Wang Zhenyu promoted seven major generals in one go, and he was a general star for Qi people in public, and many people were envious of this. There are also people who are very depressed, especially Li Zongren, who is already a brigade commander, but still holds the rank of colonel, and it is inevitable that he will feel a little lost in his heart.

But none of this is important, the most exciting harvest for Wang Zhenyu is a telegraph operator named Wang Huaishi, who is a native of Hongjiang and was admitted to the telecommunications school at the end of the Qing Dynasty. After graduation, he was assigned to work in the Tianjin Communications Bureau, and after the revolution, he went home to participate in the recruitment of public officials in the town guard embassy, and was subsequently admitted. Because he knew the telegraph, Wang Zhenyu waved his pen and went directly to the third room of the attendant's office as a telegraph operator, responsible for operating a telegraph made by Siemens in Germany. Wang Zhenyu still attached great importance to the transmission of this information, and he talked with Wang Huaishi, a tall and thin young man, for more than 10 minutes, and asked him to train a group of personnel in the field of communications, and in the future, strive for telegraph functions to be at least down to the regimental level, and in the future, if conditions permit, to go down to the battalion level.

followed by a series of military regulations and the promulgation of military regulations, Wang Zhenyu actually didn't pay much attention to these things, but he also knew that without these rules, the army would be in chaos. Therefore, he still read the document jointly drafted by Yang Wangui, Xu Yuanquan, and Wan Yaohuang carefully, and then signed it into effect. In fact, he really didn't worry about the affairs of the army, because the organs at all levels were independent systems, and the military supervisors were appointed by the staff system, the staff officers were appointed by the combat system, and more importantly, the quartermaster officers involved in money were appointed by the armaments system. In this kind of mutual subordination, it is very troublesome for anyone who wants to mess around and drink the blood of soldiers, not to mention that the treatment itself is not low, and you must be content.

What really made him think about it was the issue of the new military uniform.

Since it is not in the establishment of the provincial army, the military uniform naturally does not need to be the same as others. Wang Zhenyu's instructions to the Ministry of Armaments were very clear, and each soldier had five sets of military uniforms a year. There are two categories:

The first is the dress category, which is divided into three sets: long-sleeved spring and autumn clothes, short-sleeved summer clothes and cotton winter clothes. Compared with the original style, the changes are not small:

First of all, epaulettes were added, and epaulettes were used to divide military ranks, and the collar badges that originally played this role were simplified to distinguish between arms, infantry red, other arms blue, and officers with five stars;

The second is to add cufflinks and cufflines to make it more beautiful and generous. The field troops were uniformed in blue-gray with white threads on their trousers, and the officers wore blue tweed coats. The truth that military appearance is morale Wang Zhenyu still understands that he will not save this money.

Then there are military shoes, all of which are distributed with German-style big-toed shoes, which can cost a lot of money, but Wang Zhenyu did not hesitate at all and did so.

The uniforms of the security forces are all black and gray, specifically, gray tops and black trousers, similar to the clothing of later SWAT units.

Military caps are all large caps, larger and wider than the original New Army hats, of course, not as big as those of Soviet Russia, just in line with the Chinese head shape, look beautiful The second is a training uniform, and two sets of yellow-green training uniforms are issued for easy washing. There are two pockets for the soldier's training uniform, and four pockets for the officer's, and a cloth plaque is embroidered on the chest. This is also to avoid the appearance of your own officers being easily identified by the opponent's sharpshooters on the battlefield, and focus on taking care of them.

The military caps are all uniform flat canvas hats, and the shoes are all rubber-soled shoes. Compared with the dress, the training dress is very rustic. The steel helmet was installed by Wang Zhenyu Jihua for the troops, and if possible, it would be better to have body armor, but unfortunately these two things are a little ahead of their time now, and the armies of the great powers don't have these things anymore.

The military flag decided by Zuihou, and more than a dozen styles of military flags that everyone researched were all vetoed by Wang Zhenyu, and Wang Zhenyu designed a white tiger flag by himself. The majestic white tiger head has been embroidered on the blue military flag, and then the white edge is embroidered with the number of each department, which is the white tiger flag that later shook the world.

Xu Yuanquan was very dissatisfied with this idea: "Dashuai, this white tiger is unlucky, if anyone's daughter-in-law is a white tiger, it will be a disaster." ”

Wang Zhenyu stood up angrily and funny: "Do you dare to sleep on the woman who will bring disaster and bad luck?" ”

These feudal superstitious elements, who did not learn and did not accept the study of materialism, immediately shook their heads and said that they did not dare.

Wang Zhenyu roared loudly: "That's right, our White Tiger Army is an army that brings disaster and bad luck to the enemy, and the enemy is taboo and dare not do it, so we will do them generously." Remember, base our happiness on the pain of our enemies. ”

The problem of the military flag was thus solved, and after this series of actions, the Xiangxi Military Group began to take shape.

