In September of the year of Kwai Mao, although the three eastern provinces and other northern regions maintained high temperatures during the day, the temperature at night dropped extremely quickly, and the autumn wind swept from the north yesterday night, so that the temperature in Jinzhou dropped several degrees out of thin air.

Zhao Dongyun, who got up early in the morning, had already put on his coat, looked at a few plants and trees in the window, and saw that they also seemed to feel the bleakness of the autumn wind, and a lot of yellow leaves were blown off, making the branches look a lot dryer.

As usual, after eating, Zhao Dongyun began to bury his head in his office to deal with camp affairs, and his office habit was to finish the work early in the morning, and then start meeting people, holding meetings, etc. But it won't happen every day, sometimes I approve a few documents in the morning, and then after meeting a few people, it often ends in less than an hour, and the rest of the time can be arranged separately.

Zhao Dongyun is not at the point where Yuan Shikai is in the end, the schedule is not full of affairs, although there are still many things that Zhao Dongyun needs to worry about, but he generally directly instructs his subordinates to do it, and he doesn't have to do it himself, so it is relatively easy in terms of time arrangement.

After finishing the day's routine affairs, Zhao Dongyun naturally didn't go to sleep or anything, but continued to write something in the study, and he was busy compiling a new type of infantry tactical drill during this time. Nowadays, the infantry drill code adopted by the Beiyang New Army is the infantry drill code edited by Feng Guozhang, but the tactical thinking of this infantry drill code is still stuck before the Gengzi year, with dense formation firepower as the core way, and this kind of tactical thinking is naturally far behind the world in Zhao Dongyun's view.

Although he has no right to change the training and discipline of the entire Beiyang Standing Army, he can't control how his Third Mixed Association trains others, and his Third Mixed Association has also added a large number of new infantry tactics to its training, but it is all fragmentary things, and the results of training have a great relationship with the commander-in-chief's understanding of new tactics.

Now Zhao Dongyun just wants to combine these bits and pieces to make a complete infantry tactical drill code, so that the officers under him can train step by step, otherwise he will not be able to go to the barracks to train those soldiers in person.

Looking here, everyone will find that Zhao Dongyun did not call the middle and low-level officers brothers and sisters like many of his predecessors, and even mixed around the barracks all day long to eat, live and train with the soldiers, those are the work of low-level officers, but not the work that senior officers should have.

As a senior general who controls seven or eight thousand troops, Zhao Dongyun no longer has the qualifications to be called brothers and sisters with low-level officers \ soldiers, those low-level officers in front of Zhao Dongyun, they don't even dare to breathe, and they will be extremely excited when they get Zhao Dongyun's praise, even if they are a historical general like Wu Peifu, they are all excited after getting Zhao Dongyun's words of 'do a good job, I am optimistic about you'.

Therefore, unlike many predecessors who worked tirelessly to train soldiers in person, and even lived with soldiers and ate together every day, Zhao Dongyun's travel life was still quite luxurious, and even degenerate.

Naturally, the new infantry drill code is not so easy to complete, he only writes a little bit a day, and he generally only focuses on the core thinking of the new tactics, and does not care about the details and bits and pieces, just let the group of officers below write and perfect it individually.

But when he was writing, he heard Li San's voice outside: "My lord, then Miss Li is here again!" ”

Because there is a word 'again' in Li San's words, the Miss Li family has nothing to do since that banquet and ran to the south courtyard, this South Courtyard said that it is not big, it is not small, but the Miss Li family is naturally able to find someone who is looking for someone, and at the beginning, the woman seemed to want to find him or something.

But Zhao Dongyun will take care of her there, so naturally he will send her with good words, turn around and leave.

Later, I knew from Zhao Dongping that the Li family seemed to be worried that Zhao Dongyun was dissatisfied with the Li family, and Zhao Dongyun smiled at this, he was not a little chicken belly person, although he watched a scene that made him sleepy at the Li family that night, but he would not blame the Li family like this.

As for saying that because Miss Li scolded him for being a fake foreign devil, he was only arrogant and arrogant, and he was not her father, so he naturally couldn't discipline other people's daughters.

Generally speaking, Zhao Dongyun was slightly dissatisfied, although he would not retaliate against those stingy, but it was impossible to help the Li family seek any shares in the Fuyuan Weaving Factory.

Li Wan seemed to want theories at first, and then it turned into a plea, although Zhao Dongyun didn't pay much attention to her in this process, but she came and went back and forth a lot, as if it had become a habit, and she ran to the south courtyard if she had nothing to do in the past month.

Zhao Dongyun put down his pen and said, "Let her in!" ”

Although Li Wan's temperament is very different from the so-called ladies, in Zhao Dongyun's eyes, she is just an ordinary girl, and there is nothing rebellious or anything like that, she is just a woman who has read too many books.

Just like those ancient ladies who like to watch the West Chamber, Qiong Yao dramas, and Korean dramas, she has nothing to do to read so many foreign books, and after the liberation of freedom and women's rights, she naturally fell into it and couldn't get out.

