Chapter Seventy-Nine: Expanding the Army Again

The rest of Xue Yue's troops gave Li Jiansheng's troops a great opportunity. Because Xue Yue hated the inaction of the Xiang army and the Gui army, and was unwilling to inform the two warlords of the damage to the army, the relevant situation was not reported. As a result, this enabled Li Jiansheng's headquarters to be successfully reorganized, and the whole army was able to attack Chen Guangzhong's 63rd Division.

It turned out that after capturing a large number of soldiers of the Central Army, Li Jiansheng was overjoyed, because in these fierce battles with Xue Yue's department, more than 13,000 soldiers of the Central Army were captured, and more than 5,600 were slightly wounded. These people, in Li Jiansheng's view, have the potential to be transformed into soldiers in their own troops. Moreover, the quality of these soldiers of the Central Army is good, and Li Jiansheng likes it the most. Fortunately, Luo Ronghuan, the political commissar, and Zhao Boping, the director of the political department, have very active and strong work ability, and they have already used the set of grievance activities "invented" by Li Jiansheng to be pure and pure, and as soon as the captives arrived, all the political workers from all walks of life went to the front line, doing work, chatting about family life, complaining about grievances, eating and living together, and more than 8,000 people were transformed at the moment, and later by continuing to do work, more than 2,000 people were transformed, and the remaining 1,000 people were semi-voluntary and semi-forced, and they were also pulled into the regular army. In this way, Li Jiansheng had more than 12,000 people on hand at once.

With so many soldiers, Li Jiansheng's first thing was to transfer one battalion from each of the special service regiment, the guard regiment, and the teaching regiment, and then break up and organize them into four battalions, and then select more than 700 people from these captives to form the 62nd regiment. Then the elite troops were transferred from the four main divisions to supplement the special service regiment, the guard regiment and the teaching regiment, so that the three most elite regiments were all restored to full strength. On this basis, the four main divisions were replenished by drawing troops from these captives, so that the four main divisions could be restored to full strength.

The second thing was the formation of the 20th Division. The 59th Regiment of the 17th Division, the 60th Regiment of the 18th Division, and the 61st Regiment of the 19th Division were transferred and formed into the 20th Division together with the 62nd Regiment. The four regiments of the original 16th Division did not move. On the basis of a battalion drawn from each of the three regiments of the 17th Division, the 63rd Regiment was supplemented with new recruits, and the 63rd Regiment was established under the 17th Division; Based on a battalion drawn from each of the three regiments of the 18th Division, the 64th Regiment was supplemented with new recruits, which was subordinate to the 18th Division; On the basis of a battalion drawn from each of the three regiments of the 19th Division, the 65th Regiment was supplemented with new recruits, and the 65th Regiment was established under the 19th Division. In several newly established regiments, all regimental, battalion, company, and platoon cadres were filled with those veteran cadres whom Li Jiansheng had originally rescued from the Central Soviet Region or later on the banks of the Xiangjiang River.

The third thing is to supplement the artillery brigade, sniper battalion, baggage regiment, and engineer regiment in a new step. All the remaining prisoners, as well as some of the lightly wounded, were organized into two new regiments, and the cadres of these recruit regiments at all levels were all filled by the backbone of the Red Seventh Army. In this way, in just three days, Li Jiansheng's headquarters had a total of 20 regiments and 5 whole divisions of combat units, not including the artillery brigade, the engineer regiment, the baggage regiment, the guard regiment, the special service regiment, the cavalry regiment, the sniper battalion, and the two recruit regiments. In fact, the current cavalry regiment has become a full-fledged cavalry regiment after this battle, because after destroying the first detachment of the Central Army Huiji, it has obtained more than 700 war horses, plus more than 170 horses requisitioned by Li Jiansheng from the logistics system, making Shao Qianqian's cavalry regiment a veritable cavalry regiment with three battalions and another company directly under its jurisdiction. In fact, the logistics system was originally not enough horses, but because Li Jiansheng set up a whole division in one go, and all of them were issued with military uniforms and weapons, the pressure on the logistics system was greatly reduced, and some war horses were able to be produced. As for the sniper battalion, although it is still a battalion at the moment, its strength is strong, and the number of people is nearly 1,500, which is equivalent to an ordinary regiment. The artillery brigade has increased again, and in Liu Fugui's view, as long as he fights another battle and annihilates one of his enemy's brigades, his artillery brigade will definitely be upgraded to an artillery division.

