Chapter 370 Imperial Army and Imperial Union Army

Qiyunzhuang, a small village in Gwangju, Henan, was just an ordinary town in the past, and there was nothing to attract attention.

However, in recent months, the name of this small Qi Yunzhuang has spread to many military and political dignitaries in Henan. At the beginning of the month, the 23rd Patrol Regiment suffered a fiasco in the place. More than 1,000 troops captured the bandits stationed there. In the end, instead of not being able to defeat them, they killed and injured more than 300 people.

Although this incident reflects the fact that the combat effectiveness of the patrol force under the Feng army system is, it also reflects how chaotic the situation in Henan is. After all, even if the combat effectiveness of the patrol force of the Feng army is poor, it also represents the official government army, which was defeated by a group of bandits. It can be imagined that Henan How strong are these bandits, civil groups and other illegal armed forces?

Facing the big nail of Qi Yunzhuang, Qin Luanyun was itchy with hatred. Although he suffered a fiasco, he soon transferred the 21st patrol regiment from several other directions, ready to gather the remnants of the 23rd patrol regiment to conquer Qi Yunzhuang again, and came to see the central land in Zhengzhou a few days ago. Yang Deming, the commander of the 14th Division, asked Yang Deming to send a regular army to help him.

Yang Deming is very speechless about this!

The 14th Division under his command is a new main force that has been highly expected by countless people, including Zhao Dongyun. Many military and political dignitaries of the Soviet system hope that the 14th Division can play the same great role as the 3rd Division, 9th Division and 10th Division, and even play more than the combat effectiveness of the above three divisions, thus bringing Lead them to the road of unification.

However, the first battle of such an elite division that took countless human and material resources was not to fight with the Anhui army or the Southern Federation, but to deal with small bandits.

This is somewhat unacceptable to Yang Deming, who regards himself highly.

However, there is nothing he can do if he doesn't accept it. Naturally, Zhao Dongyun's own reasons for Zhao Dongyun's order to cooperate with the local patrol force to eliminate the bandits in Henan and suppress the local situation.

That is to quickly increase the actual combat experience for the 14th Division through a series of bandit suppression battles!

Although the actual combat experience of suppressing bandits has little effect on regular battles, it is much better to let soldiers see blood than to go directly to the cruel battlefield without seeing blood and corpses.

It can be regarded as a fine tradition of training soldiers by suppressing bandits. When Zhao Dongyun was in Jinzhou and there was only one third mixed association under his command, he killed all the bandits in western Liaoning, which not only played a role in training soldiers, but also captured a large number of trophies, and the original expansion provided A lot of help.

Later, Zhao Dongyun took office as General Shengjing. After controlling the whole three eastern provinces one after another, he also made great efforts to suppress bandits. Through the suppression of bandits in recent years, by 1908, the famous northeast bandits in the late Qing Dynasty have become the dust of history.

After Zhao Dongyun successively controlled Zhili, Shandong and other places, he also carried out vigorous rectification of Zhili and Shandong in the early stage, but he did not mobilize many main forces to launch a large-scale suppression of bandits as in the Northeast.

Now in Henan, the Feng army continues the tradition of suppressing bandits!

In order to cooperate with the action of the patrol force in Qiyunzhuang, Gwangju, Yang Deming sent an infantry battalion to go south to support. Of course, the task of this infantry battalion is not just to fight a Qiyunzhuang. In fact, the mission area of this infantry battalion is much wider. It needs to clean up the whole area from Gwangju, Henan to Liu'an Prefecture, Anhui Province. The bandit activities made preliminary preparations for the subsequent opening of land supply channels from Xinyang to Gwangju, then to Liu'an Prefecture, and then to Anqing Prefecture.

Meng Enyuan's first army, which is currently fighting in Anhui, has marched to Anqing Prefecture. It can be said that it is not an exalongation that it has reached the edge of the Yangtze River.

