After capturing Baotou, Zhang Mingyu reported to President Jiang in Yucheng, but in fact, Zhang Mingyu did not expect President Jiang to reward him with anything, but he hoped to use the major newspapers of the Kuomintang to do propaganda for himself and his readers.

Yucheng received Zhang Mingyu's good news and reported to Principal Jiang overnight, Principal Jiang was so excited that he was sleepy, and excitedly arranged: "Shihe! Tomorrow I will hold a press conference to inform the countries that I have [***] yet another great victory. ”

Early the next morning, the major newspapers across the country published that the reader had once again achieved an unprecedented victory in the northwest, and the newspaper boys in the streets and alleys of Wuhan, Guangzhou, Changsha, Yucheng and other major cities shouted: "Outside! Extra! General Zhang Mingyu led the Reading Division to recover Baotou, annihilated more than 10,000 Yue troops, and achieved a great victory······"

"Little brother, bring me a newspaper!" A patriotic student with glasses pulled out a copper plate and said.

"I want a newspaper too!" A white-haired man in his sixties said with a cane. After reading the newspaper, the old man burst into tears and said: "I have this man in China, why not be afraid of Oriental pirates!" The country is very fortunate, and the nation is very fortunate! ········

After reading the newspaper, the student immediately threw away his schoolbag and cried: "I'm going to join the army, I'm not going to school anymore!" I'm going to be a Reader. ”

Soon the student stood on a rock and shouted: "Long live the Chinese nation by defeating imperialism!" ”

The crowd of onlookers and citizens shouted one after another: "Down with imperialism!" Long live the Chinese nation! ”

Soon the newspapers in the hands of the newsboys were sold out, and businessmen from all over the country generously donated money and materials to fund the political axe resistance, and the students of various schools abandoned their pens and left the school to go north to join the reading teacher.

Early the next morning, Zhang Mingyu specially arranged for the soldiers of the Reading Division, carried out the ceremony of entering the city, and hung the head of Houguan Chun on the tank car, and drove into the city, the people of Baotou took to the streets to welcome the Reading Division soldiers into the city, and some of the people of Baotou who escaped because of the coming of the devil heard that Baotou was recovered by the Reading Division, and returned to their homes in Baotou one after another.

Zhang Mingyu recovered Baotou this time and annihilated more than 10,000 puppet troops, including more than 2,000 prisoners. The 1st and 2nd Brigades suffered more than 3,000 casualties, including more than 2,000 killed. With such an advantage in troops and equipment, the Reading Force still has so many casualties, which shows the strength of the devil's combat effectiveness. At the same time, the Reading Division also captured a large amount of weapons and equipment, because the ammunition warehouse of the devils in the city was destroyed by the remnants of the devils, the readers did not capture much ammunition and supplies.

Fortunately, Zhang Mingyu's arsenal is constantly producing ammunition, and the reading division will not lack ammunition, after the capture of Baotou, there are no devils in several small counties around it, only some puppet troops, when Zhang Mingyu sent troops to attack the city, before the fight, those puppet troops opened the city gate and surrendered all the weapons.

After all, the powerful "imperial army" in their eyes has been wiped out and beaten away, and the puppet army that has long been scared of the farts and urine has surrendered one after another when they see the reading division, and individual stubborn Han annihilation and puppet army have either been annihilated, or they have escaped to the mountains as bandits, for these bandits Zhang Mingyu intends to eliminate them in the future, and the top priority now is to reorganize the troops and develop ammunition and materials.

At this time, the Reading Division has been unable to attack Suiyuan, after nearly a month of continuous campaigning, the strength and weapons and ammunition of the Reading Division have reached the limit, due to the limited strength, but also to defend everywhere, can only temporarily stop the attack, rest for a period of time, replenish soldiers and ammunition, after all, the soldiers also need to rest, although the Reading Division has regained Ordos, Baotou but the soldiers are already very tired, unable to fight again.

Now there are nearly 5,000 puppet Mongolian prisoners in the hands of the reader, most of these people are willing to join the reader after education, and only a small part of them are unwilling to join the army because they are desperate to be Han annihilation. Other crimes that were less serious were sent to work as coolies, and workers were indispensable for mining and digging in the future.

In addition to the inclusion of these captives, the Reading Division began to recruit troops on a large scale, with the continuous expansion of the territory, Zhang Mingyu felt that the troops in his hands were stretched, once the devil came to a large-scale sweep, it was really hanging whether the Reading Division could hold it.

