Although the development of the Bazhou Campaign had far exceeded the original plan of the Operations Department of the Fengjun Headquarters, the Fengjun Army did not stop the Bazhou Campaign because of this, but took the opportunity to adapt, and Chen Guangyuan on the front line decisively changed the original battle plan and expanded the campaign goal from annihilating the 13th Brigade to severely damaging the 7th Division.

However, with the strength of the two divisions of the Feng Army, it is conceivable that the difficulty of annihilating the Seventh Division, which has already been united, is conceivable, so Chen Guangyuan not only continued to order the Sixth Brigade to attack the flank of the Seventh Division in a roundabout way to the southeast, but also asked for reinforcements like Zhao Dongyun again.

In the face of the changes in the Battle of Bazhou, Zhao Dongyun did not have a good way, and there was not much way for him to retreat when the battle reached this point, so he could only continue to deploy troops to reinforce the Bazhou front.

"Now that the rest and recuperation of the 1st Mixed Brigade has not ended, and the officers who have been transferred have not been in place, I am afraid that there will be problems when they are rashly transferred to Bazhou!" Fang Biyong said: "Now that all the troops of our army have been deployed, there is only one First Cavalry Brigade that can maneuver!" ”

In the early stage of the battle, the First Cavalry Brigade suffered relatively large losses due to continuous maneuvering for many days, and in addition, after the Tangshan Campaign, the Feng army marched into the Beijing Division, Langfang and other battles, which were basically positional battles, and at the same time, the Feng Army also needed to retain a certain number of troops in the rear to cover the logistics supply line, so under the combination of various reasons, the First Cavalry Brigade is currently scattered and stationed in Langfang, Tangshan, Jixian and other places.

However, this 1st Cavalry Brigade is not easy to transfer, and the troops entering the customs of the Feng army are now concentrated in Jingshi and Bazhou, and a small number of troops must also be stationed in other vast areas in order to completely control these areas and cover the logistics routes.

The 1st Cavalry Brigade could not be concentrated, and the 1st Mixed Brigade was not reorganized, which was not a good thing for the Feng army, which was extremely short of troops.

Zhao Dongyun said: "The First Cavalry Brigade still has to be concentrated, and as for the tasks of civil security prevention and security, logistics and cover in various places, they can be handed over to the patrol force one after another, and I have already transferred three patrol police regiments from Jinzhou, Shenyang and other places to the Guannei area. In addition, the staff side must also start to form a local patrol force, our army's field strength is limited, and the field troops must be withdrawn from the local garrison! ”

"In addition, although the first division of the provincial army has not yet been formed, it can barely be used, and I have ordered the department to move to Shanhaiguan and Tangshan!"

Hearing Zhao Dongyun say that the first division of the army of the three eastern provinces that had just been formed would be transferred to the pass, Fang Biyong on the side was worried: "In this case, we will only have less than 5,000 field troops left in the pass, in case there is a change outside the pass!" ”

Fang Biyong's worries are not unreasonable, now in order to enter the customs to fight, it can be said that the Feng army has transferred all the field forces to the Guannai, and the only ones left in the three provinces outside the Guanguan are the first division, the first mixed brigade, the second mixed brigade and about 20,000 patrol troops of the provincial army.

Needless to say, the patrol force is just to maintain law and order and fight bandits, don't expect them to be able to engage the enemy's field troops.

Although the newly formed First Division, the First Mixed Brigade, and the Second Mixed Brigade of the Provincial Army have been stored on paper for several months, in fact, before the Feng Army entered the customs, only two regiments of the First Division of the Provincial Army were formed.

So far, of the newly organized provincial army's first division and two mixed brigades, the first division has only been organized into two infantry regiments, an artillery battalion, and a number of auxiliary units, with a total number of less than 7,000 men, that is, about half of the full strength, and there is a great shortage of heavy weapons. The 1st Mixed Brigade and the 2nd Mixed Brigade were each organized into a regiment, and as for artillery, only two or three were specially transferred for preliminary training.

To put it simply, on paper, the current loading of one division and two mixed brigades is actually only one mixed brigade and two reinforced regiments, which add up to 10,000 people.

Although these 10,000 people are all new soldiers, strict and poorly trained, but this is already the only field unit left in the Guannai by the Feng army.

Now Zhao Dongyun has transferred the first division to the Guannei, and if anything happens outside the Guan, the two regiments and those patrol troops who have been promoted will not be able to control the situation.

However, Zhao Dongyun didn't care: "If there is a change in the three eastern provinces, it can only be civil strife and foreign places, if there is internal strife, a few bandits or civil rebellion patrol troops are enough to suppress it, if it is a foreign enemy, there is no difference between 5,000 people and 10,000 people!" ”

Fang Biyong wanted to say something, but Zhao Dongyun didn't give him a chance, but continued: "Tangshan's defense can be handed over to the patrol force, and the order is to let the First Mixed Brigade immediately take the train south, and then let the First Cavalry Brigade also go south!" ”

Zhao Dongyun now can't care about controlling the place, or even guarding against the powers, for him to take Zhili, march into Shandong, Henan is the top priority, and everything else is secondary.

