Duan Qirui is responsible for the reorganization of the two mixed associations The work is relatively simple, the first and second mixed associations themselves are from Beiyang, and they are very familiar with Duan Qirui, and now Duan Qirui is responsible for the reorganization, and no one dares to object. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

After streamlining the personnel, some soldiers were transferred from the other 4 towns, the 2 ** mixed associations were replenished, and all the artillery of the artillery battalion was replaced with tube-retreat Krupp 75mm mountain guns, each mixed association had 1 battalion of artillery, and each artillery battalion had 18 mountain guns; Equip each squad with light machine guns, each with 2 Madson light machine guns, and equip each battalion with heavy machine guns, each battalion with 2 Maxim heavy machine guns; The rifles were all replaced with Mauser 1888 committee rifles, and the combat effectiveness of the two associations was immediately raised to a higher level, and after the training of the instructors of Emperor Xia, I believe that these two **mixed associations must be one of the strongest combat units in the Qing Dynasty.

In order to improve the training enthusiasm of the two mixed associations, Duan Qirui revealed at the time of the reorganization, which mixed association has a good training effect and strong combat effectiveness, and at the end of the year, it will be expanded on the basis of which mixed association, and it will be directly expanded into a town, and the co-commander will serve as the town ruler, and when the other mixed association is expanded into a town, the co-commander will continue to serve as the co-commander, and the town rule will be transferred from the outside, and other officers at all levels will also refer to this criterion, which will greatly stimulate the enthusiasm of the training of officers at all levels, otherwise let alone be the town rule. There are also those who are lowered to one level, and no one wants to lag behind, and in the next three months, the army training is miserable every day, and the enthusiasm is higher than that of the instructors.

Conscription in the three eastern provinces has also begun, in fact, it is to recruit troops in various parts of Mukden, and the population of Jilin and Heilongjiang is still too small to recruit troops on a large scale.

And Du Shihui was not idle, after determining the division of labor, he sent scouts to the three provinces to find out the situation of bandits in various places.

One month later, scouts from all walks of life came back to report that the bandit forces in the entire three eastern provinces were much more serious than originally estimated, and that they had received assistance from Japan and Russia, and that they were now much stronger than during the Russo-Japanese War.

Duan Qirui also knew the difficulty and importance of suppressing bandits in the northeast, so he told Du Shihui: "General Du, it seems that the bandit forces are very rampant now, and we must kill the chickens and monkeys, and first take a few major bandits. ”

"No, anyone who survives in this world has the value and meaning of his survival, they are doing a lot of evil now, it is caused by the social environment, and they have not found their own position, and they have not played their value, I have decided, I will not kill people at first, and recruit peace first, even for those who are stubborn, it is only the implementation of labor reform. What advice does General Duan have for recruiting peace? ”

Duan Qirui thought for a while and said: "To be honest, I am not very familiar with the matter of suppressing bandits, but I can recommend a few characters who are familiar with bandits to the general, and with their assistance, the work of suppressing bandits will definitely get twice the result with half the effort." ”

"Who has such a great ability? Say old look. ”

"It's the patrol battalion that has just been reorganized, and all the bandits are basically from bandits, and they are much better at suppressing bandits than those of us who are from professional classes. Especially Feng Linge, who used to be known as the leader of the Northeast Green Forest, Zhang Zuolin is not simple, his subordinates are basically composed of bandits, they have long had official status, and they still have a deep friendship with the people on the Northeast Green Forest Road, if they can get their help, will the general feel that he will get twice the result with half the effort? ”

"How? General Duan, I will say that everyone has their own value, and they didn't play it because they didn't find their place, and now it's time to let these bandit-born people use their spare heat. ”

Therefore, Du Shihui sent people to invite all the patrol battalion management bands and above officers who were being trained in the Higher Military Academy to his station.

Zhang Zuolin and the others have been studying hard recently, preparing to get a good score in the exam when they graduate, and when the time comes, they will be able to arrange a good position in the new army, and suddenly they are ordered to run to the barracks, and everyone is very surprised, and they don't know what happened.

Everyone came to the barracks conference room nervously and found Duan Qirui and Wang Yingkai sitting on either side of a soldier with the rank of lieutenant general, which made everyone even more strange.

Wang Yingkai is in charge of the reorganization of the patrol battalion, and he is most familiar with everyone, so he will speak first: "Everyone, please do a good job, now I will introduce to you, this is General Du, the governor of the Xia Empire in the leased area of the Liaoning Peninsula, and this is the general of the border special administrative region. I hope that everyone can work together to help make suggestions, and now General Du will introduce the content of the task to you. ”

As soon as I heard Wang Yingkai say this, everyone's hanging hearts were completely let go.

