Beiyang 1917

The No.16 Mixed Brigade of the Beiyang Army is a unit started by Feng Yuxiang. Although Lao Feng is from Baoding, his ancestral home is Anhui. The two died heroically, and only Lao Feng, because he was a classmate with Wang Huaiqing's son who suppressed the uprising, was lucky enough to escape the disaster of being killed.

Fortunately, this fellow has a lot of fate. After arriving in Beijing, he was rescued and promoted by Lu Jianzhang, the director of the Military and Political Law Enforcement Department, and became the battalion commander of the Jingwei Army. From the 1913st Regiment of the Left Wing of the Jingwei Army, the 4st Brigade of the Left Wing of the Jingwei Army, and the 1th Brigade of the 1th Division of the Central Army.

Of course, apart from the fact that Lao Feng is indeed a talent, everything is inseparable from the in-law relationship between Lao Feng and Lu Jianzhang.

He successively served as the director of the Military Law Division, the commander of the Seventh Division of the Army, and Lu Jianzhang of the Shaanxi Army Governor. He is the uncle of Lao Feng's original wife Liu Dezhen.

It was not until September 1914 that the No.9 Mixed Brigade of the Central Army became an army in Xi'an. In just one and a half years, Feng Yuxiang was mixed from a battalion commander to a mixed brigade commander. There is one thing, the discipline of the team can be regarded as strict, but the feudal patriarchal system is also quite powerful.

In the eyes of Feng Yuxiang, the senior generals of the Feng Department are all dolls and children, and the style of punishing people on the phone and telling them to slap their mouths has always been run through. In the future, when Ji Hongchang became a teacher, Feng Yuxiang called him and called When he knelt down, he knelt down obediently.

If you want to say that Lao Feng didn't know what to do, it was a typical representative of a politician who was determined to be a politician even though he was a soldier during the Republic of China.

The 16th Mixed Brigade has been in his hands for less than three years, and it is like an iron bucket that cannot be inserted into the water or wet. This guy is also very particular about recruiting troops, only recruiting farmers and students, jobless people and other troops have served as soldiers Every time a prisoner is captured or the opponent is disarmed, it is basically dismissed.

Later, all the direct-line generals of the 16th Mixed Brigade came from his guards and the Xuebing Company's Xuebing Battalion. The generals who came from the collateral line could not lead soldiers in Feng's department at all, and Lao Feng would never give military power.

Of course, the best thing about Lao Feng is his temper, not to mention that the Luanzhou Uprising was regarded as the revolution that brought down the Manchu Qing Dynasty. A young mixed-up brigade commander actually flirted with Cai E to shake hands on the front line to make peace, and even sent a telegram in Luzhou to ask Lao Yuan's Beijing government to cease fighting and negotiate a peace!

As a result, he was dismissed and retained. Although the 16th Mixed Brigade was still in his hands, it has since become a major debtor of the Ministry of War. The food and salary owed at least three months, the longest can not be paid for half a year!

So the 16th Mixed Brigade who came back from Sichuan and was transferred to Langfang was screaming for hunger. Feng Yuxiang even got into a fight with Xu Shuzheng, the deputy chief of the Ministry of Army. At the end of March, Lao Feng broke his face in front of Duan Qirui Sue Xu Shuzheng, claiming that he embezzled and embezzled military expenditures, and that Japanese loans were pocketed by him!

He also threatened to sue the presidential palace!As soon as the wind blows in Xu Shuzheng's ear, the old Duan, who was troubled by the dispute between the government and the court, became furious for a moment, so he ordered Feng Yuxiang to be dismissed from the post of brigade commander, and appointed him an empty head of patrolling the Zhili South Road. Get a salary?Never do it!

The army is the life-root of Lao Feng, and the middle and senior generals of the 16th mixed brigade sent telegrams to the Ministry of the Army, demanding that they be withdrawn, otherwise they would rather disband. Chaos, while looking for Lu Jianzhang to be a peacemaker to persuade the 16 mixed brigades to accept their fate and not to fight against the central government!

As soon as Lu Jianzhang came out as the old chief, the matter was suppressed for the time being. Old Feng went to Tiantai Mountain to find a temple to live in, claiming to be self-sufficient in farming and not to eat cheap food. He stayed in the sixteenth mixed brigade in Langfang On the other hand, he hangs around like a child who has lost his soul and lost his father.

Langfang is actually a battleground for military strategists. It is just between Beijing and Tianjin. It is less than 100 miles away from Beijing in the northwest, and about the same distance from Tianjin in the southeast. The Jingshan Railway connects Beijing and Tianjin. The Tianjin section passes through the city.

