Beiyang 1917

In October 1917, the situation in Russia took a turn for the worse. On October 10, the Bolsheviks first won more than half of the seats in the Moscow Soviet, and Victor Nokin became the chairman of the Moscow Soviet. The party of the small and medium-sized mentor of the Soviet also won the majority of seats. Trotsky, who was hailed as the founder of the Soviet Red Army in his previous life, was elected chairman of the Petrograd Soviet.

Next, the All-Russian Central Committee of Soviets determined the policy of the armed uprising. Although the Mensheviks and Socialist Revolutionaries deliberately leaked the decision of the Central Committee of Soviets to the Provisional Government and Kerensky in the newspapers, the Provisional Government was gone and was smashed not long ago. When Kornilov rebelled, it became the provisional government that was the opposite of the front-line Russian army. It is too late to go to the front-line Russian army to come back and rescue him now.The torrent of the Russian October Revolution has become irresistible.

In China, at the end of October 1917, the Eighth Division of the participating army in Jilin, fully equipped with German weapons and Mauser equipment, was officially reorganized. Li Changtai, the former commander of the Eighth Division of the Army, was transferred back to the staff of the participating army as the deputy chief of staff. Cai Chengxun, the commander of the First Division of the Army, and the Deputy Chief of Staff of the Staff Headquarters of the participating army at the moment happily led the two supplementary brigades and the Eighth Division of the Army in Jilin to form a new Eighth Division of the participating army.

Everything was like playing a game of chess. Feng Guozhang couldn't find anything other than satisfaction with the territory and treatment that his confidants Cai Chengxun and Wang Tingzhen got in the Northeast.

After reorganization, Cai Chengxun, the commander of the Eighth Division of the participating army, Ji Hongchang, the commander of the No.20 Second Brigade, Gao Shuxun, the commander of the No.20 Third Brigade, and Li Changqing, the commander of the No.20 Fourth Brigade!The position of the Jilin Overseer was handed over to Cai Chengxun, the commander of the Eighth Division.

With the arrival of the sixth batch of munitions at the end of October 1917, in addition to munitions, it was the production drawings and special production equipment of Dodge v10v6 automobile engines, as well as 8 sets of v100v6 engine production and assembly parts, as well as Dodge's partner V Redlake Haynes, because of a disagreement with the Dodge Brothers about whether to stay in the Ford car, he wanted to resign in a fit of anger, but was recruited by Vivienne instead of Wang Geng. Working with the Dodge Brothers on Dodge cars, they are the top car engine design experts and candidates for the general manager of the car company in this era.

Wang Geng gave him an annual salary of 10, plus a 5% stake in the newly established Zhonghua Motors.

At the end of October, Wang Geng established Zhonghua Fudao Automobile Co., Ltd. on the basis of Nanyuan Dodge Ford Auto Repair and Assembly Plant by increasing capital and shares. Ford and Dodge each hold 10% of the shares, and Bank of China and Bank of Communications each hold 10% of the shares. Shares, the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Communications each hold 10% of the shares, the China Charity Foundation holds 15% of the shares, HSBC, Citibank, and Zhengjin Bank each hold 10%, and Frederick Haynes holds 5%!

The industrialization of Zhili and Chahar, including the future Suiyuan Baotou, has accelerated. Although Hanyeping is now under the control of Japanese capital, the output and quality of steelmaking and ironmaking are close to the world's advanced level. With Wang Geng The construction and commissioning of the Chahar Xuanhua mining area, the Xuanhua base of China Iron and Steel Corporation will fully absorb and have the iron and steel smelting technology of the United States and Japan and the experience of Han Yeping.

At least Wang Geng’s track steel for so many railway projects in Suiyuan is mainly supplied by Han Yeping. The Japanese have undertaken most of the railway projects in Suiyuan. The new type of iron and steel conglomerate has priority as a rail supplier. Of course, the quality is even better than imported rail steel!

During the process of reorganizing the First Division, No.15 Division, No.16 Division and Eighth Division of the former Beiyang Army in the participating army, almost all the division commanders and brigade commanders of the participating army after the reorganization were from the teaching regiment of the participating army. Those brigade commanders, such as Li Kuiyuan and Yu Fu from the First Division, Zhang Guo and Qi Baoshan from the No.15 Division, Guan Zhonghe and Tian Xianzhang from the No.16 Division, and Huang Yuankai and Wang Xueji from the Eighth Division were all transferred to the army The teaching group returned to the furnace.

Among them, those who were addicted to cigarettes were told that they had to go to a drug rehabilitation center or retire. The result was without exception. A few addicted to cigarettes could not quit at all, so they retired and switched to other places. It was Guan Zhong and Hetian from the No.16 division. Xianzhang does not smoke opium, Wang Geng saw that the two brigade commanders were not bad, so he returned to the teaching group first, and he could be released to work as the brigade commander in the future.

