Chapter 97 The Northeast New Army and the Far East Army Non-commissioned Officer School
Dongling Guard in Shenyang is commonly known as Dong Daying. It was an important military garrison in the Ming Dynasty. Since then, it has been the headquarters of the Manchu and Qing Eight Banners Battalions in the Dongling area. The camp has a history of more than 200 years and is large in scale. It is very suitable to be slightly renovated. New military camp area.(
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Before Song Biao moved here, the Russian First Army and the Fifth Army successively used this place as their garrison headquarters. After the Fifth Army replaced Song Biao's 14th Army stationed in the Liaodong Peninsula, Song Biao officially withdrew to Dongling. Wei's barracks...
At this time, the Manchurian Infantry Division had been reorganized into the 15th Army of the Russian Far East Army based on the old elements of the New Manchurian Infantry Division in accordance with Song Biao's advice, which could also be translated as the "Northeast New Army". It consisted of six infantry regiments, the 1st Artillery Brigade, 1st Reserve Artillery Brigade, 1st Mountain Brigade, 1st Cavalry Brigade, 1st Transportation Brigade, 1st Engineer Regiment, 1st Reconnaissance Regiment, 1st Military Command Regiment, 2nd Military Command Regiment and four militia brigades .
The total strength of the entire army is 58,000.
Song Biao is a man who takes things lightly, which means he resolutely sends out tasks that can be assigned to others. He only focuses on the general direction and the most important things, such as military training and officer training.
Because the old division of the New Manchuria Infantry Division was used, Colonel Alexeevich Brusilov, Lieutenant Colonel Martos, Lieutenant Colonel Pakilov and others continued to serve temporarily in the 15th Army. Major Tuvanier is still in charge of the first staff department of the Ministry, and Jiang Fangzhen is in charge of the second staff department as usual. Lieutenant Colonel Martos serves as the chief instructor of the Military Training Department. Major Denikin, who has always been at odds with Song Biao, was transferred out. No. He is then responsible for the training of the entire army.
Song Biao continued to adopt the original plan. He accelerated the regularization of his troops by relying on the development of the Russian army, including the use of teaching materials from the Moscow Infantry Sergeant School, the Cavalry Sergeant School and the General Staff Military Academy of the Russian Army in the training of the entire army.
During the Battle of Liaoyang and the subsequent Liaodong Counteroffensive, Song Biao was the first to recruit soldiers before the Battle of Heigoutai. He deliberately recruited a group of literate young people who had read books. After being baptized by the flames of war, they were successively promoted to serve as platoon commanders and company commanders. position, and set up a crash course for non-commissioned officers specifically for them, with him personally serving as the chief instructor.
Among these people is a new company commander named Guo Songling. He is brave in combat and has already stood out in the crash course for non-commissioned officers. In short, he seems to be a very good candidate.
Under the warm invitation of Jiang Yanxing and others, Song Biao also recruited fourteen young non-commissioned officers who graduated from the Japanese Military Academy during this period to serve as instructors in various regiments, including many revolutionary young people like Wu Luzhen and Liu Wenjin. Song Biao Wu Luzhen was proposed as a cultural instructor. He was responsible for the education of nationalism and modern nationalism, as well as the popularization of cultural courses. More things were not within the scope of his current consideration, and Wu Luzhen was not given time to talk to him about those poor things. , rudimentary, ignorant revolutionary theory.
As for the field of making money, Song Biao has never been idle. He fought all the way to the Liaodong Peninsula. He conveniently seized the materials, land deeds, and docks that the Japanese had seized in the Liaodong Peninsula. He also continued to pass through the Russian army. Helped to buy Anshan’s 30-year coal and iron franchise.
Back and forth, he occupied 43,000 acres of land in the entire Northeast. Affected by the war, except for Fushun, Tonghua and Hunjiang, the rest of the fields were rushed to plant corn for this season before July. The land was divided into six rice banks for operation. The head office was Yufeng Bank in Shenyang. The coal and iron mines in various places were unified and managed by the Far East Coal and Iron Company. Through the introduction of General Madnidorf, a Russian foreign company was hired. Taipan named Mizunov served as the general manager, and Rong Xingqiao, who was a young boy studying in the United States in the early days of working as a salesperson in this foreign company, was invited to serve as the deputy general manager.
