Zhao Dongyun is one of the leaders, in order to win over the capitalists in the industrial and commercial circles to buy patriotic bonds and raise military spending, he has held many drinking parties, balls and the like, and the people invited are those businessmen who can't get on the stage in the past, since ancient times, the political status of Chinese businessmen has been very low, Shen Wansan of the Ming Dynasty is rich enough, and he was not cut by Zhu Yuanzhang.

However, in recent years, the political status of domestic businessmen has risen sharply, in the final analysis, it is still a matter of demand, in the past, Zhu Yuanzhang could not rely on the money of businessmen to maintain the rule of the country, but now it is different.

It's just that there is a difference between wooing and conniving, Zhao Dongyun can win over these businessmen, but he will definitely not condone these businessmen to drag him back.

If the Fuyuan factory continues to pay dividends this year, it will be difficult for them to continue to expand production on a large scale, which is very bad for the Feng army, which is in urgent need of weapons and ammunition.

The dividend incident of the Fuyuan Machinery Factory, from a long-term perspective, is somewhat unfavorable to the development of Fengjun, but it is not too much impact in a short period of time, and the current Fuyuan Machinery Factory, which still maintains high-intensity production every day, and carries countless munitions directly from the warehouse of the Fuyuan Machinery Factory to the military trains parked on the straight-line railway in the factory area every day.

Guns, artillery, machine guns, shells, bullets and even sabers, kettles and other kinds of military supplies are countless, every day there are military special trains full of these military supplies to leave Fuchang, and then through the factory railway branch line into the Jingfeng Railway, some are disappointed Tianjin port, and then loaded and shipped to Haizhou and other southern supply ports, and more is to continue along the Jingfeng Railway south, and then in the Beijing Division and then into the Jinghan Railway, all the way south, a small part of the special car in Shijiazhuang, and then into Shanxi, These were sold to Wu Fengling.

More of them continued to go south, arriving at Zhengzhou, Xinyang and other large military material transfer centers of the Feng army in Henan, and some of them continued to go south to Hubei to supply Wang Shizhen's troops for combat needs.

And this supply route of thousands of miles is all in charge of the Ministry of Quartermasters, in order to supply the material needs of the whole army, Hong Putao's hair has turned gray in the past few months.

Although he was only a technical general in charge of logistics, his busy work was not weaker than that of Fang Biyong, the chief of staff.

When the Quartermaster Department sent a steady stream of ammunition supplies to the front line, the front-line troops also used these ammunition to launch attacks again and again.

In particular, after the successful convergence of the 14th Division and the 3rd Division, they did not stop the fierce offensive on Jinling, and the two armies of Fenghui and Anhui fought for many peripheral positions on the periphery of Jinling, that is, in the west and south of Jinling.

The fierceness and stalemate of the Battle of Jinling are very similar to the original Battle of Xuzhou, the only difference is that this time the Feng army cannot make a detour from the side and make a breakthrough directly from the same place as Suqian.

Although the First Mixed Brigade tried to bypass Jinling and launch a large-scale roundabout attack, it was recognized by Duan Qirui as soon as it launched a detour, and then sent troops to intercept it.

When the battle in the Jinling direction was in a state of protracted action, it was similar to Dangtu's side, neither the Ninth Division nor the Second Mixed Brigade had the ability to completely defeat the other side, so they could only continue to stalemate in Dangtu.

However, what many generals in the General Headquarters did not expect was that the first breakthrough was not in the direction of Jinling, nor in the direction of Dangtu, but in Wuhu.

Wuhu, where the second mixed brigade and a brigade of the Anhui Provincial Army were stationed here in the past, but after the Feng army launched the battle of crossing the river, the second mixed brigade was urgently eastward to reinforce the direction of Dangtu, leaving only one brigade of provincial troops in Wuhu.

Although this unit is not as famous as the three main divisions of the Feng Army, in fact this mixed brigade is also an old Feng army unit, and the army was founded by the four major warlords in the north to raise troops. Where it entered the customs last year, the mixed brigade has always been fighting at the forefront like the Third Division and the Ninth Division, and was incorporated into the command of Meng Enyuan's First Army, and has gone through many battles such as Tangshan, Jingshi, Zhengzhou, and Xuzhou.

Simply talking about the combat effectiveness of the same force, in fact, this fourth mixed brigade is not inferior to the main division of the third division, but the fourth mixed brigade is a standard mixed brigade in the Feng army sequence, and it is not said that it is as strict as the second mixed brigade of the Anhui army.

The Fourth Mixed Brigade is a standard mixed brigade with two infantry regiments, a mountain artillery battalion, a cavalry company and other auxiliary units, with a total strength of about 5,000 men, which is very different from the 2nd Mixed Brigade in the Anhui Army with a total strength of 12,000 men.

