Throughout the dynasties, the Chinese have had the habit of parading military in the golden autumn season, called "autumn exercises". First, the golden autumn can provide sufficient food for the army's logistics; Second, when the war horse grows fat and strong in the autumn, it is the time to pull it out for review and battle; Thirdly, the nomads in the north usually invaded the Central Plains Dynasty at this time, and it was indispensable to prepare in advance to deal with this foreign strong enemy.

In the autumn of the fifth year of the Republic of China, the Beiyang government, which was struggling with domestic and foreign difficulties and financial crises, also organized such an autumn exercise in Gyeonggi, the purpose of which was nothing more than to deter the six southern provinces of Yunnan, Guangxi, Sichuan, and Hunan from disobeying the warlords under the jurisdiction of the central government, and to show their strength externally to promote the peaceful settlement of the "Zhengjiatun Incident".

At the division level, there are the 7th Division, the 8th Division, the 11th Division, the 12th Division, and the 13th Division, and the brigade level includes the 7th Mixed Brigade, the 5th Mixed Brigade, and the 16th Mixed Brigade. The ranks of Chinese and foreign officials in the exercise were far from comparable, and the provincial overseers did not send representatives, and only the War Department, the General Staff, the troops under review, and a very small number of military attachés from foreign embassies attended the autumn exercise.

The autumn drill is tentatively scheduled for three days, the first day is a queue report exercise, the participating troops in battalions as units one after another in accordance with the training outline of the Ministry of War to complete the queue training subjects, and then by the military affairs department, military science department, staff of the referee on-site scoring, and finally select three winning units for commendation. However, there were not many troops participating in the exercise, and the total was only seven or eight battalions, after all, this kind of thankless thing was not something that the bigwigs of every army were willing to do. After all, China's so-called newly-built army has only existed for more than a decade, and its understanding of the importance of Western-style drills introduced from Germany and Japan is not very high. But these are exactly the projects that the head of Tang Zhidao is extremely good at, in the previous life, E Company was the pacesetter company of the entire C Brigade, and since its formation, it has participated in nearly 100 various reporting exercises, from the head of state, the country's top friends, down to the local leaders, brigade heads, and all kinds of people have received it. Although Tang Zhidao took over the mixed group for a short time, it was not a piece of cake to deal with such a drill.

The second day was a single competition such as shooting, stabbing, sanda, boxing, and fighting, and it was also the most interesting day, especially in the eyes of laymen. The army of the Beiyang Department was born from the Xianghuai Army, and attached great importance to personal martial arts, similar competitions in the army were often carried out, and there were more good things to set up gambling games, and there were many martial arts masters in the army, such as Li Jinglin, Xu Lanzhou, Ma Liang, Zhang Zhijiang, etc., who were later famous masters of national arts. However, compared with other troops, the mixed regiment will lose a lot of color, after all, the difference in numbers is too great, and there are more than 10,000 people in a division than you have in a large regiment of more than 1,000 people, so in addition to shooting and stabbing, only one or two people participated in the second mixed regiment of other events, and I didn't think about what good rankings I could get.

On the third day, there will be a confrontation exercise at the mixed regiment level, which is also the highlight of the autumn exercise, but the scale is really small and pitiful, and the confrontation exercise in Zhangde at the end of the Qing Dynasty is at the military level (all sides in the north and south are one and a half divisions), and Taihu Yongping is at the division level. Originally, the department's opinion was to conduct a division-level confrontation exercise, at least at the mixed brigade level, and the troops were all selected, with the Eighth Division on one side, the 13th Division and the Second Mixed Regiment on one side (the 13th Division lacked about one regiment), or the Eighth Division and the 13th Division each had a mixed brigade, but as a result, the Ministry of Finance gave up, and the budget for a division-level confrontation would be at least one million, and even if it was a mixed brigade, it would cost hundreds of thousands, and as a result, a huge and mighty exercise turned into a small exercise with only two mixed regiments and 3,000 or 4,000 people. Tang Zhidao was really excited for a while when he first received the order, although it was only a drill, it was also an excellent training plan after all, especially to observe the combat effectiveness of friendly forces up close. It was a pity that the air rejoiced, and the last troops to participate in the exercise were Li Changtai's 8th Division and Li Jincai's 13th Division, which were also the main forces of the Gyeonggi garrison. …,

On the first day of the exercise, the eight battalions that appeared in front of them were uneven, some even had the most basic military uniforms, some had all kinds of guns, and as for the queue training, it was even more chaotic, and some had no strength to walk. The 1st Battalion of the 2nd Mixed Regiment was the last to appear, and as soon as it appeared, it won praise from the audience with its neat military appearance, neat pace, high fighting spirit, and loud slogans, and completed every subject without mistakes in the back. The senior officers and foreign military attachés on the viewing platform clapped incessantly, asking each other from time to time something, as if asking who was leading the soldiers, and finally the battalion won the first place in the parade without dispute.

