The third part of the bloody and fire war of resistance, the tenth chapter, the third section of the war drums

"There are two main themes for this meeting: First, in the Battle of Shandong and the earlier Battle of Northern Hubei, the combat effectiveness of the various units displayed by the various units was uneven, and in order to complete the chairman's strategy of resisting the war of resistance and building the country, with the approval of the National Revolutionary Military Commission and the chairman, all the units under the North China Theater were readjusted and retrained. Full/Ben/Small/Say/Net"

"Second, the commander will announce the strategy for the operation in North China and adjust the deployment."

At the beginning of the meeting, Xu Zuyi announced the main topic of the meeting, and the audience at the venue will sit and hold their breath. At this time, Zhuang Jihua said: "It's still the old rule, any problem can be talked about at the meeting, and it must be strictly implemented after the meeting." ”

There was silence at the venue, Zhuang Jihua nodded, and motioned for Xu Zuyi to continue. Xu Zuyi picked up the prepared plan and read it out loud: "According to the express order of the commander of the theater, the following adjustments will be made to the troops in the theater.

1. With the approval of the Military Commission of the National Revolution, the 52nd Group Army was formed, with General Pan Van Hua, commander of the group army, under the jurisdiction of two armies, the 47th Army, the newly organized 14th Army, and the Third Army. ”

When the name was read, Pan Wenhua stood up vigorously, he was a Confucian general, and he was also the second batch of Sichuan army generals to go out of Sichuan, but the Sichuan army was appointed according to factions, he first served Deng Xihou as a deputy, and later gave Tang Shizun as a deputy. In fact, from Liu Xiang to Zhuang Jihua, they all admire him, Liu Xiang has always entrusted him with important tasks, and Zhuang Jihua has always wanted to promote him, and this time he finally found an opportunity.

The 52nd Group Army, in addition to these three armies, was also equipped with a heavy artillery brigade, a tank regiment, and the 47th Army changed its equipment to become a US ordnance army, the new 14th Army was reequipped with Chongqing-made army, and the Third Army was already made in Chongqing. As a result of this readjustment, the 52nd Group Army immediately became the first-class main force in the theater in terms of equipment.

"Commander Li of the Forty-seventh Army, Commander Chen of the New Fourteenth Army."

Li Zongfang and Chen Lie both stood up, Zhuang Jihua looked at them and said: "The equipment has been replaced, and the corresponding tactics must also keep up, you must remember that it is always the people who determine the victory or defeat of the battle, it is the will!" It's morale! ”

"Yes!"

"Commander Chen, the new 14th Army is a new unit, this time I will first change your clothes, I hope you can lead this army to establish meritorious deeds on the battlefield."

"Yes!" Li Zongfang and Chen Lie replied loudly at the same time, and then sat down under the envious eyes of the generals.

Bai Chongxi sighed secretly in his heart, he knew the inside story, Zhuang Jihua's close confidant Wang Guobin's 51st Group Army was in great need of weapons, but Zhuang Jihua first changed the equipment of the 52nd Group Army, the 47th Army and the New 14th Army can be regarded as miscellaneous troops, and only the Third Army in this group army is regarded as a collateral unit of the Central Army, whose history can be traced back to Zhu Peide's Yunnan Army, which supported Chiang Kai-shek in all previous civil wars.

Xu Zuyi then announced the readjustment of the troops, with Chen Mingren, commander of the newly formed Third Army, transferred to the commander of the 101st Army, Zhang Xin to the commander of the 102nd Army, and Guo Xunqi, commander of the 49th Group Army.

Chi Fengcheng, commander of the 40th Army, was transferred to the 78th Army, Yu Chengwan, commander of the 78th Army, was transferred to the 40th Army, the new Third Army was replaced by Shi Guantao, and the 40th Army, the new Third Army, and the two armies were formed. The newly established 40th Army has 27 divisions, the 3rd Army has 31 divisions, and the 1st Eighth Brigade has been newly formed.

The 40th Army is a type A army, and the new Third Army is a type B army.

