"Today's Fengtian defense is still too empty, it is not enough to have only one patrol regiment on Anton's side, and then two patrol regiments will be stationed there, and the 10th Mixed Brigade will also send an infantry regiment to Fengcheng to station!" Zhao Dongyun continued:

"In addition, Anton's side should not be idle all the time, on weekdays, we must dig up the treasure of the field fortifications in advance, and strive to build a permanent fortification!" Zhao Dongyun looked up at Hong Putao: "The Quartermaster Department is looking at the distribution of some cement, barbed wire and other materials in the direction of Andong!" ”

Zhao Dongyun didn't have the money to hire tens of thousands of people to build a permanent fortification in Andong for many years, but the soldiers in the patrol regiment were originally auxiliary soldiers, and it was the same to let them change careers to serve as engineering troops digging trenches.

If it weren't for the fear of causing a dispute with the Japanese and triggering the Japanese war, he would have wanted to directly send the 10th Mixed Brigade to Anton, but Anton's place is too sensitive, and if he directly deployed a mixed brigade to it, he would definitely know that he was guarding against them, and it would inevitably cause diplomatic quarrels at that time.

As for the patrol force, this unit is not only a regular force in the eyes of the Feng army but also a foreign army, and it is only more than 4,000 people who send three regiments to the edge of the Yalu River.

Anyway, with the Andong Railway that he built at the beginning, if Sino-Japanese relations are tense, it will not take two days to gather his army in Anton, and then with the assistance of a large number of fortifications, he wants to see how the Japanese himself can break through his own Andong defense line.

"Not only Anton, but also the defense of Manchuria and Suifenhe, the two important border towns, also needs to be strengthened, although our army's current field strength is tight, but it is still possible to send more patrol police troops, and repair the garrison fortifications in advance, so as to cope with many changes in the future!"

Zhao Dongyun didn't directly say what the future changes were, but none of the people present were stupid, hearing Zhao Dongyun talk about the defense of the three eastern provinces today, and they also more or less heard about the seizure of the ordnance ordered by the Soviet Union, it was obvious that Japan's move stimulated Zhao Dongyun's defense.

And the more they listened to Zhao Dongyun, the more they felt that Zhao Dongyun was preparing to guard against the Japanese and Russian intervention forces!

"Although the previous three major defense commands of Harbin, Shenyang, and Jinzhou have been abolished, there are still many merits for similar institutions!" Zhao Dongyun said: "I plan to set up several garrison headquarters, mainly to govern the patrol force, in addition to maintaining local law and order, but also to shoulder the responsibility of border patrols!" ”

Zhao Dongyun didn't say it all of a sudden, the establishment of this garrison command is only secondary, the key thing is that he plans to reorganize the existing patrol force!

In the eyes of the military generals, the patrol police units are second-line troops, and they should be pulled up as cannon fodder when necessary, but in the eyes of cabinet officials, these patrol police units are military police officers who suppress the localities and maintain law and order, and this can be seen from the fact that the patrol police units in the Soviet system accept the dual leadership of the High Command and the Cabinet Police Department.

On the one hand, the police department of the cabinet involves military power, and military power has always been something that Zhao Dongyun attaches great importance to, and the separation of military and political affairs is his principled policy of governing and His Majesty.

You see several military bigwigs in the Soviet system, such as Meng Enyuan and Xu Bangjie, they all have tens of thousands of soldiers, but have you ever seen Zhao Dongyun appoint them as 'governors, Xuanfu envoys, military envoys, patrol envoys' and the like? Not a single one!

In the early stage, he also considered completely changing these patrol forces into police, but later found that this was very wasteful, although the patrol force was a little scum in combat, but it was also an army, and there would be some training every day, and you wouldn't let them go to the street to catch thieves!

In addition, after the republic last year, including the three eastern provinces and the direct subordinates, in fact, they have already begun to implement the police system, and all prefectures and counties already have formal police officers, regardless of the ability of these policemen and whether they will be corrupt or not, but after all, there are already police, and if the patrol police are directly reorganized into police, it is actually not easy to arrange personnel.

After thinking about it, Zhao Dongyun felt that since these patrol police units were armies, they should be used to let them suppress the local area on weekdays, and they had to give them some other tasks, such as in the Tangshan Campaign, the patrol cavalry battalions in several patrol units were quite outstanding, and these patrol cavalry battalions directly cooperated with Cao Kun's Fourth Mixed Brigade to fight several battles in Chengde, and their combat effectiveness was not much worse than that of the formal cavalry units.

In addition, several patrol regiments stationed in Tangshan and Shanhaiguan were actually barely passable, and the patrol regiment in Tangshan was even more involved in fighting with the direct army, and these patrol regiments are now also an important force for defending Tangshan.

