Beiyang 1917

Wang Geng's second division of Jiang Hongyu, who participated in the war, was stationed in Langfang, and Wu Peifu's third division was transferred to Suiyuan. Set up the town of Suiyuan!A fortune teller did the calculation for Wu Peifu, saying that this guy is a late bloomer, and he won't be able to make his mark until he is 40 years old.

Now, Wu Peifu believes that Wang Geng is the second nobleman he has met besides Cao Kun. In just ten days, he not only became a division commander with [-] soldiers in his hand, but also went to sit in Suiyuan for Wang Geng. Dutong's ability to be a hands-off shopkeeper is really not small!But if he really dared to let go and let himself play, Wu Ziyu whispered softly in his heart: He treats me as a scholar of the country, and I will repay him as a scholar of the country!

The three brigade commanders of the third division of the participating army are Sun Liangcheng, commander of the seventh brigade, Zhang Weixi, commander of the eighth brigade, and Han Fuqu, commander of the ninth brigade. After following Wang Geng for less than three months, all of them have risen to the rank of brigade commander, especially Han Fuqu. This guy's loyalty to his supervisor of participating in the war now exceeds 16%. Looking at China and the world, who else can really fight in three battles with bare hands? Pull up a team of 100 people in full new equipment in less than a month?

The division commander, Wu Peifu, never appointed private individuals, so when this guy came to Nanyuan from Baoding to take up his post, he didn't bring a single officer with him, and he didn't install any cronies or direct descendants. He wants to show the whole of China that wherever Wu Peifu goes, he is the best soldier in China!

Wang Geng's instructions to Wu Peifu are very simple. The discipline of the first army must be kept strict. The three major disciplines and the nine points of attention must not only be sung, but also resolutely implemented to every officer and soldier!

The second is to clear the area as soon as possible, and drive all the stragglers and bandits out of Suiyuan. The three brigades are all mixed brigades. The army has cleaned up the three-acre land in Suiyuan!If the troops participating in the war violated military discipline, those who should be shot below the brigade commander should be shot immediately before talking!

Third, send a motorized reconnaissance battalion to scout along the Beijing-Suizhou Railway to find a suitable place as soon as possible. There must be enough water, and it would be even better if there is a coal mine nearby. In the future, we plan to build the future arsenal of the participating army!This matter must be kept secret and must be seized!

When Wu Peifu took the order to lead the third division to Suiyuan, Wang Geng turned his head and hit the idea on the Eighth Division of the Army stationed in Tianjin Machang. This Tianjin Machang is a famous military camp located about 60 kilometers south of Tianjin. Machang Township, Qingxian County, Hebei Province, on the bank of the North Canal about 8 kilometers north of Qingxian County.

It used to be the military camp of the Huai Army. Later, according to the "Treaty of Tianjin" after the signing of the "Treaty of Xin Chou" in 1901, the Qing government could not station more than 20 troops within 300 miles around Pingjin, so the military camp Machang Town became the Qing government. An important military base in Tianjin, the Jinpu Railway has a station in Machang.It is the resident of the fourth town of the army in the late Qing Dynasty.

During the second revolution in 1913, the Fourth Town was stationed in Songhu, and Machang was stationed by the Eighth Division of the new army.If Wang Geng, the butterfly, hadn't flapped its wings, it would be Duan Qirui's time to lead the officers and men of the Eighth Division to swear to Machang to rebuild the Republic.

Tianjin Machang is the southern gate of Tianjin. The Eighth Division of the direct army is stationed in this area. No matter how Wang Geng looks at it, he feels uneasy. Damn, Tianjin Port is the seaport and the lifeline of transportation and shipping for the participating troops. It is also the south gate of the first line to deal with Shandong in the future. As the saying goes, how can others sleep soundly under the couch?

On July 1917, 7, the Russian Army on the Eastern Front of the European War launched an offensive that was doomed to failure. At the same time, the Third Division of the Participating Army, led by the division commander Wu Peifu, marched towards Suiyuan along the Beijing-Suiyuan Railway Line. When Wang Geng focused his attention on the Eighth Division of the Direct Army in Tianjin Machang, the secret telegram of Zhang Dashuai, the Fengtian Governor in the Northeast, impeaching Jilin Governor Meng Enyuan was delivered to the desks of the Ministry of War and the Prime Minister.

Fengtian Governor Zhang Zuolin has been dissatisfied with Meng Enyuan, the Jilin Governor in the north for a long time. This time he was accused of embezzling military expenditures, extortionate extortion, and instigated Jilin businessmen to hand over ten thousand people's discounts to the Beijing government. Seeing its success, because Jilin Governor Meng Enyuan was originally a member of the direct line, the commander of the 23rd Division of the Army. After becoming the Jilin Governor, the 23rd Division of the Army was abolished and became the 2nd and 3rd mixed brigades of the Jilin Army.

