Lin Daxin was not surprised at all when he heard that the task force suspected that the murder of Bablofu, the former Russian minister to the Qing Dynasty, was the work of Japanese spies; this time the four northeastern provinces fought with Russia, and the Japanese were the happiest, and their own four northeastern provinces and Russia were fighting like a river of blood, while the Japanese were gloating and watching from the sidelines, wanting to wait for the four northeastern provinces and the Russians to lose both sides, and reap the benefits of the fisherman.

The Japanese did exactly that, and intelligence agency intelligence showed that the Japanese Army had secretly gathered troops in South Korea, but the Japanese probably did not expect that the Russians would be unable to hold on so quickly, and the opportunity for the fisherman's profit slipped away quietly in the hands of the Japanese.

Lin Daxin said to Li Kun, director of the Military Intelligence Bureau: "The murder of Pablofu must continue to be investigated, and there will always be a day when the truth will come to light, and in addition, your Military Intelligence Bureau will intensify the investigation of the spies sent by the Japanese to our northeast, and I believe that the Japanese spies in our northeast will not be less, and they may have penetrated into the interior of our northeast military and political system." ”

Li Kun nodded, the Military Intelligence Bureau knew that the Japanese must have spies in the four northeastern provinces, but the tracking of the Japanese spies over the years has had little effect, that is, a few small fish were caught, and none of the big fish were caught.

After signing an armistice with the Russians, Lin Daxin's territory was already very large, and he already owned the provinces of Mukden, Jilin, Heilongjiang, Yalujiang, Inner Mongolia, Outer Mongolia, Luzon, Far East, Baikal, Saisi, and Saidong, plus Xinjiang Province claimed from the Manchu court. Lin Daxin became the governor of 12 provinces, covering an area of more than 11 million square kilometers.

The Dingbei Army's reception of Xinjiang Province was relatively smooth. The original Qing Dynasty garrison in Xinjiang was under the orders of the imperial court. He completed the handover with the Dingbei Army, withdrew from Xinjiang, and entered Gansu Province, which was controlled by the Qing Dynasty, to avoid provoking Lin Daxin to go crazy.

Lin Daxin's current land area is much larger than the land area controlled by the Qing Dynasty, and in the world, the land area of Britain and Russia is larger than Lin Daxin's territory.

Although the territory is much larger, Lin Daxin is not ready to expand his Dingbei Army, which currently has 15 A integrated divisions, 25 B divisions, 1 armored division, 1 guards division and 1 cavalry division, as well as a large number of independent garrison regiments and independent garrison battalions established in various parts of the northeast. If it is full, the total strength will exceed 1.4 million, which is enough to defend such a large territory, and now what Lin Daxin has to do is to replenish the divisions damaged in the war to a full state.

In addition, the troops stationed in various places were also redivided, the 5th Division will continue to return to Weihaiwei, and the 12th, 24th, and 25th Divisions will be stationed in Saixi and Saidong provinces, mainly to guard against the Russians on the other side of the Lena River, so the troops of the 3 divisions are mainly concentrated along the east coast of the Lena River.

The 4th, 13th, 36th and 37th divisions guarded Baikal province. The 30,000 cavalry divisions, the 19th and 20th divisions were stationed in Xinjiang Province, and the 11th, 38th, 39th, and 40th divisions were stationed in Outer Mongolia.

Far Eastern Province was garrisoned by the 2nd and 17th Divisions, and Inner Mongolia Province was garrisoned by 20,000 cavalry and 18th Division. The other divisions all retreated to the three provinces of Mukden, Jilin, and Heilongjiang, so that after the main forces of the Dingbei Army returned to these three provinces, if the Japanese launched an attack on Yalujiang Province. Lin Daxin will not lack reinforcements in his hands.

After allocating the garrisons in each province, Lin Daxin focused on the formation of the South African Volunteer Army. The first batch of volunteers was ready to send about 1,000 people, so Lin Daxin considered which unit the more than 1,000 volunteers were drawn from.

At this time, the 3rd, 6th, 7th, 21st, 22nd and 23rd Divisions, which had suffered heavy losses in the Battle of Darkhan, withdrew to Mukden Province.

Although these 6 divisions suffered heavy casualties. But the rest of the officers and soldiers are all elite in a hundred battles, Lin Daxin finally decided that the personnel of the South African Volunteer Army will be transferred from these 6 divisions, but Ni Fan and Hu Desheng, these division commanders are not very willing, their own divisions have suffered great losses, and now a large number of elite veterans have been transferred, even if new recruits are replenished, the combat effectiveness of their divisions will not recover for a while.

But Lin Daxin's mind had already been decided, and Ni Fan and Hu Desheng had no choice but to bite the bullet and transfer the elite soldiers of their respective troops to form Lin Daxin's South African Volunteer Army in the future.

In the end, Wang Yuwei, the commander of the 311 Regiment, was selected as the commander of this thousand-strong South African Volunteer Army, and a large number of veterans with combat experience from 6 divisions were selected to form the first batch of South African Volunteers.

Fighting in South Africa, thousands of miles away, was mainly to carry out guerrilla warfare with the British Army, so the establishment of the South African Volunteer Army was reorganized, which was different from the normal establishment of the Dingbei Army.