Faced with this situation, Zhao Dongyun felt that it was necessary to further strengthen the combat effectiveness of the patrol force and let them undertake more important tasks.

And acting as a border guard is a good choice!

When everyone heard Zhao Dongyun say the word garrison headquarters, their faces also changed slightly, which can be regarded as a relatively big change for the existing Fengjun system.

"From now on, the Andong Garrison Command will be established to be responsible for the border patrol of the Andong frontline, and a garrison command will also be set up in Manchuria and Suifenhe to be responsible for local border patrols!" The reason why Zhao Dongyun set up this garrison headquarters is only because the above-mentioned three places are about to bring together two or three patrol police regiments, and if these patrol police regiments are gathered together and there is no unified command, I am afraid that some unnecessary problems will arise, but Zhao Dongyun has no intention of setting up patrol divisions and brigades for the time being, so it is easy to lose the tail and not lose the tail, or the current scattered regiment and battalion scale is easier to manage.

It's just that if there are three patrol regiments concentrated on Anton's side, and this does not merge them into a patrol division, then an alternative command structure will be needed, so the Anton Garrison Command will also be released.

After hearing Zhao Dongyun say about this garrison headquarters, many senior army generals present were relieved, they still thought that Zhao Dongyun was going to come up with a kind of headquarters that was fully responsible for the defense of the Yalu River or Fengtian or even the three eastern provinces.

Just like there were many factions in Beiyang in the era of Yuan Shikai, in fact, there are also a lot of small hills in the contemporary Feng army, such as the so-called Lao Yan faction represented by Lin Yongquan, this part of the people, the three team officers who followed Zhao Dongyun during the Wuwei Right Army were all officers, and Hong Putao, the chief of the Quartermaster Department, was also considered to be of this faction, and the famous Gu Lanyu actually had a close relationship with Lin Yongquan, and the two of them were sons and daughters.

Then there is the old military background, the third mixed association era' began to follow Zhao Dongyun's group of people, and this group of people is also the strongest in the current Fengjun system, the group that really holds the real power, and occupies the position of the three major army commanders, they are Meng Enyuan, Chen Guangyuan, Xu Bangjie, although Xu Bangjie was transferred to serve in the third town era, but he is old enough, and he has a good relationship with Meng Enyuan on weekdays.

Then there is the so-called study abroad faction, which is dominated by students studying in Germany, and there are also some students studying in Japan, although the number of this group of people is not large, and the general military rank is not high, but they have received great attention from Zhao Dongyun, and have long controlled the key positions in the headquarters such as the Operations Department and the Strategy Department.

The modern logistics system of the Feng army was established by the Liude faction, and from the establishment of troops to the improvement of tactics, etc., it was controlled by the study abroad faction, and more importantly, due to the relationship between the combat department, although the officers of the study abroad faction were generally not high in rank, they actually controlled the strategic direction of the Feng army. Almost all the large-scale campaign plans of the Jinan Campaign were single-handedly handled by these overseas students, and even military bigwigs like Meng Enyuan could not interfere.

In addition to the above three factions, in fact, there is a more special system, that is, advanced students, among these advanced students, there are old military backgrounds, there are also those who have studied abroad, and there are also those who are born in the old camp, but they all have the same characteristics, that is, they all regard themselves as students of Zhao Dongyun, and they regard themselves as Zhao Dongyun's descendants on weekdays, and this group is more exclusive, although they are still hovering at the level of school officials, but they generally look down on generals from other factions.

There are many factions in the Feng army, which also leads to the change of some important high-level leaders in the Feng army will directly affect the influence of these factions!

Although Zhao Dongyun's control over the army is not weaker than Yuan Shikai's, he changed Chen Guangyuan from the position of the commander of the third division to the position of the commander of the thirteenth division, Chen Guangyuan didn't dare to let go of a fart, but even if people like Zhao Dongyun and Yuan Shikai are strong, they will not interfere in the struggle of these subordinates when they are fine, they just exist as an arbiter, and they will never personally go down to the game of power with their subordinates.

In fact, the appointment of many officers in the Feng army has a very strong smell of factional strife, even if the appointment power of senior generals above the infantry brigade has always been controlled by Zhao Dongyun personally, but to be honest, lowly people have too many ways to influence Zhao Dongyun's decision.

If the newly established garrison command has great real power, I am afraid that it will cause a struggle among factions within the Feng army, but at present, the garrison command, which only governs a few patrol regiments, is not worth fighting for those high-ranking army generals.

Zhao Dongyun didn't care too much about the thoughts of the people below, he continued: "In addition to the border defense task on land, this coastal defense task is not light! ”