Chapter 435: Reorganization of the entire army

The next morning, Guangzhou sent a call back and forth. After discussion with Wu Shaoting, Cen Chunxuan and Wu Shaoting decided to use the general banknotes of United Bank to pull out the 100,000 yuan of opening fee, and also gave Li Chun a thousand old-fashioned Mauser rifles backlogged from the Guangdong Arsenal. Although the money was unsatisfactory and in the words of the Jiangxi Army, Guangzhou gave a clear reply. The total opening fee of the Jiangxi Army was no more than 300,000 yuan, and the other payment was asked for the Beiyang government.

Li Chun was very unhappy about this matter, but if he continued to drag on it, he would be even more unhappy. He simply turned a blind eye to let the matter go, and drew the troops in northern Guangdong one after another.

According to the secret agreement reached by Wu Shaoting and Yuan Shikai, although the five counties in northern Guangdong were taken back, the Guangdong side was still not allowed to station troops in northern Guangdong, and only allowed the police to maintain public order. As early as when the handover negotiations in Shaoguan were still fiercely bargaining, Wu Shaoting had already drawn more than 1,800 people from local police stations, police schools and recruit battalions. According to the equipment of the regular army, heavy machine guns, light machine guns, mortars, etc. were all available.

At the beginning, he planned to distribute all black police uniforms to this army. After all, he had to do the show to the end, which was called professionalism. However, the number of police uniforms in the logistics department warehouse was too small, and it was a waste not to mention the temporary rush to make police uniforms. Wu Shaoting simply changed from professionalism to pragmatic spirit, put on the troops in regular military uniforms, and made a thousand armbands, with the words "public security and police" written on it. Even a dignified police officer was organized.

It took only three or five days to mobilize these more than 1,800 people. According to Wu Shaoting's intention, he first sent people to five counties in northern Guangdong, and then arranged according to the stationing situation. In order not to let the Beiyang government have any explanation, he named the unit "The 12th Border Defense Police Brigade" to be responsible for security and local defense work in northern Guangdong. The brigade set up a commander-in-chief, whose responsibilities and rank were equivalent to those of the major regiment commander, and Ma Jinchun was transferred to the position. Officers at all levels of the Police Brigade were assigned and arranged from the First, Second, Whampoa Military Academy and Police School.

Faced with such an arrangement, the Beiyang government was helpless even if it knew the inside story. What's more, the Beiyang government is busy with so many things, so it can only let Wu Shaoting violate the content of the agreement. Of course, Wu Shaoting still retained a lot of mercy and did not directly transfer the active regiment to northern Guangdong. It just brought together a group of new recruits and police, which did not make the situation seem too worried and nervous.

By the end of July, not only the handover of the five counties in northern Guangdong was completed, but the number of the revolutionary Guangdong Army was also rectified.

With the implementation of the new number, Wu Shaoting also made corresponding adjustments to the officers at all levels of the three divisions under his command based on the situation of the Guangdong War. The war was cruel, but it was a rare experience for every soldier and officer. A baptism of iron blood and smoke will always bring new upgrades to the entire army. This personnel adjustment not only consolidated the command system of the entire army, but also harmonized the foothold of various factions within the Guangdong Army.

The first division of the former Revolutionary Guangdong Army was changed to the 37th Division, with the 49th Brigade and the 1st Teaching Regiment and the 10th Artillery Regiment, including a guard battalion and an artillery company directly under the command of the division headquarters, a guard battalion and a logistics force directly under the command of the brigade headquarters, and a full 11,955 people in the division. The division commander was still Wei Rucong, who was awarded the rank of major general in the army, and Li Jishen, who was awarded the rank of army colonel.

The brigade commander of the 49th Brigade under his jurisdiction is currently vacant. The brigade consists of the original First Regiment, Second Regiment and Third Regiment of the Second Division. The reason why the Third Regiment of the Second Division was transferred to the 49th Brigade was to consider the convenience of organizing serial numbers, and on the other hand, it was to make the new Second Division's combat effectiveness evenly match. The earlier revolutionary Guangdong Army was organized with three divisions, and when the first division was organized, it was the first regiment, the second regiment, the teaching regiment and the artillery regiment, so the number of the third regiment was transferred to the second division. Later, with the expansion of the number of troops and the needs of combat units, a new Sixth Regiment to the First Division was formed.

Except for the commander of the Third Regiment, Long Jiguang, who was temporarily withdrawn and Chen Mingshu, a new officer of the Whampoa Military Academy, served as the regiment commander, the other two regiment commanders remained unchanged and both received formal military ranks awarded by the central government.

The 2nd Division of the former Revolutionary Guangdong Army was changed to the 38th Division, with the Fourth Regiment, the Fifth Regiment, the Sixth Regiment, and the newly-organized Thirteenth Machine Cannon Regiment. The Machine Cannon Regiment was equipped with a large number of war horses and engineering corps systems, with mortars and small-caliber Krupp guns as the main firepower output. The entire regiment had thirty-six mortars, four m1906 Krupp 75mm infantry cannons, and two m1908 imitation Krupp 77mm field rapid-fire cannons.

