Chapter 181 Headquarters Meeting on
September 6, 1900.
Aihui, Buren Mountains, Wolf Domain.
With Yue Weihua leading his troops in the Qingshui Town section of the Songhua River, after completely annihilating the fleet fleeing from the Ice City, it marked a comprehensive victory of the Black Dragon Army's third anti-encirclement and suppression, so under the chairmanship of Yue Xiang, the chief of the General Staff, the Wolf Domain Headquarters held a summary meeting.
The participants were: Yue Xiang, Chief of the General Staff, Yue Hai, Director of the General Logistics Department, Yang Fengxiang, General Adviser, Chen Gan, Commander of the 101st Regiment, Su Tong, Chief of Staff, Nie Youcai, Chief of Staff of the 102nd Regiment, Xie Guang, Chief of Staff, Kang Quan, Chief of Staff of the 103rd Regiment, Fei Qing, Chief of Staff, Song Yaoming, Chief of Staff Cao Xiang, Commander of the 104th Regiment, Su Sanpaillo, Chief of Staff Zhao Quan, Commander of the 1st Field Artillery Regiment, Yue Qingjie, Chief of Staff Fu Ersong, Commander of the 2nd Field Artillery Regiment, Li Lingde, Chief of Staff Furson, Captain of the Teaching Team, Liu Liren, Minister of Intelligence, and Tian Dashan, Commander of the Engineer Regiment. and Yue Hu, commander of the Moling Military Division, Li Yunfei, chief of staff, and other officers at or above the regimental level, who had just been formed but had not yet gone to Moling Town.
In addition, there are also Luo Qing, commander of the First Marine Division of the Black Dragon Army (regimental level), Hu Quanquan, chief of staff, Qiao San, captain of the Marine Corps (regimental level), and Du Geqingyue, chief of staff, who have just been reorganized.
After the victory of the 102nd Regiment outside the small town of Aledrovsk, it successfully returned to Aihui three days ago, and in accordance with the order given by the headquarters, Yu Hailanpao completed the reorganization, and the reorganized 102nd Regiment was divided into three, namely the new 102nd Regiment, the First Marine Division Fleet, and the Marine Corps.
"On September 3, the commander-in-chief Yue Weihua and the cavalry commander Yue Xiaodong led their subordinates all the way south to annihilate the Tsarist Sinan Moore Brigade, two more cavalry battalions, and three infantry battalions at the boundary of the ice city, with a total of more than 6,000 enemies,......。
Bang Bang Bang!
There should be applause here.
"On September 4, the battle of Fufu County ended, under the leadership of Yue Hai, commander of the Xigang Army Division, with the full cooperation of Zhou Dabiao, deputy captain of the special operations brigade, Zou Yin, commander of the independent battalion, Yu Busheng, the former commander of the Qing army, and the full support of the two senior brothers of the original Boxer regiment, Fan Yi'an and Li Zongzan, the battle achieved a complete victory, with a total of more than 4,000 enemies annihilated,......。"
Bang Bang Bang!
There should be applause here.
"In the early morning of September 5, under the leadership of Commander-in-Chief Yue Weihua, the fleet of Tsarist Russia fleeing eastward was annihilated, and a total of more than 2,300 enemies were annihilated,......。
Bang Bang Bang!
There should be applause here.
"Since then, the third anti-encirclement campaign has been successfully concluded,......。
Bang Bang Bang!
There should be applause here.
Yue Xiang presided over the meeting, and first reported on the battle situation in the direction of Bingcheng in the south and Fufu County in the west, although there may be many people here, all of whom have more or less received some news, but it is not comprehensive, after all, they have been busy with reorganization, special training, and so on recently.
Of course, for the old Black Dragon Army, it is expected that the battle between the south and the west has achieved such results, except for the battle of the rich county town with considerable losses, everything else is understandable, but there are still two people who feel very incredible after hearing it, one is Fei Qing, the chief of staff of the 103rd Regiment (acting deputy commander of the Qing Dynasty), and the other is naturally Cao Xiang, the chief of staff of the 104th Regiment (the former master of Fei Qing).
