Chapter 41 Preparation for the War

Wang Maoru knew in his heart that this must be Yuan Shikai's preparation for the next step, especially since the eldest son Yuan Keding repeatedly made suggestions to make Yuan Shikai proclaim himself emperor, especially after seeing the president's legal counsel, who had not passed the "Republic Monarch" by Professor Goodnow at Columbia University, his thoughts on becoming emperor were even more urgent.

President Yuan was eager to become emperor, and Wang Maoru was eager to have his own territory, but after thinking about it, he did not think of a way to send out. However, when the military training was in the third month, the Army Department sent people. It turned out that the Bailang bandit army had now fled to Zhili Province, which shocked Beiyang. The Army Department immediately planned to send Lu Jianzhang's unit of the 7th Division of the Beiyang Army and Wang Ruxian's unit of the 8th Division of the Beiyang Army to go south to wipe out the Bailang bandit army. The Army Department's aviation troops provided reconnaissance, and the Transportation Flight Team provided auxiliary reconnaissance.

After the task of exterminating the Bailang bandit army was issued, Wang Maoru was very surprised at first. Why did he have the job of suppressing bandits? Doesn’t the Army Department have planes? Why did he dispatch the Ministry of Transportation’s flight team? It was so strange that he didn’t know who to ask, so he found Niu Delu to ask.

Niu Delu said that it was not the mighty style of Director Xu who wanted to kill you. Your garrison brigade made better money than the Beiyang Army. Look at your garrison brigade, all of which were big-headed leather shoes and black military coats. Let’s look at the army. Which one is as rich as you? It depends on your poor weapons and let you suffer. I’ll tell you the truth, if you lose something this time, you will be attacked by Bai Lang and lose the face of the Army Department, but someone is waiting to recruit you.

"Fuck, it turned out to be this idea." Wang Maoru said angrily. Niu Delu hurriedly comforted him. The two talked and laughed. After the meal, Wang Maoru gave Niu Delu a check privately, and Niu Delu accepted it without hesitation. Wang Maoru returned to the aircraft factory and encountered another trouble. The hired Guangdong flight technicians came over to resign. It turned out that they were unwilling to serve the Yuan Shikai government and wanted to go to Japan to follow Sun Yat-sen. It seems that Sun Yat-sen's charm is still quite good in this era. When the Provisional Government was in the first place, they didn't like these people who were engaged in planes, but they were still followed. Wang Maoru said that everyone can get together and I will do it.

It is not difficult for everyone, but now that the country has just been unified and is in need of talents, you have given up your own abilities at this time, which is indeed a loss to the nation. A few people are a little ashamed. Wang Maoru asked someone to bring 800 yuan Yingyang and say that each person has 200 yuan as travel expenses. I don’t have a hard time for you. It’s a pity that your abilities are your own. Two people took Yingyang away, and the other two thought about it and decided to stay. It is indeed a place where they have not used their abilities to go to Japan. It is better to stay here, and then asked whether they can bring their family from Guangdong to come here. Wang Maoru happily said that it is natural, so he led the technician’s family to Beijing.

After dealing with these few people, Ouyang Peng rushed over and said, "Chairman, the plane has made a major breakthrough, a major breakthrough." Wang Maoru was very happy and asked, "How?" Ouyang Peng took him to the aircraft manufacturing room, pointed to a plane, and said, "This is the second generation of aircraft we have made, and it has not been named yet. The engine uses the 150 horsepower American Star engine you mentioned earlier. The flight altitude can reach 500 meters to 1 kilometer, and the flight distance can theoretically fly for 4 hours."

Wang Maoru was surprised, and almost jumped up and said, "What? You are right? Four hours? How is it possible? You could only fly for half an hour before, but now why are you so big all at once?" Ouyang Peng said laughing and crying: "After changing the engine, the aircraft has a larger load-bearing capacity, so it has more fuel capacity. If all designs can be completed smoothly, four hours of flight is perfect." Wang Maoru shook his head repeatedly and said, "I can't imagine that it can fly for four hours, which completely exceeds Feng Ru's No. 2 and No. 3. What is its cost?" Ouyang Peng said, "Its engine price is three times that of the original 72-horsepower engine, so the entire aircraft is 2.5 times that of the original aircraft."

