A few days later, the imperial court officially issued an order to merge the Fengtian General's Mansion, Jilin General's Mansion, and Heilongjiang General's Mansion as the Governor's Mansion of the Three Eastern Provinces, and crowned Xu Shichang as the Governor of the Three Eastern Provinces. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

At the same time, the new troops of the fourth, fifth, and sixth towns of Beiyang were dispatched out of the customs and stationed in the three eastern provinces.

In order to strengthen the defense strength of the three eastern provinces, the Beiyang New Army was allowed to form the seventh, eighth, and ninth town new armies in the three eastern provinces, and the equipment and food were raised by the governor's offices of the three eastern provinces.

The forbidden army was presided over by Yuan Shikai and reorganized into a new army in two towns, and the soldiers and generals were all composed of Manchurians, and they became an army within half a year and were responsible for the defense of the capital.

After a series of holy decrees were issued, a discerning person knew at a glance that the imperial court was crowding out Yuan Shikai.

As a result, someone immediately wrote to the imperial court to shout grievances to Yuan Shikai and the Beiyang Army.

However, only Yuan Shikai himself did not move, and accepted the imperial decree very readily.

It only took half a month to prepare, and Xu Shichang left Tianjin with the Beiyang Army of the Three Towns and entered Mukden.

For Yuan Shikai, who has just taken over the three eastern provinces, he also hopes that the three eastern provinces will be a place that continuously provides him with various resources, rather than a drag oil bottle.

Therefore, after entering the three eastern provinces, although the Beiyang Army arranged a whole two towns of new armies at the junction with the Liaodong Army, the new armies of the two towns were mainly defensive, and there was no intention of provoking the Liaodong Army.

In Yuan Shikai's words, since the Beiyang Army has become the master of the three eastern provinces, the Beiyang Army must manage the three eastern provinces well.

Before the three eastern provinces are thoroughly controlled, we must not provoke incidents.

Don't make a big joke at that time, the Beiyang Army was driven back to Guannai by the Liaodong Army as soon as it entered the three eastern provinces.

You must know that the imperial court clearly wrote in the holy decree that the Beiyang Army was allowed to expand three towns in the northeast.

Yuan Shikai is very self-aware and self-aware, and only the three towns that Xu Shichang brought out of the pass are by no means the opponents of the Liaodong Army. In order to avoid the Beiyang Army in the three eastern provinces, the buttocks were driven back to the Guannai before they could sit on the heat. Yuan Shikai specially told Xu Shichang that before the three newly expanded towns of the Beiyang Army formed combat effectiveness, he would try his best to live in peace with the Liaodong Army.

The Governor's Office of the Three Eastern Provinces was established, and Xu Shichang was crowned as the first Governor of the Three Eastern Provinces. This incident was expected by Yang Xingguo, after all, this is how history develops. It's just that because of his arrival, Xu Shichang was crowned the first governor half a year earlier than history.

As for the Beiyang Army's stationing in the three eastern provinces, and as soon as it came, there were three towns, and three towns were to be established, which was unprecedented in history.

However, when you think about it, it's not hard to understand.

After all, his strong rise has aroused the jealousy of the imperial court, as for the careful thinking of the two old foxes Yuan Shikai and Cixi, Yang Xingguo did not think of it, but simply thought that the purpose of the Beiyang New Army, which the imperial court had arranged six towns at a time in the three eastern provinces, was to concentrate enough troops to fight a decisive battle with him one day.

At the beginning, Yang Xingguo was nervous for a while. But seeing that Xu Shichang, who was appointed governor of the three eastern provinces, did not mean to fight a decisive battle with himself, but put on a defensive posture.

Yang Xingguo directly put the nervousness back into his stomach.

"I'm sure that before the three towns of the Beiyang Army given by the imperial court really form combat effectiveness, the Beiyang Army of the two towns stationed in the Fengtian area will definitely not take the initiative to attack us!" After reading the Fengtian information sent by Zhou Zhongju, Yang Xingguo said with great certainty.

