"It is natural to speed up the training of the new army, but it is not too small and the ordnance is not very easy to solve!" Wang Shizhen said, "At present, a horse sign in the left town and the right town of the standing army has been compiled and expanded. If the personnel problem is not big, Zhili, Henan, Shandong and other places can recruit enough recruits, but ordnance is not easy to solve!"
Yuan Shikai frowned. "Didn’t we order a batch of 65 rifles and 7-life-5 fast guns from the Japanese before? Think again and see if we can order another batch from them. If not, it’s always a law to ask the Germans!"
After listening to Wang Shizhen, it can also be a dark sigh in my heart that it is not difficult to expand the Beiyang army, but the army and ordnance are the first problem. Because the new army implements a high salary system, a town alone has a salary of nearly 100,000 yuan. In addition, it also conducts high-intensity training and live-fire training all the year round. This part of the flower is also very large. On average, it will last about 130 to 1.5 million yuan a year in a town, depending on the training intensity.
In addition to high maintenance, the ordnance required to build a new town is also a huge digital rifle and artillery, which add up to high procurement. For example, Yuan Shikai practiced the standing military example of the Beijing flag in the Qing court. At the beginning of the town, all weapons were purchased from Japan, including 12,000 30-year rifles, more than 2,000 30-year rifles, 40 30-year guns, 16 guns, seven guns, five guns, six guns, six guns, seven bullets, seven million rounds of various shells, and more than 25,000 pieces of these weapons and
This price is still relatively cheap. Since Yuan Shikai organized a new army to come to Japan last year, he competed with the Germans for arms orders and set the ordnance price lower. It is also convenient to buy ammunition in the future when the distance is close. Yuan Shikai bought a large number of weapons and ammunition from Japan, not only to equip his own standing army in Zuozhen, but also to help the Qing court compile and practice the Beijing flag standing army.
However, this batch of arms purchases is not over yet, and the situation in Northeast China has been tense for a long time. There are also risks, and weapons and ammunition are being prepared to prevent accidents. In this era, the production capacity of military industry is also very limited. Yuan Shikai ordered two batches of ordnance for a while, and they couldn’t get the goods for a while, so they had to wait until next year to complete the delivery. Now they have to expand their troops and prepare for war, and they don’t have enough arms production to receive Yuan Shikai’s order for a while.
Facing Yuan Shikai’s demand to continue to buy arms, he drooled and wanted to eat, but Nai’s mouth was too small to swallow.
"It’s estimated that it’s hard to buy it again in Japan. In addition to the embargo, the Germans are even more expensive!" Wang Shizhen said, "Their 79 rifles are not bad, but the prices of artillery and machine guns are too high!"
Yuan Shikai listened and said, "What about the manufacturing bureaus in the south? Can they buy a batch for us?"
"This is even more difficult. The output of those manufacturing bureaus in the south is not enough. There are more sales to us, and the quality of self-produced 79 rifles and five-born seven guns is also slightly inferior!" Wang Shizhen couldn’t help sighing here. "It’s not easy to buy ordnance at this time. If only we could produce it ourselves!"
Hearing Wang Shizhen’s words, Yuan Shikai suddenly remembered a meeting a few months ago when Zhao Dongyun discussed the establishment of an arsenal, wondering how much money he could spend to run an arsenal. After a long time of meditation, he said to Wang Shizhen, "How much do we need to run an arsenal according to you?"
Wang Shizhen listened and pondered for a while before saying, "If you want to make your own rifles, artillery, smoke bombs and shells, you have to invest two million taels of silver less than the Hanyang factory!"
Wang Shizhen actually said that Hanyang Factory has invested about 2.52 million yuan in equipment purchase and plant construction. Beiyang can’t build a military enterprise with a scale no less than Hanyang Arsenal without an initial investment of 2 million yuan.
When I heard Wang Shizhen say this, Yuan Shikai sighed in his heart and said that we would also build an arsenal.
Since there was no money, Yuan Shikai simply stopped thinking about it, but turned back to Guangzong Civil Rebellion. "Now Guangzong should be Zhao Dongyun’s troops closest to the rebels, right? I don’t know how he is?"
Wang Shizhen said, "Zhiquan sent a report in the afternoon saying that Dongyun would not have been divided into three ways, and Taishan Mountain would have pressed on Julu, Guangzong and other places. In the past few days, it also defeated more than ten mobs, killed more than 100 mobs and arrested hundreds of people. If this situation continues to develop, it will not be long before Dongyun troops can go straight into the gangster’s lair!"
Yuan Shikai nodded. "Well, doing it can still send him a report to make him work!"
Chapter 22 South Peace Crisis
Julu County, Shunde Prefecture, Zhili Province, more than 2,000 years ago, a classic war case broke out here, which was later boasted by the world. Qin Jun ended their invincible history, and Zhao Jun was defeated by the uprising, and Wang Li, the captive, surrendered voluntarily.
