Beiyang 1917

Liu Yufen's idea is obviously very safe to proceed step by step. One expands two, two expands four, four expands eight, eight expands sixteen, and the three-month recruit training cycle is almost the same as the practice of recruits in previous lives after enlisting. As for the extra 4 brigades , can serve as a supplementary brigade.

Of course, when Wang Geng came back from the United States, he never forgot to form an armored brigade and an air force. When the time comes, there will be absolutely not enough people, not too many.

The staff headquarters, the teaching group, and the training were preliminarily settled. For the personnel arrangement of the 16th mixed brigade officers who were transferred to the teaching group, Wang Geng’s approach was as follows:

First, for each main force regiment, the regiment leader and the regiment attache have 1 each, the battalion commander and the battalion attache have 3 each, the company commander and the battalion attache have 12 each, and the platoon leader and the platoon attache have 36 each, all transferred to the teaching regiment. Use each level down.

Second, the cadres of the regiment, battalion and company are temporarily acted by the cadres of the brigade, regiment, battalion and company, and the platoon leaders are assumed by the squad leaders in turn.

The advantage of this plan is that no officers were placed in the 16th mixed brigade from the outside to seize power, and the original brigade and battalion cadres had more experience and opportunities to lead troops. Squad leaders took turns serving as platoon leaders and soldiers took turns serving as squad leaders. The fighting power of the first rank is not discounted.

Training recruits, especially those basic subjects in the early days, is actually mainly the job of non-commissioned officers. Squad leaders can complete their own jobs very well, not to mention that there are many veterans in the 16th mixed brigade, and the troops have a good training foundation in all aspects. So as long as the officers' ideological work can be done well, this is a very efficient plan.

Liu Yufen was accepted because of his suggestion, so Wang Geng directly assigned him and Shi Jingting to be in charge of the teaching group. Shi Jingting was the executive head of the teaching group, and he was the chief of staff of the teaching group. Anyway, this guy has enough qualifications!He has always been the instructor of the Model Company. In fact, if Wang Geng, the butterfly, hadn't flapped his wings, Liu Yufen would continue to be Lao Feng's brigade chief of staff after Qiu Bin and Zhang Shusheng!

"Colonel Xue, you have to shoulder the burden of the military law department of the participating army. If there are too many troops, you must not relax in terms of discipline. I appoint you as the chief of the military law department and the head of the gendarmerie. Of course, there are not so many people in the gendarmerie. How about dialing a company for you?"

Wang Geng did not forget Xue Dubi behind Shi Jingting. This guy is only 27 years old this year, but he graduated from Shanxi Political and Law School. He also served as the head of the Linfen District Court. In the eyes, bring him a military police regiment, which will make a difference!

"Thank you for the supervisor's cultivation!" Xue Dubi was overjoyed. He could be regarded as an intellectual hired by Lao Feng back then, but he had always held a false position. The military judge was a nominal job that was optional. Of course, Shi Jingting, the chief of the military law, treated him It's always been good, I didn't expect Wang Geng, a young supervisor, to look down on me so much, the eyes of the young and old military judge are a little red!

"Chief of Staff Qiu, I think you will not go to the teaching group for the time being. The officers of the 16th Mixed Brigade have been withdrawn. You, the chief of staff, have to look after this stall for me, or I won't worry." Wang Geng turned around inadvertently and continued. Said to Qiu Bin.

Qiu Bin was taken aback for a moment. Liu Yufen was appointed as the chief of staff of the teaching group before, and this guy felt a little uncomfortable. Obviously, going to the teaching group by himself means being the position of the regiment attache or the deputy chief of staff. Now Wang Geng said, He was worried about gains and losses, could it be that I, Qiu, had offended Wang Geng somewhere?

Wang Geng seemed to see Qiu Bin's astonishment, and said with a smile, "Don't misunderstand, chief of staff, you should bear the burden of the 16th mixed brigade for me first, and I will let you go to the teaching group in the future, but you can't go Also an instructor!"

When Qiu Bin heard this, a stone fell to the ground in his heart. Obviously, Wang Geng really wanted to take the burden of mixing 16 into a brigade by himself. Seeing what Wang Geng meant, maybe in the future... the deputy commander of the brigade in name... The brigade commander who mentioned the 16th mixed brigade is also unknown.

