The meeting between "Song Zhendan" and "Song Jiaoren" can be called the "Two Song Association" in history. This meeting also has very important significance, at least it ended the military confrontation between the imperial factions and the republican factions.

Song Jiaoren stayed at the headquarters of the Chinese Revolutionary Army in Tongzhou for three days, and had many discussions with Song Biao, reaching agreement on some important basic principles of the First Provisional Constitution of the Empire.

First, with the principle of ensuring national territorial integrity and unity as the basis, each province must establish local governments based on the First Constitution, and do not directly elect the governor for a long time. For the time being, only provincial parliament elections will be implemented in some provinces.

The president adopts a delegation system.

Second, the imperial team and the government are loyal to the emperor, and the army is not allowed to interfere in politics. The government is based on the principle of cabinet responsibility system. It must be approved by the emperor to have legality. The emperor has the right to remove the Prime Minister and demand the Congress.

If a new candidate is re-elected as prime minister, the Prime Minister shall not serve more than three terms. In principle, the Prime Minister shall not continue to engage in public office after the term of office expires.

Third, the state has established three types of armed forces of the Central Imperial National Defense Forces and the Armed Guard, and the three types of armed forces are unified and loyal to the emperor. Under the authorization of the emperor, the Prime Minister of the Cabinet, the General Administration of Armed Police, the General Administration of Coast Guard, and the governors of each province have the right to mobilize the provinces.

National Guard.

After reaching these three agreements, Song Jiaoren officially returned to Guangzhou and tried to reorganize a new Chinese Democratic Party based on the Tongmenghui.

Song Biao still admires Song Jiaoren very much. In order to prevent it, he specially signed an order to require the Secret Service Bureau to undertake the work of protecting Song Jiaoren and prevent assassination. The mutual assassination between the Tongmenghui and the Restoration Society has been very frequent.

It relies on the Hongmen Association and radicals, while the Restoration Association relies on the secret service bureau with professional training. The two sides are very lively.

Whether it is Song Biao or Song Jiaoren, they actually hope to end this situation as soon as possible. Let China resume the peace process and allow the cabinet government to truly and effectively manage the whole country.

After Song Jiaoren returned to Guangzhou, Song Biao observed the splitting movements within the Tongmenghui. He dispatched Zhao Tingzhu's first infantry division to Hunan to wait; while he transferred Chen Wu's third infantry division to Hanzhong first, preparing to enter Sichuan, as the main force of the ace

The Second Infantry Division was quickly transferred back to Kailuan to prevent the Fifth Infantry Division from taking charge of the capital.

The Second Cavalry Division was officially transferred to Xi'an and fought a decisive battle with the 39th mixed alliance formed by the former Hunan Army.

As the domestic situation has been settled, some special people in Russia are still actively supporting the Outer Mongolia Prince**. Wang Tingzhen was transferred back to the Third Cavalry Division as the division commander, and the entire division was transferred to the Hulunbuir Military and Pastoral Bureau, and the Fourth Cavalry Brigade was stationed.

In Suiyuan, Inner Mongolia, the Fifth Cavalry Brigade was stationed in Zhangjiakou, and the Sixth Cavalry Brigade continued to advance westward, quietly entering Wendurhan along the Krulun River and distributed along the river.

Using all the cavalry to control inner and outer Mongolia, Song Biao was unable to continue to suppress the northwest. This was a very chaotic period, but as long as the northwest did not directly rebel, he was not in a hurry to fight head-on with the Ma family army entrenched in the northwest. The so-called Gansu Mixed Association

, Ningxia Association and Qinghai Association are actually all Ma's army, and their scale was so large that they were not killed by the first field until 1949. Before that, the Red Fourth Front Army was defeated by the Ma's army, and Sun Dianying led his troops to the army. As a result, the Red Fourth Front Army was defeated by the Ma's army.

The entire army was defeated.

