Chapter 68 The God of Wealth of the Manchu Infantry Division
Gathering more than 2,000 brothers on the school grounds of Niujiabao, Song Biao personally found Zhuqi and wrote a row of big characters on the front wall, saying, "When a man is born in troubled times, he should hold a three-foot sword and make unparalleled achievements." ”.
These words originated from Taishi Ci of Soochow in the Three Kingdoms. Although Taishi Ci failed to establish truly unparalleled achievements in his life, these words really inspired the ambitions of hundreds of millions of men.
After writing this sentence, Song Biao turned around and told everyone that this sentence was the military language of his Manchurian Infantry Division. The whole army must remember this sentence firmly and understand its meaning.
After some encouragement, even on the second day after returning to Niujiabao for repairs, Song Biao did not let his brothers rest. From this morning on, he once again mentioned the training that he had put aside for two and a half months and continued from there. Basic training for his soldiers.
From Qiandongling to Jiangjiayao, he had never been defeated in battles large and small, but in every battle he had to give priority to how to avoid the major flaw of low combat quality of his troops.
Except for the slight exception of the battle at Shendanbao, where he mobilized almost all the elites for individual training for half a month, it was the same for everything else. He tried his best to weaken the enemy by taking advantage of the geographical location and weapons. The advantage of high combat quality is to use the simplest defensive battles and machine gun battles to defeat the opponent.
It is obviously impossible for Song Biao to continue fighting like this. Even if he encounters the Japanese army again, the Japanese army will understand his shortcomings. As long as they pay a little attention and implement targeted operational adjustments, he will never be able to reverse the situation.
Therefore, he must train his soldiers more rigorously.
War is the best military academy. He has at least 2,600 veterans who have fought in many wars. These brothers are his most important foundation. These veterans plus the recruits trained by Yang Tiesheng in the past two months, When integrated together, they form a very complete unit.
Returning to Niujiapu, the first thing Song Biao did was to rearrange the new organization. After the brothers had been in contact with the Russian army for so long and had a certain understanding of modern warfare and the modern military organization system, he officially adopted it. The Russian army's organizational system also retains some of the advantages of the German and Japanese division and group systems.
He organized his Manchurian Infantry Division into four infantry regiments. The division headquarters directly administered a division security battalion, a military police battalion, an engineering regiment, and a baggage transport regiment. In the plan, it also administered a cavalry brigade and an artillery regiment. However, it will take some time for the establishment of these two units. As a unit directly under the division headquarters, the division headquarters security battalion has a division headquarters security company, a division headquarters communications company, a division headquarters reconnaissance company, and a division headquarters cavalry company.
Song Biao had his own military theory. He always firmly believed that the troops must have strong follow-up reserves. Only in this way can they hold on in a deadly battle or be attacked by force. This was proven many times during the Liberation War.
Therefore, in the normal formal establishment of division, brigade, regiment, battalion, company, platoon, and squad, Song Biao did not strictly abide by the three-three system organization structure. In the most critical regiment-level combat unit, he established four There is one camp for the preparation camp.
There must also be four infantry regiments at the division level, three of which are the main force and the fourth is the reserve force.
Military merit is military merit, and it is achieved through real swordsmanship and real shooting on the battlefield. Song Biao certainly could not let his infantry squadron be directly promoted to the main infantry regiment just because Yang Tiesheng was his trusted confidant.
Among the four new infantry regiments set by Song Biao, Zhao Tingzhu continued to serve as the commander of the first infantry regiment, and Zhang Yahu served as the second infantry regiment. He had the highest military merit in the Battle of Shendan Fort, and from the battle at Nandian Tun to the Jiang family
During the Battle of Yao, Chen Wu, the most courageous leopard in combat, served as the commander of the 3rd Infantry Regiment, while Yang Tiesheng could only serve as the commander of the 4th Infantry Regiment as a reserve force.
Hu Dalin continued to serve as the commander of the Engineering Corps, and Xue Changqing remained the commander of the Transportation Corps.
The officials have all been banned, but whether they really have this ability is still a question mark and a discount.
A few days later, Song Biao made a report, requesting the Far East Army Command to send a mid-level staff officer who graduated from the Military Academy to be stationed in Niujiapu as the new chief instructor, and combine the teaching materials of the Moscow Military Academy with Pavlo
I brought over a complete set of teaching materials from the Russian Military Academy, and then organized a group of Russian translators to translate these teaching materials into Chinese.