The South African Volunteer Army has 1 command headquarters and 3 guerrilla brigades, the headquarters is composed of 1 guard platoon, 1 logistics support platoon, 1 communication squad, and 1 medical squad, each guerrilla brigade has more than 300 people, equipped with 12 60 mm mortars, equipped with 18 Type 96 heavy machine guns and 18 Type 96 light machine guns, and is also equipped with a large number of Type 96 submachine guns, and the firepower is much stronger than the same number of ordinary Dingbei Army troops.

Lin Daxin also personally taught and instilled the various knowledge of guerrilla warfare he had obtained from modern time and space into the officers of the South African Volunteer Army, and then these officers led the soldiers to conduct targeted training.

On July 20, 1899, more than 1,000 soldiers of the South African Volunteers came to Port Arthur, ready to take a transport ship with a displacement of 3,000 tons, set off from Port Arthur and sail more than 15,000 kilometers by sea to South Africa, to help the Boers in the Transvaal Republic and the Free State of Orange resist the British invasion.

Lin Daxin also rushed to Lushun Port with some people to see off these officers and soldiers who were thousands of miles away.

Lin Daxin looked at the South African volunteers lined up in a neat queue on the port wharf, and shouted: "Soldiers, it is of great significance for you to go to South Africa to fight this time, you are going to challenge the British who are the overlord of the world and help the South African Boers who are oppressed by the British." As you know, the British were the first Western powers to open the door of our Qing Dynasty, and now they still occupy our territory, and they have been looking for trouble in our northeast more than once, so it can be said that they have a deep hatred with us, and we have no ability to directly challenge the British, so we can only use the form of volunteers to find trouble with the British, so it can also be said that you went to South Africa to find revenge on the British, and you want to destroy the prestige of the British for this commander, can you do it? ”

"Yes—" More than a thousand people shouted in unison.

Lin Daxin nodded, waved his hand and shouted: "This handsome man is waiting for you to come back and bring me news of victory!" Let's get on board! ”

More than 1,000 officers and men of the South African Volunteers lined up to board the transport ship, and with the sound of the whistle, the transport ship slowly left the dock and sailed out to sea.

Lin Daxin looked at the transport ship that was gradually moving away, and asked Li Kun, the director of the Military Intelligence Bureau next to him, "Is there a good connection in South Africa?" Don't go wrong. ”

Li Kun nodded and said: "Our military intelligence agency has contacted the President of the Transvaal Republic, Kruger, who very much welcomes our South African volunteers to go to them and resist the British together with their Boer army, and according to the principal's wishes, we also sent 20,000 M1888 rifles and 20 75mm caliber mountain guns to the Transvaal Republic on the transport ship, as well as a large number of matching bullets and shells, all of which were given to the Boers for free. The transport ship carrying the South African Volunteers and loaded with weapons and ammunition will dock at the Boer-controlled port of Durban, and we have also made it clear to President Kruger that our South African Volunteers have the right to fight independently, and if the Boer army needs the cooperation of our South African Volunteers, we can discuss with Wang Yuwei, the commander of the South African Volunteers. ”

Lin Daxin asked again: "What has happened to the Japanese in South Korea lately?" ”

Li Kun replied: "The Japanese are still transporting troops from the mainland to South Korea, and up to now, South Korea has gathered 22 Japanese Army Standing Divisions, and it seems that Japan is not ready to stop continuing to send troops to South Korea, but in the intelligence of our Military Intelligence Bureau, there is no specific information that the Japanese will launch an attack on our Yalu River Province. ”

Lin Daxin touched his chin, what Li Kun said also made sense, now that the war between himself and the Russians has ended, the threat of Russia does not need to be considered in a short period of time, so only the Japanese and the Manchu court are left around his own forces, and the million-strong army of the Dingbei Army is not a decoration, and the Japanese may be afraid, so they continue to increase their troops to South Korea.

Lin Daxin asked again: "Is there any movement in the imperial court?" ”

Li Kun said: "There is no major change in the imperial court, the new army of the imperial court is still stationed in Beijing and the Zhili area, but the imperial court has begun to urge the provinces to speed up the formation of a new army in the first town of the province. ”

Lin Daxin heard the imperial court urging the provinces to form a new army, and couldn't help pouting, the Empress Dowager Cixi and the Guangxu Emperor hoped to increase the military strength of the imperial court, but the imperial court did not have the silver to continue to expand the new army, and now the new army in 13 towns was formed by the imperial court gritting its teeth, which is also thanks to Lin Daxin helping the imperial court to clean up the Japanese at the first day of the first day, so that the Qing Dynasty did not lose a lot of silver as in history, so that the silver formed a new army in 13 towns.

As for the imperial court wanting each province to establish a new army in one town by itself, Lin Daxin didn't care at all, not to mention that in the provinces controlled by the imperial court, a few provinces could come up with enough silver to form a new army in one town, even with silver, the new army was not so easy to train, and there were too many things involved in training an army. (A good event for pie in the sky, cool mobile phones are waiting for you!) Follow from ~ Dian/Chinese network public account (WeChat add friends - add public account - enter ddxiaoshuo), participate now! Everyone has a prize, now pay attention to ddxiaoshuo WeChat public account! (To be continued......) R1292