When he returned to Chenyang, Song Biao did not go to work at the Governor's Office, but went home directly, called the secretary in the study, and asked Yang Tiesheng, who was waiting in the Governor's Office, to call him to his house to discuss things.

After a business trip outside for a month, when he got home, his daughter, who had just been six months old, didn't want him to hug her. She cried when she hugged her, which made Song Biao a little embarrassed.

With parents-in-law at home helping to take care of the children, nurses and servants, Shu Xuan is not very busy either.

Song Biao and Shu Xuan talked about inspections in Fuzhou and Xing'an League. When he came from Fuzhou, he happened to bring some goat milk powder from Fuzhou Milk Powder Factory, so he asked Shu Xuan to try some for his daughter first. It is said that children on the grassland grew up drinking goat milk, and Song Biao was also very interested. Unfortunately, this milk powder has a strong smell of milk.

Living in this era, Song Biao feels that life is a lot of fun, at least you don’t have to worry about food issues.

Although it is worth over 100 million pounds, the house where Song Biao lives is the official residence of the Governor of the Three East Provinces provided by the public. It has a two-story building standard of eight bedrooms and four living rooms and a spacious large courtyard.

When going out, you usually take trains and horses. The car is a bit dangerous during this period, and Song Biao rarely takes it in person.

The food and consumption of the family are coal, silk cloth, grain, oil, tea and meat supplied by the military headquarters. This can be regarded as a welfare within the Northeast New Army. The children's milk powder is supplied by Shengjing Milk Powder Company. After all, it is not a single officer and non-commissioned officer who have children at home. Dongtayuan and Hepingqiao are all family areas of the Northeast New Army. There are many new children of the military family, and the milk powder is distributed uniformly and free of charge. Monthly.

This feeling is like the military system in the 1970s. The entire army and family live in a special environment of care. It is a very enviable special class in the three northeastern provinces. Due to this effect, the number of students applying for the Far East Mainland Preparatory School every year is particularly large, and in terms of enrollment ratio, it is usually a six-choice situation. And the probability of students graduating from the Mainland Preparatory School is only 1/2 of the probability of officially entering the Far East Mainland Preparatory School.

This is exactly the effect Song Biao wants.

The treatment of soldiers in the Northeast New Army may be worse, but within the army, there is no obvious gap between soldiers, non-commissioned officers and lieutenants. As long as a healthy young man who is willing to study and train hard, it is still easy to become a non-commissioned officer in the army. From a non-commissioned officer to a lieutenant, it depends on his cultural achievements. Generally, those with older and poor cultural foundations cannot transfer, but as long as they perform well in the army and actively join the Xinhua Association, the Restoration Association, and the New Policy Strong National Assembly during the further study of the Far East Mainland Crash Class, and their thinking is "correct", they will be recommended to the patrol troops in various places to continue their military positions, or after they are discharged from the army, they will be transferred to work in militia offices in various townships.

Overall, it is still very promising to join the army in the Northeast New Army. For those young people who have not successfully passed the Lushi Preparatory School and Lushi, they go directly to join the army and have the opportunity to pass the Lushi Advanced Training Class and become a lieutenant. Once they become a lieutenant or a senior non-commissioned officer, their basic treatment will be greatly improved, especially in various welfare aspects.

Song Biao talked to Shu Xuan in the study about trivial matters. For example, Jiang Yanxing’s wife made a set of cloth skirts for their daughter Song Yuanyuan. The eldest sister-in-law made a few pairs of shoes. The eldest wife of the Shu family celebrated her birthday next month. Shu Xuan wanted to give her a pair of gold bracelets. Her father-in-law Shu Gaoli was not in good health during this period and wanted to retire from Far East Printing and Bookstore.

After more than ten minutes of the conversation, Yang Tiesheng hurried over. He also brought Song Yuanyuan a silk satin dress as a gift, and exchanged greetings with him. Shu Xuan then accepted the gift and left the study, and asked Yang Tiesheng and Song Biao to discuss business affairs here.

As the saying goes, family, country and the world are sometimes like private matters on Song Biao's side.

Why did China form warlord separatist after the late Qing Dynasty? It is precisely because the army was regarded as private armed forces for a long time since the Hunan and Huaihe armies. The inertia of this thinking extended to the three northeastern provinces, making people accustomed to the New Northeastern Army and the Patrol Forces of the Three northeastern provinces were the armed forces held by Song Biao.

