Zhao Dongyun divided the direction of fighting bandits into two main directions: firstly, Jinzhou West, that is, the part around the corridor in western Liaoning. Because there are not many bandits, he dispatched the main force of the first battalion of the ninth bid and also dispatched a cavalry team to reconnaissance in this direction. It is expected that there will be no large-scale war in this direction. The anti-bandits unit of this department is called the anti-bandits westward detachment.
This time, the focus is on the northern part of Jinzhou, where the terrain is complex, not only a small area of gentle terrain, but also mountains. If it is from the perspective of conventional warfare, this terrain is suitable for mountain troops or infantry troops to fight against cavalry, so it is difficult to exert high mobility.
However, it’s not a conventional war now, but it’s not necessary for them to attack hundreds of miles. Besides, almost all the bandits ride the bandits by a combination of step and ride, and they ordered the third standard of the riding team to take Meng Enyuan to be responsible for commanding the "north-moving detachment" to fight against bandits.
By the end of September, Meng Enyuan’s’ north marching detachment’ can come to fight bandits. There are already two cavalry battalions, a new army infantry battalion, two squadrons of Jinzhou patrol battalion, a cavalry machine gun team and a temporary mortar team that is still in the test state.
Because of the large number of troops and the fact that they are not facing bandits like those in Du Lisan and Feng Delin, which have thousands of people, most of them are small-scale bandits with dozens or hundreds of people. The strength of the two cavalry battalions is not too large, and they form the left and right wings with two machine guns respectively, while Meng Enyuan leads the main infantry to attack later.
The two battalions of cavalry mainly came to disperse the investigation and fight small bandits to avoid casualties. They will not conquer the lair of large-scale bandits.
In addition, it is very important for them to stop bandits from escaping.
The infantry battalion with machine guns and mortars behind it is the main force to attack. After all, although cavalry is also playing "ma bu" or horse stance just look these days, that is not the advantage of cavalry. One is the explosive force of charge, and the other is the high-speed maneuverability. However, cavalry rarely plays sabre-to-sabre-cutting these days, and it is not the main tactic of cavalry after Napoleon War.
Nowadays, people pay attention to mobility when playing cavalry base. After all, the emergence of cavalry mobility armored vehicles is irreplaceable and shoulders the importance of investigation, pursuit and outflanking.
This has also led to a smaller and smaller cavalry establishment. Most cavalry activities are mainly carried out by the cavalry company, such as investigation and harassment, and they have rarely carried out frontal battles.
Compared with the infantry, the cavalry units of Beiyang New Army are much more conservative. Although inevitably influenced by the German and French cavalry units, the establishment is still very conservative. Now the western cavalry units have adopted the small regiment Dalian system, and a cavalry regiment is directly under the jurisdiction of several cavalry companies. Each cavalry company has more than 100 to 200 people, but the cavalry battalion is still in the Beiyang Standing Army. This establishment is under the jurisdiction of the battalion and battalion, and each cavalry team has dozens of riders.
Compared with the establishment of infantry, artillery and other arms, the establishment of Beiyang cavalry generally stayed in the Napoleonic Wars.
Of course, it doesn’t mean that the tactics of Beiyang cavalry should still stay at that time. At that time, the tactics of modern Beiyang cavalry should not be much different from those of cavalry in other countries. The only difference is that cavalry companies in various countries carry out tactics, while Beiyang New Army is a cavalry battalion with more people to carry out the same.
To put it bluntly, the Beiyang New Army is relying on its own horses to be more afraid of the powers, and I have a cavalry in my heart to fuck you, but only two thoughts.
Because the tactics of Beiyang cavalry units should be very daily trained by battalion units, when Meng Enyuan led the troops to fight bandits, the troops were also deployed by battalion-based units
Even though Meng Enyuan’s cavalry still has too many levels of command, it has been commanded, but Meng Enyuan’s cavalry troops are still configured in a unified way
After sending two cavalry battalions out, Meng Enyuan was the one who personally led the infantry to follow.
Because there is no fixed enemy base in this war, Meng Enyuan, the main headquarters, has a very wide advancing width, and nearly 2,000 troops have formed a sweeping channel with a width of more than 30 kilometers. If the cavalry is added to extend the investigation scope, the control width of Meng Enyuan’s anti-bandits forces will reach almost 50 kilometers.
