Beiyang reactionaries

If Duan Xun's side, or in other words, the Beiyang Army wins successively, then he will also concentrate his troops to wipe out southern Yunnan.My own strength is not enough, so I can cooperate with Duan Xun.After flattening southern Yunnan, if it can occupy southern Yunnan, then it is also a good choice.

Because the south of Yunnan is French Indochina, the trade in southern Yunnan is not bad, and there is still a lot of money.But now the war in Hunan is somewhat incomprehensible. The mighty Beiyang army was being defeated by the troops of Hunan, Guangxi and Guangdong provinces, so Gu Pinzhen even stood still.

But recently he heard very unpleasant news, which made him fly into a rage.

"There is a shortage of military officers in Sichuan. As long as you go to report, you will be given a position after two to three months of internship. Duan Xun's army is in our Yunnan province. When we publicized it among our students, a bunch of people ran to Sichuan. We can't stop it at all, because Duan Xun's troops directly receive these military students in the barracks."

Ye Quan was also helpless.

The Yunnan Army has no place to arrange these graduates, because the number of troops is getting smaller and smaller.That's why Gu Pinzhen thought of forming a student corps to keep these future officers of the Yunnan Army. Unexpectedly, Duan Xun had his eye on them and started poaching them.

And it's easy.

Because Duan Xun's troops are currently stationed in Yunnan, even Fang Dingying's No. 30 Fourth Division is directly stationed around Kunming.So these military students can easily find Duan Xun's troops.

"How many people left?"

"Only about 130 graduates from this year's lecture hall left, and nearly a hundred graduates from previous lecture halls who were incorporated into the student regiment after we abolished the troops also left."

"how so."

All the big bosses of the Yunnan Army present were very surprised.

There were only two hundred graduates from the Lecture Hall this year, and 130 people left in one go, not two-thirds of them.This loss of grassroots officers will deal a great blow to the Yunnan Army.

"Overlord, this is not a big problem. The bigger problem now is that after hearing the news, many officers of our Yunnan Army were also moved. Because there was a shortage of officers on Duan Xun's side, news came out that our officers of the Yunnan Army As long as you go to him, you will be upgraded to use it. In the past eight or nine months, our military salary has not been paid on time, and the salary has been reduced by more than half compared with last year. This makes the troops' hearts fluctuate now, and those who want to go to Sichuan There are more and more, and it will be difficult to stop."

"Damn."

Gu Pinzhen glanced at the general below, and asked suspiciously: "But how did Cun Xingqi and Tang Huaiyuan leave?"

This is beyond Gu Pinzhen's comprehension.

Gu Pinzhen was angry when those young students who had just graduated left, but it was not incomprehensible.After all, these people are young and vigorous, only in their twenties.Just graduated from military school, want to do something big.

They all want to enter the army to show their talents.

But the Dian army can't vacate a position at present, so it can only organize a student group to make up the number.Now that Duan Xun gave them a chance, of course they would choose Duan Xun.This is a very common thing in the Republic of China.

But Cun Xingqi and Tang Huaiyuan, Gu Pinzhen really couldn't understand.

Both of them were early graduates of the Lecture Hall, and both participated in the Chung Ninth Uprising in the year of [-].Counting from the time when they entered the military academy, Cun Xingqi and Tang Huaiyuan had been in the Yunnan Army for seven or eight years.

Both of them have connections in Yunnan, and both are in the Yunnan Army.And although their positions are not very high at present, they are not too bad.But they have to start again when they go to Duan Xun. How could they go to Sichuan.

"The treatment is good, and he is highly valued. I have already checked through people. Cun Xingqi was appointed as the brigade commander of the fourth infantry brigade of Duan Xun's troops stationed in Kuizhou just after he went to Sichuan. The number of such infantry brigades in Duan Xun's troops At around 500 people, it is comparable to the establishment of the Beiyang Army’s mixed brigade. Tang Huaiyuan is the same. Duan Xun formed the fourth division of the Armed Police Force in Chongqing, Xiong Qixun served as the division commander, and Tang Huaiyuan served as the brigade commander here.”

"It can't go on like this."

Sitting aside, Ropekin sighed.