War is a profiteering sport.
The profits that Song Biao gained in this war almost made him the richest man in China. Although not many people realized this at this time, and he didn't even spend much energy on making money. He was proficient in Russian and was able to His special status in the Russian army allowed him to easily recruit a group of Russian businessmen to work for him.
If you want to develop quickly, assign all things to the right people. This is Song Biao's basic principle.
The early morning sun shines on various school grounds throughout the Dongling Guard Camp, where more than 30,000 Chinese and Russian people are stationed. Every morning training is so lively, even a little chaotic.
These days, there are too many recruits coming in from recruitment stations all over the country. The training in the recruit camp is always like a comedy, full of joy. Song Biao got up early in the morning, although there seemed to be a lot of things to be busy with. , after assigning them one by one, he freed up enough time to care about the things he cared about most.
With his own guard camp, Song Biao wore a gray-white Russian summer senior officer uniform and serious and smooth black deerskin military boots. The collar still had the St. George Cross, and the saber had become a symbol because it was inlaid with the Order of Santa Anna. The brave and noble Saint Anna's saber is actually the Chasik brass-handled saber personally gifted by His Excellency Commander-in-Chief Kuropatkin, but the decoration is more luxurious than before.
He stood so coldly and dazzlingly on the school platform, looking at the training of the entire army with his binoculars. He held a black riding crop in his left hand behind his back, as if he was ready to whip someone at any time and let everyone lead the team. The non-commissioned officers in training were terrified.
There is no such thing as ethnography in front of a noble and strong man like him. Whether they are Russians, Chinese, Japanese, French or Germans, everyone has to lower their heads when faced with the demeanor of a young and famous general like him. .
He received the European observation group that originally followed the First Army of the Japanese Manchurian Army, and also received the German and French observation group that followed the Russian First Army. The foreign military attachés from the German and French observation groups took the initiative to invite them to join his army in the later decisive battles. While watching the battle, no general and no foreign military attache dared to reveal that Anglo-Saxon sense of nobility in front of him.
Soldiers speak with their bayonets.
Song Biao's bayonet blinded the whole world, at least before the outbreak of World War I. The Russo-Japanese War will be the most discussed war in human history. And General Bio Vladimir Song is destined to be this The biggest point of contention in the war.
When he stood on the school platform and surveyed the entire army's training, the soldiers and generals were not only afraid, but also had an unprecedented sense of confidence. The feeling of fighting with the "Asian Napoleon" was crazy. Humankind's admiration for famous generals will always be He has never stopped and is always the most enthusiastic worshiper.
Now no one dares to argue with Song Biao about the merits of the four-phase training method, not even Colonel Alexeevich Brusilov, who once served as the principal of the Russian Cavalry School.
In the 15th Army, Song Biao has the final say on everything here.
As long as he gives a brief order, countless people will follow behind to carry it out. They can't wait to turn his requests and instructions into reality immediately, whether they are Russian soldiers, Russian generals, staff officers, or Chinese soldiers like Jiang Yanxing and Zhao Tingzhu
, general, staff officer.
Under Song Biao's heavy baton and black riding crop, the entire 15th Army of the Far East Army was like a complete carriage moving forward crazily. Every detail was developed in strict accordance with Song Biao's requirements.
Under the illumination of the morning light, Song Biao looked indifferently at the tens of thousands of soldiers and all his subordinates in front of him. The golden light shone on his young and smooth cheeks as hard and smooth as a sword, and on his bright and sharp eyes
Colorful reflections in the eyes.
He just looked at everything in front of him sternly, confirming whether his request was best implemented.
More than 15,000 new recruits were added to the army, which brought the army into a new period of adjustment. It showed various incongruities on the school field with some strange struggles, but these will soon become part of history.
