New Warlords 1909

There is such a good thing?Picking up an important town for nothing?Yu Chengping, Mo Haiyu, Li Ganyu and others strongly demanded to change the battle plan, divide the troops to occupy Zhenjiang, and then rely on Zhenjiang to attack Yangzhou after a rest.Huada refused to divide the troops on the grounds that doing so violated the commander's battle plan and that Zhenjiang's lack of troops might be fraudulent.

In the name of the division commander, Huada ordered the entire army to attack Yangzhou immediately, but Yu Chengping, in the name of the chief of staff, expressed doubts about Huada's order and applied for a military ruling.

Just when Hua Fei was preparing to deploy an attack on Nanjing, he suddenly received such a telegram, and he was so angry that he smashed the teapot to pieces.The two armies faced each other, and the senior officers of the division had disagreements, and serious differences occurred.As the teacher commander, Huada could not take the opinions of his subordinates and staff officers and go his own way.As a subordinate, he insisted on insisting on his views regardless of military orders, and even brought disagreements to the military.If this connection fails at the critical moment of the war, then the second division will be in a desperate crisis due to the disputes between the division headquarters.

Hua Fei had to admit that his rapid military expansion not only faced a serious shortage of middle and lower-level officers.Even among senior military officers, the command professionalism is worrying.Looking at the division headquarters of the two divisions, except for the chief of staff who graduated from a regular military academy and Cao Yuan who has a little military knowledge, almost everyone else has become a monk halfway through.Such a team has not had any major problems so far. In addition to Hua Fei's luck and historical trends, it is also related to the placement of most of the iron-blooded military academy cadets into the battalions and companies as commanders and assistants.As long as there is no problem with the general command strategy, there will generally be no major deviations in the battle process.

But through this incident, Hua Fei understands that the crisis has been deeply buried.With the expansion of the army and the complexity and variability of the battlefield situation in the future.Especially as his influence on history intensifies, the accuracy of his prediction of history itself will become lower and lower.As long as the army suffers a fatal blow, it will definitely be unbearable for Hua Fei!

This situation must change!

Guo Tong was originally the head of Hua Fei's security regiment, and now he is Hua Fei's adjutant. He has been in contact with Hua Fei for a long time.He has seen the young master get angry, but the young master rarely gets angry when he sees his own military intelligence report.And after getting angry this time, the young master frowned and said nothing, which made Guo Tong extremely worried, he wanted to ask but dared not speak.

"Order, the Second Division immediately occupies Zhenjiang, and the plan to attack Yangzhou is cancelled!"

"Secretly contact the stragglers such as the 20rd Regiment of the [-]st Division of the former Jiangsu Army, the [-]th Regiment of No. [-] of the [-]th Division, and other stragglers in Nanjing and outside the city, and plan to jointly attack Nanjing!"

At this time, there were not many Nanjing defenders. Since Zhang Xun fled to Zhenjiang, there were only a few units of Feng Guozhang's Beiyang Second Army in Nanjing with less than [-] troops.However, after all, Nanjing is an important city with strong defenses, and this time is completely different from the last sneak attack, it is an open and hard attack.There were several raids in Nanjing before, and in the end He Haiming, Han Hui and others relied on thousands of soldiers and horses to resist the Beiyang Army's attack for nearly a month, which shows the sharpness of Nanjing's city defense.

Due to his focus on Nanjing, Hua Fei paid close attention to the situation of the battle, and especially admired the combat effectiveness of the 20rd Regiment of the [-]st Division of the Jiangsu Army and the No.[-] [-]th Regiment of the [-]th Division.These remaining troops escaped from Nanjing, and Hua Fei's scouts quickly contacted them.They were ordered to lurk outside the city, and after returning to the city to infiltrate and contact the soldiers in the city, they provided some ammunition.

He Haiming and Han Hui were originally radical revolutionaries. They had heard that Hua Fei from Anhui was going to send troops to aid Jiangsu.But after waiting and waiting, they still couldn't come, they were already desperate.Now that Hua Fei was waiting, the two of them were not very excited.Anyone with a discerning eye can see that the reason why Hua Fei went to Jiangsu at this moment is to seek his own selfishness!

However, He Haiming and Han Hui still decided to stay and counterattack Nanjing. After all, as long as Nanjing is captured, future matters can be discussed and decided by themselves.No matter how selfish Hua Fei is, he is at least better than Yuan Shikai.Moreover, in the combat effectiveness in northern Anhui, he also made great achievements in the battle against Yuan.

Nanjing, here we come again!