After thinking about it, Sun Liechen also agreed: "It must be that we fought too hard last time to win the Beiyang Army, so that Yuan Shikai knew the huge gap between him and us." Fear of being deflated again in front of us and losing the strength of a town. After all, Yuan Shikai's Beiyang New Army only had six towns at full capacity, all of which he single-handedly set up, and he couldn't afford to lose them. ”

Zhou Zhongju nodded in agreement before replying: "The gap is there, and it's very big." But we can't underestimate Yuan Shikai and the Beiyang New Army too much. According to intelligence, Yuan Shikai is buying weapons and ammunition from various countries, basically light and heavy machine guns and artillery. It is obvious that Yuan Shikai wants to close the huge gap between him and us by making up for the lack of firepower of the Beiyang Army. ”

After Yang Xingguo thought about it, he immediately made a decision: "Then the Beiyang Army will work hard for Deputy Commander Zhou to collect more useful information." As for the army, if the Beiyang Army does not move, we will not move, and the tasks of the divisions will remain the same. The Sixth Division has now been reorganized, and they have been transferred to Liaozhong for training and under the command of Wang Hu. ”

"Tell Wang Hu that I will give him half a year to train both divisions into siege troops."

Sun Liechen was stunned for a moment, then immediately reacted, and reminded Yang Xingguo: "Both divisions are under the command of Wang Hu, which is a precedent for my Liaodong Army!" ”

Yang Xingguo explained: "Now we have six main divisions, and after taking the entire Mukden, or even the entire three eastern provinces, it is possible for the troops to be expanded into ten divisions, or even twenty divisions." There are only so many people in our headquarters, and it is impossible for us to directly command so many division-level troops. ”

"My idea is that from now on, a command system at the army level should be formed, so that the expansion of the troops will be too fast, and those people below will not be suitable after being promoted to army commanders all of a sudden."

"My idea is to form the First Army of the Liaodong Army with the first and sixth divisions as the backbone, and the army commander Wang Hu will temporarily serve as the commander of the first division. After there is a suitable candidate in the future, he will be relieved of his post as commander of the first division. ”

"It is already a bit difficult for the headquarters to directly command the six main divisions, and if there are more, it will be difficult to achieve 100 percent command. As long as the troops are further expanded, it is imperative to set up a command system at the army level. Sun Liechen analyzed thoughtfully.

"Start preparing now, there is only good for us, no harm! However, as soon as Division Commander Wang is promoted to army commander, several other division commanders will definitely be red-eyed. ”

Yang Xingguo replied unexpectedly: "I just want to make them red!" ”

"Wang Hu is the commander of the First Army, and no one will have any objections. As for the commander of the Second Army, it is not who has the qualifications to be on the list. ”

"After the formation of the headquarters of the First Army, you will pass on the word: at least three months, at most half a year, the headquarters will form the Second Army of the Liaodong Army. As for the choice of army commander, I will choose from among the remaining four division commanders. Whoever has good military training and good command of the troops on the battlefield is the commander of the Second Army of the Liaodong Army. ”

"That's a good idea!" Sun Liechen's eyes lit up, and he immediately agreed.

"In this way, several division commanders can compete, and an army, with competition, will the combat effectiveness continue to increase."

Speaking of this, Sun Liechen's words suddenly changed, and he immediately asked Yang Xingguo rhetorically.

"However, I also have a question, according to the order you just made, Commander, the First Army will be the strength of the first and sixth divisions. In the future, the command system of our Liaodong Army at the army level will not be the strength of two divisions. ”

"Nope! This is only temporary! Yang Xingguo shook his head and said.

"When the time comes, I will draw one regiment from each of the first and sixth divisions and form another division. The normal corps-level command system of our Liaodong Army includes three main divisions, one heavy artillery regiment, one guard regiment, one baggage regiment, one engineer battalion, one cavalry battalion, and one communications battalion, with a total strength of 40,000 troops. ”

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