Back in Shenyang, Song Biao did not go to work in the Governor's Mansion, but went home directly, called the Secretariat in the study, and asked Yang Tiesheng, who was waiting in the Governor's Mansion office, to call him to his home to talk about things.

After a month of business trips outside, when he returned home, his daughter, who had just turned six, didn't want him to hug him, and cried when she hugged her in her arms, which made Song Biao a little embarrassed.

With her parents-in-law helping to take care of the children at home, as well as a wet nurse and a maid, Shu Xuan is not very busy.

Song Biao and Shu Xuan chatted a few words about the inspection in Fuzhou and Xing'an League, when he came from Fuzhou, he happened to bring a few goat milk powder from Fuzhou milk powder factory, so he asked Shu Xuan to try to drink some for his daughter first, it is said that the children on the grassland grew up drinking goat milk, Song Biao is also very interested, but unfortunately the milky smell of this milk powder is relatively strong.

Living in this era, Song Biao feels that life is a lot of fun, at least there is no need to worry about food.

Although he is worth more than 100 million pounds, the house where Song Biao lives is the official residence of the governor of the three eastern provinces provided by the government, with two floors, eight bedrooms and four living rooms, 380 square meters of building standards, and a spacious courtyard.

Going out is generally by train and horse, and the car is still a bit dangerous during this period, and Song Biao rarely takes it himself.

The family food is the unified supply of coal, silk cloth, grain, oil, tea, meat, which is also regarded as the welfare of the Northeast New Army, the child's milk powder is supplied by Shengjing Milk Powder Company, after all, it is not an officer and non-commissioned officer who has children at home, Dongta Park and Heping Bridge are the family areas of the Northeast New Army, and there are many newborn children of the military families, and the milk powder is distributed free of charge. Paid monthly.

This feeling is like the military system of the 70s, the whole army and their families live in a special care environment, in the three eastern provinces is a very enviable special class, because of this effect, the number of students who apply for the Far Eastern Lushi Preparatory School every year is very large, in terms of enrollment ratio, usually one out of six. And students who graduate from the Lushi Preparatory Department have only a 12 probability of officially entering the Far Eastern Lushi.

This is exactly the effect that Song Biao wants.

The treatment of soldiers in the Northeast New Army may be worse, but within the army, there is no obvious gap between soldiers, non-commissioned officers, and lieutenants. As long as they are healthy young people who are willing to study and train hard, it is still very easy to become a non-commissioned officer in the army. Generally speaking, if you are old and have a poor cultural foundation, you will basically not be able to turn around, but as long as you perform well in the army, actively join organizations such as the Xinhua Society, the Liberation Society, and the New Politics and Power Association during the period of study in the crash course for land soldiers in the Far East, and have a "correct thinking," you will be recommended to continue to maintain your military position in the patrol forces in various places, or you will be transferred to work in the militia of various townships after being discharged from the army.

Generally speaking, serving as a soldier in the Northeast New Army is still very promising, and for those young people who have not successfully passed the Lu Shi preparatory department and Lu Shi, they still have the opportunity to become a lieutenant through the Lu Shi advanced training course after two years of training in the army. When you become a lieutenant or a senior non-commissioned officer, your basic salary will be greatly improved, especially in various benefits.

Song Biao chatted with Shu Xuan in the study about the trivial things in the family, such as Jiang Yanxing's wife making a set of foreign cloth skirts for their daughter Song Yuanyuan. The sister-in-law made a few pairs of shoes, the eldest lady of the Shu family will be born next month, Shu Xuan wants to give a pair of gold bracelets, and his father-in-law Shu Gaoli is not in good health during this time and wants to retire from the Far East Printing Company or something.

The two talked for more than ten minutes, and Yang Tiesheng hurried over. happened to also bring a set of silk satin flower skirts to Song Yuanyuan as a gift, and exchanged a few words with him, Shu Xuan accepted the gift and left the study, letting Yang Tiesheng and Song Biao talk about business here.

is the so-called family and country in the world, and official affairs are sometimes like private affairs on Song Biao's side.

The reason why China formed a warlord division after the end of the Qing Dynasty is precisely because since the Hunan and Huai armies, the army has been regarded as a private armed force for a long time, and the habitual surname of this kind of thinking extends to the three eastern provinces, making people accustomed to thinking that the Northeast New Army and the patrol army of the three eastern provinces are the armed forces held by Song Biao.

