Chapter 52 Faction War 1

According to the general concept, auxiliary forces: such as artillery battalions, machine gun teams, heavy battalions, engineering battalions, which do not have independent combat capabilities, because usually these troops are only equipped with exclusive weapons or technical equipment, such as artillery, machine guns of machine gun teams, carriages of heavy battalions, and boats of engineering battalions. Bridge, etc.

However, this situation is not applicable to the new army in the late Qing Dynasty, and the artillery is normal, but the heavy battalions and engineering battalions are often not just auxiliary forces, but the soldiers are equipped with rifles.

In history, the new army at the end of the Qing Dynasty, including the new army in the southern provinces and the Beiyang new army, had a large number of auxiliary troops in regular battles. Officers often regarded the heavy battalions and engineering battalions as the main combat force.

Let's not talk about whether this situation is good or not, but when Zhao Dongyun first established the machine gun camp, due to the small number of machine guns, in order to train more machine gunners to prepare for future expansion, often two groups of people share a machine gun. According to the normal organization, there are more than 200 people in a machine gun camp with 24 machine guns. , will not exceed 300, but a machine gun camp made by Zhao Dongyun has more than 500 people, and the number has almost doubled.

This kind of system is actually a training system, which is not good for combat!

This situation was continued when it was subsequently expanded into three machine gun battalions. The subsequent three machine gun battalions were seriously overstaffed, and in addition to the reserve ammunition hand and machine gunners, the extra personnel usually shoulder heavy logistical tasks and carry rifles.

In this way, more than 300 people in this machine gun camp are equipped with rifles.

This abnormal phenomenon is naturally unsustainable. Zhao Dongyun had already submitted a new machine gun camp to Yuan Shikai when he disbanded the new machine gun camp.

How to implement the new establishment of the other machine gun battalions? Zhao Dongyun is now out of control, but the second battalion of the machine gun team belonging to him will be compressed, and then the extra personnel will be enriched into the infantry unit of the Third Association.

It's just that this work has not been completed yet, and there has been a military chaos on the side of Su Yi's own army!

Well, this military chaos actually only exists in Li Yong's mouth and has not actually happened, but it is not much different for Zhao Dongyun!

Because Zhao Dongyun's job is not to prevent mutiny or suppress mutiny, his task is to abolish the damn Suyi's own army. Originally, he wanted to change to what method, but now it's better, Suyi's own army directly gave him a good reason!

So now he doesn't care whether it's true or not, just take this opportunity to reorganize Suyi's own army.

After arriving at the temporary camp of Suyi's own army, Zhao Dongyun immediately asked the soldiers to block the entrances and exits, and then sent people to arrest Chen Dahai and other major military officers. The next thing was not too complicated. When Zhao Dongyun's own troops arrested several major military officers of Suyi's own army who were still sleeping, the soldiers in Suyi's own army We don't know what happened yet.

Looking at these shawls in front of him, Zhao Dongyun said blankly, "Take everyone away!"

At least those military officers are also imperial officials, and they are just plotting mutiny, and there was no military resistance during the whole arrest process, so it is not easy for Zhao Dongyun to deal with them directly. He can only hand them over and let Yuan Shikai have a headache!

It's just that these people did not resist, which made Zhao Dongyun's prepared chickens and monkeys not be used, which made him feel quite a pity!

When Chen Dahai and others were taken away by the soldiers, Chen Dahai saw Li Yong standing beside Zhao Dongyun, and then scolded Li Yong as a traitor, villain, and death, which made Li Yong look very ugly.

Although he feels disrespect for Li Yong's behavior in his heart, Li Yong's disgrace is what he needs, so Zhao Dongyun and other Chen Hai's people left and said to Li Yong, "You have done a good job this time. Now Su Yi's own army doesn't have a master. In the past few days, you should take care of Su Yi's own army first, and then rectify The editing work also needs your follow-up cooperation!"

Li Yong naturally looked happy: "Commend Zhao, don't worry, the humble position will definitely cooperate well with the integration!"

Zhao Dongyun felt that it was necessary to give him some sweetness at this time, which was also a lot of money to buy horse bones, so he said, "I still lack a helper. When the reorganization is finished, you can come to me and arrange it for you then!"

This is what Li Yong wants to hear most tonight. Why did he betray Chen Dahai and others? What did he want to help Zhao Dongyun reorganize and abolish Suyi's own army? Isn't it just to enter the new army to keep his job?

Now Zhao Dongyun's words have set his position. Although his position is lower than his current management, a new army gang is also good.

With the large and small generals of Suyi's own army being taken away one by one, the remaining soldiers can't make any waves. Most of the mutiny are actually led by officers. It is difficult to cause any chaos by relying on soldiers alone.

If there is no accident, only a small part of the generals who took away will be convicted, some will be demobilized, and the other part will be transferred to other places. However, the end of these people is no longer what Zhao Dongyun cares about. Last year, he unified Chen Kui of the second battalion of the right wing of the Right Army. Just like Long kicked into the Suiying School as a teacher, the life and death of these losers are no longer what Zhao Dongyun cares about.

Now he is concerned about how to quickly reorganize the soldiers of Suyi's own army.