"Is this true?"
This is the common voice of Fei Qing and Cao Xiang at this moment, although they have long known that the combat effectiveness of the Black Dragon Army is strong, but there was really no clear concept before, even if the shock brought by the annihilation of the Tsarist Russian East Route Fleet was far less than it is now.
However, thinking of the devilish special training that made them feel uneasy in the past few days, Fei Qing and Cao Xiang felt that it was reasonable to achieve such a result.
The 103rd Regiment and the 104th Regiment were originally Fei Qing's subordinates, and the Qing troops stationed in Heihe Tuncheng and Aihui City respectively, totaling more than 3,600 people, and after reorganization, they secretly killed, placed under house arrest, and dismissed nearly 1,000 unqualified Qing troops, so that the 103 Regiment in Heihe Tuncheng was only 1,153 people, and the 104 Regiment in Aihui City was only 1,433 people.
Although Fei Qing and Cao Xiang were appointed as chiefs of staff of the 103rd and 104th regiments respectively because of the need for stability, Fei Qing and Cao Xiang were not taken care of at all during the special training, because the new regiment commanders and all the officers also ate and trained with the soldiers and did not fake at all, so Fei Qing and Cao Xiang naturally could not be an exception.
"The battle situation on the two sides of the southwest is probably like this, and the specific battle summary, I'm afraid it will have to wait for the officers directly involved in the battle to come back before it will be carried out.
The meeting of the Black Dragon Army is simply a three-step process, the first step is to report the recent battle situation or major events, if it is a post-war summary, of course, it is necessary to be present with the participants, the second step is to report their respective situations and raise questions, and the third step is to negotiate to solve the problem.
After Yue Xiang finished speaking, Yue Hai, director of the General Logistics Department, briefly talked about the logistics situation, and then Yang Fengxiang, the general adviser, mentioned a few words, and then the field regiments reported, mainly to report on the training situation, etc., of course, there are also those who cry poor, need equipment, and want recruits.
For example, Kang Quan, the commander of the 103rd Regiment, and Song Yaoming, the commander of the 104th Regiment, their main problem is, of course, the problem of equipment, although before Yue Weinan went south, he also exchanged 50 Browning light machine guns, 50 Makqin heavy machine guns, and 50 mortars for each of the two regiments, these three pieces of equipment are enough for their training, but as a popular rifle, they can only be reloaded with water beads, neither Browning automatic rifles, nor Thompson submachine guns, which makes the two regiment commanders very difficult. After all, these two pieces of equipment are very important for the improvement of the team's combat effectiveness, even if we can't change all of them now, why don't you give us some training, and when we can change clothes, we won't be blind.
As for the soldiers, it must be the 102nd Regiment, the First Fleet of the Marine Division, and the Marine Corps.
Speaking of which, these three departments are all regimental-level establishments, but the three regiment-level establishment units are only a regiment split, and they are also a dissatisfaction with the division of more than 1,200 people (they fought deep into the small town of Aledrovsk, completely annihilated two regiments of Tsarist Russia, and lost more than 200 people in battle).
In the newly formed 102 Regiment, there are only more than 400 people left, less than the establishment of one battalion, and there are only more than 300 marines.
Although the First Fleet of the Navy Division has also been divided into more than 400 people, the shortage is much more serious than the above two units, after all, the river ships and gunboats owned by the Black Dragon Army are nearly 30 intact alone, and there are also many tugboats and cargo ships, not counting the newly captured by Yue Weihua in Qingshui Town, as well as many river boats and gunboats that can still be repaired, and of course, there are hundreds of nearly 1,000 modified fishing boats that originally bought out the Luoshui Boat Gang.
"Chief of the General Staff, here, I want to ask you for the autonomy to recruit crews, and a few artillery regiment commanders must have some artillery on our side, otherwise the naval fleet may not be able to operate in the short term, let alone train." Luo Qing said helplessly.
