Regarding Shang Zhen's arrival, Song Zhewu had some doubts. Song Zhewu felt that Chairman Shang did not attach much importance to his troops, and when he was recruited, Shang Zhen only sent his chief of staff Liu Pei to Tianjin. In the past few months, Shang Zhen was appointed chairman of Hebei Province, and many local government affairs had to be taken over, in addition to the Jin Sui Army, the 4th Group Army led by Bai Chongxi and the 2nd Group Army led by Han Fuyu in Hebei needed to be coordinated by him. And he himself opened the "Beiping Military and Political School" in Beiping, and he needs to make decisions on many affairs, which can be said to be very busy. Therefore, Song Zhewu has never met with Shang Zhen, and the matter of the troop mobilization was arranged by telegram with Liu Pei. What is there to Shang Zhen to come suddenly at this time, and not notify himself in advance? It's a matter of sweeping the supplies of the Zhilu coalition army, but I'm already bleeding......

If you think about it, you can't get the point. But Shang Zhen needed to be greeted immediately, so he settled down and immediately ordered: "Adjutant Chu, order the entire guard battalion to assemble and wait for Chairman Shang's review." ”

After Chu Feng went out, whistles and passwords immediately sounded in the courtyard. Since the troops had already assembled and were ready to go, the whistles and passwords outside quickly stopped.

Song Zhewu straightened his military uniform, Zhou looked up and down, and after feeling good about himself, he walked out of his temporary brigade headquarters.

Influenced by later generations, the color of the military uniform of the security brigade was grass green. Compared with the domestic earthy yellow and gray of this era and the light blue military uniform color of the Sichuan army, the camouflage effect of grass green is significantly better than that of other colors. In order not to make major changes during the Anti-Japanese War, the style of the military uniform was only used by the Central Army.

The establishment of this unit is based on the establishment of the German army, and the establishment of the army is aimed at the target. The army has 13 men per squad, equipped with 8 rifles and 1 machine gun. The security brigade is 16 people per squad, and the main and deputy squad leaders are equipped with MP18 submachine guns, 10 rifles, and a Czech light machine gun. One gunner, one deputy shooter, 2 ammunition men. Both the secondary shooter and the ammunition man were armed with pistols.

Each infantry platoon has 4 squads, plus a 3-man 60mm mortar crew, for a full platoon of 69 people.

5 platoons per company, 4 infantry platoons, an artillery platoon of 28 people. The artillery platoon is equipped with 6 60mm mortars. 4 communicators, a 2-person medical team, and a cooking class, a total of 322 people.

Each battalion has 4 infantry companies, 1 machine gun company, 12 82mm mortars, 12 Mark heavy machine guns. A baggage company of 215 people. One platoon each for guards, reconnaissance, communications, and medical services. A total of 1,765 people were directly under the battalion headquarters.

Each regiment has 4 infantry battalions, an artillery battalion, and a baggage battalion. The artillery battalion consists of two artillery batteries of 12 75mm mountain guns and one 120mm heavy mortar battery. A baggage battalion. One company each for guards, reconnaissance, communications, and medical services. The total number of people in the group is 7,688.

The regimental unit of the security brigade is equivalent to the brigade of the army. From the squad to the brigade, the units at all levels of the security brigade are slightly stronger than the army in terms of personnel and firepower. Of course, this is considered regardless of the quality of individual soldiers. Song Zhewu knew that the quality of individual soldiers who had only been trained for less than two years and fought two low-intensity battles was far inferior to that of a well-trained army.

Since the newly recruited more than 20,000 prisoners had not yet had time to be incorporated into the troops, the original 18,000-strong troops consisted of only two regiments, a cavalry battalion of 720 men, a teaching brigade, and an empty artillery regiment equipped with only six field guns. The main reason why the artillery regiment is not equipped with a large number of artillery is that the divisional artillery regiment should be equipped with large-caliber artillery. Large-caliber artillery cannot be bought by smuggling, and it is not only a matter of money. Song Zhewu regretted it, but he could only leave it for later to solve. Liang Fang, the commander of the artillery regiment, is now basically the commander of the artillery teaching regiment.

Among the four infantry companies of Song Zhewu's guard battalion, the 4th company is equipped with MP18 submachine guns as an internal guard company. Because the brigade personnel were all taken away by the chief of staff, Xiao Guodong, now there are only 1,775 people in Tianjin, including Song Zhewu.

Except for the 4 companies that set up a cordon along the street outside the gate, the other 4 companies and the personnel directly under the battalion were divided into 5 squares, everyone stood solemnly with guns, and the machine guns and mortars under their feet flashed with a faint blue cold light in the white summer sun.

Although it is only July, the North China Plain has already hit people with a heat wave, but the big courtyard gives people a scorching atmosphere. Song Zhewu looked at the troops he had built with his own hands, and nodded secretly with satisfaction.

Song Zhewu took Chu Feng and Ye Changgui to the door, and the cordon had already been arranged. More than 300 people of the 4th Company stood on both sides of the street, more than 200 meters away, and everyone stood straight facing each other with their submachine guns crossed to their chests.