Later, Xu Zuyi continued to read out the order, and the 68th Army and the 73rd Army were organized, but the commander did not change; The 19th Army and the 7th Army will be provisionally reorganized. At the same time, it was announced that the entire 77th Army would be reorganized into a type A army, the new Eighth Army and the 77th Army would be organized, the new Eighth Army would be an expeditionary force transferred from Burma, and the equipment of the expeditionary force would all be American weapons, and the army commander Shi Zhongcheng would be the commander.

After Zhuang Jihua left the expeditionary force, Yu Jishi did not move Zhuang Jihua's troops at first, especially the New Eighth Army and the 112th Army, and extended his hand into the 54th Army and the 65th Army, and then used the Youth Army and reorganization to expand his own strength, but he soon encountered the problems encountered by Zhuang Jihua, the lack of cadres, and his situation was more serious, because there was no one to train cadres for him, so he quickly formed cooperation with Chiang Ching-kuo, and Chiang Ching-kuo recommended a group of officers to him.

Although Yu Chengwan and Huang Botao left the New Eighth Army and the 112th Army, there are still a large number of middle- and lower-level officers who still remain in the two armies, among which there are many in the New Eighth Army, and these middle- and lower-level officers have played a very important role in maintaining the combat tradition of the troops.

Subsequently, Xu Zuyi transferred some division and brigade commanders who had performed relatively poorly in the Battle of Shandong and the Battle of Northern Hubei and transferred some division and brigade commanders from the 77th Army, 68th Army, and 73rd Army to Shandong and Henan to serve as commanders of military divisions, replacing them with his own people.

The number of the 103rd Army was restored, the 101st Army was split into two armies, the 105th Division was transferred out separately, and the division commander Zhang Lingfu was appointed as the commander of the 103rd Army, under the jurisdiction of the 105th Division and the newly formed 21st Division; The newly formed Honorary Ninth Division, with Lin Yi, the former chief of staff of the 105th Division, serving as the division commander, complemented the 101st Army.

Zhuang Jihua naturally will not treat his own descendants, and the Honorable Ninth Division is mainly composed of wounded veterans who returned from the Battle of Northern Hubei and some veterans of the former Wuhua Cultural Department, but the equipment is all-American, so after the 105th Division is transferred, it will not affect the combat effectiveness of the 101st Army in the slightest.

Bai Chongxi listened and thought that he was still quite familiar with the troops of the North China Theater, and he found that after several adjustments, there were still many officers above the division level in the original 33rd Group Army and the Second Group Army, but these people were mainly concentrated in a few units, the 33rd Group Army was mainly concentrated in the 58th Army, and the Second Group Army was mainly concentrated in the 40th Army.

Of course, it is not only these people who have been promoted, some of the new young generals that Zhuang Jihua admires have also been promoted, such as Liu Yizhang Yi Anhua Qin Yizhi, Liu Yizhang was promoted to the provisional 19th Army as the commander of the new 137th Division, Yi Anhua was promoted to the commander of the Third Youth Army, and Qin Yizhi was appointed as the commander of the Fourth Youth Army. Li Wentian, former commander of the Third Youth Army, was appointed commander of the newly formed 16th Army, and Liu Zhensan, commander of the Fourth Green Army, was appointed deputy commander of the 50th Group Army.

"After the order has been read, if you have any opinions, you can put them forward now, and after the meeting is adjourned, it must be implemented."

Xu Zuyi added according to the usual practice, in fact, as long as it was the former North China Theater or the generals who had commanded this sentence understood that this was Zhuang Jihua's rule, and any issue could be discussed at the meeting, and it must be implemented at the meeting.

The meeting fell silent, but did not stand up against it; This readjustment did not involve Tang Enbo's troops, nor did it involve troops that had just been transferred from the Jiangnan Theater, nor did it involve the Youth Army. Although the Youth Army was presided over by Chiang Ching-kuo, Chiang Ching-kuo was constrained by his own shortcomings, so many of his cadres came out of the Southwest Development Corps Military Academy, and these cadres were deeply influenced by Zhuang Jihua.

