On the same day, Sun Wei led Liu Fei and the guard battalion back to the Chuwangtai Ordnance Institute, leaving the army on the other side of the river, and letting the commanders of the various auxiliary battalions lead the team to reorganize and run in. Xiong Bingkun learned that Sun Wei had returned victoriously, and personally greeted Sun Wei at the gate of Wuchang City with Tang Hualong and everyone in the Ministry of Political Affairs. After a little greeting with Xiong Bingkun and Tang Hualong, Sun Wei was like a general who returned from victory in ancient times, and accepted the greeting of the citizens of Wuchang with his head held high.

After arriving at the armory, Tang Hualong congratulated Sun Wei: "The governor is brave, so that the enemy army is frightened, and he has set Hanyang and Hankou on the eve of the day, and he is a model of my revolutionary army." Sun Wei knew that what Tang Hualong said was some nonsense that was not nutritious, but officialdom is like this, everything has to pay attention to the scene, so the scene has to be said. Sun Wei arched his hand and said: "Fortunately, thanks to the lives of the three armies, the enemy army was discouraged when he heard the revolutionary army, it was not the power of Xu, it was not the power of Xu, it was not humanly possible." Then he said: "Wuhan Civil Depends on Minister Tang's troubles, and Xu has thanked him here." Tang Hualong said: "This is all within Tang's responsibility, and Tang can do some things to benefit Sangzi in his lifetime, and they are all fulfilled by the governor." Then Tang Hualong said some words that had no effect and retired.

After Tang Hualong left, Sun Wei said to Xiong Bingkun: "There is no food in the Hanyang military camp, and Brother Xiong took the people from his headquarters to transport grain and grass to the Hanyang and Hankou military camps, where can I help me reorganize the army?" Xiong Bingkun said: "Don't worry, the governor will do his best to help the governor train the army well." Sun Wei said: "Brother Xiong doesn't have to be like this, you and I are brothers in the same life and death, so we will be divided." Xiong Bingkun said: "I am a personal friend of the governor, and now it is a business matter, and it should be done according to official business." ”

Sun Wei knew that a true revolutionary like Xiong Bingkun had some persistence and stubbornness, so he stopped arguing with him. After Xiong Bingkun led the team across the river, Sun Wei began his recruitment journey. Sun Wei was very concerned about recruitment, and although the original Hubei New Army was well-trained, the new army was already impure, and it was seriously infiltrated by the Hui Party forces, so the command was not very flexible. The newly recruited soldiers are different, they are a blank slate, as long as he, Sun Wei, can show the transformation ability of Grandpa Mao back then, then this army will be loyal to him. It's not that Sun Wei doesn't want democracy, it's just that China's national conditions force it.

At that time, China had a population of 450 million, and with the Qing government's statistical capacity at that time, the Chinese population should have been far more than that. But there were very few intellectuals in China at that time. Those who have gone to Xinxue primary school or studied private school for a few years have a very high status in the township, those who have gone to middle school or have been talented in the township are called Mr., those who have gone to university or have raised people are elites, and those who have stayed abroad or have been in Jinshi are the elite of the elite. These people are a very small part, especially those who have stayed in the foreign and middle schools, and there are only a handful. A large part of the Chinese are peasants facing the loess and even more miserable hired peasants, who do not know what a republic is or what democracy is, they just want to know when they will be able to eat enough and when they will be able to pay a little less tax.

For them, republicanism and democracy are not as affordable as a steamed bun, and to them talking about democracy is to play the harp to the cow. Those Chinese elites understand democracy, but the democracy that comes out of their mouths is a democracy that is beneficial to them, just like Tang Hualong. Who are they, they are big landlords and big capitalists, although there are real revolutionaries among them, like Xiong Bingkun, who is willing to exchange his life for the republic and democracy, and like the communists, scatter all their family property just to divide the land rights equally. But more often than not, there are some selfish people, who want democracy and republicanism to exploit the peasants and workers more, so that they can get more status and more money to squander. Therefore, it is still too early for China to talk about republic and democracy, at least until China is reunified and literacy education is completed, and when the people are wise and enlightened and understand true democracy, instead of relying on holding a large amount of money and being in power, and whoever has a strong gun is democracy.

