Chapter 110 Flood Blocking

The difference between the border defense brigade and the Beiyang Army Mixed Brigade is not only the name, organization, scale, and treatment.

As for the border defense brigade, the general border defense brigade is organized by the third or fourth battalions, and there is no artillery. Wang Maoru's 11th garrison brigade has artillery because of his own money and Yuan Keding's help. It can be said that the number of ordinary border defense brigades does not exceed 2,000, and most border defense brigades have empty salary. Among them, it is not only that the commander is eating empty salary for himself, but a large part of it is that the border defense brigades are treated poorly and the military pay cannot be paid in full, which leads to the border defense brigades having to use air pay to fill the military pay short of the soldiers.

Under normal circumstances, the size of the Beiyang Army Mixed Brigade is the second regiment and third battalion, and the third battalion is the guard battalion, artillery battalion, cavalry battalion or baggage battalion. Under normal circumstances, there are seven battalions in total, with 3500 to 4500 people, and the military pay is paid according to 3500 people. The two regiments given by the 17th Mixed Brigade were the 142nd Regiment and the 143rd Regiment. However, because of the urgency of march, Wang Maoru had no time to reorganize, and the army had just stabilized. He was about to face the northbound Mongolian bandits. If it was reorganized at this time, it would make the morale of the army unstable to fight.

The strength was reduced. The mechanic artillery brigade was temporarily upgraded to artillery battalion, and the captain Liu Jian was promoted to the battalion commander of the captain artillery battalion; the special brigade and part of the guards merged into the guard battalion, and the special brigade commander Gai Tianjiu was promoted to the battalion commander of the captain guard battalion; the logistics brigade was renamed to the logistics brigade battalion, and the brigade commander Wang Qiyuan was promoted to the battalion commander of the captain logistics battalion. The adapted guard battalion will be responsible for the tasks of the headquarters of the Security Command and Wang Maoru. After the guards were reduced, they became a 60-person elite guard, which was only responsible for protecting Wang Maoru himself.

After Changchun announced the new appointment, everyone knew in their hearts that the positions of the two commanders of the 142nd and 143rd regiments must be the one who made great contributions to the extermination of the Mongol bandits. Not to mention, several generals who were not promoted were secretly happy.

From Changchun Prefecture along the Guan Road, the 17th Mixed Brigade began to walk truly, but Wang Maoru's army turned into a pack horse army at this time, and the soldiers did not have to work hard to carry nearly fifty kilograms of heavy-bearing equipment on their backs. Of course, the weather became colder, so you don't have to worry about sitting in the car and getting frozen when walking more.

Wang Maoru sent the cavalry battalion as a vanguard to Jilin Prefecture, Yongji County. However, when he arrived in Yongji, Gao Fengcheng, the brigade commander of the 45th Brigade of the 23rd Division of the Ji Army, led his army to be on guard against the troops and war, and announced that the 17th Mixed Brigade was prohibited from entering Yongji County.

The commander of the cavalry battalion, Gong Xiaoqi, was a stubborn and arrogant lord in his heart. In addition, Shangguan Wang Maoru was valued by the president, so the 17th Mixed Brigade could almost be said to be the imperial guard of President Yuan Shikai, so he started arguing with Gao Fengcheng's subordinates. Gong Xiaoqi said that the marching route of the 17th Mixed Brigade had long been reported to the Army Department, and the Army Department had already approved it. Why did your Ji army block the way forward? Gao Fengcheng said that he had never received a document approved by the Army Department and would never allow other troops to enter Yongji County. Seeing that the other party even carried the cannons out, Gong Xiaoqi aimed at him, so he had no choice but to return to Wang Maoru to repay him truthfully.

Wang Maoru summoned his subordinates to think about it over and over again, saying that it must be because Meng Enyuan, the old Beiyang, looked down on him. Or, let's change to Jiutai County, pass by Yushu County, then to Shuangcheng County, and then arrive in Heilongjiang Province after crossing the river. The original plan was to take a boat north in Jilin Prefecture, so that his marching speed would be greatly reduced and the time would be increased.

