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Volume 2 Beijing Story Chapter 196 Zhang Zuolin also voted for the Central Committee

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    On January 9, 1918, the Ministry of War issued an order to confer Zhang Zuolin, the Warlord of Fengtian, as General Zhenwei. He transferred the Nanyuan Participating Army in Beijing to serve as the Chief of Staff of the Participating Army and was relieved of the post of Warlord of Fengtian!  The whole country was in an uproar!

    Zhang Zuolin, the governor of Fengtian, started his career in Northeast China. In more than ten years, he has become a prince with the 27th Army Division, the 28th Army Division and a cavalry brigade. He has been in a very difficult situation since he upset the central government last year because of the Henan Zhao Ti incident.  In an embarrassing situation, although Zhao Ti was sent out of the country early in the morning, it was because of the loyalty of his friends that he did not hand over this bereaved dog to the central government.

    In addition, he had previously borrowed troops from Japan to deal with Meng Enyuan, the governor of Jilin, and wanted to get the territory of Jilin. However, he was reprimanded by the central government and was disgraced. Xu Shuzheng ordered the governor of Fengtian to withdraw to Fengtian and reflect on himself behind closed doors.

    Wang Geng¡¯s model army for participating in the war grew rapidly in less than a year. Behind it was the undivided support of the United States. Even his Japanese friends behind him put their tail between their legs and held their noses to help Wang Geng in the construction of the Beijing-Suiyuan Railway.  Ma, Wu Peifu, Wang Chengbin, Cai Chengxun, Wang Tingzhen and even Cao Kun and Yan Xishan all switched to the participating army.

    Zhang Zuolin knew that his Fengtian position was in a critical place inside and outside the pass. How could he allow others to snore next to the so-called couch?  Everyone knows that the central government will negotiate with them sooner or later, and the participating armies will have a showdown with themselves sooner or later. At this time, the Zhijiang-Anhui Alliance has taken back the Outer Mongolia and the Middle East Road!

    The reputation of the Prime Minister and his participating troops at home and abroad is so high that even the Japanese dare not say no easily. The original promise to build the equipment for the gun-making workshop of the Fengtian Arsenal turned out to be bad in the blink of an eye. It was said that Japan had promised  A package of technologies including the 75mm Type 41 field gun, Type 38 mountain gun and 150-caliber howitzer will be transferred to the participating armies.

    The equipment and molds in the gun-making workshop of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries are not enough, so the artillery equipment transaction privately negotiated between Japan and the Fengtian Governor has been put on hold indefinitely. The original equipment must first satisfy Wang Geng's side!

    The situation is stronger than the people. Zhang Zuolin not only wants to get on the big ship of joining the war, but also wants to protect his family fortune in this three-acre land in Fengtian. In the past two months, Zhang Zuolin has been very worried about the so-called confidants below.  There are a lot of bad ideas coming up, but none of them work. In fact, everyone knows in their hearts that without the support of Japan, it is impossible for Fengtian to challenge the central government!

    Zhang Zuolin's men only had two divisions and five brigades when all was said and done. Compared with the five brigades of Cao Kun's original Beiyang Army's Third Division, their combat effectiveness would only be weaker. Last year in Bazhou Autumn Cao, Cao Kun led the First Division.  The elite troops of nine brigades of the 16th, 16th and 3rd Divisions were beaten to a pulp by the four brigades of the participating army. One division of Wang Tingzhen could not resist a brigade of Shi Jingting of the participating army.

    Without the support of Japan, this war cannot be fought, and the troops are unknown. Once the charge of resisting the central government is really implemented, it will not be easy to turn over. We still have to find a way to climb onto the big ship of Wang Geng¡¯s participating army!

    Although Zhang Zuolin may not be convinced by Cao Kun, Wu Peifu and Wang Chengbin, who were born in the Third Division, are more capable than those below him. Wu Peifu is now in the American Time Magazine and is praised as a professional soldier of the Republic of China who regained the lost territory.  model!  Damn it, when will I, Lao Zhang, be able to be like that?

    After receiving the order from the Ministry of War, Zhang Zuolin knew that this was an olive branch extended by Wang Geng. Everyone knew that the three positions in the participating army were promoted the fastest. The first was the head of the teaching regiment, the second was the chief of staff of the participating army, and the second was the chief of staff of the participating army.  The brigade commander of the first division, and this first division has always been the division commander of Wang Geng himself.

    Now the position given by Wang Geng is chief of staff. Obviously, the next step is to either stay in the position of chief of staff and lead the staff headquarters, or he will be transferred to the division commander of the participating army and the governor of a province. At this time, Jiang Hong met and  Jiang Fangzhen's two predecessors were both military governors and division commanders!

    Dry!  There is no way out if you don¡¯t do it!  To rebel is to seek death!  The participating army's air force has more than 400 aircraft alone and a 400,000-strong army armed to the teeth. There are ten provinces directly under the control of the participating army. In addition to the central government's righteousness, now Outer Mongolia and the Middle East Road  When everything is taken back, whoever raises the flag to rebel will be a traitor according to Wanfu, and will never end well!

    On January 10, 1918, Zhang Zuolin, the former Governor of Fengtian, called the Central Committee to accept the latest appointment from the Ministry of War. He resigned as Governor of Fengtian and came to Beijing to take up his post soon!

    On January 11, 1918, the Participating Army Headquarters transferred Zhang Zuoxiang, the infantry brigade commander of the 27th Army Division, as the head of the Participating Army's training group, and Li Jishen, Assistant Military Affairs Officer of Rehe, led the 6th Division of the Participating Army to station in Fengtian and served as the military governor of Fengtian.  The 27th and 28th Divisions of the Beiyang Army were reorganized and nearly 3,000 old, weak, sick and disabled smokers were eliminated.

