Former Colonel Weix, dressed in the uniform of the old Kaiser's army and wearing the Iron Cross of the First Class, the Iron Cross of the Second Class, the Order of Merit for Service, and the commemorative medals of the Battle of Marne and Verdun on his chest, came to Gao Yang to stand and salute.

Gao Yang got up and saluted back, and his gaze swept over the medal on Weix's chest, and the last one stayed on the collar of his shirt. There was a Grand Cross there, and Gao Yang was really surprised that this kind of medal would only be awarded to senior army officers, and such officers would come to be mercenaries?

After sitting down separately, Gao Yang said to Weix in a fluent Berlin accent: "Mr. Colonel, I am curious, why would a senior officer like you come to me as a mercenary?" ”

Weix took off his hat and put it aside, and said to Gao Yang in a deep voice: "Mr. Gao, I joined the army when I was eighteen years old, and when I retired, I spent more than thirty years in the army, and I didn't know anything except fighting. With sadness in his eyes, he continued, "One of my two sons died in battle, the other was crippled at home, and the rest of the family were either women or adult children. ”

Keeping his emotions in check, Weix said: "The German economy is now completely collapsed, and all my marks can't add up to a meal for the whole family." I couldn't let my grandchildren steal potatoes every day, and my colleagues introduced me here because I could get three years of annual salary or pounds, so I came. ”

"I have 20,000 people now, and they are all fully armed. Can you do it if you form an infantry division according to the German formation? How long will it take? Gao Yang said.

"I need all the information on personnel and weapons and equipment, and in addition, some of the mercenaries who came with me this time are retired and were staff officers before retirement, and I want to recruit them to write a plan together. The program can be completed after three days. Wilks replied.

"Yes, I will arrange someone to cooperate with you, and I look forward to your good news." After Gao Yang finished speaking, he motioned for Weix to leave.

Wilks saluted and left.

Time flies, and at the end of June, the Jiangsu-Zhejiang War has entered the stage of the most reluctant deployment. On the order of President Cao Da, the Governor transferred one division and three brigades of troops stationed in Anhui to the Songhu front, because Yushuai has been pursuing the strategy of unifying the armed forces, and warlords all over the country are brewing to turn down, and a new large-scale reshuffle is about to begin. Gao Yang must hurry up, this is the best time to fish in troubled waters.

Lord Governor was not ignorant of Gao Yang's actions, but according to the universal laws of the time, a county could not raise tens of thousands of troops. Each big-headed soldier is paid 10 yuan a month plus 3 yuan of vegetable money, and it costs hundreds of thousands of oceans a month! And that's not even counting the cost of weapons, ammunition, clothing, and so on. In these years, except for Yushuai's Third Division, who hasn't deducted military salaries and drank soldiers' blood to make money in his arms, can he Gao Yang still pay his own money?

Even if he Gao Yang has a little money, he will be able to squeeze him dry in a few months, and the army will have no salary, who will do it with him? Lord Governor had already thought about it, and when Gao Yang collapsed, he would come forward to take over everything in Feng County, from arms to factories!

Gao Yang didn't know the wishful thinking of Lord Lu Dao, and he didn't want to know Lu Dao. Gao Yang has his own plans. Within a few days, Gao Yang ordered a large amount of sulfonamides from the Internet in Beidu, where he first returned to the original time and space, to eat with his parents, and then flew to Europe to show the rest of the gold in his hand. He then flew to Africa to recruit locals to build a road from Libreville to the mine.

Gao Yang received good news and came to the mining area. In the villa in the town, Gao Yang met with Dr. Weir, the leader of the geological exploration team who came to report.

Dr. Will said to Gao Yang with an excited face, "Boss, last month when we were drilling a well in a valley about 70 kilometers across the river towards the edge of the mountain, we found that there was an oil field between 1,200 and 1,500 meters below the valley. After the initial exploration, it can be determined that there is commercial exploitation value, and the exact amount of reserves will need to be further explored. ”

"Well, good, you're doing a great job. You pay the team $1 million. "Gao Yang is very happy that oil is money.

It's so hot here. Picking up the cold drink, he took a big sip of Gao Yang, and then said, "You start arranging mining matters now, equipment purchase, recruiting workers, building oil pipelines, etc., you go to Manager Hansen." If the reserves satisfy me, I will send you another red envelope. ”

Dr. Will left, and Gao Yang said to the rotating mercenary captain, "Recruit a group of security guards from the local tribe, recruit 200 people first, and watch the mine carefully, if anyone wants to harm my good deeds, I will deal with them." ”

"Yes, boss." The captain replied loudly.

Without staying long, Gao Yang quickly rushed back to Bern to take all the servants on vacation, and shuttled to Fengxian in 1924.

Three days have passed, and Colonel Weix has completed the reorganization plan and came to Gao Yang's office to hand it over to Gao Yang for inspection.

"In this plan, the following arrangements are made on the basis of the German standard infantry division, and then according to the habits of your country's army and the specific situation of existing weapons, equipment and personnel." Wilks said to Gao Yang.

