"What? The Ninth Division took the first line of Yinfeng? Zhao Dongyun couldn't believe his eyes, but the battle report sent by Xu Bangjie did say so, and since Xu Bangjie dared to write in black and white on the battle report that he had won Yinfeng, it was unlikely to be fake.

Zhao Dongyun has some understanding of the generals under him, and he also knows that these generals under him tend to avoid the important and report the good news but not the bad when they report, but these things are only limited to small things, and in those major things of right and wrong, they definitely do not have the courage to lie and fake.

Fang Biyong also looked puzzled: "Although there is only one brigade left in the enemy army on Yinfeng's side, its strength is beyond the ordinary mixed brigade, and although General Xu's ninth division is a strong force of our army, but if it is said that with the strength of one division, it will take the first line of Yinfeng in three days, this is probably not normal!" ”

Yang Deming also frowned: "Could this be that Lu Yongxiang has sensed our strategic intention to encircle them and has begun to shrink the strategic line of defense?" ”

"Yes, this Lu Yongxiang is not an easy role to dismiss, it is not impossible to perceive our strategic intentions!" Fang Biyong said: "But what I'm more worried about is that the direct army's move is deliberate, it is difficult to ensure that there is no ambush behind it, and we lost the trace of the second brigade led by Lu Yongxiang at the beginning of yesterday evening, and it is possible that the brigade has gone south to return to the front line of Yinfeng." ”

In Zhao Dongyun's headquarters, many staff officers heard that Xu Bangjie actually relied on the strength of a division to defeat the enemy's first brigade in three days, and took the Yinfeng line, almost all of them felt incredible, in their impression, the old unit of the first division of the direct army is even a brigade, but with a large number of civil fortifications, it is not easy for their own side to take it down, invest in a division to slowly estimate, ten days and half a month is hopeful, if you want to take it within three days, put in two divisions is estimated to be enough.

Huanxizhuang is the most obvious example, Chen Guangyuan's 3rd Division and Lin Yongquan's 10th Division combined more than 20,000 people launched a two-sided attack on the 1st Mixed Brigade of the Direct Army, but even if they saw the hope of victory on the first day, but in fact, now that two days have passed, the Feng army still has not been able to completely defeat the 1st Mixed Brigade and capture Huanxizhuang.

There was the Russo-Japanese War in the past, and then there were several battles experienced by the Feng army, which made many Feng army generals think that contemporary wars have been biased towards protracted wars, and it is difficult to achieve the same quick victory as in the past.

However, under this overall situation, Xu Bangjie's troops actually took Yinfeng in three days, and it has to be said that this move greatly stimulated many generals of the Feng army, and also made many staff officers of the headquarters begin to speculate whether this is Lu Yongxiang's conspiracy, and there are tens of thousands of main forces of the direct army in ambush behind Yinfeng.

Even Zhao Dongyun is a little suspicious, he is not an arrogant and arrogant person, he never thinks that he is beyond others in this era, and he does not think that his troops can be invincible in the world after a little training, in fact, he is still self-aware, although the Feng army under his command is stronger than the Beiyang Standing Army in history in terms of tactics and weapons, but the actual combat effectiveness is not much different. As for the tactical superiority brought by mortars and light machine guns, the impact is actually very limited, and the reason why it is said to be a tactical advantage is because it cannot affect the overall strategic situation.

Therefore, in the two battles of entering the pass, he never let his troops play any nonsense such as winning more with less, one-on-one, and he, like all military generals, tried to concentrate the maximum number of troops at all times, and then formed a superiority over the enemy's troops in a certain area.

What kind of commander is a qualified commander is to be able to create all kinds of opportunities for his own side to form a superiority in the enemy's forces, even if his own forces are generally at a disadvantage, but all kinds of tactical deployments can also form a local superiority in troops.

As for those who think every day that they can win more with less, and win with adventures, they are fantasists and have little to do with reality.

This time was no exception, Zhao Dongyun invested the main force in Huanxizhuang, in order to form an absolute superiority in troops, and then used this advantage to conquer Huanxizhuang, and then converged with the ninth division to encircle and annihilate the enemy forces on the front line of Yinfeng.

However, what he didn't expect was that Xu Bangjie's Ninth Division, which was now only a diversionary attack, had made a decisive breakthrough, although he was still a little suspicious about this matter, but no matter how the Ninth Division conquered the position of the direct army, in short, it was not overcome, and now it gave Feng Jun a huge opportunity to create a huge opportunity, an opportunity to encircle the first mixed brigade and the second brigade of the first division in Huanxi Zhuangnei!

"Order the Ninth Division, let them quickly move westward, in addition to paying attention to the enemy forces that may be reinforced in the direction of Ninghe, the main force will immediately attack along the northwest direction!"