There are 22 river ships, 7 gunboats, more than 20 cargo ships and tugboats, just if you want to run these ships, the captain and the ordinary crew, without a thousand people, will definitely not work, then there are still fighters, there are more than 50 cannons on the river ships and gunboats alone, and they are all naval guns with a caliber of more than 150 mm, which is equivalent to the artillery possession of two heavy artillery regiments, and the artillery that operates these cannons alone also requires hundreds of people.
Luo Qing mentioned this, several artillery regiment commanders and chiefs of staff, including Su Sancannon, suddenly looked bad, you know, the three artillery regiments, in fact, have just been split from an artillery regiment, despite this, the field artillery regiment 2 was also taken away by Yue Weihua half of the old artillery, speaking of which, the veterans of their three artillery regiments are not enough, and they have been training recruits with all their strength recently, which is good, Luo Qing directly asked for hundreds of veterans, and, no accident, once it passes, it must be a meat bun and a dog to go and have no return.
Yue Xiang was a little helpless, in fact, Luo Qing had already mentioned it to Yue Xiang in private, and Yue Xiang had also talked about this issue with the three artillery regiment commanders, but the artillery regiment also had difficulties, the key was that it was difficult for the artillery to achieve results in short-term training, and Luo Qing wanted a relatively large number of people, and this number was enough to affect the combat effectiveness of the three artillery regiments.
"Captain Su, what do you think?" Yue Xiang looked at Su Sanpao and asked.
"Ahem, this chief of the general staff, it is of course incumbent on you to send artillery, but in terms of this number, should you also consider the artillery regiment as appropriate, after all, the old artillery of the artillery regiment is not abundant." Su Sanpao said helplessly.
"Yes, not to mention our 3rd Field Artillery Regiment, most of the veterans were taken away by the commander-in-chief." Li Lingde, the commander of the 2nd Field Artillery Regiment, hurriedly echoed.
"Qingjie, what do you think?" Yue Xiang saw that Yue Qingjie, the commander of the 1st Field Artillery Regiment, had not said anything, so he asked.
"Chief of the General Staff, and colleagues, in fact, I have a solution to this problem." Yue Qingjie said.
"Oh, tell me about it."
"Captive."
Just two words, but it made the eyes of everyone present shine, because in the battle of Heishui River alone, more than 4,000 people of Tsarist Russia were captured, and many of them were members of the Tsarist fleet, and now these captives are undergoing labor reform.
"Chief of the General Staff, speaking of which, there are still some differences between this naval gun and our army's field artillery, even if we send people from our artillery regiment, it is estimated that there are many places that need to be explored, time-consuming and laborious, and I am afraid that the effect will not be too good, so the best way is to pick some honest artillerymen from the prisoners, even the captain and crew, you can also pick some, let them help us train, the effect is definitely twice the result with half the effort." Yue Qingjie continued.
"The key is how to make Lao Maozi willing to be this coach, but also to ensure that they don't teach indiscriminately, don't take the opportunity to make trouble, etc."
As soon as Yue Qingjie finished speaking, someone immediately raised concerns, after all, Lao Maozi is not a fool, I will help you train the crew and gunners, and then you will go to fight our compatriots, this kind of thing, not that no one does it, there will definitely be so many soft bones, but the key is that the instructors needed by the fleet are not just a few people.
"Actually, this problem can be solved, Tsarist Russia is a multi-ethnic country, many ethnic groups are actually forcibly recruited by Tsarist Russia, and the Tsarist Russian officials are also brutal and unkind to their people, many Tsarist soldiers do not have much sense of belonging to their country, as long as we can do the work more carefully, it should not be difficult to deal with." Yang Fengxiang said that as the former deputy capital of Aihui, Yang Fengxiang's research on Tsarist Russia is still relatively thorough.
"Well, in that case, Chief Counsel Yang, you are responsible for coordinating this matter, how about it?" Yue Xiang proposed.
"Okay."
…… (To be continued.) )