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Volume 2 Beijing Story Chapter 166 Overwhelming Advantage

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    Update time: 2012-08-17

    Military wars are never about farming or armed parades. The exercise director did take great pains to design many emergencies and accidents for both the red and blue sides, but the result of the exercise was still overwhelmingly one-sided.

    The Red Army's operational plan was completely prepared by the operational staff of the General Staff Headquarters led by Jiang Fangzhen. Then Wang Geng, the Chief of Staff and the six brigade commanders met to discuss, modify and confirm the operational plan, and then continued to develop it based on the results of frontline intelligence and reconnaissance.  Optimization and fine-tuning.

    The advantage of the Red Army lies in its firepower and advancement speed. The advantage of the Blue Army is that they have 10,000 more veterans and are more familiar with the local environment.

    The exercise did not allow the participating armies to use their air force. Not every soldier in Beiyang had seen an airplane at this time in 1917. If the participating army's air force had also been involved in reconnaissance and bombing, the Blue Army would have been completely put to rest without even having to fight.  .

    The exercise directorate sent an evaluation team to fly a Handley Page 0/400 bomber to fly over the exercise area every day to observe and evaluate the battle situation. Fortunately, the motorized reconnaissance battalion of the participating armies was very good at battlefield reconnaissance and mapping.  I have lived up to these four months of training and learning.

    Faced with the overwhelming firepower advantage and mechanization speed, Plan A formulated by the General Staff Headquarters was to use the speed advantage to advance three brigades together to seize the Bazhou front line, with two brigades outflanking the left and right, and the last brigade rushing to repair and build trench defenses in front of the Langfang base camp.

    Many engineering vehicles, forklifts and trailers were modified from the Ford TT multi-purpose vehicles used in the war. Of course, for the recruits who were trained by the water conservancy projects on both sides of the Yongding River, digging trenches and earthmoving is their best skill!

    Wang Geng did not give up such a great opportunity to train troops just because the opponent's firepower was weak. Simply compared with the number of cannons and machine guns, there was no need to fight at all. For the Blue Army, this was a battle with more but less but with a weak enemy.  Opportunity, for the Red Army, to let new recruits know what modern warfare is all about.

    Although the first and second divisions of the participating armies participated in the exercise, almost half of the brigade commanders from the fourth and third divisions came, and the remaining half naturally stayed in the local area to guard their homes.

    Although Cao Kun is not a capable division commander, the Third Division is indeed a first-class strong army in Beiyang. In addition, the Sixteenth Division Wang Tingzhen's department is also a first-class strength. The Sixteenth Division must avenge the defeat of the Fengtai Division Headquarters and the vanguard regiment.  The soldiers who participated in the war were ashamed to surrender their guns and volunteered to fight in the vanguard.  The offensive posture adopted by the Blue Army was that the two brigades of the 16th Division were heading straight into Bazhou, followed by the five main brigades of the Third Division, while the First Division, with the weakest combat effectiveness, stayed at the Baoding base camp.

    If it is in a mountainous area, perhaps the packhorse troops can run faster than the vehicles. The area of ??the exercise at this time is the North China Plain. The 16th Beiyang Division got a good card from the director's department from the beginning and actually set off two hours early!

    It is not wrong to say that it is 56 kilometers from Langfang to Bazhou, and 77 kilometers from Baoding to Bazhou. The Blue Army set off two hours in advance. According to the marching speed at this time, it can reach Bazhou City at almost the same time as the Red Army.

    However, the leading troops of the Blue Army were on foot, and the leading troops of the Red Army were divisional armored regiments opening the way, so when the 16th Division spent a whole day traveling a hundred miles to reach a place 30 kilometers south of Bazhou  , ran head-on into the Red Army's path-opening armored regiment.

    On one side was the 16th Division, which was exhausted after traveling all day. Although it was from the Guards, it was already exhausted at this time. It was about to set up camp when it encountered a counterattack by armored vehicles and vehicle-mounted infantry. It was chaotic for a while.  .

    Fortunately, the Red Army harassed them for a while and even retreated under the cover of darkness.

    On this day, the Blue Army walked for 10 hours. The Red Army took the truck for only 3 hours. 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.  Twenty-five kilometers south of Bazhou, there are also three brigade artillery regiments of the Red Army. Each regiment has two 75mm Type 38 field artillery battalions and one 75mm Type 41 mountain gun, a total of 54 cannons, three  The vehicle-pulled artillery regiment consists of 162 cannons, in addition to three brigade motorized regiments.

    On the first day of the exercise, at nightfall, the two brigades and six regiments of the 16th Division of the Blue Army forward faced two armored regiments, three motorized infantry regiments, and three artillery regiments of the Red Army. The strength ratio was 6:8. The artillery comparison  It's 54:162, not to mention machine guns and so on.