Belgian Fellaini has been a little annoyed lately, two months ago, he was summoned by a telegram from his cousin, Frankie of Warby Bank, to this damn place, Jingzhou County, Xiangxi, Hunan.

Can you imagine walking for hours without seeing people? Can you imagine sleeping after dark? Damn, where is the electric light, where is the beautiful Chinese chick?

And that's not the worst of all, there are no flush toilets and bathtubs, and the toilet has to be solved in a wooden house in the wilderness. And this wooden house is directly connected to a farmland in the countryside, God, his excrement zuihou has such intimate contact with these foods, he can't eat when he thinks of it.

In fact, the meals weren't to taste good, there were no desserts, they were all chili peppers, and they were all sour.

The hygiene is also terrible and scary to death, there are flies everywhere, and you have to keep shaking your hairy butt when you go to the toilet, and it is not likely that your butt will be swollen when you get up. The day before yesterday, something more serious happened, thinking that Fellaini's little brother was also bitten, so he completely broke down and did not sleep all night.

The Belgians, who were traveling with them, complained about it, and they felt like they were in damn Africa. But as time went on, their complaints gradually decreased, because the Chinese who were traveling with them were really very friendly. Although the conditions are not good, they still give priority to taking care of themselves as foreigners. On rainy days, they would rather stand outside and get drenched in the rain by themselves, and they will give up shelter from the rain to their own people. After a long time, we formed a deep friendship.

Especially Fellaini, once walking on a mountain road against a cliff, he was tall and unstable, he accidentally slipped the soles of his feet and fell towards the cliff, when a Chinese soldier named Shi Yong who followed behind him was very brave and hugged his legs. Then it lasted three or four minutes before someone arrived and pulled Fellaini up. Looking at Shi Yong's bloodied forearms, Fellaini, who was in his early thirties, actually cried, and then said that he had to become good friends with Shi Yong.

Many years later, Shi Yong became the director of the Central and Southern Bureau of the Ministry of Railways, and was sentenced to death by the court for embezzlement, and Fellaini, a Belgian, traveled thousands of miles to China to see Wang Zhenyu, hoping to pardon Shi Yong. Although it did not succeed, the personal friendship between the two has also become a good story in the history of exchanges between China and Belgium.

But now, in the eyes of these Belgian engineers, Frankie is a demon who eats people and does not spit out bones. Under the guise of high salaries, they deceived their people into this desolate place, and they really didn't see any real point in building a railroad in such a sparsely populated place. Occasionally, you can see a few wolves around you, but I don't know that these wolves see the traces of people, and their first reaction is not to call friends to attack, but to turn around and run with their tails between them, as if they are very scared.

The exploration work is still progressing very smoothly, firstly, because although this area is a mountainous area, the mountains are generally not high, and the mileage of its own construction is only 200 kilometers, which is not too long; Second, the local Chinese were indeed very cooperative, so the five exploration teams successfully completed the task. Ding Wenjiang, Weng Wenhao, the Chinese leader of the exploration team, Fellaini, Xifu and others finally met smoothly in Hongjiang. We integrated the data of the five teams and designed a railway route map that would save cost and manpower.

"Fortunately, there are not many tunnels that need to be opened, and they are not too long; There are only six railway bridges that need to be erected, and if there are enough manpower, it is really not a big problem for this railway to be opened to traffic in three or even two and a half years. Fellaini's deputy, Sifo, was the first to speak and made a very optimistic statement.

Fellaini shook his head and said, "If the manpower can be guaranteed to exceed 10,000, and the construction will be carried out in three sections at the same time, and the raw materials can be delivered even if they are delivered, it may not take as long as three years, dear Xifu." ”

"Hey, Mr. Fellaini, it takes a lot of time to get the rails from the river to the mountain road. ”

Fellaini nodded and said, "Don't underestimate the efficiency of the Chinese, Xifu." Moreover, I have made observations in the Jingzhou area, and the trees in these places are very strong, which is very suitable for sleepers. The transportation of sleepers can be turned into local materials, and once the railway enters the laying stage, it will be very fast. ”

Ding Wenjiang nodded in agreement: "Not only Jingzhou, but also the trees in Huitong and the passage are also very good, fully qualified, and the rest of Qiancheng and Luyang are all transported by water, and the terrain is smoother than the three counties just now." ”

Everyone summed it up and felt that if the scheduling was reasonable, it was not impossible to complete the opening of the whole line in two years at the earliest. The premise is that about 15,000 workers can be deployed, and Jihua can be formulated and executed to start construction at the same time.

Since everyone knows each other very closely, the plan and budget were quickly made and submitted to the town guard embassy and the headquarters of the Xiangxi Development Company, Wang Zhenyu is not thinking about it now, and he has recently expanded so many troops at once, and the problem of the military industry has given him a headache, he threw the drawings aside and asked Fellaini seriously: "How much can such a railway speed reach?" What is the capacity? ”