Yu Wanling said: "We have just rehearsed a new dance during this time, and we must not disappoint you, President!" ”

Yan Yan also showed a graceful smile, and in an instant, it seemed that the lights around her had dimmed, and only her smile was left in her eyes.

Yu Wanling saw Zhao Dongyun staring at her, her expression was still obviously discolored, and a trace of blush immediately appeared on her delicate face, but she was a little proud in her heart.

She is a smart woman, and after many contacts with Zhao Dongyun, she has obviously felt that Zhao Dongyun may have a good impression of herself, although the two people do not have much practical contact, and Zhao Dongyun will not show it too obviously, but she can still feel it.

She is a young and beautiful woman, and she is also active in the elite class of Beijing all the year round, she has seen a lot of all kinds of young people, and there are many people who pursue you and hers, but can other young people be compared to Zhao Dongyun?

Being able to attract Zhao Dongyun's attention is a kind of success for herself in her opinion!

The ambiguity of the two of them in mid-air did not attract the attention of others, and to outsiders, Zhao Dongyun was still a smiling and amiable president.

Zhao Dongyun didn't say much to Yu Wanling, just asked a little and left with Fang Ruolian, and Yu Wanling also arrived at the back stage and began to urge her dance troupe to make preparations.

Zhao Dongyun's next job is very simple, basically to have a little chat with the rich people present, and naturally he will not directly say how many patriotic bonds they want to buy, and even on this occasion today, no one talked about patriotic bonds or anything like that.

In such a lofty occasion today, how vulgar it is to talk about money!

But the rich people who entered this occasion today, if they didn't take hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars to buy patriotic bonds afterwards, they themselves would be embarrassed to get mixed up with the elite class in Beijing here.

Half an hour later, after the emcee came to the stage to say a few words, it was soon the Xiyuan Dance Troupe on the stage!

More than 20 young girls wore dance costumes and walked on the stage with light steps, and then began to dance dazzlingly, which made many old antiques who saw Western-style modern dance for the first time widen their eyes.

But Zhao Dongyun's eyes were on one of them, she was Yu Wanling.

Yu Wanling, who was in the middle of the dancers, was wearing a light purple light gauze dress with a little white, like an elf who had just walked out of the deep forest, and instantly caught Zhao Dongyun's attention.

During the whole process, Zhao Dongyun couldn't even feel the passage of time, and at the end of the short song, after the dancers withdrew, Zhao Dongyun came back to his senses, and then an idea came to his heart: let her pick a dance for herself alone!

Just when the dancers in the West Garden of the Beijing Division presented gorgeous dances for the magnates, on the front line of the Jiangnan War, the Fourth Army was engaged in a brutal fierce battle with the Anhui army, painting more gorgeous and dazzling pictures with blood and artillery fire.

When Tu County, Lin Yongquan looked at the map in front of him with a frown.

"They can run, but they suddenly bypassed Dangtu and ran to cross the river thirty miles away!" Pan Luanqing on the side also felt a little depressed.

The Ninth Division was stationed in Dangtu, on the one hand, to rest and recuperate, to restore the combat effectiveness of the heyday, and on the other hand, to block the eastward advance of the Second Mixed Brigade of the Anhui Army.

For this reason, the Ninth Division dug a large number of fortifications on the Dangtu line, and even made great efforts to pull the artillery of the two battalions up the hill east of Dangtu County, but did not expect that after the Second Mixed Brigade on the opposite side only launched a tentative attack, it immediately gave up attacking Dangtu, but detoured to the east, and crossed the Guxi River 30 kilometers away from Dangtu, which made the solid defensive line built by the Ninth Division on the Dangtu line instantly come to naught, and it can be said that it did not play any role.

"Now that the 2nd Mixed Brigade has bypassed the Guxi River, they will definitely continue all the way north, which will not only endanger the safety of the Ma'anshan pontoon bridge, but also threaten the flank safety of the 14th Division and the 1st Mixed Brigade. We've got to stop them! Sun Hanchen on the side said.

"The Ma'anshan pontoon bridge is related to the logistics and supply safety of tens of thousands of soldiers of our Fourth Army, and it must not be lost! Although there is now a patrol regiment over there to garrison it, it is by no means enough to stop the attack of the enemy's main force! Lin Yongquan quickly made his own decision.

"The 18th Brigade immediately marched east to intercept the 2nd Mixed Brigade, and the 17th Brigade sent a regiment back to defend Ma'anshan!"

The biggest role of Dangtu is actually to cover the safety of the Ma'anshan beachhead, if the enemy bypasses Dangtu, then it will be superfluous for the Ninth Division to continue to hold on to Dangtu.

With Lin Yongquan's order, the 18th Brigade, the main force of the 9th Division, immediately marched eastward, trying to pursue and block the advance of the 2nd Mixed Brigade.

