Chapter 258 Inspection of the Front

"Lu Yongxiang's first division is a hard bone, so we don't care about him first. Nowadays, we can't always think of attacking. We should be good at roundabout operations. This North China Plain is flat and conducive to the mobility of troops. Lu Yongxiang is only 40,000 people. How big can he defend? If he can keep a width of 20 kilometers, we will bypass 30 kilometers away. If he can keep 30 kilometers, we will bypass 50 kilometers away. If they leave the fortifications to intercept us, it will become a field battle, and it will be much easier to fight.

After listening to the discussion of these generals just now, the words are full of strong attack inside and outside. Zhao Dongyun feels that it is necessary to let his generals know the importance of 'circular attack'. Don't always want to fight is a strong attack.

In fact, Zhao Dongyun is very dissatisfied with the quality of Fengjun's generals, especially senior generals. Relatively speaking, the quality of Fengjun's low-level officers can only be said to be average, because a large number of Fengjun's low-level officers basically came from the accelerated class in the era of the Third Town Suiying School and Fengtian Wubei School. As for Fengtian Wubei School\Dongsan The formal class in the era of the provincial army officer school, especially the academic system is relatively long. In fact, it has just graduated this year, and the middle-level officer group is the best group in the Fengjun system because of a large number of international students and advanced students. Very few are international students.

Although the quality of these people is already good in China, their vision tends to be conservative, and the outbreak of the Russo-Japanese War has shocked them too much, so they are deeply affected by the Russo-Japanese War when commanding operations. Specifically, the tactical deployment tends to defend and combat. Well, to be honest, The military's defensive ability is indeed quite good, otherwise it would not have relied on a seventh mixed brigade to block the attack of the first division and the first mixed brigade a few days ago.

But in terms of attack, first of all, senior generals generally lack the idea of active attack and always want to let the enemy rush up and die, just like in the Russo-Japanese War. The limited attack is often the same as the Japanese army, using repeated frontal charges to defeat the enemy.

As for roundabout operations, to be honest, there are only a few senior generals who are good at roundabout tactics. Gu Lanyu, the only commander of the 6th Brigade, who has experience in large-scale roundabout command. Even if the others play roundabout attacks, they still hold a certain front line of the enemy and attack the enemy sideways, such as just said to attack joy. Zhuang is the most obvious example.

What is a roundabout battle? To put it bluntly, it is to bypass the enemy and sneak to run to the back of the enemy and stab it with a knife, instead of concentrating troops to attack the enemy's flank. After making a breakthrough, launching an attack on the enemy's main position is called a circuitous battle.

"The most important thing to launch this attack is to avoid fighting with the enemy's main force in the early stage. Our troops are sufficient. Even if we divide troops to attack, it is enough to put huge pressure on the enemy in the front of Tangshan!" Zhao Dongyun said, "The combat department should pay more attention to make more of our military strength when formulating relevant combat plans!"

The military meeting soon came to an end. On the surface, it did not have any direct effect, but in fact, the discussion of this military meeting was only to let the War Office formulate a follow-up battle plan to provide more opinions.

The Feng army adopts a large number of staff system, and the existence of the combat office under the staff department strengthens the power and role of the staff. Although the combat office is only a department-level agency, Yang Deming, the chief officer, is just a young general, but in fact, the department has great power and is almost in charge. After controlling the command power of the whole Feng army and the Operations Department formulated a battle plan, then Meng Enyuan, the boss in the army, had to obey the orders obediently.

Of course, various combat plans are still formulated and approved by Zhao Dongyun on the surface, and the Operations Department is just an agency that provides combat advice.

But no one can deny the huge power of the combat department. This feeling of controlling the whole army cannot be experienced by Meng Enyuan and Lin Yongquan.

Several middle-time generals in the Feng army, such as Meng Enyuan commanded an army, Chen Guangyuan and Lin Yongquan commanded a division, but Yang Deming, a major general, commanded the whole Feng army.

As for Zhao Dongyun himself, he only grasped the general direction. His job is to deal with the military and political affairs of the whole eastern three provinces and grasp the strategic development direction. In short, Zhao Dongyun's job is to decide when to beat whom, and how to fight is the business of Yang Deming and Meng Enyuan.

After all, Zhao Dongyun is not Napoleon. His purpose of personally leading the Second Army is not to personally command the army, but to control the power of the army, and also to improve the morale of the army.

The supreme commander came to the front and led the soldiers to fight together, which had a great positive effect on the morale improvement of the troops.

This is also the reason why Zhao Dongyun visited the front line on the second day after Zhao Dongyun arrived in Tangshan. Just after the military meeting, Zhao Dongyun took a vote of generals to inspect the front line not to understand the actual situation, but to boost morale.

In the face of gunfire, Zhao Dongyun and other senior generals came to the front line in person, talked cordially with the basic commanders of the front line, shook hands with the soldiers' representatives one by one, and the accompanying military reporters took photos in time. Before long, the official mouthpiece of the three eastern provinces and Fengjun, Fengtian Daily, will publish Zhao Dongyun's presence in person. Line, patrol the front, and express condolences to the soldiers.

Fengtian Daily, which was founded when Zhao Dongyun was General Shengjing in 1905. From the beginning, the newspaper has become the official mouthpiece of the three eastern provinces. With Zhao Dongyun's control of the whole eastern three provinces and the Tangshan region in Guannei, the publication of the newspaper is almost everywhere inside and outside Guanguan, and Huludao Business Daily has become a foreign customs. One of the two major newspapers in the district, and Huludao Business Daily is also semi-official. At first, it was only a small-scale handwritten newspaper used by Huludao Industrial Zone to publish business information, but it soon added various business advertisements and international business information. Up to now, you can't help but see a lot of domestic business information, and you can also see London. Some business information in international markets such as New York, such as the London market of soybeans, which has a significant impact on the three eastern provinces, is the focus of many people's attention. Basically, it has become a habit for those capitalists in the north to read a Huludao business newspaper every day for the past two years.

