This kind of fighting method is not even like modern warfare, but more like a war in the era of cold weapons and muskets, and the 4th Mixed Brigade of the Feng Army encountered the tide attack of all Jin Yunpeng's troops.

There was no time to dig fortifications and build fortresses, heavy machine guns were erected on the spot, and the soldiers could only use small hills, ditches, etc. as natural trenches, and even because both sides were encountered in motion, even the artillery did not have time to deploy, and the infantry on both sides had already started fighting.

Such a battle seems to many military families to be naïve and unsightly, and it does not look like a modern war at all.

When the Anhui army quickly rushed up and directly launched hand-to-hand combat with bayonets, the tactics were useless.

Even the artillerymen on both sides, who had finally arrived at the scene, were dumbfounded when they saw that tens of thousands of soldiers on both sides were entangled in this small radius of only two kilometers, and they were dumbfounded when they used bayonets and sabers to engage in hand-to-hand combat, and they couldn't even open artillery to support their own soldiers, because at this time the soldiers on both sides were already entangled with each other, and hand-to-hand combat broke out one after another in many places.

Not to mention the artillery, even the heavy machine guns on both sides stopped firing one after another, because at this time, when shooting at the pile of people, whether you hit yourself or the enemy depends on luck.

This is a war that does not fit in with modern tactics at all, this is a wild and direct war!

This is a war in which the winner and the loser are separated in the shortest time in a modern war with more than 10,000 people!

In less than half an hour, when the soldiers on both sides approached each other and hand-to-hand combat broke out with each other on the scale of battalions and companies, the winner and defeat were decided in a short time.

In a hand-to-hand fight, it actually only takes a few minutes to determine the winner and loser, and when it is enlarged to the entire front, it only lasts for about half an hour.

When Fang Qingkun rushed to the edge of the battlefield with less than 2,000 remnants of the 33rd Regiment, all the corpses were in sight.

Seeing this scene, Fang Qingkun was almost stunned, Rao had experienced many battles, and he was used to seeing life and death, and it was difficult to calm down when he saw tens of thousands of people lying on the field, and the blood almost stained the entire land red.

When he found the remnants of the rout of the Fourth Mixed Brigade, he learned a piece of news that made his back feel cold: the Fourth Mixed Brigade was over!

In this simple and direct hand-to-hand battle between the Fourth Mixed Brigade and the Second Mixed Brigade, although the soldiers of the Fourth Mixed Brigade, who were at a disadvantage in strength, resisted hard, after more than half of them were killed or wounded in hand-to-hand combat, in the face of the superior strength of the Second Mixed Brigade, the Fourth Mixed Brigade completely collapsed, and even Lin Pingxiong, the commander of the Fourth Mixed Brigade, was also an experienced general in the battle formation, and he could not stop the collapse of the Fourth Mixed Brigade.

After defeating the Fourth Mixed Brigade, Jin Yunpeng did not pursue, but gathered the remnants of the army, and even ignored the seriously wounded soldiers, and went straight to Jinling with the remaining more than 7,000 people.

After hearing the news, Fang Qingkun almost didn't stand firm, the Fourth Mixed Brigade was finished, although just looking at the corpses on the ground could know that the Second Mixed Brigade had at least more than half of the dead and wounded in order to defeat the Fourth Mixed Brigade, but the Second Mixed Brigade still had six or seven thousand people alive, and went straight to Jinling.

Looking at Lin Pingxiong, whose arm was bandaged, Fang Qingkun was completely speechless.

At this time, although Lin Pingxiong gathered a lot of remnants, but there were less than a thousand people, at this time his face was as gray as ashes, it is estimated that he himself did not expect that Jin Yunpeng on the opposite side would be so decisive, as soon as he came up, he launched a whole army charge and played hand-to-hand combat with him!

Lin Pingxiong and Fang Qingkun glanced at each other, and they both saw despair and fear in each other's eyes!

When the battle on the Tu line was fought until now, the 33rd Regiment and the 4th Mixed Brigade were successively defeated by the Anhui army, and it could already be announced that the Feng army's defense line on the Dangtu line had completely collapsed.

What happens when the line of defense collapses?

It will put the other Feng troops fighting in Jinling into a situation of flanking from the front and rear!

In the afternoon of the same day, in Xiyuan Jurentang, Zhao Dongyun was reviewing the text in the office as always, but soon he frowned, and there was a noise outside, mixed with footsteps.

After a while, there was a knock on the office door, and Zhao Dongyun said, "Come in!" ”

Immediately, the door was opened, Shi Yanglin walked in in a hurry, and walked in with a nervous face, Zhao Dongyun immediately said: "What are you doing in a panic!" ”

After Shi Yanglin came in, he immediately said: "President, the front line should be an emergency war report!" ”

"Oh?" Zhao Dongyun habitually sighed, Shi Yanglin, who had been following Shi Yanglin for a long time, naturally knew that this was the meaning of inquiry.

