The squadron once again won a great victory in Mingguang, and the news came, and the whole country celebrated.

In Hunan Province, more than 100,000 people from all walks of life held a large march in Changsha, from the south gate to Zhongshan Road, people held signs and shouted slogans over and over again.

A short-haired young woman, standing on the stage of the walking building, gave a speech with emotion, "... Compatriots, the Japanese invaders have suffered a crushing defeat in Mingguang, and the power of Japanese imperialism has been exhausted, we must have money to contribute and make a strong contribution......" The two children next to them also wore banners of "The War of Resistance will be won, donate money to save the country", holding a donation box, which was stuffed with paper * money.

Qiyang County is boiling, all towns and villages have held various celebrations and commemorative activities, and some people have even called in the newspapers to change Qiyang County to Shengli County!

Xu Ming did not stop the retreat of the Japanese army, and if the pursuit was to be pretentious, he only sent a company to fire a few shots in the sky, but this was not blamed. Li Pinxian is a person who understands, he knows that the 107th Division suffered heavy casualties, and he put this division in Mingguang at the beginning, and he didn't plan to block the enemy at all, he just wanted to delay the consumption of the 13th Division. In his battle plan, the battle line should be spread out on both sides of the Huai River, and Linhuai Pass, Bengbu, and Xiaobegbu are the decisive battle locations.

Li Pinxian personally asked for credit for the 107th Division, and this time he not only made meritorious contributions to the troops below, but he was also very glorious as the deputy commander-in-chief of the theater and the commander-in-chief of the Huaihe defense line.

Xu Ming has been drinking a mess these days, Yu Xuezhong, Li Pinxian, Mo Dehong, Su Zuxin and others took turns to feast, Xu Ming was so drunk that he didn't even know his wife who came over, hugged a big tree and slew, and all the generals and officials in the southern section of the Jinpu Line laughed to death.

The Chinese were drinking happy wine, the Japanese were drinking bitter wine, and because the 13th Division suffered more than half of its casualties and a large number of heavy weapons were lost, Yan Junliu believed that the division no longer had the ability to attack the troops, and ordered the division, codenamed "Mirror," to go to Changzhou to rest and recuperate, and the division commander Ogizhou Libing also retired from active service due to "physical reasons."

I don't know how Yan Junroku reprimanded Xu Ming, but Lieutenant General Shizuichi Tanaka, who succeeded Ogisu, calmly admitted in his diary that Mingguang's defeat caused the entire division to fall into a state of panic and lack of confidence for a while. Of course, he also put forward it heavily, and especially used an aggravated underline to indicate that under his wise leadership Tanaka, the 13th Division had finally regained its self-confidence.

The main force of the 10th Division of the Japanese Army suffered heavy losses in the northern section of the Jinpu Line, its 33rd Infantry Brigade was surrounded and annihilated, and the brigade commander Kei Seya was killed by the squadron.

At this time and space, not only Zhang Zizhong and Pang Bingxun completely stopped the enemy in Linyi, but Zhao Dengyu's 96th Army also rushed to Linyi, and the three Northwest Armies took attack as defense and defeated the Japanese Sakamoto detachment.

Without the support of Sakamoto's detachment, the Japanese Seya detachment was completely encircled, and the front repeatedly attacked Taierzhuang Buke, and the 20th Army of Tang Enbo in the rear attacked from the flank and rear; Sun Tongxuan and Cao Fulin's troops launched attacks on Yanzhou and Jining, respectively. In addition to a brigade in Hanzhuang, the 33rd Brigade and its subordinate units were besieged by more than 100,000 squadrons in mid-April and lost most of them, and the brigade commander Kei Seya was also seriously wounded and died, and the Chinese side announced that the unit would be completely annihilated.

Ryosuke Isoya, the commander of the 10th Division, who failed to relieve the siege, was immediately dismissed! The direct dismissal of the division commander of the Japanese army was extremely troublesome in terms of procedure, and only the emperor had the power to approve it, but the commander of the Japanese North China Front, Terauchi Shouichi, could not stand the incompetence of Ryosuke Isoya, or that someone had to take responsibility for this defeat! At this point, in the battle of the north and south ends of the Jinpu Line, the commander of a brigade and the chief of staff of a division of the Japanese army were killed, and the commanders of two divisions were forced to leave because of ineffective combat, and the Japanese army suffered a serious setback in early 1938.

