The artillery of the Anwu Army opened fire again, and this time, according to the observation of the artillery observers, the position of the artillery of the army was completely consistent with the position of the artillery position of the Anwu Army detected by Cai Ming and others.

Liu Xuyi, the commander of the 401st Regiment, soon got the report sent by the artillery, and at this moment, his eyes had become red after sleepless all night, and he grabbed the field artillery phone: "Notify the artillery to carry out a fire attack on the enemy's artillery position, no need to wait......

Three minutes later, the mountain artillery position of the Anwu Army, almost 5 miles from the front line, came under covering shelling. Coincidentally, at this time on the side of the Anwu Army, a batch of artillery shells happened to be sent up, and the artillerymen of the Anwu Army were carrying the shells to the gun position shirtless to prepare for the next round of strikes. As a result, all these shells were killed, and the intensity of the youth army's attack was directly upgraded to the destruction level.

Artillery has always been a jishu branch, in other words, an artillery that can only fire shells is definitely not a qualified artilleryman. If the artillery of the Anwu Army is a little more professional, the most correct thing for them to do after the previous shelling is not to wait for the shells, but to quickly pack up and transfer positions to prepare for the next launch. This is the most basic requirement in the artillery of the Youth Army, but it is a pity that the artillery of the Anwu Army is such a half-hanger.

Ni Min's headquarters was less than fifty meters from the artillery position, and the result of the explosion was to turn this headquarters into ruins. And Ni Min was lucky to escape this catastrophe because he was supervising the battle on the front line.

After learning the report that the artillery on his side was completely destroyed, Ni Min was stunned. The Youth Army is so fierce? It seems that he overestimated himself and underestimated the Youth Army before. Thinking about the predicament in front of you, the sky is already bright, but Jihua, who drove the youth army down the river, has not yet been realized. The death squad is already the strongest assault liliang in their own hands, and they can't succeed, let alone the other teams. Ni Min began to ask himself, do he want to continue to fight here?

He thought about it for a while, and only said one sentence: "You continue to attack, the command is gone, I will personally go to the rear to pull up the five reserve battalions for you, and we will take down this feather gray position in one go, and kill all those Hunan boys." ”

The officers were convinced of this, nodded their heads, and left the organization to continue the attack.

What they didn't see was that as soon as Ni Min came out, he snatched the reins from the guards, got on his horse and galloped away. Where is this to transfer reinforcements, it's completely the rhythm of running.

Ni Min is worthy of being a ruthless man, and in the end, four battalions of Anwu Army were cut off by his gecko. He himself fled towards Anqing with five battalions of Anwu Army with all his might, it should be said that although this method was a little vicious, it was not wrong. After all, Anqing also needs to be guarded by the army, and if it can't take advantage of the front line, then it is reasonable to retreat to defend the city. But will Bai Chongxi let Ni Min run? took advantage and wanted to leave, Bai Chongxi was not so happy.

What Ni Min didn't know was that just when they launched the first wave of offensives, Bai Chongxi sent out a cavalry team of 1,000 people under Bai Chongxibu's own command, and the captain of this cavalry brigade was called He Wenchang.

Taking advantage of the fact that both sides focused on the front-line positions, He Wenchang crossed the Mihe River with the cavalry brigade, and then went straight to the flank of the Anwu army very fiercely. Along the way, there were also troops in the Anwu Army who discovered the existence of this cavalry, but they did not have the equipment and courage to fight against this cavalry, so they could only kill the enemy with their eyes and watch He Wenchang and them go away. Of course, they also dutifully sent messengers to the headquarters to report, but before the command could tell Ni Min, it was finished with the artillery of the Anwu Army, and the transmission of the news was naturally interrupted.

So Ni Min's eyes were really completely blind at this moment, and the five battalions of Anwu Army were densely running towards Anqing along the post road built by the former Qing Dynasty, and there were still hundreds of miles to go. Although Ni Min has no auxiliary staff officers, he pinched his fingers and calculated, if the troops he left on the front line could hold on for a while longer, then before the Youth Army reacted, he could run to Anqing smoothly. After arriving in Anqing, he waited for reinforcements with the city, thinking about this battle to fight here, it was very aggrieved, obviously he was skilled, and he calculated the youth army fiercely, and also drove the youth army to the river, and saw that he was about to drive down the river to feed Wang Ba. But I didn't expect the opponent's artillery to be so powerful, and I directly lost the cannon on my side. Ni Min himself has no intention of fighting hard, and he naturally wants to run away when he sees that the opportunity is not good.

Just as he was thinking about it, suddenly the team in front of him became chaotic, and the earth trembled. I don't know who shouted: "Cavalry, the cavalry of the Youth Army is coming." ”

Ni Min's mind was immediately confused, how could there be cavalry from the Youth Army here, and where did they come from? Transported by water from the Yangtze River, doesn't it mean that the navy has blocked the river? How so?

