(Readers: Thanks to the book friend Feng Lei 99 pointed out, there is a common-sense historical knowledge error in the first few chapters, Macao is a Portuguese colony, not the Netherlands, the previous mistake was made, here to correct it, I hope readers understand, I will pay attention not to make the same mistake in the future)

After the Surabaya incident was resolved, under the investigation of Ma Boyang as the head of the task force, the case of Tao Chengzhang's assassination was finally found to Jiang Zhiqing and Wang Zhuqing, Jiang Zhiqing got the news in advance and gave up the post of commander of the Fifth Regiment of the Fifth Division of the Shanghai Army and hid, and then secretly left Shanghai for Japan under the arrangement of Chen Qimei, but Wang Zhuqing did not have such good luck, he originally got the news, but he was arrested by the task force because of some delays.

Wang Zhuqing was originally a member of the Restoration Association, and worked beside Tao Chengzhang, but Wang Zhuqing himself was born as a Jiangyang thief, greedy by nature, and a scoundrel became a habit, so he was often criticized and reprimanded by Tao Chengzhang, so he held a grudge, and it happened that Jiang Zhiqing was instructed by Chen Qimei to assassinate Tao Chengzhang, Jiang Zhiqing looked for an assassination opportunity for a long time and to no avail, but he accidentally learned the identity of Wang Zhuqing's Jiangyang thief, so he bought Wang Zhuqing and rumored that Tao Chengzhang was waiting for an opportunity to severely punish Wang Zhuqing, Wang Zhuqing believed it, He and Jiang Zhiqing plotted to assassinate Tao Chengzhang, and at two o'clock in the morning on January 14, the two sneaked into Guangci Hospital to assassinate Tao.

Before killing Tao Chengzhang, the two bumped into the nurse who changed the dressing for Tao Chengzhang, in order not to make a move, so the nurse was restrained and threatened not to be allowed to come out, knocked him unconscious, and then sneaked into the ward and fired a shot at Tao Chengzhang, the bullet hit the head, Tao died on the spot, after the gunshots came out, the hospital suddenly boiled, and the two fled in a panic, but forgot that the nurse who was knocked unconscious had met with them.

After the assassination, the nurse was worried that the murderer would be killed, so she quit her job in the hospital and hid, Jiang Zhiqing and Wang Zhuqing also remembered afterwards that they had forgotten the nurse as a witness, and they had also sent someone to look for it, but there was no result, when Ma Boyang took over the case and immediately launched an investigation, and found out that the nurse who had served Tao Chengzhang resigned on the second day of Tao's assassination, suspecting that the nurse was related to Tao's assassination, so they immediately sent someone to investigate his traces. Under her explanation, Jiang Zhiqing and Wang Zhuqing confessed.

Jiang Zhiqing fled, Wang Zhuqing was arrested, he was found by Jiang Zhiqing, and only confessed Jiang Zhiqing, but Jiang Zhiqing had fled, so the mastermind behind the case was not found in the end. After all, Jiang Zhiqing had fled abroad, and no one was caught, which meant that the case had not been solved in the end, and the provisional government could not afford to lose this person, so it could only put all the blame on Wang Zhuqing.

When the provisional government learned of the whole case, Sun Wen openly announced to the press that this was a bloody case of "revenge for personal gain" and "vendetta murder without authorization." He ordered: "Strictly investigate and arrest the murderers, so that the culprits can be arrested, and their crimes will be made clear, so as to vent the anger of the world." ”

Subsequently, Wang Zhuqing, who was rewarded with 3,000 yuan and 1,000 yuan respectively by the Zhejiang Military Government and the Shanghai Military Government, was arrested and executed shortly after. Xiao Zhenlei originally wanted to crack the case to the end and investigate and deal with the mastermind behind the scenes, but because of Jiang Zhiqing's escape, he had to give up this idea, Jiang Zhiqing had fled to Japan, and the provisional government was about to face revocation, so there was no extra energy to pursue the case, even if someone was sent to Japan to pursue it, the Japanese side would not necessarily assist or allow extradition, and maybe the person sent to chase the murderer would be in trouble, and the matter could only be stopped.

On March 6, after a long period of arguing, the guys in the provisional Senate finally couldn't stand Yuan Shikai's insistence, and finally compromised and allowed Yuan Shikai to take up the post of interim president in Beijing. In fact, on February 27, Cai Yuanpei and others went north to the capital to welcome Yuan Shikai to take up his post in the south, but Yuan Shikai has been prevaricating for various reasons, and the gang of people in the provisional Senate have also been dragged impatiently, so they can only reluctantly agree to Yuan Shikai's inauguration in the capital, and promise to set the capital in the capital. The dust settled on this matter, and many people finally reassured,

On March 10, Yuan Shikai officially assumed the post of provisional president of the Republic of China in Beijing, and the months-long confrontation between the north and the south finally ended.