However, at this time, all kinds of ordnance and ammunition of the First Army need to be transferred from the distant Zhengzhou or Lianyungang. The length of the supply line is as high as 700 to 800 kilometers. In order to shorten the distance of foot supply, and also to make better use of the Jinghan Railway, the Ministry of Munitions proposed Xinyang as a new supplement. For the transit station, open a supply transportation channel from Xinyang, through Ruzhou and Gwangju in southeast Henan, and into Liu'an Prefecture and Anqing Prefecture in Anhui Province.

If this supply line can be successfully opened, the foot supply distance of the First Army can be shortened by more than half.

However, in this area, especially in Ruzhou and Gwangju in Henan, there are a large number of bandits, civil groups and other informal armed forces. If a large number of illegal armed forces in this area are not eliminated, it is impossible for the Feng army to let a large number of people pass through here. As for armed escort, it is okay once or twice, if the distance It doesn't matter if it's too short, but the key is that this distance is not short. It is impossible for the Feng army to transfer at least tens of thousands of main troops to use the armed escort of this supply line.

If you want to not carry out armed escort in the future, the simplest way is to clean up the bandits and civil groups enmbling in this area.

The military has this strategic need, and in order to train troops!

This is why the 14th Division went south. Instead of going to the front line at the first time, it ran to Henan to suppress the bandits!

With the addition of the 14th Division, the bandits in southern Henan are naturally irresistible, and Qi Yunzhuang is no exception.

Qiyunzhuang was originally controlled by the Yiqi family. Later, in the North-South civil war, a group of more than 300 southern federal soldiers arrived here. They don't know what means. Colonel Liu, the leader of the defeated army, reached an agreement with the head of the Qi family. He not only promised to support the needs of this broken army, but even married his daughter. That officer. At that time, Zhang Zhidong of the Southern Federation had retreated from Wuchang, and Wang Shizhen soon controlled the southern region, and the collapsed army of the Southern Federation soon changed its head and claimed to be the Qiyunzhuang Security Regiment. By absorbing Zhuangding's guardhouse and then going out to plunder, it soon developed to a scale of nearly 1,000 people.

And unlike ordinary bandits and civilian regiments that lack soldiers and guns, this Qiyunzhuang security regiment has more than 700 new rifles. This number is on its base of less than 1,000 people, and the combat personnel can be regarded as a quick grab. This is not to mention it. More importantly, Colonel Liu doesn't know where to come from. I got a Maxim machine gun.

You should know that this is a machine gun, not to mention bandits, not even in the regular troops of those warlords. Although there are many regular troops in the Feng army, the patrol forces also do not have this kind of killing weapon.

When the 23rd patrol regiment of the Feng army attacked Qiyunzhuang, it was stunned by this heavy machine gun!

However, this 'security regiment' that made Zhengzhou Garrison Command helpless was vulnerable in front of the 14th Division!

Looking at the white dust raised after the explosion of the mortar shells in the distance, Major Pan Tongjun, the battalion commander of the 3rd Infantry Battalion of the 55th Regiment under the 14th Division, smiled with satisfaction.

"These guys didn't waste so much live-fire training. It's still quite good!"

The young adjutant beside him also smiled and said, "The battalion commander is right. We dare not say anything else, but with the battalion commander who is a mortar officer, you know the training in person. The gunnery of this mortar is naturally the best in the division!"

Pan Tongjun also smiled at the adjutant's flattery!

Not to mention, he is relatively confident in the mortar gunnery of the third battalion under his command. He himself is not in Germany or trained like most other officers of the 14th Division. He used to be the first group of mortar gunners in the Feng army. Later, because of his superb artillery skills and his superiors were quite appreciated, He was recommended to study in the accelerated class of the Feng Military Academy, and his graduation results could only be average. Naturally, he could not get the opportunity to study in Germany or enter the Army University. After a few years, he was successively promoted from platoon commander to company commander, deputy battalion commander and battalion commander.

