Beiyang 1917

Chapter 94 settled in Nanyuan——

From the day Wang Geng stepped into Duan Qirui's mansion on April 1917, 4, things progressed extremely rapidly in the next few days. On April 1, 1917, Wu Tingfang, Minister of Foreign Affairs, resigned at the State Council held in the West Building of Duan Mansion. , The reason is still an objection to joining the war. That night, US President Wilson delivered a speech to Congress in the State of War address.

On April 1917, 4, Wang Geng moved out of the Duan Mansion and moved into the house allocated by the Ministry of the Army on Consort Street. He became a neighbor with the Female Normal University. In the afternoon, he officially went to Langfang 3 Mixed Brigade to take up his post.

On April 1917, 4, this guy rushed back to Beijing after waving carrots and sticks in Langfang. He also got the weapons and equipment of a model teaching group from Duan Qirui and Xu Shuzheng, and at the same time had an extra title: Ministry of Foreign Affairs to the United States. Negotiation supervision.

In addition to being in charge of coordinating the war with the United States, borrowing, aid, and arms trade, you have to find your own way to solve the problem of American equipment for the 500rd Division and [-]th Brigade. Of course, labor recruitment and recruiting are combined into one. Well, this guy's monthly allowance is only [-] oceans more, but the things to do span the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of the Interior and the Ministry of War.

On April 1917, 4, the 5th Mixed Brigade stationed in Langfang on the day of the Ching Ming Festival, all set off. Except for the logistics and supply troops of the government, they got on the train in Langfang and got off the train directly to Fengtai, Beijing. Hua Liyu arrived at the new residence in Nanyuan in the evening.

The garrison of the original 16th mixed brigade in Langfang was not simply abandoned. Instead, a company was left to garrison. The key places in Beijing and Tianjin could not be easily handed over to others. Wang Geng planned to send another brigade back to garrison after the formation of the new army was completed. .

Under Jiang Hongyu's command, the General Staff Headquarters, which led the model company and arrived one day earlier, had surveyed and drawn the topographic map of the entire Nanyuan garrison, of course, based on the original schematic diagram provided by the Ministry of War.

This Nanyuan is located in the southeast of Fengtai, Beijing. It is named after the ancient royal garden and Nanhaizi. Nanyuan was once a royal garden in Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties. Because the old road of Yongding River passed through the garden, it formed There are large lakes and swamps, lush vegetation, animals and elk gather.

It was called "Dismounting Horse and Flying to the Park" in Yuan Dynasty, "Nanhaizi" in Ming Dynasty, and "Nanyuan" in Qing Dynasty.During the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty, walls were built and guarded by "sea households".The garden raises poultry and animals, grows vegetables and fruits, and is exclusively for the royal family and bureaucrats to hunt and enjoy.In the Qing Dynasty, in addition to the management of "sea households" and "special divisions" with more than a thousand people stationed there, officials in charge of defense were also set up to guard them.

Nanyuan not only became a forbidden place for hunting and recreation for the royal family of the Qing Dynasty, but also a school ground for practicing martial arts.After the fall of the Qing Dynasty, Nanyuan was destroyed as a grain field.

There are seven camps in Nanyuan Town from the west barracks to the west. It used to be the residence of Shenji Battalion. Wang Geng's war preparation office and the brigade headquarters of the 16th Mixed Brigade were located in the old building of the Aviation Administration.In the previous life, it was Feng Yuxiang's headquarters and army inspection mission when he was stationed in Nanyuan, and it was also the location of the military headquarters of the 29th Army during the July [-]th Incident.

Of course, now that Wang Geng's little butterfly wings appear, everything will be different!

The Sixteenth Mixed Brigade originally had three infantry regiments, each infantry regiment governed 3 battalions, each battalion governed 4 companies, each company governed 3 platoons, and each platoon governed 3 squads. The Artillery Regiment is composed of 14 battalions, each battalion has 3 companies, each company has 3 platoons, and each platoon has 3 squads. Each squad also has a total of 3 people including the chief and deputy squad leaders.

The newly formed model teaching regiment of the preparatory office for participating in the war transferred all the commanders and deputies above the [-]th mixed brigade and platoon. , Sun Futian, Wen Chenglie and several other regiments were relegated to the battalion, the original battalion commanders became company commanders, the company commanders became platoon leaders, and the platoon leaders became squad leaders.

The entire model teaching regiment has been formed, and the smallest officer of Yishi is the squad leader and squad deputy, but there are no soldiers in the squad. The whole regiment has three infantry battalions, one artillery battalion, one cavalry company, one engineer company, one supply company, and one machine gun Row.

