From the beginning of the battle on the 17th to the morning of the 22nd, the Zhejiang army had a strength advantage over the national army, and the Zhejiang army had rich combat experience, so in this case, the first few days were almost always pressed by the first division, and then Zhu Rui successfully made a breakthrough through a series of tactical transfers, and surrounded the 13th regiment of the first division of the national army on the Hongbei Mountain.

Zhu Rui's plan was very simple, he knew that the Nationalist Army had seven divisions, but he also knew that it was impossible for the Nationalist Army to transfer all its troops to deal with him in such a large territory, even if Chen Jingyun wanted to transfer it, it would take time, according to the traffic situation in Fujian and southern Zhejiang, it was impossible to send troops from Fujian Province to the north for reinforcements without ten days and half a month.

According to his understanding, in a short period of time, at least five or six days, he only needs to face one First Division of the Nationalist Army, so that he can concentrate superior forces in the early stage to annihilate the First Division of the Nationalist Army, and at the worst will suffer heavy losses to it. The next step is to integrate forces and integrate the second division of the National Army. According to Zhu Rui's thoughts, if this time difference is fought, then he will be able to defeat the two divisions of the Nationalist Army in Zhejiang one after another, and then seize the entire southern part of Zhejiang, and then form a confrontation with the Nationalist Army that went north to reinforce it. According to such a plan, it is not a dream to occupy Zhejiang.

In fact, the plan in the first few days had been smooth, but Zhu Rui did not expect that Chen Jingyun would let the Second Division of the Nationalist Army advance eastward in advance, let alone that Chen Jingyun would urgently reinforce a reinforced regiment from Fuzhou to Shaoxing by sea. Both of these measures allowed the Nationalist reinforcements to arrive several days earlier than Zhu Rui had expected.

When the 1st Regiment of the Guard Division appeared on Zhu Rui's frontal front, Zhu Rui also wondered where another unit of the National Army had emerged, and after analysis, he found that it was actually a unit reinforced by sea from Fuzhou, which surprised him quite a lot.

The arrival of the 1st Regiment of this guard division also disrupted the operational plans of the 6th and 3rd Brigades under his command, and the originally expected sufficient strength suddenly became urgent, and the almost one-to-one strength was fully reflected in the firepower inferiority of the Central Zhejiang Army.

If the Fourth and Fifth Brigades of the Zhejiang Army had not been so careful yesterday and the commanders were not afraid of casualties and continued to attack overnight, I am afraid that the 13th Regiment would not be able to support it that night because of the lack of ammunition, then the Sixth Brigade and the Third Brigade would have been able to get the support of at least one brigade the next morning. At that time, it is not certain who will win and who will lose.

It's a pity that a plan is always a plan, and things in reality will never be the same as a plan, and there will always be deviations of one kind or another.

At the beginning, the national army also planned to delay time first, wait for the gathering of heavy troops, and then capture northern Zhejiang in one fell swoop. But Zhu Rui's actions also broke the plan of the National Army.

Zhu Rui also planned to destroy the first division first and then occupy southern Zhejiang in one fell swoop, but the plan was also deviated because of the actions of the national army.

In this war, both sides have their own plans, but almost from the beginning to the end of the plan of both sides have not been smoothly implemented, strictly speaking, this is an unexpected war, the course of the war is not controlled by the top leaders of both sides, but is guided by all kinds of accidents.

"Commander, retreat! Now the 3rd Brigade is completely finished! An officer beside Zhu Rui advised

But Zhu Rui was unmoved and retreated? He has no way back. For this battle plan, he has used all the troops, and even the city of Hangzhou can not be controlled, and now the third brigade has been defeated, and the first regiment of the enemy's guard division has detoured back to his flank, forming a flanking attack on his sixth brigade.

Zhu Rui is an ambitious person, but today when he found out that his ambition had come to naught, he suddenly didn't know what to do!

Seeing that Zhu Rui had not given an order for half an hour, several officers beside him also sighed. The people present are all veterans, and they only need to look at the current battlefield situation to understand it.

The rout of the Third Brigade did not result in the destruction of their Third Brigade itself, but caused a cascade of bad effects. After the Third Brigade was defeated, the Nationalist Army opened up contact with the 13th Regiment, and all kinds of materials, especially ammunition, in the rear could be transported, and the Zhejiang Army's plan to encircle and annihilate the 13th Regiment completely failed.

At the same time, the 6th Brigade was also in a semi-encircled state due to its position in the salient.

In this battle, they have already lost. Not only Zhu Rui knew it clearly, but also those Zhejiang army officers.

A few Zhejiang army officers, you look at me, I look at you, and then when they sighed, each officer had a different mind, seeing that the big tree of the Zhejiang army was about to fall, so where should they go? Do you fall with Zhu Rui or find another way?

The middle and senior ranks have all kinds of thoughts, and the lower-level officers and soldiers are more direct, and it is good to fight smoothly, and they can hold on to one or two if they occasionally fight hard, but now that the Zhejiang army is facing a big defeat, many grassroots officers and soldiers pondered, and immediately beat the white flag out to surrender, this kind of thing happened on a large scale in the previous Third Brigade, and even a regiment commander surrendered to the National Army with hundreds of people, and even many Zhejiang soldiers joined the National Army at that time.

