Yang Deming said: "The opinion of the Operations Department is that we should expand the army by three more divisions, so that we can maintain a minimum of military control!" ”

This is equivalent to not saying it, if he can expand the army, he Yang Deming will still use him, Zhao Dongyun would have ordered the expansion of the army a long time ago.

According to the areas currently controlled by the Soviet system, including the three eastern provinces and the northeastern region of Zhili, hundreds of thousands of square kilometers, plus the enemy on three sides, this minimum military deployment requires at least 150,000 or even 200,000 troops, and relying on the 50,000 Feng troops under the Soviet system cannot meet this huge demand at all.

Therefore, Yang Deming's statement that he would expand the army by three divisions is also based on this consideration, but this idea is only purely from a military point of view, and in fact, it is not the military needs that affect the number of troops in the three eastern provinces, but the financial capacity.

With the current financial situation of the three eastern provinces, it will be extremely difficult to fully fill the existing three divisions and five brigades and maintain them; if we want to expand the army by three divisions, even if we sell all the generals present, we will not be able to get enough money

Seeing that he fell into silence, Xu Bangjie on the side also spoke: "Don't we still have a patrol officer with a little 20,000?" I think they can be used! ”

It's just that as soon as he talked about the patrol police, Cao Kun on the side just said: "I have personally seen the patrol police regiment stationed in Shenyang, as well as the patrol police battalion stationed in Liaoyang, to be honest, this patrol police is barely usable to suppress bandits, but it is too reluctant to let them fight against Japan and Russia!" ”

The patrol police that the three eastern provinces now retain, including the patrol police of Fengtian Province and the patrol police of Heilongjiang and Jilin Provinces in the middle of the reorganization, mainly come from the reorganization of the old army, including the training army, the thief hunting battalion, the patrol battalion and other old-style troops.

Due to the scarcity of additional expenditures, the salaries of the soldiers were extremely low, far less than those of the regular army, and some kind of Cheng dù was also to stabilize the original soldiers of the old army, so the soldiers in the patrol force were many old and weak. Most of the weapons used were old-fashioned single-shot rifles, and there were no machine guns or artillery.

The only thing that is slightly better is the Fengtian Second Patrol Regiment stationed in Jinzhou, they are equipped with new rifles of the Japanese 30-year type, and the reason why they can be equipped with new rifles is because Zhao Dongyun has more or less obtained nearly 1,000 Japanese-style 30-year-old rifles in the process of reorganizing the old army in the three eastern provinces, and in the Russo-Japanese War, there are more or less more than 1,000 Japanese-style rifles, these rifles cannot be equipped with field troops because of different calibers and models, but they are new repeating rifles, and it is not a matter of rusting in the warehouse. In addition, there is also a production line of Japanese-style bullets at the Fuyuan Machine Qì Factory, so this batch of Japanese-style rifles is assigned to the Second Patrol Police Regiment.

At this time, Lin Yongquan also frowned and said: "Although there are a lot of people in this patrol force, most of the sergeants are old and weak, and most of the generals are old-style officers, and most of the guns are old-fashioned single-mounted rifles. ”

However, Xu Bangjie said: "I once said that let them go to the battlefield and fight hard with Japan and Russia, now that our field troops are in short supply, they naturally have to be used in critical places, and some inland places do not need to deploy field troops, and replace them with patrol police." In this way, a lot of field troops can be freed up! ”

Zhao Dongyun listened to the lower crowd and then spoke, and after looking around, he also spoke.

"The defense of the north, south and west must be set up no matter what!" Zhao Dongyun said as he spoke, thinking about it in his mind: "In this way, the Ninth Division will be transferred to Harbin to garrison!" ”

"Cao Kun, you take the Fifth Mixed Brigade to Anton!"

"The 10th Division has been transferred to garrison, and the division headquarters and main force are stationed in Shenyang!"

"The Second Cavalry Brigade is stationed in Liaoyang!"

After Zhao Dongyun finished speaking, he looked back at the military map behind him, and then flipped through the report on the patrol police in his hand, and then continued: "Now the patrol police are too scattered, although the equipment is slightly outdated, but it should still assume more important responsibilities, so that the remaining six patrol police battalions in Fengtian will continue to be combined into two patrol police regiments, and the eighteen patrol police battalions in Heilongjiang and Jilin provinces will also be combined into six patrol police regiments.

