Meng Enyuan is the first in the contemporary Feng army, now there are only two genuine 'generals', Meng Enyuan has enough to be proud of the capital, the cavalry was not limited to the cavalry command, in 1906 when the four major warlords of Beiyang raised the army, he was the commander of the third division, became one of the top generals of the Feng army, in 1907 the Feng army entered the customs, he served as the commander of the first army, led the troops to fight the Tangshan Campaign, the Beijing Division, the Shijiazhuang Campaign, the Zhengzhou Campaign. Later, in the Battle of Jiangbei, he served as the commander-in-chief of the former enemy, with full authority to coordinate the operations of more than 100,000 Feng troops in Jiangbei, and connected and captured a series of strategic points in Jiangbei such as Xuzhou, Suqian, Bengbu, Chuzhou, etc., and completely established the victory of the Fengjun Jiangbei Battle.

Maybe he doesn't have any outstanding specific tactical command ability, when it comes to tactical command, he may not be as good as Gu Lanyu, Yang Deming and Ren Cungao, but his ability to coordinate a large army for large-scale battles is the first person in the Feng army.

The current Gu Lanyu, Ren Cungao, Yang Deming and others are at most generals with excellent tactical ability, but Meng Enyuan has grown into a commander after several years of training.

The difference between a commander and a general is a two-level thing.

After Meng Enyuan led the whole army of the Fourth Army to cross the river, he immediately commanded the troops to continue to advance to the south!

It's just that this time it was not the 9th Division that served as the main force, but the 14th Division and the 1st Mixed Brigade!

Although the Ministry of Education anticipated this situation, it had already prepared 3,000 recruits to prepare for the battle losses at any time, but it also took a certain amount of time for these recruits to replenish them, and the losses of equipment were also relatively large, with more than half of the heavy machine guns alone, and the rest of the light machine guns, mortars, and rifle guns were also not small losses, all of which needed to be replenished by the Ordnance Department.

Therefore, Meng Enyuan temporarily left the Ninth Division on the front line of Dangtu, on the one hand, to rest and recuperate, and on the other hand, to guard against the Second Mixed Brigade of the Central Army of the Anhui Army coming from the direction of Wuhu.

According to the report of the Fourth Mixed Brigade on the Wuhu side, the main force of the enemy's Second Mixed Brigade in front of Wuhu had already come to the east, leaving only one brigade of provincial troops to defend in Wuhu.

It is very obvious that this second mixed brigade is going there, and that is to come to be Tu.

Today's Fourth Army is like a knife, inserted into the hinterland of the Anhui Army in the south of the Yangtze River, if the Anhui Army does not stop the offensive of the Fourth Army, then the Fourth Army can kill all the way to Jinling and Shanghai.

Therefore, after learning that the Feng army was crossing the river in Dangtu, Duan Qirui immediately dispatched the supplementary brigade of the Fourth Division and the second mixed brigade to Dangtu to try to stop the offensive of the Feng army.

In fact, the strategic situation in which the Fourth Army is attacked from both sides has not changed, the only difference is that the Fourth Army no longer needs to be confined to the beachhead, but can take the initiative to attack.

Yang Deming, who received the order, launched an attack in the southeast direction with the 14th Division, which had just crossed the river, in front of them was the 4th Division Supplementary Brigade that had retreated to this place, and a brigade of the Liangjiang Army that had just been reinforced.

When the fighting between the two armies of Fengwan on the Tu front line had just stopped for two days, it broke out again!

Although the 14th Division, which was tasked with the main attack this time, was a new unit and had not experienced the test of a large-scale war, as a unit built according to the standards of the main division, the training and equipment level of the 14th Division was enough to be comparable to that of the 3rd Division and the 9th Division, and what it lacked was only experience.

On the other hand, offensive warfare is easier to fight than defensive warfare, and if a new unit fights an extremely difficult defensive war, it is very easy to collapse, but if it fights an offensive war, then it will be much easier.

This can be seen from the front and back tables of the Liangjiang Seventh Division, the Liangjiang Seventh Division, like the 14th Division of the Feng Army, is a new unit built as the main force, and it also lacks experience in large-scale battles, but the Liangjiang Seventh Division played a relatively good role in the offensive in the first two days, forcing Pan Luanqing's 17th Brigade to fall into danger for a time, but when the 9th Division launched a counteroffensive, it could not support the defensive battle under the huge disadvantage.

Meng Enyuan, who knew the situation of the 14th Division, did not put too much pressure on Yang Deming, because he also knew that the current 14th Division still needed time to grow, and it might backfire if it was forced too quickly, and he believed that as long as the 14th Division fought a few more large-scale battles, it would be able to quickly grow into a strong army like the 9th Division under his command.

After all, although the 14th Division is a new unit, its officers are all active officers drawn from various departments of the Feng Army, especially the officers at the battalion and regiment level are all experienced generals in combat, but the soldiers are all new soldiers, and it is simple for a recruit to become a veteran, as long as he has experienced a few battles and has not died under the threat of shells and bullets, then he will become a qualified veteran.

As for the recruits who died in the previous battles, those were directly ignored by Meng Enyuan and other senior generals, and the dead soldiers were replenished.

Although the Feng army lacks money to maintain too many troops, it does not mean that the Feng army lacks soldiers, in fact, there are tens of thousands of recruits in many recruit camps controlled by the Soviet Ministry of Education who are training, and once the front-line troops have battle damage, they can be replenished immediately.