This process will take about several years. Before that, Song Biao first simply translated the entire set of Russian army non-commissioned officer and soldier manuals. There are different manuals for different arms. Infantry, artillery, cavalry, and engineers all have separate manuals.
With these manuals you have at least a preliminary tutorial specification to rely on.
Because it was a complete rebuild, Song Biao could only train all regiment commanders, battalion commanders, company commanders, platoon leaders, and squad leaders as new soldiers from the basics. In fact, except for the regimental commanders, their positions were relatively fixed.
In addition, all battalion commander positions were vacant, so he listed all the original squadron commanders for a second assessment.
As a result, Zhao Tingzhu, Zhang Yahu and others also had to directly command a group of company commanders, who actually directly commanded a group of squad leaders. The system was set up, and based on the reality of a large shortage of qualified officers, the only way to deal with it was to combine the five
The layer management system is simplified to three layers.
In other words, Song Biao's Manchurian Infantry Division actually had a four-level structure of division, regiment, company and squad, and even Song Biao had to continue to directly control the company commander.
In addition to the artillery and cavalry units, Song Biao did not need to completely adopt the Russian army's methods for the training of other arms, nor did he need to rely on Russian army instructors. He had his own set of strategies, most of which were inherited from the Communist army, and many others
It is a simple adjustment based on the actual situation.
Food always has to be eaten in mouthfuls. Out of practical considerations, Song Biao designed a complete training plan, with a three-month cycle. First, queue training and firearms skills training were conducted, and then he gradually adjusted the physical fitness of the soldiers.
Finally, there is training to adjust tactical movements and execution of combat tactics. After the three-month recruit period, there is an intensive period, followed by another round of retraining, followed by an improvement period and an excellence period.
During the improvement period, he began to require cultural classes and organized four different cultural tutoring classes based on literacy levels. Each company assigned four to seven educated soldiers as counselors as much as possible, making up for most of the platoon leaders.
, the defect that even the commander cannot read.
During the outstanding period, they actually began to emphasize more rigorous skills training and tactical training, and initially came into contact with scouts and field combat training, emphasizing more abundant physical fitness and fighting will.
After the excellence period is over, the soldier is considered qualified and can go to the battlefield. Those who performed best during the excellence period will be selected to serve as squad leaders, or they will be selected into the reconnaissance company for more rigorous training.
Different situations and eras always require different training methods. The method designed by Song Biao is suitable for his current situation. It actually breaks down the three-month recruit training he experienced at that time into a one-year cycle.
, more detailed counseling and training, slowly allowing soldiers to adapt.
On this basis, he also launched his own eight disciplines and gendarmerie, and began to fundamentally formalize the army.
In this world, hard work will always pay off.
Song Biao, who started making these adjustments when he returned to Niujiapu, worked very hard to promote the development of the army. In fact, within half a month, his Manchurian Infantry Division gradually emerged quietly in this rhythm.
There have been major changes, especially with the comprehensive distribution of military uniforms and the overall replacement of rifles and other equipment. Everyone is indeed developing in the direction of the regularized army required by Song Biao in both material and spiritual aspects.
It was only then that Song Biao began to consider the major matter of staff expansion. It was at this time that Xue Changqing and Lao Jintou finally returned to Niujiapu with their first huge sum of money from selling grain.
When Xue Changqing became the leader of the transportation group, he took the transportation group and Lao Jintou's caravan group to leave first. If he took the Tonghua line from Hunjiang to Shenyang City, it would only take ten days. The weather is not like before
It was so cold, they had a lot of horsepower, and they were escorted by troops all the way, so they naturally went faster and reached Fushun in seven days.
They returned to Nandian Village in the afternoon. After hearing the news, Song Biao got up immediately and went to Nandian Village to greet them in person.
When Song Biao arrived at Nandian Village, Xue Changqing happened to be taking a transport team to rest in Nandian Village. Ren Ye and Lao Jintou were doing some repairs in Nandian Inn. As soon as Song Biao entered the inn, he saw them washing their faces.
Dusty.
Hearing the footsteps, Xue Changqing turned around and saw Song Biao and smiled and said: "Master, you came here quickly enough. Lao Jintou and I were about to change into clean clothes and report back to you. It's good for you, a little bit
No rest time is given either.”
