When all the officers saw Zhao Dongyun come out, they all stopped talking to each other, and then looked at Zhao Dongyun in unison!

Zhao Dongyun spoke first: "Let you wait for a long time!" ”

Chen Guangyuan, who had the highest rank and highest status among the group of officers below, naturally spoke on behalf of the generals: "My lord has every opportunity, and it is natural that I should wait!" ”

Zhao Dongyun glanced at Chen Guangyuan, and felt that this person has become more and more interesting recently, looking at Chen Guangyuan's current appearance, who would have thought that a few months ago this person was still his sworn enemy, fighting-for-tat with himself everywhere, and now he is completely a deferential subordinate appearance, alas, this person, it can change so fast.

But then again, in the face of the attraction of power, who can truly maintain themselves?

I think that Zhao Dongyun wanted to seek the actual position of Zuozhen of the Beiyang Standing Army, but he lowered his face to ask Duan Qirui, and at the beginning, he not only found Duan Qirui, Zhao Dongyun also visited Feng Guozhang, Wang Shizhen and many others, and I don't know if I still remember the respectful look of Zhao Dongyun when he faced them?

But now, it has become a deliberate compliment on him by others, and the absurdity of the changes in the world is nothing more than that.

When Zhao Dongyun and Chen Guangyuan were talking, it was naturally difficult for others to speak indiscriminately, and even Lin Yongquan was not easy to speak at will. The distinction between the upper and lower in the army is too strict, although Lin Yongquan is trusted and reused by Zhao Dongyun, and he actually has a lot of power to control the recruitment and training of recruits, but compared with Chen Guangyuan, a decent standard, he is still too inferior, and he said that it was okay in private, but on the occasion of today's many generals, he recklessly stepped forward to interject, that is, regardless of respect and inferiority, even Zhao Dongyun was not good at defending him.

In the final analysis, there are only three people who can be called high-level officers in the Third Mixed Association, one is Zhao Dongyun, the other is Chen Guangyuan, and the other is Meng Enyuan, who went to Jinzhou City today and is not here, and the other Lin Yongquan and his ilk, no matter how much real power they control, are at most middle-level officers.

Zhao Dongyun didn't waste time chatting with everyone in the courtyard, but said directly: "I see that everyone is here!" After that, he set his eyes on Liu Tinggui, the commander of the third battalion of the artillery team: "Are the artillery teams ready?" ”

Liu Tinggui is different from many old Beiyang descendants present, he is not from a small station training, but from the old Huai Army, Gengzi served as the former military artillery battalion of Wuwei, after Gengzi year, the former army of Wuwei was almost wiped out, and he also became a general of the defeated army, but he has a good interpersonal relationship, plus he is an artillery officer.

After the Gengzi year, the Beiyang New Army was greatly expanded, and the demand for technical officers increased greatly, especially the Huai Army officers in the artillery and cavalry, Beiyang itself did not train enough, and in order to meet the needs of the expansion of the army, it also recruited from the old army on a large scale, so Liu Tinggui had the opportunity to enter the Beiyang New Army, and at first served in Zuozhen, the Beiyang Standing Army.

After the establishment of the Third Association under Zhao Dongyun, at the beginning of 1903, Yuan Shikai asked Zhao Dongyun to train an artillery battalion, and most of the backbone of this artillery battalion at that time were transferred from the Wuwei Right Army and the Standing Army Zuozhen.

This person is not from the Beiyang lineage, he belongs to a grassroots officer with no faction and no foundation in the Beiyang New Army, but such a person is relatively easy for Zhao Dongyun, this person is also good at artillery skills, and more importantly, he has no back, no back, no back, Zhao Dongyun is simple and convenient to woo.

In the face of Zhao Dongyun's wooing, Liu Tinggui naturally did not know what to do, and hurriedly expressed his loyalty and hugged his thighs, so that Liu Tinggui could be regarded as one of the generals under Zhao Dongyun.

Facing Zhao Dongyun's question, Liu Tinggui said respectfully: "The brothers of our artillery team are all ready, waiting for the inspection of the adults at any time!" ”

Zhao Dongyun looked at Chen Guangyuan again after hearing this: "Is the infantry battalion ready to cooperate with the drill?" ”

Chen Guangyuan said: "The infantry teams of the two teams that cooperated with the drill have also been prepared!" ”

Zhao Dongyun nodded after hearing this: "Since you are ready, don't let the brothers in front of you wait, let's go!" ”

After that, this group of officers walked out of the small courtyard gate one after another, and then bypassed the offices of many departments and entered the front yard of the south courtyard, where Hong Putao was already waiting with a group of soldiers of the escort team.

Immediately, Zhao Dongyun took the reins handed over by Li San and turned over to the horse, and many of the officers and guards who accompanied him also turned over and got on their horses together, and then a group of dozens of horses trotted out of the Li manor.

Zhao Dongyun didn't know that when he took people out of the South Courtyard to inspect the artillery camp, Li Wan also happened to take her little maid to the South Courtyard, and just saw Zhao Dongyun turn over and leave, so that Li Wan, who wanted to find Zhao Dongyun's theory, stomped her feet angrily, but the little girl was tender in the end, and she didn't dare to shout in front of the public, so she could only watch Zhao Dongyun leave.

