Chapter 98 The Battle for the Third Town

When Yuan Shikai fought for military spending to expand the four towns, the interior of Beiyang also caused great turmoil because of the expansion of the four towns. Just like when the second town was established this summer, countless people stared at the newly established third town and many locations of the fourth town this time.

I won't say much about those with the following pipes, but the competition for the above positions of the standard is fierce, among which the competition for the position of control of the two towns is the most fierce.

From last year, the battle for the wing leader of the right town, the battle for the control of the second town in summer, to the battle for the control of the third and fourth town today, the battle between the internal factions in Beiyang has never stopped, and even become increasingly fierce.

If Zhao Dongyun's previous qualifications are relatively low enough to compete for the position of one town, then after several years of development, especially the deep foundation laid by the Third Mixed Association, it is enough for Zhao Dongyun to join the competition for the position of third town control.

The third town will be an expanded force with the Third Mixed Association as the core, and the Third Mixed Association is trained by Zhao Dongyun. If Zhao Dongyun's qualifications, age, prestige and other factors are not taken into account, then Zhao Dongyun will be able to move from the position of leader of the Third Mixed Association to the third town.

However, this is the problem. Zhao Dongyun is underexperienced, too young, and his prestige cannot be compared with Duan Qirui, Feng Guozhang and Wang Shizhen. In this case, whether Zhao Dongyun can successfully become the third town system has become a question mark.

After all, there are only four new military towns in Beiyang now, but there are several bigwigs waiting to take office. Duan Qirui, Feng Guozhang, Wang Shizhen, Liu Yongqing, Wang Yingkai and Wu Changchun are all competitors of Zhao Dongyun. At the same time, in addition to these first-tier bosses, there are also several second-tier people who are also eye-catching. Waiting for the expansion of the army to take office, such as Ma Longbiao, Zhang Huaizhi and Lei Zhenchun, they are also old-qualified people, especially Zhang Huaizhi has been the first town association for many years, and according to his qualifications, it is enough to sit in the position of control.

If relying only on factors such as Zhao Dongyun's personal ability and Yuan Shikai's trust in him, Zhao Dongyun is not very sure about competing for the position of third town control.

However, he also has conditions that others do not have, that is, the Third Mixed Association was established by him, that is to say, the future third town is the army he trained, and it is impossible for Yuan Shikai to ignore this factor.

In order to compete for the control of the third town, Zhao Dongyun also had no face. If he hadn't been in Jinzhou, he would have visited Yuan Shikai to win over the relationship. Now he can only send telegrams frequently to Baoding. On the one hand, he sent Xu Bangjie, Cao Kun and other people who have a good personal relationship with him to ask about Baoding. On the other hand, it also sent several long telegrams to Yuan Shikai. Naturally, the content of the telegram was not directly saying how awesome Zhao Dongyun's ability was, you asked me to be the control of the third town, but turned around to report the suppression of bandits in Jinzhou and Jinzhou's defense.

It is said that since the suppression of bandits began in September, the bandits within 100 miles of Jinzhou have not only extinized people to live and work in peace, but also allowed soldiers to gain combat experience, and the combat effectiveness of the third mixed cooperation has been greatly improved. Then he said that since supervising the defense of Jinzhou, three defense lines have been built: Songshan, Jinzhou and Cuiyan. If Russian troops come to attack, they must refuse the enemy outside the corridor of Liaoxi.

Although there is no proud word in this telegram, everyone knows that this is Zhao Dongyun's self-recommendation of the third town.

Zhao Dongyun sent a telegram to Yuan Shikai to recommend himself. Duan Qirui and Feng Guozhang also have their own means, but although they are fighting, it is not them who can really make a decision, but Yuan Shikai.

No matter how many factions are fighting in Beiyang now, on the whole, Yuan Shikai still firmly controls the Beiyang New Army. He said that whoever is the third town control will be the third town control. If the candidate does not meet everyone's expectations, he is just dissatisfied or complaining. No one has I have the courage to oppose Yuan Shikai's decision.

After the establishment of the Training Office, the Beiyang New Army's large-scale expansion of the army into four towns has been a certainty. In order to quickly expand the army, Yuan Shikai will naturally not delay the selection of the control and co-unification of each town as before, and this time he did not ask his subordinates what he meant, but made his own arbitrary and quickly made a decision.

On the 18th, after the court officially approved Yuan Shikai's plan to expand his army in four towns, Yuan Shikai once again appeared on two memorials. The first was a passage for the promotion of Beiyang generals, from Duan Qirui, Feng Guozhang and other bigwigs to middle-level officers such as Cao Kun and Wang Zhanyuan, including almost all the middle-aged officers in Beiyang active service. Zhao Dongyun's name is naturally indispensable for officers.