However, considering the cadre factor, Zhuang Jihua did not have the chāshou youth army for the time being, of course, this also had the factor of not stabbing Chiang Kai-shek, and after Yi Anhua and Qin Yizhi were promoted, they were still promoted in the 205th and 206th divisions.

The biggest adjustment this time is still the former Jiangbei Theater troops, that is, the 33rd Group Army and the Third Group Army, which were reorganized in the Fifth Theater before, that is, the former generals of the Northwest Army.

Another large adjustment is the original puppet army troops, these troops were broken up again in a short period of time, it can be said that they were divided, and the influence of the original system was weakened to the greatest extent. But this part of the army is mainly Zhuang Jihua's people who are being reorganized.

"Commander, I have an opinion," Wang Guobin stood up first, he used all his strength to train the 51st Group Army, but now he has just seen some results, and the troops have been broken up again, and he has to train them again, and he doesn't know how much time it will take. However, after Liu Ruming and Hao Pengju two incidents, only these Zhuang Jihua's descendants and cronies dared to stand up against it.

Zhuang Jihua motioned for him to continue, and Wang Guobin said loudly: "The 51st Group Army has just finished its training, and the new 16th Army has been broken up and reorganized, Commander, is this speed too fast?" ”

After Zhuang Jihua listened, he waved his hand to sit down, then stood up and looked at the audience: "I said before that the purpose of rectifying the army is to eliminate the warlord mentality that has long been in the hearts of the Chinese people, and in this regard, the GCD has been doing a good job, no matter whether they come out of that area, they can fight under a unified military order." I have studied their methods, first of all, ideological rectification, and secondly, the reorganization of the troops, so I have reorganized the troops again, and moreover, after every major war in the future, the theater will reorganize the troops, and those generals and troops who are not effective in fighting will be reorganized. ”

"Although the 51st Group Army is a new unit and has not participated in the battle, you all know the origin of the new 16th Army, although these puppet armies have been split, it is not enough to be split once, and it is difficult to eliminate their original state of casualness and cowardice.

This is like a recruit, each squad of recruits can not exceed forty percent, otherwise it will affect the combat effectiveness. The current state of the New Sixteenth Army is like this, the new recruits plus the normal soldiers, more than half, must be split again.

Commander Wang, Commander Li, after the reorganization of the new 16th Army, you will have to carry out a hún reorganization of the original troops, and you must ensure that there are at least five veterans in each squad. ”

Wang Guobin and Li Wentian stood up and agreed. Zhuang Jihua did not hide his purpose, he continued: "How much damage does the warlord ideology do to the country, I believe that after decades of war, you have already understood, does this warlord ideology still exist?" In my opinion, there still exist, and this is only a precaution just through the readjustment of troops, and the most fundamental thing is that it is still necessary to start from the ideology, and the political departments of all armed forces must give full play to their role, and the political departments must strengthen their work. ”

Bai Chongxi secretly laughed in his heart, Zhuang Jihua said righteously and strictly, but looking at the results of his adjustment, the strength of the original 49th Group Army has been greatly expanded, and the 49th Group Army has now been derived, the First Group Army, the 51st Group Army, the 49th Group Army, plus the 50th Group Army, the 22nd Group Army, the 24th Group Army, the 23rd Group Army, the 52nd Group Army, the 103rd Army, Zhuang Jihua's direct control and influence of the force has reached as many as 800,000 people, and this is not added, the Second Group Army, The New First Army, the New Sixth Army, the New Eighth Army, the 112th Army, these troops were deeply influenced by him.

Thinking of this number, Bai Chongxi was shocked, unconsciously, Zhuang Jihua had expanded the troops under his control to more than one million, and more importantly, these troops were equipped with jīng liang, had undergone the baptism of war, and the officers were rich in combat experience and extremely strong in combat. Thinking of this, Bai Chongxi also secretly gasped in his heart, no wonder Chiang Kai-shek wanted to cut power.

"If there is no opinion, go down and do it like this. Chief of Staff Xu, let's move on to the second topic. ”

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