"Miss, where are we going now?" The little maid knew that her young lady was coming to Zhao Dongyun, but that person had already left, so they couldn't stay in the South Courtyard all the time!

"You can still go there, go back!" Li Wan muttered angrily!

Zhao Dongyun naturally didn't know about Li Wan's movements, he led people to ride horses and trot all the way, and then arrived at the temporary station of the third battalion of the third mixed artillery team.

The third battalion of the artillery team was originally deployed to the Daling Mountain in the south of Jinzhou City, which happened to be located between Songshan Town and Daughter Township, and could provide artillery cover for the defenders of the Xiaoling River and the Daughter River valley to the north, and to the southeast it could provide artillery cover for the front line of Songshan Town, so although this mountain is not high, it is also a small high ground, and it is more suitable for deploying artillery.

However, this hill is also a mountain, and the urban area of Jinzhou is far from extending to this side in recent years, so although it is said to be a suburb of the city, it is actually a barren mountain and a wild ridge, and it is not easy to build a perfect artillery garrison on it.

In addition, the artillery of the 3rd Mixed Association is also small, and it is impossible to deploy all of them in one place, and it will have to be used in other places, in case there is an urgent need for artillery support from other directions, especially in the north, it will not be easy to handle.

Therefore, Zhao Dongyun scattered the artillery deployment, in addition to deploying an artillery team on Daling Mountain, the remaining two teams were also deployed in Daughter River Township, together with the main force of the base camp of the Third Mixed Association.

Although the overall width of the defense has reached 15 kilometers, in fact, the troops are not scattered, mainly concentrated in Songshan Town and Daughter Township, and the rest of the places such as Jinzhou City and the northern part of Daughter Township actually do not have many troops, only a small number of alert troops, and the more peripheral areas mainly rely on cavalry patrols and vigilance to maintain.

This is also related to the scarcity of the third mixed alliance, this force is already small, it is naturally impossible to continue to disperse the troops, only by concentrating on the use can we avoid falling into a place of no return, the kind of general who sees good terrain and is not willing to give up anywhere is not a good general.

Therefore, Zhao Dongyun will directly abandon all the areas east of the Xiaoling River, and even the strategic places such as the Big and Small Bauhinia Mountains, and in the deployment of the defense line west of the Xiaoling River, he did not say that a long defense line would be deployed, but chose several tactical points to deploy the defense line, in order to obtain a local superiority in troops, and use heavy machine guns to kill and injure the enemy.

When Zhao Dongyun arrived in Jinzhou, on the one hand, he asked the troops to dig fortifications and fortifications, while on the other hand, he continued to step up the training progress of the troops!

Although it has been a few days since the Third Mixed Association formed the Army, because it takes time to recruit and train new recruits, in fact, until the Third Mixed Association came to Jinzhou from Baoding, it has not been able to achieve the state of full strength of the whole army, especially the newly established baggage, engineering, artillery, and other units, not to mention the lack of soldiers, and all of them are recruits who have not undergone much training.

To put it bluntly, the current Third Mixed Association is a unit composed of a group of recruits, and the reason why it can still be deployed in Jinzhou decently without any major chaos is completely dependent on the support of a large number of old Beiyang officers in the army.

That is to say, the officers of the Third Mixed Association have passed the test, and there are also technical backbones, but ordinary soldiers are all new recruits, and they don't have enough time to train them to shoot and shoot.

Based on this situation, since the Third Mixed Association arrived in Jinzhou, digging fortifications and deploying defenses is one thing, but Zhao Dongyun pays more attention to the regular training of the troops, and the regular training will also be interspersed with some coordinated training between the arms.

Today's inspection is like this, the artillery unit and the infantry unit carry out coordinated training together, Zhao Dongyun would not come to see this kind of coordinated training in normal times, but the third battalion of this artillery unit is less than two months old and has been counted as an army for less than two months, and it is an artillery that was only accepted before coming to Jinzhou, and Zhao Dongyun is also a little worried about the training state of this artillery unit, so he came to inspect the drill of infantry and artillery coordinated operations today.

Hearing that Zhao Dongyun was coming to inspect, the officers below naturally did not dare to slack off, and Liu Tinggui, the commander of the artillery battalion, personally went into battle to prepare, not to mention, even Chen Guangyuan paid close attention, and transferred two infantry teams from the second battalion, which was the best trained in the ninth standard, to participate in the coordinated exercise.

The troops participating in the co-exercise had already left the base camp in advance and went to the training ground to get ready, and Zhao Dongyun and others also went straight to the training ground, and when the horses under their crotch began to pant for breath, everyone also arrived at the training ground.

Everyone waited for a temporary wooden platform, and after Zhao Dongyun nodded to Chen Guangyuan that the drill could begin, the troops who had been preparing for a long time also conducted the drill.

Today's drill is not too strict, let alone a live-fire exercise, the preparation is relatively simple, and there is not much nonsense or anything like that.

With an order, the 12 75-mm field guns participating in the exercise were already firing in unison, although the training shells fired, but still made the entire artillery position thick with gunsmoke, and according to the firing speed of the training shells, the frequency can easily know what the training level of this artillery unit is in peacetime.

Zhao Dongyun listened to the sound of shelling while looking at his pocket watch, and then frowned, this calculation, the rate of fire of each gun, not to mention three rounds per minute that reached the design standard, is now less than two rounds.