Chapter 71 Changes in the Third Mixed Association

"I'm afraid these training troops are of little use. We have to reorganize them first!" Zhao Dongyun said, "When it comes to the consolidation of the old army, only Brother Xiufeng can reassure me in our third mixed association!"

Zhao Dongyun said kindly, but Chen Guangyuan's face on the opposite side was not very good. When he heard the news that a training army would be sent to the Third Mixed Association to be integrated, Chen Guangyuan had already expected that the matter of the consolidation of the old army would have to fall on him in the end.

Because in the hearts of Yuan Shikai, Duan Qirui and others, Zhao Dongyun was the first person to reorganize the old army in the Beiyang New Army, but in fact, Zhao Dongyun did not personally carry out the specific reorganization of the old army. Whether it is Su Yi's own army or the Yuanzi battalion, their consolidation work was actually completed by Chen Guangyuan.

Although Chen Guangyuan is not a member of Zhao Dongyun's faction, he is still a subordinate of Zhao Dongyun, so his credit has become Zhao Dongyun's credit.

This makes Chen Guangyuan quite depressed!

Now there is an old army that needs to be reorganized, so according to the past practice, this matter is also carried out by Chen Guangyuan!

However, unlike the previous two times, Zhao Dongyun asked Chen Guangyuan to reorganize the old army with strong favoritism, that is to say, Zhao Dongyun wanted to cheat Chen Guangyuan. However, now, the reason why Zhao Dongyun asked Chen Guangyuan to reorganize the old army for the third time is that Chen Guangyuan has excellent experience and ability to reorganize the old army. This is no longer to cheat him, but to explain the normal task.

Chen Guangyuan is not a fool, and he also knows that Zhao Dongyun was punishing him in the first two times, but Chen Guangyuan played well in the first two times when he integrated the old army. Not only did he not let Zhao Dongyun find any mistakes, but he even had to publicly say that Chen Guangyuan's work in reorganizing the old army was effective and showed his meritorious service. At that time, he was also forced to bring Chen Guangyuan's name up.

That is to say, in the reorganization of the old army, Zhao Dongyun can no longer continue to cheat him, but will give him the opportunity to make contributions.

However, even so, Zhao Dongyun still chose him to undertake the reorganization of the third batch of old troops, which made Chen Guangyuan a little puzzled. Could it be that Zhao Dongyun no longer suppressed him, but gave him a chance to make contributions?

Speaking of which, Chen Guangyuan has not been well since he arrived at the Third Mixed Association. In order to carry out the task assigned to contain Zhao Dongyun by Wang Yingkai, Feng Guozhang and others, after arriving at the Third Mixed Association, he tried his best to fight with Zhao Dongyun, dismantle the stage with Zhao Dongyun, win people's hearts and so on. As the fifth standard, he not only has to face a lot of pressure from his direct superior Zhao Dongyun, but also has to face the pressure of many subordinates in the fifth standard.

In retrospect, I can't bear to look back!

However, this situation began to change after the Third Mixed Association left Baoding!

In Baoding, many officers of the Third Mixed Association, whether it was Zhao Dongyun or Chen Guangyuan or Meng Enyuan, or even the leaders and team officers below, could not avoid the struggle of the factions in Beiyang. Needless to say, Zhao Dongyun and Chen Guangyuan, the first one was Duan Qirui, and the other was Wang Yingkai and Feng Guozhang. Wait for others, because of the factional relationship, they are tit-for-tat and almost everywhere.

Even the neutral Meng Enyuan is inevitable, because Meng Enyuan is the cavalry leader in the Third Mixed Association, and his status is actually equivalent to Chen Guangyuan. Such a person can naturally seriously affect the factional balance within the Third Mixed Association, so Zhao Dongyun and Chen Guangyuan are both It is inevitable to attract him and pay attention to him. Therefore, whether Meng Enyuan is willing or not, he has participated in the factional struggle within the Third Mixed Association, but most of the time he will not make a clear statement. If he wanders between the two sides, he will fall to whoever gives him benefits.

Although the following management and team officers cannot have direct contact with Duan Qirui, Wang Yingkai and others, they will inevitably participate in the factional dispute in the overall environment within the Third Mixed Association.

Therefore, the third mixed association before May was almost full of the smell of Beiyang faction disputes from top to bottom, and the smell of gunpowder was still very strong.

However, it is worth noting that the main reason for the fierce factional struggle within the Third Mixed Association was the dispute over the ownership of the right town of the Beiyang Standing Army.

At the beginning, Duan Qirui, Wang Shizhen, Feng Guozhang, Liu Yongqing, Wu Changchun and others fought fiercely for the ownership of the right town of the Beiyang Standing Army. At that time, the third mixed formation was only the 'third association'. Originally scheduled to be one of the infantry associations in the right town, it can be said to be at the core of the competition among many Beiyang bosses, because who If you can completely control the Third Association, it is equivalent to controlling more than half of the Beiyang Standing Army Right Town.