Compared with the Huludao Business Daily, which is full of advertising and money, Fengtian Daily will be much more serious. Basically, half of the content is published by publishing official news and interpretation of these news, while the remaining half is publishing various major news at home and abroad, except for a very small number of merchants who can afford to pay a large price. In addition to advertisements, there are few advertisements on many pages, and Fengtian Daily is different from other large and small newspapers in modern China, that is, Fengtian Daily does not engage in those so-called debates. This is a fairly serious pure news newspaper.

Contemporary domestic newspapers have an obvious feature, that is, debate. What do you talk about to save China and so on? Most of the famous newspapers in history, especially those run by revolutionaries, are not newspapers, because they are all It's about how incompetent the imperial court or the Beiyang government is. This kind of carrier of newspaper has nothing to do with news. Anyway, Chinese people will never see any news from these newspapers. Basically, you scold me and I scold you.

So at the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the People's Republic of China, the Chinese people read newspapers instead of news, but quarrels, as if the revolutionary party and the constitutionalists were singing on the stage, and the Chinese people sat on the bench and nibbled on melon seeds to watch the play.

However, Fengtian Daily does not have these debates. It mainly publishes news. The occasional interpretation is only a detailed explanation of the policies issued by the three eastern provinces, but it will not publish critical articles, which makes the newspaper an important source for many people to understand the domestic situation. It can be said that the people of the three eastern provinces are The understanding of the internal situation and the understanding of the direct war is almost all from Fengtian Daily.

At this time, Fengtian Daily made false news at the end of two days and people occasionally believed it. For example, Marshal Zhao made great power one day and personally led his troops to attack the enemy, and personally hit the direct artillery fire gun eight kilometers away with a "gold-plated diamond plate" Fuzo 88 rifle, causing shells to kill thousands of enemies. Well, for more details, please refer to the language textbooks of later dynasties, mainland China, Taiwan and other regions.

Leaving aside the reports that obviously elevate Zhao Dongyun and Fengjun, Fengtian Daily's report on current affairs is still quite timely and accurate. This is not only for officials at all levels in the three eastern provinces who read this newspaper, but also people from other provinces in China to learn about the latest developments of Fengjun and Zhao Dongyun through the newspaper. Reasons for political claims.

There is no doubt that the news of Zhao Dongyun's visit to the front line a few days later will make people realize that Zhao Dongyun is not a politician who only sits behind, but also a military commander on the front line, which has a great positive effect on improving Zhao Dongyun's personal image.

After inspecting the front line, Zhao Dongyun inspected the affiliated hospital of Fuyuan Machinery Factory in the evening. As can be seen from the name, it is the affiliated hospital of Fuyuan Machinery Factory. Fuyuan Machinery Factory, including the arsenal and steel factory, has more than 10,000 workers, together with the families of the workers. There are 40,000 to 50,000 people, and so many people will always get sick. With the establishment of Fuyuan Machinery Factory, Tangshan Iron and Steel Factory and many supporting small and medium-sized factories, coal mines, iron mines, etc., Tangshan has formed a preliminary small-scale industrial city.

In order to solve the problems of the lives of its employees and their families, Fuyuan Machinery Factory has established a series of affiliated institutions, such as Fuyuan Machinery Factory affiliated primary schools, technical schools, affiliated hospitals, and even affiliated water companies and restaurants.

After the outbreak of the war, front-line soldiers and officers suffered casualties one after another, while the medical strength of the Feng army was actually relatively weak. In the past few days, the 7th Mixed Brigade Battlefield Hospital and the 3rd Division Battlefield Hospital were overcrowded, and there was an extreme shortage of drugs and medical personnel, so many casualties were transferred to affiliated hospitals and several other civilian or church hospitals in Tangshan. Among them, the affiliated hospitals had good technical ability, good environment, and beds There are not many, so it is specially used as an officer hospital. After the officers are injured, they will be sent here for further treatment in the front-line field hospital for further treatment. After completing the treatment, they will be transferred to a number of officer sanatoriums in Tangshan, Shenyang and Jinzhou for rehabilitation.

Compared with the excellent treatment conditions obtained by officers, ordinary soldiers are much worse. Many wounded soldiers on the front line just hurriedly bandage and fight again, and often can only be treated in the field hospital after serious injuries. Whether they can survive or not depends on themselves. It is impossible to recover from the injury and live in a special nursing home like an officer.

No matter what era, although they are also soldiers, officers and soldiers are two distinct groups. In the eyes of many officers, the soldiers under them are just a group of numbers.

When Zhao Dongyun walked into this affiliated hospital, he also sighed that although this affiliated hospital is not large, the environment looks much better than that of several hospitals in Shenyang, and the equipment is also quite complete. Alas, this is the one who is rich and easy to do. Behind him is a monster like Fuyuan Machinery Factory. This affiliated doctor Naturally, the hospital is not short of money.

And Fengtian Hospital, which I made in Shenyang last year by relying on official grants and social fundraising, is now just a fool. The only reason is that it has no money!

With a sigh, Zhao Dongyun walked into the hospital. After meeting the person in charge of the hospital, he went to the ward to visit the injured officers.