Beiyang reactionaries

Most of the people who come here today are generals from Hubei and Hunan.

"Minister Xiong, let's get started."

"Yes."

After Duan Xun sat down, Xiong Kewu immediately opened the notebook in his hand and said, "This temporary meeting today is mainly to discuss the issue of suppressing bandits. At present, the nine departments of Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou, Tibet, Hunan, Guangxi, Hubei, Shaanxi and Henan under our Border Defense Supervision Bureau Among the provinces, regardless of Tibet, the three provinces of Sichuan, Yunnan and Guizhou have always attached great importance to the work of suppressing bandits in the past few years. Judging from the current situation of banditry in the country, the three provinces of Sichuan, Yunnan and Guizhou are considered the best three provinces, basically there are no big stocks Bandits exist. Therefore, the work of suppressing bandits in the three provinces of Sichuan, Yunnan and Guizhou is now mainly in the charge of the local police station and recruit troops. Only when necessary, the army will officially intervene. However, the work of suppressing bandits in the three provinces of Sichuan, Yunnan and Guizhou has nearly Didn't attend for two years."

"However, the situation in the five provinces of Hunan, Guangxi, Hubei, Shaanxi and Henan is not so optimistic. On the contrary, the situation is very serious. These provinces have been in constant war these years, resulting in serious banditry, and the local government has not vigorously suppressed bandits, so it can definitely be said that bandits Mao. Moreover, there are a lot of routs in this war, and these routs will be called new bandits. This needs to be dealt with as soon as possible.”

"The general said at the inauguration ceremony that banditry in these provinces should be ended within two years. In order to fulfill this promise, we need a group of troops dedicated to suppressing bandits. This is also the purpose of our meeting today."

Bandit suppression meeting.

Time is running out, so only these people are invited to this meeting.If there is enough time, the scale should have been expanded.But enough of those who are participating now.

"Minister Xiong made an opening remark, and I will also say a few words."

Duan Xun answered, and said: "Bandits have a huge impact, and they affect all aspects. The common people cannot live in peace, and businessmen dare not do business boldly, which will greatly affect the reputation of the government. Because of this, I will put The work of suppressing bandits came out alone and made a promise. All other things can be put down, but the work of suppressing bandits should never be let go. Instead, it should become the top priority. In order to completely solve the banditry problem, I plan to establish a The Bandit Suppression Headquarters is fully responsible for the bandit suppression work in the provinces under the Border Supervision Administration. If the banditry problem is not resolved, this department will not be disbanded. Brother Chaofan (You Min)."

"exist."

"I want you to be the commander-in-chief of the newly established Bandit Suppression Command?"

"I?"

Originally, you Min came here for a meeting today, so You Min was quite puzzled.

Because before coming to the meeting, You Min knew that the main agenda of the meeting was to suppress bandits.But You Min is the Chief Inspector of the Military Judiciary Department, in charge of military police work and military discipline.

Now the area controlled by Duan Xun has suddenly increased, and You Min is also very busy during this time.After all, Duan Xun has newly reorganized troops here, and he must supervise Duan Xun's troops not to violate military discipline when they go to new places.

At this time, You Min received a notice of the meeting, which made him completely confused.

I have nothing to do with the bandits.

But he didn't expect Duan Xun to let him take charge of the bandit suppression work, which surprised You Min.In fact, You Min also knew it, because he was from the Revolutionary Party, and he had disagreed with Duan Xun several times.

Moreover, You Min always regards himself as a member of the Kuomintang, which makes Duan Xun never trust him.

Therefore, Duan Xun has always put You Min in charge of the Military Law Department. Although the Gendarmerie was formed later, the control over the Gendarmerie is relatively strict.These Youmin can understand, because Duan Xun doesn't trust himself and doesn't want to give himself a chance to lead the army.

But what happened this time?

"What, is there a problem?"

Duan Xun asked You Min back.Although You Min was surprised, he still shook his head and said, "No problem."

"That's good."

Yes.

Duan Xun has never trusted You Min very much, so he dared not let him get involved in military power.But after so many years, even if You Min has different ideas from Duan Xun in many aspects, he still cannot do without Duan Xun, or this team.

Because You Min and Duan Xun's teams are fully connected.

More importantly, it is really impossible for ordinary people to lead the work of suppressing bandits in so many provinces.It is necessary to choose a person who has qualifications, ability, and sufficient connections to be able to coordinate the troops and cooperate to suppress bandits.

Among the current Duan Xun senior officers, those who meet the requirements have their own missions, and it is most suitable to find You Min.

Because You Min has been in Duan Xun's army since the second year of the Republic of China, in the Military Law Department.After all these years, no one in the army is afraid of You Min.In recent years, Youmin has dealt with not one or two officers who violated military laws.

Moreover, although You Min has an awkward relationship with Duan Xun, and has publicly refuted Duan Xun several times, his relationship with the generals of Duan Xun's department cannot be said to be bad.Because everyone knows that the relationship between Duan Xun and You Min is somewhat special.On the surface, the relationship between the two people is awkward, and there have been cases of disagreement on several occasions.But the two never had a real conflict, and as Duan Xun's status improved, You Min's status continued to rise, but Duan Xun never suppressed You Min.

