The situation in the officer corps is good and bad, the good side is that these are all officers who have come down from the battlefield, regardless of their knowledge, everyone has seen blood; The bad thing is that except for the first few rows of lieutenants, the back rows are all non-commissioned officers, and they are not young, and they have a beard and a little gray. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 infoThese dozens of non-commissioned officers are all from the 48th Division, so Li Kongrong is extremely curious about the 48th Division.

"The 48th Division is Xu Yuanquan's troops, and they are also my old troops." On the way back, Huang Baitao took the initiative to talk about the origin of the 48th Division. "When I graduated from the fifth phase of the Jiangsu Officer Education Corps, I was sent to the Jiangsu Defense Army as a platoon company commander, and the 13th year of the Zhifeng War broke out, Zhang Zongchang assisted Su Anhui Xuanfu to make Lu Yongxiang go south to fight the Jiangsu overseer Qi Xieyuan, and the Jiangsu Defense Army was about to collapse, and I was also captured. Fortunately, Zhang Zongchang of the Jiangsu Officer Education Corps was also one of the instructors, and he knew me, so he sent me to Xu Yuanquan's department.

This Xu Yuanquan Department also came up not long ago, in addition to the Shandong Fifth Mixed Association, and then the 20th Division of Zhifeng was incorporated during the Great War, which was renamed the 6th Army Corps during the Northern Expedition, and the 20th Division was reduced to the 48th Division of the Revolutionary Army after the Northern Expedition. At the time of the Central Plains War, a part of it was drawn out and organized into the 41st Division of the Revolutionary Army, and then these two divisions were organized into the 10th Army. The Jiang-Gui War, the Central Plains War, and the suppression of bandits in Hubei Province, I was in the 48th Division. In the twenty-fourth year of the people, I was favored by Xu Dashuai, and I was appointed as the commander of the 48th Division, but I was proud of my achievements at that time, offended many people, and was soon dismissed, so after that, I changed my name to 'Bai Tao' to show Tao obscurity. ”

Unexpectedly, Huang Baitao's 'Baitao' is the meaning of Tao Hui, and Li Kongrong thought that his 'Baitao' was boasting that he had 'a hundred Tao strategies' in his chest. "What about this 48th division now? You don't object to pulling people like this? ”

In the bumpy carriage, Li Kongrong handed Huang Baitao a cigarette, he took it and lit it and said, "After I leave, Xu Jiwu will be the division commander." It's okay for this person to fight, he often goes into battle bare-chested and rushes to the front line, but he is illiterate, he hasn't gone to any military school, and he doesn't know how to command more than the regiment commander, he is commanded by the chief of staff every time he fights, and he is in a hurry on the side.

The 10th Army participated in the defenders of the capital, and then retreated to the Qianshan area of Anhui Province to participate in the peripheral battle of the Battle of Wuhan, but at this time it was the 41st Division that fought well, and the commander of the 41st Division was Ding Zhipan. After the Battle of Wuhan, Xu Dashuai was confused at that time, and the Supreme Command asked the 10th Army to stay in Dabie Mountain to fight guerrillas, but he withdrew from the mountains with the 48th Division and the 199th Division to the west.

Chen Cheng saw that these two divisions could fight, and he probably wanted to swallow these two divisions, but Minister He of the Ministry of Military Affairs thought that these two divisions could fight, and since they had been damaged, they should be reorganized into one division. That is, the 48th Division was cut and merged into the 41st Division, and if Xu Jiwu did not go down, Ding Zhipan would be the division commander, and the number of the 48th Division would be given to Hu Zongnan. The 41st Division was originally derived from the 48th Division, but now the 41st Division has merged the 48th Division, so everyone is very unconvinced.

After the division commander Xu Jiwu became the division commander, not only would he not be able to command or fight, but he would not be able to operate the relationship. Huang Baitao said the reason, his expression was a little complicated. This is not to say that the 48th Division is too troublesome, the 48th Division has a history. The team that Zhang Zongchang incorporated by the Luanhe River was the number changed after the Republic of China, and the number was 20 towns in the former Qing Dynasty......"

