Chapter 70: The Battle of the Jinghan Line (10)

After the battle began, Zhu Lafeng, as a reserve, kept scratching his claws like a dozen cats. The Anhui Revolutionary Army has grown from a few thousand to tens of thousands, and the other brigade-level troops have basically fought, but Zhu Lafeng has not. When he was first expanded, he was still the commander of the regiment, and he had been following the army to eat ashes, and he didn't have a chance to put his gun down. It's up to everyone else to charge. finally waited for the battle of the Jinghan Line, and Y was still the life of the reserves. This made Zhu Lafeng very unconvinced. Didn't I just get a little worse when I was teaching the team? Don't you see the team I pulled up, 10,000 people smaller?

In fact, at the beginning, Fang Jianxiong did not approve of Zhu Lafeng as the brigade commander, this thing was too bold, and when he gathered in the Wuthering Mountains and forests in Guangde, he almost knocked down several surrounding counties several times. It did not conform to Fang Jianxiong's strategy of low-key development at that time, and he warned this guy many times not to change.

This is probably the main reason why Fang Jianxiong suppressed him, in Fang Jianxiong's eyes, he is a personal hero, not suitable to be the chief officer of the army. Later, it was strongly recommended by the two Germans Jensen and Paulus, and Fang Jianxiong reluctantly agreed to him to be the brigade commander.

Hearing the call, Zhu Lafeng almost ran into the war room, and greeted after a salute: "Marshal, I am ordered to come." ”

"What are you hanging out of the command all the time?" Fang Jianxiong didn't have anything good to say, Zhu Lafeng's face turned slightly red when he was said, he didn't dare to resist, he puffed up his chest and said loudly: "The lowly position is waiting here for the order to attack!" ”

Fang Jianxiong snorted twice and said coldly: "Come and look at the map!" Jurafeng walked over to the map. After staring at it for a while, Fang Jianxiong saw him retract his gaze, and then spoke: "What do you see?" ”

Zhu Lafeng hesitated for a moment before replying loudly: "The marshal let the lowly pursue, there should be two purposes. First, to test the true bottom line of filial piety to defend the enemy, and second, if Chen Guangyuan has the intention of guarding filial piety. You can detour and try to sneak attack Wusheng Pass. ”

Fang Jianxiong was a little surprised, because the second point Fang Jianxiong didn't show it on the map, but just put it in his heart. Sneak attack on Wusheng Pass. The General Staff was against it, and Hamilton advocated that the use of troops should be justified, and that a sneak attack was a trick with a low success rate. It's better to use less. Wushengguan is a strategic point at the junction of Hubei and Henan, and it is impossible for the Beiyang Army to be defenseless. However, his intuition told Fang Jianxiong that the probability of a successful sneak attack on Wusheng Pass was still zài, and it was not even small.

The reason is that it cares about intelligence reconnaissance, and the Beiyang Army only put a target at Wusheng Pass. In Fang Jianxiong's view, this was a strategic mistake by Yan Zhan, and when he announced that he would launch an active attack to earn fame, he should take the initiative to retreat to Wusheng Pass, leaving a joint force to defend Wusheng Pass, and the main force went north along the Jinghan line. There was no need to fight this battle, Fang Jianxiong definitely didn't dare to let Jiang Fangzhen continue to go south.

Of course, this view was formed after Chen Guangyuan's abrupt abandonment of Hankow, that is, the pre-war strategic conception. There is a big loophole in the storage zài. This discovery made Fang Jianxiong embarrassed, and once again conducted an introspection on his military ability. However, Fang Jianxiong's introspection quickly came to a conclusion, that is, no one in Beiyang noticed this loophole, otherwise Duan Qirui would not have put on such a two-sided position, but would have given up Hankou and Xiaogan a long time ago, and directly opened the formation at Wusheng Pass. Why is that? The reason is simple. The first possibility may be that Duan Qirui did not regard the Anhui Revolutionary Army as a high-grade opponent in his bones. The second possibility is that it is not allowed on the political zhì.

It was precisely because of this discovery that Fang Jianxiong came up with the crooked idea of going to Wushengguan.

There was no third person in the war room, Fang Jianxiong stared at Zhu Lafeng with stern eyes and said, "Very good, you can see this, it's not easy." Go to the Chief of Staff and he will give you detailed tasks. ”

Despite his reluctance, Hamilton finally relented and agreed to Fang Jianxiong's idea of sending filial piety and waiting for an opportunity to attack Wusheng Pass. To this end, Hamilton urgently adjusted the battle plan.

After sending away Zhulafeng, Fang Jianxiong telegraphed Jiang Fangzhen again and made the latest adjustments to the battle of the Jinghan Line, and the original strategy of focusing on the north was changed to a sneak attack on Wusheng Pass and the goal of encircling and eliminating the fourth town of Xiaogan. And Jiang Fangzhen's purpose was to attract the attention of the Beiyang Army with the most fierce attack on the Northern Front. This strategic adjustment is much smaller than the previous goal, and the original strategic plan was to put the Beiyang Army in three towns in one pot.

The war is indeed the best training ground, and after this battle, the generals of the Anhui Revolutionary Army, who are mainly young people, should be able to know how many catties and taels they have.

The train was speeding in the night, it was already early in the morning, and Feng Guozhang, who was urgently heading south, did not feel sleepy, and stared at the combat map over and over again in the carriage. This map, Feng Guozhang can restore the important details of the entire map in his mind when he closes his eyes, and he can't be more familiar. But after reading it over and over again, I always felt that I had missed something.

The commander of this battle is Duan Qirui, and this time he went south, Feng Guozhang said in his heart, and he was still willing to help Duan Qirui overcome the dilemma brought by Fang Jianxiong, who suddenly appeared in front of him.

