108908 Far East Madman Chapter 330 Under the sonorous iron armor

Forty miles north of Xinyang, Changle Pass. This is the logistics battalion office of the Second Army of Beiyang's southward advance, and it is only more than ten years away from the headquarters of the Second Army further south? Due to the distance from the Xinyang front, Changle Pass was exceptionally calm. There was no cannon fire, no gunsmoke, only the bustling convoy of heavy radiators, transporting all kinds of supplies from the Changleguan Railway Station to the front line in the south to ensure the operation of the Beiyang Army.

However, just over an hour ago, the logistics battalion office at Changle Pass received a warrant from Feng Guozhang, president of the Second Army, ordering them to transfer all the military supplies and funds stored at the railway station to the Xuzhou Logistics Station further north.

The reason for this decision was made solely because the revolutionary armed forces of the United Front used a new type of weapon on the Xinyang front: armored trains.

This kind of weapon arose in Europe, a few years ago in the Russo-Japanese War, the Russian team had used this powerful weapon in the three eastern provinces, so that the Japanese army suffered a lot, and now, it is the turn of the equally unprepared Beiyang Army to suffer this kind of suffering.

As soon as the armored train of the Southern Army went into battle, it gave the Third Division and the Ninth Division of the Beiyang Army a pound, and not only defeated the Third Division in a short period of time, but also rushed back the Ninth Division that came to help. Officers and men suffered casualties and lost 2,000 people, many officers and men left the team in the confusion, and no one knew where they went. to maintain military discipline.

As for the president of the Second Army of the Beiyang South. Feng Guozhang and Feng Dashuai are now leading the headquarters to retreat to Changle Pass, and this posture is intended to disengage from the United Front troops in Xinyang.

As the "Dog of the North Seas." "Feng Guozhang and Feng Dashuai did things without delay, and the military supplies at Changleguan Railway Station have not yet been officially shipped. He had already led all the officers of the headquarters to Changle Pass. And set up the headquarters in a luxurious train car, and at the same time ordered people to hang the best locomotive, the head of which was facing north, and as for what he wanted to do, the staff officers could figure it out with their toes.

"This battle can't be fought! The Southern Army is an ironclad train and an airplane, and if our Beiyang Army compares with others, it will become a country mud leg who has never seen the world! ”

Feng Guozhuan entered the carriage that served as the headquarters. Immediately threw his hat and whined at a group of senior staff officers.

Everyone didn't dare to answer, but the shock in their hearts was also similar to Feng Guozhang.

After all, the Republican Army had already used it when it attacked Chengdu, and the Beiyang Army also began to attach importance to this weapon that could fly in the sky, and had entrusted the British minister to purchase several new planes in Europe on his behalf. Let the officers pay attention to the planes of the Southern Army, so. As far as the officers of the Beiyang Army were concerned, they were not surprised that the Southern Army had planes to help them fight, and it was the armored train that really collapsed the morale and morale of the Second Beiyang Army.

It was an armoured train with billowing black smoke and a clangling sound, not only heavily armoured, but also full of guns and cannons like hedgehogs, and those who were bitten by it were helpless.

Just when the Beiyang Third Division and the Ninth Division attacked the high ground held by the Southern Army troops around Xinyang, the armored train suddenly broke through the defense line of the Beiyang Fourth Division and the Seventh Division, and smashed into the heart of the third division's sortie position. Even those high-ranking officers who had studied military affairs in foreign countries were shocked by the scene in front of them, and they really did not expect that the Chinese army was also equipped with such high-grade weapons, and until then, they had always thought that this thing was the preserve of foreigners, and that it was impossible for the revolutionary party in the south to use such weapons.

But now, the facts have taught everyone in the Beiyang Army a lesson, before really competing with their opponents. We must not despise our opponents, that is, "knowing ourselves and knowing our opponents" in the art of war.

The Beiyang Army did not know itself and the enemy, so they were defeated, they were defeated in Xinyang, and this battle was only fought for a few days, the Beiyang Army was defeated so quickly that it was enough to make those foreign affairs advisers who watched the battle stunned, and now, it is necessary for those foreign affairs experts to reconsider who is the strongest army in China in this era.

Feng Guozhang has no mind to pay attention to the thoughts of foreign affairs advisers now, he is only concerned about one question now: how to deal with the aftermath?

The main force of the Second Army of Beiyang Southward Advance is four infantry divisions, and now the Third and Ninth Divisions have basically lost their offensive capabilities, while the Fourth and Seventh Divisions are completely newly formed units, and their combat effectiveness is very problematic; from the very beginning of the battle, their role is to serve as a feint attack and cover the attack of the Third and Ninth Divisions, but since the Third and Ninth Divisions have collapsed, it seems that there is no need for the Fourth and Seventh Divisions to stay in Xinyang.

But the problem is that it is now impossible for Feng Guozhang to transfer the Beiyang Fourth Division and the Seventh Division from Xinyang back to the north, because these two Beiyang Divisions have been surrounded by the Southern Army in Xinyang, and they have been surrounded in their feint attack positions, and the armored train of the Southern Army not only defeated the Beiyang Third and Ninth Divisions, but also cut off the northward retreat of the Beiyang Fourth and Seventh Divisions

"Under the cover of the combined train, a poisonous force unit of the Southern Army came to the beautiful carp Qiyi old, and suddenly stuck the back road of the Beiyang Fourth Division and the Seventh Division.

