Chapter 277 Wang Zhanyuan's sense of crisis

In the temporary headquarters of the 5th Brigade in the eastern part of Bazhou, Kong Guanbei looked at the order of the division sent by the messengers, and his eyebrows could not be stretched for a long time.

"The latest order of the division requires us to resist the enemy's attack and delay the enemy to buy time for the roundabout of the friendly army!" Kong Guanbei's voice just fell.

Shi Congbin, the commander of the 9th Regiment below, showed doubt: "The Sixth Brigade will not come to reinforce us, but to make a detour?"

Pei Lianying, the commander of the 10th Regiment, said, "Although I can understand the urgent psychology of the division to make a roundabout attack on the enemy's 7th Division, I'm afraid the situation on our side will not be very good!"

The 5th Brigade faced the fierce attack of the 7th Division. The front defense line was okay. The enemy only invested in an infantry regiment, but behind the side, the enemy invested in the entire 13th Brigade. A few days ago, the right wing of the 5th Brigade was defeated and was finally forced to retreat to the main position.

In this way, although the Fifth Brigade is conducive to defense after shrinking, it also considerably compresses the combat space, and the 7th Division can gather more troops to attack the Fifth Brigade.

And what makes the Fifth Brigade feel stressed is not only the disadvantage in strength, not even the dilemma of multi-line combat, but the 7th Division on the opposite side has a great understanding of the tactics of the Fifth Brigade, and the offensive tactics adopted are almost replica of the army's offensive tactics.

Although the Feng army hit the enemy like this, it was still the first time that it was beaten by the enemy like this, which led to the Fifth Brigade being extremely uncomfortable in the face of the attack of the 7th Division. Many defense tactics against the first division of the direct army, the first mixed brigade and other troops did not work.

Before finding a good defense method, the officers of the Fifth Brigade, such as Kong Guanbei, often retreated quickly when the situation was bad, in order to avoid excessive casualties, which was also the fundamental reason for the retreat of the Fifth Brigade in the early stage.

After many days of fighting, although the Fifth Brigade suffered few casualties, there were many lost positions, and frequent retreats further affected the morale of the army.

In the face of the worries of his subordinates, it is naturally impossible for Kong Guanbei to show panic. He waved his hand and what are he afraid of? Now the situation of our brigade is still stable, and the casualties are not large. If Wang Zhanyuan wants to eat our fifth brigade in one breath, it depends on whether he has this appetite!"

"And the order of the division headquarters also said that this time, in addition to the roundabout operations of the 6th Brigade, other auxiliary units of the division headquarters will still come to support us. In addition, the troops of the 10th Division are not far away, and they will be able to arrive in Bazhou to support our army in two days. As long as we survive these two days, then what awaits us is a big victory. At that time, there will definitely be a strong record on your military merit book!"

Pei Lianying also eased her worries slightly after hearing this, and she was also vaguely looking forward to the situation after his victory.

Pei Lianying's qualifications in the Soviet Feng army are not bad. Gu Lanyu and Kong Guanbei are both old team officers in the era of machine gun camp. In the past few years, his promotion speed is not much different from that of Gu Lanyu and Kong Guanbei, but the situation has changed since last year. With Gu Lanyu and Kong Guanbei being promoted to the third division one after another. He is the brigade commander of the two brigades, but he is only a regimental commander.

Although his regimental commander is the commander of the 9th Regiment of the 3rd Division. At the same time, he is also one of the top regimental commanders in the Fengjun system, his military rank is still a colonel, and he seems to be only one foot away from the major general, but there are many officers of the Feng Military Academy, but the general How many officials are there?

It is the same as the threshold for the promotion of a lieutenant to major, and the promotion of a major general is also a threshold, and most of the school officers in the Feng army are actually unable to cross this threshold in their lifetime.

Although Pei Lianying is old, he was not promoted to brigade commander and became a major general when the Feng army expanded last year. Who dares to say that he can still have the opportunity to cross this threshold in the future? Maybe he has been in the position of colonel for many years, and finally he was comforted by accumulating enough qualifications. Promotion, but this also means that the gap between him and Kong Jingbei, Gu Lanyu and others is getting wider and wider.

In those years, everyone started with the commander-in-chief, but now he is the only one who crawls among the school officials. He is unwilling!

Pei Lianying is ambitious, especially when the first division of the provincial army and the first and second mixed brigades are newly compiled. Although these three troops are provincial troops, they are only different in number. Pei Lianying knows that these three troops are built according to regular field troops, and these three units are newly formed, which coincides with the Feng army. Therefore, many key positions have not yet been identified.

One of the division commanders, two brigade commanders, and two mixed brigade commanders, only the First Brigade of the First Division has determined the brigade commander, and there are still three brigade commanders left. Nowadays, many colonels in the Feng army who think they are qualified to be promoted to brigade commanders are staring at the positions of these three brigade commanders.

Pei Lianying is one of them. He believes that his qualifications are not missing. Although his ability to command combat is not top, it is also above the average level. Zhao Dongyun also has a lot of trust in him, but what he lacks is real combat skills.

