According to the general concept, auxiliary troops, such as artillery battalions, machine gun teams, baggage battalions, and engineering battalions, do not have independent combat capabilities, because under normal circumstances, these units are only equipped with exclusive weapons or technical equipment, such as artillery artillery, machine guns of machine gun teams, carriages of baggage battalions, and boats and bridges of engineering battalions.

However, this situation is not applicable to the new army at the end of the Qing Dynasty, and the artillery is relatively normal, but the baggage battalion and the engineering battalion are often not simple auxiliary troops, but combat units where the soldiers are equipped with rifles.

Historically, the New Army in the late Qing Dynasty, including the New Army in the southern provinces and the Beiyang New Army, had a large number of auxiliary units engaged in regular infantry warfare, and the officers often regarded the baggage battalion and the engineering battalion as the main combat force.

Let's not talk about whether this situation is good or not, but when Zhao Dongyun first established the machine gun battalion, because the number of machine guns was not large, in order to train more machine gunners to prepare for future expansion, it was often two groups of personnel sharing a machine gun, according to the normal establishment, a machine gun battalion with 24 machine guns was at most more than 200 people, not more than 300, but a machine gun battalion made by Zhao Dongyun had more than 500 people, and the number had almost doubled.

This kind of establishment is actually a training formation, and it is not beneficial for combat!

This situation was continued when the subsequent expansion into three machine-gun battalions, and the subsequent three machine-gun battalions all had a situation of overstaffing, and the extra personnel were not only reserve ammunition men and machine gunners, but also shouldered logistical tasks and carried rifles.

If this is calculated, there are more than 300 people in this machine gun battalion equipped with rifles.

This abnormal phenomenon naturally cannot be sustained, and Zhao Dongyun had already submitted a new type of machine gun battalion to Yuan Shikai when he disbanded the newly built machine gun battalion.

Zhao Dongyun can't control how the other machine gun battalions implement the new establishment now, but the second battalion of the machine gun team under his command will be reduced, and then the extra personnel will be enriched into the infantry unit of the Third Association.

It's just that this work hasn't been completed yet, and there is a rebellion on the side of Su Yi's pro-army!

Well, this rebellion actually only existed in Li Yong's mouth, and it didn't actually happen, but this is not much difference for Zhao Dongyun!

Because Zhao Dongyun's job is not to prevent mutiny or suppress mutiny, his task is to remove the damn Su Yi pro-army, originally he was thinking about what method to use to carry it out, but now it's good, Su Yi's pro-army directly gave him a good reason!

So now he doesn't care if it's true or not, and just takes this opportunity to reorganize Su Yi's pro-army.

After arriving at the temporary camp of Su Yi's pro-army, Zhao Dongyun immediately asked the soldiers to block the entrances and exits, and then sent people to arrest Chen Dahai and other major military attachés, and then things were not too complicated, when Zhao Dongyun's pro-army arrested several main military attaches of Su Yi's pro-army who were still asleep, the soldiers in Su Yi's pro-army did not know what was going on.

Looking at the military attaches in front of him, Zhao Dongyun said expressionlessly: "Take everyone away!" ”

Those military attaches are also officials of the imperial court, and they are only plotting to plan a mutiny, and there is no armed resistance during the entire arrest process, so Zhao Dongyun can't deal with them directly, so he can only hand them over and let Yuan Shikai have a headache!

It's just that these people didn't resist, which made Zhao Dongyun's prepared example of killing chickens and monkeys not being used, which made him feel quite a pity!

When Chen Dahai and the others were escorted away by the soldiers, Chen Dahai saw Li Yong standing beside Zhao Dongyun, and then scolded Li Yong for being a traitor, a villain, and a bad death, which made Li Yong's face look ugly.

Although he also felt disdain for Li Yong's personality in his heart, Li Yong's disdain was what he needed, so after Zhao Dongyun waited for Chen Dahai and those people to leave, he said to Li Yong: "You did a good job this time, and now there is no one in charge of Su Yi's army, you will first manage Su Yi's army in the past few days, and you will also need your follow-up cooperation in the next reorganization work!" ”

Li Yong was naturally happy: "Commander Zhao rest assured, he will definitely cooperate with the reorganization well!" ”

Zhao Dongyun felt that it was necessary to give him some sweetness at this time, and it could be regarded as a thousand dollars to buy horse bones, so he said: "I still lack a helper at the bottom, and when the reorganization is completed, you will come to me and arrange it for you at that time!" ”

This is what Li Yong wants to hear the most tonight, why did he betray Chen Dahai and others, and why did he want to help Zhao Dongyun reorganize and dismantle Su Yi's pro-army, isn't it just to enter the new army and keep his job?

Now Zhao Dongyun's words can be regarded as setting his position, although the position is lower than his current pipe band, but a new army assistant is not bad.

With the large and small generals of Su Yi's pro-army being taken away one by one, the remaining small soldiers will not be able to make any waves, most of the mutinies are actually led by officers, and it is difficult to cause any big chaos by relying on soldiers alone.

If there is no accident with those generals who were taken away, only a very small number of them will be convicted, some will be fired, and the other part will be transferred to other places, but the fate of these people is no longer what Zhao Dongyun cares about, just like last year he kicked Chen Kuilong, who was then the commander of the second battalion of the right wing of the Wuwei Right Army, to the camp school as a teacher, the life and death of these losers is no longer what Zhao Dongyun cares about.

