Madman Qiu said that the meeting was a dinner, and all the officers attending the meeting naturally stayed, and the place of the meeting was in the canteen of the division headquarters, and in order to let the officers have a dinner, the inside had been emptied.

Ten large tables were set up in the cafeteria, and the officers could sit at will, and the men were constantly adding food to the tables.

The so-called dinner party is not just a dinner, it also has a deeper meaning: the new 22 nd Division is a new unit, the personnel system is completely newly established, many officers do not know each other, many officers of the same regiment do not know each other, and the officers come from wherever they come from.

At this dinner, Madman Qiu also had the idea of integrating personnel relations, so that the officers could get to know each other and get acquainted with each other, which would also be of great benefit to future operations and training.

** It is not a completely modern army, and the internal organization is very dependent on the township party, classmates, faction teachers and students.

For example, the commander of the 52nd Army, Commander Guan, is a native of Shaanxi, and most of the officers under his command are Huangpu graduates from Shaanxi.

However, it does not mean that Shaanxi people will be able to mix well, Chief Du is also from Shaanxi, and he was squeezed out of the army by Commander Guan because he offended Commander Guan back then.

** It cannot be completely called a modern revolutionary army, the whole officer system is like this.

While training grassroots soldiers, Qiu also hoped that officers at all levels would deal with each other more. Officers are free to sit near the round table when they enter the cafeteria.

However, this free sitting is not really a free sitting, if the captain of a certain infantry regiment dares to sit with Qiu Maniac, it is estimated that the future will be difficult.

Therefore, when the table was divided, the officers basically selected people of the same level and acquaintances, the division commander Qiu Maniac, the deputy division commander Liao Commander and the chief of staff Chai Zhao sat around the table, Zhang Wei was a major in the unit directly under the division, and there were no familiar officers in the troops below, so under the envy of other officers at the same level, they sat with Qiu Maniac and others.

Also sitting at the same seat were the divisional mortar battalion, the battalion commander of the divisional transport battalion, and the company commander of the division's special service company, all officers of the units directly under the division.

There were also several deputy commanders of infantry regiments under the new 22nd Division.

There is nothing new about the dishes on the table, at least in Zhang Wei's opinion, at most, it is to teach the daily food level of the brigade, mostly meat, plus various bean sprouts regularly distributed by the troops, and after processing, they make up this table dish.

In addition to the meat, there is nothing commendable, Zhang Wei is used to eating the big fish and meat of the teaching brigade, for other officers, this meal is a rare meat, the new 22nd Division is the main force of the Central Army, the treatment is relatively good, but that is the level of supply, the food of officers below the battalion is about the same as that of soldiers, and the food above the battalion can be slightly better, but it is not much better.

At least it's impossible to eat meat every day.

The internal management of the main force is relatively strict, and the situation of eating empty salaries is not as serious as that of other troops; many of the non-main divisions of the Central Army are 6,000 or 7,000 people, and the new 22 nd Division has not yet been fully formed, and the strength of the whole division has already exceeded 10,000.

Strict management has made it extremely difficult for officers at all levels to get their hands on their own, and although there are small-scale subsidies within the troops, the living standards of these officers are really not high.

The treatment of the troops is not good enough, and there are not many opportunities to eat empty salaries and make money and drink the blood of soldiers, so it is natural that these days will be more difficult.

Of course, compared to his troops, the level is still good.

The dishes on this table and the daily diet level of the teaching brigade were still made with subsidies from the newly formed 11th Army, and the only thing that could attract Zhang Wei's attention was the various kinds of wine and a small amount of canned food on the table, the wine included local soju and various foreign wines, red wine, and canned meat from the United States.

Zhang Wei's teaching brigade has never done these things. Madman Qiu just said that it was a subsidy from the army, and Zhang Wei thought to himself that these foreign wines and canned food should be the products of the army's subsidies.

As for how these cans and canned food came from, the officers could not say this matter clearly, foreign wine and canned food are definitely in demand, and the biggest source is that one is circulated on the black market, and the other is smuggled income, and the new 11 th Army is not a little white rabbit, and the combat troops eat empty salaries relatively rarely, but the automobile troops are not idle.

The automobile regiment in the army often goes out to "run transportation," and "goes out on missions" in fact, it is to make extra money, and to earn some money to subsidize tens of thousands of people in the whole army.

After the officers finished taking their seats, Madman Qiu took the lead in standing up and picked up a glass of soju.

"Ladies and gentlemen, I am equivalent to serving the party-state, and I am a Huangpu student, and now the national crisis is at the head, it is the time when our generation is fighting bravely to kill the enemy, and our division is also a newly established army, drink this glass of wine, dry!" After saying that, the madman Qiu drank it all, and the officers followed closely behind and drank the bowl of soju.

Zhang Wei forcibly drank a bowl of soju, he was really not strong enough to drink, and he didn't like to drink.

