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Volume 2 Beijing Story Chapter 173 The whole army and the Zhiwan family

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    Update time: 2012-08-21

    The new order to organize the army caused thousands of waves with one stone!  There was a lot of applause from the international community!  Ordinary soldiers in various divisions and brigades of the domestic army are also happy and their morale is high. After all, the treatment of participating troops is twice as good as that of ordinary army divisions, and all military pay is directly sent to the soldiers' personal savings accounts in the Bank of China, unlike  The old army was exploited at all levels by superior officers and subordinates!

    Those who couldn¡¯t laugh were naturally the commanders of the military divisions and brigade!  But at such a moment, after Feng Guozhang, the only Zhili clique who had the ability to say no to the Anhui clique's premier, chose compromise and unity, no one could stand up and challenge the authority of the central government like Zhao Ti, the governor of Henan who overestimated his capabilities.  **.

    Of course, secret telegrams like snowflakes from the direct Yangtze River Sandumen were sent directly to the Presidential Palace to ask his boss what was going on. Feng Guozhang¡¯s reply was simple. To maintain the local unity with the central government, Beiyang must unite with the central government.  around!

    The images of these warlords of the Anhui Clique are very simple. The army's food and salary benefits have gone up. With the addition of beautiful weapons and equipment, our strength will be even stronger. Why not?  !

    As soon as the order to reorganize the army came out, the 1st and 16th Divisions of Gyeonggi Province were the first to bear the brunt. The 1st Division first entered the Nanyuan Barracks to undergo reorganization, just like when the army recruited new soldiers to join the war, we eliminated the old, the weak and those with smoking problems.  Those unqualified soldiers with sexually transmitted diseases were transferred to the capital police force for those who were over forty years old but had no bad habits.

    The first division, two brigades, four regiments, an artillery regiment, a cavalry battalion, an engineer battalion and a supply battalion, a total of 15,000 troops were reduced by 3,000, leaving 12,000 and two supplementary brigades from the participating armies.  The sixth division of the participating army was mixed and established.

    Li Jishen, head of the training group of the Participating Army, was appointed as the commander of the Sixth Division of the Model Army. Cai Chengxun, the former commander of the Army's First Division, was awarded the title of General Ji Wei and was transferred to the Staff Headquarters of the Participating Army as deputy chief of staff to serve as Jiang Fangzhen's deputy.

    ??Li Jishen, commander of the Sixth Division of the participating army, Sun Lianzhong, commander of the 17th Brigade, Gu Liangyou, commander of the 18th Brigade, and Wen Chenglie, commander of the 16th Brigade.

    Since the previous four batches of U.S. aid munitions had allocated m1903 Springfield rifles and m1917bra squad machine guns from two mixed brigades to Cao Kun's Army's Third Division stationed in Kaifeng, although the Sixth Division of the participating army was organized, its weapons and equipment were not  Still the original German Mauser.

    In mid-September 1917, the Ministry of War transferred Jiang Guiti, the commander-in-chief of Rehe, to Beijing to take charge of the affairs of the General Office. Wang Geng, the superintendent of the war, was also the commander-in-chief of Rehe. Li Jishen, the sixth division of the participating army, was transferred to garrison in Rehe. Li Jishen was awarded the rank of Army Lieutenant General.  , General Chenwei, and Assistant Military Affairs Officer of Rehe.

    During this period in early September 1917, one of the focuses of the world's attention was the situation in Russia. On September 3 (August 21 in the Russian calendar), Russia suffered another major military defeat: Riga was occupied by Germany.  .  Details of this military setback are unclear.  The left accused the Stavka of deliberately ceding "Red Riga" to the enemy.

    The commander-in-chief of the Russian army, Kornilov, used the fall of Riga as an excuse to oppose.  On September 7 (August 25 in the Russian calendar), he ordered a powerful Cossack detachment into Petrograd and publicly retracted his oath of loyalty to the government.  Kerensky, Prime Minister of the Russian Provisional Government, accused the Commander-in-Chief of rebellion and decided to use the power of the Bolsheviks to put down the mutiny.

    The Red Guards were armed, and the government appealed to the sailors of the Baltic Fleet and encouraged Bolshevik agitators to come out and make contact with Kornilov's troops.

    The Bolshevik propaganda and agitation among Kornilov's troops was so effective that Kornilov's soldiers refused to obey orders and refused to attack Red Petrograd.  On September 12 (August 30 in the Russian calendar), Kornilov was dismissed and arrested, and Kerensky replaced him as commander-in-chief.

    The biggest winner from the thwarted Russian mutiny was not the Provisional Government but the armed Red Guards. For the first time, the Bolsheviks had powerful armed forces. There were 150,000 fully armed Red Guards in Petrograd accepting the leadership of the Bolsheviks. In addition, Petrograd  The 350,000 troops in the Le Military District occupy a center-left position!

    The situation in Russia was so chaotic or precarious that the Allies and the West were deeply concerned but unable to intervene. No one knew where Russia would go next. Trotsky was released on September 14, and the new  The coalition government declared the establishment of a republic in Russia, and the two regimes of the Soviet Union and the Provisional Government existed side by side and were inextricably linked to each other.

    In China, with the arrival of the fifth batch of U.S. aid arms at the end of September, six production line equipment and a key team of engineers and technicians from the Meridian Plant Second Branch of Colt Garber Ordnance Company arrived in China, while China Iron and Steel Company  And the infrastructure construction project of Xuanhua Arsenal, a subsidiary of the participating armies, is under intensive construction three kilometers north of Xuanhua Station on the Beijing-Suiyuan Railway.

