Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 inforeadx; The national army has been using mortars for nearly two years, this weapon is not unfamiliar in the domestic military circles, even foreign people know this kind of weapon, but although some people in foreign military circles know this weapon, but most people regard this mortar as a simplified artillery, it is a workaround for poor countries that have no money to equip a large number of formal artillery, but the lightness of the mortar and the curved ballistics surname can also attract the attention of some people, and began to test, However, it will take a while to arouse their attention, but the domestic military circles have a great response, the Yunnan army and the Gui army are trying to make their own mortars, but the mortar is simple to say, in fact it is not simple, a seamless steel pipe will make the domestic arsenal completely incomprehensible, but the Fuzhou arsenal can be imported, and other warlords are not stupid, Ai directly imports seamless steel pipes

However, the time is still short, and they also lack sufficient technology and production capacity, for example, the Dian Army has now built ten mortars by itself, but the surnames in all directions can be unsatisfactory, and the cost is not much higher than the cost of the Fuzhou Arsenal, so that the surname-price ratio is not optimized, it is naturally difficult to satisfy Tang Jiyao, the same situation also exists in the Beiyang Army, the Beiyang Army has just taken over the Hanyang Arsenal, and the imitation work for mortars is also underway, but due to various reasons, the surname-price ratio is not very good, Compared with mortars, the Beiyang Army pays more attention to traditional artillery, and the military expenditure of the Beiyang Army is also limited, and it is impossible to spend it indiscriminately

As time slowly passes, it is only a matter of time before mortars appear on a large scale in the armies of all countries in the world, and it will not be long before the emergence of trench warfare after the outbreak of World War I will allow the powers to quickly equip a large number of mortars

In addition to the special weapon of mortar, other weapons and equipment of the National Army and the Beiyang Army have a large common surname, so except for a few unusable materials seized on the Chaohu side, the rest of the local supplies to the subordinate units of the Second Army, artillery, rifles and machine guns are supplemented to the divisions, used to supplement their early combat losses, and some of the surplus mainly rifles are taken over by the Logistics Department

Most of these redundant rifles are Type 88 rifles and Hanyang-made, and these two rifles are also one of the main equipment of the National Army, the Fifth Mixed Brigade and the Fifth Division of the Second Army are all using Hanyang-made rifles as the main rifles, and the latest chapter of the future super businessman In addition, the Fourth Division of the First Army that has crossed the river is used Type 88 rifles, and these troops will have a large number of gun losses in the process of combat, and the logistics department will need to transport a large number of spare guns to replenish, Now that such a batch has been captured, the logistics department will also leave these rifles directly in Chaohu, and then make relevant supplements according to the specific situation

When Chen Jingyun looked at the battle report and estimated the losses of both the enemy and us in Chaohu, Yuan Shikai of Yanjing also received the battle report from the southern front

Duan Qirui didn't dare to talk nonsense in front of the black-faced Yuan Shikai, so he stood silently, in fact, yesterday I had already received a battle report from Cao Kun, claiming that the Chaohu defenders held Chaohu for half a month, during which they gave the national army heavy casualties, killing and wounding at least more than 20,000 people of the national army, but due to the lack of ammunition, the follow-up troops had to turn north and retreat, as for the loss of Chaohu

In addition to reporting the loss of Chaohu, Cao Kun once again asked the army to send reinforcements to support, and asked the 10th Division and the 11th Division to be transferred to southern Anhui for reinforcements

Duan Qirui is an old Beiyang, and he is very clear about the many twists and turns in the Beiyang Army, don't look at Cao Kun's battle report that it was said that tens of thousands of people were killed and injured in the National Army, and later due to the lack of ammunition, he turned into retreat but Duan Qirui himself pondered, there should be seven or eight thousand people killed and injured in the National Army on the Chaohu side, after all, in the Battle of Chaohu, there were many main forces of the Beiyang Army, not only the third division of the Beiyang Army, but also many Anhui Provincial Army, and Tang Tianxi's tenth division also went to reinforcements, Even if Chaohu didn't make money in the end, it shouldn't be a problem to delay time and kill or injure seven or eight thousand national troops

But he didn't know yet, Cao Kun only said that he was transferred from Chaohu to the north, and the specific casualty figure only used a few thousand, Duan Qirui used to enlarge this number before, and he also came up with the casualty ratio of the national army to one, and this ratio is also in line with Duan Qirui's own guess But what he didn't know was that now the third division of the Anhui Provincial Army and the reading brigade of the third division of the Beiyang Army have been completely annihilated, and those who retreated were not the Chaohu defenders but Wu Peifu's detachment

Duan Qirui thought that although the Chaohu side was defeated, it should not hurt the bones, but the loss of Chaohu Lake had a significant impact on the overall Anhui strategy of the Beiyang Army, and the pre-planned use of Chaohu Lake and the mountains in the Hanshan area to block the national army's front, and then after the army gathered, the strategy of fighting to the death was frustrated, and Chaohu was lost, the initiative was controlled by the national army, and the national army was willing to fight Hefei in the next step, which was to fight Hefei, and if Hefei was not hit, it could completely go east to attack Chuzhou. Or simply attack Jiangbei, these Beiyang troops have to be guarded one by one, but in this way, the strength of the Beiyang Army is even more scarce, and the strength of the Beiyang Army on the Jinpu line and the Anhui area is already very tight, and now it has to defend everywhere after losing the initiative, and it is even more insufficient

