Beiyang reactionaries

Duan Xun has always been very satisfied with Han Linchun himself, and it can even be said that Duan Xun trusts Han Linchun very much.

But this is an entirely different matter.

In Duan Xun's position, you can't handle anything with your own feelings, your own preferences, or your personal friendship to judge and deal with problems.Don't say that Han Linchun is just a direct general whom Duan Xun trusts and values ​​highly. Even if Han Linchun is Duan Xun's son, Duan Xun will deal with it like this.This has nothing to do with friendship, not trust.

why?

Han Linchun's power is too great, or Han Linchun's time in the equipment department is too long, this place is about to become Han Linchun's independent kingdom.Even if Han Linchun himself didn't have that kind of thinking, but Han Linchun had been in the equipment department for too long, and this problem naturally formed.

Most of the heads of so many scientific research units under the Equipment Department and the heads of so many military factories were single-handedly selected by Han Linchun.When the General Armament Department was established, Han Linchun began to serve as the minister. It can be said that Han Linchun created the Armament Department of the Chinese army.After a long time, of course this situation will appear, and a community of interests will emerge.

This has nothing to do with Han Linchun himself.

Anyone in this position will have this problem.Duan Xun, as a superior, absolutely cannot tolerate such an important department as the equipment department, such a situation will happen.So Duan Xun must decentralize power.

And now is the best opportunity.

If left unattended now, then as the war continues, the strength of military industrial units will expand even more.If Duan Xun wants to deal with it after a few years, it will be very headache and even cause some turmoil.Taking advantage of the fact that Duan Xun is the chairman of the Supreme Committee and there are few power constraints, it is the best way to cut the mess quickly.In addition, Liu Xiang returned to Beijing, and there is also a legitimate excuse.

But decentralization is only a stopgap measure.

Li Jishen said it well.Sometimes there is too much decentralization, and it is indeed possible to restrict power and prevent excessive power.But it will also affect efficiency, and there will be more disputes among various departments.

Everything has pros and cons.

Therefore, in the future, Duan Xun will definitely merge the two departments again, or reintegrate those departments that have decentralized power.But for now, what Duan Xun has to do is to prevent the people below from being too powerful.After all, such problems now appear, more or historical reasons.

It is really because Duan Xun entered Beijing when he was too young, and many generals who followed Duan Xun held high positions at a young age.When Duan Xun entered Beijing, generals in their thirties abounded.So they stay in one position for ten or twenty years.

Such people are not in the minority.

This situation must be changed, but it can't be too drastic, it can only be done slowly.This time Shang Zhen and Liu Xiang entered Beijing, which gave Duan Xun a good excuse and a good opportunity.

"Also, I plan to continue to strengthen the functions of the General Staff. The intelligence department and the communication department of the Military Commission will be integrated into the General Staff, and the command of the General Staff to the army will continue to be strengthened. In order to strengthen the functions of the General Staff, in the General Staff Under the chief of staff, there are three deputy chiefs of staff responsible for training, intelligence, and operations, as well as two assistant chiefs of general staff who usually assist the chief of staff in his work, mainly managing the organs of the general staff and coordinating the intelligence and communication departments.”

Li Ji nodded secretly.

Sure enough, after attacking the Mobilization Department and the General Armament Department, Duan Xun began to attack the General Staff Department as well.The General Staff Department and the General Armament Department are currently the two most powerful departments of the Military Council.

Although Duan Xun strengthened the power of the General Staff, he also increased the staff of the General Staff.There is a chief of general staff, three deputy chiefs of general staff, and two assistants to the general staff.In this way, the power of the General Staff will be dispersed.

"Ren Chao (Li Jishen), what do you think?"

"Teacher, I agree with your reorganization plan."

Li Jishen did not object.

And to put it bluntly, what does the reorganization of the military committee have to do with him now, and it doesn't affect Li Jishen's interests.Although Li Jishen is the vice chairman of the military committee, he has already jumped out of the ranks of soldiers.Therefore, Li Jishen did not want to get involved in changing the power distribution of the military committee.Now that Duan Xun has made up his mind, this matter is imperative.It's just that Duan Xun doesn't want to push it hard, so he needs the support of others.That's why I found myself.

However, Li Jishen said cautiously: "Teacher, I think it is possible to take one step at a time, not one step at a time. It may affect the stability of the military committee."

"Well, now that China and the Soviet Union are negotiating, the Soviet Union is mainly looking at the changes in Xinjiang. So I plan to start with the abolition of the first-level military region of the Xinjiang Military Region."

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"So everyone agrees to cancel the establishment of the Xinjiang Military Region's first-level military region."

"Yes."

Military Council meeting.

After reaching an agreement with Li Jishen, Duan Xun quickly convened a military committee meeting.This meeting mainly discussed matters in the Xinjiang Military Region.Because the core content of the negotiations between China and the Soviet Union is the issue of troops on the border.The Soviet Union is currently at an absolute disadvantage in the Soviet-German war, so the biggest thing for Soviet diplomacy at present is to stabilize China and the Sino-Soviet border.The issue of troops on the border is mainly concentrated in Xinjiang.

Because the Soviet Union is currently almost defenseless in the Far East.

Whether facing the millions of troops in the Northeast Military Region or the million troops in the Northern Military Region, the Soviet Union was not prepared.During the Sino-Soviet war last year, the Soviet Far East Military District and Transbaikal Military District were completely annihilated.Either he was killed on the battlefield, or he became a prisoner of the Chinese army.During the period after the end of the Sino-Soviet War, there was not a single soldier from the Soviet Union in the entire Far Eastern Military Region and Transbaikal Military Region.

