Wang Zhanyuan’s series of tactical arrangements are to set up the sixth brigade to detour to the north, and at the same time, there is a situation in which the tenth division is south. He foresees that the northern battlefield will become a key fighting area between the two sides, which is a place of decisive defeat. He not only deploys the thirteenth brigade to the northern battlefield, but also deploys the artillery regiment of the division in this direction.
However, it was not long before he completed this tactical deployment that the seventh division found the sixth brigade in the southeast, which had to be said to be greatly unexpected.
"Damn Gu Lanyu and Chen Guangyuan, they deliberately made a time difference. They were afraid that we would see early that this was delayed for two days. It seems that their appetite is not just a thirteenth brigade but our entire seventh division!" At this time, Wang Zhanyuan still overestimated Chen Guangyuan and Gu Lanyu’s recognition that the move was deliberately arranged by Fengjun.
However, the actual detour of the Sixth Brigade was delayed by two days because of Yongqing’s delay for two days, not specially arranged by Chen Guangyuan or Gu Lanyu.
All battle plans may be carried out from beginning to end, and many changes will always occur, which will test the adaptability of front-line generals.
Contrary to what Wang Zhanyuan thought, Bong Jun never intended to keep an entire seventh division. Their plan was this: the fifth brigade held the thirteenth brigade, and then the tenth division pressed the sixth brigade heavily. The detour was to contain the remaining troops of the seventh division. Their goal was that the tenth division and the fifth brigade would eat the thirteenth brigade together.
To annihilate this 13th brigade is tantamount to hitting the 7th Division hard.
However, after Wang Zhanyuan withdrew from the 13th Brigade, the Seventh Division was reunited, so that the original campaign goal of Fengjun was no longer. If we continued to fight, the campaign goal would become to encircle and annihilate the Seventh Division, but the actual strength of the two divisions of Fengjun did not have the troops needed to encircle the entire Seventh Division.
"What now? Is it to let the Sixth Brigade come back or continue to detour? " Bazhou periphery has arrived at the fifth brigade headquarters with division headquarters and a large number of trench and engineering auxiliary forces. Chen Guangyuan stared at the map and frowned.
Now his mood is no better than Wang Zhanyuan’s. The unexpected retreat of the 13th Brigade made him plan the war in advance, which almost fell on his face. The 13th Brigade has already withdrawn from Bazhou. Let’s talk about panic in the 13th Brigade!
Chen Guangyuan seems to be asking questions now, but the officers know that this is what Chen Guangyuan said to himself when he was thinking. A group of officers have a tacit understanding and shut up and don’t answer.
Although the temporary field division headquarters was set up in a tent, the tent could block ultraviolet rays and heat waves. In July, the northern part of the country was as hot as the southern provinces, which can be seen from the fact that many soldiers were shirtless when the two armies fought.
But soldiers don’t care about the image, but the officers of the third division, especially the middle and senior officers, can’t be so hot. There are more than a dozen middle and senior officers in the tent, all of whom are wearing blue-gray sets of officers’ caps and sitting straight in front of the table. They clenched their fists with their hands or laid their thighs flat. Many people have already shed sweat on their foreheads, but no one dares to complain about Chen Guangyuan’s soliloquy and expression. Listening, they dare not say, "Don’t talk nonsense when the weather is so hot!"
The army is a place with a deep hierarchy, especially the modern army. In the ancient army, you may see the love of soldiers as described in this way, but in the modern army, you will never see such a situation. A modern army is usually like this. Officers command soldiers to charge mechanically and numbly with rifles, and even if they retreat, they will be shot on the spot by officers.
And when the company slaps a slap in the face, it can be tough. It takes a step back to be beaten here. You have to take the previous step so that the chief can continue to beat you!
Chen Guangyuan, however, was not as restrained as his subordinates. He picked up a handkerchief and wiped his forehead sweat, then unbuttoned his collar casually. Then he looked around. The officers continued, "Although our scheduled battle goal has disappeared, our plan to encircle and annihilate the enemy remains unchanged. The Sixth Brigade will continue to detour!"
This time, Chen Guangyuan did not talk to himself, but made a decision. "The fifth brigade is to continue to attack Bazhou and cooperate with the tenth division!"
After two days of emergency maneuvers, the vanguard troops of the 10th Division have arrived in the northern periphery of Bazhou, and then the 10th Division will definitely attack Bazhou, and what the 3rd Division, the 5th Brigade and other troops have to do is to cooperate with the 10th Division to attack!
After Chen Guangyuan made the decision to continue the war, the Sixth Brigade did not stop but continued to detour to the southwest. At this time, the Sixth Brigade has already entered the southwest of Bazhou, trying to cut off the Seventh Division of Bazhou and the Southern Alliance, and at the same time preparing to intercept the Seventh Division to escape south!