As long as Zhao Dongyun is willing, he can recruit hundreds of thousands of new soldiers at any time to supplement the troops.

Of course, the same situation also applies to other warlord troops, why was Duan Qirui able to rebuild a force of more than 200,000 people in less than half a year after the defeat in Jiangbei, isn't there no shortage of people.

How to say it, the domestic army lacks guns and artillery, that is, there is no shortage of soldiers to serve as cannon fodder!

However, the fact that there is no shortage of people does not mean that an unlimited number of troops can be maintained, because maintaining the troops costs money, and people who come to serve as soldiers have to receive salaries, and in the contemporary domestic army, the salary expenses of the troops are a large amount.

As for saying that conscription will be carried out without giving money, the system of playing compulsory military is not feasible in China today, and if you don't have money to give, even if you blow your bull to the sky, people will not give you your life, if you want to play the compulsory military system, it is better to be honest and wait until the reunification allows the people to have the most basic sense of state and nationality before it can be implemented.

Although the recruits of the 14th Division are valued, they are just cannon fodder until they grow into veterans!

Even Yang Deming, the commander of the 14th Division, did not show too much pity when he saw that his troops had suffered great casualties after launching an attack, because he knew that only the soldiers who survived the tempering of blood and fire were the foundation for the 14th Division to become an ace army.

When the 14th Division launched a frontal attack, Bao Guiqing's 1st Mixed Brigade also played the old tactics of the Feng army, that is, attacking in a roundabout way.

Although Bao Guiqing's 1st Mixed Brigade was formerly a direct army, after more than a year of war, it is no different from other Feng troops, and its soldier training and fighting will belong to the second-line level of the Feng army, which cannot be compared with the ace troops of the 9th Division of the Feng Army, but it is still slightly stronger than the new troops of the 14th Division, which is why Meng Enyuan let Bao Guiqing's 1st Mixed Brigade take on a roundabout mission.

When the 14th Division launched a frontal attack and the 1st Mixed Brigade made a detour from the side, the 4th Division's Supplementary Brigade and the Anhui Provincial Army of another brigade on the opposite side saw that the opportunity was not good, and they did not stubbornly resist, but simply played retreat again.

Although Duan Qirui of Jinling was very dissatisfied with the battle situation in Dangtu, he did not express his dissatisfaction with the retreat of the supplementary brigade of the Fourth Division, because he personally commanded the troops, and he would also choose to take the initiative to retreat.

Now that the success of the Feng army in crossing the river is a foregone conclusion, what he has to consider is no longer how to drive the Feng army down the river and eliminate the Fourth Army, but how to block the offensive of the Fourth Army and hold a series of important towns in the south of the Yangtze River such as Jinling.

Now that the Anhui army is converging troops from all directions in the direction of Dangtu, it will take a certain amount of time, and it is very irrational to consume the troops little by little in the battle against the Fourth Army before the time is ripe.

The active retreat of the Anhui army made the offensive of the Fourth Army unstoppable!

In just three days, the 14th Division advanced 20 kilometers to the northeast and arrived in the area of Lulang Town, while the 1st Mixed Brigade on the right flank of the 14th Division also captured Zhumen Town.

In addition, the Second Cavalry Brigade under the jurisdiction of the Fourth Army moved all the way forward, sweeping a large area east of Zhumen Town.

The above three parts formed three pointed heads and launched an attack on Jinling!

To the west, the 9th Division continued to rest in Dangtu, and according to the report of the 9th Division's reconnaissance cavalry, traces of the 2nd Mixed Brigade of the Anhui Army had been found in the south of Dangtu.

The Ninth Division did not take the initiative to attack the battle, but the heavy deployment of Dangtu County and a hilly hill to the east of the county seat, Lin Yongquan's plan was to use the Guxi River to fight a defensive battle, although the Guxi River is only a tributary of the Yangtze River, but it is also enough to form a heavy obstacle for the Second Mixed Brigade, which is a natural fortification that the Feng Army can use, plus a hilly hill to the east of the county seat, as long as the artillery fire is erected above, it is enough to cover the vast open area in the south, if the Second Mixed Brigade wants to launch an attack on Dangtu, Before they could reach the starting position, they would be hit by heavy artillery fire from the Feng army.

The Ninth Division has suffered a lot of damage before, and Lin Yongquan needs time to regain the combat effectiveness of the Ninth Division, so this battle is not for a big victory, but for stability!

However, after the 2nd Mixed Brigade of the Anhui Army on the opposite side arrived in the south of Dangtu, it did not recklessly launch a direct attack, and after tentatively sending a battalion to carry out a fire test attack, they were hit by the fierce fire of the Feng army, they very simply gave up the large-scale attack, and then turned around and marched eastward, trying to find a place where the Feng army was weak to cross the river.

After all, there are many places where the Tu line can cross the river, and it is impossible for a single Ninth Division of the Feng Army to build a defense line of tens of kilometers like an iron bucket.

The battles on the eastern and western fronts of the Fourth Army were carried out in accordance with the strategic plan formulated by the Operations Department of the General Headquarters, and the other armies of the Feng Army were not idle.

The First Army in the Anqing direction continued to attack Anqing and Wuhu, and the Second Army in the northern Jiangsu direction also launched a fierce offensive against Jinling.