It is easy to fight Zhao Erxun, Zhao Erfeng, but it is too difficult to fight the Ma family army. If you really fight, it is dangerous to kill the second cavalry division at the same time. The northwest place is really not something that can be won with a lot of guns and cannons. The most important point is, the northeast.

The army's cavalry division has unique characteristics. It can raid raids and attack cities from thousands of miles away and fight positions, but it may not be able to defeat the Ma family army in the northwest.

The military theories and tactical planning of the establishment are different, and the equipment and training are different, and the usage rules are even more different. The Third Cavalry Division is truly able to compete with the Ma Family Army in the Northwest, but this division must remain in Hulunbuir.

Song Biao was still very clear about this. He was not in a hurry to clear out the Ma family army in the northwest in four or five years. These Hui cavalrymen were all humane to defeat the Red Army. They rushed over without any preparation and would probably suffer a great loss.

Now, the most important thing for Song Biao is to speed up the integration of new armies and use the new army to attack other new armies that are not convinced by the unification.

During this period, Song Biao devoted almost all his energy to this matter, reorganizing the Chinese Revolutionary Army into the Central Defense Army and the Central Defense Navy of the Empire, changing the Ministry of Defense to the Ministry of Army, and establishing a new Navy headquarters, Cheng Biguang

He was officially transferred to serve as the Minister of the Navy, Song Wenhui served as the commander of the cruiser fleet, Lin Baoyi served as the director of the General Coast Guard, Shu Fangde continued to serve as the Minister of the Army, and Wu Luzhen served as the director of the General Armed Police.

The Imperial Army and the Imperial Navy both set up General Staff Departments, and together with the Army Department and Navy Department, they jointly handle the affairs of the two military.

The Chief of Staff of the Navy is temporarily vacant because Song Biao is not in charge of the Navy's affairs now. The Chief of Staff of the Army is Jiang Fangzhen. In the past half month, Song Biao, Jiang Fangzhen, and more than a dozen first-class staff officers including Chen Qicai have not been involved in the Navy's affairs.

We stopped discussing various ideas and issues for the reorganization of the entire army.

These days, the most common ones Song Biao saw were China's territory maps. The national territory map compiled by the Qing Dynasty was simply a mess and could not be used as a military map. Song Biao could only use it with the British and Japanese.

The China map is based on it, as a new all-new map.

Especially the map of China compiled by the Japanese, I don’t know how many times more detailed and accurate than the map of the Qing Dynasty.

That afternoon, Song Biao spread out the big map and continued to call Jiang Fangzhen and others to discuss various matters. The army has a large number of staff officers, divided into third-class staff officers, and the first-class staff officers are the first level, and

He is the most important staff officer on the Army Department.

At present, the first-class staff officers include Chen Qicai, Yi Jiasan, Yi Naiqian, Lu Jingyuan, Xu Fangqian, Wu Youzhen, Hu Jingyi, Youxue Zhen, Zhang Liangyuan, Zhou Jiashu, Guan Yunchen, Zhang Jun, Gu Zang, Guo Yuchi, Han Chunlin, Guo Songling, and Xu Guining.

Most of the first ones were born as non-commissioned officers in Japan, while the last four were born as Far East Mainlanders. However, among the newly selected third-class staff officers, most of them have been changed to Far East Mainlanders. Even if they are born as Japanese Mainlanders, most of them are

He is a Japanese student selected from the Far East Mainland Preparatory School.

In addition to serving in other places, staff officers from various divisions and those responsible for reorganizing new troops in the local area, there were eleven first-class staff officers who remained in the headquarters.

After these days of discussion, the general policy of reorganization of the new army has been determined, and each first-class staff officer will continue to be responsible for the affairs of the bureau. Chen Qicai happened to return from Hunan, and Song Biao called Chen Qicai, Jiang Fangzhen and Shu Fangde in the afternoon.

Continue to think about some details.

Because the organizational system of the Northeast Army and other new armies is completely different. The Imperial Army can only continue to adopt two types of organization. First, the basic military system level of division, brigade, regiment, battalion, company, platoon, and squad is determined, and each town is in the process of establishing the basic military system.