Another important reason for such a harsh handling of the Japanese high-level is that the Japanese General Staff Headquarters, the War Ministry, and the base camp have made it clear that they will not launch a large-scale offensive in 1938, but these three divisions have gone their own way. If it had succeeded, Japan's long-standing measures would have been recognized, but now it has failed in a big way, causing irreparable damage to Japan's international reputation (if any), and someone must be held accountable for such damage.

Japan should be punished for losing a war, so China will naturally be rewarded for its victory, and those who are promoted will be promoted, and those who will be rich will be rich. However, for Xu Ming, there was a reward that he couldn't imagine, he was neither promoted nor rich, he got a medal, the Order of the Blue Sky and the White Sun.

He also knew that it was impossible to be promoted, and it was impossible to be promoted immediately when he had just become a division commander; Making a fortune is a joke, and now that the income of the national government has plummeted, many people rely on Xu Ming to "get rich". So, there is this guy who is slightly bigger than a copper coin.

Not only him, but also the 4 regiment commanders of the 107th Division, Qin Lieping, Zhao Ren, Peng Cong, and Chen Hui, the deputy division commander, a total of 5 people, and a total of 12 people in the Battle of Taierzhuang.

The entire 107th Division was jubilant, this medal was still quite valuable at that time, and more than 80 medals have been issued in the entire Anti-Japanese War so far, and many are awarded from political considerations, such as Lao Jiang himself issued one to himself in 1931.

Xie Jinyuan and Yang Ruifu have each got one because of the defensive battle of the Four Elements Warehouse, it should be said that although Xu Ming's 107th Division is only a division, it is indeed a lot of harvest in the acquisition of medals, and now they are out of the celebration of the seven people carrying this medal, which is quite a trend, the great calligrapher Wu Zhihui also sent a congratulatory couplet, "Mingguang two victories, one division and seven green chapters", the news came out, and the generals of the entire five theaters were envious.

In mid-April, Xu Ming received an order to withdraw the 107th Division to Lu'an for reorganization, and Mingguang's defense was handed over to the 135th Division of Su Zuxin of the 31st Army, and Xu Ming's troops finally stayed away from the war temporarily.

Although the next Battle of Xuzhou has stopped Xu Ming's business, and the troops can take a breath for a while, Xu Ming still has a lot of work to do, the most important thing is to deal with the problems that occurred in the two Mingguang battles, these problems have no time to be rectified during the war, and now they must be dealt with.

Among them, there are problems in the construction of fortifications, the problems of individual soldiers' skills, the problems of the troops' mentality in battle, and the problems of coordinated operations. In addition to solving old problems, Xu Ming also plans to come up with new ideas, and he plans to strengthen the sniper force, regularize it, and make it organized.

Xu Ming had so many problems to solve, and the time given to him was limited, but the first thing Xu Ming did was not to make any rectifications, he allowed all the soldiers and most of the officers of the 107th Division to go home for half a month. In these two major battles, nearly half of the casualties of a new unit were lost, and if they did not take a good rest, the soldiers would become war-weary, and no matter how tight the time was, this holiday could not be saved.

Of course, Xu Ming can't rest, in addition to participating in various celebrations and visiting friendly generals, there is also a very important thing, that is, the replenishment of troops.

In the two battles of Mingguang, the 107th Division suffered more than 6,000 casualties, except for more than 2,000 who could recover from illness and return to the team, and the number of permanent attrition reached more than 4,000. It stands to reason that it is quite difficult to make up for the number of soldiers, at that time, many troops were short, not to mention the local army, even the most elite German armor division, the 87th and 88th divisions, they were all lacking!

The best reinforcements at that time were the security regiments, which had been trained and could be used for war immediately; The second is to train strong men, who can barely be put into battle with a little rectification; Even worse than this are the strong men who have been temporarily recruited, and all kinds of civilian armed forces that have been recruited.

If you want to get the security regiment supplement, it is not easy, Xu Ming made a lot of effort, and finally saw that he achieved the face of Mingguang's victory, gave him half a regiment, and Chifengcheng's 31st Division divided the Anhui Security Regiment into two, but this was not enough, the Military Commission transferred another supplementary force, Xu Ming saw it, and he had a big headache.

This army is the remnants of the original Ding Zhipan's 41st Division, in the Battle of Dingyuan, Ding Zhipan was killed, and there were only more than 2,000 people left in the entire 41st Division.

These soldiers are all regular soldiers, and their individual combat effectiveness is stronger than that of the security regiment, which is supposed to be a good thing, but it is not. These troops have become a system, which is difficult to digest by external forces, and if they are not rectified well, they may come out of their moths.

