In the face of Zhao Dongyun's direct speech, Fang Biyong didn't hesitate too much, and after thinking about it for a while, he said: "Then the ministry will brazenly recommend a few people, of course, the candidates for the commanders of the 15th Division are naturally up to the president." ”

This sentence is very important, the right to appoint the commanders of various military departments has always been Zhao Dongyun's exclusive right, and this exclusive right is reflected in the general office, and other senior generals in the military actually do not have the power to appoint officers, even if it is the commander of an army like Meng Enyuan and the chief of staff like Fang Biyong, in fact, they do not have the power to directly appoint even a battalion commander.

The appointment of all officers in the Feng Army, from the army commander to the lowest-ranking platoon commander, was arranged by the Quanxu Division, and the senior generals at most used their influence to raise the position.

And the Quanxu Department, a very powerful department, has always been under the direct jurisdiction of Zhao Dongyun.

As for the appointment of senior generals above the rank of major general, it is decided by Zhao Dongyun personally, and no one can interfere.

Therefore, Fang Biyong said this sentence that made Zhao Dongyun arbitrary, not to compliment but to clarify that he was undoubtedly interfering in the appointment of senior military generals, he was just standing in the position of the chief of staff, and as Zhao Dongyun's senior military staff, he was just providing some advice.

Therefore, I only heard Fang Biyong continue: "Although the 15th Division has not yet become an army, it is expected to invest a lot of financial resources and elite officers in our army at present and in the future. For such an important department, the selection of its chief officer must be a person with deep qualifications and outstanding talents! ”

"From the point of view of the department, General He Zhonglian, commander of the 8th Division, and General Cao Kun, commander of the 11th Division, were also outstanding among the senior generals of our army. In addition, General Li Chun, commander of the 7th Mixed Brigade, was also senior and talented, and his outstanding talent in defensive warfare was fully demonstrated in the Tangshan Campaign. All three of them can shoulder the heavy responsibility of the commander of the 15th Division! ”

Zhao Dongyun listened to Fang Biyong's words, and he also secretly praised in his heart, this Fang Biyong's speech was more objective.

The three people he said were all Soviet generals with strong roots, Cao Kun and He Zonglian were the representatives of the Beiyang Shaozhuang faction a few years ago, and they were considered to be Soviet generals very early, otherwise they would not have been placed under house arrest by the Qing court for the first time after the three major Beiyang gangsters raised troops, and later He Zonglian escaped from Beijing on his own and arrived in the northeast, and Cao Kun was rescued by the intelligence department and then went to the northeast.

Li Chun was also friendly with Zhao Dongyun when he was in charge of the Beiyang Military and Political Division, and when Zhao Dongyun was in charge of Fengtian, he went to the northeast to defect to Zhao Dongyun, and took up the post of the third infantry standard commander of the Fengtian Second Mixed Association, and he was also an important early general of the Soviet system.

These three people are also considered senior and senior generals in the Soviet system, which can be seen from their current positions, He Zonglian served as the commander of the Eighth Division, Cao Kun served as the commander of the 11th Division, and Li Chun served as the commander of the Seventh Mixed Brigade, and their military ranks were all major 'general plus middle' generals. The status in the Feng army is slightly inferior to Gu Lanyu and Ren Cungao, but it is also far more than the ordinary junior generals.

As for the talents of these three people, in history, they are the top figures in the second echelon of the Beiyang warlords, and any one of the above three people is a big warlord who stomped his feet in the original time and space and had to shake in the political arena of the early Republic of China, and he was able to mix his head in the political arena of the late Qing Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty with many heroes, which is enough to prove their extraordinary talent. In addition, in the past year or so, they have followed the Feng army to the south, and they have also proved their outstanding military talents.

For example, this Li Chun, in history, he was extremely good at offensive operations, during the Xinhai Revolution and the Second Revolution, he led the Sixth Town to almost sweep through Hubei and Jiangxi, and there was no enemy wherever the soldiers pointed out, and he reached the peak of his military career in just two years.

It's just that in this time and space, although Li Chun's military talent is still outstanding, what makes him famous inside and outside the Soviet Union is not his offensive ability, but his defensive ability.

At the beginning of the Feng's army's entry into the customs last year, when the main force of the Fengjun army was still in Shanhaiguan and had not had time to rush to Tangshan, he led the Seventh Mixed Brigade to fight alone, and with 5,000 troops, he was stunned to block the attack of more than 30,000 direct troops, including Lu Yongxiang's First Division and Bao Guiqing's First Mixed Brigade, for many days, and successfully held Tangshan, a strategic location, and kept the Fuyuan Machinery Factory, which was a very important arsenal for the Soviet Union.

And this battle has also contributed to his reputation in defensive battles!

In the contemporary Feng army, if Gu Lanyu is the representative of the roundabout attack, and Ren Cungao is the representative of the frontal attack, then this Li Chun's reputation in defensive warfare is undoubtedly second to none, otherwise Zhao Dongyun would not have kept the Seventh Mixed Brigade in Jingshi Nanyuan.

Why?

Because after Zhao Dongyun entered the pass, the great powers had to send troops to intervene when they entered the pass, so in addition to sending troops from the northeast, they would send troops from Tianjin and then directly attack the Beijing Division, so Zhao Dongyun had to deploy considerable troops in Tianjin, Tangshan, and the Beijing Division to prepare for the unexpected, as much as possible to block any possible enemy attack, so as to wait for the northward rescue of the southbound department.

