Chapter 392 The 7th Division of Liangjiang

"Mother, the casualties of the brothers in front of you are a little big, don't you think?" Next to Fang Qingkun, a 30-year-old captain cautiously raised his worries.

Fang Qingkun was also looking at the front line at this time. In his sight, more than 100 people under the first battalion attacking from the right wing had rushed to the enemy's position. At this time, they were engaged in a brutal hand-to-hand battle with the enemy.

On the surface, it seems that the Feng army has taken a great advantage. Most of the fallen are the bodies of the soldiers of the Anhui army. However, although the casualties on their own side are less than those of the other side, hand-to-hand combat is a life for another. Even a strong senior veteran like Chen Quan, after killing the other party several times in a row, there are still He may be killed by a rogue of the other party.

However, the value of new soldiers and veterans is not equal. A soldier who has served for three years and has rich combat experience, even if it is exchanged for the lives of ten new recruits of the Anhui army, is actually not worth it.

In addition, although a company of the Anhui army opposite at this time had suffered heavy casualties and collapsed immediately, there was already a company of Anhui soldiers coming quickly. At that time, the Feng army infantry company, which consumed a lot of physical strength and suffered a lot of casualties, was very likely to be devastating.

Although dozens of casualties in an infantry company will be injured, the skeleton will be there. It won't take long to recover its combat effectiveness after adding a certain number of new recruits. However, if it is devastated, more than half of them are annihilated, or even the combat effectiveness is defeated, then for this company, it is already counted. It has been completely abolished, even if it is replenished with full recruits, but it is still difficult to return to the peak of the past.

So for most of the officers in the main force of the Feng army, it is definitely a loss to change one by one. Even if you change the other two new soldiers alone, it is a big loss.

Fang Qingkun frowned slightly. He also didn't want to see his troops suffer too much.

So although he was unwilling, in the face of further reinforcements from the enemy, and the attacking infantry company may be in greater danger, he was also forced to order the first battalion to suspend the offensive first.

With his order, the infantry company that launched the charge in front slowed down the pace of the attack.

Of course, they did not say that they would turn around and leave directly, but first suspended their initiative to launch an attack, not to pursue those Anhui soldiers who had begun to escape, and then gradually withdrew from the original position under the cover of the firepower of the rear light and heavy machine guns.

As for why they would readily give up the occupied position, that is because it is not a complete position at all. The two sides are fighting, and fierce battles broke out after contact, so neither side has time to dig trenches or even seize some important tactics. There is no way to do it, so the so-called position of both sides is actually the position where the two sides met at the beginning, and some troops even fought directly on the flat ground.

With the suspension of the offensive of the first battalion, Fang Qingkun issued a new series of combat orders. Although he said that the first battalion suspended the attack, it did not mean that he had given up the tactical thinking of taking the initiative to attack.

Since the frontal attack in the sudden battle at the beginning did not defeat the enemy at the first time, he planned to adopt circuitous tactics and spend more time. Compared with the large casualties caused by the positive breakthrough, it is nothing at all.

"The Anhui army opposite is more tenacious than expected. When will the Anhui army emerge another seventh division of Liangjiang!" Fang Qingkun was a little puzzled. He had never heard that there was a relatively good Seventh Division of Liangjiang in the Anhui Army. As far as he knows, at most two main forces in the Anhui Army are at most, that is, the Fourth Division and the Second Mixed Brigade. In addition, the Sixth Mixed Brigade and the Sixth Liangjiang Division have also heard of combat effectiveness. Not bad.

However, the above four troops are the focus of the Military Intelligence Department of the Feng Army. Basically, every move is controlled by the scouts of the Feng army. Among them, the sixth mixed brigade is still in Guangdong, the sixth division of Liangjiang is in Anqing, the second mixed brigade is in Wuhu, and the fourth division is in Jinling.

Fang Qingkun thought that as long as he did not meet the above four troops, he would not be captured by the other provincial troops on the opposite side. However, from the perspective of the previous beach grabbing battle and the current encounter, this seventh division of the two rivers is not simple!

Fang Qingkun said secretly: careless!

If he had known that the 7th Division of Liangjiang, which came out of nowhere, would have had some combat effectiveness, he would have been very cautious at the beginning, and would not have been like before. Although there were no mistakes in various tactical deployments, he still had a great contemptible thinking in his subconscious.

And this kind of light enemy thinking has caused him a lot of trouble in the previous beach-grabbing operations and the current encounters. His total strength of the 33rd Regiment is less than 3,000, and now the total casualties have been more than 200, close to 10% of the casualties.

