Sun Yumin received Chen Bui's reply, and the supplementary troops and materials were directly allocated from the Ministry of Military Affairs, and he would arrive in Zhengzhou in the next few days, so that he could send personnel to Zhengzhou to receive them.

This kind of thing is familiar to Qian Jin, Sun Yumin will definitely send him there, and as for the more than 4,000 additional recruits who arrived in Zhengzhou first, Liu Wenzhi will personally receive and take charge of it.

To Sun Yumin's surprise, the Fifth Theater sent him a big gift, and Li Zongren transferred the entire Sichuan Army, and the telegram read: The 20th Division fought bloodily, and it was a model for us, and after consultation with Commander Liu Xiang of the Sichuan Army, the 430th Regiment of the 144th Division of the 23rd Army of the 22nd Group Army of the Sichuan Army was supplemented into the 20th Division.

After seeing this telegram, Sun Yumin was so happy that he almost didn't jump, the Sichuan army has always been known for being able to fight tough battles and bloody battles, he has long wanted to make friends with generals such as Wang Mingzhang, but he has been suffering from no chance, but now it's good, people directly sent a regiment of Sichuan troops, which makes Sun Yumin how can he be calm.

The unit that was transferred to the 20th Division was the 430th Regiment (1), the main regiment of the 144th Division of the Sichuan Army, and the regiment commander was called Zhang Changde.

At this time, Sun Yumin's flapping butterfly wings began to slowly set off wind and waves, and since the Battle of Jining, the wheel of history began to gradually deviate from the direction.

Originally, the 430th Regiment of the 144th Division defected to the Japanese puppet in southern Anhui after 1944 and became the puppet Southern Anhui Independent Army. Now that he and all the members of his 430th Regiment have been transferred to the 20th Division, Sun Yumin naturally will not let this happen, so he plans to carry out drastic reforms as soon as the Sichuan Army arrives to report.

Before the replenishment of troops and supplies arrived, the deputy brigade commander of the 59th Brigade and the commander of the 117th Regiment sent an urgent report, saying that the secret sentinels and spearheads he sent out had discovered a large number of devils and puppet troops, and had reached the vicinity of Gunzhou, and Caohe Town in the direction of Ningyang and Lingcheng Town in the direction of Zou Cheng were already full of enemy troops.

Sun Yumin thought of the devil's menacing counterattack, but he didn't expect it to come so quickly, fortunately, on the day he captured Jining, he was ready to defend.

When he was in Nanjing, he only had a battalion, although he later became the acting commander, but in fact, the number of troops in his hands was only one reinforced battalion at most, and at that time, he could bite off a piece of the iron plate in the bombardment of planes and heavy artillery, and now he has nearly 20,000 male soldiers in his hands, and his weapons and equipment are not inferior to the Japanese invaders, a small Japanese army brigade of several thousand people, plus the puppet army is not as strong as his own, he actually came to attack Gunzhou so arrogantly, and he was allowed to come and go.

Li Tiedan and the 118th Regiment did not make any rest, they were sent to Gunzhou by Sun Yumin, before leaving, he was not at ease, and sent Lin Yuanping and his guard battalion to follow, the battle fought by the half-devil in Jining won Sun Yumin's love, and he had accepted this Taiwanese with half Japanese blood from the bottom of his heart.

The 117th Regiment and the 118th Regiment did not suffer many casualties, but Sun Yumin still promised to replenish them, but not now, because the recruits are still in Henan, and even Heze has not yet arrived, so there is no way to replenish them.

The 116th Regiment led by Zhang Xiaohu and the new 1st Regiment that blocked the attack at Gangtou suffered heavy casualties, and they could not be replenished at this time, so Sun Yumin had no choice but to merge the two regiments into one regiment, and only left a complete set of grassroots officers and backbones of the newly formed 1st Regiment in preparation for the reorganization of the 430th Regiment. The Sichuan soldiers gave it, but it was impossible to give it, even if Li Zongren wanted to give it, Liu Xiang would not agree.

Zhang Xiaohu's injuries are not serious, it does not affect the command, after the new regiment was merged into the 116th regiment, his troops in Wenshang are enough to have a reinforced regiment, and it should be enough to defend the city, Sun Yumin is still a little uneasy, and wants to send Xiao Yuying to help keep an eye on him, but the little girl is reluctant to go out of the door, and her mouth is still vibrant: "I haven't figured it out yet, so I can't go out of the room." ”

Sun Yumin dug a pit by himself and buried himself, and there was really no way to take her. had to send Dong Wenbin over, he took Huang Baisheng's battalion, and rushed to Wenshang County with the new regiment.

Now Jining City still has Lai Wenli's 115th Regiment, the newly formed 3rd Regiment of the 59th Brigade and the Zhao Youqian Battalion of the Guard Regiment, plus the Qiu Zehua Battalion of the Artillery Regiment, and the 20th Division Headquarters with few people.