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Song Biao is already experienced in this. As long as he keeps practicing, maybe in half a month, the army will become more integrated, and he will see that uniform scene again.
That will be an exciting moment.
This is what queue training is all about.
The advantage of summer is that the whole army can train without any worries, especially in the summer in the Northeast. Song Biao is stepping up adjustments to his seasonal training plan and will arrange more physical training in the near future, requiring soldiers to complete at least five kilometers of cross-country training every day.
Sometimes you have to carry a marching load, but more often you don't. At least for now, it doesn't need to be so painful for soldiers to practice.
This is definitely not a patent of the Red Army. Fu Zuoyi also required the same for his troops in Japan. Therefore, physical training is not the key factor in determining combat effectiveness.
The key factor is that everyone needs to practice. In order to give the best demonstration, even Song Biao has to take the guard battalion to participate in cross-country training.
For his troops, Song Biao has always emphasized the concept of a big family where soldiers and soldiers are equal. They share joys and sorrows and adversity. Discipline must be strict, subordinates must strictly obey their superiors, superiors must also be considerate of their subordinates, and build a steel team with feelings for each other.
force.
Song Biao gradually shifted his attention to Yang Tiesheng's 4th Infantry Regiment. This was a unit that had hardly participated in any battles, but it was also the only unit that strictly implemented military training in accordance with the four-phase training method.
In the past few months, Yang Tiesheng completed the training of six recruit battalions in Tonghua, providing Song Biao with 11,000 new recruits after the war, and he himself also cunningly recruited elites to fill his infantry regiment.
, 20 company commanders and 73 platoon commanders under his command have all participated in the first three phases of the NCO crash course in Tonghua.
Considering the special nature of this infantry regiment, Song Biao sent Cai E as an instructor to work with Yang Tiesheng.
Although they have hardly participated in any battles, judging from their training performance, Yang Tiesheng's 4th Infantry Regiment is indeed a very good unit. Looking at their training performance carefully, Song Biao thought in his mind whether to
Find an opportunity for them to train.
On the way back from Lushun, Song Biaoshundao arranged for Zhao Tingzhu to lead troops and cooperate with a cavalry regiment to defeat Feng Linge's banditry in Liaozhong County. Unfortunately, Zhang Zuolin's troops were shrinking in Chengde County and Guangning County of Xinmin Prefecture.
It is really beyond our reach, otherwise we would have to kill them all.
As always, in the two hours after the morning exercise, Song Biao used this time to hold a regular military meeting and deploy new tasks. This was the happiest time for the princes who were away from the war. Most of the generals were waiting for promotion.
, Jiang Yanxing and others are welcoming a new life.
After it was officially organized into the 15th Army of the Russian Far Eastern Army, under the arrangement of General Madnidov, all subordinates of Song Biao's headquarters were also assigned ranks such as Manchurian infantry and cavalry, similar to the Russian military ranks.
Zhang Yahu, Zhao Tingzhu, Chen Wu, Yang Tiesheng, Jiang Fangzhen, Jiang Yanxing, Cai E, and Zhang Xiaohuai are infantry majors, Xue Changqing is cavalry major, and Xu Baoying is artillery major. Anyway, they are not regular Russian military ranks, and they have no influence on the Russian Far East Army.
It is of special significance that General Madnidov submitted it for approval once and that Commander-in-Chief Kuropatkin signed and approved it on behalf of the Far Eastern Army Headquarters.
In any case, Song Biao's command at this time can be regarded as a gathering of stars. The lieutenants who graduated from the Japanese Military Academy include Xiao Xingheng, Zhang Hongkui, Liu Gengyun, Gao Zenghui, Yi Jiayu, Zhang Xianren, Wu Shaolin, Wu Zuyin, Li Shirui, Duan Lanfang, Wang Tingzhen, and Wu Luzhen
Generally speaking, they are mainly from Huguang and Zhili. The abilities and military knowledge of these people are not very high. But they are still higher than others in this era. Song Biao also spared no effort to recruit them. Compared with them in
They served as instructors in various military armament schools of the Qing army, or as commanders in various Biaotong divisions. Song Biao always gave them double their salaries, and directly served as officers and generals in his army. Regardless of whether they came or not, he would first remit 500 silver yuan for travel expenses.
and settlement expenses.
