Chapter 137 New People's Garrison

The situation in the northeast from the year of Gengzi to the Russo-Japanese War was very complicated. Because the Russian army completely occupied the northeast after Gengzi, although Russia was forced to sign the Treaty on the Completion of the Three Eastern Provinces with the Qing court and withdrew from Liaoxi in the first half of 1903.

Originally, the Russian army needed to withdraw from the territory of the eastern three provinces in accordance with the Treaty on the Reconjugation of the Three Eastern Provinces, but the Russian army refused to implement the second phase of the treaty, so it did not continue to withdraw troops. On the contrary, it once again sent troops to occupy important cities around the Liaohe River such as Yingkou and Fengtian.

And the Chinese side, to be precise, the response of the Beiyang side to the refusal of the Russian army to withdraw troops was to send Zhao Dongyun, who was only the Third Association at that time, to Jinzhou. In addition, some local troops in Fengtian, such as Fengtian patrol battalion, Jinzhou patrol battalion and other messy old troops controlled the west of the Liaohe River respectively. Xinmin, Liaozhong, Tai'an and other areas.

Therefore, on the eve of the Russo-Japanese War, it goes without saying that there are some nominal Chinese local troops in the northeast, but in fact, they are under the full control of the Russian army, and Fengtian is generally bounded by the Liao River, including Fengtian, Yingkou, the area east of the Liaohe River and the Liaodong Peninsula are all in Russia. Under the actual control of the army.

West of the Liaohe River, the Fengtian Patrol Battalion and Jinzhou Patrol Battalion are respectively controlled, while the Jinzhou and Liaoxi Corridor are controlled by the third town of Zhao Dongyun. This situation has not changed much even after the outbreak of the war between Japan and Russia.

Today, in August 1904, Liaoxi is still under the control of China, but what is different now is that many of them were originally under the control of Fengtian Patrol Battalion, but now they have been taken over by the Jinzhou Patrol Battalion and the Third Town under Zhao Dongyun.

It is worth noting that the Russians and Japan themselves do not pay attention to the Fengtian patrol battalion and other local troops under Zengqi. They are tossing around in Xinmin and other places, but it does not mean that they will also ignore the third town under Zhao Dongyun.

Everyone knows that only the third town under Zhao Dongyun can fight on Fengtian's side. Even if the third town is not as effective as the forces of the great powers, at least it is a regular army with the nature of a modern army. It absolutely cannot be regarded as an old-style bandit army, and the third town has a lot of troops, such as If you count the Jinzhou patrol camp, Zhao Dongyun's men have more than 15,000.

This more than 15,000 troops may be nothing in front of hundreds of thousands of troops on both sides of Japan and Russia, but at the critical juncture of the battle between Japan and Russia in Liaoyang, the whereage of Zhao Dongyun, who is 10,000 people, will naturally attract great attention from both sides. If Zhao Dongyun stabbed Japan or the back of the Russian army, it is possible to The war has had a significant impact.

So even if China and Yuan Shikai talk about neutrality every day, Japan and Russia still pay close attention to Zhao Dongyun's movements.

Although Zhang Zuolin, who sent troops to attack the new people's government, was also nervous for many people in the name of suppressing bandits!

However, Zhao Dongyun did not intend to intervene in the war between Japan and Russia. The reason why he entered the new government was to make money. As for controlling the new government, it can only be regarded as an incidental benefit.

However, after taking down the new people's government and sweeping away Zhang Zuolin's troops in the new civil government, at the same time, in order to ensure the smooth military trade with Russia in the future, he must station some troops on the new people's government.

"The direct troops of our third town must have failed in the past. Now the Russians have a lot of opinions. If we keep the infantry battalion in the third town, it is estimated that the Russians will not be able to eat!" Lin Yongquan said: "The new people's government is only dozens of miles away from Fengtian, and every move in our third town attracts the attention of the world. If our department is stationed directly in this place, I'm afraid it will cause unnecessary trouble!"

Although to some extent, the Jinzhou patrol camp and the third town are Zhao Dongyun's army, the political gold content of the third town is much larger than that of the Jinzhou patrol camp. In many outsiders' minds, this Jinzhou patrol camp is estimated to be the same as Fengtian patrol camp. It is Zhao Dongyun who collected bandits and old people after arriving in Jinzhou. A local army made by the army is not bad enough to fight bandits, but it can't fight a war.

However, as for the third town, everyone knows that it is one of the four towns in Beiyang, and it is also the second army in the Beiyang system. The second town, the fourth town and the fifth and sixth towns that are still under preparation are all latecomers. The predecessor of the third town is the Third Association, and the Third Association was established in 1902, so the number of the third town was not obtained until the end of 1903, but in fact, the establishment of the third town under Zhao Dongyun should be traced back to 1902.

Such a force does not mention whether his combat effectiveness is strong or not, but Zhao Dongyun's third town is a legitimate Beiyang direct line. What people see from it is not only what Zhao Dongyun thinks, but also what Yuan Shikai thinks.

For example, if Zhao Dongyun suddenly sent troops to Liaodong, whether it was Japan or Russia, people would never think that this was Zhao Dongyun's own intention, but 100% would think that it was Yuan Shikai's instructions. Or Zhao Dongyun suddenly led back to Zhili and then attacked Beijing. The first reaction of the Qing court was not that Zhao Dongyun wanted to rebel, but Yuan Shikai wanted to rebel!

That is to say, the political meaning represented by the third town is no longer just Zhao Dongyun!

At the critical juncture of the Liaoyang Battle between Japan and Russia, if the third town moves rashly, it will affect the whole process of the Russo-Japanese War, so Zhao Dongyun will not send troops to station the new people for a long time unless necessary.

