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Volume 2 Beijing Story Chapter 94 Settling in Nanyuan

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    Update time: 2012-07-16

    Starting from the day Wang Geng stepped into Duan Qirui's residence on April 1, 1917, things progressed very rapidly in the following days. On April 2, 1917, at the State Council meeting held in the west building of Duan's residence, Foreign Affairs Minister Wu Tingfang resigned.  , the reason was still his opposition to participating in the war. That night, US President Wilson delivered a war address in Congress.

    On April 3, 1917, Wang Geng moved out of the Duan Mansion and moved into the house on Prince Consort Street allocated by the Ministry of War. He became a neighbor of the Women's Normal University. In the afternoon of the same day, he officially took up his post in the 16th Mixed Brigade in Langfang.

    On April 4, 1917, this guy finished waving carrots and sticks in Langfang and rushed back to Beijing. He also obtained the weapons and equipment of a model teaching group from Duan Qirui and Xu Shuzheng. At the same time, he gained an additional title: Ministry of Foreign Affairs to the United States.  Negotiation and supervision.

    In addition to being responsible for the coordination, borrowing, aid, and arms trade with the United States, he also had to find a way to solve the problem of American equipment for the Third Division and Sixth Brigade. Of course, labor recruitment and recruitment were combined into one and fell under the charge of the War Preparation Office.  , this guy's monthly allowance is only 500 more, but the things he has to do span the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Interior and the Ministry of War.

    On April 5, 1917, the 16th mixed brigade stationed in Langfang set out on Qingming Festival. Except for the logistics and baggage troops, they got on the train in Langfang and got off directly in Fengtai, Beijing. The remaining troops, nearly 8,000 fully armed, marched for 100 days on foot.  Hua Liyu arrived at the new Nanyuan residence in the evening.

    The original station of the 16th Mixed Brigade in Langfang was not simply abandoned. Instead, a company was left to garrison. How could we easily hand over the strategic location in Beijing and Tianjin? After the new army was organized and trained, Wang Geng planned to send another brigade back to garrison.  .

    Under the command of Jiang Hongyu, the staff headquarters, which led the model company to arrive one day in advance, had already surveyed and mapped the topography of the entire Nanyuan garrison, based of course on the original schematic map provided by the Ministry of War.

    This Nanyuan is located in the southeast of Fengtai, Beijing. It was an ancient royal garden and was named after its original name of Nanhaizi. Nanyuan was a royal garden in the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties. Because the ancient Yongding River passed through the garden, it formed a  There are large lakes and swamps, lush vegetation, and gatherings of animals and elk.

    In the Yuan Dynasty, it was called "Dismount your horse and fly to the park", in the Ming Dynasty, it was called "Nanhaizi", and in the Qing Dynasty, it was called "Nanyuan".  During the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty, enclosures were built and guarded by "sea gates".  In the garden, poultry and animals were raised, and vegetables and fruits were grown for hunting and enjoyment by the royal family and bureaucrats.  In the Qing Dynasty, in addition to the "Sea House" and "Special Division" with more than a thousand people stationed for management, officers such as the General Manager of Defense were also set up to protect it.

    Nanyuan not only became a forbidden area for hunting and recreation for the Qing royal family, but also served as a training ground for military training.  After the fall of the Qing Dynasty, Nanyuan was destroyed into a grain field.

    There are seven camps in Nanyuan Town from the West Barracks to the west. It used to be the residence of the Shenji Battalion. Wang Geng¡¯s war preparation office and the brigade headquarters of the 16th Mixed Brigade were located in the old building of the original Aviation Administration.  In its previous life, this place was the headquarters and army inspection envoy when Feng Yuxiang was stationed in Nanyuan. It was also the headquarters of the 29th Army during the July 7th Incident.

    Of course, now that Wang Geng, a little butterfly wing, appears, everything will be different!

    The 16th Mixed Brigade originally had three infantry regiments. Each infantry regiment had 3 battalions. Each battalion had 4 companies. Each company had 3 platoons. Each platoon had 3 squads. Each squad company had a total of 14 squad leaders and deputy squad leaders.  soldiers, and the artillery regiment is organized into 3 battalions, each battalion has 3 companies, each company has 3 platoons, each platoon has 3 squads, and each squad has a total of 14 people plus the squad leader and deputy squad leader.

    The newly formed model teaching regiment of the War Preparatory Office transferred all its principals and deputies above the 16th mixed brigade platoon, and the three regiment commanders Li Mingzhong, Zhang Zhijiang, and Zhang Shusheng were appointed as the battalion commanders of the first, second, and third infantry battalions of the training regiment respectively.  , several regiment attachments such as Sun Futian and Wen Chenglie were downgraded to battalion attachments. The original battalion commanders became company commanders, the company commander became platoon commanders, and the platoon leader became squad leaders.

    The entire model teaching regiment has been formed. The minimum officer of Isshiki is a squad leader and squad deputy, but there are no soldiers in the squad. The regiment has three infantry battalions, one artillery battalion, one cavalry company, one engineering company, one baggage company, and one machine gun company.  Row.