However, after many days of marching, the tenth division of the frontal battlefield finally arrived in the north of Bazhou. The marching speed of the tenth division was quite slow due to the lack of carriages, mules and horses, heavy equipment and ammunition, and now it can successfully arrive in Bazhou in a few days. This was only when the tenth division recruited a large number of people on the spot.
During the battle of Tangshan, Fengjun showed the problem of weak logistics force, and the follow-up troops left the railway supply after the massive invasion of Bazhou in the south, which made the logistics transportation even more difficult. In particular, the logistics department was seriously short of military carriages and mules. In order to solve the logistics transportation problem, in addition to hiring a large number of civilian workers to form support groups, the front-line troops were also temporarily authorized by the headquarters to collect local people’s animals, transport artillery, ammunition and other materials by carriages.
Speaking, the logistics system of Fengjun is much better than that of other warlord troops, but it is still seriously inadequate. The main reason here is that with the large number of technical equipment of Fengjun, there is a large demand for ammunition.
Mortars and machine guns have a huge demand for ammunition, especially those mortars. Although the shells are cast iron and black powder shells, the price is not expensive, but the weight is still good. In addition, the front-line commanders are dependent on mortars in military operations, and they like to shoot quickly to suppress and attack the enemy. Although this has many benefits, it also brings a serious problem that mortar shells should not come.
Front-line troops only carry two mortars in an infantry lien chan period, and each mortar group will carry no more than ten rounds of artillery shells. Actually, there are some cases where logistics is in short supply, and they are forced to carry them in wartime. Fifteen rounds of artillery shells are very few, and twelve rounds are often shot several times quickly, but some of them are more stupid. In times of crisis, the commander will let the mortars continue to fire, and the mortars will be able to shoot out the artillery-carrying department at a rate of more than ten rounds per minute, and then he will go to the theater at the same time.
In order to solve this problem, Fengjun Command strictly reiterated several times that front-line officers were required to save mortar shells, but at the same time, it was forced to increase logistics and transportation forces. However, this increase in logistics and transportation forces is at the level of the Ministry of Munitions, but the establishment of logistics forces for divisional and brigade-level troops is still the same.
Because the establishment of the army’s logistics force is fixed, it is different from the support group. At present, a large number of technical equipment of Fengjun relies heavily on logistics, especially on the logistics and transportation forces of divisions and brigades. However, the trench units at all levels of Fengjun are still established in the old Beiyang era
Only a division has a battalion of trench, and according to the current level of ammunition consumption of military equipment, this division belongs to a battalion of trench, not a battalion.
However, it is not so easy to increase the establishment of the trench troops. It will not cost too much for the Ministry of Quartermaster to get a support group, but it will cost too much if you assign two or three times the number of active trench troops to each division.
Here, if you look at the strength gap between the Beiyang Army and the Japanese divisions, you can see that the combat establishment of the two sides is almost the same, but in wartime, one division moved 20,000 people, while the Beiyang division was only over 13,000. Even if the number of people was increased, one division was less than 14,000.
Of course, some of these thousands of extra people are combatants, but more are support personnel such as logistics and engineering.
At present, if we want to give full play to the fighting capacity of Fengjun and provide them with enough combat supplies, then one division of Fengjun will have to increase more than 1,000 people. If the number of heavy machine guns and mortar equipment is further increased in the future, we will not increase 2,000 people. However, it is estimated that the number of each division of Fengjun will be too much than it is now, and the increase in the number will cause pressure on Pang Dajun, which is what Zhao Dongyun is forbearing.
But you can’t help but supply an army battle. There are not enough logistics troops, and the support group of the Ministry of Military Supplies is a strategic supply. They are responsible for transporting ammunition supplies from many combat readiness warehouses in Fengtian to Langfang, and the subsequent transportation will not be directly transported to the front line, but to a supply relatively close to the front line. Then the logistics transportation will depend on the troops themselves
As a result, all the field troops of Fengjun will more or less recruit local people’s transport forces, especially mules, horses and carriages, which can transport shells and ammunition, and at the same time, they will also recruit some civilian workers to serve as temporary commanders, otherwise all the ministries of Fengjun will fight to replenish ammunition by their own methods.
The tenth division is to recruit wagons, captains and so on, so that it can carry a lot of artillery and ammunition all the way south. Although it is not fast, it is not slow
Regular troops with a lot of artillery and shells can’t March at the same speed as those with light infantry. It is possible for light infantry to move 40 kilometers a day, but it is quite good for troops like the tenth division to move more than ten or twenty kilometers a day.