Yuan Shikai said after a long time with a calm face: "You can't lose it in southern Anhui, wait a minute, you can send a telegram to Xu Shuzheng, and ask him to transfer the main force to Bengbu as soon as possible, he has been in Xuzhou for several months, is it possible that he still wants to settle down in Xuzhou!" ”

Duan Qirui listened to Yuan Shikai's unkind words, his heart was also dark, this Xu Shuzheng said that he was his person, Xu Shuzheng was able to become the commander of the 11th Division, but Duan Qirui spent the boss's effort, in order to change the embarrassing situation of not having a descendant army in his hands, although there were many troops in the Beiyang Army, but I don't know if he Duan Qirui was unlucky or lucky, and became the chief of the army after the establishment of the cabinet, but also because he did not lead the troops outside, it was difficult for him to control the military power, In the two years after Xinhai, when the Beiyang Army was shocked, the generals outside all held military power, and it didn't take two years to completely turn the Beiyang Army into the private army of various generals, and once even Yuan Shikai's words were violated, including Feng Guozhang, even Yuan Shikai let him enter Kyoto and dare to find an excuse to shirk, and the Second Army was about to become Feng Guozhang's private army

Some time ago, when Cao Kun asked Yuan Shikai for reinforcements, Yuan Shikai asked Feng Guozhang to transfer the 10th Division to the west for reinforcements, Feng Guozhang shirked it because of caution, and finally couldn't shirk it so that Tang Tianxi sent a brigade to the west and waited for Chaohu to be in danger, the national army fought with the 19th Brigade in the Xianji area, and the 5th mixed brigade cut off the retreat of the Chaohu defenders, Feng Guozhang was pinching his fingers, The approximate number of the Nationalist Army in the direction of Chaohu was calculated: at least four divisions After determining that Chaohu was the main direction of attack of the Nationalist Army, Feng Guozhang ordered Tang Tianxi's Tenth Division to move west to reinforce Chaohu, but at that time, the Fifth Division of the Nationalist Army had already fought with the 19th Brigade of Tang Tianxi's 10th Division in the Xianji area, and then the main force of the 1st Division of the Nationalist Army also joined in, and the 5th Division quickly captured Xianqi after receiving reinforcements, and firmly suppressed Tang Tianxi's 10th Division in the area east of Xianji

The transfer of Tang Tianxi's 10th Division is roughly a microcosm of the Beiyang Army's disobedience to Yuan Shikai's orders

Feng Guozhang controlled the private army, Duan Qirui was very much the army commander, but at this time he found that he did not have a descendant army, so he put his henchman Xu Shuqi in the position of the commander of the 11th Division, and on the other hand, he increased the 16th Division changed from the Praetorian Guard, in an attempt to turn the 16th Division into his own descendant troops

Due to the fierce war in the south, Duan Qirui knew that the fighting in the south was fierce, and all the troops involved in the war in southern Jiangsu suffered heavy losses, and now he still attaches great importance to Xu Shuzheng, for fear that his only descendant army will be hit hard, so he hinted that Xu Shuzheng walked slowly, don't be in a hurry for a while, Xu Shuzheng originally had the intention to preserve his strength, and his boss Duan Qirui said to let him go slowly, he was naturally happy to slowly grind, and he didn't move his nest after living in Xuzhou, and he wanted to treat Xuzhou as a nest territory

Xu Shuzheng is like this, Yuan Shikai is naturally extremely dissatisfied, so he has this sentence just now!

After hearing this, Duan Qirui immediately said: "Don't worry, the president, although Senior Xu is young, he will not make a big deal of it, and after I present the benefits to him, he will go south!" ”

Yuan Shikai nodded, and didn't look at Duan Qirui! But in my heart, I want to establish a pro-guard army composed of relatives and friends, and now these generals are unreliable, and they all want to protect their wings, and they don't want to think about it, without the Beiyang system, they are not even human beings, Ai will become Ai, they are no longer the group of soldiers who served the country loyally when they were training at the small station

When Yuan Shikai sighed, Duan Qirui didn't dare to contain it, he sent a telegram to Xu Shuzheng that day, asking him to go south from Xuzhou to Bengbu, and then reinforce Anhui or Jiangbei depending on the situation, of course, it is best not to go to Jiangbei, because this time to Jiangbei, then it has to be planned under the command of Feng Guozhang, which is what Duan Qirui is unwilling to do, because if there is a time, the eleventh division is estimated to become the tenth division, and it will completely fall under Feng Guozhang's control, you must know that Tang Tianxi was born in the third division, The relationship with Cao Kun was not deep, but as soon as he joined the Second Army, he ignored Cao Kun's request for help, and only sent reinforcements after Feng Guozhang gave the order

Therefore, if the 11th Division can not go to Jiangbei, it will not go to Jiangbei, and before that, it has to go to Bengbu first! (