"In fact, not one division, but two. The pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info implements the rotation operation plan of the two divisions, and always maintains a reorganized division in Tianzhu. The previous division has already returned, and the new one should have arrived. The officers in both divisions, a large part, were my students. If Secretary Xu is interested in this division, he can buy a few newspapers of the Taixi people, and the reports on them are very detailed and true. ”

"I've read the newspaper that says that we, the Chinese army, helped the Albians to regain Delhi? Since the Duck War, our country has clashed with foreigners, losing more and winning less. The Shandong army has repeatedly achieved miracles, not only successfully defeating the Fusang army at home, but also achieving brilliant results overseas, which are all the methods of Brother Chiang. I hope that in Baoding Academy, Brother Jiang can continue to create brilliance and cultivate more outstanding talents for Gonghe. ”

Xu Youzheng complimented a few words, and asked seemingly casually: "Brother Jiang, my communist soldiers have fought such a good record, I don't know how the casualties are?" ”

"Casualties...... It's also huge. "Jiang Yanbei didn't think about anything else, but regretted the sacrifice of his own people." The main problem is the climate and infectious diseases in Tianzhu, and although the troops that entered Tianzhu in advance carried medicines, they underestimated the environment of Tianzhu. Many officers and soldiers were struck down by infectious diseases, and Albiang's awareness of the medical services of mercenaries was so poor that many people sacrificed their lives in vain. The new round of troops entering Tianzhu are all purchasing medicines in Shandong and setting off with a medical team, that is, they do not rely on the people of Albiang. Foreign devils, unreliable! ”

Looking at Jiang Yanbei's expression, Xu Youzheng estimated that the losses of the first Lu army to enter Tianzhu must have reached a shocking point, so he had to rotate.

I have just experienced the Fuso War, and even if I win in the end, it will be a miserable victory. Now with two more divisions to support Albiang, the losses in Tianzhu will not be small. Zhao Guanhou's current situation is actually a strong outsider and a middle-class cadre. The reason why he didn't dare to confront Zhong Yang was probably due to his lack of strength. Perhaps, we have overestimated Shandong's military strength.

Jiang Yanbei has been the general manager of the Shandong Lecture Hall for so long, and he always has face. With his care, Xu Youzheng's request to observe the Shandong troops was quickly approved. Jiang Yanbei walked into the barracks with a kind of show-off, or boastful, and took Xu Youzheng.

This is a barracks outside the city of Jinan, and because some troops involve military secrets, Xu Youzheng cannot enter. What he was allowed to visit was only the ordinary barracks of the 1st Division of the Provincial Army. On the wide playground of the barracks, horizontal bars, parallel bars, basketball, and football fields are all available, Xu Youzheng's first feeling is that he is not entering a military camp, but the playground of a certain school.

"This is the crown marshal for the soldiers below to cultivate, when not practicing, you can play basketball, or play football, or go to these equipment to practice. The subjects that are really practiced have to go inside. Jiang Yanbei walked while explaining to Xu Youzheng.

"The military salary of the Lu army is 14 yuan, 4 yuan is the food fee, and 10 yuan is the military salary in hand. Each person has a pound of staple food per day, which is guaranteed to be ingested after husking. It is said that this is the minimum food intake calculated by a foreigner scientist. Now in the peaceful years, there is no need to fight, and the soldiers have one day off a week, which is also to take care of the foreigners in the army. In the grassroots units of the Lu army, there are many foreigners serving as officers, all of them are religious, and they have to go to worship every week, so they simply take a holiday. ”

"I wake up at five o'clock in the morning and go to bed at nine o'clock in the evening. After waking up, I practiced for an hour, ate, then three hours of military training, one hour of military discussion, lunch, one hour of rest, one hour of literacy lessons, one hour of loyalty and righteousness, and then two hours to play with these equipment. Dinner, singing, meetings, and reviewing the day's training. ”

