Beiyang reactionaries
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"Overseer, I just received news from Zhangzhou."
"Zhangzhou? What happened to Chen Jiongming?"
Mo Rongxin is really old.
The position of the Governor of Guangdong can be said to be very good. If Lu Rongting had no absolute trust in Mo Rongxin, he would not have been allowed to be the Governor of Guangdong.Guangdong is in China, it is the richest province, and the only comparable province in China is Jiangsu.But Guangdong is also a very complicated place.
The forces of various factions gathered.
In Lu Rongting's Guangxi army alone, there are people like Lu Rongting's son Ma Ji, and there are troops like Shen Hongying who are almost self-contained, but they are troops that obey Lu Rongting's orders.After Lu Rongting's people came to Guangdong, the newly recruited Cantonese Army troops in Guangdong were subordinate to the Gui Army.These are the composition of Lu Rongting's troops.
These troops alone have their own contradictions.
Ma Ji called himself Lu Rongting's troops, and looked down on Shen Hongying's troops and the Guangdong Army's troops.Bullying them from time to time, including the distribution of armaments, including the distribution of military pay, is the best.
The same is true for Shen Hongying.
Because of Mo Rongxin's love and following Lu Rongting for a long time, he is also a little domineering.Always bullying many Cantonese troops incorporated in Guangdong with Ma Ji.
This caused Lu Rongting's troops to be very sharply opposed.Those Cantonese troops attached to Lu Rongting, although they obeyed the orders of the Gui Army, were very dissatisfied with Shen Hongying and Ma Ji.
In addition to troops such as Lu Rongting, Guangdong also has the former Yunnan Army, but is currently stationed in Guangdong.This is also an independent force. Although it is relying on Lu Rongting, the personnel relationship has always been in the hands of the Yunnan Army itself, and Mo Rongxin cannot intervene.
And because Sun Yat-sen has been in Guangdong for many years and has propagated the revolution here for many years, he is still influential in Guangdong.There are also many local troops and local forces who support Sun Yat-sen.And Sun Yat-sen's direct descendants, that is, Chen Jiongming's First Cantonese Army and Xu Chongzhi's Second Cantonese Army were stationed in southern Fujian.
And Guangdong not only has these army units.
And the navy.
When Sun Yat-sen went south to protect the Fa, Cheng Biguang, then chief of the navy of the Beiyang government, also supported the navy to protect the Fa, so he took part of the navy to go south to Guangdong to support the Guangdong military government.
But in February last year (1918), Cheng Biguang was assassinated in Guangdong.
There are different opinions on who was assassinated.Sun Yat-sen accused Lu Rongting and the others of assassinating Cheng Biguang, while Lu Rongting and the others said that Sun Yat-sen had framed him.Anyway, there is no clear statement so far.
However, although Cheng Biguang was assassinated, the navy he brought was stationed in Guangdong.The navy is a very special army, and the Chinese navy is even more so.Because China has always been a country with land power, although it attaches great importance to the navy, it cannot be the same as Britain and Japan. The power of the navy can be compared with that of the army.Therefore, the life of the Navy is more difficult.
If you have milk, you are a mother. The Chinese Navy is the most suitable.
This is not the Navy's mistake, it is also the Navy's helpless choice.Because the Chinese navy has little power in the country, but the navy must survive after all.Therefore, the Chinese navy can only choose, and I will support whoever gives the money.The current situation is that Lu Rongting controls Guangdong's finances, and the navy can only obtain funds from those who choose to attach to Lu Rongting.
Look at these forces in Guangdong.
complex.
Mo Rongxin was dizzy when dealing with these matters.
Especially with two troops, Mo Rongxin was very distressed.One is the powerful troops stationed in Guangdong and Yunnan. Although they have been very honest recently, they do not accept Mo Rongxin's leadership.
The two divisions of the Yunnan Army formed their own system, and it was Li Gengen who commanded this unit in name, but he was also cautious.Fear of stirring up a mutiny in the Yunnan army.The soldiers of the Dian Army were very dissatisfied with the arrest of Zhang Kairu and the expulsion of Li Liejun by the Gui Army.Therefore, he has always resisted Li Gengen's command.
However, the Dian army is still a small matter.
After all, Mo Rongxin controls the military pay.The Dian army is a guest army, without the support of Mo Rongxin and the others, it would be difficult to survive in Guangdong.At present, Mo Rongxin pays them the military salaries.So although they resisted the Gui army, they had to obey the Gui army.
What really made Mo Rongxin nervous was the "Aid to Fujian and Guangdong Army".
This is Sun Yat-sen's man.
Regardless of whether it is Chen Jiongming or Xu Chongzhi, they are both influential figures in the year of [-].One of these two people is in Guangdong and the other is in Fujian.
