The intensity of this war was even more fierce than when the Feng army launched a general attack on the city of Jinling, because the troops were in a high-speed movement, and the artillery units on both sides played a relatively small role, and heavy machine guns and mortars played a larger role.

In the Battle of Jinling, not only the Feng army was equipped with mortars on a large scale, but the Anhui army on the opposite side was dominated by the fourth division and the second mixed brigade, and they were also equipped with a large number of mortars, although the total amount was still not as much as that of the Feng army, but the nearly 100 mortars equipped by the fourth division still brought great damage to the Feng army.

After bullying others with mortars for more than a year, they finally got a taste of forced artillery bombardment, the most obvious of which was the rapid increase in the number of heavy machine gun losses.

From the point of view of logistics and the intensity of the artillery fire, last year's Tangshan Battle of Zhifeng was the highest level of contemporary Chinese warfare, but from the perspective of tactical application and fierce fighting, the Jinling Battle of the Fengwan and Anhui armies can be regarded as the highest military level in contemporary China.

From 1906 to 1907, although Beiyang had already raised troops and a civil war broke out between the north and the south, everyone had just fought at that time, not to mention ordinary soldiers, even ordinary officers and senior generals had never fought, but from the second half of 1907, after more than a year of civil war, the troops of the major warlords in China had gained extensive combat experience, especially the tactical level of senior generals rose quite quickly.

It is the same as the Third Division, but the Third Division of the 1908 state and the third division of the 1906 state are two different things, and it is not a problem for the Third Division to fight the two Third Divisions in 1906 today.

In the current battle of Jinling, both sides can be said to have fought a real fire, and they have also played the highest tactical level representing contemporary China.

is also the battle for Jinling, if the battle breaks out between the Southern Federation and Wu Fengling and Wang Shizhen, then the details of the battle are completely different.

When the Fourth Army of the Feng Army tried its best to keep the Fourth Division of the Anhui Army, the 10th Division on the Zhenjiang side swept the 9th and 10th Divisions of Liangjiang in Zhenjiang with the same fierce offensive as ever.

The Anhui army in the direction of Zhenjiang did not hold out longer than the Anhui army in Shanghai, Suzhou, Changzhou and other places, and a few days later Ren Cungao of the 10th Division stepped into Zhenjiang, a city known as an important military town in the south of the Yangtze River.

However, at this time, the 9th Division of the Feng Army, which had been fighting for a long time, was also at the stage of exhaustion.

"If we continue to let the Ninth Division fight, I'm afraid that less than half of the remaining troops will be after the war!" Gu Lanyu on the side was very cautious and said to Meng Enyuan.

Although it is very important to keep the Fourth Division, if the Ninth Division, the three main divisions of the Feng Army, is compensated in order to keep the Fourth Division, it is obviously not cost-effective.

The condition of the Ninth Division has not been good since the crossing of the river, and it lost more than 2,000 people in the battle of crossing the river, and later the 33rd Regiment was transferred to stay in Dangtu, and as a result, this regiment was defeated and only more than 1,000 people remained. Moreover, the remnants of the 33rd Regiment were not in Jinling, but together with the remnants of the 4th Mixed Brigade, to the west of the 2nd Mixed Brigade.

The Ninth Division, which participated in the Battle of Jinling, actually had only three infantry regiments, and when it attacked Jinling before, it lost nearly 1,000 men one after another.

Although it is said that the Ministry of Education has replenished the Ninth Division with more than 1,000 recruits in a timely manner, the gap between recruits and veterans is too great.

When the Fourth Division launched the Breakout Campaign, the Ninth Division was actually in a very bad state, far from being comparable to its peak.

The Ninth Division, which was in such a state, was actually very reluctant to block the all-out onslaught of the Fourth Division.

Meng Enyuan thought for a long time and said: "It seems that it is very difficult to keep an entire Fourth Division, but their supplementary brigade must be left behind no matter what!" ”

The 6th and 7th Brigades of the 4th Division of the Anhui Army were attacking the 9th Division, while the supplementary brigade was blocking the attack of the 3rd Division on the right flank.

Meng Enyuan's remarks mean that due to the tension of troops, in order to avoid causing the Ninth Division to suffer too much damage, he has already given up the plan of encircling and annihilating the entire Fourth Division, and then narrowed it down to the supplementary brigade that wants to annihilate the Fourth Division.

"Order the Third Division, be sure to increase the attack, can't let their supplementary brigades go, as for the Ninth Division, appropriately let go of an opening, let the Sixth Brigade and the Seventh Brigade pass!" Meng Enyuan quickly made a decision.

The Ninth Division, which has been in a bitter battle on the front line, can finally withdraw a little and breathe a sigh of relief!

As soon as the Ninth Division withdrew, it meant that the Fourth Division had finally opened a breakthrough opening on the southern front, although this breakthrough was only less than two kilometers wide, but it was enough for the Anhui Army's breakthrough troops.

The 6th and 7th Brigades of the 4th Division rushed out of the encirclement without looking back, but when the supplementary brigades also wanted to take the opportunity to retreat.