"Order the seventh mixed brigade to attack the area of the Chahe River!" Zhao Dongyun pondered for a while, and did not hesitate too much, although he still had some doubts that the victory of Yinfeng's front line was an ambush by the direct army, but he couldn't care so much, now a big opportunity was in front of him, even if it was a real trap, he was ready to jump, he brought all the main forces of the Feng army into the pass, and gathered the huge strength of the three divisions and three brigades in Tangshan, unless the troops of Duan Qirui and Wang Shizhen and others all flew to Tangshan overnight, otherwise even if Yinfeng's retreat was a real trap, But who has the ability to eat the prey of his tens of thousands of troops?

Yang Deming, who was on the side, was a little worried after hearing this: "The Seventh Mixed Brigade is the general reserve of our army, is it too early to put it into the battlefield now!" ”

Zhao Dongyun said: "What we want now is to be in one go, and the reserve team is not only used to prevent accidents, but also to expand the results of the battle!" ”

In the face of this kind of heavy decision, Zhao Dongyun has always been decisive and resolute, and his behavior also brought confidence to the generals under his command.

When Zhao Dongyun transferred the 7th Mixed Brigade into the battlefield, trying to expand the results of the battle, completely break through from the Yinfeng area of the southern front, and then encircle Lu Yongxiang's department, Lu Yongxiang, who had already marched to the periphery of Huanxizhuang, heard that the first brigade under his command was defeated, and fought in Tangshan for many days.

However, after hearing about the defeat of the 1st Brigade, he was angry and lost his temper!

"What does he Zhu Panzao eat, with the support of two artillery battalions, he can be defeated, what is the use of such an incompetent person staying, I will kill him!" Lu Yongxiang even became furious in front of the other officers of the First Division, and shouted out the words that he wanted to slash Zhu Panzao.

However, after the fire came, he also pondered: "How is the situation of Lao Bao in Huanxi Village?" ”

Lu Yongxiang's old Bao is Bao Guiqing, this person is the same as many contemporary Beiyang high-level generals, not famous in history, 1906, 1907 period of the Beiyang system of high-level generals, in fact, many are not familiar to later generations, such as Wang Yingkai, Bao Guiqing, Xu Bangjie, and most of these people have the same characteristics, basically all of them are old military background, and then they are the core generals of the early Beiyang.

Bao Guiqing successively served as the commander, standard commander, and assistant commander of the First Division of the Beiyang Standing Army's Zuozhen\First Town\First Division, and took up the post of commander of the First Mixed Brigade after the Republic last year. It can be seen from his resume that this person is the same as Wang Zhanyuan and Lu Yongxiang, and is the core general under Wang Yingkai.

And this person actually has a personal relationship with Zhao Dongyun, when Zhao Dongyun was still in Baoding, this person and Cao Kun, Wang Zhanyuan, and He Zonglian were all Zhao Dongyun's guests, but the friendship relationship in the Beiyang system does not mean anything, just like the Soviet brand on Cao Kun's body is so deep that it cannot be removed, the direct brand on Bao Guiqing's body is also deep in the bone marrow.

If the melee in the early years of the Republic of China in later times was a war between a group of Lu Shi classmates, then the current Beiyang Civil War is a war between the old Wubei classmates in Tianjin, and most of the people who fought with each other were friends in the early years.

Zhao Dongyun and Wang Yingkai were also brothers back then, and Cao Kun, He Zonglian, Wang Zhanyuan, and Lu Yongxiang have also been friends for many years.

But this kind of private confinement is not worth mentioning in the face of major rights and wrongs, friends in the past, but today they are already soldiers.

"The situation of the 1st Mixed Brigade is very bad now, there are many casualties, and General Bao has asked for reinforcements from our department many times!"

Lu Yongxiang said: "What about the 11th Division? And what about the Twelfth Division? ”

"The 11th Division is currently being intercepted by the enemy's 2nd Cavalry Brigade in the vicinity of Lizhuang, and the 12th Division is still in the vicinity of Yahong Bridge and is intercepted by the enemy's 5th Mixed Brigade."

"So, they won't be able to break through the enemy blockade for reinforcements in a short time?" When Lu Yongxiang said this, he didn't wait for the answer of the staff officer next to him, but turned his head to look into the distance.

At this time, there was a faint rumbling of artillery in the north, it was Huanxizhuang, at this time his troops were less than three kilometers away from Huanxizhuang, and the front-line troops had even made contact with the defenders of Huanxizhuang.

Lu Yongxiang looked at the faint Huanxizhuang in the north, and only after a long time did he say: "Pass the order, immediately turn around and march in the direction of Xifengtai!" ”

"Then order the First Brigade Zhu Panzao to immediately retreat to Ninghe to defend it!"

The Second Brigade led by Lu Yongxiang suddenly turned west only three kilometers away from Huanxizhuang, which made Bao Guiqing in Huanxizhuang angrily scold: "He is going to run, he is going to leave us and escape!" ”

The news of the defeat of the first brigade on the first line of Yinfeng could not be hidden, and Bao Guiqing also learned the news, and at this time, seeing Lu Yongxiang's move, Bao Guiqing understood very well that this Lu Yongxiang had already concluded that Huanxizhuang could not hold it, and in order to avoid being encircled and annihilated, he had already broken through to the west in advance.

He Lu Yongxiang ran away, but he Bao Guiqing is still happy in the village!