"Supervisor, what should we do about recruiting troops? Just recruit a brigade first as Lan Jiang said, and at least 8000 people will be needed, and 8000 people is not a small number. It really takes a lot of effort to recruit!" Li Mingzhong thought of himself. The head of the regiment will go to teach the regiment to be the battalion commander in the future, and he is both looking forward to and apprehensive, wishing to recruit all the soldiers immediately!

"I know that Boss Feng used to recruit soldiers for the 16th Mixed Brigade. He only liked to recruit farmers and student soldiers. The advantage is that they are simple and easy to train. The disadvantage is that the recruited farmers are suitable for soldiers, but it takes a lot of energy to promote and train them to become officers. The advantage of recruiting student soldiers is that the link of teaching soldiers to read and write is skipped, and the disadvantage is that among the scholars, there are few chief officials who can really become talents, and there are many staff members. I don’t know if I’m right?”

Wang Geng looked at the generals at the banquet and said calmly, in fact, Feng Yuxiang has always had Ye Gong's mentality towards intellectuals. He has become a battalion commander, but a senior intellectual like Xue Dubi is still a false military judge.

"Supervisor, this recruiting of farmers is easy to follow, with few bad habits! Boss Feng is most afraid of soldiers and bastards! Let me think that it is best to recruit recruits or farmers!" Li Mingzhong scratched his head to distinguish for Feng Yuxiang.

Wang Geng didn’t think so, Nima, the past life history has proved that the liberation fighters are definitely more effective than the turned peasants. If you pull them over, you are a skilled soldier, good at marksmanship, can dig fortifications, and know the superiority and obedience of orders. Yes, if you scold him a few words and kick him, he will find an organization to complain about your human rights violations.

The efficiency of democracy is far inferior to that of dictatorship in many cases, so Wang Geng does not plan to realize democracy so quickly in his team until the time is right.

"Supervisor, Boss Feng never recruits those who have calluses on their hands and look like they have been soldiers. Don't we have to recruit people from other teams?" Zhang Zhijiang poked his neck and said.

"Mr. Feng always wants to train an army of direct relatives. He has a good intention, but the structure is a bit small. In my Wang Geng's eyes, only the big powers that invade and bully us in China are temporary enemies. All patriotic Chinese are Our countrymen, if we think we are on the right path, must be confident enough to absorb and melt those who may temporarily stand against us, even the forces of other warlords."

Wang Geng's tone was firm. Obviously, in his opinion, the scope of recruiting troops would never be limited to farmers and students. Even, Wang Geng thought to himself, intellectuals in China are so rare in this era, and there are only a few hundred students in Peking University. As a technical arm, it is absolutely a waste of talent to let student soldiers go to the battlefield as cannon fodder!

I just want to recruit student soldiers, which will also be the work of armored troops and aviation pilots in the future. The ordinary army can't be so prodigal.

"As long as they meet our recruitment requirements, we will recruit, but first, they must be clean, and second, they must not smoke opium or gamble," Wang Geng said with a smile.

"The warlord means that those idlers in rural towns and cities are also recruiting?" Li Mingzhong couldn't help but asked.

"As long as you don't smoke or gamble, your net worth is clean and you don't have a murder record, and you meet the physical and age requirements for our bidding, why don't you recruit them? These people stay in the local area and don't do production. They have nowhere to make a living, so naturally they are idle, but these people often If we recruit these people, the law and order and atmosphere in the local area will improve, and these people can make a living in the army and support their families, so why not do it?"

Wang Geng's persuasiveness inspired everyone, and everyone at the table was speechless for a moment. Obviously, Wang Geng's thinking subverted the concepts these guys had cultivated under the influence of Feng Yuxiang for a long time.

"We must believe that the melting pot of the army can reforge many crooked melons, cracked dates and defective products into useful talents!"

"When we recruit a young farmer, the farmer's family will have one less person to cultivate the field, and the grain produced in this field may be less harvested, and the farmer's family may become more serious due to lack of strong labor for a period of time. Poverty, if the farmer dies after joining the army, the loss to the family will be irreparable."

Everyone was silent. Obviously, Wang Geng's ideas opened everyone's eyes. Recruiting troops and rural grain production were linked. Everyone carefully chewed on the meaning of Wang Geng's words, and gradually felt that Wang Geng, a guy who came back from West Point, might really be able to Lead everyone to come up with some tricks!