Feng Guozhang retreated to Wuhu before his main force. At this time, the latest news came. Through Li Chun's dispatch and command, the newly formed Beiyang Sixth Division, together with Dingwu Army and Anwu Army, successfully entered Pukou. At this time, Bai Chongxi's vanguard was more than 70 miles away from Pukou.

This latest news made Feng Guozhang very upset. The reason why he had rushed to withdraw his main force so quickly was that although the Youth Army had been attacked by the command center by the Youth Army, this was not enough to make him in a mess. The root cause of the panic was Bai Chongxi's aggressive march. The night attack of the Youth Army this time made him feel that the Youth Army had rushed towards him like a big net. Years of experience made Feng Guozhang, the master of Zhao Yong, had the illusion that Tao Zhiyue had begun to pursue him under Zhao Yong's chaotic punch. So he ignored the opposition of Wang Zhanyuan and others, and he nervously issued an order to retreat across the board, and even the troops behind the palace had not arranged. The next was a big chaos, and the Beiyang Army was in chaos. If Guo Songling had not made a quick decision to set up a law enforcement team to maintain traffic, whether the Beiyang Army could retreat to Wuhu in an organized manner might be a big question.

Perhaps God was pitying Feng Guozhang for his misery. This time the goddess of luck showed him a smile, and Tao Zhiyue was also confused. He didn't know what the Beiyang Army was going to do. He turned around in front of his army. How could Feng Guozhang have such an idiotic move? Tao Zhiyue concluded that a veteran general like Feng Guozhang would definitely not be stupid, so he didn't know whether he was playing a knife-dragging scheme or an empty city scheme. Tao Zhiyue thought about it over and over again. Considering some of his own difficulties, Tao Zhiyue cautiously made a decision that he regretted himself and watched Feng Guozhang retreat to Wuhu.

When Zhao Yong and his friends took Yang Shande back to the position of Tongling Army and demanded credit from Tao Zhiyue and Li Zongren, Tao Zhiyue realized how big a mistake he had made. It was simply a dereliction of duty. It was this fatal mistake that made the young army miss the best opportunity to easily defeat the Beiyang Army. For Tao Zhiyue personally, it also greatly reduced his position in the heart of the general, who was originally highly valued by Wang Zhenyu. In the future, Tao Zhiyue began to slowly stay away from the core. Although his position was constantly promoted, he never got the opportunity to command a battle or battle alone. This is a huge regret.

The only thing that can be remedied now is to hope that the 11th Division can truly complete a large-scale interspersed task as Li Zongren ordered, timely cut off the passage from Wuhu to Nanjing, and cut off Feng Guozhang and his nearly 100,000 Beiyang troops fleeing back to Nanjing to return to the north, thereby making up for the first division's mistake of escaping the enemy. However, the 11th Division is the weakest unit of the entire Youth Army, which is really difficult to entrust important tasks.

So what is the 11th Division, which is given high hopes, doing?

The current commander of the 111th Regiment is He Yingqin, which was also the decision made by Lu Diping after several communications with him. Because Lu Diping found that He Yingqin's military qualities were very good and his psychological qualities were even better. In the end, Lu Diping disagreed with the opposition and appointed He Yingqin, an airborne cadre in Anjiang, as the chief of staff of the 11th Division and the commander of the 111th Regiment.

In the subsequent encirclement battle, He Yingqin used his practical actions to prove Lu Diping's unique insight.

At this moment, the 111th Regiment was shouldering the heavy responsibility of the entire division to attack the road between Wuhu and Nanjing. Zhang Zizhong, the battalion commander of the first battalion, rushed to the front as the vanguard of the entire regiment. As for Lu Yongxiang, who was originally in front of them, Lu Diping chose to turn a blind eye and turn aside.

The final blocking location was determined by Lu Diping, a guy called a little clever by Wang Zhenyu. The reason for Ma'anshan was that although the Beiyang Army did not dare to go through the water, it must have been back to Nanjing along the Yangtze River because this was the safest approach. Then this suggestion was transmitted to the Right Army Command through the division headquarters through the radio station, and then reported to the commander of the Southeast Front Army Command Li Zongren.

Li Zongren is busy with more things at this moment. As the commander of the Front Army, he cannot only be responsible for military operations like the left and right commands. He is also responsible for politics. Since the dispatch of troops in December last year, the most direct impact of the rocket-like advancement of the Youth Army is not the shock of the whole country, but the gap in the regime in a large number of newly revived areas.

A large number of working teams composed of Party cadres in the Kuomintang and society as the main body barely took over the regimes in these areas under the protection of the security forces, but a lot of trouble followed.

