Chapter 223 Defense Arrangement

Yang Deming said, "The opinion of the Operations Department is to expand three more divisions so that we can maintain a minimum military control!"

This is equivalent to not saying anything. If the army could be expanded, it would still need him Yang Deming to open his mouth. Zhao Dongyun would have ordered the army expansion long ago.

According to the area currently controlled by the Soviet system, including hundreds of thousands of square kilometers in the northeastern region of the three eastern provinces and Zhili, plus three facing enemies, this minimum military deployment requires at least 150,000 or even 200,000 troops. Relying on the 50,000 Feng army under the Soviet system cannot meet this huge demand at all.

Therefore, Yang Deming said that he would expand three divisions based on this consideration. However, this idea is only purely from a military perspective. In fact, it is not the military demand that affects the number of troops in the three eastern provinces, but the financial capacity.

This requires the expansion of three divisions, and it can't even be set up without tens of millions. In the current financial situation of the three eastern provinces, it is extremely difficult to fill and maintain the existing three divisions and five brigades. If you want to expand three divisions, even if you sell the generals present, you can't get enough money

Seeing the silence, Xu Bangjie beside him also said, "Don't we still have 20,000 patrolmen? I think they can use it!"

However, when it comes to patrol police, Cao Kui on one side said, "I have personally seen the patrol regiment stationed in Shenyang and the patrol police camp stationed in Liaoyang. To be honest, this patrol officer is still barely available to suppress bandits, but it is too reluctant to let them fight in Japan and Russia!"

The patrol police in the three eastern provinces, including the patrol police in Fengtian Province and the patrol police in Heilongjiang and Jilin provinces in the integration, mainly come from the old army, including various old-style armies such as training, theft camps and patrol battalions. In short, Zhao Dongyun integrated all the old armies in the three eastern provinces into the patrol police department. Team.

Due to the small cost of additional expenses, the salaries of soldiers are extremely low, which is far less than that of regular soldiers. In addition, to some extent, it is also to stabilize the original old soldiers, so there are many old and weak soldiers in the patrol unit. Most of the weapons used are old-fashioned single-shot rifles, and there are no machine guns or artillery.

The only slightly better situation is the Fengtian Second Patrol Regiment stationed in Jinzhou. They are equipped with 30 years of new rifles. The reason why they can be equipped with new rifles is that Zhao Dongyun has more or less got nearly 1,000 Japanese in the process of reorganization of the old army of the three eastern provinces and Russia in the Russo-Japanese War. These 30-year rifles cannot be equipped for field troops because of their different calibers and models, but at least they are new combus rifles, and it is not a matter to be rusty in the warehouse. In addition, Fuyuan Machinery Factory also has a production line of Japanese bullets, so this batch of Japanese rifles is assigned to the second patrol. Police Corps.

At this time, Lin Yongquan also frowned and said, "Although there are many people in this patrol force, most of the sergeants are old and weak, and the generals are mostly old-style officers. Most of the guns they belong to are old-fashioned single-armed rifles. If they want to go to the battlefield to fight with Japan and Russia, I'm afraid they will have to be equipped with new rifles, machine guns and artillery. With this money, we might as well expand a teacher directly!"

However, Xu Bangjie said, "I never said that they should go to the battlefield and fight with Japan and Russia. Now that we are short of field troops, they naturally need to be used in critical places, and some inland areas do not need to deploy field troops and replace them with patrol police. In this way, a lot of field troops can be released!"

Zhao Dongyun listened to the crowd and said again, and also opened his mouth after looking around.

"The north-south and west three-line defense should be built no matter what!" Zhao Dongyun said while thinking, "In this way, the 9th Division will be transferred to Harbin to garrison!"

"Cao Kuan, take the fifth mixed brigade to Andong!"

"The tenth division transferred a standard to garrison, and the division and the main force are stationed in Shenyang!"

"The Second Cavalry Brigade is stationed in Liaoyang!"

After saying that, Zhao Dongyun looked back at the military map behind him, then turned over the report on the patrol in his hand, and then continued: "Now the patrol police are too scattered. Although the equipment is slightly outdated, they should still take more important responsibility in this way to take the remaining six patrol police camps in Fengtian. Continue to be combined into two patrol regiments, and the 18 patrol battalions in Heilongjiang and Jilin provinces are also combined into six patrol regiments. In terms of numbers, do not use the previous provincial numbers, but uniformly use the number of 'Fengtian Army'.

