Lu Yongxiang can turn around and run, but Bao Guiqing's First Mixed Brigade can't escape now, why? Because now the 1st Mixed Brigade is fighting with the 3rd and 10th Divisions, the battle line is crumbling, if the 1st Mixed Brigade takes the initiative to retreat, unless the commander of the Feng Army on the opposite side is a pig's brain, otherwise this retreat will definitely become a big collapse of the whole front.

Under such circumstances, it was almost impossible for Bao Guiqing's 1st Mixed Brigade to break away from the frontline and retreat.

"He, Lu Yongxiang, is going to treat us as a broken army!" Even if Bao Guiqing understood the matter, there was no way to change the facts.

Lu Yongxiang did not go to reinforce Huanxizhuang, but directly turned west and returned to the west, which naturally fell into the eyes of the Feng army on the opposite side!

"There is no doubt that Lu Yongxiang is definitely going to run!" Fang Biyong said: "Marshal, now that the enemy's first mixed brigade is about to collapse, our next primary goal is to leave the first division, the second brigade and the eleventh or twelfth division!" ”

Zhao Dongyun listened and said, "Oh, what is the opinion of the combat department?" ”

Yang Deming said: "Due to the heavy breakthrough of the Yinfeng front, the next is a great strategic advantage for us, at present, the first brigade of the enemy's Yinfeng line has been defeated, its remnants are retreating in the direction of Ninghe, the 19th brigade of the 10th division has continued to attack along the railway line, and the other 20th brigade has marched to the northwest.

In addition, the 7th Mixed Brigade has also attacked from the front line of the Cha River, in this case, what we need to do is to let these two troops move north quickly, and then outflank the enemy's 1st Mixed Brigade, 2nd Brigade, and 11th Division.

However, considering that the enemy's second brigade has begun to retreat, it is obvious that Lu Yongxiang has already given up the first mixed brigade, if we want to stop the second brigade and the eleventh division, then our northward troops still need to speed up, even march lightly, and the second cavalry brigade also needs to strengthen the offensive to contain the eleventh division. ”

Zhao Dongyun nodded and said: "Well, yes, since the combat department has already thought about it, let's give the order later, let the twentieth brigade and the seventh mixed brigade advance lightly and quickly, and be sure to catch up with the enemy's second brigade." In addition, an order was also given to the 1st Cavalry Brigade, asking them to directly capture Yutian to the south to cooperate with the 5th Mixed Brigade! ”

Since the 10th Division of the 23rd Fengjun Army defeated the 1st Brigade of the 1st Division of the Direct Army, it quickly caused a chain reaction, if the direct army was able to barely defend before, then after the 23rd, the direct army fell into the stage of collapse of the whole front, this collapse does not only refer to a first division or the first mixed brigade, but the direct army on the entire Tangshan front.

After the first brigade of the first division of the direct army on the southern front retreated from Yinfeng, not only did the personnel suffer less than half of the casualties, but also the artillery was almost completely lost, leaving only more than 4,000 remnants of the army to flee all the way to the direction of Ninghe, although the remaining troops of the department still have more than 4,000 troops, but both the direct army and the generals of the Feng army already know that this force has been disabled, and even if their morale is still there, even if they have lost artillery and heavy machine guns, it is impossible to block the next wave of attacks of the Feng army, not to mention that the morale of the department is now plummeting. There were even cases of mass desertion.

On the front line of Huanxizhuang, although Bao Guiqing's First Mixed Brigade is still resisting, whether it is Zhao Dongyun or Lu Yongxiang, they have actually sentenced the First Mixed Brigade to death, and even a miracle reappearance cannot change the fact that Bao Guiqing's First Mixed Brigade was surrounded and annihilated.

The 11th Division of the Lizhuang Front Line Direct Army is facing the 2nd Cavalry Brigade of the Feng Army, if the generals of the direct army on the opposite side are smart enough, then they will run away, if they are also an elm head, they will be held back by the 2nd Cavalry Brigade for a few more days, and it is estimated that they will also fall into the encirclement of the Feng Army.

The 12th Division of the Direct Army on the front line of Yahongqiao is currently engaged in a battle with He Zonglian's Division of the Fifth Mixed Brigade of the Feng Army, and the 1st Cavalry Brigade of the Feng Army from the north from Zunhua has arrived in the suburbs of Yutian.

