At 7:30 a.m. on November 15th, on the north bank of Nanjing, Feng Guozhang got up early as usual and dressed neatly and began to use breakfast.

Although Feng Guozhang is in a high position, he is a soldier, although he is not young, his body is still strong, and his appetite is naturally excellent.

While drinking tea, I also remembered something in my mind, and at this time, what could make Feng Guozhang worry about it all day long was naturally the war in southern Jiangsu. Although Feng Guozhang had made many arrangements before, the war in southern Jiangsu was still slowly deteriorating.

Before Sa Zhenbing's navy cut off the Yangtze River on the 13th, Feng Guozhang had already urgently dispatched a large number of ammunition supplies to the south bank, and it was expected that it would be able to support at least 30,000 Beiyang troops on the south bank of the Yangtze River for half a month. That is to say, the 3rd and 5th Divisions of the Beiyang Army on the south bank and some troops of Zhang Xun's 8th Division on the south bank do not have to worry about ammunition supply in the past half a month, but if it drags on for a long time, then it will be very problematic.

While Sa Zhenbing's fleet blockaded the Yangtze River, the main forces of the guard division arrived in the outer areas of Nanjing one after another, and engaged in fierce battles with the Beiyang defenders of Nanjing.

Yesterday, on 14 November, after the arrival of the main force of the Nationalist Guard Division and the heavily armed troops, it launched a fierce attack on the north bank of Nanjing, and at the same time, the Sa Zhenbing fleet on the Yangtze River also carried out a large-scale artillery bombardment of the Beiyang Army to support the operation of the Guard Division.

Under such circumstances, the more than 6,000 Beiyang defenders on the north bank of Nanjing felt unprecedented pressure, although they had been prepared before, and Feng Guozhang personally commanded it, but it was really difficult to fight after they arrived. As Chen Jingyun's personal escort unit, the Guard Division was equipped with equipment that was second to none in the entire Nationalist Army, and it reinforced a battalion of 120-mm heavy artillery guns before departure. Although the number of such a guard division is still only more than 10,000, the firepower configuration is not much weaker than that of a division of the Beiyang Army under the four-regiment system, and even stronger to some extent.

After two days of guarding, there were only about 5,000 troops left under the command of Feng Guozhang, at this time, Feng Guozhang was not a pedantic person, and he personally sent a telegram to Lao Yuan last night, asking for reinforcements, but after Feng Guozhang's telegram for help was sent to Yanjing, he did not give Feng Guozhang a timely response for a while. The reason why there is this situation Feng Guozhang can generally guess that now the Beiyang Army has invested three divisions of troops in southern Jiangsu, spending millions of dollars before and after, and now if you want to mobilize a force to southern Jiangsu, it will cost tens of millions, and if you don't send silver dollars in vain, the big soldiers below will not be willing to pull out at all. Therefore, even if Lao Yuan wants to give Feng Guozhang reinforcements, he must first make up the money, and then allocate it to the Seventh Division stationed in Shandong or the Second Division stationed in Baoding Tianjin, so that he can send out reinforcements, and he can't just send the troops out with a mouth.

Relatively speaking, the national army does not have this kind of problem, because the military salary of the national army is paid in full silver, whether it is in war or peacetime, the troops are covered with food and drink, so when the troops are about to be promoted, there is naturally no such problem as a promotion fee.

The reinforcements will be estimated to come for a while and a half, so they can only defend by themselves, as for how long they can hold under the attack of more than 10,000 nationalists, this problem began Feng Guozhang is very confident that he can definitely hold it, the first day and the vanguard of the national army guard division after the first day of engagement and feedback from the subordinate troops, Feng Guozhang concluded that it was a month, but after a fierce attack by the national army yesterday, he made a half-discount to his previous judgment: half a month.

Even though the time has shrunk significantly, and the situation in southern Jiangsu seems to be getting worse and worse, Feng Guozhang is still not too worried, and the war situation is still under control. Even if the Yanjing War Department and the old man dragged it out, the reinforcements would arrive in Nanjing by rail within three to five days, and then the only heavy artillery unit under the Beiyang Army would come with them, and not only would the crisis in Nanjing naturally be alleviated, but the guard division that had crossed the river would not even think of going back, and with only one division in his hands, Feng Guozhang would be sure to completely defeat this guard division that had crossed the river. In the end, the whole army attacked Zhenjiang, gathered the army, and then took Zhenjiang in one go, and then the overall situation in southern Jiangsu could be determined.

After drinking half a pot of tea, Feng Guozhang got up and prepared to take people to the front line to inspect, but as soon as he got up, he heard a roar, the sound was a little strange, as the sound became louder and louder, Feng Guozhang also raised his head to find the source of the sound.

