Just an hour later, Fang Biyong, the chief of staff, took this battle report and directly entered Zhao Dongyun's office. ”

Zhao Dongyun, who was giving instructions on the official document, raised his head: "Oh, have you won the battle with the state?" ”

Although his tone was flat, his face was already showing joy.

Fang Biyong also said: "It's a great victory, the Ninth Division of the Fourth Army began to launch a counteroffensive yesterday, and today it completely annihilated the seventh division of the enemy army Liangjiang, and the enemy division commander Lei Zhenchun was defeated and committed suicide!" ”

Hearing the word total annihilation, Zhao Dongyun, who had been trained in the past few years, couldn't help but sit up suddenly: "Completely annihilated the enemy's seventh division?" ”

"It's true, this is the good news sent back by the front-line village marshal, take a look!" Fang Biyong was also a little rude at this time, and directly stepped forward to hand the telegram that still exuded the scent of ink to Zhao Dongyun.

After Zhao Dongyun took it, he first glanced at the side at a glance, then read it carefully and repeatedly, and finally put down the telegram: "Okay, this Pan Luanqing is really a fierce general!" ”

"This is a great thing, and we have to publicize it well to boost the morale of our army!" This is not to blame Zhao Dongyun for ecstasy, because this is the first time since the Feng army entered the customs that it can be regarded as the first time to encircle and completely annihilate a division of the enemy army.

After Zhao Dongyun said that, he felt that it was not enough, and immediately shouted again: "Mr. Yang, come in!" ”

Then, Yang Debiao just walked in, and as soon as he came in, Zhao Dongyun said: "Send a message to the Quanxu Office, award Pan Luan Qingxun three times, and award the one-star White Lion Medal." ”

Fang Biyong on the side heard Zhao Dongyun's words, and couldn't help but show envy, although there are not many people in the Su Department who have been awarded three medals, and nearly twenty people, including civil and military officials, have been awarded three medals, but you must know that Pan Luanqing was just awarded four medals two days ago, and it is only two days apart, it is estimated that the people who went to the medal have not yet arrived at the front line to officially award Pan Luanqing, which immediately became three medals, and two medals were promoted in these two days. This can be regarded as the first time in the Soviet system.

Also what makes Fang Biyong envious is the one-star White Lion Medal, although the Feng army has implemented the medal system early on, and the medals are awarded according to the size of the military merit, but at present, no one can obtain the top Golden Dragon Medal for the time being, and even the two-star and three-star White Lion Medal has not been obtained, and the highest level awarded in the Feng army is the one-star White Lion Medal, and the first to obtain this kind of medal is Gu Lanyu, and six other people have won the medal.

Now Pan Luanqing has become the seventh Fengjun general to receive the medal, what does this mean? It means that his military exploits are enough to squeeze into the top ten in the Feng army.

However, Fang Biyong is envious and envious, but he also thinks that Pan Luanqing deserves to win the one-star White Lion Medal, although there are many senior generals who participated in the battle command of the river crossing battle on the front line of Hezhou and Dangtu, and Meng Enyuan, the commander of the Fourth Army, and Lin Yongquan, the commander of the Ninth Division, are the actual commanders, but only Pan Luanqing has been fighting at the forefront and led the 17th Brigade to hold the crucial three days, ensuring that the task force engineering regiment built a pontoon bridge along the way, and then in the counteroffensive, the 17th Brigade has suffered large casualties. In a poor state, it was still able to launch a fierce offensive, directly forcing the enemy's 25th Regiment to surrender in formation, which in turn caused the collapse of the entire Liangjiang 7th Division, creating the most direct favorable conditions for the complete annihilation of the division.

This amount of credit is enough to write a strong stroke in the seniority book of every general, but Pan Luanqing did it all in just three days.

To put it bluntly, the reason why the Fourth Army was able to successfully cross the river and encircle and annihilate the Seventh Division of Liangjiang was Pan Luanqing's first contribution.

As for several other high-ranking generals, such as Meng Enyuan and Lin Yongquan, at most they can be regarded as meritorious in coordination, while several other lower-level officers, such as several regiment commanders who participated in the war, such as Fang Qingkun and others, although they are also considered meritorious, they can only be regarded as tactical merits, and they are not enough to affect the overall situation.

Zhao Dongyun has always been generous to the rewards of meritorious soldiers, except for Pan Luanqing, the rest of the meritorious soldiers are also rewarded, but they are not as conspicuous as Pan Luanqing.

Moreover, a few people such as Pan Luanqing and Fang Qingkun also received the most important reward, that is, they showed their ability with practical actions, thus entering the key cultivation scope of Zhao Dongyun.

If nothing else, Zhao Dongyun has plans to further raise Pan Luanqing, Fang Qingkun and several others to take important positions.

