"In fact, it is not one division, but two. The two divisions are implemented in a rotational combat plan, always keeping a reorganized division in India. The previous division has returned, and the new division should have arrived. A large part of the officers in the two divisions are my students. If Secretary Xu is interested in this division, he can buy a few Thai newspapers. The reports on it are very detailed and real."

"I have read the newspaper, which said that our Chinese army helped the Albion recover Delhi? Since the Duck Film War, our country has confronted foreigners, with more defeats and fewer defeats. The Shandong army has repeatedly created miracles. Not only has it successfully defeated the Fusang Army in its local area, but it has also achieved brilliant results overseas. These are all Brother Jiang's methods. I hope that in Baoding School, Brother Jiang can continue to create glory and cultivate more outstanding talents for the joint cooperation."

Xu Youzheng praised a few compliments and asked casually: "Brother Jiang, my joint military team has achieved such a good record, I don't know how the casualties are?"

"The casualties... are also very large." Jiang Yanbei did not think about anything else, but regretted the sacrifice of his disciples. "The main problem is the climate and infectious diseases in India. Although our troops entering India were carrying medicines, they were not estimated to have enough environmental conditions in India. Many officers and soldiers were knocked down by infectious diseases. Albion had too poor awareness of the medical services of mercenaries, which made many people sacrifice their lives in vain. In the new round of troops entering India, they purchased medicines in Shandong and set out with medical teams, but they did not rely on the Albion people. Foreign devils were unreliable!"

Judging from Jiang Yanbei's expression, Xu Youzheng estimated that the losses of the first Lu army's troops entering Tianzhu must have reached a shocking level, so he had to rotate.

He had just experienced the Fusang War, and even if he finally won, he would have won a terrible victory. Now he supports Albion with two divisions of troops, and the losses in Tianzhu will not be small. Zhao Guanhou's current situation is actually a strong outside and a middle. The reason why he dared not compete with Zhong Yang is probably because his own strength is insufficient. Perhaps, we have all estimated Shandong's military strength too high.

Jiang Yanbei had been in the Shandong martial arts lecture hall for so long, and he always had face. With his care, Xu Youzheng observed the request of the Shandong troops and was quickly approved. Jiang Yanbei walked into the barracks with a sense of showing off or boasting.

This is a barracks outside Jinan City. Since some troops involved military secrets, Xu Youzheng could not enter. What he was allowed to visit was just the ordinary barracks of the First Division of the Provincial Army. On the wide playground of the barracks, there were all horizontal bars, parallel bars, basketball and football fields. Xu Youzheng's first feeling was that he was entering the playground of a certain school.

"This is what Guan Shuai is here for the soldiers below to practice. When he doesn't practice, he can play basketball or football, and then he can practice on these equipment. The subjects he really practices have to go in." Jiang Yanbei explained to Xu Youzheng while walking.

"The military pay for the Lu army is 14 yuan, four yuan is the food expenses, and ten yuan is the military pay. Each person has a pound of 8 taels of staple food every day, which is to ensure intake after being removed from the shell. It is said that this is a foreign scientist who calculates the minimum food intake. In the peaceful years, there is no need to fight. Those who serve in the army have one day off every week, which is also to take care of the foreigners in the army. In the grassroots troops of the Lu army, there are many foreigners serving as officers. They all believe in religion and have to go to worship every week, so they simply have a holiday."

"Daily routine, get up at five in the morning and play the trumpet at nine in the evening. After getting up, practice for one hour, eat, then three hours of military training, one hour of military discussion, lunch, one hour of rest, one hour of literacy classes, one hour of loyalty and righteousness, and then two hours of playing with these equipment. Eat supper, then sing, hold meetings, and review the training for the day."

At this time, the two had already arrived at the playground where Lu Jun was practicing. In addition to the common platoons and queuing, there were obviously many unfamiliar equipment in this playground. Jiang Yanbei advised him.

"Long jump, high jump, race, wall climbing, rope jumping... These are all Shandong military training subjects, plus pitchers keep bullets, boxing, wrestling, wooden guns and stunning, shooting, and they are organized regularly. The champion is awarded by the Grandmaster's bounty watch, and for this watch, almost every game can be played. Everyone does not care how much this watch is worth, but the Grandmaster personally awards it, and the honor is rare. In this camp, there is a brother, a bodyguard at home for generations, and has several ancestral martial arts skills. He won three gold watches in martial arts competitions, and then he was hired by the Grandmaster to go to the guard camp. So everyone's training is very hard, just to fight for a breath."

Xu Youzheng watched with sincerity and tried to remember the shape of each piece of equipment in his mind.

The lounge is not far from the canteen, and there are a row of bungalows that have been opened. As soon as Xu Youzheng entered the room, his eyes were attracted by the huge square table in the middle, as well as the exquisite sand tables and soldiers models on it. These sand table models are exquisitely crafted and the soldiers are lifelike. Miniature towns, mountains, fortresses, rivers, lakes and bridges are like a world of rice.