At this time, the two had already come to the playground where the Lu army was training, in addition to the common square teams and platoon guns, there were obviously a lot of unfamiliar equipment in this playground. Jiang Yanbei pointed

"Long jump, high jump, running, wall climbing, rope crossing, rope skipping...... These are all training subjects for the Shandong army, plus pitchers with bullets, boxing, wrestling, wooden guns and stabs, and shooting, all of which regularly organize competitions. The champion is awarded by the marshal bounty table, and for this watch, almost every game can be played. Everyone doesn't care how much this watch is worth, but the marshal personally awarded it, and the honor is rare. For example, in this battalion, there is a brother who has been a bodyguard for generations, has several ancestral martial arts, and won three gold watches in martial arts competitions, and then was hired by the marshal to the guard camp. So everyone's training is very hard, just to fight for a breath. ”

Xu Youzheng watched attentively, trying to memorize the shape of each piece of equipment in his mind.

The lounge is not far from the cafeteria, and it is a row of open bungalows. As soon as Xu Youzheng entered the room, his eyes were attracted by the huge square table in the center, as well as the delicate sand table and soldier model on it. These sand table models are finely made, and the soldiers are lifelike. Miniature towns, mountains, fortresses, rivers, lakes and bridges are like a world of rice.

This kind of thing that looks like a toy, even if it is the War Department in the capital, is nothing more than that. Some things don't seem to be as refined as here, and this is just a battalion headquarters of the Lu army?

"Dashuai and Jinmen clay man Zhang Na placed an order to do this specifically for us. Look at this soldier, look at this city, mountains and rivers, good craftsmanship. ”

Xu Youzheng looked at the simulated mountains, rivers and cities on the sand table, and recognized at a glance that what was deduced on this sand table was the scene of Cai Feng's confrontation with the Beiyang soldiers in Sichuan. The soldiers of the two sides represent the Gonghe and the Beiyang Army respectively. The deducer obviously strengthened the supply for Cai Feng, so that his material possession was similar to that of the Beiyang Army. Judging from the situation, the two sides have obviously attacked and defended, deduced it, and nodded: "It's not good craftsmanship, but good intentions." Ordinary soldiers, also do this kind of deduction? ”

"Yes, as long as they are literate, they can come here to deduce, but generally the officers come, and the soldiers can't deduce any tricks. Secretary Xu, please look, over there, is our literacy column. ”

Jiang Yanbei pointed to the corner of the lounge. On the wall, there are many notebooks, and on the cover of each notebook, there is a person's name written on it, and they are divided into different groups according to the amount of writing on the notebook. These learning materials are basically loyal and righteous propaganda, publicizing that Zhao Guanshuai is Lu Jun's food and clothing parents, except for Guanshuai, none of us recognize such words.

The promotion within the Lu Army, at the officer level, mainly refers to the resume and achievements of the Armed Forces Academy, but to determine who can enter the Armed Forces Academy and obtain the qualification for further study, in addition to the affiliation of in-laws, this literacy score is an important reference. After all, not everyone has a good relative to be Guanshuai's confidant or aunt's wife, and most people still have to rely on their own skills to get through with a knife and a gun.

Soon, Xu Youzheng found that in addition to the sand table and these literacy books, there were also some musical instruments in the lounge, as well as a table tennis table that was very rare in China at this time.

"It's an Albion's thing, and the marshal doesn't know how, but he also got it into the army. Many GIs are quite interested in this little ball, if it weren't for Secretary Xu's presence, at this time, someone must have come in with a racket to play. ”

Xu Youzheng said with a smile: "I heard that there is a Wuyang marshal in Shandong. Wear foreign clothes, speak foreign languages, eat foreign food, spend foreign money, and sleep with foreign women. Now it seems that there should be much more than Wuyang. ”

