But Liu Jingxiao is still organizing further resistance. According to military observers, this is Liu Jingxiao's last madness before retreating. After all, if the troops retreat hastily, there will be a possibility of a complete collapse. Liu Jingxiao's troops can attack and defend, but retreat is the most difficult art of war to master. Liu Jingxiao's troops have not yet shown their abilities in this area.

With the Southern Army mobilized a large number of troops into Jiangxi, the Liu Army also mobilized some of its troops. Ding Ning on the Zhejiang-Jiangxi Railway Line was immediately transferred by Han Xinhai, Zhejiang.

Faced with Ding Ning's request for troops to be dispatched, many people in Zhejiang Province expressed their opposition: "The governor... isn't he a division commander who ordered troops to be dispatched, isn't he just a cavalry commander? In terms of qualifications, you were the company commander of the Dingbian Army when he was in Mobei. What was this woman at that time? The situation is so urgent now that our Zhejiang troops cannot move! Not to mention four battalions, even four companies cannot be dispatched!"

As a result, the flattery hit the horse's hooves. Han Xinhai was so angry that he slapped and cursed: "Idiot! Jiangxi is lost. Can we just rely on Zhejiang to defend it? Not to mention four battalions, even four regiments, I have to transfer it! He is now the commander of the cavalry, and I am just a governor. Yes, although I am higher than Ding Ning in terms of qualifications and am not convinced by her, but when is it now? What are you doing? If Zhejiang is lost, where can I make a living!"

As he said that, Han Xinhai picked up a broom on the spot and chased the people who raised objections on the spot. He was in chaos for a while, but no one in Zhejiang Province opposed the matter. Not only that, Han Xinhai also specially transferred two battalions. Six battalions and two regiments, a total of 4,000 troops, solved Ding Ningde's urgent need.

Relying on the force of only 12,000 troops at hand, Ding Ning organized resistance step by step, fighting and retreating, but did not disintegrate in the battle. Although the 45,000 Southern Army, who had an absolute advantage, had suffered heavy casualties, the progress was very slow. In the battle, the unique armored artillery vehicles of the Liu Army were extremely powerful. The Southern Army had no choice but to face this roaring black fortress, and often suffered heavy casualties in the shelling.

The Southern Army recognized this armored train several years ago, but they did not have a deep understanding of this equipment. They only modified the series to patrol the province. But now they have tasted the pain. According to the Southern Army, the power of this artillery car, "A armored train... I am personally more difficult to deal with than an enemy regiment..."

The Nanchang Front Army still could not deal with Liu Jingxiao as he pleased. A Liu army appeared on the Yongxiu line in Nanchang. They did not directly support the Liu army in Nanchang, but instead adopted the form of flanking encirclement to attack the flanks of the Nanchang Army from north to south.

Although this Liu army only has a regiment of the Liu army's provincial army, which is equipped with a small number of special forces, with a total force of only about 2,000. However, the Liu army's attack can be said to have hit the abdomen of the Southern Army, and the Southern Army was forced to use tens of thousands of troops to expel the Northern Army.

Through the Ganjiang River, the Shen family's Yangtze River fleet once again transported 6,000 replenishment troops and a considerable amount of supplies before the encirclement, and transported away most of the seriously injured. Although the Northern Army immediately closed the Ganjiang River, the harm of this supply to the Southern Army quickly appeared.

The supply of the Southern Army still relies mainly on the joint transportation of water and land. Jiangxi is not a grain-producing area, and the expenditure of more than 200,000 troops is extremely huge. Although the on-site purchase method was adopted, the Southern Army had to transport a large amount of supply from the south. Even so, the supply of many troops was still a disaster.

The Jianguo Gan Army obtained two thousand boxes of biscuits. According to the instructions, this was the best military biscuit. Yes, it was indeed two thousand boxes of military biscuits, but these biscuits were produced in the Republic forty years. Looking at the green mold on the biscuits, no officer and soldier dared to bite them.

But for the Third Division of the Guangdong Army, the Jianguo Gan Army was extremely lucky. When they opened the box of military biscuits, they found stones in boxes of faces, and the list sent said that these were 1,500 boxes of biscuits.

The Gui army received a large number of maggot-eaten hard biscuits, and some military canned foods made twenty-six years ago. The founding Hunan Army was lucky. They did receive edible food, but a group of very smart guys sandwiched a stone slab among the shipped meat.

