Chapter 414: A Tricky Question
Chapter 414: Tricky Problems (Ask for a subscription, ask for a monthly pass, ask for everything!) )
The Chair was also helpless about the outcome of the final discussions. At first glance, it seems incredible, isn't it just a plan for the reorganization of the army, and it is really difficult to decide?
In addition to not knowing the actual situation of the Suicha Military Region, a very important point is that the plan itself submitted by Ma Zheng has filled the chairman and others with doubts, which is mainly reflected in the appointment of personnel.
According to the plan submitted by Ma Zheng, the Suicha Military Region will reorganize all the armed forces into six divisions and five brigades, and in the appointment of the military and political chiefs of these 11 divisions and brigades, Ma Zheng went so far as to put Liu Fengchi, Wu Xiuda, Lu Ming, Wang Tao, Xie Wensheng, and others in extremely important positions, without taking into account their origins and class composition at all.
However, this problem is not a day or two in the Suicha Military Region, and from the first day Ma Zheng pulled the pole, there was a problem of a complex composition of the troops, although during the ten-year confrontation, the Red Army also often incorporated captured Kuomintang units, or bandits and bandits in the defense area. However, after the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japan, due to the limitations of the national anti-Japanese united front, or in order to maintain this front, the Eighth Route Army rarely accepted prisoners of the Kuomintang. Even if it's done occasionally, it's done very secretly.
However, in the Suicha Military Region, everything is open, and as long as you are bent on resisting Japan, no matter what you were doing or what your identity is, as long as you have the determination and conditions to resist Japan, you will be absorbed into the troops. This is not a big deal, and the principal leaders of the party Central Committee and military cadres still advocate this point, because after all, this is also an important method and a very good way to expand the troops.
However, what was unacceptable to many people in the party was that the Suicha Military Region hardly cared about the ideas of the Wuhan side when it took in the Kuomintang prisoners, and often recruited 10,000 or 20,000 people, which made the Wuhan side very angry about this.
That's it, Ma Zheng's subordinates' demand for soldiers is almost to the point of starvation, not only the captured Kuomintang troops must be absorbed, but even the captured puppet army must also be recruited. In the past two years, there were at least ten infantry divisions of the puppet army that Ma Zheng's troops had defeated or captured, and almost all of the rest became the Eighth Route Army, except for those who were killed or escaped.
These Yan'an parties can turn a blind eye, after all, they will not be affected by the order of the monarch outside. But the only thing that makes the bigwigs in Yan'an unhappy is that Ma Zheng's department is simply messing around with the appointment of military and political officials, anyone can be a cadre, and any background can be a senior cadre.
You must know that within the party, the appointment and promotion of cadres is a rigorous process. Generally, in addition to the performance record, qualifications, origin, and cultural level are all very important reference conditions.
However, the Suicha Military Region is different, in the Suicha Military Region it seems that only the results of the war are judged, and the rest does not seem to matter, and a 28-year-old commander is enough to attract attention, but in the Suicha Military Region, except for the young commanders, the commanders of all units are all young and give people a toothache. Yun Jian, political commissar of the Military Region, and Yang Chengwu, commander of the 93rd Division, are both thirty-five or sixteen years old, but they are already considered old in the Suicha Military Region, and Xiang Huang Sicheng, Huang Bingyan, and Wang Hansen are all in their early thirties.
Looking at the reorganization plan reported by Ma Zheng this time, if the Yan'an side really passes it, I am afraid that there will be more than a dozen division commanders and division political commissars around the age of 30 all at once. is like Tie Xinlan, who has just been promoted to the political commissar of the Third Division, not to mention the bandit background, just taking this age as an example, it is very dissatisfying. Twenty-nine-year-old division commissar? And it's still a woman?
Now is not the period of the Long March, and it is not uncommon for division commanders and political commissars in their twenties, or even corps commanders, to be in their twenties. However, after the Long March, a large number of experienced and persevering commanders grew up, so the promotion of the military chief officer of the Eighth Route Army became much more difficult.
