On November 1, that is, the fourth day after the recovery of Anqing, Zhang Ying set off from the north of the city with 2,000 new troops to attack Hefei, Huainan and other cities that were still loyal to the Qing court, while Bairunshan set off from the south of the city with more than 2,000 soldiers of the patrol battalion, crossed the Yangtze River through the ships of the Yushi Group on the Yangtze River, and then went straight to the only city in southern Anhui that was loyal to the Qing court, Huizhou...

In the governor's yamen, Yan Shao and Fu Xiuming, who was still in Anqing, were also discussing the topic of reorganization.

"At present, the troops in our hands, including the new army, patrol battalion and other troops, have a total of more than 12,000 people, which is exactly the strength of a town..." The strength of a town is not small, but it is slightly insufficient for Anhui, so the reorganization and expansion of the army has become inevitable..."

After Yan Shao finished his opening remarks, it should be the Minister of Military Affairs next.

Standing up from his seat, Fu Xiuming read a report to the members of the junta in his hand. "According to the plan just formulated by the Ministry of Military Affairs, the existing revolutionary army will be divided into three divisions according to the original establishment, that is, three towns, according to the combat effectiveness, the title of the first division of the Anhui Army has been assigned to the new army, the second division is the patrol battalion, the third division is the original patrol regiment, and the patrol team and the guard will be reorganized into a separate unit, which is specifically responsible for the security of the governor's mansion and the governor himself..."

"That is, after the reorganization, the junta will have three divisions, of course. There will definitely be a huge shortage of soldiers, after all, even the most well-staffed patrol battalion is only more than 5,000 people, which is at least 7,000 people short of the establishment of 12,000 people. However, the junta will conduct a large-scale recruitment later, so there is no need to worry about this problem..."

When he was in the new army, 7 yuan a month was already a rare high salary, but now that Yan Shao is the governor, it has risen to 10 yuan a month, so you can imagine how many people will rush to participate...

"Three divisions...", Li Guoyun looked at Fu Xiuming. If there are three divisions. There will be no problem in taking charge of the defense of Anhui, but the unit that is specifically responsible for the governor's own security does not know..."

"Guards Regiment...", Yan Shao looked around the space in the room, although he had been living here for a few days. But the small space in the room still made him feel a little uncomfortable.

The inconveniences of running water, electric lights, toilets, etc., also made him less and less like this place.

Hearing the word Guards Regiment, Li Guoyun and several other constitutionalists frowned slightly, and only after half a sound did Li Guoyun speak. "Then I don't know what the number of people in this army is?"

"2000 people. It's exactly the formation of a regiment..."Without thinking. Yan Shao replied directly. "Now the number of patrols and guards is close to 1,000 people, so we only need to add another 1,000 people..."

Hearing that there was only one regiment of troops in the Guards Regiment, Li Guoyun's originally frowning brows relaxed slightly.

"I wonder when the reorganization of the road began?"

"Naturally, the sooner the better." After speaking, Yan Shao looked at Fu Xiuming. "Next, a few instructors will be drawn from the patrol team to be responsible for the training of new recruits, and then you can post notices to recruit soldiers..."

"Don't you need to wait for Vice Chief Zhang and them to come back?"

After all, this reorganization involves the new army, and Zhang Ying is also the deputy director of the War Department, and now that the new army is to be reorganized, he must wait for him to come back.

However, I heard Li Guoyun's words. Yan Shao said with a smile. "Don't worry, I talked to Zhang before he left. He agrees with the reorganization, so there will be no problems. ”

Of course, Zhang Min's words can only represent the 61st bid under his jurisdiction, and the influence that can be exerted on the 62nd bid is still relatively small. However, at least half of the officers of the 62 target were bought by Yan Shao, and Yan Shao had already knocked the other party down with a 'sugar-coated cannonball', so there was no need to worry about the reaction of the 62 target being too big.

What's more, this time Zhang Ying brought out the 61 bids. The 62 bidders stayed in Anqing.

With this layer, it is naturally more important to worry about the reaction of the new army ...

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After the original New Army, patrol battalion, and patrol regiment were reorganized into three divisions, and the patrol unit and guard unit were reorganized into one regiment, the general pattern for the coming period was finally determined.

Of course, Yan Shao also knew very well that the strength of the three divisions could only barely let him hold Anhui, and there was no way to help him realize his dream at all. But things always have to come step by step, even if Yan Shao has the financial resources in his hands that can equip a hundred divisions, there is no officer who can provide a hundred divisions...

If there are not enough officers, it is conceivable that the newly formed army is not much better than the militia, and it is like a rabble, and even more vulnerable in the face of the real elite.

Yan Shaoke didn't want his troops to stage a scene of tens of thousands of troops being chased by hundreds of people decades later—————— that would be too embarrassing.

"Okay, let's get busy next..."Seeing that the meeting was almost over, Yan Shao sorted out the materials on the table, and then said to Fu Xiuming.

"Okay, then we'll take our leave..."

After speaking, he nodded to Yan Shao, and Fu Xiuming turned around and left with the others.

After leaving the room, Fu Xiuming took out a pack of cigarettes from his pocket. "We're going to be busy next..."

