Chapter 69: The Battle of the Jinghan Line (9)

A new round of deduction began, and although there were related deductions before the war, not much attention was paid to them. It's just treated as a record, and I never thought that this most unlikely situation would appear.

Fang Jianxiong was quite calm, glanced at Hamilton, who was leading the staff officers to deduce, and walked out of the war room. In the hall outside, Gui Danqi, Yang Xizhang, Cai Hanqing and others were discussing today's battle. The Battle of Hankow, a battle mark of 20,000 or 30,000 people on both sides, has not been experienced by these people. This battle is also a good learning opportunity for them.

Seeing Fang Jianxiong come out, several people got up to greet him. Fang Jianxiong waved his hand and said with a smile: "You are all seniors, you are welcome." ”

Yang Xizhang stepped forward and said with a little excitement: "Commander Fang, it is said that the recovery of Hankou is because Chen Guangyuan ordered the Qing army to retreat, and the rout of the Qing army?" ”

Fang Jianxiong nodded and said: "There is indeed such a thing, but it was the patrol battalion of Hankou that was defeated, and the Eleventh Mixed Association took advantage of the night to cover an orderly retreat." From a military point of view, it is more difficult to retreat than to attack. At this point, there are many classic examples in history, all of which are due to the rout of the retreat. In the future, our army must strengthen training and research in this area. ”

"It is a safe move for An Yi to stop pursuing the Beiyang Army, but judging from the results, An Yi's troops lost nearly a thousand people, and they did not take much advantage." When Gui Danqi talked about this, he was a little heavy.

"It is really necessary to sum up the experience, when crossing the river, it was suddenly suppressed by the intensive artillery fire of the Beiyang Army, and there were even deserters during the period. If it weren't for the resolute enforcement of military law by the officers at the grassroots level. The consequences are unimaginable. Fang Jianxiong was also very heavy, and the evil results of the army expansion were shown, which made him very worried about the battle on the northern front. You must know that most of Fang Jianxiong's technical troops are concentrated there, and once the battle on the northern front is unfavorable, the losses will be unbearable. This is also the reason why Fang Jianxiong telegraphed Jiang Fang Zhenjian to retreat in time once the attack was unfavorable. Of course. It's just a building yì.

"In my opinion, the recovery of Hankow still needs to be hyped up. A victory after all. Can't be too low-key. Yang Xizhang looked at the problem from a different angle, and took the student death squad to join the battle, and Yang Xizhang led a group of people. It's a bit out of touch with the meaning of the Hubei military government.

Li Muyan came in at this time and said something in his ear, Fang Jianxiong's expression was stunned, he glanced at Yang Xizhang and said, "Third Brother Bao, there are still Japanese people serving in the death squad?" ”

Yang Xizhang was stunned for a moment and said: "Yes, there were more than a dozen people who followed Huang Xing, and now there is a Japanese named Kanno Nagachi, he resolutely refuses to leave, and wants to stay to watch the battle, so I will go with him." "Talking. Yang Xizhang was a little surprised, and felt that Fang Jianxiong's topic was a bit sudden.

The Sino-Japanese relations in recent years can be seen from the fact that students studying in Japan are the mainstream. After the Russo-Japanese War, 80% of international students went to Japan. The foundation laid by the Japanese politicians with long-term strategic vision led by Hirobumi Ito, although there was a Sino-Japanese War between China and Japan. But relations between the two countries are good. Most students studying in Japan feel quite close to Japan because of the same skin color. And Japan has always been the base camp of the League, and some Japanese forces are indeed helping the League to overthrow the Manchus by force.

From Fang Jianxiong's point of view, the help of the Japanese to the Alliance. Definitely wolf ambitions. A unified China is the most realistic enemy of Japan. Japan's mainland policy is a hurdle that China absolutely cannot bypass. Don't look at Ito Hirobumi's nonsense all day long, "China is good, Japan can be good", the reality is that after the Russo-Japanese War, Japan's national economy was on the verge of collapse. Without more than 10 or 20 years of recuperation, it is simply impossible to launch a major war against China. Moreover, Britain, the boss of today's world powers, the thighs held by the Japanese, are not so relieved about this little brother, and they will knock it if they have nothing to do. It can be said that Japan's good relations with China at the beginning of the 20 th century were entirely based on the premise that its national strength was weak and it needed blood transfusion from the Chinese market.

At this time, of course, Fang Jianxiong would not say anything like Japan being China's biggest enemy in the future, and it is estimated that no one will believe it. The revolution led by the League, and most of the members of the League had a deep affection for the Japanese.

"Why did the Commander think of asking this?" Yang Xizhang is still a little worried, although he has the intention to join the team of the Anhui Army, he has not officially joined yet.

"It's nothing, it's just that this Kanno Nagachi was running around the army and almost shot and killed the soldier. No, you've been arrested, you go to the gendarmerie to lead people, and tell him not to run around in the future, this is a war zone. Fang Jianxiong explained, Yang Xizhang said that he was going out to get people, Fang Jianxiong said again: "By the way, send people away." ”

Yang Xizhang still felt Fang Jianxiong's wariness of the Japanese, although he didn't understand the reason, he still nodded in obedience. I didn't try to defend it, and I didn't say anything about the Japanese coming to help the Chinese revolution. You must know that when Huang Xing counterattacked, he listened to the words of the Japanese. As a result, the director suffered heavy losses and almost didn't even save Hanyang. After that incident, Yang Xizhangdi's attitude towards the Japanese also changed a little.