In the local area, if someone was transferred from the militia to the patrol, he would be accustomed to saying that he was now serving under the Governor.

Yang Tiesheng is definitely different from other officers, he is one of the four King Kongs, and he is the only one in the patrol army, and he serves as the head of the military command department of the patrol army of the three eastern provinces, so he is more comfortable here in Song Biao.

Everyone will have some bizarre fate, as if there is a fatalistic theory, Yang Tiesheng is such a person, he is always very strange to become the one who takes care of Song Biao's home.

He and Zhao Tingzhu have a relatively good cultural foundation, the first batch graduated from the Far Eastern Continental Scholar Advanced Training Class, and then briefly went to the Russian Staff College for half a year, and later with Wu Yuanze and Sun Shulin was responsible for the formation of the Sixth Infantry Brigade, Colonel Kornilov served as the instructor, and the Sixth Infantry Brigade was changed to the Sixth Infantry Division and set up as a reserve division, and part of the main force was dispersed to the patrol corps of the three provinces. He began to concurrently serve as the head of the Military Command Department.

Each province has a patrol corps at the division level, with a patrol commander and a chief instructor in the province, three headquarters detachments directly under the jurisdiction of the prefectures, prefectures, and military reclamation systems, and each patrol detachment directly under the jurisdiction of the three headquarters brigades and the patrol brigades of each county, and each brigade is established at the battalion level.

The scale of the patrol army of the three eastern provinces is not large, with a total establishment of 75,000 people, 31,000 in Mukden Province, 23,000 in Jilin Province, and 21,000 in Heilongjiang Province, and is mainly equipped with M1891 Mosin Nagant rifles, M1897 Winchester shotguns, Madsen light machine guns and 77mm mortars, some of which were even military materials captured during the First Sino-Japanese War.

On the surface, the strength of the patrol forces of the three eastern provinces is very small, but the civil defense posts and militia units in the townships and towns are also under the jurisdiction of the patrol forces of the three eastern provinces, and the militia armament rate has gradually increased from 10 percent in the early days to 50 percent. Calculated in this way, the actual total strength of the patrol forces of the three eastern provinces may reach 500,000.

It is precisely because of this that Song Biao chose to let Yang Tiesheng be the head of the Military Command Department of the Patrol Army of the Three Eastern Provinces, and before that, the other candidate he considered was also Zhao Tingzhu, and he did not have a third candidate besides these two.

After Shu Xuan left the study. Song Biao asked Yang Tiesheng to bring a bottle of hot water, and the two made a pot of tea together, sitting next to the radiator by the window and smoking. Place two large enamel cups on the heat sink so that the tea doesn't get cold.

The two of them drank tea and smoked, and they were silent for a long time without saying anything. After years of affection and the relationship between superiors and subordinates, there are some things that need not be said between them.

Sitting here, Song Biao also had a lot of emotion in his heart, he actually wanted Zhao Tingzhu to patrol the army at the beginning, but after thinking about it, he chose Yang Tiesheng, because Yang Tiesheng has two advantages, one is to be down-to-earth and hardworking, and the other is to work hard, and he has been very motivated over the years, and he has not lost face to Song Biao.

Compared with Jiang Fangzhen and Chen Qicai. Yang Tiesheng is definitely not a talented person, and his grades in the first Far Eastern Lushi advanced class are not excellent, and this is already the result of his hard work, at least it is much better than Zhang Yahu and Chen Wu studying for an extra year in private after graduating, so it is not embarrassing for Song Biao.

Of course. The soldiers of this era are still very special, and being illiterate does not mean that they cannot become a tiger general or a good general.

If you really want to go to war, Yang Tiesheng is really not an opponent of people like Zhang Yahu and Chen Wu, the key is that the surnames are different, and those two are born with deadly surnames.

Silently smoked most of a Shengjing brand cigarette, Yang Tieshengcai and Song Biao asked, "General seat." Did you come to me to ask about the readiness of the patrol forces? ”

Song Biao nodded, and asked him first: "Qu Tongfeng has been the head of the Fengtian Provincial Patrol Army for you for more than half a year, how do you feel, how are you compared to Sun Shulin?" ”

Yang Tiesheng thought for a while and said, "Each has its own merits...... Qu Tongfeng is a little shrewd, Sun Shulin knows more things. ”

Song Biao sighed, Sun Shulin and Yang Tiesheng have been partners for a long time, and they have always performed well, and later considered that the First Cavalry Division needed a master who was proficient in infantry and engineering specialties, so he transferred Sun Shulin over.