On the 11th, Sun Wei promulgated the "Provisional Constitution of the Republic of China" before officially resigning from the post of the Nanjing Provisional Government, and the majority of the party members believed that with the provisional constitution, Yuan Shikai could be bound according to this law, but this would be doomed to failure.

On March 13, Yuan Shikai appointed Tang Shaoyi as premier in the name of provisional president, and according to the agreement, he appointed Xiao Zhenlei as the governor of East China, and the commander-in-chief of the military administration of Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, and Fujian. On the 15th, Zhang Guangjian was appointed by Yuan Shikai as the governor of Shandong to take up his post in Shandong.

After Xiao Zhenlei took office as governor of East China, he did not make major adjustments to the personnel of officials in the four provinces at first, and he first focused on the repatriation of troops from various provinces, which was slightly delayed by the Surabaya incident some time ago and the takeover of the Shanghai Public Concession.

Soon, Yuan Shikai decided to reorganize the national army, in order to reduce military spending, it was necessary to reduce a considerable part of the local army, according to the prior agreement, Yuan Shikai had to give Xiao Zhenlei the number and establishment of 12 divisions, these 12 divisions are the 21st Division of the Army to the 32nd Division of the Army.

After Sun Wen officially stepped down as the president of the provisional government and the Nanjing Provisional Senate decided to move the provisional government to Beijing, and the Yuan also moved to Beijing, Sun Wen established a left-behind government in Nanjing and appointed Huang Xing to help Xiao Zhenlei deal with the repatriation of troops from various provinces.

At this time, there were about 30,000 troops in the provinces outside Nanjing, most of these people did not have guns, and there was not much combat effectiveness at all, Xiao Zhenlei screened out the strong soldiers among these people, and obtained a total of 12,000 people, organized into a division, numbered the 32nd Division of the Army, and appointed Zhang Xiaozhun as the division commander.

After screening out the elite of the provincial army, the other dismissed people received their repatriation expenses and left Nanking one after another, and the matter was not completely concluded until late April.

Xiao Zhenlei set the East China Governor's Mansion in Nanjing, and moved the capital of Jiangsu from Suzhou to Nanjing, the first thing was to reorganize the army, and he originally had eight divisions in Jiangsu, five divisions in Shanghai, five divisions in Zhejiang, and one brigade in Jiangxi, with a total of 22 divisions and one brigade.

On the bright side, he had to dismantle some of these 22 divisions and one brigade and reorganize them into 12 integrated divisions, and the original 22 divisions and one brigade were all under the number except for a few divisions, and the total number was about 180,000. If it is reorganized into 12 divisions, more than 40,000 people will have to be abolished.

However, Xiao Zhenlei did not dismantle the troops, and after he completed the reorganization of the 12 divisions with official numbers, he reorganized the remaining 40,000 people into four reserve divisions, which were Jiangsu Reserve Division, Zhejiang Reserve Division, Jiangxi Reserve Division, and Fujian Reserve Division, which were stationed in these four provinces and scattered in counties and cities in each province as local garrisons.

The 12 divisions that have completed the reorganization and have official numbers will be scattered and deployed in four provinces, of which the 21st Army Division will be deployed in northern Jiangsu, the 22nd Division will be deployed in southern Jiangsu, the 23rd Division will be deployed in Nanjing, the 24th Division will be deployed in Shanghai, the 25th and 26th Divisions will be deployed in Zhejiang, the 27th, 28th, and 29th Divisions will be deployed in Fujian, and the 30th, 31st, and 32nd Divisions will be deployed in Jiangxi. These twelve divisions, together with four reserve divisions, totaled 192,000 men.

The army has completed the reorganization in the fastest possible time, and these armies already have a completed establishment, and the downsizing only needs to complete the replenishment of personnel and reappoint the officers and generals, and the 12 th division and the four reserve divisions with official numbers will immediately enter the state of retraining after completing the reorganization, after all, after the reorganization, the combat quality of the soldiers will be uneven, and only by quickly entering the reorganization can we restore the strongest combat effectiveness in the shortest possible time, and enter the training stage after the reorganization is completed. Xiao Zhenlei carried out a unified rearmament of all the armies under the jurisdiction of the East China Governor's Office, and unified the standard weapons and equipment.

All officers of the army under the jurisdiction of the East China Governor's Office are equipped with Zhenhua 1910 pistols as standard pistols, equipped to the platoon commander level, this pistol is based on the previous Browning 1911 pistol improvement, lethal, small, durable, convenient, small failure rate.