For these people at this stage, five hundred silver dollars is a very small amount of income. People like Zhang Hongkui, Liu Gengyun, and Duan Lanfang all have official positions in the Qing army. At first, they came here just to see the excitement.
After watching it for a few days, I really decided to stay.
Song Biao's reputation as a famous general has spread all over the country. As a soldier, who doesn't want to fight with such a powerful general? If you follow a group of wimps, once you go to war, you will lose your head.
Due to the unique growth process of his unit, each regiment adopts a dual-leadership system, with one regiment leader and an instructor, and multiple instructors. Each instructor is responsible for supervising five or six companies.
Coupled with the influence of the Russian army and the operation of the non-commissioned officer crash course and training course, Song Biao's army is indeed rapidly turning to modernization and regularization. If it continues to develop at this rate for another year, even after the Russian army withdraws, he will
The troops have basically taken shape. There will be no problem in conquering China. Even if we start another war with the Japanese army, there will not be much difficulty.
When Song Biao held a regular military meeting, all generals and major lieutenants of each regiment and brigade had to attend. The conference room was filled with more than fifty people, half of which were from China and Russia. The lineup of staff officers on both sides was also roughly the same. Generally speaking,
The level of the Russians is definitely higher.
The two staff offices were each responsible for distributing meeting summaries in Chinese and Russian. Let each general know roughly what Song Biao was preparing. After everyone had read it, Song Biao put down the regular meeting materials he had prepared.
Said: "I have decided to open the Far East Army Non-commissioned Officer School in Donglingwei. There will be two classes in the first phase, one is a refresher class and the other is an admissions class. The first phase of the refresher class has more students, a total of 450 people.
They are all young soldiers and low-level non-commissioned officers selected from each company. Most of them have attended private schools for several years. Most of them are soldiers we recruited one after another before the Battle of Heigoutai and the Battle of Liaoyang. After this period of training, they are very good at training.
Everyone has a certain understanding and experience of modern warfare. Therefore, the advanced training class is mainly to strengthen basic knowledge and theory, and at the same time strengthen standardized learning. The admission class adopts the method of open admission through examinations in Northeast, Zhili, Shandong, and Shanxi.
One hundred and fifty people were recruited in the first phase. The academic duration of the advanced training class is one year, and the academic duration of the admission class is one and a half years. At the same time, a six-month military lieutenant apprenticeship is added. Before this, I had already worked with Colonel Brusilov
, and the Russian Far East Army Deputy Chief of Staff General Madnidov discussed the specific details. The school will have Colonel Brusilov as the first principal, with a term of three years. The main instructors are all senior instructors from the Russian army. We
The army will deploy another 20 instructors to assist, and will also arrange some Russian translators. The general situation is like this, because manpower is relatively tight, so everyone basically has to participate in this plan. I hope you can understand the hard work."
Song Biao first spoke in Russian and then in Chinese, and then continued to emphasize with Jiang Yanxing and others: "My colleagues in the Northeast New Army should work harder on this matter and must go all out. I am preparing to build the Northeast New Army.
At that time, the designations of the Northeast Army and the Kwantung Army were not used, but the word "new" was emphasized. It was precisely to use this army as the hope of the Northeast and the hope of China. There were various restrictions on the new armies organized by the imperial court in various places.
It fails to truly understand the spirit of modern national defense and military affairs. Even the form is crude and rudimentary. All kinds of abuses continue rampantly. It is called the new army, but it is actually a simple renovation of the old army. Therefore, our army is the hope for China's modern national defense.
, I do my best to invite you to come, just to invite you to share the joys and sorrows with me and work together for China’s modern national defense. You are all people of insight, and you will naturally have to shoulder more burdens. Please be sure to dedicate yourself to your work.
I will devote 200% of my energy to working hard for the destiny of the country. I know that there are disputes between reformers and revolutionaries among you. But what I uphold is only nationalism. Whatever is truly beneficial to China is what we should adhere to.
