Beiyang 1917

Army wars are never farming or armed parades. The director of the exercise has indeed painstakingly designed many emergencies and accidents for the red and blue sides, but the result of the exercise is still overwhelmingly one-sided.

The combat plan of the Red Army was completely planned by the combat staff of the staff headquarters led by Jiang Fangzhen. Then Wang Geng, the chief of staff and the six brigade commanders held a meeting to discuss, revise and determine the combat plan. Optimization and fine-tuning.

The advantage of the Red Army lies in its firepower and advancing speed, while the advantage of the Blue Army is that there are [-] more veterans and they are more familiar with the local environment.

The exercise did not allow the participating army to use the air force. At this time in 1917, not even every soldier in Beiyang had seen an airplane. If the air force of the participating army also engaged in reconnaissance and bombing, the blue army could completely stop without fighting. .

The director of the exercise sent a judge team to take a Handley Page 0400 bomber to hover over the exercise area every day to observe and judge the battle situation. Fortunately, the motorized reconnaissance battalion of the participating army did not disappoint the level of battlefield reconnaissance and surveying and mapping. These four months of training and learning.

Facing the overwhelming superiority in firepower and speed of mechanization, Plan A formulated by the General Staff Headquarters was that three brigades would advance together to take advantage of the speed advantage to seize the front line of Bazhou.

The military used Ford TT multi-purpose vehicles to modify many construction vehicles forklifts and trailers. Of course, the recruits trained in the water conservancy projects on both sides of the Yongding River, digging trenches and digging soil is their best skill!

Wang Geng didn't give up such a great opportunity to train troops just because the opponent's firepower was weak. Simply comparing the number of cannons and machine guns, he didn't need to fight at all. Opportunity, for the Red Army, to let recruits know what modern warfare really is all about.

Although the first and second divisions of the participating army participated in the exercise, almost half of the brigade leaders from the fourth and third divisions came, and the remaining half naturally stayed at home.

Although Cao Kun is not a division commander who can fight, the third division is indeed a first-class Beiyang army, and the sixteenth division Wang Tingzhen's department is also first-class strength. The soldiers who participated in the war were ashamed to surrender their guns, so they volunteered to play forward.The blue army's offensive posture was that the two brigades of the [-]th Division would go straight into Bazhou as arrows, followed by the five main brigades of the [-]rd Division, while the [-]st Division, which had the weakest combat effectiveness, would stay at the Baoding base camp.

If it is in a mountainous area, maybe the pack horse troops can run faster than the cars. The area of ​​the exercise at the moment is the North China Great Plains. The Beiyang No.16 Division got a good card from the director's department at the beginning and set off two hours earlier!

It’s not wrong to be wrong. It’s 56 kilometers from Langfang to Bazhou, and 77 kilometers from Baoding to Bazhou. The blue army set off two hours in advance and according to the marching speed at this time, they can reach the city of Bazhou almost at the same time as the red army.

But the vanguard of the blue army is on foot, and the vanguard of the red army is the armored regiment of the division to open the way, so when the No.16 division spent a whole day driving a hundred miles to reach a place [-] kilometers south of Bazhou , Hitting head-on into the Red Army's Opening Armored Regiment.

On the one side, the No.16 Division of the direct line, which was exhausted after a day's journey, was exhausted even though it was from the Imperial Guards. It was about to set up camp, but encountered counterattacks from armored vehicles and vehicle-mounted infantry, and it was in a mess for a while. .

Fortunately, after being harassed by the Red Army for a while, they retreated in the dark.

On this day, the blue army walked for 10 hours, and the red army took only 3 hours by truck. Excluding the 2 hours that the blue army set off earlier, the vanguard of the red army arrived 5 hours earlier than the blue army, and arrived together with the red army armored regiment 25 kilometers south of Bazhou, there are also three brigade artillery regiments of the Red Army. Each regiment has two 2mm 75-type field artillery battalions and one 1mm 75-type mountain artillery. There are a total of 54 cannons and three carts. The artillery regiment consists of 162 cannons, and the other three brigades are motorized regiments.

On the first day of the exercise, at nightfall, the No.16 Division, the Blue Army's forward, two brigades and six regiments faced the Red Army's 2 armored regiments, 3 motorized infantry regiments, and 6 artillery regiments. The ratio of troops was 8:54, and the comparison of artillery It is 162:[-], regardless of the machine gun or something.

His own two legs could never run against the opponent's four wheels. Wang Tingzhen, the commander of the 4th Division, after the Red Army armored vehicle ate up his vanguard battalion but retreated, the first order he gave was to withdraw!

