In February of the year of the Emperor's reign, Japan and Russia were still engaged in fierce warfare in Liaodong for their own interests.

Although Wang Bin, a later generation, knows some of the history of this war, it is only seen on the Internet.

Now that Wang Bin has come to this era and personally paid attention to this war, he felt how corrupt Tsarist Russia was at this time, and he had no precautions before the war.

What's more, they also believe that this war will not break out, and the reason is quite ridiculous, saying that Japan will not dare to go to war with the powerful Russia.

However, in modern times, Japan has always been famous for waging wars by gambling on the national fortunes of one country.

This was the case in the First Sino-Japanese Naval Battle, the same was true in the war against Russia, and the same was true in the Battle of Tsushima that followed.

The ensuing war was just as Wang Bin had seen on the Internet in his previous life, the Japanese did not encounter any decent resistance, and Tsarist Russia began to pay attention to this war after accepting defeat.

Since the outbreak of the war between Japan and Russia, the Qing government has declared its neutrality, which immediately caused an uproar.

These two countries are at war on their own territory, but they put on the appearance that it is not my territory, I am conservative and neutral, and you fight casually, which is really the first time in the world.

The whole country was condemned, and even more spontaneously organized forces to resist Russia.

In short, February is a chaotic month, and it is also a year for careerists.

But no matter how this war is fought, it is not so important to Wang Bin now.

It is impossible for Wang Bin to tell the Russians what the Japanese will do next, which is not in line with Wang Bin's current interests.

Wang Bin even wished that the war between Japan and Russia would drag on longer and longer, and even damage the national capital of both sides.

Only in this way can Wang Bin use this chaotic time to develop his strength and gain benefits and promotions from it.

In the past few days, Wang Bin has been waiting for Yuan Shikai's reply to his reinforcements, but he has not waited, and he has not even been in the mood to care about the Russo-Japanese war every day.

And in the past few days, Zengqi has been busy in Xinmin Mansion, which has been full of refugees from the war zone every day since the start of the war between Japan and Russia.

However, it is necessary not to let the refugees into the city, and if the refugees are not allowed to enter the city, there will be people above the court who impeach themselves for doing nothing, and after the refugees are released into the city, the new people will be tense for a while.

Zeng Qi also knows what kind of goods the patrol battalion under his command are, and he has a hand in oppressing the people on weekdays, and when he wants to use them, they are all like shrunken roosters.

Now that the war has begun, bandits are everywhere. It's okay for the old army under Zengqi to bully the people, but it is tantamount to whimsical to let this group of old troops clear out the remaining bandits.

Zeng Qi has been urging the patrol battalion for a long time, asking the patrol battalion to go to suppress the bandits, but the patrol battalion is always shirking.

This is to say that the patrol battalion at the end of the Qing Dynasty was almost all infantry and cavalry units, plus a limited number of guns, and most of the soldiers used 1888 Mauser rifles.

But their predecessor was a well-known defense army, which was originally the result of the Qing government's reorganization of the army.

In the early days, this defense army was still called elite, but then it began to become decadent, and the consequence was that the defense army was rotten from top to bottom, sitting on empty salaries, and slackening its armament.

Those Manchu ministers didn't care about this, and the people below had the money to honor them, so they didn't care about the defense army below.

As for the results? Soon after, after the so-called "elite" defense forces of the First Sino-Japanese War went to the front line, they were invincible everywhere they encountered and were defeated when they encountered the enemy, leading the trend of fleeing at that time.

Later, these princes of the court realized that the old army was no longer good.

So he began to train the new army, and as for this defense army, it also began to be reorganized, and it became the so-called patrol battalion, which was responsible for maintaining law and order and arresting thieves on weekdays.

In fact, it is to change the soup and not the medicine, which is the standard for the establishment of the patrol battalion later, as long as you gather a group of people, even if it is a bandit, as long as you are willing to be recruited, it is the patrol battalion, Zhang Zuolin and others are such an example, so it is enough to highlight the incompetence of the patrol battalion.

It's okay to bully the people on weekdays, but once you get to the serious thing and want the patrol battalion to do it, you just have two words "no way".

However, these old armies were quite loyal to the imperial court, so the old army had guns and bullets in peacetime, while the new army was very easy to be bought by the revolutionary party because it was easier to accept new ideas, so the imperial court still relied on the old army.

