108021908 Far East Maniac Chapter 321 Pocket Array and Pocket Piercing

The sky is gray. It is as if shrouded in a thin veil. As soon as the electricity became dim, there was a faint smell of gunpowder smoke in the air, and the closer you got to the north, the stronger the smell of gunpowder became.

From the north came the sound of "booming" artillery, intertwined with the "throttling" of machine guns. The nerves were tensed, and the tension in the air became thicker, and everyone turned their attention to the north, their faces solemn.

Lan Tianwei stood by the window and raised his head, looking at the gray sky, his expression was cold, he stayed up all night, his eyes were black, and his lips were no longer bloody, but there was still a glint in his eyes.

"The Beiyang Army has come over in the end

As the actual front-line commander of the Southern Henan Campaign, Lan Tianwei has been in a highly nervous mental state for the past few days, like a clockwork full of clockwork, and now, the clockwork has finally been released from the confinement and began to "tick tock" to push the pointer forward, and Lan Yawei's tense nerves have finally relaxed.

A few days ago, what he was most worried about was that the main force of the Beiyang Army bypassed Xinyang and did not attack, leaving only a part of the feint troops to attract the attention of the troops of the Xinyang United Front. And with the main force going south to Wusheng Pass, to fight Hubei, if that is the case, then this southern Henan battle plan must make major changes.

But now, the Beiyang Army has placed the main force in front of Xinyang, and the strength of about four divisions is completely a posture of not giving up if Xinyang is not taken, so it just falls into the pocket formation set up by the United Front, and the rest depends on Lan Tianwei's performance.

The course of the war was carried out in full accordance with the operational plan drawn up by the General Staff, and everything went smoothly, which is why it was going well. Lan Tianwei was able to relax his heart, slightly relax his tense nerves, and began to seriously consider how to swallow these four Beiyang divisions in one gulp.

Four divisions of Beiyang troops, this is a hard bone. However, this is not unexpected. In fact, the worst plan of the General Staff Headquarters was to meet the main force of the six Beiyang divisions in Xinyang, and now only four divisions have arrived at the combat area, which can be regarded as quite a "face" for Lan Tianwei. Finish.

The 3rd, 4th, 7th, and 9th Divisions of Beiyang, of which the 3rd and 9th Divisions are the elite troops of Beiyang with strong combat effectiveness, while the 4th and 7th Divisions are completely newly formed units. Basically, there is no foundation of the old Beiyang, these two divisions are the weakness of the Beiyang Army, if these two divisions can be defeated first, it will undoubtedly deal a major blow to the morale of the entire Beiyang Army.

Pinch the persimmon and pick the soft pinch, Lan Tianwei understands this truth, Feng Guozhang also understands, now the two sides have just been in contact for a long time, and they are still testing each other's reality and reality, and no one dares to easily expose their combat intentions.

"Report! The Northern Army has occupied the mud shop in the northwest

"Report! The Northern Army has advanced to Loess Valley, and has engaged in fire with our army's guard troops, and the current battle situation is unknown. ”

"Report! The Tianjiadian arsenal was bombarded by enemy artillery, but there was no loss, and judging from the intensity of the shelling, the northern army did not perceive the specific location of the arsenal, and it may have been only a harassing shelling. ”

"Report! According to the reconnaissance of the flying team, about 2,000 men of the Northern Army were making a detour from the right flank, and judging from the direction of the march, it seemed that they wanted to occupy the carpenter's shop. In addition, the Northern Army has modified heavy machine guns. It has been able to shoot from the top of the air, and it poses a certain threat to our aircraft

"Report! The Wushengguan General Headquarters called, and the armored train had left the Wushengguan Railway Station and was heading towards Xinyang at high speed

"Report! Several representatives of the Xinyang Chamber of Commerce begged to meet the commander-in-chief and jointly submitted a petition, hoping that our army would avoid fighting in the city

The adjutants and staff officers walked into the headquarters one after another, reporting to Lan Tianwei the news and intelligence gathered by all parties, as the command center of the southern Henan campaign, this small conference room became extremely lively, except for the sound of people's talking. The telephone rang from time to time, and the commander of the front line kept feeding back information to the headquarters such as "in contact with the enemy, I found that the Northern Army was in the midst of fierce fighting and asked for support." Lan Tianwei and his staff officers must sort out the clues from these disorganized and even contradictory information, distinguish the true from the false, and make correct tactical arrangements and strategic choices.

This is modern warfare, and it is precisely to adapt to this new mode of warfare. Lan Tianwei and many of his peers would travel across the ocean to learn military affairs from the Japanese, Germans, Americans, and British, and when they returned home. began to build a new type of army in China, and planned to use the learned military skills to resist foreign insults. However, as military men, they will have to first fight a civil war that will determine the direction of power in this country, the loser will lose power, and the victor will lead the country to continue the modernization of the army and defense.

In this battle of southern Henan, many of the armies on both sides were classmates, old people, and even teachers and students from the same military school. But since each is its own master, then, I am afraid that these feelings and friendships of the year will have to be put aside for the time being.