    His own two legs cannot outrun the opponent's four wheels. After the Red Army armored vehicles beat up and ate up his leading battalion but retreated, the commander of the 16th Division Wang Tingzhen immediately gave the order to withdraw!

    After Wang Tingzhen left the machine gun camp behind, the rest of the troops ran south in the dark!  Although you can't run in a day's march, if you don't run, you'll be hit by the enemy's shells!  We have to run, otherwise we won¡¯t have the strength of the 16th Division in the future!

    Wang Tingzhen rode at the front of the team while scolding Wang Geng for being too cunning. A few days ago, he said that nearly a thousand cars participating in the war were going to the Beijing-Suiyuan Railway to help transportIs the tree gone?

    Normally, Nanyuan Barracks and Langfang Barracks are like hedgehogs that cannot be penetrated by water. The access control of the military camps is very strict. I was careless this time. I did not expect that the mechanization level of the participating armies has reached this level.  !  How come the iron cart can run in the wilderness?

    It must be said that Wang Tingzhen's retreat was quite timely and sensitive. Less than 10 minutes after the 16th Division left the road and ran south in a swarm, artillery boomed 3 kilometers to the north. Not only did he leave behind the entire machine gun battalion, he  They were judged to have been annihilated and withdrawn from the battlefield, and a battalion was lost to the enemy's artillery fire as the slow-moving troops.

    In one confrontation, the Sixteenth Division lost three battalions of troops!  Judging from the intensity of the cannon fire just now, the opponent had at least 150 cannons!  Damn it, how can we fight this battle!  Wang Tingzhen was so angry that he whipped his mount, cursed and led the exhausted team, gritted his teeth and retreated another 5 kilometers south, then dug trenches to establish a defense line and set up artillery positions, while giving Cao Kun's third division behind him  Send a report to know the battle situation!

    After all, Cao Kun¡¯s Third Division still retained the shadow of Wu Peifu¡¯s training. As soon as Wang Tingzhen¡¯s Sixteenth Division set off in a hurry, Wang Chengbin, commander of the Sixth Brigade below, whispered to his division commander:

    "Commander, I heard that we know the organization of Lao Wu's third division of the participating army. The division has an armored regiment, and each brigade has a motorized infantry regiment. The artillery regiments are all vehicle-mounted artillery. We can't compare the speed.  Ah! Commander, we have to take it easy! It may not be true that all the cars going to the Jing-Sui Line are going to be used by the participating troops!"

    "That's so spicy! Why didn't you tell me earlier!" Cao Kun kicked Wang Chengbin angrily!

    "The Sixteenth Division wants to take the lead from our Third Division, so let him take it away. The Presidential Guard Division, the Royal Forest Army! They are used to walking with their nostrils in the air, it's time for them to hit a nail!" Wang Chengbin sneered.

    "We must unite sincerely! After all, we are a direct team! If we really lose, we will look good? Give me the order, the army will advance slowly, the vanguard camp will leave for half an hour, and the army will stop and establish a position after walking fifty miles!" Cao Kun took a look!  Wang Chengbin glanced at him and gave the order, but did not send anyone to chase the Sixteenth Division.

    This guy was also cursing in his mind. Wang Geng is so cunning. He actually deliberately let out the news that all the cars were diverted to support the construction of the Beijing-Suiyuan Line. Is it really a cover-up? If I had known, I should have proposed that the participating armies not be allowed to use mechanization.  Advantage!

    The final result of the Texas Autumn Exercise is self-evident. How can two legs run over four wheels? This exercise has always been in a cat-and-mouse state. Although Cao Kun gathered five brigades about 30 kilometers northwest of Baoding,  A front line was established in the area, but it could not be defended under the attack of the main force of the three brigades that the Red Army arrived the next day.

    The Red Army's artillery was trained by talented people like 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 dense water-cooled heavy machine guns and squad machine guns on the opponent's position was basically impossible.  It's not possible to rush up through the crowd tactics.

    After the Red Army knocked out all the artillery of the Blue Army with one-third of the battle damage rate, this exercise could no longer go on. Without the support of artillery, the Blue Army's position could not be maintained under the bombardment of the Red Army. The ground attack of the Red Army  After a large-scale shelling, they used wheeled armored vehicles to attack.

    Wang Tingzhen of the 16th Division, who thought he had escaped, wanted to win in defeat and detour to attack Langfang. As a result, during the detour, he encountered the 1st Brigade of the 1st Division on the left side of the Red Army. This was almost the most powerful brigade in the entire participating army.  One division of the Sixth Division was unable to withstand the attack of the First Brigade of the participating army on the front. Three, five, and two divisions were cut into pieces by three infantry regiments and one motorized infantry regiment, and were beaten into a mess. As for the artillery, 54 of them were against 72  The result of the door can be imagined.

    The overwhelming victory of Bazhou Qiucao¡¯s Red Army and its impact were huge and far-reaching!
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