After the brigade headquarters within the division was removed, the brigade commander was generally promoted to deputy division commander, but there was only one deputy division commander in a division.

The other brigade commander becomes the additional infantry commander, between the chief and deputy division commander and the chief of staff, and when the chief and deputy division commander loses command ability, the infantry commander takes over the command.

The original two brigades and four regiments, one of which became the field supplementary regiment of the division, and at present, for many divisions, it is still four regiments.

However, the 51st, 57th, and 58th divisions of the 74th Army have not done so for the time being. It still belongs to the two-brigade and four-regiment system, but the above has already spoken, and it must be changed to a three-regiment system in the future, so it can only be slowly reformed.

Among them, the 57th Division, which had just joined the 74th Army, was originally a local miscellaneous army, which was formed by a mixture of local troops from Anhui and Shandong.

The founder of the army was Chen Tiaoyuan, a military boss in Anhui, and now he has been transferred to the central government and no longer grasps the local military, so most of these troops are mixed with other troops.

Before being incorporated into the 74th Army, the 57th Division's record was not outstanding, but its combat effectiveness, equipment, and officer quality were all okay, and it mainly had a specialty, that is, it was good at building field fortifications and organizing defensive warfare.

The 74th Army of the "35th Army" gradually embodied the characteristics of three divisions in the subsequent operations, with the 58th Division being good at attacking, the 57th Division being good at defending, and the 51st Division being both offensive and defensive.

After joining the 74th Army of the Central Strategic Mobile Army, the 57th Division quickly integrated into this collective, and everyone tried their best to balance and compromise on some personnel arrangements.

Among them, priority was given to some Whampoa students as the backbone of grassroots officers. In view of the reality that the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression urgently needed to employ personnel, the Whampoa Military Academy has already expanded its enrollment.

High schools can apply for the examination, and military schools are enrolled in military schools according to the test results from high to low. Originally, only 6 or 700 people were recruited in the first phase, but now in the 13th phase, more than 1,400 people have been recruited, which has more than doubled.

The length of study was also shortened from the original three years to two years, and as soon as the graduation ceremony was over, the students immediately went to the front line with their graduation certificates and notices of assignment to various theaters and units.

The 31st Division adopted the method of grasping the backbone first and leading the way with points, and a special non-commissioned officer training class was set up for this purpose.

The non-commissioned officer training course is made up of recruits with good physical fitness, and the teaching of the non-commissioned officer training course is very serious from the beginning.

From physical training, the inculcation of military knowledge, to the training of assassination, bomb throwing, blasting, and shooting skills, to the education of "four shames of soldiers" and "four joys of soldiers", they can all be carried out in an orderly manner.

In particular, the live-fire training was very strict because it had to be used as soon as it was put on the battlefield, and the sergeants had to evaluate each other after completing the training.

Taking this good opportunity, Sangou sent the principal and deputy squad leaders of the 36 squads of the four companies in the third battalion to the sergeant training class together with some recruits, so that the old can lead the new, and the veterans will also learn and correct themselves.

In addition to studying these normal combat trainings, we also stepped up the study of new Soviet-style weapons, this time including aircraft cannons and machine guns.

Naturally, it is not the turn of the infantry to learn the aircraft artillery, and they mainly learn to adapt to the training of Soviet-style machine guns and small artillery.

The Soviet-style heavy machine gun is mainly the Maxim heavy machine gun, also known as the Maxim water machine gun, but some of these machine guns have a few wheels added under the shield steel plate, like a small cannon, which can be pulled and walked, and it is more flexible.

As for the internal structure, it is similar to the imitation of the Makqin Min 24, similar to each other, all of them are superior to the Type 92 heavy machine gun, the bullet chain has a long duration of ammunition feeding, and the 250-round bullet chain is connected with a bullet cloth.

Its rate of fire is 600 rounds per minute, which is faster than the 450 rounds per minute of the Type 92 heavy machine gun, and the overall gun of 49 kg is lighter than the Type 92 heavy machine gun's 55.8 kg.

The light machine gun was a Makqin-Tokarev light machine gun, and the bamboo poles, turnips, potatoes, and Wang Weidong of the gun gun company were specially disassembled and inspected.

In fact, this machine gun is a light machine gun with the water-cooled Maxim machine gun removed from the water-cooled sleeve barrel and the air-cooled sleeve barrel that increases the airflow circulation, and the retractor is improved to increase the rate of fire.

The Makqin-Tokarev light machine gun has a caliber of 7.62, a rate of fire of 600 rounds per minute, a 100 or 250 round belt, and a weight of 12.9 kg, which is almost the same as the original Czech light machine gun.

But after the use of this gun, I learned that its complex structure, difficult maintenance, high cost and other shortcomings were all exposed, but it was cheaper, and besides, it was also sent by the Soviet Union, which is better than nothing.

The Soviet Union is now also in a hurry to prepare for war and urgently needs weapons and ammunition, so it can only move out of this stock or unwanted machine guns and give them to the Chinese army.

This backward weapon has become an advanced weapon after it arrived in China, which was extremely lacking in weapons, and was equipped with elite units of the Central Army such as the Sangou 74th Army.

However, later, Sangou still used the relatively advanced DP27 light machine gun, which is called the Deg Galev turntable light machine gun, the most significant feature of this gun is the use of cartridge feed.

The cartridge disc can hold 47 rounds, flat on the top of the gun body, the caliber of the bullet is also 7.62, the effective range is 800 meters, the combat rate of fire is 80-90 rounds / min, and the total gun mass (including the cartridge bullet) is 11.9kg. It's a very good light machine gun for the squad.

They also went to the divisional artillery battalion and learned the Soviet-style 45mm anti-tank gun, which was different from the 37 tank defensive gun, and the bolt style was also changed from the horizontal sliding wedge type with side opening to the vertical sliding wedge type, saving the gunner's physical exertion.

Everything else is about the same, only the caliber is different, and there are armor-piercing shells, grenades, shotguns, etc. Armor-piercing bullets are divided into cap-piercing shells and steel-core armor-piercing bullets.

This gun has a maximum firing range of 4,500 meters, a maximum firing elevation angle of +25 / -08 degrees, and a maximum maneuver angle of up to 60 degrees.

In the opinion of these parameters, it was not a very advanced cannon at that time, but for the Chinese army, which was still using even the guns of the Qing Dynasty, there was such a cannon, which was simply like a fairy baby.

In addition to Soviet-style weapons and equipment, the army still uses the original weapons, because its own arsenal will also produce Chinese formal rifles, imitation Czech-style light machine guns, and imitation Makqin Min-II and four-heavy machine guns.

Now the arsenal can also imitate 50 or 60 mortars and artillery shells, although the quality is average, but it is better than nothing, the 74 Army belongs to the strategic mobile forces of the Military Commission directly under the Central Government, of course, in terms of weapons and equipment, it belongs to the best.

The infantry was armed with a uniform of medium and formal rifles, each company had nine light machine guns imitating the Czech squad, and each battalion also had a machine gun company, equipped with six 50 and 60 mortars, and six civilian two and four heavy machine guns.

The bamboo pole has always been obsessed with the machine gun company before, but now it finally has an echo, and it feels very good to be the commander of this machine gun company in person.

All of a sudden, I felt like an upstart, but I felt that the burden on my shoulders was also a lot heavier, and the main firepower support of a battalion was here, and whether or not I could use these good guys well would be the basis for determining whether the third battalion could win the battle.