With the arrival of August, the Jingshi became even more stuffy, and Zhao Dongyun was sitting in his study in the Juren Hall, writing with a pen, and he was making the final revision of the 'total war theory' he had compiled in recent years.

Zhao Dongyun's identity in the hearts of many Chinese people may be the Beiyang tycoon, one of the major political giants in China today, but he also has another identity, that is, a military strategist.

In fact, his personal image in the international arena is not that he is famous as a politician, but as a military strategist, especially the theory of trench defense put forward before the Russo-Japanese War has made him famous in the international military circles, and it is unceremonious to say that the army building plan of the armies of contemporary countries is carried out in full accordance with Zhao Dongyun's 'trench theory', and many army schools in Japan, Germany, and even Britain regard Zhao Dongyun's trench theory as the most cutting-edge theoretical teaching material.

Many military generals in the world called Zhao Dongyun 'the Napoleon of the East'.

Zhao Dongyun's trench theory is called the most outstanding war theory in military circles in the past 50 years.

Although Zhao Dong rarely commanded troops personally, and to be honest, his ability to personally command troops was not very good, but his military theoretical level was solid, and many theories were ahead of his time.

Beginning last year, Zhao Dongyun began to squeeze out spare time to compile his latest military theoretical work, the 'Theory of Total Warfare,' and although in a certain way, contemporary China does not yet have the conditions for implementing total warfare, this does not affect Zhao Dongyun from proposing and implementing this theory.

Putting down the pen, Zhao Dongyun looked at this book of general war theories that he had written for more than a year!

"It seems that it can almost be used for preliminary study at the Army University!" Zhao Dongyun came up with so many war theories, naturally not for the sake of international fame, but for the fundamental purpose of allowing the generals of the Fengjun Army to come into contact with the latest war theories and improve their command level.

After the Army University, that is, the original advanced course of the Army Military Academy of the three eastern provinces, entered the Beijing Division, Zhao Dongyun merged the Baoding Military Academy and the Fengtian Military Academy to establish the Army Military Academy according to the establishment of the Ministry of Education of the General Headquarters, and established the Army University on the basis of the advanced training class.

The Army Military Academy is based on the Fengtian Military Academy, and the Baoding School is on the site of the Army University.

After the establishment of this army university, the scale is still relatively small, and there are currently more than 100 students, that is, the original 06 and 07 advanced students.

However, although the sparrow is small, it has all kinds of organs, and basically the courses taught by the army university and the Berlin Military Academy in Germany will also be offered by the army university, of course, limited by the scarcity of teachers and the number of teachers, this education level naturally cannot be compared with the famous military schools in the world, but in any case, this is finally the first higher military academy in China's history.

Just as Zhao Dongyun was looking at the book, there was a knock on the door outside, and at the same time, Li San's voice came in: "President, the generals of the headquarters are already waiting in the conference room!" ”

Zhao Dongyun got up at this time, and then went out: "Everyone has arrived?" ”

"Well, Chief Fang of the General Staff Department, Chief Yang of the Ministry of Education, and Chief Zhao of the Ordnance Department have all arrived!" Li San said as he kept up with Zhao Dongyun's pace.

After Zhao Dongyun became president, he directly changed the original Presidential Office Secretariat as a whole, and its functions remained unchanged, with one director of the Secretariat, four first-class secretaries, twelve second-class secretaries, and dozens of third-class secretaries.

It can be said that with Zhao Dongyun having more and more official affairs to deal with, this secretariat is also getting bigger and bigger, if it weren't for these dozens of secretaries to help Zhao Dongyun share government affairs, it is estimated that Zhao Dongyun would not be able to be busy for forty-eight hours a day.

In addition to the Secretariat, the Presidential Office also has a number of other institutions, such as the Inspectorate of Justice, the Legislative Office, the Advisory Office, and so on, which are the many internal institutions that form the Presidential Office.

One of the main reasons why Zhao Dongyun has set up so many internal organs in the presidential palace is that he does not want to be a fictitious president, although it is not good for him to openly change the constitution and change the responsible cabinet system to a presidential system, but he can also use various ways to weaken the power of the cabinet and then enhance the power of the presidential office.

The addition of a deputy prime minister is a very clear signal!

It didn't take long for Zhao Dongyun to walk into the conference room, and there were already several senior generals of the Feng Army waiting in it!

Among them, Fang Biyong, chief of the General Staff Department, sat in the first place on the left, followed by Yang Deming, director of the Operations Division, and then Zhao Dongping, chief of the Ordnance Department, who was the first on the right, followed by Yang Shande of the Ministry of Education, and several other people.

After sitting down, Zhao Dongyun glanced at Fang Biyong: "Let's start!" ”

Fang Biyong, who was accustomed to Zhao Dongyun not liking too much nonsense, immediately spoke: "According to the president's instructions, the General Staff Department has carried out a large-scale reorganization and expansion of our army's existing units in the past half month.

