In order to exterminate the troops and seize military funds, Zhao Dongyun mainly divided the direction of the suppression of bandits into two directions, first of all, west of Jinzhou, that is, around the western Liaoning corridor, this part because there are not many bandits, so he only sent the first battalion of the ninth standard as the main force, and also dispatched a cavalry team for reconnaissance, this direction is not expected to have any large-scale war, the bandit suppression unit is called the bandit suppression detachment westward.

This time, the focus of the suppression of bandits was in the northern part of Jinzhou, where the terrain was complicated, not only with a small area of gentle terrain, but also with mountainous terrain; if we look at it from the perspective of conventional warfare, this kind of terrain is suitable for fighting by mountain troops or infantry units, and as for cavalry, it is difficult to display high mobility.

However, now it is not a conventional war, but a suppression of bandits, and they do not need to run for hundreds of miles, plus those bandits are almost all cavalry bandits, so they adopt a combination of infantry and cavalry, and order the third standard commander of the cavalry to take Meng Enyuan to be responsible for the suppression of bandits, and fully command the 'suppression of bandits northward detachment'.

By the beginning of September, the 'Suppression of Bandits Northward Advance Detachment' in Meng Enyuan's hands had two cavalry battalions, an infantry battalion of the New Army, two infantry squadrons of the Jinzhou Patrol Battalion, a cavalry machine gun squadron, and a mortar squadron that was still in a state of testing.

Due to the large number of troops, and the bandits facing are not Du Lisan, Feng Delin's kind of giant bandits with thousands of people are mostly small and medium-sized bandits with dozens or more than 100 people, so the troops do not need to be too concentrated, with two cavalry battalions as the core, each equipped with two machine guns, forming the left and right wings, and Meng Enyuan led the main force of infantry to attack the fortification.

The cavalry of the two battalions was mainly used to disperse reconnaissance and fight small groups of bandits, and in order to avoid casualties, they would not conquer those large-scale bandit lairs.

In addition, they have a very important role to play is to intercept bandits from escaping.

And the infantry battalion carrying machine guns and mortars in the back is the main force of attacking, after all, although the cavalry in this year is also playing dismount foot combat, but that is not the advantage of cavalry, the advantage of cavalry is the explosive power of the charge, and the other is the ability to maneuver at high speed, but the cavalry in this year rarely plays sabre against slashing, waving sabers and charging in formation is not the main application tactics of cavalry after the Napoleonic War.

After all, the mobility of cavalry is irreplaceable since the emergence of armored vehicles, shouldering important tasks such as reconnaissance, pursuit, and outflanking.

This is also because the cavalry is getting smaller and smaller, and most of the cavalry activities are mainly cavalry companies, which mainly perform tactical tasks such as reconnaissance and disturbance, and rarely engage in frontal combat.

The cavalry units of the Beiyang New Army are much more conservative than the infantry, although they are inevitably influenced by the German and French cavalry units, but they are still very conservative in their establishment, and the Western cavalry has now adopted the small regiment and Dalian system, and a cavalry regiment directly governs several cavalry companies, and each cavalry company has more than 100 to 200 people, and there is no battalion in the middle. In the Beiyang Standing Army, there is still a Zài cavalry battalion, which is a standard battalion and a battalion (company), and each cavalry team has only dozens of cavalry.

Compared with the establishment of infantry and artillery, the establishment of the Beiyang cavalry was still largely in the period of the Napoleonic Wars.

Of course, this is just about the backwardness of the establishment, does not mean that the tactical application of the Beiyang cavalry is still at that time, the modern Beiyang cavalry is not much different from the cavalry of various countries in the tactical application, the only difference is that the cavalry of various countries uses cavalry companies as the basic unit to perform tactical tasks, while the Beiyang New Army uses cavalry battalions with more people to perform the same tasks.

To put it bluntly, the Beiyang New Army is relying on its own large number of horses, coupled with the traditional fear of the great powers, giving birth to one cavalry, you can only use two thoughts.

Since the tactical application and even daily training of the Beiyang cavalry unit are based on the battalion, when Meng Enyuan led the troops to suppress bandits, the troop allocation was also based on the battalion.

Although Meng Enyuan's cavalry still had too many command levels and was not conducive to commanding, Meng Enyuan's cavalry troops were still configured in the traditional way.

After sending out the two cavalry battalions, Meng Enyuan personally led the infantry to follow.

Since there was no fixed enemy in this operation, and it was basically based on the sweeping mode, the width of Meng Enyuan's troops was very large, and the troops of nearly 2,000 people formed a wide sweeping channel of more than 30 kilometers.

This kind of battlefield width is impossible for regular operations, but Meng Enyuan is not engaged in conventional operations, but irregular operations against bandits, so what is required is to cover a wide area, in order to form a huge net to search for the enemy, once encountering the enemy, quickly concentrate forces to annihilate them, and continue to advance after they are destroyed.

