After the removal of Ren Guodong, the rest of Xu Lanzhou's original department had a large number of people, and they had no opinion on Wang Maoru, and they were just fighting as soldiers in these years. All they have opinions about is Ren Guodong, an anti-bone boy. He served as their brigade commander, and these old Xu Lanzhou troops were not convinced. Wang Maoru's actions also made the rest of Xu Lanzhou return to their hearts, stabilize the army, and express their loyalty.

While sorting out the army, Wang Maoru's ambition began a new round of expansion, he was not satisfied that he was just a local warlord, how much could this be? If his own army is reorganized into the Heilongjiang Army, it will be difficult for him to become a local warlord in the future like the Ji Army and the Feng Army. Then if you still work hard, you might as well stay in Hulunbuir, your purpose is not to be a local small warlord.

The Heilongjiang Provincial Army, in the final analysis, is still a local army.

Therefore, Wang Maoru, despite the opposition of his staff, asked Duan Qirui, premier of the State Council, to report that the Heilongjiang Provincial Army would be reorganized into a unit of the Northern Military Region of the Frontier Army. The provincial army was reorganized without notice from the Beiyang Military Government, and all the armies of Heilongjiang, including the new army, the old army, the patrol battalion, the forest ranger, and the river protection team, were temporarily reorganized into the troops of the Northern Military Region of the Border Army.

They are the 1st to 7th Infantry Brigades of the Border Guards, the 8th and 9th Cavalry Brigades, and the 10th Artillery Brigade.

Among them, the First Infantry Brigade was reorganized from the original Li Delin Brigade, with three regiments, a guard battalion, an artillery battalion, and a cavalry battalion.

The 2nd Infantry Brigade was reorganized from Ren Guodong's Brigade. It has three infantry regiments. Guard battalion, artillery battalion, cavalry battalion, brigade commander Ren Yuanxing, deputy brigade commander Chen Wenlie, the number of soldiers is 8,000 people.

The Third Infantry Brigade was reorganized from Zhao Zengfu's Brigade, with three infantry regiments, a guard battalion, an artillery battalion, and a cavalry battalion. Brigade commander Zhao Zengfu, deputy brigade commander Du Baosan, and 8,000 soldiers.

The Fourth Infantry Brigade was reorganized from the Chen Fugui Brigade and had three infantry regiments under its command. Guard battalion, artillery battalion, cavalry battalion, brigade commander Gai Tianjiu, deputy brigade commander Xue Xinghua, the number of soldiers is 8,000 people.

The Fifth Infantry Brigade was reorganized from Li Pinxian's Brigade and had three infantry regiments, a guard battalion, an artillery battalion, and a cavalry battalion. Brigade Commander Li Pinxian, Deputy Brigade Commander Chen Fugui, and 8,000 soldiers.

The Sixth Infantry Brigade was reorganized from the patrol battalions and Zhang Kuiwu's supplementary brigade, and had three infantry regiments, a guard battalion, and a cavalry battalion, with brigade commander Zhang Kuiwu and deputy brigade commander Xiong Bingtao, with 6,000 soldiers.

The 7th Infantry Brigade was reorganized from the former Guard Brigade, patrol battalions and baggage battalions. It has three infantry regiments, a machine gun battalion, a cavalry battalion, brigade commander Wang Qiyuan, and deputy brigade commander Lu Fang. The 7th Infantry Brigade is also known as the Garrison Brigade because it is only responsible for defending the headquarters of the headquarters. Five thousand soldiers.

The Eighth Cavalry Brigade was reorganized from the Gong Xiaoqi Cavalry Brigade, with two cavalry regiments under its jurisdiction, the brigade commander Gong Xiaoqi, the deputy brigade commander Jia Gang, and 4,000 soldiers.

The Ninth Cavalry Brigade was reorganized from the Baying Cavalry Brigade and the Humeng Cavalry Independent Regiment, with two cavalry regiments under its command. Long Qing, deputy brigade commander Ba Ying'e, the number of soldiers is 4,000 people.

The 10th Artillery Brigade was reorganized from the Liu Jian Artillery Brigade and the Xu Lanzhou Artillery Regiment, with three artillery regiments under its jurisdiction, brigade commander Liu Jian, deputy brigade commander Wang Younian, chief of staff Wei Chenglin, and 4,000 soldiers.