As for Bao Guiqing's First Mixed Brigade, although it has not yet been reorganized, Zhao Dongyun did not expect the First Mixed Brigade to be able to immediately restore its combat effectiveness, he only asked the First Mixed Brigade to look like that, and it was a big deal to slowly reorganize it when it reached the front line.

At the same time that Zhao Dongyun transferred the only remaining troops to continue to join the Zhili War, the recruitment of the Feng army also continued to increase, and in order to further attract young and middle-aged people to join the army, in addition to raising the settlement fee, it also carried out extensive political propaganda. At the same time, it is also to reduce the requirements for Bingyuansuzhì, basically as long as the physical conditions are barely passable, it will not be as messy as before.

In addition, when the Feng army fought in the Guannai, good news was frequently reported, and people heard that the Feng army won a certain battle today, and the next day won a certain battle, and the Feng army never publicized how hard it fought, how many people were killed and wounded, and so on.

In the recent months since the outbreak of the battle to enter the customs, reports on the fighting in the border areas under the control of the Fengjun, especially in the three eastern provinces, can be described in four words: armed parade!

Many of the recruits who went to join the army thought that when the time came, as long as they rushed forward, they would run away from the enemy without shooting......

Therefore, the recruitment work in recent months has been quite outstanding, and the recruitment work is not limited to the three provinces outside the Guan, as well as the areas inside the Guanxi controlled by the Fengjun; from the time when it was decided to enter the customs to fight, the Ministry of Education did not care about whether it could afford to raise many soldiers in the future, but how many should be needed; in just one month, the Fengjun Ministry of Education recruited more than 20,000 recruits at various recruitment stations, and even because there were too many recruits and the original recruit camps were insufficient, the Ministry of Education temporarily opened up several recruit training camps.

The front-line war is tense and there is a great demand for soldiers, and these recruits will be directly assigned to the units after a hurried month of preliminary training, and if they are lucky enough to be assigned to the first division, the first mixed brigade, and the second mixed brigade of the provincial army left behind, they can continue to train in the troops and grow into a qualified soldier before they officially enter the war.

If they are unlucky enough to be assigned directly to the front, soldiers who have only been trained for a month and have just learned to shoot will go straight into battle as soon as they arrive at the front, and there is no doubt that they will not be as vulnerable and flee as the recruiters say.

Most of them will be dead or wounded, and only a handful will be able to learn and survive the battle.

If the veterans who have been trained for many years on the front line are just consumable materials in the eyes of Zhao Dongyun and other senior generals, then these additional recruits can only be cannon fodder to consume the enemy's bullets.

However, it is precisely the replenishment of a large number of new recruits in a short period of time that allows the Fengjun to continue to maintain the full strength of all units entering the customs, and can the first division and two brigades of the provincial army continue to expand!

The increase in the strength of the troops will also alleviate the dilemma of the current shortage of troops in the Feng army!

After all, whether it is Bao Guiqing's First Mixed Brigade or the First Division or even other troops, it is impossible to reinforce Bazhou in just a few days, and the only thing the headquarters can do is to increase the amount of logistical supplies for the Bazhou Campaign, so that the existing troops can give full play to their stronger combat effectiveness.

However, there were still so many troops, and after the 10th Division and the 5th Brigade launched a large-scale attack on the northern and eastern defense lines of the 7th Division, they found that this battle was similar to the original Tangshan Campaign, and although their own side had an advantage in strength and firepower, the progress made was extremely limited.

"It is impossible to make a breakthrough in the north and east, and our hope is still in the south!" Chen Guangyuan said to Xu Bangjie: "Brother Xu, I will hand over this frontal attack to your tenth division first!" ”

Xu Bangjie nodded: "Don't worry, this game is the strength of your third division, but this head-on breakthrough is my tenth division's forte!" ”

Xu Bangjie did not brag, when the 10th Division conquered the Yinfeng front line in one fell swoop, it actually defeated the first brigade of the first division with a large number of civil fortifications and two artillery battalions in the frontal offensive battle, which completely established the victory of the Tangshan Campaign, and also established Xu Bangjie's status as a bigwig in the Feng army.

After Chen Guangyuan saw that he could not make a frontal breakthrough, he soon began to detour south with the 5th Brigade of the 3rd Division and other troops, and further south of the 5th Brigade of the 3rd Division was Gu Lanyu's 6th Brigade.

After a circuitous march for many days and repeated attacks by the Cavalry Regiment of the 7th Division, the 6th Brigade finally managed to make a detour to the south of Bazhou.

The successful detour of the Sixth Brigade also announced that the Feng army had officially formed a three-sided attack on Bazhou!

Faced with the Sixth Brigade detouring back to his flank and rear position, Wang Zhanyuan decisively sent his reserves, an infantry regiment, to meet the battle!

As a result, immediately after the battlefields in the north and east of Bazhou, gunfire also rang out in the south.