"Yuan Shikai really did it, 18,000 people, all of them were slaughtered without landing, but well done! These brutes should have been killed, and it was naturally best to be able to solve the problem with zero casualties. After Li Hui learned the news that Yuan Shikai slaughtered the remnants of the Third Division of the Japanese Army, although he was a little surprised, he was still very happy, but Yuan Shikai adopted a deceptive strategy after all, and he killed them all directly without even holding a public trial meeting, which will inevitably have a certain negative impact.

Li Hui doesn't particularly care about the international image now, after all, the Datong Party is now even fighting the British Empire, the leader of the current world order, and it is difficult to think about this image. However, if the enemy does not dare to surrender and fight to the last man in every battle, as Bai Qi did in the slaughter of Changping Zhao in the past, the casualties of your own army will increase by at least fifty percent, and the price will be great. Although this influence can be diluted by time, after history enters the modern era, the concept of time is very different from that of ancient times, and the time of a generation is already quite long

"Fortunately, it didn't take long for Yuan Shikai to surrender, just say that it was a bad habit passed down from the old army, and he probably thought of this himself, so he let the people of the cavalry regiment leave first and act for convenience, right? In this way, I will order Yuan Shikai to copy the military regulations three times", Li Hui's final punishment was child's play, obviously he still hated to protect Yuan Shikai. This is not because Yuan Shikai is a historical celebrity, and not only because the primitive practice of slaughtering devils is very much in line with Li Hui's wishes, but mainly because he saw in this matter the flexibility that most of the generals in the current revolutionary army lack

The problem of over-principled and inflexible work of biochemical troops has long been exposed, and it is reflected in the military command in war, that is, excessive caution, although this can avoid mistakes and be taken advantage of by the enemy, but it is also easy to delay fighters. As the civil war progressed, Li Hui soon discovered that not only the officers of the biochemical corps themselves, but also the officers trained by them may have been affected, and they were generally too disciplined and lacking in aura, especially those who were former miners or farmers and had a blank slate before receiving education.

Considering that the biochemical army was still the core force of the party building and the army for at least a few years, in order to avoid the long-term continuation of this situation and the formation of bad traditions, Li Hui began to focus on promoting those talents with active brains and courage to balance, even if it was an old official like Yuan Shikai.

In addition to this, Yuan Shikai also has an advantage, that is, leadership. Although the biochemical soldiers as officers are excellent and loyal and reliable, they have always been relied on by Li Hui, but with the rapid expansion of the scale of the revolutionary army, their limitations have gradually been exposed, even the strongest leadership of the 5th level soldiers, can only achieve "five levels of indirect leadership", take the army as an example, they can only be qualified as a brigade commander (or a division commander of a small division), no matter how high the level is, it is easy to have problems, how can this work?

Li Hui once wanted to be opportunistic and increase the number of troops under the jurisdiction of each level of troops, so that the officers of the biochemical army could bring more soldiers. However, the biochemical soldiers told him that adding too much to this number would also affect the command efficiency, and that in the case of the army's field units, if the number of the next level of basic cadres exceeds three, the command efficiency will decline rapidly, and the magnitude is not much smaller than that of an officer who can only be qualified as a brigade commander to become a division commander.

Therefore, even if Li Hui tried his best to stuff people into it, he would only dare to increase the establishment of one brigade to more than 7,000 people after all. In this case, a senior military officer with leadership is invaluable.

Although Yuan Shikai actually does not have a particularly outstanding general, after all, he is a hero who almost unified China in history, and his leadership is definitely much higher than that of the biochemical officers, if he is trained well, he can at least be a qualified corps commander (Li Hui envisions that the future Chinese Army will be a higher level of the Chinese army, a fully equipped corps, the strength of which can generally reach about 300,000, unless a general mobilization is carried out, there will only be one corps in a large military region. ）。

And Yuan Shikai also has a certain talent in administration and diplomacy, if he is trained, he is also qualified to be a provincial governor or ambassador, and he can be used as a universal patch if necessary, such a talent is absolutely rare in the current China, as long as he can be obedient and obedient, Li Hui will definitely let it go.

Well, even if Yuan Shikai has two hearts, with the current system of the Datong Party and the current situation that most of the officers are biochemical soldiers, he will not be able to turn the sky at all, and Yuan Shikai is a smart person, and most of the time he is rational enough, Li Hui believes that he does not dare to kill himself.

Having said that, just in case, after the complete reorganization of the Fengtian Qing Army, Li Hui would not have given Yuan Shikai the actual military power so soon, he thought carefully for a while, and finally made a decision, "Well, let's do it." ”

After learning that the punishment he received was only to copy the military regulations three times, Yuan Shikai immediately let go of the big stone in his heart, and realized early that he was bound to be used. Rao was like this, after receiving the appointment, he still couldn't believe his eyes, "You mean, the party leader handed over all the troops in Manchuria to me?" ”

"It's the Northeast, not Manchuria, and not all the troops, we can't move the garrison brigade south of Jinzhou, but we will transfer a main regiment to the north and merge it into our Northeast Theater." Liu Ying, the former head of the cadre regiment who has been promoted to secretary of the Northeast Bureau, corrected the mistakes in Yuan Shikai's words, and then explained in detail the strength and tasks of the Northeast Theater

"Although it will be a few days before the main force of the 1st Cavalry Brigade will come to Mukden to join us, the vanguard has already brought their good news, and this trump card force has lived up to the expectations of the party and the people, and in less than ten days it swept through the Xilin Gol steppe and the Horqin steppe, swept away the Mongol princes and their henchmen who were still loyal to the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and liberated the vast number of oppressed herdsmen and slaves, and mobilized them to join the army enthusiastically. When the 1st Cavalry Brigade joins us, we will see not just one brigade, but a cavalry division with three cavalry brigades! Liu Ying's introduction made Yuan Shikai feel deeply excited, but he also realized a problem, "Although the herdsmen can ride horses, they are still different from the cavalry, so many recruits have been recruited at once, and if you don't spend some time training well, you are afraid that it will be difficult to send them to the battlefield." (To be continued.) )