Zhao Dongyun ignored Meng Enyuan’s words but said directly, "I will give you the heavy artillery battalion and two heavy mortar battalions when I give you the day. My boots will set foot on the land of the Forbidden City!"

Meng Enyuan’s face turned a little red after hearing this. He knew that now was not the time to bargain, but the time to show confidence and loyalty. "The Ministry will take the capital if it fails, and it will be reported to the guard!"
Zhao Dongyun waved his hand. "If I win, you won’t kill yourself!"
The military conference dominated by Bazhou Campaign ended in asking Meng Enyuan to conquer the capital within a time limit.
After Meng Enyuan walked out of the meeting room, his face was heavy and he walked to Yang De’s side. "Director Yang, can you lend your staff to my first army?"
Looking at Meng Enyuan, Yang De is also worried about attacking the first army in the capital for him. Although Wang Yingjie’s hand is defeated by beaten soldiers, there are also twenty thousand people. Although most of them are not good, the second brigade of the first division is still a hard nut to crack!
Now, listening to Meng Enyuan’s talk about borrowing people is also an understanding of Meng Enyuan’s idea. Although there are many staff officers in the First Army, their professional qualities are quite different from those in the General Staff, especially in the War Department. Although the staff officers in other armies, divisions and brigades are all outstanding young officers, they are mainly foreign students and advanced students, and most of them are major and lieutenant colonel. If they go to the field army, their positions are all candidates for the head of the team.
Yang De thinks that there are many people in his war department, and he doesn’t need to organize and plan a large-scale war like when he entered the war and the Tangshan battle in the near future. A battle in Bazhou is not as much as the war department. It is not a big problem to seconde a few people to Meng Enyuan’s first army.
Immediately said, "Of course there is no problem. I’ll pick a few later and let them go to the first army to assist in the war!" "
Meng Enyuan said, "Well, thank you so much. By the way, I heard that Major Fang Qingkun, the chief of the third division under your command, can you also transfer him?"
Yang De looked at Meng Enyuan with some surprise. I didn’t expect Meng Enyuan, a middle-ranking general, to know his war advisers, and since he can name Fang Qingkun today, he must have a deep understanding of this person.
"Meng Junchang, you have a good eye. Fang Anqing’s ability to return to China and study in Germany this year is also top-notch. Since you have talked, I will let him help the first army for a few days!"
Fang Qingkun was born in Liaocheng, Shandong Province. Like many Beiyang officers, Fang Qingkun was rooted in Miaohong Beiyang. Yuan Shikai was a governor of Shandong Province. Before joining the army, he was a scholar and young and eager to learn. Soon he entered the school of Wuwei Right Army. At that time, Zhao Dongyun was also a student of Zhao Dongyun in his early years. Later, this person was sent to Germany to study and Yang De with many other studies. Li Xiang and others were admitted to the Berlin Military Academy. Unlike this person, he studied in an ordinary NCO school in Germany. After returning to China at the beginning of this year, he went straight to Shenyang with Li Xiang, Yi Liangxu and Kang Dianqiao to go to Zhao Dongyun.
A few months later, on the eve of the army’s entry, a large number of officers from the army headquarters, especially the general staff, were transferred to the tenth division to be promoted to the head of the 39 th regiment, so Fang Qingkun took the opportunity to be promoted to the head of the third division of the war department
Although people have returned to China for Zhao Dongyun to stay in Germany because of their outstanding ability, there are many students, but except Yang De and other three people, high flyers’s future is bright. He stayed in Germany for promotion because of the great difference in personal ability. If he is a commandant, he is a major and a lieutenant colonel, while Fang Qingkun is a major because of his outstanding ability. Now, although he is a major, he has accumulated some information for a short time to be promoted to a lieutenant colonel and a school, which is also secure. If he is put into the field army, it is appropriate to be a colonel.