In addition, the Heilongjiang Provincial Police, Forest Ranger Team, Road Protection Team, Marine Police Force, and Fire Brigade are about to be reorganized, and they will change their uniforms and take up their posts.

Wang Maoru transferred some officers from various armies to the Yakeshi Army Noncommissioned Officer Academy for further study, and transferred some former Yakeshi Military Academy student officers to the grassroots level of the army. For example, Ma Liang, Zhao Baochang, Gao Shulin, Chai Shirong, Ma Haoming, Wang Licheng and other short-term graduates, who spent six months to one year of advanced study at the Yakeshi Army Noncommissioned Officer Academy, were also assigned to the army to serve as company commanders and deputy company commanders.

At the same time as adjusting the officers, Wang Maoru also ordered that the military expenses and salaries of all border guards should be issued by the General Staff Office of the Headquarters, and that the military salaries of all border soldiers should be uniformly distributed by the General Staff Office to the designated account of the Chinese Bank.

The Supervision Department and the Military Judge Advocate General's Office will be responsible for rectifying the situation of corruption in the armed forces from now on, and any act of embezzling military spending will be severely punished. As soon as this order came out, some of the old army officers in the army resigned one after another, and Wang Maoru naturally allowed to resign.

In this military reform, Yingshun's cavalry brigade was completely dispersed, and together with the cavalry of the patrol battalions of various counties in the province, it was combined into six cavalry battalions, which were merged into six infantry brigades as cavalry battalions directly under the brigade. And Shang Yuanqing, who was originally hoping to be promoted, made an old mistake again, and after drinking, he spoke wildly, slapped the table and had an argument with Ba Ying. Wang Maoru also had a headache for this guy, this Shang Yuanqing didn't have many problems, but he offended everyone with just one mouth, so he had to let him return to the Dashuai Guard as the captain of the guard. Qiao Sanbang served as the captain of the infantry of the Grand Marshal Guards, and Shang Jianwei served as the captain of the Cavalry Guard. Yun Suo, the former captain of the guard, was transferred to the First Infantry Brigade and promoted to battalion commander, and Zhang Jinlong, the former deputy captain of the guard, was transferred to the Fourth Infantry Brigade as the battalion commander.

As soon as the appointment of military personnel ended, the Heilongjiang Provincial Army Preparatory Office once again issued the guidelines for the ranks of soldiers in the Northern Military Region of the Border Army, which are roughly the same as those of the Beiyang Army, and the military ranks are divided into four levels, namely, soldier, lieutenant, colonel, and general. The soldiers were private, private, corporal, sergeant, sergeant. The lieutenants are warrant officer, second lieutenant, lieutenant, captain. The officers were majors, lieutenant colonels, colonels. The generals are tentatively designated as brigadier generals, major generals, lieutenant generals, and generals. Wang Maoru was appointed by Yuan Shikai as a martial general, a military envoy, and a general. After Duan Qirui's Beiyang government took power, because of the consolidation of the government's stability, Wang Maoru was specially awarded the rank of general. The General Staff requires that, except in exceptional circumstances, all officers with the rank of lieutenant or above must continue to train or graduate from the Army's non-commissioned officer cadets. And Wang Maoru also realized a problem, that is, the limitations of the Yakeshi Army Non-commissioned Officer Academy, that is, the Non-commissioned Officer Academy is only a school for training non-commissioned officers, just like the Japanese Army Non-commissioned Officer College. Graduates here are only responsible for commanding battles below the battalion level (or below the brigade level in Japan).

When armies have moved from skirmishes to campaigns. Throughout the history of the Republic of China, only the Army University in Beijing has trained a number of officers at and above the division and regimental levels, while the Whampoa Military Academy, the Baoding Army Noncommissioned Officers Academy, and various local military academies were all established for the purpose of training ground-based officers. At this time, Wang Maoru was desperate for his old friend Jiang Fangzhen to help him, and he was a joke, but he didn't expect it to come true three years later, and he really became an overseer. Wang Maoru immediately sent someone to find Jiang Fangzhen's news. It turned out that General Cai Ye was ill at this time, and Jiang Fangzhen accompanied him to Japan and accompanied Cai Ye for treatment in Japan. He immediately sent someone to contact Jiang Fangzhen. Suddenly it occurred to me that there was not a non-commissioned officer trio at the Japanese Army Non-commissioned Officer Academy, so I asked people who the three non-commissioned officers were.

