During the Gengzi years, Zeng Qi was already frightened by foreigners, not to mention that this time the Japanese and Russians fought so hotly, and they still fought on their own side, which made Zeng Qi even more panicked.

After Wang Bin received Zengqi's order, his face was speechless, how could the Japanese and Russians be interested in you Zengqi?

Don't look at the patrol battalions under you, even if the patrol battalion under your Zengqi has any ideas, the Japanese and Russians will let the patrol battalion under Zengqi toss casually, and no one will care about the combat effectiveness of this patrol battalion.

But the Japanese and the Russians don't care about Zengqi, and Zengqi cares about Japan and Russia is the same thing, but this Zengqi will make Wang Bin garrison Xinmin Mansion This matter will be different, after all, neither of these two parties can ignore the movements of the Fifth Town.

No matter which side of the war is, it is known that in the territory of Liaoxi, the strongest fighting ability so far is the fifth town under Wang Bin.

Although the combat effectiveness of Wang Bin's Fifth Town is still a little short of the level of the great powers, in any case, this Fifth Town is still a new-style army that has initially possessed some characteristics of a modern army, and it is absolutely impossible to look at it from the perspective of the old-style army of the past, as well as the regimental training, green battalion, and patrol battalion.

Moreover, there are still many people in the fifth town under Wang Bin, a full 15,000 people, and in addition to the several patrol battalions that were later formed to be responsible for the surrounding security, this Wang Bin's subordinates are also less than 20,000 people.

This small army of 20,000 people is naturally nothing to the great powers, but Japan and Russia are now at war, and there is such a small army of 20,000 people on the edge of the battlefield, who can rest assured?

Therefore, the two sides of the war will naturally maintain a certain degree of attention to the actions of Wang Bin's army, and once Wang Bin decides to stab him in the back, it will cause a great reversal in the tide of the war.

Therefore, even if Yuan Shikai had proposed "outside neutrality" before the war, there was no less attention to Wang Bin.

Therefore, the garrison of Xinmin in the Wang Bin Dynasty will make many people nervous.

However, Wang Bin was not in the mood to intervene in the Russo-Japanese War, the reason why he wanted to garrison Xinmin Mansion was that Zeng Qi's order was one of the conditions, and more importantly, Wang Bin could rely on this order to officially take over the defense of Xinmin Mansion and control Xinmin Mansion.

As long as Wang Bin controls the defense of Xinmin Mansion and firmly controls Xinmin Mansion in his hands, Wang Bin, who also controls Jinzhou, can really control Liaoxi in his hands.

Although Zeng Qi has the title of General Sheng Jing, this move of Zeng Qi is to give up the military control of Liaoxi to Wang Bin, and yes, Wang Bin has become the highest military commander in Liaoxi.

Such an opportunity is placed in front of Wang Bin's eyes, how can this opportunity be lost in vain?

"My lord, the above asked us to garrison the Xinmin Mansion, but the Ministry of Labor is just afraid that this move will cause dissatisfaction between Japan and Russia!"

In the office, Lin Hao said to Wang Bin.

"Yes, what Lord Lin Hao said does have some truth, this can be regarded as garrisoning the Xinmin Mansion. It is certainly not possible to send our direct troops from the Fifth Town, and once they are really lined up, the headquarters thinks that the Russians will really not be able to eat. ”

"What's more, the Xinmin Mansion is close to Fengtian, if it is directly stationed in my fifth town, I am afraid that it will cause great opposition."

After Lin Hao finished speaking, Gu Chen also said with some agreement.

Under such circumstances, although Wang Bin could not send the troops directly under the Fifth Town, it was still possible to send some other troops, such as the patrol battalion.

In a sense, the Jinzhou patrol battalion is also a unit under Wang Bin, not to mention that this patrol battalion was established at the request of Wang Bin, but the combat effectiveness of the fifth town is much stronger than that of the Jinzhou patrol battalion, not to mention that the reputation of the fifth town alone is much better than the reputation of the patrol battalion.

So in the eyes of outsiders, the patrol battalion under Wang Bin is nothing more than other patrol battalions, they are all garbage armies integrated with some old armies and bandits who have been recruited, and the security can be improvised, but forget it when you go to the battlefield.

The Fifth Town is different, it is equipped with advanced equipment, and it is still a new-style army that is moving closer to modernization, and in any case, the combat effectiveness is there, and the combat effectiveness is definitely many times stronger than that of the patrol battalion.

What's more, this Beiyang New Army was created by Yuan Shikai, and Wang Bin's every move will make outsiders speculate whether this will be done under Yuan Shikai's instructions?

Or did Yuan Shikai have the idea of tearing up "outside neutrality"?

Of course, the premise of these conjectures is based on the fact that Wang Bin sent the troops of the Fifth Town to garrison the Xinmin Mansion.

Especially at this critical moment, every move of the Fifth Town would have the potential to change the course of the war, so if it weren't for some necessary reason, Wang Bin didn't want to take a huge risk of stationing the military strength of the Fifth Town under his command to Xinmin Mansion.

"Having said that, in the opinion of the department, although it is not possible to send troops directly under my fifth town, it is also possible to send a patrol battalion!"

At this time, Ma Zikai put forward his own suggestions.

This suggestion coincided with Wang Bao's thoughts, and Wang Bin also opened his mouth to do so

"Yes, since you can't send soldiers from the Fifth Town, then send a patrol battalion to station in Xinminfu."

Although the patrol battalion under Wang Bin was reorganized by the old army and the bandits who accepted Zhao'an, the training and requirements for the patrol battalion were all carried out in accordance with the requirements of the fifth town.

In this way, the gap between the patrol battalion and the fifth town is nothing, if the gap is to be said, then the training intensity of the patrol battalion is not as good as that of the fifth town, and the patrol battalion has no exercises, and the patrol battalion has no actual combat experience.

But on the whole, the patrol battalion is still a combat force, compared with the patrol battalions in other places, it is simply a gap between heaven and earth, and the Japanese and Russians do not know whether the patrol battalion under Wang Bin has combat effectiveness, because they have never taken the patrol battalion into account at all.

Now Wang Bin's subordinates have a total of four search battalions, except for one of which is stationed in Jinzhou City to maintain law and order, the remaining three are scattered around Jinzhou City, so there are only these three patrol battalions that can be mobilized.

In the end, Wang Bin decided not to discharge all the three patrol battalions, after all, there was still a patrol battalion outside the city to be responsible for law and order, so Wang Bin decided to send only two patrol battalions, as for who would lead the two patrol battalions, Wang Bin also had a number in his heart.

That is, let Yu Zhu, who was previously responsible for the reorganization of the old army, be responsible for leading these two patrol battalions to be stationed in Xinmin Mansion.