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With the end of the Chaohu Campaign, although the National Army captured Chaohu Lake later than previously expected, but after all, Chaohu Lake was taken down, and after Chaohu Lake was taken, the National Army had a solid foothold and logistics base after crossing the river. To this end, the Nationalist Army also established a number of temporary wharves at Yuxikou, and established a temporary large-scale logistics base here, which was specially used for the transfer of materials in the later period

This temporary logistics base at Yuxikou will be divided into two roads to form a supply line, one part of which will be used by land transportation to supply the 5th Division and the 1st Division of the 4th Division heading north, and the other part will be transported to Chaohu by small boats using the river and river, and then Chaohu will be used as a temporary distribution center to supply the 5th Mixed Brigade, the 9th Division, the 8th Division and other troops

In order to be able to make more efficient use of river transportation, and at the same time considering the dense water network in southern Jiangsu and southern Anhui and other areas along the Yangtze River, the national army began to develop small ships very early, and the logistics department has long ordered a large number of transport ships with a low waterline of less than 100 tons, and they are equipped with heavy machine guns for these ships, and the logistics department has used these small transport ships to form two water transport regiments, one of which was sent to Jiangxi to enter the Panyang Lake water system. The other is to be stationed in the Chaohu Lake water system, and there are two water transport groups composed of large transport fleets, which are responsible for the river transportation of the Yangtze River and the Pearl River waterway

In order to support the operations of the front-line troops, the logistics department can be said to have spent a great deal of effort, and Sun Guangliang of the logistics department was almost too busy to see anyone all day long

With the full support of the logistics department, the troops in Chaohu were soon supplied with a large number of materials, and the recruits dispatched by the General Staff also came with more than 1,000 people, and then they were replenished to various units, and in just two days, the Ninth Division and the Eighth Division, which had suffered a slight loss in Chaohu, recovered most of their combat effectiveness, and then marched north according to the order

After capturing Chaohu, the Ninth and Eighth Divisions and the Fifth Mixed Brigade obtained extremely valuable short rest time, and during this time, the battle between the National Army and the Beiyang Army did not stop, the two sides of the battle in the Xianji area have entered incandenation, Tang Tianxi's 10th Division has arrived to launch a fierce attack on the Xianji area, after the merger of the 5th Division and the 1st Division, the strength and firepower are advantageous, and there is not much threat in the Xianzhi area for a while

In just two days, the Nationalist Army High Command has reformulated a new round of comprehensive plans, and Shen Gang, who has just taken office, is a new officer who has taken up his post with three fires, and as soon as he took office, he convened a meeting of the heads of various departments of the General Staff Department, and then he held joint meetings with the personnel of the Logistics Department, the Navy and Air Force many times, and after combining the situation and opinions of various parties, Shen Gang quickly came up with a new round of comprehensive combat plan

"This plan is still to capture Chuzhou and Bengbu to cut off the Jinpu line as the strategic goal, in order to achieve this goal, it is necessary for our army to launch a series of operations, including the capture of Hefei, defeat Tang Tianxi's tenth division" Shen Gang's face was a little tired, but he couldn't hide his radiant look, although he participated in the strategic planning of many national armies in the past, but in the past he was a secondary role, he could only give opinions, but now it is up to him to co-ordinate, this grasp of the overall situation is very useful to Shen Gang

"Now the first and fifth divisions of our army have been engaged in the Xianji area and Tang Tianxi's tenth division, according to the return of the front, the troops of this Tang Tianxi's tenth division are not worse than Cao Kun's third division, although there is no danger for our army's two divisions to garrison Xianji, and it is not impossible to defeat Tang Tianxi, but it is difficult to inflict heavy damage or even total annihilation, Tang Tianxi can withdraw to Chuzhou at any time and hold on."

Shen Gang continued: "For this reason, the General Staff plans to send the Fourth Division to the northeast and attack Chuzhou directly, in this case, Tang Tianxi will inevitably divide his troops back to Chuzhou, and then the Fourth Division will turn around and advance westward, and fight a blocking battle to cooperate with the Fifth Division and the First Division to inflict heavy damage on it!" ”

The core of any military plan is to use one's superior forces to encircle the enemy's inferior forces and inflict heavy losses on Shen Gang's plan, which is to gather the strength of three divisions to inflict heavy damage on Tang Tianxi's tenth division, but Shen Gang also pointed out extremely cautiously: "As for the possibility of total annihilation, if our army wants to completely annihilate Tang Tianxi's more than 10,000 people in the open plain area, it will have to invest at least five times more troops to do it, and now our army lacks this strength."