So the original Third Association was completely an eye of the storm. All factions wanted to reach into it, and countless eyes were staring at it.

This has led to a fierce factional dispute since the establishment of the Third Association!

For better, there is also an extremely strong Yuan Shikai, which can suppress many factional battles to ensure the speed of the establishment of the Third Association. Zhao Dongyun and Chen Guangyuan and others below compete for it, but the main focus is still on the formation of the new army, so as to ensure the smooth formation of the Third Association.

At the beginning, the reason why the Third Association had many factional competitions was that the bosses competed for the ownership of the right town, but this situation began to change in May.

After May, due to the tense situation in Northeast China, the Beiyang New Army was forced to send troops into Liaodong to prevent the Russian army from going south. At the same time, due to military tension, it could only send Zhao Dongyun's Third Association.

After Zhao Dongyun's Third Association left Baoding, it represents leaving the center of the political storm in Beiyang. Although it will be affected by factional disputes, it will never be as serious as it was in Baoding.

After leaving Baoding, the internal struggle of the Third Association began to calm down. When Yuan Shikai established the first and second towns of the Beiyang Standing Army and renamed Zhao Dongyun's Third Mixed Association of the Beiyang Standing Army, the internal factional struggle of the Third Association subsided in an instant.

Why?

Because the Third Mixed Association at this time is no longer the key to determine the right town of the Beiyang Standing Army, and it will not affect many important positions in the second town of the newly established Beiyang Standing Army.

In addition, those bigwigs in Baoding throughout mid-to-late June, whether it is Duan Qirui, Feng Guozhang or Wang Yingkai and others, their goal has been changed to change to the second town of the newly established Beiyang Standing Army, especially the control position of the second town and the position of the two co-co-commies.

In fact, it has nothing to do with many officers in the Third Mixed Association. On the contrary, the officers in the Third Mixed Association began to pay more attention to their future and where they went in the Third Mixed Association.

Because the Third Association was adapted into the Third Mixed Association, it directly led to the Third Mixed Association becoming an independent force. Like the first town and the second town, although the Third Mixed Association is small and there are few people, but in nature, it is not much different from the first town and the second town.

And in terms of the current speed of the expansion of the Beiyang army, it seems that it will take a few days for the third mixed association to become the third town. Once the third mixed association becomes the third town, what does it mean? That means more senior positions.

According to the current establishment of the Beiyang Standing Army, a town-run two association four standard 12 battalions, a cavalry team 1 standard 4 battalion, artillery team 1 standard 3 battalion, a heavy brigade, 1 engineering team 1 battalion, machine gun team 1 battalion, a total of 22 battalions.

At that time, the addition of many arms in the third town will produce a town control, two co-commies, six standard leaders, and 22 battalion management positions.

According to the tradition of the Beiyang army, generally speaking, the chief officers of the expanded troops are selected from the original troops, and it is rare to mobilize officers from outside forces to serve.

That is to say, at that time, there will be a great opportunity for the management belt to change the standard belt, the standard belt to be promoted to the leader of the association, and the co-leader to be the town control. Among them, not to mention 100%, there is still 70% or 80% of the chance.

The town control naturally has nothing to do with those middle and lower-level officers. Unsurprisingly, all * are promoted to Zhao Dongyun, the third mixed assistant leader, but the remaining positions of the association leader and the standard belt can be contested for. In the process of competing for these positions, Zhao Dongyun will play a decisive influence. He also Maybe he can't decide 100% who can be the leader, but he can definitely decide who can't be the leader.

Many officers of the Third Mixed Association are not fools. Such an obvious thing can naturally be seen. Although the expansion of the Third Mixed Association into a town has not become a reality, considering the rapid pace of Beiyang's expansion, it is estimated that it will be at most a year and a half, and then their fate will be decided. In the hands of Zhao Dongyun.

In terms of their own future, any factions and bosses have been forgotten by them!

No matter how influential Wang Yingkai, Duan Qirui and others are, they can only affect the positions of middle and low-level officers of the newly established troops, but there is no way to affect many appointments after the expansion of the Third Mixed Association as a town. Only Zhao Dongyun has this influence.

In fact, Zhao Dongyun's actual influence in Beiyang at this time can be compared with Duan Qirui, Wang Yingkai, Feng Guozhang and others to some extent.

Zhao Dongyun, who controls the Third Mixed Association, has become one of the de facto high-level officials in Beiyang, but no one has realized it. In the eyes of everyone, Zhao Dongyun just climbed faster and is also in the limelight, but he is still only Duan Qirui's subordinate, and Wang Zhanyuan under Wang Yingkai is of the same level. People are at most the first person in the second echelon, which is still far from the first echelon.

Not to mention that other people will have this kind of habitual mistaken cognition, in fact, Zhao Dongyun himself does not clearly realize how influential he is.