Chapter VI Reinforcement and Training of the Armies
Ming'an's Eight Banners Battalion soldiers are all hereditary and have a good salary. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info due to the backward weapons and lack of training in the towns for a long time, the combat effectiveness of the past has almost been lost. These old-fashioned soldiers and ruffians are sandwiched between the soldiers, looking for bustards with two guns and spraying smoke bubbles, fighting with hemp claws and stalks, bluffing and kicking the group, Wu Wu Xuanxuan pretending to be calves, hiding from bandits and thieves with horns, how to bluff and bully civilians, a group of pigtail pumpkin soldiers, and the strange soldiers of the Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty!
At that time, the training army in the north of Ming'an "counted more than 2,100 horses, infantry teams, foreign gun teams, and gun-carrying teams, and they were also stationed in various cities and towns in Jilin," such a few people were obviously not enough. From the quantity and quality of these ruffians, to the equipment and so on, they are not enough to resist the threat of aggression from the Sand Demon Rakshasa Ghost. These mountain goods old hairy white boars, drink bear urine soup every day and gnaw on Da Leba, and the long beast elephant is as tall as a white bear, which is an iceberg goods. These little pigtailed pumpkin soldiers can't do it at all, good equipment is not enough to resell, bandits and horse thieves rush to buy, if you want to be angry, you have no gas, if you don't have the courage to drop diapers, this battle can't be fought at all, whoever fights and loses will die, and the Qing Dynasty will die. (Big Leba: Rectangular dry bread)
The good officer Wu Dayi was greatly disappointed, and immediately recruited the Fourth Army of Horse Infantry from the new, with 250 people in each battalion of the six battalions of the horse training team; Seven battalions of infantry have 500 men each, for a total of 5,000 people. In 1881, 4,000 troops were added to the training of various armies, collectively referred to as the Jingbian Army. At the end of 1880, he built a 600-mile road from Ningguta to Jilin City, built more than 100 wooden bridges, increased post stations, and strengthened the border defense forces.
At the end of 1880, on the way to check the defense army, the good official Wu Dayi was unable to move because "the mountain was high and the water was slippery, he repeatedly fell from his horse, and his left waist was injured"; In addition, not long ago, he rode alone into the deep mountains of Huadian, which almost magically appeased the "small country" that started by gathering people to dig gold sand privately and monopolize one side, making its prestige increase sharply. (Tidy Country: Mining Tyrant.) Elaborated later, this is omitted)
For many years, Ming'an has been arresting the small country by force, so far it has not been successful but it is growing, he can't help but be embarrassed, he is the general's respect for everything, and Wu is a small assistant official, often unable to exercise favorable powers, and suffers from Ming'an's constraints; No one can know or check the truth about Ming'an's arrest, but he has bribed many officers and soldiers, and the matter is a historical fact.
At that time, the Qing Dynasty made concessions to the sand demon Rakshasa ghost Lao Maozi's "compensation for military expenses" and other matters, and the "Sino-Demon Revised Treaty" was about to be signed, and the tense atmosphere on the Sino-Demon border was also eased.
After the imperial court examined the power relationship between the good official Wu Dashi and Ming'an, Wu Dayi was changed from "assistant" to "superintendent", so that Wu Dayi changed from a supporting role to the chief official of Jilin border defense at that time, which not only affirmed the performance of the good official Wu Daye in the past year, but also weakened Ming'an's position in Jilin's defense, which was one of the rare good decisions of the Qing Dynasty, and it was also a very important decision. Since then, the good official Wu Dashi has supervised the handling of the supporting work for Jilin's border defense in an all-round way, and has entered a stage of rapid development.
In the past, the Qing Dynasty had long banned auspicious land, protected the place where the Manchu ancestors were prosperous, and implemented the policy of imagining the border, resulting in the abandonment of border defense, the empty border, the barren land, the sparse population, the traffic blockage, the economic depression, the shortage of soldiers, the lack of salary, and the obsolescence of weapons, which made it easy for the sand demon polar bear to encroach on the territory of the northeast to invade the border, and aggravated the border crisis. In view of the above situation, the good official Wu Dayi advocated: buy sharp weapons to seek military reality, recruit tun households to use real border soil, and channel roads to facilitate business travel. Practice has proved that these propositions of his are extremely strategic.
Wu Dashi, a good officer, attaches great importance to improving the weapons and equipment of the border guards, and he believes that "the writing is still ancient, and the use of weapons is still new." The 25 articles of his training textbook "Marksmanship Guidelines" include "four methods for gun training: clear eyes, steady hands, careful heart, and calm spirit." "This essentials still seem to be very correct, and there is really the ability to lead the troops.
During this period, Wu Dashi, a good official, raised part of the funds from the anti-pay fund for the introduction and purchase of new weapons. Among them: 4 Green guns, 20 Krupp cannons, 1,000 Haggaeth guns, 4,000 rifles, and 3,000 Mauser guns. Based on the 9,000 troops of the Jilin Frontier Army at that time, almost all of them switched to advanced weapons of "foreign guns and artillery". With such a scale of weapons renewal and such force, the supply of ammunition has become a top priority and a must-do, thus starting the rise of Jilin's arsenal industry.
Wu Dayi, a good official, knew very well that everything was waiting to be done to set up a modern machine factory in the remote border province of Jilin, and talent was the most important. At the same time as he asked for the establishment of the factory, he also invited the tuner. It has been found that Wang Dejun, a candidate for the Tianjin Machinery Bureau of the General Office, is a veteran and proficient in machine maintenance, and is well-organized and detailed. At the beginning of this establishment, it was impossible not to turn to the Tianjin Bureau for help.
The good official Wu Dashi had high expectations for relying on the strength of the Tianjin Bureau, which was relatively close at that time, to build a factory, and the imperial court also agreed to this request: "Li Hongzhang will immediately send the member to Jilin." However, in order to protect his own interests, Li Hongzhang, who supervised the Tianjin Machinery Bureau at that time, asked Wang Dejun to postpone his visit to Jilin, and Wang Dejun, as the general office of the Tianjin Bureau, was also skeptical and had a wait-and-see attitude towards the scale, level and prospects of building a factory in Jilin, and was not sure about Wu Dayi's ability to build a factory. Later, perhaps it was the spirit of the good official Wu Dayi who knew the difficulties and advanced to infect Wang Dejun, although Wang was not able to come to Jilin, but in the subsequent good official Wu Dayi to purchase machinery and equipment, etc., gave strong support and help to the Jilin Bureau, and played some role in the establishment of the Jilin Bureau.
The good official Wu Dashi played Chen to transfer five important members, but only Ding Naiwen arrived alone, and the other four were either sick or found various reasons to resign, afraid of suffering and selfishness in Jilin.
At that time, the establishment of the Jilin Bureau not only did not have foreigners, but also did not get the original transfer of key personnel and personnel, and the original transfer of key personnel was only one-fifth (alas, Wang Dejun was only part-time). Rather be a peace dog, don't be chaotic and leave people, why are there from generation to generation? The vitality is still very small and strong! Rather for the death of the country fat pig guest, afraid of being a savior of the country, calling the heavens and the earth to call the ancestors, I wish not to meet the white wild boar, all pigs, only know that the stupid pig I eat, if the nest is gone, can I still eat it? A herd of misguided pigs......