A few days later, Zhang Mingyu received a letter of appointment from Yucheng, which said: "The Reading Division has been expanded into the Reading Army, and Zhang Mingyu is still the commander of the 'Lieutenant General'. Except for Zhang Biao. Lai San and the others were promoted to the rank of major generals, and the rest were basically not appointed.

It turned out that the Reading Division had won two successive local battles in a month, with outstanding combat achievements, and had an extremely important position in the hearts of the whole [***] people, and President Chiang was forced to expand the Reading Division into the Reading Force of the National Revolutionary Army, so he encouraged the front-line soldiers to fight bravely to kill the enemy. But he was suspicious and did not give Zhang Mingyu a military rank again.

However, this is enough for Zhang Mingyu and the reading division, the army ranks are high in these years, and there is no more guns in his hands, with the establishment of an army, Zhang Mingyu can continue to recruit and expand the army.

With the major newspapers of the National People's Political Axe as propaganda "on behalf of the propaganda," the recruitment of the Reading Force progressed very quickly, recruiting more than 7,000 soldiers in just seven days, and an average of more than 1,000 people were conscripted into the army every day.

After half a month of recruitment, the Reading Force expanded to more than 15,000 people, and at this time, the strength of the Reading Force reached an astonishing more than 60,000 people, with soldiers, but Zhang Mingyu soon encountered a headache for him, that is, the food problem, although his arsenal can produce guns and ammunition, but it cannot produce food, more than 60,000 people plus tens of thousands of workers and logistics personnel The daily food consumption has reached an astonishing level.

The people in the base area did not have much food in their hands, and the continuous fighting in the past month affected the autumn harvest of the people, and the food in the hands of the villagers was only enough to sustain them through the cold winter, and there was no surplus grain to feed Zhang Mingyu's more than 100,000 workers and soldiers.

With each person consuming three catties of grain per day, the reading force needs 300,000 catties of grain every day, and if it is accompanied by some wild fruits and vegetables, it will also consume more than 200,000 catties per day.

In the end, Zhang Mingyu came up with a way, that is, to use the money earned from his own factories and pharmaceutical factories to go to the Soviet Union, Europe and the United States to buy a large amount of grain, at that time, due to the economic depression in Europe and the United States and other countries, the grain was quite cheap, Zhang Mingyu still purchased a large amount of grain at a fairly reasonable price, and these grains were continuously transported to the base areas through the Soviet Union.

After reorganization, Zhang Mingyu expanded the Reading Force into four infantry divisions, each infantry division had three brigades, the commander of the first division was Zhang Biao, the commander of the second division was Ling Tianbao, the commander of the third division was Lai San, the commander of the newly formed fourth division was Wang Tiehan, the artillery regiment was expanded into an artillery brigade, the brigade commander Sun Dali, the air defense regiment was expanded into an air defense brigade, and the brigade commander Chen Xiaochun was reorganized.

After Zhang Mingyu recovered Baotou, he captured a large number of war horses, he expanded the cavalry battalion into a cavalry regiment, and in the future the cavalry will be eliminated by the armored troops, because the production capacity of his arsenal at this time is not enough to produce a large number of armored vehicles and motorcycles, so he will continue to use the cavalry for the time being.

The newly formed Fourth Division was formed with the original Reading Brigade as the backbone, and the main task of this division was to garrison the arsenal and Ordos in the base area.

At this time, each of the four infantry divisions had more than 10,000 people, and had three infantry brigades and an artillery regiment under its jurisdiction. The 4th Division, as a left-behind division, had an air defense regiment, an artillery regiment, a heavy artillery battalion, and a tank and armored regiment in the base area.

Due to the high price of tanks, Zhang Mingyu did not continue to buy tanks, because at this time, most of the funds in his hands were used by Charles Thornton to invest in the oil and mineral industries, and part of them were bought by him.

In addition to the expansion of the above units, the special forces team is still more than 100 people, because each division and each squad now has at least one sniper, so Zhang Mingyu's sniper detachment is not expanding, and the guard company is also business as usual. At this time, the first, second, and third divisions of the Reading Army were basically Soviet-style equipment and German-style equipment, and only the newly formed Fourth Division was equipped with a large number of weapons and weapons, but at the speed of the arsenal, the Fourth Division would soon be replaced with more advanced Soviet-style or German-style weapons and equipment.

The soldiers and ammunition were sufficient, and the Reading Force began to train intensively to prepare for the next stage of operations.

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