Two days later, the 18th Brigade of the 9th Division had an encounter with the enemy's 2nd Mixed Brigade in the vicinity of Weiping Township, and both sides suffered damage.

The next day, Fang Qingkun's 33rd Regiment of the 17th Brigade reported that there had been enemy traces in the vicinity of Xiangshan Town, and that there had been a small-scale exchange of fire.

"The first regiment of the enemy army in the direction of the fence, and the second regiment of the enemy army in the direction of the mountain? And what about their 3rd regiment? Over there? Lin Yongquan looked at the military deployment of the two sides on the map, and then drew a big question mark on the edge of the map!

As everyone knows, the Second Mixed Brigade of the Central Army of the Anhui Army, as one of the two main divisions of the Anhui Army, although it only bears the name of a mixed brigade, in fact the brigade already had three infantry regiments, two artillery battalions, and related baggage and engineering battalions last year, with a total strength of more than 10,000 troops. Especially after Duan Qirui was transferred to Jin Yunpeng, another core general under his command, as the commander of the brigade at the beginning of this year, the strength of the brigade has swelled a little.

You must know that although Jin Yunpeng's military rank in the Central Quanxuan Department was only a major general, Duan Qirui later privately awarded him the rank of lieutenant general in the army, a mixed brigade led by a lieutenant general, so that the mixed brigade could never be a simple mixed brigade, after Jin Yunpeng took up the post of commander of the brigade, he led his troops to deploy in the Wuhu area, and during this period, he continued to recruit and train, and Duan Qirui supplemented him with a small amount of artillery and other technical weapons.

Although the strength and weaponry of the department are not as terrifying as the three-brigade troops of the Fourth Division, the total strength of the unit has also reached more than 12,000 people, and it currently has three formal infantry regiments, two battalions and a company, with a total of more than 40 advanced tube-retreat 75-millimeter guns and nearly 50 heavy machine guns, and it is also equipped with light machine guns and mortars that are rarely found in the second-line troops of other Anhui troops. Obviously, Jin Yunpeng, like other warlord generals, also intended to use these auxiliary forces as regular infantry.

If it is one-on-one, this 2nd Mixed Brigade actually has the ability to fight the 9th Division.

Such an opponent is worthy of Lin Yongquan's cautious treatment!

Because the Ninth Division was more cautious, it did not say that it had taken a roundabout attack as boldly as the Seventh Division of the Liangjiang Army before, trying to win the battle, and Jin Yunpeng on the opposite side also knew that he was facing the main force of the three main divisions of the Feng Army, and he was also cautious in fighting.

So on Dangtu's side, although the Ninth Division and the Second Mixed Brigade fought several battles with each other, the scale was not large, and both sides were tentatively attacked, but then contracted, forming a stalemate situation.

However, this is also a good thing for the Ninth Division, after all, the current state of the Ninth Division is not very good, and it is still in the recovery period, and the task of the Ninth Division is not to defeat the Second Mixed Brigade of the total annihilation, but to delay and stop it, and ensure the safety of the rear roads and flanks of the other main forces of the Fourth Army.

Jin Yunpeng on the other side had a similar mind, as one of the few core generals in the Anhui army, he naturally knew the entire strategy of the current Anhui army, that is, to delay time.

Dragged until the Anhui army continued to transfer troops from other directions to the front line of Dangtu and Jinling, and then gathered superior forces to defeat the Fourth Army of the Feng Army in one fell swoop.

The Anhui army has to be delayed, and the ninth division of the Fourth Army must also be delayed, but the 14th Division and the first mixed brigade in the fourth army cannot be delayed, and they must quickly tear apart the defense line of the Anhui army in the west of Jinling, and then go straight to Jinling, so as to cooperate with the third division of the second army on the north bank of the Yangtze River and other troops to launch the Jinling campaign, as long as Jinling is taken, then the entire Jiangnan strategy will be half completed.

Why, because from a military point of view, the status of Jinling may not be as important as Zhenjiang, Wuhu and other places, but the importance of Jinling cannot be viewed from a simple military point of view.

In addition to being an important military town, Jinling is also a political city, which has great political influence in the vast southern China, and taking Jinling means that the Feng army has taken control of the only two political cities in China.

As for Wuchang, which was controlled by Zhang Zhidong of the Southern Federation, it was actually only a coincidence that it was used as the temporary capital of the Southern Federation, but it did not have much political influence on its own.

There are only two cities suitable for being the capital in contemporary China, one is Jingshi and the other is Jinling, which has nothing to do with personal wishes, but has to do with contemporary national conditions.

The 14th Division and the 1st Mixed Brigade, which must fight a quick battle, have not stopped their offensive since the day they launched the offensive, and they have already advanced dozens of kilometers in just a few days.

In exaggerated words, Yang Deming already smelled the foul smell on the Qinhuai River!