Chapter 252: The Dragon's Tooth of the Northern Kingdom (I)

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With the sound of a whining whistle, a Belgian steam locomotive with eight stuffy tank cars and four flatbed cars slowly drove into Mukden Station.

Zhang Zuolin and Ma Kui stood in front, behind them were the officers of the 14th Division of the Feng Army who had not yet officially changed their clothes and reorganized, and the 20th Division of Beiyang did not enter Mukden for the time being on the grounds that the negotiations had not yet ended, so that the Feng Army, which was worried about the Japanese attack, could not sleep well, and now the arrival of the vanguard of the First Division and the Third Brigade of the National Defense Force finally relieved everyone.

Zhang Zuolin twisted his head, found that Fang Rui was not in the crowd, and asked, "Brother Ma?" What about Brother Fang? ”

This Zhang Zuolin is really familiar, and unconsciously a brother has brought the relationship between the two closer, and after a few days of contact, Ma Kui also somewhat understood why this person has been able to crisscross the Northeast for so many years, and said: "Fang Rui, he does not belong to the military. ”

Not part of the military? Zhang Zuolin's eyebrows jumped, and after understanding the meaning of this sentence, he regretted that he didn't ask it clearly, if he knew that Fang Rui had another identity, he should have stammered, this kind of person with a secret identity must be Yang Qiu's absolute confidant, and he said that he could not become a descendant of the National Defense Army overnight.

In the white steam, the train slowly stopped, and the door opened and a group of soldiers began to jump out of the train, these soldiers did not run around after getting off the train, nor did they make noise, but quickly lined up on the platform, thousands of people could hardly hear anything other than footsteps, this strict discipline made the officers of the Feng army secretly speechless, especially after the white fog dissipated, the 75 mm and 105 mm howitzers on the flat car made the eyes of the Feng army, who lacked heavy firepower, green ().

When a light and heavy machine gun, infantry guns, mortars, grenadiers, and explosives bags were removed, everyone even had the mind to rob them.

Zhang Zuolin also saw his eyelids jumping and inhaled the cold air, over the years, Fengdong and Nuoxi have finally saved some belongings, and after the fall of the Manchu Dynasty, the Fengtian Manufacturing Bureau was pocketed again, so he felt that he had some confidence, but now he looks at people who are really more popular than people! Not to mention the 1st Division, which has three brigades, just an infantry regiment and an artillery battalion that arrived first, the light and heavy firepower is more than the entire Feng army, no wonder Yuan Shikai and Beiyang will be beaten so badly.

"Brother Yuting, I haven't seen you for many days." Zhang Zuolin was drooling as he looked at the cannons and machine guns, and suddenly a person in the distance kept waving to him, and turned his head to see that it was Jiang Fangzhen, who had been in Fengtian for a while.

Jiang Fangzhen received a lot of support from Zhang Zuolin when he was in the Northeast, thinking that this person had extraordinary skills, and he was able to pull up a team in the gap between Japan and Russia, and the more active and nourishing he was, so the two of them were quite heroic and heroic, and they have always been commensurate with brothers.

Zhang Zuolin never thought that he would come with the first batch of support troops, and happily hurriedly greeted him: "Baili, we haven't seen each other for a long time?" Aren't you a great principal? Why is the commander-in-chief willing to let you come to Fengtian? ”

"The commander-in-chief was afraid that I would ruin his good deeds in the cave room, so he kicked me out." Jiang Fangzhen was still like that, his words were unscrupulous and nagging, and he threw all the chatter that he didn't drink Yang Qiuxi's wine on Zhang Zuolin's head, the latter also knew that Yang Qiu got married a few days ago, and specially sent a congratulatory telegram, and laughed when he saw this: "The commander-in-chief's wine is not drunk, just drink my brother's mine, and Brother Ma will also come together, let's wish the commander-in-chief and his wife a happy wedding in Fengtianyao." ”

Ma Kui was secretly funny, this guy really knows how to hit snakes with the pole, if the commander is really standing in front of him, will this guy simply bow down? Jiang Fangzhen liked his temperament, and laughed: "Today's meal, Brother Yuting, you really have to invite me." ”

"Why?"

Jiang Fangzhen pointed to the back, a small array attracted the attention of everyone, at first they thought they were ordinary soldiers, but after seeing it clearly, they found that it was very different, although the equipment was no different from the soldiers, only each person had an extra Minyuan-style pistol, but these young people actually carried the epaulettes of non-commissioned officers on their shoulders ().

Zhang Zuolin immediately understood that these more than 100 were all grassroots non-commissioned officers!

If any army wants to develop, officers, especially grass-roots officers, are particularly important, Beiyang benefits from the backbone of the training of small stations, Yang Qiu relies on China's second largest armed group, the Hubei New Army, and the Yunnan Army also has Yunnan Lecture Wutang, on the other hand, the Feng Army and other troops have not been able to develop for a long time in recent years, and the biggest problem is the serious lack of grass-roots officers, why is the Kuomintang short-lived? It's the lack of their own good officers! The same is true for Fengjun, because the foundation is a bandit, and there are few people who can read and write, and even he himself is a bandit leader full of swear words in the upper echelons, so when he sees so many young officers in front of him, his eyes are about to pop out.

No one knows better than Jiang Fangzhen where the 14th Division with the Feng Army as the foundation is lacking, in terms of blood, not afraid of death, these Northeast men and the Hunan Army, the Yunnan Army is not much more than good, and the cavalry is much more than enough, but the lack of officers makes them unable to exert their full strength, this time after bringing more than 100 non-commissioned officers to make up for this shortcoming, as long as the strict training for a period of time, the 14th Division will likely become an elite division on the Wehrmacht chariot.

