"Regiment leader, the casualties of the brothers in front are a little big, don't you think?" Beside Fang Qingkun, a captain who was about thirty years old cautiously raised his worries.

Fang Qingkun was also looking at the battle line in front of him at this time, and in his sight, more than 100 people under the command of the first battalion that launched an attack from the right flank had already rushed to the enemy's position, and they were engaged in fierce hand-to-hand combat with the enemy at this time.

On the surface, it seems that the Feng army has taken a big advantage, and most of the fallen pieces are the corpses of the soldiers of the Anhui army, but although their own casualties are smaller than the other party, but hand-to-hand combat, it is all a life for a life, even if it is a senior veteran like Chen Quan, after killing the opponent several times in a row, it is also possible to be killed by one of the opponent's recruits.

However, the value of recruits and veterans is not equal, a soldier like Chen Quan, who has served for three years and has rich combat experience, is actually not worth it even if he exchanges the lives of ten recruits in the Anhui army.

In addition, at this time, although a company of the Anhui army on the opposite side had suffered heavy casualties and was about to collapse, there was already a company of Anhui soldiers not far away who were hurrying over.

If an infantry company suffers dozens of casualties, although it will hurt the bones, but the skeleton is still there, and it will not take long to restore the combat effectiveness after replenishing a certain number of recruits, but if it is destroyed and more than half of them are annihilated, or even if the combat effectiveness is defeated, then for this company, it is already completely abolished, even if it is replenished with full recruits, but it is still difficult to restore the combat effectiveness to the peak state of the past.

Therefore, for most of the officers in the main force of the Feng Army, it is definitely a loss to exchange one for one, even if it is to exchange two recruits for the other party's eggs, it is a big loss.

Fang Qingkun frowned slightly, he also didn't want to see his troops suffer too much blow.

Therefore, although he was reluctant in his heart, in the face of further reinforcements from the enemy, the attacking infantry company was likely to be in greater danger, and he was also forced to give the order to let the first battalion suspend the offensive first.

As his order was given, the infantry company that had launched the charge in front slowed the pace of the attack.

Of course, they did not say that they would turn around and leave, but first postponed the initiative to launch an attack, and did not pursue those Anhui soldiers who had already begun to flee, and then gradually withdrew from their original positions under the cover of light and heavy machine gun fire in the rear.

As for why they briskly gave up the positions they had occupied, it was because they were not complete positions at all, the two sides were engaged in encounters, and fierce battles broke out after contact, so both sides did not have time to dig trenches, and they could not even seize some important tactical points, so the so-called positions of the two sides were actually the positions of the two sides when they first met, and some troops even fought directly on flat ground.

With the first battalion suspending the offensive, Fang Qingkun issued a new series of combat orders, although he said that the first battalion had suspended the attack, but it did not mean that he had given up the tactical thinking of taking the initiative to attack.

Since the frontal attack in the initial encounter was not able to defeat the enemy in the first place, then he planned to adopt a roundabout tactic, and it was a big deal to spend more time. And this extra time is nothing compared to the large casualties caused by a frontal breakthrough.

"The Anhui army on the opposite side is more tenacious than expected, when will this Anhui army emerge with a Liangjiang Seventh Division!" Fang Qingkun was a little puzzled, he hadn't heard of the Anhui Army before that there was a relatively capable Liangjiang Seventh Division, as far as he knew, the main forces in the Anhui Army were at most two, that is, the Fourth Division and the Second Mixed Brigade, in addition to the Sixth Mixed Brigade and the Sixth Division of Liangjiang, they had also heard of it, and they heard that the combat effectiveness was not bad.

However, the above-mentioned four units are the focus of attention of the military intelligence department of the Feng army, and basically every move is controlled by the spies of the Feng army, of which the 6th Mixed Brigade is still in Guangdong, the 6th Division of Liangjiang is in Anqing, the 2nd Mixed Brigade is in Wuhu, and the 4th Division is in Jinling.

Fang Qingkun thought that as long as he didn't encounter the above four troops, he would not have been captured by the other provincial armies on the opposite side, but judging from the previous beach rush operation and the current encounter, this Liangjiang Seventh Division is not simple!

Fang Qingkun said secretly: Careless!

If he had known that this Liangjiang Seventh Division that came out of nowhere still had some combat effectiveness, he would have maintained a very cautious attitude at the beginning, and would not have been like before, although all kinds of tactical deployments were not wrong, but his subconscious still had a great idea of underestimating the enemy.

The total strength of his 33rd Regiment was less than 3,000 men, and now the total casualties have reached more than 200 people, which is close to 10 percent.