This pistol adopts a barrel short recoil automatic firing method, hinged money bank offset locking, a total length of 216 mm, a barrel length of 127 mm, a winding distance of 406 mm, a capacity of seven rounds, a muzzle velocity of 258 meters per second, a combat rate of fire of 35 rounds per minute, a caliber of 11.43 mm, and an effective range of 50 meters.

Non-commissioned officers and soldiers below the platoon commander are all equipped with Zhenhua 1909 rifles, which are based on the previous Mauser 98K, which is more than 20 years more advanced than the rifles of any country in the world today.

This rifle is a single-shot rifle, but there is no need to manually pull the bolt, the weight is 3.9 kg, the caliber is 7.92 mm, the length is 1100 mm, the barrel length is 600 mm, because there is no need to manually pull the bolt, the rate of fire can reach 60 rounds per minute, the effective range reaches a distance of 800 meters, the curved ruler, the V-shaped notched gate, and the inverted V-shaped crosshair.

In addition to a Zhenhua Type 1909 rifle, non-commissioned officers and soldiers are also equipped with bayonets, steel helmets, five grenades, a tactical backpack, a water bottle, an aluminum lunch box, and ammunition is allocated a base 200 rifle rounds in wartime. Each infantry squad is also staffed by a medic.

In addition to these basic weapons and equipment, each infantry squad was equipped with a Zhenhua Type 1911 light machine gun, which was an improved version of the Czech light machine gun of the previous life, with a total length of 1161 mm and a total weight of 9.60 kg. Barrel length: 672 mm. Gas-conductive automatic mode, with 4 rifling wires, right-hand rotation, and a winding distance of 240mm. The muzzle velocity is 830 m/s, the gauge shot is 1500 m, the rate of fire is 500 rounds per minute, the air-cooled barrel cooling method, the 30-round magazine feeding method, and the ammunition used is 7.92×57mm rifle cartridge, which can be used with Zhenhua 1909 rifle cartridges.

In an infantry platoon, in addition to one light machine gun per squad, each platoon is equipped with a heavy machine gun squad and a grenadier squad, armed with one heavy machine gun and four grenadiers, and the firepower of such an infantry platoon can be called powerful.

The heavy machine gun used by the army under Xiao Zhenlei is an improvement from the Makqin heavy machine gun, which adopts the air-cooled heat dissipation method, and can also use artificial water-cooled heat dissipation when the combat is frequent, and on the basis of the original Makqin heavy machine gun, an all-steel bulletproof baffle is installed to protect the safety of the shooter.

In the company-level combat unit, in addition to the above combat equipment, there is also a mortar platoon with a total of six mortars, in addition to a medical squad, seven doctors and nurses.

Battalion-level combat units have increased the number of baggage companies, reconnaissance platoons, and guard platoons, and since the firepower of platoon-level and company-level combat units is already strong enough, there is no need for battalion-level combat units to add heavy weapons combat units.

Regiment-level combat units are assigned chief of staff and chief of political department to the regiment commander to assist the regiment commander in managing, training, and commanding the army.

In addition to the three infantry regiments, division-level combat units have added intelligence sections, staff offices, guard battalions, cavalry regiments, howitzer regiments, quartermaster departments, training offices, political security departments, field hospitals, and other departments.

In Xiao Zhenlei and Jiang Baili's plan, the division-level combat unit in peacetime is the basic tactical unit of the highest military establishment, and in the event of a war, a campaign and tactical combat unit at the army level can be set up in order to meet the needs, with two or three divisions forming one army, and if necessary, a group army can be formed, and two armies or three corps can be organized into a group army.

At the end of April and the beginning of May, the Nanjing Provisional Government and the Provisional Senate had all moved north to Beiping, and the responsibilities of the Nanjing Garrison had been fulfilled and had to be dissolved.

There are no longer units that can restrain Xiao Zhenlei, and those constitutionalists, old bureaucrats, and members of the league who are bent on climbing up have basically gone to Beiping, including Bai Wenwei, Lin Shuqing and others who were originally in Xiao Zhenlei's army, and they also found a way to join the army under the Beiping Provisional Government, among which Bai Wenwei was transferred to Anhui and Lin Shuqing was transferred to Shandong, all of whom were separated from the ranks of the army under Xiao Zhenlei's jurisdiction.

It turned out that the Third Division and the Fifth Division of the Shanghai Army were all composed of gang members, their military discipline was relatively poor, and their tactics were much worse than those of the trained army, and they were all abolished in this reorganization. The 4th Division Li Yingshi joined the Iron and Blood National Salvation Party, and in the process of this reorganization, his 4th Division was retained, and he himself did not lose his position.

As a result of this reorganization, all the officers and generals in the armed forces who came from gangs and party associations were eliminated from the army, and some of them were given posts in other local governments, while others did not earn anything. R1152