It was already 16 p.m. when Wang Geng and Xia Shan drove to the headquarters of the 3th Mixed Brigade in Langfang. Feng Yuxiang left the army in the morning. In the afternoon, Wang Geng, the new brigade commander who arrived by air, appeared in the crowd of the 16th Mixed Brigade. In front of the general, the speed of coming was beyond everyone's expectations.

Different from being humble and low-key in front of Duan Qirui and Xu Shuzheng when he was in Beijing, when Wang Geng, who was wearing a major general’s woolen military uniform and a military uniform, appeared in the brigade headquarters’ conference room, he had a cool and informal smile on his face, full of generals. majesty and solemnity.

"Brigade Commander Wang is here! Stand at attention and salute!" Following the command of the brigade chief of staff Qiu Bin.

The officers of the 16th Mixed Brigade who had been laughing in the meeting room felt a little heartbroken. All the officers involuntarily stood at attention and saluted. It can be seen that the well-trained 16th Mixed Brigade is not in vain.

After Wang Geng took office, he met with the generals for the first time, and only 16 officers above the mixed brigade and battalion were summoned. The smallest rank of the generals present in front of him was also a major.

"The 16th Mixed Brigade has all officers above the battalion ranks. Please give instructions to the brigade commander!" Chief of Staff Qiu Bin is Feng Yuxiang's classmate at the Northeast School of Martial Arts.

The unheard-of West Point graduate in front of him was parachuted to be the brigade commander of the 16th mixed brigade as soon as he returned to China. Things will be easy to handle!

"Relax, please sit down!" Wang Geng glanced left and right at the generals in front of him, pressed his hands down, and signaled to sit down.

"Brother Lan Jiang, you are in charge of the 16th Mixed Brigade Officer Zuo's School in Beijing. Why has the new brigade commander never heard of it from you?" Jiang Hongyu, who is tall and strong in the back row but known as a wise man, asked himself in a low voice. Liu Yufen, who has a square face and small eyes, is beside her.

Jiang Hongyu graduated from the Baoding Army Crash School. He served as the chief of staff of the brigade when the 1914th brigade was established in September 9. He has made countless contributions to Feng Yuxiang in the past three years.

And Liu Yufen was Jiang Hongyu's classmate in the Baoding Army Crash School, and Jiang Hongyu and Liu Yufen were both instructors of the Model Company of the [-]th Brigade. The relationship between people is very good.

"I've never heard of it, I don't know where he came from, I only know that he is a top student at West Point Military Academy in the United States! Premier Duan is probably making a risky move!" Liu Yufen, who has a pig's kidney face and small eyes, said in a low voice.

Liu Yufen, who will be called one of Feng Yuxiang's five tiger generals in the future, has not yet reached the stage of making a fortune. Because of his experience in the Baoding Crash School and his familiarity with many students from the Beijing Army Department, he was appointed by Feng Yuxiang as an official in Beijing. The director of the department and the principal of the school for the children of the 16th brigade stationed in Beijing can also be regarded as Lao Feng's eyes and ears in Beijing.

Xia Shan stood tall and straight behind Wang Geng, while Wang Geng left two strong guards outside the meeting room to guard the door. Without his order, no one was allowed to enter or leave without permission!

"It's the first time I meet, let me introduce myself first, starting with me, my surname is Wang Minggeng, the king, Wang Ye, Geng, and the seventh heavenly stem, which also caters to my return from studying in the West. My ancestral home is Wuxi, Jiangsu. I graduated from Tsinghua School in 1911 and was recommended to study in the United States. , received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Princeton University in 1915, transferred to the United States Military Academy at West Point in the same year, and graduated this summer!"

"Report to the brigade commander, if there is something unclear, please advise!" A tall, lean colonel in his 30s stood up and said.

"Report your name and position first, then what's the matter?" Wang Geng asked with his usual expression!

"Zhang Zhijiang, the head of the 2nd Infantry Regiment! Brigadier, didn't the Yankee military academy say that you have to study for four years? How can the brigade commander graduate in two years?"

Zhang Zhijiang has a bare head, grown up and thin, his eyes are restrained, he looks a bit like the bald principal in his previous life when he was young.

"West Point Military Academy should graduate in four years, but West Point mainly recruits high school students, so I, a graduate of Princeton, skipped the second grade when I enrolled, and because of the European War, the third and fourth grades at West Point this year will be Graduation together!"

"Head Zhang, don't need to worry about the homework of the brigade commander. I am the first Chinese student in the history of West Point who has been No. 1 in the overall grade for two consecutive years, and is the first Chinese student in history to serve as the captain of the student!"

"Does Captain Zhang have any questions?!" Wang Geng's voice was cold and expressionless.

"Not for now!" Zhang Zhijiang saluted and sat down.

This guy was as surprised as the other generals of the Feng Department behind him. The tall and handsome young brigade commander in front of him was actually No. 1 in front of the Yankees. Some are discouraged.