The armored train played such a crucial tactical role that not only the generals of the Beiyang Army were surprised, but even the commanders of the Southern Army should be surprised.

This is war, where necessity and chance are intertwined, and sometimes victory or defeat may be decided only by the whims of the commander. If the morning train had made an attack a few days earlier, it might not have been able to play a decisive role, but choosing such a time to make a sudden attack would undoubtedly have dealt a devastating blow to the morale of the Beiyang Army.

The armored train not only made the Beiyang troops suffer, but the shells fired from the train even fell near Feng Guozhang's headquarters. And this is the main reason why he ordered the headquarters to be moved to Changle Pass.

Fortunately, after all, there are a group of staff officers and officers in the Beiyang Army who have received formal military education, after the initial confusion and confusion. They made some relatively safe tactical arrangements, and while ordering the 3rd and 9th Divisions to remain in Xinyang to attract the attention of the Southern Army, they quickly sent out cavalry units carrying a large amount of explosives. Along the railway line to the north, bombing, destroying the railroad tracks and roadbed to prevent the armored train from continuing northward, and using this method to cover the orderly northward retreat of the troops.

In the past, Feng Guozhang did not know why this section of the Qin route from Xiping to Xinyang was not destroyed by the southern army, he had mistakenly thought that this was a manifestation of the other party's hasty retreat, and it was too late to destroy the railway, but now. He figured it out, it turned out that the Southern Army had set him a trap from the beginning, the Xinyang defense line of the Southern Army was not used to guard the gateway to Hubei, but to attract his attention, and the Southern Army wanted to drain and kill the Second Beiyang Army in Xinyang!

With such a confrontation, Feng Guozhang can only admit that he is moldy.

"The Southern Army is cunning, but we are not without people in Beiyang! I was weird at first. Why did Lao Duan not give this opportunity to make meritorious contributions, and preferred to stay in the War Department in Beijing, now I can understand it, Lao Duan is cunning, he probably feels that he is not completely sure of winning the Southern Army, so ah, he simply hides behind. Tell me to be a substitute for the dead. I'm really confused, why didn't I see Lao Duan's mind in the first place? This "Three Heroes of Beiyang" is now seeing that I am going to lose the battle, Wang Shizhen is sitting in the southeast, beyond the reach of the whip, and he can't reach Beijing, and now he is left with Lao Duan in Beijing, by Yuan Laoshuai's side. In case Yuan Laoshuai listened to his slander, wouldn't the next head of the family in Beiyang be his old duan? This thought is deep

Feng Guozhang sat on the chair dejectedly, scolding Duan Qirui while thinking nonsense, but his last few words were too sensitive, and none of the officers standing next to him dared to speak, and some people began to wonder if Feng Guozhang was talking nonsense because he was stimulated.

"Feng Shuai, if you don't hurry up and transfer all the troops in the north to Changle Pass, and then the whole army will march south, fighting to defeat both sides, and rescue the fourth and seventh divisions from the encirclement, otherwise, this defeat will be too ugly, and when the old marshal blames it, Feng Shuai is afraid that there is only one way to go to the field."

The senior staff officer muttered a few words. Let Feng Guozhang calm down a little.

Feng Guozhang sat on the recommendation for a while, suddenly stood up, and said, "Yes, yes!" The Fourth and Seventh Divisions must be rescued, otherwise. I'm afraid that the lower field is light, and if it's not good, we all have to eat military law

There was a dead silence in the carriage, and everyone was worried about their future, and some had even begun to plan a way out.

"Don't be stunned! Shoot the telegram right away. Make a phone call and transfer all the troops along the Jinghan Line to Changle Pass! Zhengzhou and Kaifeng don't have to be guarded. Bring all the troops to Changle Pass, let's gather the troops, fight back to Xinyang, and the worst thing is to rescue the fourth and seventh divisions. Even if we lose the battle, our Beiyang Army can't ask the Southern Army to give a pot! In addition, I sent a telegram to Zhao Kui, the bastard, and said that Lao Tzu said it himself, give him two days, pull his entire team to Zhengzhou for Lao Tzu, and then take a train from Zhengzhou to the south to join the Xinyang attack force. If you don't meet the deadline, military law is waiting! Then he sent a telegram to the War Department, telling Lao Duan that the Second Beiyang Army needed more artillery, and those Japanese heavy artillery should also be transported over quickly, and Xinyang would not be able to attack it for a long time. If the Second Army loses the battle, the War Department will not be able to get out of it! ”

Feng Guozhang completely calmed down, made some arrangements, and prepared to take out the last capital to gamble again.

The voice fell into the net, and he didn't wait for the staff officers to receive the order. An officer hurried into the carriage, looking flustered.

"Why are you doing here if you don't dispatch the wagons?" Feng Guozhang saw that the person was the chief officer of the logistics battalion office, and without waiting for him to speak, he scolded him a few words first.

"Xuzhou" Xuzhou is lost! Occupied by a unit of the Southern Army! "Telegram from the net. Now the railway from Xuzhou to Changleguan is no longer passable. Arms can't be transported. The troops from the north will not be able to pass either!

The officer mumbled a few words. He handed over a telegram he was holding.

"What? Xuzhou lost? ”

Feng Guozhang only felt a rush of blood surging into his head. His eyes were dark, and he suddenly didn't know anything.