Adjutant General Wei Dongling said: "This non-commissioned officer Sanjie did indeed raise the face of the Chinese at the beginning, and there is a story in this. ”

Wang Maoru was curious and said, "Tell me this story." ”

Wei Dongling said: "The three heroes of this non-commissioned officer are Jiang Fangzhen, Zhang Xiaozhun and Cai Yi, and the three of them are graduates of the third phase of non-commissioned officers of the Qing Army in Japan. Jiang Fangzhen is in the infantry section, Zhang Xiaozhun is in the engineer section, and Cai Ye is in the cavalry section. They graduated from the 16th class of the Japanese Army Non-commissioned Officer Academy, at the time of graduation. Prince Fushiminomiya of Japan personally came to the school to present graduation certificates and reward outstanding students, and at the general meeting of the school's graduation ceremony, the first place awarded was our mother Jiang Baili, a Chinese, who took the sword from the Japanese emperor as a matter of course. This Prince Fushimi Palace chuckled in his heart, and hurriedly read out the second place, to his surprise, the second place was actually our Chinese Cai Gong. According to the rules, the top three are entitled to the emperor's sword, and if the top three emperor's swords are all taken away by the Chinese, where will Xiao Dongyang's face go. Prince Fushiminomiya. Looking down at the list again, my legs and stomach were weak with fright, and it turned out that the third place was obviously written by Chinese Zhang Xiaohuai. Prince Fushiminomiya was embarrassed and panicked, and felt that he could not explain to the emperor, so he had to do nothing. From the back rankings, Japanese students were replaced as the third and fourth places, and in the end, Zhang Xiaohuai succumbed to the fifth! Because of the excellent grades. Zhang Xiaohuai, Jiang Fangzhen and Cai Yi were praised as the three outstanding Chinese non-commissioned officers by the teachers and students of the school. ”

Sixteenth? Wang Maoru thought for a while and asked with a smile: "Do you know who else is famous after they graduated at the same time?" I'm talking about classmates, whether they're Japanese or Chinese. ”

Wei Dongling said in his heart Fortunately, I heard you yesterday, and I prepared for a night in the evening, and he was originally a graduate of the Japanese Army Non-commissioned Officer Academy, and he knew the alumni and seniors well, and the memory in his mind flashed out, and said: "The Chinese students who graduated in Japan at the same time are now famous Xu Chongzhi, Qu Tongfeng, Zhou Wenbing, Zhang Songbai, Chen Wenyun, Fu Liangzuo, Zhu Wenzao, and President Jiang Fangzhen's Japanese classmates in the same period are Seishiro Itagaki, Ninji Okamura, Kenji Dohihara, Toshiyoshi Ando, Tetsuyama Nagata, and Toshiro Ohata. ”

Hearing the names of these Japanese, Wang Maoru frowned, this is the sixteenth phase of the Japanese Army Non-commissioned Officer Academy, but this is a celebrity, not only Chinese celebrities, but also the backbone of the Japanese army in the future.

"What do you mean, Dashuai?" Wei Dongling asked tentatively.

"It would be nice if all these people were used by me." Wang Maoru sighed.

Wei Dongling was surprised: "Marshal, do you want the Japanese to come here for our army?" ”

"Fart, I mean, Cai Ye and Jiang Fangzhen them." Wang Maoru couldn't laugh or cry.

Wei Dongling patted his chest and was startled, and said, "Fortunately, fortunately." ”

"Contact Zhang Xiaozhun and Jiang Fangzhen immediately and invite them to come to Heilongjiang." Wang Maoru said.

"Yes."

Wang Maoru was not satisfied that he became the general of the Republic of China at the age of twenty-nine, and his promotion speed was second only to Cai Yi.

In history, Cai Ye was also twenty-nine years old when the governor of Yunnan was named a general - when Yunnan became independent, except for the rebel soldiers besieging the Yamen Mansion, there really was no regular battle, most of them were active uprisings, and less than half of them were surrendered immediately as soon as the rebel army arrived. Yuan Shikai ordered that Cai Ye actually stepped down from his post as an overseer and went to the War Department of the Beiyang Government to become a senior civilian official - this is impossible for any modern person to do, after all, it is clear who is more important than the overseer with 100,000 heavy troops and the nominal War Department officials.