When Zhao Dongyun and many personnel from the headquarters stayed in Tangshan to summarize the follow-up of the Tangshan Campaign, the pace of a large number of Feng troops did not stop, and the various troops almost followed the retreat of the direct army.

And as the Feng army pressed step by step, the direct army, which had already experienced the fiasco of the Tangshan Campaign, was getting more and more difficult to resist!

On the 28th, the Ninth Division of the Feng Army gathered more than 6,000 troops to launch an attack on Ninghe, and the one who defended Ninghe was the Zhu Panzao Division of the First Brigade of the First Division of the Direct Army, which had suffered a crushing defeat on the Yinfeng front line and directly caused the collapse of the entire direct army.

Although the strength of this first brigade still has more than 4,000 troops, its morale has almost fallen to the bottom, and the heavy weapons have almost been lost; the two artillery battalions left by Lu Yongxiang to the brigade have been destroyed, and Zhu Panzao has only been able to bring back only eight pieces of artillery, and the others have either been destroyed or captured by the Feng army in the battle, and although a small amount of heavy machinery has been brought out, more than half of them have been lost.

On paper, the 1st Brigade under the command of Zhu Panzao is now similar to the ordinary mixed brigade in terms of strength and equipment, but due to the influence of morale, especially the Feng army in the rear, they have just entered Ninghe on the front foot, and before they have time to deploy fortifications, the 10th Division pursued the troops and launched a large-scale attack six hours later.

Under these circumstances, the 1st Brigade naturally collapsed again without surprise, and its appearance was completely different from the tenacity of the past half month.

If it is said that in mid-June, the First Brigade of the First Division was a descendant unit under Wang Yingkai, then the combat effectiveness can be said to be the top in the country, and Lu Yongxiang originally led more than 10,000 people of the First Division and more than 5,000 people of the First Mixed Brigade, and the total number was less than 20,000.

However, after the Tangshan fiasco, the backbone of this army has been completely crushed, the loss of soldiers, the loss of heavy weapons are still secondary, the most important thing is that the morale of this army has fallen to the bottom, up to Zhu Panzao down to ordinary soldiers, there is only one thing to think of, that is, to escape!

As a result, Ning He, who Xu Bangjie originally thought would have to gather the main force of the Ninth Division to take, only took more than 6,000 people to take it, and this attacking force was only an infantry unit that attacked lightly, and only brought a dozen artillery pieces, but the first brigade of the direct army defending the city only lasted less than a day, and then collapsed again.

This time there weren't too many fancy things, the 10th Division attacked in the most direct way, and then crushed the 1st Brigade again in one fell swoop!

After the 1st Brigade was routed, its remnants once again retreated in the direction of the Beijing Division!

And the Ninth Division did not stop the pace, Xu Bangjie is also a veteran, but he is not willing to leave Zhu Panzao time to stop and reorganize the troops, almost the first brigade has just retreated on the front foot, and the tenth division on the back foot is chasing up, almost biting the tail of the first brigade on the way to pursue.

Why, because Xu Bangjie's Ninth Division continues to advance, it will be about to arrive in Langfang, and then if the Ninth Division comes to the north again, then the Second Brigade, the Eleventh Division, and the Twelfth Division of the First Division of the Direct Army, which are still in Baodi and Jixian, will have to fall into the encirclement of the Feng Army again.

In this case, Wang Yingkai made a huge decision that amazed Zhao Dongyun, and after the Ninth Division had just conquered Ninghe, Wang Yingkai personally ordered Lu Yongxiang and other front-line generals to demand that the above-mentioned departments immediately withdraw to the Beijing Division, and he did not want Baodi and Jixian these places.

In the face of the resolute retreat of the direct army, although the Feng troops of the front line wanted to pursue, in fact, it was very difficult to pursue quickly!

From the beginning of the large-scale counterattack on the 23rd to the 28th, in just five days, the various units of the Feng army advanced an average of 50 kilometers, which is very rare in the absence of railway transportation support, in order to transport supplies to these troops who have left the railway to fight, the soldiers of the eight support regiments of the quartermaster department are driving horse-drawn carriages, pushing wheelbarrows, and even transporting supplies for tens of thousands of Feng troops on the front line by shoulder.

However, although there are eight support regiments for logistics and transportation tasks, it is still far from enough, especially the transportation of some heavy materials is extremely dependent on regular logistics forces, such as artillery shells, in order to transport these shells, a large number of horses and wagons are needed to tow, which can transport a large number of extremely heavy artillery shells to the front line on a large scale.

This Fengjun is not the National Revolutionary Army or the Volunteer Army of later generations, those troops with tens of thousands of troops do not have a few artillery, and it is reluctant to say that the militia is reluctant, and the Fengjun, not to mention the belief in these nonsense things, but this Fengjun is a typical regular army. In addition to the equipment, the tactics of the Feng army are also old-fashioned and conservative, and each infantry attack will basically be prepared for artillery bombardment.

And there is also a very important one, although the mortars equipped in large quantities by the Feng army are cheap, their fast rate of fire also brings a large amount of shell consumption, and the total consumption of mortar shells in the Feng army has far exceeded the shell consumption of the barrel artillery.