When the 10th Division arrived in Bazhou, Fengjun’s large-scale attack on Bazhou was officially exhibited!
Chapter two hundred and seventy-nine Recruiting and reinforcements
Although the development of Bazhou campaign has gone far beyond the original plan of Fengjun Command, Fengjun did not stop Bazhou campaign, but changed the front line. Chen Guangyuan decisively changed the original battle plan and expanded the campaign goal from annihilating the thirteenth brigade to hitting the seventh division.
However, it is conceivable that it is difficult for the two divisions of Fengjun to annihilate the Seventh Division, where they have joined forces. In addition to continuing to order the Sixth Brigade to attack the rear of the Seventh Division in a roundabout way to the southeast, Chen Guangyuan also asked for reinforcements again like Zhao Dongyun.
In the face of changes in Bazhou campaign, Zhao Dongyun has no good way to fight this battle, and there is not much room for him to retreat. He can crustily skin of head and continue to deploy troops to reinforce Bazhou front.
"Now that the rest of the First Hunchenglv is not over and the officers are not in place, I’m afraid there will be problems if you rush to Bazhou!" PricewaterhouseCoopers "Now all the troops of our army have been deployed to be able to maneuver and have a first cavalry brigade!" "
In the early stage of the First Cavalry Brigade, due to continuous maneuvering for many days, the loss of horses was also relatively large. In addition, after the battle of Tangshan, Fengjun entered the Jingshi and Langfang, and other battles, Zhongji was a tough battle. At the same time, Fengjun also needed to keep some troops in the rear area to cover the logistics supply line. Therefore, due to various reasons, the First Cavalry Brigade is currently stationed in Langfang, Tangshan and Jixian.
However, it is not easy for this First Cavalry Brigade to transfer Fengjun into the army. Nowadays, a small number of troops have to be stationed in the vast areas of Jingshi and Bazhou, and they will completely control the logistics routes in these areas.
The first cavalry brigade can’t get up, and the first Hunchengbrigade hasn’t been reorganized, which is not a good thing for the extreme lack of troops to serve the army
Zhao Dong Yundao: "The first cavalry brigade will still be set up in various places, and the civil defense and public security, logistics cover, etc. can be handed over to the patrol troops one after another. I have transferred three patrol regiments from Jinzhou and Shenyang to the area, and the general staff will also start to set up local patrol troops here. Our army’s field strength is limited, so the field troops must be drawn out from the local garrison!"
"In addition, although the first division of the provincial army has not yet been compiled, it is barely possible. I have ordered the Ministry to move to Shanhai and Tangshan!"
I heard Zhao Dongyun say that all the first divisions of the army that had just been compiled into the three northeastern provinces were transferred to one side and the wall was always worried, "In that case, we will have less than 5,000 field troops left, in case something changes outside!"
It’s not unreasonable to worry about the wall forever. Now it’s time to serve the army and enter the war. It can be said that all the field troops have been transferred to the three provinces left behind. There are about 20 thousand patrol troops just compiled into the first division, the first HunChengLv and the second HunChengLv of the provincial army.
The patrol troops stop talking about this thing, which is just to maintain public order and fight bandits. Don’t expect them to be able to fight the enemy field troops.
Although the first division of the provincial army, the first Hunchenglv and the second Hunchenglv have been on paper for several months, there were only two regiments of the first division of the provincial army before they entered the army. Although they will continue to expand in the next month, the losses caused by the entry into the war are not small. The Ministry of Education and the Ordnance Department have deployed a large number of new recruits and ordnance to supplement the troops, which has led to a slower pace of the new troops.
Up to now, the first division of the two mixed brigades of the first division of the provincial army has been compiled into two infantry regiments, an artillery battalion, and the total number of auxiliary troops is less than 7,000, that is, about half of the troops are fully staffed, and there is a shortage of heavy weapons. The first mixed brigade and the second mixed brigade have each been compiled into one regiment, and they have been specially transferred to the early training for artillery.
To put it simply, at present, the two mixed brigades of the paper division are actually a mixed brigade and two strengthening groups, which add up to ten thousand people.
Although these tens of thousands of people are recruits, they are seriously short of training and have low quality, but this is already the only field troops left behind by the army.
Now Zhao Dongyun just transfers the first division to the outside world. If anything happens, it is impossible to control the situation by promoting the two regiments and the patrol troops.
However, Zhao Dongyun didn’t care. "If something changes in the three northeastern provinces, it can be chaos and chaos in other places. Some bandits or mutinous patrol troops are enough to suppress it. If it is a foreign enemy, there is not much difference between 5,000 people and 10,000 people!"
