Chapter 60 Horse Team Right Label

From the winter of 1901 to the beginning of 1903, Yuan Shikai's expansion of his army was mainly the North Western Standing Army, and through various means, he expanded the two infantry associations of Zuozhen of the Beiyang Standing Army and the corresponding artillery, engineers, heavy soldiers and the Third Association of the Right Town of the Beiyang Standing Army.

It is worth noting that the Beiyang Standing Army has not yet carried out the consolidation of cavalry. Whether it is Zuozhen or Right Town, it has not trained large-scale cavalry troops for the time being.

This is mainly because cavalry is more difficult to train than infantry. Infantry can be established from scratch in just a few months, but cavalry is not allowed. It is extremely difficult to establish cavalry troops from scratch, so the cavalry training in the Beiyang New Army has been very slow.

In addition, there are many old army and horse teams in Zhili Province. Although the infantry and artillery in the old army are relatively poor, the cavalry can be more or less seen, so the training of cavalry troops has been suspended.

Of course, the most important thing is that Yuan Shikai has no money!

However, at the beginning of 1903, when Yuan Shikai's hands were also slightly loose, on the one hand, many of the arms originally scheduled to import from Western powers were saved.

Although Fuyuan Machinery Factory is only a small-scale production and many raw materials have to be imported, it belongs to commercial enterprises. Those managers focus on the words cost and profit every day. Before it is fully completed, they began to test produce Type 88 rifles, bullets, shells, * and other products to supply them to the north. Although the price of these products is not low, it is not high.

For example, shells and bullets are much cheaper than imported ones.

In addition to saving a cost after the military purchase, it is also related to Yuan Shikai's picking up several batches of money from the southern provinces.

Let's not mention how Yuan Shikai managed to make money and save money. The point is that he had millions of spare money in his hand at the beginning of 1903. For a military expenditure who is keen on military expansion, it is simply unreasonable not to expand his army.

On the one hand, he squeezed out hundreds of thousands of taels of silver to buy artillery from the German Krper Factory. This is the artillery scheduled for the right town of the Beiyang Standing Army, adding up to 48 guns. The Beiyang Standing Artillery Battalion in 1903 is not as abnormal as 18 Battalion later. Now it is 16 guns in the middle. Artillery, 32 long-managed field guns and 16 mountain cannons are required after three battalions. The price of these guns themselves, together with the shells assigned to each gun, add up to at least 700,000 taels of silver.

The remaining money was pulled out by him for hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, which is used to buy various ordnance from Fuyuan Machine Factory. The products include all the products that Fuyuan Machine Factory can produce now and in a short period of time, including 88 rifles, 77 mm round-headed bullets, 57 mm shells, 75 mm shells, * Wait.

As for the Japanese 6,000 mm bullets required by Yuan Shikai, they cannot be produced for the time being, because if Fuyuan Machinery Factory wants to produce Japanese 6,000 mm bullets, in fact, it will have to establish another 6.5 mm bullet production line, and it also needs a certain amount of investment to purchase equipment, etc. It is estimated that it will not be until next year. It can produce 6.5mm of bullets.

The large-scale construction of Fuyuan Machinery Factory has not been completed, and the orders from the Beiyang New Army have been full of cases. At the same time, Zhao Chenbin and others have seen a large number of profits, but also made Zhao Dongyun feel great political pressure. You should know that this Fuyuan Machinery Factory is his, and it is also his persuaded by Zhao Dongyun. Yuan Shikai gave up rebuilding the Beiyang Machinery Manufacturing Bureau. If something happened to the Fuyuan Machinery Factory in the end, causing tens of thousands of new troops in Beiyang to have no guns and ammunition available, it is estimated that Yuan Shikai will be the first to blame himself.

In fact, not only orders from the Beiyang New Army, but also the company headquarters of Fuyuan Machinery Factory in Tianjin have received ordnance orders from several other provinces, most of which are * new rifles, and a considerable number of them are * bullets and shells. Now There are only a few domestic arsenals in China that can produce various military products on a large scale, and the import price is also expensive. When I heard that the ordnance price of Tangshan Fuyuan Arsenal is cheap, I naturally came to the door.

Funny, the old army of Zhejiang ordered 300 new German Mauser rifles from a foreign bank, and then the British foreign bank directly found the Fuyuan machine factory to place 300 orders, and specially asked for the inscriptions of German origin, and then sold them to the old army in Zhejiang Province at a high price.

Don't mention Fuyuan Machinery Factory. It is said that Yuan Shikai has spare money in his hand. On the one hand, he buys a large amount of arms to change his army, and on the other hand, he is also ready to continue to expand his army.

It's just that this time he did not continue to expand the infantry, but is ready to expand the cavalry!

He first prepared to practice four horse battalions and compiled them into the left logo of the Beiyang Standing Reserve Army, which was intended to be assigned to the left town of the Beiyang Standing Army.

In addition, although there is no trace of the right town of the Beiyang Standing Army, he still plans to integrate the Baoyang horse team and the horse team in the Yuanzi camp first, and prepare to practice a horse team logo by cutting new names.

At this time, things related to Zhao Dongyun came. Since Beiyang Standing Army Right Town has not been officially established yet, and there is only one third association, so where should this horse team logo be attached? It can't be directly managed by Yuan Shikai. In the end, it still imitates the precedent of the second battalion of the machine gun team and is temporarily managed by the third association.

This also facilitates Yuan Shikai's reorganization of the Yuanzi Battalion. After all, in addition to the cavalry, those infantry also need to be integrated. Well, the cavalry directly integrated with the Baoyang Horse Team and put them into the right standard of the Beiyang Standing Military Horse Team, and those infantry fell into the Third Association after being integrated.

