Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏreadx; In early September, after resting for a few days and replenishing a large number of combat materials, the 10th Division of the National Army and the 1st Mixed Brigade in the Hengyang area jointly launched the second round of the Hengyang Campaign with the 13th Division of the Gui Army. & After the campaign was launched, the progress was faster than the first Hengyang Campaign, and on September 3, the 10th Division concentrated its forces to take the lead in attacking a regiment under the 7th Brigade of the main defense force of the Beiyang Army, but then in the process of advancing to the Hengyang area, the 13th Division and the 1st Regiment of the Gui Army were defeated by the counterattack of the Beiyang Army, and the 13th Division of the Qianqian Army retreated as a whole, causing the western front to not advance an inch, and the western front did not advance to opposition, and also caused the 10th Division of the southern front to be affected, and the flank was so-called by the Beiyang Army, and the 10th Division had to readjust the direction of the attack. Inheriting part of the battle on the Western Front helped the 13th Division of the Gui Army gain time to reorganize, and this change also delayed the progress of the Second Hengyang Campaign

On September 8, after half a month of fierce fighting, the 1st Mixed Brigade of the Nationalist Army finally attacked the 3rd Hunan Division deployed in the eastern area of the Xiangjiang River, forcing the 3rd Hunan Division to retreat north to Dapu Town, dozens of miles away from Hengyang, but the battle dragged on too long, and the 3rd Division of Hunan did not suffer heavy damage, but just repulsed, and the 3rd Division of Hunan still maintained a certain combat effectiveness after retreating to Dapu, which made the 1st Mixed Brigade's attempt to quickly capture Hengdong fail, so the 1st Mixed Brigade simply gave up attacking Hengdong. Instead, he was looking for an opportunity to directly cross the Xiangjiang River and cut off the retreat of the Beiyang Army in Hengyang

On September 13, Yu Shaoying's 10th Division launched another attack, relying on the superiority of troops to once again defeat part of the Beiyang Army

The 10th Division gathered the main force in the urban area of Hengyang and the main force of the Beiyang Army to engage in a fierce battle, and then captured the urban area of Hengyang, the remnants of the 7th Brigade of the Beiyang Army retreated to the north, part of the 2nd Division of the Hunan Provincial Army was entangled by the 13th Division of the Gui Army, and the remaining part was entangled by the 10th Division The 1st Mixed Brigade tried to cross the river to cut off the retreat of the Beiyang Army, but was pinned down by the 3rd Division of the Hunan Provincial Army and could not be completed, resulting in the 7th Brigade of the Beiyang Army and part of the Hunan Provincial Army retreating northward. However, at this time, the Beiyang Army and the Hunan Army on the west bank of the Xiangjiang River together were less than 5,000.

Although this battle was not able to encircle and annihilate the main force of the enemy army like the Battle of Chaohu, and it took a long time, which lasted for nearly a month before it was won, but the results of the battle were not counted, and the two Hunan Provincial Army and one Beiyang Army Seventh Brigade in the southern region of Hunan, as well as thousands of other miscellaneous units in Hunan Province, were almost half annihilated, and the Seventh Brigade of the Fourth Division of the Beiyang Army only had more than 1,000 people left to flee north. In addition, there were more than 3,000 miscellaneous armies in Hunan Province that fled north, and the only one that maintained a relatively complete establishment was the Third Division of the Hunan Provincial Army, and the Second Division of the Hunan Provincial Army can be said to have been wiped out by the formation, plus the previous campaign launched by the National Army in Zizhou, and the campaign launched by the Gui Army in Yongzhou, which almost wiped out the Beiyang Army in southern Hunan and the local warlord forces in southern Hunan Province, including the killing, wounding, and surrender of prisoners, a total of at least 3,000 people of the enemy's Beiyang Army and more than 10,000 troops of the enemy's Hunan Provincial Army were annihilated

Because the Hunan direction was only a secondary battle and the command did not have an urgent time requirement for taking Hunan, and did not set a very urgent time limit for Lin Chengkun's Fourth Army, the Fourth Army has always maintained a very necessary combat method in the Hunan Campaign, although the progress is not large, and there is no decisive battle in one game, but this steady and steady way is extremely suitable for the Fourth Army's operations in the Hunan region, effectively controlling its own casualties, attacking the 10th Division and the 1st Mixed Brigade in the southern Hunan region for more than two months. The total number of casualties was less than a thousand, and only a few hundred were killed

On the contrary, the Gui army, which was also the southern coalition army, suffered casualties and did not shoe, when the Gui army attacked Yongzhou before, the Gui army and the Hunan Provincial Army on the opposite side were within a radius of eight taels, and Lu Rongting was in a hurry to take Yongzhou and try to expand the territory, so he was in a hurry, so that the front-line troops were injured and the sixth mixed brigade of the Gui army, the main force of the attack, was damaged by more than half, and had to stop advancing in the follow-up battle and stayed in Yongzhou to recuperate, and it was worth it that the Gui army could only send the 13th Division to participate in the Battle of Hengyang