Such a person with outstanding ability will not be small in the name of the army, but it is also a little surprise for Yang De to let Meng Enyuan, the commander of the army, value it and come out in person
Meng Enyuan since named this person Yang De naturally won’t obstruct it, and then arranged Fang Qingkun’s other three staff officers to go to the First Army Command to temporarily help Meng Enyuan advise.
This arrangement is naturally not a formal transfer, but a temporary loan. However, for Fang Qingkun and others, this move is also a good thing to add to the resume. If the attack on the capital goes well, it will also be of great benefit to their future promotion.
When Meng Enyuan found talents to enrich his staff team, he quickly re-formulated the plan to attack the capital. This time, the focus of their attack was changed from Nanyuan to Tongzhou. The reason was that Nanyuan was convenient to attack and supply, but Lu Yongxiang personally led the remains of the first division on the opposite side, but the second brigade was an army that had not suffered losses in the Tangshan campaign. It was not easy to fight, while Tongzhou had many enemy troops, but it was the eleventh and twelfth divisions. Although it was a little troublesome to attack, it would be much easier to supply in place.
When Meng Enyuan was asked by Zhao Dongyun to conquer the capital and then the first army adjusted the existing deployment and tactics on a large scale, the war in Bazhou direction also became fierce with the official formulation of the anti-encirclement plan by the War Department.
With the sixth brigade changing its direction to the southeast of Bazhou and trying to detour to the side of the seventh division to carry out anti-encirclement, it becomes more dangerous for the fifth brigade to storm the seventh division!
Chapter two hundred and seventy-seven Wang Zhanyuan sense of crisis
In the temporary headquarters of the fifth brigade in the east of Bazhou, Li Kongtiao looked at the north, and the soldiers sent the HQ to order the heavy eyebrows to stretch slowly.
"The latest command of the division requires us to resist the enemy’s attack and hold off the enemy’s friendly forces to make a detour!" Kong tiaobei’s voice just fell behind.
Shi Congbin, head of the ninth regiment, was puzzled. "The sixth brigade didn’t come to reinforce us but detoured?"
Pei Lianying, head of the Tenth Regiment, said, "Although it is understandable that the division wants to make a detour and hit the enemy’s seventh division in one fell swoop, I am afraid the situation here will not be very good!"
The fifth brigade stormed the front line of defense against the seventh division. Fortunately, the enemy only invested in an infantry regiment, but the enemy invested in the whole thirteenth brigade a few days ago, but the right wing of the fifth brigade was defeated and finally forced to retreat to the main position.
In this way, although the fifth brigade is beneficial to defense after the contraction of its troops, it is also quite compressed, so that the seventh division can remit more troops to attack the fifth brigade
What makes the fifth brigade feel great pressure is not only the inferior strength, but also the dilemma of multi-line warfare. Instead, the seventh division opposite knows the tactics of the fifth brigade very well and adopts offensive tactics, almost in line with the army’s offensive tactics.
Although bong-jun beat the enemy like this, it was the first time that he was beaten like this by the enemy, which led to the fifth brigade being extremely unsuitable for the attack of the seventh division. Many defensive tactics against the first division of the straight army, the first Hunchenglv and other troops could not be afforded.
I didn’t find a good defense method, so I waited for the officers of the Fifth Brigade to avoid too many casualties in the army. It was often when the situation was not good that I quickly retreated, which was also the reason why the Fifth Brigade was losing ground in the early stage.
After many days of fighting, although the fifth brigade suffered few casualties, it lost a lot of positions, and frequent retreat further affected the morale of the army
In the face of their worries, Kong Tiaobei naturally can’t show panic to see him with a wave. What are you afraid of? Now our brigade is in a stable situation and the casualties are not great. If Wang Zhanyuan wants to eat our fifth brigade in one breath, it depends on whether he has this appetite! "
"Moreover, the HQ order also said that this time, except for the sixth brigade to carry out circuitous warfare, the HQ’s auxiliary troops will still come to support us, and the 10th Division will be able to arrive in Bazhou to support our army in two days. If we want to survive these two days, it will be a great victory to wait for us. At that time, you will definitely remember a lot in the military books!"
