11 Army Reform Proposal

Huang Xing and Xu Shaozhen are the commanders of the armies in Nanjing, including Zhu Rui, the commander-in-chief of the First Division of the Zhejiang Army, Fan Guangqi, the commander-in-chief of the Iron-blooded Army, Hong Chengdian, the commander of the vanguard of the Shanghai Army, Li Xiehe, the commander of the Guangfu Army, Mao Nafeng, the commander of the Nanjing Gendarmerie, Yao Yuping, the commander of the Guangdong Army, Wu Zhongxin, the Jiangning Police Director, and the branches under the garrison's Office. More than 20 people, including the district commander, held a meeting to decide on measures to maintain public security, issued notices, and issued several sections of the march law.

"The military laws of the Revolutionary Army have been unified, and all military commanders are requested to instruct the following generals to earnestly follow." Huang Xing said, "In addition, in urban and rural areas, thieves are full of thieves and small nights are rampant. At night, they block the road and grab things. During the day, they sell stolen goods on the street, or there are unworthy soldiers. In the name of inspection, they enter others privately and plunder without permission, so that the walkers are a warning. Therefore, the Department of the Army also needs to promulgated a temporary military law to maintain local public security.

"How to write the temporary military law to maintain local security, please speak freely." Xu Shaozhen, the garrison commander of the Nanjing Provisional Government, said with a smile on his face.

"Use the heavy code in troubled times!" Mao Nefeng, the commander of the Nanjing Gendarmerie, said that it was his job to restrain the soldiers who broke the law and discipline, and he had to pay attention to it. Arbitrary abators, strong women, unauthorized killing of good people, unauthorized sealing of people's house property, hard moving good people's box cages and money are extremely evil. If it is done by some unworthy revolutionary soldiers, it will damage the reputation of our revolutionary army, and they must be shot!"

"Those who extort forced buying and hurt others in private fights to plead guilty." Fan Guangqi, the commander-in-chief of the Iron-blooded Army, patted the table and shouted, "Those who enter private houses, steal, gamble, and drink alcohol will be punished."

Wu Zhongxin, director of Jiangning Police, laughed and said, "Commander Mao and Commander Fan can rest assured that I caught one and shot one. Whether he is a corrupt revolutionary army soldier or a green skin who took advantage of the fire, one counts as one. The body hangs to the crossroads and writes their crimes. Let's see who dares to do illegal things. ? "

"I don't see it," Li Xie, the commander of the Restoration Army, who sat aside for a long time, said, "Why are there soldiers who privately enter others in the name of inspection and do looting without permission? Just because the military law is not strictly restrained? I'm afraid not. Soldiers can't get the military's uniform. Can they not make trouble? All will be suppressed by military law. If this situation continues, it will be a mutiny.

Huang Xing was also very worried about military expenses. He blushed and waved his hand and said, "Mr. Sun Yat-sen took a detour to Europe on his way back to China and talked about borrowing with the United States and Britain. Outsiders said that as long as the revolutionaries gained power, they would agree to borrow money. Don't worry, Mr. Zhongshan has served as the president of the Nanjing government, and the loan will soon be echoed.

Zhu Rui, the commander of the First Division of the Zhejiang Army, said with a smile, "It's so good that we can rest assured. You don't know that my brothers are pestering me for money every day. I don't dare to see them these days. I've been hiding in the east.

Yao Yuping, the commander of the Guangdong Army, stood up excitedly, "As long as the military expenditure is not a risk, the Northern Expedition is just a matter of one's fingers!"

As she was talking, Miss Song hurried in and did not salute. She just nodded to the generals and went straight to Huang Xing and whispered a few words.

Huang Xing looked happy and ordered, "Please let him in!" He turned his face and said to everyone, "Well, the chief planner of the revolutionary army is here!"

Everyone calm down immediately. The ground evil in Nanjing, Huang Xing and Sun Yat-sen just finalized last night that the provisional government will strengthen military and political construction while rectifying military discipline. This matter has been known in the streets this morning. Everyone knows that the temporary president, Jian, is Huang Xing and the director and chief of staff of the base camp, Niu Yongjian is the second supervisor and deputy chief of staff of the base camp, Lan Tianwei is the governor of Guanwai and the commander-in-chief of the Second Army of the Northern Expedition, and Tan Renfeng is the envoy of the Northern Expedition. The troops gathered in Nanjing include not only the Zhejiang Army, the Shanghai Army, the Guangfu Army, the Soviet Army, the Guangdong Army, the Jiangxi Army, the Marine Corps, but also various famous death squads and volunteer teams organized by the revolutionaries, as well as Fan Guangqi's Iron-blooded Army, Lin Zongyun's Women's National Army, etc. The number is no more than 300,000. These armies will be reorganized into two. Eleven divisions.

