On the 14th of January, in the 14th Division of Jingshi Nanyuan, the atmosphere today was different from usual.

Although the 14th Division is a newly formed unit, it has already attracted the attention of many military bigwigs since it was only a paper plan, and Yang Shande, the chief of the Ministry of Education, who is in charge of the division's recruit resources, has personally gone to the recruit camps in Tangshan, Yongping, Chengde, and other places where the division's recruits are recruited many times to personally select the best recruits.

Since Yuan Shikai was assassinated in October 1906, the Feng army entered a period of great expansion, at that time, in order to recruit more soldiers, and at the same time limited by the small population base of the three eastern provinces at that time, it was inevitable to lower the conscription requirements, so that from the end of 1906 to the second half of 1907, the new recruits of the Feng army were much lower than those of the old standing army.

And this 14th division from the place where the army was built, Zhao Dongyun asked to build a new main division, so the Ministry of Education specially restored the conscription requirements of the Beiyang Standing Army era of the former Qing Dynasty for this division.

Yang Jiayi, the commander of the Command Department, took a lot of effort to select these dozens of outstanding officers from the more than 200,000 troops of the Fengtian Army, and then went to the Fengtian Military Academy in person to collect most of the outstanding students of the ninth crash course who graduated in the winter of 1907 and put them into the 14th Division.

In addition to personnel, in terms of equipment, the 14th Division was equipped with 75-mm field guns of the 1905 model specially imported from Germany, and the mountain guns were also imported from Germany.

Needless to say, small arms such as rifles, mounted guns, and pistols are all Fuzao, including Fuzo Type 88 rifles, Fuzo Type 88 rifles, 1904 model left' revolvers, and 1905 model automatic pistols.

In terms of machine guns, due to the lack of production capacity of the Fu factory, the nearly 60 heavy machine guns it is equipped with are also directly imported from Germany, and it is worth noting that this machine gun is not different from the MG01 heavy machine gun imported from Germany in the past, but is based on the MG01 heavy machine gun, the MG08 machine gun developed.

In fact, when the Soviet Union purchased this batch of heavy machine guns in the second half of last year, the gun had not yet officially entered the large-scale service of the German army, and it did not even have the name of MG08 heavy machine gun.

After learning that the German manufacturer was selling this machine gun to itself, coupled with the fact that the Spencing Road Company was in urgent need of the actual combat table of the machine gun in order to open up sales channels and win the opportunity to enter the service of the German army, although there were many wars that broke out in recent years, but there were large-scale machine gun battles on the Chinese battlefield, in order to give the machine gun the opportunity to be tested in actual combat, the price given by the Spencing Road Company was relatively favorable, so Zhao Dongyun did not hesitate too much, and immediately ordered the purchase of a heavy machine gun that was enough to equip a division.

This heavy machine gun has just returned to China, in addition to equipping the 14th Division for the first time, the Fuyuan Machinery Factory also immediately sent technicians to conduct surveying and mapping to improve the existing MG01 heavy machine gun production line.

Light machine guns are not imported, this is not that Zhao Dongyun does not want to import, but now the world's only light machine gun manufacturer Madsen company business is too prosperous, almost all the armies of European powers purchase more or less heavy machine guns from them, Germany, Austria-Hungary, Russia and even Britain have purchased, their orders are enough to keep their production lines running for several years.

There is no way to import, so it can only produce it by itself, but the production capacity of the Fuchang factory is limited, and it is still relatively difficult for its light machine gun output to meet the needs of the 200,000 Feng army, not to mention the 14th Division, a newly formed unit, and even the three divisions of the old main force 3rd Division, the 9th Division, and the 10th Division also have a shortage of light machine guns.

Although Zhao Dongyun personally ordered it, the light machine guns of the 14th Division had to wait until after February to reach full strength.

The difference between the 14th Division is not only limited to the above, but even the war horses ridden by his cavalry units are different, and the war horses used by the cavalry regiment of the division are not the Mongolian horses used by the domestic cavalry units on a large scale, but the Don hippos introduced and bred by the Soviet Military and Animal Bureau for several years.

As early as 1904, Fengjun began to introduce Russian Don hippos and French Anglo-Norman horses on a large scale, on the one hand, to allow them to breed and expand the size of the horse herd, and on the other hand, to breed with domestic Mongolian horses, in an attempt to breed a better horse that is more suitable for the needs of the Chinese military.

It takes a long time to breed a new breed of horses, and the current Fengjun does not expect to be able to breed any horse breeds with both endurance and explosiveness, so they can only continue to breed existing horse breeds.

At present, the military horses of the Feng army, including riding horses, pulling horses, and pack horses, are still the Mongolian horses that are not good-looking, and the small number of Anglo-Norman horses bred are mainly used as officer horses, and the Don hippos are also bred as cavalry horses and logistics horses, but now the number is still too small, and several years have passed, and only a few hundred horses can be made up to be assigned to the cavalry regiment of the 14th Division.

