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Chapter 31: Comeback

The situation that was originally a complete victory turned into a peace situation. Mo Di could be said to be extremely depressed. He desperately ordered the troops on the front line of Nanchang to find Liu Jingxiao's flaws and to wipe out the Liu army in Nanchang.

However, Liu Jingxiao's troops have not decreased but increased since the war started. In addition to more than 4,000 wounded people in the encirclement, Liu Jingxiao still has more than 41,000 people. He led these troops to use the tactic of buying and sedimentary bases to defend the death. The Southern Army attacked twelve times in the front and rear, and each time it ended with heavy casualties.

Mo Di couldn't help but remember the current war in Xi'an. The Zhensong Army of Liuhua Town entered Shaanxi to develop, but encountered a tough situation. He attacked Xi'an for more than three months and failed to come. The casualties of the troops had reached more than 20,000. The four or five thousand remaining soldiers and defeated soldiers in the city blocked 70,000 to 80,000 Zhensong Army outside Xi'an City. Although there were starving people to death in the city, Liuhua Town lacked heavy equipment to attack the city and could not open Xi'an City.

When he thought of this, he immediately prepared to increase the heavy artillery troops, and even if it was demolished, he would demolish Nanchang City.

As for military observers, they published the latest views that the current situation in Jiangxi is likely to evolve into an unbeaten situation. They also carefully took stock of Liu Jingxiao's troops.

Liu Jingxiaoguang had 40,000 troops in the city. Judging from the information, the stockpiled rifle bullets were enough for half a month to use, various shells had a stock of more than ten days, and other military materials also had a stock of more than one week, and only grain and side food were relatively short. However, Nanchang City is a provincial capital, and there would be no major problem for plundering the people's food reserves for one month. In this way, even if the Southern Army wanted to solve the battle, it would take half a month later. However, the Liu army was constantly entering Jiangxi. Whether the Southern Army could support it for so long was a big problem, but Liu Jingxiao did not have the ability to attack.

Just when the observer's view was freshly released, Liu Jingxiao opened the passage to Ganjiang River again. The Shen family's Changjiang fleet immediately dispatched support. In the short term, Liu Jingxiao obtained the replenishment of troops and supplies, and transported out seriously injured soldiers in the army. This action confirmed the military observer's view: "It is unrealistic to end the Nanchang war in the short term. The Nanchang battle should last for more than one month..."

However, the Nanchang Battle ended on the day. To everyone's surprise, Liu Jingxiao transported out seriously injured people and supplemented the troops. The troops suddenly broke through the Zhejiang-Jiangxi Railway.

Forty thousand people opened up more than ten kilometers of people in front of each other, and with several of the most combative backbone regiments as the leader, with dense artillery fire support, a large gap was opened on the Southern Army's defense line. There were covers on both sides, and there were sections of rear troops behind them, as well as engineers responsible for railway repairs, and armored trains assisting the war.

The Southern Army did not expect Liu Jingxiao to break through. After all, Liu Jingxiao defended well in the solid position in Nanchang City. As a result, Liu Jingxiao successfully broke through successfully and was advancing along the Zhejiang-Jiangxi Line.

In addition, the two divisions of Sima Kan's troops on the flank of Nanchang also launched a side attack. As for Ding Ning, who was the most fiercer on the road on the Zhejiang-Jiangxi Railway, her original force was only 7,000 military and police officers, but Han Xinhai generously gave four regiments, twelve battalions, a total of 8,000 support troops. In order to cooperate with this breakthrough, there was another infantry regiment and another infantry battalion, two artillery battalions, and two engineering battalions urgently transferred from Zhejiang to Jiangxi.

The Southern Army knew nothing about the latest support troops Ding Ning got, but the troops were suddenly attacked by Ding Ning during the attack, and almost all the front troops lost control, especially the two regiments rushing in front. One regiment was almost wiped out and only four or five hundred people escaped, and the other regiment suffered more than half of the casualties. All regiment-level cadres were captured or killed, and the troops lost unified command. After Liu Jingxiao broke through, in order to meet and meet Ding Ning, the first one to deal with the Southern Army that attacked Ding Ning along the Zhejiang-Jiangxi Railway was the miscellaneous Southern Army that attacked Ding Ning along the Zhejiang-Jiangxi Railway.

Liu Jingxiao's attack was not smooth, but he advanced 16 kilometers in one day, sweeping away several small teams and soldiers left behind in the rear. The attack the next day was extremely pleasant to face Liu Jingxiao's thunderous attack. The Southern Army lost four battalions of troops, and Ding Ning also dared to attack the Southern Army, which had the advantage of troops, and advanced as many as six kilometers on the Zhejiang-Jiangxi Railway.