The lucky troops may receive stale food produced many years ago, and the production date is still attached to the packaging box. Faced with the full-length green mold hard biscuits, soldiers simply wiped them off. These hard biscuits are sophisticated by the steel teeth of people. Often, soldiers must use a long time to soak these rare hard biscuits on the market before eating them, or fry them in oil and then add some brown sugar.

But what is most amazing is the cake sent by the Southern Army. This cake even needs to be re-baked for a long time, so that it will not cause teeth to collapse. However, the above troops are at least lucky, and at least they have received supplies.

Many supplies were even mysteriously missing during transportation and could never be found again. According to an officer of the Southern Army, "In Jiangxi, we must fight the most tenacious battle with our logistics system. The battle with them is even more difficult and longer than Liu Jingming's knowledge..."

Even the most critical ammunition and drug resources were made countless jokes. The Jianguo Hunan Army, which urgently needed guns and bullets, received a large number of guns and bullets, but these guns and bullets were all pistol bullets. These pistol bullets were enough for all officers of the Jianguo Hunan Army to shoot for thirty years, but only half of the rifle bullets were not available, so that the officers of the Jianguo Hunan Army sarcasticted themselves: "We are the pistol army..."

Relatively speaking, the experience of the Guangxi Sixth Division, another Guangxi army unit, is worthy of sympathy. This unit is equipped with stock weapons, and the entire army lacks artillery. Guangdong generously sent four companies of regiment artillery, but only when they arrived at the battlefield, they found that these artillery were all unbearable due to inventory time. In this way, the Gui army did not have any regiment artillery, which caused the weak Gui army to sarcastically self-sarcastic: "We are not infantry regiments, but rifle regiments!"

The Guangdong Second Division, which was given priority supply, finally received the shells they wanted, but all their artillery was twelve pounds of mountain dredges, and the shells emitted were twelve pounds of naval special howitzer shells that were built in Guangdong were small. After testing, the two shells were not compatible... As for the various equipment of the Southern Army's miscellaneous equipment, this was another disaster!

However, compared with the Southern Army in Fujian and southern Zhejiang, all the difficulties encountered by Jiangxi are pediatrics. Ding Ning's attack almost devastatingly hit the Southern Army's supplies, and almost half of the transport ships were lost in the middle, so that the front-line troops were in a serious supply crisis. The Southern Army's artillery was forced to be limited in use, and the shells fired per day should not exceed five rounds, and even the use of rifle shells was restricted.

Under such circumstances, the activities of the Southern Army cannot be strictly restricted. Only then did the Liu army discover that in addition to the Southern Army and the Fujian Civilian Army, the Southern Army also had a considerable army, one division of Guangdong Provincial Army, two divisions of Gui Army, and about one regiment of Marine Corps, the Northern Army had never been discovered on the battlefield.

However, most of the Southern Army troops were forced to be on the defensive due to supply issues. On the contrary, Han Xinhai, who was at a disadvantage in his troops, was able to maintain an offensive and defensive situation after being transferred to Ding Ning's considerable troops.

Han Xinhai's good news is not limited to this. Seeing that the old brother was in trouble, Chen Fangren took the initiative to send two provincial troops to the south with the consent of Jinan. Even Huaihai Province transferred the two independent regiments to the south. As long as he survived the current barrier, Han Xinhai could still take charge of a province.

But what made him most happy was Lin Lingcao's crazy action. After Lin Lingcao led her small fleet out of Kaohsiung Port, he repeated the famous order again: "Let's south! Go south! Go south!"

Lin Lingcao's actions were completely beyond the expectations of the Southern Army. According to the information of the Southern Army, the Liu army fleet had consumed most of its stored coal and ammunition, and there were also a large number of captured low-speed transport ships in the fleet.

Lin Lingcao's order can be said to have saved the entire fleet. When the fourth fleet, which was closely intercepted, found that Lin Lingcao's fleet had already sailed south, it was shocked for a moment. On the one hand, the fleet flew southward, and immediately sent two steam speeders to dock reports, and rushed telegrams to Guangdong.

In order to deal with this small fleet, the Fourth Fleet mobilized many troops. Dozens of warships, including six battleships, were dispatched in full swing. A large number of fast sailing ships were also requisitioned to be converted into armed sailing ships for outpost reconnaissance.

