To measure the combat effectiveness of an army, equipment is secondary, and the most important thing is the organizational ability of the troops, and the strength of the organizational ability of a unit directly determines whether the unit can carry out various tactics smoothly.

Especially those difficult tactics, which are extremely dependent on the organizational ability of the troops!

A roundabout attack may seem like a common thing, but if you want to succeed in a roundabout way in the eyes of the enemy, it will be a considerable test of the organizational ability of the troops.

In the same way, the enemy on the defending side also needs good organizational skills if they want to take the initiative to intercept the oncoming attacking force, because the enemy is attacking in a roundabout way and the defending side is also trying to maneuver urgently and carry out various defensive tactics.

Looking at contemporary China, there are absolutely only a handful of troops with the above-mentioned organizational capabilities, and each of them is the leading force of the major warlords, such as the third, ninth, and tenth divisions of the Feng army, the three main divisions, and the fourth division and the second mixed brigade under Duan Qirui, or the sixth division under Wang Shizhen, the second division under Wu Fengling, and the seventh division under Wang Zhanyuan, in addition to the nineteenth town of the Southern Federation and the tenth town of the collapsed.

As for other troops, such as the 1st and 14th Divisions in the Feng Army, the 6th Mixed Brigade and the 6th Division of Liangjiang in the Anhui Army, and the 1st and 2nd Towns of the Southern Federation, although these troops are also one of the main forces of the major warlords, and their weapons and equipment are not inferior to the ace troops in the hands of the major warlords, they are still slightly inferior in all aspects.

Although the 7th Division of Liangjiang and the 11th Division of the Fengjun Army, which were once again first-class, had no problem in conducting normal operations, they still lacked a lot.

In today's Ma'anshan Campaign between the Fengwan and Anhui armies, the gap between this ace army and the general main force is very obvious.

When Fang Qingkun commanded the 33rd Regiment to launch a roundabout attack, although the 25th Regiment of the 7th Division of Liangjiang on the opposite side also detected Fang Qingkun's tactical intentions in time and also sent troops to intercept it, it was one thing to see through Fang Qingkun's tactics and send interception troops, but whether it could be intercepted was another matter.

If you want to block the roundabout attack of the Ninth Division, the ace main force in the Feng Army, even if the Fourth Division led by Duan Qirui himself is here, it may not be able to stop it lightly.

The previous Chuzhou Battle is a very obvious proof of this, in the face of the roundabout attack launched by the 6th Brigade of the 3rd Division, although Duan Qirui sent the 7th Brigade to intercept the attack in a roundabout way, leading the 7th Brigade of the Anhui Army and the 6th Brigade of the Feng Army to meet in a narrow way, what was the result?

The 7th Brigade of the Anhui Army was broken by the 6th Brigade of the Feng Army, and the 7th Brigade was directly defeated. The defeat of the 7th Brigade directly led to the complete defeat of the Anhui army in the Battle of Chuzhou, and was finally forced to retreat to Jinling.

Today's collision was between the Ninth Division and the Liangjiang Seventh Division, and although the Ninth Division's roundabout offensive capability was not as strong as the Third Division, it was not something that a mere Liangjiang Seventh Division could stop.

As a result, the current situation arose, and the battalion that the Anhui army went to intercept was in the rapid maneuver, and soon there was a gap in the defensive line, and this gap may not be in the eyes of ordinary officers, but for the front-line commanders of the 33rd Regiment of the Feng Army, who are experienced in combat, this is undoubtedly an excellent opportunity.

As a result, the troops of the 2nd Battalion of the 33rd Regiment did not hesitate to launch a surprise attack on the direct joint air attack of the two infantry companies of the battalion and the Anhui Army.

If the previous head-on clash between the two sides was an encounter that was expected by both sides, then this time the collision between the two sides and the interception forces can be said to be beyond the expectations of the commander of the Anhui army.

In the face of the sudden attack of the Anhui army on the way, although the reaction of the Liangjiang Seventh Division was fast enough, a wrong step was a wrong step, and the tactical mistakes they made at the beginning were not so easy to make up.

With the same machine guns and explosions on the battlefield, an infantry company quickly crossed the junction of the two infantry companies in the Anhui battalion, and when they separated the two infantry companies, there was almost no doubt about the next battle situation.

Under the onslaught of the first battalion of the 33rd Regiment, the first battalion of the Anhui army that went to intercept it could not reach such a fierce attack at all, and in less than half an hour, an infantry company of the Feng army had already completed the tactical intersperse, and approached the Feng army to gather the strength of two companies to annihilate one of the companies of the divided Anhui army.

When such tactical conditions, the strength of the Feng army for attack and outflanking is already as high as three companies, and there is only one company in the encirclement, if the strength of the two armies of Feng and Anhui is comparable, the seventh division of the Anhui army can barely resist, but when the difference in strength is several times, let alone the seventh division of Liangjiang, even if the fourth division comes over, it can't bear it.

Immediately after that, the infantry company of the Anhui army was quickly defeated, and after dozens of casualties, the others either surrendered on the spot or fled in all directions, and from a military point of view, this infantry company no longer exists.

After completing the annihilation of the enemy's company, two infantry companies of the first battalion of the Anhui army quickly moved north, and cooperated with another company to encircle and annihilate the remaining infantry company of the Anhui army.

In just two hours, two infantry companies of the Anhui army's interception force had been completely defeated, and the remaining two companies had no way to stop the attack of the first battalion of the Feng army.