At this time, Chen Guangyuan also said, "Now the plan can only rely on Brother Meng's first mixed association. He still has several battalions. Sending a battalion and a cavalry team to station the new people can barely maintain the situation, and in this way, it is difficult for the Russians to say anything!"

Meng Enyuan naturally looked at Zhao Dongyun and said, "The ministry is all on the orders of adults!"

Zhao Dongyun took his eyes back from the map on the desktop and said, "The Xinmin side is still too **. It is easy to cause a transitional reaction of the Russians to station too many troops, and we also have to station troops in Liaozhong, Tai'an and Panshan respectively, and it is not easy to divert too many troops for a while!"

With Zhao Dongyun's large-scale suppression of bandits in the Liaohe River in early1904, and Zhang Zuolin was destroyed this time, so he has successively controlled a lot of sites, which were stationed in the name of Jinzhou patrol battalion, especially in the counties of Liaozhong, Tai'an and Panshan counties, where a certain number of The troops.

In addition to Xu Fangyuan in Jinzhou, there are also Fengtian patrol camp. There were four roads before this patrol camp, namely Zhang Zuolin's front road, Feng Delin's left road, Zeng Qi's right road, and the back road that has not yet been compiled. Zhang Zuolin's side is not to mention. Now it is finished, and there are few people on the back road that has not been compiled. It doesn't matter. After Feng Delin was incorporated, the defense area controlled is the intersection of Yingkou, Panshan, Liaoyang and Tai'an. That is to say, he occupies a certain territory in the above counties, but he does not control the above territory. The county is located in the suburbs and rural areas.

The right road that Zeng Qi personally integrated is also a shelf. Although there are thousands of people, their combat effectiveness is not as good as that of bandit forces such as Zhang Zuolin and Feng Delin, and they are also relatively scattered. They are mainly responsible for local security and do not actually control a large area of territory.

Therefore, from the actual military level, in addition to Feng Delin's headquarters, the defense of the whole Liaoxi needs to be undertaken by Zhao Dongyun's troops. Because the third town is not easy to act rashly, it can only rely on the Jinzhou patrol battalion, which is also a great challenge for the limited strength of Jinzhou patrol battalion.

If you want to solve the defense problems of various counties in western Liaoning, you have to solve them fundamentally, so he turned his head and asked Lin Yongquan, "How about the recruits prepared for the First Mixed Association? When will it be practiced?"

The first mixed association in Zhao Dongyun's mouth is the Jinzhou Patrol Battalion. It has to be said that 'Jinzhou Patrol Battalion' is an independent unit number, which is the same concept as the Shengzi Battalion, Suyi Qinjun, Yuanzi Battalion of the Huai Army and the current Beiyang Standing Army, the Wuwei Right Army, the Wuwei Right Army Vanguard and the Self-improvement Army. Since this title is registered in the military department of the imperial court and the training office, and it is officially recognized by the imperial court, so this title cannot be changed randomly.

Zhao Dongyun wants to expand the Jinzhou patrol camp into a mixed association, and at the same time, he does not want to directly change it to the 'Jinzhou mixed association', which will not be difficult to expand the army after the establishment is fixed, so he simply set up a 'first mixed association' under the Jinzhou patrol battalion, so Meng Enyuan's leader of the mixed association is not talking about Jinzhou mixed The leader of the Cheng Association, but the leader of the first mixed association of Jinzhou Patrol Battalion.

'Jinzhou Patrol Battalion' and 'Jinzhou Patrol Battalion First Mixed Association' are not the same concept, but the former has jurisdiction over the latter.

However, this is just a trick in the name. It was made by Zhao Dongyun for the convenience of future military expansion. In fact, there is only one first mixed association in Jinzhou patrol and defense battalion, otherwise Zhao Dongyun would not have appointed Meng Enyuan as the general office of Jinzhou patrol and defense battalion.

The current system of Jinzhou patrol battalion is: Zhao Dongyun serves as the supervisor, Meng Enyuan serves as the general office and also serves as the leader of the first mixed association, and Lin Yongquan also serves as the office. The above-mentioned supervision, general office and conference office can generally be regarded as the highest person in charge, actual person in charge and assisting in charge.

Among the management of various institutions in the late Qing Dynasty, supervision is the largest, followed by the general office, and will be held again.

Lin Yongquan has multiple positions in the third town system. He is not only the general manager of the Jinzhou patrol camp, but also the general office of the education office of the third town. Naturally, he manages this matter of recruitment and training.

In the face of Zhao Dongyun's problem, Lin Yongquan immediately said: "Last month, we recruited about 600 new recruits in Zhili and set up a number of recruitment stations on the ground in western Liaoning. However, the situation in western Liaoning is too chaotic and it is difficult to find a good family, so we only recruited more than 500 people, plus the recruits we retained before. We are not short of soldiers, but most of them are still undergoing basic training, and there are not many new soldiers trained in these times!"

Lin Yongquan continued: "Last month, we gave 400 new recruits to the Jinzhou patrol battalion, and it is estimated that we can also give about 600 new recruits this month. Next month, it is estimated that there will be about 1,000!"

When Zhao Dongyun heard this, he showed a satisfied look. Although Lin Yongquan's ability in other aspects is average, at least his military ability is at the bottom of the top of the third town system. The third town casually pulls out a general-level officer than him, but this man plays recruits, trains new soldiers, and is in the camp. However, it is quite good. In recent years, he has helped Zhao Dongyun recruit and train tens of thousands of new recruits.

At this time, Zhao Dongyun asked Meng Enyuan again, "Since a lot of new recruits have arrived, how many battalions have you trained here?"