Ni Min was about to make a faint move again, and if he looked closely, he would find that the so-called cavalry was less than a thousand people. If you organize it on your own side, you can completely defeat the other party. But due to the destruction of the artillery and the tragedy that happened at the headquarters, at this point, Ni Min no longer had the confidence to dare to wrestle with the youth army earlier. He played with the gecko's tail again, lost the vanguard battalion, and returned to its original position with four battalions. As a result, He Wenchang not only easily annihilated more than 1,000 Anwu troops, but also blocked the retreat of the Anwu army.

Under Ni Min's inexplicable command, the morale of the entire Anwu Army was completely gone, and more than half of the baggage was lost in this round, and the officers privately discussed what to do?

Beginning on the afternoon of March 13, the state of fighting between the two sides ended, because the Anwu army did not attack Liu Xuyi and Lin Hu again. Ni Min convened an emergency military affairs meeting, and Jihua dispersed to break through.

But at this time, the eight surviving battalion management bands all knew what had happened, and they didn't sell the accounts of this handsome brother very much. After a night of peeling, no one can come up with a good solution.

At six o'clock in the morning of March 14, Bai Chongxi received the news that He Wenchang sent people to send him desperately, and learned that the enemy in front of him had already retreated, so he decisively ordered a general attack on the whole front.

Nearly 200 artillery pieces frantically bombarded the positions of the Anwu army, and the infantry of the four regiments then launched a general attack on the Anwu army through the Mihe River. Hordes of blue-gray uniforms appeared on the north bank of the Mi River and flocked to the positions of the Anwu Army.

At this moment, not only Ni Min, but also the pipe bands below knew that they couldn't run away, so they immediately organized all battalions to resist to the end. The two sides went back and forth, fighting repeatedly on a front more than 3 miles long. At this time, all the things that the youth army had been strictly trained on weekdays came out, and when dealing with the fire points of the Anwu army, there was a special cover for firepower, and the assault units in groups of three crawled forward to within 50 meters, and then the grenades flew over, and they smashed one by one. The casualties of the Anwu Army have skyrocketed, and the Youth Army has a resolute will to fight, rapid tactical movements, and a very reasonable alternation of combat units. Of course, An Wujun was too vegetable, and he forgot what he should do when he saw something new, and as a result, he lost three lines of defense in a row in less than an hour. The already low morale was completely gone, and under the leadership of the officers, there were more scenes of surrender in the formation.

Ni Min hid in his temporary headquarters in the town, because he made a comatose move yesterday, the troops below were actually listening to the tune and not listening to the announcement, and the resistance in front of him was just the spontaneous behavior of the battalions. By about 11 o'clock in the morning, the first section of the Youth Army was only 50 meters away from the headquarters. The remaining daredevils gritted their teeth to meet Ni Min's generous treatment on weekdays, and the two sides were attached to the gatehouse on the street that was not wide in the town, and the wall was engaged in a confrontational shooting. The death squad that was at a disadvantage in numbers was quickly consumed, Ni Min put down his binoculars, sighed helplessly, and said to the two cronies who were still with him: "You guys surrender with people, we are not human opponents." ”

The two pipe bands immediately saluted Ni Min and turned to leave. didn't go far before he heard a gunshot in the command headquarters, and Ni Min committed suicide.

At about 11 o'clock in the morning of March 14, the fifth year of the Republic of China (1916), with the sound of the gunshot of Ni Min's suicide, the two battalions of the Zuihou guarding the Mihe River of the Anwu Army surrendered to the Youth Army in formation and accepted the reorganization.

Due to the resolute determination of the Anwu Army in this battle, the casualties of the Youth Army set a new record.

This was reflected in the operational report submitted by the Left Route Army Headquarters to the Southeast Front Army Headquarters afterwards: "Jun Jian, commander of the Front Army, and the 7th Division of the 4th Tiger Division under the commander of the post department, with a total of 50,000 troops, engaged in a fierce battle with the enemy's Anwu Army on the Mihe front line on 12 March. After three days of fierce fighting, the enemy army was completely annihilated, and a total of 5,479 people were killed, including one lieutenant general; 8,128 people were captured, including three major generals. More than 8,000 rifles of various types, more than 40 light and heavy machine guns, a number of bullets, and a number of various types of baggage were seized. Our army suffered a total of 3,307 casualties, of which 1,873 were killed, including 3 battalion-level officers and 6 company officers. ”

However, there was a small episode after the war, after opening the gate of Anqing, Bai Chongxi, the commander-in-chief of the Left Route Army, who was in an extremely happy mood, personally went to the position to inspect. As a result, he was knocked to the ground by Wang Kewen, deputy commander of the 401st Infantry Regiment and commander of the first battalion, with an old punch, and the scene was chaotic at that time, and Bai Chongxi didn't know how many kicks he took in the chaos. And Bai Chongxi's guards didn't dare to shoot, they chose to knock Wang Kewen to the ground with their bare hands, and then Bai Chongxi was furious, and directly ordered Wang Kewen to be arrested, and then left. After the troops captured Nanjing, Bai Chongxi Jihua arranged a reason for disobedience on the battlefield and executed Wang Kewen. As a result, I don't know who leaked the news, Marshal Wang Zhenyu actually summoned Wang Kewen by name, and Bai Chongxi had to release him, which is a later story......