After Wang Yingkai sent four routes of personnel to the four provinces to recruit troops, he prepared to reorganize the patrol battalion and the green battalion. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

However, Duan Qirui suggested that many officers and men in the patrol battalion were selected from the green battalion, and the green battalion soldiers were worse than the patrol battalion, and even if they were selected, they could not find many qualified officers and men, so they should first focus on the patrol battalion and then reorganize the green battalion after they had time.

Wang Yingkai felt that Duan Qirui's suggestion was very correct, after all, the patrol battalion was a training army, and although its combat effectiveness was very poor compared with the new army, it was much stronger than the Eight Banners and the Green Battalion.

Wang Yingkai carefully considered the information of the patrol battalion sorted out by the staff officer, and the Fengtian patrol battalion had a total of 40 battalions of horses and infantry, which were divided into 8 patrol teams of the center, front, left, right, rear, deputy left, deputy right, and deputy rear, stationed in various parts of Fengtian; Among them, Zhang Zuolin's front road patrol battalion, Wu Junsheng's rear road patrol battalion, Feng Delin's left road patrol battalion, and Ma Longtan's right road patrol battalion, these four road patrol battalions are the most powerful, and the other four roads are only for the battalion level, with less than 500 people in each battalion. Jilin has 17 battalions of horse teams, 23 battalions of infantry teams, 200 people per battalion of horse teams, 400 people per battalion of infantry teams, a total of more than 12,000 officers and soldiers, divided into 10 armies, stationed in Yanji, Ningguta, Hunchun and other places. The Heilongjiang patrol battalion has more than 5,000 officers and soldiers.

If you want to reorganize the patrol battalion of the three provinces, the key is Fengtian, and if you want to smoothly reorganize the Fengtian 8 Road patrol battalion, the key is Zhang Zuolin, Wu Junsheng, Feng Delin and Ma Longtan 4 people, each of whom has more than 2,000 horses.

So Wang Yingkai asked the staff officer to sort out the detailed information of these four people.

Ma Longtan is after General Zhenwei, who is all-round in civil and military affairs, and has the style of a Confucian general; Wu Junsheng nicknamed Wu Da Tongue, Fengtian Changtu people, made a living by selling horses, entered the Liaoyuan Capture and Robbery Camp at the age of seventeen, started from the gang, and was longer than the cavalry; Feng Delin was born in the countryside, and later fell into the grass as a coward, a predecessor in the green forest and the township brave world in the northeast, and later established the Volunteer Army with the support of the Japanese army; Zhang Zuolin was first a bandit, and then started as an "insurance team".

Wang Yingkai felt that these four people were not to be afraid, if they could obey the order and arrive in Fengtian on time, then they could easily relieve them of their military power and smoothly reorganize these patrol battalions; If they dare to resist the order and not come to Mukden, then they will be broken by each one and send troops to destroy them; Not counting the officers and soldiers brought by General Du, but the frontier general had 4 new troops under him, and they didn't dare to resist at all if they wanted to reorganize these patrol battalions.

The Fengtian No. 8 Road Patrol Battalion was first reorganized, and then the patrol battalions in Jilin and Heilongjiang were gradually reorganized.

Therefore, he issued an order to the Fengtian 8th Road Patrol Battalion to be stamped with the seal of the frontier general, ordering all the patrol battalions to lead the headquarters to come to Fengtian to accept the reorganization, and according to the distance, strictly ordered to rush to Fengtian within 3 days after receiving the order.

Ma Longtan, Wu Junsheng, Feng Linge and others felt very confused and frightened after receiving the order, now they can live a prosperous and wealthy life, completely because they have military power in their hands, if the soldiers in their hands are reorganized, then these people are not even as good as a phoenix with a hair.

Now in the northeast region, there are 4 towns and 2 associations of the new army, all the patrol battalions in Fengtian combined, the combat effectiveness is not as good as that of a town, so they dare not resist, if they obediently go to Fengtian to accept the reorganization and are not reconciled, that is, they want to fall back into the grass for the idea of not daring to have it now, after all, the gap between the combat effectiveness of the patrol battalion and the new army is too big, but the weapons and equipment cannot be supplemented, and the number of the new army far exceeds the total number of patrol battalions.

However, Zhang Zuolin, who was stationed in Xinmin, arrived at the secret report arranged in Fengtian spies, and immediately summoned Tang Yulin, Zhang Zuoxiang, Zhang Jinghui and others to discuss after receiving the order. After the personnel arrived, Zhang Zuolin first read the appointment order to everyone, and then asked: "Do you have any views on the appointment?" ”

Tang Yulin was born in the green forest and had a short temper, so he immediately shouted: "Reorganization? It sounds good, that is, they want to seize power, if the patrol battalion arrives in Mukden on time, the soldiers may still be able to continue to be soldiers, and our people will definitely be relieved of military power if they go, and then even their lives will not be controlled by themselves. ”

Zhang Zuoxiang was the first to object: "I think they want to reorganize the patrol battalion first, and after the patrol battalion is reorganized, do you think they can allow so many green forest heroes to exist in the northeast territory?" We are now falling into the grass, and that is purely an act of seeking death. Besides, if they dare to issue an order openly, they are not afraid that we will disobey or fall into the grass. ”

As the eldest of these people, Zhang Jinghui stood up and said: "Zhang Guandao's words are right, there are too many new troops in the Northeast now, we can't disobey orders, we can't fall into the grass, otherwise we can't even save our lives, if we lead the troops to develop in other places, how many brothers are willing to follow?" At present, we can only accept the reorganization, and we know that it is a fire kang and we have to jump, what if the new army really wants to absorb us? That's an opportunity for everyone. ”