The part about Zhao Dongyun in the long fold is not long, only a few dozen words: Zhao Dongyun, the alternate magistrate, is proficient in Chinese and foreign military affairs. Since his last year, it has been quite effective to set up a new machine gun camp and the third mixed association. From summer to Jinzhou, he bombed the ground, and one of the hundred miles of bandits was eliminated, and he made great contributions. He begged to keep the third grade straight. Zhao Dongyun, the alternate magistrate, rewarded the Taoist and added the second grade.

In addition to the long and scary invitation, there is also a detailed constitution to expand the four towns in Beiyang, the most important of which is the appointment of the chief of the four towns!

It has to be said that Yuan Shikai did not ask the court to approve the appointment of the chiefs of the Beiyang New Army, but to inform him that the distinction here is very large. The former represents the court and has the ability to control the personnel power of the Beiyang New Army, while the latter represents Yuan Shikai to control the personnel power of the Beiyang New Army.

While Yuan Shikai reported the medal, the official appointment telegram from the training office has also arrived in Jinzhou!

Looking at the appointment telegram in his hand, Zhao Dongyun still felt endless joy even though he was psychologically prepared. Yuan Shikai did not care about his age and qualifications, but directly appointed Zhao Dongyun as the third town control.

Lin Yongquan, Chen Guangyuan and others beside him can't wait to say at this time: "Congratulations to the Lord!"

Zhao Dongyun resisted the joy on his face, and then waved his hand: "They are all his own family, so there is no need to be polite!"

Meng Enyuan's face was a little indescribable. At the beginning of the year, he was quite unconvinced when he saw Zhao Dongyun becoming some leaders in his twenties. However, now Zhao Dongyun has been promoted to the control of a town. If Zhao Dongyun could only be regarded as half a foot into the first echelon in Beiyang before, then now Zhao Dongyun is already a Beiyang high-level official who is worthy of the first echelon.

And Meng Enyuan, who is nearly 50 years old, is still a standard, which is extremely annoying.

However, Meng Enyuan felt uncomfortable, but naturally did not dare to talk nonsense at this time, and immediately piled up a smile: "Adults founded my third town, and now sitting in this position of control is expected by the public!"

Zhao Dongyun also received the congratulations and compliments of his subordinates one by one, and then set his eyes on the telegram in his hand again. This time, Yuan Shikai not only appointed Zhao Dongyun as the third town control, but also appointed Duan Qirui as the fourth town control.

If this situation was placed before the first half of the year, it is definitely impossible, because Zhao Dongyun was still a member of Duan Qirui's command at that time, but this summer, because of the establishment of the third mixed association, after Duan Qirui's desire to control the right town failed, the alliance between the two can be said to have ended. .

This time, the third town and the fourth town were established, and it was not easy for Yuan Shikai to continue to let other factions unite to suppress Duan Qirui, so he asked Duan Qirui to take charge of the control of the fourth town.

As for Zhao Dongyun's position as the control of the third town, the main reason is that the third town will be expanded from the Third Mixed Association. If this third town control is not Zhao Dongyun but other people who have served in the past, there will be many problems, and now it is the critical moment of the expansion of the Beiyang army. Yuan Shikai does not want If there is any problem, Yuan Shikai, who focuses on stability, no longer cares about Zhao Dongyun's age and qualifications.

Anyway, Beiyang has become younger and younger in recent years. Several officers who have returned from abroad and are less than 30 years old have served as standard commanders. After this expansion, it is estimated that in addition to Zhao Dongyun, there will be several more young associations. At this time, it is not so eye-catching for Zhao Dongyun to serve as a town control.

Send away a group of his subordinates with smiles and full of expectation. Zhao Dongyun turned back to his study and prepared to send a report to Yuan Shikai. In addition to expressing his gratitude and trust, he also began to recommend the chief officials of the newly established third town in accordance with Beiyang's practice.

If Yuan Shikai decides the candidates for the control of each town, most of the subordinates of the town are determined by the town's chiefs. Of course, Yuan Shikai, the candidate for the assistant, will sometimes decide in person, but most of the time he will still refer to the opinions of the mayors of each town.

After the establishment of the third town, there will be two associations, the fifth association and the sixth association, four infantry standards under the ninth, tenth, eleventh and twelfth, in addition to the third artillery and the third cavalry.

For the candidates for the chief officers of these troops, Zhao Dongyun has already had a belly case earlier. First of all, the third standard of the cavalry. There is no need to change this, just continue to use Meng Enyuan. In terms of the third standard of the artillery team, the original third battalion of the artillery team has a good ability to lead Liu Tinggui, which can be raised to serve as the standard of the artillery team.

One of the two associations must be given to Chen Guangyuan. Although this person is not right with himself earlier, he is a middle-level officer of the Third Mixed Association anyway. Far from afar, this person's qualifications are not much shallower than Zhao Dongyun, and his ability is not weak. At the same time, he has also expressed his intention to defect many times in the past six months. The so-called return for the peach, if they put down their bodies and turn to you, you can't let them hang up, right?

So it is logical to arrange for him to be promoted to the Fifth Association!

However, it is not easy to arrange another candidate.

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