Time into October, the weather is getting cooler day by day, compared with previous years, this year's autumn and winter season seems to come earlier, just into September when there has been an occasional cool breeze blowing, and so on to the present October, the autumn wind is three days and two ends of the blow, so that people have to wear long-sleeved autumn clothes, Fuzhou so, more north of Yanjing and even the Northeast region is more has a late autumn atmosphere, early morning or evening in the street market can see some people who are afraid of the cold not only wear long-sleeved autumn clothes, But you can see people wearing heavy coats.

However, compared with the late autumn weather in the north of the Yangtze River, the southern city of Guangzhou does still maintain hot weather, for the southern coastal Guangzhou, there are probably only two kinds of weather in a year, one is summer, the other is autumn, as for the winter and spring seem to have disappeared.

The hot weather hung over the city, and then this hot weather was nothing to the people, and it was even more fearful and terrifying, when the Nationalist Army and Long Jiguang's troops fought in the Guangzhou area.

The battle between Long Jiguang and the Third Division of the Nationalist Army was not confined to the city of Guangzhou, to be precise, it was fought around the city of Guangzhou, and neither side invested heavy troops into the urban area of Guangzhou, but tried to form an encirclement of the enemy in the suburbs of Guangzhou and other open areas to form an advantage and occupy a strategic advantage in one fell swoop.

In fact, there is a reason why the two sides did not enter Guangzhou for street fighting in the traditional sense. First of all, Guangzhou City is a very large city, and tens of thousands of troops cannot control the general area if they are scattered into it, and based on the unstable surname of street fighting and the worry about their own troops, whether it is the national army or Long Jiguang's troops, it is good to fight ordinary field battles, but if they are allowed to carry out small-scale engagements and infiltration operations, it is very likely that they will fall apart without fighting troops.

For a variety of reasons, commanders on both sides tried to avoid fighting in the difficult terrain of the city.

Both Long Jiguang and Shen Gang are very aware of the weaknesses and advantages of their troops, and the strategic arrangements of the two sides are almost the same, that is, they hope to defeat their opponents through strategic decisive battles in the outskirts of the field, so as to gain the initiative on the battlefield and avoid long-term street battles.

The reason why Long Jiguang has such an idea, one is because Wuzhou is occupied, although it will be threatened by the Gui army behind it, and after losing the rear of Wuzhou, Long Jiguang's supply will be in great trouble, and it may not be visible for a while, but if the large-scale street battle is dedicated, if this war continues to drag on, maybe as long as a month, without the national army and the Gui army to attack, Long Jiguang's troops themselves will have to rush. So he wanted a quick fix.

Long Jiguang wanted a quick victory, but Shen Gang of the Third Division of the National Army didn't want to. Shen Gang's position in the national army system is very special, as a senior general who later joined the national army and rose up, Shen Gang's rise is seen as a sign of Chen Jingyun's reuse of overseas students, and more importantly, Chen Jingyun's reuse of Shen Gang and a large number of officers who graduated from the senior military academy represent that the national army is also slowly on the right track, and is gradually developing from a situation of relying solely on old generals to a comprehensive system.

Because of this, Shen Gang was regarded as a representative figure by many military and political dignitaries of the faction of overseas students in the Nationalist Army.

And Shen Gang is also very clear about what pressure he is facing, and he knows even more that Chen Jingyun withstood the pressure of a large group of senior generals of the National Army in order to release him to the Third Division as a division commander, even so far Shen Gang knows that many generals in the National Army do not look down on him, such as Yuan Fang, such as Li Jimin and others have no good friendship with him.

In this case, Shen Gang needs to close everyone's mouths with facts, and he wants to use a beautiful victory to tell everyone: I, Shen Gang, are not only not worse than you, but also better than you.

After the Guangzhou Rebellion, Shen Gang has always been cautious and seized every opportunity from arranging the dispatch of troops to the way to the march to the outbreak of war around Guangzhou.

A few days ago, Shen Gang successfully surrounded the enemy's two regiments in the area of Yuexiu Mountain through a series of tactical maneuvers, although in the end it was not completely encircled and annihilated, so that the remnants of these two regiments escaped. However, this battle established the strategic advantage of the Third Division in the Guangzhou area in one fell swoop.

It was also this battle that Shen Gang changed many people in the national army who were skeptical of him, even if some people were still dissatisfied, but this did not hurt the overall situation. Shen Gang asked himself that he had given Chen Jingyun a satisfactory answer in the battle of Yuexiu Mountain.

Through the battle of Yuexiu Mountain, the third division has occupied a strategic advantage in the Guangzhou area, and the next thing is nothing more than a matter of time, even if it is delayed slowly, it can be won, not to mention that there is a Gui army behind Long Jiguang who is advancing eastward, according to Shen Gang's return to Chen Jingyun: "According to the current situation of the enemy and us, it is expected to control Guangzhou within half a month, and completely defeat the enemy army within a month!" ”

However, the domestic situation could not give Chen Jingyun so much time, and Chen Jingyun could not wait for Shen Gang to take his time and spend more than half a month in Guangzhou to confront Long Jiguang.

