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In Huzhuang, southeast of Hanshan Mountain, Major General Guo Chengdong, the commander of the Fifth Mixed Brigade, was not able to wear a full set of generals' uniforms as usual, and even did not bring the general's saber given by Chen Jingyun himself. The military uniform worn on the body is only the regular uniform of officers who are the same as those colonels and lieutenants around them, and it is not the regular uniform of generals and generals, which is extremely rare among the senior generals of the National Army today.

In the course of the development of the National Army in recent years, the tradition of officers' dress has reached an almost pathological point, and the General Staff has even issued a special dress code, requiring officers to be neat at all times, and stipulating that on certain formal occasions and officers, officers must wear a full set of officer uniforms, including swords and medals, but these requirements are limited to certain formal occasions, and there is no hard dress rule for regular and combat periods, but similar traditions have penetrated into these instincts. It is unlikely that officers will be too neatly dressed all day for combat operations, and most of them will wear regular uniforms. However, a major general like Guo Chengdong has a special general uniform to distinguish him from the school officer and lieutenant officer, but Guo Chengdong did not wear it, but he only wore an ordinary brown-green national army officer uniform.

But the dazzling gold star on his epaulette is a constant reminder to the people around him that he is a senior general who is one of dozens of powerful major generals in the national army.

Guo Chengdong was born in Hubei Army Middle School, is the eighth division commander Zhuang Dafu's classmate, during the Xinhai period he served in the ninth town to participate in the southern coalition attack on Nanjing, but after the north-south peace talks, Huang Xing, who stayed in Nanjing, could not afford to raise so many southern troops, and after vigorously reducing the army, he Guo Chengdong was not a descendant of the revolutionary party and was naturally sent out! But there is no place to stay here, after Xinhai, all provinces are expanding the army, not to mention that he is a professional officer from a serious army middle school, even those officers who came out of the army primary school are a lot of people, at the beginning, some of the officers of the Southern Coalition Army went north to Beiyang to seek jobs, some went to Hubei, some went to Hunan, some went to Guangxi, some went to Yunnan, of course, there are inevitably more people who chose the closer Fujian and Zhejiang National Army.

Guo Chengdong chose to take refuge in his classmate Zhuang Dafu at that time, but he knew that his classmate was deeply trusted by Chen Jingyun, and he was already the deputy commander of the Fourth Division of the National Army at that time. After the Nationalist Army took Jiangxi and southern Anhui, Chen Jingyun further expanded the army, establishing the Fourth Mixed Brigade and the Fifth Mixed Brigade with the Jiangxi Army and the Soviet Army surrendering to the Soviet Army, and transferred Colonel Guo Chengdong, deputy commander of the First Division, to the commander of the Fifth Mixed Brigade, and at the same time promoted to major general.

After serving in the Fifth Mixed Brigade, Guo Chengdong did not relax in the slightest and vigorously trained the troops, and in less than two months, the Fifth Mixed Brigade, which was mainly composed of surrendered soldiers of the Soviet Army, became a strong force.

After all, when the Fourth Mixed Brigade and the Fifth Mixed Brigade were formed, although Chen Jingyun transferred all the officers of the original Jiangxi Army and the Soviet Army in the name of further training, leaving behind all ordinary soldiers, the active officers of these two brigades were all drawn from other units of the National Army, and ordinary soldiers were also selected from the many Jiangxi and Soviet soldiers who surrendered and were captured. The old and infirm were all eliminated, and it was almost a three-choice method to select the qualified soldiers of the two brigades. However, this qualification only means that the physical fitness is qualified, and other combat skills must be retrained.

After more than two months of emergency training, Guo Chengdong has little confidence in whether he can compete with the recruits who have been trained in the recruit camp for three months.

Guo Chengdong has always been extremely cautious with such a force, and the military headquarters of the Second Army also fully took into account the weaknesses of the Fifth Mixed Brigade when arranging the task, and did not let the Fifth Mixed Brigade take the lead, nor did the Fifth Mixed Brigade participate in the hard attack on Chaohu, but followed the Fifth Division to take on secondary tasks, and according to the original plan, it was just to cover the flank of the Fifth Division. But after the Air Force discovered that Tang Tianxi's 10th Division had appeared in Wugang yesterday, everything began to change.

The command of the Second Army first ordered the Fifth Mixed Brigade to follow closely behind the Fifth Division, and then, under the cover of the Fifth Division, went to the Chaohu side alone, and then cut off the retreat of the defenders of Chaohu Beiyang and resist their counterattack. When Guo Chengdong received this order, he was a little worried, but he still ordered the troops to speed up according to the tension in his heart, but it was only a day before things changed again.

The advance of the Fifth Division made a force of more than 1,000 Beiyang Army resist in Hanshan for a long day, and after the advance of the Fifth Division was blocked, it was no longer possible to ensure that the Fifth Division could capture the Xianji area in time and cover the westward advance of the Fifth Mixed Brigade. Therefore, Guo Chengdong received another order from the headquarters of the Second Army, ordering them to set off westward, bypassing the Hanshan and Xianji areas, and directly crossing the large hilly and mountainous areas to reach the side of Chaohu Lake.

