Chapter 89 Jinzhou Bandit 2

In order to eliminate troops and seize military resources, Zhao Dongyun mainly divided the direction of suppressing bandits into two directions. First, west of Jinzhou, that is, around the Liaoxi Corridor. Because there are not many bandits, he only sent the first battalion of the ninth standard as the main force, and also dispatched a team of cavalry for reconnaissance. This direction is pre- There will be no large-scale war, and the department's anti-bandit force is called the western anti-bandit detachment.

This time, the focus of suppressing bandits is in the north of Jinzhou, where the terrain is complex, with not only a small range of gentle terrain, but also mountains. From the perspective of conventional warfare, this terrain is suitable for mountain troops or infantry troops. As for cavalry, it is difficult to play high mobility.

However, it is not a conventional war, but the suppression of bandits. They don't need to travel hundreds of miles. In addition, those bandits are almost the same, so they adopt a combination of walking and riding, and order the third standard of the riding team to take Meng Enyuan to be responsible for suppressing bandits and fully command the 'Northern Detachment'.

By early September, Meng Enyuan's "Northern Subsuppression Detachment" could use to suppress bandits. There were already two cavalry battalions, a new infantry battalion, and two infantry battalions of Jinzhou patrol battalions, a cavalry machine gun team, and a temporary mortar team that was still under test.

Because there are many troops, and the bandits they face are not Du Lisan. Feng Delin's kind of bandits with thousands of people are mostly small and medium-sized bandits with dozens or more than 100 people, so the troops do not need to be too concentrated. With two cavalry battalions as the core and two machine guns, they form left and right wings, while Meng Enyuan is He led the main infantry and then attacked.

The cavalry of the two battalions are mainly used to disperse reconnaissance and fight small bandits. In order to avoid casualties, they will not conquer those large-scale bandit nests.

In addition, they also play a very important role in intercepting bandits to escape.

The infantry battalion with machine guns and mortars behind is the main force. After all, although the cavalry these days also fight, that is not the advantage of cavalry. One of the advantages of the cavalry is the explosive power of the charge, and the other is the high-speed mobility, but there are few cavalry these days. Playing with sabres and chopping, waving sabres to line up and charge is no longer the main application tactics of cavalry after the Napoleonic Wars.

Nowadays, people basically focus on mobility. After all, the mobility of cavalry has been irreplaceable since the emergence of armored vehicles, shouldering important tasks such as reconnaissance, pursuit and encaping.

This also leads to the smaller and smaller cavalry formation. Most of the cavalry activities are mainly cavalry companies, mainly carrying out tactical tasks such as reconnaissance and disturbances, and rarely engage in frontal combat.

The cavalry units of the Beiyang New Army are much more conservative than the infantry. Although they are inevitably influenced by the German and French cavalry, they are still very conservative. Western cavalry have now adopted a small regiment and Dalian system. A cavalry regiment directly controls several cavalry companies, with more than 100 to 200 people per cavalry company. In between, there is no establishment in the middle. However, there is still a cavalry battalion in the Beiyang Standing Army, which is a standard battalion and battalion (s company), and each cavalry team has only dozens of riders.

Compared with the formation of infantry, artillery and other arms, the formation of Northern cavalry generally remained in the Napoleonic Wars.

Of course, this is just a backward establishment, which does not mean that the tactical application of the Beiyang cavalry is still at that time. The modern Beiyang cavalry is not much different from the cavalry of various countries in terms of tactical application. The only difference is that the cavalry of various countries use cavalry companies as the basic unit to carry out tactical tasks, while the Beiyang New Army is Use more cavalry battalions to perform the same task.

To put it bluntly, the Beiyang New Army relies on its many horses, and the traditional fear of the great powers gave birth to me a cavalry but with two thoughts.

Because the tactical application and even daily training of the Beiyang cavalry force are based on the battalion, when Meng Enyuan led the army to suppress bandits, the troop configuration was also based on the battalion.

Although Meng Enyuan's cavalry still has too many command levels and is not conducive to command, Meng Enyuan's cavalry troops are still configured in the traditional way.

After sending out the two cavalry battalions, Meng Enyuan personally led the infantry to follow him.

Since there is no fixed enemy in this battle, it is basically based on the sweep mode, so the width of Meng Enyuan's troops is very wide, forming a sweep channel of nearly 2,000 troops of more than 30 kilometers. If the periphery of the cavalry is extended to the detection range, then Meng Enyuan will lead the crackdown The control width of the bandit forces has almost reached more than 50 kilometers.

This width of the battlefield is impossible for regular operations, but Meng Enyuan is not carrying out conventional operations, but irregular suppression of bandits, so it is required to achieve a wide range in order to form a huge network to search for the enemy. Once the enemy is met, he will quickly concentrate his forces to annihilate, and continue to move forward after being destroyed.

Meng Enyuan's net-shaling tactics casually encounter a strong enemy army. It doesn't need much. Even if the enemy has an elite cavalry of three or 500 people, it can defeat Meng Enyuan's troops, but what he is facing is not the enemy's elite cavalry, but bandits. Those bandits are stronger. Bandits of hundreds of people can hardly beat any infantry team under Meng Enyuan.

