Beiyang reactionaries

The Yunnan Army stationed in Guangdong and the Zhejiang Army of Lu Gongwang showed what warlords of this era are.

Originally, the Yunnan Army stationed in Guangdong and the Lu Gongwang Zhejiang Army both responded to the War to Protect the Country, and they were both revolutionary troops in the year of [-].But eight or nine years have passed since the Revolution of [-], and these troops have long forgotten what a revolution is.

Of course it wasn't their fault.

It is this era that has made them numb, and slowly changed from revolutionaries to warlords.They had both sides in the battle between Lu Rongting and the Cantonese army, and in the end they fought back, catching Lu Rongting by surprise.Even Lu Rongting's troops lost tens of thousands of people because of their counterattack.

Even though Lu Rongting now has 6 soldiers, one-third of them are recruits.

But what about after the counterattack?

After they discovered that the Guangdong Army failed to take Guangzhou and become the leader of Guangdong, their attitude immediately became ambiguous.Originally, after they fought back, they should have obeyed Sun Yat-sen's orders.

But Sun Yat-sen is far away in Shanghai, and they don't want to become vassals of the Cantonese army.

Therefore, one by one in Guangdong, they became small warlords in Guangdong.If they were left alone like this, they would soon become petty local warlords and turn their territory into an independent kingdom, no longer obeying the Cantonese army, not even Sun Yat-sen.

This is Chen Jiongming's biggest worry.

"Minister Xiong, how is the reorganization of the army going?"

Duan Xun suddenly asked Xiong Kewu.

"General, after five months of hard work, the reorganization plan of the troops is still very smooth. Especially the reorganization work at the division level has come to an end, but the reorganization work at the corps level and the corps level has just begun. The corps-level units and the corps The structure of the corps-level units has been completed, but the construction of the corps-level and army-level units has just begun.”

"If the military-level organization is also perfect, how many people can our army have?"

"More than 50 people."

"Is the legion-level organization perfect?"

"There will be more than 55 people."

"That is to say, if we want to complete the reorganization successfully, there is still a shortfall of nearly [-]? We put all the bandit suppression troops into the field troops, is it not enough?"

"Yes."

Legion level and army level are not about combining two armies and two divisions to form a legion and an army.Whether it is a legion or a military-level unit, it all requires a huge organization.

And it also needs direct troops.

Reorganization work is a very systematic and complex work.In particular, it is necessary to expand the army while reorganizing, and it requires the unified actions of all departments.

"What about the weapons supply?"

"General, we have passed the most difficult time. And in the past few months, we have been purchasing machinery and equipment through various channels to expand production, so now we will not delay the expansion of the army at all."

Han Linchun is very confident.

Although the arms embargo is imposed, a large number of ordnance equipment is embargoed.However, the machinery and equipment needed by the arsenal is not only needed by the arsenal, but also by many other factories.Therefore, things like machine tools cannot be embargoed.

So Duan Xun took advantage of this opportunity to introduce many machine tools needed by the arsenal, and continued to expand the size of the arsenal.As a result, the current output of the arsenal continues to increase.

"Okay. Minister Xiong, talk to Commander You Min of the Bandit Suppression Headquarters to find out how to convert some bandit suppression troops into field troops. I think there are four bandit suppression divisions left in the four provinces of Hunan, Hubei, Henan, and Guangxi. Bandit divisions and mixed brigades can be incorporated into field troops to speed up the reorganization of troops."

The problem of suppressing bandits is easier than imagined, but it is also more troublesome than imagined.

Suppressing the bandits was actually not difficult. After Duan Xun mobilized twelve bandit suppression divisions and four mixed bandit suppression brigades, basically all the big bandits who could be named were beaten in a short time.After all, the regular army is used to suppress bandits. Although there are many bandits in this era, their weapons and equipment are poor and their strength is also poor.It's really against the regular army, not the opponent of the regular army.Following the elimination of those big bandits, the remaining bandits were well deterred.

After the bandit suppression headquarters began to appease the bandits, a large number of bandits went down the mountain.

The banditry immediately eased a lot.Duan Xun didn't even need to brag about it, domestic newspapers had already started to report on Duan Xun's achievements in suppressing the bandits, and praised Duan Xun's work in suppressing the bandits.

But it is not so easy to end the banditry completely and cleanly.

There are many problems with the appearance of bandits.

It is impossible to completely end the banditry until these fundamental problems are resolved.And solving those problems is no longer a matter for the bandit suppression troops, but a matter for the local government.Therefore, the plan to conduct a large-scale encirclement and suppression campaign for one year has been completed after half a year.

So Duan Xun decided to reduce the bandit suppression force by half.

"Yes."

Xiong Kewu was very happy.

The bandit suppression troops are not recruits, they are regular troops.And in the past six months, they have been suppressing bandits, and they can be incorporated into the field troops to plug and play.This can greatly speed up the speed of troop reorganization.

"Fang Chen (Han Linchun), talk to Li Chun and representatives of the Guangdong Army. Tell them that if they really want to buy weapons, they should deposit the money in the Southwest Commercial Bank. At the end of April, we will provide each company with equipment for a mixed brigade. The equipment for another mixed brigade will be provided in mid-month, and the third batch of equipment will be provided in early June."

"General, do you really want to give it?"

"Give."

Duan Xun nodded.

Then he said: "It's useless to spread the wind. Only when Lu Yongxiang and Lu Rongting see the weapons and see Li Chun and the Guangdong Army's expansion, will they decide to take action."

Duan Xun calculated.

At the end of April, the first batch of equipment, that is, the weapons of the two mixed brigades, Duan Xun could still produce.And at this time, Duan Xun's reorganization work is estimated to have made great progress.

Create tension first.

Give Lu Yongxiang and Lu Rongting some news, let them know that there will be a batch of weapons in mid-May.There will be no war at that time, but if he knows that there are still a batch of weapons in early June, Duan Xun doesn't believe that there will be no war by then?

As for letting Li Chun and Chen Jiongming pay the money first, they will not object.

After all, they are in a hurry now.

And even if they pay the money first, they will handle it through foreign banks.He also used the foreign firm as an intermediary to warn Duan Xun not to play tricks.Because the person in charge is a foreigner, don't think about swallowing the money.

"Yes."

"It's still the same sentence now. Our main job now is to reorganize the troops, and everyone will go all out."

281 Far Eastern Republic

"Comrade Krasnochegov, this is information from the Communist International."

Irkutsk.

Kolchak was defeated, and was shot by the Russian government just last month (February), representing the complete annihilation of the most powerful Belarusian army on the Russian Eastern Front.However, the Russian civil war is not over yet. There are still hundreds of thousands of Belarusian troops left on the western front of Russia, that is, in the European region, and even Poland is coming to take advantage of the fire at this time.

All are hundreds of thousands of troops.

Russia does not know when it will end the war on the Western Front.Because Soviet Russia is currently facing nearly a million troops on the Western Front.

And the same goes for Eastern Russia.