It is precisely because of the different attitudes of the imperial court towards the new army and the old army that there are many contradictions between the old army and the new army.

This Zengqi also knows that the patrol battalion under his command often fails to work, but there is no way, who let him have no people who can train soldiers.

As for Zeng Qi, he is an incompetent person in history.

He once privately signed the "Provisional Charter of Fengtian Friendship" with the Russian army without authorization.

also single-handedly recruited Zhang Zuolin, and even his wife was kidnapped by Zhang Zuolin, which shows that Zengqi is an incompetent person.

"My lord, this patrol camp has always been an ornament, who doesn't know, but the lower official has an idea to share the worries of adults."

At this time, a staff member standing next to Zeng Qi said to Zeng Qi.

"Oh?" Zeng Qi glanced at the unknown staff member and asked with some confusion

"You, is there any way to solve the problem in my officer's mind?"

"My lord, I heard that this Wang Bin stationed in Jinzhou has a set of training troops, even Yuan Shikai has praised it, if the lord asks the imperial court for the holy decree to let that Wang Bin be responsible for the formation and training of the patrol battalion outside this pass, and then the adult will command after this training, so that the adult will not have a division that can always fight?"

The unknown aide suggested to Zengqi.

"But how do you know that this Wang Bin is good at training, even if he can train soldiers, it doesn't necessarily mean that he can suppress bandits, this bandit suppression and military training are two different things."

At the beginning of the year, Yuan Shikai had a debate with the princes of the imperial court because of Wang Bin's promotion, and finally passed the promotion with the support of the Minister of Military Aircraft.

"My lord, you forgot that the reason for this Wang Bin's promotion is that he proposed a new training method, as for this bandit, not long ago, this Wang Bin exterminated several bandit dens in Jinzhou."

The staff reminded Zeng Qi.

"This official has forgotten, this official has some images now, your method is not bad, this official will ask the imperial court to let this Wang Bin be responsible for organizing and training a new army in this western Liaoning."

Zeng Qi patted his head and said. "Your Excellency, this is a wise move."

The staff member lowered his head and said, but Zeng Qi, who was touching his head at this time, didn't see the look on the face of this stupid guy after the staff lowered his head.

In the early dynasties of the capital, the elderly Cixi was still in charge of the dynasty, and the woman who controlled the government of the Qing Dynasty is now old.

But in this court, no one dared to go against her will.

On this day, the elderly Cixi asked the ministers of the early dynasty: "In the past few days, the Shengjing general Zengqi has asked for a decree to the mourning family, saying that Wang Bin stationed in Jinzhou is very good at connecting soldiers, and hereby asks for an order to let Wang Bin be responsible for organizing and training the old army outside the Guanwai and reorganizing it into a new army in western Liaoning. “

"Back to the Queen Mother, this Wang Bin has just been promoted to the commander of the Association a few days ago, and it is really inappropriate to be promoted at this time, just after a month."

Prince Su Shanqi, who was standing in front of the ministers, immediately opposed.

Subsequently, Tie Liang, the Xiangzhi Office of the Military Training Department, also spoke out against it.

At this moment, Yuan Shikai, who was on the side, looked at Tie Conscience and thought, I knew that you would speak out against it.

So Yuan Shikai came out and said: "The minister opposes Prince Su's remarks.

This Wang Bin's suppression of bandits outside the Guanguan a few days ago is obvious to all, and even the new law for training soldiers was proposed by Wang Bin, so the minister thinks that Wang Bin is fully qualified to organize and train the old army outside the Guan. ”

"Besides, how much combat power is left of the old army outside this pass, I'm afraid that the princes in the court also know it, right?"

Yuan Shikai paused and then said.

After listening to Yuan Shikai's words, Cixi looked at Yixuan, who was then the prime minister of the cabinet and the minister of military aircraft.

At this time, Yixuan suddenly saw Cixi asking for her opinion, and she had no idea in her heart, so she could only say: "Everything is up to the Queen Mother." ”

"Then immediately draw up an order and let that Wang Bin be responsible for training the old army outside the Guanwai."

After Cixi saw that there was no one in the court to make any more suggestions, she decided that Wang Bin would be responsible for training the old army outside the Guanwai.