Today, more than 2,000 years later, Zhao Dongyun can’t see the battle with the ancient giant deer, and the wall of Julu County has been traced. He took a telescope and looked at the Hebei Plain, which can make his sight extend far and far.
"That’s Dongzhao Village over there, right? There really isn’t a gangster found there?" Zhao Dongyun put a telescope, but he still looked northeast.
Beside him, Li Zejun said, "It’s true that we haven’t found too many bandits. Our army has fled to Guangzong in the south. Now there are no Lian Zhuang Hui and boxing bandits around Julu County!"
Zhao Dongyun frowned. "These people are not stupid enough to know how to escape!"
Zhao Dongyun led the army from Ningjin all the way to the south. After three roads, it almost formed a dense network. Almost all the strongholds of the Lianzhuang Association and the boxing altar were destroyed. The new army of Zhao Dong Yunshou was not the one who trained the army to suppress boxing bandits, but it was handy to kill hundreds of thugs all the way south, and at the same time, less than ten people were killed. The only one who died or accidentally walked and fell to death, leaving seven wounded people with minor injuries.
Although there are not many casualties, the consumption is a little big. During the March and the war, it can consume a lot more food than usual. However, it is open to fight, and although it is a refugee boxer, it will not deliberately save the ammunition. If it takes a long time, it will consume more ammunition.
Zhao Dongyun was a little depressed along the way. Up to now, his troops haven’t fought with large-scale Lian Zhuang Hui and boxing bandits. They are all tinkering around the edges, often with dozens of people. What’s even worse is that these boxing bandits dare to attack his logistics supply line idea and send people to sneak up on it several times. Although his supply line has not caused casualties and losses, it has forced Zhao Dongyun to send more troops to maintain the normal operation of the supply line.
Fuck, he’s always had a strong feeling!
"Today’s plan is to find these thugs to gather together and then flatten them in one fell swoop. Since they don’t call the village to the east, then expand the search scope. I still don’t believe that so many of them can hide!" Zhao Dongyun was very dissatisfied with the army investigators. It took so long to go south, but Jing Tingbin’s hiding place has not been found yet.
At this time, a soldier came to the city wall. This is a letter from Duan Qirui. The military order said that yesterday, the boxing bandits broke the Shunde army and faced a great crisis. Zhao Dongyun was asked to go south as soon as possible to create more pressure on the bandits and relieve the pressure on Nanhe County and Shunde Prefecture from the side. He also said that he had personally led the troops from Zhengding South Shunde.
In recent years, the Qing army’s strategy of encirclement and suppression of the Lianzhuang League is very clear, that is, deploying troops from multiple directions at the same time, gradually driving and compressing the chaotic soldiers, and finally driving them to a certain place and destroying them in one fell swoop, because otherwise, it would be difficult to completely encircle these chaotic troops.
But they didn’t expect the training army to be so unbearable that it couldn’t beat the Japanese in the Sino-Japanese War of 1894. Even the refugees can’t beat it now.
Now Shunde’s military training fiasco has caused great loopholes in Duan Qirui’s pre-arrangement strategy, which is why we can’t care about him. Let’s knock out those boxing bandits first and then slowly clean up the place. His bandits can’t let those mobs really attack Nanhe County, can they?
You know, although the activities of the United Zhuanghui and the Boxer Rebels are extensive, they are still confined to rural areas. Even the thugs in Guangzong, Julu, Nanhe and wei county counties, where bandits are the most serious, have not captured the local counties. From this perspective, the situation is still under the control of the Qing army. But if the bandits break through the city, the political meaning will be greatly different. I don’t know how many people will be responsible for losing their land and falling into the city.
It was only after these factors that Duan Qirui gave up the tactics of letting Zhao Dongyun and his men fight steadily and ordered him to quickly eliminate the thugs in Guangzong and Julu in the south and reinforce Nanhe County.
Zhao Dongyun was ordered to frown slightly!
Now I am not afraid of the so-called Boxer Rebellion and the Lianzhuang Association, but I am afraid I will suffer some unnecessary losses if I venture deep into the south of the mob Mijulu and Guangzong. Zhao Dongyun put himself in danger by putting out the mob in his heart, which is very indifferent to Zhixing.
It’s the current situation in Nanhe that is so critical. According to Duan Qirui’s military intelligence report, although Shunde Prefecture and Nanhe County have more than 2,000 people practicing the army, they have lost everything since yesterday’s defeat. Of course, this does not mean that they were all killed and wounded by the rebels, but that most of them have escaped. Shunde Prefecture has gathered about 500 people to practice the army.
And the five hundred training troops are also in panic. If it is not for the head to force the pressure, it is estimated that they will have to escape before the rebels attack the city.
Today, there are more than 100 cavalry teams in Shunde Prefecture and more than 50 county teams in Zhujiabao, Nanhe County.
There are more than 100 cavalry and dozens of foreign gun teams in such a large house and county.
