readx; Chen Jingyun was also silent when he heard this, he naturally thought about expanding the army, but to consider the actual situation, the existing financial support of twelve divisions is already very difficult, if the army continues to expand, there will be no need for the Beiyang Army to fight at that time, and he will be crushed by military spending after a long time, but the shortage of troops is also a real problem. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

"In this way, don't we still have a lot of garrison regiments, although these troops are not strong in combat, they can also be transferred as a supplement when necessary!" Chen Jingyun said.

Yuan Fang was embarrassed, the local garrison regiments under the current national army system are empty shelves, and they are even inferior to the two garrison divisions trained by the original national army. First of all, the quality of the personnel is poor, because the military salary of the local garrison regiment is low, only less than half of the regular army, but only four yuan, so it also leads to the poor quality of the personnel, because those who have good quality and conditions basically enter the regular army and get full salaries, and many of the local garrison regiments are local soldiers, the old, weak, sick and disabled, and most of them are not satisfied with the formation. The weapons and equipment are also extremely poor, some Hanyang-made guns plus some miscellaneous guns, and even single-shot rear-loading guns, there is even less training, and many soldiers are estimated to have not fired much live ammunition. It's okay to suppress the Diao people in Pingyue, and it's okay to fight bandits, but in regular combat, it is estimated that they will have to run out when the Beiyang Army comes after a burst of artillery.

At present, the Nationalist Army is following the same line as the elite troops of the former Qing Dynasty, with the Beiyang Army as the main combat objective, and the regular army of a division is calculated in the millions of dollars, and the total cost of those local garrison regiments is less than one million a year, but there are 15 regiments, each with 1,000 to 1,500 people, and the total number of people is nearly 20,000.

Therefore, it is too reluctant to pull these local garrison regiments up to fight with the Beiyang regular army, not to mention that they can't win, and in the end, a large number of casualties will have to make the national army pay a large amount of pension and treatment expenses, which is too much to cost. If it is necessary to transfer local garrison regiments to participate in the war, it is better to directly form a new regular army.

Therefore, Yuan Fang also said truthfully after showing his embarrassment: "The combat effectiveness of the local garrison regiment is really limited now, and if it is a regular battle, it is estimated that more than 1,000 people in a regiment of the local garrison regiment will not be able to defeat even a company of our army's field division." If you are transferred to the war, it will only increase casualties, and even cause chaos! ”

Yuan Fang said the truth, there is still a factual basis, the number of people in a company of the national army is not large, more than 100 people, but the weapons and equipment are much better, rifles are good, pistols are good, and machine guns and mortars will be strengthened during the battle, this kind of firepower is not something that the militia can resist, not to mention the gap between the quality of soldiers and various training between the two, there is no comparison at all.

When Chen Jingyun saw him say this, he also dispelled this idea, but if the new unit was established, the cost would be too great, and now the Nationalist Army has not even been able to complete the reorganization of the existing troops, and the artillery regiment of the 11th Division has not yet been traced.

After thinking for a while, Chen Jingyun said: "What do the staff officers think of the mixed brigade establishment in Beiyang? ”

"Mixed brigade formation? Didn't we do it before? Yuan Fang was puzzled, the Nationalist Army was built into a mixed brigade at the beginning, but at that time, because of the lack of heavy weapons and the small number of troops, it had to reduce its establishment, and then concentrate heavy firepower on one front. Later, when the Nationalist Army developed, it was reorganized into a four-regiment division of the three infantry regiments and one artillery regiment. In general, it is weaker than the Beiyang integrated division, but stronger than the Beiyang mixed brigade. Isn't it the old way to go back if you mix it up and become a brigade now?