Of course, it hurts him to give this batch of non-commissioned officers to Fengjun, if it weren't for the importance of the Northeast, he would never have taken out this batch of non-commissioned officers, although they are only the fourth crash course students, which is worse than the professional National Defense University, but because they have been strictly screened out by various units before, so many people have not even graduated before they have been favored by the troops, and the whole army does not know how many people are staring at this big fat meat, even Cai Songpo learned that the fourth phase was about to graduate, and he also euphemistically proposed to support some troops in the south. Now half of this batch of good seedlings has been given to the 14th Division, and it is conceivable that Yang Qiu attaches great importance to this treasure land in the Northeast.

"Report, the fourth crash course has been assembled in a row, please instruct the chief." The young corporal raised his fists to his waist, trotted all the way to Jiang Fangzhen's three people, stood up and saluted the standard of movements, and went through extremely strict training at a glance.

"This is Zhu Peide, the word is beneficial." Jiang Fangzhen introduced the young non-commissioned officer to Zhang Zuolin: "The commander of the second company, who was a student of the Yunnan Lecture Martial Arts Hall before, entered the crash course after the southwest, and was selected as the company commander by everyone with excellent grades. ”

"Chosen as a company commander?" Zhang Zuolin also rarely saluted after being infected by Zhu Peide, but he was a little surprised by the selection of the company commander, the officers in the army are all appointed, and the soldiers are obedient in addition to obedience, how can there be such a thing as promotion?

"In order to promote competition, the military academy and the crash course are divided into two companies in each term, and the company commander is elected by everyone in peacetime, and the term of office is one month each time, and if his company is surpassed by others within this month, he will automatically step down ()." In order to let Zhang Zuolin know how much effort Yang Qiu had put in, Jiang Fangzhen deliberately dragged out his voice and said: "Yizhi has been re-elected as a company commander for four consecutive terms, and he should have been assigned to the Central Guard Division, seeing that you urgently need a commander here, let me bring him here, if it weren't for the commander-in-chief, they would have been divided up on the road." ”

Seeing Zhu Peide, Zhang Zuolin knew that these young officers were treasures, but at the same time, he also smelled the strange smell inside, Yang Qiu was not a good person, why did he race so many people on his side, didn't he feel at ease with himself?

Wrong! He brought in the strongest 1st Division.

What's more, according to what Ma Kui said, the 10th Division of Anhui and the 12th Division of Jiangsu will also be transferred to the Northeast within half a year, and the Northeast of the 14th Division will suddenly have a scene of 4 Divisions gathered. Not to mention the 1st Division, Luo Peijin of the 10th Division is also a Yunnan officer who was subdued by Yang Qiu, and the 12th Division is the old foundation of the Ninth Town of Jiangsu, all of which are good troops.

Since it's not against yourself, then?

After instructing Zhu Peide to rest with the troops, Jiang Fangzhen pulled Zhang Zuolin a few steps away, avoided those Fengjun officers, and said solemnly: "In addition to sending them here this time, I also want to meet Brother Yuting." ”

Seeing his solemn face, Zhang Zuolin's heart sank, and he said hurriedly: "Baili and I have known each other for many years, just say anything directly, Lao Zhang can still stand it." ”

Jiang Fangzhen looked at the soldiers who were unloading the artillery in the distance, sorted out his thoughts and said: "The Japanese government recently approved a plan to form two new divisions, all of which will be deployed in South Manchuria and Korea. Judging from some reports in Japan, the Japanese War Department is currently drawing elite troops from other divisions and regiments to speed up the formation of these two divisions, and it is expected that the formation will be completed by March next year at the latest, and they will be able to shoulder combat missions by June at the latest, and the commander-in-chief and the general staff feel that they are very likely to be organized into a single army together with the current 16 th Division. ”

Glancing at Zhang Zuolin, whose face was not very good, Jiang Fangzhen continued: "The matter in Dongying is still being discussed, and when he came, Premier Shaochuan specially called and said that Japan is likely to hold back this bad breath, according to their tradition, this breath will be spit out sooner or later, so the commander predicts that in a year, the northeast side is likely to face the threat of 3-5 divisions!" ”

"3 to 5 divisions!"

Zhang Zuolin gasped, he knows very well the combat capability of the Japanese Army, Japan now has no money to fight at home, but if it starts, 3 to 5 divisions will definitely have the ability to swallow the entire Northeast in one bite! If Russia also takes advantage of the fire to rob, the Northeast will really change.

It is no wonder that Yang Qiu seized the time to transfer troops here, just to preemptively occupy an advantage before the formation of the two Japanese divisions was completed.

Zhang Zuolin can be said to have been licking blood from the knife for the first half of his life, and he is also a very spicy character, but this kind of big action by Japan has aroused his temper, gritted his teeth and said: "The soldiers will block the water and cover the earth, three or five divisions are indeed difficult, but as long as Ou Maozi does not interfere this time, the gun in Lao Tzu's hand is not a burning stick!" ”

"Russia doesn't interfere?"

Jiang Fangzhen read a sentence, and was also a little worried about this ambitious northern neighbor, although Yang Qiu swore that Russia had no chance to intervene, but would it be true? Judging from the previous actions, it is almost impossible for Russia not to intervene, so why is he still so swearing?

Mukden was gradually transformed from a confrontation between Japan and Russia into a three-way rivalry because of the thousands of Wehrmacht forces that had come from afar, and at the same time, a small horse team also entered the farthest city in the north.

"Head, Harbin has arrived."

Fang Rui, disguised as a fur merchant, quietly lifted the carriage curtain and looked at the buildings full of Russian style in the distance, and two words immediately came to his mind, the Eastern Railway and the Bolsheviks!

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