If it weren't for Yuan Shikai's desire to be emperor, he would have hurt the interests of those small warlords under him, and caused everyone to rebel and die of anger. This is the case in China, and if China does not have a strong leader in charge of centralized power, then loose politics will be a fatal weakness for China's future development. Like France, without the dictatorship of Napoleon, there would have been no great record of conquering almost all of Europe. Just like Germany, if it were not for the iron-blooded prime minister Bismarck's iron-blooded rule, where would Prussia defeat the mighty France with a small state.

At present, China has been extremely weak for a long time, and the only way to do it is to take heavy medicine, and dictatorship is this heavy medicine. On the question of who will be the dictator, Sun Wei feels that he is more suitable for this position than anyone else. Yuan Shikai was an old bureaucrat with old ideas in his head, and he could not lead China to prosperity beyond this era. Sun Yat-sen was too democratic and delegated power to his opponents, so he created a new type of warlord. If he was still alive, none of these warlords would dare to act rashly, if he could live a little longer, unify the whole of China, and train his successor, then the democratic republic would have been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and with his prestige, those warlords would have done nothing. However, the most important thing is that Sun Yat-sen's life was too short, and at that time it was a southern warlord. These are all things that happened in the history of Sun Wei's previous life, and if history still develops like the original history, then China will have to endure more decades of suffering, which Sun Wei does not want to see. So Sun Wei wants to fight, if he wants to fight, he has to fight, and if he wants to fight, he must have an army loyal to himself, after all, Grandpa Mao said well, the power comes out of the barrel of the gun.

Sun Wei first sent people to set up recruitment offices in the cities of the three towns of Wuhan, selected those who were physically strong, had no bad deeds, and did not smoke opium as soldiers, and then sent people to every village and town in the townships and towns to persuade those simple people to become soldiers. Sun Wei's military salary is very generous, everyone can get five pieces of dragon ocean in addition to military uniforms and food, which is a little higher than the original new military salary, as long as you pass the screening, you can receive the first month's salary, and you can also help you distribute it to your family. Under the double temptation of national righteousness and generous salaries, the number of applicants at the conscription office is already overcrowded. For those intellectuals, the revolution is a very trendy thing, so the participants are very heavy, and Sun Wei also set up a special teaching brigade for this purpose, with the intention of training these intellectuals as the lowest level of officers. Although Sun Wei was a military enthusiast in his previous life, it was okay to talk about blitzkrieg, large corps operations, mechanized operations, and infantry and artillery synchronous operations, but for a person who has not received formal militarized training, it is still very difficult to really command the army to fight, let alone teach others to fight, it is pure nonsense, so Sun Wei urgently needs a group of military advisers who have gone through actual combat and military academies.

In Sun Wei's mind, the most ideal military adviser is the German, because the German has a good quality, that is, rigor and seriousness. Although the Germans were very old-fashioned, their old-fashioned style made for a strong German army. The Germans are very serious, and it is said that the sewers repaired by the Germans for China are still as clean as new after more than 50 years. However, Sun Wei not only does not have a German military adviser now, he does not even have a Chinese military adviser, and he only has a few accelerated students in the armed forces academy, and his military literacy is not as good as his own amateur. Sun Wei had to train the recruits himself. But the benefits are also obvious. Sun Wei is not harsh on the soldiers, although he is a little more serious during training, but he is still very easy-going in peacetime, often discussing some current affairs with the soldiers, and then expressing his own opinions, and gradually these recruits are influenced by him, and regard Sun Wei as a long-term leader, and are in awe of Sun Wei.

After three days of recruitment, Sun Wei recruited more than 10,000 people, and thanks to the seizure of more than 300,000 tons of silver at that time, Sun Wei's jewelry was not touched. Among the recruits, Sun Wei abolished the old military establishment and replaced it with the army organization of the great powers.

Sun Wei first used the students who had joined the army to set up a teaching brigade of more than 500 people, with two teaching squadrons, each of which had five teaching squadrons, and each teaching team had 10 people. Each squadron shall have a principal and deputy captain, each squadron shall have a principal and deputy squadron leader, and each squadron shall have a principal and deputy squadron leader. Only Liu Fei and ten acting squad leaders are responsible for training in the teaching brigade, and the real commander will wait until the training is completed before being appointed.

Sun Wei stipulated that there should be 12 infantry in a squad, and there should be two squad leaders. Three infantry squads and two guards are a platoon, with a chief and deputy platoon commander and a platoon full of 40 people.

Three infantry platoons, a 10-man cooking squad, two heralds (one who also served as a commander), and a guard squad were a company, with two chief and deputy company commanders, and a company with a full strength of 146 people.

