In the early morning of 21 May, the 12th Regiment of the 1st Division of the Nationalist Army and the 1st Regiment of the Guard Division cooperated with each other to launch a counteroffensive against the Zhejiang Army in the area of Baoge Mountain and Niujiao Mountain.

For this counteroffensive operation, Yuan Fang transferred two artillery battalions and the artillery battalion of the guard division to fight together for artillery support, as well as more than 20 80-mm mortars and a considerable number of 60-mm artillery shells. It can be said that the density of such artillery support is much denser than that of the same number of Beiyang Army.

In fact, the Nationalist Army has always had an artillery advantage, but this advantage has not really been exploited, and the previous defensive operations and these artillery pieces have not played their due role. This time, a large number of artillery pieces were newly concentrated for support operations, and the four words of infantry and artillery coordination were implemented.

After intensive artillery preparations, the 12th Regiment of the First Division and the 1st Regiment of the Guard Division each formed a main direction of attack to attack forward, although the 12th Regiment was a remnant, but it was supported by Yuan Fang's reinforced task force, that is, the engineer battalion, the baggage battalion and other troops, although the combat effectiveness of these auxiliary units is limited, but they have also received infantry training, and the regular infantry battalion is not comparable but is much stronger than the recruits and even the common people. When such a 12th regiment launched an attack, it was also considered a victory under the cover of artillery, and it was able to advance slowly.

Although the 1st Regiment of the Guards Division had a large number of people, sufficient equipment, and sufficient artillery support, after all, it was the first time on the battlefield that it was not even as good as the 12th Regiment, and more than three hours after the attack was launched, the battle line only advanced a few hundred meters.

In the face of such a situation, Yu Ruofei, who had always been very slow in confidence, was also a little hesitant, and Shen Gang, who accompanied and assisted in the battle, also accepted yesterday's contemptuous attitude, and even understood Yuan Fang before for a while.

In fact, there is a big gap between the Nationalist Army and Zhu Rui's Second Division in terms of personnel training and weaponry. Logically speaking, with the quality of the soldiers and weapons and equipment of the National Army, there are nearly 6,000 people in the 1st Regiment of a Guard Division and the 12th Regiment of the 1st Division, and if you add the artillery that supports them in battle, then it is more than 7,000 people. With so many troops facing nearly 10,000 Zhejiang troops on the opposite side, it stands to reason that there is no weakness in the troops. But there has been little progress, and the main reason for this is still that, and that is experience.

This was the first time that the Nationalist Army had fought a war, and although the 12th Regiment of the First Division had fought for several days, the 12th Regiment had already suffered several successive defeats, with too many new recruits, low morale, and a lack of quality among the soldiers. As for the first regiment of the guard division, it is the first time to go to the battlefield, and the soldiers can be considered capable if they can not be scared to pee, as soon as those recruits go to the battlefield, they shout long live the motherland, and the matter of serving the country and the people and rushing to the enemy's guns only exists in film and television dramas, and it is impossible in reality, they need time to adapt!

It takes time for them to get used to the sound of gunfire, to the shelling, to get used to the death and wounding of their comrades, and then slowly become numb, mechanically pick up their guns and aim and shoot, no longer treating the enemy and comrades on the other side as sincerity, but just a walking and moving animal, no different from cattle and horses. This habit process does not need to be too long, it is almost the same after a few battles, and in the process of this habit, some people survive, some people die, and there is no need to mention it when they die, and those who survive become veterans.

These surviving veterans make up the bulk of an army!

Comparatively speaking, officers are much easier to solve! Because many times the officers are in the rear to direct the operation, the national army also strictly prohibits middle and senior officers from going into battle in person, even the officers at the grassroots level most of the time also command the troops under their command to rush forward, and the platoon commander and the like rarely shoot in person, even if they shoot a few times themselves, they will be proficient. More importantly, in addition to the promotion of soldiers, the source of officers in these years is the enthusiastic young people who have the education to take the initiative to join the army, and these people do not have the same variety of thoughts as ordinary soldiers.

So much so that many times, those ten-year-old young lieutenants who came out of the Fuzhou Military Academy commanded the battle while their legs and stomachs were trembling. After a few battles, these young officers have slowly matured.

Therefore, the biggest problem in the National Army at present is not the quality of the officers at the grassroots level, but the quality of the senior officers and the combat experience of the soldiers at the lower levels.

As soon as Shen Gang, who had just inspected from the front line, returned to the regiment headquarters, he said to Yu Ruofei: "The 13th regiment was surrounded before, and it seems that Yuan Fang can't be blamed for having no way to command!" ”

Shen Gang walked over and took a sip of tea from his teacup before continuing: "I went to the front line to inspect just now, and found that although the equipment of the Zhejiang army on the opposite side is far inferior to ours, the combat experience of the soldiers is far more adequate than that of our soldiers, although their tactical mobilization is also difficult to implement, some tactical deployments have obvious loopholes, and the coordination of infantry and artillery is completely nonexistent. But the situation of our army is not much better than theirs! ”

Yu Ruofei also knew these situations, nodded and said: "After all, our army is on the battlefield for the first time, and these are unavoidable. The Zhejiang army on the opposite side was not an ordinary army, this Zhu Rui's second division had fought with Zhang Xun in Nanjing before, and then all the way to Xuzhou, and finally fought against each other for several months with the troops of the fifth town and Zhang Xun, and there were skirmishes almost every day. Their combat experience is far from what we can compare. ”

In fact, there are very few troops in the south who have combat experience, basically Zhu Rui's second division, the people's army in Hubei, and then the eighth division formed by Nanjing's former elite troops. With the exception of these three, the armies of the other provinces and localities basically have no experience in large-scale operations, and the combat experience gained from those small fights is extremely limited and cannot be of any use.

