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In Shijiazhuang, countless soldiers marched forward in a neat queue, they walked through the streets, entered the station, and then boarded the train that had been waiting for a long time, holding guns, looking excited or nervous or gloomyly crowded in the carriages, some whispering, some holding guns and closing their eyes. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

When the soldiers boarded the train, Shi Yanglin, the first commander of the 20th Division, also boarded the first-class carriage accompanied by a group of subordinate officers.

Shi Yanglin is also a well-known name in the Feng army, he has served as the head of the operations department for more than a year, leading the operations staff officers of the operations department to plan many battles in Jiangbei and Jiangnan, and many generals in the Feng army have received orders from the operations department signed with Shi Yanglin's name.

However, although he is famous, but the combat department of this institution is originally a humble authority, this Shi Yanglin has always been just a major 'general', after the Jiangnan Campaign, Zhao Dongyun rewarded the generals, to Shi Yanglin awarded the army major 'general plus Zhong' general' rank, after the two battles of Jiangxi Jiujiang and Nanchang, he was awarded four medals.

Seeing that the country was about to be reunified, and Shi Yanglin was not willing to stay in the combat department all the time, he was eager to take up a real position in the field army and write the most direct combat exploits for his resume, so at the beginning of 1909, he hinted to Zhao Dongyun several times, saying that he wanted to serve in the front line.

Zhao Dongyun still attaches great importance to Shi Yanglin, although he still wants to keep Shi Yanglin in the combat department to give advice for himself, but he can't always leave him in the combat department, which is not good for Shi Yanglin's follow-up growth, he has not been the commander of a division, Shi Yanglin is difficult to be promoted to lieutenant general in the army, and there is no chance to command the army all the way.

In addition, the 20th Division was newly built at that time, so he appointed Shi Yanglin as the commander of the 20th Division.

A large number of generals in the military who think that they are qualified enough are all holding this position, and even many generals at the rank of lieutenant general are addicted to commanding the whole army, but most of them have nothing to do with this position, because this position has very high requirements for quality, and generals who are not from professional classes may be able to lead a division to fight or even lead an army to fight, but it is absolutely impossible to coordinate the operation of the whole army in modern warfare.

The number of people who can be qualified for this position is actually quite limited, in terms of origin, it is either the Berlin Military Academy in Germany, or the advanced course, except for these two people, others are not eligible to participate in the competition. In terms of qualifications, the person must have a wealth of experience, which is not only the experience of leading troops, but also the experience of being the commander of a field unit and also having a wealth of experience as a staff officer.

In terms of rank, it can't be too high, it can only be a person at the level of a major general or a major general and a lieutenant general.

And this person can't be too famous, otherwise a large number of generals will be unconvinced.

This is calculated, in fact, there are very few people in the entire Feng army who can compete for this position, the current commander of the 17th Brigade, Su Kangyu, a scholar who has studied in Germany; Including those from the Military Academy in Berlin; Li Xiang, who is currently the commander of the 30th Brigade, is a trainee from Pan Luanqing, the commander of the 17th Brigade; Former Commander of the 29th Brigade,

Xue Yiping, who is currently the chief of staff of the Fourth Army, is a handful of people.

These people have several very special characteristics, that is, they have a high starting point, they have been transferred to a lot of positions, and their promotion is often very fast, and they do not have to be like ordinary officers, especially majors and lieutenant colonels, to stay up for several years before they can be promoted, they often transfer after a few months of transition in a position, and frequent transfers make their promotion very fast.

Su Kangyun is a typical example of this,

Su Kangyun, who was sent to Germany to study in the era of Yuan Shikai, entered the Fengjun army after returning to China, and soon entered the advanced training class, and was one of the most senior trainees in the Fengjun, and the person's promotion journey was incomparable to that of ordinary generals. After returning to China, he served as a fourth-class staff officer in the Operations Division, was awarded the rank of captain, and then entered a refresher course, and after graduation, he was awarded the rank of major and served as a battalion commander in the field unit, but within a few months he was transferred back to the Operations Division as a second-class staff officer and promoted to lieutenant colonel.

Not long after he was promoted, he was transferred to the field unit as a regimental commander, and a few months later, he was transferred to the 10th Division as the division chief of staff.

In 1908, he crossed the threshold that most of the school officers could not cross, and was successfully promoted to major general, and later transferred to the commander of the 27th Brigade of the 14th Division.

Soon the person was transferred to the Fifth Army as the chief of staff, and the Fifth Army is a descended army, the army commander Zhang Guotai is quite restricted, in order to avoid Zhao Dongyun's suspicion, Zhang Guotai often let go of military power, and to a large extent handed over the command to the chief of staff of the army sent by the command, that is, Su Kangyun, in this position, Su Kangyun actually commanded the entire Fifth Army in the name of the chief of staff of the army, which is the most adequate training for him,

After considering many factors, Zhao Dongyun officially appointed Su Kangyun as the chief of the Operations Division of the General Staff of the General Headquarters, and at the same time promoted him to the rank of major general and lieutenant general of the army.

Su Kangyun was promoted, and he naturally rushed back to Beijing to take up his post, while the other few people who thought they were qualified to fight were naturally sad.

