On July 11, the 3rd and 10th Divisions of the Feng Army besieged Bazhou for many days, although some unexpected things happened in the early stage of this Bazhou Campaign, such as the early crisis of the 5th Brigade of the Feng Army, the decisive rear of the 13th Brigade of the Direct Army, the roundabout attack of the 6th Brigade of the Feng Army, and the setbacks of the 10th Division and the 5th Brigade in the offensive battle ahead.

The above variables have put the combat generals on both sides, especially the high-level generals, under great pressure, Wang Zhanyuan's side will not talk about it first, but only that Chen Guangyuan's side can be said to have endured great political pressure for this Bazhou campaign.

Previously, because Chen Guangyuan wanted to swallow the 13th Brigade in one fell swoop, he gave Zhao Dongyun a roundabout Bazhou campaign plan, and as the main initiator of the campaign and one of the main commanders, he naturally bore the consequences of this battle.

If a qiēshun lì is naturally a good thing, he Chen Guangyuan will be able to write a heavy stroke on the military merit book, and at the same time, he will be able to get more attention from Zhao Dongyun.

But if one is not smooth, or even fails, then Chen Guangyuan's situation will become very bad! Chen Guangyuan knows that Zhao Dongyun's mind is not as broad as the propaganda says, he can endure a small defeat, but if you fight a big defeat and lose a lot, then you will definitely be removed and you will never be able to turn over.

Fortunately, since the Sixth Brigade successfully detoured and launched an attack on the southern part of Bazhou, this battle of Bazhou, which was already very different from the original plan, has finally taken it into course.

In the past two days, there have been no more unpredictable surprises like in the previous days, but there are traces to follow, and although the progress of the attacking forces is not too great, the situation is already under the control of the Feng army.

With the situation of the Battle of Bazhou under his control, Chen Guangyuan's heart has been put down!

"The next thing we have to do is to advance step by step, step by step, hum although Wang Zhanyuan's seventh division has a better offensive ability than other direct armies, but this defensive ability is not strong there!" Chen Guangyuan stood on the top of a hill and looked at the battle line in the distance with a telescope.

In the distant battle line in the telescope, there are explosions of smoke from time to time, and you can vaguely see your own soldiers in blue-gray military uniforms, and occasionally you can see soldiers in direct army uniforms in khaki military uniforms, and the crisp sound of gunfire and explosions is also constantly shrouded in the ears.

Kong Guanbei on the side said: "The division commander is right, they didn't look like this when they fought a few days ago, if they were also equipped with mortars and light machine guns, this offensive war would be a copy of our third division, and we fought enough at the beginning!" ”

Kong Weibei is still a little afraid when he thinks of the situation that his Fifth Brigade was besieged by the Seventh Division, to be honest, Kong Weibei has led the team to experience a lot of battles, from last year to now, the Third Division has fought the Qing Army, Wang Shizhen's Sixth Division, the Seventh Division of Feng Guozhang's era, Lu Yongxiang's First Division, Bao Guiqing's First Mixed Brigade, and a number of Eleventh Division, Twelfth Division, and the Zhili Provincial Army. But they all have the same characteristic, that is, their tactical concepts are basically still in the old Beiyang era, to be precise, at the level before the Russo-Japanese War.

Therefore, when it comes to fighting them, there is not much difference for Kong Guanbei, especially in the face of the attacks of the above departments, the Third Division can always fight with ease.

However, in the face of Wang Zhanyuan's reorganized Seventh Division, Kong Guanbei's Fifth Brigade was very difficult to defend, and many defensive tactics that were quite effective against the Qing army and the direct army in the past were ineffective, so the Fifth Brigade suffered a very big loss in the early defensive operations.

"But this Wang Zhanyuan learned from our Fengjun to train the troops, this offensive ability has been learned, but this defensive ability has obviously not been learned!" Chen Guangyuan put down the binoculars: "Hmph, although he knows our offensive tactics well, I just want to see them resist!" ”

The offensive tactics of the Feng army were different from those of other armies and even the offensive tactics of the troops of the great powers, and the contemporary Japanese and Russian armies and other domestic warlord forces often launched large-scale charges when attacking, although the distance between the soldiers when charging was much larger than before, but in essence it was still the same old way. However, the Feng army rarely launched a large-scale charge in battle.

Taking the 10th Division, which is best at frontal breakthroughs, as an example, when Xu Bangjie commanded the troops to attack, he liked to concentrate the technical weapons of the troops into a certain unit, so that the unit could act as a fist force to launch a strong attack, and with the support of artillery, forcibly break through a certain point of the enemy army.

This kind of surprise attack does not mean that it is enough to run out of the trench and rush over, but to use a large number of technical weapons, such as mortars, heavy machine gun suppression, light machine gun support to create a storm of shells and bullets in a short time, and the ultra-dense firepower is basically able to hit the enemy so that the enemy can not raise his head, and then the soldiers will launch a formal attack.