The Third Brigade is like this, although the Sixth Brigade resists stubbornly, but it can't stand the people below from having all kinds of thoughts, and from time to time there are soldiers surrendering, and there are two or three cases of surrender at the platoon level.

Seeing that the Sixth Brigade was about to collapse, Zhu Rui, who had been silent, didn't care about reflecting on anything, and led the remnants of the Sixth Brigade to retreat north at noon.

But this is not good to return, and as soon as it retreats, it will completely trigger the collapse of the Sixth Brigade!

To evaluate the tenacity of an army, we must not only see whether it can attack, but also whether it can organize a retreat. And with the quality of the Zhejiang army, it is more difficult to organize a successful retreat in the event of a pursuit by the enemy than to organize an offensive. In fact, not to mention the Zhejiang army, even the national army itself could not organize the retreat well, of which the 12th regiment is the most obvious example, after being defeated by the Zhejiang army, it was ordered to retreat, but in the end it became a rout.

After a fierce battle, Zhu Rui only returned to the starting position with more than 2,000 people, and when he gave the order to attack three days ago, the troops under his command had three regiments, and if you add the third brigade that had been detoured to Niujiaoshan before, then the troops under Zhu Rui's command had five regiments, with a total strength of nearly 10,000 people. Now, the Third Brigade has been completely defeated, the Sixth Brigade has also lost most of it, and only more than 2,000 of the nearly 10,000 troops have escaped.

When he learned that the Fifth Brigade and the Fourth Brigade had not attacked the 13th Regiment yesterday, he was so angry that he blamed the two unlucky brigade commanders for the fiasco, and dismissed the commander of the Fifth Brigade on the spot, and the commander of the Fourth Brigade was also removed.

After collecting these two brigades, plus the remnants of the army brought out, Zhu Rui carefully calculated that there were only more than 8,000 people left under his hands, and at this time he also ordered to stop the attack, anyway, the 13th regiment on the opposite side had already received ammunition and other supplements, and it would be futile to attack hard. The immediate priority now is to hold on.

It was another morale boost, and after deploying the defensive line, Zhu Rui remembered the three regiments under Ye Songbin on the frontal front, but when he asked, there was no elimination from Ye Songbin's side.

In fact, Ye Songbin's situation is not much better than Zhu Rui!

Also this morning, the 11th Regiment, which had been fighting and retreating, suddenly stopped retreating, and it was a counteroffensive. The three regiments led by Ye Songbin were originally engaged in the task of containment, although the strength of the troops was more than 6,000 people, which was much more than the 11th regiment on the opposite side, but the relevant weapons were extremely poor. In order to eat the 13th Regiment, Zhu Rui equipped almost all the heavy weapons of the entire army on the Eastern Front, and Ye Songbin did not leave much of heavy machine guns and artillery. It was better when it was used for the containment mission before, but when the 11th regiment took the initiative to launch a counteroffensive, Ye Songbin felt a little struggling.

But what really troubled Ye Songbin was not the counteroffensive of the 11th Regiment, but that he didn't know when a national army appeared on his back, and after scouting their banners, he found that it was the second division of the national army.

"Aren't they in the Jinhua area? Why did you come here so quickly? Ye Songbin didn't understand very much, according to the previous prediction of him, Zhu Rui and others, the reinforcements of the second division of the National Army would not arrive until the day after tomorrow or even the day after tomorrow at the earliest, but he didn't know that the National Army had set off one day in advance. I don't know that this regiment of the Second Division also gave up a logistics station of the Zhejiang Army before arriving here

Ye Songbin's doubts turned into horror, he was much more straightforward than Zhu Rui, and after discovering that something was wrong, he didn't care about Zhu Rui's order to drag the enemy before, and immediately organized a lateral retreat, and then moved closer to the east, although Ye Songbin found out early and retreated early, but the 11th regiment also immediately increased its attack and tried to drag Ye Songbin

In this case, Ye Songbin is the same as the original 11th regiment, although he wants to leave, he can't.

dragged and dragged on, the 21st regiment of the second division had already appeared behind Ye Songbin, and as soon as the two attacked, the three regiments under Ye Songbin collapsed one after another

Sometimes the war is really wonderful, at the beginning it will be the Zhejiang army winning the national army and the national army was defeated again and again, with heavy casualties, but after a few days, the situation immediately changed, the soldiers are still those soldiers, the officers are still those officers, and the weapons in their hands are still those weapons, but this time it is the national army chasing the Zhejiang army.

Ye Songbin's subordinates were naturally inferior to the Sixth Brigade of the lineage led by Zhu Rui himself, and within half a day of the battle, a battalion surrendered en masse, and then after a few hours passed, a regiment was gone, and in the evening, Ye Songbin's men were left with more than 1,000 people, and the other thousands of people either surrendered or fled, but the most people who were really killed and wounded were only a few hundred at most.

In almost a day, the war in Hangzhou was completely transformed!