Chapter 100 Wang Zhanyuan's Arrival

The Third Mixed Association will be expanded to the third town. Although there is money from Beiyang and the imperial court, there is no need to worry about the funds needed for this expansion, but it does not mean that the expansion has been expanded, and it also faces many problems.

First of all, the source of soldiers. The Third Mixed Association needs to be expanded into the third town. At least three new infantry battalions, two artillery battalions, a heavy battalion and an engineering battalion need to be built. This is not a mortar force for the time being, because the mortars in the third town are Zhao Dongyun's own non-staff troops and are not in the Beiyang Standing Army. In the formal establishment.

The above newly compiled battalions need at least 4,000 new recruits, and such a huge vacancy is also a headache for Zhao Dongyun.

The second is the ordnance. Although Beiyang and the Imperial Household Department will give funds for the expansion of the third town, money does not mean that there are ordnance. At present, Beiyang is still a whole, so the procurement of ordnance is Yuan Shikai's unified plan, and each unit is specifically responsible. For example, the artillery is Yuan Shikai's personal procurement and then allocated to each town. Yuan Shikai is also responsible for the purchase of batches of rifles and then distributed.

However, Yuan Shikai will only be responsible for the subsequent consumption and replenishment of light weapons, the consumption of shells, bullets, military uniforms, military quilts, food and other living materials, etc. are generally the responsibility of each town itself.

Now the cannons and machine guns in Beiyang are mainly imported from Germany. The artillery used in the second town this year is the new tube annealing gun of German Krper. At present, the guns and machine guns missing in the third and fourth towns will also be imported from Germany. This batch of orders have at least hundreds of guns, tens of thousands of shells and dozens of machine guns, with a total price of millions of silver. Naturally, Yuan Shikai is personally responsible for such a large purchase.

If you want to get artillery in this third town, you have to wait for more than three months.

In terms of rifles, Yuan Shikai did not take care of it himself. Because Yuan Shikai and Zhang Zhidong jointly promoted the Type 88 rifle as a national standard rifle in autumn, and Fuyuan Machine Factory is the only rifle supplier in Beiyang, so if there is a shortage of guns in each town, they can go directly to Fuyuan Machine Factory to buy it.

However, there is a problem here. The Fuyuan Machine Factory has only been established for more than a year, and the current output of Fuzu 88 rifles is far from reaching the design level. In October, the output was only about 30 per day. It is expected that it will not reach the design level of 50 per day until March next April, even if it is like Today, Fuyuan Machinery Factory has adopted overtime production to cope with rifle orders for almost the whole of northern China, but the daily output after overtime is still only 50.

The monthly output is only about 1,500, but Fuyuan Machinery Factory has to supply rifles for almost the whole of northern China. More than a year since its establishment, it has not only received a large number of orders from the Beiyang Standing Army, but also received rifle orders from many old troops from northern provinces.

This situation is more serious after the court officially determined the Type 88 rifle as the standard rifle. As the only three manufacturers in China that can mass-produce the Type 88 rifle, coupled with the reliable performance of the Type 88 rifle, the price of 31 rifles is also slightly cheaper than that of Hubei Gun Factory and Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau, so the provinces It was a swarming, and orders were almost full of desks.

There are many orders and the output is limited, so it is not easy to mention the goods smoothly. More than 10,000 rifles in the third and fourth towns, together with the orders of thousands of rifles from the old army in the provinces, are enough for Fuyuan Machinery Factory to produce until next summer.

Even if Zhao Dongyun is the big boss of Fuyuan Machinery Factory, it is not easy to move all his orders to the front. After all, the political significance of ordnance orders is too strong. Yuan Shikai will not allow the newly established fourth town to receive the rifle after three or four months.

In this way, it means that in the next three months, it will be difficult to get a large amount of ordnance support for the expansion of the third town. It can only rely on the hometown to train. Fortunately, the third town has an inventory of thousands of old guns. It is barely possible for trainers to use old guns first, waiting for the Fuyuan Machinery Factory to make the 88 type. The rifle is produced and then changed.

Personnel and ordnance, these two are the big problems facing the expansion of the third town, but no one has to expand it without grabbing it!

"Yongquan, you have to deal with this recruitment in person. I don't trust others!" Zhao Dongyun did not hide his trust in Lin Yongquan at all. Although Zhao Dongyun has felt that his ability may be lacking, as the number one direct line under Zhao Dongyun, he is still Zhao Dongyun's most trusted person.

This recruitment is far more important than the purchase of ordnance, and it is uneasy for others to recruit Zhao Dongyun.

"Yongquan knows that I will set out south after arranging the matter in the past two days. It is estimated that there are not many soldiers in Zhili. At that time, I will go directly to Shandong to recruit the shortage of new soldiers as soon as possible!" Lin Yongquan said without hesitation, and his face was full of excitement.

Although Lin Yongquan failed to become the commander of the Sixth Association this time, he had no choice but to be robbed by Wang Zhanyuan. However, since he can't lead the army, he has to grasp the recruitment and training of new recruits in the Education Department. As long as these rights are seized, then he, the town staff officer and the general office of the Education Office In the past, the real power was in hand. After accumulating a year or two of seniority, Zhao Dongyun will push himself back, and he may not be able to compete for the position of leadership.

Zhao Dongyun said: "Although the focus of this recruitment is in Shandong, the two governments of Zhili and Zhengding will also go to visit the military and civilian communication, and strive to get more children of Hejian and Zhengding to join the army. When recruiting, appropriately recruit some literati. Now the town headquarters and the headquarters of the two associations still lack dozens of copywriting!"