Song Biao laughed loudly and motioned to several old brothers to go into the Yingbin Pavilion together. He went ahead himself, and after entering the East Wing Pavilion, he asked Xue Changqing and Lao Jintou to sit on the Kang and talk to him.
Shopkeeper Ma hurriedly poured tea for them, and gave them two plates of fried peanuts and freshly baked meat buns, plus two bottles of rice wine brewed in the village.
These two are both Gods of Wealth. Song Biao sat cross-legged on the kang and said with a smile: "I am impatient, so you should pay the bill quickly. Give me an approximate number. Thousands of brothers in my family are waiting for this money."
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Xue Changqing chuckled and said: "Master, we really made a profit this time. We discussed it with Major Tuvanier in advance, and several of their Russian generals helped us and deliberately locked up Shenyang City for a few more days. After investigation,
They are very strict. As soon as our grain enters the city, we are sold at a very high price. A load of grain costs one hundred and twenty oceans. We are not allowed to lower the price. We have a price but no market. The price of grain in Shenyang is really very bad.
Ah, the price of grain in Fushun is like this. Our 8,000 tons of grain should have been sold for a net price of 960,000 yuan. But according to what you said, we will give those Russians a lot of benefits. In addition, we actually have to pass the Russians.
With the help of others and other means, we bought land deeds everywhere, and we ended up with 300,000 yuan each time. We deposited it with the Russian Daosheng Bank. This is a depositary check, and the rest were purchased from land deeds and land deeds."
Song Biao asked him: "How is the land price now?"
Xue Changqing replied: "Speaking of land prices, that's sad. Our place in Guandong has always been vast and sparsely populated, and land prices are cheap, because food often has to be sold, so land has always been cheap and food has been expensive. In the areas of Shenyang, Fushun and Liaoyang It is the land in Fengtian Prefecture. The land price has been relatively high in previous years. A piece of land can be sold for 300 yuan. But in actual business, who has that much money? The average price of a piece of land is only 25 dan of sorghum rice. We Hunjiang and Huichun are poor places. One piece of land can only be sold for 20 tons of rice. In a place like Balichuan where money is scarce, a hundred oceans can buy two pieces of land. The rest of Guandong is not cheap, but the land is cheap. In the area of Shenyang City right now, the land price is not cheap, it is simply miserable."
When Song Biao heard what he said, he could only sigh in his heart, and poured a bowl of rice wine for him and Lao Jintou, while he listened quietly.
Xue Changqing continued: "Let's just talk about Shendan Fort. What a good land. It's a flat land with a whole area of 30 miles, and it's all black soil. It's very fertile. Old Guo Tou collects the land there. , 40,000 rubles plus 800 dan of grain were exchanged for 3,000 acres of land from the homes of several big local landowners. For the big boss, there are only four most valuable things in Guandong now, grain, ruble notes, Japanese yen notes and ocean dollars. , we all have it in our hands, and it is not easy to buy land. Land prices have always been relatively chaotic, and now they are even more chaotic. Some people are so eager to sell that they can actually exchange more than a dozen oceans for one piece of land. In previous years, it would have been even more chaotic. I don’t dare to think about it. Think about it, if the land in Yiliang is taken good care of and the weather is good, there will be a harvest of 50 tons of grain that year, right? It’s better for us. There is such a good land in Shenyang, Yiliang land You can’t buy a load of grain at the price? Let’s put it this way, Shenyang is now a place where grain prices have increased tenfold and land prices have dropped tenfold. It’s miserable and people are in dire straits. Children are sold everywhere by inserting sorghum stalks in their heads. We opened a rice shop in Shenyang City. As soon as we opened the door early in the morning, there were people selling children at the door. A pretty girl of seven or eight years old could only sell a small bag of sorghum rice, which was twenty kilograms at most. It’s a high price.”
Speaking of this, everyone felt very sad.
Lao Jintou smoked a pipe of dry cigarette and sighed: "What a sin, you children. By the way, I also bought a daughter-in-law for my grandson. She is two years older than the grandson. I spent twenty kilograms of sorghum. That's what Xue Liu said. This is our family’s business.”
Song Biao also sighed and said: "It's pitiful, I'm afraid this battle will last for some time."