People are ambitious, and so are soldiers.Now the Yunnan Army is trapped by funding problems, and the size of the army cannot be expanded.Therefore, the current situation is one radish and one pit, and there are too many senior generals of the Yunnan Army to arrange it. It is very difficult for those middle and senior officers to go up.

For example, Fan Shisheng and Cun Xingqi's group of graduates from the Yunnan Lecture Hall are now officers at the brigade level, and at the next level they are division commanders.But the current commanders of the Dian Army are all the big bosses of the Dian Army in the early years, and most of them graduated from the Japanese Non-commissioned Officer Academy. There is no place for them.

But Duan Xun is different.

The more troops, the more positions.Look at Cun Xingqi and Tang Huaiyuan, the two of them are in the Yunnan Army, and it would be good if they can command a maximum of 1000 people.But when Cun Xingqi went to Duan Xun's place, he immediately commanded four or five thousand troops. The brigade commander of Tang Huaiyuan's armed police force was smaller, but he could also command more than 3000 people.This is completely unimaginable in the Yunnan Army.

This is temptation.

Big temptation.

There are many excellent officers in the Yunnan Army.Many of them have been fighting since the year of [-], and they have rich experience in war.If these people couldn't stand the temptation and ran to Duan Xun, it would be a drudgery for the Dian army.

"Xiao Zhai (Gu Pinzhen), you have to find a way."

Ropekin emphasized this sentence again.

"Xiao Zhai, if this situation continues, the army will really have a big problem. Before, it was Yu Enyang and Li Youxun who dug people out, but now it is Duan Xun himself. If this digging continues, our army will be dispersed. .Many of our officers will be tempted, and many officers will want to go to Sichuan."

Gu Pinzhen nodded.

But after thinking about it, he said with a wry smile: "How could I not know. But now our army is not paid enough, there is nothing we can do."

distressed.

Now Gu Pinzhen finally understood why Duan Xun was so kind and reached so many economic cooperation agreements with Yunnan.On the surface, Yunnan has many benefits, not to mention economic and educational benefits.But looking at it now, this is Duan Xun digging a hole for the Yunnan army.As a result, the Yunnan provincial government, which did not have much capital, invested all the money in various constructions.

What about military spending?

The Yunnan Provincial Government simply has no extra funds for the Yunnan Army as military expenses.

The military expenditure of the Yunnan Army has been reduced and decreased. When Tang Jiyao was there, the military expenditure of the Yunnan Army reached 700 million last year.Of course, the reason why it is so high is because the Yunnan Army fought the War to Protect the Country last year.

But even when there is no war, Tang Jiyao's annual military expenditure is more than 400 million.

But what about this year?

It has only been about eight months since the expulsion of Tang Jiyao, and Gu Pinzhen has only received about 50 military expenditures for the Yunnan Army.This was Gu Pinzhen's hard work, and he only got 20 from Zhou Zhongyue. His army set up some checkpoints in southern Yunnan and got 20. This time, he got [-] from Duan Xun.

What can I do with this little money?

You can't do anything without money.Duan Xun pressed on every step of the way, constantly poaching the Yunnan army.Now Gu Pinzhen even has the urge to grow and sell opium, because this is the only way to make money quickly.

"Overseer, we have to have a good talk with Duan Xun. We can't let him continue poaching our corners so recklessly."

"kindness."

Yes.

You must negotiate with Duan Xun.

"Is Dinghe (Jiang Meiling) in Chongqing?"

"Yes."

Since Duan Xun announced his appointment as the commander-in-chief of the three provinces of Sichuan, Yunnan and Guizhou, regardless of whether it is the Guizhou Army or the Yunnan Army, they have sent a person to Chongqing to act as a representative.Jiang Meiling, as the representative of the Yunnan Army, is currently sitting in Chongqing, negotiating with Duan Xun at any time.

"Let him talk to Duan Xun, don't let Duan Xun continue like this. See if Duan Xun has any conditions."

"it is good."

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"De Gong, you are not authentic in doing things like this."

After Jiang Meiling received the telegram, she immediately came to find Duan Xun.Because Jiang Meiling knew better than anyone that Duan Xun's action was to draw salary from the bottom of the Yunnan army.Although Duan Xun was very busy during this time, Jiang Meiling came to find him, no matter how busy he was, he would find time.After all, Jiang Meiling was his classmate.