If you have a platoon of 40 or 50 people in the field, you can defeat hundreds of bandits.

The gap between the regular army and bandits is not about how brave they are, and even their firepower is not important. The real gap is discipline. As a typical modern army, what the Beiyang New Army can rely on is nothing more than discipline!

Maybe those bandits are so bloody that they can bravely swing their guns and knives to attack the position of the new army, but the scene waiting for them must be shot to death.

Shortly after the bandit suppression force led by Meng Enyuan went north, good news began to come, which successively attacked and annihilated several small-scale bandits, killed and injured more than 100 bandits, captured more than 10 new guns, more than 100 miscellaneous old guns, and more than 60 horses, and only injured five people in their own army. The above results are only the results of the war report, which should be archived and sent to Baoding by telegram for Yuan Shikai to pass the purpose.

If future generations study this war against bandits, they will only see from various official materials how many bandits have been killed and injured, how many guns and horses have been captured, and how many bandits have been captured. They will never find any official information about how many goods the Third Mixed Association has captured.

Because outside the official war report, any matters related to the seizure of bandits are under the control of the Logistics Department of the Northern Suppression of Bandits led by Zhao Dongping, the head of the Ordnance Section. Even Meng Enyuan, the military commander of the bandit suppression detachment, has no jurisdiction. The group is headed by Zhao Dongping. In addition to these supervisors, many people were transferred from the Ordnance Department, Munitions Department, Education Department, etc.

Unlike ordinary logistics agencies, in addition to the chief officer in charge of the civil affairs, the logistics department of this bandit northward advance detachment also has direct troops under its jurisdiction. Zhao Dongping specially transferred a team from the third mixed into a heavy third battalion to Zhao Dongping. In addition, he also temporarily transferred a large number of chief husbands from several other units, plus Some of the local workers hired in Jinzhou formed a logistics transportation force of more than 600 people.

On the one hand, their task is to naturally serve as the supply of food and ammunition for the Northern Detachment, while the other important task is to take over all the trophies, especially those floating wealth.

After all, this is not a private robbery, but a public robbery that costs a lot of military money.

In order to successfully prevent large-scale corruption of the bandit forces, the logistics department basically installed relevant personnel in the units above each team, and Zhao Dongyun transferred two gendarmerie units to the unformed gendarmerie battalion under the Law Enforcement Section of the Third Mixed Association for the first time, strictly enforcing and law to imitate the private corruption of the army. Behavior.

At the same time, it is also to prevent the following troops from robbing their eyes. It's okay to sweep the bandits. It's not good to do something like robbing rich people.

The Third Mixed Association is a regular army of the imperial court, and it is in the early stage of the establishment of the army. Both Yuan Shikai and Zhao Dongyun themselves pay great attention to discipline. If the Third Mixed Association has anything to disturb the people or even rob the rich, and mix the third into a miasmoiste, Yuan Shikai will not give Zhao Dongyun any good fruit. .

Of course, it is not possible to strictly guard against death. It is impossible to confiscate all the money robbed. Therefore, at the same time, Zhao Dongyun also announced that 70% of the seizures in the process of suppressing bandits were filled into the treasury of the headquarters of the association to purchase ordnance for military expansion, and the remaining three floors were used to be distributed to officers and soldiers participating in the operation. 'Subsidy for the suppression of bandits'.

Although it is impossible to completely avoid the private corruption of soldiers, the discipline of the Beiyang New Army these days is quite good, and there are subsidies for the suppression of bandits, so many soldiers are also willing to take 30% of the money openly.

"Brother Shuchun is still good at playing with cavalry. Now he has been beaten and driven away in only eight days, killing and injuring more than 100 people, but he has only injured five people. I'm afraid I can't find a few cavalry generals like Brother Shuchun in the North Ocean!" Chen Guangyuan looked at the war report and did not hesitate to admire Meng Enyuan in his tone.

Zhao Dongyun beside him can also feel the envy of Chen Guangyuan.

This time, Chen Guangyuan, the commander of the northward detachment, was naturally among the candidates, but later, because the main force of the bandit suppression was cavalry, Zhao Dongyun chose Meng Enyuan to be the commander, which made Chen Guangyuan quite helpless.

The main reason for this is that Chen Guangyuan is not only an infantry officer, but also his reputation in the Third Mixed Association and even in the whole Beiyang New Army today. Chen Guangyuan's reputation lies not in how strong the war is, but in his ability to reorganize the old army and train soldiers.

Maybe there is too much reputation for reorganization of the old army, which causes Zhao Dongyun to use him more for training, and even subconsciously prevent Chen Guangyuan from going to the front line.

Zhao Dongyun said, "This is just the beginning. There are still fights in the future. I hope he won't let me down!"

After saying this, he said, "Now Enyuan has gone to the north, and now there is no one to guard Songshan. In the past two days, you will explain the affairs of the Jinzhou patrol camp, and then move your bid office to Songshan!"

As soon as Chen Guangyuan heard this, joy immediately appeared on his face. He did not expect that Zhao Dongyun would let him go to Songshan and other important places.