Chapter 198 Increase

Before entering the customs, the preliminary battle plan agreed by Zhao Dongyun, Wang Yingkai and Duan Qirui took how to deal with the interference of other countries as the main goal. Relatively speaking, how to conquer the capital is just a secondary goal. As for killing the Qing Dynasty after conquering the capital, it is not theirs. The main goal is, and at best, it can only be said that it will be easy at that time.

So although Wang Duan and Zhao have a lot of troops in their hands, such as Zhao Dongyun's three full-staffed towns, why did they only draw a third town and temporarily organize a first cavalry to enter the customs? It is because Zhao Dongyun needs to leave two towns in Fengtian to guard against the changes of the Japanese and Russian armies.

Similarly, when attacking the capital, Wang Duan and Zhao also attached great importance to the great powers of various countries in Tianjin. Duan Qirui left a mark in Langfang, and Wang Yingkai also left a mark near Tianjin Horse Factory, and Zhao Dongyun directly deployed the First Cavalry Association to the south, although it was still far from Tianjin. Dozens of kilometers, but the purpose is very obvious, that is, to guard against Tianjin and protect Tangshan in the rear.

The above three people coincidentally made this kind of military deployment, including factors such as stabilizing the rear and keeping the retreat of the army, but the most important thing is to prepare for the intervention of the great powers.

In order to prepare for the possible intervention forces of various powers, Wang Duan and Zhao can be said to have deployed a considerable number of troops, especially Zhao Dongyun, the main force of Japan and Russia, who was restrained a large number of troops in Jinzhou and Tangshan, which can be said to have seriously affected the attack on the capital.

Of course, this also has something to do with Zhao Dongyun's previous optimism. He had a lot of confidence before entering the customs. He thought that even if there was the betrayal of Feng Guozhang and Wang Shizhen, it should not be a problem for him to conquer the capital with Duan Qirui and Wang Yingkai, so what he considered most before and after entering the customs was not how to conquer the capital. , but how to compete with Duan Qirui and Wang Yingkai for the position of the lord of Beiyang after entering the customs.

But he didn't expect that Wang Shizhen and Feng Guozhang also played the Russian army during the Russo-Japanese War and played the trench defense war, making themselves like the Japanese army in the previous two years. You can't beat the sixth town, but several small-scale battles fought in the front can also win small, and no matter from that perspective. , they all occupy the strategic initiative, and the opposite sixth town has fallen into a very passive situation.

But it's bullshit to say that you can easily capture the enemy's defense line. In front of trenches, machine guns and barbed wire, even if the combat effectiveness of the third town is higher than that of the sixth town, there is no good way. If you want to attack forcibly, you basically kill the enemy 1,000 and lose 800.

In this case, if Zhao Dongyun wants to gain something on the front line of Tongzhou, or even quickly break through the enemy's defense line and enter the capital, then he has to consider other ways.

In fact, there are not many methods that can be adopted. The first is to increase troops. In other words, it is to continue to transfer troops from outside the customs, and then form a greater military advantage. The second is to draw the First Cavalry Association to join the sequence of attacking the Beijing Division.

However, whether it is the dispatch of foreign troops into customs or the dispatch of the First Cavalry Association, there is a question involved, that is, what if countries send troops to interfere when their heads are hot?

This possibility is actually not small!

Since the year of Gengzi, during the Guangzong mutiny in 1902, the countries sent troops to intervene. At the beginning, the countries had gathered more than 6,000 troops to go south. Otherwise, Yuan Shikai would not have been so nervous at the beginning and directly sent his new army to Guangzong to suppress it, which was to prevent the countries from interfering in the army again. To launch a war under the pretext.

It's only 1906. It's only been a few years, so whether it's Zhao Dongyun, Duan Qirui or Wang Yingkai, in fact, they are preventing countries from repeating Gengzi's old events.

Once they find an excuse, they may not have come back the Eight-Nation Alliance. At that time, it is impossible for Britain, France and Germany to send too many troops in the coalition because of the distance. It is estimated that it is only a few hundred people, but Japan and Russia can send a large army here.

Although Japan and Russia fought so miserably in the past few years, but not long after the end of the Russo-Japanese War, although the Japanese and Russian armies have withdrawn from the three eastern provinces according to the agreement, the Japanese army still has hundreds of thousands of troops in * and the Russian army in Vladivostok. It can completely make another march in the year of Gengzi, and even save mobilization.

And once their interference is successful and forces China to sign the second Xinchou Treaty, the benefits they can reap will be very large, so from the perspective of interests alone, it is very possible for them to send troops to intervene.

Considering military and state affairs, we have to look forward and backward, be cautious and cautious, so Zhao Dongyun would rather only take the third town and the first cavalry into the customs than reduce the defense force of Jinzhou. After entering the customs, he would rather take only a third town to attack the Beijing division, and let the First Cavalry Association return to the front line of Tangshan and Tianjin.

