Chapter 110: The Flood Stops

The difference between the border brigade and the mixed brigade of the Beiyang Army is not only in the name, establishment, scale, and treatment.

As far as the frontier brigade is concerned, the general frontier brigade is composed of three or four battalions, and there is no artillery, and Wang Maoru's 11 th garrison brigade has artillery, entirely because of his own money and Yuan Keding's help, it can be said that the number of ordinary frontier brigades does not exceed 2,000 people, and most of the border brigades have the phenomenon of empty salaries. It is not only the commanders who eat empty salaries for themselves, but a large part of this is that the treatment of the border brigade is very poor, and the military salary cannot be guaranteed to be paid in full, which leads the border brigade to use the air force salary to make up for the lack of military salary for the sergeants.

The scale of the Beiyang Army Mixed Brigade is normally two regiments and three battalions, and the three battalions are the guard battalion, the artillery battalion, and the cavalry battalion or baggage battalion. Under normal circumstances, there were seven battalions in total, with 3,500 to 4,500 men, and the military pay was paid according to 3,500 men. The War Department gave the 17th Mixed Brigade the number of the 142nd Regiment and the 143rd Regiment. However, because of the hurried march, Wang Maoru had no time to reorganize, and the army had just stabilized. is about to face the Mongolian bandits in the north, and if it is reorganized at this time, it will make the army's morale unstable and its combat effectiveness will decline. It was only temporarily upgraded the machine gun brigade to an artillery battalion, and the captain Liu Jian was promoted to the commander of the captain artillery battalion; The Special Service Brigade and part of the Guards were merged and mixed into the Guard Battalion, and the Captain of the Special Service Brigade, Gai Tianjiu, was promoted to the commander of the Captain Guard Battalion; The Baggage Brigade was renamed the Baggage Battalion, and the captain Wang Qiyuan was promoted to the commander of the Captain's Baggage Battalion. Among them, the reorganized guard battalion will assume the task of defending the headquarters headquarters and Wang Maoru, and the guards will be reduced to a 60-person elite guard team, which is only responsible for protecting Wang Maoru's own safety.

After Changchun announced the new appointment, everyone also knew in their hearts that the positions of the two commanders of the 142nd and 143rd regiments must have made great contributions to the eradication of the Mongolian bandits.

Along the official road from Changchun Mansion, the 17th Mixed Brigade began to walk in earnest, but Wang Maoru's army became a pack horse army at this time, and the soldiers did not have to work hard to carry nearly fifty pounds of heavy equipment. Of course, the weather is getting colder, so you don't have to worry about freezing in the car when you walk more.

Wang Maoru sent a cavalry battalion as the vanguard to arrive at Jilin Mansion in Yongji County first. However, when he arrived in Yongji, Gao Fengcheng, the commander of the 45th Brigade of the 23rd Division of the Jilin Army, led the army to wait for him, and announced that the 17th Mixed Brigade was forbidden to enter Yongji County.

Gong Xiaoqi, the commander of the cavalry battalion, was a stubborn and arrogant lord in his heart, and Shangguan Wang Maoru was valued by the president, so the 17th mixed brigade could almost be said to be the forbidden army of the great president Yuan Shikai, so he quarreled with Gao Fengcheng's subordinates. Gong Xiaoqi said that the marching route of the 17th Mixed Brigade had already been reported to the War Department, and the War Department had already approved it. Gao Fengcheng said that he had never received a letter from the Ministry of War and would never allow other troops to enter Yongji County. Gong Xiaoqi saw that the other party even lifted the cannon out, and the muzzle of the cannon was aimed at him, so he had no choice but to return to Wang Mao to report truthfully.

Wang Maoru summoned his subordinates to think about it again and again, saying that it must be Meng Enyuan, the old Beiyang, who looked down on him, so let's reroute to Jiutai County, pass through Yushu County, and then to Shuangcheng County, and arrive in Heilongjiang Province after crossing the river. The original plan was to take a boat north in Jilin Province, so that the speed of his march would be greatly reduced and the time would be increased.

