The expansion plan proposed by Xiao Siming will definitely be approved at the meeting of the Military and Political Committee of the Eastward Advance Brigade, but it has been revised a lot. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

At this time, the main regiment of the Eighth Route Army was all one battalion and four companies, and Xiao Siming's expansion plan was also a battalion of four companies, but three infantry companies and one machine gun company, and the firepower intensity was greatly enhanced, which was equivalent to the firepower of a Japanese infantry brigade.

The core of this plan is that the eastward advance brigade will fight independently as a battalion in the future.

The plan is very good, once the three main battalions are fully formed, they can carry out attack operations in three directions at the same time with the battalion as a unit. The problem is that it is impossible to fill the three main battalions with full strength now!

The independent battalion now has only three infantry companies, and according to Xiao Siming's plan to establish three infantry battalions, nine infantry companies, and three machine gun companies, the expansion of the strength is not doubled, that is three times!

In other words, it is necessary to combine the recruits of two infantry platoons on the basis of the nine infantry platoons of the existing three infantry companies in order to make the three main battalions fully established.

The recruit team now has 9 recruit companies, with a total of 1,426 people, which is enough! The problem is that these recruits, except for the 100 recruits who were originally recruited in Mafang and participated in the war while marching and training, and have a little combat experience, the others are peasant children who have just dropped their hoes, or students who have just left the school gate, and many of them cannot even distinguish between the "left, right, and left" of the standing line, and they are rashly incorporated into combat units, which not only fails to improve their combat effectiveness, but on the contrary dilutes the combat effectiveness of the troops.

The independent battalion itself is a newly formed unit with a high composition of recruits, and if it is expanded in a hurry, the problem will be self-evident.

Xiao Siming, Wang Lushui, Huang Hua, Hu Qingyun, and Huo Cheng are all Red Army cadres who have experienced a hundred battles, so naturally they will not make such low-level mistakes!

In other words, no matter how anxious Xiao Siming is and how anxious he is to expand the establishment, he can only maintain the status quo of the three main companies of the combat unit for the time being. Only when the recruits of the recruit corps have completed their training and can be added to the unit can they be truly expanded.

However, as long as the expansion plan is decided, and there are new recruits in training, the three main companies will be expanded into three main battalions, and that will be a sure thing, and it will be a matter of time or time!

However, for other units, the plan is certain, and it can be expanded immediately!

Stimulated by the bright prospects depicted by Xiao Siming, Deputy Brigade Commander Huang Hua put forward his own suggestions for revising Xiao Siming's plan at the meeting, that is, since it is necessary to build a shelf first, it is better to build a bigger shelf, pull a few more battalions of cadres to shelf, and expand the army along the road on the way east, and form a battalion if there is enough for one battalion. For example, when encountering those miscellaneous armed forces that have a certain training foundation and a certain combat effectiveness, as long as the cadres are effective and the political and ideological work is meticulous, the combat effectiveness will rise very quickly.

Huang Hua also gave an example of how large the 115th Division had grown to when it was separated, Political Commissar Nie had only brought two or three thousand people. The four army divisions and four detachments, just the main force, are already tens of thousands of horses. Another example is the fifth detachment, at that time there were only four companies of the second battalion and one company of the first battalion, a total of five companies, and later a company was allocated to deputy brigade commander Zhou Jianping to form four detachments, which was actually just an old company of four companies. How many centaurs are there now? After a period of development, I'm afraid that the five detachments will be able to form two or three main regiments!

Huang Hua's meaning is very clear: The advance brigade now has three infantry companies, as well as an artillery team, a heavy machine gun team, an engineer team, a baggage team, and a recruit team.

Chief of Staff Hu Qingyun immediately followed, saying that nothing else is comparable, look at the current Qin Lai detachment, the original foundation is so poor, and now there are five or six thousand people! Obediently, five or six thousand people, what kind of concept is that? Brigade-level units!

It seems that the cadres only hate the small number of soldiers and horses they lead, and they only hate the small size of the troops!

If we ask everyone to suggest it again, I am afraid that the advance brigade will have to form eight or nine more battalions!

Xiao Siming stopped Hu Qingyun, thought about it, and said that cadres could be redrawn from the cadre team to build a battalion-level cadre shelf. But not more, at most three more cadre racks of infantry battalions can be erected. The main force still has to take the elite route and temper it repeatedly!

Xiao Siming said that the old foundation of the advance brigade is the independent battalion, and the old foundation of the independent battalion is the wounded squad of the 685th regiment, and this kind of foundation cannot be compared with the five detachments at all! There is no comparison either! The fifth detachment is the old Red Fifth Regiment, which is one of the famous Three Tigers of the Central Red Army and one of the seed units of our army. Any Red Army soldier who has walked through the Long March can be a squad leader, platoon leader, or company commander when pulled out. Not to mention the cadres, the battalion-level cadres of the second battalion are themselves well-known Red Army-level cadres, and the company-level cadres are all battalion-level cadres of the Red Army, and there is no problem in expanding a company into a regiment! To put it mildly, don't look at the second battalion, it turned out to be only four companies, if it really fell into the encirclement of the Japanese army, it might suffer huge casualties, but the little devil didn't want to annihilate the second battalion. Maybe the second battalion will break out of the encirclement after hitting the devils hard!

