Zhao Dongyun's many behaviors in order to concentrate and consolidate his military power also led to the fact that the organizational structure of the contemporary Feng army is different from that of other warlords in China and even the troops of the later powers.

Under such circumstances, even if Yang Deming, the head of the Operations Division, was actually responsible for commanding the entire Feng army's entry operation, Yang Deming's authority was limited to formulating battle plans, and he had no power over the rest.

For example, on today's matter of replenishing battle damage, Yang Deming could only report to the three major departments of the Ministry of Education, the Ordnance Department, and the Quartermaster Department according to the battle plan, and let them give priority to supplementing the Third Division, followed by supplementing the Tenth Division. As for how to supplement the above three parts, and how long it will take to complete the supplement, it is not Yang Deming's business.

But today Zhao Dongyun opened his mouth to ask, and Yang Deming also had to bite the bullet and said: "In the past half a month, our army has suffered a lot of losses, and all departments have suffered losses, and the recruits from the Ministry of Education were originally prepared for the first division and the first mixed brigade and the second mixed brigade of the provincial army to stay outside the pass, but now the customs are temporarily tense, so two thousand recruits were transferred to the customs to supplement the various departments, of which the third division was given priority. Although there are a lot of Japanese-made guns seized in terms of ordnance, we have no shortage of guns, so we do not use them, and heavy machine guns are often captured by various units and kept on the spot, and the artillery is similar. However, our army consumed a lot of ordnance, and continued to replenish new ordnance, and this new ordnance was also given priority to replenish the third division, followed by the tenth division. ”

Zhao Dongyun also thought secretly after hearing this, the problem of recruits is fine in peacetime, but there are not enough recruits to fight, although there are tens of thousands of recruits in the recruit camp, but these are all prepared for the preparation of the first division, the first mixed brigade, and the second mixed brigade of the provincial army, and now that the recruits are transferred to the Guannai troops, then the planned time for the formation of the first division and two mixed brigades of the provincial army is estimated to be postponed again.

However, at this time, he also thought of the more than 5,000 soldiers of the direct army who were captured not long ago, although some of these soldiers were recruits of the 12th Division, but more of them were recruits of the 1st Mixed Brigade, and this 1st Mixed Brigade was split from the 1st Division, and most of the soldiers were old Beiyang soldiers in Yuan Shikai's era.

Immediately, he said: "Later, you will send a message to the Ministry of Education, and ask them to screen the prisoners on the Tangshan side, and those non-commissioned officers and soldiers who are willing to join our army will be allowed to join our army, and properly arrange for all units." Those who are unwilling to join our army will continue to let them work as coolies! ”

Yang Deming consciously changed his identity from the chief of the operations department to the role of secretary and adjutant at this time, and immediately took out a pen and paper shorthand and wrote it down, and then said: "What about those officers?" ”

"The words of the officers should be treated differently!" Zhao Dongyun said: "Those captain-level officers who are willing to surrender to our army will be sent to Fengtian Military Academy for adaptability training, and then distributed!" ”

"Those who are willing to surrender to the colonel and above can first be arranged to enter the headquarters and serve as staff officers in various divisions and brigades!"

"As for those officers who are unwilling to join our army, they will be placed under house arrest and told them that they will regain their freedom when the war is understood, in short, later!"

Yang Deming said again: "What about General Bao Guiqing, how to deal with it?" ”

Yang Deming talked about this Bao Guiqing, and Zhao Dongyun also felt that it was a little headache to deal with!

In these years, there was no life-and-death hatred between the Beiyang warlords, to put it bluntly, it was just a simple struggle for power and profit, which was similar to the civil court struggle in the former Qing Dynasty, the difference was that those civil officials used various means to play conspiracy, and these Beiyang generals directly commanded the troops to fight each other.

Based on this general environment, Zhao Dongyun is relatively tolerant of the surrendered direct army, and the soldiers who are willing to join will accept it directly, and the unwilling soldiers will be coolies first, and they will be let go when the war is over, and the officers will also accept it generously, not because the Feng army lacks officers, but for a reputation that shows that they give preferential treatment to the surrendering personnel.

To tell the truth, Zhao Dongyun is not too lacking in ordinary officers, what he lacks is the officers of Gao Suzhì, the scale of the army officer school in the three eastern provinces under Zhao Dongyun has exceeded the Beiyang Military Academy, the Beiyang Military Academy and the Fengtian Military Academy are also the same as the name changes, not to mention the previous ones, the school was taken over by Wang Yingkai after the republic last year, in order to show that the northern republican government is China's orthodoxy, the only government and the like, but also to be different from the army military schools in the three eastern provinces, so it was renamed 'Central Army Military Academy'. However, just as the world calls the Army Military Academy of the three eastern provinces Fengtian Military Academy, the world still calls this Central Army Military Academy more often than 'Beiyang Military Academy' and 'Baoding Military Academy'.

Zhao Dongyun, who has the Fengtian Military Academy under his command, actually does not lack many combat officers in the low-level infantry department, cavalry department, and artillery department, and relatively speaking, Zhao Dongyun lacks some technical officers under his command, such as officers in the baggage, communications, engineering and other sections. In addition to these technical officers, Zhao Dongyun's subordinates also lacked high-level military talents, that is, those who had undergone a higher military education, and simply put, there was a lack of these talents who graduated from the Japanese Army University and the Berlin Military Academy.