Moreover, both Jiutai County and Yushu County are county towns with many mountains and few lands, and the army has to face the problem of being stationed in the field. Garrisoning troops in the wilderness not only has to face the invasion of wild beasts, but also the cold of the northeast. Don't underestimate the invasion of wild beasts in the wild, in the northeast, especially in the mountains and forests of the northeast where wolves are overflowing, Zhang Zuolin's communication soldiers who suppressed bandits even had to go together one platoon after another, and the soldiers of a squad were likely to be eaten by wolves. Now that it has entered the end of September, it will take at least two weeks to arrive in Heilongjiang Province, and it will be mid-October, with an autumn rain and a cold. Of course, there is also a difficult problem is the attack of bandits, who knows if in the northeast, where there are so many bandits, it is difficult to buy whether Meng Enyuan will play a little guerrilla warfare with himself.

After consulting with his men, it was decided to set out as soon as possible, and after hiring local guides, the 17th Brigade accelerated its march, marching for only a week, passing through Jiutai, Elm, and arriving at Shuangcheng. After coming to the twin cities, there was a new problem, and the entire Northeast was flooded. However, this flood was not big, but the Songhua River in Jilin and the Nenjiang River in Heilongjiang were flooded. After the 17th Mixed Brigade arrived in Shuangcheng, Wang Maoru had no choice but to lead the team to stay in Shuangcheng County because of the flood. To his surprise, many young men from the Twin Cities wanted to join the army. Chief of Staff Zhu Yongquan is now in charge of raising the army, and originally planned to recruit a hundred people in the local area to serve as guides and people, but Hula came with more than 1,000 people. When asked, I found out that these people all live by the river, and now that their families have been affected by the disaster, seeing that this year will not be able to pass the New Year, it is better to join the army and get some reward money to settle in so that the family can survive this flood disaster.

Zhu Yongquan then asked Wang Maoru, and after thinking about it, Wang Maoru allowed these young and strong victims to join the army, only serving as soldiers in the supplementary battalion, and after the soldiers were on the spot, they recruited more than 3,000 people in six supplementary battalions. Taking advantage of the fact that the army was stranded in Shuangcheng County by floods, Wang Maoru began to train six supplementary battalions, and planned to form a new fourth infantry battalion, five infantry battalions, and six infantry battalions from the engineer brigade, baggage battalion, guard battalion, and supplementary battalion after the training. Two battalions are retained to replenish combat losses at any time and to serve as a vigilance and recruit training.

As the backbone of the old Fourth Battalion, the old Fourth Battalion will not be retained by transferring soldiers, and a little new recruits will be replenished, so as not to reduce the combat effectiveness of the old Fourth Battalion.

It is only the increase in the number of troops, but the overall combat effectiveness of the army has not increased, and this is also the disadvantage of the rash expansion of the 17th Mixed Brigade, which has expanded from an army of 3,400 troops to more than 6,400 people, plus a total of more than 7,000 people. Many of these peasant children were mixed with some people who could no longer be bandit beards due to the disaster, which also gave the gendarmerie brigade He Anding a big headache, these people were uneven, some were honest, some were suspicious, and a few days ago they caught someone for a while, and they were about to escape with an E1 rifle and were caught by the gendarmes. As is customary, the thirteen deserters were used by the recruits to train their courage.

He Anding reported that the gendarmerie company was overwhelmed and hoped to increase the number of gendarmerie companies; Wang Maoru thought about it, and specially ordered the gendarmerie brigade to have only more than 150 people, and in particular, the gendarmerie brigade was allowed to be expanded, and there were three gendarmerie squadrons under its jurisdiction, with a personnel limit of 300, and the total number of gendarmerie units was doubled. However, the gendarmerie could not recruit from among the common people like soldiers, but could only go to various armies to select people. Who in the old fourth battalion was willing to let him transfer the veterans, and they were shoddy, and the soldiers and recruits sent to He Anding were all soldiers and recruits, and some of them couldn't even shoot, which made He Anding very annoyed, and the lawsuit was brought to the headquarters, and naturally it was a mess in the end.

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