Receiving this order made Guo Chengdong's complexion change greatly, it is not an easy thing to cross the mountains and mountains for dozens of miles to reach the enemy's side, not to mention how to ensure the logistics supply of the headquarters in the mountains and forests, even if the logistics problem is not considered, the fifth brigade may not have enough time to cross this mountain range and reach the side of Chaohu Lake.

The 8th and 9th Divisions on the Chaohu front had already slowed down the attack on Chaohu in accordance with the orders of the Second Army Command, so as to avoid the offensive being too rapid and allowing the Chaohu defenders to take the initiative to retreat.

According to the aerial reconnaissance and the front-line engagement of the Eighth Division and the Ninth Division, the number of the third division and the fifth brigade of the enemy's Beiyang Army has been found one after another, in addition to the number of the third division of the Anhui Provincial Army and the first division of the Anhui Provincial Army. However, there are so many numbers, Chaohu must not be able to concentrate all the troops belonging to the above numbers, you must know that if these numbers are remembered, the total number of troops will reach more than 35,000, if the Beiyang defenders in Chaohu have such strength, the eighth and ninth divisions of the front line will not fight so smoothly. According to the estimation of the Second Army Headquarters, the defenders in Chaohu originally had about 25,000 people, and it would be good if there were 20,000 defenders left in Jicheng after several days. The estimate of the number of troops estimated by the command of the Second Army is actually not accurate.

The Beiyang Army in Chaohu originally had a ** brigade and a third division of the Anhui Provincial Army, the strength here was nearly 16,000 people, after a few days of fighting, the ** brigade and the third division of the Anhui Provincial Army lost a lot of troops, and the total loss of troops has exceeded more than 2,000 people, and then after Chaohu asked for help, Hefei urgently sent Wu Peifu to lead the fifth brigade and a regiment and a brigade of the first division of the Anhui Provincial Army to reinforce, but now the reinforcements arriving in Chaohu are only more than 1,000 people, The more than 6,000 main forces behind are still on their way. At this moment, the total strength of the defenders in Chaohu Lake is only about 15,000 people, of which only about 5,000 are the main force of the Beiyang Army, and the remaining nearly 10,000 people are local troops of the Anhui Provincial Army.

Therefore, the Second Army actually misestimated the strength of the Beiyang defenders in Chaohu Lake at this time.

Regardless of whether the defenders in Chaohu Lake are more than 10,000 or more than 20,000, the idea of the Second Army wanting to encircle and annihilate this Beiyang Army is extremely clear, this is to attack Hefei more smoothly and quickly, otherwise the two divisions of the Ninth Division and the Eighth Division will attack together, and it will never be such a stalemate as it is now, even if it is a strong attack that will suffer certain losses, but it should also be able to take it.

Guo Chengdong understood the priority of the matter very well, although he was a little worried in his heart, and he was also afraid that he would not be able to complete the task, but the military order was difficult to disobey, and he immediately ordered the troops to march westward immediately.

Fortunately, the heavy weapons of the Fifth Mixed Brigade, whether they were heavy machine guns, mountain artillery or mortars, could be borrowed and transported by horses, mules, and even donkeys. This is also known as the pack horse system. When Chen Jingyun formed the mixed brigades, he expected them to conduct mountain operations, and as for the plain operations, they were naturally handled by regular divisions with field artillery.

Only the Fifth Mixed Brigade in the Second Army can be put into it, and even if it is replaced by the Fifth Division and the Eighth Division, which are also pack horses, some of the troops cannot advance with the army, because although these two regular divisions are nominally pack horses, the artillery regiment also has a 75-mm field artillery battalion, and the 75-mm field artillery of this field artillery battalion needs to be pulled forward by many groups of horses, and it is impossible to carry out rapid maneuvering in the mountains. This artillery battalion, as well as most of the baggage of the baggage and engineering battalions, could not advance with the army. This is also the fundamental reason why the Nationalist Army did not invest regular divisions in Jiangxi and Hunan, but invested four mixed brigades and one 10th Division equipped with 60-mm rapid-fire mountain artillery. On the one hand, the pressure on the Beiyang Army in southern Jiangsu was high, and the unsuitability of heavy weapons and equipment for rapid maneuvering in mountainous terrain was also an important factor.

This is not to say that heavy divisions cannot fight in these mountainous areas, but only that these heavy divisions are more suitable for exerting greater combat effectiveness in plain terrain, and if they are used in mountainous areas, they will not exert stronger combat effectiveness than a lightly armed pack horse unit, thus causing typical wasteful behavior.

After Guo Chengdong gave the order, the Fifth Mixed Brigade quickly turned around and immediately marched towards the hilly and mountainous areas in the west!

At the same time, thirty kilometers north of Chaohu Lake, more than 6,000 troops led by Wu Peifu were hurrying to Chaohu Lake!