From Shi Jingting, executive head of the teaching regiment, and Liu Yufen, chief of staff, the infantry has 3 battalion commanders, 3 battalion attachments, 12 company commanders, 12 company attachments, 36 platoon leaders plus 36 platoon attachments, 108 squad leaders plus 108 There are a total of 318 people in a squad, a total of 106 people in the artillery battalion company platoon, 104 officers in the three companies of the cavalry, engineer, and baggage company, and 8 people in the machine gun platoon.

Calculated, the number of officers in the entire model teaching regiment is 538. If the number of soldiers in 183 squads is to be supplemented, 12 soldiers are needed if each squad is full of 2196 soldiers.If the officers, guards, messengers, etc. are added, the full number of the whole regiment is about 3000.

In order to enrich the ranks of the 16th Mixed Brigade after all the officers were transferred, the number of guards and orderlies of cadres at all levels of the brigade, regiment, battalion and company was greatly reduced, and all the people who were reduced were filled to the front line of the 16th Mixed Brigade to lead troops.

The regiment headquarters only allocated a communication service platoon, the battalion headquarters only allocated a communication service team, and the company headquarters only allocated a small team of five people.

According to Wang Geng's plan to train the new army, every time a new brigade is created, 538 cadres above the class must be trained and ready. , After the second expansion and the fourth expansion, it is a bit stretched and not enough.

Therefore, how to continuously supplement and enrich the officer resources of the Model Teaching Corps is also an important issue before Wang Geng.

On the night of April 4th, Wang Geng held a meeting of senior military officers in the Nanyuan headquarters. Only brigade-level cadres such as Jiang Hongyu, Qiu Bin, Shi Jingting, Liu Yufen, and Xue Dubi attended the meeting.Li Mingzhong, Zhang Zhijiang and Zhang Shusheng, who had just become battalion commanders, experienced loss for the first time.

"Supervisor, we can recruit people from the military academies under the Ministry of the Army! We will not let any graduates from Baoding Military Academy and Army University be spared, and all of them will join the teaching group!" Shi Jingting, the executive director of the teaching group, has obviously made up his mind!

"Supervisor, there are also many talents in other Beiyang troops. In addition, there are hundreds of Chinese students studying abroad at the Japanese Non-commissioned Officer Academy. We can't let this go!" Liu Yufen, the chief of staff of the teaching group, was also very emotional.

Chief of Staff of the 16th Mixed Brigade Qiu Bin took a look at Shi Jingting and Liu Yufen, and knew in his heart that these two old fellows were completely determined to leave with Wang Geng. In the past, when Lao Feng led the 16th Mixed Brigade, he would not want to be in other military schools or troops. Soldiers, you have to teach them by yourself before you can rest assured.

"Chief of Staff Qiu, what do you think? Do you have something to say!" Seeing that Qiu Bin hesitated to speak, Wang Geng said with a smile.

"Brigade Commander, I'm afraid that if we randomly recruit people everywhere, it will affect the purity of our team in the future. Don't you want to build a strong army for the Prime Minister? Clothes!" Qiu Bin heartbroken and reminded bluntly.

"Well... your words are either unreasonable, or your vision is not broad enough. My eyes are on how to deal with the great powers in the future. Besides, there are only so many intellectuals in China, and even fewer can be admitted to military academies. As long as it is a talent, it is not afraid that it will be useless here. As for loyalty, it depends on the abilities of Brother Shi and Brother Liu! The teaching group is a big melting pot! A melting pot of revolution!"

Wang Geng explained with a smile, while turning his appreciative gaze to Shi Jingting and Liu Yufen, apparently quite satisfied with their thinking.

"Supervisor, will Prime Minister Duan and Deputy Chief Xu come to Nanyuan to present the flag tomorrow?" Jiang Hongyu was obviously a little excited.

"Don't worry about that. Although Prime Minister Duan is busy, we will be the direct line of the Prime Minister and the Central Committee in the future. We are talking about Genzheng Miaohong. What if he and the deputy chief don't come to support us!" Wang Geng said with a smile.

"Supervisor, I heard that the weapons and equipment of our teaching group can really be delivered tomorrow?" Shi Jingting did not expect that Wang Geng would get a whole group of equipment for the teaching group just after he took office. This meeting ceremony is comparable to the deputy prime minister for this model teaching group. It's more affordable to join us!

"Xu Shuzheng personally promised to give us at least one brigade's equipment, but the German-made Mauser Army Department doesn't have much in stock. I don't like the Japanese-style 98! So let's make do with the brand-new German-style equipment for a regiment. Fortunately, the equipment is all Mauser 88, which is much better than the [-] type, so we can barely deal with it! Can't our model teaching group become a pistol group?"

As he spoke, Wang Geng took out a list from his pocket, spread it on the table, and said, "Tomorrow, the teaching group will accept this list from the Ministry of War. Xu Shuzheng won't agree even if I miss a single bullet!"

Shi Jingting rushed over, Liu Yufen, Jiang Hongyu, and Qiu Bin all leaned their heads to look at the munitions list!