Chapter 275 Bazhou and Shijiazhuang

The Beiyang Army in Yuan Shikai's era imitated the German army. Nowadays, with the expansion of the scale of the Feng army under Zhao Dongyun, there are more and more German officers returning to serve in the Feng army. In the process of building the Feng army, it is inevitably influenced by the German army. This influence is almost in almost all aspects from inside to inside. .

Not only is the almost uniform German standard on weapons and equipment, but also military uniforms with a strong German style.

For example, almost all weapons are German-based. The 7.92 bullet caliber is German. The Type 88 rifle used is also an imitation of the German 1888 Committee rifle. The heavy machine gun is also mainly imported or imitated German MG01, and the artillery is also imported from Germany's 1903 model 75hao. The rice field gun and the German export version of the 75mm mountain cannon are the main, and the 75mm barrel retreat gun imitated by Fuyuan Machine Factory is also Germany's 75mm mountain cannon.

This is even more so in military uniforms. Not long ago, Germany just changed into a new gray military uniform. Fengjun immediately followed up and changed the color of military uniforms and related details, and launched a standard military uniform different from other warlord troops in China. Among them, the regular uniforms were changed from winter blue and summer to gray in all seasons. This color is also known as later generations. The well-known Beiyang army uniform and began to distribute tweed coats to officers last winter.

As for the dress top, it is the dark blue of the Beiyang era, but the trousers are changed to black!

In addition, there are other changes in details. In a word, after half a year of changing military uniforms, Feng Jun's appearance has become very similar to the Beiyang Army in the eyes of later generations.

As for the troops of other warlords in China, they are still using the military uniform colors of the winter blue summer soil of the old Beiyang era, so it is difficult to distinguish the troops of other warlords in terms of appearance, but the troops of Fengjun and other warlords in China are very easy to distinguish.

In addition to military uniforms and equipment, many tactical details of the Feng army are also deeply influenced by the German army. If Zhao Dongyun hadn't come up with a new infantry tactics in recent years, it is estimated that the group of officers returning from Germany would have turned the Feng army into a replica of the German army.

If the equipment, appearance and tactics are not only the Feng army learning from Germany, but also the troops of other warlords in Japan and even other domestic warlords are outside the German army, then the introduction and attention of the staff system is the biggest institutional changes in the Feng army affected by the German army.

The domestic armies even include Japan. At present, their staff system is incomplete and there are no staff officers, but the specific operations are basically decided by the chief officer of the unit.

However, the combat command in the Feng army, especially the strategic command, is basically formulated by the staff officers!

Especially at the level of division and mixed brigade, they are equipped with a large number of combat staff officers, who are composed of senior and excellent young officers, which is enough to give the most reasonable and perfect operational suggestions to the chief officers of the army.

And the combat office in the headquarters is the most obvious symbol of the Feng army's staff system!

You should know that many of the combat plans of the Feng army from last year to now are basically from the hands of the combat department, which has led to the rise of the position of Major General Yang Deming, the director of the combat department, in the Feng army system.

To put it rudely, Yang Deming's importance in the Feng army is to surpass those division commanders and brigade commanders. To a certain extent, the strength of the combat office also made Yang Deming's demeanor have changed his supervist Fang Biyong, the chief of staff.

Therefore, when Zhao Dongyun asked Yang Deming, the other generals present also turned their eyes to Yang Deming.

If Yang Deming had been last year, he might have been timid in the face of such an occasion, but I don't know how many times he has attended similar military meetings since last year, even more than Fang Biyong, the chief of staff.

He stood up, walked to the map panel in front of him as usual, picked up the command list and pointed to the direction of Bazhou and said, "At present, it is well known that the 7th Division of the enemy Wang Zhanyuan is in Bazhou, and our army is fighting with the fifth brigade of Kongxi North, which is fighting in this direction, and the sixth brigade is urgently reinforcement from Yongqing. In the middle, the infantry troops of the forward are expected to arrive within one day, and the artillery and subsequent heavy troops are expected to arrive within two days.

In addition, Xu Bangjie's 10th Division has urgently gone south from the Liuquan line. Although the speed of marching south is affected by the lack of carriages and mules, its forward infantry troops are also expected to arrive at the periphery of Bazhou tomorrow night. It is expected that the artillery units of the Ministry can also be transported to Ba by dawn the day after tomorrow night. Outside the state!

With the reinforcements of the two divisions of our army, the safety of the fifth brigade can be guaranteed!"

Hearing Yang Deming's words, everyone here nodded slightly. Although they were also clear about the situation of the Bazhou war, it was clearer to hear Yang Deming say it. The people who were worried about the safety of the Fifth Brigade also did not refute after thinking about it.

Only heard Yang Deming continue: "According to the battle plan submitted by General Chen, the 6th Brigade of our headquarters is required to detour southwest to attack the southeast of Bazhou. Although the 7th Division of the enemy may retain reserve troops in this direction, it should not exceed one regiment!"

