Chapter 121 Resale on both sides

I want to cut off the arms trade between Zhao Dongyun and the Russians by directly buying Zhao Dongyun's ordnance, but they didn't expect that Zhao Dongyun wanted more than just to make money, let alone Zhao Dongyun could search for more sources of goods.

In June, Zhao Dongyun sold a batch of more than 200,000 taels of silver of arms, but still did not cut off the arms trade with Russia, providing Russia with up to 300,000 taels of arms and other combat materials.

Among them, the big head is naturally a cannonball, and in addition, machine gun bullets are also an important item!

Since the Japanese army and Russia broke out a large-scale ground battle in April. In the early battle of the Yalu River and Jinzhou, Dalian and other battles, although the Russian army has not used large-scale concentrated machine guns, the original machine guns of the army also played a huge role. In addition, Zhao Dongyun pointed out two points in the back. In the Liaoyang defense line built later by Russia, heavy machine guns have been centrally deployed, so that the demand for machine gun bullets is even greater.

In June, Zhao Dongyun's arms business was very happy. Even in order to meet the needs of the business, and the orders from Fuyuan Machinery Factory were not delivered so quickly, Zhao Dongyun even pulled some of his inventory of bullets and shells out of the warehouse and sold them.

In the eyes of today's Chinese people, this kind of behavior is a proper enemy to betray the country!

However, this arms business has brought a lot of additional income to Zhao Dongyun. Through the accumulation of arms trade in the past few months, the expansion of the army that has been stagnant for a long time has also begun again.

"Now that our third town is full, and the equipment of mortars has been completed. Starting next month, we will be able to free up some mortars to equip the Jinzhou patrol camp!" As Lin Yongquan spoke, he handed Zhao Dongyun the preparation table in his hand.

Zhao Dongyun did not keep his eyes on the compilation table for too long. The above compilation table was determined as early as the beginning of the year. The infantry, cavalry and artillery are the standard establishment of the Beiyang Standing Army, and the third town has added an additional mortar system, and the machine gun has been transferred to the battalion and standard level. Troops.

"After several years, our third town has finally become an army!" Zhao Dongyun closed the preparation table and sighed in his heart that he had been working hard to practice the army for the past two years and struggled to build a new army, but now he is finally a beginner.

The training of the third town began in 1902, and then was adapted into the third mixed association in the summer of 1903. At the end of 1903, the third town was expanded. In the process of expanding the third town, because of the need for the sixth association of the new formation team and the third standard of the artillery team, the shortage was very large until the beginning of this year. It was only in place, and the new Fuzo 88 rifle required by the Sixth Association was not fully in place until March this year.

That is to say, although there was a third town at the end of last year, it was not until June this year that it was fully filled.

"Now the expansion of the third town has also come to an end. Next, the focus of your work will be on the Jinzhou patrol camp!" Zhao Dongyun did not stop the pace of expanding his army at all. Although the third town has been trained, he also has a Jinzhou patrol camp under him.

And it is different from the third town with a fixed system, but his Jinzhou patrol battalion does not have a fixed system. To put it bluntly, as long as Zhao Dongyun has the ability to practice 100,000 troops, no one can say anything.

Jinzhou patrol camp, the word 'camp' here is generally regarded as 'army', which is the same concept as the Shengzi camp and Yuanzi camp in the Huai army. The concept of Jinzhou patrol battalion is actually equivalent to that of Fengtian patrol battalion. The two belong to an independent army. As long as Zhao Dongyun, the Jinzhou patrol battalion, has the ability to supervise, it is possible to train more than 100,000 troops.

In fact, compared with the third town, the Jinzhou patrol camp is more like Zhao Dongyun's private troops, because there is also a Beiyang standing army and Yuan Shikai at the top of the third town, while the Jinzhou patrol camp is under the sole authority of Zhao Dongyun. The military expenditure, ordnance and personnel are all managed by Zhao Dongyun himself, and he does not even want to expand his army. To make a report to the court, as long as you report your military training results in the last post fact.

For example, Zhao Dongyun gave a medal to the court not long ago, but said, "Since the minister supervised the Jinzhou patrol camp, he has trained into the third battalion of the foottroopers, the first battalion of the artillery team, and the first battalion of the cavalry..."

These words mean announcement, not request. The difference here is very big. Of course, the premise is not to ask the court for money...

And these days, it's too much to spend money to train the new army. No matter how powerful Zhao Dongyun makes money, he can't raise a Jinzhou virtual patrol camp alone, so there is another sentence at the end of the chapter: I was ordered to suppress Jinzhou and the control guard Liaoxi, and the number of available soldiers in my hand is less than 50,000, but the number of Japanese and Russian fighting soldiers has reached five hundred miles away. 100,000, once the situation is corrupted, it may be difficult for the minister's soldiers to continue. For the concern of external neutrality, 100,000 soldiers must be trained. Even if there is a shortage of money, 30,000 new recruits should also be trained.

