To tell the truth, Zhao Dongyun was quite dissatisfied with the cavalry in the entry operation, in the Fengjun entry operation, the cavalry basically only fought a medium-sized battle, that is, the Second Cavalry Brigade intercepted the operation of the 11th Division and the 1st Brigade of the Direct Army, the combat losses were not much, but the non-combat losses were quite large.

Among them, after the First Cavalry Brigade entered the customs, it rushed for hundreds of miles, and successively cooperated with the Fifth Mixed Brigade to capture Yutian, Jixian and other places.

The 2nd Cavalry Brigade also suffered few combat losses, but also suffered a large number of casualties on horses due to long-distance maneuvers.

Since entering the customs, the combined battle losses of the two cavalry brigades will not exceed 50 people, but the number of horses killed and injured is as high as more than 400, and more horses are also consumed, and a large amount of horse material is urgently needed to replenish nutrition and restore the body.

A large number of injuries and diseases of horses appeared not only in the cavalry units, but also in the infantry units, as a typical mule and horse troops, the officers rode horses, the cavalry regiments rode horses, the baggage troops' pack horses, and the artillery regiments needed to pull the artillery, etc., the total number of horses was as high as thousands.

A large number of horses in the cavalry brigade were injured and sick, and the cavalry regiments to which the infantry divisions belonged often ran around for reconnaissance and even pursuit operations.

This also leads to the fact that the Feng army did not die many cavalry when they entered the customs, but the war horses died a lot!

This Feng army has a large number of professional cavalry talents, and the quartermaster department has a special military animal department to protect the military horses, which have killed and injured so many military horses, if they are replaced by other troops, it is estimated that those war horses will die in this battle.

However, the war horses died to death, but the battle still had to be fought, and fortunately, the Feng army was located in the three eastern provinces and the Rehe area, and there were many horses imported from the local and Mongolian regions.

Due to the geographical advantage of being located in the north, the Feng army is still not short of horses in general, in addition to the local collection and a large number of Mongolian horses imported from Mongolia, Zhao Dongyun, who attaches more importance to the development of cavalry, also instructed the military to breed Don hippos obtained from the Russians in recent years, and also specially introduced a small number of Anglo-Normandy horses from France to breed and improve the 'into the horse, well, the horse is also the military horse used in large quantities by the Japanese himself, and the Oriental horse in the mouth of later generations is generally said to be this kind of horse if there is no specific reference.

However, the introduction of the latter two Don hippos and Anglo-Norman horses is short, and it is still in the initial stage of breeding, and a small number of stallions and mares are still in the two military horse factories of the Feng Army, as for the Feng Army, there are still a small number of Anglo-Arabian horses in active service, this thing is specially imported from Japan for castration riding horses, only with senior generals, this kind of horse is more flexible, has great explosive power and good endurance, and is a tall horse that is very inclined to British thoroughbred horses in appearance, The height of more than one meter six or five can be much higher than about one meter four Mongolian horses, but the horse is expensive and endurance is worse than other horses, it is not suitable for modern light cavalry, at present, the army basically uses this kind of horse as a senior general's mount, herald soldier horse, Feng army is no exception, dozens of imported horses are used as mounts of senior generals.

If the Mongolian horse is a domestic Geely, Chery and the like, then this Anglo-Arabian horse is an imported BMW, and the two are basically incomparable.

However, the cheapness of Mongolian horses also ensured the demand for military horses in the Feng army, and at least in the next few years, the main military horses of the Feng army will still be dominated by Mongolian horses.

Although the quality of these Mongolian horses can only be regarded as very average, and they are also cavalry, the Feng cavalry riding Mongolian horses is much shorter than the Japanese cavalry riding Anglo-Mandy and the Russian cavalry riding Don hippos.

However, if you talk about playing a long-distance run, the Mongolian horses of the Feng army are still good, and the many rushes of the cavalry units that entered the customs to fight, if the Japanese cavalry riding the delicate Anglo-Norman and Arabian horses came, it is estimated that more than half of the horses would have to die in half a month.

Not to mention that the Second Cavalry Brigade of the Feng Army continued to go south after a day of rest in a hurry, and then went straight to Shijiazhuang, they were going to reinforce Wu Fengling in Shijiazhuang, and at this time, it was not the time to take care of horsepower, the Second Cavalry Brigade was often riding a section, and then walking for a while, so although it was not a full horseback march, but it still brought Yan zhòng to the war horse, which just arrived in Baoding, the war horse died more than a hundred horses, and at this time, they were still far from Shijiazhuang.

In romance novels, it is casual to play hundreds of kilometers of running, but most of them are literati fantasies, the reality is that unless you can ride three or even four horses a day, otherwise you don't want to play any drama of running hundreds of kilometers a day, modern light cavalry single riding mode, a day can march forty or fifty kilometers is often the limit, this is still based on the premise of a large number of war horses dying, if you want to protect the war horses, it is quite good to be able to march thirty kilometers a day.

Of course, if you plan to become a horseless infantry after arriving at your destination, then you can run as hard as you can, maybe you can run seventy or eighty kilometers a day, if it is the best good war horse, it is possible to run hundreds of kilometers a day, well, after running, the war horse will be 100% dead.

