Chapter 280 Attack of the Feng Army

On July 11, the siege of Bazhou by the Third Division and the 10th Division of the Feng Army had been going on for many days. Although some unexpected things happened in the early process of the Bazhou Campaign, such as the early crisis of the Fifth Brigade of the Feng Army, the decisive rear of the 13th Brigade of the Direct Army, the circuitous attack of the 6th Brigade of the Feng Army and the 10th Division And the Fifth Brigade suffered setbacks in the previous offensive battle.

The above variables have put great pressure on the combat generals of both sides, especially the high-level generals. Wang Zhanyuan's side will not talk about it first, but that Chen Guangyuan's side can be said to have suffered great political pressure for this Bazhou battle.

Previously, Chen Guangyuan proposed a circuitous plan for the Bazhou Campaign because he wanted to swallow the 13th Brigade in one fell swoop. As the main initiator of the campaign and one of the main commanders, he naturally bears the consequences of the battle.

If everything goes well is naturally a good thing, Chen Guangyuan will be able to write heavy strokes on his military merit book, and at the same time, he can also get more attention from Zhao Dongyun.

But if everything goes wrong or even fails, then Chen Guangyuan's situation will become very bad! Chen Guangyuan knows that Zhao Dongyun's heart is not as broad as the propaganda said. He can tolerate a small defeat, but if you fight a big defeat and cause heavy losses, he will definitely withdraw you and never turn over.

Fortunately, since the Sixth Brigade successfully detoured and launched an attack on the southern part of Bazhou, the Bazhou Campaign, which was very different from the original plan, has finally become formal.

In the past two days, there have been no unpredictable accidents and those in the past few days, but everything is traceable. Although the progress of the attacking troops is not too great, the situation is already under the control of the Feng army.

As the situation in the Battle of Bazhou has been controlled by himself, Chen Guangyuan's heart has been relieved!

"What we need to do next is to advance step by step. Although Wang Zhanyuan's seventh division's offensive ability is better than that of other direct troops, this defensive ability is not so strong!" Chen Guangyuan stood on the hill and looked at the distant front with a telescope.

In the distant front line in the telescope, explosive smoke rises from time to time, and you can faintly see the Feng soldiers in blue-gray military uniforms, and occasionally see the direct soldiers in earthy-yellow military uniforms. The crisp sound of gunfire and explosions is also constantly shrouded in your ears.

Kong Guanbei said, "The division commander is right. They didn't look like this when they came here a few days ago. If they were also equipped with mortars and light machine guns, this offensive battle would be a replica of our third division. At the beginning, we fought was terrible!"

Kong Guanbei is still a little afraid to remember that his fifth brigade was besieged by the 7th Division. To be honest, Kong Guanbei has experienced a lot of battles. From last year to now, the 3rd Division has fought against the Qing army, Wang Shizhen's 6th Division, the 7th Division in the era of Feng Guozhang and Lu Yongxiang's 1st Division, Bao Guiqing's first mixed brigade and Several units of the 11th Division, 12th Division and Zhili Provincial Army have poor combat effectiveness and good equipment, but they all have the same characteristic that their tactical concept is basically stayed in the old Beiyang era, to be precise, at the level before the Russo-Japanese War.

So fighting them is not much different for Kong Guanbei, especially in the face of the attacks of the above departments, the third division can always play with ease.

However, in the face of the 7th Division after Wang Zhanyuan's reorganizing, Kong Jingbei's 5th Brigade was very difficult to defend. In the past, many effective defense tactics against the Qing army and the direct army did not work, which led to a great loss of the 5th Brigade in the early defense operations.

"However, Wang Zhanyuan learned from our Fengjun training force. This offensive ability has been learned, but this defensive ability has obviously not been learned!" Chen Guangyuan put down his telescope: "Well, although he knows our offensive tactics very well, I just want to see them resist!"

The offensive tactics of the Feng army are different from that of other armies and even the forces of the great powers. Contemporary Japanese and Russian armies and other domestic warlord forces often charge on a large scale when launching attacks. Although the distance between soldiers charge is much larger than before, they are still It's the same. However, the Feng army rarely launched a large-scale charge in the battle.

Taking the 10th Division, which is best at making a frontal breakthrough, as an example, when Xu Bangjie commanded the attack, he liked to concentrate the technical weapons of the army into a certain force, so that the unit could act as a fist force to launch a strong attack and forcibly break through a point of the enemy with the support of artillery.

This kind of raid is not to run directly from the trench and rush over, but uses a large number of technical weapons, such as mortars, heavy machine guns, and light machine guns to support the creation of a storm formed by shells and bullets in a short period of time. The ultra-dense firepower can basically make the enemy unable to look up. This Only then will the soldiers launch a formal attack.

