Chapter 316 Reconstruction of the Eighth Division

Although the capital is located in the north, the capital in October is still extremely hot, and a fixed weekly war briefing is being held in Jurentang at this time.

As the direct person in charge of various strategic plans for the front-line war, Shi Yanglin, director of the Operations Department, is the same as before.

He pointed on a huge map of China with a baton: "So far, although our army's operations in northern Jiangsu have faced many difficulties and undergone many changes, they are still proceeding according to the plan previously formulated by the General Staff!"

"In the direction of Xuzhou, our army has invested in the infantry units of the three divisions of the 1st Division, the 3rd Division and the 9th Division, as well as two independent heavy artillery battalions and three independent mortar battalions, with a total of about 55,000 people. At present, it has successively captured a series of important peripheral strongholds such as Zizhuang and Wu Chenzhuang on the periphery of Xuzhou. The front-line troops are far away from Xuzhou City is already close to the hurricane! At present, according to the intelligence and reality found by our army, the garrison in Xuzhou is currently under the command of Duan Qirui. The troops in the city include the 4th Division, the 1st Division of the Liangjiang Army and the 2nd Division of the Liangjiang Army. It is predicted that the enemy's strength will be about 50,000.

Among them, the first division of the Liangjiang Army was severely damaged by our army on the front line of Zizhuang and defeated at least one regiment of the department. In addition, in the previous Xiao County Campaign, our army also annihilated two battalions of the enemy's 10th Division. After a series of peripheral battles, our army has completely defeated two enemy regiments in Xuzhou, killing and at least injuring the enemy. The record of more than 3,000 people.

On the eastern front, the 10th Division of our army has been divided into two routes south to Qingjiangpu and Suqian, and the task of continuing to attack west from Pizhou has been handed over to the first mixed brigade.

According to the intelligence reality of our army, the enemy deployed the first mixed brigade of Zhejiang and the fifth division of Liangjiang in the direction of Suqian, and the second mixed brigade of the Zhejiang army in the direction of Qingjiangpu.

In the early battles in this direction, our army and the 5th Jiang Division of the enemy have fought many times in Haizhou, Muyang and other places. The successive victories have annihilated more than 2,000 troops. At present, the department has retreated to Suqian. According to the war report of Wu Peifu, the commander of the 19th Brigade Brigade on the front line, although the department is well equipped, the battle Consciousness is poor and morale is quite limited.

In the western direction of Xuzhou, in addition to investing in the main force of the first army in western Xuzhou, the fourth mixed brigade and the second cavalry brigade have gone south to Suzhou to prevent the enemy of Suzhou in order to conquer the area.

At present, the direction of Suzhou is still Zhang Huaizhi's army. Under its command, there are the remnants of the Fifth Division and the unknown Anhui and Shandong armies. The total strength is between 13,000 and 15,000. The exact number remains to be confirmed by the Intelligence Office!"

After saying this, Shi Yanglin looked up at the many generals present, and then said in a low voice, "In addition, it is worth noting that the pace of reinforcement of the Anhui Army is much faster than we expected. In addition to the fifth division of the Liangjiang Army in the early stage, the subsequent second mixed brigade of the Zhejiang Army also appeared in Qingjiangpu in the near future.

In addition, the intelligence department's intelligence shows that although the Anhui army is fighting with our army in northern Jiangsu, it still maintains a fierce offensive in the direction of Fujian and Jiangxi. For this reason, the troops of the Southern Federation have suffered many defeats in the past month. Nearly 30,000 people under Duanfang's command were completely defeated by the Anhui army in Ganzhou five days ago. Now the Wan army's troops from the south of Jiangxi have headed straight to Guangdong, and Xiliang in the direction of Fujian has also been forced to retreat to Quanzhou.

With the defeat of the southern federal forces in Jiangxi and Fujian by the Anhui army, the Anhui army can deploy more troops to the north to reinforce the front line of northern Jiangsu, which is very unfavorable for us. The north reinforcement of the second mixed brigade of Zhejiang is a very obvious example. !"

Shi Yanglin said while using the baton to indicate on the map, and everyone was actually very clear about the current situation before he explained. After all, all the senior officials of the Feng army were present.

Shi Yanglin's commentary is more like an explanation than a summary!

With Shiyanglin's explanation and markings on the map, it can be easily launched. The Xuzhou War between the two armies is actually not limited to Xuzhou, but also affects many urban strongholds in northern Jiangsu, such as Qingjiangpu, Suqian and Suzhou. Strictly speaking, this kind of battle can no longer be said to be the Battle of Xuzhou. It's more appropriate to serve, but the Battle of Northern Jiangsu or the Battle of Jiangbei.

On the front line of this war, which has been wide and wide for more than 200 kilometers, the battle is mainly around a few strongholds. Naturally, the best is Xuzhou, which has been operated by the Anhui army for a long time. However, the three cities of Suzhou, Suqian and Qingjiangpu are also extremely important, otherwise the Anhui army and the Feng army will not have made an appointment. The same sent the main force to garrison or attack the above-mentioned areas.