Among the many examples of cavalry battles in history, examples of running dead horses abound, and the Battle of Qamdo is the most obvious example, 1,200 cavalry rushed somewhere, and when they arrived at the roundabout battle position, only 100 cavalry remained, and all the other non-combat losses were lost, which can not be described as killing 1,000 enemies and losing 800, but really killing the enemy and losing 1,000 people.

So this cavalry, if you don't play well and don't use the enemy to fight, you have to play yourself to death.

The cavalry of the Feng army is naturally not a loser, and will not run thousands of war horses to death for the sake of rapid marching, if thousands of war horses are killed, the Feng army cavalry will not be able to relieve their breath for half a year. Therefore, the Second Cavalry Brigade marched to Shijiazhuang in a hurry and slowly, although it was still impossible to avoid the death of a considerable number of horses in the process, but it was much better to die a part than to die all.

And when the Second Cavalry Brigade marched quickly to Shijiazhuang, the other main forces of the Feng Army also launched a large-scale attack on the Beijing Division!

When June passed, the main forces of the Feng army, which had been resting on the periphery of the Beijing Division for two days, launched a new offensive on the 1st of July, and the offensive was mainly in the southern direction, that is, along the Jingfeng Railway all the way north to the Beijing Division, and in one direction, the Feng Army gathered many main forces such as the 3rd, 9th, and 10th Divisions.

The reason why the main forces were concentrated in this direction to attack was quite simple, that is, to attack mainly from this direction, so that Zhao Dongyun could use the Jingfeng Railway to transport supplies for the front-line troops to the greatest extent, otherwise if the troops were placed in the western direction such as Tongzhou, then the logistics and transportation would become very troublesome.

In addition, there is another factor that Wang Zhanyuan's 7th Division has arrived at the front line of Tianjin, although it is said that Zhao Dongyun sent the 20th Brigade of the 10th Division to the south to intercept it, but in order to prevent accidents, it is inevitable to deploy heavy troops in the direction of Langfang, and the main force of the Feng army is not only used to attack the Beijing Division, but also to intercept Wang Zhanyuan's 7th Division.

In addition to the Jingfeng Railway, the other 4th Mixed Brigade, 5th Mixed Brigade, and 1st Cavalry Brigade of the northeast line of the Tongzhou and Jingshi divisions can only be regarded as accompanying attacks.

Wang Yingkai on the opposite side is not a stupid person, after seeing Zhao Dongyun's army gathered on the front line of Langfang, he drew troops from other defense lines to move to the front line of Nanyuan, and the remnants of the first division that had just been withdrawn from the Tangshan Battle were deployed here.

The First Division suffered heavy losses in the Tangshan Campaign, and although the Second Brigade led by Lu Yongxiang was intact, Zhu Panzao's First Brigade and two artillery battalions suffered heavy losses, and the remnants of the First Brigade returned to Beijing with less than 3,000 soldiers, and the two artillery battalions were completely lost, and not a single artillery piece remained.

After withdrawing to the Beijing Division, Wang Yingkai unceremoniously dismissed Zhu Panzao, and then ordered Lu Yongxiang to quickly integrate the First Division, and personally served as the brigade commander of the First Brigade, and transferred a large number of recruits and ordnance that were originally scheduled to be supplemented to the 11th Division and the 12th Division, but Rao is so that the First Brigade cannot be restored in a short period of time and equipment, and now the strength of the First Division is far inferior to the heyday, the total strength of the First Division reached more than 13,000 people, 54 75-mm guns, more than 50 heavy machine guns, Now, only one second brigade and one field artillery battalion are intact, although there are still 3,000 remnants of the other first brigades, and the number of the first division may still be 8,000, but the remaining combat strength will definitely not be much stronger than the original first mixed brigade, and it is even less comparable to the original first division.

It can be said that a Tangshan campaign wiped out most of the main forces under Wang Yingkai's lineage, although now there are still remnants of the first division under Wang Yingkai, most of the 11th division, most of the 12th division and a brigade of the Zhili Provincial Army to defend the Beijing Division, but even Wang Yingkai knows that the remnants of the first division are better, although the losses are heavy but they can still be fought, but the other two new divisions and the brigade of the Zhili Provincial Army are in vain. The main force of the 12th Division, 10,000 people, was chased and beaten by He Zonglian's Fifth Mixed Brigade, and one of its infantry regiments simply surrendered in Yutian.

Of course, Wang Yingkai is more looking forward to Wang Zhanyuan's seventh division to reinforce the Beijing division in time, as long as Wang Zhanyuan's seventh division arrives, although the combat effectiveness of the seventh division is not as good as the first division, but the predecessor is also the old Beiyang army, and the combat effectiveness is far beyond the ordinary provincial army.

As long as they can hold the Beijing Division, even if Wang Shizhen and Duan Qirui's troops do not go north, Wang Ruxian and Zhang Huaizhi's troops will also go north, and then they will be able to repeat the previous incident of uniting with other warlords against Zhao Dongyun last year.

It's just that Wang Yingkai knows this, but Zhao Dongyun doesn't know?

Now there is only one Lin Yongquan's ninth division attacking Nanyuan, while Chen Guangyuan's third division and Xu Bangjie's tenth division are staring at Wang Zhanyuan's seventh division!