The first patrol regiment is still stationed in Shenyang, the second patrol regiment is still stationed in Jinzhou, and the third patrol regiment is stationed in Huludao! In the rest of the patrol regiments, Harbin, Changchun, Zhaowuda League, Suifen, and Manchuria all need to be garrisoned one by one. ”

Zhao Dongyun has always liked to act arbitrarily and arbitrarily about these important military affairs, and he knows this very well The Soviet generals have also used the word 'construction yì' many times in their meetings before, especially Yang Deming, the chief of the operations section who formulated a detailed battle plan, and never said the word 'decision', although in fact the operations and defense affairs are all handled by the operations section, but at least on the surface, these decisions are made by Zhao Dongyun himself, and the subordinate sections of the staff department only provide all kinds of construction.

In the above deployment, although Harbin went to a ninth division, the current ninth division still lacks an infantry brigade and an artillery battalion, and the total strength is less than 10,000 people. Anton went to Cao Kun's Fifth Mixed Brigade, and Cao Kun's Fifth Mixed Brigade had only been in the army for more than a month, with only one infantry standard and two teams of artillery, and he was also dissatisfied with the soldiers.

The situation is better only in the areas of Yingkou and Liaoyang and Shenyang, and the 10th Division is relatively complete, and there is also a 2nd Cavalry Brigade

Due to the scarcity of troops in the above directions, a large number of auxiliary troops are needed to fill certain vacancies, which is why Zhao Dongyun decided to further integrate the patrol police.

No matter how you say it, the patrol is also a kind of army, although the combat effectiveness is a little scummy, but this war is not good, and when the time comes, after arriving at the station, it is barely possible to dig fortifications in peacetime, and to undertake logistics escort and garrison secondary fronts in wartime.

"After the patrol police are dispatched, it may have a certain impact on local public security, so you are all ready to prepare for the work of suppressing bandits, especially the large number of bandits in Heilongjiang and Jilin provinces must not be tolerated, I hope to see the initial results within three months!"

There are many bandits in the Northeast, and since he was stationed in Jinzhou, Zhao Dongyun has often suppressed bandits, on the one hand, it is to clean up local security, on the other hand, it is also to allow soldiers to see blood and increase a little actual combat experience, of course, if you are lucky, you can also catch more than 100,000 taels of silver.

Now the Su family has a big business, and the hundreds of thousands of taels of silver that are just a drop in the bucket for them, but something is better than nothing, no matter how small the mosquito is, it is meat!

"In addition, the Mongolian steppe cannot be relaxed, the work of suppressing bandits must go deep into Mongolia to solve the security threat for the local herdsmen, and the Mongolian steppe area in the west is safe, so that we can recruit more cavalry from there and buy more war horses!"

Compared with other warlords in China, in fact, Zhao Dongyun's greatest advantage is not artillery or infantry, but cavalry troops!

In contemporary China, there is only one Soviet brigade with cavalry brigades.

Before entering the customs, the Soviet Department had nine fully established cavalry regiments, and now the cavalry units have been expanded and rectified for several months, and although some units have also been weakened, the six cavalry regiments of the two cavalry brigades are still fully manned, and the other three divisional cavalry regiments have also successively supplemented the cavalry units, and at the same time, they have also been organized into three cavalry companies belonging to mixed brigades.

In addition, the patrol police also reorganized the old army through guò, and reorganized three patrol cavalry battalions.

In addition to some of Zhao Dongyun's cavalry recruited in the northeast, they mainly came from the herdsmen on the Mongolian steppe.

At present, the total number of cavalry under Zhao Dongyun has reached nearly 7,000, with 10,000 horses on horseback, and the cavalry strength is second only to the Cossack cavalry in the Russian Far East, and more than the cavalry troops stationed in Korea in Japan.

This cavalry advantage Zhao Dongyun can't give up lightly!

With the deployment of the three major lines of defense and the progress of the topic of suppressing bandits, the sky gradually darkened!

"Let's talk about it here today, the rest of the topics will be handed over by the staff tomorrow with a detailed report, and you all go back first!" This military affairs can never be said, Zhao Dongyun did not plan to drag all the generals in Shenyang, many of the generals here are going to lead the army to go to various places to station, for example, after Meng Enyuan hurriedly returned to Shenyang this time, he will have to rush back to Yuguan tomorrow, otherwise, once something happens in the Yuguan defense area, it will not be a good thing that he, the supreme commander, is not there.

After driving this group of generals out, Zhao Dongyun was already hanging up when he returned to the backyard!

