Next, Ma Xicheng will read out the list of officers appointed to the 9th Brigade, and everyone will concentrate:

"Yang Wangui is hereby appointed as Acting Colonel Chief of Staff of the Ninth Brigade; Xu Yuanquan is the acting deputy brigade commander of the 9th Brigade and the colonel of the 1st Infantry Battalion, Song Xianfu is the lieutenant colonel of the 2nd Infantry Battalion of the 9th Brigade, and Hao Bing is the lieutenant colonel of the 3rd Infantry Battalion of the 9th Brigade. ”

"Ma Xi is hereby appointed as the major chief of the quartermaster department of the 9th Brigade, and Zhao Dongsheng is the captain of the guard team directly under the brigade headquarters of the 9th Brigade...... "After half a month of short training, except for Zhao Dongsheng, who was promoted to major and served as the chief of guards at the brigade headquarters, nine of the remaining 12 people were sent down to each company to serve as company commanders. Among them, Tao Zhiyue, Li Hongkui, and Zhou Zhengming are the captains and company commanders, serving as the commanders of the first, fourth, and seventh companies respectively; Chen Yu was newly appointed as the commander of the second company, Deng Kunru was appointed as the commander of the third company, Dai Yue was appointed as the commander of the fifth company, Tian Shouhai was appointed as the commander of the sixth company, *** was appointed as the commander of the eighth company, and Liu Mingkai was appointed as the commander of the ninth company, all of whom were awarded the rank of lieutenant. Song Haomin, Tang Hairong, and Zhang Xuguang were awarded the rank of lieutenant and remained as the squad leader of the teaching team.

In accordance with the principle of "different classes of the same sect and different platoons in the same village," Wang Zhenyu divided all the five teams into nine companies, and each company should not exceed 30 percent of the same team. The original platoon commanders were all promoted to second lieutenant deputy company commanders or brigade staff officers to serve as operational staff officers, and squad leaders were promoted to platoon commanders, but the principle was different from that of the original platoon commanders, and the nine deputy company commanders and six operational staff officers were all transferred to the teaching team for 20 days of training before taking up their posts.

Wang Zhenyu also asked Ma Xicheng to publicly announce the issue of the treatment and bereavement of the officers and men of the brigade and the system of rewards and punishments for promotion: "From now on, the officers and men of the brigade will be divided into brigades, regiments, battalions, companies, platoons, squads, first-class privates, and private classes according to their ranks. The treatment is as follows: 180 yuan per month for the brigade and 1,800 yuan for the wounded and disabled; 120 yuan per month and 1,200 yuan for the bereavement of the regiment; 80 yuan per month and 1,000 yuan for the bereavement of the camp; 50 yuan per month and 500 yuan for the bereavement pension; 30 yuan per month for regular posts and 300 yuan for bereavement pension; 20 yuan for the main position of the class, 200 yuan for the bereavement pension; The above deputy positions shall be handled according to eighty percent of the main positions at the same level. The recruits are privates, with a monthly salary of 20 yuan and a pension of 80 yuan. A first-class soldier is a veteran who has served for one year, with a monthly salary of 15 yuan and a bereavement pension of 150 yuan. ”

The officers and soldiers were very excited after hearing this, compared with other troops, this treatment is very generous, you must know that the average soldier received a maximum of five yuan a month, but now the recruits have eight eggs, and what is more reassuring is the pension system, which is ten times the salary, and now everyone will have no worries about the war. Yang Wangui and other officers frowned, this treatment is too generous, although no one is willing to raise the salary, but if the boss can't pay the money, wouldn't it be empty joy.

"Excellent soldiers will be awarded the rank of corporal, sergeant, serve as deputy squad leader, and obtain the qualification for the selection of the teaching team, through the selection of the teaching team, awarded the rank of second lieutenant, after the training by the brigade staff awarded the rank of lieutenant and other arrangements, the training team student treatment with reference to the company deputy position. All company commanders and military commanders at and above the company level shall be personally appointed by the brigade commander, and the chief of staff must approve and notify the brigade commander of the transfer of combat units at and above the platoon level, and the brigade commander must have a warrant from the brigade commander when dispatching combat units at or above the company level. The orders of the brigade headquarters must be carried out unconditionally, and those who violate the military orders will be dismissed at the least, or executed on the spot, and those who strictly implement the orders will be recorded for first-class, second-class, and third-class merit according to the content of the order, and the reward standards will be announced separately. In addition, the standard of punishment for violations of military law ......"

On the 20th day of the first month of the first year of the Republic of China, Wang Zhenyu promoted and appointed more than 100 officers in one go, and promulgated four orders on treatment, pension, promotion, reward and punishment.

At this time, Wang Zhenyu completely held the Ninth Brigade in his own hands through the system, and no longer relied on the victory in the First Battle of Hankou to maintain it as before. In other words, now even if you have twelve gold medals, you want to take away this military power, the Ninth Brigade, surnamed Wang.

In accordance with the latest order, the whole brigade has temporarily set up three battalions and nine companies, and all the officers and men of the brigade are happy, either promoted or raised, and naturally all of them are elated and have high fighting spirits!

Considering that the expansion at this stage is just a shelf and does not add new soldiers, Wang Zhenyu has not added too many mundane things, and his current mind is all spent on personnel adjustments.

As a result, as soon as the three battalion commanders took office, they found that most of the soldiers under their hands belonged to others, and most of the soldiers they brought with them were drawn out. How can this be, it is not easy for people who are not familiar with it to bring it, but after appealing to Wang Zhenyu a few times to no avail, the battalion commanders will not be able to speak again.

