Chapter 108 Fengtian Military Reform

Zhao Dongyun took Feng Delin's 100,000 taels of silver and transferred back to Meng Enyuan's anti-bandit Dongjin detachment, but did not withdraw all his military forces, but left Lv Shuanggun and Shiyang, among which Shiyang's troops were stationed in Panshan and Lv Shuanggun stationed in Tai'an.

These two people are the bandits who defected to Zhao Dongyun first last year. Among so many bandits, there is also a reason for Zhao Dongyun to accept these two people's sincerity. First of all, Lv Shuanggun, who has a very high prestige under his subordinates and is very good at boosting morale, resulting in the Ministry's often being able to fight to the death, regardless In the process of fighting with the Russians or against Zhao Dongyun, the casualty rate has reached 40%.

This casualty rate is absolutely at the anti-sky level in modern times. Not to mention ordinary bandits, even the first-class elite troops of the great powers can't reach this level, but Lv Shuanggun can do this in his hundreds of bandit troops, which makes Zhao Dongyun very curious and also looks high. He took a look.

As for Shiyang, this person's reputation is far less than Lv Shuangqiang. He is an active bandit in northern Jinzhou. He also has hundreds of people. In the face of Meng En's advance and suppression, he surrendered directly without even resisting, and also pulled several other small bandits to surrender.

At that time, Zhao Dongyun had accepted Lv Shuanggun's surrender. He thought that anyway, his men already had a Lv Shuanggun, and there was no big problem with another Shiyang, and they could all be put in the Jinzhou patrol camp, which could also contain each other. Therefore, he accepted Shiyang's surrender and recruited him as the second in the Jinzhou patrol battalion horse team. The leader of the team continued to treat his old bandits and dozens of other scattered bandits.

Lv Shuanggun and Shiyang's first and second horse teams were supplemented in the subsequent continuous suppression of bandits, especially in the process of eliminating Du Lisan. Meng Enyuan distributed the prisoners equally to Lv Shuangqiang, Shiyang and Zhang Zuolin according to Zhao Dongyun's instructions, which made their strength quick. It quickly expanded to nearly 300 people.

This move naturally caused Zhang Zuolin's serious dissatisfaction, but at this time, Zhang Zuolin was just a bandit with some temporary utilization value in Zhao Dongyun's heart. When Du Lisan was killed, Zhang Zuolin did not have much use value for Zhao Dongyun, so Zhao Dongyun simply violated him first. Previous commitment to Zhang Zuolin.

He did not successfully hand over Tai'an, Panshan and other territory to Zhang Zuolin, but left Lv Shuanggun and Shi Yang in these two places.

Although Zhao Dongyun's arrangement made Zhang Zuolin extremely dissatisfied, it attracted a great welcome from Zeng Qi, because since Du Lisan was wiped out, Feng Delin has also been appeased and became the road ahead of Fengtian Patrol Camp. Since then, several fierce bandit forces in Fengtian Province have been recruited one after another in just two years, which has become a rare highlight in Zengqi's political career.

General Zengqi naturally also knows that he can successfully eliminate and recruit many bandits in Fengtian Province and have many relationships with Zhao Dongyun. In addition, Zhao Dongyun also trained a Jinzhou patrol battalion in Jinzhou. He has a battalion and two teams of horse teams that use new methods, which can be regarded as creating a history of training a new army for Fengtian Province. History.

Although this Jinzhou patrol camp is operated by Zhao Dongyun in order to facilitate the third town to guard Jinzhou, anyway, this Jinzhou patrol camp is a local army in Fengtian Province. The Jinzhou patrol camp has been successfully trained, and Zeng Qi naturally takes it for granted. It is regarded as my own achievement project.

In the memorial to the court in January, Zengqi said that the situation in Fengtian was difficult, and he worked hard to borrow everywhere. He was helped by Zhao Dongyun, the third town. He had trained thousands of people in the Jinzhou patrol battalion of the new army, and the results were remarkable...

In addition, it is also said that Fengtian will follow the example of Zhili and the southern provinces to train standing troops to guard the northeast border, and also provide training funds to the imperial court.

The historical military reform in Northeast China began after the Russo-Japanese War. However, the arrival of Zhao Dongyun, especially the editing of Jinzhou patrol battalions, has greatly advanced the process of the new army in Northeast China.

However, Zengqi has no money and no one. It is not so easy to train a standing army. He can only start from the patrol camp and recruit bandits slowly.

For this reason, he frequently wrote to Zhao Dongyun. In addition to asking for advice and training matters related to the new army, he also wanted Zhao Dongyun to help him train the new army.

After all, ordinary people really can't do this kind of training of the new army. It must be a professional officer with modern military skills. Most of this new-style officers and talents are concentrated in the Beiyang system. Zhao Dongyun's third town is a direct line of Beiyang, and there are naturally a large number of qualified officers in it. If If you want to practice the new army, it is necessary to ask Zhao Dongyun for help.