At present, the reorganization of the 11th Division has been preliminarily completed, and the soldiers are mainly Toucheng soldiers, and at the same time, more than 200 low-ranking officers have been urgently deployed by the Fengtian Military Academy. At present, it is reorganized into three infantry regiments, a baggage battalion, an engineering battalion, a cavalry battalion, and an artillery battalion. However, due to the tight supply of rifles made by our army, at present, the department, like the first division and the first mixed brigade, continues to use Japanese-style weapons and equipment, in addition to the shortage of machine guns, at present the division only has 24 French-made and Japanese-made Hatchkaisi 6.5-mm heavy machine guns, only 36 light machine guns, more than 40 mortars of various calibers, 12 Japanese-made 30-year-old artillery field guns, and 6 31-year-old mountain artillery! ”

"After the emergency expansion of the 13th Division, it has now been organized into four infantry regiments, one imported German-style field artillery battalion, and one Fuzai Mountain Artillery Battalion, with heavy machine guns and mortars initially at full strength, but there are only more than 80 light machine guns, and there are only two companies of cavalry units at present."

"The expansion of the infantry units of the 9th and 10th Mixed Brigades is relatively smooth, and they are initially full, but the artillery units are currently lacking, and there are fewer light and heavy machine guns and mortars!"

After Fang Biyong said the general situation, Zhao Dongyun's eyes fell on Yang Shande, as the head of the Ministry of Education, Yang Shande, who was fully responsible for the recruitment and training of recruits, immediately said: "In terms of soldiers, our problem is still not big, in the past two months, we have recruited a total of more than 40,000 recruits, and more than 20,000 people have been assigned to various units, and it is expected that there will be more than 20,000 recruits who can be assigned to various units in the month!" ”

In the process of expanding the Feng army, in fact, there have not been too many problems with the source of soldiers, and there are more people who want to be soldiers to eat well this year, although it is impossible to be as carefully selected as the Beiyang Standing Army era, but after slightly lowering the requirements, it is still easy to recruit enough soldiers.

And the biggest obstacle to the expansion of the army of the warlords in the country is ordnance, especially heavy weapons!

Zhao Dongping, who was in charge of the supply of weapons, said: "In terms of armament, we still have a very large gap at present, and if we want to fully complete all divisions and brigades, we still need at least 100 divisional 75-millimeter guns, more than 500 mortars, at least 200 heavy machine guns, and more than 1,000 light machine guns.

At present, the main source of our army's ordnance is the Fu Factory, although the Fu Factory has recently accelerated its production capacity, and the Shenyang branch has also begun to put into small-scale production, but the production capacity is still difficult to meet the needs of our army, especially in terms of artillery and machine guns!

In order to solve this problem, our Ordnance Department has negotiated with a number of foreign firms to purchase them, and has now ordered 32 75-mm field guns of the 1905 model, 100 heavy machine guns, and 20 million rounds of 79-round rounds from the German Krupp factory!

He also ordered 32 31-year field guns, 16 new 38-year-old 75-mm field guns, 12 38-year-old 100-mm cannons, and 5 million Japanese 6.5-mm bullets! ”

At present, the main production capacity of the Fuyuan Machinery Factory is Fuzao Type 88 rifles, artillery shells and bullets, which are used to support a large amount of ammunition consumption in the front-line operations of the Feng Army. Although the output of light and heavy machine guns and mortars is there, it is still not large, and it can only be said that it is barely enough, at least in a short period of time, it will not be possible to make the Feng army full in a short time.

However, compared with machine guns and mortars, artillery is more tragic, at the beginning of the year, Fuyuan Machinery Qì Factory has successfully copied the 1903 model 75 mm field gun, becoming the second arsenal that can produce long-barreled field guns after the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau, but because it has just been imitated successfully, this output is naturally extremely limited, and the monthly output is only a few, and the demand for 75 mm field guns in the Feng Army is greater than the demand for 75 mm mountain guns, and the gap is hundreds. If you build it slowly, you don't know that it will take the year of the monkey to make the troops full, so there is no choice but to continue to import, and even in order to quickly obtain these field guns, not only German goods are imported, but even the old 31-year-old field guns in Japan are also purchased on a large scale.

For the urgent demand for field artillery, Fengjun doesn't care about the performance, regardless of whether he is a German or Japanese product, as long as it is a gun, anyway, the second-hand 31-year-old field gun dumped by the Japanese himself is also very cheap, only a few thousand taels, and a German product costs tens of thousands, even domestic, Fuyuan produced the 1907 type 75 mm field gun also has to be tens of thousands of Fengyuan.

As for the larger caliber cannons, the artillery officers of the Feng Army were quite satisfied with the last batch of 100-mm cannons imported from Germany, so they ordered six more to Germany.