In the process of Duan Qirui, Wang Yingkai, and Feng Guozhang fighting for the right control of the Beiyang Standing Army, Duan Qirui, Feng Guozhang, and Wang Yingkai are considered to be the big guys standing behind the scenes, although they will also take action in person, but they are only limited to the strategic level, such as the appointment of middle and senior officers in the right town.

For Zhao Dongyun and Chen Guangyuan, they are the specific commanders in this war, commanding the army on the front line and fighting each other.

However, for Gu Baoyu, Liu Fufu, Shi Congbin and others, they are just chess pieces in this battle, and they are chess pieces with no independent ability.

Liu Fufu, who came out of the Fifth Standard Commander, had a bitter face, because Chen Guangyuan told him just now that the specific affairs of the reorganization of the Su Yi pro-army would be carried out by him, and the young and strong soldiers after the reorganization of the Su Yi pro-army would also be transferred to his first battalion.

The reorganization of Su Yi's pro-army was a troublesome matter from beginning to end, not long ago, those officers in Su Yi's pro-army wanted to coerce the soldiers to make a rebellion, although the rebellion had not yet started and was suppressed by Zhao Dongyun, and the military attaches who participated in it were arrested, but the remaining soldiers were not so easy to deal with.

Even after Su Yi's pro-army is reorganized, then many young men selected will join his first battalion, and it will definitely not be an easy task to train these old fritters-like soldiers at that time.

Thinking of this, how could Liu Fu's face get better!

This was originally a matter assigned to the three battalion leaders of the fifth standard, but now all of them have been pushed down on him, which has to make Liu Fu sigh unlucky.

However, he thought he was unlucky, but he didn't complain: This is the war between Zhao Dongyun and Chen Guangyuan, how can you pull me in!

Because he knows very well that this war is not only a war between Zhao Dongyun and Chen Guangyuan, but also himself, Gu Lanyu, Lin Yongquan and others are also involved, who made him a member of Duan Qirui's faction, and who made him rely on Duan Qirui's promotion behind his back to obtain the position of the first battalion manager of the fifth standard.

Since he took refuge in Duan Qirui, and since he obtained this position through Duan Qirui's recommendation, then he must have the ability to withstand the blows of the enemies of his faction.

It's just that this kind of bearing must also have a degree, and today's events obviously exceed his Liu Fufu's ability to bear.

With a bitter face, he soon saw Zhao Dongyun, and when he told the matter from beginning to end, Zhao Dongyun was slightly surprised when he arrived.

This Chen Guangyuan has some means, and he shirked the responsibility all of a sudden, and pushed it back to Liu Fufu of his own faction.

At this moment, Zhao Dongyun was a little suspicious that Duan Qirui's decision to insist on sending Liu Fu to the fifth bid was right or wrong.

At the beginning, when many factions competed for the positions of the third association, Duan Qirui and Zhao Dongyun promoted Gu Lanyu, Lin Pingxiong, and Liu Fufu to compete for the position of the pipe band, and when they competed for the head of the camp, considering that Zhao Dongyun also served as the sixth standard commander, Zhao Dongyun was to operate the sixth bid as his own territory, and left Gu Lanyu and Lin Pingxiong in the sixth bid. However, on the other hand, in order to contain Chen Guangyuan, Duan Qirui sent Liu Fu to the first battalion of the fifth standard to serve as a pipe band.

Speaking of which, the nature of this Liu Fu is similar to Chen Guangyuan, Chen Guangyuan is here to contain Zhao Dongyun, and Liu Fu is sent to contain Chen Guangyuan.

It's just that what Zhao Dongyun didn't expect was that this Liu Fu hadn't played a role in containing Chen Guangyuan, so Chen Guangyuan hit him into explosives and kicked him back at Zhao Dongyun's feet, so that Zhao Dongyun was not good to save it, and it was not good not to save it.

With the ability of Liu Fu and a few of his subordinates alone, it is almost impossible to reorganize the Su Yi pro-army. In addition, if all the young men after the reorganization of Su Yi's pro-army were stuffed into him, then Liu Fufu's first battalion might be very tragic.

In this case, if Zhao Dongyun helps Liu Fuyuan, he is actually helping Chen Guangyuan, because the reorganization of Su Yi's pro-army is not only Liu Fuyuan's business, but also Chen Guangyuan's business.

Zhao Dongyun pondered for a moment, and then said to Liu Fu: "The reorganization of Su Yi's pro-army still has to be completed, and it is not good to explain." In this way, I asked Ren Zhengen to be your assistant in the past, he is an old military student, and he has also served in the Huai Army, and there is still a set of ways to deal with those Huai Army ruffians! ”

Ren Zhengen was newly joined to serve under Zhao Dongyun, served in the Huai Army in his early years, and later went to serve in the vanguard of the Shandong Wuwei Right Army, and the vanguard of the Wuwei Right Army was a new army reorganized from the old army in Shandong, so it can be said that Ren Zhengen still has some experience in the reorganization of the old army.

Zhao Dongyun then said: "As for the young and strong Su Yi pro-army after the reorganization, don't be busy adding to your first battalion first, I have other arrangements!" ”

It is nothing to help Liu Fu reorganize Su Yi's pro-army, although this one failed to pit Chen Guangyuan, but there will be many similar opportunities in the future, and it is not bad for this time.

And let Liu Fu leave Su Yi's pro-army young men first, this is not to say that he wants to help Liu Fu, but Zhao Dongyun planned to disperse these young men into the third battalion of the fifth standard from the beginning, although there is some disgusting Chen Guangyuan's idea here, but he also thinks that dispersing and integrating these old army young men into it is conducive to quickly digesting them.