It is planned to add nine battalions, two battalions of artillery teams and three battalions of cavalry in the Jinzhou patrol and defense battalion, which will be organized into two associations of the walking team, the first standard of the artillery team and the first standard of the cavalry team, which is expected to become one town.

I have to say that this memorial is actually a lion's big opening. Zhao Dongyun told the court that I would compile the Jinzhou patrol camp into a new military town. What is the purpose? It's obvious that you want money.

Of course, the court will not agree easily. Although the training of the new army is the main theme in 1904, there are more places to train the new army. Now the focus of the court is still on the Beiyang Standing Army and the Beijing Flag Standing Army. As for the training of the new army in other provinces, basically don't expect the court to pay, let alone Zhao Dongyun requested the expansion of funds. Even if Zeng Qi's standing army wants to expand it, I don't know how many meetings he said. The court didn't give a taels of silver, and the reply is the same: "It's known!"

The surface means: You said I know about the expansion of the army!

But the actual meaning is: if you want to expand your army, don't ask the court for money!

This is also a common practice of organizing and training the new army in the late Qing Dynasty. Except for the Beiyang Standing Army and the Beijing Flag Standing Army, which are mostly responsible for the military expenses of the imperial court, the expenses required for the training of the new army in other provinces can only be self-funded. When the imperial court has been trained, it will send people to test and then give the number. The failure of the training has been delayed.

However, Zhao Dongyun naturally did not expect how much money the court could give. He mainly wanted Yuan Shikai to sponsor him a little. After all, the source of military expenditure of the current Jinzhou patrol camp comes from Zhili's old defense army and Fengtian respectively.

Zhao Dongyun estimated that whether it is Zhili or Fengtian, there will be no more, but it will be a little bit, which is not better than nothing. In order to get the military expenses for editing and training the Jinzhou patrol camp, Zhao Dongyun even proposed to Yuan Shikai to allow him to reorganize several other parts of Zhili. The old army, to free up the military expenses of these old armies to train the Jinzhou patrol battalion.

It is naturally unrealistic to get enough money from above to support the expansion of the army. Fortunately, Yuan Shikai will also give enough military expenses, but extra-staff troops such as Jinzhou patrol battalion have to rely on Zhao Dongyun to make money by himself.

"Now there are still fewer walking teams on the side of the Jinzhou patrol battalion. Your education office will continue to recruit more next step. Well, this time, there is no need to be limited to recruiting in Zhili and Shandong. I have discussed with General Shengjing to increase the number of people. The new recruits of Jinzhou patrol battalion can be recruited in western Liaoning. This time, you recruit three battalions first. Infantry!" Zhao Dongyun naturally ordered Lin Yongquan to do this to expand his army.

Lin Yongquan was slightly puzzled after hearing this: "We can't afford to raise three battalions at once, right?"

If the army is expanded, it is not a big problem for soldiers. Even if it is difficult to recruit some, it will take some time to recruit them, but military spending is not easy to solve.

Zhao Dongyun said, "There is still some money now. Find a shelf and find a way to find a way when you have no money in the future!"

Zhao Dongyun's idea is actually simple. With the current small treasury in his hand, there is no problem to support the expansion of the army in the early stage. The problem is that there is no way to continue, but as long as the army is trained and Yuan Shikai and the court see a ready-made new army, it is impossible to let him directly because Zhao Dongyun has no money in his hand. Disbanded, you should know that the Qing court took a lot of effort to build these towns, so Zhao Dongyun was not worried about the follow-up maintenance funds.

The problem now is that it is difficult at the beginning. At least you have to summon soldiers and buy ordnance for training for a few months before the court wants to ask for money. The cost in the early stage is not small.

Lin Yongquan is in charge of recruitment and training. Zhao Dongyun asked him to expand the scale of recruitment, but he said, "If you practice three more battalions, plus the original two battalions, and the third battalion now practicing, that is, six battalions. Do you want to make two more infantry targets?"

Zhao Dongyun nodded: "Now there are cavalry battalions and artillery battalions in Jinzhou patrol battalions, and other heavy and engineering troops are also easy to handle. If we can add three more battalions, then we can set up a mixed association, which will not be much worse than when we first came to Jinzhou!"

Lin Yongquan was surprised when he heard this: "Directly expanded to a mixed association?"

Don't blame Lin Yongquan for being so surprised. It would be strange for anyone to hear that the Jinzhou patrol camp, which now has only more than 2,000 people, is going to expand into a mixed association. You should know that the mixed association in the Beiyang New Army these days is not a small-scale unit.

The original Third Mixed Association had six battalions, one artillery battalion, one machine gun battalion and one cavalry base.

Although this cavalry standard can be changed to the size of a large cavalry battalion, the above troops are not a small number, which is the size of 5,000 or 6,000 people.

For the current Jinzhou patrol battalion, that is a direct double of troops!