With absolute superiority in firepower, it is generally difficult for the enemy to block this offensive mode of the 10th Division!

Once a certain tactical point has been overcome, the attacking force quickly extends to the flanks, and then expands the breakthrough point with a point and area, and then more troops enter the enemy's defensive depth through this breakthrough, which in turn causes the complete collapse of the enemy's defensive line.

The use of this tactic has also caused the scale of the 10th Division's offensive operations in peacetime to be not large, and it is basically dominated by the attack of battalion and company level troops, and if there is a regiment-level attack, then the front-line troops must have made a breakthrough.

The tactical concept of the Feng Army, especially the 10th Division, is actually very advanced in contemporary times, with the shadow of the infiltration tactics of the German army in the late World War I and the shadow of the Soviet army's concept of great depth in World War II.

And more crucially, the Feng army has begun to use infantry squad tactics on a large scale.

Although the Feng army's current total number of light machine guns and 60-millimeter mortars is still strictly insufficient, in offensive warfare, a large number of technical weapons are often temporarily increased to a certain unit, and at this time, the troops on the front line who are responsible for offensive tasks are often able to be equipped with one light machine gun per squad, and a company can be equipped with more than three 60-millimeter mortars, and sometimes even 80-millimeter mortars and heavy machine guns.

In order to exert the power of so many weapons and create more suitable offensive tactics, the Fengjun began to specialize in infantry squad tactics, and the appearance of infantry squad tactics in history was in the late stage of World War I, and large-scale popularization was already after World War I.

The offensive tactics used by Wang Zhanyuan before were actually a copy of the above model, but Wang Zhanyuan did not have light machine guns and mortars in his hands, so he used heavy machine guns to suppress them, and risked deploying the mountain guns in front of them, creating hand-made grenades and other ways to increase the density of firepower.

Rao was like this, which also made the original Fifth Brigade wolf, and now that the Seventh Division is facing a more intensive attack by the Feng army, the situation is naturally worse than that of the original Fifth Brigade.

"The current situation is still relatively good, and we still have to increase the intensity of our offensive in the east and strive to contain more enemies, so that we can create opportunities for the north and south!" Chen Guangyuan looked at Kong Beidao like this.

Kong Weibei said: "This is natural, today our department just got a batch of ammunition supplies, and tomorrow our department will give them a ruthless fight!" ”

In today's Bazhou Campaign, the defensive strength of the direct army on the eastern battlefield is not much, only one regiment, but on this side there are civil fortifications built by the direct army for a long time, and it is not easy to fight.

In the north, although there are not many fortifications, there is a whole 13th Brigade and other auxiliary forces of the 7th Division, with a total number of nearly 6,000 or 7,000 people, so it is not easy for the 10th Division to take it.

The only place to stand a chance is to the south!

The detour of the Sixth Brigade directly detoured to the Bazhou side, just behind the Seventh Division, and although the Seventh Division built a part of the fortifications in this direction, the number was relatively small and imperfect, and then Wang Zhanyuan urgently transferred a regiment of the reserve to resist the Sixth Brigade, although the battle on the southern front was stabilized for a time, but the offensive pace of the Sixth Brigade was not so easy to resist.

If Xu Bangjie's 10th Division is good at frontal breakthroughs, then the 3rd Division, especially the 6th Brigade, is good at roundabout attacks under the influence of Gu Lanyu.

This point was reflected in the original Tongzhou Campaign, in the Tangshan Campaign, when attacking Huanxizhuang, the Sixth Brigade played a roundabout, and now in the Bazhou Campaign, the Sixth Brigade is still playing a roundabout!

Seeing that the detour back to the south of Bazhou and the attack was blocked, Gu Lanyu did not hesitate at all, and immediately left a regiment to continue the frontal attack, and in the evening of the same day, Gu Lanyu led a regiment to the northwest again, and this time they ran directly to the west of Bazhou.

And before dawn the next day, launched a surprise attack on the empty defense of the western front of Bazhou, at this time the strength of the 7th Division deployed on the western front was only one battalion, after the battalion was quickly defeated, Gu Lanyu personally led the troops to flank the enemy's 27th Regiment deployed on the front line of Wangzhuang and launched an attack.

After Gu Lanyu's Sixth Brigade played another detour in front of the battle and successfully broke through the flank defense line of the 27th Regiment of the Direct Army, there was no doubt that the 27th Regiment of the Direct Army inevitably suffered a rout after the onslaught of the 6th Brigade from all sides.

And after learning that the defense line of the 27th Regiment had been broken through, Wang Zhanyuan took a deep breath: "What a Gu Lanyu!" ”

Wang Zhanyuan didn't get angry, nor did he scold Chen Guangyuan and Gu Lanyu, but after taking a few deep breaths, he said: "This Bazhou can't stay any longer, let the 27th Regiment stabilize first, and then order the 13th Brigade and the 28th Regiment, we will leave tonight!" ”