Although the situation of the 2nd Brigade of the 1st Division led by Lu Yongxiang was better, the 20th Brigade of the 10th Division and the 7th Mixed Brigade were chasing after him, and it was also a question of whether he could escape.

If you look at the current shape of the direct army from the sand table or on the map, you will find that it is very bad for the direct army, a big defeat is almost certain, and the only change is how big the loss of the direct army will be!

Twelve days had passed since the Battle of Tangshan broke out on June 12 and June 24, and after 12 days of the war, the direct army had already shown a situation of rout on all fronts.

Zhao Dongyun and other generals of the Feng army on the opposite side will naturally not let go of this opportunity, although the current situation is different from what was expected before, they planned to make a breakthrough from Huanxizhuang at the beginning, but now a breakthrough on the front line of Yinfeng can also achieve a similar goal, starting from the 23rd, the Feng army is to start attacking on all fronts.

And the first to completely collapse was naturally Bao Guiqing's First Mixed Brigade.

At 11 o'clock in the morning, Bao Guiqing officially raised the white flag and surrendered to Meng Enyuan, commander of the First Army of the Feng Army, who was in charge of the battle in Huanxizhuang.

And before, don't look at the lively fighting between the two armies, but in fact, the casualties on both sides are limited, and there are not many cases where the troops on both sides have suffered large-scale casualties, and the first time the direct army has suffered mass casualties is when the first brigade was defeated, and more than 2,000 people were killed and wounded.

This second time was that in the past 12 hours, the 1st Mixed Brigade had collapsed on a large scale, and more than 1,000 people had been killed or wounded in the course of the collapse, which was more than all the casualties of the previous 10 days combined.

In addition to these two battles, in fact, the casualties on both sides at other times were limited, generally dozens of casualties, up to a few hundred casualties were very few, and there was no situation of tens of thousands of casualties a day during the Russo-Japanese War, why? Because there are only tens of thousands of people in the two armies! It is really not easy to think of tens of thousands of casualties in a day, you must know that the Russo-Japanese War and the Western Front of World War I suffered tens of thousands or even tens of thousands of casualties a day, which was based on the fact that the number of troops participating in the war was hundreds of thousands or even millions.

If you count the casualty rate of the troops, in fact, the casualty rate of this Zhibong War is not small, at least much more than the civil war between the north and the south in the south.

After the Feng army annihilated the 1st Mixed Brigade, it did not stop its pace, and its 3rd Division quickly turned west to reinforce the 2nd Cavalry Brigade, and the 11th Division on the opposite side also saw that it was not good, and immediately retreated westward, and in the process of retreat, it was inevitably pursued by the 2nd Cavalry Brigade of the Feng Army, not only suffering nearly 1,000 casualties, but also leaving behind more than 10 38-year-old field guns that Wang Yingkai had just purchased from Japan.

In the north direction, the 1st Cavalry Brigade of the Feng Army was intercepted by an infantry regiment left behind by the 12th Division of the Direct Army when trying to conquer Yutian.

The main force of the 12th Division saw that the situation was not good, and it also ran away, and even the regiment in Yutian did not respond, and retreated directly to Jixian County, and the infantry regiment of the 12th Division that stayed in Yutian faced the attack of the follow-up 5th Mixed Brigade, and did not resist for a day, and simply raised the white flag to announce surrender.

As of the 27th, the remnants of the direct army have retreated to Baodi, Jixian, and Ninghe, and the Tangshan Campaign, which lasted for half a month, ended in a complete victory for the Feng army.

In the past few days, almost all the people in the Feng army have been filled with festive colors, which can be seen from the battle report meeting of the headquarters, and many generals who participated in the meeting were all relaxed.

Even Zhao Dongyun changed his usual calm and cold look and put on a slight smile.

"The Tangshan Campaign lasted 15 days from the 12th of this month to the 27th of yesterday, and our army successively had the 3rd, 9th, 10th, 5th Mixed Brigade, 7th Mixed Brigade, 1st Cavalry Brigade, 2nd Cavalry Brigade, 1st Independent Mortar Battalion, 2nd Independent Mortar Battalion, 3rd Independent Mortar Battalion, Independent Heavy Artillery Battalion, and other combat units participating in the battle.