Although Lu Rongting has emphatically instructed the front-line troops to preserve their strength, let the Nationalist Army fight a tough battle, and just pick up the cheap in the back, and they did not contribute much in the one-month offensive, mainly relying on the Nationalist Army to attack on the southern front, and the western front that the Gui Army was responsible for was three days of fishing and two days of drying nets to watch the show, but in order to achieve the goal of holding Hengyang for a long time, the Beiyang Army tried to concentrate superior forces in the early stage to kill and injure a part of the Southern Coalition Army, and the Beiyang Army also knew that it was better to pick a soft opponent than to fight hard with the Nationalist Army. So although the Gui army did not take the initiative to attack, but still was counterattacked by the main force of the Beiyang Army, and then suffered heavy casualties, and after the capture of Hengyang, the 13th Division, which originally had more than 10,000 people, was left with more than 7,000 remaining, and more than 3,000 casualties

When Lu Rongting learned of the heavy losses on the front line, his face was terrifying, and when he learned that the total losses of the Nationalist Army were less than 1,000 people, he was even more unpleasant in his heart, you must know that the 6th Mixed Brigade and the 13th Division he sent to Hunan to fight combined, the casualties were already more than 6,000 people, and he also knew that the main force to capture Hengyang was the 10th Division of the Nationalist Army, not his Gui Army

"Is that the gap so big?" Lu Rongting didn't believe it a little, he believed that the Nationalist Army could fight him, but he didn't believe that the Nationalist Army could fight like this

According to the reports of the front-line generals, the quality of the 10th Division of the Nationalist Army, which fought in conjunction with the Gui Army, is not very high, although those soldiers of the Nationalist Army are full of food, drink, chicken, duck, fish and meat, but at most they are physically stronger, far from the point of being a divine soldier and a general, although those ordinary Nationalist Army officers shout long live the National Socialist Party every day, and Chen Jingyun Long live all of them look like they are not afraid of death, but after they really go to the battlefield, they are all characters hiding behind. Anyway, the Gui army has never seen an example of an officer above the battalion commander of the national army taking the lead in charging and fighting bravely, and when he inquired, he was told that it was strictly forbidden for middle and senior officers in the national army to take the lead in the charge, which made the generals of the Gui army feel incredible, and even for a period of time thought that the national army was afraid of death and had no courage to play a coward role, and the examples of small units in the national army being defeated and defeated by the Beiyang army also occurred from time to time, which made the generals of the Gui army despise the quality of the officers and soldiers of the national army even more

At least in the Battle of Hengyang, many senior generals of the Gui Army looked down on the command of the National Army, and there were almost no highlights in the command of the Nationalist Army that lasted for a month. I don't understand how Chen Jingyun can rely on such a quality of troops to win the southeastern provinces and lay the foundation for hegemony, and I don't understand how he can fight hard with the Beiyang Army

However, the Gui army soon found a reason, that is, the national army was well equipped!

The equipment of the national army is excellent, that is, many people know it, and this tenth division can be regarded as an eye-opener for the Gui army, not only is it all made in Hanyang, but also a whole regiment of more than 30 57 mm rapid-fire mountain guns (60 mm rapid-fire mountain artillery), as well as a large number of light and heavy machine guns, these equipment made those Gui army generals drool, speaking of which the Gui army also has Hanyang, machine guns, and mountain artillery, but it is impossible to achieve such a large scale with the national army

Most of the equipment of the Gui Army is the weapons of the former New Army, a small number of them were imported in small quantities after Xinhai, and another one was bought from the major warlords, for example, he bought a large number of guns from the National Army, Hanyang said, Manlixia has actually rifles are good to say, although the models are numerous and complex, but how much can guarantee the quantity, and if you want to achieve such a unified caliber and standard with the National Army, you can't do it. However, the rifle is still equipped with as many as three kinds of ammunition, and the Beiyang is not even able to unify the ammunition, some troops are called rifles of 6.5 mm bullets, some troops are 88 and Hanyang made 7.92 round bullets, and after Xinhai, the Beiyang Army was expanded on a large scale, although the establishment of those main divisions has not changed, but most of the troops under their jurisdiction are more than the establishment, with the reading brigade reading force regiment or the supplementary brigade supplementary regiment of the supernumerary establishment, plus the losses caused by previous operations, As a result, it has become extremely difficult for all divisions of the Beiyang Army to maintain the rules of the unified system for each division at the beginning

The Beiyang Army is like this, and the other warlords are even worse, among the three major warlords in the south, the Dian Army and the Gui Army are equipped with complex rifle models, basically all models, whether it is a rifle or a Hanyang rifle or a Manlixia, and other rifles, plus the equipment of each unit has no chance to be rearranged after it is distributed, so there are several different guns and bullets in almost every army, for example, the 13th Division has this rifle and Hanyang made, There was also a small part of the French rifles

However, the rifles cannot be unified, and the caliber cannot be unified, but the number of rifles is sufficient, and the main forces finally do not need to be equipped with those single-shot rear-loading guns or even front-loading guns

But the machine gun and artillery Lu Rongting could not do anything