And the original officers are not easy to deal with, at that time, many troops were shelf troops, a large number of officers, and the management agency stacked beds and frames, take this 41st division as an example, the brigade commander and above the military committee were transferred to the "high staff", more than 2,000 people, there were 2 regiment commanders, 7 battalion commanders, plus a large number of officers, the handling of these people was a big problem, Xu Ming and Zhang Shaofang, Xie Jinyuan, Zhao Ren and others discussed for a long time, and there was no good way.

There is no good way for a while, Xu Ming simply takes it off first, during this time, the soldiers in the five theaters gathered, and the generals were like clouds, Xu Ming just seized this opportunity to visit various places, he now knows the importance of relationships, and he doesn't expect others to help him in the future, since he has entered this system, let's get familiar with it first.

Xu Ming found that each general had his own characteristics, and in meeting and talking with them, he gained a lot of insight.

For example, Gu Zhutong, Xu Ming used to think that he was incompetent, but he happened to see in Bengbu, one of the eight King Kongs known as Lao Jiang, spoke very well, was very kind to his subordinates, and never used hard words such as "order" and "order", all of which were selected and discussed, which made people have no resistance.

There are a lot of generals of the Northwest Army in Xuzhou, and there are a lot of anecdotes, such as Feng Yuxiang plucking out the ears of the soldiers, Shi Yousan never beating and scolding the soldiers, and Han Fuqu, who has been shot, telling stories to the soldiers in the middle of the night...... It seems that the Northwest Army has a tradition of loving nurses and soldiers.

I met Zhang Lingfu in the vortex river, he took a good look at this very famous figure in later generations, this old man has now shown his arrogant side, Xu Ming learned a brush to make a signature during this time, and as soon as he wrote it, he was despised by Zhang Lingfu, "Master Xu's words, say good duplicity, and say that it is a little unreasonable," Wang Yaowu made a look at it to no avail.

Xu Ming has heard some anecdotes about Zhang Lingfu, this old man is extremely conceited, and he likes to comment on others, except for the teacher Yu Youren and Jiang Kai-shek, anyone's words are used to comment, and it doesn't matter whether others are happy or not, once, the then army commander Yu Jishi was degraded, and almost didn't make Yu Jishi angry, it seems that Zhang Lingfu's tragic fate has been included in his character.

Wang Yaowu is very good at being a person, first of all, in terms of title, he does not call Xu Ming "Brother Qianli", "Master Xu" and so on like others, he directly calls Xu Ming "Xiao Xu". This not only satisfied Xu Ming's desire to be young, but also greatly narrowed the relationship between the two. Then Wang Yaowu personally cooked a "thinking chicken" for Xu Ming, Xu Ming ate it, and it was really delicious, and the relationship between Xu Ming and Wang Yaowu was not very good now.

Xu Ming talked about the incorporation of the remnants of the 41st Division, and Wang Yaowu thought of a way for Xu Ming.

"The troops are scattered and reorganized, and the officers are dismissed or arranged separately!"

"But Brother Zuomin, these people are all generals of the Anti-Japanese War, although they lost the battle, they were driven away like this, it's too ruthless."

"Xiao Xu, you have deprived these people of their rights and interests, and if you stay, it will only damage your troops." Wang Yaowu has discovered that Xu Ming's biggest shortcoming is soft-heartedness. This is a typical Guan Yu character, Guan Yu's character is not good, arrogant and not humiliating, this will not work in the current military and political circles. The reason why Xu Ming mixed up quite well was purely because he had a lot of money.

"That's it, I will find a way out for these officers, and I will never make it difficult for you." Wang Yaowu played the package ticket.

Subsequently, Wang Yaowu contacted Luo Shujia of the 199th Division and arranged these officers for this division, Luo Shujia's 199th Division had just been formed and lacked officers, which helped a lot. Wang Yaowu did a good job of this matter, and he also gained double favors.

Xu Ming was looking at other generals at the same time, others were also familiar with him, in the consciousness of many people, Xu Ming, as a young officer, had just won a brilliant victory, and should be more arrogant, but Xu Ming was very modest. This is not Xu Ming's pretence, but the true side of his heart, he knows that he and his troops have too many shortcomings, and Mingguang's victory is a fluke in the end.

Of course, this also has a side to avoid its edge, he was only 27 years old, he became the division commander, and he also "one division and seven green chapters", the limelight is unique for a while, this is definitely not a good thing, it is necessary to be humble and low-key.