The final result was not surprising, and the Governor of the Two Lakes agreed to a deal that was a little troublesome for himself, but could get thirty heavy machine guns that he would not normally buy. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

The same method was applied to several other governors in the South, and it worked well.

As soon as he finished talking about the heavy machine gun and grain deal, before Yang Xingguo had time to catch his breath, the holy decree of the imperial court rewarded came.

Like Cixi's promise in the court at that time, the imperial court crowned itself as the governor of Liaodong and took charge of the military and government of Liaodong.

What made Yang Xingguo even happier was that after the reward was over, Cixi actually asked him to return to Liaodong immediately at the end of the holy decree to preside over the military of Liaodong.

"It seems that Cixi was frightened by the play we played in Liaodong, and she was in such a hurry to rush us back to Liaodong, and even the 200,000 taels of silver she rewarded us were sent to us along with the holy decree." Accepting the holy decree and silver, Yang Xingguo said happily to Wang Hong beside him as soon as he sent the eunuch away.

"It just so happens that we have long wanted to leave this dangerous capital! Commander, now that the silver has been obtained, and the reward from the imperial court has arrived, when will we return to Liaodong! Wang Hong, who was beside him, said with a happy face.

Yang Xingguo affirmed: "It's time to go back." But there's one more thing we need to do on the way back? ”

Wang Hong frowned and thought about it and asked, "Commander! What's up? ”

"Dignitaries...... The court won't give me silver, so people should give me some! Yang Xingguo replied very confidently.

"As far as I know, many talents who have been sent by the imperial court to study abroad have not been reused for various reasons after returning to the capital. And what my Liaodong Army lacks is this kind of talent, and now Cixi owes me two big favors, I am sure, as long as I open my mouth, Cixi will definitely agree to give these people to me! ”

Just do what he said, and within a few hours of receiving the imperial court's decree to reward him, Yang Xingguo, under the guise of gratitude, appeared in front of Cixi again. After saying a lot of compliments that Cixi rarely heard, Yang Xingguo immediately said that he wanted those international students.

At first, Cixi still put on a hesitant expression and refused to agree.

Yang Xingguo was not in a hurry, and said with a serious face to Cixi: "Queen Mother, the reason why the minister took the liberty to ask the court to leave these people is that the minister has no other way!" ”

"After the Russo-Japanese War, almost all the branches and county orders of dozens of county towns in Liaodong ran away, and now all counties in Liaodong are temporarily managed by the army. As soon as the Japanese army launches an attack, the army will go to the battlefield, and these county towns will fall into a state of no one to manage, thus falling into chaos, and even threatening the front-line battle, affecting the morale of the Liaodong Army! ”

"The minister heard that those foreign students have a very hard temper and are not afraid of death, so he thought of taking them to Liaodong to manage the place."

"Why don't you let the civil officials originally appointed by the imperial court continue to manage the place, the mourning family knows that these international students are democratic. The reason why they are not reused is because they are worried that after they enter the officialdom, they will mess up the law of the imperial court! Cixi was not so easy to fool, frowned, and asked Yang Xingguo rhetorically.

Of course, Yang Xingguo was not frightened, and immediately replied: "The Queen Mother doesn't know, but the ministers can't believe those county orders and branches!" Chen was worried that after the Japanese really launched an attack, the Liaodong Army had not yet been defeated, and these people left the people and fled for their lives. In this case, Liaodong will definitely become even more chaotic! ”

Seeing that Cixi's face looked much better, Yang Xingguo seized the opportunity to continue: "In the last battle to defeat the Japanese army, our Liaodong Army lost most of its losses and almost lost its combat effectiveness. More importantly, the troops lost a large number of officers. ”

"Although the army has now replenished a lot of recruits, the officers have not been able to replenish them. According to the minister's general statistics, there is still a shortage of three or four hundred low-level officers in the entire Liaodong Army. When the minister heard that there were many officers among those students, he thought of pulling them to the Liaodong Army outside the border to fight the Japanese and serve the imperial court, so that they would not talk about how they were not reused every day! ”

Cixi didn't answer immediately, stared at Yang Xingguo and asked: "I've been to the Mourning family to give you those foreign students, can you promise the Mourning family that you will guard Liaodong for the Mourning family, repel the Japanese attack, and ensure the safety of the Longxing Land of the Great Qing Dynasty!" ”

Yang Xingguo hurriedly replied: "Unless the minister dies in battle, the minister will definitely not let the Japanese step into Liaodong!" Yang Xingguo assured loudly. And this is also the only sincere sentence that Yang Xingguo said in front of Cixi.

"Okay, the mourning family believes in you! The mourning family immediately issued an order to give you all the students who were still idle in the imperial court. In addition, in order to defend Liaodong, the mourning family will give you another privilege, and the civil and military officials below the fifth rank in Liaodong will be appointed by you. However, you must guard Liaodong for the mourning family, otherwise the mourning family will want your head! ”

This trip to the capital, although it was very dangerous, Yang Xingguo gained the precious time for the peaceful development of the Liaodong Army, harvested millions of taels of silver, and harvested hundreds of overseas talents. Therefore, when Yang Xingguo left the capital, he had no regrets. With the mighty convoy, leave the capital.

The trip to the capital was regarded as solving most of the Liaodong Army's most scarce silver, coupled with the heavy losses of the Japanese army in Lushun, it was impossible to launch an attack on the Liaodong Army in a short time.

After not worrying about the silver and the war, after returning from the capital, after resting for less than a day, Yang Xingguo began to reorganize his army that could survive in Liaodong.

"Commander, this is the latest troop strength and equipment statistics from the General Staff to the divisions! The five main divisions of the whole army, one guard division, one cavalry division, plus one heavy artillery division, there were a total of 49,543 people, compared with more than 70,000 people before the war, a total loss of 27,356 people! ”

"Among them, 11,359 were killed in battle, 1,956 had to withdraw from the main force because of their disabilities, and the remaining 14,000 people were all scattered in the field hospitals of various divisions and the field hospitals of the headquarters, of which the field hospital of the headquarters had the largest number of people, with more than 5,000 people!"

"In addition to these main forces, the special operations detachment has also brought back more than 17,500 people, and if all these people are dispersed to the main divisions, plus the field hospitals can be rehabilitated back to the old units at any time, it is completely possible to bring the divisions to full strength and more!"

Yang Xingguo shook his head and replied: "You can't send them away!" This anti-encirclement campaign can be won, and their credit is not small, and it will chill their hearts to break them up to various units in this way. ”

"What are you going to do, Commander?" Sun Liechen nodded approvingly and asked.

"Form the Sixth Division of the Liaodong Army! In addition, in the dozen or so county towns that have just been taken, each county town needs a garrison regiment of 1,000 people. In this way, more than 17,000 people are not enough! ”

Sun Liechen's eyes lit up and he replied: "This method is good, and the five or six thousand people who are still missing will be recruited from among the immigrants." Choose their most elite 10,000 people to form the Sixth Division of the Liaodong Army, and the rest form a garrison regiment! ”

"What about the shortages of the other main divisions?" Sun Liechen asked.

"Drawn from the garrison regiments, the evacuated garrison regiments are replenished from the recruit training office. After this expansion, neither the main force nor the garrison can call in new recruits by themselves! “

"In the future Liaodong Army, recruits will be called by the recruit training department, and they will be assigned to each garrison regiment after passing the simple training. Then the elite was drawn from the garrison regiment to replenish the main force. In this way, it is possible to ensure that the combat effectiveness of the main forces will not be reduced! (To be continued.) )