Roads, whether they need to be improved or reformed, are all aimed at building a stronger China and building a modern national defense force. Therefore, I would like to ask you to understand this truth and unite under my command.
, work together, don’t set up private organizations and ruin the future of our country with temporary passion.”
Jiang Yanxing and others immediately bowed their heads and said yes.
Song Biao almost copied the strict military discipline of the Japanese army for his own generals, and used extremely strict discipline to strengthen the spirit of the entire army. Everyone looked solemn, and no one dared to neglect anything.
Seeing that everyone agreed with his opinion, Song Biao continued to the second thing, first speaking to Colonel Brusilov and others in Russian: "The future of the 15th Army is to stay in the Northeast for a long time in a new way and maintain the Northeast's
situation, on the one hand, we must ensure China's territorial integrity and resist the Japanese occupation of Northeastern territory with the support of the United Kingdom and the United States, and on the other hand, we must ensure Russia's interests. These two points are the reasons why you continue to serve our army. Considering the long-term, we
It has been planned to build a local arsenal in the future to produce firearms and ammunition to ensure self-sufficiency in military supplies. I have already negotiated with General Madnidorf, and the Far East Army has agreed to relocate the arsenal in Changlingzi to the Jinjiatun area.
The area near the China-Eastern Railway, Lieutenant Colonel Kornilov, you are most familiar with the Changlingzi Military Factory. I will leave this matter to you. You must complete the relocation as soon as possible and resume normal production as soon as possible.
This includes purchasing new equipment and machine tools from France, as well as hiring more skilled workers and technicians from France, Russia and other countries. It is best to formulate a complete plan on this and submit it to me in the near future."
Lieutenant Colonel Kornilov replied confidently: "There is no problem. I will complete this work as soon as possible. For now, we should first strengthen the production of artillery shells and ammunition to ensure that we have enough ammunition.
, and then we will start with the production of rifles. But how should we purchase the gunpowder, steel and copper we need?"
Song Biao said: "I will import from abroad for the time being, and then consider gradually opening factories later."
Lieutenant Colonel Kornilov said: "Then I will first make an overall plan in this regard and find ways to find more suitable personnel from Russia to build various affiliated factories."
Song Biao nodded slightly, and then gave instructions to Jiang Fangzhen and others, asking them to step up their cooperation with the Russian side. As the factory expands, it will eventually be run by people from the headquarters instead of relying on foreign countries.
After that, Song Biao successively discussed several new issues, including the secondary construction of the camp, cavalry training and artillery training. Because there was a lack of suitable artillery training venues in Shenyang, Song Biao planned to build a new artillery training camp in Puhe Town and north of Qipan Mountain District.
Find a relatively open and remote place and move the artillery brigade camp there to conduct regular artillery training. The cavalry training venues have previously been decided to be located in the Tuanshanzi and Changlingzi areas.
Song Biao invested a lot of money in the second construction of the Dongling Guard Camp. He also has long-term plans to operate here. Even if he may not become the governor of the three eastern provinces, it doesn't matter, he will still continue to work here.
Dongling Guard maintains strong military oppression.
If he eventually becomes the governor of the three eastern provinces, he will also move the governor's office to Donglingwei and set up the military and political center of the three eastern provinces here.
For this reason, he purchased a large amount of land in the Donglingwei area, from Houlingqianbao to Damiaozi, the sand and gravel field, from Maguanqiao, Jinjiatun to Lingqianbao. This large area of about 4 square kilometers was occupied by him.
Incorporated into the Dongling Guard Military Camp.
Before that, it had been the garrison of the Eight Banners Battalion of the Qing Army. During the victory, there were more than 10,000 troops stationed here. The front fort, the rear fort, and the west fort were all products of this period. Now we use this foundation to carry out reconstruction, from the United States
We purchased equipment from Russia to build multiple large bathrooms.
When Song Biao returned to Shenyang and moved into the Dongling Guard garrison, his life had begun a new chapter.
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