According to the Nationalist Army's initial plan for expanding the army, the most important thing was to establish the main force of six mixed brigades, together with a German artillery regiment and a guard regiment, and the garrison and defense tasks in various localities would be handed over to the local garrison units.

Later, Chen Jingyun signed a secret agreement with Yue himself, obtained a loan of 15 million yuan, and used this batch of money to purchase heavy weapons and equipment for three artillery regiments and one 105 howitzer battalion, but the purchase of these heavy weapons did not affect the core planning of the six infantry brigades in the early stage.

The 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Brigades were the first units to be formed, and are currently stationed in Shaoxing, Zhejiang, Yanping, a major military town in Fujian, and Chaozhou, Guangdong. The Fourth Brigade, composed of the 7th and 8th Regiments, has gradually formed an army after the arrival of the first batch of German weapons, and is currently stepping up training in Fuzhou and Changle areas. However, the Fifth Brigade and the Sixth Brigade have not yet been formally formed, and the Ninth Regiment, the Tenth Regiment, the Eleventh Regiment, and the Twelfth Regiment under the reserve are still scattered in various localities to intensify training, and they are all equipped with some miscellaneous old guns.

In addition, the garrison battalions in various parts of Fujian Province have also been intensified along with the regiments of the Fifth Brigade and the Sixth Brigade, and the equipment, needless to say, is all old and old, and even the flintlock pistols in front have been taken out, but according to Chen Jingyun's ideas, these garrison troops are only used to suppress bandits and the like, and the most important role is to replenish qualified soldiers for the main force, and the equipment is acceptable.

According to Chen Jingyun's reorganization of the National Army Headquarters, the General Staff Department was responsible for operational planning, troop training, and other affairs, so the matter of organizing and training the garrison troops fell on Feng Qin.

Feng Qin naturally understood the situation of the various troops under his command, and immediately said: "According to the plan, a total of 12 garrison battalions have been organized and trained in the province, which are divided into four regiments and deployed in various places. ”

After hearing this, Chen Jingyun nodded, and once again set his eyes on the large military map of the area near Fujian on the wall, which marked various units of the Nationalist Army, as well as other armies in Guangdong, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, and other places.

"Now that the local garrison troops have been organized and trained, then they should accept the tasks of garrisoning the places and suppressing bandits as soon as possible, so that the main force can free up their hands!" Chen Jingyun pointed to the map as he spoke: "The Ninth Regiment of Ouning has been transferred back to Fuzhou, and the Tenth Regiment of Zhangzhou has also been transferred back to Fuzhou to prepare for the formation of the Fifth Brigade, and the newly formed Twelfth Regiment in Fuzhou will also step up its training and prepare to form the Sixth Brigade with the Eleventh Regiment of Fuding." ”

Feng Qin wrote it down and asked: "Now these four regiments are not equipped with the same equipment, in addition to a considerable part of Hanyang-made, there are also all kinds of old-style guns and weapons, I don't know if the next batch of German weapons is suitable to arrive?" ”

After Feng Qin said that, Chen Jingyun looked at Ouyang Tian, the Minister of Equipment, Lin Chengkun was in charge of the equipment in the early stage, and after the establishment of the Equipment Department, Ouyang Tian of the Equipment Department was in charge.

Ouyang Tian immediately said: "According to the agreement, the second batch of purchased German [***] weapons should arrive in the next few days, and I also talked with Henry of Lihe Foreign Company before, and he said that the cargo ship transporting ordnance has arrived in Hong Kong, and it will not take a few days to arrive in Fuzhou." ”

Chen Jingyun also nodded after hearing this, due to the lack of arsenals in Fujian's military and political axes, if you want to expand the army, you must rely on a large number of purchased arms in the early stage, whether it is German weapons or weapons, it is the same reason. In particular, heavy weapons such as artillery have to rely on outsourcing.

