My Apprenticeship to Uncle Jiu: I Was a Warlord in the Republic of China

So he asked the other two parties to also contribute some supplies. Yes, two parties, because He Jian now only had 10,000 remnant soldiers and didn't even have any territory, so it was impossible for him to supply money and food.

In theory, this request should be reasonable.

But the problem is that the territories of the other two guys are hundreds of miles away from the front line, and the cost of transporting them is two or three times that of Tang Shengzhi.

How could they accept the requirement to bear the cost of their own money, food and supplies?

Tang Shengzhi was not a good guy either, and of course he was unwilling to help support the other two's soldiers. So the three of them started arguing and could not reach a consensus.

At this time, He Jian couldn't stand it anymore, and immediately stepped out to smooth things over, "Stop arguing, the situation is very bad now."

"If we can't defeat Jiang Li, given his ruthless character, there's no way we can survive. By then, no matter how much money and food we have, it will just be left to him!"

The three of them knew this truth, they just couldn't accept that they were at a disadvantage.

But now He Jian has made it clear, and under Jiang Li's threat, they have no choice but to take a step back. After discussion, they finally decided to share the cost.

Let Tang Shengzhi provide the money and food temporarily, and then the other two will organize people to transport their share of the money, food and supplies to Tang Shengzhi's territory.

Although there will be some extra consumption during this period, it does not need to be transported directly to the front line and the distance is shortened by several hundred miles, so these consumption are still acceptable.

But the price of doing so is that the number of transport routes increases from one to three, and the number of laborers needed increases by two or three times.

So they could only send people back to tell the gentry and landlords to continue organizing people to transport supplies, which made these old men very distressed.

After all, with their style, they have always been able to take in but not take out. But what else can they do? They know all about Jiang Li's policies clearly.

Therefore, they had to grit their teeth and help the coalition forces to gather enough manpower and raise enough money, food and supplies.

With the help of these landlords and gentry, the logistical problems of the coalition forces were finally solved, and the war once again fell into a stalemate.

Although the Anmin Army had strong firepower and well-trained soldiers, the Allied Forces had the advantage in numbers. In addition, Tang Shengzhi and some other warlords had given death orders to stop them at all costs.

This meant that although the Anmin Army was suppressing the coalition forces, it was still unable to defeat them, so he had to change his strategy and alter the direction of attack.

Since Jiang Li knew that they were a four-party coalition, he directly ordered to abandon the full-scale attack and instead focus on attacking the direction defended by Tang Shengzhi.

As for why Jiang Li made such arrangements, it was of course because the intelligence personnel had already found out that Tang Shengzhi's territory was closest to the front line, and many supplies were transported directly from his territory.

This has greatly consumed his war potential, and now that the army has suffered so many casualties, he will inevitably feel unbalanced, which may give him an opportunity to take advantage of the situation.

Sure enough, just after the Anmin Army changed its fighting style, Tang Shengzhi's army casualties immediately soared, while the casualties of the other three guys were much smaller.

This made Tang Shengzhi very angry, and he immediately asked someone to notify the other people to attack from other directions to put pressure on Jiang Li.

But Jiang Li was well prepared. Relying on the solid fortifications, he inflicted great damage to the attacking enemies and quickly repelled the attacks of Zhao Hengti, Tan Yankai, and He Jian.

After receiving a heavy blow, they no longer dared to step out of the fortifications to attack, and could only hide in the trenches and engage in cold gunfire and artillery fire with the Anmin Army.

But Tang Shengzhi was in a difficult situation. His troops suffered more than 7,000 casualties in the fierce attack of the Anmin Army and the support of airplanes and artillery.

This made his already small heart shrink even more, and he almost fainted from the pain.

That day, he could no longer bear the casualties reported from the front line, and immediately took the casualty reports to find the other three people.

"Come and have a look, my three brothers. The casualties of my men in the past few days are close to 10,000, and yet you are so leisurely, as if you were hunting, and you haven't fired a single shot in half a day!"

"If you don't send out troops today to disperse Jiang's firepower, I will lead my men back to the city and fight him in the streets!"

Seeing Tang Shengzhi's firm attitude, the other three immediately knew that they must give an explanation today, so the three of them immediately started discussing.

Seeing this, Tang Shengzhi did not urge them, but waited for them to come up with a result.

But after the three of them discussed it, they all agreed that they could not go out and fight hard, because they had suffered too many casualties as the attacking party last time.

But after getting this answer, Tang Shengzhi could no longer sit still and stood up to leave.

Seeing this, the three men immediately stepped forward and held him back. At this time, He Jian, who had the most flexible mind, came up with a compromise.

"Marshal Tang, don't panic. You know that Jiang's firepower is extremely strong. If we step out of the bunker, we will be courting death, so we must not attack again!"

"What the hell are you talking about? I'm going to lead my men back to the city right now. At worst, I'll die together with that Jiang guy!"

Upon hearing this, Tang Shengzhi cursed loudly.

But He Jian smiled flatteringly and said, "Marshal Tang, please don't worry. Although we can't send troops to help you disperse the firepower, we can send troops to help you defend!"

Tang Shengzhi retracted his anger after hearing this. "That's better. How many people do you plan to send out? If you don't have enough, we won't be able to stop their attack."

Finally, after a discussion, they decided to organize 20,000 troops to replace Tang Shengzhi's army, which had suffered heavy casualties.

After another two days of fierce fighting, the Anmin Army saw the enemy begin to change their defense and immediately launched a fierce attack.

It turned out that Jiang Li had anticipated this. He ordered the front-line commander to launch a fierce attack immediately when he found the enemy coming to relieve defense, and to defeat them in one fell swoop while they were still unstable.

The situation was exactly as Jiang Li had expected, because the replacement troops were composed of the armies of Zhao Hengti and Tan Yankai, who had no discipline to begin with and now had poor command, so the scene of the change of guard was very chaotic.

In addition, Tang Shengzhi's remnant army had been itching to fly back to the rear immediately when they saw the replacement troops coming, so when the Anmin Army attacked.

There was an immediate commotion in the Allied Forces camp. Tang Shengzhi's men were retreating, while Tan Yankai and Zhao Hengti's men were unable to enter their positions to defend in time for the time being.

So the Anmin Army quickly rushed to the coalition forces' position and engaged in close-range shooting with the chaotic coalition forces.

During this process, the coalition forces with outdated equipment could not gain any advantage and were quickly defeated and began to flee in panic.

Then the Anmin Army immediately took advantage of the victory and quickly extended its force to both sides from this gap, turning a point of defeat into a surface of defeat.