And all this makes the consumption of ammunition, especially artillery shells, very large for the Feng army!

Before the war, the Quartermaster Department's Lieutenant General Hong Putao was already aware of the inadequacy of the army's own logistics system, and this deficiency had already been reflected in the operation of the customs last year, and when the operation entered the customs this year, the Quartermaster Department specially hired tens of thousands of people, and organized into eight support regiments for logistics and transportation, but it was okay during the Tangshan Campaign, but the troops began to leave the railway and march westward on a large scale. Once again, logistics and transportation are insufficient.

The current situation is that the ammunition supply of the Feng army in Tangshan is piling up, but except for the 9th Division, which can be smoothly transported by train, it is difficult to transport ammunition in other directions.

Logistics and transportation could not keep up with the pace of advance of the troops, which led the front-line troops to catch up with the enemy, but the mortars in their hands were not available for shells!

Faced with this situation, Zhao Dongyun, in addition to letting the 10th Division, which was supported by the railway, continue to advance, ordered other units to suspend the large-scale offensive and carry out a simple rest on the front line of Jixian and Baodi to replenish ammunition and other combat materials.

In this case, the second half of June passed so calmly, the direct army almost contracted and retreated to the Beijing division, while the Feng army moved the main force southward on a large scale after taking Baodi and Jixian in order to obtain supplies from the railway line, leaving only the fourth mixed brigade and the fifth mixed brigade on the Jixian and Baodi lines. Three units of the 1st Cavalry Brigade.

Among them, Cao Kun's 4th Mixed Brigade was also no longer Zhao Dongyun's hope, and on June 26, he defeated a brigade and provincial army deployed by the direct army in Chengde, and then marched southward, according to their marching plan, they would go all the way south along the southwest direction, and then go straight to the Huairou and Miyun lines of the Beijing Division, so as to serve as the main force of the offensive in the north.

After taking Yutian and Jixian, He Zonglian's Fifth Mixed Brigade will rest for two days and then continue to attack westward, with the intended goal of finally reaching Tongzhou, and this march route is basically along the route of the Third Division of the Feng Army entering the customs last year.

The First Cavalry Brigade is mainly to roam in the vast area of the north to cover the logistics and transportation lines, and in a few days they will also turn south, and follow the Second Cavalry Brigade to the south of Zhili to reinforce Wu Fengling.

The main force of the more Feng army has already begun to move south from the Baodi line, and three of the infantry divisions will arrive in the Langfang area, and then rely on the logistics supplies provided by the railway line to continue the attack on the Beijing division, and at the same time, they will also divide their troops to the south to block Wang Zhanyuan's seventh division.

With the progress of the Zhifeng War, Wang Zhanyuan's Seventh Division has arrived at the front line of Tianjin Machang after more than half a month's march, which is not good news for the Feng army, they must stop this seventh division outside Tianjin, at least outside the Beijing-Feng Railway, and at the same time can not let this Wang Zhanyuan's troops bypass the Beijing Division, so as to avoid large-scale stubborn resistance when the Feng army attacks the Beijing Division, and then delay the war.

Today's overall situation is still very tight for the Feng army, Wu Fengling, who is defending the front line of Shijiazhuang, has called many times, asking Zhao Dongyun to quickly send reinforcements south to support him, otherwise his 10,000 people will not be able to stop Wang Ruxian's 20,000 people, not to mention that Wang Shizhen only sent a brigade north after learning that the direct army lost the battle of Tangshan. Wang Shizhen in order to take the three towns of Wuhan from the beginning of June has launched several large-scale attacks, although the attack was resisted by Zhang Zhidong's department, but has taken Hankou by the way, is launching a large-scale offensive against Hanyang, it is worth mentioning that affected by the war, especially by Wang Shizhen's large-scale artillery bombardment, plus Zhang Zhidong did not carry out large-scale relocation before the war, the Hanyang factory was subjected to large-scale shelling, and the plant and equipment were lost. Coupled with being on the front lines of the fighting, it has been forced to a total shutdown.

At a critical moment in the Wuhan war, Wang Shizhen also sent a brigade of troops north, obviously realizing the importance of the problem, as for Duan Qirui sent troops north earlier, because Duan Qirui knew that there was no railway for the transportation of his troops, so he sent a brigade north early, but Duan Qirui's original idea was not to reinforce Wang Yingkai, this brigade was used to prevent accidents, and now this brigade is still in Xuzhou.

As for Zhang Huaizhi's troops, like Wang Ruxian, they began to move north at the beginning of the Zhifeng War, but the road was far away, and now the main force of Zhang Huaizhi's troops was still in Anhui, and the brigade that invaded the north in early June had only just arrived in Huaibei.

Judging from the location of Zhang Huaizhi and Duan Qirui's troops and the contemporary traffic situation, they will not be able to reach Zhili for another month.

However, Wang Ruxian and Wang Shizhen's troops could use the railway to maneuver, and it only took a few days for them to go north, and this was also the reason why Zhao Dongyun did not hesitate to spend a huge price to win over Wu Fengling, because he needed Wu Fengling to stop Wang Ruxian and Wang Shizhen's northbound troops in Shijiazhuang.