For this reason, Wang Zhenyu also snickered for a while, Lao Tzu reorganized your establishment in three clicks and two clicks, and when the time comes, Lao Tzu will directly grasp the appointment and dismissal power of officers above the company in his hands, and I will see who can still pull the team in Lao Tzu's team.

Ma Xicheng was the biggest beneficiary of this change, from a small adjutant who was not even an officer to a major in the quartermaster department, you must know that the number of colonels in the Ninth Brigade added up to no more than five. As for Weishenme's choice of Ma Xicheng, it was entirely because in Wang Zhenyu's eyes, the position of quartermaster was very important, and it was safer for his cousin to go after thinking about it. As for the manpower of the quartermaster department, the original secretary and the cooking shed were added, and this time the officers were sealed, and even the big living treasure of the cooking class Zhou Chun was stained. He became a second lieutenant officer, and the unit relationship was under the name of the quartermaster department, but his job remained the same, and he was still in charge.

The company commanders of the nine companies were also replaced by cadets from the teaching team, although the training time was not long, but at least according to the rules, these people were Wang Zhenyu's students, since they were all labeled Wang Zhenyu, it was much more reassuring to use.

After such a reversal, Wang Zhenyu can be regarded as truly holding this army firmly in his own hands.

The famous Tiger Brigade also stepped onto the historical stage of the Republic of China from this time.

There are a lot of things to expand, and it is difficult for Wang Zhenyu to be thorough for a while, everything is comprehensive, and the implementation of many details still needs to be improved step by step, but one thing he did before Vito Ye Zuwen has already been settled......

"General Wang, this is what you said about the hanging cannon and the hand-thrown bomb" Ye Zuwen, who was pointing to boxes of weapons, is now very polite to Wang Zhenyu, and is always called by the general before and after the general.

Wang Zhenyu looked at the boxes that had been opened, and just glanced at them and knew that it was right, they were the mortars and wooden-handled grenades that he had been thinking about for a long time.

After winning the expansion order, Wang Zhenyu, who was not short of money, began to worry about arms. The war of this era is not a matter of playing with righteousness and boxing, swords and guns, in the past ten years, the entire Shijie military has undergone earth-shaking changes, and only artillery is the king in the future. The Japanese weishenme was able to defeat the Chinese army to the ground, not by some bullshit bushido spirit that fooled people, which was an excuse used by the Chinese to fool themselves. What little Japan relies on is nothing more than more ferocious and fierce firepower than China. Otherwise, when Weishenme later encountered the more ferocious and fierce firepower of US imperialism, the invincible bushido spirit in the world would not be able to be used?

It is the view that weapons are the key factor in the victory or defeat of a war is truly in line with the materialist dialectic.

But people always have to face the reality, in this era, even if Wang Zhenyu is rich, he may not be able to get heavy artillery. Even if you happen to get it, no one will make it.

What's even more tragic is that Wang Zhenyu has no land and no military factory, even if he overcomes all difficulties, it doesn't have much effect to ask a foreign instructor to teach the group of grandsons below, just the expensive cannonballs are doomed to Wang Zhenyu's cannon dream, and he can only quietly be in the dead of night.

However, if the infantry fights without artillery support, and wants to rely on the spirit alone to defeat the enemy who is in absolute numerical superiority, it is completely anti-human existence. Unless the other party is all pigs, and his side is a communist iron warrior who is suitable for being a butcher.

Because of later generations, Wang Zhenyu was a little allergic to communism. Therefore, strengthening the firepower of the headquarters is the only way to greatly increase the combat effectiveness of the headquarters in the current period.

Don't underestimate the mortar and the wooden-handled grenade, which first appeared in Lushun, China, during the Russo-Japanese War in 1905. At that time, the Japanese used superior forces to attack Lushun, which was defended by the Russians, and when they could not capture it, they dug trenches and advanced, but this tactic was blocked by the Russians with the two weapons in front of them. The invincible Imperial Japanese Army suffered more than 100,000 casualties before and after, and it took a lot of time and materials to defeat Lushun. Although Zuihou Japan won the war, except for the benefits of China from the Russians (the Qing government was so cute), there was no trace of war reparations. Then Japan owed Britain a huge amount of money, and it was a disastrous victory that outweighed the losses. To achieve such a disastrous ending, Nogi Noshinori, known as the god of war, has made a significant contribution, and he can be regarded as a real old friend of the Chinese people. It was precisely because he did not know how to play the alternative and blindly emphasized the samurai spirit that the whole of Japan paid great sacrifices for this war. The dividends of the war were far from enough to make up for the losses of the war, and a large number of orphans and widows were not mentioned, and the huge foreign debts owed by Japan alone almost made Japan fight three Sino-Japanese wars in vain. As a result, Japan's national strength has turned from prosperity to decline, and the pace of aggression against China has naturally had to slow down.

In terms of practical significance, the significance of the Russo-Japanese War in 1905 is estimated to be the same as that of Beijing's hosting of the Olympic Games, and the spiritual significance is greater than the practical significance. As for Jiang Baili, who is known as the god of war, based on this epic point of view, the most unworthy of our study in Japan is their army, and we will not talk about it here. (From this point of view, both Russia and Japan were the winners of this war, and the only loser was China, which did not participate in the war, and the Qing princes' ability to govern the country was really first-class.) ）