Three infantry companies, one machine gun platoon, one artillery platoon, one guard platoon, one communications squad (the squad leader also serves as the division commander), a cooking squad of ten people (mainly cooking for the battalion headquarters, machine gun platoon, and artillery platoon), two clerks, and six hygienists are a battalion, with two chief and deputy battalion commanders. The machine gun platoon was divided into two machine gun squads, and there was also a guard squad. The artillery company provided for two 57-mm mountain guns to be divided into two squads, and there was also a guard squad. A battalion was full of five hundred and ninety men.

Three battalions, a machine-gun company, an artillery company, a guard company, a communications platoon (platoon commander and division commander), a ten-man cooking squad (mainly cooking for the regimental headquarters, machine gun company, and artillery company), ten clerks, one doctor, and nine hygienists are a regiment, with two chief and deputy commanders. The machine gun company was provided for six Maxim machine guns, which were distributed according to the machine gun platoon. The artillery company was provided for four 57-mm guns and two 75-mm guns, which were distributed according to the pattern of artillery platoons. A regiment was full of 2,242 people.

Two regiments and a guard battalion (part-time signal corps), a reconnaissance company, an engineer company, and a ten-man cooking squad (cooking only for the brigade commander and the guard battalion) are a brigade, with two chief and deputy brigade commanders. A brigade is full of five thousand one hundred and eighty-eight people.

Sun Wei did not have division-level units, not only because he did not have the weapons equipped at the division-level level, but also because he did not have so many officers. Sun Wei did not appoint a brigade commander, but only transferred outstanding officers from the original guard battalion to the newly recruited army as regiment commanders, battalion commanders, and company commanders. Regarding the appointment of platoon commanders and squad leaders, the main reason is that Sun Wei wants to select from among excellent soldiers, which adds motivation to the soldiers' future training.

Clerks in the army were selected from among the students and participated in the training of soldiers in peacetime, but they also had the task of teaching illiterate officers and soldiers. In Sun Wei's conception, they were the political commissars of the future, used to convey Sun Wei's thoughts.

Sun Wei spent three days writing a "Provisional Infantry Drill for Recruits", mainly to train the basic skills of recruits. First of all, half a month is used by recruits to practice standing posture and pace, so that recruits can understand left and right, and master left and right turns. After half a month, the recruits are gradually taught to maintain firearms and practice shooting, weapons are the second life of soldiers, and soldiers should respect weapons. Every morning after running and evening cultural classes, soldiers have to sing military songs, these military songs are of course plagiarized by Sun Wei for later generations, such as the eight honors and eight shames and the three disciplines and eight points of attention of Grandpa Mao. Such a military song can not only alleviate the negative psychology caused by the daily training of soldiers, but also strengthen military discipline.

Of course, Sun Wei didn't have time to teach these things to the recruits one by one, so he could only hand them over to Liu Fei and the officers selected from the guard battalion, so that they could turn Sun Wei's ideas into reality.

When Sun Wei finished recruiting new recruits and was ready to start training, the Hubei New Army also completed the general mobilization and reorganization before the war, and was ready to sharpen its knives and slash at the enemy. There are three stations built in Hankou, counting from north to south: Liujiamiao Station, Dazhimen Station, and Yudaimen Station. In order to stop the Qing army from moving south, the revolutionary army must take Liujiamiao Station as soon as possible.

In fact, when Sun Wei was urgently preparing for the war, Tang Hualong was not idle. When Tang Hualong learned that his younger brother Tang Qianming, as the chief of staff of the naval commander Sa Zhenbing, had been ordered to lead a fleet with Sa Zhenbing to Hubei on October 12 to assist the Minister of War Yin Chang in counterattacking Wuhan, he sent someone to inform Sun Wei that he wanted to persuade his younger brother to do so. Sun Wei was overjoyed at that time, and said to Tang Hualong: "If Minister Tang can persuade Brother Ling to surrender to the revolution and lead his troops to revolt, you and Brother Ling will be the greatest heroes." But to Sun Wei's disappointment, the fleet's heavily protected messenger Tang Hualong tried to secretly kick the ship several times, but was unsuccessful. But the situation is urgent, and Sun Wei has no time to wait for Tang Qianming's anyway.

On October 17, 1911, Sun Wei, as the governor of the Hubei Military Government, issued an order to resolutely block the offensive of the Qing army in the south, and the troops left Hankou City and went straight to Liujiamiao Station. (To be continued.) )