After the first noon, on the ground of the Qing Dynasty, there were two armies that still had the strength to fight. www.biquge.info One of them is Dong Fuxiang's "Gan Army", and the other is Nie Shicheng's "Wu Yi Army".

The Gan army is an army from Gansu. But this unit has a close relationship with Dong Fuxiang. Dong Fuxiang, a native of Huanxian County, Gansu, an official to the prince Shaobao, the governor of Gansu, the minister of Suihu, and the name Alhang Abatulu, was born in 1840, organized the Han people's group to oppose the Qing Dynasty in 1864, and was defeated by Liu Songshan of the Zuo Zongtang Department in northern Shaanxi, surrendered to the Qing army, and the department was reorganized into the third battalion of Dong Zi, and successively exterminated the Hui uprisings in Shaanxi, Gansu, Xining and other places from Liu Songshan and Liu Jintang, and was promoted to the commander.

In 1875, he marched into Xinjiang with Liu Jintang. With the recovery of Urumqi and other places and the pacification of the Agubai riots in southern Xinjiang, he was appreciated by Zuo Zongtang. In 1890, he was promoted to Governor of Kashgar. In 1895, he led his troops to Gansu to eliminate the Hui uprising. Later, he was transferred to the governor of Gansu. In 1897, he was transferred to the Beijing Defense Division, and the department was organized into the Wuwei Rear Army under the jurisdiction of Ronglu.

Although Dong Fuxiang's "Gan Army" had been incorporated into the "Wuwei Rear Army" at this time, people were still accustomed to calling it "Gan Army".

As for Nie Shicheng's "Wu Yi Army", it belongs to the Huai Army system, which was first created by Li Hongzhang's brother Li Zhaoqing when he pacified the Twist Army, and later merged with Guo Songlin's Song Army, led by Guo Songlin, and is still called Wu Yi Army.

After the outbreak of the First Sino-Japanese War, Nie Shicheng led the three battalions of Wuyi's deputy middle battalion, the old front battalion, and the right battalion of the Gubeikou training army to fight the Japanese army on the front lines of Chenghuan, Fengtianhushan, and Liaoyang Motianling in North Korea, showing strong combat effectiveness.

Wu Yijun's equipment has been "modernized". There are 10,000 old German Mauser rifles (for training), 10,000 Austrian Manlisa rifles, 1,400 carbines, and 200 new small-caliber Mauser (sleeves).

In terms of artillery, there are 16 Krupp 75 guns, 32 Krupp 60 guns, about 32 Grusen 57 land guns and mountain guns, 2 McHeart guns, and an unknown number of Krupp 37 guns and 87 guns.

In terms of individual military supplies, Wu Yijun's individual soldiers are also equipped with shovels, dry food, gun oil, quilts, leather bags, iron kettles, and Kong Ming lanterns; The commander is equipped with modern equipment such as clairvoyance and radio.

Just looking at these equipment, including the later Beiyang Six Towns, it has been, or it seems, that the Qing court has already modernized the army. However, whether it was Wu Yijun at this time or the six towns of Beiyang after that, the equipment could be modernized or even modernized, but the army building idea in his bones could not escape the army building idea of "soldiers are generals".

The army under this old idea, as long as it grows up, is the "division of feudal towns", the six towns of Beiyang and their later performance, when Yuan Shikai, the "founder", is still alive, this "separation" is not obvious, but when Yuan Shikai died, the brothers immediately went to war with each other, directly between Feng and Anhui, one war did not work, but also two wars, three wars.

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Xu Lie was not clear about the match between the monarchs and ministers in the imperial court, but the movements of Yuan Shikai, Dong Fuxiang, Nie Shicheng and others entering the palace in the next few days were mastered by Wang Qinian's intelligence officers. To master this kind of intelligence is just a piece of cake for Wang Qinian, who has mastered modern intelligence technology.

However, it will take some time for the information to reach the Mengshan army.

In late August, after the captives had undergone almost seventy days of training, Xu Lie expanded the Mengshan army again. There have been great changes in the current expansion of the troops, and in the eyes of military history experts, they have a rather "modern" flavor.

There has been no change in the squad and platoon establishment and equipment, which are 12 and 39 respectively, but they are different from before.