Earlier in early October, when Wang Tingzhen resigned as the head of the teaching group, the candidate to take over was beyond everyone's expectations. He promised to reorganize Cao Kun's Third Division of the Beiyang Army, but the Ministry of the Army ordered Wang Chengbin, commander of the sixth infantry brigade under Cao Kun, to come to serve as the head of the teaching regiment of the participating army.

Wang Chengbin was the most capable and strategic general in the third division of the army, besides Wu Peifu. This guy never dreamed that his division commander was crying and shouting to join the army. Following in his footsteps, he was promoted to join the war army.

At this time, the important people of the participating army are no longer as troublesome as Corporal Wang Genglixian went to lobby Wu Peifu in person. At this moment, the participating army with a total of only 30 troops is a miracle in the history of the entire Republic of China. The entire Beijing has only 150 million people. If Yuan Qi's participating army were all present, they would account for one-fifth of Beijing's total population.

Although Cao Kun felt distressed and was a little bit reluctant to lose Wang Chengbin, he became emotional again when he thought about it again. Just like Wu Xiaogui, he was a soldier brought out by the third division of our army everywhere.Wu Xiaogui played the role of warlord in Suiyuan, and Wu Xiaogui seemed to be particularly valued by Wang Geng. The third division of the entire model army participating in the war was the most powerful division except for the first division that Wang Geng himself was also part of. The first to be equipped with dh.4 squadrons of reconnaissance bombers.

Sure enough, Wang Chengbin was the head of the teaching regiment of the participating army for less than a month. At the end of October, the Ministry of War ordered Wang Chengbin's sixth brigade to go north to Nanyuan to change clothes from Cao Kun's third division in Henan. The supplementary brigade was mixed together to form the Tenth Division of the participating army, fully equipped with American equipment, an artillery team pulled by American Dodge trucks, and an armored regiment of 10 wheeled armored vehicles equipped with Browning m108a1917 water-cooled heavy machine guns.

Wang Chengbin was also promoted from the position of head of the teaching regiment of the participating army to lieutenant general, and served as the commander of the 10th division of the model army participating in the war. Wu Peifu, Yuan Military Affairs Deputy, led the fifth and sixth brigades of the third division, and the armored regiment of the division, sneaked into Outer Mongolia from Guisui along the widening Guisui Kulun Highway on light cavalry.

As early as a month ago, under the instruction of Wang Geng, Wu Peifu had already established a forward base at a place called Erlian at the junction of Suiyuan and Outer Mongolia through automobile transportation, built a military depot, and even built a handicap that could take off and land. Lee Peggy's field airport at 0400 has stockpiled a large amount of fuel and food, and sent a regiment to station it.

At the end of July earlier, when the Zhangjiakou-Guisui section of the Beijing-Suizhou Railway was built to the place in Ulanqab in the middle, a railway branch line went north from Ulanqab to the second company at the junction of Suiyuan and Outer Mongolia. The project began to be explored and built. Since the mountainous area is already a grassland, the project progressed very quickly. By the end of October, one-third of the railway from Ulanqab to Erlian had been repaired in three months. , while the road has been completely penetrated and widened and reinforced on the basis of the original road.

Under Wang Geng's overall planning and arrangement, at the end of October 1917, while Wang Chengbin led the 10th Division of the participating army to Suiyuan, Wu Peifu had already led two brigades and divisional armored regiments to the advance base of the Second Company. DH.4 reconnaissance bombers also stationed at Erlian Field Airfield.

At the same time, a squadron of SE5 fighter jets and a squadron of Handley Page 0400 heavy bombers in Nanyuan also moved to the Second Company's forward base.

Except that Wu Peifu on the western front was preparing to recover Outer Mongolia following the opportunity of the Russian October Revolution, on the eastern front, by the end of October, Wang Tingzhen’s 10th Division, the vanguard of the participating army, had arrived in Harbin along the Middle Eastern Railway and established its own former enemy headquarters. The three mixed brigades of the Seventh Division were deployed along the Middle East Road.

At the same time, the reorganization work of the Fifth Division of the Army stationed in Qiqihar did not stop. The other two supplementary brigades who followed the Seventh Division rushed to Qiqihar by train. The Ninth Division, equipped with the same German equipment as the Eighth Division, was reorganized into an army in Qiqihar.

In view of the changes in the domestic situation in Russia, although the situation on the front line of the Middle East Road may be tense, Wang Geng still sent a plane to pick up Zhang Shuyuan and returned to the participating army as the head of the teaching regiment, while the commander of the ninth division appointed the former first division of the participating army Li Mingzhong, the brigade commander of the first brigade, served!Awarded as lieutenant general of the army, appointed Heilongjiang military affairs assistant and Qiqihar guard envoy!And the position of Heilongjiang Warlord was given to Wang Tingzhen of the Seventh Division in Harbin!

After Shi Jingting, Li Mingzhong was the second guy in Wang Geng's first division to be promoted from brigade commander to division commander. Half a year after Wang Geng stepped into the Langfang barracks, all the aspiring young officers of the 16th Mixed Brigade probably only knew how to watch him enthusiastically. The leader of his own army who joined the war forgot that Boss Feng who made people kneel all day long and asked him to beat him!