Beiyang reactionaries

Duan Xun's strength is indeed too strong.

"Minister Xiong, haven't we reorganized the Eighth Division, No.18 Division, and Seventh Division recently? Why aren't they here?"

Gu Pinzhen, head of the mobilization department, asked Xiong Kewu.

During this period, the Seventh Division stationed in Xiangtan, the Eighth Division stationed in Zhongxiang, and the No.18 Division stationed in Xinye all accepted Duan Xun's suggestion.After giving up the troops, accept Duan Xun's appointment.

This is the troops of the three divisions of the Beiyang Army.

But Xiong Kewu didn't have their troops just now, which made Gu Pinzhen a little puzzled.

Xiong Kewu immediately said: "The Seventh Division, the Eighth Division, and the No.18 Division, they are different from our troops in terms of organization, training, and military discipline. Moreover, these troops are not full. The Seventh Division only has more than 3000 people. The Eighth Division There are only about 18 people in the division, and the No.6000 division has a lot of people, about 18 people. But it is not a division, and it is not as good as our bandit suppression division. So our Ministry of Military Affairs means, We only need the numbers of these troops, but we don’t build them. The officers and soldiers of the Seventh Division, Eighth Division, and No.[-] Division are trained separately. The officers participate in the short-term training courses for officers organized by the Ministry of Education, and the soldiers Participate in the short-term recruit training camp of the mobilization department, receive military discipline education and simple training from our department, and then break up and enter other troops."

"That is to say, there is no Seventh Division, Eighth Division, No.18 Division?"

"That's what it means. We keep these numbers just to bargain with the Ministry of the Army, but we don't plan to rebuild these troops. It's just a reorganization of the troops of about [-] people."

Gu Pinzhen nodded.

I understood what Xiong Kewu meant.

Duan Xun only needs the numbers of these troops.

"Then let me talk about some guidelines for this reorganization of the troops. The reorganization of the troops this time does not involve the bandit suppression troops that have been reorganized before. The work of the bandit suppression troops is entrusted to the bandit suppression headquarters. The principle is to cancel the designations of those local troops and unify the designations of all troops. Designations such as the Third Division of the Shaanxi Army and the Third Mixed Brigade of the Shaanxi Army must be cancelled. Reorganization divisions, some reorganized into bandit suppression divisions. Third, set up regular army-level units. Fourth, set up group army formations on the basis of army-level units.”

"According to this principle, the first temporary division (division commander Ma Xiaojun) was reorganized into the No.13 division of the frontier defense army, and the second division of the Shaanxi Army (division commander Jing Yuexiu) was reorganized into the No.14 division of the frontier defense army. The No.13 division and No. The 14th Division was reorganized into the Seventh Army, Jing Yuexiu served as the commander of the Seventh Army, and Ma Xiaojun served as the Chief of Staff of the Seventh Army. In addition to the No.13 Infantry Division and the No.14 Infantry Division under the Seventh Army, there is also a For the cavalry division, let Li Yunlong be the commander of the cavalry division. In this way, the garrison in Mongolia will become two infantry divisions and one cavalry division."

"The Temporary Second Division was reorganized into the No.15 Division of the Frontier Defense Army (division commander Wang Boling), and the first division stationed in Guizhou (division commander Li Weiru) was reorganized into the First Army of the Frontier Defense Army. Li Weiru served as the commander of the first army, and Wang Bailing served as the chief of staff. .Transfer Li Hong, the deputy commander of the No.30 Fourth Division, as the commander of the First Division, and Yang Zhen as the commander of the No.15 Division.”

"Temporarily organized third division (division commander Liu Duanshang) was reorganized into Border Defense Army No.16 Division, temporarily organized fourth division (division commander Wang Tianpei) was reorganized into Border Defense Army No.17 Division. No.16 Division and No.17 Division were reorganized into The Eighth Army. Ye Quan, the former commander of the Ninth Division, served as the commander of the Eighth Army, and Wang Kai (commander-in-chief) took over as the commander of the Ninth Division.”

