Yang Yongtai came up from below, and when he saw him, he said, "You can rest assured,"

The two students waved their arms excitedly when they heard this, and the slogans on and off the stage sounded over and over again, and Yang Yongtai whispered beside Chiang Ching-kuo: "The people's will is available." ”

Chiang Ching-kuo nodded slightly, and after the meeting was dismissed, he immediately rushed to the Huangshan official residence and reported today's situation to Chiang Kai-shek, and at the same time made a suggestion: "Father, the ancients said that those who follow the will prosper and those who rebel perish, we should conform to the will of the people, there are hundreds of thousands of school-age students all over the country, and once the army is recruited, hundreds of thousands of soldiers can be established, so that it can not only meet the needs of the army, but also meet the wishes of the students, and adapt to the two." In addition, I propose that a provision be made in the school record, that all mothers who participated in the war should retain their school status and return to school to complete their studies after the war. ”

Chiang Kai-shek was very satisfied, he looked at Chiang Ching-kuo's eyes full of appreciation, Chiang Ching-kuo's suggestion was very perfect, especially the last point, which relieved most of the students' worries.

"Okay, just do as you say, you mobilize the representatives of the Three Youth Leagues and put forward a motion at the political meeting" After Chiang Kai-shek finished speaking, he called Chen Bui again: "Mr. Bui, notify General Zhang Zizhong's funeral committee that the public memorial will be extended for three days." ”

Chiang Ching-kuo immediately understood that Chiang Kai-shek's thoughts were more comprehensive than his. In the next three days, members of the Three Youth Leagues, members of peasant associations, representatives of trade unions, and party departments at all levels, who came from all over the country, came one after another to take the oath before the spirit under the leadership of the National Salvation Association. The entire rear area set off a wave of enthusiasm for joining the army and going to the front.

The Council for Political Affairs promulgated the measures for the management of the student status of educated young people as soon as possible, stipulating that all young students who joined the army could retain their school status and return to school to begin their studies after the end of the Anti-Japanese War.

This stipulation was welcomed by all the young students, and immediately set off a wave of enthusiasm among the young students to join the army, from the warm southern province of Guangdong to the northwest, where the sky is full of loess and camel bells are elegant, groups of students have walked out of the campus and put on military uniforms. An inch of mountains and rivers, an inch of blood; 100,000 youth, 100,000 soldiers;

The Military Commission of the Nationalist Government set up a committee for young intellectuals to join the army, and Chiang Kai-shek personally served as the director of the committee, specializing in the recruitment of young intellectuals into the army. In the past two months, 300,000 young intellectuals have joined the army, and the soldiers needed for the reorganization of the army have been immediately solved. Stilwell flew from Burma to Chongqing and demanded that the Chinese soldiers be assigned to the expeditionary force. Chiang Kai-shek allocated 100,000 people to the expeditionary force, the remaining 200,000, and another 50,000 to the mechanized army, and the remaining Chiang Kai-shek decided to form a youth army.

The total strength of the Youth Army is 150,000, the whole army is reorganized into 10 divisions, Luo Zhuoying is appointed as the training director of the Youth Army, Jiang Jingguo is the director of the Political Department of the Youth Army, and the Fifth Theater is divided into four divisions, four divisions in the Ninth Theater, and two divisions in the Eighth Theater. The 5th and 9th Theaters set up training sub-supervisors, which were assigned by the Youth Army Headquarters.

After Zhuang Jihua participated in Zhang Zizhong's funeral ceremony, he went to Mianzhu to inspect the mechanized army. The mechanized army that is being reorganized has concentrated the best weapons and equipment in China at present, and the main battle tank is Ding Jiao [private description, including 300 fire tanks and 400 tanks, supporting firepower, in addition to self-propelled artillery, Chiang Kai-shek and even the five rocket artillery battalions directly under the Military Commission have also been allocated to the mechanized army "The total strength of the whole army is 60,000 000

On the training ground, the engines roared, the dust was flying, the guns were roaring, and the smoke was filled, and a tank flexibly climbed up the hill and drove across the single-plank bridge to "boom" the muzzle of the gun burst into a ball of fire, and the shells accurately hit the target in the distance. "Not bad." Zhuang Jihua put down the binoculars and said to Xu Tingyao, Xu Tingyao also smiled with satisfaction, the American consultant Danny next to him was expressionless, and several people walked out of the shelter.

After a while, the tank roared to the outside of the shelter, the top cover opened, and a young officer crawled out of it, he jumped down from the tank and ran quickly in front of Zhuang Jihua. "Report, Major Jiang Weiguo, commander of the first battalion of the first regiment of the Zhongshan Tank Division, came to listen to the order."

