The expenses of the National Army for the treatment of the wounded and the pensions for the fallen soldiers are all good to say, and the money involved does not need to be taken out at once now, and can be slowly liquidated after the end of the war, and the amount is not much, so the pressure is not great.

However, the consumption of ammunition and other military materials made Sun Guangliang, who was in charge of logistics, worried, and the northern Zhejiang region had always been a key area of the National Army, and the logistics department had stockpiled a large amount of ammunition and some stockpiled weapons here in advance, and after the war began, it was also a steady stream of ammunition supplies from the Fuzhou Arsenal to the southern Jiangsu region.

However, even so, the ammunition of the national army began to be in short supply half a month after the war began, so that the headquarters had to strictly order its subordinate departments to save ammunition, especially the artillery units.

The Nationalist Army, through outsourcing and self-production at the Fuzhou Arsenal, had previously hoarded hundreds of thousands of artillery shells of various types, and in addition to the stocks of the troops left behind in Guangdong and Fujian, basically all other artillery shell reserves were in northern Zhejiang, and then a month after the war began, the shells were consumed enormously, and the original inventory was already less than 30 percent, far exceeding the previous expectation that the Logistics Department could support the four divisions for half a year. According to the current state of attrition, the Nationalist Army's artillery ammunition stocks will be depleted in less than two months, and even if the Fuzhou Arsenal starts working overnight, it will not be able to meet the needs of the Nationalist Army's artillery units.

The situation of artillery shells is not optimistic, and the supply of bullets is not very good, since the national army is equipped with a large number of Type 12 rifles, it has also established a corresponding production line of 79 pointed bullets, and in order to ensure the accuracy of 12 rifles and other surnames and logistics simplification, so the previous 12 Type 12 rifles used 79 pointed bullets. However, although the output of the Fuzhou Arsenal's 79-pointed bullets was not small, the consumption was even greater, and after the fight was completed in this month, the bullets consumed by various light and heavy machine guns almost wiped out the 79-pointed bullets in the inventory of the Nationalist Army. As a last resort, the Nationalist Army could only use a large number of 79-round bullets to use for the Type 12 rifle, and the 12-type rifle was designed at that time to be compatible with the 79-round bullet. The saved 79-pointed bullets were all used for light and heavy machine guns, and even so, the supply of 79-pointed bullets was very tight, and the Fuzhou Arsenal had expanded the production of two 79-pointed bullets in a month, but it still could not meet the huge consumption of the troops.

In order to alleviate the shortage of ammunition supply, the Nationalist Army has purchased a large number of medium-caliber artillery shells from the nearest country, and is preparing to purchase 79-pointed shells and 75-millimeter shells from Germany. As a result, the Nationalist Army also purchased a large amount of ammunition from the United States, and the first purchase amount of this batch of ammunition was 5 million, and in order to ease the financial pressure, this amount of money could be directly deducted from the military aid funds after negotiation.

Although the procurement of ammunition has begun, it will not be able to return to it in a short period of time, and the shortage of ammunition for the national army will continue for some time.

The large consumption of ammunition and various military materials has made the Nationalist Army pay a huge amount of military expenses for this, and the massive artillery shells fired out alone are worth nearly 10 million, and if other material consumption is added, the Nationalist Army has spent more than 15 million for the war in southern Jiangsu.

To some extent, the Nationalist Army spent more money on fighting than the Beiyang Army! Before the Beiyang Army used three divisions, it only cost five or six million, and now even if it adds a seventh division, it will only cost about seven million. This is mainly because the Beiyang Central Political Axe only paid the surface costs, and most of the war expenses were paid by the divisions below, while the divisions of the National Army could not occupy the territory for exploitation, so there was no small treasury, and all expenses were paid by the logistics department.

If the national army's inventory is exhausted and the war is not over, and the two sides are still in a state of fierce fighting, then the national army will have to pay more than 10 million military expenses for the war at least every month, and such a big economic pressure is something that Chen Jingyun cannot bear.

To change this dilemma, there are three possible surnames, one is that the Beiyang Army defeated the Nationalist Army, the second is that the Nationalist Army defeated the Beiyang Army, and the third is that the two sides form a low-intensity firepower confrontation. These three possible surnames may lead to peace talks between the two sides, thus ending the war, and when the war is over, the cost of military spending will naturally be reduced.

Regardless of which possible surname, the key point lies in the war in Nanjing.

"Now the third regiment of the guard division has occupied Xiejiazhuang, and last night there was an exchange of fire with the cavalry forward troops of the seventh division of Beiyang that went south, and the enemy cavalry quickly retreated, and at present, Lin Yongfei of the third regiment of the guard division has been ordered to establish a defensive line in Jiejiazhuang!" Liang Xunqin gave Chen Jingyun a briefing on the war: "Yesterday, it was said that the Seventh Division of our army launched an attack on Dazhuo Town, which was occupied by the Fifth Brigade of the Third Division of the enemy, and the enemy stubbornly resisted and did not retreat, and is currently in a stalemate. ”

Chen Jingyun frowned when he heard this: "What the hell is going on, even if a battalion was attacked the day before yesterday, why was it attacked one after another, didn't he Lin Zhaomin make corresponding arrangements in the face of the enemy cavalry?" ”

Liang Xunqin said: "Division Commander Lin has dispatched the cavalry battalion of the Seventh Division to fight against it, but the results are not great, and the troops are also strictly ordered to concentrate on action, and try to encounter the enemy's cavalry troops as much as possible!" ”

After saying that, Liang Xunqin continued: "The General Staff has telegraphed the cavalry battalion of the Third Division to move closer to the east in order to support the Seventh Division!" ”

Although Chen Jingyun frowned, he would not send a telegram to reprimand Lin Zhaomin or the like because of this kind of thing, because the terrain near Jurong was suitable for cavalry combat, and the enemy cavalry was a cavalry regiment of thousands of horsemen, they did not attack the fortification, they just wandered around the edge area, and found that the small troops of the national army were left alone and pounced, although the main force of the seventh division was not a threat, but it was a great threat to the supply line, which was also the reason why the seventh division stayed in Jurong and did not dare to continue to go north.