In this series of battles, they all have the same characteristic, that is, in every offensive battle, the Feng army can always maintain its own superiority in troops, and this superiority in troops is very large, at least twice or even triple.

You must know that the total strength of the detour and interception troops on both sides is comparable, but the Feng army is able to form a huge force advantage in local battles, and this is the difference between the ace troops and the ordinary troops!

From ancient times to the present, all the tactics used by military strategists, what do they seek?

Four words: troop superiority!

In the case of equal or even inferior forces, the ultimate goal of almost all tactics is to gain a local superiority in forces through various tactics, and then strike at the enemy.

And the generals who can lead the troops to do this, especially those who can do it in the kind of battles of hundreds of thousands of people, are all military masters who can be remembered through the ages.

Of course, in the Feng army, there is not a single person with this kind of strategic command ability, even Gu Lanyu, who has been in the limelight in the domestic military circles in the past two years, he can only reluctantly command the division-level troops to launch a roundabout attack, if he is allowed to command an army of more than 100,000 or 200,000 to carry out a roundabout attack, the result will definitely not be optimistic.

At present, the so-called "good at roundabout attacks" in the Feng army refers more to small and medium-sized roundabout attacks, such as a battalion and a company.

However, even this kind of small-scale roundabout offensive tactics brought great tactical advantages to the Feng army!

Why was the Feng army on the Jiangbei front at a disadvantage in its own strength, but still able to take the initiative to attack? Although there was a 10th Division in the Feng army that was good at frontal breakthroughs, in fact, the Feng army rarely played frontal breakthrough battles, and basically played detours.

This can be seen from the arrangement of the entire battle of crossing the river, why did he choose to cross the river on the line of Hezhou and Dangtu, in order to avoid the main force of the Anhui army, and then prepare to intersperse after crossing the river, and then split the connection between the fourth division and the second mixed brigade, and then adopt the tactics of breaking through the above two divisions.

Looking down further, now Fang Qingkun of the 33rd Regiment is also playing this hand!

Moreover, the game was relatively successful, with only one battalion of troops, using a roundabout maneuver to drive the enemy army was also a passive maneuver and thus creating a favorable tactical opportunity, and then directly defeated the infantry battalion of the Anhui army.

You must know that the strength of both sides is about the same, but the Feng army is able to use various tactics to create a local advantage in strength, and then annihilate the infantry battalion of the Anhui army one by one, this routine is the same as the battle between the sixth brigade of the Feng army and the seventh brigade of the Anhui army in the Chuzhou Campaign.

"Now that the 1st Battalion has routed the enemy army, let the 2nd Battalion also increase its offensive to drag them down, and today I will make them unable to go!" Fang Qingkun is in a very good mood now, and if he crushes a battalion of the enemy, it means that he has defeated at least one-third of the enemy's troops, and in this way, his own side has truly occupied the advantage of troops.

Coupled with the success of the first battalion's roundabout outflanking, if it cooperates with the second battalion, it will not be so easy for the remaining battalion of the opposing Anhui army to leave.

Sure enough, the development of things was similar to Fang Qingkun's expectations, although the remaining battalion of the Anhui army struggled to support, it could not stop the two-sided attack of the two battalions of the 33rd Regiment, and then they wanted to take the initiative to retreat, but they went there!

Although the battlefield is full of accidents, the reason why miracles are called miracles is because it rarely appears, and it is obviously impossible for any miracles to happen to the Anhui army today.

As a result, the 33rd Regiment was like an autumn wind sweeping away leaves, and directly defeated the remaining infantry battalion of the Anhui army.

In this way, the three battalions of the 25th Regiment deployed by the Anhui Army on the Ma'anshan front line have been defeated one after another, which means that the Feng army that is crossing the river in a short period of time will no longer encounter the enemy's counterattack and interception.

And when the main force of the Liangjiang Seventh Division on Tu's side is to arrive, it will be at least ten hours later.

"Let the 33rd Regiment slow down and deploy the defensive line immediately!" The commander of the 17th Brigade, Major General Pan Luanqing, had just stepped off the bow of the boat, and behind him was a large number of soldiers of the 34th Regiment who were crossing the river!

"In addition, notify the army command and request reinforcements for ammunition, the ammunition consumption of the 33rd Regiment is relatively large!" After Pan Luanqing walked onto the beachhead, he immediately took his staff officers and subordinate officers to inspect various places and prepare to deploy the defensive line.

In the following two days, Pan Luanqing's task was very arduous, although the 33rd Regiment had already defeated a regiment of the enemy, but on the whole, this did not alleviate the many difficulties faced by the 17th Brigade, because the 17th Brigade was not facing a single battalion or regiment of the Anhui Army, but an entire Liangjiang 7th Division.

While the 17th Brigade stopped continuing to expand its depth and began to dig trenches and lay out defensive lines, the rest of the Feng army was also busy, the artillery units were busy hauling heavy artillery to the river, the baggage troops were busy transporting all kinds of supplies, and those boats did not stop for a moment, either transporting soldiers or ammunition supplies, and the soldiers of the task force engineering regiment were sweating and were stepping up the erection of pontoon bridges.

When the Fourth Army was busy with greenery, the Liangjiang Seventh Division in Dangtu County also received the news that a large number of troops of the Feng Army had landed in Ma'anshan, and half an hour later, a regiment of the Seventh Division had already rushed to Ma'anshan, and then more main forces, artillery, baggage and other troops also rushed to Ma'anshan.