Ding Ning's victory in advancing south this time was much smaller. The defense of the Southern Army was quite tight along the way, especially the armed transport fleet was escorted by warships, and only two single fast sailboats were captured along the way. Almost every day they encountered the Southern Army's fleet, which was completely dependent on Lin Lingcao's excellent command, and the entire fleet was preserved.

However, no matter how excellent Lin Lingcao is, it is inevitable that she will encounter battles. In the battle, nearly 100 crew members were killed or injured, one warship was sunk and many were injured. Faced with an absolutely excellent enemy squadron, the steaming of the coalition fleet was dominant and often left the battlefield as soon as possible.

The Lin Lingcao Squadron has been out of the sea for nearly a month, and the officers and soldiers have not had a good rest. The large number of casualties will definitely reduce the morale of the troops. However, as far as the entire squadron is concerned, although it is very tired, its morale is still unprecedentedly high.

The previous unprecedented victory made the officers and soldiers very happy, and victory often made people forget their fatigue. During the rest of Taiwan, a commendation order issued by Guo Junqing in Jinan surprised the officers and soldiers even more because it was a great order.

The Liu army attached the most importance to military merits. With Ding Ning's qualifications, he actually surpassed a large number of senior veteran cadres of the Dingguo Army. He jumped into the heaviest layer of power in the southeast. Even the commander-in-chief of Shandong Navy Lu Da was beyond the reach. Now Liu Jingxiao is in power for five provinces and has also incorporated the Shen family's second fleet. Naturally, he wants to expand the navy in major events. Everyone seems to see a bright future waving to them.

The commendation order has been approved to promote the ranks of some meritorious officers and soldiers. As long as they can break through and survive for another two years, everyone will have a bright future.

However, the Fourth Fleet was also very happy, and their interception tactics were very effective. Almost every day, the fleet discovered signs of Lin Lingcao squadron, and Lin Lingcao's squadron seemed to be about to be annihilated.

But just as the Fourth Fleet was glad that they had captured Lin Lingcao's main force, suddenly within two days, Lin Lingcao's squadron lost all traces.

The commanders of the Fourth Fleet were panicked. Only dogs who could not bark would bite people. The disappearance of Lin Lingcao squadron does not mean that they are not threatening. The lurking enemy fleet is the most threatening. Just one attack will cause immeasurable losses.

The entire Fourth Fleet and even the reserve warships were mobilized to search the Lin Lingcao Fleet madly across the sea, but they did not gain anything. On the contrary, there were many misinformation, which made several search squadrons run away.

Lin Lingcao Squadron is still missing. The commanders of the Fourth Fleet can't even sleep. Some officers even swear to the sky: "I hope I can discover the enemy's situation!"

God fulfilled his wish, and the next moment the officer threw off his military cap and ran to the headquarters, shouting: "I discovered the enemy fleet..."

His boss immediately grabbed his collar with joy and asked loudly: "Where is it! Where!"

The officer's face turned pale. He gasped and finally realized it after a while. He pointed to the river and said, "It's there!"

That's right, Lin Lingcao actually led his squadron into the Pearl River and reached Huangpu Port, the headquarters of the Fourth Fleet. At the next moment, dense artillery fire had already begun to fire, and countless shells drew beautiful curves, and a huge explosion occurred on the shore.

Looking at the carefully disguised Lin Lingcao Squadron, the officers of the Fourth Fleet could only cry with hammers. It turned out that most of the troops stationed in the garrison had been sent to search for Lin Lingcao Fleet. The only few inland gunboats in Huangpu Port didn't even have a chance to lift their sails, and they were raided and all Lin Lingcao sank.

On the water, the sunken warships and transport ships were poured into the water. The unfortunate sailors and crew struggled hard on the water. The ground was full of fire, explosions, and shouts...

The officers of the Fourth Fleet Command were looking at all this speechlessly, watching Lin Lingcao slaughter everything at will, but there was nothing we could do. Fortunately, Lin Lingcao did not notice the Navy Command here.

The shelling that lasted for an hour was not over yet, Lin Lingcao squadron began to drop the boat, and a small number of marines carried on the boat began to land. Only then did the Navy Command wake up as if it were dreams and issued an order to various bases, requiring the dispatch of a fleet to block the Pearl River Estuary.