After Pan Luanqing received the telegram from Ju Rentang, he knew at a glance that the future first division was only a stone's throw away from him.

However, although there is already a great future waiting for him, there is something more important for Pan Luanqing now, that is, after cleaning up the Liangjiang Seventh Division, he still has to continue to lead the troops all the way west, according to Lin Yongquan's latest order, he needs to continue to move west to occupy Dangtu.

When the 17th Brigade continued to operate, the 18th Brigade also refocused its attention on the 4th Division Supplementary Brigade of the Anhui Army on the opposite side, since the Feng Army broke through the 4th Division to supplement the junction with the 7th Division of Liangjiang, the 4th Division Supplementary Brigade also tried to counterattack, but in the face of the defense of the 35th Regiment of the Feng Army, there was no possibility of breaking through in a short period of time, and the 7th Division of Liangjiang was defeated too quickly.

The Liangjiang Seventh Division, which numbered tens of thousands of people, was completely annihilated without being able to hold out for a whole day, which caused a great shock to the officers and men of the Fourth Division's supplementary brigade on the side, so they began to take the initiative to retreat.

At this time, the commanders of the supplementary brigade of the fourth division also knew that they alone could not block the Feng army in the Ma'anshan area, let alone launch an attack to drive the Feng army down the Yangtze River.

The 7th Division of Liangjiang was annihilated, and the 4th Division's supplementary brigade took the initiative to retreat, which allowed the Fengjun army's river-crossing troops, which had been in crisis, to get their first real safe time.

The Ninth Division led by Lin Yongquan did not launch a pursuit with the active retreat of the Fourth Division's supplementary brigade, but only advanced a few kilometers, and then stopped after expanding the depth of the beachhead defense to 10 kilometers.

The Fourth Army needs time, and so does the Ninth Division!

The previous Ninth Division had fought hard for many days, and although it had achieved the proud record of annihilating the Seventh Division of Liangjiang, its own casualties were also very large, and the more than 10,000 combat soldiers who crossed the river were now only 8,000 soldiers left to fight.

The Ninth Division needed time to replenish its troops, allow the soldiers to recover, and more importantly, resupply ammunition and wait for the two divisional 75th Field Artillery Battalions to cross the river.

Otherwise, with only the mountain artillery battalion and mortars, and far from the artillery support on the north bank, the 9th Division would not have received sufficient artillery support.

In this year's war, artillery was the key to the key, and basically no general would choose to let the infantry fight alone without artillery support when possible.

The Anhui army took the initiative to retreat, and the Feng army did not pursue it on a large scale, so the battle of crossing the river that lasted for nearly five days came to an end, and the subsequent two sides will fight around another series of tactical objectives, but for now, the fourth army's crossing of the river has been a perfect success!

In the following two days, a large number of men and horses and supplies of the Fourth Army continued to cross the river, and tens of thousands of people were crowded in Hezhou and Ma'anshan, which are small places on the north and south banks of the Yangtze River.

As soon as the pontoon bridge was reinforced, the field artillery battalion that had been waiting on the side began to cross the river, pulling horses and dragging heavy artillery or ammunition trucks up to the pontoon bridge that still seemed to be shaky, and then slowly passed the four-kilometer-long pontoon bridge, although there were some small accidents in the middle, a 75-mm field gun fell down the Yangtze River, and many war horses that ran away also fell into the river and drowned, most of the field guns still crossed the Yangtze River unharmed.

And with the Fourth Army's large number of 75mm field artillery also crossing the Yangtze River logically, it also means that the Fourth Army has officially crossed the Yangtze River moat, and the soldiers are directly aimed at the core area of Anhui domination: the Jiangnan region!

Meng Enyuan, who crossed the river with the artillery, finally set foot on the land of Jiangnan for the first time, standing on the land of Jiangnan, as if the air he breathed was exceptionally fresh!

Meng Enyuan, who was in a good mood, turned over and got on his horse, stretched out his right hand and pointed to the south: "Jiangnan, I'm Meng Enyuan!" “

The officers who followed him also took the opportunity to pat themselves on the back!

"In this battle, our army successfully crossed the river in one fell swoop, and also completely annihilated a seventh division, such feats are rare since ancient times, looking at the domestic generals, no one can compare with the village marshal such a great feat!"

"Yes, since I entered the customs, I have moved to the four provinces of Zhili, Henan, Jiangsu, and Anhui, and I have not tasted defeat in consecutive battles, and his Japanese power marshal will be at the top of the marshal just around the corner!"

The compliments of his subordinates made Meng Enyuan feel better, and he himself felt that he was the first person in the Fengjun army since he led the army into the customs, and if the future president wanted to confer the rank of marshal on the generals of the Fengjun, he would definitely be qualified to take one.