Ouyang Tiandao: "This second batch of ordnance is much more than the first batch, and it is the majority of this military purchase. Including all the remaining 75-mm field guns, mountain guns, 60-mm mountain guns, light and heavy machine guns, 20,000 refurbished Mauser 88s, and a considerable number of pistols. This batch of munitions is huge, accounting for eighty percent of the arms purchase, and after arrival, how to distribute the various ministries and the payment of ordnance money is still for the governor's instructions! ”

According to the arms purchase contract, it was divided into three batches of deliveries, the first batch was the arms allocated by Lihe Foreign Company in the Far East, the quantity was relatively small, the second batch was the key point, accounting for 80% of the arms purchase, and the third batch was 105 howitzers and the 5,000 brand new 88 rifles and a considerable part of the pistols and ammunition.

Since the German armament is about to arrive, then there will be no delay, and it must be arranged in advance now, so as not to be fought for by the heads of various ministries at that time.

Chen Jingyun said: "You don't have to worry about the ordnance money, I have asked Chief An to prepare in advance." Since the ordnance has arrived, then according to the previous army building plan, the equipment owed by the various ministries is complete. "According to the previous expansion plan, in addition to the corresponding long and short guns, the six main brigades also have six 60 mm rapid-fire mountain guns, 12 heavy machine guns, and 18 light machine guns.

"The 75-millimeter artillery that arrived and the original 75-caliber field artillery and mountain artillery together form a reading artillery regiment!" Chen Jingyun had already trained the manpower in advance for this artillery regiment, and he was waiting for the equipment to arrive.

Chen Jingyun's words were simple, but in fact, since the signing of the contract, the General Staff Department had been planning and preparing and equipping the corresponding weapons, and what came out of Chen Jingyun's mouth today was just a general confirmation.

"Then the guns and weapons originally equipped by the Fifth Brigade and the Sixth Brigade can be transferred to the local garrison forces." Feng Qin suggested.

"Well, this is natural, the local garrison is short of weapons now, so replace them with these first!" Chen Jingyun said.

At this time, Lin Chengkun on the side said: "Governor, after the arrival of this contract, after the six brigades are assigned according to the establishment, there will probably be nearly 10,000 rifles left, so you can't let them be stored in the warehouse!" You see, now that our military strength is tight, should we train another brigade? ”

Chen Jingyun naturally knew about this, when he bought the ordnance, he expected more rifles, originally to consider the expansion of the army and consumption, but he didn't expect to say that it could be nearly 10,000 more.

However, even with this batch of rifles, you can't blindly expand the army, you must know that the expansion of the army is not just with these nearly 10,000 rifles, but also with the corresponding heavy weapons and most importantly, the cost of personnel.

In the near future, Fujian's finances of the Sixth Brigade and One Regiment will no longer be able to bear it, not to mention that it will not be long before the weapons arrive, and the expansion of the three artillery regiments and one howitzer battalion.

It's not enough to spend money to buy so many guns for him to stay in the warehouse and rust, so he immediately said: "In this way, the guard regiment will be promoted to a guard brigade establishment, with two regiments under its jurisdiction!" ”

Chen Jingyun was still very cautious in this move, but he only gave one more regiment to the establishment, and did not have the idea of expanding the army on a large scale.

As Ouyang Tian said, on the 29th, the cargo ship of Lihe Foreign Bank arrived in Fuzhou, and after paying for the goods, a large number of ordnance and equipment were sent to various units of the National Army.

The next day, Chen Jingyun announced the formal formation of the Fifth Brigade, and transferred Lin Feitai, who was far away in Shaoxing, to serve as the commander of the Fifth Brigade, and Zhuang Xianhe as the deputy brigade commander.

At the same time, Chen Jingyun transferred the newly established Reading Artillery Regiment to Zhejiang, which was under the jurisdiction of Ma Cheng. If Chen Jingyun smoothly sends the troops to Zhejiang, then the military strength of the Nationalist Army in Zhejiang will reach the strength of two mixed brigades, an artillery regiment and two local garrison regiments, generally speaking, it seems that there is already the size of a division on the surface, as for the actual combat effectiveness, Chen Jingyun has no bottom in his heart, the old foundation of the Nationalist Army is the Tenth Town, and the army has been greatly expanded in the past few months, and the original proportion of veterans has dropped again and again, resulting in the vast majority of the tens of thousands of troops of the Nationalist Army. Especially the Fourth Brigade and the Guard Brigade, which is also the fundamental reason why Chen Jingyun did not send the Fourth Brigade, which had already become an army, to Zhejiang, and he really didn't trust these recruit units. Although the Fifth Brigade has just been formed, Zhuang Xianhe's Ninth Regiment is an old foundation, and its combat effectiveness is not weak, and the Tenth Regiment transferred from Zhangzhou is also composed of veterans of the original patrol battalion.