Chen Jingyun said: "Now we are the same as at the beginning, we still lack heavy weapons, you also know how much an artillery regiment costs, in order to assign an artillery regiment to the 11th Division, we have sent a lot of money to the Americans. Moreover, now a division is equipped with 20 field guns and 12 mountain guns to maneuver in the plains or relying on railways, but the maneuver in the mountains is very poor. Moreover, field artillery is much more expensive than mountain artillery, and if it is mixed up into a brigade, it will be equipped with a mountain artillery battalion, plus the basic firepower of mortars can also be guaranteed, and maneuvering in mountainous areas can also be achieved. ”

Yuan Fang made a silent calculation in his heart and said: "If a mixed brigade of this size is formed, I am afraid that the number of people is nearly five thousand, but if there are two battalions of field artillery, the cost will drop a lot, but a mixed brigade of this size will be very difficult to face a division in Beiyang in the future!" ”

Chen Jingyun said: "Our enemies are not only Beiyang! ”

As soon as Chen Jingyun's words came out, Yuan Fang had already guessed the potential meaning of Chen Jingyun's words, that is, this newly formed mixed brigade was used in the southern mountainous areas, and to put it bluntly, it was used to deal with other warlords in the south. The troops of other warlords in the south could not be compared with the Beiyang Army, the most typical being the Gui Army and the Dian Army, the Gui Army adopted a small division structure, and the same four-regiment system as the Nationalist Army, but their artillery regiment was an empty shelf, and the infantry regiment was much smaller, and a division was only seven or eight thousand people. In addition to the two integrated divisions, which are two brigades and one regiment like the Beiyang Army, the Yunnan Army also adopts the establishment of mixed brigades, with a number of only four or five thousand, and a lack of heavy weapons and equipment, which cannot be compared with the Nationalist Army and Beiyang.

If the Nationalist Army is organized into a mixed brigade, a battalion of mountain artillery and mortars is enough to determine the superiority in firepower. In addition, the southern provinces, whether it is Shanxi, Guangdong, Guangxi and other provinces, are mainly mountainous and hilly, and the main force of the Nationalist Army will be inconvenient to maneuver because it is equipped with a large number of field artillery, but if it is a mixed brigade with mountain artillery and mortars, then it can raise the mobile surname.

If this mixed brigade is used in these places, then it will be able to free up the main force of the Nationalist Army and devote itself to the battle against the Beiyang Army.

Thinking about it like this, Yuan Fang felt that this matter was feasible, and immediately said: "The commander will wait a few days, and the staff will come up with a detailed plan for the commander to see!" ”

After saying that, he said: "If the mixed brigade is formed, the third division will be able to come back from Guangzhou, and the fourth army will be free, and there will be no need to take on the task of garrisoning the west of the river." ”

Chen Jingyun said: "The staff department has made detailed plans, but one thing in advance, even if it is a mixed brigade, it can't expand the army too much, I think two brigades are planned first." ”

Although there was no new division this time, the Nationalist Army planned to establish two mixed brigades, and gave the names of the First Mixed Brigade of the National Army and the Second Mixed Brigade of the National Army. In order to form an army as soon as possible, after the General Staff Department made a detailed plan, Chen Jingyun personally ordered an infantry battalion to be drawn from each regiment under the Third Division to form an infantry regiment, and one and three battalions from each regiment of the Tenth Division to make up two infantry regiments, and the mountain artillery battalion of the Third Division was also directly transferred. After such integration, the First Mixed Brigade of the Nationalist Army was established and stationed in northern Guangdong.

In addition, the 8th and 9th Divisions also transferred troops from battalions to form the Second Mixed Brigade of the National Army and stationed in Yanping. Since it is a ready-made unit that is directly transferred, there is no problem such as the training of new recruits, and what is lacking is only the run-in of the troops, and if nothing else, it will soon be able to form combat effectiveness. As for the units of the 3rd, 10th, 8th, and 9th Divisions that have been transferred, they will continue to provide new recruits for supplementary training, and it will not take too long for the soldiers of the old units to receive training from the new barracks to be able to regain their combat effectiveness, which is much easier than forming a new unit. Although this will cause the combat effectiveness of these main divisions to decline in a short period of time, the price paid for the expansion of the army can still be bearable.