This 100,000 people actually has a considerable amount of water, because it contains a large number of civilian and administrative personnel, such as the eight support regiments of the Ministry of Quartermasters, which are actually composed of recruited and hired civilian men, and the two transportation battalions of the Transportation Department are actually the staff of the railway department, but they are only temporarily assigned to the transportation battalions of the Transportation Department to uniformly allocate railway capacity.

In addition to all kinds of chaotic people, the actual combat units participating in the war are actually about 65,000.

However, these 65,000 people are already the vast majority of the elite troops of the Feng army, although the total size of the Feng army is now more than 100,000, and this 100,000 also includes more than 20,000 patrol troops, more than 5,000 new provincial troops, and more than 10,000 recruits who are still training in the new barracks and are ready to be supplemented into the first division and two mixed brigades of the provincial army.

At present, all the main forces of the Feng army that can be used are only about 70,000 people, and these 70,000 people are all in the Guannei now, of which 5,000 are in Chengde, and the remaining 65,000 are basically on the front line of Tangshan.

"In the half-month battle, the casualties of all units of our army were as follows: the 3rd Division lost 128 killed and 370 wounded, the 9th Division suffered 270 dead and 380 wounded, and the 10th Division ......."

"Among them, the casualty rate of the Seventh Mixed Brigade is relatively large, the unit is in the front line in the first few days of fighting, especially in the first two days under great pressure, in the later pursuit operation, the unit has been engaged with Lu Yongxiang personally led the second brigade, and encountered the attack of the enemy cavalry regiment, the casualties are large, at present the unit has 330 killed, 427 wounded, due to the casualties, the department is currently in urgent need of rest, in order to replenish troops and equipment!"

"Among the above departments, our army has a total of 1,600 killed and 2,200 wounded!" Listening to the casualty figures in Fang Biyong's mouth, the joy on the original faces gradually faded down, this total of more than 3,000 dead and wounded is not a small number, although it is not enough to make Feng Jun's injuries move, but it is enough to affect Feng Jun's follow-up combat effectiveness.

"In addition, in the course of the operation, our army lost four 75-mm field guns, eight 75-mm mountain guns, 27 80-mm and 60-mm mortars, and 27 heavy machine guns!"

Relatively speaking, the losses of the Feng army were not small, but their results were greater.

"In this battle, our army surrounded and annihilated the enemy's 1st Mixed Brigade, severely damaged the enemy's 1st Brigade, the 11th Division, and the 1st Regiment of the 12th Division, killing more than 2,000 enemy troops, wounding at least 3,000 or more, and capturing another 5,000."

Compared with the number of killed and wounded, the number of prisoners is larger, mainly because the encirclement that Bao Guiqing's First Mixed Brigade fell into was finally forced to surrender, and at the same time, a regiment of the 12th Division quickly surrendered without large-scale stubborn resistance, and the sum of these two parts is to send more than 5,000 prisoners to the Feng army, at least the casualty figures, in fact, they are only an estimate, and the number of enemies killed can really be counted only the corpses left by the enemy in the next few days of war. But the bodies of the direct soldiers in the previous days of fighting are often buried, so it is difficult to calculate, and the number of wounded is simply guessing.

But all the sum up, the direct army lost at least tens of thousands of losses in this battle, and the losses were still the elite troops, the first brigade of the first division and the first mixed brigade are all old Beiyang troops, the real descendants under the command of Wang Yingkai, one of these two departments was surrounded and surrendered, and the other was heavily damaged, it can be said that more than half of the main elite under Wang Yingkai has been lost, and the remaining 11th and 12th divisions are all newly formed troops, and a group of recruits in it cannot support the follow-up battle at all.

Compared with the loss of troops, in fact, the loss of heavy weapons of the direct army is more deadly!

"In this battle, our army destroyed more than 30 enemy artillery, captured 16 intact artillery, and 27 artillery pieces that can be used to repair artillery, and these guns are enough to equip an artillery regiment after repair!" Fang Biyong said: "During the operation, our army's artillery battle achieved great results, especially the heavy artillery battalion troops successively defeated the two artillery battalions of the enemy's first division in two days, thus laying the foundation for the 10th Division's breakthrough on the Yinfeng line, and the General Staff believes that it is necessary for our army to continue to expand the equipment scale of the heavy artillery unit!" ”