Beiyang reactionaries

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Although Lu Rongting has promoted many of his brothers who have been around for many years, Lu Rongting also knows that his Gui family needs a general like Lin Hu to develop.Ma Xiaojun brought the model battalion to seek refuge with Duan Xun, which made Lu Rongting reflect a lot.

Rewards and punishments should be clearly defined.

Lin Hu made great contributions this time, so he should be rewarded.Therefore, Lu Rongting wanted to make Lin Hu's Second Army of the Guangdong Army perfect.

"Shen Tang (Ma Ji), Fu Xiang (Lu Fuxiang)."

"Father (Marshal)."

"The Guangzhou garrison was reorganized into an independent division and deployed in Dongguan with the First Army of the Guangdong Army to block the advance of the Guangdong Army. Shen Tang served as the commander-in-chief of the defense of Dongguan, and Fuxiang served as the deputy commander of the defense. Guard Dongguan and Zengcheng, and do not let the Guangdong army threaten Guangzhou."

"Yes."

Lu Rongting made up his mind completely and must ensure the safety of Guangzhou.

"Commander Lin (Lin Baoyi)."

"Master."

"Let the fleet enter the Pearl River."

"Yes."

Lin Baoyi accepted the order, but said with some embarrassment: "Marshal, the guardian fleet's military salary and ammunition needs..."

"I will find a way to do this. Let the fleet enter the Pearl River first."

Lu Rongting interrupted Lin Baoyi's words.Lin Baoyi was upset, but still nodded and said, "Yes."

233 Guardian Fleet

"How's it going?"

Whampoa.

At present, the temporary headquarters of the Guardian Fleet is located in Huangpu. When Lin Baoyi came to the headquarters very tired, there were already many senior generals of the Guardian Fleet waiting for Lin Baoyi.

Undersecretary of the Navy Department of the Protectorate Military Government Tang Tingguang, captain of the cruiser Haiqi, Lin Yongmo, captain of the Zhaohe cruiser, Wen Shude, captain of the Tongan ship and director of the Torpedo Bureau, and Chen Ce, commander of the Changzhou Fort were all present.

Seeing Lin Baoyi coming in, Tang Tingguang immediately asked Lin Baoyi.

Because only Tang Tingguang is qualified to ask Lin Baoyi so casually.Tang Tingguang, as the captain of the cruiser Haiqi in the late Qing Dynasty, once took the Haiqi around the world, went to European and American powers, and also protected overseas Chinese.

It can also be regarded as fighting for the face of the Chinese navy outside.

Since Cheng Biguang was assassinated, among the Guardian Fleet, Lin Baoyi, Tang Tingguang, and Lin Yongmo were the three with the deepest qualifications and the highest status.

"It's no use."

Lin Baoyi sighed.

Lin Baoyi's status is very high.When Cheng Biguang led the navy to go south to protect the Dharma, Lin Baoyi was the first one he encouraged.Because the Beiyang Navy was almost completely annihilated in the Sino-Japanese War of [-]-[-], the imperial court divided the Chinese Navy into the Ocean Fleet and the Yangtze River Fleet.

When the Republic of China was established, the ocean-going fleet was changed to the First Fleet, and the Yangtze River Fleet was changed to the Second Fleet.Here, the First Fleet was adapted as an ocean-going fleet in the late Qing Dynasty, and the strength of its own fleet is higher than that of the Second Fleet.

And Lin Baoyi was the commander of the First Fleet.

At that time, Cheng Biguang and Lin Baoyi brought seven warships to the south, joined with three warships from Guangdong, and became ten warships.The tonnage of these ten warships is more than half of the national navy.

Not long after, the cruiser Zhaohe, which had been in Fujian, also defected to the Guardian Fleet under the leadership of Captain Lin Yongmo, which greatly enhanced the strength of the Guardian Fleet.

The guardian fleet is not only large in tonnage, but also basically new ships for the Chinese navy.So in the naval field, the guardian fleet is still very strong.

After Cheng Biguang was assassinated, Lin Baoyi, as the commander of the First Fleet, became the chief of the Navy Department of the Guangdong Protectorate Military Government and the commander of the Protectorate Fleet.He is even one of the seven presidents of the Guangdong Law Protector Military Government.

But these are of no use.