Although he does not have the dazzling education and talent of those proud sons, when it comes to combat experience, he is definitely the first of the 12 infantry battalion commanders of the 14th Division. This man joined the army before the year of Gengzi, fought boxers, followed Zhao Dongyun to suppress the Guangzong rebellion, and fought bandits after arriving in Liaoxi, 1906 Nian fought with Wang Shizhen's sixth town, and later participated in many battles with the third town.

In the Battle of Xuzhou, his immediate superior battalion commander was injured and forced to stay in the rear to recuperate. He was the deputy battalion commander, and then commanded the battalion to participate in the Battle of Bengbu and the Chuzhou Campaign. After the Chuzhou Campaign, he was transferred to the 14th Division as the commander of the 3rd Battalion, and his rank was finally successfully promoted to Major.

Born in the first batch of mortar artillery, he is naturally very proficient in mortar art, and the mortar art of the third battalion trained by him has been greatly improved.

The mortar shelling effect of the 3rd Battalion today is fully proof of this!

After seeing the overwhelming explosion, the machine gun position of Qiyunzhuang in the distance was already bleeding. Without the firepower of the machine gun, the opposite Qiyunzhuang security regiment could not stop the attack of the third battalion.

Just half an hour later, the Qiyunzhuang security regiment of nearly 1,000 people became the dust of history. In addition to more than 60 people who were killed by bullets and shells, more than 100 people were injured, more than 400 people were captured, and more than 300 people turned around and ran away.

Pan Tongjun didn't look at the depressed prisoners: "Try to go down and be sure to catch up. Well, don't let them enter the depths of Dabie Mountain. If it's not good, it's hard to find them. In addition, we are not familiar with the terrain here. Take the patrol troops to chase together!"

Although the patrol forces are not very effective, at least they are local snakes. The patrol forces in the Fengjun system basically follow the principle of local formation and local garrison, so most of the patrol forces are familiar with the local situation. However, there are also several exceptions. For example, the original Tangshan First Patrol Regiment is now the 13th Patrol Regiment after the unified patrol number. Although the regiment used to be known as Tangshan, it was actually recruited and formed in Liaoxi, and then went to Tangshan to garrison. In the same situation, there are the Third Patrol Corps, the 6th Patrol Corps, the 5th Patrol Corps, the 8th Patrol Corps and the 16th Patrol Corps stationed in northern Jiangsu. In the above five regiments, the previous 3rd, 5th, 6th and 8th regiments are all patrol units originally formed in Fengtian. The Feng army was transferred to Shandong and northern Jiangsu after they entered the customs last year. As for the garrison, the 16th Patrol Regiment was originally a patrol force formed in Zhili Chengde area, but was later transferred to Shandong.

These patrol regiments are the only patrol regiments in the dozens of patrol regiments of the Feng Army with different formations and garrisons. As for the patrol cavalry battalion, it has always been used as a regular army in the Feng army, which is different from the patrol regiment.

Since most of the patrol regiments follow the principle of local formation and local garrison, most of these patrol regiments are local snakes, which is conducive to suppressing the place.

So even if the 3rd Battalion of the 14th Division is strong, the ten 21st Patrol Regiments can't beat them together, but in the specific operations, the 3rd Battalion relies more on some intelligence cooperation of the 21st Patrol Regiment!

As a result, in this operation jointly initiated by the Zhengzhou Garrison Command and the 14th Division, the 14th Division and the four patrol police regiments under the jurisdiction of Zhengzhou Garrison Command cooperated vigorously. Basically, they were led by the patrol regiments and took the troops of the 14th Division to a bandit' nest, and the battle exploded. Fa, the patrol regiment leading the way in front of them will disappear as soon as possible. No one knows where they will hide, leaving only the troops of the 14th Division to attack alone. After the 14th Division's powerfully clean up the bandits and civil groups in front of them, the patrol police regiments will come out of nowhere and then shout their own battle. Clean up the battlefield.

If it is seen by a person who has experienced the Anti-Japanese War, he will probably be shocked: Isn't this the imperial army and the imperial association army? Why did you come here!