Chapter 103 The march is difficult

Wang Maoru wanted to drive his Great Wall Haval H3 off-road vehicle at this time and lead the army all the way to the east, but this car was much more than the cars of this era. As a last resort, Wang Maoru could only leave the car in the cave and lead the team forward on a tall horse. It's just that after a few days of horseback riding, his ass can't stand it anymore, and he misses his dirt bike very much. Luckily, they had ten American Ford trucks carrying ordnance and quartermasters, and they were marching faster.

Five days later, the whole army arrived in Luan County, and then boarded the Jingfeng Railway train of the Ministry of Communications. Fortunately, the War Department communicated well with the Ministry of Communications, and overnight dispatched additional train locomotives and carriages, which were loaded by three trains, and were taken in three batches, the first batch of cavalry battalions, baggage brigades, engineer brigades, and people arrived at Shanhaiguan first, the second group was composed of the second infantry battalion, the third infantry battalion and the military police brigade, and the third group was composed of the headquarters and the first infantry battalion. The whole march took a day and a night to complete, and the train speed of this era was extremely slow, and it took a day to travel from Luan County to Shanhaiguan.

Arrived at Shanhaiguan, the army took a break, because the purchased arms and armaments had arrived in advance and sent to Shanhaiguan, the whole army also accepted here, at this time Wang Maoru's men had a total of eight 75 Japanese-style Krupp field guns and 3,000 shells, 5,000 E1 fire bead rifles, and nearly 3 million rifles for rifle bullets. And ordered black military winter clothes were also distributed to the soldiers. No one is a black winter military uniform, a black tweed trench coat, a pair of quilts, two pairs of cotton boots, a black pointed cotton hat, cotton ears hanging on both sides, a cockade inlaid with five-colored stars, and a pair of cotton gloves. This set weighed 20 kilograms, plus 30 kilograms of individual equipment on their bodies, and the soldiers were simply overwhelmed. So everyone got on the train and didn't have to carry these things all the time.

After Shanhaiguan is the territory of the Feng army, and now stationed in Shanhaiguan is a battalion of Feng Delin's 28th Division, the battalion commander is called Dai Maoshen, who is also an old-fashioned officer who fought the Russians with Feng Delin in the early years.

Wang Maoru knew that in this place in the northeast, the Feng army could not be lazy, so he took his men to visit Dai Maoshen, and the battalion commander Dai got the notice, knowing that they were going to Hulunbuir, sighed, and said: "If you go like this, you will definitely die." Wang Maoru could only be strange, Dai Maoshen said: "This is going north, bandits are rampant along the way, and the outside of the gate is not as good as the inside of the gate, and there are beards everywhere." ”

"Brother Dai will give me some construction, right?" Wang Maoru said, handing over a check.

Dai Maoshen couldn't read, and the secretary next to him looked at it and whispered in his ear that it was a check for 1,000 yen, which could be exchanged at the Bank of Japan. Dai Maoshen said seriously: "The customs are sparsely populated, and you can't see a single person in ten miles and eight villages, and a few horse bandits can give you a headache to death." There are few of you, and a large group of bandits are greedy, and there are many of them, and you must match the horses. ”

"Brother Dai is asking me to recruit here?" Wang Maoru asked.

"Well, if you don't buy a horse, it's not certain whether you can go to Longjiang Mansion or not. But if you really want to go, it's not impossible. Dai Maoshen smiled in a low voice, retreated from his side, and said: "My brother is looking for the Japanese, cooperate with the Japanese, and let the Japanese train carry you north, and they can at least send you to Changchun." Further north is the Russian railway, and the Japanese can't help you anymore. It's just that this Japanese can carry ordinary Chinese, and has never carried Chinese soldiers, if you can have a good relationship with the Japanese, you can enjoy it, brother. ”

Wang Maoru said regretfully: "I'm not familiar with the Japanese, can Brother Dai introduce me?" ”

Dai Maoshen looked like I was very familiar with the Japanese, and patted his chest to promise to introduce the Japanese. After some exchanges with Dai Maoshen, the army of the Hulunbuir escort envoy took a day and a night at Shanhaiguan to rest, and then called other stations to ask the brothers of the 28th Division to give convenience, and the others naturally agreed, which also saved Wang Maoru the pain of being embarrassed along the road.