Meng Enyuan's net-casting tactics casually encountered a strong enemy army, not much, even if the enemy casually came with an elite cavalry of three or five hundred people, then he could break Meng Enyuan's troops, but he was not facing the elite cavalry of the enemy country, but bandits, even if those bandits were stronger, bandits with hundreds of people basically couldn't do any infantry under Meng Enyuan.

A platoon of forty or fifty men in the field would be able to defeat hundreds of bandits.

The difference between the regular army and the bandits is not how brave the individual is, even the firepower is not important, the real gap lies in discipline, as a typical modern army, what the Beiyang New Army can rely on is nothing more than discipline!

Perhaps those bandits were bloody and brave enough to storm the positions of the Forces nouvelles with their rifles and sabers, but what awaited them was inevitably to be shot to death.

Soon after the anti-bandit troops led by Meng Enyuan went north, they began to receive good news, successively striking at and annihilating several small-scale bandits, killing and wounding more than 100 bandits, seizing more than 10 new guns, more than 100 miscellaneous old guns, more than 60 horses, and only five wounded in their own troops. The above results are only the results of the public war report, which are to be archived and retained, and sent to Baoding by guò telegram for Yuan Shikai to pass the purpose.

If future generations study this war against bandits, they will only see from various official sources how many bandits were killed and wounded, how many guns and horses were seized, and how many bandits were captured, and they will never find any official information about how much goods were seized by the Third Mixed Association.

Because outside of the official war report, any matter related to the seizure of bandit funds is under the control of the 'Logistics Department of the Bandit Suppression Detachment Northward' led by Zhao Dongping, chief of the Ordnance Section, and even Meng Enyuan, the military commander of the Bandit Suppression Detachment, has no authority to govern it.

Zhao Dongping specially transferred a team under the Third Mixed Battalion to Zhao Dongping, and also temporarily transferred a large number of long-term men from several other units, plus some civilian men hired in Jinzhou, to form a logistics and transportation force of about 600 people.

On the one hand, their task was to naturally provide food and ammunition for the northward detachment of the bandits, and another important task was to take over all the booty, especially the floating wealth.

After all, this is not a private robbery, but an open robbery that costs a lot of military spending.

In order to prevent large-scale corruption in the anti-bandit units, the Logistics Department basically placed relevant personnel in each unit above the unit level, and Zhao Dongyun unprecedentedly transferred two gendarmerie battalions from the gendarmerie battalion under the Law Enforcement Section of the Third Mixed Association to strictly enforce the law and imitate the army's private embezzlement.

At the same time, it is also to prevent the troops below from grabbing the red eye, and it is good to sweep up the bandits, but it is not good if one of them does not get something like robbing the rich and so on.

The Third Mixed Association is a regular army of the imperial court, and it is in the early stage of the army, whether it is Yuan Shikai or Zhao Dongyun himself, he attaches great importance to discipline, if the Third Mixed Association has something to disturb the people or even rob the rich and the like, and turn the third into a miasma, Yuan Shikai will not give Zhao Dongyun any good fruit to eat.

Therefore, at the same time, Zhao Dongyun also announced that the seizures in the course of the anti-bandit operation were 37 percent, of which 70 percent were filled into the treasury of the headquarters of the association to purchase ordnance and expand the army, and the remaining three layers were used to issue 'anti-bandit subsidies' to the officers and soldiers involved in the operation.

Although it is not possible to completely avoid the private embezzlement of soldiers, the discipline of the Beiyang New Army in these years is quite good, and there is also the distribution of subsidies for suppressing bandits, so many soldiers are also willing to rob the money with the thirty percent.

"Brother Shuchun still has a hand in playing cavalry, and now it has only taken eight days to fight and catch up, exterminate the three bandits, kill and wound more than 100 people, and only five people have been injured, so I can't find a few cavalry generals like Brother Shuchun in Beiyang!" Chen Guangyuan looked at the battle report, and his tone did not hesitate to admire Meng Enyuan.

Zhao Dongyun on the side could also feel Chen Guangyuan's envy after hearing this.

This time to suppress bandits, Chen Guangyuan was naturally among the candidates for the commander of the northward detachment, but later because the main force of the bandits was cavalry, Zhao Dongyun chose Meng Enyuan to be the commander, which made Chen Guangyuan quite helpless.

The main reason for this is that Chen Guangyuan is not only an infantry officer, but also that he is in the Third Mixed Association and even in the entire Beiyang New Army today, Chen Guangyuan's reputation lies not in how powerful he is in fighting, but in his ability to reorganize the old army and train troops.

Maybe the reputation of the old army is too much, which leads Zhao Dongyun to use him more in training, and even subconsciously does not let Chen Guangyuan go to the front line.

Zhao Dongyun said: "This is just the beginning, there is still a fight in the future, I hope he won't let me down!" ”

After saying this, he changed his words and said: "Now that Enyuan has gone to the north, there is no one to guard Songshan now, you have to explain the affairs of the Jinzhou patrol battalion in the past two days, and then move your standard office to Songshan!" ”

When Chen Guangyuan heard this, his face immediately appeared happy, he didn't expect Zhao Dongyun to let him go to such an important place as Songshan.