Initially, Song Biao considered taking Liu Gengyun out to be Yang Tiesheng's dean, but Chen Wu and the third dean, Zhang Liangyuan, had a conflict again, and had to change the dean, so Song Biao could only save Liu Gengyun, and finally transferred Qu Tongfeng to Yang Tiesheng as the dean.

Speaking of this matter, Song Biao and Yang Tiesheng continued: "Zhang Liangyuan is actually not bad, after he had a conflict with Chen Wu, I just sent him to Germany to investigate, I just came back a few days ago, I always have to arrange a suitable place, I consider sending him to the Military Command Department to be responsible for the artillery training of the patrol force, and at the same time concurrently serve as the director of the staff office." ”

Yang Tiesheng nodded in agreement and said, "That person is okay, Chen Wu just doesn't have a good surname." ”

Song Biao was not very happy about this matter, knowing that Chen Wu had a little problem in the past two years, and said: "I have also told him about this matter, Liu Gengyun is his last teaching chief, if something happens again, I will ask him to send him to a foreign country for four or five years of study." ”

Yang Tiesheng said: "I'm afraid that he won't be serious." ”

Song Biao said: "There is no way, what I said is true." Changing a teacher a year is not helping me, but harming me. ”

Yang Tiesheng said: "I talked to him, he also has his own ideas, he compared the first teaching chief Colonel Karekin with them, and always felt that these non-commissioned officers and students who thought they were great after graduating from this Lu Shi are very conceited, but their level is not good. I initially cooperated with Colonel Kornilov, and later changed to Sun Shulin, I feel that it is indeed quite bad, the key is that the experience gap is too big, the advisers of the Russian army are all fought in large and small battles, and the theoretical level is also good, Sun Shulin gave me the feeling that the theoretical level is average, and only lip service, many things do not understand. After all, that's how everyone came here. ”

After a pause, he said again: "It is better to fight a few more battles, and if you fight too many battles, you can only achieve a level by combining theoretical research." In the past few years, the general seat has taken great care of those non-commissioned officers and students studying in Yuben, given them a lot of opportunities, and has always asked them to increase their experience through exercises, study more in normal times, and accumulate theoretical level. ”

Song Biao replied simply: "There is no way, there is still a shortage of people overall, and it is not difficult to expand the army in this part of China." As the saying goes, thousands of troops are easy to obtain, but one will be hard to find. For example, Jiang Fangzhen and Chen Qicai, if you let them be staff officers, it is very good, especially the two of them, their level has improved rapidly in recent years, and sometimes even I have to say that it is very good. Then again. If you really let them lead the troops into battle, then there may be problems. As for the other non-commissioned officers and students, they will not be tested on the battlefield. Just because we are doing exercises like this, conducting private surveys and comments, and doing some discussion and study in the seminar...... Actually, I really can't see the actual level. Now it's time to use it first. After all, it is necessary to gradually re-select from the bottom from among the graduates of the Far Eastern Lushi. ”

Yang Tiesheng sighed: "Yes, in the final analysis, it is still difficult to deal with the whole seat, the army is not big, and it is not good if it is big." ”

These problems are Song Biao's biggest headache in the past five years, but then again, his situation is not bad after all, compared with the Beiyang Army and the new armies of other provinces, his side is already considered an elite gathering, and he is really on the battlefield, and the generals are one aspect. Soldiers and equipment are also a very important foundation.

Even if the level of generals is a little lower, the level of soldiers and equipment is good enough.

In addition, if a general wants to become a good general, he must also be on the battlefield in order to get the opportunity to sublimate and accumulate experience. Raise your level and gain confidence and prestige.

If the Northeast New Army wants to continue to move forward, it must fight a war, and it must fight a big war in an all-round way.