Reorganized into divisions. The various mixed associations were reorganized into brigades; secondly, the new army was disbanded and the regiment-based units were exchanged; thirdly, officers from the Northeast Army were constantly sent out to serve as heads of teaching and establish party, government and teaching organizations.

Unify the thoughts of the entire army.

Among all the reorganizations, the move of mutual exchange groups is the most sharp. Song Biao directly replaced the four divisions of the Beiyang Division with half of their blood and adapted them into the twelfth, thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth divisions.

More than half of the officers at the level of the brigade and regiment were replaced, and the graduates of the three military academies, including Baoding Lushi, Japanese Lushi and Far East Lushi, were replaced. Finally, the Northeast Army's fourth-phase training framework was adopted and the training plan was readjusted.

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Song Biao's methods made Duan Qirui helpless, while Feng Guozhang and Wang Shizhen from the Beiyang clan were not activated. The direct descendants of Yuan Shikai such as Cao Kun, Ma Longbiao, Wu Fengling, Zhang Yongcun were also replaced. None of them were left,

After the adjustment, there were officers from Beiyang divisions like Wang Zhanyuan, Shi Congbin, Chen Wenyun, and Zhang Lianfen, as well as Far East divisions like Guo Yuchi, Shen Depei, and other mainland divisions who lived in Japan, some were transferred from the south, and some were transferred from the northeast.

Song Biao's policy is also very simple. If you can control it directly, you can reorganize it on a large scale, get rid of the original faction, the old Qing army officers were collectively revoked, and a large number of new officers from the Restoration Association system were appointed. Or middle-level young officers

Promoted.

These are the parts that are easy to adjust, and there are too many things that are difficult to adjust, such as military pay, rank, equipment and training. Although the training system of the Northeast Army has been temporarily copied, the problem is that the equipment and combat planning are different, and how to adjust the details differently

This is also a long-term problem to be considered.

There are so many people and talk.

Song Biao called Chen Qicai, Jiang Fangzhen and Shu Fangde alone that afternoon, just to discuss the issue of military ranks and military pay in private. These two are a long-standing problem, each with their own opinions, and unified the standards of the Northeast Army.

The military expenditure cannot be controlled, and it is not conducive to the stability of the entire army while growing high, and it is even more unrealistic to lower the standards of the Northeast Army.

Shu Fangde had something urgent and might have come later. Song Biao first went with Jiang Fangzhen in the office. Chen Qicai and the other two thought about it, and listened to Chen Qicai's report on the situation in Hunan.

Chen Qicai was not sure that the previous discussion on military pay had been quarreling, and he had all kinds of opinions. As soon as he reported to Song Biao about Hunan, he couldn't wait to ask: "Your Majesty, I heard that the military headquarters has been talking about military pay.

What is the specific statement? Some people say that the Northeast Army wants to reduce its military pay?"

Song Biao said angrily: "Nonsense, how is it possible?"

Chen Qicai didn't expect Song Biao to be angry, and was stunned for a moment before saying, "I just said, you can't do such a thing, but the difference between the New Army and the Northeast's military salary is twice as high, which is indeed a problem. The First Infantry

After the division arrived in Hunan, it was stationed with the 25th Brigade. The officers of the 25th Brigade often chatted with us. It was embarrassing to ask about the gap in military salaries. Although the past two years have not been a big problem, after all, we are

The winner, it’s probably still a problem in the future.”

Song Biao said: "The military pay is not adjusted for the time being, so we can only do this. The reason why the Northeast Army's military pay was increased again and again was because the average income level in the Northeast has increased by 50% or 60% in the past five years, and the military pay is not high and can't be kept.

In order to recruit the best military officers from the country, we have always adopted a high-paying system. Now these need to be adjusted, but we cannot adjust them at the moment. Even if we need to adjust, we have to wait until the middle of next year, the entire army will issue new military pay.