Unfortunately, most warships are still conducting search missions at sea at this time, and only Zhanjiang has warships in port.

At this time, Lin Lingcao's offensive reached its climax. The two hundred marines who landed were as if they had entered a no-man's landing, and they were the first to rush into the military port area.

"Huangpu Port is in the sea of ​​fire..." The news report at that time said.

"Atrocities... This is an absolute atrocities... For revenge, I want to sink all merchant ships in the southeastern provinces and launch a full-scale attack on the ports in the southeastern areas!" Mo Di issued such a protest afterwards. What kind of disaster is this! Twelve inland gunboats, merchant ships, and transport ships were sunk or severely damaged. One-third of the port areas of the entire Huangpu Port were completely destroyed in the raging fire that lasted for two days. According to Guangdong statistics, 480 people died and 1,100 people were injured. This does not include the death and missing more than 400 crew members. The direct property loss also reached a terrifying number - 430,000 yuan.

Before the war, according to Guangdong's estimates, the military expenditure of this Northern Expedition was about 6 million yuan per month. In fact, the scale of the war exceeded Mo Di's imagination, and the monthly military expenditure reached 15 million yuan. Even the wealthy Guangdong was unable to support it. Lin Lingcao's attack from Ningbo caused a loss of 6.54 million yuan in Guangdong - this was just a direct loss. If the indirect loss was included, it was simply an astronomical figure.

"The fire was caused by Lin Bencao's Marines. After they lit all areas that could be lit, especially a cotton warehouse, the fire was no longer controlled... In order to expand the fire, Lin Bencao's Marines even shot at the firefighters, and finally made the fire reach an uncontrollable level! What kind of war atrocities is this! I want to accuse me, on behalf of the victims of the fire, I asked Lin Bencao and other persons in charge to be brought to court."

"As the supreme commander of this operation, I must make it clear that there are too many false words on our excellent Marines. Our Marines are the best. The fire was actually ignited by the Navy officers and soldiers of the Fourth Fleet in the Military Port Area. They saw that our soldiers were about to capture, and they destroyed everything in panic and set fires in multiple places. Our young men once tried their best to put out the fire... but unfortunately, the fire was too big. Without the efforts of our Marines, the entire Guangzhou City might have been destroyed by this fire..."

Both parties have completely different opinions, but according to relatively rigorous military history experts' verification, both parties should bear great responsibilities, but Lin Lingcao should bear greater responsibilities.

Lin Lingcao's shelling lasted for three and a half hours. When they left, there was a red night sky behind them. Lin Lingcao shouted on the flagship: "Let's go back alive..."

At dawn, Lin Lingcao's fleet began to contact the Southern Army fortress cannons at the Pearl River Estuary.

Although the camouflaged Lin Lingcao fleet could get in, this time it had to bite the bullet and quickly pass the blockade of artillery fire in the Southern Army fortress. However, the battle between the two sides was not as fierce as imagined.

"The history of the corruption of the Fourth Fleet troops is as long as its war history, if not longer." - Shishou Major General "History of Chinese Naval War during the Three Years' War" Volume 5 "Yangtze River Estuary, Pearl River Estuary and Anti-Submarine Operations" Before the War Guangdong Navy Part Chapter 11 "Black Hull, Black Heart".

According to Modi's pre-war plan, the fortress artillery of the Pearl River Estuary Fortress must be fully updated and replaced with new Albion-made large fortress artillery, but there is a huge undercurrent for procurement. According to the Fourth Fleet's idea, it is impossible for the enemy fleet to go deep into the Pearl River to fight, so the repair costs and purchase of the Pearl River Estuary Fortress became the funds for the Navy Officer's Retreat and the General Villa. The artillery of the Pearl River Estuary Fortress was still the old-style artillery of the Republic for thirty years.

Therefore, Lin Lingcao's squadron successfully rushed out of the Pearl River estuary, and only one warship was severely damaged. Lin Lingcao's low-speed warship slowed down the entire squadron's breakthrough, and the officers and soldiers sang military songs to abandon the ship.

When the Fourth Fleet Second Patrol Fleet arrived at the Pearl River Estuary, the Lin Lingcao Squadron had already left half an hour ago.

