Shenyang is about 180 kilometers away from Jinzhou, and this time to Jinzhou, there is also the task of changing the equipment for Zhang Zuolin's troops, so they have to carry a lot of materials, but the People's Army only took three days to arrive in Jinzhou, one day ahead of the speed of Zhang Zuolin's troops. The reason for this is that there are a large number of wagons in this team.

In the previous war, the People's Army captured a large number of horses and vehicles, and now the transportation capacity is quite sufficient, and there is a newly built road from Shenyang to Jinzhou, which is very convenient for walking vehicles, so this time a total of more than 100 vehicles of various kinds were used. Moreover, in the replacement of equipment for Zhang Zuolin's troops, there were more than 200 war horses, which were just used to pull carts, killing two birds with one stone.

Not to mention that the veterans who took office in Jinzhou had cars to travel, and naturalized officials, cadres, and staff members could also travel in horse-drawn carriages, so as to avoid slowing down the speed of the troops' march, after all, there was still a considerable gap between the physical strength of ordinary people and soldiers. In addition to rifles, bayonets, and basic ammunition, soldiers can also carry other equipment such as backpacks, bedding, workers' shovels, and even heavy machine guns, mortars, and other weapons on horse-drawn carts. With such light loading, the speed of the march can naturally be greatly increased.

In addition, there are more vehicles, and it is much more convenient to camp and rest at night, only need to connect the vehicles and enclose them into a square, and all personnel can camp and rest in this square, and there is no need to arrange any protective facilities such as horses and deer firewood, so as to reduce the workload of camping, so that soldiers can get more rest time and recover their physical strength. As a result, on the first day, the team walked a distance of more than 70 kilometers, and on the second day, it also covered more than 60 kilometers, and by about 4 p.m. on the third day, the team was outside Jinzhou.

At the time of the noon break, Ouyang Longxing sent a team of cavalry to Jinzhou to report the news, so the troops stationed in Jinzhou, the naturalized cadres, and the former Qing court officials who were retained all went out of Jinzhou City to welcome the arrival of the new mayor and military commander of Jinzhou City.

Since this is an extraordinary period, and it has added a bit of special meaning to this time, which was originally a normal appointment, everyone present is secretly speculating in their hearts about what kind of person the new boss is, whether it is easy to get along with, what orders and propositions will be given, etc. Of course, the people who greeted were obviously divided into three groups, the most prominent were the naturalized cadres and garrison troops stationed in Jinzhou, they were all old people from East China, and they were naturalized cadres, all of whom were sent from Shandong and Tianjin, and they were the oldest qualified, so they were naturally the leaders of the greeting.

Although the original Qing court officials who were retained had joined East China for a longer time than Zhang Zuolin, they were still in the stage of retention and probation, and they were not yet the official staff of East China, so they were naturally the least, and they were the most uneasy in their hearts.

In fact, at this time, everyone can see that the general trend of the Qing court has gone, and the great cause of East China is also the general trend, although some officials are more stylish and unwilling to serve the two dynasties, and East China ** On the one hand, there is no distinction between officials and officials, but the integration of officials and officials; on the other hand, it is to suppress the powerful landlords, but really give great grace to the common people, although the dynasties of the past dynasties have declared themselves to be people-oriented, but in actual operation, it is "with the scholars and doctors of the world" Of course, in the process of establishing the dynasty, some powerful landlords were also suppressed, but that was only to exclude dissidents or establish authority, and in the end they had to cooperate with powerful landlords. But East China ** really suppressed the powerful landlords as a whole, and did lift up the common people, which also made some officials feel at a loss, so in the process of the People's Army's occupation of Jinzhou, they did not make senseless resistance, Kaesong surrendered, but after the People's Army fully controlled Jinzhou, they all quit and left.

Of course, East China ** is not embarrassed by these resignation officials, each of them also sent a lot of ceremonies, but there are also a considerable number of officials who choose to stay and take refuge in East China**, mainly some middle and lower-level officials, such as general judgment, experience, governor, Zhaoma, prison, etc., their official position is not high, usually not much oil and water, at most the prefect eats meat, followed by some soup, the people are not angry, and there is not much loyalty to the Qing court, and seeing that the Qing court has not many days, so they plan to follow East China ** Establish a dragon skill, and there may be a time to soar in the future.

In addition, these people also have their own careful thoughts, although the officials of this group of people are not big, but they are in charge of important affairs, if there are no these people in a prefect's yamen, only the prefect alone really can't play, not to mention that these people have served in Jinzhou for many years, familiar with local affairs, there is a way to use practice without life, so it is overseas Chinese to manage affairs, but also to use these people.

But in the past year or so, these retained former Qing court officials can all experience that although East China ** appointed them, they did not trust them, and the prevention was very deep, and the governance method of East China ** was very different from that of the Qing court, and the set they had originally experienced in the Qing court officialdom was really not much use, and the only place to use it was to be familiar with the environment of Jinzhou, but this was still somewhat useful at first, but after more than a year, the effect was greatly reduced.