As soon as the Fifth Brigade was launched, a team of more than 50 advisers sent by the side according to the secret agreement arrived in Fuzhou, and they were accompanied by the first batch of delivered artillery pieces, for the sake of those artillery, Chen Jingyun was quite enthusiastic about these people, and arranged for some people to go to the Fuzhou Military Academy as instructors, and then according to the agreement, five or six people were left to serve as Chen Jingyun's personal advisers, and the rest were military advisers, among which artillery was the worst, and Chen Jingyun was not afraid of them peeping at intelligence or something. They are sent to the various units below as military advisers.

Although he knew in his heart that he didn't have any good intentions, Chen Jingyun didn't care, what he cared about was the combat effectiveness of the army. You must know that the Nationalist Army has just started, and on the surface there are already six brigades of main combat units, but their military quality is extremely poor, and although this group of military advisers has not very good intentions, there is one thing that cannot be denied, that is, their arrival will accelerate the regularization of the Nationalist Army.

As for whether he will be spied on military intelligence and the like, it is not within Chen Jingyun's scope of consideration at all, because almost all the senior and senior officers in the middle [***] team in this year are still officers, and the national army is naturally not exempt from vulgarity, including Chen Jingyun himself, who was born as a Lu sergeant. This was originally the army that was built by the scholars, and almost everything was learned by the people who learned it, so naturally they were not afraid of any espionage and the like. As for the feelings of the nation and the country, they are all words that politicians say to ordinary people, and they are just talking about it, but it is not interesting to take it seriously. To put it more extremely, almost all of China's major leaders in modern history have bought countries, and none of them are exceptions, but this does not prevent some of them from becoming great men, and the reason is simple, because they succeeded, and as for those who failed, almost all of them were named traitors.

The winner is the king, and the loser is the villain, these eight words are enough to summarize the entire history of mankind.

That part of the artillery also allowed Chen Jingyun to organize into an artillery regiment according to the plan, but Chen Jingyun did not send this artillery regiment, but continued to stay in Fuzhou, on the one hand, to step up training, cultivate follow-up artillery talents, and on the other hand, to consolidate Fuzhou's defense.

Fuzhou has stationed a fourth brigade, the twelfth regiment, a guard brigade and an artillery regiment, and so many troops are not used to see, mainly to prevent other people in the city from making trouble or the generals under them from mutiny. In the final analysis, Chen Jingyun still doesn't believe in others, needless to say, Zheng Zuyin, Lin Wenying and the like, Chen Jingyun guards against them every day, even Ma Cheng, Yuan Fang, Li Jimin and others who are his henchmen Chen Jingyun is not completely at ease, the brigade commanders and deputy brigade commanders of several brigades are almost not on the same path with each other, and this move is naturally to contain the main generals in the army.

When Chen Jingyun was busy expanding the army, training the army, and dispatching troops in Fuzhou, the war in Hubei seemed to have calmed down, and Duan Qirui had just arrived in Hubei and ordered to stop the shelling of Wuchang, and at the same time began secret contact with Li Yuanhong.

After nearly half a month of preparation, Xu Shaozhen finally launched a general attack on Nanjing, and Zhang Xun, who guarded Nanjing, was also a stubborn person, although the troops were at a disadvantage, he still resisted stubbornly, causing heavy casualties to the southern coalition forces.

During this period, Huang Xing arrived in Nanjing and wanted to take over the command, but instead of ushering in the expected welcome, he spoke coldly, which made him depressed, and then he simply did not talk about it, and single-mindedly contacted Sun Wen and persuaded Sun Wen to return to China as soon as possible.

But Sun Wen is still 'fundraising' abroad! said that he would not be able to come back in a short time, and asked the domestic revolutionaries to fight bravely and overthrow the Manchu Qing Dynasty as soon as possible.

In the face of Sun Wen's postponement, a number of high-level Kuomintang leaders in China were extremely dissatisfied, and Song Jiaoren even scratched the entourage, almost directly scolding Sun Wen for not daring to return to China for fear of death.