Considering that this battle was related to the fate of the entire 20th Division and the key to the battle in Xuzhou, Sun Yumin was very cautious and ordered Liu Wenzhi to transfer the 119th Regiment and the newly formed 2nd Regiment and a battalion of Sun Jie's Naval Artillery Regiment to Jining, leaving only the 120th Regiment and 4,000 additional recruits who were about to arrive.

Considering that the weapons and equipment of the Sichuan Army that had been replenished might be very poor, Sun Yumin asked Qian Jin, who had received supplies from Zhengzhou, to send the weapons and equipment and military supplies of an integrated regiment directly to Jining. Thanks to this telegram, otherwise Sun Yumin would really have a headache.

On the third day, when the troops of the 430th Regiment of the 144th Division of the Sichuan Army arrived in Jining, Sun Yumin was almost dumbfounded, except for a few officers, all the weapons and equipment of all the personnel were left by the 144th Division before they came, in other words, they all came empty-handed.

Seeing the more than 3,000 thinly dressed soldiers in front of him, even in such a cold weather, there were still soldiers wearing straw sandals, but still standing straight, Sun Yumin was distressed, he only said one sentence: "Brothers of the Sichuan Army, from now on, you are the people of my 20th Division, and you are my Sun Yumin's relatives." ”

After speaking, Sun Yumin disbanded the troops, and he couldn't bear to let these lovely soldiers be disciplined for a long time in the cold wind.

Before the supplies arrived, Sun Yumin first allocated some food and supplies from the logistics office of the newly formed Third Regiment, and then asked the cooks of each company of the Third Regiment to concentrate on making a sumptuous and steaming meal for the Sichuan Army, feeding the hungry soldiers of the original 430, and letting them boil an unknown number of pots of hot water, and giving these soldiers a hot bath.

The seemingly smooth fusion finally broke out the day after the arrival of the Sichuan army, which caused Sun Yumin a headache.

After the arrival of weapons and military supplies, the backbone of the newly formed regiment of the 58th Brigade began to organize the distribution of manpower, and they were very good when they received guns and ammunition, but when they arrived at the army's uniform, the people of the Sichuan Army stopped doing it, and refused to change their clothes. ”

Li Tianxi, the commander of the newly formed 1st Regiment, was very helpless and ran to the division headquarters for help.

Sun Yumin can actually understand these soldiers, but this matter is obviously deliberately given to him by someone, how can this make people get their wish. He came to the scene of the hair uniform, and said to the soldiers who refused to lead the army and only wanted to receive shoes and quilts: "Brothers, whether you are wearing the uniform of the Sichuan Army or the military uniform of the Central Army, they are all troops that fight devils, since you have joined our 20th Division, I Sun Yumin naturally can't let everyone be hungry and warm, everyone think about it, if you all wear the blue military uniform of the Sichuan Army, and it is a summer uniform, what does this make others think of me." Sun Yumin knew the reason and moved with emotion, but it still had no effect, and no one was still willing to change his clothes.

Sun Yumin's strength also came up, and he wanted to see who was behind it.

Zhang Changde was called to the scene, looking like a hanger, which made Sun Yumin's heart rise a nameless fire, he wanted to slap this person a few times on the spot, but reason told him that he couldn't do this. If the Sichuan army and his own shield are stimulated, the consequences will be irretrievable.

Sun Yumin said to Zhang Changde, who was holding a cigarette in his mouth, standing aside shaking his legs, and didn't look at him: "Head Zhang, help me talk to the brothers below, as long as everyone changes their clothes, everything is easy to say." ”

"Master Sun, when I came, the master told us not to forget the soul of the Sichuan army, the brothers just remembered his words, so they didn't want to change the military uniforms on their bodies, and I had no choice." Zhang Changde's answer did not see himself as the people of the 20th Division at all, as if they were just guests who came to be guests.

"When you went out of Sichuan, Commander Liu said the same thing, but when hundreds of thousands of Sichuan troops came out, would anyone deny your identity because you were not wearing a Sichuan army uniform?" Sun Yumin no longer wanted to talk to this greedy and selfish person, and said directly: "I know that the Sichuan army is all gentlemen, and there is no cowardice, so you can just say it, how can you let them change their clothes." ”

Zhang Changde threw down the cigarette in his mouth and said: "Senior Commander Sun, the ugly words are ahead, I didn't use the matter of changing clothes to threaten anything, but if you insist on going your own way, you have to appoint a new commander to our group of people who have lost even their establishment, then please return us to the 144th Division." ”

Sun Yumin was not afraid that he would make a request, but he was afraid that he would not make a request, and when he saw the little Jiujiu in Zhang Changde's heart, he laughed and said, "What do I think you said!" It turned out that it was because of such a trivial matter. ”