Now that East China has finally sent official officials, these people are naturally uneasy in their hearts, and they don't know what the soon-to-be-appointed prefect will do with his own group of people!

Zhang Zuolin is between these two mentalities, although he has not joined the People's Army for a long time, and his qualifications are not comparable to these two groups of people, but now his army is a regular People's Army with a number, which is even stronger than the garrison army, and in the past half a year, he has indeed made some contributions to East China, but Zhang Zuolin is also a little unhappy in his heart.

It turned out that Zhang Zuolin was ordered to reinforce Jinzhou, although the team has not yet changed its clothes, but his heart is still very happy, because the theater command can transfer its own troops to reinforce Jinzhou at this critical juncture, this is to see more than himself, and this is also the first time that Zhang Zuolin has taken charge of himself after defecting to the People's Army, so Zhang Zuolin also has the heart to fight a few beautiful battles in Jinzhou, it is best to destroy Du Lisan, make a great contribution, and let the headquarters see his ability.

Knowing that he had only been in Jinzhou for a few days, the theater command actually sent another commander-in-chief, so that he became a subordinate, and even if he made meritorious service in the future, he would only be as a general, and the real first merit would fall on the head of the commander-in-chief. Is the headquarters still not worried about itself, or is it afraid that he will be promoted too quickly after making great achievements, so he will not listen to the dispatch and deliberately suppress himself?

In Zhang Zuolin's team, there have been a lot of complaints, because they are Tang Yulin and Zhang Sifei, the two of them were originally from the green forest, they have always been comfortable, and they are old friends with Zhang Zuolin, so when Zhang Zuolin worked in the insurance team, although he governed the army strictly, he was still open to these two people, as long as he didn't go too far, Zhang Zuolin didn't care about them much.

But after Zhang Zuolin defected to the People's Army, everything had to be done according to the discipline of the People's Army, and Zhang Zuolin did not dare to indulge Tang Yulin and Zhang Sifei anymore, and personally strictly disciplined the two, so that the two of them only felt awkward everywhere and made mistakes in everything, so the two even wanted to retreat and pull the team back to work as an insurance team.

However, Sun Liechen, Zhang Zuoxiang, Zhang Jinghui, Wu Junsheng and others supported Zhang Zuolin, and since he was Sun Liechen, his attitude was resolute. Among these old brothers of Zhang Zuolin, Sun Liechen is the most knowledgeable one, so he is also the most valued by Zhang Zuolin, and Zhang Zuolin decided to join the People's Army because of Sun Liechen's full support. And Zhang Zuolin is not good at saying Tang Yulin and Zhang Sifei directly, it is often Sun Liechen who comes out to be blackfaced, but Sun Liechen does not blindly suppress the two, but patiently reasoned with the two, one is that East China will become a great cause, and then follow East China Second, if they leave the People's Army, they really can't have fun, because the People's Army will not allow any more insurance teams to appear in the northeast region, so it is absolutely impossible to retreat and not do anything now in accordance with the rules of the People's Army.

These words also made Tang Yulin and Zhang Sifei speechless, so they could only stop talking. And Sun Liechen said this truth also won Zhang Zuolin's heart, and in the past half a year, Zhang Zuolin also has a relatively in-depth understanding of the People's Army, to be honest, before joining the People's Army, Zhang Zuolin does still have a little half-hearted thoughts, planning to use the People's Army, fully develop his own forces, once his wings are hard, or in the People's Army is not satisfactory, he might as well break away from the People's Army and set up another mountain.

But now Zhang Zuolin also knows that his original thinking was indeed too naïve, the strength of the People's Army is far beyond his original imagination, and now his strength has indeed improved by leaps and bounds compared with before he joined the People's Army, but if he wants to set up another mountain, he is afraid that he will be wiped out by the People's Army in minutes. In addition, there are indeed many rules and regulations of the People's Army, but there are also many benefits; Zhang Zuolin is also a former soldier and is well aware of the drawbacks in the Qing Army, but in the People's Army, these drawbacks basically do not exist, and the soldiers' salaries are never in arrears, and they are paid in full every month; the soldiers' food is also excellent, and they are all comparable to the landlord's home; the commanders will not beat and scold the soldiers at will; and the most important thing is to reward and punish the meritorious service, and there is no ambiguity at all.

Although Zhang Zuolin doesn't read much, he likes to listen to books and watch plays in his life, according to the storytelling and drama, the Yue family army and the Qi family army are such strict military discipline divisions. Therefore, now Zhang Zuolin has basically given up the plan to set up another mountain, but wants to make contributions in the People's Army wholeheartedly. When he received the order to reinforce Jinzhou, Zhang Zuolin gathered enough strength and wanted to do a good job. At this time, although Zhang Zuolin was a little dissatisfied with the commander sent by the theater command, he had absolutely no idea of breaking away from the people's army.