In the local area, if someone transfers from the militia to the patrol force, he will be used to saying that he has now served under the Governor.

Yang Tiesheng is definitely different from other officers. He is one of the four great King Kongs, and the only one in the Patrol Army, and serves as the Minister of the Military Command of the Patrol Army of the Three Eastern Provinces. He should be more comfortable with Song Biao.

Everyone has some bizarre fates, as if there is a theory of fate. Yang Tiesheng is such a person. He always strangely becomes the one who guards Song Biao's house and the hospital.

He and Zhao Tingzhu have a relatively good cultural foundation. The first group graduated from the Far East Main Scholars' Continuing Class. After that, they briefly went to the Russian Staff Academy for further study for half a year. Later, they were responsible for forming the Sixth Infantry Brigade with Wu Yuanze and Sun Shulin. Colonel Kornilov served as the instructor. The Sixth Infantry Brigade was changed to the Sixth Infantry Division and was set up as the Reserve Division. Some of the main forces were dispersed to the patrol corps of the three provinces. Yang Tiesheng also transferred to the Patrol Army of the Three Eastern Provinces at this time as the Admiral of the Patrol Army of the Fengtian Province. After the Patrol Army of the Three Eastern Provinces established the Military Command, he began to serve as the Minister of the Military Command.

The staffing and positioning of the Patrol Forces of the Three Northeastern provinces are very special. Each province has a patrol corps, which are organized at the division level, with patrol admirals and instructors in the province. They directly govern three headquarters detachments and patrol detachments of various prefectures, direct jurisdictions and military reclamation systems. Each patrol detachment directly governs three headquarters brigades and county patrol brigades, and each brigade is organized at the battalion level.

The patrol troops in the three eastern provinces are not large in size, with a total organization of 75,000 people, 31,000 in Fengtian Province, 23,000 in Jilin Province, and 21,000 in Heilongjiang Province. They are mainly equipped with m1891 Mosinnagan rifle, m1897 Winchester shotgun, Maderson light machine gun and 77mm mortar. Only the headquarters of each corps are equipped with some old-type artillery retired from the New Army in the Northeast, such as the 31-year-old mountain cannon, Krupp m1873 7-li light field cannon, Krupp 7-li and a half-heavy field cannon, and some are even Japanese supplies seized during the Sino-Japanese War of 1895.

On the surface, the strength of the Patrol Forces of the Three Eastern Provinces is very small, but the civil defense centers and militia teams of each township are also under the jurisdiction of the Patrol Forces of the Three Eastern Provinces, and the militia armed equipment rate has gradually increased from 10% in the early stage to 50%. In this way, the actual total strength of the Patrol Forces of the Three Eastern Provinces may reach 500,000.

It is precisely because of this that Song Biao chose to let Yang Tiesheng be the minister of the Military Command of the Three Eastern Provinces. Before that, the other candidate he considered was Zhao Tingzhu. Apart from these two, he did not have a third candidate.

After Shu Xuan left the study, Song Biao asked Yang Tiesheng to bring a bottle of hot water. The two of them brewed a pot of tea together and sat next to the heat sink by the window to smoke. They placed two large enamel cups on the heat sink to prevent the tea from getting cold.

The two of them drank tea and smoked, and remained silent for a long time without saying anything. After years of friendship and superiors and subordinates, there is something they really needless to say.

Sitting here, Song Biao also felt a lot of emotion. At that time, he actually wanted Zhao Tingzhu to the patrol army. Later, after thinking about it, he chose Yang Tiesheng because Yang Tiesheng has two advantages: one is to be down-to-earth and willing to work hard, and the other is to work hard and be very motivated over the years and has never lost face to Song Biao.

Compared with Jiang Fangzhen and Chen Qicai, Yang Tiesheng is definitely not a talented person. His grades in the first Far East Lushi Training Class were not excellent, and this was the result of his hard work. At least it was much better than Zhang Yahu and Chen Wu to study for one more year in private after graduation, so it was not embarrassing Song Biao.

Of course, the soldiers of this era are still very special. Not being able to read does not mean that they cannot become a tiger general or a good general.

If you really want to go to war, Yang Tiesheng is really not an opponent of people like Zhang Yahu and Chen Wu. The key is that they have different personalities. Those two are born with desperate personalities.

After smoking most of the Shengjing brand cigarette silently, Yang Tiesheng asked Song Biao: "Master, are you asking me about the preparations of the patrol army?"

