Song Biao has always planned to confront the third town of the Beiyang Army to confirm how powerful the Beiyang Army is. This is how military wars are. Equipment and training are only one aspect of combat effectiveness. We cannot rely on speculation to evaluate the opponent. Many

At that time, only after the actual combat can we know the opponent's actual level, and then we can formulate different combat plans based on the opponent's actual level.

The result disappointed Song Biao.

After the Northeast Revolutionary Army occupied Kaiping County, it occupied a railway hub, one leading to the capital and the other leading to Tianjin. The entire army officially established a command headquarters in Kaiping County.

The key to speed is the first trick to using troops, and the biggest feature of the new Northeast Army is "fast" and "strong".

The uprising in the 20th town and the escape of the third town gave Song Biao a new space to quickly use troops. After the readjustment, he adopted a prepared combat plan and directly arranged for Zhao Tingzhu and Fu Liangzuo's first infantry division to be inserted into Langfang, Cai

E and Sun Shulin's First Cavalry Division went deep into Zhuozhou County, completely splitting the six towns of the Beiyang Army, and at the same time controlling the throat of the Beijing-Tianjin-Beijing-Han Railway, cutting off the route of the Qing government's escape, and then using the Third Infantry Division to marches into Tongzhou County,

The Beijing-Feng Railway was controlled along the route, the Second Infantry Division, and the Second Artillery Brigade arrived in Tongzhou, Dachang, Xianghe, and the Qing Dynasty Imperial Guards, the first town of the Beiyang Army, and the sixth town fought decisively in Tongzhou.

Two days after the 20th Town Revolutionary Army rectified, cooperated with Jiang Yanxing's Fifth Infantry Division who arrived two days later to attack the fourth town of the Beiyang Army and the remnants of the third town. Song Biao will continue to retain Wu Luzhen's Fifth Cavalry Brigade as the hands of

For the preparation force, Xu Baoying's first artillery brigade will join the battle in the shortest time. However, the specific direction to which direction is sent depends on the railway's transportation capacity and which battlefield is more anxious.

Xu Baoying's first artillery brigade was the heavy artillery brigade, equipped with 48 m1908 122mm howitzers, 22 m1902 Krupp 150mm heavy howitzers, 24 m1904 Krupp 12-cent long-barrel cannons, 8 m1902 15-cent long-barrel

Cannon.

This is the real ace in Song Biao's hands. If this brigade is sent to the battlefield of the capital, it can basically knock down half of the walls of Beijing.

Before large-scale mechanization, "fast" and "strong" are a difficult contradiction for any unit. The only way is to increase the number of troops. The total combat power value of the troops is enhanced by equally sharing the unit's transportation volume.

Therefore, the size of each division of the Northeast New Army is larger than that of the German, Russian and Japanese.

The regular organization of a division of the Northeast New Army is 23,000. Because the Second Infantry Division is equipped with a heavy artillery regiment and is in charge of four railway heavy artillery battalions, its total troop size is 24,500. Heavy artillery is compared to light artillery.

The horsepower is twice as powerful.

The second and third artillery brigades belong to the light artillery brigade, which is mainly equipped with... type 105mm Krupp light howitzer, with a self-weight of 1225 kilograms. Unlike the German system, the 12.5kg shell adopted by the New Army of Northeast China has a maximum range of 7,000m.

.In addition to shells, each light howitzer requires an average of 56 horsepower, 6 Pidton River pulling horse-drawn cannon trucks, 2 pulling horses are responsible for rotation, and 32 Mongolian horses are responsible for pulling shells. A double horse-drawn four-wheeler tow

The standard loading force of bicycles is 1050kg, and the four vehicles are a horse team. Each gun must ensure the supply of shells of four horse teams. To ensure the supply of manpower and horsepower feed, two horse teams are required.

This baggage can basically maintain the supply of 1,200 shells per gun, and usually only last for one week in fierce battles. According to the setting of the New Army in the Northeast, when encountering such a special fierce battle, the military headquarters will directly govern the army.

The baggage brigade must assist in carrying a large amount of material transportation.

If it is a 122mm howitzer of the m1908 type, it is a Russian-made gun made by French technology. It weighs 1,460 kilograms, the shell weight is 21.8kg, and the maximum range is 8,700 meters. The required horsepower is doubled compared to the 105mm light howitzer.

(Although the German DWM company actively recommended the m1905 Krupp 120mm light howitzer with a weight of 1120kg, that is, the Japanese 38-year 120mm field gun. On the one hand, it is to balance the relationship between Russia and Germany, and on the other hand, it also considers the advantages of French technology.

, the New Army of Northeast China adopted the Russian m1908 122mm howitzer.)

The "fast" of the Northeast New Army mainly depends on the number of baggage units and the rapid marching of the light armed forces. When only carrying 60\77mm caliber mortars, each infantry regiment must have the ability to march 100 kilometers a day.