"The battle plan for Tang Tianxi is one of them, and the other is that when Tang Tianxi is attacked, the Fifth Mixed Brigade of the Ninth Division and the Eighth Division, the main force of the Second Army, will continue to move north to capture Hefei" Shen Gang continued to explain his battle plan to Chen Jingyun: "Now there are not many troops left in Hefei Central Cao Kun, and there should be only more than 10,000 people

In the early stage of the operation, our army has eliminated the ** brigade of the 3rd Division of the Beiyang Army, all the 3rd Division of the Anhui Provincial Army, and the 6th Division of our army has engaged the 2nd Division of the 6th Brigade of the enemy's Beiyang Army in the Shucheng area, and it is initially estimated that the enemy's strength there should be more than 13,000 people, and it is now in the process of tug-of-war

According to the judgment of the enemy's strength in the Anhui area before the war, only one brigade of the First Division of the Anhui Provincial Army should remain, the remaining strength of the Fifth Brigade of the Third Division of the Beiyang Army is more than 3,000, and the total number of troops directly under the Third Division is about 10,000

At that time, our army will take the Ninth Division as the main force, the Eighth Division will cooperate, and the Fifth Mixed Brigade will cover, which will be enough to take Hefei, and at that time, our army should be able to win the victory over Tang Tianxi's 10th Division after gathering superior forces in the Xianji area, and even if Tang Tianxi's 10th Division cannot be severely damaged at that time, it will be able to force him back to Chuzhou to avoid the threat to our rear road, and at that time, our army will also be able to draw a division of troops from the Xianxian area to Hefei to reinforce in the north."

In Shen Gang's series of explanations, Chen Jingyun listened and watched Shen Gang indicate on the map on the wall, and after Shen Gang finished speaking, he nodded and said, "Yes, your plan is good!" ”

Chen Jingyun obviously agreed with Shen Gang's plan when he said this, which also made Shen Gang feel at ease, after all, this was the first time he presided over the overall strategic plan of the National Army, and if he failed to pass it, it would affect his reputation in the staff department to some extent

"There should be no problem with the plan on the Anhui side, and the staff will give an order according to this plan, but didn't the air force report that traces of the Beiyang Army have been found in Jiujiang and the western part of Anqing, and the staff has no preparations and arrangements for this!" Chen Jingyun asked Shen Gang to sit down as he spoke

Shen Gang sat down and said: "I also got the news of the Air Force, but the commander can rest assured that the General Staff has already expected that the Beiyang Army has already made arrangements in advance for the march from Hubei to Jiujiang and Anqing!" There is the Fourth Mixed Brigade on the Jiujiang side, and there is also the support of the Navy's gunboats, and if the Beiyang Army does not have a main division, it will not be able to please the Anqing side, although our army has no main force left, but there is still a local garrison regiment there, after the preliminary formulation of the battle plan for crossing the river in July, the General Staff has already planned to strengthen this garrison regiment, and it may be difficult to counterattack with some recruits and light and heavy weapons trained by the General Staff, but it should not be a big problem to hold on."

Chen Jingyun frowned and said, "Why didn't the General Staff plan to send reinforcements over?" Duan Zhigui over there in Hubei has a lot of troops under him, what if he really wants to send a large army? ”

Shen Gang said: "Marshal, our army is limited, and the southern Jiangsu and southern Anhui regions are extremely important, which is related to the life and death of our people's army, and it is the place where our army and the Beiyang Army will fight a decisive battle."

Seeing that Chen Jingyun's face didn't seem to be good, Shen Gang immediately said again: "In addition, the Military Intelligence Department also investigated and learned that Duan Zhigui sent a part of the main force south to Hunan to reinforce Yang Shande, although he also sent two troops east to Jiujiang and Anqing, but there were not many troops coming, and they were all local troops in Hubei Province, so all my colleagues in the staff department thought that the threat was not big!" ”

Chen Jingyun glanced at the map after hearing this, although he knew that what Shen Gang said was right, but he was still a little worried that the main decisive direction of the National Army and the Beiyang Army was the Jinpu line, but if the Zhigui side really sent the main force to the east, it would be relatively difficult to hold on to the troops in Jiujiang and Anqing, but the lack of troops that Shen Gang said was also a problem

The national army has come step by step to the present, and it is expanding its army almost every moment, but this expansion speed can not meet the gap in the strength of the national army

Moreover, a Chaohu battle was fought for half a month, Chen Jingyun pondered that if he wanted to take Hefei, it would take a month, to say the least, and if he wanted to cut off the Jinpu line, it was estimated that it would take several later, and to lay the victory to take down Jiangbei and eliminate Feng Guozhang's second army, it would take at least more than half a year Such a long war time As the territory gets bigger and bigger, the national army needs more and more troops, otherwise it may be difficult to support it with the current strength