    Starting from the executive commander of the teaching regiment Shi Jingting and the chief of staff Liu Yufen, the infantry has a total of 3 battalion commanders, 3 battalion attachments, 12 company commanders, 12 company attachments, 36 platoon leaders plus 36 platoon attachments, and 108 squad leaders plus 108  There are 318 people in total, including 106 officers in the artillery battalion and company squad, 104 officers in three companies of cavalry engineer baggage, and 8 machine gun platoons.

    Calculated, the number of active officers in the entire model teaching regiment is 538. To make up for the number of soldiers in the 183 squads, 2,196 more soldiers are needed based on the full complement of 12 soldiers in each squad.  If you include agency officers, guard servicemen, signal corps, etc., the full strength of the entire regiment will be around 3,000.

    Because of the need to replenish the ranks of the 16th Composite Brigade after all the officers were redeployed, the original guard and orderly establishment of cadres at all levels of the brigade, regiment, battalion, and company was greatly reduced, and all the reduced personnel were replenished to the 16th Composite Brigade squad to lead the troops.

    The regiment headquarters only provides a communications service platoon, the battalion headquarters only provides a communications service class, and the company headquarters only provides a communications service platoon.A small class of five people.

    According to Wang Geng's plan for organizing and training the new army, every time a new brigade is organized, 538 cadres above the squad level must be trained and prepared. The cadre base that Lao Feng has cultivated in the 16th Mixed Brigade over the years can at best be expanded by two.  , after the second expansion to the fourth, it was a bit stretched and not enough.

    Therefore, how to continuously replenish and enrich the officer resources of the Model Teaching Group is also an important issue before Wang Geng.

    On the evening of April 5, Wang Geng held a meeting of senior officers at the Nanyuan headquarters. Only brigade-level cadres such as Jiang Hongyu, Qiu Bin, Shi Jingting, Liu Yufen, and Xue Dubi were present.  Li Mingzhong, Zhang Zhijiang, and Zhang Shusheng, who had just become battalion commanders, tasted loss for the first time.

    "Supervisor, we can recruit people from the military academies affiliated to the Ministry of War! We will not let go of any graduates from the Baoding Military Academy and the Army University, and recruit them all into the teaching group!" Shi Jingting, the executive director of the teaching group, has obviously already made plans!

    "Supervisor, there are many talents in other troops in Beiyang. In addition, there are hundreds of Chinese students studying abroad at the Japanese Military Academy. We can't let this go!" Liu Yufen, the chief of staff of the teaching regiment, was also in a high mood.

    Qiu Bin, chief of staff of the 16th Mixed Brigade, glanced at Shi Jingting and Liu Yufen, and knew in his heart that these two old guys were completely determined to leave with Wang Geng. Put aside the fact that when Lao Feng led the 16th Mixed Brigade, he would never want to be in another military academy or army.  All soldiers must be taught by themselves before they can feel at ease.

    "Chief of Staff Qiu, what do you think? If you have anything to say, just say it!" Wang Geng said with a smile when he saw Qiu Bin hesitated to speak.

    "Brigade Commander, I'm afraid that if we recruit people from everywhere, it will affect the purity of our team in the future. Don't you want to create a strong direct lineage army for the Prime Minister? If this is just thrown into the basket, I'm afraid that it will be a wedding for others.  Get dressed!" Qiu Bin reminded him bluntly.

    "Wellwhat you say is not unreasonable, but your vision is not broad enough. My focus is on how to deal with the great powers in the future. Besides, there are only so many intellectuals in China, and even fewer can be admitted to the military academy.  , As long as you are talented, you are not afraid of being useless here. As for loyalty, it depends on the abilities of Brother Shi and Brother Liu! The teaching team is a melting pot of revolution!"

    Wang Geng explained with a smile, while looking at Shi Jingting and Liu Yufen with approval, obviously satisfied with their ideas.

    "Supervisor, will Premier Duan and Deputy Chief Xu come to Nanyuan tomorrow to present the flag?" Jiang Hongyu was obviously a little excited.

    "Don't worry about that. Although Prime Minister Duan is busy, we will be the direct troops of the Prime Minister and the Central Committee in the future. We are talking about the roots and the young people. What can we do if he and the deputy minister don't come to support us!" Wang Geng said with a smile.

    "Supervisor, I heard that the weapons and equipment of our teaching group will really be shipped tomorrow?" Shi Jingting did not expect that Wang Geng would get a whole regiment of equipment for the teaching group just after he took office. This meeting gift for him, a model teaching group, is better than the Prime Minister's Deputy Minister  It¡¯s more affordable to come and join in!

    "Xu Shuzheng personally promised me to at least give us a brigade of equipment, but the German Mauser War Department doesn't have much inventory. I can't see the Japanese 38! So I'll give it to a regiment of brand-new German-style equipment first.  Fortunately, the equipment is all Mauser 98, which is much better than the Type 88. Let¡¯s just deal with it! We can¡¯t let our model teaching regiment turn into a pistol regiment, right?¡±

    Wang Geng took out a list from his pocket and spread it on the table. He said, "Tomorrow the teaching team will accept this list from the Ministry of War. Xu Shuzheng can't accept it even if he dares to miss a bullet from me!"

    Shi Jingting grabbed it, and Liu Yufen, Jiang Hongyu and Qiu Bin all leaned over to look at the arms list!
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