This is a training indicator. In combat, it is usually required to be 12 hours and 55 kilometers, 24 hours and 70 kilometers, and it has the ability to maintain 7 days of combat. For this reason, the material supply and supply of the entire Northeast New Army has distinct characteristics, such as firearms and ammunition.

The equipment is also very special. Mortar shells are carried by one round per person, while the number of grenades is reduced to 3 per person. The machine gun bullets are required and rifle bullets are unified. Each soldier needs to bring an extra light machine gun magazine.

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The horses of each infantry regiment were equipped with standard canvas bags and marching quickly. They gave up picking up the carts and used all loading tools, and the standard loading weight was reduced by 50%.

On this basis, the Northeast New Army relies on the large number of people to improve the combat effectiveness of the troops, organize small-scale elite troops to solve the ability to attack and break through key assaults and breakthroughs, and reduce the consumption rate of ammunition by installing Zeiss precision rifles on a large scale.

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In short, the New Northeast Army relied on average allocation and special equipment adjustment to improve "fastness", and through the increase in the number of people and the specialization of light weapons and equipment, the elite small troops increased their "strongness".

Liangbi adopted the characteristic of the dispersed arrangement of the six towns of the Beiyang Army, which just provided a very good stage for the Northeast New Army. After the military headquarters adopted the backup combat plan, the divisions and departments quickly adjusted their equipment and logistics deployment to

Quick and light maneuvering method to marching quickly.

The First Cavalry Division directly reduced the supply of shells of the division's light cavalry artillery by half. On the basis of ensuring mortar shells and light machine gun shells, it quickly advanced at a speed of 180 kilometers in 24 hours, requiring the Beijing to be cut off within 36 hours.

Han Railway Line.

The entire army uses 36 hours as the total movement time. Before 4 a.m. on July 26, 1910, all units must be deployed to cut all six towns of the Beiyang Army, and concentrate the main forces to attack the first town and the sixth town in the capital.

town.

Considering that a relatively long-term confrontation with the Beiyang Army in the capital, the Fifth Infantry Division and the First Artillery Brigade urgently accelerated their pace of entering the pass and gave priority to reaching Kaiping County. It was required to complete reinforcement of the Second and Third Infantry Divisions in 72 hours.

Preparation.

After capturing Kaiping County, the new Northeast Army was like a high-speed rotating chainsaw, cutting to the Beiyang Army with a posture of cutting everything. It was not until this time that Liang Bi, the Minister of the Army Department in the capital, seemed to have suddenly woken up and asked to turn the capital.

All trains from the Tianjin, Beijing-Feng Railway were withdrawn back to the capital, and the Beiyang Army was ordered to be transferred back to the capital.

The significance of drawing trains is not very important. It cannot prevent the advance of the Northeast New Army, because the Northeast New Army has drawn more trains from the pass, and has also controlled a certain number of trains in Kaiping County. Moreover, the Northeast New Army has sufficient manpower and horsepower, and

Not entirely dependent on railways.

It is necessary for the six Beiyang Army towns to retreat to the capital. The fifth town is stationed in Jinan, which is too late. The second town is in Baoding, and the remnants of the fourth and third towns are in Tianjin. Can we draw back to the capital now?

It's just a matter of time.

The main disadvantage of the Beiyang Army is that the number of baggage troops cannot keep up. It is a new army that imitates the German division and reduces the baggage troops. In the history of Yinchang leading the Beiyang Army to suppress the revolutionary army, the baggage and transportation capabilities were

Deficiency is one of the main factors that led to large-scale chaos in the Beiyang Army.

However, all the towns of the Beiyang Army were stationed in areas with railways. They could quickly move through the railway, which depends on whether they were willing to return to the capital quickly. If they were willing to give up their supplies and jump onto the railway and run, of course they could grab it.

The Northeast New Army had returned to the capital before. On the other hand, if they still transported the ammunition and artillery to the railway, they would probably be intercepted by the Northeast New Army halfway.

Both sides are competing for speed.

At least Liang Bi was competing with Song Biao for speed. He and Xiang Feng suddenly realized that their so-called concessions and win-win, as well as the conditions they offered that seemed very expensive, could not convince Song Biao at all.

The capital was already in chaos.

It is impossible to stop the shouts of the Northeast Army one after another. Prince Chun, Ao Feng, has not returned home for the past two days. He has been living in the Military Affairs Office. He seems to have suddenly aged for decades, and even

A feeling of mental confusion.

There are so many officials coming and going to the yamen. Everyone wants to say something to him, but he seems to be unable to remember a word or listen to a word. He finds Liangbi and the two of them are there.

Discuss countermeasures in the flower hall.

Liangbi found a military map and pointed and said a lot of things in a panic, but Xu Feng didn't understand a few words at all. He was already confused. Until the day before yesterday, he was still worried about the rebel army in the south.

Conquer Wuchang and follow the Beijing-Han Railway to the capital.

He placed his hopes on the Northeast Army and granted Song Biao the title of king, hoping to use the Northeast Army to suppress the rebellion, but he did not expect that the news of being crowned king had not been sent to the Governor's Office of the Three East Provinces, and the Northeast Army also rebeled against the court.