Hearing this name, Zhuang Jihua lowered his eyes slightly, and then looked Jiang Weiguo up and down, the blue tank uniform was a little wrinkled, and the leather hat was tightly worn on his head, but this face was very different from Jiang Jingguo, and his expression was different, even more unruly. "Major, what do you think of your driving skills?" "Excellent." Jiang Weiguo spit out two words without hesitation: "When I was trained in Germany, my driving skills were excellent." ”

"Hmm" Zhuang Jihua nodded, with the stereotype and seriousness of the Germans, he can get an excellent evaluation in the German army, and he can't do it without a little real ability: "How do our tanks compare with German tanks?" ”

"The T34 is an excellent tank, better than all the German tanks I've ever seen, inferior to the AuA\}D tank, and even less so'L\}u,II." The armor is thin, and the firepower is still very weak. Jiang Weiguo replied.

Zhuang Jihua is rambling "l; F walked past him, looking at a row of tanks parked in the distance, Jiang Weiguo turned to look at Zhuang Jihua's back, his mood was a little nervous, he had heard of this person in Germany, and after returning to China, he heard a lot about this person from his brother, their current training program was formulated by this person, and now facing this person, he couldn't help but feel a little worried. "Major, what do you think of your men?" Zhuang Jihua turned around and asked a question that Jiang Weiguo did not expect.

Jiang Weiguo's heart tightened, and he suddenly realized that Zhuang Jihua did not value his identity, and in the past, there were no high-ranking generals who came to Mianzhu to watch, including Chen Cheng, after they saw him, most of them asked a few words casually, and most of them praised him. Today's Zhuang Jihua is obviously not with them 11-

Jiang Weiguo pondered slightly, and then said loudly: "I think they are not qualified tank soldiers, and they have been trained in Germany before" German tank soldiers generally have to go through three years of training before they can go to the battlefield, and my subordinates are less than a year. ”

"You are too idealistic, we don't have three years, you may go to the battlefield in one year at the earliest, only with stricter and harder training to make up for it, what do you think of your tactical training." Zhuang Jihua asked.

"So far, we have only carried out company group offensive tactical training," Jiang Weiguo replied: "Tank troops are a technical branch, but most of our soldiers are illiterate before joining the army, and we have to start from the most basic to master such complex weapons and equipment as tanks, which wastes a lot of our time."

Jiang Weiguo is telling the truth, and this is also the biggest problem for Chinese soldiers. Tanks, unlike rifles, are completely incompatible with the complexity of their operation, and the quality of soldiers has become the biggest obstacle to the development of mechanized units. Zhuang Jihua pondered with his eyebrows, after he arrived in Mianzhu, he first spent two major incidents in the army to listen to reports, and then went down to various regiments to visit, and only after he had a considerable understanding of the situation of the troops did he go to the training ground to observe the house.

"Don't complain, the military is to use the existing conditions to get astatine profits." Zhuang Jihua's tone became gentle, and he turned to Danny and said, "General Danny, our situation is different from that of the United States, and it is inappropriate to completely apply the methods of the US military. ”

Danny shrugged: "General Zhuang, I admit the truth you said, but at this level, I'm afraid it will take two years of training before it can be put into actual combat." ”

"The battlefield is the best training ground" Zhuang Jihua didn't care: "We can't have two years, when the Fifth Army was put into battle in Zaoyang, it only trained for more than a year, this army fought against the German army, and it was definitely a failure, but we were facing the Japanese." ”

"Tactical training at the battalion level should begin as soon as possible, in addition to tactical training in coordination with the infantry

Zhuang Jihua turned his head to Xu Tingyao and said, "Brother Yuexiang, you don't have much time, and when you counterattack, I hope to see the heroic appearance of the mechanized army." ”

For Zhuang Jihua, Xu Tingyao respects him from the bottom of his heart, not only because of his achievements, but more importantly, because he is another person who is proficient in tank combat. As the founder of China's mechanized troops, he thought he was still proficient in mechanized troops, but the Zaoyang operation still shocked him, and he thought that he could not fight such a battle.

After Qiu Qingquan came back from Zaoyang, he learned from him in detail about the whole process of the battle, and he didn't understand how the battle was fought. Qiu Qingquan drew a picture of the whole process of the operation, "the formation of the tank column, the mode of operation, how the infantry cooperated, how to make a detour when encountering an attack, and how to communicate during the battle."

What made Xu Tingyao strange was that in the previous training, there was no training in this area, and with his understanding of Qiu Qingquan, Qiu Qingquan did not know so much about large-scale tank operations. Faced with Xu Tingyao's inquiry, Qiu Qingquan awkwardly admitted that this was taught by Zhuang Jihua.