The full establishment of division-level troops is about 15,500 men, and if a unit like the Third Division is slightly overstaffed, it will have a few hundred more men at most, reaching the scale of 16,000 men, while the full establishment of a mixed brigade is unified to about 5,000 people.

It is not said that there was a situation in which a certain unit was overstaffed.

The establishment of the Grain and Salary Department of the Ordnance Department and the Ministry of Education has basically put an end to the possibility of the commander-in-chief of the army directly getting involved in military spending, and it is even more strictly forbidden for the commander-in-chief of the army to recruit soldiers without permission.

Even if the Ninth Division suffered heavy losses in the battle of crossing the river in the early stage, the replenishment of troops did not mean that it was replenished on the spot, but that the Ministry of Education specially prepared more than 2,000 recruits for replenishment, and these recruits were all recruited by the Ministry of Education a few months ago and trained in a complete recruit camp.

Even if the front-line troops replenish the prisoners, they have to go through the procedure of the Ministry of Education, and after accepting a large number of prisoners, these captive soldiers who are willing to transfer to the Fengjun as a station will first be counted and accepted by the Ministry of Education, and then appropriately distributed according to the application of each unit. Although most of these surrendered captives will be replenished to combat units nearby, the front-line troops cannot directly bypass the Ministry of Education to accept these surrendered soldiers.

After the soldiers and salaries were uniformly controlled by the high command, this greatly restricted the rights of the commander-in-chief of the troops, which also made the commander-in-chief of the front-line troops incapable, and at the same time, he did not have the courage to privately expand the troops under his jurisdiction.

The strict control of formal military power has made the establishment of all units of the Feng Army basically follow the establishment table drawn up by the Establishment Department of the General Staff, and will not have a unified number like the Anhui Army and the Southern Federal Army, but the establishment of each unit is uneven, and there are mixed brigades with a three-regiment system and a division with a three-brigade system.

Although the Fourth Mixed Brigade, as a standard-established mixed brigade, has a small number of troops and is not as famous as the strong armies of the Third Division and the Ninth Division, it is a front-line combat unit in the Feng Army no matter what, and the combat effectiveness of many mixed brigades in the Feng Army can be regarded as the first.

There are quite a few mixed brigades in the Feng army, the first mixed brigade, the fourth mixed brigade, the fifth mixed brigade, the seventh mixed brigade, the ninth mixed brigade, the tenth mixed brigade, and the eleventh mixed brigade. Of the four mixed brigades with combat experience, in fact, only the 1st Mixed Brigade and the 4th Mixed Brigade participated in the southward operation.

At present, the 1st Mixed Brigade is attached to the 4th Army and is participating in the Jinling Campaign, while the 4th Mixed Brigade is responsible for the offensive in one direction in the Wuhu direction.

Although Bao Guiqing's First Mixed Brigade said that it was also restored to full strength and weaponry, how to say it, in the end, it was not the descendants of the Feng Army, but the old foundation of the direct army, which made many core generals of the Feng Army intentionally or unintentionally delay the development of the brigade, for example, at the end of last year, the First Mixed Brigade fought in the Jiangbei Campaign until there were only more than 3,000 people left, but it was not until the beginning of this year that it was fully reinforced, but the Fourth Mixed Brigade maintained its full strength in most cases.

From this, it can be seen that there is actually a difference between the two, and there will be such a difference between the decent descendants and the defective troops no matter what era they are.

The Fourth Mixed Brigade was responsible for the Wuhu offensive, and in the early stage, it was mainly to build momentum and make a big show in order to confuse the Anhui army on the opposite side and delay the eastward advance of the Second Mixed Brigade.

This strategy also played a role in Cheng Dù, until the Feng army crossed the river in Hezhou, the second mixed brigade of the Anhui army was firmly nailed to Wuhu, and did not dare to leave a single step, until the fourth army of the Feng army crossed the river on a large scale in the direction of Hezhou and Dangtu, the second mixed brigade found that there was only one Feng army in front of the fourth mixed brigade, and then quickly moved east to Dangtu.

It's just that the second mixed brigade of the Anhui army is gone, although it is said that there is still a brigade of provincial troops left in Wuhu, but these provincial troops have fully demonstrated their low combat effectiveness in many domestic warlord battles.

The infantry brigade of the Anhui Army, which was responsible for defending Wuhu, was the sixth brigade of the Third Division of the Liangjiang Army, and like all brigades fighting alone in this era, it was also reinforced by artillery and other forces from the headquarters of the Third Division of Liangjiang.

However, in the face of the attack of the 4th Mixed Brigade of the Feng Army, which had the same strength, the brigade also carried out defensive operations across the Yangtze River, but still failed to hold it.

The 4th Mixed Brigade did not even build pontoon bridges on a large scale, but only used dozens of ships to launch a small-scale landing operation, and one battalion that landed directly defeated the opponent's beachhead defense force up to one regiment, and then covered the other forces of the 4th Mixed Brigade to successfully cross the river by boat.