Guangdong expressed extreme shock at the attack on Huangpu Port. The Fourth Fleet was not allowed to worry about the safety of other military ports. A large number of warships were recalled to patrol offshore to deal with the next attack of Lin Lingcao Fleet. The Fourth Fleet's strategy suddenly changed to offensive defense. Even so, the Lin Lingcao Squadron's return journey was still extremely dangerous. Two warships were lost in the battle and many warships were injured, but Lin Lingcao safely returned to Ningbo's outpost.

To celebrate Lin Lingcao's return, Lu Da personally went to the dock to welcome the returned heroes. He personally pinned a star on Lin Lingcao's shoulder: "The division commander gave him instructions. From today on, you will be the commander of the First Squadron..."

Lin Lingcao set the fastest record for the colonel to be promoted to major general. Most of the naval officers and soldiers who attacked were also commended for promotion to the first level, and some of them performed well and even advanced to the second level.

Lu Da said to his beloved general with great regret: "I originally asked the teacher to advance to two levels, and you will be my deputy, but the teacher said that the war had not won a complete victory, and it was inconvenient to reward the major issues..."

Even so, Lin Lingcao was still the second officer except Lu Da to win the title of general, and many officers who attacked Lu Da's life problems suddenly shut up.

Lin Lingcao's attack this time was indeed too beautiful. It hurt Guangdong at the cost of fighting the six warships with nearly 1,000 casualties. Mo Di even asked every coastal area to form a shore defense artillery force, and the three artillery regiments were also reorganized into shore defense artillery. The Fourth Fleet had to use two-thirds of its troops for escort and offshore patrol. A considerable number of Guangdong merchant ships were simply in the port in one or two months, for fear of being attacked by the Liu army's fleet.

Mo Di even left some of the successor teams originally scheduled for the Northern Expedition to stay in Guangdong, but this was just something he was unhappy about.

The three-way army in the Northern Expedition was unstoppable. Chen Yunjie organized ten-way army to aid Hunan, but he retreated step by step. Fujian and Zhejiang were progressing smoothly. Although there were a lot of military supplies on the route, the Fourth Fleet used large ships to escort it, which finally solved the urgent needs of the front line, but the opportunity was fleeting.

Han Xinhai mobilized comprehensively in Zhejiang. At present, the troops from Jinhua to Ningbo were insufficient in attack and had enough defense. The troops had no progress and only occupied the Wen-Taiwan area. Han Xinhai gave Ding Ning another support to six battalions, but Ding Ning used these six battalions to launch a small-scale counterattack on the front line, and one and a half battalions of the Southern Army were killed.

The most headache was in Jiangxi. After Ding Ning received a total of twelve battalions of reinforcements, the Southern Army advancing along the Zhejiang-Jiangxi Road made a slow progress after advancing 70 kilometers, and the Southern Army also had to spend a lot of troops to defend the Zhejiang-Jiangxi Railway.

There was a big problem with Yongxiu. Before the war, there was only one regiment. Unexpectedly, the troops stationed in Anhui Province flew across Poyang Lake, Sima Kan personally led the main force of the two divisions to land in Yongxiu and continued to attack sideways.

As a result, there were only more than 10,000 people on the Southern Army on this line, and they suffered a great loss if they were not careful. Sima Kan was a general of the Liu Army and was very good at using troops. As a result, less than half of the more than 10,000 people fled back. The Southern Army urgently dispatched tens of thousands of people from the troops besieging Nanchang to resist Sima Kan's attack.

As for Liu Jingxiao in Nanchang City, it was even more troublesome. Liu Jingxiao had always been good at guarding. Liu Jingxiao shrank into the turtle shell and could not attack anyone. The Liu army even promoted their brilliant achievements in Yanglou Division that year, and the Shen family Changjiang fleet on the Gan Army was even more troublesome. They came to shell the shells every morning and evening. Once, they took advantage of the Southern Army's unpreparedness and successfully landed. As a result, they opened up the contact with Liu Jingxiao in the city. Before this passage was closed again, 240 tons of supplies were sent into the city, 3,700 soldiers, and 1,300 seriously injured were transported away.

Seeing that the war would not end in a short period of time, military observers changed it to: "The war situation in Ganzhou Province is likely to be a long-term stalemate..."
Chapter completed!