What is the specific content of the reorganization proposed by Li Xiang? Although they don't know yet, these powerful generals who are afraid of Nanjing need not to think about it. It is nothing more than the reduction, reconstruction and training of 300,000 revolutionary troops in Nanjing. They advocate that the Nanjing Provisional Government should focus its military power on the powerful central government. The government will eradicate all centrifugal forces by drastic means and carry out all necessary reforms to strengthen the authority of the central government. Crazy Li should be the suggestions put forward by these aspects that have won the praise of President Sun and President Huang.

This will undoubtedly touch the interests of the generals present, so it is inevitable to be hated by these powerful generals present.

For a moment, Li Xiang, dressed in a luxury military uniform with a leather stand-up collar, came in. When he saw Huang Xing, he hurriedly saluted and said, "I'm here to fight the Northern Expedition." He bowed calmly to everyone, "Good day, generals!"

"The discussion of the Northern Expedition is not urgent." Huang Xing said, "The adaptation of the Revolutionary Army is your opinion. I would like to ask you the specific strategy of the adaptation?"

"No problem!" Li wanted to say that he had never seen a pig running and had eaten pork. As a Chinese, no one knows the legend adapted from Sanwan. In those years, the material life of the Red Army was so thin and the battles were so frequent. If it had not been adapted by the Three Bays, they would have become bandits according to the laws of history. From the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom at the end of the Qing Dynasty to the White Wolf Peasant Uprising at the beginning of the People's Republic of China, this is proof. To take a step back, if the alliance will hold the gun tightly, even if Sun Yat-sen gives way to Yuan Shikai, does Yuan Shikai still dare to restore the dictatorship?

Zhu Rui, the commander of the first division of the Zhejiang Army, did not hide his hatred for him and asked strangely, "I would like to hear more about it!"

Li Xiang blinked and smiled, "The principle of my adaptation of the revolutionary army is very simple, that is, the party command gun!"

"What arrogance!" Li Xiehe, the commander of the Guangfu Army, couldn't sit still as soon as he heard it. He patted the case and shouted, "The alliance will be so ambitious!"

Huang Xing was also shocked by Li Xiang's crazy words.

Li Xiang couldn't help laughing and said, "Commander Li, I have no knowledge. I want to solve the problem of how to build the revolutionary army with the peasants and the new soldiers of the Man Ting as the main components into a real national revolutionary army, so as to ensure the absolute leadership of the revolutionary party over the army and lay the foundation for political construction. "

Li wants to suppress them with righteousness, but these people are not vegetarians. Yao Yuping, the commander of the Guangdong Army, stood up and looked at Li Xiang and said, "If it's not led by the Alliance, it's not the Revolutionary Army?"

Immediately, several non-allied generals also stood up against it. The debate in the room was very fierce and the discussion was extremely hot.

Li Xiang smiled patiently and said, "I still remember that it shocked the Qing court greatly when Nanjing Guangfu was restored. However, now the 300,000 troops are not moving forward, and a sense of peace, compromise and war-weariness envelops the whole army. Why is there a depressed mood in the army? Many officers who have stayed abroad and the elites of some revolutionaries saw that the north and the south were negotiating, and they made comments one after another, and went on the path of rebellion and abandoning the revolution or negative. The opposition to the Northern Expedition and the promotion of Yuan Shikai has become an open matter..."

"Is it as serious as you said?" Fan Guangqi, the commander-in-chief of the Iron-blooded Army, turned his eyes and pretended to meditate.

"I'm afraid the extent of the military's laxity is more serious than what I said." Li thought, "Although many of the revolutionary armies in Nanjing are revolutionaries, they have not formed a strong organizational core and no clear action plan. Most of the military commanders are students of the Japanese Army Officer School. They are all military expertise, but many people have not been trained in more actual wars. Their command ability is weak. The old set of methods of leading troops hinders the consistency of officers and soldiers.

Although they don't admit what Li wants to say, they have already admitted it in their hearts, which is one of the reasons for their lack of confidence in the Northern Expedition.

"I have observed that any company with a certain number of revolutionaries has high morale and is brave in battle." Li wanted to say. In the battle to restore Nanjing, you should have a deep understanding of it.

"Hm?" Xu Shaozhen looked at Li Xiang and said, "That's really the case!" Everyone also nodded.

"Since you agree with my discovery," Li Xiang's eyes turned around and waved his hand with such a great man. "Well, whether it's the Alliance or the Restoration Council, why don't you develop more brave soldiers to join the club and build the party on the company! It is an important guarantee for the victory of the revolution to lay party building in the company and play the role of a fortress. It is an important guarantee for the victory of the revolution.