"Temporary Fifth Division (Division Commander Lu Tao) was reorganized into the No.18 Division of the Frontier Defense Army, the Third Mixed Brigade of the Shaanxi Army (Brigade Commander Gao Jun) was reorganized into the Fourth Mixed Brigade of the Frontier Defense Army, and No.13 Mixed Brigade (Brigade Commander Liu Huchen) ), and the Second Division of the Frontier Defense Army (Commander Shang Zhen) was reorganized into the Ninth Army. Shang Zhen served as the commander of the Ninth Army, and Lai Xinhui served as the commander of the Second Division.”

"The Sixth Division (Temporary Commander Hu Ruoyu) was reorganized into the Bandit Suppression No.11 Division and the Bandit Suppression No.12 Division. Li Jiayu, the commander of the Bandit No.11 Division, and Bai Chongxi, the commander of the Bandit No.12 Division. Hu Ruoyu served as the commander of the Shaanxi Bandit Suppression .”

"The seventh division temporarily organized (division commander Liu Mingzhao) was reorganized into the No.19 division of the border defense army, and the fifth division of the border defense army (division commander Yu Xuezhong) was reorganized into the tenth army. Yu Xuezhong served as the commander of the tenth army."

"The establishment of the Fourth Division of the Shaanxi Army was cancelled, and it was reorganized into the No. 20 Division of the Frontier Defense Army. Long Yun served as the commander of the No. 20 Division. The establishment of the Eighteenth Mixed Brigade was cancelled, and it was expanded into the No. 20 Division of the Frontier Defense Army. Liu Zanting served as the 21st Division. Master."

"The First Mixed Brigade of the Border Defense Army (Brigade Commander Tian Songyao) was expanded into the No. 20 Second Division of the Border Defense Army. Tian Songyao served as the commander of the 22nd Division and was stationed in Xiangyang."

"The Fourth Division (Division Commander Wang Tianzhen) and the Eighth Division (Division Commander Xiong Qixun) were reorganized into the No.11 Army. Xiong Qixun served as the commander of the No.11 Army, and Wang Tianzhen served as the Chief of Staff. Cun Xingqi took over as the commander of the Fourth Division, and Tang Huaiyuan took over as the Eighth Division Teacher, teacher."

"The Guard Brigade of the Frontier Defense Supervision Office (Brigade Commander Yang Hucheng) and the Guard Brigade of the Upper Yangtze River Garrison Headquarters (Brigade Commander Rao Guohua) were reorganized into the Guard Division of the Border Defense Supervision Office. The first brigade commander, Rao Guohua served as the second brigade commander."

"The police units of the three mixed brigades all belong to the Bandit Suppression Headquarters and have been reorganized into the First Mixed Brigade to Suppress Bandits, the Second Mixed Brigade to Suppress Bandits, and the Third Mixed Brigade to Suppress Bandits."

"This is the most preliminary reorganization plan."

258 Reorganization 2

"This is the most preliminary reorganization plan."

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Everyone was shocked when they saw the location of each unit and the reorganization of each unit on the map drawn by Xiong Kewu.Unknowingly, Duan Xun's strength, or the strength of the Duan Xun Group, has reached such a scale.

According to Xiong Kewu's reorganization plan, there will be more Duan Xun troops.

"According to the reorganization plan of the Ministry of Military Affairs, after the reorganization is over, our department will have 22 reorganized infantry divisions, one garrison division, one guard division, one cavalry division, twelve bandit suppression divisions, plus the bandit suppression commander Ping Liuli. He Jian's troops have four mixed bandit brigades and five mixed infantry brigades."

22 integrated infantry divisions.

Just thinking about it surprised everyone present.

That's how many troops.

"After the reorganization of the troops, our ministry will have 45 army troops."

Duan Xun was very calm up there.

But my heart is very excited.Although I have read Xiong Kewu's reorganization report, I was still very excited when I heard Xiong Kewu say it in person.If you can really have 45 troops, and this does not include the current naval forces and marine police forces.If there are really so many troops, who can stop themselves in the whole country.