Song Biao nodded and asked him first: "Qu Tongfeng has been teaching you for more than half a year in the Fengtian Provincial Patrol Force. How do you feel? How are you better than Sun Shulin?"

Yang Tiesheng thought for a while and said, "Each one has its own merits... Qu Tongfeng is a little smarter, Sun Shulin knows more things."

Song Biao said oh, Sun Shulin and Yang Tiesheng were long-term partners and had always performed well. Later, considering that the First Cavalry Division needed a leading instructor who was proficient in infantry and engineering, he transferred Sun Shulin over.

At first, Song Biao considered taking Liu Gengyun out to be the head teacher for Yang Tiesheng. As a result, Chen Wu and the third head teacher Zhang Liangyuan had another conflict and insisted on changing the head teacher. Song Biao had no choice but to save Liu Gengyun, and finally transferred Qu Tongfeng to Yang Tiesheng as the head teacher.

Speaking of this, Song Biao continued to say to Yang Tiesheng: "Zhang Liangyuan is actually pretty good. After he had a conflict with Chen Wu, I happened to send him to Germany for inspection. I just came back a few days ago and always had to arrange a suitable place. I consider sending him to the Military Order to be responsible for artillery training in the Patrol Force, and also serve as the director of the Staff Department."

Yang Tiesheng nodded in agreement and said, "That person is okay, Chen Wu just has a bad personality."

Song Biao was not very happy with this matter. He knew that Chen Wu had some problems in the past two years and said, "I have also told him about this matter. Liu Gengyun is his last director. If something happens again, I will ask him to send him to a foreign country for four or five years."

Yang Tiesheng said: "I'm afraid he doesn't take it seriously."

Song Biao said: "There is no way, my words are true. If you change a teacher a year, it will not help me, but to harm me if you continue like this."

Yang Tiesheng said: "I talked to him, and he also had his own ideas. He compared the first director Colonel Karekin with them. He always felt that these non-commissioned students who thought they were amazing after graduating from Japanese Lushi were very conceited, but their level was not good. I initially worked with Colonel Kornilov, but later changed to Sun Shulin. I felt that it was really bad. The key was that the experience gap was too big. The Russian army's consultants were all made by big and small actual combat, and their theoretical level was also good. Sun Shulin gave me the feeling that at that time, it was just average theoretical level, and I only had the skill of lip service, and I didn't understand many things. Speaking of which, everyone came here like this."

After a pause, he said: "It's better to fight a few more battles. If you fight more battles, you can achieve your level by combining theoretical research. In recent years, the General Officer has taken great care of those non-commissioned officers studying in Japan, and has given them many opportunities. They have always asked them to increase their experience through exercises, learn more, and accumulate theoretical level in daily life. I feel that there are not many people who really work hard."

Song Biao answered in short: "There is no way, but there is still a shortage of people in general. It is not difficult to expand troops in China. As the saying goes, a thousand troops are easy to get, but a general is hard to find. For example, if Jiang Fangzhen and Chen Qicai are like this, you can make them a staff officer, especially the two of them. The level has improved rapidly in recent years, and sometimes even I have to say it is very good. Then again, if you really ask them to lead the troops to fight, there may be problems. As for other non-commissioned officers in Japan, they will not be tested on the battlefield. Just doing exercises like this, private investigations and comments, and doing some discussions and learning in training classes... In fact, I really can't see the actual level. Now I'm just using it first. Later, I have to gradually select from the graduates of Far East Mainland students."

Yang Tiesheng sighed: "Yes, after all, the general manager is still difficult to deal with. The army is not big, and it is not big even if it is big."

These problems are the most troublesome things that Song Biao has had in the past five years, but then again, his situation is pretty good after all. Compared with the Beiyang Army and the new armies of other provinces, he is already a gathering of elites. He is really on the battlefield, and generals are one aspect. Soldiers and equipment are also a very important foundation.

Even if the generals have a lower level, the soldiers and equipment are of good level, they are strong enough.

In addition, if a general wants to become a good general, he must also be on the battlefield to get the opportunity to be sublimated, accumulate experience, improve his level, and gain confidence and prestige.

If the Northeast New Army wants to continue to move forward, it must fight and fight a big war in an all-round way.

Song Biao will not talk about this issue for the time being, and asked Yang Tiesheng: "The Patrol Army is quite stable during this period. How are you prepared?"