In fact, Feng Guozhang, the commander of the Beiyang Army, also knew the truth of "salute first and then soldier", and before the gunshots rang out at dawn, he sent an envoy. A letter was handed over to Luo Tianwei, the former commander-in-chief of the RUF forces. The old style Feng Guojian personally wrote, and the messenger was a student of Lan Tianwei when he was teaching in the Martial Arts Academy, as for the content of the letter, Lan Tianwei didn't know. Because he didn't open the envelope at all, but the content of the letter may not be difficult to speculate, instead of persuading Lan Tianwei to surrender, he went to Lan Tianwei to write a war letter, and Lan Tianwei was also very sober about this, so he only replied to the messenger:

"Tell Feng Guozhang that since you're here, let's fight."

Let's fight, Feng Guozhang obviously has the same plan, so the battle of Xinyang started, although so far, neither side has come up with all their strength, they are still constantly testing each other's reality and reality, and frequently mobilizing small forces around the battlefield. disturb the other party's line of sight, but as professional soldiers, Lan Tianwei and Feng Guozhang are very clear. This Xinyang is the battle of the decisive battle between the north and the south

Finish.

In the former enemy headquarters of the RUF forces, several eight-immortal tables were put together to form a huge square table, on which was covered a large-scale military map. From time to time, the staff officers scribbled and changed the map with pencils and small flags, so as to intuitively present the battlefield situation in front of the commander-in-chief.

Lan Yaowei turned around and walked to the table, checking the new battlefield situation. Now that the strong enemy is present, he does not have the anxiety he had a few days ago, since the Beiyang Army has arrived in Xinyang. Then let it go, the Xinyang defense line has been operating for so long, according to the current combat effectiveness and morale of the RUF troops, there should be no problem in holding Xinyang, the key is how to annihilate the four Beiyang divisions that came to attack.

It is better to cut off one of his fingers than to hurt his ten fingers, in this battle, Commander-in-Chief Zhao Bei wants a war of annihilation, not a defeat battle.

At this point, Lan Tianwei is not humble in her heart.

But whether this battle can be fought into a war of annihilation, the final decisive force is not in Xinyang. And whereas

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"Will the flanks be able to deploy smoothly?"

Lan Yaowei took her eyes off Xinyang on the map. Look to Nanyang and Ruzhou in the west, there. A large crimson arrow stands out.

Just as the blue sky and the sun were patrolling the military map, a military meeting was in the midst of a fierce quarrel in Lushan County, the capital of Ruzhou, hundreds of miles northwest of Xinyang.

Most of the officers attending the meeting were senior officers of the former Endeavor Association, and Nawang and Xiong Kewu were the highest-ranking among them.

Wu Zhenhan is the deputy commander-in-chief of the Republican Army, and it can be seen from this title alone that he should be regarded as the number two person in the Republican Army, but the actual situation is slightly different, and Wu Zhenhan's status in the Republican Army is not as good as Zhang Jiyang.

In addition to being the deputy commander-in-chief of the Republican Army, Wu Zhenhan also served as the commander of the Fifth Division of the Republican Army.

Of course, the current Fifth Division of the Republican Army has been renamed the "Fifth Division of the United Front", and Wu Zhenhan is still the division commander.

Since the implementation of the "Dawn in the South" operation. Wu Zhenhan's Fifth Division was nominally incorporated into the West Route Column, and in terms of organization, it was under the command of the Xinyang Former Enemy Command, but in fact, this unit directly obeyed the orders of the Wushengguan General Headquarters, and placed this unit in the Xinyang combat unit sequence, just to make a false shot.

In fact, after leaving Wusheng Pass, the Fifth Division of the RUF took off the uniform of the Republican Army and changed into the uniform of the Endeavor Society, which in the eyes of outsiders was a local unit in Henan. Unless they speak, they will expose their Hubei and Hunan accents.

Wu Zhenhan led the Fifth Division to the north, and after a false shot in Xinyang, he turned around and headed west according to the advance plan, drove to Nanyang Fu, and went north to Ruzhou by means of Nanyang, stopping at Lushan County in the south of Ruzhou.

At the same time, the troops of the Endeavor Society had already assembled in the Lushan area one step earlier, and Deng Wang, as the "former commander-in-chief of the enemy in the Southern Henan Campaign" on the side of the Endeavor Society, only arrived half a day earlier than Wu Zhenhan.

It is no coincidence that everyone gathered in Lushan, and this is the meeting place that was determined at the beginning of the "Dawn of the South" operation, and it is also the meeting place of the division, in accordance with the operational plan drawn up by the General Staff of the United Front. When the battle of Xinyang began, all the RUF troops assembled in Lushan would immediately go out to advance to northern Henan, sweep the Northern Army along the way, occupy several key points on the Jinghan line, cut off the retreat of the Second Beiyang Army advancing south, and outflank the rear road of the Beiyang Army from the flank, and flank the North and South with the RUF troops coming from the direction of Xinyang, so as to annihilate the Second Beiyang Army on the Jinghan Line.

This operation is quite risky and quite important. For the sake of secrecy, the RUF forces took all measures, not only cutting the telegraph lines along the route. Moreover, the strictest military control was imposed on the roads around Lushan, and the reason why the Fifth Division of the Republican Army pretended to be a unit of the Endeavor Society was also for the same purpose.

Just now, a malaria wire telegram was taken from Xinyang. The battle of Xinyang has begun, and the four divisions of the Beiyang Army have already rushed into the arranged pocket formation, and now, they are waiting for the United Front troops in Lushan to pounce on this catty and tie the pocket.