Before the acting president, who was sitting in the presidential palace, came back to his senses, the Ministry of the Army issued an order directly to confer Meng Enyuan, the governor of Jilin, on the vacant title of General Huiwei from Beijing, ordering him to serve in Beijing.Meng refused to obey, and instigated his subordinates and his nephew Gao Shibin, commander of the second mixed brigade in Jilin, to oppose Yi Du and raise troops to resist.

Zhang Zuolin, who had been prepared for a long time, colluded with the Japanese garrison in Jilin, created the Kuanchengzi (Changchun) incident, and sent Wu Junsheng and Sun Liechen to lead the army to attack Jilin from north to south, forcing him to submit.Meng Enyuan was forced to leave Kyrgyzstan and return to live in Tianjin.

These messy things happened in just one week at the beginning of July. Zhang Zuolin, the Fengtian warlord who colluded with Japan, annexed two mixed brigades of the Jilin Army and drove away Meng Enyuan. Ordered to cross the border without authorization to attack friendly troops, and strictly ordered Fengtian Governor Zhang Zuolin to withdraw his troops and return to Fengtian so that he could reflect on himself!

At the same time, Xia Yiting's Ministry of Foreign Affairs summoned Japanese Minister Lin Quanzhu to protest the Japanese army's unauthorized military operations in Fengtian and Jilin. Feel the pride and glory of defending sovereignty.

Lin Quanzhu formally apologized to the Chinese government on behalf of the Japanese government, and repeatedly explained that the Japanese army sent troops to assist in the suppression of the bandits at the request of Fengtian Governor Zhang Zuolin, and had no intention of infringing on China's sovereignty. Half the sky, the relationship between China and the United States is getting closer, and the relationship between China and Japan is also in the honeymoon period with the simultaneous construction of no less than [-] kilometers of railway projects in China and Japan's loans to China. At this time, no one can offend Duan Qirui and him. The following is the fearless superintendent who participates in the war!

Zhang Zuolin has lost the support of Japan, and at this moment he does not have enough strength to say no to the Anhui faction, not to mention he offended Zhili and President Feng because of attacking Meng Enyuan. .

The position of Jilin governor left by Meng Enyuan is the same as the previous position of the Suiyuan capital. Once again, it has become the focus of competition between President Feng Guozhang and Prime Minister Duan Qirui. The idea was to sell Feng Guozhang's favor and transfer Li Changtai's [-]th Division, who was stationed at Tianjin Machang, to station in Jilin northward, and at the same time appointed Li Changtai as the governor of Jilin.

Although Feng Guozhang was very surprised that the Prime Minister suddenly let go of his mouth after a strong fight for a long time, he couldn't find anything suspicious after thinking about it. The Eighth Division of the Japanese Army is sandwiched between the Second Division of the participating army in Langfang in the north and Zhang Huaizhi, the Shandong Governor of the Anhui Department in the south, which is also trembling and disgusting.

That being the case, it is obviously better to transfer the Eighth Division to Jilin to occupy the territory than to suffer a hard life in Tianjin Machang, not to mention that the banditry in the south of Zhili has always been continuous, so what if this mess is left to the Ministry of Army to worry about?

In this way, the Eighth Division of the Army stationed at Tianjin Machang turned around and headed north, while the Second Division stationed in Langfang sent the Sixth Brigade to take over the camp and defense area of ​​the original Eighth Division at Machang.Wang Geng's order to Jiang Hongyu was to eradicate the banditry in Jing'an. Jiang Hongyu's task to Zhang Zhijiang, the commander of the Sixth Brigade, was to prevent a single bandit from southern Zhili within a month. The brigade commander can figure out a way by himself, if he can't figure it out, don't be the brigade commander!

Zhang Zhijiang, the brigade commander, is not a fuel-efficient lamp. While making the whole army march forward singing the three major disciplines and nine points of attention, he pulled a carload of rice and white flour to follow, and let the troops spread to four in battalion units. In Bali Township, he directly carried rice noodles to visit the poor local farmers. Before leaving, he filled water tanks for others, and the engineer battalion dug wells, repaired bridges and paved roads for free everywhere.

In addition, this guy himself is a master of martial arts, he respects morality and righteousness, acts vigorously and decisively, and when he arrives in Cangzhou, the hometown of traditional martial arts, there is a place for heroes to make friends with martial arts. Following the tradition of participating in the war, the military and civilian fish and water conditions were established, and the bullies and bandits in the four towns and eight miles were wiped out!Of course, this is something to say later, so it can be seen that Jiang Hongyu didn't use the other fourth and fifth brigades, and only chose the uniqueness of Zhang Zhijiang's sixth brigade!