The first patrol regiment is still stationed in Shenyang, the second patrol regiment is still stationed in Jinzhou, and the third patrol regiment is stationed in Huludao! In the rest of the patrol regiment, Harbin, Changchun, Zhaowuda League, Suifen and Manchuria all need to be stationed one by one. At that time, the staff will make a detailed defense plan, and I will take a look!"

Zhao Dongyun has always liked to be arbitrary about these major militaries. He knows that the Soviet generals have also used the word 'recommendation' many times in meetings before, especially Yang Deming, the head of the combat department who formulated a detailed battle plan, never said the word 'decision', although it is true International operations and defense affairs are all handled by the operations department, but at least on the surface, these decisions are made by Zhao Dongyun himself, and the subordinate departments of the staff department only provide various suggestions.

In the above defense, although Harbin went to a 9th Division, today's 9th Division still lacks an infantry brigade and an artillery battalion, with a total strength of less than 10,000, which can be said to be seriously dissatisfied. Andong went to Cao Kuan's fifth mixed brigade, and Cao Kuan's fifth mixed brigade also became an army for more than a month. There was only one infantry standard and two teams of artillery, and he was also dissatisfied.

The only area where the situation is better is Yingkou, Liaoyang and Shenyang. The 10th Division is relatively complete, and there is also a second cavalry brigade

Due to the thin military strength in the above direction, a large number of auxiliary troops are needed to fill some vacancies, which is also the reason why Zhao Dongyun decided to further integrate the patrol.

The patrolman is a kind of army anyway. Although the combat effectiveness is a little poor, after the battle arrives at the station, it is barely possible to dig fortifications in peacetime and undertake logistical escort and guard secondary fronts in wartime.

"After the police are transferred, it may have a certain impact on local public security, so that you are ready to suppress bandits, especially the large number of bandits in Heilongjiang and Jilin provinces must not be tolerated. I hope to see preliminary results within three months!"

There are as many bandits in Northeast China, and since he stationed in Jinzhou, Zhao Dongyun has often suppress bandits. On the one hand, it is to clean up local public security, and on the other hand, it also allows soldiers to see blood and increase a little practical experience. Of course, if you are lucky, you can also get more than 100,000 taels of silver. .

Nowadays, the Soviet family has a big business, and the hundreds of thousands of taels of silver from the suppression of bandits have been a drop in their bucket, but it's better than nothing. No matter how small the mosquito is, it is meat!

"In addition, the Mongolian grassland cannot be relaxed. The work of suppressing bandits should go deep into Mongolia to solve security threats for local herdsmen. Only when the Mongolian grassland area in the west is safe can we recruit more cavalry and buy more horses from there!"

Compare with other warlords in China, in fact, Zhao Dongyun's most advantageous is not the artillery or infantry, but the cavalry!

In contemporary China, there is a cavalry brigade, and only the Soviet family.

Before entering the customs, there were nine full cavalry regiments in the Soviet system. Now, after months of expansion and rectification, although some of the cavalry brigades have also been weakened, the six cavalry regiments of the two cavalry brigades are still full, and the other three division cavalry regiments have also replenished the cavalry units one after another, and at the same time It was formed into three cavalry companies of mixed brigades.

In addition, the patrol also reorganized three patrol cavalry battalions through the reorganization of the old army.

In addition to some of the cavalry recruited in Northeast China, Zhao Dongyun's cavalry mainly comes from the herdsmen on the Mongolian grassland. Many herdsmen often prepare their own horses when they come to recruit soldiers. These herdsmen with superb riding can become qualified modern light riders after preliminary gun training. Soldier.

At present, the total number of all kinds of cavalry under Zhao Dongyun has reached nearly 7,000, with 10,000 horseback riding. The cavalry strength is second only to the Cossack cavalry in the Russian Far East, which is more than the cavalry troops stationed in Japan.

Zhao Dongyun can't give up this cavalry advantage easily!

With the deployment of the three major defense lines and the topic of suppressing bandits, the sky gradually darkened!

"That's all for today. The remaining topics will be handed over to the staff tomorrow, and you all go back first!" This military affairs will never be finished. Zhao Dongyun does not intend to drag all the generals in Shenyang. Many of the generals present are going to lead troops to station in various places. For example, after Meng Enyuan hurried back to Shenyang this time, he will have to rush back to Yuguan tomorrow, otherwise what will happen in the Yuguan defense area. It's not a good thing if he, the supreme commander, is not here.

