Chapter 269 Wang Zhanyuan went north

Located in Bazhou, west of Tianjin, the army that has been wearing the classic blue-gray military uniforms of the North is walking north, and it can be easily judged from their march direction, military uniforms and equipment. This is Wang Zhanyuan's 7th Division.

At this time, although there are countless chaotic armies in China, and there are many troops in blue-gray military uniforms, but the troops that can also be equipped with a water-made 30-year rifle and a 31-year-old artillery have been made in China several times. Only the direct army under Wang Yingkai can appear in Zhili at this moment. Wang Yingkai's only troops are Wang Zhanyuan's 7th Division.

"Master, shall we stop and rest for a day? The brothers have been exhausted after a long journey of a hundred miles. Now they are close to the Langfang area of the Beijing-Feng Railway. The forward reconnaissance cavalry have found traces of Feng's activities. Everything should be careful!" The adjutant next to him immediately said so.

Wang Zhanyuan looked at the long team on the road and pondered for a while before saying, "Well, go down and rest on the spot for three hours!"

Wang Zhanyuan also knew that his troops were exhausted. It was strange that the soldiers were not tired all the way north from Shandong, but Wang Zhanyuan could not stop and rest for several days because the soldiers were weak. Now the situation in Beijing is quite bad. Wang Yingkai almost gave himself every day some time ago. The power generation required him to go north quickly, and then simply sent messengers to pass the order.

From Wang Yingkai's words, Wang Zhanyuan can also feel the danger of the capital.

Since the defeat of Tangshan, even the second brigade of the first division whose strength has not been damaged has been seriously affected, not to mention several other troops. The first brigade of the first division that escaped and fled back now hears a gunshot. Those soldiers have to tremble. The combat effectiveness of the 11th and 12th divisions is in Tangshan. The battle has been fully proved, that is, although the combat effectiveness exceeded that of the Zhili Provincial Army, it was still quite far from those old Beiyang troops. At the beginning, nearly 10,000 people of the 11th Division could not break through the interception of 2,000 dismounting infantry of the Second Cavalry Brigade of the Feng Army, resulting in the failure to reinforce Huanxizhuang. The 12th Division was chased and beaten by the fifth mixed brigade of the Feng army.

In such a big back scene, although there are many troops of the Beijing garrison gathered with the above-mentioned remnants, their morale is worrying, and it is very important that there is a shortage of heavy weapons, especially artillery and heavy machine guns.

At the beginning of the Battle of Tangshan, although most of the troops of the direct army retreated successfully, it did not mean that they could also pull the artillery away. In fact, when the direct army retreated, they often retreated with heavy machine guns and artillery alone. A few rationally knew that they would blow up the artillery and then run, but it was still not fun to stay. The artillery and heavy machine guns were captured by the army.

Nowadays, the total number of direct troops guarding the Beijing Division is not small, with a total of more than 20,000, but the division's artillery is less than 30 guns and 30 heavy machine guns. Most of these heavy weapons are the weapons retained by the Second Brigade of the First Division personally led by Lu Yongxiang. As for the heavy weapons of other troops, they have basically lost one Fine light.

The artillery, heavy machine guns, rifles and ammunition captured by the Feng army in the Battle of Tangshan were enough for the Feng army to arm a Japanese engineer, which shows how much the direct army lost in the Tangshan War.

can also show how weak the guard power of Beijing is now!

And Wang Zhanyuan can't ignore the collapse of the capital. Wang Zhanyuan's position in the direct army is the same as Chen Guangyuan's position in the Feng army, and Wang Yingkai's support is very important to him. In the early years, Wang Yingkai pushed him to the Fifth Association of the Third Town, thus making him a senior general in Beiyang. The ranks of officials.

According to common sense, Wang Zhanyuan has served in the third town under Zhao Dongyun for many years and should have become a member of the Soviet Feng army, but in fact this is not the case. Serving there does not represent anyone. For example, Cao Kun and He Zonglian still served in the 7th town of the Beijing Flag Standing Army, but others still served in the same. Knowing that they were the backbone generals of the Soviet system, they were detained under house arrest by Feng Guozhang and Wang Shizhen at the first time after the Republic last year. Otherwise, the seventh town would have to be taken to the Soviet system by these two people.

Wang Zhanyuan's experience is very similar to Cao Kun and He Zonglian. Although he served in the third town under Zhao Dongyun's command, everyone knows that he is Wang Yingkai's direct confidant. Zhao Dongyun's many years of solicitation of him was not effective. Therefore, during the Republic last year, Zhao Dongyun did not hesitate to deprive Wang Zhanyuan of his military power. First, he was arranged to take up the post of the Ministry of Education, and then he was directly under house arrest. If Zhao Dongyun and Wang Yingkai hadn't reached an agreement in Tianjin last year, it is estimated that Wang Zhanyuan would still be under house arrest by Zhao Dongyun.