Later, when the Soviet Union was preparing to restore the Far Eastern Military Region and the Transbaikal Military Region, the Soviet-German War broke out, leaving the Soviet Union with no energy or strength to restore the Far Eastern Military Region and Transbaikal Military Region.In the current Soviet Far East and Lake Baikal, there are no troops at all.The Soviet troops here, including the Land Reclamation Corps and the police, are about [-].This strength is completely undefended against the troops of the Northeast Military Region and the Northern Military Region of China.

Therefore, during the negotiations with the Soviet Union, the matter here was not discussed much.

The main concern of the Soviet Union was in Xinjiang.

In the Far East and Lake Baikal, the Soviet Union did not have many people at all, and it was far away from the core area of ​​the Soviet Union, so it was not where the core interests of the Soviet Union were located.But Xinjiang is different. It directly borders Central Asia, and to the north is Novosibirsk.Once the Chinese army floods here, it will directly threaten the Ural industrial zone, and may even threaten the Caucasus oil base.

The Ural Industrial Zone was the key industrial zone built during the first five-year plan and the second five-year plan of the Soviet Union, and there must be no problems here.This is especially true for the Caucasus oil base, which currently supplies most of the Soviet Union's oil.Therefore, in the current Sino-Soviet negotiations, the Soviet Union is most concerned about the affairs of the Xinjiang Military Region.

In order to stabilize China, the Soviet Union made many concessions.

Including the one-time use of 300 tons of gold to buy things from China.

Now that the Soviet Union has shown its sincerity, in order to show its sincerity, China is preparing to abolish the establishment of the first-level military region of the Xinjiang Military Region.Originally, the Xinjiang Military Region was affiliated to the Lanzhou Military Region, but in order to fight against the Soviet Union, it raised its establishment and became a first-level military region.Now that the Sino-Soviet war is over, it is normal to revoke the establishment of the first-level military region and restore the original establishment.There was no objection from the Military Council either.

"The Xinjiang Military Region has withdrawn the establishment of the first-level military region, so how do some people in the Xinjiang Military Region arrange it? Especially the Xinjiang Military Region Commander Liu Xiang and Chief of Staff Ge Jingen. It is impossible for them to stay in Xinjiang at their level, and it is not easy to arrange them in Lanzhou. The military region, so it must be transferred back."

When Duan Xun asked a question, the venue fell silent instantly.

Raptors cross the river.

Liu Xiang and Ge Jingen are typical Raptors crossing the river.In Duan Xun's army, the middle and high-level generals are mainly from the Baoding Military Academy, and further down are the Yunnan Lecture Hall and the Japanese Non-commissioned Officer Academy.

But if you don't count from the school, then half of them are generals from the southwestern provinces.Among the generals in the southwestern provinces, there are the most generals from Sichuan.The reason is that Duan Xun made his fortune from Sichuan, and used a large number of officers from Sichuan when Sichuan expanded its army. As a result, the current army has the most generals from Sichuan.

Among the Sichuan generals, Liu Xiang is the representative.

During the War to Protect the Country, Liu Xiang became famous by defeating Cai E head-on, and became a direct general under Duan Xun's command.After that, he followed Duan Xun to the South and North, and made great contributions to Duan Xun's entry into Beijing.Until last year, it even defeated a million troops of the Novosibirsk Military Region of the Soviet Union in Xinjiang, making great contributions to the victory of the Sino-Soviet War.

In terms of Liu Xiang's qualifications and military exploits, if he hadn't been leading troops in the local area, he must have been a member of the Military Commission when he returned to Beijing.Even becoming the vice chairman of the military committee is more than enough.It can be said that Liu Xiang's qualifications are deeper than most of the people here.

Now that he is going to Beijing, he is a typical dragon crossing the river.

The same is true for Ge Jingen.

When Duan Xun was the Prime Minister of the Cabinet, Ge Jingen was the chief of the military staff of Duan Xun, the Prime Minister of the Cabinet, and he was an officer in the closest line of Duan Xun.Later, he served as the Chief of the Operations Department of the General Staff for a period of time. After the deterioration of Sino-Japanese relations, he was transferred to the Northeast as the Deputy Chief of Staff of the Northeast Military Region, in charge of the Korean war.During the war with the Japanese army, he expelled the Japanese army and helped the Korean Independence Army to control northern North Korea.Moreover, he single-handedly developed the Fengtian Lecture Hall into the Northeast Army University, which has become the first-class military academy in China.

A few years ago, in order to prepare for the war, he went to Xinjiang to serve as the chief of staff of the Xinjiang Military Region. This time he also made military exploits.

Liu Xiang and Ge Jingen are both generals at present, and Liu Xiang is a four-star general with four general stars.Because China does not have the rank of brigadier general, the four-star general in China is at the same level as the general in the United States.In the history of New China, Liu Xiang's military rank is almost at the level of a general.In the current Chinese army, it has the highest military rank, because China currently does not have a five-star general, nor does it have a military rank such as a marshal.

With two people of this level, returning to Beijing must take up important positions.But now the military committee is almost a carrot and a hole, how to arrange them, is it to let the people present give up their seats?Under such circumstances, no one said a word, because they couldn't figure out Duan Xun's pulse.

"Cichen (Xu Yongchang)."

"Chairman."

"I think Chief of Staff Ge Jingen went to your General Staff Headquarters. He was originally from the General Staff Headquarters, and he has experienced the battles of the Korean Independence Army and the Japanese Army. Last year, he had sufficient combat experience in the Sino-Soviet War. He went to the General Staff as Deputy Chief of the General Staff."

"Yes."