Thinking of this, Chen Jingyun felt that the pace of army expansion must be increased

In fact, the expansion of the Nationalist Army has not stopped, but has been going on, although the 11th Division has been stationed in Shanghai, but it is still in the training period, and even the artillery regiment has not yet seen a shadow, in addition, in order to fill the defensive gap after the Third Division was withdrawn from Guangzhou, Chen Jingyun set up a 14th mixed brigade in Guangzhou, and now this mixed brigade is also in the stage of creation, far from the time when it becomes an army

However, Chen Jingyun still felt that it was too slow, and the pace of army expansion must be accelerated!

However, to expand the army involves a very real problem, that is, military spending and ordnance are very easy to solve, there are a large number of recruits in the recruit camps under the training department of the General Staff of the National Army, and the rifles in terms of ordnance are very easy to solve, and there are a lot of Hanyang rifles in the inventory of the National Army, and the production of Type 12 rifles in the Fuzhou Arsenal is also increasing, and now it is as high as nearly 4,000 per month, and the inventory of rifles is increasing, not only the main forces of the National Army are equipped with three major rifles, Even some local garrison regiments have begun to switch to Hanyang-made or Type 88 rifles, among which the Nanjing Garrison Regiment, Shanghe Garrison Regiment, Zhejiang Garrison Regiment, Fuzhou Garrison Regiment, and Anqing Garrison Regiment have not only completed the unified replacement of rifles, but also equipped a small number of light and heavy machine guns and mortars, further strengthening the combat capability of the garrison regiments in these important areas

Light and heavy machine guns are somewhat difficult, the national army's inventory is not much, and now the troops are in the combat period of the loss and have to be replenished, at the same time, the national army's firepower expansion plan, the main reinforcement is machine guns and mortars, so these two weapons are now in short supply, as the second firepower expansion of the second division is still waiting for a large number of machine guns and mortars, not too much equipment can be drawn out to expand the new troops

As for the artillery, there is no more, and now even the artillery regiment of the 11th Division is still empty, and it is still waiting for the artillery purchased from the United States to return to China, even though there is a batch of ordnance procurement in the second round of aid treaty signed between Chen Jingyun and the United States, which also includes dozens of artillery, but these artillery pieces will have to wait a few months before they return to China

It's just that the strength is too tight now, Chen Jingyun feels that even if the weapons and equipment are worse, but he has to get them out first, he doesn't expect large-scale new troops with the same weapons and equipment as those main divisions, he just wants to continue to build a few mixed brigades

In the pace of expansion of the national army, six mixed brigades have been formed, and the formation of mixed brigades is to draw a part of the troops from the main force into a system, and then use this as the backbone to supplement the new recruits to form a mixed brigade, and the main force after the transfer of troops is also supplemented with new recruits to restore combat effectiveness, and although the combat effectiveness of the main division is reduced in a short period of time, it can also make the newly formed mixed brigade quickly form combat effectiveness. The Anhui-Jiangxi Campaign, as well as the ongoing Hunan Campaign and the Anhui Campaign, have proven that the mixed forces of the Nationalist Army are worthy

After thinking about it in general, Chen Jingyun already had a plan and immediately said to Shen Gang: "Since the strength is insufficient, then the staff department will make another plan and set up four mixed brigades, and the specific Mu is to draw the backbone from the main division stationed in southern Jiangsu according to the Mu of the previous mixed brigades, and then set up a new mixed brigade!" ”

As soon as Shen Gang heard Chen Jingyun's words, his face changed slightly, and then he was overjoyed: "Dashuai, is this really going to form four new mixed brigades?" ”

Shen Gang is a serious army general, and he naturally thinks that the army is getting stronger and stronger, and the establishment is increasing, so he will plan with a group of army generals to expand the establishment of the army, but the expansion of the army has always been Chen Jingyun's arbitrary, and those generals can only think about it psychologically, and occasionally say a few words to Chen Jingyun, but now Chen Jingyun actually took the initiative to mention it

Chen Jingyun took the initiative to talk about expanding the army, which also surprised Shen Gang, and immediately said something that he would never say in the past: "Then will the pressure on this military expenditure be too great?" ”

Chen Jingyun disagreed: "The staff department doesn't use the military expenses, and I don't dare to say more, but more than 20,000 people can still be raised!" ”