Looking at the deployment of the troops of the two sides in the Xuzhou Campaign, you will find that in fact, the Feng army has no military advantage, but in terms of the total number of troops of the two sides, in fact, the Anhui army and the Feng army are almost the same. The reason why the Feng army is still leading the attack when the strength of the two sides is similar, the Anhui army can only be forced to gradually resist, then Because the Feng army participated in the war was a regular army, and the equipment level of heavy weapons such as artillery was much higher than that of the Anhui army.

Except for a fourth division, the level of heavy weapons of the Anhui army is much worse. Otherwise, the 5th Division of the previous Liangjiang Army was defeated in the face of the attack of the 10th Division of the Feng Army and retreated all the way from Haizhou to Suqian. It was not that they did not want to resist, but that they could not resist the attack of the Feng army with the same strength.

The quality, equipment level and high morale of officers and soldiers are the advantages of the Feng army, and are also the reasons why Zhao Dongyun dares to take a posture to sweep the southern provinces with 100,000 troops.

It's just that the Feng army attacking in Xuzhou is not enough, and it is only more than 50,000. Although the artillery force is far better than the Anhui army, there are also many Anhui troops in Xuzhou City, and they still have built for months of fortifications that can be used. In contemporary wars, defensive operations have a great advantage. It is actually very difficult for the Feng army to take Xuzhou with the current 50,000 troops.

Zhao Dongyun has always disliked to play such things as being evenly matched. His favorite thing is to gather most of his troops and then attack a small number of the enemy's troops. Whether it is the Tangshan Campaign, the Beijing Division Campaign or the Bazhou Campaign, in fact, the Feng army does not rely on any equipment advantages to win. They rely on soldiers. Win with strength advantage.

Now that the troops in northern Jiangsu have no advantage, Zhao Dongyun is naturally dissatisfied. He immediately said, "What's the situation in Henan? When can we transfer troops out to Anhui?"

Shi Yanglin said: "Now the strength of the Third Army in Henan is very tight. Many places in Wuhan and Henan need to be controlled. I'm afraid it will be difficult to transfer troops to the east, and the border area between Henan and Anhui has been controlled by Wang Zhanyuan. If we send troops east into Anhui, we will defeat them. Only after Wang Zhanyuan's seventh division can he continue to advance eastward, and there are tens of thousands of horses under Wang Zhanyuan, which is not small!"

Zhao Dongyun scolded secretly at this time. It was a big mistake to leave Wang Zhanyuan's seventh division in Bazhou. At first, there was no problem, but now at the juxuous moment of the Xuzhou Campaign, Wang Zhanyuan ran out to get in the way, but now is not the time to deal with Wang Zhanyuan and wait for himself. After defeating Duan Qirui and taking Jiangbei, we would like to see where Wang Zhanyuan could run!

Once again, Zhao Dongyun, who was worried about the small number of troops, looked at Yang Shande of the Ministry of Education: "How is the reorganized work of the Eighth Division going? And how is the supplementary work of the 9th Mixed Brigade and the 10th Mixed Brigade going?

Although the name Yang Shande is not well-known in the Fengjun system and is far less famous than the generals such as Meng Enyuan, Chen Guangyuan and Gu Lanyu at home and abroad, his status in the Soviet system is not low. His position as the general minister of education, like Lin Yongquan, the previous head of the Ministry of Education, controls Feng Speaking of the recruitment and training of new recruits in the army, tens of thousands of recruits are being trained at any time.

At the same time, due to the particularity of the Ministry of Education, it is usually responsible for the consolidation of the army, and even involves the formation of new troops.

The Eighth Division of the Central Army, that is, the previous Eighth Division of Wang Ruxian, was defeated in the Battle of Zhengzhou. Even he himself was captured and announced to be dismissed, but the Eighth Division did not disappear with the defeat of Wang Ruxian. Although the Eighth Division suffered a devastating blow in the Battle of Zhengzhou, There were still five or six thousand remnants surrendered.

If it is a prisoner of other provincial army, according to the handling principle of the Feng army, it is generally directly integrated into other troops to supplement the war damage, but this eighth division is a little special. Anyway, this eighth division is barely a sideline to the old Beiyang, and it still has the number of the Central Army before, and at least it remains Five or six thousand people, which is naturally reluctant to revoke his number directly for Zhao Dongyun, who has a tense force and urgently needs to expand his troops.

After all, this 8th Division is different from the 12th Division. Although the 12th Division also had the number of the Central Army before, it was actually the foundation of the Zhili Provincial Army. In addition, in order to reorganse the 11th Division, the remnants of the 12th Division were also transferred, so the 12th Division was directly transferred by Zhao Dongyun. The number was revoked, but the eighth division was a little different.

On the one hand, he wanted to take the opportunity to expand another division, and on the other hand, it was also to appease the original soldiers under Wang Ruxian, so Zhao Dongyun did not directly revoke the number of the Eighth Division, but rebuilt the Eighth Division.

This reconstruction is naturally not enough to supplement thousands of soldiers and weapons and equipment. According to the management of the Feng army's collection and dedication troops, it almost went down to the company commander to the brigade commander, and almost all of them were replaced, leaving only ordinary soldiers left.

In this way, if you change officers and add 5,000 to 6,000 soldiers and matching equipment, then an eighth division can be rebuilt.