Shenyang's Tanglin Wei is commonly known as the East Daying, the Ming Dynasty is the garrison of the important place, since then has been the Manchu Qing Eight Banners Battalion in the Tanglin area of the garrison, the camp has a history of more than 200 years, the scale is huge, a little renovation is a very suitable new military camp area.

Before Song Biao moved here, the First Army and the Fifth Army of the Russian Army successively used this place as the headquarters of the garrison, and after the Fifth Army replaced Song Biao's 14th Army garrison on the Liaodong Peninsula, Song Biao officially withdrew to the barracks area of Tanglingwei.

At this time, the Manchurian Infantry Division had been reorganized into the 15th Army of the Russian Far East Army on the basis of the old division of the New Manchurian Infantry Division in accordance with Song Biao's opinion, which can also be translated as the "Northeast New Army", and consisted of six infantry regiments, the 1st Artillery Brigade, the 1st Reserve Artillery Brigade, the 1st Mountain Brigade, the 1st Cavalry Brigade, the 1st Transport Brigade, the 1st Engineer Regiment, the 1st Reconnaissance Regiment, the 1st Military Headquarters Command Regiment, the 2nd Military Headquarters Command Regiment and four militia brigades.

The total strength of the whole army is 58,000.

Song Biao is a person who lifts weights lightly, and the so-called weightlifting is to resolutely send out things that can be assigned to others, and he only grasps the general direction and the most important things, such as military training and officer training.

Because it was the old division of the previous New Manchurian Infantry Division, Alexievich. Colonel Brusilov, Lieutenant Colonel Martos, and Lieutenant Colonel Pakilov continued to serve in the 15th Army temporarily, and Major Tuvaniel was still in charge of the first staff of the military headquarters, and Jiang Fangzhen was in charge of the second staff department as usual, and Lieutenant Colonel Maltos served as the chief instructor of the military training department.

Song Biao still continued to adopt the original plan and accelerated the regularization of his own troops by relying on the development of the Russian army, including the training of the whole army, and also comprehensively adopted the teaching materials of the Russian army's Moscow Infantry Noncommissioned Officer School, Cavalry Noncommissioned Officer School, and General Staff Military Academy.

In the Battle of Liaoyang and the subsequent Liaodong counteroffensive, Song Biao recruited soldiers before the Battle of Heigoutai as early as possible, and specially recruited a group of literate young people who had read books.

Among these people, there is a recruit company commander named Guo Songling, who is brave in combat, and has already stood out in the crash course for non-commissioned officers that was opened before, in short, it seems that he is a very good candidate.

At the warm invitation of Jiang Yanxing and others, Song Biao also recruited 14 young non-commissioned officers who graduated from the Yueben Non-commissioned Officer School again during this period to serve as instructors in various regiments, including many revolutionary young people like Wu Luzhen and Liu Wenjin. Song Biao put Wu Luzhen up as a cultural instructor, responsible for the education of nationalism and modern nationalism, as well as the popularization of cultural classes, but more things were not within the scope of his current consideration for the time being, and Wu Luzhen was not given time to talk to him about those barren, rudimentary, and ignorant revolutionary theories.

As for the field of making money, Song Biao has always been not idle, all the way to the Liaodong Peninsula, he easily seized the materials, land deeds, and wharves that he forcibly occupied on the Liaodong Peninsula into his own hands, and by the way, continued to buy the 30-year coal and iron franchise in Anshan with the help of the Russian army.

Before and after, he occupied 43,000 acres of land in the entire northeast, affected by the war, except for Fushun, Tonghua and Hunjiang areas, the rest of the fields were planted with corn for this season before July, he divided these lands to six rice shops to operate, the head office is located in Shenyang Yufeng Bank, and the coal and iron mines in various places are unified under the Far East Coal and Iron Company to operate, through the introduction of General Madenidov, from the Russian foreign bank hired a Taipan named Mikunov as the general manager, Rong Xingqiao, who was an early child in the United States who was a trader in this foreign firm, was invited to serve as the deputy general manager.

War is a profiteering sport.

Song Biao's profits from the war almost made him the richest man in China, although not many people realized it at this time, and he didn't even spend much energy on making money, and his proficiency in the Russian language, and his special status in the Russian army made it easy for him to recruit a group of Russian businessmen to work for him.

If you want to develop quickly, you can assign all things to the right people to be responsible, this is the basic principle of Song Biao.

The early morning sun shone on the various school grounds in the entire Tanglin Guard camp, and in this place where more than 30,000 Chinese and Russian [***] people were stationed, the training every morning was so lively and even a little chaotic.

These days, there are too many recruits from the recruitment stations in various places, and the training in the recruit camp is always like a comic comedy full of all kinds of joy, Song Biao got up early in the morning, although there seemed to be a lot of things to be busy, after being assigned one by one, he also had enough time to care about the things he cared about the most.