Although Wang Zhanyuan's 7th Division is fully equipped, it is only the strength of the four regiments of the two brigades. There is one regiment that directly restrains the fifth brigade, and there is another brigade that detours the north to attack the flank of the fifth brigade. Then in the southeast of Bazhou, that is, the right wing of the seventh division can have a regiment. Not bad.

Yang Deming continued: "When the Sixth Brigade is detouring, the division of the Third Division is heavy, and engineering and other troops continue to go south, and are expected to arrive at the Fifth Brigade the day after tomorrow to support the department!

At the same time, the 10th Division directly pressed the enemy's 13th Brigade from the north. The enemy's long attack on the 5th brigade was attacked by the 10th Division. At that time, the 10th Division and the 5th Brigade will be able to counterattack the headquarters.

At this time, Meng Enyuan said, "What if Wang Zhanyuan withdraws the 13th Brigade?"

"In this case, we need to rely on the Sixth Brigade to quickly break through the southern line and cut off the enemy's rear!" Yang Deming did not stop here, but continued:

"The strength of the two divisions of our army is to contain the enemy with a fifth brigade, and many other attacks on the flanks of the enemy. Many colleagues in the combat department believe that this move is expected to inflict Wang Zhanyuan's seventh division in one fell swoop, and no matter how bad it is, it can seriously inflict the enemy brigade!"

Yang Deming did not arrogantly say that he could encircle and annihilate the whole seventh division in one fell swoop. In fact, he could not surround the seventh division with the strength of the two divisions of the Feng army today. He could only use the old method to contain a small number of troops, and the main force launched a circuitous attack from the flank, thus causing a multi-sided attack, as long as the flank of the 7th Division was one Collapse, then the collapse of the entire 7th Division line is inevitable.

As for how many results can be harvested after the enemy collapses, it depends on the actual situation.

"If our army can successfully hit the 7th Division, then the follow-up 3rd Division and 10th Division will be able to chase south all the way without giving the time for the 7th Division to reorganize. At that time, it will be able to chase Shandong all the way, and then control Shandong, and may even seize Jinan in front of the northbound troops such as Zhang Huaizhi and Duan Qirui."

Yang Deming did not say what to do after entering Jinan, because even if everything goes well, the Shandong war will take ten days and a half months later. At that time, the Feng army's entry into customs will also need a large-scale and long-term rest to replenish the lost soldiers and equipment, and more importantly, replenish ammunition and other supplies, and then It can restore its strong combat effectiveness and fight against Zhang Huaizhi, Duan Qirui, Wang Shizhen, Wang Ruxian and other troops going north.

And these follow-up battles are still too far away for the army, and there is no need to discuss them today.

After listening to Yang Deming's words, Zhao Dongyun did not make a decision at the first time, but unexpectedly asked, "Where is Hua Zhenji's second cavalry brigade now?" What's the situation in Shijiazhuang?

Fang Biyong replied, "According to the news sent back yesterday by the Second Cavalry Brigade, the Second Cavalry Brigade has successfully arrived in Dingzhou, more than 70 kilometers away from the front line of Shijiazhuang. However, the Second Cavalry Brigade currently has great non-combat losses and a large number of injuries to horses. The brigade is currently less than 1,000 riders, and the rest of the cavalry Wu Shuai, who was walking south in Shijiazhuang, called this morning, saying that the situation had reached the last crisis!"

Hearing that there were only less than a thousand riders left in the second cavalry brigade, Zhao Dongyun's eyebrows jumped. Although it was expected that the second cavalry brigade would suffer a lot of non-combat losses in the process of going south, the loss still made him heartbroken. Before the second brigade entered the customs, it was full of nearly 2,000 riders. In the Tangshan Campaign, when it went south to Langfang, due to the long Hundreds of horses have been lost, and now hundreds of horses have been lost, with less than a thousand horses left. It can be said that this second cavalry brigade has been injured. After this battle, I am afraid that more than a thousand horses will be added to recover its combat effectiveness.

But the heartache turned back to heartache, but Zhao Dongyun did not intend to give an order to the Second Cavalry Brigade to slow down their pace! Compared with the Battle of Bazhou, Shijiazhuang was more critical. Wu Fengling suffered a lot of losses under the fierce attack of Wang Ruxian's troops. Wu Fengling's telegram to Zhao Dongyun said that he had lost nearly 2,000 troops, which was more than Wu Fengling's total losses in Shanxi for half a year, and used words such as critical war situation several times. Zhao Dongyun estimated If his reinforcements are no longer available, and Wang Shizhen's brigade goes north, Wu Fengling is very likely to be unable to hold on.

Once Shijiazhuang is lost, the whole Zhili war situation will fall into a situation that is extremely unfavorable to the Feng army.

So even if the horses of the second cavalry brigade are killed, more than 2,000 people of the second cavalry brigade have to arrive in Shijiazhuang to reinforce Wu Fengling's headquarters!

The second cavalry brigade set out from Langfang and passed through Liuquan, Dingxing, Baoding and Dingzhou. On the way, it also fought a small battle in Baoding and defeated a regiment of the provincial army deployed in Baoding. It has been five days since its departure and has attacked 200 kilometers. This speed is actually very fast for the modern light cavalry. .