Chapter 551: Heading North

Choosing the commander of Jiangbei in advance must be cautious, and choosing Li Yao is by no means the best choice, Li Yao has never stretched out his hand for military power, his job in the army is the head of the adjutant department, responsible for confidential files and coordination and arrangement, in other words, Li Yao's job is to serve Wang Yongan. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info And Li Yao's background is relatively low and his education level is not high, so he will inevitably be beyond his ability to preside over the overall situation rashly.

Of course, the reason why Li Yao was able to temporarily take the position of Jiangbei army lord also lies in a delicate balance, at the beginning of the establishment of the Jiangbei army, he fought the world with Wang Yongan, he knew the Jiangbei army better than anyone else, and Wang Yongan knew that this Jinmen man was loyal to him.

However, Li Yao's smartest thing is that he can judge the situation and never do anything out of the ordinary, understand his position, and understand his ability. Therefore, even if Wang Yongan handed over the position of Jiangbei coach to Li Yao, Li Yao would never be able to bear this heavy trust, and Wang Yongan's "entrusting orphans" made Li Yao even more moved. I have to say that Wang Yongan's move to buy more people has more elements, and the reason why he does not choose other people to "support the orphan" is precisely because other people's abilities are stronger than Li Yao, if Feng Heng and Fang Xianwu inherit the Jiangbei Army, if Wang Yongtai can't come back to Jiangbei for a while, Jiangbei will become someone else's foundation in three or five years. But if Li Yao inherits, he must be careful not to be overthrown by others, and wait for the return of Wang Yongtai and Wang Cunyi.

Therefore, although Li Yao is not a person who can lead the Jiangbei Army to glory, he is definitely a loyal minister who is loyal to the Wang family, such a person, how can Wang Yongan not entrust the Jiangbei Army to him.

Wang Yongan himself felt that there would not be any great danger during this trip to Beijing, and he might encounter some difficulties, but in the atmosphere of national resistance against Japan, he would not have anything to do. But he was afraid of what happened, he was afraid that if he was gone, only by letting Li Yao temporarily take charge of the army could he wait for Wang Yongtai's return.

Jiangbei Wang Yongan is going to Beijing, the news spread, and was soon known by the people in Jiangbei, so everyone came to dissuade or see them off, the reason for dissuasion is because Jiangbei and the group of people in the north have deep contradictions, half a year ago they were fighting to the death, and now Wang Yongan actually went to Beijing in person, if something happens, the spiritual pillar of Jiangbei has fallen, what can everyone do.

In order to assist Li Yao in inheriting the Jiangbei Army, Wang Yongan next talked to the generals one by one to appease the army, at this time Jiang Dengxuan also returned from Nanjing, as the deputy minister of the army and navy of the Jiangbei Military Government, Jiang Dengxuan and Li Yao shared power. After talking with the generals, Wang Yongan inspected the army non-stop, visited the retired soldiers, and told Li Yao to do a good job in pacifying the retired soldiers.

Before the war, the Jiangbei Army had divisions ranging from 15,000 to 22,000 people, and there were nearly 200,000 people in nine army divisions.

After the adjustment, all the Jiangbei Army Divisions were composed of four regiments and three battalions, each with 12,000 troops, and the Jiangbei Army had a total strength of 100,080 troops, and the 10th Division was disbanded. (Because the 10th Division has been disbanded and returned to its hometown because it is supported by various places, it is not counted in the Jiangbei Army.) The Jiangbei region banned the garrison regiments and reduced the twenty supplementary regiments to nine, but each supplementary regiment numbered only 500 men, and served as a recruit training regiment for each division. The police forces in all parts of Jiangbei were abolished, and the police officers in all parts of Jiangbei were retained to maintain law and order, and the total number of police officers in the four places in Jiangbei after the reorganization was 8,000.

This time, the Jiangbei Army disarmed nearly 50,000 people, and all those who were dismissed were wounded soldiers from the Jiangbei Battle, and although the total strength was small, the combat effectiveness did not decrease. In Wang Yongan's plan, the size of the Jiangbei Army's army divisions will be further reduced by 3,000 people, each army division will have 9,500 people, and a supplementary training regiment will be equipped, and the Jiangbei Army's nine army divisions will have a total of 90,000 people, plus 10,000 people from all departments of the military department, and the Jiangbei Army will maintain a total size of hundreds of thousands. The army of 100,000 people is also the maximum limit that the Jiangbei military government can support at this stage, and whoever lets the Jiangbei local government and the Qing court and Japan and Beiyang fight to the end in this war, the war will have to pay the price.

Of course, if the disarmament step is too big, it will also arouse the opposition of the people below, and even the soldiers will feel that they have been abandoned, so this disarmament plan is divided into five years, and the soldiers will retire at the age of retirement.

If Li Yao does not handle it well and the army's morale is unstable, then the reform will be wasted, so Li Yao's work is very important, and Jiangbei's finances have to be tilted towards the adjutant's department.

Since Li Yao accepted the trust, he has been busy every day, but Wei Daofeng is even busier, recently many people have taken advantage of the fire to loot and loot the victims, and Wei Daofeng's military police are everywhere to arrest the robbers while the fire is taking advantage of the fire. Wei Daofeng arrested all the looters and set up a hard labor camp, and escorted the hard labor camp to carry out the restoration of various infrastructure in Jiangbei, his actions undoubtedly surprised Jiangbei Governor Zhang Jian, and hurriedly asked Wang Yongan whether Wei Daofeng could serve as the chief police governor of Jiangbei and supervise the Jiangbei police.

Wang Yongan smiled and declined, after all, the current Jiangbei Chief Police Governor Hou Gan is also his person, how can he replace it rashly, and Hou Gan's popularity is very good, and Wei Daofeng is a person who does things, so he has offended many people, if Wei Daofeng is allowed to leave the army, it is very likely that he will face constant framing and persecution.

Before leaving, Wang Yongan met with the gentry of Jiangbei many times, and Wang Yongan patiently explained everyone's exhortation, and insisted on going to the Beijing Division to meet Yuan Shikai.

Everyone couldn't be dissuaded, so they had to say goodbye, and some Jiangbei literati began to make a big noise, so that the whole world knew that Wang Yongan was going to Beijing, and Yuan Shikai didn't dare to attack him.

Wang Yongan felt cordial and grateful for everyone's actions, but there was really no need for this, and after cleaning up, he took the guard battalion, the secretary Bai Dequan, Liu Tong, the adjutant Xu Yang, and the fifth wife Li Yuxiu to the north. This time, the formation arrangement was to follow the waterway all the way to Xuzhou, and then take the Jinpu Railway to Jinan and Jinmen, and then take the Tianjin-Beijing Railway from Jinmen to Beijing. However, halfway through, Wang Yongan still had to complete an entrustment, that is, to return the ashes of Wei Nianzu, who took care of him in Japan, to his hometown in Hebei.

Chinese After Wei Nianzu died of illness, his ashes were kept in Wang Yongan's home, and this time they were returned to the past and buried in the ancestral tomb of the Wei family, which can be regarded as the fulfillment of one of his last wishes. After everyone got on the boat, in the farewell of everyone in Jiangbei, the boat left Yangzhou.