After May, due to the tense situation in Northeast China, Beiyang New Army was forced to send troops into Liaodong to prevent Russian troops from going south. At the same time, due to the shortage of troops, Zhao Dongyun’s third association could be sent.
After Zhao Dongyun’s third association left Baoding, it means that it will be affected by factional strife, but it will never be as serious as Baoding.
After Baoding, the struggle of the third coordination department was gentle, but when Yuan Shikai established the first town and the second town of the Beiyang Standing Army and renamed Zhao Dongyun’s third coordination department as the third mixed association of the Beiyang Standing Army, the struggle of the third coordination department subsided instantly.
What?
At this time, the third mixed association is no longer the key to determine the ownership of the right town of Beiyang Standing Army, and it will not affect the ownership of many important positions in the second town of Beiyang Standing Army.
In addition, throughout the middle of June, those bosses in Baoding, whether Duan Qirui or Feng Guozhang or Wang Yingkai and others, have been fighting for the goal of reforming and establishing the second town of Beiyang Standing Army, especially the second town to control the position of two associations.
They have already competed with many officers in the Third Mixed Association for who wins and who loses. On the contrary, at that time, the officers of the Third Mixed Association paid more attention to the future and destination of their own Third Mixed Association.
Because the third association was adapted, the third mixed association directly led to the formation of a force with nature, just like the first town and the second town. Although the third mixed association is small in scale, it is not much different from the first town and the second town in nature.
Moreover, it seems that the third mixed association will become the third town in a few days in terms of the current expansion speed of Beiyang. Once the third mixed association becomes the third town, what does it mean? That represents more senior positions.
According to today’s Beiyang Standing Army, a town has jurisdiction over two teams, two associations, four standards, twelve battalions, one standard, four battalions, one standard, three battalions, trench teams, one battalion, engineering team, one battalion, machine gun team and one battalion, with a total of twenty-two battalions.
By then, the addition of many arms in the third town will produce one town to control two associations, six standard belts and twenty-two management belts.
According to the Beiyang military system, generally speaking, after the expansion, the chief officers of the troops are selected from the original troops, and it is rare to transfer officers from outside troops to their posts.
That is to say, there is a great chance that there will be a 70% chance, if not a 100% chance, that the management belt will be standardized, the standardization belt will be promoted, the association will lead and the association will lead the town.
Not surprisingly, Zhao Dongyun, the third mixed association, is in charge of the middle-level officers, but the positions of the remaining associations and the unified belt are contested. In the process of competing for these positions, Zhao Dongyun will play a decisive role. He may not be 100% sure who can be the unified belt, but he can definitely decide who can’t be the unified belt.
Many officers of the Third Mixed Association are not idiots, so it is natural to see that although the expansion of the town by the Third Mixed Association has not yet become a reality, considering the rapid pace of Beiyang’s expansion, it is estimated that it will be a year and a half at most, and then your fate will be decided by Zhao Dong.
They have forgotten all about their own future!
Wang Yingkai, Duan Qirui and others, no matter how influential they are, can also influence the positions of middle and junior officers in the newly established army, but they can’t influence many lives after the expansion of the town by the Third Mixed Association, which has been in the army for a long time. Zhao Dongyun has this influence.
At this time, the actual influence of Zhao Dongyun’s Beiyang Department was comparable to that of Duan Qirui, Wang Yingkai and Feng Guozhang.
It has become a fact that Zhao Dongyun is in control of the Third Hybrid Association. First, no one in Beiyang has realized it. In the eyes of everyone, Zhao Dongyun is climbing faster and has a lot of limelight. But he is still Duan Qirui’s hand and Wang Yingkai’s hand. Wang Zhanyuan is the same level. At best, he is the first person in the second echelon. It is still far from the first echelon.
Don’t say that others will make such habitual mistakes. Actually, Zhao Dongyun himself didn’t clearly realize how influential he was.
Chapter seventy-two Cavalry machine gun team
It may be a name for Yuan Shikai to change the third mixed association. The change of the third mixed association did not increase the number of soldiers, but the changes brought to Zhao Dongyun, Chen Guangyuan and Meng Enyuan were enormous and obvious.
Less Chen Guangyuan is no longer as proud and dissatisfied as before in the face of Zhao Dongyun. It seems that everywhere and Zhao Dongyun gallants Chen Guangyuan has disappeared, leaving one Chen Guangyuan who works hard.
Seeing that Chen Guangyuan accepted the reorganization of the old army without hesitation made Zhao Dongyun feel a little uncomfortable, which made him feel strange that he did not deal with the genus and became obedient.
Not only did Chen Guangyuan’s attitude change, but even Meng Enyuan’s attitude changed. Zhao Dongyun asked Meng Enyuan’s cavalry to patrol the eastern part of Jinzhou. After the investigation, Meng Enyuan did not bargain with him or shirk anything, but directly agreed to come.
This makes Zhao Dongyun quite puzzled. You know, expanding the scope of investigation is a chore for the third bid of the riding team. Let Meng Enyuan promise not to affect Jinzhou’s peripheral investigation. Zhao Dongyun is prepared to compensate the riding team for the third bid with six heavy machine guns.
However, Meng Enyuan agreed to come without even asking questions or saying anything, which made Zhao Dongyun’s original good words not come out!
However, since the four machine guns are ready to give the third bid to the riding team, it is true that Zhao Dongyun is scheduled to give Meng Enyuan a compensation, but it is also a necessary attachment to increase the combat effectiveness of the cavalry. It cannot be said that Meng Enyuan will not give it if he doesn’t want it.