Lin Zhaomin thought that after taking Dazhuo Town, after the enemy lost this preface, the Seventh Division would be able to rely on Jurong and Dazhuo Town to rely on each other, thus threatening the railway line in the north. At the same time, it can also make Li Dianrong's cavalry lose this forward supply point, and the threat of this cavalry will be solved, but this battle has just begun, and it will not have any effect for a while. After all, no matter how bad the more than 3,000 people under Tang Tianxi were, they were still old troops who had fought with the Nationalist Army on the Zhenjiang front for a month, and objectively speaking, in terms of personnel quality, they were much stronger than Lin Zhaomin's Seventh Division. But Lin Zhaomin's advantage is also obvious, that is, his military advantage, if the 10,000 people can't beat Tang Tianxi's more than 3,000 people, and can't capture Dazhuo Town, then Chen Jingyun will have to send someone else to replace him.

"What's going on over there in Tarzan?" If Jurong's side goes well, at most it will cut off the retreat of Cao Kun's third division, strictly speaking, this cutting off retreat is not stable, as long as the Nanjing side loses and allows Feng Guozhang to recover and get reinforcements from the seventh division, then Cao Kun's third division will not be in danger of being surrounded. Now the focus of the war in southern Jiangsu is the battle of Nanjing, and there are two focuses of the battle of Nanjing, one is Jiejiazhuang! The other is the town of Taishan.

If Feng Guozhang, who was holding on to Taishan Town, could hold on until the Beiyang Seventh Division moved south, and the Seventh Division successfully broke through the third regiment of the guard division located in Jiejiazhuang, then the whole game of chess in the battle of Nanjing would come alive, Feng Guozhang would not only be able to hold Nanjing, but even he would be sure that the Nationalist Guard Division under the city of Nanjing would not return, across the Yangtze River, it would be easy to come, but it would not be so easy to go.

"The main force of the guard division has gathered outside Taishan Town, and is fighting fiercely with Feng Guozhang's defenders, judging from the battle report from Division Commander Lin, the battle is going well!" Liang Xunqin has replaced Feng Qin's role in the past few days, Feng Qin is seriously ill, and Yuan Fang, deputy chief of staff, has stayed in Fuzhou, so the work of the staff department of the Shanghai Command has no overall planning, and based on the important role of the Operations Department in the General Staff, to a certain extent, Liang Xunqin, director of the Operations Department, has undertaken a lot of complicated work in the General Staff.

"This Nanjing has been fighting for so many days, when will it be able to take it, you send a telegram to Lin Chengkun, and ask him directly how many days it will take to take Nanjing, and now the tense situation can't give him too much time!" Chen Jingyun is now extremely worried about the seventh division of the Beiyang Army in Chuzhou, even if Wang Ruxian's seventh division is dragging its feet and grinding, but after so many days, it finally arrived in Chuzhou, and under Yuan Shikai's strict order, it began to continue south along the railway line, although there is a guard division of the third regiment in Jiejiazhuang to block, but only more than 2,000 troops can block the opponent's more than 10,000 troops for how long that is no one counts.

Now it is necessary to hurry as soon as possible, as long as the main force of the guard division takes Nanjing, and finally integrates all forces to fight against the seventh division of the Beiyang Army is the only feasible way.

Lin Chengkun, who was far away in Nanjing, commanding the war, received a telegram of inquiry from the headquarters, looked at the military map for most of the day, and then said to the adjutant: "Call back to the commander: The morale of our department is high, and we will go to Taishan Town within three days!" ”

Lin Chengkun knew that the three days he said would naturally not be able to satisfy the staff officers and Chen Jingyun in the rear headquarters, but as the commander of the Nanjing War, he was very clear about the Nanjing War, and he understood that the nearly 3,000 troops personally commanded by Feng Guozhang in Taishan Town could not be underestimated, if the time was enough, the guard division would definitely be able to take it in ten days and half a month, but now that the time is tight, he will not hesitate to consume ammunition and personnel to attack, then it should be almost possible to take it down in three days.

It's just that these three days are sometimes insignificant, but sometimes they are very important, in the face of Feng Guozhang sending a telegram asking for help every few hours, Wang Ruxian did not dare to disobey Yuan Shikai's strict order even if he delayed it, and then watched Feng Guozhang defeated and killed in Nanjing, and he Wang Ruxian had no red fruits to eat at that time. So after a few days of grinding and getting some supplies and military expenses transferred by the War Department, he Wang Ruxian also led the army south.

Chuzhou is only a few dozen kilometers away from Nanjing, and the march of this army is only a day or two, and the next day a regiment of the vanguard of the Seventh Division of the Beiyang Army has arrived at the periphery of Xiejiazhuang, and launched a large-scale attack after testing the firepower of Jiejiazhuang!

The Battle of Nanjing has reached the most critical moment!