This proportion is about to reach the limit of casualties for a typical modern warlord force such as the Feng army. The reason why the 33rd Regiment can still take the initiative to launch an attack mainly depends on high morale and training.

But even the main force of the 9th Division has a limit. If the casualty rate is too large, it will seriously affect the combat effectiveness of the army. If it is not done well, the 9th Division will have to become second-rate in the future.

In order to avoid excessive casualties, Fang Qingkun quickly gave up the idea of a direct frontal breakthrough, but changed tactics and prepared to send troops to roundabout the attack.

Although the Ninth Division is not famous for its circuitous attack in the Feng army, the Ninth Division, as one of the three main forces of the Feng army, in addition to Lin Yongquan, has a relatively high tactical literacy of other middle and senior officers, and some battalion-level small-scale circuitous encircling tactics are also used frequently. , and it is often more effective.

When Fang Qingkun paid attention to the Seventh Division of Liangjiang and began to change offensive tactics, the situation on the battlefield immediately changed.

The troops of the First Battalion of the Feng Army suspended their attack, but the second battalion began to detour southwest along the edge of the rain.

The commander of the Anhui army on the opposite side also found this and also dispatched the corresponding troops to intercept.

Seeing this, Fang Qingkun scolded in his heart again. When did the ordinary provincial army in the Anhui army become so clever that he could actually see his roundabout tactics at a glance.

But what can you see? The question is, can you block it?

The whole battalion rushes forward and detours. If the Anhui army on the opposite side wants to block it, at least one battalion will have to be sent, and in the process of the movement of both sides, the organizational ability of the troops is quite high.

is also a circuitous interspersed battle, but if two different armies are carried out, the effect is completely different. It does not test the level of equipment, and it does not even test the soldiers' shooting accuracy and physical fitness, but more consideration is given to the organizational ability of the troops.

Just like the People's Liberation Army in later generations, why they can frequently carry out encirclement tactics is because of their very high organizational ability. On the contrary, few troops in those National Revolutionary Army dare to implement this tactic. Why? After they send out their troops, God knows whether they can do it or not. The arrival of Licheng.

Although the organizational ability of the Feng army is not as good as those famous strong armies, as far as the contemporary domestic level is concerned, at least much better than the Anhui army and the Southern Federation, with perfect military organization, high officer quality, and high training level of soldiers. These are why the contemporary Feng army can The reason to enter the customs to defeat the direct army and the Lu army, and sweep Zhili, Shandong, Jiangbei and Henan.

To be precise, the Feng army trained by Zhao Dongyun is a product of the Anhui army under Duan Qirui's command, but there are more old Beiyang troops in the Feng army. After the end of the Qing Dynasty, there were only a few troops trained in full accordance with the standards of the Beiyang New Army. Seven towns of the Beiyang Standing Army and the two towns of the Fengtian Standing Army, plus There are only nine towns, but Zhao Dongyun controls three towns alone. Duan Qirui, Wang Yingkai and Wang Shizhen all have only one town.

It can be said that these three towns are the real reason for Zhao Dongyun's rise, not that Zhao Dongyun himself is a traveler, who can open the protagonist's aura to instantly improve the combat effectiveness of his troops several times.

The old backbone troops in the three towns are enough to provide a large number of high-quality officers for the subsequent expansion of the Feng army. At the same time, they almost accepted most of the essence of the direct army after entering the customs, which further increased the level of officers and the number of veterans of the Feng army.

Half of the new army officers trained in the pre-Qing Dynasty served in the Feng army, and the rest served in the Anhui army, the Jin army, the E army and the southern federal army respectively.

And these are the fundamental reasons why the Feng army can control northern China and suppress Duan Qirui.

It's not that Zhao Dongyun has come up with several new tactics, and then some mortars and light machine guns will allow the Feng army to sweep the world. Weapons are only a secondary reason.

Relying on high-quality officers and a large number of veterans, Fang Qingkun can launch a more difficult roundabout offensive. However, when the 25th Regiment of the Seventh Division of the Two River also sent corresponding troops to intercept, the weakness of the Seventh Division of the Two Rivers' poor organizational ability was exposed.

Although the Feng officers on the opposite side tried their best to maintain the interception steps of the troops, they still could not let the battalion that went to intercept be organized smoothly, and soon the two infantry companies were out of touch.

At this time, the commanders of the Feng army on the front line clearly saw this opportunity, so the next moment, the first battalion of the Feng army, which was still running fast and roundabout, quickly turned the muzzle and then launched a direct air attack on the two infantry companies of the Anhui army.