Two people are classmates, this kind of relationship is more difficult to guess.

Therefore, You Min in Duan Xun's army was not boycotted by the people below just because he didn't deal with Duan Xun.Now Duan Xun hopes that You Min will jump out of the Military Law Department, anyway, the construction of the Military Law Department is already very formal.Duan Xun hopes that You Min can take charge of some specific affairs.

"Brother Wenyuan (Jing Wumu)."

"General."

"I want you to serve as the Chief Inspector of the Military Law Division of our Ministry."

"Yes."

balance.

Regardless of whether Duan Xun is in the army or in a government agency, this is what Duan Xun thinks about all the time.Duan Xun mainly made his fortune in Sichuan, so there are many senior officials from Sichuan.Later, with the annexation of Yunnan and Guizhou provinces, a large number of generals came out of these two provinces.

Now that Duan Xun controls more and more places, people who use these newly controlled provinces must also be promoted.

It's all about balance.

"Minister Xiong, you continue."

"Yes."

Xiong Kewu continued: "Our Ministry of Military Affairs recommended General Lin Dexuan, the commander-in-chief of bandit suppression in western Henan, to serve as the deputy commander-in-chief of the military department of the Border Supervision Administration and concurrently the commander of the bandit suppression command in Hunan and Guangxi. He is mainly responsible for the bandit suppression work in Hunan and Guangxi. Hunan and Guangxi In Guangxi, there are many bandits, various tribes, and many defeated troops. Therefore, our Military Affairs Department decided to set up five divisions of bandit suppression troops. The First Brigade, Second Brigade, and Third Brigade of the Frontier Defense Army were respectively reorganized into the No. 7000 Bandit Suppression Brigade The First Division, the Second Division of Bandit Suppression, the Third Division of Bandit Suppression, and the First Brigade of the First Division of the First Army of the Frontier Defense Army (Brigade Commander Tao Zhiyue) were reorganized into the Fourth Division of Bandit Suppression, and the Ninth Division of the Third Army of the Frontier Defense Army The Shisheng Brigade was reorganized into the Fifth Bandit Suppression Division. Each division has three infantry regiments and one cavalry regiment, with a full strength of [-] people."

After Xiong Kewu paused, Duan Xun said, "General Lin (Lin Dexuan), do you have any objections to this appointment?"

"Resolutely obey orders."

Lin Dexuan immediately stood up and took orders.

After the Zhiwan War, the situation of Lin Dexuan and the former Yasukuni Army in western Hunan was very embarrassing.They were originally a semi-independent force here in Duan Xun, but with the end of the Zhiwan War, Duan Xun's strength increased greatly.

Duan Xun has now become a great warlord who can control the situation in China.

In comparison, Sun Yat-sen, whom they followed, still has no good base at present.The Cantonese army who supported Sun Yat-sen and Lu Rongting fought for a long time, but they still failed to occupy Guangzhou.

Sun Yat-sen was still dormant in Shanghai.

So no matter how reluctant they are now, they can only follow Duan Xun.Because they were not strong enough, they had to rely on Duan Xun for logistics, and Duan Xun for recruits. Anyway, under the current situation, they had no choice at all.Unexpectedly, Duan Xun really gave face, and let Lin Dexuan command the troops of the five divisions.Although these five divisions are not comparable to Duan Xun's regular divisions, they are not even as large as the temporary divisions.

But it was also a force of five divisions.

Lin Dexuan was still very happy.

Duan Xun nodded, and Xiong Kewu continued: "Duan Kan, the commander of the Fourth Division of the Shaanxi Army, served as the deputy commander of the military department of the Frontier Defense Supervision Department and concurrently served as the commander of the bandit suppression in Henan and Hubei. He was responsible for the suppression of bandits in Hubei and Henan. The Sixth Mixed Brigade ( Brigadier Tang Shengzhi) was reorganized into the Sixth Division to Suppress Bandits, the Second Mixed Brigade of the Frontier Defense Army (Brigade Commander Kou Yingjie) was reorganized into the Seventh Division to Suppress Bandits, and the Third and Fourth Mixed Brigades of the Henan Army were reorganized into the Eighth Division to Suppress Bandits , The Henan Army Garrison Brigade was reorganized into the Ninth Bandit Suppression Division, and the Shaanxi Army's Fourth Division was reorganized into the Tenth Bandit Suppression Division."

"Appoint Hu Ruoyu, commander of the Temporary Sixth Division, as the commander of the bandit suppression in Shaanxi, and re-enter Shaanxi with the Temporary Sixth Division, fully responsible for the bandit suppression work in Shaanxi."

After Xiong Kewu read out the order, he said: "The Ministry of Military Affairs will conduct a serious inspection of the bandit suppression work in various places every quarter, and use the performance of the bandit suppression work to rate the bandit suppression units. This is related to the future of the army, and also to the Promotion and appointment of officers in various units."

Many people here are very surprised.

They thought that Duan Xun would attach great importance to the work of suppressing bandits, but they didn't expect Duan Xun to mobilize so many troops to participate in the suppression of bandits.Duan Xun almost mobilized one-third of his troops, nearly 9 troops.