    This month, the construction of the 300,000-ton refinery area of ??Sino-American Petroleum Renqiu Branch in Renqiu has also progressed smoothly.Theoretically, by the end of October, all civil construction and equipment installation and commissioning work will be in place, and the refinery can be put into trial operation. But the question is, where is the oil?

    The exploration well drilled by the Rockefeller oil exploration team in Renqiu at the location designated by Wang Geng has reached a depth of 2,000 meters, and the double-tipped drill bits have been replaced with a third set. If Wang Geng had not insisted on continuing to drill, young Rockefeller would have given up his job long ago.  Okay, now this guy definitely thinks that Wang Geng is deceiving him again and that somewhere deep in the grassland in Suiyuan is where the real oil is.

    In fact, the location where Wang Geng asked the Rockefeller oil exploration team to drill was the location of the first ancient buried hill oil reservoir in China and even the world. It was a deep oil well with a daily output of 1,000 tons. In Wang Geng's previous life, this well was numbered Ren Si.  The oil well became the cornerstone of the Huabei Oilfield. It has continuously sprayed waterless crude oil for 15 years, and its high-quality self-injection crude oil has reached 5 million tons.

    At this moment, this well has only been drilled to a depth of 2,000 meters. There is still 1,153 meters to be drilled from the depth where oil was produced in Wang Geng¡¯s previous life, so Wang Geng is not in a hurry. If it weren¡¯t for this guy, he couldn¡¯t remember another well in the Renqiu Oilfield with a daily output of more than 1,153 meters.  If the 9 oil wells with 5,435 tons of crude oil are located at any location, this oil well with a daily output of 1,000 tons of oil will not be drilled first.

    By the end of September, China Airlines had opened up 15 routes. Wang Geng used Japanese yen loans to place a second batch of additional aircraft purchase orders with the United Kingdom. The list is as follows:

    1. 72 British-made SE5 fighter jets, purchase unit price: 35,000 US dollars, total price 2.52 million US dollars

    2. The purchase price of 72 British-made de Havilland dh.4 reconnaissance bombers: US$40,000, with a total price of US$2.88 million.

    3. 72 British-made Handley Petty O/400 heavy bombers, purchase unit price: 60,000 US dollars, total price 4.32 million US dollars

    4. 100 sets of main engines and related maintenance accessories for the above three types of aircraft, totaling US$2 million

    The total value is US$11.72 million.

    The Nanyuan Airport under the Aviation Department of the Participating Army initially has the ability to independently equip and repair the above three types of British aircraft. However, no matter how capable Wang Zhu and Bayama Zao are, independent design and production of aircraft engines is still relatively far away, and training of mechanics and engineers is still relatively far away.  It is the main job of the chief and deputy directors of these two aviation departments.

    Nanyuan Flight School was directly changed to the Nanyuan Flight Academy of the participating armies. Internally, students were selected from participating armies, and externally, students were selected from recent college and middle school students.

    At the same time, Xu Shuzheng, who also served as the governor of Zhili, also served as the principal of Baoding Military Academy. Of course, not only the first two graduates, but also the fifth batch of students who will not graduate until next year have also been booked by the participating armies. Among them are  Wang Geng is most concerned about Fu Zuoyi, a trainee from Shanxi Province. Fu Zuoyi, who ranked first in the infantry subject of the sixth phase of Baoding Military Academy, has been appointed by Wang Geng to join the Army Training Corps as an intern during the Chinese New Year!

    After Li Jishen, the leader of the training group of the participating army, was promoted to the commander of the Sixth Division of the Model Army, Wang Geng made a strange move. He transferred Wang Tingzhen of the 16th Division of the Beiyang Army to join the fighting army as the leader of the teaching group. This move can be described as ingenious. In fact,  It is also a new integration of Zhijiang and Anhui near the capital. Since Feng Guozhang is willing to work hand in hand with Duan Qirui, it is simply asking for trouble for the president to maintain a main division as a guard under the protection of such a powerful participating army.

    Wang Geng's recommendation of Wang Tingzhen as the leader of the teaching group was beyond everyone's expectations, but it was one of the best choices. Everyone knew that the former head of the teaching group of the participating army was either the chief of staff of the participating army or a division commander.  For Wang Tingzhen, being able to take up this position means that the participating army has opened a door to face the direct clique, if Cai Chengxun, the former commander of the First Division who was promoted and secretly surrendered and lost military power, is not counted.

    In fact, most of the chiefs of staff or deputy chiefs of staff of the participating armies will serve as division commanders of the participating armies as long as they are decentralized. Therefore, Cai Chengxun's appointment as deputy chief of staff is like going through an inspection period. If he is like Feng Guozhang, the division commander of the 15th Division,  It was his own fault that his nephew Liu Xun became a deserter and lost his chance.

    Sure enough, after the Sixth Division of the participating army was established in mid-September 1917, Li Jishen served as the division commander, and Wang Tingzhen took over as the head of the teaching regiment. As a result, after the fifth batch of US aid arms arrived at the end of September 1917, not only Li Jishen's Sixth Division had completely changed its equipment.  Equipped with American equipment, the 7th Division of the participating armies was also formally organized.

    Lao Feng's Sixteenth Division went through the same training process as the First Division half a month ago. Two brigades, four regiments, one artillery regiment, one cavalry battalion, one engineer battalion and one supply battalion were eliminated. The Sixteenth Division was also eliminated by nearly 3,000 troops.  Most of them were transferred to the police in the capital, and a small number were sent directly to drug rehabilitation centers to be resettled after they have been detoxified.

    The remaining 12,000 people of the 16th Division and the two supplementary brigades of the Participating Army were combined into the 7th Division of the Participating Army. Wang Tingzhen, who had only been the leader of the teaching regiment for half a month, returned to his position as division commander and served as the Participating Army.  Commander of the 7th Division of the Model Army.
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