's defense, it was not equipped with the main force here.

Feng Guozhang in Xiazhuang and Dengjiaao put one and a half infantry regiments of the Eighth Division, the only regular field force in his hands, into it, and although there were nearly 1,000 people in Jiejiazhuang, because the soldiers were soldiers of the baggage battalion and the engineering battalion, and they did not receive too much heavy weapons support in terms of weapons and equipment, it stands to reason that the Third Regiment of the Guard Division should be able to deal with such nearly 1,000 people.

However, on the contrary, war is always full of variables, and although the senior generals of both sides have formulated numerous plans and set various operational objectives, if everything can be carried out according to the predetermined plans of both sides, then the war will not be won or lost.

War, like life, is full of unpredictable accidents. When the division headquarters issued the order for a general attack, his third regiment launched an attack according to the predetermined plan, but only half an hour later, an unknown explosion occurred in the regiment's communications company, and almost all the communications companies were reimbursed, not only suffered heavy casualties but also suffered serious damage to the telegraph machine. Anyway, the guard was blown up in the first place.

This was also the reason why the 3rd Regiment was unable to communicate with the division headquarters by radio, and although the communication cavalry had been urgently dispatched to the division headquarters, it was still impossible to contact it for a while.

The reimbursement of the communications company naturally made it impossible for the 3rd Regiment to halt the attack, first the two battalions charged with the support of a large number of artillery, and then the 3rd Regiment encountered a much more serious resistance than they had imagined.

Only half an hour after the charge was launched, the Third Regiment had already found that the Beiyang Army on the opposite side was actually equipped with more than seven or eight heavy machine guns, and the previous officers were even more surprised that these heavy machine guns were not even the Makqin heavy machine guns that the Beiyang Army was equipped with as standard, but the Green guns that the Qing Army had been equipped on a large scale as early as the First Sino-Japanese War, that is, the Gatling multi-barreled hand-cranked machine guns. The Gatling multi-barrel hand-cranked machine gun was equipped on a large scale by the Qing army before the First Sino-Japanese War, but due to his many defects and the rapid rise of the Makqin machine gun, it has gradually withdrawn from active service, and now the standard assembly of the Beiyang Army is the Makqin water-cooled heavy machine gun. However, after Xinhai, many warlords in the south, especially in Hubei, dragged out a lot of Gatling guns from the warehouse to fight against the Beiyang.

After the Beiyang Army captured Nanjing, it also got a large number of munitions left by Huang Xing, including a batch of Gatling machine guns, based on logistics and ammunition supply problems, these Gatling machine guns are not suitable for equipping the regular army, so Feng Guozhang has been pressing not to the Fifth Division and the Eighth Division, but after learning that the Nationalist Army crossed the river to attack Nanjing, he also didn't care much, and pulled out these old weapons, and the commander of the Beiyang Army, who commanded the baggage battalion and the engineering battalion to defend Jiejiazhuang, also did not know what means were used. I actually got all these Gatling guns.

With the suppression of such a batch of Gatling machine guns, the third regiment of the guard division, which had not been warned in advance and had not made relevant preparations, suffered a major blow, and the two battalions of the first round of charge had not yet approached the position of the Beiyang Army, and had already suffered more than 100 casualties in just over ten minutes, and you must know that the two battalions that launched the charge added up to only more than 1,000 people, and the casualty ratio was almost close to one-tenth.

After the first charge was frustrated, especially under the heavy casualties, the morale of the front-line troops of the Third Regiment dropped sharply, and Lin Yongfei personally went to the front line to relieve the crisis at the front.

Although he knew that the other party had many Gatling machine guns, but the third regiment was on a mission, he Lin Yongfei gave a military order to Lin Chengkun, if he couldn't take Jiejiazhuang and encircle Taishan Town within two days, then the end would not be good.

Lin Yongfei, like other middle and senior generals of the guard division, played a major role in Chen Jingyun's personal relationship, he was Lin Yun's cousin, he never studied abroad, and he was not a soldier before Xinhai, but a rich second-generation son, who was proficient in eating, drinking and having fun, but he didn't know anything about fighting. Although the Lin family in the capital originally didn't care much about Lin Yun's partial house, but since Lin Yun and Chen Jingyun got married, their attitude changed immediately, and after they got married, several young sons and brothers in the family who had no future were also sent to Fuzhou. But although Lin Yongfei is a son-in-law, he not only eats, drinks and has a strong personality, but also has a high understanding of the military, and when he graduated from the fourth official class in Fuzhou, his grades ranked sixth. In this way, it is normal to be noticed by Chen Jingyun, and after some low-level post training, he soon became a battalion commander, and then he went to the staff department to serve as a second-class staff officer, and went to the combat department for a period of time.