"Town 20?!" Li Kongrong was taken aback, he didn't expect that the 20th Division was the 20th Town. "When Xinhai was in charge, Zhang Shaozeng was in charge? Feng Yuxiang was still a battalion officer in the army at that time? ”

Li Kongrong knew the 20th town, and now it was Huang Baitao's turn to be strange. He said, "Yes." Brother Hansheng knows 20 towns? ”

"Of course I do." During the Republic of China, the establishment of troops was chaotic, and it was not that some researchers did not know the reason, but Li Kongrong, the new army in the towns before Xinhai, knew it. He said: "Everyone says that there are six towns in Beiyang, but in fact, there are not only six towns, but seven towns. If I'm not mistaken, the 20th town was formed by the 3rd, 5th, and 6th towns, each of which was formed into the 1st Mixed Association of the Army, and later became the 20th Town with the 1st and 2nd Marks of the Mukden Army. This first bid was formed by the Beijing Division Patrol Police Battalion, and the second bid I remember was formed by the Fengtian Fifth Road Patrol Team, and Zhang Zuolin was once the commander of the Fengtian Front Road Patrol Team. ”

"Yes, exactly." Huang Baitao couldn't figure out why Li Kongrong knew so much about the old Huang calendar, and admired him a little. He said, "So the veterans of the 48th Division are always a little arrogant, they say that 20 towns are a handsome team, and it is a pity to cut them like this." Chongqing is unwilling to listen to this kind of talk, the miscellaneous team can be cut and swallowed, and the civil engineering department of Chen Cixiu is getting stronger and stronger. ”

"Does Ding Zhipan know that you are recruiting officers from the 48th Division?" Li Kongrong Q&A. "What's his attitude?"

"What attitude can he have?" Huang Baitao smiled. "What he wants is the veterans of the 48th Division, as well as guns and ammunition, and everything else is dispensable. During the defense of the capital, the 41st Division was still full of recruits, and the recruits fought not to mention anything else. ”

"What about the division commander Xu Jiwu?" Li Kongrong nodded in understanding.

"He? Being a division commander for a few years hurt him. He only recognizes money now, and if he has money, he can gamble, since the troops are going to be cut above, why not if he can make more money? Huang Baitao said, "He originally wanted to follow, but I replied that there was no need, as long as there were officers below the regiment here, these were the people who fought the war." Most of the regiments and above shrank in the rear, and no matter how they fought in front and what the situation was, they were all black-eyed. When I was in the capital, I didn't see the division commander at all, and the division commander had already been preparing to cross the river by the river. ”

"Just make it clear to him." Since Xu Jiwu, the commander of the 48th Division, is such a rough man who is afraid of death, Li Kongrong is also relieved. If Chongqing sent this Xu Jiwu to dig the foot of the wall or something that day, everyone would not obey him.

"My idea is that the sense of honor of the troops is important." Li Kongrong thought for a while before saying: "The sense of honor is also related to the historical origin of the army. In my opinion, this division is called the 20th Marine Division, and it can be regarded as the previous number. You dig out some glorious deeds of the army from the veterans, such as the Xinhai Luanhe Uprising or something, and how this army was originally formed, these are all military histories, and the recruits should teach them when they come. ”

"Is this convenient? We're not Marines? Huang Baitao was surprised, he didn't quite understand Li Kongrong's thoughts.

"Now it's also a marine, but the origin and lineage of this army must be clearly explained." Li Kongrong said. "Because it's about the honor of the troops. Didn't you say that the veterans of the 48th Division were proud? This is the result of a sense of honor, and he must have thought when he saw the other troops: you were all wearing open crotch pants while we were playing with guns. To put it bluntly, the two brigades of the Marine Corps are difficult to compare with the 20 towns, they were established late, and they forced the villagers to grow opium. ”

Li Kongrong bluntly said the black history of the Marine Corps, which made Lu Ruping, who was driving, look dark. Li Kongrong said again: "The focus of your future efforts is to pull people from the 48th Division, and try to pull as many people as possible." ”

"It's all done." Huang Baitao said. "The 48th Division was abolished a few months ago, and now the 48th Division has been merged into the 41st Division. Ding Zhipan may not let people go. ”

"Then buy someone." Li Kongrong said, "Could he not recognize gold and dollar bills?" ”

"It's not impossible to buy people, but the relationship between the 41st Division and the military commander is said to be extraordinary, and it would be bad if some spies came." Huang Baitao said, it can be seen that he is still extremely careful.

"Then ......" Li Kongrong didn't want to be contaminated with the military command, he thought about it and said: "I remember that the six towns of Beiyang will be discharged from the army after two or three years of enlistment, which can be regarded as a kind of reserve." You see if you can find people who retired from the previous 20 towns, it doesn't matter if you're old, just be in good health. ”

"Old man, do we want it too?" Huang Baitao couldn't figure out what Li Kongrong was going to do.

"Yes. As long as you don't get seasick or sick, it doesn't matter if you're older. Li Kongrong said. It is easy to obtain a thousand troops, but it is difficult to find a general, and what is more difficult to find than a general is the tradition of the army. There is no traditional army, the officer is dead, the soldier must be scattered, there is a traditional army is different, the officer is dead, the soldier can still hold on, they are proud of the name they belong to, and everyone feels superior to them. Maybe the 1st Division will be able to play this tradition in the future, but the foundation is not enough. They must have been cowardly at the beginning, peeing their pants was certain, and after winning, they became invincible, thinking that Lao Tzu was invincible in the world. Such a team is too impetuous, and it must be pressed by veterans. ”

"I see." The cigarette in Huang Baitao's hand kept burning, but he didn't smoke it. Li Kongrong's last two sentences reminded him of his experience in the 48th Division: At the beginning, he was also cowardly, but later he found that everyone was inferior to himself, so he was a little arrogant.