Yang Tiesheng replied: "I am now training the Patrol Army as a front-line unit. All four phases of training, and the civil defense centers of each township arranged four to five civil defense personnel to train militias on a large scale. My current feeling is that the fourth phase of training is a bit inappropriate for the militia, so I want to do double phase training, lay the foundation for the first phase, strengthen the second phase, and carry out cultural and political education at the same time. The original fourteen training courses were reduced to eight training courses. If you have time, practice, be a militia, practice as a reserve source. It is okay to use militia as a source of reserve troops, but it is not possible. The new recruit training bases in various places should continue to invest funds. These are my thoughts below, and I don't know how the staff officer considers it."

Song Biao said: "The opinions of the first and second departments are quite contradictory. Martos thinks that it is enough to have militias as reserve soldiers. At the same time, the cost of retaining new recruit training bases in various places is too high. Jiang Fangzhen has no objection. Chen Qicai and Jiang Zhengyuan do not agree very much. Chen Qicai's point of view is that he thinks that the militias are unreliable and the training effect is not guaranteed."

Yang Tiesheng thought for a while and said, "The training of the militia is indeed not guaranteed. Some places do well in their work and the results are good, and some places do not work well. I am not sure what the other two provinces are like. There are 8 prefectures and three military reclamation units in Fengtian Province, a total of 938 civil defense centers. I have been to 103 in the past year. Overall, the difference is that the good places are very good, and the bad places are very bad. Some places have problems. The key is whether the militia really wants to join the army. If they don't want to join the army, then there is no level of training. Although there are subsidies for being a militia

But there are only twelve silver dollars a year, and there are quite a lot in the pass, so it won’t be very good if it is placed in the three northeastern provinces. In some places, militias are forced to be recruited, and the training effect is even worse. Therefore, I think the recruit training camps in various places should continue to be carried out. Not only should they be carried out, but they also need to increase their efforts. Militias are one aspect of supplement. It is better to directly recruit young people who are willing to join the army and have a little cultural foundation. They have impact, ideas, and want to make progress. Militias are a group of strong and strong farmers. They don’t farm and want to do other chores to make money. Many of them are family members. Who is willing to join the army?"

Song Biao sighed and said, "That is, you are willing to go downstairs to see the actual situation. OK, this matter has been settled. You should continue to do a good job in recruiting training camps. You can't remember to recruit people to charge when you are in war like Russia."

Yang Tiesheng said: "The key is ideological education. We are doing the liberation revolution here in secret. We are not justified and we are not right, and we cannot form a big trend in society. If we really want militia to become an important part of national defense, we must have a national atmosphere, a strong patriotism, and we cannot worry about livelihood issues. If we work hard in the pass, we can't even fill our belly and even make food. For the vast majority of people, survival is first, wife and children are second, fellow countrymen are third, and the country and nation are fourth at best. If most of the survival problems can be solved and everyone can rank the country and nation second, then our work will be successful."

Song Biao laughed out loud and praised: "I used to say that Zhang Yahu was reborn as Lu Meng. The scholar had been separated for three years and had to look at him with admiration. Now think about it. You are the real reborn as Lu Meng."

Yang Tiesheng also laughed and said, "The Chief Executive is joking. At best, I am a rebirth of Huang Gai. If I can't say that my credit is worthy, I can only work hard with others. Otherwise, I would be sorry for the Chief Executive's cultivation and reuse over the years."

Song Biao nodded slightly, feeling very grateful to the four great kings around him.

In the past five years, the old subordinates have not been lying down and idle. They have been working hard to improve themselves in this environment. Chen Wu has made a little trouble, but Yang Tiesheng is right. The main reason for Chen Wu’s trouble is that he is not incompatible with these non-commissioned officers in Japan.

In fact, Zhao Tingzhu, Zhang Yahu, Chen Wu, and Yang Tiesheng were all incompatible with these non-commissioned officers in Japan. The four of them were from another faction, including Jiang Yanxing, Zhang Xiaohuai, Jiang Fangzhen, and Cai E, although they were non-commissioned officers in Japan, they did not have many contacts with other non-commissioned officers in Japan. The real major faction of non-commissioned officers in the New Army of Northeast China was led by Shu Fangde, Xu Baoying, Xiao Kaigui and others.

Where there are Chinese people, there are factions, and this kind of thing is inevitable.

