After hearing that Wang Bin wanted to leave, Zeng Qi first graciously retained.

However, Wang Bin said that after the attack on Xinmin this time, he was afraid that it would cause some waves in Jinzhou, and the lower officials had to return to Jinzhou.

Seeing Wang Bin say this, Zengqi is not easy to keep, after all, the excuse used by Wang Bin is official, and he can't stop it.

Besides, this Wang Bin gave himself a lot of face in the matter of being attacked, and it was impossible for him to be embarrassed again.

So Zeng Qi didn't stay anymore, but just sent a team of soldiers to escort Wang Bin back to Jinzhou to prevent another accident on the way back.

Wang Bin did not refuse Zengqi's move, and he was quite happy to go back with a little more security.

Just as Wang Bin was on his way back to Jinzhou, Zeng Qi's telegram about this incident also reached the court, which immediately caused an uproar in the government and the opposition.

The dignified minister of the court was ambushed by bandits on the road, isn't this a face for the court?

Although the current court has no face, it has never suffered such a naked slap in the face!

This face has already hit the military attache of the second rank, who knows if the next one will be one of the princes of the court?

Moreover, Zeng Qi vaguely proposed in the telegram that the defense outside the border needs to be strengthened again, and believed that Wang Bin was the candidate who could take on the defense, which was the result of Wang Bin's proposal to suppress the bandits.

Since Wang Bin agreed to Zengqi's revision of the ambush process, Zengqi also had a favorable reputation for aid, and did not damage Zengqi's reputation, so he naturally wanted to repay the favor.

At this moment, Wang Bin had no idea that he was already being concerned by others politically.

Above the court, for the defense issues outside the Guan, Yuan Shikai put forward the idea of mixing into an association to expand the town of Xiecheng.

The reason is also extremely simple, first of all, on the grounds that Wang Bin was attacked, and Wang Bin is the minister of military training outside the Guan, but there are only soldiers from the First Association under his hands, which is really extremely inconsistent with his official position.

For Yuan Shikai's proposal, even if the princes of the court were dissatisfied, they could only put it in their stomachs.

Because after all, it was the people of the Beiyang Department who were attacked this time, and if they wanted to obstruct Yuan Shikai at this time, they were afraid that they would be hated by the entire Beiyang Department.

In addition, when Yuan Shikai has been thinking about the expansion of the army recently, after all, the current situation has been somewhat erosive, and the expansion of the army is imperative, and once the army is expanded, no one in the entire Beiyang system will be able to take on this important task except Wang Bin.

After all, the Fifth Town established this time will inevitably be placed outside the Guan, and outside the Guan, only Wang Bin is qualified to serve as the commander of the Fifth Town.

This time for the establishment of the Fifth Town, even Tie Liang, who had always been at odds with Yuan Shikai, surprisingly remained silent on this matter and did not object.

So the matter of this army expansion was decided.

As a result, an order ordering Wang Bin to form the Fifth Town of the Beiyang Standing Army was sent to Jinzhou later.

At this time, Wang Bin, who was still on the way back, did not know that he had become the commander of the Fifth Town of the Beiyang Standing Army, which made the appearance of the Fifth Town a whole year earlier.

After Wang Bin left Xinmin, he kept hurrying, and finally arrived in Jinzhou before evening.

As soon as Wang Bin got off his horse after arriving in Jinzhou, he got something that surprised him, and he never expected that this ambush would lead to the early birth of the fifth town of the Beiyang Standing Army.

So, Wang Bin recalled his reflection of the fifth town of the Beiyang Standing Army.

It seems that the 20th battalion of the vanguard of the Wuwei Right Army was transferred to six or seven percent by the training department to conduct training.

After an agreement, it was decided to draw the 12 battalions of the vanguard and reorganize the fifth town of the army, with Wu Changchun, the commander-in-chief of Tianjin Town, as the commander in command.

During the training, four battalions of the infantry team and one battalion of horses and artillery were drawn from the second town of the army (later changed to the fourth town).

Later, the militia of Shandong prefectures and counties was recruited to form the fifth town of the army.

Then, 500 elite soldiers were selected from the idle remaining soldiers in the Qing and Deman battalions in Shandong Province and formed an engineer battalion and were incorporated into the new army for training.

Under the jurisdiction of the Ninth and Eleventh Associations, but Wu Changchun was vacant due to illness soon after he arrived, and Zhang Huaizhi acted as the assistant, and later reappointed Zhang Yongcheng.

Based in Shandong.

Unexpectedly, he actually robbed Wu Changchun and Zhang Huaizhi of their jobs in advance, what a sin, Wang Bin said silently in his heart.

However, the news in the future made Wang Bin a little caught off guard, and he even wanted to expand his mixed organization into the fifth town of the Beiyang Standing Army.

This Yuan Shikai also had to transfer some officers from the Beiyang Army to serve in the Fifth Town, although this matter was a bit unexpected, but Wang Bin still expected it.

There are also disputes in the Beiyang system, and some people opposed it the last time he was the co-ordinator, but it was only a co-unification position, and not too many people objected.

But this time it's different, this time it's a new town directly, and naturally there will be people who covet the official position below, not to mention the following pipe band, no one will look at this position, and the most critical battle for the position is this standard and co-ordination.

Moreover, Yuan Shikai also wanted to consider the interests of some other people in the Beiyang system, so he also said in the telegram that some officers would be selected from the Guannai to participate in the construction of the fifth town.

However, as for how many people to pick, this number has not yet been decided, and it seems that the matter of selecting officers is still in fierce competition, Wang Bin thought.

After reading the contents of the telegram, Wang Bin came to the study alone and secretly thought about the establishment of the fifth town.

The early establishment of the fifth town of the Beiyang Standing Army surprised me a little, but no matter how surprised I was, I still had to put up this shelf.

After thinking about it, Wang Bin felt that according to the establishment, there were two infantry associations below, a total of four standards, plus an artillery standard, a horse standard, an engineering battalion, and a baggage battalion, a total of 10,000 people.

However, the problem of this source of soldiers always has to be solved, and the total number of his subordinates is only 5,000, which is still a lot short of the standard of 10,000 people, and the problem of this source of troops always has to be solved.

So, the next day, Wang Bin sent a telegram to Yuan Shikai, raising this issue.

This question didn't drag on for too long, but it was answered in the afternoon.

The telegram said that the problem of the source of soldiers was that the Beiyang Army's source of soldiers had always been recruited from Zhili, but this time, considering that it was the fifth town established outside the Guan, it was too late to recruit soldiers from Zhili, so Wang Bin was allowed to recruit soldiers outside the Guanli on his own.

After receiving a definite answer, Wang Bin immediately breathed a sigh of relief, what he was most worried about was that he would recruit soldiers from Zhili, so he didn't know how much time would be wasted.

As for now that I've received a reply, I'm not so worried, and all I have to do now is recruit soldiers and wait for the officers to be sent from Kannai.

But before that, I still have one thing to do.