On the one hand, these working teams composed of the Party of China and the Party must compete with the original local forces for the actual dominance of the region. On the other hand, they are also asked to stabilize the situation in their location as soon as possible, and then raise military funds and supplies for the young army fighting on the front line as much as possible. After all, as the front line continues to lengthen, it becomes extremely unrealistic to rely on transportation through Anjiang.

This requirement may not be contradictory in itself. If it is a comrade with strong abilities, then he will do these two things together, first suppress the local powers and win over the things that should be squeezed, and then the local order will naturally stabilize, and the task of raising materials will not be difficult to complete. Unfortunately, the comrades in the work team may not be so strong. The good side of human beings determines that they habitually choose to compromise and give in when facing the original tough forces in the local area. However, history cruelly and ruthlessly told them that this is raising a tiger. Li Zongren has this problem now in Anhui. After being sent out, many local work teams were tortured by local local tyrants and evil gentry. It is still better to listen to the tune or not. Even more serious, they even put Sun Yat-sen's banner to organize local armed forces, openly expelled by force, and attacked the work teams sent by the Kuomintang party, causing many bloody incidents.

This led to a significant reduction in Li Zongren's consideration of war. His nominal chief of staff was Bai Chongxi, a part-time job leading troops on the front line, which forced him to devote his energy every day to mobilize security forces to suppress and meet with representatives in the gentry group who are willing to cooperate with the government. At the same time, he also had to keep in touch with Yang Yongtai, Wang Yaqiao and others in Shanghai, because the entire battle was the last and most critical step to enter Shanghai.

When Lu Diping reported the plan and delivered it to Li Zongren, Li Zongren felt that he was indeed a little negligent about the war. It seemed that his side was sure to win, but in fact, Feng Guozhang had just lost the initiative on the battlefield since the war started. The main force of the Beiyang Army still existed. If he continued to be so careless, he would probably give his opponent a chance to turn over. Then his reputation in the world in this life would be over, so this situation must not be allowed to occur. Li Zongren opened the map and looked at it, measured it with a ruler, estimated the speed of the Beiyang Army's march, and called the staff: "Send a report to He Yingqin, the commander of the 111th Regiment of the 11th Division, and ordered the department to arrive at Hongmu Mountain in Ma'anshan before 8:00 am on April 4, and then pierced it there firmly like a nail."

The telegram was directly sent from the Front Command to He Yingqin, the commander of the 111th Regiment, who was performing the high-speed interspersion mission, and bypassed the Right Army Command and the 11th Division. He Yingqin was very surprised when he saw this telegram, because it was already 12 o'clock at noon on April 3, and he and his army had just walked to Guquan Town, which was still a straight line distance of 120 miles from the blocking site required by Commander Li. The actual distance, coupled with the sudden situations that were very likely to occur on the road, and the normal rest time, It is almost impossible to complete this order within the remaining twenty hours, and there is another prominent situation. Feng Guozhang's straight line distance is only more than 80 miles from this place, and the actual distance is no more than 100 miles, and they will start to retreat at any time. This is a very problematic. However, after less than three minutes of thinking, He Yingqin tried to suppress his thoughts of complaining, because he knew that as a member of the Youth Army, he had to complete this task, and there was no room for bargaining, but how to execute it can be negotiated and adapted.

One-third of the officers and soldiers of the 111th Regiment were northern soldiers, and most of them were concentrated in Zhang Zizhong's first battalion. They were tall and long, and they had good marching ability. The most important thing was that they had also stationed in this area, familiar with the roads and terrain, and there was no possibility of getting lost. Therefore, He Yingqin decisively ordered Zhang Zizhong's first battalion to throw away all the jars and jars, and only bring dry food and ammunition, and set off immediately. He had to arrive at Hongmu Mountain before 8 o'clock tomorrow morning.

Zhang Zizhong's military qualities were fully demonstrated at this moment. Although he realized that the order was extremely unreasonable after a moment of thinking, he still accepted the order without any objection. This moved He Yingqin. He secretly made up his mind that if he had the chance to be promoted in the future, he would not forget to support this Shandong boy.

He patted Zhang Zizhong on the shoulder and said, "My coach is following your first battalion. After you arrive at the place, we will be in place for two or three hours, so we will do it boldly."

When Zhang Zizhong returned to the first battalion, he announced the order, and then gathered the team to set off. While marching, Zhang Zizhong formulated a marching plan. He asked each unit to rest for half an hour every two hours, and to take a rotation, and adopted a spinning method. After a company surpassed all companies, he would rest. He himself rushed to the front of the entire battalion with a sharp knife platoon.

At this time, Feng Guozhang was still hesitating in Wuhu. Should he establish a blocking position here, or retreat to Nanjing across the river and return north? History made a ruthless joke here, that is, the news that Lu Yongxiang retreated to Zhejiang was only known by Feng Guozhang late at night on April 3, and it was too late to do anything at this time.
Chapter completed!