The surrender of Xu Jingqing's headquarters and the reception of Shaowu Mansion marked that the main areas in Fujian Province had been completely controlled by the military and political axes!

Of course, this thorough control is confined to the areas above the county level, and as for the rural areas below the county level, which is confined to the political structure of the late Qing Dynasty, it is still controlled by the local gentry, and this situation cannot be changed in a short time, and what can really be improved can only be fundamentally solved when the political axe at the township and town levels is established.

In the Governor's Mansion, Chen Jingyun said while looking at the Fujian Provincial Region: "Li Jimin did a good job this time, and he was able to take Jianning without being injured, which is not a small credit!" Go back and send him a telegram of praise in my name! ”

Feng Qin on the side said: "I understand, there are a lot of bandits over there in Jianning, do you want the Second Brigade to stay there for a while, and exterminate the bandits while retraining!" ”

Chen Jingyun shook his head: "The transportation in Jianning is inconvenient, and it will be very difficult to replenish, and there is no need to keep so many troops to suppress bandits!" ”

Chen Jingyun put his eyes on the map on the table, and said after a long time: "Call Ouning, transfer a battalion from the third regiment to supplement the ninth regiment, and then let Zhuang Xianhe's ninth regiment garrison Ouning to eliminate banditry in Jianning Mansion." Li Jimin was ordered to lead the third regiment back to Nanping, and the troops were surrendered to supplement the third regiment first, and most of them were brought to Nanping. ”

After saying this, Chen Jingyun took his eyes off the map, then turned around and continued: "The Ninth Regiment is composed of soldiers of the New Army, and its combat effectiveness is not bad. Zhao Danyang, Chief of Staff Feng, I plan to set up a local garrison force, which will be equipped with the existing old miscellaneous guns, and will not be equipped with machine guns.

Chen Jingyun has long been involved in the local garrison, but in the past, the focus was on the main force, and there was not much demand for the local garrison, but now it is different, the national army has controlled the whole province of Fujian, but the main force is scattered in several places, resulting in a serious shortage of troops, so there is no need to waste the main force on the garrison.

"The local garrison troops also belong to the combat force, under the jurisdiction of the headquarters, and a battalion is stationed in an important area of each state capital, which is mainly used to garrison the locality, eliminate bandits, and replenish the battle losses of the main force if necessary!" After Chen Jingyun finished speaking, Feng Qin was puzzled: "In this way, I'm afraid there will be at least twelve battalions, even if the number is less than that of the regular infantry battalion and the equipment is worse, but I'm afraid the cost is not small!" ”

Chen Jingyun had already expected him to say this: "If we don't establish a local garrison, then how many regiments do you think we need to arrange in Fujian Province?" Three or four? I think twelve garrison battalions cost much less than three infantry regiments. More importantly, these garrisons can replenish the battle losses of the main forces at critical moments, which is like the reserve system in the western region! Now we can't establish a national reserve system like the great powers, but we can reserve reserves through garrison battalions! ”

Hearing Chen Jingyun's explanation, Feng Qin stopped talking, anyway, it was not himself who was worried about military spending but the governor.

After deciding on the general plan of the garrison troops in this place, Chen Jingyun silently calculated the existing infantry regiment in his heart and then said: "Now there are eleven regiments, so let's form another one and prepare to form the fifth and sixth brigades!" ”

Just now he had heard that Chen Jingyun was going to form twelve battalions of the local garrison, and now he heard that Chen Jingyun was going to form an infantry regiment, which made Feng Qin feel a little speechless.

Seeing that Feng Qin didn't speak, Chen Jingyun asked, "What, there's a problem?" ”

Feng Qin only spoke at this time: "I don't know if I should ask a question?" ”

"If you have a question, just ask!" Chen Jingyun didn't like Feng Qin's pretentious way of speaking.

Feng Qin glanced at Chen Jingyun and said, "I don't know how the governor solves the military expenses?" Now we have four brigades, three infantry regiments, a guard regiment, an artillery battalion. I am afraid that Fujian will not be able to afford these existing troops. If we add 12 battalions of local garrisons and form the 5th and 6th Brigades, there will be six mixed brigades, one mixed guard regiment, an expanded artillery regiment, and twelve garrison battalions. That's a huge amount of money spent every year! ”

Hearing Feng Qin talk about military spending, Chen Jingyun smiled: "Don't worry, just because we can't afford it now doesn't mean we can't afford it in the future!" ”

After saying that, Chen Jingyun secretly added a few words in his heart, it is because I have no money to raise the army that I need to expand the army on a large scale in a short period of time, and then seize the territory. As long as the two provinces of Guangdong and Zhejiang are taken down, and the strength of the three provinces is gathered at that time, not to mention raising the six brigades, two regiments and twelve battalions, even if it is raising six integrated divisions!

Of course, Chen Jingyun only made a vague statement to An Hualin about the expansion of the army and occupied the territory, and he has not said anything to others. Sometimes you don't need to say much, you just do it.

At the same time, in Chaozhou, Guangdong, Yuan Fang, who had a beard with white gloves, had a command knife in his hand, long leather boots, and the brown and green officers' clothes on his body were straight and not wrinkled.