After driving out this group of generals, Zhao Dongyun was already hanging high when he returned to the backyard!

Li Wan listened to her big belly and wanted to take Zhao Dongyun's coat, but Zhao Dongyun said, "Don't walk around if it's inconvenient!"

Li Wan smiled, then took her coat and hung it on the hanger. Then she said, "Why is it so late? It's only the first day you came to Shenyang. Those adults outside are also ignorant and don't let you take a day off first!"

Zhao Dongyun took her hand and walked to the table: "It's all important. It's been delayed for a day. I'm afraid the people below will complain!"

Maybe a lot of military and political affairs are just trivial matters for Zhao Dongyun, but for many people, they are important things related to their future and life. For example, the affairs of Yingkou Industrial Zone may be a matter of two words for Zhao Dongyun, but this matter is Zhou Ziqi is already a springboard for the advanced core high-level officials of the Soviet system, and he wants to do it well and get the reuse of Zhao Dongyun. For many merchants in Yingkou, whether this industrial zone can be done or not is directly related to their lives.

The next day, Zhao Dongyun got up a little late. When he got up, the sun hung high. As soon as he got on the table, Butler Xu brought up the newspaper that had been ironed.

"Master, Director Li has arrived!"

Zhao Dongyun said, "He has been waiting for a long time. Let him come in first!"

In the past, Zhao Dongyun got up relatively early, and Li San, as the director of Zhao Dongyun's secretariat, basically waited for the same work and rest time as Zhao Dongyun at seven o'clock every day, and then accompanied Zhao Dongyun to start a day's work. Now that this time is approaching nine o'clock, Li San said less in the outer hall. I also waited for an hour and a half!

Not long after, Li San appeared in the restaurant. Today, Li San did not wear the military uniform of the past, but should wear a suit.

So far, Li San has actually been an active soldier and has the rank of colonel. However, he does not serve in the Fengtian Army Command or the field troops in the military system, but in the secretariat of the Patrol Office, which is an authentic civilian position, plus his hands. In the past, when his secretaries wore robes and vests, he wore military uniforms, but now he is in the Republic. His secretaries cut off their braids and put on suits. He, the director of the secretariat, is not good enough to wear military uniforms every day.

Zhao Dongyun did not notice the change in Li San's clothes, and did not look up. He was still eating breakfast and then reading the newspaper. During this period, a voice came out: "Have you had breakfast? If not, just sit down and eat!"

Li San wanted to say that he had eaten, but when he came to his mouth, he said, "It's early, and now I'm hungry!"

Li San, who has been with Zhao Dongyun for many years, naturally knows when to be polite and when to be polite to Zhao Dongyun. At present, this is the time when he should not be polite. If Zhao Dongyun casually says that he will stay with you for dinner at night, he will have to refuse most of the time, because Li San knows Zhao Dongyun usually uses this dinner with the two wives in the inner courtyard. On this occasion, it is usually a formal invitation, and then he has to bring his wife with him. It is not appropriate to go at will.

And like this morning, saying that we should have breakfast together is a kind of private encirclement, but it is not good to refuse.

Of course, the above idea is just Li San's idea, but it is very simple for Zhao Dongyun. It's just casual. It doesn't matter whether you eat or not.

Zhao Dongyun's mind is still in the newspaper. This newspaper has today's Shenyang newspaper, and there are also newspapers that were purchased from Tianjin and Shanghai and urgently sent back to Shenyang. On the side of the newspaper, there is also a report "Daily News" of the Intelligence Department, which is generally collected by the Intelligence Section through various means. Military and political affairs, mainly telecommunications from various places. For example, there is a telecom from Wuhan today, saying that Zhang Zhidong, Prime Minister of the Southern Federation, yesterday officially announced the formation of the First Army, Second Army and Third Army of the Northern Expeditionary Army, and will lead the army north soon.

However, there are too few personnel in the south of the Intelligence Section to find out the details of the three armies of the Northern Expedition for the time being, and even the chief officers of various ministries have not been able to find out.

After reading the newspaper, Zhao Dongyun stood up and walked out. Li San, who had eaten millet porridge all night, also stood up quickly and then followed Zhao Dongyun's pace!

After the two entered the front yard, Li San, who had automatically entered the working mode, said, "General Office of Zhao and Director Xiong are already waiting in the side hall, and Chief of Staff and Section Chief Yang have also arrived. Did the general see that first?"

Zhao Dongyun said, "Let Mr. Zhao come in first!"