As soon as the cordon was pulled, the pedestrians on the road felt that a big man was coming. Tianjin people have always had the habit of joining in the fun, and immediately gathered a lot of people, crowded and shouting, so lively.

At this moment, a black Ford sedan drove out of the gate of the Tianjin garrison headquarters, escorted by a platoon of cavalry, towards the northern city.

In the back row of the car sat two middle-aged soldiers, the slightly chubby one on the left, with the rank of lieutenant general. The one on the right hangs with the rank of major general. These two people, one is Shang Zhen, chairman of Hebei Province, and the other is Liu Pei, his chief of staff. As the car shook, Shang Zhen, who was squinting, was still thinking about Fang Cai Fu Zuoyi's words.

Because he was in the same Jin Suijun sequence, he, the chairman of Hebei Province, arrived in Tianjin, and inevitably had to say hello to Fu Zuoyi first. After greetings, he casually asked Fu Zuoyi what he thought of his white security brigade. What he didn't expect was that Fu Zuoyi, who had always been arrogant, said three good things in a row without thinking. Good military discipline, good training, good weapons. In addition to his surprise, Fu Zuoyi added another comment, making money is great, and making money is also powerful.

Shang Zhen's ancestral home is Zhejiang and he was born in Baoding. In his early years, he joined the Baoding Military Academy, and was expelled from the school because he joined the League. He first organized a people's army outside the Guan, then followed Lu Jianzhang into Shaanxi, and finally joined the Jin Sui Army. Because he is not from Shanxi, and he is not the old department of Yan Xishan, he has always been excluded in the Jin Sui army. It was only because of his old qualifications that he barely gained a foothold in the Jin Sui army.

This time, Chiang Kai-shek, in order to prevent the Gui faction and the Northwest Army from becoming bigger, handed over Hebei to Yan Xishan, and Yan Xishan immediately appointed his henchmen Zhang Yinwu and Fu Zuoyi as commanders of the Beiping and Tianjin garrisons respectively. In order to appease Shang Zhen, he was given the position of provincial chairman. Beiping and Tianjin accounted for more than half of the tax revenue of the entire Hebei, and it can be said that Shang Zhen only got half of Hebei.

Shang Zhen has endured his anger in the Jin Sui army for many years, and he has long wanted to be self-reliant, but he has never had a chance. Although only half of Hebei was obtained this time, after all, there was a foothold. Therefore, as soon as he arrived in Beiping, he used his position as the provincial chairman to show his strength and wantonly install his own forces in all walks of life. It's just that Shang Zhen has been in the military all the year round, and he suffers from the lack of talents who are proficient in government affairs.

In order to cultivate his own connections, regardless of the suspicion caused by Yan Xishan, he set up the "Beiping Military and Political School" in Beiping. After two busy months, the shelves of the school were erected and the students were recruited. What shocked Shang even more was that Beiping was the economic and political center of North China, and there were many intellectuals, and this group of students were all graduated from middle school or above, and there were not a few who had university degrees. Shang Zhen even secretly compared it with Huangpu in the early days of the school, and the first-term students of Huangpu who are now active in the Central Army are definitely not as good as the current military and political schools when they first entered the school.

Unexpectedly, on the first day of school, Yan Xishan sent people to deliver the "Sorting Out Military Case" adopted by the resolution of the First Plenary Session of the Fifth Central Committee of the Kuomintang, which had just concluded in Tangshan. The third paragraph clearly stipulates that no military academies shall be established in various localities, and the fourth paragraph is disarmament. I thought that before Yan Xishan came to Tangshan for a meeting, he just took a routine look at himself, and after the meeting, he didn't even say hello to himself, so he went home. Shang Zhen knew that the rift between him and Yan Xishan could not be repaired.

It turned out that Shang Zhen not only set up a military and political school, but also privately incorporated the remnants of the Zhilu Coalition Army of more than 12,000 people and organized them into four supplementary regiments. I originally thought that after graduating from the first batch of students of the Military and Political School a year later, I would hand over these four regiments to them and form my own descendant troops.

The "Sorting Out Military Case" sent by Yan Xishan was obviously aimed at these two things. It seems that what he did in Beiping is clear to Yan Xishan, who is far away in Shanxi. It is no wonder that among the two brigades and 4 regiments of the First Division, there is only one brigade and two regiments that really listen to themselves, which is also the reason why Shang Zhen wants to form a descendant army.