In particular, the troops stationed in the Beijing Division may not be good at attacking, but they must definitely be good at defense, because as long as they hold on, they can wait for the northbound rescue of the southbound department.

As a result, since Zhao Dongyun moved into Jingshi, this Seventh Mixed Brigade has been stationed in Jingshi Nanyuan, protecting the safety of the heart of Jingshi.

In addition to Li Chun, Cao Kun and He Zonglian are also talented people, and it is enough to serve as a 15th division.

In fact, there are not only these three of them, everyone in the Soviet system lacks high-end comprehensive military talents like Yang Deming, but there is no shortage of ordinary senior generals, looking at the contemporary Soviet generals, aside from those who surrendered to Lu Yongxiang, Bao Guiqing, Zhang Dianru, Liu Chaolu and others, they are simply the backbone generals of the Soviet system, and the so-called famous historical generals are a lot of them.

Cao Kun, He Zonglian, Li Chun, Meng Enyuan, Chen Guangyuan, Wu Peifu, etc. are all outstanding in the warlord era in the early Republic of China!

In addition to these people inherent in history, there are also a large number of middle and senior generals who did not wear their original names, or started with Zhao Dongyun in the early days, or were born in Fengtian Military Academy or studied in Germany or advanced training classes.

Although Gu Lanyu, Yang Deming, Ren Cungao, Liu Tinggui, Lin Pingxiong and others are not famous in the original time and space, they are all famous in contemporary China.

While gold shines wherever it goes, current events also make heroes!

While the famous generals in the original time and space shined, due to the addition of Zhao Dongyun, more outstanding generals emerged in this era than in the original time and space.

Not to mention in the Beiyang system, even in the Southern Federation, there are many outstanding generals, Liangbi, Tieliang, Yinchang, who were more famous in the original time and space, not to mention, Xiliang, who was originally just a civilian official, also became a military commander because of current events, maybe he would not be able to command the battle specifically, but he pulled out the Second Army of the Northern Expedition and created a few main forces in the Southern Federation such as the Tenth Town, and finally died because of defeat, making his influence much higher than that of the original time and space.

In the future, when historians talk about this civil war between the north and the south and study the rise and fall of the Beiyang and the Southern Federation, this person is a person who absolutely cannot be bypassed.

The same person is Zhao Erxun, although he is also a civilian official, but in the past two years, he has already become a general military commander, and in the Southern Federation, he is more similar to Xiliang, he is a civilian official to establish a base, and then command the army to fight with Beiyang, and forcibly create a 19th town, which is enough to compete with the main force of Beiyang.

In addition, there are Li Yuanhong, Shu Qinga, Xu Shaozhen, Qi Yun, Xiao Shixi and others.

Some of these people were originally historical celebrities, such as Li Yuanhong and Xu Shaozhen, and some of them also rose because of this north-south civil war, such as Shu Qing'a and Xiao Shixi.

It is worth mentioning Xiao Shixi, who is this person? This person was formerly the second standard of the Shaanxi Army Mixed Association of the Qing Dynasty. After the outbreak of the civil war between the north and the south, this person rose rapidly, successively served as the Shanxi Army Mixed Association Commander, and made a lot of meritorious contributions on the battlefield in Shanxi.

Then he took the 19th town in Shanxi and Wu Fengling for more than a year of warfare, although it was still said that there were still more defeats and fewer victories, but he stubbornly blocked Wu Fengling's offensive outside the Shaanxi Gate, and continued to harass the southern part of Shanxi, so that Wu Fengling did not want to march into the Shaanxi and Gansu regions, and has not been able to completely control Shanxi.

Although the 19th Town commanded by Xiao Shixi is said to be an overstaffed army, there are nearly 30,000 soldiers. However, it is undeniable that this ministry is the only unit among the hundreds of thousands of troops of the Southern Federation that has always dared to fight the main force of the old Beiyang.

Xiao Shixi's military exploits are outstanding, he can be called the first person in the Southern Federation, and his status in the Southern Federation is very similar to Gu Lanyu's status in the Feng Army.

In this era that has become unrecognizable from the original time and space, too many people rise and fall, dazzling outsiders!

Zhao Dongyun listened to the names of these three people, and already had his own decision in his heart, but there was no need to let Fang Biyong know about this decision for the time being, so he just nodded slightly, and then said: "Got it!" ”

Fang Biyong was not surprised that Zhao Dongyun did not make a decision on the spot, because the appointment of this kind of senior general had a great impact, and it was impossible for Zhao Dongyun to reveal anything to him in advance, it was not expensive As the 15th Division was about to become an army, the appointment of the commander of the 30th Brigade of the 15th Division would not be delayed for too long, and he believed that Zhao Dongyun would not make a decision in a short time.

A few days later, Zhao Dongyun recalled Cao Kun from Henan to report on his work, and after Cao Kun arrived in Beijing by train and interviewed Zhao Dongyun, the Quanxu Office officially announced that Cao Kun would be appointed as the first commander of the 15th Division.

At the same time, Li Xiangshao, the former director of the Strategic Division, was appointed as the commander of the 30th Brigade, and Colonel Zhang Chaocheng, a trainee of the class of 1906, was appointed as the first chief of staff of the 15th Division.

The division commander, chief of staff, and two brigade commanders represent that the command level of the 15th Division is in place, and the next thing is to wait for the army to fight south.