Xue Changqing said: "If we don't talk about these things, if we continue talking, it won't help. Anyway, the land prices in Shenyang City and Liaoyang are very cheap. We don't have an accurate estimate of the average price. Some big families sell it very cheaply, with a piece of land sold for thirty oceans. Some families are not in a hurry, and they may sell it for fifty oceans a piece of land. Small families sell it even cheaper, with ten kilograms of millet costing even more. In exchange for half a piece of land, Lao Guotou called his son Guo Sanxizi to the city. The boy was smart and opened a pawn shop and a rice shop. The two shops were opened next to each other. One side sold grain and the other side harvested the fields. Anyway, this day We can collect at least a thousand acres of land, so we still buy it. Try to buy one village or one lot for easy turnover in the future. Even if we are not in a hurry to sell it, we can still hire someone to take care of it and rent it to tenants. They collect rent."
Song Biao asked them: "How much land have you bought now?"
Xue Changqing then took out the package that was close to his body and opened it for Song Biao to take a look at. It contained stacks of arranged land deeds and said: "When I left, I had already bought 14,000 acres of land. Did you mention it before? When leaving Shenyang City, I gave Lao Guotou 400,000 rubles as military pay. When Lao Jintou and I went there, we brought another one million yen and one hundred thousand rubles in notes, plus 8,000 loads of grain. Because we were waiting for the Russian general Our second batch of supplies was ready, so Lao Jintou and I were delayed in Shenyang City for two more days. In just two days, half of our eight thousand tons of grain was sold. Before leaving, Lao Guotou and I discussed With this matter in mind, we still have to save this amount of food and sell it. Nowadays, food is worth more than rubles, and rubles are worth more than foreign dollars. However, all the squire and big households want to exchange land for rubles. Small families are poor and cannot even eat when they are hungry. Food prices were rising day by day, and what they wanted most was food. We kept these two things in exchange for land. In fact, the easiest place to get the land deed was the pawn shop, Lao Guotou's in Shenyang City. The pawnshops have gone around, and many pawnshops are selling their fields at low prices and then selling them to us. I’m thinking that we will ship another 10,000 tons of grain in the next batch. I heard that the price of grain in Huinan is not very outrageous. If we can't carry seventy oceans and are in charge, why don't we run another horse team to transport grain to Huinan and sell it in Fushun, and maybe we can make some hard money?"
Song Biao nodded and said: "There is no rush in this matter. After I have settled the matters in Hunjiang and Tonghua, we will send a team of cavalry to Huinan to find some unruly bandits and beat them up." Let them know how powerful we are, and then they can continue our caravan business."
Xue Changqing nodded and said: "That's true."
Song Biao checked the land deeds and land deeds of the package, and then took a pencil and calculated on the paper. According to the current price, he still had 1.27 million yen and 520,000 rubles in hand. 490,000 foreign dollars, 1,170 taels of gold, and nearly 30,000 dans of grain.
As for the other various jewelry intercepted from the bandits, he has not yet settled the accounts, because these items are not valuable in troubled times, and they will not make much money if they are sold, so he simply keeps them all in the warehouse until the world is peaceful. When the time comes, it will be cleared again.
He wanted to buy the coal and iron franchise in Fushun and other places, including buying some other supplies from the Russian army. The 520,000 ruble notes must not be used anymore. The 1.27 million yen is temporarily inconvenient, and the number of foreign dollars is limited. Used for military pay.
The best way is to continue selling grain, and exchange as much yen as possible with the Russian Dosheng Bank, and exchange it for rubles to buy land deeds. Calculating the money and grain he can mobilize, he can buy at least another 20,000 acres of land. , the remaining money is still enough for him to pay military salary in the near future and buy the coal and iron franchise rights in Fushun and other places.
Based on this calculation, after the Russo-Japanese War is over, he will have about 35,000 acres of land in his hands. If he sells these fields in two years, he will make at least 10 million yuan in profit. In the next two years, he will acquire some more fields. Rent, if all the soybeans were planted and purchased and then sold abroad, the income would probably be even higher.
Although his financial path is a national treasure that will destroy his descendants, he has always been innocent and unruly in life. At this time, he was indecisive and missed a good opportunity. What capital will he use to fight a national war with the Japanese in the future?
Therefore, it is better to be more vicious at critical moments.
If Cao Cao wasn't ruthless enough, could he have achieved great success?
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