Now he is concerned about how to quickly reorganize the soldiers of Su Yi's pro-army.

The next day, Zhao Dongyun convened the first meeting of senior officers of the Third Association, and those senior officers who had just arrived gathered at the headquarters of the Provisional Association of the Third Association outside Dongguan.

The Third Association was newly established, and Yuan Shikai did not give a clear location for the follow-up, so for the time being, it is the camp of the former newly built machine gun battalion, and the headquarters of the Third Association is actually where the former new machine gun battalion headquarters is located.

Looking at the large group of straight officers sitting below, Zhao Dongyun has the feeling of watching modern war movies in later generations, but this scene is not fictional, but real.

After the Beiyang New Army, especially the Beiyang Standing Army, began to be organized and trained, in addition to the comprehensive development of weapons and equipment and system towards the Western-style army, some details of the Beiyang New Army also began to develop towards the Western-style army, for example, when Zhao Dongyun held a meeting at the moment, a large group of officers below were all wearing officer uniforms, and sat with their waists straight, without squinting.

In addition, the Beiyang blue-gray military uniforms of this year are somewhat similar to the military uniforms of the Japanese army, plus they are all of the Oriental race, and those who don't know may not be able to tell whether this is the Japanese army or the Beiyang New Army.

Because in the consistent perception of outsiders, no matter what advanced weapons the Qing army used, they would always drag a big braid, and then wear a uniform printed with the word 'soldier' and a funny hat.

As early as the new army period, the military uniforms used by Yuan Shikai's troops were based on the German style, although the soldiers' military uniforms still had a certain amount of reference to the old style of the uniform, but the officials all used anti-German military uniforms, and the regulations must be black, and this kind of radical change in military uniforms was also the fundamental reason why people called Yuan Shikai's troops fake foreign devils at that time.

Subsequently, this anti-German military uniform has been used until this year, but after the Beiyang Standing Army Zuozhen became an army this year, Yuan Shikai once again formulated the military uniform style of the Beiyang Standing Army.

The new Beiyang Standing Army uniform style is similar to the new army period, and the overall is still based on the anti-German style and the first large-scale use of gray as the overall color of the military uniform, and the gray tone set at this time is also the basic military uniform color of the new army in the late Qing Dynasty and even the Beiyang New Army of the Republic of China.

Strictly speaking, the Beiyang soldiers in gray military uniforms in people's impressions began to appear at this time.

In the new military uniform, soldiers usually wear gray cardigan tops and gray trousers, cotton clothes in winter, fast cloth shoes on their feet, felt hats on their heads, and cloth towels are used to wrap their heads during drills or wars, mainly to wrap the braid, so as to avoid the braid dangling and affecting the battle.

On the officer side, they still use blue-gray as the overall tone, wearing the same imitation German-style pair shirt and gray pants, but there are also dresses and regular clothes, and the dresses are naturally more than the regular clothes. In winter, tweed coats must be over the knees and long leather boots are worn.

Relatively speaking, the officers' clothing is more inclined to pure German style than the soldiers, and the officer's woolen coat is a clear proof, and the reason why later generations can see many modern Chinese officers wearing woolen coats in film and television dramas is the head given by the Beiyang New Army.

When a vote of officers wearing blue-gray officer uniforms sat in front of him, Zhao Dongyun had the illusion of the times, as if this was not the end of the Qing Dynasty but the Republic of China.

But if you look closely, you'll find something that is an eyesore, and that's the braid that the officers dragged behind their heads!

Zhao Dongyun cut off his braids during his stay in Germany, but after returning to China, he still wore fake braids on important formal occasions to avoid unnecessary criticism.

It's just that cutting off braids is still only popular among international students in these years, and for many people in China, cutting off braids is still a thing that requires great courage, at least among all the people here, except for Zhao Dongyun and Hua Zhenji, who returned to China from Japan, everyone else is dragging a braid.

After retracting his gaze, Zhao Dongyun spoke first: "Now that the shelf of my Third Association has been set up, the focus of our work in the next step is to reorganize the Su Yi pro-army and select qualified soldiers to enter the new army." In addition, people also have to go to various places to recruit soldiers, and you can't rely on those old army soldiers to make up all the vacancies! ”

After Zhao Dongyun spoke, as the current No. 2 person in the Third Association, Chen Guangyuan, the commander of the fifth standard, said: "I heard that there was a riot on the side of Su Yi's pro-army last night, and now that Su Yi's pro-army is in chaos, I am afraid that it is inappropriate to rashly reorganize and eliminate soldiers, is it possible to slow down the reorganization of Su Yi's pro-army and focus on recruiting soldiers first?" ”

Looking at this person who can be said to be pushed out by Feng Guozhang, Wang Yingkai, Wang Shizhen and others to contain Duan Qirui, Zhao Dongyun naturally has no good feelings, because although the core goal of this person is to prevent Duan Qirui from entering the right town of the Standing Army, what can he do to achieve this goal? Naturally, he had to create a lot of trouble for Zhao Dongyun before he could organize Duan Qirui's pace!

Because in fact, Zhao Dongyun is Duan Qirui's forward general to the right town, and after Zhao Dongyun lays a good foundation in the right town, Duan Qirui can take advantage of the situation to sit in the position of the wing chief of the right town, so as to run the entire right town as the base camp of Duan Qirui's faction.

Therefore, if you want to snipe Duan Qirui to control the right town of the Beiyang Standing Army, you have to block Zhao Dongyun from controlling the Third Association first!