Pei Lianying also slightly eased his worries after hearing these words, and his heart was vaguely looking forward to the victory.
He Pei Lianying Su Fengjun’s qualifications are not bad. He can be an old team officer in the era of machine gun camp like Gu Lanyu and Kong Tiaobei. A few years ago, his promotion speed was not much different from Gu Lanyu and Kong Tiaobei, but the situation changed after last year. With Gu Lanyu and Kong Tiaobei successively promoted to the third division, he was the brigade commander of two brigades, but he was still a head.
Although he is the head of the ninth regiment of the third division, his qualifications are deep enough, and he ranks among the top leaders in the military body, but his rank is still a small distance from the school, which seems to be a short distance, but there are many military academy officers but only a few generals.
Just as it is a threshold for junior officers to be promoted to major, so is the threshold for school officers to be promoted to less, and most school officers in the military will actually cross this threshold in their lifetime
Pei Lianying, though senior, didn’t get promoted to brigade commander last year when the army was expanding, and then he became less and less. Who dares to say that he will still have a chance to cross this threshold? Maybe he has been in this position for many years before he finally got a comforting promotion because he accumulated enough qualifications, but this also means that the gap between him and Kong Tiaobei, Gu Lanyu and others is getting bigger and bigger.
At that time, everyone started with the guard, and now he is left alone in the school official. He is unwilling!
Pei Lianying is ambitious, especially now that the first division of the provincial army and the first and second Hunchenglv are newly compiled. Although these three troops are provincial troops, they are just designations. Pei Lianying knows that these three troops are all built according to regular field troops, and the new compilation of these three troops coincides with the massive entry of Fengjun into the institute. Many key positions have not yet been decided.
One division commander, two infantry brigade commanders, and two mixed brigade commanders, among which the first division and the first brigade have confirmed the brigade commander, but there are still three brigade commanders left. Nowadays, many students in Fengjun think they are qualified to be promoted to the brigade commander, and they are staring at these three brigade commanders.
Pei Lianying is the No.1 middle school student. He believes that his qualifications are not less, and his ability to command and fight is not top-notch, but it is also average. Zhao Dongyun also lacks a lot of Thaksin. The only thing he lacks is to actually play actual combat.
If you play well in the battle of Bazhou this time, you will certainly be able to add a lot of points to your guard’s heart, and then you will be able to occupy the advantage when you consider the three brigade commanders.
Pei Lianying’s mind is full of what others naturally don’t know. Kong Tiaobei continued, "Now we just hold on. Now we have been retreating for many days in a row, and we can retreat for the next two days. If we don’t personally order the frontline troops to retreat without authorization, otherwise I will personally send him to a military court!"
After the Fifth Brigade was ready to stop retreating and turn to fight back, Wang Zhanyuan across the street also smelled danger.
"Why didn’t they retreat?" Wang Zhanyuan looked at the map and thought.
A few days ago, the third division of Wang Zhanyuan had moved the whole army outside Bazhou and the sixth brigade had carried out a circuitous battle. At that time, he didn’t know that the sixth brigade was still Yongqing. He had a fifth brigade in front of the enemy. However, after many days of continuous fighting, he found that the sixth brigade had never appeared and the fifth brigade had been defeated by himself.
This kind of thing Wang Zhanyuan seems to be very unusual!
The generals on both sides of the battlefield can’t know everything about the enemy’s movements. They can rely on a small amount of information and even guess with the cover. If everything is right, they will win the first prize. Maybe it will be a defeat and collapse.
"The tenth division must be just north, but what about the sixth brigade? Where are they? "
Wang Zhanyuan didn’t expect that it would be forever clear before the Sixth Brigade and was delayed for two days, which led to his complete loss of control of the Sixth Brigade.
Considering that Gu Lanyu, the brigade commander of the Sixth Brigade, is good at attacking Wang Zhanyuan in a roundabout way, he thinks that the Sixth Brigade must detour around, but where did they detour? Is it south or north?