Chen Jingyun actually has a lot of money in his hand, in addition to the traditional financial revenue of the National Army and the opium tax and cigarette tax of the Anti-Smoking Division, he also has 30 million US dollars from the second round of aid treaties, of the total amount of 50 million US dollars in the second round, the navy accounts for 10 million, and then 10 million of the 40 million is to buy US weapons or equipment, and the remaining 30 million is strongly requested by Chen Jingyun as military expenses, so Chen Jingyun still has a lot of money on hand. Even though it is a bit difficult to raise the current army of nearly 200,000, it can still squeeze out millions of people

Anyway, what he plans to set up is a mixed brigade, and the total strength of the four mixed brigades is more than 20,000 people, but it is definitely much smaller than the cost of the two main divisions, at most only three-fifths, because there is no artillery regiment of the main division to build a new main division, and in the early expenses, the cost of the artillery regiment and the cavalry battalion accounts for half, and the simple infantry regiment does not spend much money, and as for the salary cost of the personnel, it is not a one-time surname, but a long-term expenditure, and it will not let Chen Jingyun take out millions at once, as for how to raise it in the future, that is a matter for the future, either Chen Jingyun has already unified China at that time, or he has been defeated, no matter which option he has to use to raise an army at that time

In fact, according to the current traditional finances of the national army, it is not enough to support the troops of the current scale, so Chen Jingyun thought that he would not worry about having a lot of debts, and raising 200,000 yuan was also supporting, and 300,000 yuan was also raised, as for what to do if he had no money to support him after a year, that was a matter for the future, and he would consider it later

Chen Jingyun asked the General Staff Headquarters to complete the formation and training of these four mixed brigades within one month, and within two months these troops could set off for the war zone

For this reason, after arranging the next battle in Anhui, the General Staff continued to be busy non-stop, and the General Staff took the 1st Guard Division, the 2nd Division, the 7th Division, and the 3rd Division in southern Jiangsu as the base ships, and transferred backbone troops from each of these main forces, and then supplemented a large number of recruits who had completed three months of training in the recruit camp on this basis

Although the main divisions whose backbone troops were transferred were damaged in a short period of time, because these troops were engaged in military confrontation with Feng Guozhang's Second Army in the Jiangbei region, and no actual combat broke out, the impact was not great, after all, the training department of the General Staff Department would soon replenish enough recruits to each unit, and these recruits who had been trained in the recruit camp for three months would soon be able to integrate into the unit after entering the unit

When the Nationalist Army carried out a new round of emergency expansion, the Anhui region once again broke out of the big rules, August 24, after the rest of the Ninth Division of the Nationalist Army to the frontal Wu Peifu troops to carry out a large-scale attack, although Wu Peifu can fight, but helpless troops and firepower are at a great disadvantage, had to continue to retreat north, at this time, Cao Kun in Hefei can not sit still, personally led the remaining troops of the third division to meet Wu Peifu's northward retreat, and then is ready to defend the city, trying to hold on to the city with the help of the city's buildings

In the face of the city of Hefei, the Ninth Division did not attack easily, but launched several tentative attacks, and after several tentative attacks, it stopped the pace of attack and waited for the reinforcements of the Eighth Division to come

At the same time, a large-scale fierce battle broke out again in the Xianji area, the fifth division and the first division took the initiative to attack Tang Tianxi's tenth division, but Tang Tianxi did not hold on, and soon retreated to the east, it turned out that Tang Tianxi already knew that the fourth division of the national army was attacking Wugang at this time, and he was afraid that the back road would be cut off, and Feng Guozhang was even more afraid that the fourth division would continue to go north to capture Chuzhou, so he ordered Tang Tianxi's tenth division to retreat, and at the same time Feng Guozhang also sent the second mixed brigade from Jiangbei to the west to threaten the flank of the fourth division

For a time, the war in Anhui was fierce everywhere, and the two sides combined more than 100,000 troops fought in this area of about 100 kilometers, and fought around Hefei, Chuzhou and other important areas

Since both sides have already invested the main forces, the war in this area has become a life-and-death decisive battle between the two sides, and the defeated side will not only lose tens of thousands of troops here, but will also fall into the overall passivity of the overall strategy, and defeat is almost certain

A life-and-death decisive battle of this scale, the factors that individuals can play are already very much The war machine on both sides has been running, everyone is just one of the parts, and this decisive battle is not a day or two to distinguish the winner or loser, it will take at least two or three months, Chen Jingyun was nervous for several days in the Chaohu Battle and then he can be regarded as seeing it, and he has somewhat let go of the tension in his heart

At the beginning of September, Dong Bai's mother and son quietly came to Nanjing, which made Chen Jingyun's life corrected by a few points!