With his own guard battalion, Song Biao wore an off-white summer senior officer uniform of the Russian army and serious and smooth black deerskin military boots, the collar was still the St. George Cross, because the saber was inlaid with the Order of St. Anna, it also became a symbol of bravery and nobility The St. Anna saber, in fact, it was the Chashik brass handle saber given by His Excellency the Commander-in-Chief Kuropatkin, but the decoration was more luxurious than in the past.

He stood on the school platform so coldly and blindly, looking at the training of the whole army with a telescope, and carrying a swarthy horse whip in his left hand behind his back, as if he was ready to whip people at any time, which made every non-commissioned officer who led the training feel fearful.

There is no race in front of such a noble and strong man as him, whether it is a Russian, or a Chinese, or a Frenchman, or a German, in the face of a young man like him, everyone has to bow their heads.

He received the European Observer Mission, which had previously followed the First Army of the Manchurian Army, and also received the German-French Observer Mission, which had been accompanied by the First Russian Army, and the foreign military attachés of the German-French Observer Corps had all taken the initiative to invite him to watch the battle in the later decisive battles, and no general, not a single foreign military attaché, dared to expose the Anglo-Saxon nobility in front of him.

The servicemen spoke with bayonets.

Song Biao's bayonet blinded the whole world, at least until the outbreak of the First World War, the Russo-Russian War would be the most discussed war in human history. Vladimir. General Song was destined to be the biggest point of contention in the war.

When he stood on the school platform and looked at the training of the whole army, the soldiers and generals were not only afraid, but also had an unprecedented self-confidence, and the feeling of fighting with the "Asian Napoleon" was crazy, and the kind of worship of famous generals by human beings has never stopped, and it will always be the most enthusiastic worship.

Now no one dares to argue with Song Biao about the merits of the four-phase training method, not even Alekseevich, who once served as the principal of the Russian Cavalry School. Colonel Brusilov did not dare either, in the 15th Army of the Russian Far Eastern Army, everything here was Song Biao's final say.

As long as he gave a brief order, countless people would follow behind to carry it out, eager to immediately turn his demands and instructions into reality, whether it was Russian soldiers, Russian generals, and staff officers, or Chinese soldiers, generals, and staff officers like Jiang Yanxing and Zhao Tingzhu.

Under Song Biao's weighty baton and swarthy horsewhip, the entire 15th Army of the Far East Army was like a complete carriage moving forward frantically, and it developed in strict accordance with Song Biao's requirements in every bit.

Under the morning light, Song Biao looked indifferently at the tens of thousands of soldiers and all his subordinates in front of him, the golden light shone on his young and stiff and smooth cheeks like a sword, and reflected colorful colors in his bright and sharp eyes.

He just looked at everything in front of him coldly, confirming whether his request had been implemented to the best extent.

More than 15,000 recruits were crammed into the troops, giving them a new period of adjustment, with a peculiar struggle that showed all sorts of incongruities on the school field, but which would soon become part of history.

Song Biao is already very experienced in this, as long as he continues to practice, maybe in half a month, the army will become more integral, and he will see that kind of uniform scene again.

It will be an exciting moment.

That's what the queue is all about.

The advantage of summer is that you can train the whole army without scruples, especially in the summer in the northeast, Song Biao is stepping up the adjustment of his seasonal training plan, arranging more physical training in the near future, requiring soldiers to complete at least five kilometers of cross-country training every day, sometimes to carry marching loads, more often not to, at least for the time being, there is no need to make soldiers practice so painful.

This is definitely not the patent of the Red Army, and Fu Zuoyi also requires his troops in [***], so physical training is not a key factor in determining combat effectiveness.

The key factor is that everyone has to practice, and in order to make the best demonstration, even Song Biao has to take the guard battalion to participate in cross-country training.

With regard to his own troops, Song Biao has always emphasized the concept of a big family in which officers and men are equal, sharing weal and woe, strict discipline, strict obedience to superiors, and considerate consideration of subordinates, and building a steel force that has feelings for each other.

Song Biao gradually turned his attention to Yang Tiesheng's 4th Infantry Regiment, a unit that had barely participated in any battles, but was also the only one that carried out military training in strict accordance with the four-phase training method.

In the past few months, Yang Tiesheng has completed the training of six recruit battalions in Tonghua, replenishing Song Biao with 11,000 recruits after the war, and he himself is also cunning to fill his infantry regiment with elites, and his 20 company commanders and 73 platoon commanders have participated in the first three non-commissioned officer crash courses in Tonghua.

Considering the special surname of this infantry regiment, Song Biao sent Cai Yi over as an instructor to cooperate with Yang Tiesheng.