130 Fighting Nanjing Again

Nanjing is no stranger to Hua Fei's veterans of the First Division of the New Army.At the beginning, 4000 of them accompanied Huafei to attack Tianbao City. Under the general trend of the Revolution of [-], they successfully recovered Nanjing. It has to be said that it is a glorious achievement worth mentioning in the history of the New Army's war!

As an ancient capital, Nanjing City has strong defenses and complete defense facilities. It is not easy to capture such a city.This can be seen from the heavy losses of the Beiyang Army such as Zhang Xun. As long as the troops are sufficient and the ammunition is not interrupted, the price of taking Nanjing is still very high.

The situation at this time is different from that in the first year, because Hua Fei's new army has used the power of heavy machine guns in several battles and achieved shocking results one after another.Yuan Shikai's Beiyang Army introduced heavy machine guns arbitrarily in the next year or so. In terms of the number alone, it has far exceeded Hua Fei's first army of the new army.According to the report of the scouts, there are hundreds of heavy machine guns erected on the important strongholds and city defenses of Nanjing at this moment.

With such a powerful firepower, if a strong attack is to be carried out, let alone whether Nanjing can be won or not, the casualty price paid will inevitably be heavy!

And if you want to cross the river, the Lion Mountain Fort outside Nanjing must also be captured.The fort on Shogun Hill cannot be controlled by the enemy.Tianbao City, which is crucial to the siege, is still the focus that Hua Fei wants to win. //

Without a surprise attack, it is impossible to use the power of others.The Battle of Nanjing was completely a formal high-intensity siege battle.Moreover, due to financial difficulties and dwindling ammunition reserves, Hua Fei must end this battle in the shortest possible time to avoid being dragged into the brink of an endless war of attrition.

This time, the First Division brought many trainee staff officers from the Jagged Military Academy. Under the charge of the chief of staff, they quickly formulated three sets of siege plans.Hua Fei chose the first set of battle plan after simply reading it.

First, a battalion of soldiers was sent north to cut off the Jinpu Railway.Prevent Yuan Shikai from increasing troops along the railway line to transport ammunition supplies.

Then with the help of night.With the cooperation of the poisonous special forces.The capture of the Shizishan Fort enabled the headquarters of the First Division in Pukou to quickly cross the river.And taking advantage of the cover of night and the support of warship artillery fire, they quickly took the commanding heights of the Mufu Mountain Fort and Zijin Mountain.

Since Hua Fei has carried out relevant night combat training in a targeted manner from the very beginning, the new troops of the First Army, especially the bosses of the First Division, are best at night combat.And in daily training.They also explored a series of small skills such as communication, friend-or-foe identification, night shooting and so on.In order to encourage the soldiers' enthusiasm for training and use their brains, Hua Fei rewarded and promoted the soldiers who came up with these practical ideas. \\

After occupying important strongholds on the outskirts of Nanjing overnight, the air force bomber squadron will arrive in the sky above Nanjing in the early hours of the morning to carry out comprehensive bombing of important strongholds and military facilities such as Tianbao City.At the same time, in coordination with the Air Force's actions, the artillery regiments under the division headquarters will simultaneously implement full artillery coverage on Tianbao City.Under the cover of artillery fire, the elite infantry of the first regiment, the second regiment and the third regiment will capture Tianbao City as quickly as possible.

During the battle of attacking Tianbao City, each department may be counterattacked by the Nanjing defenders.So after capturing Sky Castle City.All ministries will strictly guard against the counterattack of the Nanjing Northern Army, and must not lose their positions.

When the air force bomber formation flies for the second time, the remnants of the contacted Jiangsu Revolutionary Army will act at the same time as the First Division of the New Army to attack Nanjing City in an all-round way.

The plan is very detailed, and each step lists the countermeasures for unexpected events.Such a professional and detailed battle plan, without the hard work and assistance of such a staff, Hua Fei might not be able to do it!

With the regularization and professionalization of his army leadership and combat, such an officer staff team is absolutely necessary!This is why Hua Fei was so angry after receiving the telegram from the second division. \ All senior officers of the division.Few people are qualified!Iron-blooded military academy cadets with professional military literacy training.But it lacks actual combat experience and military exploits.This is the contradiction and the problem.However, after this battle, many of the interns assigned to them should have learned a lot of actual combat experience.Can also accumulate a certain amount of military exploits!After they complete their graduation, this situation can be initially alleviated.

"According to the combat plan, issue orders to each battalion! The combat operation time is ten o'clock in the evening!"

"Yes!"