The reason for this situation is also simple, Yuan Fang is an officer of the New Army in the tenth town, and the tenth town is Beiyang, and Beiyang learns the book, but the book is Germany. After learning layer by layer, the [***] team did not learn the rigor and high quality of the German [***] team, but learned the officer's style to the fullest.

"The city is all cleaned up!" Yuan Fang was standing in the county government in the city at this moment, and behind him, in addition to the officers of the Third Brigade, there were five or six people wearing horse coats with trembling faces.

"Back to the brigade, the remnants of the Qing army in the city have been purged!" It was the adjutant next to him who spoke.

Yuan Fang nodded, and his face showed a satisfied smile: "Not bad!" Then he turned to Yu Shaoying and said: "Brother Yu, the brothers of the Sixth Regiment did a good job just now, and they were able to take Chaozhou in one go, it can be seen that Brother Yu Ping said that he led the troops well, and I will personally ask the governor for your credit!" ”

Yu Shaoying also smiled: "There, it's all thanks to Brother Yuan's good command, and the younger brother doesn't dare to take credit!" ”

"Haha, our brothers don't have to think about it, we'll send the telegram back to Fuzhou later, I'm afraid it's no problem for you and me to be promoted to the next level!" Yuan Fang laughed loudly.

In fact, Yuan Fang does have the capital to laugh, since he received Chen Jingyun's order to go down to Chaozhou, he has been moving forward quickly, although the road is not very easy to walk, but it is good to say that he finally arrived in Chaozhou on the 14th. However, after arriving in Chaozhou, I learned that the Chaozhou Mansion had been set up yesterday and the Chaozhou Military and Political Axe Branch had been established. After learning this news, Yuan Fang was in a hurry.

He received Chen Jingyun's secret order to take Chaozhou, so Chen Jingyun even promised him the rank of colonel in advance, but now it was too late.

If there were few troops in the city, Yuan Fang might have attacked, but he found that there were many troops stationed in the city. It would be one thing to have them take the storm, but it would not be good if they had sent a telegram saying that the Nationalist army had entered Canton to disturb the place, but Chen Jingyun had hinted that he wanted to take Chaozhou without arousing the hostility of Canton.

After thinking about it for two hours, Yuan Fang didn't think of any way. At this time, the striker came to report that he had encountered a group of bandits, many of whom numbered more than a thousand people. As soon as he heard the news, Yuan Fang immediately sent someone to investigate, and then found that this gang of bandits was also heading for Chaozhou.

Next, as soon as this group of bandits and homeless people arrived in Chaozhou City, they began to attack the city, and they almost captured it in less than half a day. In this case, Yuan Fang ordered an attack, and entered the city in one fell swoop in the name of aiding Chaozhou and exterminating the bandits, and then not only wiped out the bandits, but also disarmed the original garrison in the city!

After that, he didn't do anything, and directly issued a telegram in Chaozhou, saying that Chaozhou City was attacked by bandits, and many people in the city were killed, including many important members of the Chaozhou military and political axe. And as soon as the telegram was sent, he stuffed many important members of the military and political axes into the captured bandits and shot them together.

At the beginning of the city, the intermittent gunfire in the city rang out for a long time, and the more than 600 bandits captured by the national army were all shot, and for a time, the name of Yuan Butcher resounded throughout Chaozhou.

After the third brigade entered the city, Yuan Fang ordered the implementation of martial law, and vigorously searched for the remnants of the former Qing Dynasty and the bandits.

By the time Yuan Fang's telegram reached Chen Jingyun's desk, it was already the morning of the 15th!

"This Yuan Fang, his heart is quite ruthless!" Chen Jingyun said this, but he was extremely appreciative of Yuan Fang's approach, these years as a warlord is playing with his family, just talk about the truth and faith, if it really involves specific interests such as territory, it should be ruthless.

It's just that now many days have passed since the recovery of Guangdong, and although the Third Brigade has taken Chaozhou, it is estimated that the Guangzhou side has stabilized, and I am afraid that it will not be good to continue to advance westward, which is a bit troublesome! Although Guangdong is a place of wealth, his main wealth is also concentrated in the vicinity of Guangzhou, and Chaozhou in the east is not an economic power, Chen Jingyun is not reconciled! However, now it is a major event in the whole country and the war between the north and the south, and Hu Hanmin on the other side of Guangzhou is a very influential figure in the alliance, and if he rashly attacks Guangzhou, it is difficult to guarantee that it will not cause a group to attack it, and this is not cost-effective.

Later, Chen Jingyun said to himself: Now that he has occupied Chaozhou, it is equivalent to occupying the gate of westward expansion, and he can come to Guangzhou at any time if he has the opportunity in the future!

After figuring out this layer, Chen Jingyun felt a lot better, and immediately ordered Yuan Fang to be promoted to colonel, and then Yu Shaoying to lieutenant colonel, and other meritorious people were also rewarded!

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ps: When I looked at it today, it finally made me catch the last train on the new book list on the homepage...... The brothers are brilliant......