The next day, Zhao Dongyun convened the first senior officer meeting of the Third Association, and those senior officers who had just arrived gathered at the headquarters of the Provisional Association of the Third Association outside Dongguan.

The Third Association is newly established. At present, Yuan Shikai has not given a clear follow-up location, so it is temporarily using the camp of the former newly built machine gun battalion. The headquarters of the Third Association is actually the headquarters of the previous newly built machine gun battalion.

Looking at the large group of straight officers below, Zhao Dongyun has a feeling of watching modern war films in later generations, but this scene is not fictional, but real.

After the Beiyang New Army, especially the Beiyang Standing Army, began to train, in addition to the comprehensive development of weapons, equipment and systems towards the Western-style, some details of the Beiyang New Army also began to develop towards the Western-style army. For example, when Zhao Dongyun held a meeting, a large group of officers below were all wearing officer dresses and And he straightened his waist and sat down without squinting.

In addition, the Beiyang blue-gray military uniforms these days are somewhat similar to those of the Japanese Army. In addition, they are all oriental races. I'm afraid that people who don't know this can't tell whether this is the Japanese Army or the Beiyang New Army for a while.

Because in the consistent cognition of outsiders, no matter what advanced weapons are used by the Qing army, they will always drag a big braid, and then wear a coat with the word ' soldier' and a funny hat.

However, the Beiyang New Army, which has always been pretending to be a foreign devil, will naturally not be like this. As early as the new army, the military uniforms used by Yuan Shikai's troops refer to the German style. Although the soldiers' military uniforms still refer to the old style to a certain extent, the officers all use German-style military uniforms, and it must be Black, this revolution in military uniforms was also the fundamental reason why people called Yuan Shikai's army a fake foreign devil at that time.

Subsequently, this anti-German military uniform has been used until this year, but after the Beiyang Standing Army became an army in Zuozhen this year, Yuan Shikai once again formulated the military uniform style of the Beiyang Standing Army.

The style of the new Beiyang standing military uniform is relatively similar to that of the new army. On the whole, it is still based on the German style and used gray as the overall color of the military uniform for the first time. At this time, the gray tone set is also the basic military uniform tone of the new army in the late Qing Dynasty and even the Beiyang new army of the later Republic of China.

Strictly speaking, people's impression of Beiyang soldiers in gray military uniforms began to appear at this time.

In the new military uniform, soldiers usually wear gray plackets, gray trousers, cotton cloth clothes in winter, fast cloth shoes on their feet, felt hats on their heads, and wrap their heads with cloth scarves during training or wartime, mainly to wrap the braids to avoid the braids from swaying and affecting the battle.

On the side, the officers still take blue-gray as the overall tone, wearing the same German-style match jacket and gray trousers, but there are also dresses and regular clothes. Naturally, the dress is more than the usual clothes. In winter, the tweed coat must be longer than the knee and wear long leather boots.

Relatively speaking, officers' clothes are more inclined to pure German style than soldiers. That officer's tweed coat is proof that the reason why many modern Chinese officers can be seen wearing tweed coats in film and television dramas is the head of the Beiyang New Army.

When an officer in a blue-gray officer's dress sat in front of him, Zhao Dongyun had a sense of the times, as if it was not the end of the Qing Dynasty but the Republic of China.

But if you look carefully, you will find something that is annoying, that is, the braids behind the officers' heads!

Zhao Dongyun himself cut off his braids during his stay in Germany, but after returning to China, he would still wear fake braids on important formal occasions to avoid unnecessary criticism.

It's just that cutting braids is only popular among international students these days. For many people in China, cutting braids is still a matter that requires great courage. At least among the people here, except Zhao Dongyun and Hua Zhenji, who returned to China, all of them are dragging a braid.

After withdrawing his sight, Zhao Dongyun first said, "Now the air of my Third Association has also been set up. The next step is to reorganize Su Yi's own army and select qualified soldiers to enter the new army. In addition, people have to go to various places to recruit soldiers, and they can't rely on those old soldiers to make up for all the vacancies!"

After Zhao Dongyun opened his mouth, as the current number two figure of the Third Association, Chen Guangyuan, the fifth standard leader, said: "I heard that there was a riot on the side of Suyi's own army last night. Now that Suyi's own army is in chaos, I'm afraid it is more inappropriate to rashly reorganize and eliminate soldiers. Can we slow down the reorganization of Suyi's own army? First, first What about recruiting soldiers?"

Looking at this person who can be said to have been pushed by Feng Guozhang, Wang Yingkai, Wang Shizhen and others to contain Duan Qirui, Zhao Dongyun naturally has no good impression, because although this person's core goal is to prevent Duan Qirui from entering the right town of the standing army, what should he do? Is it enough to achieve this goal? Naturally, it is to create a lot of trouble for Zhao Dongyun before organizing Duan Qirui's pace!

Because in fact, Zhao Dongyun is the vanguard general of Duan Qirui's ranking in the right town. After Zhao Dongyun lays his foundation in the right town, Duan Qirui can take the opportunity to sit on the wing leader of the right town, thus turning the whole right town as the base camp of Duan Qirui's faction.

Therefore, if you want to snipe Duan Qirui to control the right town of the Beiyang Standing Army, you must first stop Zhao Dongyun from controlling the Third Association!