"Lu Yongxiang's first division is a hard bone, let's ignore him first, now in this year, you can't always think about attacking in a war, you must be good at roundabout combat, this North China Plain is flat, which is conducive to the mobility of troops, he Lu Yongxiang is only 40,000 people, how much can he defend? If he can defend a width of 20 kilometers, we will bypass it from 30 kilometers away, and if he can defend 30 kilometers, we will bypass it from 50 kilometers away, and if they leave the fortifications to intercept us, it will become a field battle, and it will be much easier to fight at that time. ”

After listening to the discussion of these generals just now, the words were full of the word "strong attack" inside and outside, and Zhao Dongyun felt that it was necessary to let his generals know the importance of 'roundabout attack', and not always want to fight a war or attack.

The generals of the Feng army, especially the senior generals, are actually very dissatisfied with Zhao Dongyun, relatively speaking, the low-level officers of the Feng army can only be said to be average, because a large number of low-level officers of the Feng army basically came from the crash course of the third town Suiying School and the Fengtian Military Academy, as for the formal classes of the Fengtian Military Academy \ the Army Military Academy of the three eastern provinces, especially the school system is relatively long, in fact, it has just graduated this year, and the group of middle-level officers is because of the large number of international students. The advanced student Su zhì is not bad, it is the best group in the Fengjun system, and the group of senior officers is basically from the old military equipment in Tianjin, and a very small number are international students.

Although these people's Su zhì is already good when looking at the country, their vision has often tended to be conservative, and the outbreak of the Russo-Japanese War gave them too much shock, so when they commanded the operation, they were deeply affected by the Russo-Japanese War, which was embodied in the tactical deployment inclined to defensive operations, well, to be honest, the defensive ability of the Feng army was indeed quite good, otherwise a few days ago, it would not have relied on only one Seventh Mixed Brigade to block the attack of the First Division and the First Mixed Brigade.

But in the case of attack, first of all, the senior generals generally lack the idea of actively attacking, and always want to let the enemy rush up and die, just like in the Russo-Japanese War. And the limited offensive is often the same as the Japanese army, using repeated frontal charges to crush the enemy.

As for roundabout operations, to be honest, there are only a handful of senior generals who are good at roundabout tactics, and the only one who has experience in large-scale roundabout command is only Gu Lanyu, the commander of the Sixth Brigade.

What is a roundabout battle? To put it bluntly, it is to bypass the enemy and sneak up to the enemy's back and stab him, instead of concentrating forces to attack the enemy's flank, and after making a breakthrough, launching an attack on the enemy's main position is called a roundabout operation.

"This time to launch an attack, the first priority is to try to avoid engaging with the enemy's main force in the early stage, we have sufficient troops, even if it is a roundabout attack, it is enough to give the enemy a huge pressure on the front of Tangshan!" Zhao Dongyun said: "The combat department should pay more attention to it, and make more use of our army's superior forces when formulating relevant combat plans!" ”

The military meeting was quickly discontinued, and on the surface it did not achieve any direct results, but in fact the discussion of this military conference was only to provide more opinions for the War Service to formulate a follow-up battle plan.

A large number of staff officers have been adopted in the Feng army, and the existence of the combat department under the staff department has strengthened the power and role of the staff officers, don't look at the combat department is just a division-level organization, and the chief officer Yang Deming is just a major general, but in fact, the power of the department is very great, and it almost controls the command power of the entire Feng army.

Of course, on the surface, the various operational plans were still formulated and approved by Zhao Dongyun, and the combat department was only an organization that provided operational construction.

However, no one can deny the huge power of the Operations Department, and this feeling of controlling the entire army's operations is something that even Meng Enyuan and Lin Yongquan cannot experience.

Several lieutenant generals in the Feng army, such as Meng Enyuan, commanded an army, Chen Guangyuan and Lin Yongquan commanded a division, but Yang Deming, a small general, commanded the entire Feng army.

As for Zhao Dongyun himself, he only grasps the general direction, his job is to handle the military and political affairs of the entire three eastern provinces, and grasp the direction of strategic development, simply put, Zhao Dongyun's job is to decide when to fight whom, and as for how to fight, it is the business of generals such as Yang Deming and Meng Enyuan.

After all, Zhao Dongyun was not Napoleon, and the purpose of his personal leadership of the Second Army was not to personally command the troops to fight, but to control the power of the troops, and also to improve the morale of the troops.

The Supreme Commander-in-Chief personally came to the battle line and led the soldiers to fight together, which had a great positive effect on the morale of the troops.

This was also the reason for Zhao Dongyun's arrival in Tangshan on the second day, and just after the military meeting, he took a vote of generals to inspect the frontline positions, and Zhao Dongyun inspected the front line not to understand the actual situation, but to boost morale.

Braving the artillery fire, Zhao Dongyun and other senior generals went to the front line in person, talked cordially with the basic commanders of the front, shook hands with the soldiers' representatives one by one, and the accompanying military reporters took photos in a timely manner.

