usatvline Chapter 362: Defeating the Hubei Allied Forces and Advancing to the Jianghan Plain
Chapter 362: Defeating the Hubei Allied Forces and Advancing to the Jianghan Plain
After all, who would be willing to work for a leader who doesn't treat people as human beings?
Moreover, this leader is not his direct superior, but an acting leader of the temporary alliance.
It turned out that the three warlords were afraid that some people would not try their best, allowing other soldiers to fight hard while they themselves would reap the fruits of victory, so they had discussed it beforehand.
Every time there was a battle, the other two would send out some soldiers to assist so that one person would not bear all the casualties.
As a result, the soldiers of the other two warlords, fearing that their bridges would be demolished after they had crossed the river, asked to go to their own leaders.
Although Xia Douyan tried his best to suppress them, he missed the best opportunity to fill the gap in the defense line.
The Anmin Army's defense line was forced to advance several hundred meters, which was a life-threatening situation.
The battle situation, which was already tilted due to the increase in the number of Anmin Army soldiers, is now even worse due to the further expansion of the defense line, which has added more shooting points.
Xia Douyan, who was trying hard to control the battle situation, had no choice but to ask for support from his two teammates.
In fact, Hu Duozong and He Chengjun had already realized that although the firepower at the other landing points was fierce, no one had landed, so they concluded that those places were feint attacks.
Only the place defended by Xia Douyan was the main attack point. However, when they thought that Xia Douyan had already led people to defend, they thought it was enough.
And if they guess wrong and the enemy lands from somewhere else, they can leave a mobile force behind to remedy the situation.
But now that they received Xia Douyan's request for help, they immediately knew that their guess was correct, so they immediately took more than 100,000 people to provide support.
But when they arrived at the landing point, they were dumbfounded. It turned out that the Anmin Army had used these ships to transport three more batches of soldiers ashore during this period.
At this moment, there were already 30,000 security troops on the shore. The key point was that there were a large number of heavy artillery bombarding the other side, so our troops did not dare to enter the position to defend.
But Hu Duozong, He Chengjun and Xia Douyan all knew that they could still give the enemy a try with the help of the terrain, but when they really landed, it would be too late, and they would not even have the strength to resist.
After thinking this through, the three of them discussed it and directly issued a death order, using their superior military strength to consume the enemy.
After all, the number of people they can go ashore is limited, and it is a long expedition with a long logistics supply line, which will definitely be very troublesome.
On the other hand, we were fighting on our own soil and had a great advantage in logistics, not to mention the fact that there were a large number of landlords and gentry who were willing to contribute money, manpower and manpower to help us regardless of the consequences.
This gave them confidence that as long as they could keep them on the shore, they would have a chance to hold out until the end.
This was indeed the case. Although the number of Anmin Army soldiers landing increased greatly, the artillery fire on the other side of the river was still very fierce.
But the enemy had a twenty-fold numerical advantage after all, and the artillery shells they brought were indeed extremely expendable, so Jiang Li could only give the order.
Let the landing soldiers hold their positions to avoid being driven off the river bank and losing the results of this assault.
The stalemate lasted for three days. When a batch of artillery shells arrived, Jiang Li was ready to launch the next attack.
At this time, Zhao Hong came with a document to report.
"Commander, our intelligence officer received a telegram from Liu Sheng!"
"According to him, he has already lurked behind enemy lines and contacted several guerrilla groups. He has gathered three thousand people. He is now asking us if we have any further instructions!"
When Jiang Li heard that Liu Sheng was still alive and had gone behind enemy lines, he immediately gave orders to Zhao Hong.
"Zhao Hong, immediately have them continue to go deep into the rear of Hubei, spread rumors that we have defeated the enemy, and gather the local guerrillas!"
"If there is a chance, we can also attack the enemy's logistics supply, thus forcing the enemy to divide their forces and encircle them!"
Zhao Hong took the order and left after hearing this. However, after this episode, Jiang Li did not continue to arrange a counterattack.
He was waiting for an opportunity, waiting for the enemy to panic because of the rumors and make the wrong decision, then he could defeat them in one fell swoop.
And the facts did not go as he expected. Just three days later, when he had just waited for a batch of supplies, he heard news from the Air Force saying that the enemy's troops showed signs of large-scale mobilization.
That’s right, because the war has been going on for more than half a month, the emergency-built airport can now be put into use.
When Jiang Li received the news, he realized that the opportunity he had been waiting for had come, so he decisively summoned the army and began to arrange the tasks.
He ordered the army to use bamboo rafts and newly acquired boats to carry out a full-scale river crossing battle under the cover of aircraft and artillery.
As each unit quickly completed the order and was deployed to the battlefield, the pressure felt by the Hubei coalition forces was maximized.
They were bombarded by the long-lost intensive artillery shells, exploded by the bombs dropped from the sky by airplanes, and charged by the hundreds of thousands of troops crossing the river.
The coalition forces collapsed in an instant and fled to the rear for their lives.
As the saying goes, a defeated army is like a mountain collapsing. The three unwilling warlords still planned to suppress the rebellion by force, but the defeated soldiers at this time would not recognize you as an official.
I will directly transform into a flat-headed brother. Whoever dares to stop me will be killed. The result is naturally predictable.
Although tens of thousands of trusted confidants of the three warlords did not participate in this battle and had been gathering their strength for a long time, they had no advantage against these defeated soldiers who were only concerned about survival.
In the end, he could only flee with his commander after a fierce fight.
Seeing the enemy escape, Jiang Li ordered his soldiers not to pursue them, but to attack upstream and seize their boats.
Although the enemy had sent many warships down the river to attack people crossing the river during the fighting in the past few days, many of them had been sunk by our side.
However, Jiang Li believed that although many of the ships they had collected before were destroyed, there should still be quite a few left. Finding all of them would definitely help the army cross the river.
And the result was exactly as he expected. In just half a day, more than a thousand boats of various sizes went down the river.
With the help of these ships and without interference from the enemy, pontoon bridges were quickly built, helping the Anmin Army to quickly cross the Yangtze River.
Not only did people cross the river, but even the tanks of the cavalry battalion were transported across the river by some large cargo ships.
It was not until this time that Jiang Li breathed a sigh of relief. After leaving some soldiers on both sides to defend, he led his army to continue advancing into the hinterland of Hubei.
Only three days had passed, and Hu Duozong, He Chengjun, and Xia Douyan had not yet gathered their troops when Jiang Li caught up with them again.
They had no choice but to fight head-on. As for the location of the final battle, it happened to be chosen in Jiang Li, the location chosen at the beginning.
Jianghan Plain.