After Yang Xizhang went out, Gui Danqi asked with a smile: "Commander, is there something wrong?" "Gui Danqi's eyes are very poisonous, and he can see some clues. When he asked like this, he also had the meaning of looking at his low position in Fang Jianxiong's mind.

"The Japanese wolf son ambition, what to say to help the Chinese revolution. From a geopolitical point of view, a strong China is the last thing the Japanese want to see. A China with civil strife is what the Japanese want to emerge the most. At present, in the Chinese revolution, the Japanese are the countries that are most active in calling for military intervention. However, the British did not agree, and it was difficult for Japan to become independent. In the future, it is better to guard against the Japanese. Fang Jianxiong explained, Gui Danqi was secretly happy in his heart, he could rest assured, Commander Fang didn't treat himself as an outsider. There was also Cai Hanqing who had not spoken on the side, and he was secretly thinking in his heart, Commander Fang was also saying this in front of me, which shows that he also trusts the brothers who came from Hubei.

Fang Jianxiong actually doesn't have so many eyes, but he habitually instills a view in the people around him that Japan is China's latest great power and China's potential biggest opponent in the future.

"Commander, is there anything new in the battle situation?" Gui Danqi said a sentence that everyone wanted to ask, Fang Jianxiong nodded and said: "Chen Guangyuan can't come out in Xiaogan, and the staff is worried that he may not even be able to defend Xiaogan, but retreat directly to Wusheng Pass." In this way, the various units of the Beiyang Army will be closely connected with each other. It is difficult to divide the attack, especially Wusheng Pass, which is geographically advantageous, easy to defend and difficult to attack. Forced north, the losses are hard to bear. ”

The joy of recovering Hankou was much lighter because Fang Jianxiong's words had faded a lot.

"Blind optimism is a taboo for soldiers, and the lack of preparation for possible responses to the enemy before the war is all lessons that need to be summed up. Now the General Staff is deducing, once the Beiyang Army even gives up Xiaogan and retreats to Wusheng Pass, can we rely on the troops in our hands to defeat Wusheng Pass. Fang Jianxiong's words came out, and everyone's reaction was relatively nervous.

These people are all military, and their first sense is to surround the map and carefully observe the direction of the entire battle situation. According to Fang Jianxiong, everyone soon had some judgments of their own.

"If Chen Guangyuan gave up Xiaogan and retreated directly to Wuhan, the commander of Chiang on the northern front should give up the battle plan to go south. Otherwise, the Beiyang Army would defend Wusheng Pass with a small number of troops and concentrate superior forces to attack the northern front first, so that there would be danger on the side of General Commander Chiang. "It was Gui Danqi who made this judgment, which shows this person's military ability.

"That's exactly what the General Staff judged, the results of the deduction should come out, listen to what the Chief of Staff has to say." Fang Jianxiong ended the discussion at one time, Hamilton came out of the war room very cooperatively, saw everyone's eyes focused, swallowed a mouthful of saliva a little nervously, and looked at Fang Jianxiong calmly.

Fang Jianxiong nodded and said, "Let's tell everyone." ”

Hamilton walked to the map, picked up a stick and pointed at Wusheng Pass: "According to the deduction, if the Beiyang Army retreats to Wusheng Pass, then with the strength of one brigade, it is enough to block our army from going north for at least three days with the geographical advantage. From this it can be seen from this that it was a very prescient judgment of Commander Fang to ask the Northern Front Group to end the fighting within three days. The most important thing now is to judge whether the Beiyang Army will abandon Xiaogan, and the sooner you see the results, the more beneficial it will be to the Northern Front Group. ”

"Let Zhu Lafeng (book friend dragon set, don't be serious. The 4th Brigade was added to the 3rd Brigade of Comfort, and the 1st Division was provisionally formed as a reserve. Launching an attack in the direction of Xiaogan overnight, we must test the bottom line of the Beiyang Army. Jensen, who didn't speak much, suddenly spoke.

Fang Jianxiong was frowning and thinking deeply, staring at the map for a long time, and everyone was quiet, waiting for Fang Jianxiong's decision. Subconsciously, everyone regarded Fang Jianxiong as the backbone, as if this was already a habit.

"Less, let Wang Jingluo withdraw from the battle and prepare to go north. Immediately sent people to collect mules, horses and livestock, and cleaned up the Hankou battlefield with Liu Yutang's division of the Hunan army, and the other brigades went north to Xiaogan. Didn't Chen Guangyuan retreat, I want to see where he can retreat. Zhu Lafeng's 4th Brigade was the lead, and it set off now, and the 1st Division was temporarily formed to cover later. Go, call Jurafeng. Fang Jianxiong finally made a decision and called the core strength of the general reserve, the commander of the fourth brigade of the second division.

Zhu Lafeng is also from the first phase of the teaching team, and his results are actually very average, and he can occupy the position of a brigade commander, the key is that he has excellent results in the bandit movement. At that time, Zhu Lafeng took Guangde as the center of his activities, connecting the surrounding counties of Langxi, Liyang and Anji, and gathered nearly 10,000 bandits under his command. (Your support on this site is my biggest motivation.) )