These words made everyone stunned.

This is how Li Xiang said the "Party Command Gun", even Huang Xing didn't expect it. Li Shang can be regarded as a bold counselor. Huang Xing couldn't help thinking, "At the beginning, it would be better to make him the second supervisor and deputy chief of staff of the Northern Expedition base camp!"

Huang Xing looked extremely excited, and carefully combed Li Xiang's theory in his mind. He praised, "Good job, but I can't see that you really brought us a surprise!" He walked two steps on the ground with his hands behind his back and said, "What else do you have for the adaptation of the Nanjing Revolutionary Army? Give me all the bamboo tube and say it out."

"Not much, just three." Li thought, "First, that's what I just said, to establish a party organization in the army, so that there is a branch in the company, a party committee in the battalion and regiment, and a party representative above the company; second, some of them are unwilling to stay in the team, and the camp bastards who are not active in fighting, and the army will be reduced."

"What is the specific method of downsizing and editing?" Huang Xing asked.

"It is downsizing and refined with the principle of reducing large units and enriching small units, especially the combat effectiveness of troops below the regiment." Li wanted to say that he was getting more and more excited. "The reorganization division of the Nanjing Revolutionary Army is composed of two brigades and four regiments. The division directly belongs to a cavalry company, an artillery regiment, as well as an engineering battalion and a special agent company. If there are no conditions to set up an engineering battalion and a communication battalion for the time being, you can set up an engineering company and a communication company first. The army should focus on strengthening the construction of artillery. I have a hunch that the queen of arms will be artillery in the future.

These adaptation methods that Li Xiang said, regardless of the prejudices of political parties, are also very useful to these generals. Even Li Xiehe, the commander of the Restoration Army, also pricked up his ears and listened carefully.

Li Xiang continued: "Each division should try to be assigned to an artillery regiment with three artillery camps, including a mountain artillery battalion, a wild artillery battalion and a 105mm howitzer battalion. If conditions do not allow, then in order to make up for the lack of artillery fire, I suggest that the adaptation division can compile a small number of advanced large-caliber heavy artillery into independent artillery brigades or artillery regiments, use them in a unified way, and centrally allocate firepower, so as to carry out combat artillery support. In terms of light weapons, the weapon system should be unified, the original situation of weapons should be changed, and a repair house should be set up in the division system to be responsible for the maintenance and repair of weapons.

"What about the third?" Huang Xing couldn't wait to ask.

"Third," Li wanted to see their amazing appearance and said proudly, "It is stipulated that officers and commanders should not fight soldiers, and officers and soldiers should be treated equally, establish a soldier committee, participate in the management of the army, and assist in political work and mass work. The soldiers' committee is democratically elected by all soldiers. Under the guidance of the Party branch, it carries out publicity and organizes the work of the masses, organizes and leads the cultural and entertainment life of soldiers, and supervises the economic expenditure and food management of the army.

All the stars were stunned. Li Xiang suggested that they all felt very reliable in the previous two days, but they thought this one was very bullshit! Soldiers take obedience as their vocation. Even if it is a model country of Western democracy andcivilization, the army is also the most autocratic place. Li wants to bring democracy into the army, which is really unprecedented and unprecedented bullshit!

"Li Shuai, I really admire the first two suggestions!" Zhu Rui looked at Li Xiang, who was still full of books, and smiled at the suggestion on his paper, "But I don't agree with the third one. If you say a lot of words to those bastards, it's better to whip him. You are going to be polite to these Qiu Ba. How can the army deal with it? How to bring it? How can we fight?"

Li Xiang was slightly stunned and said with a smile, "This reorganization of the Nanjing Revolutionary Army is to implement democracy. Naturally, the National Revolutionary Army also needs to distinguish the army of the full court, and it is also to unite the vast number of soldiers and disintegrate the enemy army. Most of the officers in our uprising troops came from the Manchu Qing army. The remaining habits of the old feudal army were relatively serious, and the phenomenon of beating and scolding soldiers at will often occurred. I know that before the uprising, the officers had four dishes and one soup for each meal, while the soldiers had a rough meal, and the treatment of officers and soldiers was extremely unequal. This unequal treatment has formed a rebellious mentality among the soldiers, dividing the officers and soldiers into two completely different camps, which directly affects the unity between the officers and soldiers and the combat effectiveness of the troops.

"Everyone knows this truth. In ancient times, famous generals share joys and sorrows with soldiers, so that the generals and soldiers can work together, fight with high spirits, and create a great career." Huang Xing nodded and smiled at the big guy, "But if you really want to do it, there is not much you can do."