When Zhao Dongyun heard that Yuan Shikai pushed the consolidation of Baoyang Horse Team and Yuanzi Camp to himself, he almost let him scold his mother again! The cavalry of Baoyang Horse Team and Yuanzi Battalion are not only good, because they are still cautious about the consolidation of cavalry. In addition to raising those large and small officers to the corners, most of the cavalry will be retained. In this way, the consolidation is not easy to be rejected by those cavalry, and even many old cavalry welcome this kind of cavalry. Edited.

Because it is well equipped after consolidation, the military service is high, and even the food can be eaten better, so this is a good thing for the lower cavalry.

However, it is also the old army, and those infantry are not so lucky. This is also a consolidation but the implementation is to lay off the new army. Ten * old armies, whether they are officers or soldiers, will be kicked out of the new army, and only a few young soldiers of the old army can get the opportunity to join the Beiyang New Army.

Just like the last reorganization of Suyi's own army, this time the reorganization of the Yuanzi camp is also a hard job!

And this time after thinking about it, Zhao Dongyun felt that he was not annoyed with the two masters, and he would cheat people to the end. With a wave of his hand, he threw the matter of the whole Yuanzi battalion to Chen Guangyuan and let him worry about it!

Anyway, Chen Guangyuan has also gained experience in the consolidation of Suyi's own army in the past few months. Although Liu Fu's factors have led to Zhao Dongyun to help a lot secretly, Chen Guangyuan is still doing the most of the work. Although the process is a little bumpy, there have been several examples of Suyi's own soldiers making trouble, and even using troops to suppress them. Two or three times.

Chen Guangyuan will not be stuffed into too many soldiers, old and weak soldiers for his fifth standard. When reorganized, he did not show mercy at all. Zhao Dongyun originally expected to leave at least 700 to 800 people, or at least fill the old army youth of an infantry battalion. Zhuang, Chen Guangyuan reduced the number to only 300, and all the rest were proposed by him Chen Guangyuan by various means.

For this matter, Zhao Dongyun feels that Chen Guangyuan still has some means and his ability is not bad! And since he has the ability and means, Zhao Dongyun naturally has to put another burden on Chen Guangyuan.

When Chen Guangyuan heard that Zhao Dongyun threw all the affairs of the Yuanzi battalion to him, he angrily overturned several tables in the bid office.

I have heard a little about Chen Guangyuan's anger and Zhao Dongyun, but after listening to it, I just laughed and passed away. You can't expect others to shut up obediently!

The integration of the Yuanzi battalion is a hard job, but the integration of the Baoyang horse team and the Yuanzi battalion cannot think so, because the right standard of the horse team will also be set up at the same time. At that time, the person responsible for the affairs of the horse team will be able to obtain real positions such as horse standard leader, management, team officer and so on.

For a while, many cavalry officers in the Beiyang system launched their own connections in an attempt to find the actual shortage on the right side of the horse team.

The right standard leadership position of the horse team is the same as the previous two-step standard leadership positions of the Third Association. It is already a middle- and high-level position in the Beiyang New Army and belongs to the competition points of all factions.

For a while, people from various factions of Duan Qirui, Wang Yingkai and Feng Guozhang came and went, and they fought for a lot of excitement. In the face of the only two horse teams in the Beiyang Standing Army, Yuan Shikai was not easy to make a decision for a moment. Before there were no people who met the interests of the faction, he could only continue to delay. .

The right standard of the horse team could not be decided, but the right standard of the horse team had to practice. In the end, Zhao Dongyun, an infantry officer, rushed the duck to the shelves and set up the shelf of the right mark of the horse team first.

The position of the leader of the right standard of the horse team is too important. It is difficult to decide for the first time, and Zhao Dongyun is not easy to intervene, but the leaders and team officers below are much easier.

Zhao Dongyun turned over his resume in many of his subordinates, and soon found several officers from cavalry background. Not to mention several unknowns, he was directly transferred by Zhao Dongyun to the right logo of the horse team to serve as a team officer, but there was a person who had to focus on. He was Hua Zhenji.

This person was born in the first phase of the riding department of Chinese non-commissioned officers studying in Japan. After returning to China last year, he failed to obtain an actual position for a long time. Finally, he defected to Zhao Dongyun and was appointed as the second battalion assistant of the fifth standard by Zhao Dongyun. Although he is only a deputy without real power, he is also officially entering Beiyang. It is within the new military system.

However, he came from a cavalry background, and he is also an extremely rare non-commissioned officer student in Japan these days. It is a waste of talent to let him be an infantry battalion.

Now that the right logo of the horse team has been established, Zhao Dongyun promoted his own people as long as he can, and he is not worried that Hua Zhenji is just a young man with insufficient ability, so he directly raised him to the position of the first battalion management belt of the horse team.

As for whether the ability is enough or not, even if Hua Zhenji's ability is really not good, Zhao Dongyun will have enough time to remove him and replace him with other direct officers in the future. Anyway, he will occupy the position first.

Coupled with the three belts of other factions and more than a dozen other team officers selected by Zhao Dongyun, the right side of the horse team was barely set up.

However, if someone takes a closer look at the Third Association at this time, they will find that the two infantry associations in Zuozhen of the Beiyang Standing Army are very different, because the current Third Association also directly governs a machine gun battalion, a standard horse team, and even various informal battalions within the Third Association. If we give another artillery battalion to the Third Association and get some more heavy and engineering forces, this is completely a mixed association!