Du Shihui waited for everyone to calm down and began to say: "I am from the Xia Imperial Army, and I am responsible for assisting the border administrative regions in developing their economies and building a strong military force. Now I will first introduce to you the composition of the military forces of the various departments of the Xia Empire, so that you can have a comprehensive understanding of the military of the Xia Empire. The military of the Xia Empire is divided into several major parts, the first part is the strongest combat effectiveness in the country, the Yulinwei and the special combat team, which is only responsible for protecting His Majesty the Emperor and the palace in peacetime, as well as carrying out the special orders of His Majesty the Emperor, and generally does not fight against the outside world; The main force of the war was the Praetorian Guard, with more than 50 divisions, each with more than 20,000 people, and its main responsibility was to fight abroad; The number of the Wehrmacht is about the same as that of the Praetorian Guard, both of which are about 1 million, and the number of officers and soldiers in each national defense division ranges from 0, and they are also responsible for foreign operations, but they do not undertake the task of assault, and the task of assault is generally handed over to the Janissaries; A division of the Praetorian Guard is equivalent to the combat effectiveness of the 5 towns of the Beiyang New Army, which had the strongest combat effectiveness in the Qing Dynasty; One defense division can defeat 2 or 3 Beiyang towns; The third military force of the Xia Empire was the garrison army, which was only responsible for defending the city, protecting the rear or temporarily serving as a baggage team, and its combat effectiveness was similar to that of the Beiyang New Army, or a little more powerful; The last piece of foreign combat force is the mercenary, and now the highest establishment of the imperial mercenary army is the regiment, which is the standard you are familiar with, each regiment has 3,000 people, and the combat effectiveness is uneven, and the strength will far exceed that of the Beiyang New Army, and the difference is about the same as your patrol battalion. ”

At this time, everyone was very puzzled, although everyone was shocked by the military strength of the Xia Empire, and they had long known the strength of the Xia Empire's army, and now at this time, General Du showed everyone this, what is the purpose?

Seeing that everyone was confused, Du Shihui continued: "The focus of what I am talking about today is mercenaries, do you want to know the combat content of mercenaries? In fact, everyone is familiar with it, that is, responsible for murder and robbery. “

At this time, everyone is even more confused.

"The Empire treats mercenaries about the same as the garrison, but the income is much higher than that of the garrison, and the mercenaries are not as disciplined as the garrison; Now I will tell you a little more about the scope of operations of the mercenaries, and you will understand. Mercenaries are only responsible for foreign operations or are responsible for the security of the occupied areas during foreign operations, and they can kill and rob people at will within a specific time when they are fighting abroad, of course, they can't do it at other times and other places, and the specific nature of work is similar to that of bandits, of course, it can't be said on the surface, and the wealth of robbery will be distributed to mercenaries according to a certain percentage, so the income of mercenaries will be higher than that of the garrison. The members of the mercenaries were recruited Japanese, Koreans, and Nanyang natives, and most of the junior officers were Chinese, who joined the mercenaries because they liked the work of mercenaries. There are several major requirements for joining mercenaries, the most important of which is to dare to kill and rob. “

At this time, everyone had a certain understanding of mercenaries, but they still didn't understand Du Shihui's purpose.

Du Shihui continued: "The former junior officers of the imperial mercenaries were ruffians, hooligans, bullies, murderers, etc., who were purchased from the Qing Prison, and now they are almost bought all over the Guannai, and there are no new channels to increase personnel. “

At this time, everyone understood Du Shihui's true thoughts.

"Recently, the empire has recruited a large number of Korean and Japanese mercenaries, and there is an urgent shortage of grassroots cadres. Now everyone is talking about it, who is familiar with the bandits and horse thieves in Mukden? “

Seeing that this was a good opportunity to make contributions, Zhang Zuolin hurriedly said: "General Du, General Duan, General Wang, I, Zhang Zuolin, have been stationed in Xinmin, and I am familiar with the bandits in Liaozhong, and the biggest bandit in Liaozhong is Du Lisan, who is entrenched in Qingmakan, Liaozhong County, he calls himself the emperor immediately, he is treacherous and ferocious, and it is very difficult to deal with. “

Sun Liechen said: "Generals, I am Sun Liechen, I once garrisoned Taonan, where there are many horse thieves, a large number of horse thieves such as Baiyin Dajiao, Yaqian, Tao Ke Taohu, etc., are a person riding two horses, riding one, preparing one, full of strength, running fast, plus they are familiar with the terrain, understand the people's conditions, good at riding and shooting, haunting impermanence, their whereabouts are uncertain, they use more surprise attacks, hit and run, there is no trace, it is very difficult to completely clear up. “

Everyone successively mentioned Fu Dianchen, the chief scoop of Jinan, Xie Wendong, the leader of the Heilongjiang bandits, and some small bandits, such as: "Good Fight", "Quick Gun Lin San", "Flying on the Grass", "A Gust of Wind", "Good from the South", "Good Sanjiang", "Hello Everyone", "Rolling Mines", and so on.

Seeing that everyone was introducing the situation of bandits in the Northeast, and no one proposed specific methods, they fought well", "Quick Gun Lin San", indicating that the marksmanship was good; "Flying on the grass" and "a gust of wind" indicate that the action is agile; There are also some newspaper numbers, in order to show that they are "benefiting the people": such as "good from the south", "good from Sanjiang", "good everyone". The bandits are boasting about themselves, and they are also quite hard. There are also some descriptions of personal characteristics, Du Shihui had no choice but to say: "My scouts have already reported to me about the situation that everyone said, so I called everyone here to ask everyone to help me think of a way, how can I recruit these bandits and horse thieves?" I have a plan, and I'll put it together and see if it's possible. (To be continued.) )

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