Chen Jingyun, the commander of the two mixed brigades, did not give much thought to it, and directly appointed Major General Wen Jizhong, chief of staff of the Fourth Army, as commander of the Second Mixed Brigade, and the former chief of staff of the Fourth Army was taken over by Colonel Luo Xu, commander of the Third Regiment of the First Division, and was promoted to major general. Colonel Sun Yiliang, commander of the 1st Regiment of the 4th Division, was transferred to the commander of the 1st Mixed Brigade and promoted to the rank of major general.

Any expansion of the army is to give subordinate generals the opportunity to be promoted, this time the national army has two more major generals, and at the same time vacated a lot of positions, such as the position of several regiment commanders, these medium-range positions will naturally have a lot of people staring at, so the promotion is a big deal, after all, this promotion is to involve the whole body, someone will climb up will vacate the position, leaving the people below to take the position.

While the Nationalist Army was busy forming two mixed brigades, the Nationalist Army was also making other noises. The day after the big loan came out, the propaganda department of the National Army began to publicize the whole situation, and what was the content of the propaganda? Beiyang traitor!

The Nationalist Army, contrary to the usual practice of keeping a low profile and not expressing its views on other domestic affairs, publicly issued a number of telegrams condemning Beiyang, saying that the loan signed by Beiyang was no less jumpy than any humiliating treaty signed by the former Qing Dynasty, and that even if the former Qing Dynasty was incapable of buying again, it did not mortgage the salt administration, let alone use the political axe finance as collateral. Directly say that Beiyang has become an agent of the great powers to oppress the Chinese people, and now it is mortgaged with the finances of the four provinces, then it will be mortgaged with the national finances in the future: at that time, will China still be the China of the Chinese?

Anyway, the Beiyang Army is about to go south, and its face has been torn during the last war in southern Jiangsu, and now it doesn't matter if it is torn again, so the scolding of the National Army is called a happy one, and he completely forgot that Chen Jingyun originally asked for a loan and said, "When I borrowed money, I also used Yanzheng as collateral, and I also accepted my financial supervision."

Now that things are no longer right or wrong, what the Nationalist Army has to do now is to put itself in the perspective of justice, at least in the eyes of those people who do not understand the truth of the matter, the Nationalist Army represents justice, especially the people in Fujian and Zhejiang provinces, and they must make them think that the Nationalist Army is right and the Beiyang Army is a traitor.

The Nationalist Army proclaimed so openly, and the Beiyang Army was not to be outdone, and many pencils began to scold the Nationalist Army for being such a traitor, and Chen Jingyun was a warlord who read talents, and he even repeatedly undermined domestic peace, so he almost said that Chen Jingyun was a demon who everyone was punished for.

When the two sides scolded the war, other people felt the tension, more people remembered half a year ago before the war in southern Jiangsu, the two sides also scolded and scolded and fought, people are expecting, the next war in southern Jiangsu is not far away, the people in southern Jiangsu once again panicked and left their homes, went to Shanghai, Hangzhou to avoid trouble, especially in Nanjing, a large number of people fled, so as not to be affected by the war as last time. In the last war in southern Jiangsu, although there were many casualties among the soldiers on both sides, there were more casualties among the people, but at that time, no one cared about the lives of the people, and in the end they could not figure out how many people were killed or injured in the war.

The atmosphere of the Nationalist Army and the Beiyang Army became more and more tense, and Sun Wen and Huang Xing of the Kuomintang also fanned the flames, and at one time they said that Chen Jingyun was a warlord who was a scholar to destroy domestic peace, and that southern Jiangsu was an area controlled by the revolutionary party, and demanded that Chen Jingyun withdraw from southern Jiangsu and return those territories to Huang Xing. On the other hand, he said that Yuan Shikai betrayed the country, and said that the large-scale loan treaty signed for the aftermath was the largest traitorous treaty in the history of the country, and the Kuomintang, as the representative of justice, would never recognize this treaty.