When he looked up, he quickly spotted a small black dot on the edge of the southern skyline, and this small black dot was slowly getting bigger.

"Planes of the National Army?" Feng Guozhang is no stranger to airplanes, in fact, there are often reconnaissance planes of the Nationalist Army flying around in the sky over Nanjing during the day, but each time it is basically one or two, and today's seeing such a black pressure of a group of planes has never happened.

Feng Guozhang's face quickly became suspicious: "What do so many planes want to do?" ”

Feng Guozhang's doubts did not last long, and the aviation unit of the Nationalist Army quickly gave him an answer.

In the sky over Nanjing, Li Tunyang wore a black and heavy leather coat, with a special windshield, and a thick woolen scarf around his neck. So it doesn't matter if it's warm or cold on the ground, the pilot must be wearing a warm leather jacket with a windshield or something when he gets on the plane.

Now the group of planes is flying steadily over Nanjing, as the commander of this mission, Li Tunyang began to look for the enemy's position and the guiding target of the Nationalist Army, and soon, his vision saw a thick smoke rising from a small hill not far away and a big red cross on the ground.

After gently shaking the wings, the plane piloted by Li Tunyang immediately turned in the direction of the red cross, and the group of planes behind him also followed.

It didn't take long for the group to drop in altitude again, and the group split into two parts, eight bombers made a small turn and pounced towards the railway station, while the remaining bombers and fighters headed towards the positions of the Beiyang Army.

A minute later, the bomber group had continued to descend to an altitude of about several hundred meters, and began to drop bombs on the positions of the Beiyang Army on the ground, and the accompanying fighters also began to use machine guns to strafe the ground.

The Beiyang Army is no stranger to the planes of the Nationalist Army, but since the moment they saw the planes of the Nationalist Army, they never thought that the planes would drop bombs, in fact, so far, only in the war between Italy and Turkey last year, the Italian planes dropped a few grenades, and there were no other instances of aircraft bombing on the ground. As for the bombing of the air force, it should have been done by huge airships, and as for the small planes, people have not seen them at all.

And now, the planes of the National Army have actually dropped bombs.

"Look, the plane lays eggs!" A soldier of the Beiyang Army looked curiously at the plane of the National Army in his own position, and a soldier of the Beiyang Army next to him was also curious: "Could it be that this plane is really a monster." Otherwise, how can you lay eggs! ”

"Who knows!"

When the soldiers of the Beiyang Army thought that the planes of the Nationalist Army were monsters about to lay eggs, the aerial bombs dropped by the Nationalist Army had already touched the ground and exploded one after another.

The twenty-five kilogram aerial bomb was extremely charged, and the explosion was much more powerful than the shells fired by the naval heavy artillery of the Sa Ice Fleet, and an officer of the Beiyang Army looked at the huge explosion smoke and dust rolled up in front of him, and was stunned for a long time before he reacted and shouted: "Concealment...... Take cover......! ”

In fact, whether it is the Beiyang Army, the National Army or any army in the world, there is no special air defense operation or training to evade air raids, so at this time, the Beiyang Army can only follow the way of dodging penetrating artillery bombardment, and can turn into the trenches immediately into the trenches, and lie down on the spot in the open space, but these actions can only be done by experienced veterans, and more are running around like headless flies.

Fighters who are constantly flying at low altitudes to strafe the ground are the ones who like to strafe at these targets that are running around in the open space.

At the same time, the artillery units of the Nationalist Army's Guard Division, which had long been ready to cooperate with the operation, and Sa Zhenbing's fleet also began to carry out large-scale artillery bombardment.

For a time, explosions continued to sound on the positions of the Beiyang Army, shouts, and moans mixed with the roar in the sky resounded throughout the entire front of the Beiyang Army.

At the same time that the position of the Beiyang Army was subjected to fierce bombing, the Nanjing Pukou Railway Station also ushered in an air raid, two squads with a total of eight bombers bombed the railway station, at that time, a large number of Beiyang Army military trains parked in the railway station were blown up, and the munitions depot set up next to the railway station was also bombed, and then the bombing detonated the ammunition depot of the Beiyang Army, and the large-scale explosion that occurred almost leveled the entire munitions depot, and the dozens of aerial bombs of the original National Army could never have caused such an effect. However, the resulting munitions were a great success for this small bombing.

This bombing did not kill or hurt many of the defenders of Nanjing, but it accidentally bombed the munitions depot of the Beiyang Army and caused a martyrdom, so that almost half of the ammunition and other supplies hoarded by the defenders of Nanjing were blown up.

In other words, today is a very painful Singles' Day...... Single friends boldly talk to the beautiful guys around you!