After listening to everyone's speech, Zhang Zuolin said: "What everyone said is not wrong, this time it is not a good idea for us to disobey orders, fall into the grass or go to other places to develop, and it is not a matter of resignation to fate when we go to Fengtian, maybe it is really like what Zhang Guandao said, this is an opportunity for everyone." Our spies in Mukden sent back the news that the new army in Fengtian began to recruit troops again, perhaps to reorganize our troops into a new army, in addition, the general of the Xia Empire in Dalian sent 1 cavalry division to Mukden, we just want to run, and it is also very difficult; We might as well perform better, sign up early, leave a good impression on them, maybe we can fight once, and then everyone can arrange a better position. ”

Zhang Zuoxiang and Zhang Jinghui agreed with Zhang Zuolin's opinion and went to Fengtian once.

Tang Yulin muttered: "When you arrive in the new army, how can you be comfortable in the patrol camp, but just training and discipline will annoy people." ”

Zhang Zuolin and the others pretended not to hear it, and gave the order to go down and prepare to leave for Fengtian.

The situation encountered by the other patrol battalions was similar, and in the absence of other better options, under the pressure of the new army, they were all obediently ordered to arrive in Mukden on time.

All the officers and men of the patrol battalion were arranged in the new barracks that had not yet been completed, and only part of the dormitories in the new barracks were built, but they were enough for these people to live.

On the second day after the arrival of the patrol battalion, Wang Yingkai arrived at the new military camp with the staff team and held a meeting of personnel above the pipe band.

Wang Yingkai spoke: "You may not know me, I am Wang Yingkai of the Frontier Special Administrative Region, responsible for the reorganization of all patrol battalions in the three eastern provinces, I believe that everyone is very familiar with their own troops, weapons and equipment are backward, there are more than 10 models of rifles in a battalion, not even mountain artillery, and the age is even older and younger, that is, to scare the people, even the bandits you dare not suppress, let alone compete with the new army in combat effectiveness; Therefore, this time the frontier general made up his mind to reorganize the patrol battalion. Don't be afraid of reorganization, as long as you have real skills, I believe that this is an opportunity to change everyone's fate, and the Xia Empire will assist us in this reorganization; For qualified soldiers, the military instructors of the Xia Empire will be trained, and after passing the training, they will be assigned to the new army, and the junior officers such as sheds and sentinels will be sent to the army academy to study for at least 3 months; For the eliminated soldiers, the government will distribute food, farm tools, land, or directly take severance pay and fend for themselves, in short, the government will not leave them alone. What do you think? ”

It's already been like this, who can still have an opinion? Even if you have an opinion, you don't dare to mention it. Fortunately, the government has considered it more comprehensively, even the eliminated soldiers can have a good home.

"Since everyone agrees to accept the reorganization, then all the ways will report the list of officers and specialties of the headquarters to the staff office, and then according to everyone's strengths, they will arrange to learn the command of cavalry, artillery or infantry, as an officer, not only can they fight, but also command the troops to fight, I hope that after you come out of the military academy, you can be competent as a battalion management belt, standard commander or even co-commander, then it depends on everyone's ability, now there is a serious shortage of cadres in the new army, this is an opportunity given to everyone by the frontier general, it depends on who can seize the opportunity, If you become an assistant leader, don't forget me when the time comes, at least treat me! Wang Yingkai gave the order without leaving much time for everyone to think, and at the same time gave hope to everyone.

The reorganization of soldiers is simple, first of all, the old and the weak are eliminated, and the soldiers who are over 45 years old and under 18 years old, as well as physically disabled or sick, jump out; Then they were selected in groups according to categories, first the artillerymen, then the cavalry, and the rest were all classified as infantry, and in the training, the trained ones who were actively trained and physically strong were specially trained as machine gunners, and the relatively poorly trained ones were trained as baggage soldiers.

Finally, people who can read and write and can count are selected to participate in the training of grassroots officers.

Zhang Zuolin and others can be regarded as completely relieved at this point, the frontier general really wants to reorganize the patrol battalion, this is an opportunity for his own people, and at the same time it is also a hurdle, if they can jump over, the future will be even more ambitious, if they are strong, they can even be co-commanders, in the new army, it is a battalion management band, which is much stronger than the patrol battalion command, and if they can't jump over, it would be good to be a grassroots officer, and in the new army, it is still necessary to see the real ability.

In the entire Fengtian patrol battalion, 2,500 cavalry, 4,500 infantry, and 100 artillery were selected, of which only more than 200 could read and write.

Because the number of artillery was too small and there was no separate training, after consulting Duan Qirui, the artillery was directly assigned to each artillery battalion.

For cavalry and infantry, every 300 people are a team, and each team is equipped with a squad of Xia Imperial Army as instructors, responsible for the comprehensive training of these patrol battalion soldiers, hoping that within three months they can be reborn and meet the requirements of the new army.

After the reorganization of the Fengtian patrol battalion was completed, Wang Yingkai sent people to reorganize the patrol battalions in Jilin and Heilongjiang, and the quality of the patrol battalions in these two places was even worse, and a total of 2,200 cavalry and 4,100 infantry were selected.

Duan Qirui was very satisfied with this result, the selection criteria were very strict, and the quality of the soldiers who could be selected was good; if these people were assigned to the newly expanded unit after training, it would be able to ensure that the combat effectiveness of the unit would be improved as quickly as possible. (To be continued.) )