The formation of the First Army did cause quite a stir in the Liaodong Army. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

But with Yang Xingguo's words, at the latest, the Liaodong Army will form a second army, and the army commander will be selected among the remaining four division commanders.

Several main divisions of the Liaodong Army were like clockwork war machines, and they began to train desperately to improve their combat effectiveness.

Yan Bing, who held the scarce weapons and ammunition in the customs in one hand and the silver in the other. In the absence of an opposition from the imperial court, wherever he went, he was warmly welcomed by the local government.

In the end, in just one month, Yan Bing used up more than half of the Japanese-style weapons in the inventory of the Liaodong Army.

These weapons, which were in high demand in the Guannai, not only brought a steady stream of sufficient food to the Liaodong Army, but also brought nearly one million immigrants. As for these immigrants, they were directly sent by the Liaodong Army to Chaoyang that had just been taken down.

During this period, the radio station that Yang Xingguo bought with a large sum of money also arrived.

Using the 10 German radio communication troops who came together, the Liaodong Military Academy took advantage of the situation to set up a radio communication class to train radio communication troops for the Liaodong Army. ”

At this time, the customs were also very lively, and the imperial court forbidden army, under the leadership of Yuan Shikai, began to be reorganized.

The forbidden army of more than 20,000 people, although all of them were Manchus, and all of them were senior officers above the battalion management band, all of whom were Manchu generals appointed by the imperial court and considered themselves loyal to the imperial court.

However, there was one thing that the imperial court did not expect.

That is, the low-level officers of the army, whether a unit has strong combat effectiveness, the commander is important. But the real decisive factor was the low-level officers who dealt with ordinary soldiers every day.

Yuan Shikai refused to kick them out of the forbidden army on the grounds that the low-level officers of the original forbidden army were not familiar with the new weapons and could not be used again.

Then a large number of low-level officers from Manchu origin were transferred from the Beiyang Army into the forbidden army.

On the one hand, the imperial court did not pay much attention to these low-level officers, believing that the commander of the forbidden army of the two towns was his own people, and the forbidden army of the two towns was his own people.

On the other hand, the low-level officers drawn by Yuan Shikai from the Beiyang Army were all Manchus, and in the eyes of the imperial court, no matter how long these people stayed in the Beiyang Army, the hearts of the Manchus were still towards the Manchus.

It was these two reasons that made the imperial court not only not oppose, but also supported Yuan Shikai to transfer low-level officers from the Beiyang Army to join the forbidden army.

Yuan Shikai thought carefully, under the nose of the imperial court, when he did something to the forbidden army of the two towns.

The Beiyang Army of the Three Towns also began to expand under the order of Yuan Shikai.

Each association was expanded into a town, and the co-leader was directly promoted to the rank of commander or deputy commander.

However, what made Xu Shichang aggrieved was that after the order to expand the army and recruit troops was issued, after half a month, the recruitment offices in various places had recruited less than 10,000 recruits, which was still a big gap from the goal of 30,000 recruits.

Xu Shichang, who received the news, did not dare to slack off, and immediately summoned all the people in the Governor's Mansion who could speak to discuss the solution.

"My lord, it's normal that the troops can't recruit soldiers. There were very few people outside the Kansai, and the Russo-Japanese War forced many people to go to the mountains to become bandits, and even fewer people could serve as soldiers. If we can recruit 10,000 recruits in half a month, it is because of the high salary of our Beiyang Army, and if it is a patrol battalion recruitment, it is already thankful that we can recruit 5,000 people. The middle-aged general, who had been the commander of the patrol battalion in Mukden for several years, said after a long sigh.

Governor Xu Shichang frowned, and said unconvinced: "Then why can the Liaodong Army recruit soldiers." The Liaodong Army only has dozens of county towns in Liaodong, but it has recruited 60,000 or 70,000 elites, and if you add the Liaodong Army who died in the battle with the two major powers of Japan and Russia, 100,000 people will definitely be indispensable. ”

The commander of the patrol battalion smiled bitterly and said: "My lord, you don't know the Liaodong Army, most of the soldiers of the Liaodong Army are not from the Northeast. ”

"Where is that, is there still someone from the inside who came to Liaodong to join the Liaodong Army?" Xu Shichang seemed to hear a big joke, and asked with a look of disbelief.

"Most of the soldiers of the Liaodong Army are really from Guannei!" The commander of the patrol battalion continued to smile bitterly.

Seeing that Xu Shichang still had a disbelieving expression on his face, the commander had to explain: "My lord, you should know about the emigration of the Liaodong Army from the Guannei, not to mention more, there must be two million people. ”

"Those who can be immigrated to outside the border are definitely people who can't survive. In addition, the military salary offered by the Liaodong Army is very high, and many people who immigrated to Liaodong rushed to join the Liaodong Army, get military salaries, and support their families. ”

Recruiting 70,000 or 80,000 soldiers from among the two million immigrants is not a problem at all. ”

"In addition to the immigrants from the Guannei, the bandits in the middle of the mountains outside the activities are also a supplementary source of troops for the Liaodong Army."

"According to the last general's understanding, after the establishment of the Liaodong Army, nearly 10,000 bandits in the entire Liaodong were surrounded and suppressed by the Liaodong Army. Except for a few bandits who were angry with the people, they were killed by the Liaodong Army, and all the remaining bandits were recruited by the Liaodong Army and joined the Liaodong Army. ”

Xu Shichang's eyes lit up and replied: "Suppress bandits, immigrants, since the Liaodong Army can do it, we can also do it." ”

"Order the new army of the three towns scattered in the three eastern provinces, each of them to send a target force, with heavy machine guns and artillery, to suppress bandits around the station. All the bandits who surrendered were sent back for screening, and those who were angry were shot directly, and all those who were not angry were incorporated into the recruit units. ”

"As for immigration, I will discuss with the marshal, let the marshal play the imperial court, and immigrate at least one million people from Hebei and other places to Guanwai to supplement the lack of population outside Guanxi."

In the north, there is the Liaodong Army, the Imperial Court, and the Beiyang Army, which are three-legged.

On the surface, the imperial court was still the actual ruler, but both the Liaodong Army and the Beiyang Army were developing and accumulating reality.

Similarly, the south is not quiet.

Because Yan Bing sold weapons in the southern provinces, a large number of weapons and ammunition were sent to the people.

This is definitely a good thing for the revolutionary party in the South outside the activity.

Over the past few years, the revolutionary party has organized uprisings in the south on more than one occasion, but in the end they have either failed or failed because of the lack of weapons and ammunition.

Now that the Liaodong Army had sold a large number of Japanese-style weapons and ammunition to the south, the revolutionary party no longer needed to worry about weapons.

As long as you have silver, you can buy both short and long guns, and even light and heavy machine guns.

With weapons and ammunition, the revolutionary party, which was not willing to be lonely, began to gear up and prepare for a big fight in the south, at least to burn the flames of revolution in one province and then spread outward step by step.

Several feudal officials appointed by the imperial court were not fools, and the increasingly active revolutionaries had long attracted their attention.

Therefore, they are also preparing for changes after the undercurrent surges.

In troubled times, having an army means having rights, so everyone is desperately expanding the new army in their own jurisdiction and increasing their life-saving capital in the changing situation.

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