Song Biao didn't talk about this issue for the time being, and asked Yang Tiesheng: "The patrol army is quite stable during this time, how are you preparing over there?" ”

Yang Tiesheng replied: "I am now training the patrol force as a front-line unit. In all the four phases of training, the civil defense stations in each township and town have uniformly arranged four to five civil defense personnel to organize and train the militia on a large scale. One of my current feelings is that the four-phase training is a bit inappropriate for the militia, so I want to carry out two-phase training, the first phase to lay the foundation, the second phase to strengthen it, and to carry out civil and political education at the same time, and the civil and political education and military training are carried out simultaneously, and the original 14 major training courses have been reduced to eight training courses, and they can be practiced when they have time. It is okay to use the militia as a source of reserves, but it is also not acceptable, and the training bases for new recruits in various localities still need to continue to invest funds. These are my thoughts below, and I don't know what the staff office thinks about it. ”

Song Biao said: "The opinions of the first and second staff officers are quite contradictory, Martos thinks that it is enough to have a militia as a reserve, and at the same time it is too expensive to retain the training bases for recruits in various places, Jiang Fangzhen has no opinion, Chen Qicai and Jiang Zhengyuan They do not agree very much, Chen Qicai's point of view is that the militia is unreliable, and the training effect is not guaranteed." ”

Yang Tiesheng thought for a while and said: "The training of the militia is indeed not guaranteed, some places do a good job, the effect is okay, and some places do not work well, the effect is not good." What is the situation in the other two provinces, I still don't know very well, Fengtian Province here has a total of 938 civil defense stations in 8 prefectures and 3 military reclamation units, and I have run 103 in the past year, and the overall feeling is that there is a big difference, the good places are very good, the bad places are very poor, and the problems in some places are still very complicated. The key is whether the militia really wants to be a soldier, and if he doesn't want to be a soldier, then there is no level of training to speak of. Although there is a subsidy for being a militia, it is only twelve silver yuan a year, which is quite a lot in the Guannai, but it is not so good in the three eastern provinces. In some places it is deadlift militia, and the effect of this training is even worse. Therefore, I think the recruit training camps in various places should continue to be carried out, not only to be engaged, but also to increase efforts, the militia is a supplement, directly recruit young people who are willing to be soldiers, and have a little cultural foundation is better, they have impact, ideas, want to be motivated, the militia is a group of strong farmers, do not farm but also want to do some other errands to make money, many of them are dragged with their families, who wants to be a soldier? ”

Song Biao sighed and said: "That is, you are willing to go down there to see the actual situation so much, okay, this matter is settled, you still have to continue to do a good job in the recruit training camp, and you can't just think of pulling people to fill up when you are about to go to war like Russia." ”

Yang Tiesheng said: "The key is ideological education, our side to carry out the liberation revolution is all done secretly, the name is not right, the words are not good, and the general atmosphere in society cannot be formed." If we really want the militia to become an important part of national defense, we must have a general atmosphere of the whole country, we must have a strong patriotic spirit, and at the same time, we must not worry about the problem of livelihood. For the vast majority of people. Survival comes first, wife and children come second, fellow villagers and clans are third, and the country and nation rank fourth at best. If we can solve most of the problems of survival and let everyone put the country and the nation second, then our work will be successful. ”

Song Biao laughed out loud and praised: "I used to always say that Zhang Yahu was the reincarnation of Lu Meng. Shibei three years, you have to be impressed, think about it now. You are the real reincarnation of Lu Meng. ”

Yang Tiesheng also smiled and said, "The general seat is laughing, I am at best a reincarnated Huang Gai." If you can't talk about the credit, you can only work hard with others, otherwise I'm sorry for the cultivation and reuse of the general seat over the years. ”

Song Biao bowed slightly, and was very grateful to the four King Kongs beside him.

In the past five years, the old subordinates have not been lying down and idle, they have been working hard to improve themselves in this environment, Chen Wu is a little noisy, but Yang Tiesheng is very right, the main reason for Chen Wu's troubles is still not with these non-commissioned officers.

In fact, Zhao Tingzhu, Zhang Yahu, Chen Wu, Yang Tiesheng and these non-commissioned officers and students all have disagreements. The four of them are another faction, although Jiang Yanxing, Zhang Xiaohuai, Jiang Fangzhen, and Cai Yi are non-commissioned officers, but they do not have too much contact with other non-commissioned officers, and the real major faction of non-commissioned officers and students in the Northeast New Army is headed by Shu Fangde, Xu Baoying, Xiao Kaigui and others.

Where there are Chinese, there are factions, and this kind of thing is inevitable.

[***] inevitably. It is inevitable that within the communist army, when the time is right, it will certainly be necessary to recruit one group of people, or even two groups, and ideological unity and political education are inevitable, but it is not possible to talk about it at present. The problem is not so serious either.