Liu Fugui's wish was not disappointed, because Li Jiansheng had already made up his mind to destroy the enemy again, and it was not a brigade, but a division. It turned out that, like Xue Yue, Li Jiansheng's eyes were already aimed at Chen Guangzhong's 63rd Division. For no other reason, because he came from the afterlife and knew this army too well. Unlike Xue Yue's disdain for Master Chen Guangzhong, he hated this division very much, and the reason was that Chen Guangzhong killed indiscriminately! He is familiar with history and knows that since the beginning of the Long March of the Central Red Army, Chen Guangzhong has actively killed the Red Army and rushed to the front line. Taking the official history as an example, after the Red Army transferred to Guizhou, He Jian used the pretext of encircling and suppressing the Red Second and Sixth Army Corps to withdraw most of the main force of the Hunan Army, leaving Chen Guangzhong's division alone to pursue the Red Army with the Central Army. In the area of Zhenxiong in Yunnan, the Miao people were burned, killed and looted, resulting in almost extinction of people within a radius of dozens of miles. Due to the number of kills, the bounty was reduced from 3 silver dollars to 1 silver dollar for each left ear. In the early days of the Anti-Japanese War, Chen Guangzhong's division was ordered to garrison Jinshanwei, and the 62nd Division of the Hunan Army 800 brave men stained Jinshanwei with blood, Chen Guangzhong saw that the war was tense, and ran back to Shaoyang to build Chen's garden tower, resulting in the defeat of the department, and the death of the major general brigade commander Li Bojiao. Chiang Kai-shek was really angry and imprisoned him in Shangrao, Jiangxi. After being released, Chen Guangzhong returned to his hometown, bullied men and women, and did all kinds of evil, forcing a generation of famous singers in Shaoyang to commit suicide by throwing themselves into the river. At the time of the peaceful liberation of Hunan, Chen Guangzhong jumped out again and was appointed by Bai Chongxi as the so-called "commander of the National Salvation Army", specializing in attacking and killing the rebel troops and ordinary people. Li Jiansheng has always believed that Tao Guang kills a lot, but he will never kill as indiscriminately as Chen Guangzhong! He originally hated Tao Guang, because he killed this division on the battlefield, and even killed Tao Guang directly; But this time, he has already made up his mind that for this Chen Guangzhong, "no one will be left" in his department, and he is not allowed to "accept surrender"!

The order was sent to the various departments, and the departments immediately prepared, and then advanced in turn according to the deployment of Chief of Staff Zeng Zhongsheng. Poor, Chen Guangzhong, who was targeted by Li Jiansheng, was still in the dark. Chen Guangzhong, who killed more than 800 Red Army soldiers on the edge of the Xiangjiang River and personally raped and killed three female Red Army soldiers, thought that this time Commander He Jian's arrangement was still as "easy" as before, so he did not take into account that the Central Army in front had shrunk, but only sent troops to advance, and as a result, he crashed into the encirclement of Li Jiansheng's department. Although the combat effectiveness of this division was not weak, the entire five divisions of Li Jiansheng's division against the enemy were all meritorious and earnest, and their weapons were replenished unprecedentedly, and they received the order of "leaving no one behind" as early as possible, because they were killed extremely badly! Xue Yuebu, who received the distress telegram, wanted to save it, but it was the 16th Division of Li Jiansheng's department that was eyeing him; The Wei Yunsong Department of the Gui Army wanted to go to the rescue, but was targeted by the Red 19th Division; Li Jue's troops of the Hunan army wanted to be rescued, but they were blocked by the guards division temporarily composed of Li Jiansheng's special service group, teaching regiment, sniper battalion, and guard regiment, and did not dare to use force easily. In this way, the three main divisions of Li Jiansheng's department were able to attack easily and without any worries. After an hour of attack, the 63rd Hunan Division was completely annihilated. Of the more than 8,300 people in the department, only 13 were arrested for minor injuries. Li Jiansheng used the investigative knowledge of later generations to examine them, and it was determined that 4 of them were not stained with the blood of ordinary people and were allowed to join the Red Army, and the remaining 9 were all shot.