It was a quiet night, it was the Double Ninth Festival, but all Nanjing people were not in the mood to climb high.In the past few months of fighting, gunpowder and gunfire, and the Beiyang army burned, killed and looted like this, this ancient capital of the Six Dynasties, under the dim moonlight, is full of dilapidated and miserable sounds.It was only around eight o'clock, and every household had shut their doors and turned off the lights. Except for the barking of dogs and the occasional crying of babies, there were only the occasional footsteps of soldiers rushing by in a hurry.

The generals of the Beiyang Army also knew that after the First Division of Huafei's New Army occupied Pukou and Taiwan, the next target must be Nanjing.Although there are still more than 1 defenders in Nanjing City and many captives who surrendered, they are facing the famous First Division of the New Army of the Revolutionary Army. \\ This army has won several brilliant battles in a few months, which has made him famous and well known.

Annihilate the elite Yi army, encircle Xuzhou City, wipe out Ni Sichong's troops, and scare away Lei Zhenjun's guards.Now after a short-term rest, they were fully armed and under the escort of warships, captured Pukou and Taiwan.What is even more exaggerated is that when Zhang Xun's braided army received the first division to attack Nanjing, they found an excuse and fled to Zhenjiang without even touching anyone.

And the latest news is that the Second Division of the New Army has occupied Zhenjiang.Zhang Xun, who ran faster than a rabbit, ran away again and fled to Changzhou without firing a shot.

Think about it, how heavy the psychological pressure on the various departments of the Beiyang Army must have been!If it hadn't been for the all-out efforts to block the news that Zhenjiang had been lost, the soldiers would have already begun to riot.

Bang bang da da...!The gunfire from Lion Mountain made the quiet city of Nanjing tremble.The lights in many citizens' homes turned on and then went out quickly.The sound of the horseshoes of the messenger soldiers galloping just passed by, chirp... boom boom boom!The sound of artillery explosions all over the sky came from the direction of Shogun Mountain again.

The battle finally started, and the artillery fire from warships on the river surface reflected the entire water surface red. ///\ The fourth regiment and the fifth regiment that landed quickly immediately attacked Shogunate Mountain.At the same time, the soldiers of the first regiment, the second regiment and the third regiment have already rushed to Zijin Mountain, planning to seize the commanding heights.

Everyone was restless and unable to sleep. Feng Guozhang wanted to organize troops to reinforce Zijin Mountain and Mufu Mountain many times, but all the ministries refused to go out of the city to fight late at night on the grounds that it was dark and it was inconvenient to fight.

At around midnight, all the fighting is over.The Lion Mountain Fort was lost, the Shogunate Mountain was lost, and the Zijin Mountain was lost... All the news hit the hearts of the generals of the Beiyang Second Army hard.Just when they thought that the first division would take advantage of the situation to attack the city, all the fighting died down in an instant.

The fighting stopped, and the Beiyang defenders did not dare to relax for a moment.Those city defenders didn't even dare to blink their eyes.The quieter it is, the weirder it is. Hua Fei's Poison Man Special Forces have touched the city wall more than once in the dark and quickly occupied the stronghold!

But to the surprise of all the Nanjing defenders, apart from the necessary guards on duty, the soldiers of the First Division actually held their guns and did not take off their clothes. When I woke up, the sky was getting brighter, and the first division did not attack the city for some reason.The scouts sent out could not find any more useful information except that the strongholds outside the city were full of soldiers from the new army.If they didn't move in the middle of the night, it would be dawn to attack the city, but the defenders who had been nervous all night were exhausted, and some of them couldn't hold their eyelids up with firewood sticks.

Buzz buzz buzz buzz...!

A thunderous roar came from the distant sky. When the scouts saw the dark fleet in their binoculars, the Air Force bomber formation had arrived in a blink of an eye.Chirp chirp chirp... boom boom boom...

The ruthless and violent artillery fire once again ignited the Nanjing City, which had not been quiet for a few days. Almost at the moment when the bombing began, the artillery regiments outside the city also aimed at the designated targets and began fierce shelling. Although the 75MM field guns are lacking in power, most of them are rear-mounted tube retreating rapid-fire guns produced by the German Krupp Arsenal. The shooting speed makes up for the lack of power of the artillery.