"Eat!" Madman Qiu yelled and started eating, and left the table with a glass of foreign wine. After drinking the first bowl of shochu, everyone began to eat, and at the same time replaced the shochu with foreign wine.

Madman Qiu took the lead and left the table, and the officers began to move around at will, which was the real purpose of the meal.

Take the opportunity to drink and eat so that the officers in the division can get acquainted with each other and have a few drinks.

"Come on! Cheers, bro! The commander of the mortar battalion, who was at the same table and was also a battalion-level unit directly under the division, raised a glass of wine happily, Zhang Wei couldn't hesitate, and should kill the glass of wine.

"Good!" The commander of the mortar battalion said, and after the two finished drinking, they chatted for a while over the meal.

The commander of the mortar battalion is a graduate of the Ninth Infantry Section of Huangpu, and now he has been transferred to the mortar battalion of the new 22nd Division as the battalion commander.

Zhang Wei is a tenth-term student, and now he has become a major at the same level as him, and he is also a popular infantry unit, which makes him, the commander of the mortar battalion, very envious.

**The 82 mortar equipped with it belongs to the firearms of the infantry detachment, and the officers who graduated from the infantry section can command it, but compared with the infantry battalion, the commander of the mortar battalion of the division has much less power and the chance of fighting.

And the positioning and use is a little embarrassing, the teaching brigade has a mortar platoon, the way of use is very clear, it is split to make a detachment for the infantry company platoon to reinforce the firepower, and the division belongs to the mortar battalion, which belongs to the embarrassing product of the lack of firepower and the barrel of artillery.

Under normal circumstances, an infantry division should have divisional artillery under its own barrel, and the pre-war configuration was that each division was equipped with a battalion of twelve mountain artillery.

But ** poor, the pre-war construction plan did not meet the standard, and after the start of the war, the losses were heavy and could not be replenished, and the divisional artillery could only be temporarily replaced by mortar battalions.

Is it not embarrassing that mortars should replace the positioning of body-barreled artillery, and the firing range and power are problematic?

The complaint of the commander of the mortar battalion also has something to do with the nature of the operation.

Zhang Wei only had a few words of consolation, this mortar battalion commander was a little too self-pitying, and there were not a few battalion commanders in the ninth phase of Huangpu, so why should he complain?

However, they were all soldiers, and the commander of the mortar battalion did not say anything more after complaining a few words, and the two changed the topic and discussed the specific use tactics of the 82 mortar.

Zhang Wei was chatting with the commander of the mortar battalion, and a colonel at the same table picked up a cup again, and most of the people at Zhang Wei's table, except for the division commander Qiu Luozi, the division chief of staff Chai Zhao, and the deputy division commander Liao, most of the people at this table did not leave the table.

On the other table, those low-level officers prefer to socialize everywhere, and at Zhang Wei's table, except for the three senior officers in the division, the remaining regiment-level officers and Zhang Wei, the chief officers of the units directly under the division, are not active.

This colonel was Xiong Xiaosan, the commander of the 64th Regiment, holding a wine glass, and did not let others join him, and took a sip of the wine in the cup himself.

"You will have to work together in the same unit in the future, and you will have to take care of and cooperate a lot, and my surname Xiong will do it first!" Xiong Xiaosan finished drinking the wine and said happily.

"Okay, okay, old bear, don't work so hard, you don't say these things, everyone can do it." Colonel Zhou Jian, the commander of the supplementary regiment of the new 22nd Division, persuaded Xiong Xiaosan beside him.

Colonel Deng Junlin, commander of the 65th Regiment, and Colonel Liu Junsheng, commander of the 66th Regiment, watched silently from the sidelines.

Supervisor Zhou persuaded the wine, and the officers at the table began to talk about various issues of army building, Zhang Wei, who was not good at drinking, secretly rejoiced, and several people discussed the experience from army building training to fighting against the Japanese army.

Moreover, Zhang Wei fought from the grassroots level, and he had a deep understanding of the grassroots tactics that the Japanese army was best at, and Zhang Wei's experience in fighting with the Japanese army was listened to with relish by several regiment commanders, and at the beginning of the Anti-Japanese War, these regiment commanders were not on the front line, and some of them did not directly participate in the war in the rear troops.

Some of them had already taken up the position of battalion commander, and when they fought against the Japanese army, they did not come out of the nearest front-line command position.

After the discussion at this banquet, Zhang Wei and the four regiment commanders all talked, and they talked very happily, narrowing the distance as officers of the troops directly under the division.

At other tables, the same situation is also happening, different units, the officers who were not familiar with the original, through the banquet familiarity, and even heart-to-heart, the officers are mostly graduates of the Whampoa Military Academy, and some of them are involved in the relationship between fellow villagers and classmates, and the relationship network is beginning to take shape.

This is a particularly important part of the ** process.

The degree of cooperation and run-in within the entire army has been improved in the seemingly noisy banquet.

The hidden combat effectiveness of the whole division has also been improved to a certain extent.