Everyone should be killed, everyone should be killed, and they must be cut into pieces and executed by Lingchi.

He gritted his teeth and was cruel. He hated these shameless people who did not know the way of loyalty to the emperor. He had long known that these Han people were all shameless beasts. He had already done his best to these Han people and left enough to survive.

People dare to rebel.

They all need to be executed by Lingchi, implicating the nine clans.

Don’t they know that rebellion will be implicated in the nine tribes?

Liu Feng's mind was swelling and he didn't listen to Liangbi's persuasion just now. He just looked at the map and looked at the Northeast army marked by Liangbi, and could not think of any way.

Liangbi looked at Zaifeng who was at a loss and said for a long time before he found that Zaifeng had not listened at all. He could only ask again: "Prince, what are you planning to do?"

Zaifeng asked blindly: "What should I do?"

Liangbi was impatient and said, "It's all for this. Prince, please take the emperor away quickly. The new army in the south will definitely not be able to count on it. Once the Northeast Army rebelled, we will only have The Beiyang Army is left. The only way to get two roads at the moment is to run to Zhangjiakou and take the detour to Xi'an. The other road is to go south from the Jinghan Railway to Shijiazhuang and transfer to Taiyuan by Shanxi Railway."

Zaifeng suddenly felt at a loss, but was extremely angry. He shouted, "Are you the only two ways?"

Liangbi could only kneel down on the ground and begged: "Prince, the slave is incompetent. Now that things have come to this, only by protecting the emperor and the prince can the court have the opportunity to rise later. If the Northeast Army enters the pass, at most The city is about to be destroyed in more than a month. It doesn’t matter if we slaves die, the emperor and the prince cannot die. If the emperor and the prince die, our Qing Dynasty and our Manchu country will be gone!”

Zaifeng was speechless and felt extremely sad. He felt that he was in tears. More than ten days ago, he was the regent above thousands of people, commanding all the political affairs, but now he has to flee west.

He thought hard, and suddenly he became sadder the more he thought about it, and said, "Where can you get a way out for what you are doing now?"

Liang Bi said: "Go to Xinjiang west, or to Tibet, or to Outer Mongolia north. These are places to go. As long as the royal family is preserved, there will be a great foundation in the future. Governing the country with benevolence and virtue. The people and the new army of all walks of life will be deceived for a while and will regret it in the future. Our dynasty can return to the Central Plains and take over the Nine Tripods."

Zaifeng couldn't say how credible Liangbi's words were. He only felt that Han people were all beasts and none of them were trustworthy. Since the founding of the Qing Dynasty, emperors of all dynasties have been wise rulers, but Han people did not understand them. The Manchu emperor is good, but he wants to rebel against them.

He didn't feel that he would have a chance to come back if he fled into Outer Mongolia.

But what can I do if I don’t escape?

Zaifeng thought about it and decided to go to Xinjiang. If it really doesn't work, he can still enter Tibet. If it is not good, he can enter India, Yunnan and Guizhou. There is still a way to go. Once he goes to Outer Mongolia, he can only be in the Great Gobi. When they flee, they turn against each other, they have nowhere to go.

Thinking of this, Zaifeng lamented: "Let's go south, let's go to Shanxi and Xi'an to inform the governor of Shaanxi, Gansu and Ningxia Chang Geng and Sichuan Zhao Erfeng, so that they must ensure the stability of the new troops in the two places, so that Chang Geng will prepare to send troops. Shanxi welcomes the charity.”

Liangbi agreed to "yes" and said, "I think now I should dispatch the Imperial Guards to go south to protect the emperor with the prince, and I stay in the capital to dispatch other armies to compete with the Northeast Army. If I can defeat his army and a town. It's also good. If it cannot be defeated, I will try my best to delay and strive for countries to intervene."

Liangbi's words really reminded Zaifeng. Zaifeng immediately said: "Yes, yes, be sure to delay time and strive for intervention from all countries. Just say that these revolutionary troops are rebels, just like the Boxers back then, they must be If all countries sit idly by and ignore foreigners, they will cause trouble in the future.”

After hearing this, Liangbi remained silent.

Zaifeng swore faithfully, as if he had found a glimmer of hope, and suddenly realized that the Northeast Army had a close relationship with foreign countries. They must have connections with foreign countries and would never let foreigners believe such rumors.

He thought about it, and knew that even though he would not believe this, he still ordered Liangbi: "Go and write a telegram, just inform all countries like this. Even if there is a slight possibility, we cannot give up."

Liangbi could only say, "What the prince said is, I'm going out to do business now."

Zaifeng said: "Don't leave, quickly transfer the Beiyang army to the capital to support it. Let Prince Qing go to find foreigners. Let the Ministry of Internal Affairs be busy with the matter of moving west... I will go to the Ministry of Internal Affairs in person. Something about it.”

After saying this, Zaifeng stood up and left in a daze. He had to report to Empress Dowager Longyu.
To be continued...