If you play well in this battle of Bazhou, you will certainly be able to add a lot of points in the heart of the marshal. When you consider the above three brigade commanders, you will be able to have an advantage.

Pei Lianying thought that he naturally didn't know what others were doing. Kong Guanbei continued: "Now our task is to hold on. Now we have retreated for many days in a row, and we can't retreat. In the next two days, we will have to resist anyway. Without my personal order, the front line The troops are not allowed to retreat without authorization, otherwise I will personally send him to the military court!"

After the Fifth Brigade was ready to stop retreating and resisting stubbornly, Wang Zhanyuan opposite also smelled danger.

"Why didn't they retreat?" Wang Zhanyuan looked at the map and thought about it.

A few days ago, Wang Zhanyuan thought that the 3rd Division had organized its army outside Bazhou, and the 6th Brigade had carried out a circuitous battle. At that time, he did not know that the 6th Brigade was still in Yongqing. His immediate enemy was only the 5th Brigade. However, after many days of continuous fighting, he found that the 6th Brigade opposite had never appeared. , and the Fifth Brigade has also been beaten by itself.

This kind of thing is very unusual in Wang Zhanyuan's eyes!

On the battlefield, it is impossible for the generals of both sides to know all the movements of the enemy. Basically, they can only rely on a small amount of intelligence and even guessing. If they guess correctly, everything is fine. If they guess wrong, they will win the first prize. Maybe it will be a situation of defeat and collapse.

"The 10th Division must be in the north, but what about the 6th Brigade? Where are they?"

Wang Zhanyuan did not expect that the Sixth Brigade was still in Yongqing and was delayed for two days, which led to his complete loss of control of the movements of the Sixth Brigade.

Considering that Gu Lanyu, the commander of the 6th Brigade, was best at roundabout attack, Wang Zhanyuan thought that the 6th Brigade must have made a detour around, but where did they detour? Is it south or north?

If it is in the south, then it should have appeared the day before yesterday and yesterday. Why hasn't there been a trace of the Sixth Brigade yet? Is it the north?

Wang Zhanyuan looked at the large blank in the northeast of Bazhou on the map. If the 6th Brigade appears here, his 13th Brigade may be in danger of flanks. At that time, he may not attack the 5th Brigade, but the 13th Brigade will go deep and fall into the attack of the 5th Brigade and 6th Brigade.

Considering that the Fifth Brigade has suddenly stopped retreating and then resisted its own attack, then Wang Zhanyuan is more certain that the Sixth Brigade must have detoured to a certain position and is about to launch a sandwich attack on itself with the Fifth Brigade.

And the most likely in the north!

Wang Zhanyuan confirmed that the 6th Brigade was in the north, but in fact, the 6th Brigade was bypassing Bazhou and detouring south!

However, although he misjudged the roundabout direction of the Sixth Brigade, Wang Zhanyuan also realized that he was in danger. The difference was that Wang Zhanyuan still thought that the 13th Brigade was in danger. He did not know that the appetite of the Feng army was very big that it was the whole seventh division that surrounded him.

"The Fifth Brigade has been attacked for a long time. Now that the main force of the enemy is about to besiege, and the 13th Brigade should be withdrawn!" At this moment, Wang Zhanyuan already knew that his plan to swallow and severely damage the Fifth Brigade in one fell swoop is impossible. In the past three or four days, although the Fifth Brigade has been defeated by himself and his own troops have also achieved good results, there is still a long way to go before the Fifth Brigade is severely damaged.

This is the time to end the attack!

Wang Zhanyuan's strong sense of crisis made him make a decision to surprise many generals of the two armies. He ordered the 13th Brigade, which was attacking the flank of the Fifth Brigade, to retreat!

You should know that the 13th Brigade fought very smoothly before, and even made the Fifth Brigade plan to defend its position after suffering large-scale losses.

However, Wang Zhanyuan chose to retreat at this time!

And because it is retreating at a smooth time, this kind of retreat operation is relatively feasible for the Beiyang army that is not good at retreating. After the 5th Brigade found the retreat intention of the 13th Brigade, because their mission not only resists the 13th Brigade, but also needs to contain the 7th Division, so It launched a counterattack appropriately and successively achieved the results of killing and injuring hundreds of enemy troops, but it allowed the 13th Brigade to successfully retreat from its starting position.

So after the first phase of the Battle of Bazhou, the two sides returned to the situation a few days ago. The only change was that the troops of both sides lost hundreds of people.

However, when Wang Zhanyuan ordered the 13th Brigade to retreat and found that the 5th Brigade was trying to counterattack and contain himself, he was more determined that the 6th Brigade and even the 10th Division were already detouring to its side and rear position.

On July 8, when the 6th Brigade was about to detour behind the side of Bazhou, the division reconnaissance cavalry of the 7th Division finally found the 6th Brigade near Gaojia Village in the east of Bazhou.

For a while, the seventh division was extremely nervous!