Compared with the fierce competition for the positions of the fifth and sixth standards, the gunpowder smell of the competition for the six battalion officers is much lighter, and Zhao Dongyun also took the opportunity to push his two descendants up, one of which is Gu Lanyu, the former leader of the second battalion of the right wing of the Wuwei Right Army, and was recommended by Zhao Dongyun as the first battalion of the sixth standard this time.

The second is Lin Pingxiong, the former leader of the second battalion of the right wing of the Wuwei Right Army, who was recommended by Zhao Dongyun as the second battalion of the sixth standard.

In addition to the above six pipe belts and two command belts, a total of eight chief officers are more fiercely competitive, those deputy positions are rarely cared for, which is related to the fact that the deputy positions in the Beiyang system are not valued!

These deputy positions are not looked down upon by the bigwigs, but for Zhao Dongyun, it is a good place to arrange his subordinates, first, the grade of the position is high enough, it is very suitable for the transition, and they can also wait for the opportunity in the future, and when there is a vacant position, Zhao Dongyun can also run the position of chief official for them.

Second, putting one's descendants on the deputy position of the army can effectively contain those airborne officers, who knows if it will be Wang Yingkai or Feng Guozhang's people who will come, and if these people come over and fight with Zhao Dongyun, Zhao Dongyun also needs to ensure that someone can contain them.

Therefore, he put Kong Guanbei, the general office of the law enforcement section of the original newly built machine gun battalion, to the position of the fifth standard gang commander, and then Pei Lianying, the second battalion of the original new machine gun battalion, was transferred by him to the sixth standard as the gang commander.

In addition, more than a dozen descendants were also found from the original newly built machine gun battalion and the second battalion of the right wing of the Wuwei Right Army, some of whom served as battalion assistants and some as team officers.

Those bigwigs who want to fight for Zhao Dongyun have no way, and they tried their best to fight for two pipe positions, but Zhao Dongyun, who is the battalion leader, the team officers, and the platoon commanders below, is not polite, as long as it is his cronies, he will be promoted and appointed.

This is based on the control of the team and platoon levels, so as to empty those upcoming pipe bands and commanders.

When Zhao Dongyun appointed his cronies, it was natural that other people would come to him through various connections and want to seek real shortages.

In a certain restaurant in Baoding, as soon as Zhao Dongping entered, a man in a horse coat walked in: "Brother Zhao, Ren has missed the distance, please forgive me!" ”

Zhao Dongping said with a smile: "Brother Ren is in love, let's go, let's go in and talk!" ”

After the two of them entered, they chatted again, and Ren Zhengen said: "I can't hide it, brother, I am really living like a year on the vanguard side, although there is a name for a battalion management belt, but the big and small battalions are in charge." I heard that the Third Association of the Standing Army was newly established, and Commander Zhao was also a Beiyang talent admired by Ren, so I couldn't wait to immediately join Commander Zhao's subordinates to serve! ”

Zhao Dongping had already heard a lot of similar words, so Zhao Dongyun did not change color at all after hearing it, but picked up the teacup and took another sip to listen to Ren Zhengen continue.

Since Zhao Dongyun was appointed as the commander of the Third Association, as Zhao Dongyun's descendant, Zhao Dongping naturally followed Zhao Dongyun to serve in the Third Association, based on Zhao Dongping's low grade, and in order to pave a rapid promotion path for Zhao Dongping, he directly appointed him as the staff officer of the sixth standard regardless of Zhao Dongping's youth.

The grade of this standard staff officer is not high, and the deputy position in the Beiyang system has no real power, and the staff officer whose status is ranked after the deputy post has no real power, so this kind of appointment will not attract the attention of the superiors. After a year or two of such a transition, Zhao Dongyun can carry out the next step of operation and transfer Zhao Dongping to appoint a battalion management band.

However, although Zhao Dongping's position is an inconsequential standard staff officer, he is Zhao Dongyun's cousin, and this special relationship makes him Zhao Dongyun's spokesperson.

For example, many people who want to seek a position in the third association find Zhao Dongping here.

After all, it is difficult for Zhao Dongyun to decide the positions of the two commanders and the six pipes, but for the other deputy positions and low-level positions, it is Zhao Dongyun who has the final say, because this is the power of the commander of the association, and this power will not be shaken lightly even by Yuan Shikai.

Yuan Shikai can decide the wing commander and commander, and Duan Qirui and others can meddle in the commandership and management of the candidates, but the appointment power of the team officers will belong to Zhao Dongyun, the commander of the army.

Therefore, those officers who want to seek the position of the third assistant leader, team officer or even platoon commander have to come to Zhao Dongyun's way, and in fact, Zhao Dongyun is not something they can see when they meet, they also have to find Zhao Dongyun's close subordinates to pass on the word.

And Zhao Dongping is the most suitable person among them.

And the next day, Zhao Dongping appeared in Zhao Dongyun's mansion, and at the same time brought a list, and the people on this list were all middle and low-level officers who came to Zhao Dongping to operate during this time and wanted to be transferred to the Third Association. Of course, some of them said openly that they wanted to come to Zhao Dongyun, and some of them gave Zhao Dongping a few coins.

Zhao Dongyun looked at the list in his hand, some of the names on it were impressive, and some had never heard of it, but the only thing that was certain was that these people all wanted to serve in the Third Association.

Just as the Standing Army Zuozhen was established last year, and countless officers, including Zhao Dongyun at that time, wanted to squeeze in, after the establishment of the Third Association this year, there were also countless middle- and low-level officers who wanted to squeeze in.