Zhao Dongyun seemed extremely cautious about Zengqi's request. First of all, he could not agree directly. He had to consider the relationship between Fengtian and Zhili, Yuan Shikai's reaction, and more needed to consider what kind of position this Fengtian standing army would be in once it was established, and then his third Will the town roll back to the customs?

There are too many problems involved here, so he can't make a decision for a while. Instead, he sent a telegram to Yuan Shikai to ask Yuan Shikai's relevant opinions.

Before getting Yuan Shikai's opinion, Zhao Dongyun also casually put on several opinions to Zengqi. For example, he suggested that he rectify the many messy old army in Fengtian, and not to train into a new army first, but at least the unit numbers should be unified, otherwise those messy numbers will be called numb. It's very annoying.

This is simple. Without saying anything, Zengqi adopted Zhao Dongyun's suggestion and integrated several training forces controlled by him in Fengtian Province, including Shengzi Battalion and local patrol battalions, into the Fengtian Patrol Battalion. As for the remaining combat effectiveness of the flag soldiers and green battalions, etc., it can hardly be ignored, so he simply ignores first. .,

There are four roads in the final Fengtian Patrol and Defense Camp. The front road is more than 1,000 people from Feng Delin, who has just defected, the left road is more than 600 people from Zhang Zuolin's headquarters, the right road is more than 1,000 people from the integration of the former Shengzi Camp and other training army, and the back road is thousands of other banditing battalions, patrol camps and so on.

Although this has not changed the overall military strength of Fengtian, at least it has a unified name to get the patrol battalion.

Coupled with the Jinzhou patrol battalion nominally under the jurisdiction of Fengtian, there are two patrol battalions in Fengtian Province, with a total strength of nearly 5,000 people.

As for tens of thousands of flag soldiers, green battalions and other chaotic armies, neither Zhao Dongyun nor Zeng Qi directly ignored them, and even had any interest in reorganization.

The military power possessed by Fengtian Province in early 1904, not counting Zhao Dongyun's third town and the infantry battalion in the Jinzhou patrol battalion, other troops can be described as follows: the control of the people, and the defense is like a thief!

Not to mention expecting them to fight against the Japanese and Russian army, even suppressing bandits is reluctantly. The only thing they can do is to bully unarmed civilians.

For this situation, Zhao Dongyun did not say that he wanted to deliberately change anything. He was not interested in helping others train and expand the army. Since the end of the bandit suppression activities in January of the beginning of the year, Zhao Dongyun has gone to the training and expansion of the army in the third town, such as the situation in Northeast, the reform of the Fengtian military system and so on. It has been forgotten by Zhao Dongyun.

"Now that these German artillery have arrived, your artillery team should strengthen its training. Don't be afraid of wasting ammunition and carry out more live ammunition training. I have asked the Ordnance Department to order a batch of training shells from Fuyuan Machinery Factory, which is ready for your training!" Zhao Dongyun said, "This time, I have spent a lot of effort to compete for this batch of artillery with the first town. I hope you don't let me down!"

Liu Tinggui said, "Your Excellency, rest assured that our department has been training for several months, and we have been waiting for this artillery to come. Now after the arrival of the artillery, our department will be familiar with the performance of the artillery for more than a month, and it will be able to form a preliminary combat effectiveness!"

Zhao Dongyun nodded: "I'm still relatively relieved about your ability, but now the situation in Northeast China is tense, and Japan and Russia are about to fight. At this time, there are countless people looking at my third town, waiting for us to make a fool of themselves!"

The guns needed for the third town were ordered from Germany in the second half of last year, and this batch of artillery are the same as those used in the previous second town. The wild guns are 1903 75mm field guns specially used for the export of Krper, and the mountain guns are also 14 times the rapid-fire mountain guns. Moreover, these types of artillery are all large quantities of artillery exported by the Kruppa factory and have a large inventory, so after the contract was settled and the deposit was paid, the German side immediately began to ship them, so they were able to buy almost hundreds of artillery guns at one time in just a few months, almost all these export fires of the Krper factory. The inventory of the cannon has been emptied.

As a result, when I went to Germany to urgently order the gun of Krupp at the beginning of this year, Krup's original inventory was bought and cleaned by Yuan Shikai's Beiyang New Army, so they could not find any inventory and had to re-produce it. In this way, it is estimated that it can be delayed until next year or even the year after.

After returning to China in January, a batch of artillery were taken by Duan Qirui's fourth town, but dozens of artillery that were originally intended to give to the third town were targeted by Wang Yingkai, saying that the original Japanese-style guns in the first town would be exchanged for this batch of the most advanced German tube retreat guns. This move was naturally met by Zhao Dongyun. Serious opposition.

For this batch of artillery, he even went back to Baoding to find Yuan Shikai's house, saying that the Jinzhou defense line needed the most advanced artillery, and the first town stayed in the rear. Why did he need such advanced artillery?

For a while, Wang Yingkai and Zhao Dongyun even involved Duan Qirui, Feng Guozhang and others because of this batch of artillery conflicts.