The establishment of the First Army did cause a great shock to the Liaodong Army.

But with the rumor of Yang Xingguo, the Liaodong Army would form a second army in the latest half a year, and the candidates for the army commander were selected among the remaining four division commanders.

Several main divisions of the Liaodong Army were like a war machine that had been fully fired, and began to train for fear of death to improve their combat effectiveness.

Yan Bing, who held the scarce weapons and ammunition in the pass in one hand and silver in the other. Without the imperial court's order to object, he was warmly welcomed by the local government wherever he went.

Finally, in just one month, Yan Bing used up most of the Japanese weapons in the Liaodong Army.

These weapons, which are popular in the pass, not only brought a steady stream of sufficient food to the Liaodong Army, but also brought nearly one million immigrants. As for these immigrants, they were directly sent by the Liaodong Army to Chaoyang, which had just been taken down.

During this period, the radio station that Yang Xingguo bought for a large sum of money also arrived.

Using the ten German radio communication soldiers who came together, the Liaodong Military Academy established a radio communication class to train radio communication soldiers for the Liaodong Army."

At this time, the pass was also very lively. The imperial guards, under the leadership of Yuan Shikai, began to reorganize them.

Although the imperial guards of more than 20,000 people were all Manchu, the senior officers above the camp were appointed by the imperial court, and they considered themselves loyal to the imperial court.

However, there was one thing the court did not expect.

That is the lower-level officers of the army. Although the commander is very important, the real decisive factor is the lower-level officers who deal with ordinary soldiers every day.

Yuan Shikai took the former low-level officers of the Imperial Guard to kick them out of the Imperial Guard on the grounds that they were not familiar with new weapons and could not bear the heavy use.

Then a large number of lower-class officers from Manchu origins were drawn from the Beiyang Army to enter the imperial guards.

On the one hand, the imperial court did not attach much importance to these lower-level officers, believing that the commander of the imperial guards in the two towns was their own people, and the imperial guards in the two towns were their own people.

On the other hand, the lower-level officers drawn by Yuan Shikai from the Beiyang Army were all Manchus. In the eyes of the court, no matter how long these people stayed in the Beiyang Army, the Manchus' hearts were still on the Manchus'.

It was these two reasons that not only did not object, but also supported Yuan Shikai to draw lower-level officers from the Beiyang Army to join the imperial guards.

Yuan Shikai, with a little thought, was under the eyes of the court, and was tampering with the imperial guards in the two towns.

The Beiyang Army, which had left the pass, also began to expand under the order of Yuan Shikai.

Each association is expanded into a town, and the association commander is directly promoted to commander or deputy commander.

However, what made Xu Shichang feel aggrieved was that after the order to expand the army recruitment was issued, after half a month, the recruitment offices in various places had only recruited less than 10,000 new recruits. This was still a long way from the goal of 30,000 new recruits.

Xu Shichang, who received the news, dared not neglect and immediately summoned all the people who could speak in the Governor's Office to discuss solutions.

"Sir, it's normal for the troops to recruit soldiers. There are very few people outside the pass, and the Russo-Japanese War forced many people to go up the mountain to become bandits, and even fewer people can join the army. The reason why we can recruit 10,000 new soldiers in half a month is because our Beiyang Army has a high military salary. If it is a patrol battalion recruits, it would be thankful that we could recruit 5,000 people." The middle-aged general who was the commander of the patrol battalion for several years in Fengtian, sighed and said.

Governor Xu Shichang frowned and said with dissatisfaction: "Then why can the Liaodong Army recruit soldiers? The Liaodong Army only has dozens of counties in Liaodong, but it has recruited 60,000 to 70,000 elite troops. If the Liaodong Army was killed in the battle with the two major powers of Japan and Russia, 100,000 people will definitely be indispensable."

The commander of the patrol battalion smiled bitterly and said, "Stop being angry, you don't understand the Liaodong Army. Most of the soldiers of the Liaodong Army are not from Northeastern people."

"Who is that? Is there any other person who came to Liaodong to join the Liaodong Army?" Xu Shichang asked with disbelief.

"Most of the soldiers of the Liaodong Army really come from within the pass!" The commander of the patrol battalion continued to smile bitterly.

Seeing Xu Shichang's face still had an expression of disbelief, the commander had to explain: "Sir, you should know the Liaodong Army's immigration from the pass. If there are more, there will definitely be two million people."

"Those who can be immigrated outside the pass must be the people who cannot survive. In addition, the military pay paid by the Liaodong Army is high, and many people who immigrated to Liaodong are rushing to join the Liaodong Army to get military pay and support their families."

There is no problem in recruiting 70,000 to 80,000 people from two million immigrants to join the army."

"In addition to immigrants from the pass and activities, bandits in the middle of the mountains are also the supplementary source of troops for the Liaodong Army."

"According to the last generals, after the establishment of the Liaodong Army, nearly 10,000 bandits in Liaodong were surrounded and suppressed by the Liaodong Army. Except for a few bandits with great anger, who were killed by the Liaodong Army, all the bandits were surrendered by the Liaodong Army and joined the Liaodong Army."

Xu Shichang's eyes lit up and replied: "Suppressing bandits and immigrating, since the Liaodong Army can do it, we can do it too."

"Order the new troops scattered in the three eastern provinces to dispatch a target force to bring heavy machine guns and artillery to suppress bandits around the garrison. All the surrendered bandits were sent back for screening. Those who were angry with the public were shot directly, and those who were not angry with the public were all incorporated into the recruits."

"As for immigration, I will discuss with Da Zheng, and let Da Zheng report to the court, immigrate at least one million people from Hebei and other places to outside the pass, to supplement the shortage of the population outside the pass."

In the north, there are the Liaodong Army, the imperial court, the Beiyang Army, and the three-legged tripod.

On the surface, the court was still the actual ruler, but both the Liaodong Army and the Beiyang Army were developing and accumulating reality.

Similarly, the south is not peaceful either.

Because Yan Bing sells weapons in southern provinces, a large number of weapons and ammunition have been lost to the people.

This is definitely a good thing for the revolutionary party in the south outside the event.

Over the past few years, the Revolutionary Party has organized uprisings in the South more than once, but in the end it was due to the lack of weapons and ammunition, either in vain or in failure.

Now that the Liaodong army sold a large number of Japanese weapons and ammunition to the south, the revolutionary party no longer had to worry about weapons.

As long as you have money, you can buy even a light and heavy machine gun, no matter it is a short gun or a long gun.

With weapons and ammunition, the revolutionary party, who was unwilling to be lonely, began to prepare to do a big battle in the south, and at least it would burn the flames of revolution in a province first and then spread out step by step.

The several rank-level officials appointed by the imperial court were not fools, and the increasingly active revolutionaries had long attracted their attention.

Therefore, they are also preparing for the changes after the undercurrents.

In troubled times, having an army means having rights, so everyone is desperately expanding the new army in their own jurisdiction and increasing their capital to save their lives in changing situations.
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