However, the Suicha Military Region has produced many division and brigade commanders who are two or three years old and in their twenties, so some comrades in the party have great opinions on this. Since the establishment of the Suicha Military Region, such opinions have never subsided, and some people often talk about this matter in front of the chairman and others, but the achievements of Ma Zheng's department have always been really impossible to find fault, so the chairman and others did not immediately deal with this matter.
As a matter of fact, the chairman and others also knew that such a development would not necessarily be a good thing for the Suicha Military Region, so they also adopted a number of measures, including transferring a large number of Red Army troops with combat experience to the Suicha Military Region, and transferring the units of the Suicha Military Region to other units of the Eighth Route Army in an organized manner.
However, these measures did not have much effect at all, mainly because the development of the troops of the Suicha Military Region was too fast, and if you transferred one regiment, I would soon form two new regiments, and in the end, the proportion of veterans of the Suicha Military Region was getting smaller and smaller, and now it was less than two, that is, only two of the 10 soldiers of the Suicha Military Region were veterans of the Red Army, and this was far from the bottom line of 50 percent of the chairman and others.
The rapid development speed of Ma Zheng's department has not only created hundreds of thousands of elites today, but also created those senior military and political cadres who are considered by the vast majority of cadres in the party to have shallow qualifications and poor ability. Let Tie Xinlan, who is only 29 years old, stand in the same position with Master Liu of the 129th Division and Master He of the 120th Division, not to mention others, even Ma Zheng himself can't look at it.
In fact, Ma Zheng had already expected such a situation, so before that, the Suicha Military Region only established two infantry divisions in accordance with the authorization of the Nationalist Government, and one of the division commanders also appointed Yang Chengwu, an old Red Army who had participated in the Long March, as the commander. As for the other troops, which are mostly controlled at the brigade and regiment level, such as guard brigades and independent brigades, it is not that Ma Zheng does not want to form a large establishment at the division level, but that he does not want to get so many division commanders and division political commissars so quickly.
However, the situation is different now, and after the capture of Chabei, Chanan, and Renan, the small establishment can no longer meet the operational needs of the troops, because after all, the establishment at the brigade level is extremely limited and cannot be used as a strategic force. And now Ma Zheng's enemy has also turned the original Mongolian army into a more powerful North China Front, and even has to add a Kwantung Army.
In the future, when fighting the Japanese army, it is very likely that there will be no conflicts at the wing and brigade levels, at least at least brigades, and the most common will be operations at the division and regiment level, so this requires Ma Zheng's headquarters to complete the large-scale reorganization at the division level as soon as possible.
You must know that when fighting a large-scale battle, the more troop numbers, the more requirements are placed on the front-line commanders. Such a large number of numbers will inevitably lead to uncoordinated command and difficulty in mobilization, and supplies will also be seriously affected, which will seriously affect the combat effectiveness and combat effectiveness of the troops. It can be said that the current troop establishment has seriously affected the development of the Suicha Military Region, which is why Ma Zheng is in such a hurry to form a military unit at the division level.
Ma Zheng also knew that once his reorganization plan was reported to Yan'an, it would inevitably cause an uproar. But he had no choice but to bite the bullet. It was precisely because Ma Zheng didn't know whether Yan'an would agree to such a reorganization plan, so he just asked all units to prepare for the reorganization, but did not carry out the reorganization in advance.
In fact, the Party Central Committee has discussed the issue of Ma Zheng's department more than once, but in the end it has not come up with a suitable charter, on the one hand, considering that the situation in the Suicha Military Region is complicated, except for Ma Zheng, the founder of the Military Region, no one else may have the ability to lead the rudder.
Moreover, the current development speed of the Suicha Military Region has far exceeded the expectations of the party Central Committee, and the territory under its control has reached as many as three provinces. That's why the Yan'an side made the decision to inspect the Suicha Military Region, and it was necessary to have a good understanding of the troops. (To be continued.) )