    The remaining troops and the two supplementary brigades of the participating army that went north from Nanyuan were mixed to form the 15th and 16th divisions of the participating army. Zhang Shusheng, commander of the third brigade of the first division of the participating army, was the commander of the 15th division.  He led the 15th Division back to Rehe and served as Assistant Military Affairs Officer of Rehe. He also joined the First Division of the War Army.The position of commander of the third brigade was transferred to Jiang Dengxuan, deputy chief of staff of the participating army!

    Jiang Dengxuan was also from Zhili. He grew up in a wealthy family. He was determined to serve the country by joining the army since he was a child. He graduated from the artillery department of the Japanese Army Sergeant School in 1908. He was regarded as a versatile man in both civil and military affairs. In his previous life, he was considered one of the most outstanding generals in the Fengzhi clan. The other one was Guo Songling.  , of course, in the previous life, these two people did not deal with each other. Later, when Lao Guo rebelled, he shot Jiang Dengxuan who came to persuade him, which left a stain.

    After Jiang Dengxuan joined the army, he followed Zhu Qinglan, the former commander of the Fengtian Patrol Battalion, following him into and out of Sichuan, and then followed Zhu Qinglan to Guangdong. After Zhu Qinglan resigned as governor of Guangdong, he was recalled to Beijing by Feng Guozhang to serve as a consultant to the presidential palace.  After Wang Tingzhen became the commander of the Seventh Division and went to Heilongjiang, Feng Guozhang stuffed Jiang Dengxuan into the war army, but instead sent a general for Wang Geng!

    Qiu Bin, commander of the 4th Brigade of the 2nd Division of the Participating Army in Baoding Jiang Hongyu, was transferred to the Commander of the 16th Division of the Participating Army. He was appointed as the garrison envoy of Jinzhou and led the 16th Division to garrison in Jinzhou, Fengtian.  The former commander of the Fourth Brigade of the Second Division was transferred to Han Linchun!  Last year, Xu Shuzheng was transferred from the Ministry of War to the training regiment of the participating armies and became the regiment's chief of staff.

    At this point, there are a total of 16 integrated divisions in the official establishment of the participating armies, with 48 mixed brigades and approximately 480,000 people.  Among them are three German Mechanics, one Japanese Mechanic, and 12 Art Mechanics!

    The solution to the Fengtian issue was another unity and alliance between Feng Guozhang and Duan Qirui after the great alliance between Zhi, Anhui, and Fengtian in the north. This meant that with the alliance between Zhi, Anhui, and Fengtian in the north, the participating armies completely controlled eleven provinces in the north, and Anhui, Jiangsu, and Anhui in the south.  Jiangxi, Hubei, and Hunan were the buffer zones for the old Zhili and Anhui clique warlords, and further south were local warlords who each worked to protect the country and the people.

    Foreign war has always been the best way to divert domestic conflicts. In less than a year, the participating armies reorganized the First, Third, Fifth, Eighth, Fifteenth, and Fifteenth Divisions of the former Beiyang Army.  The 16th, 27th and 28th Divisions and the First Division of the Shanxi Army simultaneously recruited nearly 300,000 new soldiers at a rate of 1,000 per day. While achieving great success, they also faced huge challenges.  challenges.

    Damn, Wang Geng's deep inner anxiety during this period of time is known only to his beautiful concubines. No matter how busy he is during the day and socializing, after returning home and entering the inner house, Wang Geng and the women in his family still live like a fish in water, a harmonious feudal society.  The life of a big family has been frowning and dull these days.

    What worries Wang Geng is the situation in Russia. In his previous life, when Wang Geng was a graduate student at the National Defense University, he studied the Russian Civil War a lot. How come the old Soviet Russian is like a weakling who cannot be killed?  Sometimes it defended Kiev, sometimes it defended Tsaritsyn, and sometimes it defended Petrograd and Moscow. The new Soviet Russian regime was in danger every time in the face of the White Guard's attacks.

    But he can always turn danger into safety, and start a counterattack in a blink of an eye. In a blink of an eye, the White Guards are defeated like a mountain?

    Wang Geng tried his best to build a modern army based on the recruitment system, but the flaws of the recruitment system were also exposed, that is, when a country faces a full-scale war, the recruitment system will never work, even if the participating armies have actually passed the direct Anhui  The United and Anhui-Feng units unite the north under the banner of New Beiyang and the participating armies, and unite under the banner of the central government and Premier Duan!

    ¡°But the participating armies of the sixteen reorganized divisions in front of us may be able to achieve domestic unification by force, but externally they want to defend the country and regain the lost territory in the Northeast, but they are still in an embarrassing situation of insufficient strength!

    China is a traditional agricultural country. The inertia of the small-scale peasant economy has kept the modern industrialization process in a state of limbo. The Westernization Movement in Beiyang laid the first foundation for heavy industry. However, the domestic turmoil has always caused the state to spend all its tax revenue to make ends meet.  Expand the army and buy arms to prepare for war and compete for territory.

    The nearly 500,000-strong troops participating in the war receive a monthly salary of 10 million. Once a war begins, the cost of transportation and arms consumption will increase. In the future, this military expenditure will increase several times or ten times. This war is going to be fought.  The burden is really not that light.

    Time waits for no one. The growth of the participating armies and the recovery of Outer Mongolia and the Middle East Road have caused the entire Chinese government and the public to have great expectations for this government and the participating armies. In accordance with the Soviet Union's government's declaration on China, in accordance with  According to the Chinese government's subsequent statement, all the millions of square kilometers of land occupied by Lao Maozi in the north must be taken back, right?  Now that there is civil strife in Soviet Russia, Marshal Zhang here has also voted for the Central Committee, so what are you waiting for?  Hurry up!

    Things are not that simple!
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