How to say? Ten thousand steps back, Zhao Dongyun can't lose anything if he can't beat the capital. At worst, he will be deadlocked for a period of time and then negotiate. No matter how hard he talks about it, he can't go there.

If he is really unlucky and defeated, he will at most escape back to the northeast, but as long as he locks the Shanhaiguan, the disputes in the customs will not affect him. At that time, he will still have a chance to enter the customs for a few more years.

But there is a premise that he has to guard his hometown Northeast first, so it is impossible for him to transfer the main force of the Feng army to Guan. He is not like a homeless dog like Zhang Xueliang's prodigal son.

The most basic requirement of a qualified warlord is to defend his territory, and then you can talk about unification, the country and the nation. If you give the territory directly to others without firing a shot, no matter whether you give it to Ri himself or Jiang Guangtou, it is unforgivable!

When the warlord treats it like this, it's bullshit. Just hang yourself.

Well, in the late Qing Dynasty and early decades, Zhang Xueliang was the opposite of domestic warlords. Well, it's not that he was good or bad, but because he was so stupid that he had to doubt whether his IQ was normal or not.

Zhao Dongyun's IQ is naturally normal, so he ran to the customs to set off this bloody storm, but in fact, his top priority is the safety of his own territory!

"The First Cavalry Association is not easy to move. After all, Tangshan can't be guarded. Among other things, even for Fuyuan Machinery Factory, we have to deploy a certain number of troops there!" Zhao Dongyun frowned and said.

However, Yang Deming on the side continued: "The First Cavalry Association is a mobile force. If it is limited to the southern line, I'm afraid it will limit their combat effectiveness. If the Tangshan front line really needs to be guarded, can you transfer another bid from the Shanhaiguan to help defend Tangshan. The vacancy in Tangshan You can transfer another standard deployment from outside the customs!"

Yang Deming continued to insist on recommending to Zhao Dongyun to withdraw troops to reinforce the front line of the Beijing Division.

Zhao Dongyun didn't say anything after listening to this, but turned his head and asked Fang Biyong, "What's going on with the Fourth Mixed Association and the Fifth Mixed Association?"

Fang Biyong said: "Now the Fourth Mixed Association has accepted two battalions of recruits and artillery teams from the Education Department. It is currently undergoing emergency training in Jinzhou. The Fifth Mixed Association has received a battalion of recruits. According to the order of the headquarters, it is currently preparing to go to Fengtian and Liaoyang for deployment."

Zhao Dongyun nodded after listening: "It seems that there is still some progress in the editing work!"

The fourth mixed association and the fifth mixed association are typical emergency products. After Yuan Shikai was assassinated, Zhao Dongyun waved his hand to expand the two mixed associations, and in order to form an army as soon as possible, he adopted the traditional method of expanding the Beiyang army, which is to directly transfer some active troops as the backbone, and then expand it on this basis. Support new troops.

The Fourth Mixed Association and the Fifth Mixed Association have drawn an infantry standard and an artillery team in the first town of Fengtian and the second town respectively, and a few other auxiliary arms have also been transferred as a basis for further expansion.

"It's not possible if there are no regular troops in Fengtian and Liaoyang. The fifth mixed association still has to continue to defend. As for the fourth mixed association!" Zhao Dongyun paused slightly. He was going to send the fourth mixed association to Yingkou for defense, but now the troops in Guannei are tense, so he can only change the original plan.

"Give He Zonglian a call and ask him to lead his department to move to Shanhaiguan!"

"Let the two battalions of the twelfth bid move from Shanhaiguan to Tangshan!"

"The cavalry association of Lao Meng went north to cooperate with the battle of the third town!"

The core of this deployment is to coordinate He Zonglian's fourth mixed to Shanhaiguan, but this fourth mixed association is said to be the mixed association, but in fact, there is only an infantry mark that can be beaten now, and the newly recruited troops have not yet had time to train!

Thanks to the railway inside and outside the customs, Zhao Dongyun mobilized his troops very quickly. After He Zonglian's fourth mixed association received Zhao Dongyun's electric order, he boarded the train to Shanhaiguan to take over the defense, and the twelfth standard battalions originally stationed in Shanhaiguan also continued to march west after handing over defense, and then arrived Dashan officially took over the defense of Tangshan.

And Meng Enyuan's Cavalry Association was finally able to pull out and quickly maneuver north. However, they did not stop in Tongzhou, but continued to go north to the Mapo area, and then turned west and went straight into Shahe, Yangfang and other places. After continuously cutting off several small-scale stations in the north of the capital, they succeeded in the north of the capital. The Ministry was also blocked and met with the first town cavalry unit of Wang Yingkai, who launched an attack from the west, in the area of Sujiao.

At this time, the whole capital was completely surrounded by the allied forces of Wang Duan and Zhao!