Gao Yang looked at this plan carefully, and the specific plan was as follows; The division headquarters includes a telecommunications brigade (35 people, including 12 telegraph operators, all equipped with Luger pistols), a field hospital (200 people, including 32 escort team equipped with MP18 submachine guns), a divisional reconnaissance company (120 reconnaissance cavalry equipped with 260 war horses), a divisional guard company (120 people equipped with MP18 submachine guns), a divisional staff office (22 cartographic telecommunications and intelligence staff officers), and a divisional cooking platoon (46 people equipped with 8 field dining cars)

The artillery regiment directly under the division headquarters is organized into 9 105MM howitzer companies with a total of 36 guns, and the ammunition transport brigade (equipped with 170 transport carriages and 720 horses) and the guard unit are organized into 4 companies with 680 people.

The three infantry regiments under the division headquarters are as follows;

The regiment's telecommunications office, field ambulance station, regimental reconnaissance company, regimental headquarters guard company, and regimental headquarters staff office. Regimental headquarters cooking platoon.

ACCORDING TO THE EXISTING ARTILLERY, THE REGIMENTAL ARTILLERY COMPANY CONSISTS OF 12 75MM FIELD GUNS (EQUIPPED WITH 36 TRANSPORT CARRIAGES AND 160 HORSES) AND A GUARD FORCE OF 170 PERSONNEL.

The three infantry battalions of the regiment are organized as follows;

Battalion headquarters (guard platoon, first aid station, reconnaissance platoon, newspaper office, cooking squad)

THE BATTALION FIRE SUPPORT COMPANY IS EQUIPPED WITH 3 75MM FIELD GUNS (EQUIPPED WITH 12 TRANSPORT CARRIAGES AND 60 HORSES) AND 36 GUARDS.

The battalion has 3 infantry companies as follows;

Company Headquarters (Correspondents, Medical Officers, Cooking Teams)

THE FIRE SUPPORT PLATOON IS EQUIPPED WITH 4 76MM MORTARS (EQUIPPED WITH 6 TRANSPORT CARRIAGES AND 28 HORSES)

The company's 3 infantry platoons are organized as follows;

The main and deputy platoon commanders and the three subordinate squads are organized as follows;

Each squad consists of a heavy machine-gun fire team as the core, including the main and auxiliary marksmen, and 2 ammunition men. The squad leader and deputy squad leader led 6 riflemen.

In addition, a supplementary regiment was set up to replenish the battle damage in wartime.

A transport regiment was also set up to transport ammunition in wartime.

The division has a total of 691 officers, 2,822 non-commissioned officers, and 15,531 enlisted men, totaling 19,044 personnel. In addition, there is a serious shortage of officers and non-commissioned officers in the whole army, and all the remaining personnel selected and arranged for 90 days of military training in the recruit training camp are still not up to standard, and it is recommended that they be removed from the army.

THE ARMAMENT WAS 3,882 PISTOLS, 14,137 RIFLES, 772 SUBMACHINE GUNS, 266 HEAVY MACHINE GUNS, 114 76MM MOTARS, 58 75MM FIELD GUNS, 36 105MM HOWITZERS, AND 536 HORSE-DRAWN WAGONS.

Among them, all types of artillery are sufficient and have spare parts and spare, rifles are sufficient and have spare parts and spare, and the rest of the weapons are all insufficient. In addition, there is no fixed source of ammunition for all weapons and equipment, and a large amount of replenishment is required for the severe consumption of daily training. In addition, there are no transmitters, cipher machines, signal guns, all kinds of individual equipment, dining cars, all kinds of medicines, carriages and horses, and standard military uniforms.

After reading the plan, Gao Yang lit a cigarette, thought about it quietly, and said to Weix: "I now appoint you as the chief of staff of the Anhui Provincial Security Division, with the rank of colonel, and is fully responsible for the reorganization of the troops. Well, I don't want carriages, and I'm going to replace them all with cars. ”

As for the Governor who only gave him the establishment of the security brigade, Gao Yang was gorgeously ignored, and Gao Yang was ready to seize the whole province in the Zhifeng War, and the Governor was bound to roll up and leave.

Before dinner, Gao Yang announced the reorganization and Weix's appointment in public at the university grounds, and issued supporting documents. After dinner, I hurried to the magic capital.

Gao Yang was at Manager Lu Ge's house to discuss the purchase, Lu Ge took the coffee in front of Gao Yang and said to Gao Yang, "There are a lot of people staring at me now, you left the car at Paramount last time, they found me here, aren't you worried?" ”

"I'm not afraid of anything except a comet hitting the Earth." Gao Yang said lightly as he drank his coffee.

"I'll solve this matter, I've caused you trouble as a thank you, this is a new order for you and the foreign bank." Gao Yang took out a stack of documents from his file bag and handed them to Luge.

Ruger pushed his glasses and began to look at them. Gao Yang finished drinking the coffee, Luge also finished reading the document, closed the document and said to Gao Yang, "We can provide everything, but this bullet production line"

"What I want is a full set, the plate bending machine, the copper rolling machine, the bottom spring machine, and all the equipment of the gunpowder factory, if there is one less, I will burn all your foreign companies." Gao Yang stared into Lu Ge's eyes and said.

"Mr. Gao, please rest assured that the credibility of our courtesy is guaranteed." Ruger said with some embarrassment. In the past, when selling production lines, Lu Ge often played some small actions, but he didn't dare to do it to Gao Yang, this master who dared to shoot and set fire in the French Concession, Lu Ge didn't want to take risks, not to mention that the price Gao Yang gave was very tempting.

"The second batch of mercenaries recruits more non-commissioned officers, and there are also skilled individuals who can recruit a batch of bullet production lines." After Gao Yang finished speaking, he put down a check on the table and got up to leave.