Although he had hardly participated in any battles, judging from the performance of the training alone, the 4th Infantry Regiment of Yang Tiesheng's department was indeed a very good unit, and after carefully looking at their training performance, Song Biao pondered in his heart that he wanted to find a training opportunity for them.

On the way back from Lushun, Song Biao arranged for Zhao Tingzhu to lead his troops to cooperate with a cavalry regiment to defeat Feng Linge's bandit forces in Liaozhong County, but it was a pity that Zhang Zuolin's troops were retracted in the area of Chengde County and Guangning County in Xinmin Prefecture, which was really beyond the reach of the whip, otherwise they would have to be killed together.

As always, in the two hours after the end of the morning exercise, Song Biao used this time to hold regular military meetings and deploy new work, and the princes who were far away from the war were the happiest time at this time, most of the generals were waiting for promotion, and Jiang Yanxing and others were welcoming a new life.

After it was officially listed as the 15th Army of the Russian Far East Army, under the arrangement of General Madenidov, all the subordinates of Song Biao's headquarters also arranged military ranks such as Manchurian infantry and cavalry, which were analogous to the ranks of the Russian army.

Zhang Yahu, Zhao Tingzhu, Chen Wu, Yang Tiesheng, Jiang Fangzhen, Jiang Yanxing, Cai Yi, and Zhang Xiaohuai were infantry majors, Xue Changqing was a cavalry major, and Xu Baoying was an artillery major.

In any case, at this time, Song Biao's command can be regarded as a star-studded gathering, and only the lieutenants who graduated from the military non-commissioned officer school are Xiao Xingheng, Zhang Hongkui, Liu Gengyun, Gao Zenghui, Yi Jiayu, Zhang Xianren, Wu Shaolin, Wu Zuyin, Li Shirui, Duan Lanfang, Wang Tingzhen, Wu Luzhen, Hua Zhenji, Lu Jingyuan, Shan Qipeng, Zhang Shaozeng, Zhang Jun, and Xu Fangqian.

Generally based on Huguang and Zhili, these people's abilities and military knowledge are not very high, but in this era compared to others are still a step higher, Song Biao also spared no effort to recruit, compared to them in the Qing Army's military training halls, or in the standard as a commander, Song Biao will give them double salary, in his army directly as an officer general, no matter whether they come or not, they will first remit 500 silver yuan for travel expenses and settlement expenses.

For these people at this stage, five hundred silver yuan is a very large income, like Zhang Hongkui, Liu Gengyun, Duan Lanfang These people all have official positions in the Qing army, and at first they came to see the excitement, and after they arrived for a few days, they really decided to stay.

Song Biao's voice of a famous general has already spread all over Kyushu, as a soldier, who doesn't want to fight with such a powerful general? If they are all followed by a group of wretched, once there is a war, it will be a loss of heads.

Due to the special growth process of his troops, each regiment adopted a dual leadership system, with a regimental commander and an instructor, and a number of instructors, each instructor responsible for supervising the training of five or six companies.

Coupled with the influence of the Russian army, coupled with the operation of the crash course and training course for non-commissioned officers, Song Biao's troops are indeed rapidly turning to modern regularization, and at this rate of development for another year, even after the withdrawal of the Russian army, his unit has basically taken shape, and there is no problem in fighting all over China, even if it is to start a war with the Yue army again, there is not much difficulty.

When Song Biao held a regular military meeting, the generals and main lieutenants of each regiment and brigade must attend, and the conference room was full of more than 50 people, half of whom were Chinese and Russian, and the lineup of staff officers on both sides was also roughly the same.

The two staff offices were each responsible for distributing the summary of the meeting in Chinese and Russian, so that each general could roughly understand what Song Biao was going to say, and when everyone had read it, Song Biao put down the regular meeting materials prepared in his hand and said: "I have decided to open the Far Eastern Army Non-commissioned Officer School in Tanglingwei, and the first phase will open two classes, one is a advanced training class and one is an admission class. The first phase of the refresher course has a relatively large number of trainees, a total of 450 people, all of whom are young soldiers and low-level non-commissioned officers transferred from various companies, most of whom have studied in private schools for several years, and most of them are soldiers who we have recruited one after another before the Battle of Heigoutai and the Battle of Liaoyang. The admission class adopts the method of open admission in Northeast China, Zhili, Shandong, and Shanxi, and recruits 150 students in the first phase. The academic system of the advanced training course is one year, and the academic structure of the admission class is one and a half years, and at the same time, a six-month military officer probationary period is added. Prior to this, I had already discussed the specifics with Colonel Brusilov and the Deputy Chief of Staff of the Far Eastern Army, General Madenidov, who would serve as the first rector of the school for a term of three years. The main instructors are all senior instructors of the Russian army, and our army will send another 20 instructors to assist, and some Russian interpreters will also be arranged. That's the general situation, because of the shortage of manpower, so you basically have to participate in this program, and I hope you can understand the hard work. ”