Shang Zhen and Chief of Staff Liu Pei summed up for a long time, and finally Shang Zhen gritted his teeth, "The military and political school continues to open, and his Yan Laoxi's school in Taiyuan will not stop, and we will not stop." Then he said with regret: "It's just that these 4 supplementary regiments don't seem to be able to keep it!" ”

Liu Pei was Shang Zhen's old partner when he was in Shaanxi, and when he saw Shang Zhen's decision, he smiled slyly, looked at Shang Zhen and said, "Actually, those four regiments are not impossible to keep." ”

"Oh?" As soon as he heard Liu Pei's words, Shang Zhen's eyes lit up immediately. grabbed Liu Pei's hand, "You have a way, say it quickly!" ”

Liu Pei withdrew the aching hand that was held by Shang Zhen, "My brother Qiyu, you don't know the true face of Lushan, only because you are in this mountain." This disarmament is a major policy of the central authorities, and it is not easy to implement it concretely. However, the Shanxi one used this as an excuse not to allow the expansion, and we had to obey. ”

Liu Pei took a sip of tea lightly and continued: "This disarmament refers to the regular troops, and in my opinion, it is aimed at the three group armies of 2.3.4. We are in the Third Army, so it is naturally difficult for us to go against the wind. ”

"The Third Army will not be disarmed, and the one in Liberty Shanxi will have a headache, you should quickly say what we should do." Seeing Shang Zhen's anxious expression, Liu Pei continued: "Disarmament has not been clearly stated, and local troops must also be dismantled. ”

Shang Zhen was stunned for a moment, then slapped his thigh and laughed, "Okay, worthy of being my military advisor, this idea is good!" We set up the 2nd and 3rd Security Brigades. ”

Liu Pei saw that Shang Zhen didn't understand what he meant, so he hurriedly shook his hand and said, "This won't work." ”

Seeing that Shang Zhen was a little puzzled, Liu Pei continued: "Now the newly formed security brigade, although it has avoided the word of disarmament, it is also clear that it is going to fight against the one in Shanxi. We don't have that strength right now. What I mean is that these four regiments will be handed over to Song Zhewu in Tianjin first, and he will train them for a year. A year later, as soon as the first batch of personnel of the military and political school graduated, they were all assigned to these four regiments. In this way, the Shanxi side was explained, and our four regiments were built. ”

Shang Zhen did not immediately express his position, but paced on the ground with his hands behind his back.

Liu Pei knew that Shang Zhen was still a little undecided, so he didn't bother him, lit a cigarette, and waited quietly for Shang Zhen to make a decision.

Since entering Beiping, Shang Zhen has been busy with the affairs of the military and political school, and he has not paid much attention to this security brigade. Regarding the incorporation and relocation of the security brigade, Liu Pei arranged it all single-handedly. Even, Shang Zhen has not seen Song Zhewu in person until now. What made Shang Zhen hesitate was whether the security brigade was really as well-trained as Liu Pei said, comparable to the regular army. He didn't want these four regiments to become real local troops under Song Zhewu's combat effectiveness, what he needed was the elite soldiers of the four regiments. The second is that these 4 regiments were handed over to Song Zhewu for training, whether he can grasp these 4 regiments after a year, if he ends up making wedding dresses for others, it will be ridiculous and generous.

Shang Zhen stopped, looked at Liu Pei and asked, "Is this security brigade really as you said, well-equipped and well-trained?" ”

After Liu Pei came back, he praised Song Zhewu and his troops in front of Shang Zhen. Shang Zhen was busy with school affairs, and after hearing this, he just smiled and nodded, and did not say anything. Liu Pei knew that Shang Zhen probably thought that he had received the benefits of Song Zhewu, and then said something for him. I don't believe in how good this army is at all. Liu Pei didn't say much at the time, and he was very upset with Song Zhewu in his heart.

"When I come back, I'll tell you about the training of this unit. The equipment was absolutely top notch. Several senior officers are not simple, most of them were born in Baoding Military Academy, and they are still your juniors. Song Zhewu and Chief of Staff Xiao Guodong graduated from the Dresden Infantry School. Believe in my vision, Song Zhewu is definitely a hero for a while. Liu Pei paused slightly, and continued with a smile: "That's right, I received the benefits of Song Zhewu, 10 gold bars. This is thanks to Brother Qiyu for giving me this incorporation. ”

Seeing Shang Zhen's stunned expression, Liu Pei burst out laughing, and then his face turned pale, and he said: "The 10 gold bars were given to me by Song Zhewu when I first arrived in Tianjin." At that time, it was not for nothing, you wanted to buy me, 10 gold bars were too little. However, after I inspected the troops and had in-depth conversations with several of their senior officers, my views changed dramatically. We've definitely found a treasure. ”

Shang Zhen said with a smile: "You made a fortune, and you didn't invite me, and I didn't say until today that I would deduct half a month's military salary." ”

Liu Pei saw that Shang Zhen was a little moved, and hurriedly said: "Hearing is false, seeing is believing." You go to Tianjin to have a look, and by the way, you can also find out their bottom, this army will be of great use to us in the future. ”

Shang Zhen thought for a moment and immediately agreed. "Okay, let's go to Tianjin. Haven't they gone yet? ”

"Coincidentally, Song Zhewu called and said that he would leave Tianjin with the last group of troops at 9 o'clock tomorrow, and we will leave tomorrow morning, and it will be too late to arrive in Tianjin."

This is why today's trip to Tianjin was born.