This situation reminded Zhao Dongyun of last autumn, when he was running around like this, trying to enter the Standing Army Zuozhen to serve, but at that time, the Standing Army did not go, but instead got a position in the Right Army of Wuwei, which can be regarded as the sun not coming out of the east and the west.

A year can change a lot of things, a year ago, Duan Qirui was just an alternate prefect, just a third rank, but now he is an alternate Taoist, a second rank. And he has also been promoted from the fourth rank to the third grade, from the alternate governor to the alternate prefect, this official position is actually the same as last year's Duan Qirui!

And this is the benefit of the Beiyang army expansion to the Beiyang system, because Yuan Shikai's behavior of expanding the Beiyang army can make a group of Beiyang generals under him rise together.

"This Ren Zhengen is the eleventh phase of the martial arts student, although he has been idle in Shandong for a few years, but I think he is still quite talented in words!" After Zhao Dongping finished speaking, he said: "In addition, although this Hua Zhenji is younger, but he just came back from studying in Japan this year, but he is from Zhejiang, and he has not been able to get a position in Zhejiang Province after returning to China, so he has been working in Beijing, and he only found us a few days ago!" ”

When Zhao Dongyun heard this, his curiosity rose: "Non-commissioned officers and students studying in Japan? Li Zejun's classmates? ”

"It can't be said that it is a classmate, Li Tong is learning the step department, and this Hua Zhenji is learning the riding department!" Zhao Dongping explained.

"Those who learn cavalry, it's not that it's not very easy to arrange!" Zhao Dongyun muttered, but it was rare for a non-commissioned officer to serve in Japan, and he couldn't refuse directly, so he immediately put a tick on his name, let him be a standard staff officer first, and then arrange it later if he has the ability.

Zhao Dongyun chose more than a dozen people for this list, and Zhao Dongyun, who is basically capable, will not refuse, anyway, the Third Association is now short of a large number of officers, and experienced officers are urgently needed.

Throughout late September, Zhao Dongyun was busy recruiting troops and recruiting cronies everywhere, but he actually didn't do anything like reorganizing the old army, training the new army, and recruiting new soldiers.

At the beginning of October, after nearly half a month of competition, the appointment of the chief officials of the third association finally came to an end, and the factions of Duan Qirui and Zhao Dongyun, who were the first to support the preparation of the third association, were under the efforts of Duan Qirui, although they faced the attack of multiple factions, but still closed the positions of one leader and three pipe belts.

Chen Guangyuan, who is good friends with Feng Guozhang and has a good relationship with Wang Yingkai, overwhelmed many candidates for the unified belt, and eliminated Xu Bangjie, and was finally appointed as the fifth standard unified belt.

When Xu Bangjie was vetoed, Duan Qirui, who had no one to push, was mad on the spot, and he didn't elect anyone else, and directly drafted the third association to Yuan Shikai, the personnel arrangements have not been decided for a long time, and it is urgent to drag it down for fear that it will affect the training of the third association.

This mention made Wang Yingkai, Feng Guozhang and others eager to scold!

There is no one under your Duan Qirui to compete for this position, so you forcibly carry Zhao Dongyun out to occupy a position of commander, isn't this bullying the small, regardless of the rules, according to what you say, can I, Feng Guozhang, Wang Shizhen and others also pull down their faces to compete for Zhao Dongyun's position as commander?

If they all act like this, then won't the many rules of Beiyang be chaotic, don't you see a large number of middle-level officers staring at those limited command positions?

It's good that you Duan Qirui is here, and you have a part-time job!

Yuan Shikai has also been annoyed by the personnel appointment of the Third Association recently, for him, no matter which faction is the officer of the first faction, he is the descendant of Yuan someone, and there is no problem who should be the commander. But now that you are fighting and fighting, you don't agree with him, and he can't settle it for nearly half a month, so he doesn't want to continue to drag it out, so he agreed to Duan Qirui's construction on the spot.

After the two command positions were decided, several pipe belt positions also had their own belongings, Lin Pingxiong, who was recommended by Zhao Dongyun, served as the first battalion pipe band of the sixth standard, Gu Lanyushun, who was also a subordinate of Zhao Dongyun's descendants, was appointed as the second battalion pipe band of the sixth standard, and Liu Fu, recommended by Duan Qirui, also became the first battalion pipe band of the fifth standard, and the other three pipe band positions were divided by other factions.

and Feng Guozhang, who had the old Shi Congbin, served as the second battalion pipe band of the fifth standard.

Yang Baoshan, who took Wang Yingkai's door, got the fifth bid and the third battalion pipe belt.

As for the position of the third battalion of the sixth standard, it was obtained by Sun Hanchen, whose background is more complicated, and he has a distant relationship with Wang Yingkai, but he is also close to Wang Shizhen.

It's just worth noting that although one of the commanders and three of the pipes were divided among other factions, Zhao Dongyun took advantage of his third assistant commander to wantonly install deputy positions at all levels of troops and grassroots officers below the rank of team officer.

And this is the foundation of Zhao Dongyun's future management of the Third Association!

When the competition for important posts in the Third Association, which had been noisy for nearly half a month, came to an end, Zhao Dongyun turned his attention to the training of the new army.

And if you want to train the Third Association, then you have to dismantle those old armies first, otherwise you won't be able to free up enough military funds to train the Third Association, so the main task of Zhao Dongyun today is to cut the Huai Army Su Yi pro-army in the name of reorganization!