In addition to the enthusiastic donations made by the citizens of Shanghi, the business circles in Jiangnan and Jiangbei were also not stingy, and the amount of donations they made was much more than that of the citizens, reaching 170,000 taels, and overseas Chinese also enthusiastically donated, which was converted into 230,000 taels of silver. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

But Wang Yongan couldn't cry or laugh when he saw this money, this was completely roasting himself on the fire, because he knew that the Wuchang Uprising would happen next, the great changes at the end of the Qing Dynasty, and the change of dynasty.

Wang Yongan had to arrange the Jiangbei territory in advance as early as possible, and he sent a telegram to Feng Heng, the chief of staff, asking him to secretly expand the army, and no longer care about the restrictions of the mixed association, and the Jiangbei army should be expanded to 50,000 people in at least half a year in order to keep the Jiangbei territory, so he specially gave Feng Heng two million taels of silver for military expenses. The Jiangbei Army is not the Qing Army, but the Jiangbei Regional Army, and its establishment name is modeled after the Western modern army, which is the 1st Brigade, 2nd Brigade, 3rd Brigade, 4th Brigade, 5th Brigade and the 6th Brigade of the Jiangbei New Army, and on the surface, the Jiangbei Army is still the 24th Mixed Association, the 13th Mixed Association, and the 18th Infantry Association.

Feng Heng was taken aback, thinking that Wang Yongan was going to rebel, and was uneasy, Wang Yongan replied to the secret telegram and said: "Now that all parties are unstable, the revolutionary party is trying to sweep the world, and the Qing court is unable to control the localities, we need to defend ourselves and strengthen ourselves, and we can no longer count on the unification of the central government." Although Feng Heng didn't understand it very well, he was a very professional soldier, so he honestly carried out the military order and secretly reorganized the three infantry associations into six infantry brigades.

50,000 infantry is not a small number, and the Jingfa Temple military camp is already difficult to bear the training and living problems of 50,000 troops, so Feng Heng asked for instructions to disperse the army garrison into three places, namely Xuzhou, Suxian and Yangzhou. After Wang Yongan considered, the garrison Xuzhou was changed to garrison Huai'an County, Huai'an has a special geographical location, located in the intersection of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal and the Huai River, and there is Hongze Lake in the county, three thousand miles of Hongze Lake. (In the Qing Dynasty, the area of Hongze Lake was 1.5 times the area of Hongze Lake in later generations, and the area of Hongze Lake is 2069 square kilometers today), which can threaten the Bengbu stage railway, and retreat can be based on Huai'an County to wait for Yangzhou support, and the original 13th mixed association will garrison Huai'an County, and there are ready-made military camps to use.

The Jiangbei army is not stationed in Xuzhou, because Wang Yongan takes into account the extremely important geographical location of Xuzhou, since ancient times it belongs to the place of contention, there are both the Jinpu Railway through, and the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal passes through Xuzhou, there is Weishan Lake in the north, Tongshan Mountain in the south, Haizhou (now Lianyungang) to the east, and the Great Plain of Eastern Henan to the west. Once there is a military mutiny in the Qing Dynasty and the Southern Revolutionary Army revolts, both sides will definitely fight for Xuzhou.

Feng Heng understood this very well, and after careful analysis, he decided to temporarily conduct a large-scale training in Yangzhou, and after training with 50,000 infantry, the first and second brigades of the Jiangbei Army were stationed in Yangzhou, playing the name of the 24th Mixed Association of the Beiyang New Army; The 3rd Brigade and the 4th Brigade were stationed in Huai'an County, under the name of the 18th Infantry Association of the Beiyang New Army; The Fifth Brigade and the Sixth Brigade were stationed in Suxian County, under the name of the 13th Mixed Association of the Beiyang New Army.

Wang Yongan agreed, and ordered Feng Heng to complete the conscription of 50,000 troops within one year, and complete the training of recruits within two years.

In order to support the construction of the Jiangbei New Army, Wang Yongan, in his capacity as the Jiangbei Protector Army Envoy and the Commander of the Overseas Chinese Protector Army, purchased 30 Krupp 75-mm field guns, 20,000 shells, and 30 heavy machine guns from Germany. Half of the artillery shells and weapons were transported back to the Yangzhou base camp by him, and half were taken to the cruise ship by him to equip the artillery battalion of the Overseas Chinese Protector Army. The 30 heavy machine guns were left by Wang Yongan in the Overseas Chinese Protector Army, and in order to increase the firepower of the infantry of the Overseas Chinese Protector Army, Wang Yongan's heavy machine guns were almost assembled into platoon-level combat units.

After the selection of the overseas Chinese army was completed, the battalions set off from Yangzhou one after another, arrived at Shanghi down the canal, and entered the Jiangnan military camp next to the general office of the Jiangnan Machinery Manufacturing Bureau. Wang Yongan ordered Fang Xianwu, chief of staff of the Overseas Chinese Protector Army, and Gong Wuyuan, deputy commander of the Overseas Chinese Protector Army, to reorganize their troops and horses, and wait for the arrival of the navy before setting off for Mexico together.

And because the overseas Chinese army was preparing to go abroad to fight, many officers came to vote for a while, Wang Yongan asked the details of these people, and stayed in office one by one, including Jiang Yanxing, Duan Lanfang, Li Shirui, Shan Qipeng, Shen Shanglian, Xu Chongyi, Zhao Xuefang, Huang Zhan, Zhang Zhongyuan, Gan Yulong, Yang Shouzhu, Zhou Liangcai, Ma Fengting, Gao Youcheng, Jin Yuqing, Jin Qi, etc., these people are elites from all sides, but they are not willing to participate in the domestic turmoil, on the one hand, they see the corruption and decline of the Qing Dynasty, On the other hand, he was educated by imperial power since he was a child and was unwilling to rebel, so when he saw the overseas Chinese army marching for the country, he put down his identity one by one and came to Wang Yongan's men to seek an official position, and also swore an oath to be worthy of the nation and conscience.

Among them, Jiang Yanxing, Duan Lanfang, and Li Shirui are the most famous, and today's military adviser Liangbi of the Ministry of War is still their junior, when the first batch of Japanese academy students were selected, each of them was a leader, but because of the difference in circumstances and personalities, some people emerged, some people were busy, and some people were unknown.

Now they don't want to go on here, so they defect to the young Jiangbei Protector Wang Yongan's men.

Wang Yongan was worried that there was no one under him, so he arranged for Jiang Yanxing, Duan Lanfang, Li Shirui, Shan Qipeng, Shen Shanglian, and Xu Chongyi to lead a battalion each, but at the same time, they were equipped with their own henchmen as deputy assistants. If these officers had come to encourage the soldiers to revolt against the Qing Dynasty, they would certainly be disgusted by Wang Yongan's military Chinese books, and if they were only bent on leading troops to fight, they would not have been ideologically educated in the Italian army.

Facts have proved that more than 70 percent of these officers who defected to the army did not know the Italian Chinese books, and the remaining 30 percent did not like the military Chinese books but did not oppose them.