"Yes, Guan Shuai is more like a foreigner than a foreigner many times, and I even think that some foreigners are not as fashionable as Guan Shuai. This is also one of the reasons why the people of Albion like to be friends with Guanshuai, others are forced to follow the example of foreigners, and Guanshuai takes the initiative to move closer to foreigners, and even sometimes, more like a foreigner than foreigners. As far as the food for the soldiers is concerned, there has been a discussion recently about providing white bread to the soldiers. If you want to say that this thing is not as delicious as steamed buns, but it is a foreign object after all. In the past, only Tiele soldiers and foreign officers served this meal, but now it has to be popularized throughout the army. You say that handsome is not just Wuyang? ”

Xu Youzheng smiled and did not comment. He couldn't really go to the barracks and observe the diet and daily life of ordinary soldiers, and he wouldn't do that kind of thing. After inspecting the canteen, he also ended the trip to the Shandong military camp.

Due to the lack of enough wagons, Jiang Yanbei could only organize a large-scale field training, leading 27,000 pigtailed soldiers to return to the capital in a long-distance march, while Xu Youzheng boarded the car first and went straight to the Iron Lion Hutong in the capital.

"You say, Shandong is actually not as strong as we think?" Duan Zhiquan saw the top-secret report submitted by Xu Youzheng, and his brows furrowed slightly, "Tie Shan, this is no joke. ”

"Zhi Lao, this is not a joke, but according to the student's personal observation, Shandong has fallen to the point of selling piglets for the ocean, and its economic embarrassment can be known regardless of it. If you think about it, you also know that the first battle in Shandong had huge expenditures, and the walls were clear, hurting people and hurting themselves. In order to restore the economy of Jiaodong, a huge amount of money has to be spent. The government can't afford to subsidize it, Belgium is gone, and the loan from the Warby Bank is no longer to be ashamed. After that, the two lines of banknotes and passbooks were exchanged in the capital, which was nothing more than a swollen face and a fat man, and the scene was forced. Yuan's funeral cost nearly 1.5 million yuan, excluding the 500,000 yuan allocated by the government, the rest was also made up by Zhao Guanhou. How can its finances be good? ”

"Shandong's method of military training has some merits, but on the whole, it is also flashy. The soldiers are too delicate, and they can endure no more than the strong teachers tempered in the bitter cold land. In the Battle of Shandong, the number of killed and disabled soldiers announced by the Lu army was only more than 10,000. This figure is absolutely unreliable. Jiang Yanbei personally admitted that the casualties of the Lu army in Tianzhu were extremely large, and in the eyes of the students, the number of losses in Tianzhu alone was no less than 10,000. Relatively speaking, it is still the figure released by Fusang, and the number of dead and disabled people in the Lu army is nearly 100,000, which is closer to the truth. ”

And the Lu army pursues a high pension policy, the disabled soldiers are honored for life, and the fallen soldiers are divided into fields, and there are rich pensions. This is another heavy burden on Shandong's financial resources. Although Zhao Guanhou's correct policy in Shandong has gained him a lot of popularity, at the same time, it has also kept Shandong's finances in a state of great deficit for a long time. Governing the Huai River and repairing water conservancy, which is in the former Jin, with the power of the whole country, is still difficult, not to mention the current Shandong province? In addition, the affordable rice and salt he promoted and the purchase of grain at a guaranteed price are actually losing money and eating grain. All of these systems are the way to defeat and defeat. So, Shandong's money ...... Not so much. ”

Duan Zhiquan said: "I don't know much about money, but Shandong's soldiers are not fake." How can you underestimate the troops that even the Fuso people can defeat. ”

"The Lu army does have outstanding features, but it is also a strong soldier who is piled up with money. Its method of training soldiers is more like training officers, which is too expensive and ineffective. For example, this time, he pushed out 27,000 strong soldiers to us, which is enough to form two divisions. There are so many trained good soldiers, you have to have a group of gentle and elegant show soldiers, on the battlefield, show talent can't beat the skin. He fought in Shandong, and no one can say how many backbones of the old Beiyang can be left. However, as the students have seen, most of the numbers used by the Lu army are the provincial army and the cavalry division, and the real fifth division and the thirty-seventh division are no longer visible. Come to think of it, I haven't been able to recover yet. ”