This ratio is almost at the limit of its casualty bearing capacity for a relatively typical modern warlord army like the Feng Army, and the reason why the 33rd Regiment was able to take the initiative to launch an offensive was mainly due to its high morale and training.

However, even if it is the main force of the Ninth Division, there is a limit, if the casualty rate is too large, then it will seriously affect the combat effectiveness of the troops, and if one is not done well, the Ninth Division will have to be reduced to second-rate in the future.

In order to avoid excessive casualties among the troops, Fang Qingkun quickly gave up the idea of a direct frontal breakthrough, but instead changed his tactics and prepared to send troops to outflank the attack.

Although the Ninth Division is not known for its roundabout attacks in the Feng army, the Ninth Division, as a decent of the three main forces of the Feng army, except for Lin Yongquan, the tactical literacy of other middle and senior officers is still relatively high, and some small-scale roundabout outflanking tactics at the battalion and regimental level are also used more frequently, and they often achieve greater results.

When Fang Qingkun attached importance to the Liangjiang Seventh Division and began to change the tactics of attacking, the situation on the battlefield immediately changed.

The troops of the 1st Battalion of the Feng Army suspended the attack, but the 2nd Battalion began to make a detour along the edge of Yuhuahu in a southwesterly direction.

The commander of the Anhui army on the opposite side also discovered this, and also dispatched the corresponding troops to intercept it.

Seeing this, Fang Qingkun scolded secretly in his heart, when did the ordinary provincial army in the Anhui army become so clever, and he could see his roundabout tactics at a glance.

But what about it, the question is can you stop it?

The entire battalion advanced forward in a roundabout way, and if the Anhui army on the opposite side wanted to block it, it would have to send at least one battalion, and in the process of movement between the two sides, the test of the troops' organizational ability was quite high.

It is also a roundabout interspersed operation, but let two different armies carry it out, then the effect is completely different, it does not test the level of equipment, or even the accuracy of the soldier's marksmanship, physical fitness, but more consideration of the organizational ability of the troops.

Just like the People's Liberation Army in later generations, the reason why they were able to frequently implement the tactics of interspersed encirclement was because their troops were very well organized, on the contrary, very few troops of the National Revolutionary Army dared to carry out this tactic, why, because after they sent their troops, God knows if they could arrive smoothly.

Although the organizational ability of the Fengjun troops is not as good as those famous strong armies in later generations, as far as the contemporary domestic scope is concerned, its level is still first-class, at least much stronger than the Anhui Army and the Southern Federation, and the perfect army organization, the higher officers are suzhì, and the training level of the soldiers is higher.

To be precise, the Feng army trained by Zhao Dongyun is a product of the same level as the Anhui army under Duan Qirui, but there are more old Beiyang troops in the Feng army, after the fall of the former Qing Dynasty, there are only a few troops trained in full accordance with the standards of the Beiyang New Army, the seven towns of the Beiyang Standing Army and the two towns of the Fengtian Standing Army add up to only nine towns, but Zhao Dongyun alone controls three towns, and the other Duan Qirui, Wang Yingkai, and Wang Shizhen have only one town.

It can be said that these three towns are the real reason for Zhao Dongyun's rise, not that Zhao Dongyun himself is a traverser, and he can open the protagonist's aura to instantly increase the combat effectiveness of the troops under his command several times.

The old backbone troops of the three towns were enough to provide a large number of high-quality officers for the subsequent expansion of the Feng army, and at the same time, after entering the customs, almost half of the essence of the direct army was accepted, which further increased the level of the officer group and the number of veterans of the Feng army.

Half of the officers of the new army trained in the pre-Qing era served in the Feng army, and the rest served in the Anhui army, the Jin army, the Hubei army and the southern federal army.

And these are the fundamental reasons why the Feng army was able to control northern China and suppress Duan Qirui.

It's not that because Zhao Dongyun came up with a few new tactics, and then he came up with any mortars and light machine guns to allow the Feng army to sweep the world, the weapon is only a secondary reason.

Relying on the higher officers and a large number of veterans, Fang Qingkun could launch a difficult and roundabout offensive, but when the 25th Regiment of the Liangjiang Seventh Division also sent corresponding troops to intercept it, the weakness of the Liangjiang Seventh Division's poor organizational ability was exposed.

Although the officers of the Feng army on the opposite side tried their best to maintain the interception steps of the troops, they were still unable to organize the battalion that went to intercept Shun Lì, and soon the distance between the two infantry companies became disjointed.

At this time, the commanders of the Feng army on the front line clearly saw this opportunity, so in the next moment, the first battalion of the Feng army, which was still running quickly and roundabout, quickly turned its guns, and then launched a surprise attack on the direct air attack of the two infantry companies of the Anhui army.