That's right, it's a dilemma. Feng Guozhang thought that probably few Beiyang people felt that the behemoth of Beiyang was facing a dilemma.

Although Feng and Duan are tied for the top three heroes of Beiyang, in fact, the two are not in harmony with each other. The relationship between several major military generals in Beiyang is not harmonious. Feng Guozhang knew this very well, and even knew that because the governor of Huguang began to cheapen Duan Zhigui, Duan Qirui was somewhat resentful of Lao Yuan in his heart.

Feng Guozhang was more worried about Duan Qirui, the commander-in-chief, and the opponent Jianxiong, who suddenly appeared, did not understand enough, and even had contempt. There are also factions within the Beiyang Army, and the main leaders are Feng and Duan. In the few years that Yuan Shikai went home to raise his feet, the respective forces of several leaders of the Beiyang Army developed rapidly, and it was no longer as easy to control as before.

The more Feng Guozhang thought about it, the more confused his brain became, so he simply got up and washed his face, and when he returned to the map, Feng Guozhang's mind was much clearer, and he suddenly shivered violently after looking at it for a while. With his eyes fixed on the point of Wusheng Pass, Feng Guozhang finally found the key point that he had missed.

One target, only one target force in the defense of Wusheng Pass. It seems that there is no problem at all, and it is still quite rear from the Wuhan battlefield, but this so-called rear is not far from Wuhan. If he was Fang Jianxiong, he would adopt a strategy of encircling Xiaogan but not fighting, and send an elite army to bypass Dawu and go straight to Wusheng Pass. Once Wusheng Pass is lost, it is difficult to take it back.

Feng Guozhang couldn't help but feel creepy, the Fourth Town and the Eleventh Mixed Association, that was his team. Did Duan Qirui not see it, or was it because of something else? Feng Guozhang didn't dare to think about it, he just looked forward to rushing to Xinyang as much as possible, and at the same time he was worried that Duan Qirui would understand his own construction as finger-pointing, which would be even more bad.

There are still Duan Qirui who haven't slept, and the conditions in Xinyang City are average, but fortunately, Duan Qirui is not very particular about these. In the simple war room, Duan Qirui was still discussing military affairs with Zeng Yujun and Xu Shuzheng.

Xu Shuzheng is Duan Qirui's little fan military division, and he has always been obedient to his words in matters as a military advisor.

"What did Lord Yuan send Feng Guozhang to do? It's not the same old-fashioned, you have to use people, and you have to guard against you. Xu Shuzheng was very dissatisfied and bluntly said, there were no outsiders left and right, and Duan Qirui didn't care too much about this. The gap between Duan and Yuan began with the dispute between the governor of Huguang, Duan Zhigui, a straw bag, relied on sending sycophants to send women to the throne, Duan Qirui despised this person very much. This person won the trust of Lao Yuan, and he also robbed Duan Qirui of the governor of Huguang.

Duan Qirui was resentful, even if he was now the governor of Huguang, he was still haunted. felt that this was Duan Zhigui's turn because he couldn't go on.

"What are you talking about? Huafu can come, which is not necessarily a bad thing. Chen Guangyuan and Li Chun both listened to him, and Cao Kun was close to him. If he can cooperate, he will be more sure that this battle will be fought well. Duan Qirui didn't want to talk about anything more on this topic, and waved his hand to indicate the end.

Xu Shuzheng said again: "Hankou was defeated and thousands of patrol battalions were lost. I don't know whose responsibility will fall in the future. ”

Speaking of this, Duan Qirui frowned. This Anhui green skin is really powerful, if the opponent is the Hubei Military Government, the thousands of patrol battalions in Hankou plus a supplementary eleventh mixed association, the defense should be more than enough. As a result, against Anhui Greenskin, the Eleventh Mixed Association can still hold on, the patrol battalion is not an opponent, and a day's work will make people attack at both ends, Chen Guangyuan will not reinforce it, and more than a dozen battalion heads will let Anhui Greenskin make dumplings.

Whose responsibility is this? That has to be decided by Yuan Shikai. At present, when employing people, it is inevitable to settle accounts after the autumn. For Yuan Shikai, Duan Qirui knows too well, and he is a repeated villain, accustomed to fraudulent tricks.

"No matter how much, it's still pondering, how to deal with Jiang Baili in the north. This one is bigger than Fang Jianxiong, the first Japanese non-commissioned officer that year, and went to Germany to study, compared to Fang Jianxiong, he is more worried. Duan Qirui said, Xu Shuzheng was a little unconvinced.

"Jiang Baili is just a scholar in the army, and he has not led soldiers seriously, how strong can he be? I think that if Fang Jianxiong was in the north, this battle would be even more difficult to fight. I looked at Wang Zhanyuan's defense map, but it was also decent. Otherwise, I will go to Runan tomorrow and see with my own eyes that I will feel more at ease. Xu Shuzheng took the initiative to ask, Duan Qirui thought about it and shook his head and said, "Forget it, don't go." Huafu will be here tomorrow, you stay and help me deal with it. ”

The night march was nothing new for the Anhui Revolutionary Army. During the training of recruits, there is often training in this subject. Crossing the Han River along the pontoon bridge, when Zhu Lafeng led his troops to set off, he unexpectedly saw Fang Dashuai standing on a horse on the edge of the pontoon bridge.

"Dashuai, why are you here?" Zhu Lafeng hurriedly came over to salute, Fang Jianxiong waved his hand and said, "Come and send it, I'm more steady." Before parting, I will say again, Wushengguan will fight when he has the opportunity, and withdraw if he has no chance. Early tomorrow morning, Wang Jingluo and An Yi will go north as a cover for a feint attack on Xiaogan, you must be careful. (Your support is my biggest motivation.) )