This kind of battlefield width is impossible for regular warfare, but what Meng Enyuan needs to do is to form a huge network to search for the enemy. Once he meets the enemy, he will quickly annihilate the troops and move on.
Meng Enyuan’s cast-net tactics casually touch a powerful enemy. Even if the enemy randomly comes to an elite cavalry of 300 to 500 people, then Meng Enyuan’s troops can be divided by one. But he is not facing the elite cavalry of the enemy, but bandits. Even bandits with hundreds of people are more powerful, but Meng Enyuan can’t beat any infantry.
Hundreds of bandits can be defeated by a platoon of forty or fifty people in the field.
The difference between the regular army and the bandits is not so much about how brave the individual is and how much firepower is unimportant. The real difference lies in discipline. A typical modern army, Beiyang New Army, can only rely on discipline!
Maybe those bandits are bloody and brave enough to wave their lances and sabres and attack the new army positions, but waiting for them is bound to be killed by random guns.
Shortly after Meng Enyuan led the anti-bandits troops to the north, he came to the good news to attack and annihilate several small-scale bandits one after another, killing and injuring more than 100 bandits, seizing more than 10 new guns and more than 60 horses, injuring only five people. These results were just the results of the public war report, and they were submitted to Baoding for Yuan Shikai to have a look.
If later people study this war against bandits, they will see from all kinds of official data how many bandits were killed and wounded, how many guns and horses were captured, how many bandits were captured, and they will never find official data on how many goods were seized by the third mixed association.
Everything seized due to bandits’ money outside the official battle report is under the charge of the Logistics Department of the North Anti-bandits Detachment led by Zhao Dongping, the chief of ordnance department. Even Meng Enyuan, the military commander of the Anti-bandits Detachment, is in charge of the team. Zhao Dongping has also deployed many people from ordnance department, munitions department and education department, in addition to these supervisors.
Different from ordinary logistics organizations, the logistics department of the north-advancing detachment of bandits not only has the officer in charge of the literary subject, but also has the directly affiliated troops, Zhao Dongping, who specially transferred the third Huncheng trench and the third battalion to Zhao Dongping, and also temporarily transferred several other troops, a large number of commanders and Jinzhou local hired some civilian workers to form a logistics transportation force of about 600 people.
On the one hand, they are naturally responsible for the wages and ammunition of the north-moving detachment, and on the other hand, they are important to take over all the battles, especially those movable assets.
After all, this is not a private robbery, but a robbery that costs a lot of military and public money.
In order to prevent the large-scale corruption of the bandit troops smoothly, the logistics department has inserted phase personnel into each team, and Zhao Dongyun has for the first time transferred two military police battalions from the law enforcement branch of the Third Mixed Association to strictly enforce the law and imitate the army’s private corruption.
At the same time, it is also to prevent the surface troops from grabbing the red eye and sweeping up bandits. Fortunately, it would be bad if one might make something like robbing the rich.
The Third Mixed Association is a regular army of the imperial court, and both Yuan Shikai and Zhao Dongyun pay great attention to discipline. If the Third Mixed Association has anything to disturb the people and rob the rich, Yuan Shikai will not give Zhao Dongyun anything good to eat if he makes the Third Mixed Association a cigar.
Of course, it’s no good to guard against death. You can’t confiscate all the money you robbed. At the same time, Zhao Dongyun also announced that 70% of the Sanqi captured during the anti-bandits war will be used in the vault of the Ministry of Coordination to buy weapons and expand the army. The remaining three floors will be used to pay’ anti-bandits subsidies’ to officers and soldiers participating in the operation.
So, although the law is still in place to avoid private corruption by soldiers, the discipline of Beiyang New Army is not bad these days, and there are subsidies for fighting bandits. Many soldiers are also willing to rob the money with the 30% fair and square.
"Brother Shu Chun still has a knack for playing cavalry, but now he has killed and injured more than 100 people by beating and driving three gangsters, but injured five people himself, so I’m afraid I can’t find a few cavalry experts like Brother Shu Chun in Beiyang!" Guang-yuan Chen looked at the grand tone without stint on Meng Enyuan admiration.
Aside Zhao Dongyun listen to also can feel guang-yuan Chen envy.
This time, however, Chen Guangyuan was also a candidate at the beginning, but later Zhao Dongyun chose Meng Enyuan as a commander because the main force of however, was cavalry, which made Chen Guangyuan quite resistant.