When he said this, Xiao Siming said that our task is to temper the advance brigade into a steel force like the Red First Regiment, the Red Fourth Regiment, and the Red Fifth Regiment!

Xiao Siming also said that the current advance brigade, in addition to its excellent weapons and sufficient ammunition and grain and grass, is not only not comparable with the Fifth Detachment, but also cannot be compared with the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region. The reason is very simple, just one point, that is, although there are not many combat troops brought by Political Commissar Nie, there are many cadres and high ranks. For example, Huang Yongsheng, the first head of the 685 Regiment, Deng Hua, director of the Political Training Office, and Chen Zhengxiang, the first deputy head of the regiment, all followed Political Commissar Nie to the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region. They are all famous generals of the Central Red Army, and each of them can be a brigade commander and a commander of a military division. In the future, as our army develops and grows, they will certainly become leading cadres of military political work at the army level or even at a higher level. On the other hand, the advance brigade, although this is the second time that cadres have been replenished, they are all cadres at the platoon level, and there are very few cadres at the company level! The battalion-level cadres of the 685th and 686th regiments have not been transferred! In order to make these company and platoon cadres become courageous battalion and regimental cadres, it is not only a matter of study, education, and training, but also a matter of long-term struggle and practice. If you pull too fast or too high, it will be a seedling pulling, and you may suffer a big loss at any time!

Xiao Siming emphatically said that it is necessary to see the weakness of the advance brigade with a large number of recruits and complex composition, and not to be hot-headed!

As for the Qin Lai detachment, Xiao Siming said that this unit will definitely develop and grow into the main force of our army in the future, but at present, the foundation is too poor, it is of a local armed nature, and there is still a long way to go!

Wang Lushui understood that Xiao Siming wanted to expand the troops on a large scale and maintain the combat effectiveness of the main force, and he wanted the best of both worlds!

This shows that Xiao Siming is pragmatic, and it shows that Xiao Siming sees far and is cool-headed!

Wang Lushui now admires Xiao Siming more and more, and feels that Kang Da is really a place to cultivate talents, although the red ghost Xiao Siming said that he used to hold a few positions in the Red Army and was a company commander twice, but after all, it was a grassroots combat unit, and his vision and mind could not exceed his age too much. After just a few months of studying at Kang University, Xiao Siming has grown up, has all his thoughts and minds, and can be on his own!

Wang Lushui said that he supported the captain's opinion, and that the time would be set in this way, and that the existing companies and units would be expanded into battalions, and that when the training of the recruit units was completed, they would be mixed with the three infantry companies, artillery units, and heavy machine gun teams, and that the five battalions would be fully established first. At the same time, three infantry battalion cadres were set up, and on the way east, they tried to mobilize and integrate local miscellaneous armed forces, and incorporated them into these three battalions, and cooperated with the main force while reorganizing and training. After opening up the base areas, we can calm down and expand the army for training.

This meeting was actually a meeting to unify the thinking of several main leaders of the eastward advance brigade!

Although it was a war year, cadres could be promoted and demoted, but the hearts of the people were the same, and they all looked forward to promotion and reuse.

The independent battalion fought in the front section of the battle, and the results were great and great, and it was famous in the Eighth Route Army system. However, Wang Lushui and Huang Hua are both well-known backbone cadres of the Eighth Route Army, and Hu Qingyun and Huo Cheng are also deputy regimental cadres in key posts of the Eighth Route Army. Among them, Wang Lushui, Hu Qingyun, and Huo Cheng were transferred at the same level, but Huang Hua was temporarily demoted. Moreover, if Wang Lushui and Huang Hua are not transferred to the advance brigade, they will soon take up the leadership position at the brigade level!

Not to mention others, just the minds of these main leaders, they are eager to expand immediately, on the spot, and immediately!

The meeting can only be held here, as for the specific personnel adjustment issue, this meeting cannot be decided, the reason is that Xiao Siming needs to meet and talk with the cadres of the cadres brought by Wang Lushui and them to understand their ideas and specialties. Hu Qingyun and Huo Cheng, one is the chief of staff, who leads the specific work of the operational command of the brigade headquarters, and the other is the director of the political department, who is responsible for the political work of the troops, and also needs to meet and communicate with the cadres. Otherwise, it will be hastily decided at the meeting, and it will not be easy to use in actual work, or the adjusted cadres will not be suitable for the adjusted positions, which will be very troublesome!

At the end of the meeting, Xiao Siming asked everyone to talk to the cadres separately after the meeting and solicit opinions. Tomorrow we will study the issue of appointing and dismissing cadres in the expanded units.

That's the trouble of a big stall! When Yuxian County was reorganized, the scale of the troops was small, there were a lot of backbone cadres, and there was no need to attend the meeting at all, and as soon as Xiao Siming and Wang Lushui discussed, the list came out, and as soon as the division headquarters reported, it was determined. Now it's different, the independent battalion has been expanded into an eastward advance brigade, and a military and political committee has been established, so it will have to be studied at the meeting to avoid the military and political chiefs acting arbitrarily!

This is the fundamental difference between the decision-making system of the Eighth Route Army and other national * army units! In addition, if the branch is built on the company, it would be strange if Zhang Shaodong and Lan Guoqing could pull away the troops when they defected!

In the final analysis, the system is the fundamental safeguard measure! (To be continued.) )