: No Hesitation (Second update, please vote for me!)

Most of the buildings in the Infantry Yamen of the Qing Dynasty in front of the inner city of Nanjing had been destroyed by the war during the liberation of Nanjing. The Infantry Yamen that was burned by artillery fire remained idle for almost two years before the buildings were built.

The house came, and in September last year, a new house number was hung outside the renovated infantry government office.

"Jiangsu Army Staff Headquarters"

If there is any difference between the current Jiangsu Province and other provinces, I'm afraid it is the separation of military and political affairs. Although the Army is still the Jiangsu Army at this time, the Jiangsu Army is not under the jurisdiction of the Jiangsu Governor's Office. The jurisdiction lies with the Army Staff.

Ministry of Finance, and last year the Jiangsu Provincial Congress reviewed the military expenditures for the three divisions of the Jiangsu Provincial Army for the first time.

This was the first time in China that the provincial assembly reviewed military expenditures. Even the interim president Yuan Shikai, who had not yet been elected president at the time, said that the Jiangsu Army was being kicked in the head by a donkey. Originally, the whole of China was prepared to look at the Jiangsu Army.

It’s a joke. The central government has cut off the pay of the Eighth Division, but Jiangsu’s local tax revenue is only four to five million a year. How much money can it squeeze out?

Although the Provincial Congress only approved a military expenditure of one million, for the Jiangsu Army, which has three divisions with nearly fifty thousand and an annual military expenditure of seven million, this million is undoubtedly a drop in the bucket. However, instead of being in chaos, the Jiangsu Army is getting more energetic.

Suppressing bandits and maintaining local security. Over the past six months, Jiangsu has become increasingly quiet.

Although some people are surprised, in the eyes of those who know the inside story, this seems to be reasonable. No one knew it in the past, but now many people understand that someone is raising the Jiangsu Army.

"...The division headquarters has a motorized communications platoon, a motorized map detachment, three infantry regiments, each regiment has three infantry battalions, an infantry artillery company, a mortar company, a reconnaissance battalion, a cavalry company, a bicycle company, and a division artillery regiment.

It has three field artillery companies, one howitzer company, motorized artillery observation battalion, and engineer battalion..."

In the operational conference room of the General Staff Department, Jiang Zuobin, a staff officer of the Jiangsu Army General Staff Department, introduced the organization of the Jiangsu Army to Li Zhiyuan, who was visiting the General Staff Headquarters for the first time. Although outsiders speculated that the Jiangsu Army Army might be maintained by Liuhe Company, it could not come from the capital.

After taking this position, he knew that the Jiangsu Army was basically his private army of Li Zhiyuan. There were 523 officers and 2,700 non-commissioned officers in one division. More than 90% of them were from Lianyun, and less than 30% of the soldiers were from Lianyun.

Most of the Jiangsu Army veterans were recruited in Jiangsu, Anhui, and Shandong, but even so, they were first trained by the "labor corps" before being added to the Jiangsu Army.

"... there are 14,401 soldiers, a total of 17,725 people, with a total of 13,938 rifles, about 3,000 pistols, 312 submachine guns, 318 machine guns, 84 50 mm light mortars, 54 81 mm heavy mortars, and 75 mm light mortars.

20 infantry guns, light howitzers..."

Listening to the report of Jiang Zuobin who was standing in front of the drawing board, Li Zicheng, who was sitting at the head of the oak conference table, only nodded occasionally. He was no stranger to the three infantry divisions and teaching groups of the Jiangsu Army. In fact, this infantry division

The organization is based on a reduced version of the German Type 39 Infantry Division provided by itself, without heavy artillery, tanks, passenger cars, transport vehicles, and armored vehicles. Of course, there is no radio walkie-talkie.

"In terms of military strength alone, the Jiangsu Army's current equipment is far more sophisticated than that of the domestic army. Compared with the armies of European countries, although it does not have heavy artillery, it has a large number of mortars and machine guns and is well-trained. It is believed that it may be comparable to

"War"

As the former Deputy Chief of Staff of the Ministry of War, Jiang Zuobin was a well-known military expert in China. He was also the one who translated the Japanese infantry drill and introduced it to China. He naturally has a reason for saying so.

Li Zicheng knew that after inviting Jiang Zuobin to Nanjing five months ago, he had been responsible for the training of the Jiangsu Army. According to Jiang Zuobin's suggestion, he hired dozens of instructors from the Qingdao German Army to be responsible for the training of the teaching regiment.

The teaching corps dispatched non-commissioned officers to be responsible for the overall training of the Jiangsu Army. Now the teaching corps can send out 2,500 well-trained non-commissioned officers every three months, and this is the credit of Jiang Zuobin.

"Um,"

Nodding, Li Zicheng did not show any emotion, but glanced at Chen Zhiji, the commander of the Eighth Division who was sitting there. He was Feng Guozhang's son-in-law. However, despite this, he had never revealed the relationship between the Jiangsu Army and himself to the outside world.

Yuan Shikai would be suspicious, but at least until now, the Jiangsu Army is still the "provincial security force under the Jiangsu Provincial Council", and to the outside world, he is just a small businessman.

Noticing that the envoy's gaze was directed towards him, Chen Zhiji quickly straightened his body and faced the envoy's gaze.

People must learn to choose. For Chen Zhiji, he made his own choice as early as last year. After Ma Nanpo took control of the First Division and Han Wu took control of the Third Division, and was promoted to the Chief of Staff of the Jiangsu Army, he also

He once thought about fighting and fighting, but he saw that the First Division and the Third Division were reorganized and then expanded. After experiencing two "movements", he understood that he must either understand the current affairs, or...