The main reason for this is that Chen Guangyuan is not only an infantry officer, but also his third mixed association. In today’s Beiyang New Army, Chen Guangyuan is not famous for his fierce fighting, but for his reorganization of the old army and training.
Maybe there were too many names in the reorganization of the old army, which led Zhao Dongyun to train more when he was conscious of not letting Chen Guangyuan go to the front.
Zhao Dong said, "This is just the beginning. I hope he won’t let me down!"
After saying this, he is a transit road. "Now that En has gone far to the north, there is no one guarding Songshan. Please explain everything about the reorganization of Jinzhou patrol camp in the past two days and then move your bidding department to Songshan!"
Guang-yuan Chen’s face lit up immediately. He didn’t expect Zhao Dongyun to let him go to Songshan and other important places.
Chapter ninety Lv Shuang gun one
Where is Songshan? That’s an important support point to ensure the retreat of the Third Mixed Association. Once Russian troops or Japanese troops have arrived, Jinzhou City in Xiaoling River East can be lost, and Tiger Gully in Cuiyan, north of Jinzhou can be abandoned. However, Songshan must not be lost before the main force of the Third Mixed Association is withdrawn from its daughter’s hometown if Russian troops attack from the southern plain of Jinzhou in a roundabout way.
If Songshan falls before the withdrawal of the third mixed association, it means that the troops in Cuiyan area, the main force of the third mixed association in daughter’s hometown, will cut off the back road and wait for the third mixed association to be wiped out.
The Songshan defense line, the strategic support point in the south of Jinzhou defense line in such a place, was naturally valued by Zhao Dongyun. At the same time, a large number of civilian workers were hired to build fortifications and presided over the Songshan defense line, which was Meng Enyuan.
Now Meng Enyuan has been transferred to the north, however, Songshan Town. Naturally, no one can sit in the original Guang-yuan Chen, and Pei Lianying will replace Meng Enyuan in Songshan Town. I didn’t expect Zhao Dongyun to transfer himself.
"The importance of Songshan is not what I told you. You used to do things well to arrange Songshan defense!" Speaking of this, Zhao Dongyun gave Chen Guangyuan a look of expectation. "In time, our third mixed association will become the third town. We can’t let outsiders come and sit in those two commanding positions. Even after that, you must work hard!"
Zhao Dongyun’s words almost indicate that after the third Huncheng became the third town, one of the two co-ordinators was going to give it to Chen Guangyuan. Now it’s Chen Guangyuan who showed himself.
Then Chen Guangyuan’s face can’t help but get excited. "Adults can rest assured that I will make Songshan watertight. If I have Chen Guangyuan Songshan, we won’t let our third hybrid association have no retreat!"
Zhao Dongyun nodded with satisfaction and then waved his hand to let him go out. Although Chen Guangyuan has performed quite well in recent years, it is estimated that he has realized the reality and turned to Zhao Dongyun. After all, the third mixed association Chen Guangyuan Zhao Dongyun’s future base has been controlled by Zhao Dongyun in many cases. If he does not take refuge in Zhao Dongyun, he will not be promoted for three to five years.
Faced with Chen Guangyuan Zhao Dongyun, who has turned to himself, naturally won’t put on an old enemy’s face, but has made a sincere acceptance situation and given a co-leader’s future reward, so it’s also simple not to want to tell Chen Guangyuan that he wants to take refuge in Zhao Dongyun, but I, Zhao Dongyun, look forward to your coming to take refuge.
Let’s not go out with a bright face. Chen Guangyuan Zhao Dongyun continued to read the official document in his hand. The briefing in his hand was a secret briefing sent by Zhao Dongping. The head of the briefing described in detail that many gains in the past few days were just the elimination of three small bandits. The cash income of guns and horses alone has reached more than 10,000 taels of silver. Many estimates show that he can also sell thousands of taels of silver for his messy goods.
Just this sum of silver will be able to make up for the pull and ammunition in this anti-bandits operation. Zhao Dongyun gave this time an expected one-month anti-bandits operation approval, but it was only twenty-two thousand silver. That is to say, the extra anti-bandits amount to about twelve thousand now, so the next harvest is a profit.