"The daily patrol range should be kept at 40 kilometers. I don’t want anyone to sneak into the eyelids!" Since Meng Enyuan agreed to come to Zhao Dongyun without objection, he naturally won’t be polite to him and directly set a high daily patrol range.
Meng Enyuan said, "There is not much talk about daily vigilance patrol. On the one hand, the strength density can also represent daily training subjects. This problem is not big!"
Zhao Dongyun is not used to Meng Enyuan’s responsive state, but he still has to send out the machine guns when he is equipped. "This time Baoding sent six machine guns to our third mixed association. I intend to set up a machine gun team in the third bid of the cavalry to pack horses and transport them with cavalry!"
Meng Enyuan a listen to immediately emerge big smile "really have a machine gun team? That would be great! "
At the beginning of the year, Meng Enyuan asked the leader for a machine gun and said that he would set up a cavalry machine gun team. Although Zhao Dongyun supported his idea, he never got a machine gun.
These days, the price of heavy machine guns is not cheap, and all departments have to rely on imports. From 1991 to 1993, China was also restricted by the arms embargo. Although this restriction was superficial in fact, it still created many troubles for Beiyang Army to purchase imported ordnance, and these troubles were finally reflected in the price.
Last year, when Zhao Dongyun took control of the newly-built machine gun battalion, he purchased a large number of machine guns. Later, all the machine gun battalions in the newly-built machine gun battalion were dispersed and assigned to various armies. Instead, Beiyang New Army continued to develop machine guns. From the end of last year to the beginning of this year, Beiyang successively purchased two batches of dozens of German-made Maxim machine guns. The model is still g1, which is mainly used to supplement four machine gun battalions and multiple machine gun teams.
In this process, because foreign cavalry units are also equipped with machine guns, Beiyang New Army has always paid attention to keeping up with the world trend. Naturally, it is unwilling to lag behind, trying to incorporate cavalry units into machine guns, and Yuan Shikai also specially found Zhao Dongyun.
Although Zhao Dongyun is no longer in charge of machine gun troops, he is an officer who started with machine guns. He is the first person in Beiyang Ministry who is a real machine gun, just like the first artillery in Duan Qirui Beiyang New Army. This has something to do with machine guns, but he can’t be bypassed.
After referring to the cavalry units of Germany, France, Russia, Japan and other countries, especially referring to the establishment of machine guns attached to the Japanese cavalry brigade, Zhao Dongyun suggested to Yuan Shikai that each cavalry standard of Beiyang Standing Army should be assigned a machine gun team.
Here, I have to say that the current Beiyang standing army cavalry establishment is different from the current Beiyang standing establishment and the new army establishment in the late Qing Dynasty, which is well known by later generations.
For example, in terms of artillery, an artillery battalion of Beiyang Standing Army has 16 guns, but an artillery battalion has 10 guns in the new army period in the late Qing Dynasty.
The same is true of cavalry. In the establishment of the new army in the late Qing Dynasty, there were more than 1,100 cavalry in three battalions, while in the current standing army period, there were more than 1,300 cavalry in four battalions.
In fact, the cavalry standard of Beiyang New Army is too large, and a cavalry regiment of western powers is usually about 500 to 600. However, the number of a cavalry standard of Beiyang New Army is as high as more than 1000, which is twice that of the western cavalry regiment.
There are two main factors here. One is influenced by the concept of unified military. Even after receiving modern military education, Beiyang officers still believe that cavalry is an indispensable and important military force
The second is influenced by the geographical environment where the Beiyang Army is located. The Beiyang New Army is mainly deployed in the main defense areas of northern China, Shandong, Zhili and Northeast China. This area has a vast North China Plain and Northeast Plain, which is more suitable for cavalry warfare.
A number of factors add up, and Beiyang Army is not short of horses. It is much easier to form cavalry than artillery, which leads to a relatively large cavalry establishment in Beiyang Standing Army. He did not say that Zhao Dong Yunshou Third Hybrid Association has a third bid of more than 1,300 people riding a team. You know, his third hybrid association is only more than 7,000 people.
It is not enough for a cavalry with more than 1,000 people to have six machine guns as standard, but now Zhao Dong Yunshou machine guns are not enough.
Meng Enyuan said, "If we can have a machine gun team, we can attack and retreat and defend!"
Zhao Dongyun said, "Brother Meng, you are an old cavalry. Naturally, you know how cavalry should fight. I don’t know much about cavalry on weekdays, but I still know that some heavy machine guns can accompany cavalry forward, but their greatest power is to defend it. I hope you can remember this!"
"Besides, you don’t have anyone who knows machine guns, so I’ll send you a few people from the machine gun camp to practice in the past, but let them play machine guns, but riding a horse is estimated to be impossible, and you’ll have to come by yourself!" Zhao Dongyun continued
The cavalry machine gun team is naturally different from the ordinary machine gun team. First of all, although they all use machine gun weapons, one is a cavalry and the other is an infantry. This quality is not easy to see. Most infantry machine guns are used to build fixed fortifications and act as important nodes of defense lines, while cavalry machine guns are used to accompany cavalry in mobile warfare. The machine guns are carried by horses, gunners and ammunition men have to ride horses to advance. In case of combat, most of them are also enemy cavalry units.
Both can’t adopt the same training method!
Meng Enyuan said, "Don’t worry, I’ll choose some smart people to form a machine gun team later, and ask the people in the machine gun camp to teach them how to operate machine guns. We’ll do it ourselves!"
Zhao Dongyun nodded and said, "It’s so hard!"