Zhao Dongyun mingles with a group of big men every day, and it feels good to occasionally talk to a young and beautiful girl, and occasionally talk about American romantic novels.

Busy with military affairs every day, worrying about the situation in the Northeast, he was worried about the Russo-Japanese War, and he occasionally needed some adjustments.

And when Zhao Dongyun and Li Wan chatted about Nathaniel 61 Hawthorne, Cuiyan Town, more than ten kilometers north of Jinzhou, ushered in a lively scene that it had never had before.

Cuiyan Town is located about 15 kilometers north of Jinzhou, of course, this is about the approximate straight-line distance, the specific distance is a lot farther, along the Xiaoling River all the way north about 20 kilometers, you can reach Cuiyan Town.

Because the terrain on both sides of the Xiaoling River is relatively gentle, the area from Jinzhou to Cuiyan has become a northern passage, and if there is an enemy who crosses the series of mountains in the north of Jinzhou, such as the area of Tongguò Laohugou, you can reach the gentle terrain area of Cuiyan Town, and cross the Xiaoling River along Lì, and then you can go all the way south to Jinzhou and the daughter township area on the outskirts of Jinzhou.

In a way, the area of Cuiyan Town is also a strategic support point for the northern defense line of Jinzhou, and its importance is comparable to that of Songshan Town in the south. And even if Zhao Dongyun didn't plan to strictly defend Jinzhou, he still had the necessary military deployment, so he sent a group of troops to the Cuiyan area.

At the beginning, there were not many of them, only two cavalry teams and one infantry team were stationed, and the places where they were stationed were not all in Cuiyan Town, but in the east of Dasheng Fort, and Dasheng Fort was an important tactical support point for the tiger communication route in the northern mountains of Jinzhou.

In a five-kilometer radius of Cuiyan Town, it is actually not enough to station only one infantry team and two cavalry teams, but considering that Zhao Dongyun did not regard this place as a strategic defense line to defend to the death, he just acted as a guard to prevent the enemy's sneak attack, and he could retreat calmly in case of unfavorable battles.

However, since the end of August, the garrison in the area of Cuiyan Town has begun to increase, and the increase is cavalry troops, and by now, Cuiyan Town has gathered two cavalry battalions, an infantry battalion, a machine gun team, and a mortar team.

In the temporary marking office of the third cavalry target, the middle and senior officers of the third cavalry standard sat together, not only them, but also several infantry officers and Zhao Dongping, the section chief of the ordnance section.

As the highest official rank of all the people here, and also the supreme commander of the suppression of bandits in northern Jinzhou, Meng Enyuan naturally deserved to sit at the top.

"Before coming, you have all listened to the lecture of the commander, everyone understands what we are going to do in the north this time, we are going to suppress the bandits this time, the main purpose is to return the people to a good situation, and the secondary purpose is to train the troops!" Meng Enyuan continued: "Everyone knows the purpose, but how to do it properly must be carefully considered!" ”

Meng Enyuan still has a purpose that he hasn't said, that is, one of the main purposes of their suppression of bandits is to seize the bandits, otherwise Zhao Dongping, the head of the ordnance section, would not appear here, he is here to prepare to accept the seized property. Everyone knows this purpose, but there is no need to say it on an occasion like today.

Hua Zhenji, the commander of the first battalion of the third standard of the cavalry, spoke first: "Before I came, the commander told me that most of the bandits in the Northeast are cavalry bandits, and they come and go without a trace, so to exterminate them, the most important thing is to collect their intelligence, find their lair, and then destroy them in one go!" ”

Hua Zhenji, as an officer of Zhao Dongyun's descendants, was personally mentioned by Zhao Dongyun before he set off, telling him that the most important thing in this bandit is not how to fight, but how to find out.

I'm afraid this is not easy, the third mixed association is a guest army in the end, and it has only been three months since they came to Jinzhou, although they have also collected some information about bandits, but they are all information that can be collected publicly, which can only give them a general understanding of the bandits in the Northeast, and the early attention is generally focused on those big bandits, such as Feng Delin, Du Lisan, but they don't care much about those small and medium-sized bandits.

In order to solve the situation of being unfamiliar with the local people, Zhao Dongyun specially transferred several officers who were familiar with the local conditions of the people in Jinzhou, and not only that, but he also transferred two teams from the Jinzhou patrol battalion who were familiar with the local conditions to act as guides, so as not to turn headlong into the mountains and not be able to get out.

If the background is changed to the period of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, then the Beiyang New Army in this unit that is ready to suppress bandits is undoubtedly the Japanese Imperial Army, and the Jinzhou Patrol Battalion is the Imperial Army.

Naturally, these more than 1,000 people will not stay in Cuiyan Town all the time and have nothing to do, and soon after the preliminary rectification arrangements, Meng Enyuan sent several troops to the north at the same time to pounce on the many bandits in the north of Jinzhou.