Whether it was the hope of occupying Guangzhou and forcing the Beiyang peace talks to force the Beiyang not to dare to go south, or whether it was to occupy Guangzhou and the army to go north and carry out defensive operations in northern Zhejiang and southern Jiangsu, this required Chen Jingyun to continue to invest heavy troops in Zhejiang, and at the same time as Chen Jingyun had to mobilize more war materials to northern Zhejiang.

Therefore, no matter what countermeasures Chen Jingyun takes in the future, or what countermeasures the Beiyang Army takes. At present, the most important thing for the Nationalist Army is to take Guangzhou first. 、

As long as Guangzhou is taken, political and economic issues will not be considered, but militarily speaking, the national army will be able to free up its hands to focus on the northern direction of Zhejiang, after taking Guangzhou, the threat faced by the national army in the southern direction will be greatly reduced, at best, there is only one Lu Rongting and Li Junlie in Jiangxi, and from the current domestic situation, these two people should not take the initiative to fight the national army, on the one hand, they also need the national army to block the front to attract the firepower of the Beiyang army, on the other hand, the lips are cold, If the Nationalist Army is all cleaned up by the Beiyang Army, then Yuan Shikai will not hesitate to pack up Lu Rongting, Li Junlie and even Cai Ye in the next step. At that time, Chen Jingyun was greatly reduced by the pressure on Guangdong and Fujian provinces, and he could even transfer Fujian's guard division and the fifth division and Guangdong's third division to the northern front, handing over the defense of Guangzhou and Fujian to the local garrison regiments and the newly formed eighth and ninth divisions.

Chen Jingyun believed that as long as he freed himself up and transferred the main force of three divisions to Zhejiang, the Nationalist Army would be able to occupy a certain advantage on the Jinpu line, and no matter how bad it was, it should be able to hold Zhejiang.

When the time comes, whether it is war or peace, there will be room to choose.

Based on this choice, Chen Jingyun personally ordered Shen Gang to let him occupy Guangzhou as soon as possible, and Shen Gang also felt huge pressure after receiving the order.

He previously served as the director of the Operations Department, and he knew the overall strategic and tactical arrangements of the Nationalist Army, and when he knew that Yuan Shikai had appointed Feng Guozhang as the commander of the Second Army, and that the Fifth and Eighth Divisions of the Beiyang Army had begun to move frequently, he also knew that the northern and southern Jiangsu regions of Zhejiang were extremely urgent, and if he delayed in Guangzhou for too long and involved too much of the strength of the Nationalist Army, it would inevitably cause the weakness of the Nationalist Army in northern Zhejiang and southern Jiangsu. Not only did Chen Jingyun not want to see this, but Shen Gang himself didn't want to see it either.

For various reasons, Shen Gang took the initiative to attract Long Jiguang to the outskirts of Guangzhou City for a large-scale decisive battle, trying to eliminate the main force of Long Jiguang's troops in one fell swoop and completely establish the victory.

Shen Gang and Long Jiguang wanted a quick battle for different reasons, so when both sides deployed troops, they approached the suburbs and fields, and then from a battalion and a regiment to the scale of tens of thousands of people, and both sides continued to increase troops and make various preparations.

By the time of October, the two sides had largely completed their strategic preparations, the artillery regiment of the Third Division of the Nationalist Army had already built the last artillery position, dozens of 75-millimeter field artillery mountain guns had been carrying out artillery strikes for several days, and on October 2, the Second Regiment of the Guard Division from Fuzhou to Chaozhou by sea and then reinforced by land arrived outside Guangzhou.

In addition to Yu Ruofei, there were also a large number of officers and staff officers of the Fifth Division and the Guard Division who had come to observe and study, and the special observation group sent by the headquarters had already arrived in Guangzhou on a foreign high-speed passenger ship.

The reinforced regiment sent by the guard division this time was similar in size to the reinforced regiment sent to Hangzhou last time, but in order to further strengthen its combat effectiveness, in addition to strengthening the artillery of one battalion, it also strengthened an 80-mm mortar company and a heavy machine gun company. Looking at the weapons and equipment alone, this reinforced regiment is basically the size of a mixed brigade.

Shen Gang and Yu Ruofei are familiar with each other, because Yu Ruofei served as the deputy commander of the guard division, and the station of this guard division is in Fuzhou, so it is impossible to be easily transferred, and Shen Gang previously served as the director of the Operations Department, and he was also in Fuzhou, and the private friendship between these two people is not bad, plus the two of them cooperated very well with each other in the war in Hangzhou before, and the two led the guard division to strengthen the regiment not only relieved the siege of the 13th regiment, but also laid the victory of the Hangzhou war in one fell swoop. At the beginning, the battle in Hangzhou gave two people the rank of major general.

This time, Chen Jingyun also has a lot of expectations for the cooperation between them.

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Because I moved to another city, I can't stop coding words while I'm busy with all kinds of chores these days, so some of the chapters I write may not be very good, forgive me, it will be back to normal in a few days......