With the absolute firepower advantage, it is generally difficult for the enemy to block this attack mode of the 10th Division!

Once a tactical point is captured, the attacking troops quickly extend to both sides, and then expand the breakthrough with points, and then more troops enter the enemy's defense depth through this breakthrough, resulting in the complete collapse of the enemy's defense line.

The use of this tactic has also caused the scale of the battle in the 10th Division's offensive operations. Basically, it is mainly based on the attack of battalion and company-level troops. If there is a regiment-level attack, then the front-line troops must have made a breakthrough.

The tactical concept of the Feng army, especially the 10th Division, is actually very advanced in modern times, with the shadow of the German infiltration tactics in the late World War I and the in-depth concept of the Soviet army in World War II.

And more importantly, the Feng army has begun to use infantry squad tactics on a large scale.

Although the current total amount of light machine guns and 60mm mortars of the Feng army is still seriously insufficient, a large number of technical weapons are often temporarily increased to a certain unit in offensive warfare. At this time, the troops on the front line with offensive tasks are often able to be equipped with one light machine guns, and one company can be equipped with three. 60mm mortars above the door, sometimes even 80mm mortars and heavy machine guns.

In order to exert the power of so many weapons and create more suitable offensive tactics, the Feng army began to specialize in infantry team tactics. Historically, the emergence of infantry team tactics was in the late World War I, and the large-scale popularization was already after World War I.

The offensive tactics used by Wang Zhanyuan before were actually a replica of the above mode, but Wang Zhanyuan did not have light machine guns and mortars in his hand, so he suppressed them with heavy machine guns and risked the deployment of mountain guns forward, earth-made grenades and other methods to increase the fire density.

This also made the original Fifth Brigade embarrassed, but now the 7th Division is facing a more intensive attack by the Feng army, which is naturally worse than the original Fifth Brigade.

"The current situation is still relatively good. Next, we still need to increase our attack in the east and strive to contain more enemies, so as to create opportunities for the north and south!" Chen Guangyuan looked at the North Road like this.

Kong Weibei said, "This is natural. Today, our department has just received a batch of ammunition supplies, and tomorrow our department will give them a fierce battle!"

In today's Battle of Bazhou, there are not many defensive troops of the direct army in the east battlefield, only one regiment, but this side has a civil defense fortifications built by the direct army for a long time, which is not easy to fight.

Although there are not many fortifications in the north, there are a whole 13th Brigade and other auxiliary troops of the 7th Division, with a total number of nearly 67,000, so it is not easy for the 10th Division to take down.

The only chance is in the south!

The roundabout of the Sixth Brigade made a direct detour to Bazhou, right behind the 7th Division. Although the 7th Division built part of the fortifications in this direction, the number was relatively small and not perfect. Later, Wang Zhanyuan urgently mobilized a regiment of reserves to resist the Sixth Brigade, although it once stabilized the southern line. The war, but the offensive pace of the Sixth Brigade was not so easy to resist.

If Xu Bangjie's 10th Division is good at breakthroughs, then the 3rd Division, especially the 6th Brigade, is good at roundabout attacks under the influence of Gu Lanyu.

This point was reflected in the original Tongzhou Campaign. In the Tangshan Campaign, the Sixth Brigade also played a detour when attacking Huanxizhuang. Now in the Bazhou Campaign, the Sixth Brigade still plays a detour!

Seeing that the detour to the south of Bazhou and the attack was blocked, Gu Lanyu did not hesitate at all. Immediately left a regiment to continue the frontal attack. In the evening of the same day, Gu Lanyu led a regiment again to detour northwest, and this time they ran directly to the west of Bazhou.

and launched a raid on the defense of the empty Bazhou West Front before dawn the next day. At this time, the 7th Division's troops deployed on the Western Front were only one battalion. After the battalion was quickly defeated, Gu Lanyu personally led his troops to attack the 27th Regiment of the enemy army deployed on the front line of Wangzhuang and launched an attack.

After Gu Lanyu's 6th Brigade played another detour before the battle and successfully broke through the flank defense line of the 27th Regiment of the Direct Army, there was no doubt that the 27th Regiment of the Direct Army was inevitably defeated after the multi-sided attack of the 6th Brigade.

After learning that the defense line of the 27th Regiment was broken through, Wang Zhanyuan took a deep breath: "What a Gu Lanyu!"

Wang Zhanyuan did not get angry or scold Chen Guangyuan and Gu Lanyu, but took several deep breaths and said, "This Bazhou can't stay any longer. Let the 27th Regiment stabilize first, and then order the 13th Brigade and the 28th Regiment. We will leave tonight!"