They are currently stationed in southern Fujian, and they are eyeing Guangdong.
So Mo Rongxin was the most nervous about their affairs.Although these two men do not have many troops, they are very capable of leading troops.Although this army is currently in southern Fujian, Mo Rongxin dare not relax at all.
"Recently, I have received news that Chen Jiongming's troops have received a batch of munitions in Zhangzhou. The exact number is unknown. However, Chen Jiongming has already started training recruits in Zhangzhou, and has given the designations of the Third Army and the Fourth Army of the Cantonese Army. Xu Chongzhi's Cantonese Army There are also signs of the Second Army moving to Zhangzhou."
"arms?"
Mo Rongxin jumped up directly.
Then he asked very puzzled: "Where did Chen Jiongming get the ammunition? He also found out the designations of the Third Army and the Fourth Army of the Cantonese Army? According to the organization of the Cantonese Army, if there is a Third Army and a Fourth Army, then the accepted ammunition Not a small amount. Is he bluffing? Is he sending us fake news?"
Mo Rongxin was very nervous.
Although the names of the armies and divisions of these southern armies sound nice, their organization is actually completely different from that of the Beiyang Army.The establishment of the full division of the Beiyang Army inherited the establishment of a town in the late Qing Dynasty, with nearly 1 troops.Of course, not all division-level troops of the Beiyang Army have this scale, only those directly descended troops of the Beiyang Army have this kind of establishment.
As for the local troops privately recruited by the warlords of the Beiyang Army, and these troops in the south, a division rarely even has more than 5000 people.Even during the War to Protect the Nation, apart from the tens of thousands of Tang Jiyao's National Defense Army, except Cai E's First Army, the other armies had a maximum of about 5000 people, and a few of them had only two or 3000 people.
Making a lot of numbers is more of a deterrent and confusing effect.
The Cantonese Army is actually the same.What Chen Jiongming accepted at the beginning was the provincial defense army of 6000 battalions, that is, 5000 people.Although the army has expanded a lot this year, in fact, the number of the First Cantonese Army and the Second Cantonese Army combined is less than [-].Army rifles are less than [-].
Under such circumstances, Chen Jiongming made up the designations of the so-called Third Army of the Guangdong Army and the Fourth Army of the Guangdong Army, how could it not make Mo Rongxin nervous.If Chen Jiongming really came up with such an organization, then at least a few thousand more troops would be added.
Looking at the situation in China as a whole, a few thousand people are nothing.But in one place, a few thousand people is no longer a small number of troops.
"No, Warlord. My people saw with their own eyes in Zhangzhou that Chen Jiongming's recruits were all issued by Hanyang. And there have been rumors in the arms market recently that a certain big seller sold [-] Hanyang made to Chen Jiongming's troops."
"Ten thousand rods?"
Mo Rongxin's expression became more and more serious.
With Lu Rongting's strength in ruling Guangdong and Guangxi, after losing tens of thousands of troops in the Hunan War, he has not yet fully recovered to his peak state.Because buying weapons is not easy.
Lu Rongting also bought weapons from Japan.
In three batches, only about [-] Japanese-style weapons were purchased in total, and many troops were rebuilt.However, purchasing these weapons and training troops also made Lu Rongting's finances very difficult.
Don't look at Lu Rongting's control of Guangdong and Guangxi, especially the wealthy province of Guangdong.But buying weapons from abroad and training troops requires a lot of money.Military spending is rising steadily, even with Guangdong in hand, it is still very difficult.
It was not easy for Lu Rongting to survive.
At the end of 1918, Lu Rongting had some income again and planned to buy another five or six thousand rifles to expand the army.However, the sudden arms embargo completely bankrupted Lu Rongting's plan to buy weapons.Recently, the situation of collecting weapons in the domestic market is also very bad.Although Lu Rongting spent a lot of money, he only bought a few hundred rifles in the domestic arms market.
It simply cannot meet the needs of the troops.
Now the domestic market simply does not have weapons.The real price but no market refers to the current domestic market.So Mo Rongxin couldn't believe it when he heard that Chen Jiongming bought [-] rods made by Hanyang.
In the current domestic arms market, where can there be [-] rifles.
Although it was made in Hanyang, it is also a weapon.
"you sure?"
"Overseer, I have a reliable source of information. I heard that these weapons were transported by the British Taigu Foreign Firm, and it was the Taikoo Foreign Firm that guaranteed both parties that the transaction could be successfully completed. Now many arms dealers in the country are starting to Get in touch with Taikoo, hoping to get in touch with this mysterious seller and buy weapons from them."
Mo Rongxin was already very shocked at this time.
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