If it was in the south, it should have appeared the day before yesterday and yesterday. Why hasn’t there been any trace of the sixth brigade yet? Is it in the north?
Wang Zhanyuan looked at the map, and there was a vast expanse of white in the northeast of Bazhou. If the sixth brigade appeared here, then his thirteenth brigade might be in danger of being flanked. At that time, I’m afraid it wouldn’t be his own attack on the fifth brigade, but the thirteenth brigade went deep into it alone and was caught between the fifth brigade and the sixth brigade.
Considering that the fifth brigade has suddenly stopped retreating and then resisted its own attack, then Wang Zhanyuan is even more sure that the sixth brigade must have detoured to a certain position and is about to launch a surprise attack with the fifth brigade.
And the north is the most likely!
Wang Zhanyuan decided that the Sixth Brigade was in the north, but in fact the Sixth Brigade was bypassing Bazhou and making a detour to the south!
However, despite guessing the wrong direction of the sixth brigade, Wang Zhanyuan realized that he was in danger. The difference is that Wang Zhanyuan still thinks that the thirteenth brigade is in danger. He didn’t know that Feng Jun’s appetite was very big, and it actually surrounded his entire seventh division.
"The fifth brigade has been attacked for a long time, and now the enemy’s main force is about to surround it. It’s time for the thirteenth brigade to withdraw!" At this moment, Wang Zhanyuan already knows that he wants to annex and hit the Fifth Brigade in one fell swoop. It is impossible to succeed. In the past three or four days, the Fifth Brigade has been defeated by himself and its own troops have achieved good results, but there is still a great distance to hit the Fifth Brigade.
It’s time to end the attack!
Wang Zhanyuan’s strong sense of crisis made him make a decision that surprised many generals of both armies. He ordered the thirteenth brigade, which was attacking the flank of the fifth brigade, to retreat!
You know, the former 13 th brigade fought very smoothly, so smoothly that the fifth brigade was ready to defend its position even if it suffered large-scale losses
However, Wang Zhanyuan chose to retreat at this time!
Moreover, it is feasible to retreat when the wind is smooth, which is not good at retreating the Beiyang army. After the Fifth Brigade discovered the intention of retreating the Thirteenth Brigade, they not only resisted the Thirteenth Brigade, but also needed to contain it. The Seventh Division also launched a counterattack appropriately and successively achieved the results of killing 100 enemy troops, but it made the Thirteenth Brigade successfully retreat from its starting position.
As a result, after the first stage of Bazhou campaign, both sides returned to a few days ago, and the only change was that both sides lost hundreds of troops.
However, when Wang Zhanyuan ordered the thirteenth brigade to retreat, he found that the fifth brigade was trying to counterattack and contain himself, and he was even more determined that the sixth brigade and even the tenth division had already detoured to their rear position.
On July, when the Sixth Brigade was about to detour to the rear position of Bazhou, the Seventh Division belonged to the investigation cavalry, and finally the Sixth Brigade was found near Gaojia Village in the east of Bazhou.
At that time, the seventh division was all nervous!
Chapter two hundred and seventy Attack Bazhou
"Check the enemy corps? Which Fengjun is it? " Wang Zhanyuan black face asked.
"It has been checked that the enemy’s serial number is indeed the sixth brigade of the third division of Fengjun. At present, this department is marching south!"
Although Wang Zhanyuan had predicted that it would be the Sixth Brigade, it was still incredible to hear the confirmation from the Ministry. You know, at that time, he just thought that the Sixth Brigade would detour to his southeast flank.
But just a few days ago, he sent a large number of scouts to this area, but he couldn’t find the trace of the sixth brigade. He didn’t think that the sixth brigade flew over himself with wings. Since the sixth brigade was not found in the south, and the fifth brigade stopped retreating at that time, Wang Zhanyuan believed that the detour direction of the sixth brigade was not south but north