After appeasing the troops and government of Liaoning Province, Wang Maoru took the train north to visit Meng Enyuan, the governor of the northeast of Changchun, and learned that Meng Enyuan was seriously ill, and knew in his heart that he was sick with a heart, and sighed slightly This really can't let you uncle. He asked people to find a century-old ginseng and send it over, and then inspected the officers and soldiers of the 13th Division stationed in Changchun.

After his trip to Changchun was extremely short, Wang Maoru went north to Binjiang Prefecture and came to Harbin City, where he postponed his entertainment with the officials and first went to the First Division of the Northeast Frontier Army stationed in Harbin to visit the officers and men of the troops.

The first division was composed of the 1st Infantry Brigade, the 11th Brigade, and the 12th Brigade, and the division was equipped with 100 vehicles and 1,000 horses. The division also had four 122-mm guns that no other unit had, all four of which had been captured from the Russian Far Eastern Military District, one of which had been intercepted by Chinese workers during the Second Battle to Retake the Middle East, and the other three had been captured by surrendering Russian troops. These four 122-mm howitzer shells are not easy to get, and the Tsarist Russian army was also unable to bear to blow them up because of the lack of shells, so the squadron was cheaper.

Mi Shaobai, director of the General Logistics Department, tried his best to order 100 shells from Chile, and the price of each shell was as high as 380 yuan. Li Pinxian regarded these four cannons as treasures, and he couldn't wait to move the cannons to his division headquarters and sleep with them every day.

As soon as Wang Maoru came, Li Pinxian showed up, and Wang Maoru saw that the cannon was well maintained and said: "This cannon is good, I have seen the same size in Europe." With howitzers longer than this, it is estimated that the Fourth Division will be able to get back several 122mm howitzers of the same size when it comes back from Europe. Well, if anything, I'll divide you two more 122mm howitzers. ”

Li Pinxian was so happy that he even said that he must use it well.

Then Wang Maoru went to the newly built 14th Division, and Mao Ziping, the commander of the newly built 14th Division, had returned to the garrison and led his troops with peace of mind. The 14th Division had three infantry brigades, namely the 38th Brigade, the 39th Brigade, and the 40th Brigade. Among them, Guo Yingzhou, the former commander of the 40th Brigade, was detained pending trial, and the current commander of the 40th Brigade is Hu Yunshan, the former commander of the Independent Cavalry Battalion of the First Division. Wang Maoru has an impression of Hu Yunshan. This person was born as a bandit, and then surrendered to Xu Lanzhou, and Xu Lanzhou was defeated and returned to Wang Maoru. This man led the cavalry quite well. The battle was fierce, and when he was familiar with the characteristics of the bandits, he repeatedly made meritorious contributions and served as the deputy brigade commander of the 40th Brigade.

The 14th Division was a light infantry division, and the whole division basically only had rifles and machine guns, a small number of submachine guns, as for the artillery, there were only six 75 mountain guns, 12 65 mortars, and 40 self-produced 37 rocket launchers, as for the cars, there were only 20 cars, and only 100 horses. The 14th Division is not the main division, and its equipment is naturally inferior to that of the 1st Division, which makes many veterans transferred from the old army sigh: "The original mother's child has now become the stepmother's child." ”

Naturally, the soldiers' complaints could not be concealed from the officers. So when Wang Maoru inspected the 14th Division, Mao Ziping tried his best to pick up those neat troops, high morale, and unarmed troops to show Xiushuai, which means Xiushuai, you open your eyes and see, how poor we are, you can't favor one over the other. Wang Maoru smiled secretly in his heart, and naturally knew what he meant. Said Mao Ziping, you are useless, you are useless, come on, I will get you 200 submachine guns next month, at least ensure that every squad has submachine guns, right? Mao Ziping hurriedly said that this is good, this is the best, no matter how bad the firepower is, no.

Subsequently, Wang Maoru called the main generals of the two divisions together. said: "You must not relax this winter, we will have a large-scale military operation in the spring of next year." ”

Li Pinxian was surprised: "Xiushuai, have you decided to send troops south to dominate the Central Plains?" ”

Wang Maoru shook his head and said, "It's not going south, it's going north." ”

"Going north?" Everyone was puzzled again.

Zhang Xiaoxian, deputy chief of the General Staff, who accompanied him, said: "The special envoys of Germany, France, Britain, the United States, and Japan invited our government to formally intervene in the Russian civil war, and the government kicked the ball to Xiushuai. ”

Li Pinxian was puzzled: "Xiushuai sent troops to Tsarist Russia, this is ...... Good is good, but what benefits can we get by doing our best? ”

Wang Maoru said with a smile: "The benefits are naturally there, but I am preparing at this time, and I have to deal with the envoys of these five countries next, and our squadron must get great benefits, otherwise I won't do it." But on the whole, I'm going to send six to eight divisions, about 150,250,000 people. The 1st Division was the first unit to be identified, and the 14th Division remained in Harbin. As soon as China sent troops, the 1st Division immediately went to Manchuria to stand by. In Harbin, the 14th Division had to guard against enemies on two fronts, the Japanese on the one hand, and the regretful troops on the other hand, which might go to Vladivostok in the future. Therefore, you must train strictly this winter, especially winter combat training. ”

"Yes." Li Pinxian and Mao Ziping, two division commanders, said.