This rapid rise naturally makes many people extremely red, Lin Yongfei knows very well, don't look at himself as Lin Yun's cousin, a relative of the Eight Classics, but any colonel-level officer in the guard division can be involved with Chen Jingyun's old relatives, his title of relative is sometimes really useless in the guard division, not to mention anything else, Chen Jingyun's cousin and the like have two in the guard division, and there are even more.

Under such great pressure, Lin Yongfei knew very well that if something went wrong in this battle, the future would probably come to an end, and a large group of people behind him would probably be eager to fall off the horse.

After the morale of the front line was intense, Lin Yongfei quickly organized a second charge, this time with the previous lesson, during the attack, the previous Beiyang Army's Gatling machine gun point was attacked, and some minor tactical adjustments were made to avoid encountering the opponent's machine gun strike.

Under such circumstances, the Third Regiment of the National Army also achieved certain results, breaking through a small section of the Beiyang Army's position two hours later, but it was not able to use this small section of the breakthrough point to drive a breakthrough on the whole front, and the battle situation in Jiejiazhuang was still deadlocked.

After the rapid contact of the signal corps, Lin Chengkun in the rear also learned of the predicament of the third regiment, his face was not very good, in fact, he did not have a good impression of Lin Yongfei, although this person had good grades when he graduated, and all kinds of military qualities were also considered superior among the graduates of the Fuzhou Military Academy, but the surname style did seem to be much more profligate, and it was said that he had raised more than a dozen women in Fuzhou for more than half a year, and often went in and out of the casino green building.

Lin Chengkun's status is getting higher and higher, and his vision is naturally getting higher and higher, although he himself is not very old, but some of his ideas are not much different from those of an old man in his fifties and sixties, and he is very unaccustomed to Lin Yongfei's surname style.

"Call him and ask him to conquer Jiejiazhuang before noon, otherwise I will personally report this matter to the commander!" Lin Chengkun said expressionlessly, he has no right to appoint and dismiss senior generals such as the head of the guard division, but as long as he Lin Chengkun sends a telegram to Chen Jingyun, he has full confidence to pull this person down.

Although Lin Chengkun was dissatisfied with this, he also made relevant arrangements: "Another company of artillery will be dispatched to support him, and the distribution of ammunition will also be arranged!" ”

The adjutant wrote it down and left quickly, while Lin Chengkun walked to the large military map on the wall, which was the military map of Nanjing, the latest operational map made by the Military Intelligence Department of the National Army and the Mapping Section under the General Staff Department on the basis of various intelligence and collected military maps. In order to meet the needs of future operations, the Nationalist Army's Mapping Section has spent a great deal of manpower and material resources to gather military maps of various parts of the southeast, including not only Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Fujian, Jiangxi, Guangdong, Guangxi, and other provinces in China. Naturally, it is not possible to redraw all of these maps, and most of them are based on some existing maps.

In this military map on the wall, the overall battle situation of the Nanjing battle is marked, and it can be seen from the many red lines and black lines on it that the national army launched a full-line attack from Xiazhuang, Huangzhuang, Dengjiaao, and Jiejiazhuang, and the offensive arrows in all directions above all pointed to Taishan Town without exception.

Although Xie Jiazhuang encountered some trouble, but Lin Chengkun was not too worried, the gap between the two forces was there, the third regiment plus the other troops attached to it had more than 2,500 people, if it was not possible to take the Xie Jiazhuang that was less than 1,000 people defended, then Lin Yongfei would definitely be pushed to the end by Chen Jingyun, and there was no possibility of turning over, for the sake of his personal future, even if Lin Yongfei played an ordinary command level, then there would be no problem.

Relatively speaking, he was more worried about the direction of Xiazhuang and Huangzhuang, although the first regiment of the guard division was currently progressing smoothly, and Xiazhuang had been completely captured at noon, but it did not form a formation to encircle and destroy the enemy, but let the Beiyang Army on the opposite side retreat smoothly, according to the intelligence reality, Feng Guozhang had commanded the Beiyang Army to deploy the second line of defense in Huangzhuang.

And the more you fight, the closer you get to the central city of Nanjing, there will be more and more buildings, and then it is very likely to evolve into street fighting, this situation is what Lin Chengkun does not want to see, this is not to say that he is afraid of too many casualties, but because it takes too long to clean up the enemy in the street battle, it is very likely that the guard division has not completely captured Nanjing, then the reinforcements of the Beiyang Army have already gone south to reach the outside of Nanjing, and the guard division will have to be attacked on both sides.