Song Biao spoke first in Russian and then in Chinese, and then continued to emphasize to Jiang Yanxing and others: "All my colleagues in the Northeast New Army should work harder in this matter and must go all out. When preparing for the establishment of the Northeast New Army, I did not use the names of the Northeast Army and the Kwantung Army, but emphasized the word "new" precisely because I wanted to use this army as the hope of the Northeast and the hope of China. The new army organized by the imperial court in various places had various restrictions, and it failed to truly understand the spirit of modern national defense and military affairs, and even the form was negligent and simple, and all kinds of bad practices were rampant. Therefore, our military is where the hope of China's modern national defense lies, and I will do my best to invite you to come here precisely to invite you to join me in sharing weal and woe and working together for China's modern national defense. You are all people of insight, so it is natural that you will have to bear more heavy burdens, and I ask you to dedicate 200 percent of your energy to work hard for the destiny of the country. I know that there is a dispute between reformists and revolutionaries among you, but what I uphold is only the doctrine of benefiting the country, and whatever is truly beneficial to China is the path that we should adhere to, whether it is to reform or reform, all of which are to build a stronger China and to build a modern national defense force. ”

Jiang Yanxing and the others immediately said yes.

Song Biao almost copied the strict military discipline of the army on his side of the generals, and strengthened the spirit of the whole with extremely strict discipline.

Seeing that everyone had agreed with him, Song Biao continued to say the second thing, or first said in Russian to Colonel Brusilov and others: "The future of the 15th Army is to stay in the Northeast for a long time in a new way and maintain the situation in the Northeast, on the one hand, to ensure China's territorial integrity and resist the invasion and occupation of the Northeast territory by the Chinese Army with the support of Britain and the United States, and on the other hand, to ensure the interests of Russia. These two points are the reasons for you to continue to serve in our army, and considering the long term, I have planned to invest in the construction of a local arsenal in the future to produce firearms and ammunition and ensure self-sufficiency in military supplies. I have already negotiated with General Madenidov, and the Far Eastern Army has agreed to relocate the military factory in Changlingzi to the area near the China Eastern Railway in the area around Jinjiatun, Lieutenant Colonel Kornilov, you are most familiar with the Changlingzi military factory, and this matter will be entrusted to you, and the relocation work should be completed as soon as possible, and normal production should be resumed as soon as possible, including the purchase of new equipment and machine tools from France, and the hiring of more skilled workers and technicians from France and Russia, and it is best to make a perfect plan for this and submit it to me in the near future. ”

Lieutenant Colonel Kornilov replied with confidence: "There is no problem with this, I will complete this work as soon as possible, for the time being, we should first increase the production of shells and ammunition, make sure that we have enough ammunition, and then start with the production of rifles." It's just that how do we source gunpowder, steel, and copper that we need? ”

Song Biao said: "For the time being, we will import from abroad first, and then consider gradually opening various factories in the future." ”

Lieutenant Colonel Kornilov said: "Then I will first make an overall plan in this regard, and find a way to find more suitable personnel from Russia to prepare for the construction of various subsidiary factories." ”

Song Biao bowed slightly, and then instructed Jiang Fangzhen and others to step up their cooperation with the work of the Russian side, and with the expansion of the factory, it will eventually be run by the people of the headquarters, instead of relying on foreign countries all the time.

After that, Song Biao successively talked about several new topics, including the second construction of the barracks, cavalry training, and artillery training, because there was a lack of suitable artillery training sites in the Shenyang area, Song Biao planned to find a relatively open and remote place in Puhe Town and the area north of the Qipanshan area, and transfer the barracks of the artillery brigade to the past, where regular artillery training was conducted, and the cavalry training sites had already been decided to be set up in the area of Tuanshanzi and Changlingzi.

Song Biao has invested a lot of money in the second construction of the Tanglin Wei camp, and he also has a long-term plan to operate here, even if he may not necessarily become the governor of the three eastern provinces, but then what's the matter, he will still continue to maintain a strong military oppression in the Tanglin Wei.

If he eventually became the governor of the three eastern provinces, he would also move the governor's yamen to Tanglingwei, where he would set up the military and political center of the three eastern provinces.

For this reason, he purchased a large amount of land in the area of Tanglingwei, from Houlingqian Fort to Damiaozi and Sand and Gravel Yard, from Maguanqiao, Jinjiatun to Lingqian Fort, this large area of about 4 square kilometers of land was included in the Tanglingwei military camp.

Prior to this, it has been the garrison of the Eight Banners Battalion of the Qing Army, and there were more than 10,000 garrisons at the time of the total victory.

From Song Biao's return to Shenyang and his move to the Tanglin Guard, a new chapter in his life has begun.

(To be continued)