Twenty-five thousand strong recruits were already in place, and Wang Chenhao found them a good place, a military horse farm in the lower reaches of the Haihe River outside Tianjin. Facing the Beiyang Martial Arts Academy in the north, across the Haihe River in the south is the purple bamboo forest of the British Concession in Tianjin, in the east is the Bohai Bay Beach, and in the north is the low mountainous and hilly terrain.

The military horse farm has enough space for the training of the recruit division, and there are war horses to train the cavalry on the spot, so that the three major arms of the infantry and artillery cavalry can train together, and in the future, they can conduct coordinated combat drills.

Wang Chenhao has a strategic and tactical vision, so he can use his knowledge to lay out the whole first, and then subdivide it locally, just like playing SimCity. Others don't have the ability to do it, they don't have the foresight to think of what they are doing.

Since Wang Chenhao started from a long-term strategy first, he must consider it carefully.

Whether or not major things can be accomplished, this team is very important, and the formation of a new army team is particularly important to Wang Chenhao.

First of all, the problem of employment during the initial period, of course, you have to consider familiar people first.

There are only a few people Wang Chenhao is familiar with, and the only ones who can help him are Yang Shixiang and Zhang Peilun, who temporarily serve as Wang Chenhao's shogunate.

Wang Chenhao has no old subordinates, and he needs to train descendant officers. With Li Hongzhang here, the generals of the Huai Army naturally regard Wang Chenhao as their own, but Wang Chenhao knows that these old Huai Army generals are unreliable, and Li Hongzhang will definitely fall apart after his death a few years later, and the big guys will go their separate ways.

What Wang Chenhao needs is a group of younger people, so that after a few years of working together, they will become old people, and they will definitely be reliable.

On the other hand, of course, the new-style army is in great need of new-style talents, and Wang Chenhao will select some outstanding graduates from the Beiyang Military Academy for this purpose.

Wang Chenhao was ready to train his own team, but he couldn't let the Huaijun system feel that there was a gap with him, so he also accommodated and selected some to enter the new army.

Although the Huai Army has declined, there are many talented people, so Wang Chenhao asked Li Hongzhang to help recommend some old Huai Army generals, which also shows that Wang Chenhao is a person who loves the old and has not forgotten to meet his benefactor Li Hongzhang.

Li Hongzhang is still quite good at employing people, and he is worried that Wang Chenhao will lose the autumn season, so a group of Huai Army generals recommended to Wang Chenhao in the selection of candidates are all elites.

For example, Jiang Gui, the general of the Huai Army, was under the command of Song Qing in the First Sino-Japanese War, and was impeached by the imperial history after the war, and he was also idle when the Huai army was dismantled. Gong Yuanyou, this person is also an old man of the Huai Army, Liu Mingchuan was born under his family, and he is a fierce general. There are also former Huai Army military attaches Yang Rongtai, Wu Changchun, Xu Bangjie, Ren Yongqing, Wang Shizhen, Wang Yingkai and others, all of whom are elites of the Huai Army.

Among them, Wang Yingkai, this is a northeast person, a native of Fengtian Haicheng, this person was originally a teacher, since the First Sino-Japanese War, this person organized civil merchant groups in the local area, fought several tough battles, and was quite talented. When Li Hongzhang was handling the grain and grass of the army in Liaodong, he met this northeastern man and appreciated it very much, so he also recommended it to Wang Chenhao.

In addition to the candidates directly recommended by Li Hongzhang, Wang Chenhao separately sent an order to Duan Qirui, the artillery instructor of the Weihai Camp Armed Forces Academy. This Qirui was the top first in the Beiyang Military Academy, and was later sent to the Berlin Military Academy in Germany to learn gunnery, and studied in the Krupp factory after graduation.

Duan Qirui, who was teaching in Weihai, couldn't help but be taken aback after receiving Wang Chenhao's order, he always paid close attention to the progress of the formation of the new army in Zhili, and said in his heart that any hot-blooded soldier would be attracted by this new army. However, Duan Qirui was born in poverty, although he was appreciated by Li Hongzhang, but there was no backstage force, and Wang Chenhao did not give many places to the old generals of the Huai Army, so Duan Qirui failed to be selected by Li Hongzhang.

When he received Wang Chenhao's warrant, Duan Qirui thought he was dreaming! Thinking that he was a powerless little person, he was able to get the attention of Wang Chenhao, the hottest figure in Beiyang, and that kind of mood made him excited all night, and he stepped on the ship to Tianjin with red eyes early the next morning.

In Wang Chenhao's recruit division, there are about 700 officers, Wang Chenhao only left 150 places for the old generals of the Huai Army, and the rest are all new people, and they are required to be as young, educated, and have gone to military schools as possible, and most importantly, they must not have the old habits of the Huai Army.

Based on these requirements, Wang Chenhao could only select officers in the Beiyang Martial Arts Academy.

The school was founded by Li Hongzhang in Tianjin in 1885, and is the first school in China to train army officers in the Western-style art of war.

In order to recruit talents with new-style military knowledge, Wang Chenhao personally went to the Beiyang Military Academy, and this was the first time he went to be accompanied by Li Hongzhang.

Before this, Li Hongzhang had already greeted Lian Fang, the general office, and when Wang Chenhao and his party arrived at the Martial Arts Academy, all the students in the school returned to the school to conduct infantry, artillery, cavalry, engineering troops, and baggage soldiers.

Lian Fang of the General Office and Yin Chang of the General Office of the Association accompanied Li Hongzhang and Wang Chenhao to inspect all the students of the Tianjin Wubei Academy, and then Lian Fang accompanied Li Hongzhang to speak, and Yin Chang of the General Office took out the list of the top personnel in each section for Wang Chenhao to personally select.

Wang Chenhao glanced at it, the list of candidates provided to him above did not have those celebrities in his impression, with Wang Chenhao's cleverness, he quickly guessed that this lotus recipe must have been instructed by some people, deliberately hiding the essence, it seems that the mind of this banner man is not to let Wang Chenhao train another Han army.

Wang Chenhao smiled faintly and said, "I think of each subject class to personally select candidates for assessment!" I don't know what the general office thinks? ”

Wang Chenhao made his request, and Li Hongzhang just smiled slightly and looked at Lianfang.

The general office and the meeting office of the Beiyang Martial Arts Academy are all banner people, but Lianfang is only a nominal name, and has no actual management skills, Li Hongzhang is to reassure the Qing court, and not to think that the Beiyang Martial Arts Academy has trained anti-Qing people.

"Lord Wang looks a little suspicious, it's okay for Yin Chang to accompany Lord Wang to go down!"

Lian Fang naturally had his abacus, but he didn't think that Wang Chenhao would be able to pick out useful talents, so he nodded at Yin Chang and signaled that everything was controlled by Yin Chang.

Lian Fang must have some tacit understanding with Yin Chang, both of them are banner people, and they definitely don't want Wang Chenhao to train a strong army.

However, in Wang Chenhao's eyes, this Yin Chang is a character, a rare talent among the late Qing Dynasty banner people, who has just returned from studying at the German Army School. For him, Wang Chenhao has other plans in his heart.