"Ruoshui, good, good, do a good job, come to me for something!" Secretary General Xiao Xu, who took time out of his busy schedule to attend the autumn exercise, said the first thing he said when he saw Tang Zhidao, at least it means that he didn't see the wrong person at that time.

"Dear Don, your troops are fantastic!" The well-informed Colonel Tolistan has never looked down on the Chinese army, but after watching today's performance, he still can't help but praise, at least on the surface, it is not much worse than the German embassy guards.

For these praises, Tang Zhidao only smiled faintly, the things on these shelves in the later generations of the army of country Z are definitely the first in the world, and the level of folding quilts is even more complete American soldiers, so it is nothing to deal with this kind of scene. At present, the Second Mixed Regiment is not only compared with the first-class troops in Europe and the United States, but also much worse than the Japanese troops, and it is at most second-rate at home, and the troops participating in the exercise are only in the middle and upper reaches, and there is also a big gap between it and the strong brigades of the Yunnan-Guizhou Army that have not participated in the Beiyang Sixth Division and have been tested in battle for a long time. In less than three months, it is not bad to be able to make the original military discipline sloppy and on the verge of disintegration into such a mixed group.

In the competition on the second day, the performance of Commander Tang's subordinates was relatively average, and they were only in the middle and upper reaches overall, ranking four or five in shooting and stabbing, and only a few soldiers entered the top five. More than a month of intensive training is not a lot to improve, if you want to train a sharpshooter, it is not a day's work, this is not a disappointment to Commander Tang, the kind of three or two days can be trained to catch up with the German army only in YY novels.

Compared with the original garrison in Gyeonggi, the troops that had just been withdrawn from the Sichuan front were obviously even better, after all, they had just walked away from the rain of bullets, and the experience gained in actual combat could not be compensated for by more training in ordinary times. The most prominent of these units were Zhang Jingyao's 7th Division and Feng YX's 16th Mixed Brigade. The seventh division originated from the sixth division Zhang Jingyao regiment, the regiment in the Republic of China two years of Jiangxi out of the limelight, the first to attack Nanchang City, after the war was upgraded to the third mixed brigade, last year's imperial movement Zhang Jingyao was extremely hard-working, the department was expanded into the seventh division, at the beginning of the year was sent to Sichuan to fight fiercely with the national army Cai Yi Department for several months, is currently the trump card army in the hands of the Duan government. At the end of last year, with the Sichuan general Chen Eun entering Sichuan, the war to protect the country was also out of the limelight, and it was recently transferred back to Langfang, the outer periphery of the Beijing Division (the department was the predecessor of the Nationalist Army and the Northwest Army).

However, there were surprises in other events, and there were several masters hidden in the mixed group, and they won a good ranking in the competition on the second day.

"Jiwu, that's good!" Zuo Jiwu lost to a Yuxi swordsman of the 16th Brigade in the sword group and won the second place, which was the best result achieved by the second mixed regiment in the individual competition.

"Commander, my little fist embroidered leg is your opponent!" Zuo Jiwu hurriedly said modestly: "It's a pity that you don't participate." ”…,

"You don't have to pat my ass, I can't compare to you in terms of knife skills." Tang Zhidao said with a smile: "Besides, I'm afraid it's not appropriate for me to participate." "This self-knowledge is still available to our head Tang, and cold weapons are indeed not his strong point.

"If the regiment commander participates in shooting and hand-to-hand combat, he will definitely not be able to run." Du Shijie said regretfully: "There is no provision that officers above the regimental level cannot participate, and Brigade Commander Feng will not participate in the shooting competition, and he will also win the top ten." ”

"Shijie, you should know that there are people outside the sky this time!" Tang Zhidao ignored this stubble and said to his young staff officer: "After going back, the training will be further increased, and we still have a lot of poor people!" "As a small prince, the impression of giving people should at least be mature and steady, and this kind of limelight than hatred and courage should not be messed up.

"Hmm!" Du Shijie nodded and said: "On paper, I will eventually feel shallow, and I never know that I have to do it." Brigade Commander Feng's team is indeed relatively strong, and it is worthy of being tempered in the war. ”

"Dazhu, I've watched several of your competitions, and I've made rapid progress, but I lack ruthlessness!" Li Dazhu is also a practitioner, and it is relatively convenient to follow Tang Zhidao to exercise on weekdays.

"Commander, I see." Li Dazhu scratched his head and said, it's not bad to get the top eight this time.