This kind of thing that looks like a toy, even the army department of the capital is just like this. Some things seem to be less exquisite than they come from here, and this is just a battalion department of the Lu Army?

"The Grand Marshal and the Tianjin Clay Man Zhang Na placed an order to make this for us. Look at the soldiers, look at the city, mountains and rivers, and have good skills."

Xu Youzheng looked at the simulated mountains, rivers and cities on the sand table, and realized at a glance that the scene of Cai Feng confronting the Beiyang soldiers in Sichuan. The soldiers from both sides represented the joint forces and the Beiyang army respectively. The deducer obviously strengthened the supply for Cai Feng, making his material possession similar to that of the Beiyang army. Judging from the situation, both sides obviously had attacked and defended, and deduced it, nodded and said, "It's not good skills, but good attentiveness. Ordinary soldiers also do this kind of deduction?"

"Yes, as long as they are literate, they can come here to deduce it, but usually officers come, and soldiers can't do anything. Secretary Xu, please see, there is our literacy column over there."

Jiang Yanbei refers to the corner of the lounge. There are many notebooks hanging on the walls. Each of them has a name written on the cover, and they are divided into different groups according to the number of words written on the book. These learning materials are basically loyal and righteous, and they are promoting that Zhao Guanshuai was the parents of Lu Jun's food and clothing. Except for Guanshuai, none of us recognizes such words.

The promotion within the Lu army is mainly based on the resume and achievements of the Martial Arts Academy at the level of the officers, but it determines who can enter the Martial Arts Academy and obtain further studies. In addition to in-laws and factions, this literacy score is an important reference. After all, not everyone has a good relative to be a confidant or concubine for Guan Shuai. Most people still have to rely on their own skills to survive with one blow.

Soon, Xu Youzheng discovered that in addition to the sand table and these literacy sheets, there were also some musical instruments in the lounge, as well as the table tennis tables that were very rare in China at this time.

"This is Albion's thing. The coach didn't know why, so he got it into the army. Many soldiers were very interested in this small ball. If Secretary Xu hadn't been there, someone would have come in with a slap at this time."

Xu Youzheng smiled and said, "I heard that there is a Wuyang Massacre in Shandong who wears foreign clothes, speaks foreign language, eats foreign food, spends foreign money, and sleeps with foreign women. Now it seems that it should be far more than Wuyang."

"Yes, Guan Shuai is often more like a foreigner than a foreigner. I even think that some foreigners are not as fashionable as Guan Shuai. This is also one of the reasons why Albion likes to be friends with Guan Shuai. Others are forced to learn from foreigners, while Guan Shuai takes the initiative to move closer to foreigners, and sometimes he is even more like a foreigner than a foreigner. Take the food of the army as an example. Recently, it has to be discussed to give the soldiers white bread. If you want to say this thing, it is not much better than steamed buns, but it is a foreign object after all. In the past, only Tieler soldiers and foreign officers have this food, but now it is popularized throughout the army. Do you think the general is more than the Wuyang?"

Xu Youzheng smiled but said nothing and did not comment. He could not really go to the military camp to observe the food and daily life of ordinary soldiers. It was not the same as his identity, and he would not do that. After inspecting the cafeteria, he also ended his trip to the Shandong military camp.

Because there was not enough car braids, Jiang Yanbei could only organize a large-scale outdoor training, leading 27,000 braided soldiers to return to the capital by a long-distance marching. Xu Youzheng got on the car first and headed straight to the iron Shizi Hutong in Beijing.

"You said, Shandong is not as strong as we thought?" Duan Zhiquan frowned slightly when he saw the report entitled top secret submitted by Xu Youzheng, "Tie Shan, this is no joke."

"Old Zhi, this is not a joke, but based on students' personal observation, Shandong has fallen to the point of selling piglets for oceans. It is obvious that its economic difficulties are not enough. Think about it, Shandong's spending in the battle was huge, strengthening the walls and clearing the country, and hurting people. In order to restore the Jiaodong economy, it has to spend a huge amount of money. The official government could not afford to subsidize, and Belgium was destroyed. Huabi Bank's loan was no longer reliable. Later, it received two banknotes and passbooks in Beijing, which was nothing more than a slap in the face and pretending to be fat and forcing the scene. Yuan's funeral cost nearly 1.5 million yuan. Except for the official government's 500,000 yuan allocated, the rest was also paid for by Zhao Guanhou. How could his finances be good?"

"Shandong's military training method is somewhat beneficial, but overall, it is also flashy. The soldiers are too delicate and cannot be tolerated than the strong troops tempered in the bitter and cold land. In the battle of Shandong, the total number of casualties and disabled soldiers announced by the Lu army was only more than 10,000. This number is absolutely unreliable. Jiang Yanbei personally admitted that in the Tianzhu Lu army's troops were extremely injured. In the eyes of students, the number of losses in Tianzhu alone was no less than 10,000. Relatively speaking, it was still the number announced by Fusang, and the number of casualties and disabled soldiers of the Lu army was nearly 10,000, which was closer to the reality."