Fang Biyong still wanted to say something, but Zhao Dongyun didn’t give him a chance, but continued, "The Tangshan defense can be handed over to the patrol force to order the first Huncheng Brigade to take the train south immediately and then the first cavalry brigade will also be south!"
Zhao Dongyun is now in no position to control the place, and he is very wary of foreign powers. For him, taking Zhili and marching into Shandong and Henan are the first priority, and he is secondary.
Although the first HunChengLv in Bao Guiqing hasn’t been reorganized yet, Zhao Dongyun didn’t expect the first HunChengLv to immediately reply to the fighting capacity. He asked the first HunChengLv to look and think about it, and then reorganize it slowly when the big deal came to the front.
Zhao Dongyun transferred the remaining troops to continue to join the Zhili war, and at the same time, the recruitment of troops by the army continued to increase, further attracting young and middle-aged people to join the army. In addition to the Gao ‘an family, extensive political propaganda was also carried out, and at the same time, the requirements for the quality of soldiers were also lowered. If the physical conditions were barely passable, it would be as messy as before.
In addition, when Feng Jun fought, people heard that Feng Jun won so-and-so victory today and so-and-so victory the next day, and Feng Jun never declared how hard he fought and how many people were killed or injured.
In recent months, when the war broke out, the coverage of the war in Fengjun-controlled areas, especially in the three northeastern provinces, can be described as an armed parade in four words!
Many recruits who joined the army realized that they would have to rush forward with different guns and the enemy would run away …
In recent months, the recruitment of soldiers has been quite excellent, and it is not limited to the three foreign provinces, but also to the areas under the control of the army. From the time when it was determined to enter the war, the Ministry of Education did not worry about how many soldiers it could not afford, but how many soldiers it needed. In just one month, the Ministry of Education recruited more than 20,000 recruits, and the Ministry of Education temporarily opened several boot camps because of too many recruits and insufficient existing new barracks.
The war on the front line is tense, and there is a great demand for soldiers. After a month of initial training, these recruits will be directly assigned to various units. If they are lucky, they will be assigned to the first division, the first mixed brigade and the second mixed brigade of the provincial army in the rear, so that they can continue to train in the army and grow into a qualified soldier before they formally participate in the war.
If they are unlucky enough to be directly assigned to the front-line troops, those soldiers who have just learned guns after a short training for one month will immediately go into battle when they arrive at the front line. There is no doubt that they will not run away from the enemy as vulnerable as those who recruit them say.
Most of them will die or be injured, and only a few people can continue to learn and grow in the battle and finally come back to life.
If Zhao Dongyun, a veteran who has been training for many years at the front line, and other senior generals think that it is consumable materials, then these new recruits can consume enemy cannon fodder.
However, it is the short-term recruitment of a large number of recruits that allows Fengjun to continue to be fully staffed in various units, so that the first division and two brigades of the provincial army can continue to expand!
The increase in troop strength can also alleviate that dilemma of the current serious shortage of troops of Fengjun!
However, the deployment of troops to reinforce the war at the overall level of Fengjun can not solve the shortage of troops in Bazhou Campaign. After all, it is impossible for Bao Guiqing’s first Hunchengbrigade, the first division and other troops to reinforce Bazhou Command in just a few days. The only thing that can be done is to increase the logistics supply for Bazhou Campaign and try to make the existing troops play a more powerful role.
However, there are still so many troops. After the tenth division and the fifth brigade launched a large-scale attack on the northern and eastern defense lines of the seventh division, they found that it was almost the same as the original Tangshan campaign. Although their own forces and firepower occupied an advantage, their progress was extremely limited.
"It is impossible for the north and the east to make a breakthrough. We hope it is still the south!" Chen Guangyuan said to Xu Bangjie, "Brother Xu, I will give this frontal attack to your tenth division first!"
Xu Bangjie nodded. "Don’t worry, this detour is your third division’s strength, but this positive breakthrough is my tenth division’s specialty!"
Xu Bangjie didn’t brag that when the 10th Division conquered Yinfeng Line in one fell swoop, it actually defeated the 1st Brigade of the 1st Division with a large number of earthworks and two artillery battalions in the frontal attack. This battle completely laid the foundation for the victory of Tangshan Campaign and Xu Bangjie’s position as a military leader.
Chen Guangyuan saw a breakthrough in Fafa’s front, and soon he took the fifth brigade of the third division to the south, and the fifth brigade of the third division was the sixth brigade of Gu Lanyu.
The Sixth Brigade made a circuitous March for many days and was repeatedly attacked by the Seventh Division Cavalry Corps. Finally, it successfully detoured to the south of Bazhou.