Even when Duan Qirui was calling the wind and rain in Beijing, there were not 45 direct troops.Counting the Anhui warlord troops under Duan Qirui, there are only 60 million troops.

Cao Kun won an unprecedented victory in the Zhiwan War, but the designations he currently has are only ten divisions and seven mixed brigades. With the designations of some local troops, there are only thirteen divisions and eleven mixed brigades. trip.

It's not standard though.

Because the organization of Cao Kun's army is very chaotic, or the army organization of all warlords in this era is very chaotic.For example, the powerful Wu Peifu Third Division, Wu Peifu personally built the third division as the governor of Shandong, and the third division has more than 3 troops, which is currently the largest division in China.There is also Feng Yuxiang's No.16 mixed brigade with 5000 troops, which is currently the largest among the mixed brigades in China.As for other troops, even the Central Army with the designation of the Ministry of War, it is good that a division can have 5000 people.Many divisions, like Cai Chengxun's First Division in Suiyuan Metropolitan Government, have only [-] people, while Zheng Shiqi's Fifth Division has only more than [-] people, and some places have only [-] people.

Cao Kun's current troops add up to less than 20 people.

But Xiong Kewu's reorganization plan is 45 people.After everyone digested it, Duan Xun said to Han Linchun: "Fang Chen (Han Linchun), can the weapons keep up?"

That's the big problem.

In China at present, as long as you have money, recruiting troops is very simple.Don't look at the so-called "good men don't serve as soldiers", but it is relatively easy to recruit troops every time, and many people are still very willing to serve as soldiers and get paid.Look at when some warlords expanded their army, it was easy to expand the army to 10,000+ people within half a year.But what about the real combat power?

The troops were all recruits, with little training, and no qualified officers could keep up.Also because of the lack of weapons, more than half of the troops are unarmed.Duan Xun didn't want such an army.

Because such troops have very poor combat effectiveness, going out to fight will only implicate other troops.This kind of troops can intimidate opponents, but it is useless on the battlefield.

Since it is an army, since it is a soldier, it must have weapons and ammunition.

Without weapons, that's not being a "Boxer".

Especially now, all countries have imposed an "arms embargo" on China.At least within two or three years, it will be difficult for China to purchase weapons from foreign countries.However, after two or three years, many businessmen will find loopholes in this "arms embargo", and they will still be able to ship large quantities of weapons to China.

But not now.

Duan Xun has money in his hands now, after all he just won the war against Guan Yu.With this limelight, Duan Xun issued 4000 million public bonds in Shanghai.About 3000 million has been obtained so far.

With this money, Duan Xun is not afraid of expanding the army, and even has money to buy weapons.But since he couldn't buy weapons, Duan Xun could only pin his hopes on his arsenal.

"General, I won't be able to produce so many weapons for the troops at once. Our equipment department currently has about 200 rifles produced by ourselves, more than 400 light and heavy machine guns, and more than 80 artillery pieces. In addition to these, there are more There are about 20 Hanyang-made guns, more than [-] machine guns, and more than [-] cannons captured on this battlefield. However, these weapons are still more than half short of these weapons to expand the troops. But in half a year, at most half a year, I will definitely be able to gather enough troops Weapons needed."

Han Linchun replied immediately.

Fortunately, the expansion work of the fourth phase of the Sichuan Arsenal has now been completed, and the Hanyang Arsenal has been controlled, and the output of the Hanyang Arsenal has begun to gradually resume.Therefore, Duan Xun's rifle production speed is still acceptable.It can produce more than [-] rifles very stably in a month.

This is still normal speed.

If you are really in a hurry, it is not impossible for these arsenals to work overtime to produce [-] or [-] rods a month.

Don't worry about ammo.

Because Duan Xun not only owns the Sichuan Arsenal and the Hanyang Arsenal, Duan Xun also controls the Gongxian Arsenal.Because the Gongxian Arsenal has just completed the first phase of the project, the rifles it can manufacture are very limited.The number of rifles produced in a year is less than [-], which is useless at all.