Shen Gang sighed and said: "It's a pity that the war can't be delayed for a long time, otherwise the seven divisions of our National Army will take turns to come to Hangzhou to fight again, and the combat effectiveness of our National Army will immediately soar to a higher level!" ”

"The matter of training the army with combat is not feasible now, the 13th Regiment is waiting for us over there, if we can't make a passage this evening, the 13th Regiment may run out of ammunition and food!" Yu Ruofei was more worried about the 13th Regiment that was surrounded.

"Now the 13th Regiment has been besieged for more than a day, and according to intelligence feedback, the two brigades of the Zhejiang Army in front of the 13th Regiment are attacking at night, and I don't know what is going on with them!" Shen Gang was also a little worried.

"Well, don't talk about that, come and help me see this battle plan!" Yu Ruofei asked Shen Gang to come over and look at the battle plan: "The attack in the early morning did not achieve the expected effect, only advanced a few hundred meters, and we are still a long way from the 13th regiment, in order to make progress, our department has reformulated a plan!" ”

The plan in Yu Ruofei's mouth was not formulated by himself, in fact, the specific operations of the first regiment of the guard division so far were formulated by Yu Ruofei and a group of staff officers, and Chen Jingyun specially assigned him before coming As for the staff officers and several deputy positions. Yu Ruofei understands very well that he is mainly here to gain experience and brush up on military exploits and the like, so he is very self-aware and does not monopolize power.

Shen Gang mainly came to the regimental headquarters of the First Regiment of the Guard Division as an observer of the Provisional Army Headquarters, in fact, he and Yu Ruofei are almost the same, they were both released by Chen Jingyun to brush up military merits and increase combat experience, the difference is that Shen Gang is indeed from a professional class, and he has also led troops before, and his military quality is more than a little bit stronger than Yu Ruofei, a halfway monk.

After reading the plan, Shen Gang also expressed his own opinions, and then the 1st Regiment of the Guard Division began to readjust according to this revised battle plan and prepare to attack.

At noon, after preparations, the 1st Regiment of the Guard Division launched another attack, this time although it still seemed to be a decent tactic, and there were not many tricks in it, but because they had experienced several hours of fighting before, this time the soldiers below were somewhat longer.

From the beginning of the raid at noon, until the afternoon, the 1st Regiment of the Guard Division had successfully broken through two positions of the Zhejiang army, and surrounded a company of Zhejiang troops on a small scale and captured more than 100 people. The battle line advanced more than 1,000 meters, and the nearest point was only more than 6,000 meters away from the 13th Regiment, and even with a telescope, you could already see the smoke and dust of explosions rising from time to time on the high ground occupied by 13.

The reason why they were able to achieve such results was inseparable from the excellent artillery support of the artillery battalion, and the artillery in the rear and the mortars of the regiment together blew up a bloody road for the infantry.

Relatively speaking, the progress of the 12th Regiment of the 1st Division was ahead of the 1st Regiment of the Guard Division at the beginning, but the follow-up progress was not so smooth, and the enemy in front of them was the 6th Brigade, which had a large number of troops and was personally commanded by Zhu Rui, so although there was little progress in the battle. The 1st Regiment of the Guards Division was relatively simpler, and they faced only the 3rd Brigade of the enemy.

The 1st Regiment of the Guard Division and the 12th Regiment of the 1st Division joined forces to advance in an attempt to rescue the 13th Regiment, while the Zhejiang Army on the one hand was desperately blocking the Nationalist Army's reinforcements, and on the other hand, the 4th and 5th Brigades attacked at night, trying to completely annihilate the 13th Regiment before the Nationalist Army broke through the Zhejiang Army's defensive line.

To put it simply, it's a time match between the two sides. Whoever accomplishes the predetermined strategic goal first wins.

The battle on the front line is extremely fierce, but Lin Zhaomin in the rear does not have much intuitive feeling, in his eyes, this war has become a number.

In the provisional headquarters of the First Army in Shaoxing, Lin Zhaomin and his group of staff officers were analyzing the entire battle situation in northern Zhejiang, in addition to the frontal battle, there were also miscellaneous tasks such as logistics supply, transportation arrangements for people, and even Lin Zhaomin also found time to deal with Jiang Zungui and Chen Yi.

"Chief of Staff, the heralds of the 21st Regiment of the Second Division have arrived, and they are expected to arrive at Zhaojialing at six o'clock in the evening!" At this time, a staff officer came over with a document, Lin Zhaomin took it and looked at it, and his face showed joy: "It's finally here!" ”

Immediately, he wrote a warrant and said: "Give them an order to go to the Xintang area immediately!" After defeating their logistics supply depot, immediately attack Zhou Feng and attack the enemy's 1st and 2nd brigades from the flank! ”

Lin Zhaomin looked at the map and slowly smiled: "It is expected that other troops of the Second Division will also arrive tomorrow, and as soon as Ma Cheng's troops arrive, the situation will be much more relaxed!" ”――

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