After Wang Maoru joined He Rufei and others, he was given the task of accompanying Dai Maokun to drink, and poured down Dai Maokun's Fengjun officers, and the commanders of the two armies enjoyed themselves. However, he received a telegram from Pu Ji, saying that the rich dragon robe and the ceremony of sealing Zen for Yuan Shikai to be the emperor cost 100,000 taels of silver, and now there is no land, Yuan Naikuan asked him to turn his fate, and he also repaid it with benefits. Pu Ji inquired in every way, only to learn that Yuan Shikai became more and more suspicious, and he did not trust Duan Qirui, Feng Guozhang, Cao Kun and others, but some reserve compatriots rewarded them, if they did well this time, they might give a Beiyang Army a sequence. Wang Maoru didn't care about the money, so he asked Pu Ji to take 200,000 taels from Ma Xiaoshui and dedicate it to Yuan Shikai for the cost of making dragon robes and sealing Zen, of which 50,000 taels were given to Yuan Naikuan, the director of the Emperor's Planning Office who was in charge of making dragon robes.

This Yuan Naikuan Zheng had previously received the benefits of Wang Maoru, but the cost of the Feng Chan ceremony was not a little more, and he also had a headache where to raise the cost of making a dragon robe, so he borrowed money from Liang Shiyi, but Liang Shiyi's Ministry of Communications did not dare to blatantly take money to Yuan Shikai to make a dragon robe, and it was not easy to make this batch of money, so he turned his fate everywhere.

It happened that Wang Maoru's money arrived, Yuan Shikai was very happy after hearing it, and Yuan Naikuan helped Wang Maoru say good things, asking for a formal army establishment, otherwise it would chill the loyalty of his subordinates. Yuan Shikai said that he needed to think about it a little, although under the encouragement of Yang Du and others, Yuan Shikai was not dizzy.

After the first year of the Republic of China, the Ministry of War announced the restructuring of the whole army, and the official establishment of the army was a total of 15 divisions, 16 mixed brigades plus 10 border defense brigades, and the rest of the provincial garrisons and the old patrol battalions. In addition to the fact that the local troops in the south did not listen to the propaganda, the patrol battalions of the old army in various places were also a major threat to Yuan Shikai. Because there were always a small number of officers loyal to the former Qing Dynasty who were thinking about restoration at any time, among which the patrol battalions were the most numerous, Yuan Shikai had to be careful about these large patrol battalions. So after thinking about it, Yuan Shikai gave the number of the 17th mixed brigade to Wang Maoru, who had made meritorious contributions to the dragon robe, and appointed him as the commander of the Hulunbuir garrison in Heilongjiang Province.

Due to the establishment of the 17th Mixed Brigade of the Central Army, Wang Maoru's army was independent of the jurisdiction of Lieutenant General Xu Lanzhou of the Heilongjiang Army Division from now on, nor was it under the jurisdiction of Zhu Qinglan, the overseer of Heilongjiang.

At this time, in the political arena of Heilongjiang, there is also a stalemate. Although the nominally Heilongjiang overseer is Zhu Qinglan, the province's army is in the hands of Xu Lanzhou, the lieutenant general of the Heilongjiang Army Division, who controls the Heilongjiang First Infantry Brigade, the Second Infantry Brigade and the Third Cavalry Brigade, the Fourth Cavalry Brigade, the Independent Cavalry Brigade, the infantry brigade commanders are Chen Fugui and Ren Guodong, and the cavalry brigade commanders are Ba Ying'e, Zhao Bufang and Yingshun.

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