As one of the Tianjin agreements, Wang Zhanyuan was immediately reused by Wang Yingkai after being sent out of the country by Zhao Dongyun. Without saying a word, he immediately became the division commander of the 7th Division.

This courtesy and reuse cannot be returned to Wang Zhanyuan!

Even if he saw Wang Yingkai retreating in the Zhifeng War, and the follow-up war situation was not optimistic, Wang Zhanyuan still did not sit by and watch like Zhang Huaizhi last year, and even ignored the suggestion of the Seventh Division's suggestion of "step by step to see" to preserve his strength, and insisted on going north quickly.

The Beiyang generals of this era, especially the older generation of Beiyang generals, still retain a strong atmosphere of Confucian feudal generals. Although they are competing for power and profit, they still attach great importance to some things, such as the word Xinyi and repaying kindness, and these things are for a modern warlord. There is no need or even something that needs to be thrown away.

Therefore, unlike Zhang Huaizhi, it is not without reason that Zhang Huaizhi can develop from Wang Yingkai's subordinate generals to a warlord outside in just one year.

The most critical thing is that last year, Zhang Huaizhi did not act as a subordinate of Wang Yingkai, but as an alliance. First, she controlled Shandong, and then went south this year to control Anhui. Now she is already a boss who actually controls Anhui and controls Shandong administratively and financially.

However, although Wang Zhanyuan was anxious to go north to reinforce reinforcements, as he became closer and closer to the Feng army, he also began to camp step by step. Before he arrived at the capital, he would be defeated by the Feng army.

Don't mention that Zhao Dongyun really thinks so!

I've heard a lot about this kind of thing, but it's the first time I've done it!

"Now the situation in Beijing is stable, and the fourth mixed brigade and the fifth mixed brigade are progressing smoothly. It is expected that it will not take long to repeat the victory of Tongzhou last year!" Yang Deming said, "Although the frontal 9th Division's offensive is blocked, it also restrains most of the remaining main forces under Wang Yingkai, so as to create opportunities for Tongzhou!"

"If we attack according to the existing forces, although it may take more time, it is enough to take it down. In this way, it is completely feasible for us to transfer the 3rd and 10th divisions to participate in the southward battle!"

Zhao Dongyun nodded and said, "Now our troops are tense and we can't surround the enemy like the Tangshan Campaign, so my request this time is to completely defeat Wang Zhanyuan's 7th Division, preferably to hit the department!"

"Now the 3rd Division and 10th Division have been rested for many days, and the 3rd Division has added a considerable number of soldiers and weapons. With the 3rd Division as the main force, it should not be a problem to attack the 7th Division!" Yang Deming continued.

Zhao Dongyun frowned slightly when he heard this: "Only the third division added? Hasn't the 10th Division replenished the lost soldiers and weapons? This tenth division has been resting for many days. Why hasn't it completed the war damage replenishment?

Yang Deming was a little embarrassed, because he was not from the Ministry of Education, the Ordnance Department and the Ministry of Munitions, but he could not manage the losses of the troops to supplement these matters, and he didn't even know the specific situation. He just received a notification from various ministries that how many people the Third Division had been added, and then judged the combat effectiveness of each force, and then arranged He doesn't know the specific situation of the combat plan, at least to supplement the losses.

The scale of the Feng army is now not small, with a total number of more than 100,000 people, and because it has a stable territory in the three eastern provinces, and the military and political system has always been complete, so today's Feng army has become formal, and there are all kinds of rules and regulations. Zhao Dongyun's three eastern provinces patrol envoys, including The government council and the army headquarters have the ability to drive the military power of a country.

In this system, the military takes the army command as the framework, and then sets up a large number of departments in it, and the power of these departments has been allocated, but there is no way to easily break the inherent framework.

For example, in order to consolidate his military power, Zhao Dongyun has begun to weaken the power of the chief officer of the army in the third town, especially in the recruitment and payroll. These two powers originally belonged to the chief officer of the army, but they were taken by Zhao Dongyun. , and the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Ordnance are responsible.

The centralized recruitment, centralized training, and the prohibition of private recruitment of troops are in order to prevent the generals from becoming bigger, and the salary is paid directly distributed to the salary office of the Ordnance Department directly through the soldier account of Fengtian Bank or paid by the salary offices stationed in various units, which also directly avoids soldiers to be recognized by soldiers. It is very important for them to take the paid by the chief officers of the army. Nowadays, it is not the chief officers of the divisions and brigades who are loyal to the army, but Zhao Dongyun. Those soldiers knew that they took Zhao Dongyun's money, ate Zhao Dongyun's food, and wore Zhao Dongyun's clothes.

Zhao Dongyun not only needs the loyalty of the chief officers of the army at all levels, but also the direct loyalty of ordinary soldiers, not just the indirect loyalty.