Xu Tingyao was very shocked, and he realized that the legend that Zhuang Jihua studied large-scale tank combat with Guderian in Germany was true. In the past ten days, Zhuang Jihua's itinerary has proved that he is an expert in this area.

Zhuang Jihua's troops, the first to go is not the combat troops, but the logistics troops, especially the maintenance company, the biggest problem in tank combat is logistics, the tank as a kind of machinery, it is easy to damage, maintenance is a very important means to ensure combat effectiveness, in addition to the oil, the tank is a weapon that consumes a lot of fuel, without fuel, the tank is not as good as a machine gun. What's even more annoying is that Ding Lie is a diesel engine, an embarrassing gasoline engine, and the logistics troops have to prepare two oil sections.

"You already know our problem," Xu Tingyao pondered and said: "There are another 50,000 student soldiers coming, and the chairman asked us to expand the number to 100,000, and now these soldiers have not been trained, plus these 50,000 recruits, as well as tanks and armored vehicles, you know our output, and when the US-aided tanks will arrive, only God knows." ”

Domestic tank production is insufficient, and at least 1,000 tanks and armored vehicles are needed to expand to 100,000 people, which is close to the annual output of the entire tank industry, and the U.S. aid, the bromin-Burma highway is broken, "The carrying capacity of the Sichuan Qi kilometer is limited, the artillery machine gun rifle bullet fuel is ranked before the tank, and the number of tanks provided by the United States is relatively small.

"First train a division, the rest of the division can be used as a teacher, some things must be proven and improved on the battlefield" Zhuang Jihua said: "Anyway, half a year later, I want to see a mechanized peak that can only go to the battlefield." ”

Zhuang Jihua's words revealed a strong signal that in half a year, the Chinese army was about to start a counteroffensive, and Danny couldn't help but blink.

Xu Tingyao sank, and Zhuang Jihua added to the fire: "You should draw up a plan to divide the entire training into several stages, what are the tasks that should be completed in each stage, step by step."

"One division should be able to do it." Xu Tingyao finally nodded and promised="But." Wencao, the fuel and ammunition for training should be guaranteed, after the Momian Road was broken, the fuel became more and more tight, and we could only get eighty percent at the best time, and some people even said that we should save fuel, and finally do not carry out driving training. ”

"This is absolutely not good" Zhuang Jihua felt inexplicable, thrifty, the tank soldiers can't even drive tanks well, what kind of battle are they fighting: "I will report this matter to the chairman of the committee, what nonsense is it?"

"Who, I won't say it, Wencao, the armored unit that originally taught the corps, why it lost so quickly, a big reason is the lack of training." Xu Tingyao's tone was full of helplessness, there was also an expert unit in the teaching corps back then, which was established under the guidance of German advisers. It was because of the lack of fuel that the driving training was very little, and after the start of the Songhu Anti-Japanese War, it was soon lost. "I'll guarantee this, General Danny," Zhuang Jihua turned to Danny and said, "You can also supervise it." ”

"General Zhuang, please rest assured, I will not allow this to happen, my only purpose here is to help China build an armored force." Danny replied without hesitation.

After returning from Mianzhu, Zhuang Jihua wrote a report of tens of thousands of words and handed it to Chiang Kai-shek, in the report, Zhuang Jihua evaluated Xu Tingyao's work, and was still satisfied with his work, but thought that Xu Tingyao's best position was still the armored forces school, what he lacked was the actual combat experience of large-scale tank operations, and the only one among the domestic generals who had experience in this area was Qiu Qingquan, and suggested that Qiu Qingquan be exchanged for Xu Tingyao.

In addition, he made suggestions on the logistics of the mechanized army, suggesting that a separate supply system for the mechanized army should be established under the logistics department to ensure the training of the mechanized army.

Chiang Kai-shek attached great importance to this report, and although he reduced Zhuang Jihua's power, Chiang Kai-shek was still convinced of Zhuang Jihua's ability, and he immediately handed Zhuang Jihua's report to He Yingqin, Chen Chenghong, and Junqi for them to evaluate the report.

Of course, He Yingqin and Hong Junqi would not object, Chen Cheng wanted to oppose it, but seeing that Chiang Kai-shek already had the intention of accepting it, he no longer objected, and the logistics were handed over to Hong Junqi, and Qiu Qingquan's proposal to replace Xu Tingyao was also accepted.

Before issuing Qiu Qingquan's appointment, Chiang Kai-shek decided to set up the Hengyang camp to coordinate and command the troops south of the Yangtze River; Set up the Tianshui camp to unify the command of the troops north of the Yangtze River. Chen Cheng, commander-in-chief of the Hengyang camp, and Li Zongren, commander-in-chief of the Tianshui camp. The commander of the Fifth Theater was succeeded by General Zhuang Jihua, a second-class general.

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