In addition, along with the bombing, many leaflets were dropped on the plane.At any moment, Hua Fei never forgets to use the power of propaganda warfare.After deliberate propaganda and exaggeration, the leaflet stated that Hua Fei's revolutionary army had occupied Zhenjiang and Yangzhou, completely cutting off the retreat of the Beiyang army.In addition, the Third Division of the Revolutionary Army has also rushed to Nanjing. At that time, 3 people will surround Nanjing, and everyone will be unable to escape.Leaflets called on all soldiers to lay down their arms and spare their lives.Otherwise, once the city is broken, all stubborn enemy troops will be tried for war crimes and cannot escape the fate of being shot.

At the same time, the remnants of the revolutionary army lurking inside and outside the city quickly launched an attack.With internal and external attacks, propaganda campaigns to disrupt the enemy's morale, the entire city of Nanjing is already in chaos and has fallen into an out-of-control situation.Although the middle and senior officers of the Beiyang Army knew that Hua Fei had no reinforcements from the so-called third division, how could ordinary soldiers listen to it!

Sky Castle fell.The Taiping Gate is in danger and asks for reinforcements.Chaoyangmen is about to fail, so hurry up and reinforce them.The defenders of Zhongfumen surrendered, and Zhongfumen fell.The Shence Gate was breached by the remaining revolutionary army in the city, and the Shence Gate fell.There was a riot in the prison camp, and the troops of the Third Division of the Jiangsu Army who surrendered withdrew from the battle and refused our dispatch...

A series of information was collected on the desk of Feng Guozhang, the commander of the temporary Second Army.Feng Guozhang took off his military cap dejectedly. He knew that the city of Nanjing, which he took so hard to conquer, would soon change hands.What he didn't understand was why it took them a month to capture Nanjing City, while the first division of the new army took Nanjing City in less than a day?Why did the soldiers who had high morale because of the capture of Nanjing immediately collapsed when they heard about the siege of the First Division?Why did Zhang Xun, who usually puts no one in his eyes, ran away without a trace when he heard the first division coming to attack, and even farted.

Feng Guozhang didn't understand too much, but he understood very well that it was time to retreat.If you don't retreat, I'm afraid you really won't even have a chance to escape.

131 Ace Guard Regiment

Since the radio could not be installed on the plane, when Huafei's telegram was sent to the temporary airport near Ma'anshan, the bomber formation's third bombing mission had already set sail.

Hua Fei was also surprised. The siege of Nanjing, which was originally planned to be a hard-fought battle, ended in just half a day.This simply made him unbelievable. He knew that the first division had been baptized in several battles, and its combat effectiveness was considered elite in China.But taking Nanjing City so easily was far beyond his expectations.I really don't know if the First Division is too strong or the Beiyang Army is too incompetent

When Hua Fei stepped into Nanjing City again under the protection of the guard group, he still couldn't believe it.Looking at the war-torn and dilapidated city of Nanjing, at the sparse citizens on the street who looked at them with complicated eyes, and at groups of soldiers from the new army patrolling the streets in neat formations and paces, Hua Fei's Only then did he feel that he once again took control of Nanjing City!Only this time, he won't leave again

"Order all regiments to strictly prohibit disturbing the people, and the gendarmerie strictly enforces post-war discipline. Organize the former revolutionary party troops and let them assemble and stand by!"

"Accept all the public property of Nanjing City, and confiscate all the weapons and ammunition of the prisoners! The prisoners will be temporarily detained by the militia that arrived later."

"Send a guard battalion to hang our iron-blooded battle flag around the city of Nanjing, and quickly make a larger stand-up flag and lay it on the road that the bomber formation must pass. Don't let them bomb by mistake!" Fei quickly released a message. series of commands. \*\ The contact method of the aircraft must be resolved as soon as possible, otherwise it is really not conducive to command and communication.Radio was invented long ago in this era, but the invention of wireless communication has not yet appeared.

The air force bomber formation flew over Nanjing again aggressively, through the faint clouds.The entire city of Nanjing has lost sight of gunpowder smoke and artillery fire.Sun Tianbo, the squadron leader of the flying squadron and the head of the first flying detachment, took a look through the binoculars he carried with him, and saw that the entire city wall of Nanjing was decorated with iron-blooded nineteen-star military flags.Nanjing already occupied?We won?Sun Tianbo was overjoyed, and immediately swung his tail, and signaled to the nearby pilots to cancel the attack, he raised his body and dived, lowered his altitude and flew over the city of Nanjing, flying happily around.

All the pilots saw the eye-catching iron-blooded battle flag on the capital governor's mansion in Nanjing, victory, success!Although the cheers of the pilots could not reach the ground, they flew briskly over the city of Nanjing.It caused bursts of cheers from the soldiers of the First Division on the ground.The successful capture of Nanjing City this time is due to the air force's bombing and deterrence capabilities!