**Inevitably. It is also inevitable that the Communist Army will not be able to do it. At the appropriate time, a group of people must be organized, or even two groups must be organized. Unify thoughts and political education is inevitable, but it is not yet discussed. The problem is not that serious.

There are some things that Song Biao and Yang Tiesheng are very clear about. The problem with the Northeast New Army is that the group above is only willing to follow Song Biao. It is hard to say about the group among them. The competition between non-commissioned officers studying in Japan and Far East students is still very fierce.

All the non-commissioned officers from the Northeast New Army studying in Japan have special secondary training in the Far East mainland scholars, but these secondary training is relatively short, and most of them are minor subjects to further study.

In terms of faction, the students who have participated in the Liaoyang Battle and who have nearly 250 graduates in the Far East Lushi Training Class are basically from the Northeast and Zhili regions, mainly Shenyang, Liaoyang, Jilin, Harbin and Hunjiang, which are the earliest places to recruit soldiers on a large scale.

When it comes to Chen Qicai, he is just yin at this point. He is the earliest senior leader of the Japanese mainland student, but he does not participate in the fight between these two factions at all. He maintains a neutral position with Jiang Fangzhen, Cai E, Jiang Yanxing and others. Jiang Fangzhen is not offended by both sides, and he does not interact with both sides.

Chen Qicai knew very well that in the long run, the non-commissioned officers who were studying in Japan within the New Northeast Army could not compete with the Far East mainland soldiers, but the Far East mainland soldiers were more likely to be a long-term trend, unless Song Biao really stayed in the three northeastern provinces and couldn't go out.

Song Biao knew the problems here better than anyone else, but he was not in a hurry to solve them. At least before he fought the civil war, the problems would not be too big. But when the civil war ended, all generals were proud of their achievements, and the problems might begin to intensify.

Anyway, I can't control this issue this year.

Song Biao and Yang Tiesheng had a chat for a while, and Shu Xuan called for dinner, so he gave birth to Yang Tie. Yang Tiesheng's wife and Song Biao's parents-in-law were there, so everyone gathered for a very sumptuous family dinner.

After dinner, Yang Tiesheng did not rush to leave and continued to report to Song Biao on the work of the patrol army and militia. Yang Tiesheng was transferred to the position of admiral of the Fengtian Provincial Patrol Army at the beginning of last year, and officially served as the Minister of the Military Order of the Three Eastern Provinces Patrol Army at the end of last year. That is, since the end of last year, the Patrol Army of the Three Eastern Provinces has officially entered a state of preparation for war, and patrol detachments in various places have moved from semi-regularization to regularization.

The patrol army is the armed police force, and Song Biao's long-term plan will still be officially changed to the "Chinese Empire Armed Police Force", with brigades in each province, detachments in each city, and brigades in each county.

According to this plan, the patrol troops of the three eastern provinces are not only much slower in the pace of regularization, but also have relatively low equipment level. A brigade only has light machine guns, the detachment only has heavy machine guns and mortars, and the headquarters of the brigade has light field guns and a small number of cannons.

The Fengtian Provincial Patrol Army directly controlled by Yang Tiesheng is quite special. The headquarters of the patrol corps in Heilongjiang and Jilin have only three direct-level detachments. Yang Tiesheng has six direct-level detachments, which are equivalent to a reduced-formed infantry division. Although the artillery equipped with old models of elimination guns, the caliber is all real heavy artillery. The main detachments of 12-cent and 15-cent heavy field cannons, Haizhou, Jinzhou, Dandong and other main detachments are equipped with light and heavy field cannons. The equipment of the Yanbian Military Reclamation Bureau of Jilin Province is also beyond the norm, with multiple 12-cent Krupp field cannons.

The old light and heavy artillery seized from the Battle of Liaoyang were basically used here, and the Northeast New Army was just fully equipped with a unified new artillery.

Yang Tiesheng's role is very simple, and he cooperates with Zhang Xiaohuai to resist foreign interference, especially to prevent Japan and North Korea from taking the opportunity to cause trouble.

That night, Song Biao and Yang Tiesheng talked about it late at night in the study. With the current strength of the New Northeast Army, it is easy to send troops to wipe out the Beiyang Army by 2/3, and the possibility of using the remaining 1/3 of the patrol troops of the three eastern provinces is extremely high. The only question now is when to take action.

Just considering Japan, it is generally necessary to keep more hands on it to be safe.
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