Li Wan listened to the big belly and stepped forward to take Zhao Dongyun's coat, but Zhao Dongyun said: "Don't move around if your body is inconvenient!" ”

Li Wan smiled, then took the coat and hung it on the hanger, and then said: "Why is it so late, this is only the first day in Shenyang, and those adults outside are also ignorant, and they won't let you rest for a day first!" ”

Zhao Dongyun took her hand and walked to the table: "It's all some urgent matters, it's been delayed for a day, and the people below are afraid that they will complain!" ”

Maybe a lot of military and political affairs are just trivial affairs for Zhao Dongyun, but for many people, it is a major matter related to the future and the life of the family, such as the affairs of Yingkou Industrial Zone, for Zhao Dongyun, it may be a matter of two sentences, but this matter is already a springboard for advancing to the core of the Soviet Union in Zhou Ziqi's heart, and he wants to do a good job to get Zhao Dongyun's reuse.

The next day, Zhao Dongyun got up a little late, and when he got up, the sun was hanging high, and as soon as he was on the table, Steward Xu brought up the newspaper that had been ironed.

"Master, Director Li has arrived!"

Zhao Dongyun said: "He's been waiting for a long time, let him come in first!" ”

In the past, Zhao Dongyun got up early, and Li San, as Zhao Dongyun's head of the secretariat, basically Zhao Dongyun and the same rest time, basically waited at seven o'clock every day, and then accompanied Zhao Dongyun to start the day's work, now look at the time is close to nine o'clock, then Li San waited for an hour and a half in the side hall outside!

Not long after, Li San appeared in the restaurant, and today's Li San was not wearing the military uniform of the past, but should be wearing a suit.

So far, Li San's identity is actually an active soldier, and he has the rank of colonel, but he does not serve in the Fengtian Army Headquarters or various field units in the military system, but in the secretariat of the Patrol Embassy, this position is an authentic civilian position, plus when his secretaries used to wear robes and horse jackets, he wore military uniforms a little better, but now that the republic, the secretaries under him cut off their braids and put on suits. He, the head of the secretariat, is not good at wearing a military uniform every day.

Zhao Dongyun didn't notice the change in Li San's dress, and he didn't look up, he was still eating breakfast and then looking at the newspaper, during which a voice came out: "Have you had breakfast, if not, sit down and eat!" ”

Li San originally wanted to say that he had eaten, but when the words came to his mouth, they became: "I ate early, and now I happen to be hungry!" ”

Li San, who has been by Zhao Dongyun's side for many years, naturally knows when to be polite to Zhao Dongyun and when to be polite, and now this is the time when you should not be polite, if he Zhao Dongyun casually says that he will stay with you for a meal at night, then most of the time he has to refuse politely, because Li San knows that Zhao Dongyun usually accompanies the two ladies in the inner courtyard for this dinner, and this kind of occasion is usually a formal invitation, and then he has to bring his wife with him, and it is not appropriate to go at will.

And like this morning, saying that you want to have breakfast together is a kind of private thought, but it's not good to refuse rashly.

Of course, the above ideas are just Li San's thoughts, but for Zhao Dongyun, it is very simple, but it is just a casual remark, and it doesn't matter if you eat it or not.

Zhao Dongyun's mind is still on the newspaper, which includes the newspaper in Shenyang today, and there are also newspapers that have been purchased by special people from Tianjin and Shanghai and then urgently sent back to Shenyang; next to the newspaper, there is also a report of the Intelligence Section, 'Daily News', which contains many military and political affairs collected by the Intelligence Section through various means, among which telecommunications from various places are the mainstay, for example, there is a telegraph from Wuhan today, saying that Zhang Zhidong, Prime Minister of the Southern Federation, has officially announced the formation of the First Army, the Second Army, and the Third Army of the Northern Expeditionary Army yesterday. In a few days, he will lead his army north.

However, the intelligence section has too few personnel in the south to find out the details of the three armies of the Northern Expedition for the time being, and even the commanders of the various departments have not yet found out.

After reading the newspaper, Zhao Dongyun just stood up and walked out, and Li San, who had already eaten millet porridge all night, also quickly stood up, and then kept up with Zhao Dongyun's pace!

As the two entered the front yard, Li Sandao, who had already automatically entered the work mode: "General Manager Zhao and Director Xiong are already waiting in the side hall, and Chief of Staff and Section Chief Yang have also arrived, so the marshal will see that first?" ”

Zhao Dongyun said: "Let Mr. Zhao come in first!" ”