"It's better to be busy..."Hearing Fu Xiuming say this, Xiao Yongyan on the side laughed. What's more, compared with Lao Qin, you are not particularly busy. ”

"It's too..."Thinking of Qin Zhen, Fu Xiuming smiled and said.

After the establishment of the military government, Fu Xiuming held the position of Minister of Military Affairs, while Qin Zhen served as Minister of Public Security. Both of them were very satisfied with this, because for Fu Xiuming, he had one less competitor, and for Qin Zhen, he also avoided the fate of being the second-in-command for the rest of his life. Moreover, although the power of the Ministry of Public Security is not as good as that of the Ministry of Military Affairs, it can be regarded as a major department. The rights are not particularly small ...

However, compared with the work of the Ministry of Military Affairs, Qin Zhen's work is obviously much busier.

Not to mention anything else, the military and political department has only one town under its jurisdiction. Even if it is divided into three divisions, Fu Xiuming only needs to take care of the affairs of these three divisions. As for Qin Zhen, he has to manage the police stations in every county in Anhui, even if this is the case, the people under him are seriously insufficient...

Without enough manpower, Qin Zhen could only figure out a way by himself.

So although the current Ministry of Public Security sounds good, it is actually just an empty shelf. If you want to completely organize and play your functions, I am afraid that no year is not enough, and even Qin Zhen has become the busiest one in the military government.

But even so, he was very satisfied. After all, he is now the number one, not the second in command under Fu Xiuming forever. In addition, Li Guoyun, as the deputy governor, actually has no real power, and now he is also considered to be above 10,000 people under one person...

After leaving from the governor's yamen, Fu Xiuming took Qin Zhen and the others to the patrol regiment first.

The formation of the patrol regiment is the same as that of the new army. Both are 2005 people per regiment. In addition, with two baggage companies, the whole regiment has a total of 2,357 people. The number of people is not small, but it is not enough compared to the more than 12,000 people who are about to be expanded.

"I should have made the meaning of the above very clear..."Putting the teacup aside, Fu Xiuming said to the other officers in the regiment. Our next task is to reorganize the patrol regiment into four infantry regiments, plus an artillery regiment, a horse regiment, an engineer battalion, a baggage battalion and even a military band..."

Regarding the problem of manpower, Fu Xiuming had already explained it to them, so they didn't ask anything more. Moreover, they also have a welcoming attitude towards the reorganization, after all, after the reorganization of the regiment into a division. There will be many more positions, and the possibility that the old people in their regiment will be promoted is much greater.

Leave aside the rights that can be acquired when you don't mention them. But the officer's salary is not a small amount.

Therefore, as soon as Fu Xiuming's words were finished, someone had already nodded and said. "Don't worry, Minister Fu, we will definitely cooperate fully..."

Seeing them say this, Fu Xiuming also nodded with satisfaction.

He will take the patrol regiment first to reorganize, because he is more familiar with the patrol regiment, and it will be more convenient to start. Unlike the patrol battalion and the New Army, no one knew if there would be any accidents—————— although after Yan Shao paid his salary, the people of the New Army seemed to be quite tame.

After all, it was an old unit, and it was indeed very cooperative when it was reorganized, and soon Fu Xiuming reorganized the existing more than 2,000 people into four infantry regiments, an artillery regiment, a cavalry regiment, an engineer battalion and a baggage battalion according to the original plan.

Although the shelves were quickly erected, the number of people in each regiment was seriously insufficient.

Except for the two companies on the side of the baggage battalion, which reached half of the standard, the other branches of the army did not even have a third of the number they should have, to be exact, a quarter, and the most exaggerated were the artillery regiments and cavalry regiments, because of the lack of equipment, they could not even reach one-tenth, which can only be said to be in vain...

After solving the problem of the patrol regiment, Fu Xiuming quickly rushed to the patrol battalion and the new army.

Compared with the patrol regiment, the situation of the new army is much better, after all, the number of the new army is more than twice that of the patrol regiment, and the original establishment is relatively reasonable. So the whole process is relatively easy, and the most headache compared to it is the patrol battalion.

The establishment of the patrol battalion was already extremely chaotic, and many of these units were transferred by Zhu Jiabao from Hefei, Wuhu, and other counties and towns, and they were not closely connected with each other, so it was extremely troublesome to reorganize them.

Fortunately, after the 3 months of salary, the soldiers below were very cooperative, and the officers above did not complain too much because of the promotion of their ranks, so things went relatively smoothly after all.

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"How far is it from Hefei..."

On an official road north of Anqing, Zhang Ying, who was riding on a war horse, looked at his deputy.

Hearing Zhang Ying's words, Jing Boyang looked at the map in his hand. "We have just left from Lujiang County, and now we are still more than 40 kilometers away from Hefei County, and at the current speed, we should be able to reach it tonight..."

"At night—" Zhang Ying groaned. Let the people below speed up a bit, and be sure to rush to Hefei County before dark today. Then, we spent the night in Hefei County..."

"Zhilu Dao!" Nodding, Jing Boyang ran down. Soon Zhang Ying's order came out of the marching procession.