Mo Di was delighted at Liu Jingxiao's breakthrough. As the besieged city said, those who were guarding the city wanted to go out, and those who were guarding the city wanted to go in, he immediately ordered to enter Nanchang.

The procedures for entering Nanchang caused considerable chaos. Many Southern Army troops were unwilling to pursue Liu Jingxiao's troops who broke through the siege. Instead, they paid attention to the territory of Jiangxi Province, especially a bunch of miscellaneous Southern Army troops. They were determined to establish a career in Anjia, Jiangxi. For example, the founding Hunan Army that first entered Nanchang, the commander-in-chief Lin Ding had already set the list of county magistrates of Jiangxi counties. The troops naturally fought for the house to fight for the position, and the current Jiangxi governor Jiang Chao also brought the troops back to grab his position.

In order to compete for the Jiangxi Provincial Government and the Governor's Office, several troops even used sharp bayonets to show off their force, and even Mo Di's orders were not moved. In the end, the former Governor served as the chairman of the maintenance. However, after taking office, Jianghu felt even more impressed. After this month of battle, half of the city was covered with ruins, and the rest of the area had also been demolished and many houses were flattened. There were countless victims. Liu Jun used white strips to collect supplies for major events in the city. Before leaving, he even put out a few torches to take away supplies to burn them clean. Now Nanchang City can be said to be a typical poor and deserted city.

However, Modi's direct lineage of Guangdong Provincial Army obeyed the mobilization and joined forces with the Gui Army divisions to pursue Liu Jingxiao along the Zhejiang-Jiangxi Railway. However, their location was not good. When Liu Jingxiao broke through, they were seven or eight hours away from the breakout scheduled by Liu Jingxiao. Although they were severely injured by Liu Jingxiao's defenders along the way, on the fourth day, Ding Ning's troops had officially met with Liu Jingxiao's main force. Liu Jingxiao breathed a sigh of relief and said to Ding Ning who welcomed him: "Fortunately... I thought I would never see you again..."

Ding Ning touched her tears and said, "It's good to stick out...it's good to stick out..."

Liu Jingxiao said: "Stay green mountains here and don't worry about not having firewood. We still have tens of thousands of troops in Jiangxi, and we can still fight!"

Before breaking through, a group regiment was added through Zhejiang and Jiangxi. The Liu army broke through was 43,000. After four days of combat, the number of troops was greatly reduced. Only 38,000 were still combat-capable. In addition, Ding Ning's troops had only 52,000. For more than 90,000 troops in the pursuit of the Southern Army, Liu Jingxiao then fought and retreated along the Zhejiang-Jiangxi Railway.

At the same time, after completing the support for Liu Jingxiao's breakthrough, Sima Kan also began to retreat to Yongxiu. Soon under the pursuit of the Southern Army, even Yongxiu gave up and retreated to De'an to defend. The Southern Army can be said to have a great victory. Mo Di said excitedly: "It is a foregone conclusion that our army won a complete victory in Jiangxi, Fujian and Hunan provinces, and the victory of Zhejiang and Hubei provinces is just around the corner..."

Yunnan also officially announced its participation in the Northern Expedition, and the Zeng army had left the province to participate in the war. The civilian army in various northern provinces also responded again. As for Guizhou, it was faster to act. Nearly 20,000 troops had entered Jiangxi to participate in the war, and the Yangtze River was seen.

He was beaten a little less than an hour after he finished speaking. In order to support Jiangxi's operation to block Liu Jingxiao's breakthrough, the Southern Army of Wentai launched a supporting offensive in Lishui after obtaining a large number of information from Zhejiang's entry into Jiangxi. One division of the Gui army, one regiment of the Guangdong Provincial Army, the Dinghai Yunnan Army had all 6,000 Fujian civilians, and more than 3,000 Zhejiang civilians were accompanied by several special forces to join the offensive.

The result of the Lishui Battle was an unprecedented setback from the Southern Army. Chen Fangren, Jiangsu, sent two reinforcements to arrive at the battlefield in the battle. In addition, Zhejiang's 30,000 troops and Su Xue's divisions, 70,000 troops surrounded the attacking Southern Army.

When the Southern Army, who had gone deep into Lishui, found that the Liu army's troops were far more powerful than they imagined, the affiliated civilian army fled first, triggering the escaping of miscellaneous troops, and the two of the Southern Army had to retreat to Wenzhou.