However, there are not many technical officers and high-ranking officers in the whole of China, and Zhao Dongyun relied on various technical crash courses at the Fengtian Military Academy to solve this problem, and also opened advanced courses.

As for those captured officers, to be honest, most of the officers are dispensable to Zhao Dongyun, but in order to be able to surrender the enemy in the future, Zhao Dongyun still has to make a gesture of buying a horse's bones, as long as he is willing to surrender, he will accept it.

As for a senior general like Bao Guiqing, Zhao Dongyun is not easy to arrange!

The family surrendered with more than 3,000 people, and Bao Guiqing also made it clear that he wanted to continue to fight for the great cause of the republic, to put it bluntly, he didn't want to be like Feng Guozhang and those people last year, and directly telegraphed to go to the field to be a public servant. Accepting Bao Guiqing is certain, the question is how to arrange it!

If it is low, if you make a false position, everyone is not stupid and can see it at a glance, and Zhao Dongyun will not expect to be able to recruit other senior generals in the future, if it is high, then the generals within the Feng army, especially those colonels and lieutenant colonels who are waiting to be promoted to brigade commander and chief of staff, will also have opinions, they have not been promoted until now, you Bao Guiqing was beaten by us to surrender The goods will gain importance as soon as they come over, how do you let the generals of the Feng army deal with themselves?

At this time, Yang Deming said: "The ministry has an opinion!" ”

"Oh?" Zhao Dongyun said: "Say! ”

"At this juncture, arranging General Bao to serve in the rear may have a bad impact on the follow-up, and he will be directly transferred to various units to take up real positions, I am afraid that many people below will also have opinions, and there are many prisoners in Tangshan who surrender to Cheng, although most of them are willing to join our army, but to be honest, these soldiers are too different from the soldiers from the new barracks of our army, not only do they not understand their language habits, but also the tactical training they received in the past is also different, and it is difficult to integrate into the existing units of our army. Our army sent a large number of middle- and low-level officers to serve as the commanders of various departments, and Bao Guiqing continued to serve as the brigade commander. ”

After hearing this, Zhao Dongyun thought about it carefully for a long time, and only said after a while: "This idea is feasible!" ”

Immediately, he just raised his hand to let Yang Deming go out, and he had to find Fang Biyong and Meng Enyuan to talk to them about this matter, but these people did not have any objections, anyway, the new formation was a captive unit, and there was no need to transfer their troops, so they naturally had no opinion, of course, it was very important that this newly established brigade, and it was a mixed brigade, then it was equivalent to many more company commanders, battalion commanders, and regiment commanders, although Zhao Dongyun planned to set up a mixed brigade with captured soldiers and Bao Guiqing, But he didn't plan to arrange the captured officers as well, although those captured officers also accepted them, but they either arranged to return to the Fengtian Military Academy to retake or arrange them to serve in other units, and the arrangements for them were naturally how convenient and how to come, after all, they were not Bao Guiqing, and outsiders would not stare at Zhao Dongyun with wide eyes How to arrange them.

As long as the officer is his own person, even if the soldier is a prisoner, Bao Guiqing is also a surrendered general, then it is enough for Zhao Dongyun to control the department.

After Zhao Dongyun's repeated orders, the more than 5,000 prisoners in Tangshan reinstated their numbers, that is, the First Mixed Brigade of the Central Army, Bao Guiqing still served as the brigade commander, but the regiment commanders below to the platoon commanders were almost all newly transferred officers from the Fengjun.

As for how much combat effectiveness can be exerted, it is another matter, but when Bao Guiqing issued a telegram scolding Wang Yingkai for violating the republican constitution and provoking a civil war, and declared that the First Mixed Brigade would soon join the front-line war and fight for the republic, everyone in the world knew that this Bao Guiqing had completely thrown himself into Zhao Dongyun.

"When Huanxizhuang was besieged, I knew that the First Mixed Brigade would be defeated and surrendered!" Wang Yingkai was angry again, his fat body was a little unstable, and he sat down again after staggering: "But I didn't expect him to be so disgraceful!" ”

Bao Guiqing's surrender in Huanxizhuang, in fact, Wang Yingkai, Lu Yongxiang and others are acceptable, after all, it was Lu Yongxiang who ordered him to give up, Bao Guiqing turned around and ran, otherwise Bao Guiqing would not have completely fallen into the encirclement and was finally forced to surrender the whole brigade.

But surrender is surrender, after all, this is defeat, it is understandable that Bao Guiqing surrendered for the lives of him and thousands of brothers, but what Wang Yingkai didn't expect was that after Bao Guiqing surrendered, he turned around and gave Zhao Dongyun his life.

not only re-branded the signboard of the First Mixed Brigade with great fanfare, but also openly issued a telegram scolding himself!

This made Wang Yingkai deeply shocked, because Bao Guiqing is not an ordinary person, but he is not an ordinary general and leader who is not very important in the direct army, but one of the backbone generals of the direct army in the eyes of outsiders.

In the contemporary direct army system, Wang Yingkai is undoubtedly the leading boss, so the second place is not Lu Yongxiang, but Wang Zhanyuan, followed by Lu Yongxiang, then Bao Guiqing, and then Zhu Panzao and others. The top four people in this power ranking surrendered, but when they turned around, they completely took refuge in Zhao Dongyun, and then became inseparable from Wang Yingkai, which made Wang Yingkai say that he was deeply hit.