The turmoil caused by Shi Yanglin's departure from the combat department as the commander of the 20th Division naturally has nothing to do with Shi Yanglin himself, and after he became the commander of the 20th Division, he spent great painstaking efforts to build the 20th Division into the main force.

When Zhao Dongyun formed the 20th Division, he had the idea of building a main division, and because of the success of the 14th and 15th Divisions, Zhao Dongyun saw that the cost and energy required to form a new main division was far less labor-saving than building a reduced army and a second-rate army into a main force.

Therefore, when the 20th Division was formed, following the previous examples of the 14th and 15th Divisions, Zhao Dongyun equipped this unit with a large number of advanced weapons at the beginning, such as the Fuzao Type 88 rifle, the 75-mm field gun imported from Germany, the Fuzao 75-mm mountain artillery, the Fuzao Type 08 heavy machine gun, the Fuzao Type 09 light machine gun, the improved brand new mortars of various calibers, the artillery balloon imported from Germany, and all kinds of pistols and grenades.

And it is equipped with the Mauser 7.9*57is bullet produced by the Baoding Arsenal shortly after it is used as the bullet for the Type 08 heavy machine gun and the Type 09 light machine gun.

In the past, a large number of infantry guns and machine guns used in the Feng army were uniformly used Mauser 79 round bullets, but since the introduction of the Spencer heavy machine gun, that is, the famous MG08 heavy machine gun, Fuyuan Machinery Factory began to imitate itself according to the patent authorization, and the imitation Spencer machine gun was named "1908 heavy machine gun" and according to people's consistent name, it was called "Fuzao 08 heavy machine gun", or simply referred to as "08 heavy machine gun"

The gun is different from the Type 01 heavy machine gun, it was designed at the beginning of the use of the German army's standard 79-pointed bullets, that is, Mauser 7.92*57is rifle cartridges, when the gun was introduced, in order to be compatible with a large number of domestic 79-round bullets, so it was required to modify some of the details of the German factory, so that the introduction of this machine gun can use 79-pointed bullets at the same time, but also compatible with 79-round bullets.

The Type 07 light machine gun, which is an improved version of the Madsen light machine gun, the main improvement is not a performance improvement, but makes the gun compatible with firing seven-nine pointed rounds.

In fact, at present, the Tangshan Industrial Company is also starting to improve the Type 88 rifle gun that is being produced in large quantities, and the main object of imitation is the Mauser 98K rifle, improving the magazine mechanism and the chamber of the gun, in order to be able to fire 79 pointed bullets, hoping to be able to use the improved rifle gun and other domestic arsenals such as the Jiangnan Arsenal to compete for orders for the military's next-generation rifle gun.

The 20th Division, which is equipped with Type 08 heavy machine guns, Type 07 light machine guns, and improved mortars, has actually surpassed other Fengjun units in terms of equipment, and you must know that the Third Division, one of the three main divisions of the Fengjun Army, is still using the old 01 heavy machine guns.

Not only is the equipment advanced and complete, but the soldiers are also recruited from Shandong and Henan provinces according to the standards of the old Beiyang era.

The standard of recruitment has higher requirements for physical height and physique, and at the same time, it does not accept people who have no background such as homeless people and rebellious soldiers.

The gap between these newly recruited soldiers and those directly selected from the surrendered army is very large, and the plasticity is relatively strong, and these soldiers are often used to prepare for the construction of new main divisions, or to supplement the third division and other main forces.

In terms of officers, in addition to selecting experienced officers from all major units, outstanding graduates who graduated from the Fengtian Military Academy this year were also given priority to be assigned to the 20 th Division.

Such a force, which has transferred a large number of elite personnel and spent a lot of money to build, is naturally highly valued by Zhao Dongyun.

And Shi Yanglin's ability to serve as the division commander of this unit is inseparable from Zhao Dongyun's support.

Sitting in the first-class carriage, looking at the subordinates coming and going outside the window, I couldn't help but think of what Zhao Dongyun said to me a few days ago before he set off from Beijing.

"This time I went to Jin Province, and I thought three points in advance!"

Shi Yanglin knew very well that the meaning of what Zhao Dongyun said to himself was very obvious, that is, let himself not ask for victory, and now Fengjun is very optimistic about the war in Shanxi and Hubei, as long as he fights steadily, he will be able to win smoothly, and he does not need to use any tricks and tricks in pursuit of victory as before.

Although Shi Yanglin knew that he had to fight steadily, he still hoped in his heart that he could fight a beautiful big victory, so as to gain a reputation like Gu Lanyu and Yang Deming.

There are many generals in the Feng army today, brigade commanders above the rank of major general, mixed brigade commanders, army chiefs of staff, and division commanders, and nearly 100 senior generals serving in the field troops, among which there are more generals who have won battles, but they can fight brilliantly, and they are sought after within the Feng army, and are highly valued by Zhao Dongyun.

In this battle, Shi Yanglin also wanted to make a name for himself, so he asked Gu Lanyu for a battle and won the first opportunity for the twentieth division to enter the Jin.

Just as Shi Yanglin was thinking, a major walked into his carriage, and then said, "Xu Shuai, the brothers of the 77th Regiment and the Artillery Regiment have boarded the car and are ready!" r1058

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