Because they are all empty positions, he can't interfere with other things except the navy.

"What did Lu Rongting say?"

Chen Ce was young and had always supported Sun Yat-sen.Therefore, neither the Guangxi family nor Lu Rongting had a good impression.

"He said he would prepare."

"But when will he be ready? We haven't received a salary for three months, and the salary in the past few months was only one-third of the original salary. This year, the salary has been intermittent. Our troops also have to eat Yes, what shall we eat and drink if this continues.”

Chen Ce was very dissatisfied.

Lin Baoyi glanced at the young Chen Ce, and wanted to say something, but he still didn't say it, worried that he would anger Chen Ce.Although Chen Ce was young, he represented a large number of Cantonese military officers, and Lin Baoyi couldn't do anything to him.Lin Baoyi understands better than anyone else that there are serious problems within the Guardian Fleet.

Infighting is very serious.

At present, the main naval officers of the Dharma Guardian Fleet are all officers from Fujian, followed by officers from Cantonese, and then officers from the north, especially those from Lu.The sources here are all related to the distribution of the Naval Academy.

There are several well-known naval academies in China, one is the Mawei Shipbuilding School established in Fujian when Zuo Zongtang was the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, and the other is the Guangdong Waterway School established in Huangpu when Zhang Zhidong was in charge of Guangdong, which was later changed to Whampoa Naval Academy.The other one is the Yantai Naval Academy, which was proposed by Li Hongzhang after the Sino-Japanese War and planned by the naval admiral Sa Zhenbing.

In addition to these, although there are some other naval schools, these schools are relatively well-known.Therefore, in China's current navy, the main officers are from the three provinces of Fujian, Guangdong, and Shandong.Among them, Fujian has the most officers and is the most powerful.The same is true for the Dharma Guardian Fleet, where Fujian officers are powerful.Not only officers, but soldiers also have the most soldiers in Fujian.Sixty to seventy percent of the people in the Guardian Fleet are Fujianese.

Although these Hokkien military officers went south to support the law enforcement, they were not enthusiastic about it at this time.They just want to live well, and they are willing to be with anyone as long as they give money.The thoughts of Cantonese officers are very complicated.

Of course they also hope to find a force that can support the navy.

But many of them supported Sun Yat-sen.

These Cantonese officers were headed by Chen Ce, including Sheng Yanqi of the Zhaohe.

In this way, the contradiction between the two sides is getting bigger and bigger.In order to quell these internal strife, Lin Baoyi's head has been dizzy for a while.If Lin Baoyi and Tang Tingguang hadn't been in command, the Fujian and Cantonese officers would have started fighting.

Lin Baoyi didn't want the Dharma Guardian fleet to split, so he kept mediating in the play.So Chen Ce spoke very bluntly, and Lin Baoyi didn't reprimand him.

"Does Lu Rongting have any money?"

Lin Yongmo frowned.

Lin Yongmo defected from Fujian to Guangdong with the cruiser Zhaohe after the outbreak of the Law Protection War.But these days have been in a bad mood.Lin Yongmo was the captain of the cruiser Haichen as early as the end of the Qing Dynasty. Later, he participated in the Revolution of [-] and led three cruisers to support the Southern Revolutionary Party.The defection to the Dharma Guardian Fleet this time was also for the sake of Sun Yat-sen, Cheng Biguang, and Lin Baoyi.

But as soon as he came to Guangdong, Cheng Biguang was assassinated, and it was rumored that Sun Yat-sen's people did it.Later, Sun Yat-sen was driven away by Lu Rongting, and although Lu Rongting was happy to give money at first, he was not happy at all with the military salary this year.Moreover, Lin Yongmo didn't like people from bandits like Lu Rongting very much.

So Lin Yongmo regretted it a bit.

Regret coming to Guangdong.

As the current leader of the Hokkien officers in the Guardian Fleet, Lin Yongmo wants to join the Beiyang government again.However, the Cantonese military officers were very opposed to Lin Yongmo's idea, and the conflict between the two parties was very serious.

According to Lin Yongmo's intention, as long as Fujian officers cooperate, all non-Fujian officers and soldiers can be driven out of the Dharma Guardian Fleet.In this way, the Dharma Guardian Fleet is completely in the hands of Fujian officers.How to choose at that time is a matter for the Fujian military officers themselves.