Fengtian Daily, the newspaper was founded in 1905 when Zhao Dongyun served as General Shengjing, from the beginning the newspaper became the official mouthpiece of the three eastern provinces, and with Zhao Dongyun controlling the entire three eastern provinces and after the Tangshan area in the Guannei, the newspaper's publication was almost all over the Guanwai area, and Huludao Business Daily became one of the two major newspapers outside the Guanwai area, and the Huludao Business Daily is also semi-official, at first it was only a small-scale hand-copied newspaper used by Huludao Industrial Zone to publish business information, but soon added a variety of business advertisements and international business informationFor example, the market of soybeans in the London market, which has a heavy impact on the three eastern provinces, is the focus of many people's attention, basically those capitalists in the north have become a habit in the past two years to read a Huludao business newspaper every day.

Compared with Huludao Commercial Daily, which is full of advertisements and money, this Fengtian Daily is much stricter, basically half of the content is to publish official news and the interpretation of these news, etc., and the remaining half is to publish all kinds of heavy news at home and abroad, except for a very small number of commodity advertisements that can afford large prices, there are few advertisements on many pages, and Fengtian Daily is different from other large and small newspapers in contemporary China, that is, Fengtian Daily does not engage in those so-called debates, It's a fairly strict journalistic newspaper.

Contemporary domestic newspapers have an obvious characteristic, that is, debate, a group of pen sticks you come and go talking about what can save China, and so on, most of the newspapers that are famous in history, especially those run by revolutionaries, are not considered newspapers, because they are all talking about how incompetent the imperial court or the Beiyang government is, and the newspapers of this kind of carrier have nothing to do with the word news, anyway, the Chinese people will never see any news from this when they look at these newspapers, and they can basically read it if you scold me, I scold you.

Therefore, when the Chinese people read the newspaper at the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, what they read was not the news, but quarrels, just like the revolutionary party and the constitutionalists singing on the stage, and the Chinese people sat on the bench and gnawed melon seeds to watch the play.

However, the Fengtian Daily did not have these controversies, mainly publishing news, and the occasional interpretation was only a detailed explanation of the policies promulgated by the three eastern provinces, but it would not publish critical articles, which made the newspaper an important source for many people to understand the domestic form, and it can be said that the people of the three eastern provinces knew about the domestic form and the Zhifeng War almost all from the Fengtian Daily.

At this time, Fengtian Daily made a false news at the end of three days, and people occasionally believed it, for example, Zhao Dashuai was very powerful on a certain day, personally led the troops to attack the enemy, and personally used the 'gold-plated and diamond-inlaid version' of the Fuzao 88 rifle to hit the direct army artillery 8,000 meters away, causing the shell to explode and kill thousands of enemies.

Putting aside those reports that obviously exalted Zhao Dongyun and Feng Jun, Fengtian Daily's reports on current affairs are quite timely and accurate, which is why not only officials at all levels in the three eastern provinces read this newspaper, but also people from other provinces in China also use the newspaper to learn about the latest developments in Feng Jun and understand Zhao Dongyun's political views.

There is no doubt that the news of Zhao Dongyun's visit to the front line a few days later will make people realize that Zhao Dongyun is not a politician who will only sit and watch from the back, but he is also a military commander who goes to the front line, which has a great positive effect on improving Zhao Dongyun's personal image.

After inspecting the front line, Zhao Dongyun inspected the Affiliated Hospital of Fuyuanji Factory in the evening, which can be seen from the name, it is the affiliated hospital of Fuyuanji Factory, including the arsenal and the steel plant, the number of workers exceeds 10,000, and there are 40,000 or 50,000 people together with the families of the workers. Already a rudimentary small-scale industrial city has been formed.

In order to solve the problems of the lives of its employees and their families, Fuyuanji Factory has established a series of affiliated institutions, such as primary schools, technical schools, affiliated hospitals, and even affiliated water companies, restaurants, etc.

After the outbreak of the war, front-line soldiers and officers were killed and wounded one after another, and the medical force of the Feng army was actually relatively weak. In the past few days, the field hospital of the 7th Mixed Brigade and the field hospital of the 3rd Division were overcrowded, and there was an extreme shortage of medicines and medical personnel, so many casualties were transferred to the affiliated hospital and several other civilian or church hospitals in Tangshan. After completing the treatment, he was transferred to a number of military sanatoriums in Tangshan, Shenyang, and Jinzhou for rehabilitation.

Compared with the excellent treatment conditions obtained by officers, ordinary soldiers are much worse, many wounded soldiers on the front line are just hurriedly bandaged and re-fighting, and after serious injuries, they can often only be treated simply in field hospitals, whether they can survive or not depends on themselves, and it is impossible for them to be admitted to a special sanatorium for rehabilitation and recuperation like officers after their injuries.

No matter what era, although they are the same soldiers, officers and soldiers are two completely different groups, and in the eyes of many officers, the soldiers under their hands are just a set of numbers.

When Zhao Dongyun walked into this affiliated hospital, he also sighed a little, although the scale of this affiliated hospital is not large, but the environment looks much better than several hospitals in Shenyang, and the equipment is also quite complete.

And the Fengtian Hospital, which he relied on official funding and social fundraising in Shenyang last year, is now only half-baked, and there is only one reason, that is, there is no money!

With a sigh, Zhao Dongyun walked into this hospital, and after meeting the person in charge of the hospital, he went to the ward to visit the injured officers.