Company: 165 people in total. 1 company commander, 2 deputy company commanders, 9 people in the direct squad (general guard), 9 people in the cooking squad, 9 people in the reconnaissance squad, 9 people in the heavy machine gun squad (2 in the Makqin heavy machine gun), 9 people in the 60 forced squad (2 in the 60 squad), and 3 combat platoons.

This establishment, compared with the previous old establishment, has one more reconnaissance squad, the original firepower squad is divided into a heavy machine gun squad and a 60 forced squad, and the direct squad no longer contains guard tasks, which strengthens communications and hygiene, and has one more heavy machine gun in heavy firepower. The total number of personnel has increased by 15 over the previous establishment.

Battalion: 684 people. The battalion commander is 1, the deputy battalion commander is 2, the police squad is 9 people, the health squad is 9 people, the battalion headquarters cooking squad is 9 people, the reconnaissance platoon is 30 people, the heavy machine gun platoon is 30 people (under the jurisdiction of the Makqin heavy machine gun platoon), the 81 mortar platoon is 30 people (81 mm mortars are 4), the baggage platoon is 30 people, the engineer platoon is 30 people, and the combat company is 3 people.

The battalion-level establishment has taken the rudimentary form of a modern army, and it can be said that there are all kinds of engineers, baggage, light and heavy firepower, etc. Its 81-mm mortar has a maximum shelling distance of 5,600 meters, and its striking capability is infinitely close to that of the 75-mm mountain gun at this time, while the 81 mortar obviously has more advantages in terms of shelling speed and lightness.

Previously, Xu Lie had been organized to the battalion level. However, at this time, Xu Lie's troops had exceeded 10,000 people, and the original battalion-level establishment was obviously not suitable for management and command, so Xu Lie raised the establishment to the regimental level. As for the appointment of regimental commanders, Xu Lie began to think about it after the Battle of Pig Waist Valley.

Regiment: 2,742 people. 1 regiment commander and 1 deputy regiment commander (because regiment-level cadres do not need to charge ahead, 1 deputy is temporarily set up); There were 9 staff officers at the regimental headquarters, 9 people in the cooking squad, 9 people in the communications squad, 30 people in the guard platoon, 30 people in the sanitary platoon, 120 people in the reconnaissance company, 120 people in the heavy machine gun company (18 in the Makqin company), 120 people in the 105 forced company (8 people in the 105 mortar), 120 people in the baggage company, 120 in the engineer company, and 3 combat battalions.

Originally, Xu Lie didn't want to come up with a 105-mm mortar, he felt that it would be more suitable to equip the 105-mm mortar with a 75-mm mountain gun in the regiment-level troops. But his idea was rejected by Yang Reform. Yang Reform's opinion is very correct, in the current Dragon Country, there is not a decent road, although the 75 mm mountain gun is not too heavy, but it weighs seven or eight hundred kilograms, but compared with the mortar that weighs only 100 kilograms, it is still too heavy. In addition, in the battle of the Dragon Country, the 75-mm mountain artillery is not needed for the operation of units below the Xie (regiment), and the operation at this scale is better with both light firepower and dense equipment.

Xu Lie thought about it, and the truth is true, even if it encounters the town-level combat troops of the six towns of Beiyang, the Mengshan Army is also specially equipped with a mountain artillery battalion, and the overall firepower output will definitely not lose to the Qing army.

Correct, in addition to the three main combat regiments, the units directly under the Mengshan Army also set up guard battalions, reconnaissance battalions, and mountain artillery battalions, each with 500 people, of which the mountain artillery battalion was equipped with 18 75-mm mountain guns.

Three main regiments, plus three directly subordinate battalions, more than 9,700 people, plus organ staff officers, intelligence staff officers, training base instructors, etc., Xu Lie traveled here for almost nine months, and exactly trained 10,000 troops.

If only in terms of the number of troops trained, this number is very terrifying for any traverser. But the soldiers trained by Xu Lie also have an advantage, that is, the soldiers above the squad leader are all soldiers who have been on the battlefield and shot the enemy. This advantage is not possessed even by the newly formed army trained by Yuan Shikai.