When the Beiyang New Army recruits soldiers, it generally recruits a large number of people who are well-versed in literature and ink. These recruits generally exist as deputy during the training period. At the same time, there is no formalities during the recruitment period. After the training of new recruits, those deputy commanders will be transferred to the official positions, and then be promoted and appointed from the regular soldiers, that is to say, Under all circumstances, the true eyes of the Beiyang New Army are all literate.

However, the literati in Zhao Dongyun's mouth does not refer to them. The literati in Zhao Dongyun's mouth refers to those who are qualified for a large number of copywriting work. For example, Tongsheng who is not admitted to Xiucai or simply Xiucai. These people will serve as copywriters of each headquarters. They will not join the military, but are in the army as a hired. Work in the team.

It can be seen from their salary. Those soldiers give salaries, and their salaries. The difference between the two is still relatively large. In the old army, it is actually the personal staff of the chief officer of the army.

The work of these staff is still quite attractive to some literati. If they do well, they can be directly appointed. Zhao Dongping is a typical example.

Lin Yongquan went south to recruit troops. In addition, Zhao Dongyun also sent Zhao Dongping to Tangshan. He was not sent to Tangshan to compete for the rifles of Fuyuan Machine Factory, but to buy other ordnance, such as mortars. In addition, there were some expendable ammunition to fight against bandits in September and October, although Zhao Dong There were not many casualties of Yun's men, but the ammunition consumption was relatively large, and the inventory had to be replenished in time to avoid the war without bullets and shells.

After the first few days, Wang Zhanyuan also came to Jinzhou!

"Brother Wang, is the journey going well?" After Zhao Dongyun invited Wang Zhanyuan in, he gestured slightly to sit down.

Wang Zhanyuan said, "The labor control adults are worried. The Ministry of Service is taking the train all the way east, which is also fast and convenient!"

Zhao Dongyun said, "That train is indeed a good thing. It's much more convenient to have this thing!"

After the two politely said a few words, Zhao Dongyun took the initiative to say, "Now I have created the third town, and your sixth association is the top priority of this expansion. In the future, I will ask Brother Wang!"

"The words of the master control are heavy. It is my duty to practice this sixth association well. I must practice this sixth association diligently as soon as possible!" Wang Zhanyuan also made a statement immediately.

Zhao Dongyun nodded with a smile: "Well, this sixth association now only has the eleventh standard, two of which are adapted from a supplementary standard I have newly trained in the past few months, and the other battalion is in Tangshan. This eleventh bid is barely a shelf, but the twelfth bid is a little troublesome. I'm afraid it will start again. I have asked Yongquan and others to go south to recruit. It is estimated that the first batch of new soldiers will arrive in half a month. After the preliminary training of the new barracks, I will transfer them to you!"

Wang Zhanyuan was slightly stunned and said puzzled, "New barracks?"

Zhao Dongyun didn't care: "You didn't know when you first came here. This new barracks is under the Education Department, which is specially responsible for the preliminary training of new recruits. When they have trained their soldiers, they will be sent directly to your Sixth Association."

I also heard a little before Wang Zhanyuan came. The third town is far away in Jinzhou, and many things are not easy to ask Baoding one by one. Therefore, Yuan Shikai approved the Third Mixed Association at that time in the summer, that is, the establishment of many auxiliary institutions in the current third town. There is no education in the other three towns of the four towns in Beiyang. Department, Ordnance Department, Quartermaster's Office, Law Enforcement Department and other institutions, but Yuan Shikai also saw that it is difficult to fully manage the affairs of the four towns with the Beiyang Standing Military Department, so he has begun to follow the example of the third town to assign a large number of affiliated institutions to each town, so that the town headquarters has a complete establishment of operations, command operations and other institutions.

However, Wang Zhanyuan only heard about this. If he didn't come to the third town in person, others would not tell him about the recruits, training and other affairs of the third town.

Zhao Dongyun continued: "In addition, my third town has adopted new infantry tactics. At that time, the training of the troops will also follow the new infantry tactics, and the relevant training exercises will be explained to you by the supervision office!"

Wang Zhanyuan is not surprised by this. It is no secret that Zhao Dongyun engages in new infantry tactics. He even sent several reports to Yuan Shikai requesting the official application of new infantry tactics, but Yuan Shikai still feels safe. Now that the armies of various countries are playing like this, he hastily gone to do some new infantry tactics. I was afraid that the blessing and misfortune was unpredictable, so I refused. However, he also knew that Zhao Dongyun continued to adopt new infantry tactics in his third town.

Immediately nodded: "Before the Ministry of Service, I also studied the new infantry tactics written by the commanding adults. I dare not say that I have gained a lot, but I also know a little about it. The future training should be based on new books and tactics!"

"Well, that's good!" Zhao Dongyun continued, "I won't take your time as soon as you come. You can settle down first, meet your colleagues, and come to the banquet in the evening!"

Wang Zhanyuan immediately got up and said yes and retreated!

The whole meeting process can be called friendly and harmonious, but the more it is, the more dissatisfied Zhao Dongyun is. If Wang Zhanyuan shows any obvious look, he can more or less grasp something to attack, but Wang Zhanyuan is watertight and looks like a business, which makes it a little difficult for Zhao Dongyun to start. .

"That's all. There will always be a chance to deal with him in the future!" Zhao Dongyun shook his head and said to himself, "There is another dinner tonight. Let's deal with it first!"

Taking advantage of the location, the Li family said that they would have an east banquet tonight to invite Zhao Dongyun, Chen Guangyuan, Wang Zhanyuan and other third town chief officials to congratulate Zhao Dongyun and others on their promotion, and many civil officials in Jinzhou will also come.

For Zhao Dongyun, it is his first public appearance after taking office in the control of the third town.