"If you don't fit to go into battle after you come, you will do chores. The rank is attached to the sergeant, but the salary can be closer to the captain. Li Kongrong finally instructed.

"Brother Hansheng, is this too high?" Huang Baitao smacked his tongue, now his salaries are the same as before the Anti-Japanese War, although they are the same, but they are paid in US dollars, and now the US dollars have risen five or six times against fiat currency, which means that everyone's salaries have also increased five or six times.

"Is this still high? Do you know how much the soldiers are paid in North America? Li Kongrong smiled. He knew that Huang Baitao had a monthly salary of 660 legal dollars for the lieutenant general, which was 198 US dollars when converted into US dollars at the previous exchange rate, and there was an additional month's military salary at the end of the year. The fiat currency depreciated, and the money converted into fiat currency was higher than He Yingqin's monthly salary. "It's twelve dollars a month for North American recruits."

"Twelve dollars?" Huang Baitao almost bit his tongue. "That's too high, isn't it?"

"It's very high, but overseas Chinese in the United States can earn twenty or thirty dollars a month, tired and tired, but they can save a little bit of food and housing, and they can still save more than ten dollars a month. The U.S. Army's infantry was paid a higher monthly salary, thirty-four dollars a month when they were not fighting. We recruit all volunteers, but we also have to pay for our volunteers. Twelve dollars is the standard for recruits, and privates, privates, and privates are higher, and the average should be about fifteen dollars. ”

Li Kongrong talked about the salaries of American recruits, because the navy recruits pilots, ground crews, and volunteers in the United States, and the navy has become the most popular person in California. Recruiting allows Chinese people not to compete with whites for jobs, and these Chinese want to go home to fight, and when they die, they will never come back, so the California state government has made it easy everywhere.

"It's too expensive, it's too expensive." Huang Baitao shook his head vigorously, twelve dollars of recruits, which can recruit ten in China.

"The soldiers of the Philippines are cheaper, and there are places like Nanyang." Li Kongrong added, "At that time, in addition to the 20th Division, the soldiers recruited by the Philippines, Nanyang and other places will only be ordinary Marine Divisions, so that the monthly salary can be reduced to the level of five US dollars." ”

"Five dollars is expensive." Huang Baitao was still shaking his head, at first he didn't care how much five dollars were, but later he found out that five dollars could be exchanged for seventy or eighty fiat dollars. "Our monthly salary is not to deduct food, and the domestic soldiers are not even enough to eat now. The 48th Division eats four-eyed rice every day in Dabie Mountain - the rice is full of water, and when you look up, you have two eyes in the rice and two eyes yourself, so it is called four-eyed rice. This rice is difficult to swallow, and even salt has to be smuggled, not to mention oil. ”

"That's someone else." Li Kongrong also knew the current situation of the domestic army, and the food of the soldiers of the 524th Regiment in Qinzhou did not see meat at all, and even the canned tin box that had been eaten up had to be cooked together when cooking, because there were still oil flowers on it. "It doesn't matter to me whether other people live or die, I just know that if I can't let my brother take more and eat better, I'm not qualified to be their chief?"

......There is a strong sense of independence and community in Li Kongrong's attitude, and Huang Baitao really doesn't know how to deal with this -- if the welfare of brothers is the most important, then why fight the Japanese? If the war against Japan is the most important, then why should we call the friendly forces in the country someone else, and it has nothing to do with us whether they live or die?

Li Kongrong didn't see Huang Baitao's surprise, he saw that the car drove into the city and the two were about to be separated, so he said: "In the officer corps, except for the 48th Division, everyone else has their own origins, I mean to check the past first, whether the Communist Party or the National, if you can break with your own party, you can accept it, and if you can't tell the past or have something to hide, then give him severance pay and let him go home."

There is still some work to be done before leaving Hong Kong, which is mainly in charge of Lieutenant Ouyang Jin, who has participated in the Communist Youth League of the Communist Party of China before and knows the doorways inside, and we must be completely sure that these people are clean before we can go to Yunnan. Also, if you find someone with a problem in the future, it will not be dismissed or shot, and you must make this clear to everyone to save yourself from complaining in the future.

The last thing, you see how much time you have to arrange things here. Arrange to take a few people to the United States, either with me or directly to the Pacific Ocean. The first thing you go to is to see those recruits, and then take them home; First, the United States can refer to your opinions, and second, you have a good idea of how to organize the troops. (To be continued.) )