Xu Youzheng's eyes were a little more shining, "Shandong is a treasure land of feng shui, and over the years, in the hands of Zhao Guanhou, he has also accumulated a lot of belongings." But if it remains in his hands, this place will be of no benefit to the country. As...... Take advantage of this Xuzhou incident to take back Shandong. Li Bodhisattva asked him to be the army commander, and I think this arrangement is good. We can also arrange for him to be the chief of the army, and the Shandong overseer will appoint someone else, and if there is any change in the Lu army, we will solve them with our own troops. ”

Duan Zhiquan, who inherited the inheritance of the Yuan family, has a considerable number of troops on paper because he holds the name of righteousness. In the Beiyang system, he is also a general, and he has taught in the military academy for many years, and many of the officers who lead the army now are considered to be disciples of the Duan department. It is because in terms of mastering the troops, Duan Zhiquan has an extraordinary advantage, and there are a number of people and troops under his subordinates.

Although these troops may not be willing to go to the soup for Duan Zhiquan, they can always do it if they want them to share the meat. Xu Youzheng encouraged: "The student's trip to Shandong this time, it can be asserted that Shandong has nothing to show and its strength is not as good as before. Without funds and troops, Ludi has no soldiers capable of fighting, and there is no salary available. In this competition, we are the final winners! ”

Duan Zhiquan shook his head and said, "The matter is too big, don't act rashly." Now that the people in the south are still unwilling to betray their sincerity to us, how can the north be in chaos? Once we move him and cause civil strife in the north, and the southern barbarians take advantage of the opportunity, won't we become sinners in the Beiyang? In addition, the Third Division was stationed in Baoding, and in the Southwest Campaign, the strength of the Third Division increased unharmed, not only did it not suffer any losses in its own soldiers, but it also incorporated friendly and neighboring troops, and its strength was extremely strong. Cao, Zhao, and Li are one, and they should not be taken lightly. The attitude of the people of Albiang also needs to be taken into account. ”

Xu Youzheng is still a little unconvinced, since he entered the scene, when was he pointed at his nose with a saber? If you don't take revenge, you will be angry. "The students were in Jinan and met Ding Shize from the Presidential Office. Once Zhao Guanhou is pulled over by Li Bodhisattva, he will oppose us......"

"Not for the time being, the Overseer was initiated by him, and he will not be the first to come out and betray. I think as long as we don't push him, he won't openly contradict us. Shandong's neutrality is the best result now. Besides, once it fights with Shandong, it will be a huge pressure on the economy. The two major banks, plus the Ministry of Communications, are all under the control of Shandong, where do we get the money? ”

When Duan Zhiquan talked about money, he felt a faint pain in his head. "Financially, Chen Jinshou can't come up with a good way, and foreigners are still not happy to lend. Although the Southwest Military Affairs Yuan has promised to disband, there has been no action yet, and the arrears of wages of the main government and the arrears of salaries of local troops are all serious problems. ”

Xu Youzheng said: "Shandong sells piglets, which is a good way. We can also learn from Shandong, get in touch with the Albiang or the Capet, recruit strong workers in Anhui, and work in Taixi. In addition to the referral fee, the wages of the workers can be paid to the government in one barrel, and then the government will pay it downward. ”

The wages of foreigners are naturally paid in silver dollars or foreign exchange, and the government distributes them in banknotes, one in and one out, which is also a huge income. Duan Zhiquan smiled, "This plan is wonderful! You are solely responsible for dealing with foreigners, and don't let the presidential palace smell it. There are also a lot of people in Hubei, and if they come out to grab the market, business will not be good. After the matter is completed, a labor bureau will be set up in Anhui, and you will be the general manager, and you will first earn the money and then think of other ways. ”