"Otherwise, the famous generals will flood!" Lixiang also said with a smile, "Since we have such an understanding, we are so self-disciplined, and we are not far from the road of famous generals. Thousands of miles is trampled under our feet, and the famous generals are made by our hard-working self-requirements. All bad systems and habits in the army can also be eliminated by decisively taking many revolutionary measures. For example, the Soldiers Committee is passive to make us self-discipline. To oppose a set of ways to lead the old army requires democratic reform!"

Li wants to see the generals present one by one, and most of them are very young: "Most of you are like me. They were just junior officers before the revolution. I don't think people have been beaten and scolded by their superiors. They can best understand the expectations of soldiers for the democratic reform of the army, soldiers. The committee is a form of organization to achieve democracy. We must give the Soldiers Committee a lot of power. Officers must be supervised by the Soldiers Committee, do wrong things, be criticized by the Soldiers Committee, and even sanctioned. On the surface, it seems that doing so will encourage the idea of democratization and egalitarianism, but the main problem at this time is that we must resolutely oppose a set of methods of leading the old army and establish the relationship between officers and soldiers of the new type of the National Revolutionary Army - the unity of soldiers. The reality of the current revolutionary army is that democracy is not enough, not the problem of extreme democratization and egalitarianism. Therefore, only in this way can the remnants of warlords be eliminated more thoroughly and effectively. Only with democracy can we improve the awareness of the masses and establish a consolidated concentration. Therefore, whether to adapt and train the army and whether it can completely change the inequality of officers and soldiers in the past not only determines the nature of the army, but also determines whether the army is competent for more and more frequent and cruel battles. Only by making soldiers the masters of the army can the army be cohesive to the soldiers, can the soldiers unite the masses closely, and the troops burst into super combat effectiveness. This is extremely important for the battle of the Beiyang Army, whose weapons and equipment are dozens or hundreds of times stronger than us in the upcoming Northern Expedition. . "

Huang Xing also hurriedly asked, "What are the functions and powers of the Soldiers Committee?"

"There are five main tasks of the Soldiers Committee: the first is to participate in the management of the army; the second is to maintain the discipline of the Red Army; the third is to supervise the army economy; the fourth is to do mass movements; the fifth is to do political education for soldiers." Li wanted to say, "The specific method is to set up a soldier committee in the army, regiment, battalion and company, and the officer is also a soldier committee. The whole company's soldiers' congress elected five to seven or nine people to be the executive committee of the company's committee, and one chairman was elected. The soldiers committee of the whole battalion shall be formed according to one representative for every five people in the battalion, and eleven to thirteen people shall be elected to organize the battalion executive committee, and one person shall be elected as the chairman. According to the number of people in the regiment, one representative for every ten people shall be elected to organize the representative meeting of the whole regiment, and 17 to 19 people shall be elected to organize the executive committee, and one person shall be elected as the chairman. The whole army organizes the representative meeting of the whole army according to 30 to 50 representatives, elects 19 to 21 or 23 people to organize the sergeant executive committee, elects one person as the chairman, and the sergeant executive committee selects five to seven members as the standing committee. There is no organ of the Standing Committee, and the Standing Committee of the Legion has set up an opportunity to do daily work in the Political Department, and the Standing Committee of the Camp does not have an organ.

Li Xiang slowed down and continued to say, "In addition, in the relationship between the Commission and the military organs, the Commission can only suggest or question a certain issue, and cannot directly interfere and deal with it. The meeting of the Commission must be attended by party representatives, which is equivalent to the nature of a political adviser. In extraordinary times, Party representatives can liberate the Commission, or not allow it to hold a meeting, and resort to the Commission. This is also to prevent some extreme democratization from spreading in the army, so you should rest assured.

"I'm still worried! I agree with the first two, and I don't agree with the last one. Yao Yuping straightened his tongue and said loudly with a strong Cantonese accent.

The mood of the people in the house suddenly became active. They have commented on Li Xiang for three days. In the end, the third point is the third point. It can be said that comrades are single-hearted and resolutely disagree!

Huang Xing loved the third article, but at this time, he could not go against the will of the public. Finally, he abandoned the democratic reform of the third article of the army. At the same time, according to the first two suggestions of Li Xiang, he compiled a Proposal for the Reform of the Army of the Chinese National Revolutionary Army, which was discussed for more than half an hour, and it was all dark. It's just settled.

Looking at these powerful generals who dispersed, Li wanted to secretly hold Huang Xing and made sure that there was no one left or right before whispering: "The new editor must completely break the original personnel and be mixed by officers at all levels from different units to completely eliminate the phenomenon of factions within the army and establish a completely new type. The army. This is especially a great change in the status quo of factional party struggle in the army.

Huang Xing was silent for a moment, and then nodded slowly.