After the meeting, Wang Maoru took Zhang Xiaozhun back to his study in Harbin to study the development plan of the Northeast Frontier Army, but Zhang Xiaozhun was puzzled and uncertain: "Xiushuai, my Northeast Frontier Army must mix this pool of troubled waters?" ”

Wang Maoru said: "It's not about mixing, it's about taking the opportunity to regain the territory lost by China." ”

Zhang Xiaozhun smacked his lips, pondered for a moment and shook his head: "Whether it is Tsarist Russia or Soviet Russia, I'm afraid they won't let it go lightly." ”

Wang Maoru said with a smile: "That's natural, if any of them are gone, it will not be good for us in China, only if they keep fighting and fighting, this will be good for us." ”

Zhang Xiaozhun also smiled: "I was taught, I was taught." ”

Wang Maoru nodded, and then ordered: "Yunnong, next I will give you a task, to formulate a reserve plan and a militarized junior high school management method. ”

Wang Maoru has long wanted to formulate a complete reserve system, why did the Gui department repeatedly compete with the central army during the Republic of China, in addition to the famous generals in the Gui department. The complete reserve system of the Gui system also ensured the combat effectiveness of the soldiers and the army of the Gui system. Regarding the preparation of the reserves, Wang Maoru originally planned to hand it over to Guo Songling after he returned, but Guo Songling was too ambitious and was killed, so this plan could only be handed over to Zhang Xiaozhun. And the militarized management of primary schools is also part of the reserve, which belongs to the early reserve part.

The three eastern provinces and Mongolia are divided into junior primary school, upper primary school, and middle school according to the earliest education system. The four parts of university education are four years for junior primary school and four years for upper primary school. The secondary school is four years old, and the university is divided into three to five years. The primary schools of the militarized management system are mainly junior primary and upper primary schools. Let the child be trained from an early age, and when he grows up, he can become a soldier at any time, saving training time and investment. At the same time, the militarized training of children also trained the will, body and spirit of children, and could also cultivate a large number of soldiers loyal to Wang Maoru.

After listening to these two plans, Zhang Xiaozhun was shocked in his heart, if Xiushuai's two plans were implemented, after five years, the three eastern provinces and Mongolia would be all soldiers, and 22 million people could provide 4 million soldiers to fight. And what shocked him even more was that after the elementary school was militarized. The three eastern provinces and Mongolia will move towards the road of militarism, and the entire northeast and north of the river will be tied to the chariot.

Moreover, this chariot, especially the wild nature of the Chinese nation, which has suffered so much and so hard, once it is stimulated, with a huge population and a vast territory. With the vast resources of the Northeast, the Northeast will immediately become an unstoppable war machine. What are you going to do? Doesn't he know how strict it is to do this?

Militarism is a double-edged sword that hurts others and hurts oneself.

Zhang Xiaozhun went to find Wang Maoru again that night, but learned that Wang Maoru had returned home, so he went to General Shangwu's mansion, and Wang Maoru held his two sons, Zong Ding and Zong Fu. Showing a map to a child. Seeing that Zhang Xiaozhun came and asked Ma Liang to take the two little ones down, Wang Maoru smiled and said, "Yunnong, is there something to do with me so late?" ”

Zhang Xiaozhun said: "Xiushuai, I can go all out to implement the reserve system, but the management of militarized schools seems to be ...... I am not well prepared for my job. ”

Wang Maoru said with a smile: "Militarized primary school management and compulsory education are carried out together, and literacy education in the three eastern provinces and Mongolia should go hand in hand with the reserves, Yunnong does not need to be anxious, militarized school management can not be achieved overnight, nor is it a matter of one person and a group of people, which requires the efforts of more than 100,000 people for more than ten years." He spread out the map, Zhang Xiaozhun walked over, and saw that the map marked the proven resources of Northeast China and Inner Mongolia, and was very surprised: "There are so many gold and iron mines? ”

"Coal mines, copper mines, forest resources, land resources, arable land, pastures, fishing grounds, shipping, railways, and a lot of wildlife and so on." Wang Maoru stood up and said angrily: "The Northeast is like a piece of fat, the Russians and the Japanese are looking at it with fierce eyes, if there is no reserve, if we do not implement militarized management, how can we have the ability to protect ourselves." "In fact, there is one of the biggest resources in the Northeast, that is, the oil resources under Saltu, which is the real gold, black gold.

If you want to develop heavy industry and military development, the oil underground in Northeast China must be started, and to start Northeast Oil, it is inevitable to face the covetousness and aggression of Japan and Russia (or the Soviet Union), so a strong army and reserves are the guarantee of security. The road of militarism is certainly a double-edged sword, but in the era of life and death, there are no more worries.

The two sat down to carefully draw up a reserve plan, and since there was a long winter in the northeast, Zhang Xiaozhun raised the issue of winter reserve training. When winter comes, adult men go to various garrison sites for a month of military training, and one month a year is set aside for military training without affecting their lives and production.

Wang Maoru thought of the Switzerland of later generations, as a permanent neutral country in Europe, which had never been invaded by war, and the reason for this was that Switzerland had the most complete reserve system and war mobilization system in the world. Switzerland has a compulsory militia system in which all adult men between the ages of 18 and 42 undergo military training for 20 days every two years. The country has more than 40,000 people, but it can mobilize an army of 360,000 in 48 hours, and more than 1 million in a week. Every Swiss man has a complete set of combat training equipment, and the gun is kept at home, and once the information is received, he must return home, put on his military uniform, take his weapon, and rush to the assembly site within 48 hours of receiving the order.

If China also has the combat readiness capability of Switzerland, how powerful will it be, thinking about this dream, Wang Maoru feels fluttering.