Choice, in the end, he chose to join Li Zhiyuan, and even sent his children to Lianyungang to study. Originally he wanted to be a hostage, but as a result, during the Chinese New Year, Li Zhiyuan sent his children back. Just after the New Year, the Eighth Division was reorganized

It also started, and almost more than 13,000 people were added.

"Now, in just nine months, the achievements that the Jiangsu Army has achieved are really gratifying."

Nodding towards Chen Zhiji, Li Zicheng spoke.

"Ben Jing Lue Envoy, under the order of the President, is responsible for the affairs of Huaihai and has no reason to interfere in military affairs. However, today he saw the strong force of our Jiangsu Army. This is really to strengthen Ben Jing Lue Envoy's courage. With such a strong army,

Why worry about the ground being unstable? Why worry about the people being uneasy?"

Although everyone understood it, even at this time, Li Zicheng still put aside the relationship between the Jiangsu Army and himself. Although most of the six Jiangsu Army soldiers were soldiers from Longhai, sometimes they still have to show up. Yuan Shikai

Not asking yourself now doesn't mean you won't ask in the future, but...

"Tianren, Yuyan, Shuliang, and Nanpo, you have worked hard. I would like to express my gratitude to you for your efforts in appeasing the local area."

After saying that, Li Zicheng stood up and bowed to them. The officers who were originally sitting there could still sit there and stood up to return the military salute.

"The appeasement of the place is really the responsibility of the people to support us, and we dare not say how hard it is."

After sitting down again, Li Zicheng pressed his hands, and with a bang, a dozen officers sat down again.

"Tian Ren, if the Jiangsu Army is now on the battlefield, can the soldiers of the Jiangsu Army..."

As soon as the words came out, the faces of Han Wu, Ma Nanpo and others were full of shock, especially the faces of Jiang Zuobin, Chen Zhiji and others changed almost at the same time. They looked at the manager in front of them in surprise, could it be...

Seeing the strange expressions on everyone's faces, Li Zicheng just smiled and said with a smile.

"A few days ago, I met a friend from Shanxi who came to Lianyun to invest, and he accidentally talked about Mongolia. From a long-term perspective, although the Jiangsu Army is the police force of Jiangsu Province, in addition to appeasing local areas, it also has the responsibility of defending the country and guarding the border.

, and the upper-class princes of Mongolia took advantage of the turmoil in China to split China. Which one can be tolerated and which cannot be tolerated? How can we ignore such a national humiliation? Therefore, I deliberately appealed to the central government and asked our Jiangsu Army to regain Mongolia in the north.

…”

While speaking, Li Zicheng paid attention to the faces of everyone. Almost every officer sitting here had a look of eagerness on his face. These are soldiers. Soldiers are all eager for war. And for these people, maybe they are more

The battlefield I am willing to go to is a national war battlefield like Mongolia, not...

"Returning to the mission, if you want to regain Mongolia, you only need one division. But if you want to hold Mongolia, it is not possible with one division, and you also need to consider the interference of Tsarist Russia."

Although he was full of desire to regain Mongolia, Han Wu, who was the Chief of Staff of the Jiangsu Army, still answered truthfully.

"If Tsarist Russia intervenes, our army will inevitably meet Tsarist Russia on the battlefield in Mongolia. With the soldiers of our Third Division of the Jiangsu Army, I'm afraid..."

Before Han Wu had finished speaking, Jiang Zuobin took the initiative to speak.

"Commander, what if we recruit the Labor Corps?"

"Legion of Labor?"

Han Wu's brows jumped and he looked at the envoy. Everyone knew that the Labor Corps was a militarized group established by the envoy himself years ago to "reclam wasteland", but in fact, the Labor Corps was a "

"Paramilitary force", at least the original intention of Jing Wei Shi was...

Jiang Zuobin's proposal made Li Zicheng nod with satisfaction. Finally, someone could realize the role of the Labor Corps. This Labor Corps was a paramilitary force built by him based on the German Labor Corps before World War II. The original intention of establishing force was, of course,

Of course, for the purpose of reclaiming wasteland, there is still a canal project, but on the other hand, it is to supplement the Jiangsu Army and meet future emergencies.

And this time I came to Nanjing because I wanted to give them a "vaccination". The purpose of this vaccination is for a carefully planned chess game. It is easy to start something, but it is very difficult to end something.

,not to mention……

"After careful analysis, there are currently about 120,000 labor corps workers at Xinghua Farm and Cross-River Construction Site in northern Jiangsu. When the company recruits workers, they are strictly screened. More than 70% of the Jiangsu Army's soldiers are from the labor corps. If in Mongolia,

If a large-scale war breaks out, you can consider mobilizing the labor corps and moving one division to Mongolia. You can train three divisions in Jiangsu at the same time. In this way, you will have five divisions as reserves at the back, and at the same time, you can recruit new people to supplement the labor corps. In this way

First, we can continuously replenish the army..."

"Then, there must be at least two prerequisites, one is enough money, the other is enough weapons, both are indispensable..."

Xiao Xiao, who had been silent, interrupted Jiang Zuobin's words, "Ideal, this is too ideal."

“Money, no problem”

Nodding vigorously, Li Zicheng looked at the people in front of him.

"For the country and the soldiers, I don't care about my life, so why should I care about a little money?"...
Chapter completed!