However, Chen Guangyuan went against his will and wanted to put all these young men into the first battalion of the fifth standard, whether it was public or private, Zhao Dongyun couldn't bear it.

It seems that we have to find an opportunity to knock on this Chen Guangyuan, so that he knows that it is okay to make small moves, but it must not affect the overall training progress of the Third Association, otherwise the board will be beaten down mercilessly.

After sending Liu Fufu away, Zhao Dongyun called Lin Yongquan again to talk about it.

Lin Yongquan said: "We also said that we should unify recruitment and training, and now we can't directly order those young and strong soldiers to be divided equally among the three battalion leaders of the fifth standard, otherwise I am afraid there will be criticism." ”

"My lord, didn't you say that you want to establish a recruit training camp, I think you can take these young men of the Su Yi pro-army as the first batch of recruits to fill the new barracks, and then allocate them to the fifth standard and third battalion after a month of initial training, so that the people below will have nothing to say!"

Zhao Dongyun nodded after hearing this: "This is a method, just do what you say!" It's just that if you want to do this, the new barracks will also be set up in advance, and you have to do it quickly! ”

Lin Yongquan said: "The barracks of the recruit training camp are the barracks of the machine gun battalion that we built before, and we are also familiar with the training of recruits, rest assured, there will be no delays!" ”

"You will be fully responsible for this new barracks, and I will transfer you one by one for the lack of personnel, and strive to build the new barracks as soon as possible!" Zhao Dongyun said.

He still feels more at ease about Lin Yongquan's training ability, just as Yuan Shikai trusts Zhao Dongyun's training ability, Zhao Dongyun also trusts Lin Yongquan's training ability.

Since last year, Lin Yongquan has been training machine gun battalions with him, from one team at the beginning, to one battalion, and then to three battalions, it can be said that Lin Yongquan is responsible for most of the training work of the three newly built machine gun battalions of the Beiyang Army.

If it weren't for Lin Yongquan's ability to train troops, Zhao Dongyun would not have appointed him as a staff officer of the Third Association, this position may be a combat staff officer with no real power in other places, but Lin Yongquan is different, in the Third Association he is in the name of a staff officer, but he is also the general office of the recruit battalion of the Third Association, responsible for the recruitment and training of recruits of the Third Association.

The new barracks, this is not a formal organization or combat unit under the Third Association, and there are no three words in the official establishment of the Third Association, but the Third Association was created, and although the Third Association is scheduled to be assigned to the right town of the Beiyang Standing Army, in fact, the right town of the Beiyang Standing Army still only exists in the head of the people, and it has not yet been officially established.

Therefore, strictly speaking, the current Third Association is not under the jurisdiction of the Military Department of the Beiyang Standing Army, but directly under the jurisdiction of the Beiyang Military and Political Department.

Therefore, the temporary Third Association is actually an independent unit, and the independent unit has the advantage of being an independent unit, that is, no one cares about it, and Zhao Dongyun can do whatever he likes in this Third Association, and others can't take care of it.

However, there are also disadvantages, for example, there are no various departments and institutions to solve all kinds of problems in the process of military training, and Zhao Dongyun has to handle the affairs of the Third Association's staff officers, supervision, law enforcement, food, ordnance, and military doctors. What's even more annoying is that according to the formal establishment of the Third Association, these institutions cannot be established, so Zhao Dongyun can only set up similar institutions in private, and then use officers at all levels to serve as officers.

For example, Zhao Dongping, his official position is the sixth standard staff officer, but he is also responsible for ordnance affairs within the Third Association, and he also has an unjustifiable name, that is, the General Office of the Ordnance Section of the Third Association.

Another example is Lin Yongquan, his official position is the staff officer of the Third Association, but within the Third Association, he also serves as the general office of the recruit battalion and the general office of the supervision and operation section.

However, these positions of the General Office of the Ordnance Section, the General Office of the Recruit Battalion, and the General Office of the Supervision and Exercise Section were not officially recognized, and basically only Zhao Dongyun's verbal promises were made.

These verbal positions are not officially recognized, and those private institutions, such as this recruit camp, naturally have no official purpose.

In order to form a unified recruitment and training within the Third Association, Zhao Dongyun sent his own officers of the lineage to go out to recruit soldiers, and after recruiting the soldiers, he was also preparing for unified training, and he would only send them to various battalions after the training of the new recruits.

In order to train recruits, Zhao Dongyun also specially set up a recruit camp, with Lin Yongquan as the general office, and then dispatched many senior officers to assist in the operation.

The training in the recruit camp is actually very simple, basically it is to teach the queue, distinguish the left and right, simple shooting, fighting, etc., and the most important thing during the recruit camp is actually to supplement the nutrition and enhance the physical fitness of the recruits.

Limited by the general lack of nutrition absorption of people in this era, even if the physical fitness of recruits is emphasized when recruiting recruits, these recruits who can't eat a few pieces of meat all year round even if they look tall and big, but their actual physical fitness is slightly better than ordinary people, and the requirements of the new army soldiers are still relatively large.

Therefore, the first thing these recruits should do is to eat more to meet the physical requirements, and when the soldiers have good physical fitness, it is time for follow-up high-intensity training!

If you talk about high-intensity tactical training as soon as the soldiers are recruited, it won't take a few days for those soldiers to die half of them!

When Zhao Dongyun was busy compiling and training the Third Association, the Fuyuan Machinery Factory, which had placed the hopes of many high-level Beiyang leaders, also began to accept the equipment from Germany one after another, and began to carry out preliminary trial production.