"The Lu army pursued the principle of high pension and regularity. The disabled soldiers were raised for life, and the dead soldiers were divided into land and had generous pensions. This was also a heavy burden for Shandong's financial resources. Although Zhao Guanhou's correct strategy in Shandong gained a large number of expectations for him, it also put Shandong's finances in a long-term state of great deficit. The management of the Huai River and the water conservancy of water conservancy was in the forefront of the financial sector, and the strength of the whole country was still difficult, let alone the Shandong province today? In addition, the purchase of affordable rice, salt and grain prices he implemented was actually losing money to eat grain. All of these systems were a way to defeat. Therefore, Shandong's money... was not that much."

Duan Zhiquan said: "I don't know much about money, but the soldiers in Shandong are not fake. How can we underestimate the troops that even the Fusang people can defeat?"

"The Lu army does have extraordinary talents, but they are also strong soldiers piled up with money. The method of training soldiers is more like training officers. The cost is too high and the effect is not good. For example, this time, he pushed out 27,000 strong soldiers to us, and he could form two divisions. There are so many good soldiers who have been trained, so he has to ask for a group of gentle and elegant scholar soldiers. On the battlefield, scholars cannot defeat the ruffians. When he was fighting in Shandong, no one can say how many backbone of the old Beiyang could be left. But what students saw, the numbers used by the Lu army were mostly provincial army and cavalry divisions. The Fifth Division and the Thirty-Seventh Division were no longer visible. I think it was not possible to recover their vitality yet."

Xu Youzheng's eyes had a little more light. "Shandong is a Feng Shui treasure land. Over the years, he has accumulated a lot of assets in the hands of Zhao Guanhou. But if he continues to be in his hands, this place will be of no use to the country. It is better... to take back Shandong through this Xuzhou incident. Li Bodhisattva asked him to be the chief of the army. I think this arrangement is good. We can also arrange for him to be the chief of the army, and the governor of the Shandong will entrust others. If there is any abnormal movement in the Lu army, we will use our own forces to solve them."

Duan Zhiquan, who inherited the Yuan family's heritage, has a considerable number of troops on paper because he has mastered the title of great power. He is also a long-time general in the Beiyang system and has taught in the Wubei Academy for many years. Many of the officers who are leading troops are considered disciples of the Duan family. Therefore, Duan Zhiquan has an extraordinary advantage in mastering the troops, and there are a lot of people and a group of troops under his sect.

Although these troops may not necessarily go through fire and water for Duan Zhiquan, they can always do it if they want to share their flesh. Xu Youzheng encouraged: "This trip to Shandong can be asserted that Shandong is just a good match, and its strength is not as good as before. Without funds and troops, there is no war in Shandong, and there is no available salary. In this competition, we are the final winners!"

Duan Zhiquan shook his head and said, "It's too important to do it. Now the southerners are unwilling to lose sincerity to us. How can the north be in trouble? Once we move him and cause civil strife in the north, the southern barbarians take the opportunity to benefit. Wouldn't we become the Beiyang sinners? Besides, the Third Division was stationed in Baoding. In the Southwest Battle, the Third Division's strength increased without any loss. Not only did its own troops suffer no losses, but also recruited friendly and neighboring troops, which were extremely strong. Cao, Zhao, and Li, the three governors should not be taken lightly. The attitude of the Albion people also needs to be considered."

Xu Youzheng was still a little dissatisfied. After entering the Duan Gu, when was someone pointed his sword across the nose? If this revenge is not avenged, he would be so angry. "The student met Ding Shize of the Presidential Palace in Jinan. Once Zhao Guanhou was sent by Bodhisattva Li, he would go against us..."

"It shouldn't be the moment. He initiated the army and wouldn't be the first to betray him. I think that as long as we don't force him, he will not openly sing a counter-topic with us. Shandong neutrality is the best result now. Besides, once we fight with Shandong, there will be huge economic pressure. The two major banks and the Ministry of Transport are under the control of Shandong. Where do we get the money?"

Duan Zhiquan felt a slight pain in his head when he talked about money. "In terms of finance, Chen Jinshou could not come up with a good solution, and foreigners were still unhappy to lend money. Although the Southwest Military Council agreed to disband, it still did not take action. The wage arrears of the main government and the wage arrears of local troops are all serious problems. If these problems are not solved, how can we fight?"

Xu Youzheng said: "Sold piglets in Shandong is a good way. We can also learn from Shandong, contact Albion or Cape people, recruit strong workers in Anhui, and work in Taixi. In addition to the introduction fee, the workers' wages can be paid to the main palace and then paid from the main palace."
Chapter completed!