The three bandits in front are also small miscellaneous fish. Zhao Dongping said in a briefing that the exhibition will be held in a few days, and it is expected that at least 52,000 goods will be obtained from the encirclement and suppression of’ Lv Shuangqiang’.
In mid-September, Meng Enyuan’s front has pointed to the nickname "Lv Shuangqiang" of the bandit leader in Hongjiatun’s "Lv Shuangqiang" department, 70 kilometers north of Jinzhou. It is said that when two revolvers are used against the enemy, the two pistols crackle and a burst of disorderly guns hit the enemy, and the base enemy becomes a hornet’s nest. In addition, this nickname has another meaning, that is, the double guns are also double-robbing, which means that the two departments are robbed of money and women everywhere.
It’s even more rare to have more than 300 bandits, but it’s even more valuable to have 300 bandits. They are all riding bandits, and they have a new gun with a hundred fewer shots.
A few years ago, he liked to rip off Russian trains as much as Feng Delin, and this man dared to fight hard with Russian soldiers. A few years ago, he was jealous of the Russian new-style robbery and did something to ambush Russian railway patrol.
He didn’t buy the Mosinnagan rifle in his hand, but robbed it.
In the Geng Dynasty, because the Russians sent a large number of troops to the northeast and launched a large-scale extermination of the Lushuang Gun Department, which was originally occupied in the west of Jilin Province, although they dared to fight recklessly, it was only a nest of bandits that were beaten by the Russian army and suffered heavy losses. Finally, Lushuang Gun fled all the way with dozens of residual bandits.
Because Taian, Liaozhong, Panshan and Xinmin in western Liaoning have been occupied by Zhang Lin, Feng Delin and Du Lisan.
Lu Shuang’s gun was brilliant in his early years, but when he was down and out, he naturally didn’t want to provoke Feng Delin, Du Lisan and others. He bypassed the Liaohe area and went to the north of Jinzhou instead of grabbing food from Feng Delin, Du Lisan and Zhang Lin.
I have to say that this man really has a set of skills when he is a bandit. In his early years, he dared to fight recklessly with Russian soldiers. At one time, he was so powerful that Russia sent an army to encircle him. After two years in northern Jinzhou, he just recovered his vitality.
When he came to the north of Jinzhou, he only had more than 50 remnants. However, he soon gathered more than 300 bandits again, and there were not many cottage bandits in the bandits, so there were many old, weak, women and children. His more than 300 hands were all young and strong, and everyone had horses and guns.
Unlike Du Lisan, Feng Delin and others, this man has a lot of hands and occupied the area around Hongjiatun, but he did not vigorously operate the base areas and regularize his arms. He still relied on looting houses, kidnapping houses and bandits as his main source of income.
Because of his large number of hands, he earned a lot of income, which also forced the Ministry to have a very wide range of activities. In the past two years, the northern part of Jinzhou, the western part of Liaoxi Corridor, the northwestern part of Xinmin, Zhangwu and even Mongolia have all been his activities
Although he didn’t kill many people everywhere, he didn’t go to the landlords and rich people to rob them, but robbed them everywhere, whether they were landlords and rich people or poor people. This is especially true for beautiful women, regardless of whether the family Jasper or the ladies saw them, they rarely ruined the foundation. If no one came to redeem them, they would mostly sell them to all over the world except being left as the lady of the fortress.
Therefore, this person’s actions are many, and it seems that no one is despised by his colleagues in the Northeast bandits. Even if he is still selling girls, the point is that he is dry and fishing, and even rations will not be left to people.
Looking at this person’s information, Zhao Dongyun frowned slightly. Is this Lu Shuang gun terminating? Is it not ambitious or knowledgeable? Generally speaking, it has the strength of 300 elite bandits, but also controls such a large area. Generally, it will evolve into a more formal armed force. Just like Du Lisan and Feng Delin, they will gradually reduce direct looting and kidnapping, transfer to operating base areas, collect local taxes, and pass by business ships. Their armed forces will not infringe on the people in their jurisdiction, but they will also protect them.
For example, if Lu Shuang’s gun goes to Du Lisan to rob and kidnap a ransom, then Du Lisan will be furious and lead his troops to fight in the past.
However, Lu Shuang-qiang still keeps the mode of unified bandits, wasting the 300 elite riding bandits in vain, and how much does it cost to raise these 300 elite riding bandits every year? And with this money, how many people do they have to rob and kidnap every year?