In order to avenge the hatred that was blocked all the way when Wenzhou broke through, Zhong Xiaodao, the former Zhejiang Army fought the most fiercely. During the retreat, each army was attacked by the Liu army anytime and anywhere. The Southern Army suffered a great loss. The Zhejiang Civilian Army reduced its personnel by nearly 2,000, the Fujian Civilian Army reduced its personnel by more than 2,500, and the Dingguo Yunnan Army lost 1,700. Only two backbone divisions were able to master the troops during the retreat, and only lost more than 900. However, after this battle, the Liu army in Zhejiang Province changed from defense to offense and occupied the strategic initiative.

In the final stage of the Lishui Battle, two independent regiments sent by Huaihai Province had arrived in Jinhua, but when they arrived at the battlefield, they only participated in the operation to clean the battlefield.

Chen Yunjie from Hunan also fought to the death and launched a two-day attack with the northern armies. Although it had failed, the Southern Army had to temporarily repair it due to heavy casualties.

However, there are still good news in Jiangxi. The southern army in northern Jiangxi has arrived at the city of De'an, and the southern army along the Zhejiang-Jiangxi Railway is progressing smoothly. I originally thought that Liu Jingxiao would defend Yingtan to the death, but unexpectedly, Liu Jingxiao refused to let go of a shot and even Yingtan gave up.

Not only did Yingtan, where the front headquarters was located, even Guixi was not guarding it, but a lot of supplies were abandoned for the Southern Army. The Southern Army used the materials seized from the front to accelerate the next step of action, and the Nanchang Army's miscellaneous cards also came back to their senses and pursued along the Zhejiang-Jiangxi Railway.

"I have all Ganzhou for me..." Opening the Jiangxi map, Liu Jingxiao now controls less than one-fifth of the province, and the Southern Army almost controls the entire map. Mo Di said: "The next key problem is Zhejiang..."

The Guangdong staff officers were already preparing for the military ambitions of Jiangsu. According to their ideas, Jiangxi was lost and Zhejiang was lost, and Liu Jingxiao was likely to retreat to Jiangbei.

But the outbreak of the Hengsong Battle was beyond everyone's expectations. When Modi received the news, he asked with an incredible expression: "How is this possible?"

The main force of the Southern Army, who was pursuing along the Zhejiang-Jiangxi Railway, suddenly encountered Liu Jingxiao's large-scale counterattack on the Hengfeng line. The seven and a half regiments of the Southern Army's main force were surrounded by Liu Jingxiao, and the remaining troops were forced to retreat ten to twenty kilometers. Now the Southern Army is fully rescuing nearly 30,000 troops surrounding the encirclement.

The seven and a half regiments surrounded the encirclement were all invincible Guangdong troops, and the two divisions of the Gui army encountered a devastating blow during the rescue process.

The impact of the Gui army this time can be said to be a disaster. Due to the rapid advancement, most artillery soldiers were not deployed in place, or there was a problem with ammunition supply. The Gui army was known for its poor firepower, and the artillery could not provide sufficient artillery cover for the attacking infantry. However, in order to rescue the troops in the encirclement, the Gui army commander Chen Songping still ordered the three divisions to line up in a dense formation to launch an assault.

The Gui army was only a few artillery pieces to support the fire, because they were waiting for the most severe test in history in front. When they encountered the overwhelming shelling of the Liu army at 800 meters, the Gui army still stepped on the bodies of their companions and assaulted forward. However, there was no interference from the enemy's artillery. The Liu army arranged an artillery regiment and four artillery battalions on the front line could concentrate their firepower to the Gui army moving forward.

At 300 meters, the Liu army began to shoot guns. There was no interference from the enemy artillery. The Liu army soldiers could hide safely and steadily after the fortification to conduct accurate shooting. Liu Jingxiao, who was commanding in front, immediately ordered all artillery soldiers to concentrate on bombarding the Gui army in the center of the position. After the artillery attack, the entire Gui army in a battalion no longer existed.

In this way, the Gui army from one battalion after another was pulled up, and then they were constantly defeated by artillery bombardment. Only a few Gui soldiers could rush to the front of the position.

Military Commander Han Mingsheng immediately asked to stop the attack, and he shouted: "This kind of attack can only be suicide and death..." But Commander of the Military Commander Chen Songping said: "We must sacrifice, and the brothers in the encirclement are still waiting for us."

This wave of attack lasted for nearly an hour, but there was no progress. However, the Gui army suffered nearly 4,000 casualties in this short period of time. Chen Songping refused to give up. He ordered the troops to continue the attack. This attack did not even support a gun. Zhang Pinghua, the division commander of the Gui army, was seriously injured in the impact, but the attack was ineffective. The dense artillery fire of the Liu army prevented many Gui soldiers from lying on the ground and unable to raise their heads. As a result, they became a good target for the Liu army to shoot calmly, and the battle became a unilateral massacre.
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