After Wang Tingzhen left the machine gun battalion, the rest of the troops scattered ducks and ran south in the night!Although the march can't run for a day, if you don't run, you will be hit by the opponent's shells!You have to run, otherwise we won't have the establishment of our Sixteenth Division in the future!

While riding at the head of the team, Wang Tingzhen scolded Wang Geng for being too cunning. Didn't he say a few days ago that nearly a thousand vehicles from the participating army went to the Beijing-Suizhou Railway to help transport sleepers!

Usually, the Nanyuan Barracks and Langfang Barracks are like hedgehogs that can’t be inserted into the water and can’t be splashed. The access control of the barracks is very strict. !How can the iron cart run in the wild?

It must be said that Wang Tingzhen's retreat was very timely and sensitive. It took less than 10 minutes for the 3th Division to leave the main road and head south. The sound of artillery was rumbling [-] kilometers to the north. Annihilation was judged to withdraw from the battlefield, and the slow-running troops were swept away by a battalion by the opponent's shelling.

In one face-to-face effort, the Sixteenth Division lost three battalions of troops!Judging from the intensity of the cannons just now, the opponent has at least 150 cannons!Nima, how can we fight this battle!Wang Tingzhen was so angry that he whipped his mount and led the exhausted team cursingly. He gritted his teeth and retreated another 5 kilometers to the south. Send a report to inform the battle situation!

Cao Kun's third division still had the shadow of Wu Peifu's military training, and Wang Tingzhen's sixteenth division hurriedly set off, and Wang Chengbin, the commander of the sixth brigade, whispered to his commander:

"Master, I heard that we know the establishment of the third division of Lao Wu's participating army. The division belongs to an armored regiment, and each brigade has a motorized infantry regiment. The artillery regiment is all mounted on vehicles. We can't compare the speed. Ah! Commander, we have to take it easy! The soldiers who participated in the war said that the cars all went to the Beijing-Suizhou line to transport sleepers, which may not be reliable!"

"Spicy trick! Why didn't you say it earlier!" Cao Kun kicked Wang Chengbin angrily!

"The Sixteenth Division wants to steal our third division's first achievement, let him take it, the Grand Presidential Guard Division, the Imperial Forest Army! They are used to walking with their nostrils upturned, so it's their fault!" Wang Chengbin said with a sneer.

"We must be sincere and united! It is a direct team anyway! If we really lose, we will look good? Give me an order, the army will advance slowly, the vanguard battalion will go for half an hour, and the army will stop after fifty miles to set up a position!" Cao Kun looked at it. Wang Chengbin took one look and gave orders, but he didn't send anyone to chase after the Sixteenth Division.

This guy was also cursing inwardly, Wang Geng is really cunning, he deliberately released the wind that all the cars were transferred to support the construction of the Beijing-Suizhou line. Could it be a trick? If I knew it, I should have proposed not to allow the army to use mechanization Advantage!

The final result of the Dezhou Autumn Exercise Exercise is self-evident. How can two legs run over four wheels? This exercise is always in a state of cat and mouse. Although Cao Kun gathered five brigades together about [-] kilometers northwest of Baoding A battle line was established at the place where the Red Army arrived the next day, but the main force of the three brigades who arrived the next day could not hold it at all.

The artillery of the Red Army was trained by such masters as Sun Lianzhong and Lu Zhonglin. The Blue Army wanted to avoid the opponent's artillery advantage through close combat, but the firepower network composed of densely packed water-cooled heavy machine guns and squad machine guns on the opponent's position was fundamentally impossible. It was not rushed up by the crowd tactics.

After the Red Army knocked out all the artillery of the Blue Army with a one-third battle loss rate, the exercise could no longer continue. The Blue Army's position without artillery support could not be maintained under the Red Army's shelling. The Red Army's ground attack After a large-scale bombardment, it will attack with wheeled armored vehicles.

The Sixteenth Division Wang Tingzhen, who thought he had run away, wanted to win the defeat and took a detour to attack Langfang, but in the detour, he encountered the First Brigade of the First Division of the Red Army on the left, which was almost the most effective brigade of the entire participating army. A division of the Sixth Division was stunned in the front, unable to resist the attack of the first brigade of the participating army. Three times, five divisions and two were interspersed and divided by the opponent's three infantry regiments plus a motorized infantry regiment. As for the artillery, 54 guns were against 72 The result of the door can be imagined.

The overwhelming victory of the Red Army in Bazhou Qiucao and the resulting impact are huge and far-reaching!