Wang Maoru smiled and said, "It's worth it, it's worth it. By the way, you only need to build one or two of this kind of aircraft, and don't hand it over to the Army Department for filing. The information must be kept."

Ouyang Peng hurriedly said, "Yes, I understand."

Wang Maoru nodded and suddenly laughed: "I heard you have had a girlfriend recently?"

Ouyang Peng immediately blushed. This girl was a female student from the Women's Public School. They met Baihuilou. Only Luo Haiquan knew that it must be his big mouth. Damn it. You must scold him when you go back. Wang Maoru smiled and said, "Pursuit hard, boy, haha." Ouyang Peng was embarrassed and couldn't speak. He was indeed a teenager in science and engineering. He was full of respect for his first love as if he was facing a god.

After leaving the flight laboratory, Wang Maoru came to the garrison again. The garrison is now training the ranks and shooting. After several months of continuous training, most of the recruits have lost their youthful smell and have some soldiers. Several squad leaders came to greet them. Wang Maoru nodded to them and walked to the rostrum, watching the nine hundred soldiers training silently below. After a while, Li Delin and Zhao Zengfu walked over and said, "Captain, what are the instructions?" Zhao Zengfu also locked his eyes and blinked. Since the training of the recruits began, the captain of the flight guard team, Shuo Zhu and Ergen, had completely transferred their duties, but they retained more than 20 people recruited from Cangzhou, Hebei, and established Wang Maoru's personal guard. Shuo Zhu and Ergen are still the chief and deputy captain, and follow Wang Maoru every day as guards.

Wang Maoru naturally saw his movements, smiled, and suddenly became serious, and said, "Notify all squad leaders and go to the big conference room for a meeting after dinner."

"What's wrong?" Zhao Zengfu and Li Delin asked involuntarily.

Wang Maoru said: "We want to suppress the bandits."

"Suppress the bandits!" The two were shocked and then became happy. The soldiers asked for military achievements. The garrisons are now all squad leaders. In the future, if they have no military achievements in positions such as deputy brigade commander and squadron leader, how can they be regarded as? Just rely on the final assessment? The two hurriedly notified all officers. After dinner, they ran to the conference room. Seeing that Wang Maoru had already sat in the upper seat, they immediately sat up one by one to wait for the speech.

Seeing everyone coming, Wang Maoru nodded to everyone and said, "Everyone knows what happened this time, right? Yes, we are going to suppress bandits. Moreover, we are not ordinary bandits, but Henan bandit Bai Lang."

After hearing this, everyone took a breath and found Bai Lang? This is not an ordinary bandit. It is said that tens of thousands of people under him made the Henan Governor Zhang Zhenfang lose the position of governor.

Seeing that the people below were talking, Wang Maoru said, "Although we are also an army, we are not a bandit suppression this time." Everyone was surprised. It was not a bandit suppression, so what was he going? Wang Maoru smiled and said, "Our flight team is going to do reconnaissance. We will recruit migrant workers in advance to build airports, check the safety of the airport, and directly belong to the Army Department, and accept the command of the appeasement envoy Duan Qirui. Therefore, you don't have to worry about a conflict with the main force of the Bailang Army. We have only a few hundred new recruits and encounter tens of thousands of bandits. I dare say that the first thing everyone does is to throw down their guns and leave them."

The officer below said: "Captain, it is not that serious. If we have a man in our hands, we are afraid of ball bandits. But we have to shoot one shot and change the bullets once. Before we can fire the second shot, we will have to be rushed up. Besides, we are not just not able to use guns, no guns or machine guns, but it is useless to just look good in military uniforms."

"Yes, the weapon is too bad. Captain, the gun is not trained, the rifle is gone, and the target cannot be touched even if you shoot a shot." Another officer said.
Chapter completed!