The machine artillery regiment was formed during the time when Wu Shaoting set out to Beijing. The three division commanders Wei Rucong, Mo Qingyu and Guan Renfu jointly referred and argued, and then invested a lot of manpower, material resources and financial resources to be organized. The use of artillery was based on the conclusions summarized in the Guangdong War and the Guangdong-Guangdong War. Whether it was a tough battle, formation defense war or confrontation war, the lethality brought by artillery almost accounted for more than half of the entire army's firepower.

In order to overcome the poor maneuverability of artillery soldiers, the concept of the machine gun regiment was proposed after discussion.

With China's current military environment, many local armies do not even have decent artillery. Even the Beiyang Army, which claims to be elite, can only be considered as barely powerful, not to mention large-caliber heavy artillery, with high-density firepower coverage. Therefore, the use of light artillery is enough on the Chinese battlefield, and there is no need for 80mm, 90mm or even larger caliber artillery. Of course, in addition to light and fast, the machine gun regiment is more important to reduce the economic burden of equipping large-caliber artillery. Therefore, after Wu Shaoting returned from Beijing, he signed and implemented it immediately after reading this report.

The 13th Artillery Regiment has not yet been officially organized. In addition to the basic framework and supporting miscellaneous work being ready, most technical talents are still being trained and scattered. Now in Guangzhou New Guard and Whampoa Military Academy, the pass rate of each artillery department member is the lowest. In addition, it is rumored that artillery is a high-risk operation, and the number of people registering is already small, so it is difficult to complete the organization of the regiment in the short term.

However, Wu Shaoting was not in a hurry. The security brought by the end of the Guangdong War is still long. The personnel of the machine gun regiment can be slowly cultivated and excavated, and one day it will be officially compiled.

The original 3rd Division of the Revolutionary Guangdong Army was changed to the 39th Division, with the 7th Regiment, the 8th Regiment, the 9th Regiment, the 2nd Regiment of the Teaching Regiment and the Hunan Regiment. The Hunan Regiment was originally under the organization of less than 1,000 people. After the end of the Guangdong War, the Military Department combined the temporary city defense regiment in Guangzhou and the Hunan Regiment in accordance with Wu Shaoting's order, which led to the completed combat regiment organization. The "Hunan Regiment" is just a nickname, and the official number after the combination is the 14th Regiment of the Guangdong Army.

The 39th Division Division headquarters has a guard battalion and an artillery company. In addition, it has a special combat command center, which is specifically responsible for training special combat personnel and performing special combat tasks. All special combat team members are affiliated with the "Special Mission Company" of the additional unit of the security battalion of the Division Division. They can be dispatched separately during wartime and are ordered to be ordered by the command center. The command center is personally responsible by Liu Yonghao, the chief of staff of the Third Division, and He Yingqin, teaches the commander of the Second Regiment, as the director of the coaching department.

The three divisions are the main forces in Guangdong Province, and the First Division is the elite troops in the main forces. The entire army, including non-combatants, had a total of more than 28,000 people, which had exceeded twice the strength of the Revolutionary Guangdong Army.

Of course, in addition to the main combat troops of these three divisions, there are also some hidden combat troops, such as the 11th Cavalry Regiment, which was not incorporated into the 1st Division, and the coastal defense regiments established in Jiangmen, Xin'an, Zhongshan and other places when the British attacked behind the scenes. The coastal defense regiments were just temporary shrimp soldiers and crab generals, and there was no great development prospect, so Wu Shaoting decided to abolish them or divide them into pieces. As for the cavalry regiment, he deliberately kept this move, intending to wait for a while to directly expand the cavalry regiment.

From the rapid reconnaissance and maneuvering sneak attacks in the Guangdong War, to the raid war in the Guangdong War, guerrilla behind enemy lines, such high-mobile performance troops, are increasingly attracted by Wu Shaoting. He knew that raid war is a small-cost big battle, and it is used properly, that is, to achieve a slight pound. Even if the raid fails, there will be no big losses if it is fought or left.

Although the Beiyang Government Army Department only gave three divisions, its binding force on the Guangdong military government was very tight. The reason why Wu Shaoting did not expand his army drastically is simply to leave time to buffer the situation in the south after the war, and there is no need to let both the north and the south be unable to hold back their face. More importantly, post-war reconstruction is a major event, so he naturally cannot add military equipment without leaving all the funds. The strength of the people is the basis of his own strength.

He had already made specific plans for expanding the cavalry unit. When the time was ripe, he would directly expand the cavalry regiment into a cavalry division and become a huge mobile combat unit. Even the code name was drawn up, which was the speech during the Guangdong-Guangdong War "Glorious Cavalry". He had imagined that the number of the cavalry division would continue, twenty or fifty years, even if the mobile troops could be seen on the battlefield in the future, just like the American Rangers and First Cavalry Division, which had nothing but replaced advanced combat vehicles, but the name and honor would never change.

During the period of reorganization, Wu Shaoting had arranged logistics to start purchasing war horses, and also increased investment in the official horse farm, striving to double the qualified output within one year.
Chapter completed!