The Third Division was in hot pursuit, and at this time the Ninth Division also relaunched a counteroffensive, and the direction of the counteroffensive was not the Fourth Division and other units of the Anhui Provincial Army, but rushed to the supplementary brigade.

In this way, the 3rd Division of the 9th Division of the Feng Army, which originally surrounded the 4th Division and other Anhui troops, was equivalent to gathering most of the troops to encircle and supplement the brigade.

Although the supplementary brigade of the Fourth Division is also the main force, it is only a part of the fourth division, and the total number of troops is only more than 7,000 people.

When he learned that the supplementary brigade was entangled and surrounded, Duan Qirui already knew that this supplementary brigade was over!

He did not say that he would send troops back to rescue the Supplementary Brigade, because he knew that it would be useless to do so, not only would it not be able to save it, but it would also be possible to trap the other two brigades of the Fourth Division.

As the commander of the first army, it is necessary for the determination of a strong man to break his wrist, in the past, Duan Qirui was ruthless enough to abandon those Liangjiang Provincial Army, and now he abandoned the supplementary brigade is also quick and decisive.

He didn't look back at all, and directly took the rest of the Fourth Division and more than 10,000 Liangjiang troops who had escaped, and went straight to the Jurong and Lishui areas.

At this time, although Meng Enyuan had the intention to pursue, in order to completely annihilate the supplementary brigade and the other more than 10,000 Liangjiang troops remaining in Jinling, he also had to watch Duan Qirui lead the army to escape.

The Battle of Jinling has been carried out so far, and it can be said that the curtain has come to an end.

On the same day and the next day, the supplementary brigade of the Fourth Division and the Liangjiang troops of the other more than 10,000 Anhui Army desperately tried to reopen the gap and break through, but they were still firmly blocked by the Feng army.

First a battalion began to collapse, then a regiment, and then the entire supplementary brigade of the 4th Division collapsed!

However, the supplementary brigade of the Fourth Division can be regarded as saving face as the main force of the Anhui army, and until the final collapse, there was no large-scale surrender of the division.

The other more than 10,000 Anhui troops in the back had already surrendered on a small scale yesterday, followed by the surrender of a regiment and a brigade.

The battle report of conquering Jinling, annihilating the supplementary brigade of the Fourth Division, and capturing nearly 20,000 enemy troops was soon sent to the Jingshi Jurentang.

In the face of such a happy event, Zhao Dongyun is naturally in a good mood, and when he is in a good mood, the civilian officials and generals of the Feng army will naturally have a lot of benefits.

The victory of the Jinling Battle also means that the Jiangnan strategy that has lasted for many months has been victorious for most of the time, and the follow-up only needs to sweep the leaves in the autumn wind to control the entire Jiangnan, and after controlling Jiangnan, it feels that it has a decisive advantage for the follow-up development of the Soviet system.

After winning Jiangnan, Zhao Dongyun naturally would not be stingy with the rewards of the meritorious civil and military generals under him, and his rewards were very generous.

The first is to reward a series of front-line generals such as Meng Enyuan and Gu Lanyu who have made meritorious contributions to front-line operations, but this reward is not a military rank, but an honorary reward for military merit medals and ranks. Because the military rank is not a thing that is promoted, Fengjun is the same as the old Beiyang era, and the military rank control is still relatively strict, except for those advisers who have no real name, most of the other generals are positions and ranks strictly cooperate, you give your subordinate generals a promotion, you have to find a higher position for him, and now the positions of all senior generals in the Fengjun are manned, and it is difficult to vacate the positions of army commander, division commander, and brigade commander without large-scale expansion of the army.

And this is also the reason why Zhao Dongyun implemented the military rank and rank system at the beginning, in order to provide space for more military ranks for his generals, for example, when he was the division commander at the beginning, he was a major 'general plus a lieutenant' general, and when you made meritorious service, then you could be promoted to a lieutenant general.

Based on the fact that it is relatively difficult to promote military ranks, and the divisional and brigade-level generals who are now fighting in the Jiangnan region are generally high in military ranks, and the three main divisions are all lieutenant generals, Yang Deming, commander of the 14th Division, and Cao Kun, commander of the 15th Division, are major 'generals and lieutenant' generals, but they have just become the commanders of these two divisions, especially Yang Deming's promotion speed has been very fast, and if he is quickly promoted to lieutenant general, I am afraid that it will arouse the opposition of many senior generals, especially those who are old and armed forces.

Therefore, after this battle, Zhao Dongyun did not plan to promote the senior generals on the front line, and the rewards for the senior generals were mainly based on medals and titles.

Zhao Dongyun immediately conferred Meng Enyuanxun one, Gu Lanyuxun three, Lin Yongquanxun two, Ren Cun Gaoxun three, basically the commanders of these main divisions have all been promoted to one level.

At the same time, they were also awarded the White Lion Medal, among which Meng Enyuan was awarded the three-star White Lion Medal, which is the highest level of military merit medal currently issued in the Fengjun system, as for the higher-level Golden Dragon Medal, Zhao Dongyun does not plan to set this precedent at present.