Moreover, whether it is Jiutai County or Yushu County, it is a county town with many mountains and few lands. The army has to face the problem of stationing in the wild. Stop troops in the wild not only face the invasion of wild animals, but also face the coldness of the northeast. Don’t underestimate the invasion of wild animals. In the northeast, especially the northeast forests where wolves are flooded, the communication soldiers of Zhang Zuolin who suppressed bandits even had to line up one by one, and a squad of soldiers were likely to be eaten by the wolves. Now it is the end of September, and it will take at least two weeks to arrive in Heilongjiang Province, and it will be mid-October, and an autumn rain and a cold. Of course, there is another problem that is the harassment of bandits. Who knows whether Meng Enyuan will play a little guerrilla war with him in the Northeast where there are so many bandits.

After discussing with his subordinates, everyone decided to set off as soon as possible. After hiring local guides, the 17th Brigade accelerated its march. After only one week, it passed through Jiutai, Yushu and arrived in Shuangcheng. After arriving in Shuangcheng, there was a new problem and floods occurred in the entire northeast. However, this flood was not big, but the Songhua River in Jilin and Nenjiang in Heilongjiang in Heilongjiang. After the 17th Mixed Brigade arrived in Shuangcheng, Wang Maoru only stopped him due to the flood.

It was good to lead the team to stay in Shuangcheng County. What he unexpectedly was that many young and strong men in Shuangcheng wanted to join the army. Chief of Staff Zhu Yongquan is now in charge of military preparation. He originally planned to recruit 100 people as guides and civilians locally, but a thousand people came. When he asked, he found out that these people lived by the river and were now suffering from disasters at home. Seeing that the New Year cannot be passed this year, it would be better to join the army and get some rewards to settle the family so that their families can survive this flood disaster.

Zhu Yongquan then asked Wang Maoru for advice. After thinking about it, Wang Maoru allowed these young and strong victims to join the army and only served as soldiers for the supplementary battalion. After the soldiers were on the spot, they expanded the six supplementary battalions to recruit more than 3,000 people. Taking advantage of the flood in Shuangcheng County, Wang Maoru started to train six supplementary battalions. After the plan was completed, they selected and formed new infantry fourth battalions, fifth infantry battalions and sixth infantry battalions from the engineering brigade, baggage battalion, guard battalion, and supplementary battalion to form a new infantry fourth battalion, fifth infantry battalion and sixth infantry battalion. The supplementary battalion retained two, supplemented combat losses at any time, and took on alert and training for new recruits.

As a combat backbone, the former Lao Fourth Battalion did not draw soldiers to retain them, and a few new recruits were supplemented, so that the combat effectiveness of the Lao Fourth Battalion would not be reduced.

However, the number of troops increased, but the overall combat effectiveness of the army did not increase. This is also the disadvantage of the rash expansion of the 17th Mixed Brigade. The 17th Mixed Brigade expanded from a 3,400 army to more than 6,400 people, and a total of more than 7,000 civilians. Many of these peasants and some people who could no longer be bandits due to disasters also caused a headache for He Anding, the military police brigade. The quality of these people was uneven, some were honest and some had ulterior motives. A few days ago, they caught people and were arrested by the military police. According to convention, these thirteen deserters were used by the new soldiers to train their courage.

He Anding reported that the military police company was overwhelmed and hoped to increase the military police company's staff. Wang Maoru thought about it, so he ordered the military police brigade to have only more than 150 people, and especially allowed the military police brigade to expand. It has three military police squadrons under its jurisdiction, with a staff of 300, and the total number of military police has doubled. However, the military police cannot recruit from the common people like soldiers, and can only pick people from each army. Who in the fourth battalion wants him to transfer veterans, and they all use inferior soldiers as good ones. Those who sent He Anding were all bad soldiers and new soldiers, and some did not even shoot. This annoyed He Anding, and he attacked the lawsuit to the headquarters, and naturally it would be a mess in the end.
Chapter completed!