The army fighting against the rebels’ westward advance is not a regular army of the imperial court, but a county team composed of local county catchers, magistrates, family members, nursing homes and urban residents. The commanders who are in the south and the front line against the rebels’ westward advance are not the company commanders of Daming Town and Zhengding Town. These imperial military commanders are Zhu Jiabao, the magistrate of Nanhe County.
This has to be said to be a funny and sad thing!
More than foreigners, they are worried that foreigners near Shunde are more worried that the rebels will repeat the important events in the north on a large scale. Thousands of troops have already settled in Tianjin and are ready to help the Beiyang army put down the rebellion in the south. Of course, since the signing of the treaty of shame and ugliness, the garrison troops of various countries have already withdrawn from other regions of Zhili, and the allied forces of various countries need permission from the Qing court to enter South Zhili on a large scale.
Now the situation is still under control for the Qing court. Yuan Shikai and others naturally refused the foreigner’s request for troops without hesitation.
However, foreigners heard that after the defeat of Nanhe County, they were worried that foreigners’ safety near Shunde could not send large-scale troops, but they still played the edge ball to protect the road-building foreigners’ engineers. On the pretext of sending more than 40 foreigners’ cavalry troops, the Luhan Railway Roadguard Team is expected to enter Shunde Prefecture from Zhengding County in the name of Fast South to protect the local churches, priests and parishioners.
Look at Duan Qirui these pages of stationery to write these Zhao Dongyun all don’t know what to say!
Zhao Dongyun doesn’t care about these political things and doesn’t want to worry about them. Those foreign armed forces interfere with foreign human beings naturally have Yuan Shikai to deal with them. All he has to do is to wipe out the disorderly army early, catch Jing Tingbin and whip him to death for a hundred times. A hundred times, ya, you have a good life as a landlord, and it hurts to be idle. You play rebellion and rebellion, but you have to get mixed up with the Boxer Rebellion and make the whole Zhili nervous for fear that a bad one will repeat the disaster of the Year of Geng.
Harming the country and the people is such a person!
Zhao Dongyun, the military commander, can’t delay too long. He can’t really let the rebels in Nanhe County and the county town call. It is not immediately to lead the main force to continue Nanguangzong. At the same time, it is also to clear the rebels near Longyao County. Lin Pingxiong led the troops to ignore those small miscellaneous fish directly and quickly. If there is no large-scale resistance in Nanhe County, you can continue to reinforce Nanhe County.
The order to Lin Pingxiong is to reinforce Nanhe County, and Zhao Dongyun himself is preparing to lead the main force into Guangzong, and prepare for a strong sweep to eliminate the rebel forces in the south of Julu County and the central part of Guangzong. Of course, if you can catch the main gathering point of the rebels, so much the better. If you can’t, you should continue to drive the rebels south.
At the same time, he ordered the Bi Xiaoqiang department in Xinhe and Nangong areas to speed up the pace of going south and arrive in the western part of Qinghe County as soon as possible to prevent the rebels from stringing to Shandong.
As the soldiers rode out one by one, Zhao Dongyun’s main force quickly pulled out from Julu County. This time, they marched very fast and arrived in Guangzong County in just one day.
Subsequently, Zhao Dong Cloud immediately sent troops and a whistle unit to quickly go out to Dongzhao Village, Hulu Township, Pingxiang Township, Fengjiazhai and other directions to eliminate the strongholds of Lianzhuanghui.
However, this arrangement has attracted some concerns. Li Zejun said, "Is the strength too weak with just one whistle? If you encounter a small mob, you will be in trouble!"
Zhao Dongyun is unpreparedness, not that he despises the Boxers and the Lianzhuang Association, but that he does not attach importance to them. The fighting capacity of those people is almost the same as that of the peasants. Besides, this is a new army and not a training army. More than 100 people can easily defeat the mob in front of them.
Zhao Dong Yunshou Army belongs to the right army of Wu Wei, which is different from the standing army. It belongs to the camp. One battalion governs four teams, each team governs three whistles, but without whistles, it governs six sheds. Each shed includes 17 soldiers and 114 commanders. Of course, this kind of establishment is not good. Yuan Shikai stopped compiling the standing army when he was less trained, but a purely western-style small camp.
However, it is not enough to say that the establishment of the right army of Wu Wei depends on this whistle. It is enough for more than 100 people to go out to clean up the rioters
Just as Zhao Dongyun was waiting for the troops to be released outside to report the results, there was indeed a noise outside the temporary station. Listen to Zhao Dongyun’s frown. Before he could ask questions, one of his guards quickly came and Zhao Dong Yun whispered in his ear, "My Lord, people outside said that there were mobs on the other side and besieged the church again!"
After the words mob and church were connected in series, Zhao Dongyun was shocked by the teaching plan.
Shit, I’m really afraid of what’s coming. What’s wrong with the Boxer? You have to attack the church and make trouble for the country, right?