He immediately said: "Three hours ago, a fierce battle broke out between the 4th Mixed Brigade of our army and the 2nd Mixed Brigade of the enemy in Dangtu, and more than half of the 4th Mixed Brigade was defeated with more than half of the casualties!" ”

As soon as he heard this, Zhao Dongyun stood up all of a sudden: "What did you say?" The 4th Mixed Brigade was routed? ”

Shi Yanglin took two steps forward again: "This is an urgent battle report sent directly by General Lin to the headquarters!" ”

Zhao Dongyun took it and saw that the telegram was not long, and Lin Pingxiong simply said that when he led his troops to intercept the Second Mixed Brigade at noon today, he was fiercely attacked by the enemy, and then a super-large-scale hand-to-hand combat took place, and his own side was repulsed due to too few troops.

Although Lin Pingxiong had already taken very cautious measures on the telegram, slightly exaggerating the strength and combat effectiveness of the Second Mixed Brigade, and claiming that he deserved to die and that he had failed to live up to the expectations of the president, Zhao Dongyun's face still changed all of a sudden.

Zhao Dongyun's face was dark, and he didn't speak for a long time!

Lin Pingxiong was a general who followed him in his early years, and his ability Zhao Dongyun was very clear that he was not incompetent, but no matter what his ability was, it was a fact that he was defeated.

If it is only a fourth mixed brigade that has been annihilated, it is nothing for the huge Feng army, and it is not even a wounded bone, but in this current situation, the defeat of the fourth mixed brigade was directly defeated by the loss of the Dangtu defense line, although they also succeeded in leaving the corpses of thousands of people of the enemy's second mixed brigade, and achieved at least a one-to-one casualty exchange ratio in the battle, but the loss of the Tu defense line is definitely not a matter of thousands of dead and wounded.

It is more related to the success or failure of the Jinling Campaign, when the Tu defense line is lost and the enemy's Second Mixed Brigade continues to advance eastward, even if there are less than 7,000 remnants left in this Second Mixed Brigade, it will still be enough to have a great impact on the Fengjun combat troops in the direction of Jinling.

Under the attack from both sides, I am afraid that the troops in the direction of Jinling will fall into a critical situation.

Just when Zhao Dongyun fell into deep thought, Shi Yanglin and Chen San on the side were so angry that they didn't dare to say a word.

Although the overall casualties of the Feng army were extremely high since the start of the army, the size of the battalion and company level was often completely annihilated, and the regimental units were routed several times, the defeat of an entire mixed brigade has never occurred.

Zhao Dongyun finally spoke after a long time: "Commander Meng knows over there, right?" And what is the plan of the War Department? ”

Immediately, Shi Yanglin said cautiously: "Commander Meng already knows, and has urgently dispatched one regiment each of the Ninth Division and the Third Division to return to the front line of Dangtu. Our operations department has also urgently crossed the three patrol regiments deployed in the northern Anhui region to the south and headed south, and has also urgently transferred the first part of the Third Army and the 15th Division to the south to prevent accidents! However, this matter is very important, and the ministry does not dare to make decisions on its own, and asks the president to make a decision! ”

Although the Operations Department said that it had the power to command the whole army, strictly speaking, it was only an established organization, and large-scale troop movements, especially strategic ones, generally required Zhao Dongyun's approval.

After hearing this, Zhao Dongyun did not comment on Shi Yanglin's words, but said: "Call Meng Enyuan, Xu Bangjie, and Lu Yongxiang, and say that I have confidence in them to complete the Jiangnan strategy!" ”

At this time, the front-line generals, especially those high-ranking generals, needed not accusations, but encouragement, so although Zhao Dongyun was already full of anger about the defeat of the Fourth Mixed Brigade, he still pressed it, and the first order was to appease the generals on the front.

"Call Chen Guangyuan again, ask him to prepare the whole army for battle, dispatch troops to support southern Anhui at any time, and then call Cao Kun and several commanders to a meeting!"

After Shi Yanglin and Chen San heard this, they saw Zhao Dongyun raise his hand, and they retreated silently.

Zhao Dongyun was still standing alone, looking at the large map on the wall.

After a long time, Chen San outside the office heard the sound of things breaking inside, and then the door was opened, and Chen San only saw that the table inside had been overturned, things were scattered all over the ground, and several precious porcelain vases had become fragments on the ground.

After an emergency meeting, Zhao Dongyun left Cao Kun alone, and then said: "The situation in Jiangnan has changed again, you have to go south in advance!" ”

Cao Kun already knew the general situation in the emergency meeting just now, at which Zhao Dongyun had already decided to transfer the 15th Division to the front line urgently, and it was not transported by rail, but by sea.

At the meeting, Zhao Dongyun bypassed others and directly decided to let the 15th Division go directly to Jiangnan for landing operations, and asked the navy to do its best to ensure the transportation and landing safety of the 15th Division.

Although Cheng Biguang had the intention to object, in the face of Zhao Dongyun's gloomy and dark face, he didn't dare to say anything against it, because he also knew that this time things were different from before, and he was very sure that as long as he said a word against it, Zhao Dongyun would be dismissed by him if he didn't say a word.

"The 15th Division is a new unit, and I know that the situation may not be good, but now the situation is urgent. Moreover, there is also the 10th Division that landed and fought together, as long as your 15th Division cooperates with the 10th Division to land in Songhu, then it will be considered a success! ”

Cao Kun immediately said: "Don't worry, I, Cao Kun, will definitely not insult our prestige in Beiyang this time!" ”

"Okay, I'll say more if you say more, you can go back and prepare early, and set off tomorrow!"