The 31st Mixed Association was originally the most elite army in Anhui, although it was not as good as the Beiyang Army and the Hubei New Army, but it was still comparable to the new army in other provinces. Things like forced marches are rare, but it's not like people in the Forces nouvelles haven't done it.

In addition, not long ago, the talents of the new army had just received a salary of 30 yuan, and this was the time when morale was high, so the whole regiment not only did not complain, but the speed of walking was faster than Zhang Ying expected. This also made Zhang Ying have to sigh at the power of money...

Before Hefei County, there was actually a Liang County, which was later Feixi County.

It's just that in the Ming Dynasty, Feixi County was incorporated into Hefei County. Zhilu Dao was only later divided, so the current Feixi can only be regarded as a relatively small township, and there are basically no people in the entire town, let alone the army stationed.

Although the officials in the town announced that they were going to 'die clear' in Hefei Zhixian County. also once cooperated and shouted twice. But when Zhang Ying came with the troops, they hurriedly ordered the people in the town to open the city gate wide and invite the new army from outside to come in.

The people in the town knew each other like this, and Zhang Ying was also very satisfied, after leaving a platoon to guard it, and at the same time saying that the town had been recovered by the military government. Zhang Ying and the others did not stay long, and directly led the remaining men and horses to continue to move in the direction of Hefei.

After almost a full day of forced marching, the men of the Forces nouvelles were exhausted. But after thinking that Hefei is only a few kilometers away from them now. The officers and men of the Forces nouvelles quickly picked themselves up.

"Even if it's a break, we have to rest in the county. And not in the wasteland anymore..."

In the queue, several officers, who were also advancing on foot, loudly cheered up their morale.

At the same time, a few kilometers away in Hefei County, the magistrate was also ordering the patrol battalion left behind in the county seat and some temporarily recruited people to make preparations.

Glancing at the people who were sandbags at the city gate, the magistrate turned around and asked the master. "How far is that group of rebels from here?"

"There are only seven or eight miles left in the spies' return, and there doesn't seem to be any resistance from Feixi's side, but they directly dedicated the city to the rebel party..." Sir, aren't you really thinking about it? ”

"Needless to say...", the magistrate waved his hand and said categorically. Although the traitor is powerful, I am not afraid..."

"You're not afraid, the problem is that we are afraid...", with a wry smile in his heart, the master looked back at the other officials in the county government behind him. Like him, the officials in the county government also smiled wryly.

Originally, Hefei also had a lot of garrisons, after all, Hefei is also a very large county anyway. However, after Zhu Jiabao transferred many patrol battalions from Hefei to Anqing, there are only more than 500 people left in Hefei now, even if you count the newly recruited Minzhuang, there are only about 1,000 people, so many people can't fight against the new army outside the city, not to mention that at least half of those Minzhuang don't even have a decent weapon.

"If you don't want to die, I'm afraid you'll have to think of something else..."Thinking so, Master and the others glanced at each other and found that they seemed to think the same as himself.

Not only them, but even the officers and men of the patrol battalion where they were strengthening the fortifications. Although they are very disgusted with the people of the New Army, they are not so much that they will sell their lives, and even from a certain point of view, they are the ones who know the most about current affairs.

After a full day of rapid marching, the 61st Standard led by Zhang Ying finally arrived at the city of Hefei. At this time, an artillery battalion was accompanied —————— to be exact, it should be an artillery team, because the entire new army had only 6 artillery pieces in total...

After arriving at the city of Hefei, the artillery gate set up its artillery less than 3 kilometers from the city wall, and the position of the 61st standard was only one kilometer away from the artillery position.

Zhang Ying dared to do this because he had already learned from the Special Affairs Section that there were no heavy weapons in Hefei City, and some were only one-pole Hanyang-made guns, or even old broken guns that were not as good as those made in Hanyang.

"Let's start, we'll rest in the county seat tonight..."Looking at the county town in the distance with a telescope, as well as the soldiers and people on the city wall, Zhang Ying said to the adjutant beside him.

With the order, six cannons fired in unison and hit the city wall near the city gate.

The power of the 75mm guns was not very large, at least not enough to destroy the city walls, so while the artillery was constantly bombarded, a battalion of soldiers had already rushed forward, many of them even carrying explosive packs.

Six cannons were not enough to suppress the hundreds of soldiers on the city walls, and after seeing the men of the new army rushing up, the soldiers on the city walls quickly picked up their rifles and fired downwards. Luckily, there were quite a few dwellings outside the walls, so the soldiers in charge of the assault could use them to hide.

After 30 light machine guns were erected, the soldiers on the city walls were suppressed by the new troops on the ground.

Seeing that the machine gunners had suppressed the men on the city wall, one of the officers who was advancing with the team waved his hand, and soon a group of soldiers ran towards the city gate in the rain of bullets. Under the rain of bullets, at least half of the dozen soldiers fell, but in the end half of them rushed under the city gates.

"It's up to you this time...", patting the explosives bag in his hand, the soldier stacked the explosive bag with the others, and then quickly ran to the outside of the city gate, about half a minute later, with a loud bang, the city gate was blown open... (To be continued......)