"Master Sun, it's a trivial matter for you, but it's ...... for me No, for the brothers of the entire 430 regiment, it is a matter of life and death. Zhang Changde said, he saw that Sun Yumin was listening to him carefully, and continued: "If these new commanders treat our Sichuan army brothers as inappropriate and treat us as cannon fodder or something, then everyone will probably die and don't know how to die." ”

Looking at this disgusting face, Sun Yumin had an urge to step on it, he held back his anger, pretended to smile on his face, and said: "Commander Zhang, you are wrong to blame me, maybe you don't know, our 20th Division is different from ordinary troops, it is a 3rd brigade and 11th regiment system, and the establishment of the new 1st Regiment was specially vacant after receiving an order from the Fifth Theater Command, and you were transferred to supplement it. Seeing that Zhang Changde didn't care about what he said at all, Sun Yumin was ruthless, endured the unhappiness in his heart, and also held the mentality that he was reluctant to let the child hold the wolf, and said words that even Li Tianxi and they couldn't believe.

"Commander Zhang, I have an appointment here, I wanted to wait for the military meeting tonight to announce it, since this is happening now, then I will tell you in advance. The commander of the 60th Brigade has always been under the command of the chief of staff, and the commander of the former 430th Regiment of the Sichuan Army Corps is brave and good at fighting, sympathetic to his subordinates, and loves his soldiers like a son; with the approval of the military headquarters and the headquarters of the group army, Zhang Changde was appointed as the commander of the 60th Brigade, and the remaining officers of the former 430th Regiment at all levels were promoted to one level and were ready for use. ”

In order to control the Sichuan Army, Sun Yumin made a bloody investment and promised the position of brigade commander originally prepared for Deng Dongping to this rare scum in the Sichuan army.

As for the 60th Brigade, Sun Yumin was not worried at all, even if he became the brigade commander, he would not be able to transfer a single soldier of the 60th Brigade. The commander of the 119th Regiment was selected from Ma Weilong's 138th Brigade, and was one of his own people who had undergone special training from the Special Service Company and had also participated in the battle against the Torikawa Squadron in Lankao. The commander of the 120th Regiment is an officer that Chen Bui asked him to bring from Tang Enbo's regiment, named Liu Jiahua, a native of Guangdong, according to his words, the division commander is his own uncle, this kind of general-style officer, except for Sun Yumin, I am afraid that no one can be transferred. The commander of the new 2nd Regiment is called Sun Dongli, who is the cousin of Sun Jiehai, the commander of the artillery regiment, and is also transferred from the 138th Brigade, and like Sun Jiehai, he is a person who thinks of himself as Sun Yumin's own brother.

Zhang Changde wants to control the 60th Brigade, which is basically more difficult than ascending to the sky, which is why Sun Yumin dares to grant this position to this scum.

Zhang Changde naturally didn't understand the Tao of this, when he heard the order from Sun Yumin's mouth, both eyes shone brightly, his thin body trembled slightly, his voice was full of joy, and he asked eagerly: "Master, are you serious?" ”

"There is no joke in the army!" Sun Yumin said categorically, he didn't want to see this obscene face for a moment now, but he hadn't finished speaking, the matter had not been resolved, and he had to stay for a while.

"Head Zhang...... No, Brigade Commander Zhang, you can let the brothers change their clothes now, right? Sun Yumin said.

"Of course, of course, the new regiment will complete all the reorganization matters according to your requirements, and please call back the regiment commander and officers sent before, and I will hand him over." Zhang Changde is more anxious than Sun Yumin.

Li Tianxi and his other officers were beside Sun Yumin, but the surname Zhang turned a blind eye, which made the backbone of the original new regiment very angry, Li Tianxi even took a step, wanting to teach this scumbag a lesson, but was glared at by Sun Yumin, who had already turned around, and retreated in fright.

Glancing at the few regimental-level officers left by the original Sun Tongxuan, Sun Yumin said: "Train well, be kind to the soldiers, as long as the brothers of the Sichuan Army treat you sincerely, they will work hard to repay you with all their blood." ”

Li Tianxi was not very optimistic about this division commander, but after slow contact and a few battles, he became more and more respectful and convinced of this young division commander, he nodded cautiously and said: "Division commander, please rest assured, the newly formed regiment will always be a sharp knife of the 20th Division." ”

Sun Yumin didn't hear what Li Tianxi said, and after he said the words of treating the Sichuan Army well, he had already strode away, leaving behind Zhang Changde who was still complacent and Li Tianxi, who had a serious face.

Sun Yumin has no time, he has to deal with a series of family affairs as soon as possible, and dozens of kilometers away in Gunzhou, more than 10,000 Japanese puppet troops have already made preparations before the war, and the war is about to break out.

(1) Zhang Changde, the commander of the 430th Regiment, was one of the few traitors among the hundreds of thousands of Sichuan Army troops in Sichuan, and was shot dead by the Nationalist Government in Chongqing in 1945.