The goal of the 14th Division was to build a fourth main division of the Feng Army after the 3rd, 9th, and 10th Divisions.

After the 14th Division, which spent countless manpower and material resources, was also highly valued by Zhao Dongyun, and even went to Nanyuan to participate in the division's formal formation ceremony.

Therefore, in the garrison of the 14th Division of the Southern Academy, the atmosphere is a little different from the past!

As a group of officers and soldiers of the presidential palace guards wearing dark blue shirts, embroidered with gold trim on the cuffs, and black pants embroidered with gold stripes stepped into the 14th station, Yang Deming, who was wearing a full-body army general's dress and pinned to the general's epaulettes, also personally greeted him.

The person who came was Major General Bao Ganlong, the captain of the presidential palace guard, who was wearing a general's dress similar to Yang Deming's, but his cuffs were embroidered with gold edges, which is a unique style of military uniforms for officers and soldiers of the presidential palace guards.

Bao Ganlong, who was not born in the old military equipment, has not studied in the domestic military ranks, nor has he attended the Baoding Military Academy or the Fengtian Military Academy, this person does not have any military school qualifications, but is a person who gradually climbed up from a small soldier, but the reason why he was able to serve as an officer of the presidential palace guard and become one of the dozens of major generals in the Fengjun system naturally has his reasons.

This person is the same as Li San, is Zhao Dongyun's personal soldier, as early as the Xin Chou year, he was Zhao Dongyun's personal soldier Ma Ben, long served as Zhao Dongyun's personal guard, when the Shengjing General's Mansion Guard was formed, he became the officer of the guard, and then Zhao Dongyun's personal guard team was renamed with the rise of Zhao Dongyun's power: the Governor's Office Guard of the Three Eastern Provinces, the Patrol Embassy Guard of the Three Eastern Provinces, and the Presidential Palace Guard.

He has always served as the captain of the Guard, and his rank has been promoted to Major General.

However, this person does not seem to have a high status, and his reputation in the Soviet army is not obvious, but no important member of the Soviet family will ignore his existence, because he is the most trusted person by Zhao Dongyun in recent years.

Trust enough to make him shoulder his own personal safety, this kind of trust is Li San, and Meng Enyuan and others are far beyond it.

However, although this person has a special status, he is extremely low-key, although he often follows Zhao Dongyun, but in addition to knowing his name, the outside world can rarely get other information about him, plus he follows Zhao Dongyun all the year round, and after staying in the presidential palace, he eats and lives in Xiyuan, and does not interact with other military and political dignitaries of the Soviet Department at all on weekdays.

This kind of low-key is also one of the reasons why he has won Zhao Dongyun's trust, after all, he is responsible for Zhao Dongyun's personal safety, if he keeps close contacts with other military and political dignitaries of the Su family, Zhao Dongyun will give his life to him for protection!

Yang Deming has naturally seen Bao Ganlong many times, and he also knows that this person is low-key all year round, and even ignores Meng Enyuan and other big guys, so he is not too surprised that Bao Ganlong just nodded slightly in response.

Bao Ganlong came to the 14th Division's station in advance not to say anything to Yang Deming, he came to inspect the safety work in advance and prepare to welcome Zhao Dongyun.

Since the assassination of Yuan Shikai in 1906, the bigwigs in Beiyang have strengthened their own security work one by one, and they are also afraid of following in the footsteps of Yuan Shikai and dying at the hands of assassins.

Zhao Dongyun is naturally afraid of death, so when he travels, he also brings hundreds of escorts!

After Bao Ganlong led the presidential palace guards to check back and forth for half an hour, Yang Deming saw the arrival of the presidential motorcade!

With the arrival of the presidential motorcade, the military band of the 14th Division began to play, and Yang Deming also brought the officers above the commander of the 14th Division to greet them.

Not long after, after the convoy stopped, Yang Deming saw Zhao Dongyun, who was wearing a military uniform and a coat, walking down from a four-wheeled carriage.

Behind Zhao Dongyun, Fang Biyong, chief of the General Staff Department, Yang Deming, chief of the Ministry of Education, and other senior military generals of the General Command also stepped into the carriage.

At this time, Yang Deming hurriedly stepped forward, walked in front of Zhao Dongyun and said respectfully: "President! ”

Zhao Dongyun did not wear the marshal's dress at this time, but only wore a blue-gray officer's regular uniform, leather shoes, and a black woolen officer's coat, but the clothes looked ordinary, but on the top was the epaulettes of the peony Venus, which was Zhao Dongyun's unique 'Generalissimo of the Republic of China'.

The 'Generalissimo of the Navy and Land of the Republic of China' that Zhao Dongyun took up before was not strictly speaking, but a position, but because Zhao Dongyun did not give up his status as an active-duty soldier, he was still an active-duty soldier as a generalissimo, but how to arrange his military rank was not very easy, and both generals and marshals were not good.