There are some things that Song Biao and Yang Tiesheng know very well in their hearts, the current problem of the Northeast New Army is that the above batch is only willing to follow Song Biao, and the middle batch is not easy to say, and the competition between the non-commissioned officers and students in the Far East is still very fierce.

All the noncommissioned officers and students of the Northeast New Army have special secondary training in the Far East, but these secondary training courses are relatively short, and most of them are minor subjects.

In terms of faction, the Far Eastern scholars refer to Zhao Tingzhu, Zhang Yahu, and Yang Tiesheng, who participated in the Battle of Liaoyang and had nearly 250 graduates in the first two classes of the Far Eastern Continental Scholar Advanced Course, who were basically from the Northeast and Zhili regions, mainly in Shenyang, Liaoyang, Jilin, Harbin, and Hunjiang, that is, the places where large-scale recruitment was first made.

said that Chen Qicai is a yin, he is yin at this point, he is the earliest prefect of Lu Shisheng, but he does not participate in the battle between these two factions at all, and maintains a neutral posture with Jiang Fangzhen, Cai Yi, Jiang Yanxing and others, Jiang Fangzhen is neither side is offended, he does not interact with either side.

Chen Qicai knew very well in his heart that in the long run, the non-commissioned officer faction within the Northeast New Army would not be able to compete with the Far Eastern Lu soldiers, but the Far Eastern Lu Shi was biased towards the Northeast local faction, which may not be a long-term general trend, unless Song Biao really stayed in the three eastern provinces and could not go out.

Song Biao knows the problems better than anyone else, but he is not in a hurry to solve these problems, at least until he finishes the civil war, the problems will not be too big, but when the civil war is over, the generals from all walks of life are proud of their achievements, and the problems may begin to intensify.

Anyway, I can't manage this problem this year.

Song Biao and Yang Tiesheng talked for a while, just as Shu Xuan shouted for dinner, he went down to eat with Yang Tiesheng, Yang Tiesheng's wife and Song Biao's parents-in-law were there, and everyone gathered at a table for a very rich family banquet.

Yang Tiesheng was transferred to the post of commander of the Fengtian Provincial Patrol Army at the beginning of last year, and at the end of last year, he officially served as the head of the Military Command Department of the Patrol Army of the Three Eastern Provinces, that is, since the end of last year, the Patrol Army of the Three Eastern Provinces has officially entered a state of preparation, and the patrol detachments in various places have moved from semi-regularization to regularization.

The patrol force is the armed police force, and Song Biao's long-term plan is to formally change it to the "Chinese Imperial Armed Police Force", with headquarters in each province, detachments in each city, and brigades in each county.

According to this plan, the patrol forces of the three eastern provinces are not only much slower in the pace of regularization, but also have a relatively low level of equipment; a brigade has only light machine guns, the detachment has heavy machine guns and mortars, and the headquarters of the brigade has light field artillery and a small number of cannons.

The Fengtian Provincial Patrol Army directly controlled by Yang Tiesheng is quite special, the headquarters of the patrol corps in Heilongjiang and Jilin have only three directly governed detachments, and Yang Tiesheng's side is six directly under the Central Government Detachment, which is equivalent to a reduced version of the infantry division, although the artillery equipped with old models of obsolete artillery, the caliber is real heavy artillery, 12 centi, 15 centi, heavy field artillery, cannon, Haizhou, Jinzhou, Dandong and other main detachments are all equipped with light and heavy field artillery, and the equipment of the Yanbian Military Reclamation Bureau of Jilin Province is also beyond the norm, with a number of 12 centi Krupp field guns.

The old light and heavy artillery captured from the Battle of Liaoyang was basically used here, and the Northeast New Army happened to be fully equipped with new and unified artillery.

Yang Tiesheng's role was very simple, to cooperate with Zhang Xiaohuai to resist the possibility of foreign interference, especially to prevent Yuben and North Korea from taking the opportunity to make trouble.

That night, Song Biao and Yang Tiesheng kept talking in the study late at night, with the current strength of the Northeast New Army, it was easy to send 23 troops to annihilate the Beiyang Army, and the possibility of using the remaining 13 and the patrol troops of the three eastern provinces to deter other foreign forces was also extremely high, and now the only question is when to do it.

It's just that considering the book, it's probably safe to keep one more hand.

(To be continued)