Let’s talk about the system later, I can only continue to maintain the previous example in the past year. I have decided on this matter so I won’t discuss it for now, so as not to argue for too long and delay the decisions on other matters.”

Chen Qicai nodded silently, talking about money is always a pain in his relationship.

Jiang Fangzhen said: "I have a new idea, it is better to set up a Class A Division and a Class B Division. The former Northeast Army was incorporated into Class A Division, and other new troops were incorporated into Class B Divisions. As long as there are clear main and non-main forces.

In the difference, it seems normal for the main force to pay a little higher."

Song Biao waved his hand, not thinking that Jiang Fangzhen's method was right, and said, "I have considered the difference between the main force and the non-main force. The main force division adopts a staffing of 23,500 people and sets it as a reorganizer. The others are ordinary.

The division has the temporary regular staffing to maintain the original 12,500 people. As for the issue of military pay, the two issues cannot be confused. I call you here today. In fact, I want to talk about the "Military Service Law". China's area is too large and the maritime defense line is too long.

The number of troops required will definitely be very large. If you rely on recruitment, it will definitely not be realistic. After all, the national strength is limited. Therefore, we must implement the Military Service Law and implement the conscript system. First of all, the armed guards and marine guards must first adopt conscripts.

, Conscripts are not completely free, they still have living allowances every month, and they will continue to give some frontline allowances and wartime allowances. Currently, soldiers must draw elite troops and continue to vigorously promote the launch of non-commissioned officer crash courses and include them in the non-commissioned officers. In other words,

,We divide soldiers into two categories, one is the service soldier, the other is the national defense soldier, the former is the conscript, and the latter is the professional soldier. After several years of implementation, we can also formally establish reserve forces that match the great powers.

Including non-commissioned officers, lieutenants, school officials, and generals all have forced retirement years, and they retain their military ranks as reserve officers to retire."

Jiang Fangzhen thought for a moment and asked, "We will organize an army unit of 55 divisions and 22 brigades as planned. Your Majesty. How many conscripts do you think you will arrange and how many professional soldiers will be retained?"

Song Biao said: "I estimate that it is a ratio of 1:2. The reorganized division is mainly composed of national defense troops and must maintain a ratio of 2:1. The national armed forces adopt a four-level system, with first-level troops as the main elite, including reorganized divisions and various

Artillery Brigade, because artillery is not particularly necessary to build brigades, if large-scale artillery troops are necessary for large-scale battles, they can temporarily concentrate the artillery brigades. In normal training and deployment, the scale of an artillery brigade is relatively

It is more appropriate. Considering the special circumstances of artillery, all artillery brigades should be at the level of reorganized divisions; in the second-level troops, national defense soldiers and service soldiers must maintain a ratio of 1:2; in the third-level troops, the armed guards are the main proportions.

At 1:4, the fourth-level troops are armed by militias in each county. In the early stage, they are mainly service soldiers, and in the later stages, they are mainly retired soldiers. Generally speaking, the second-level troops and the third-level troops provide elite troops to the first-level troops.

National Defense Forces. As for the difference in military salaries, in principle, the treatment of troops at all levels is consistent, but the first-level troops have more national defense forces and more expenses."

Jiang Fangzhen agreed: "This is a good way."

Song Biao said: "I also consider using this idea to solve the problem of the military salary gap. At present, most of the soldiers of the Northeast Army can be converted into non-commissioned officers and spread to various divisions, while the soldiers of other divisions select elite troops to retain them, and the rest gradually retire,

The difference in military salaries will be solved slowly in three years, and the difference in salary of officers will be solved at one time in the middle of next year.”

Jiang Fangzhen said: "It's good that this is the case, but it may be difficult to really implement the Military Service Law."

Song Biao sighed: "I am just worried about this problem now. In addition, the service life is also a problem. With the current situation in China, two years of service may be a bit long, and one year of service is too short. If you only serve for one year, it will basically be just

After completing the training, I retired.”

Jiang Fangzhen said: "Two years are better, but one year is too short."
To be continued...