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Because Wei Lihuang and Chen Jiji rushed to Hankou to ask for instructions on suppressing the enemy, and Wang Jun, deputy commander-in-chief, personally went to the front line in eastern Hubei to observe the enemy's situation, all military operations of the Right Route Army were temporarily suspended. www.biquge.info After spending the night with Dongzi, he rode on his long-lost war horse for two consecutive days, and went to Hu Zongnan's First Division and Li Yutang's Third Division to inspect the troops and observe the training.

On the evening of the second day, An Yi said goodbye to Li Yutang and others and returned to Bengping, where he had a feint conversation with Zhang Chengzhu, commander of the 1st Cavalry Division, and Li Jinlong, deputy division commander and chief of staff, who had rushed from Xuzhou. Due to the shortage of war horses. The cost of raising is rising, and the descendants of the army are gradually acquiring new weapons and transport vehicles. The Central Military Commission began to brew a large-scale reduction and transformation of the cavalry, and the original four cavalry divisions will be reduced to five cavalry brigades. Zhang Chengzhu and Li Jinlong have sad faces all day these days. I feel very uncomfortable.

At the end of May, when the Central Military Commission solicited the opinions of the General Staff Headquarters on the reform of the cavalry, An Yi gave careful consideration to Zhang Chengzhu's 1st Cavalry Division. Because there are too many uncertain factors, and Zhang Chengzhu and Li Jinlong have deep feelings for the cavalry, An Yi has not told the two of them his true ideas, and now the two have come to the door to complain, An Yi has to make the problem clear, hoping that the two will give up the idea of retaining the cavalry division. An Yi promised to find a way to fight for them to get the name of a regular division.

Zhang Chengzhu shook his head again and again. I couldn't help it: "Fourth brother, if you don't have a horse, what kind of friend do you let the eldest brother do?" The eldest brother has been serving the horse since he was ten years old, and now he says that it is gone, and this heart "The eldest brother really can't stand it!" ”

"yes. Fourth, even if it is reduced to a cavalry brigade, we will admit it! After Li Jinlong finished speaking, he inhaled as if he had a toothache.

Shen Fengdao, Zhao Rui, Zhan Zhi and others on the side wanted to laugh but didn't dare to laugh, their faces were really uncomfortable, An Yi scratched his head and said helplessly:

"Big brother, second brother, now the cavalry regiment of the Huzi Independent Division has also been changed to an independent brigade, and Brother Xiao has taken the initiative to apply for further study in the 6th University. In order to prepare for the establishment of a mechanized division in the future, he left two hundred war horses as a means of transportation for special forces and officers at all levels. Only the logistics department and the engineer battalion kept some pack horses. In order to prepare for the use of complex terrain, the cavalry has been basically canceled in all infantry divisions, which is the trend of the times!

"Many people say that I have a lot of horses in the southern Sichuan region. That's because the Central Plains and Jiangbei regions where the two eldest brothers are located are very different from the southwest region, the southwest region has more mountains and fewer plains, and there are correspondingly more horses retained, but they are also used for transportation and transportation of materials, and no one is used to fight anymore, even the little black horse of the younger brother is idle and the younger brother can ride and run when he goes back, and if he doesn't go back, he has become a full-time stallion in the military horse farm. You ask Lao Shen, how about his one-man tall thoroughbred mare? In addition to dismounting or dismounting. ”

When the brothers heard this, they burst into laughter. Zhang Chengzhu rolled his eyes in anger, and Li Jinlong couldn't help laughing twice. Then he began to worry again: "Fourth, what should I do?" ”

"Easy to do! Still listen to me, make every effort to transform and set up a new division, and retain the establishment of a cavalry regiment. After training for a year and a half, after the military commission's assessment and inspection is completed, get a regular division number and continue to work.

If you are not willing to fight a civil war, the younger brother will find a way to transfer the entire division of the eldest brother and the second brother to the beach to garrison, select outstanding soldiers in phases and batches and send them to the South Sichuan Noncommissioned Officer School, learn how to drive, learn machine guns, and learn special operations, and strive to train the ability to react quickly within three years, and learn to distribute a batch of equipment to a group of junior brothers. It will only take up to three years. It's a well-known main division. An Yi said his plan.

Zhang Chengzhu and Li Jinlong looked at each other for a long time and discussed a few words in a low voice, and Zhang Chengzhu said helplessly: "Even if the equipment is up, I am afraid that we will not be able to command this new type of infantry division."

An Yi glared at Zhang Chengzhu reproachfully: "There is a way to do everything, don't look at the bells and whistles of each branch of the army, it seems to be very different, in fact, the essence of the war is the same." It's fast, accurate, and ruthless! How is this different from the nature of cavalry combat? With the talent of the eldest brother and the second brother, he can do whatever he wants as he likes after only a few months of familiarity, and if he is still worried about arsenic leakage, he will be the chief of staff of the two eldest brothers when he graduates next year. ”

An Yi said this. For the two of them to think so well and promise to provide a large amount of equipment, Zhang Chengzhu and Li Jinlong are reluctant. After all, the development of the army, the use of new weapons, and the changes in combat methods are too fast, and although the cavalry, an ancient branch of the army, still has room and time to survive. But it will no longer be used as a single branch of troops on a large scale and independently, and the size and role of cavalry are gradually decreasing, as An Yi said, this is the trend of the times, and it is not something that can be retained if you want to.

After solving the problem, everyone continued to drink, Zhang Chengzhu'er, "Pay attention to the doubts in your heart." Ask if the Nanchang Non-commissioned Officer School is going to be cancelled? Cavity...

An Yi explained that because most of the teachers had been transferred to the Southern Sichuan Syrian Government, the Military Commission and Chairman Chiang, they had long had the idea of merging the Nanchang Non-commissioned Officer School and the Infantry School. In the future, only one non-commissioned officer school will be retained in the whole army. That is the non-commissioned officer school in southern Sichuan, because the non-commissioned officer school has cultivated a large number of outstanding talents in the past few years, and its graduates have become the sought-after goods of various departments of the Central Army, and it has a complete range of departments and has hired many highly respected and experienced Chinese and foreign instructors to teach, and the quality of education and the scale of the school can be called the highest in the whole army, and even Germany and the United States have put forward a request, hoping to accept their cadets to enter the noncommissioned officer school for special operations, mountain operations, and other professional study and exchanges, so the school has been highly valued by Chairman Chiang and the Central Military Commission. The full name of the school has been officially changed to the "Central 6th Military Non-commissioned Officer School", and Chairman Jiang is also the principal. The chief of education is Major General Wang Geng, who escaped by luck. Similarly, it has dozens of advanced aircraft and more than 100 Chinese and foreign instructors. Southern Aviation School was also named "Central Aviation School Xufu Branch" by the Central Military Commission. Chairman Jiang, who attaches great importance to education and inheritance, still serves as the principal. The chief of education is An Yi. In An Yi's absence, Yang Bin, director of the Office of the Southern Sichuan Liaison Office, acted as the chief of education.

Before ten o'clock, Zhang Chengzhu and Li Jinlong were drunk, and the two brothers who were worried about it got drunk so quickly, which was beyond the expectations of many brothers. An Yi understood their feelings very well, and together with Zhao Rui and others, he helped the two into the bedroom and carried them to the bed, sweating profusely before returning to the main hall.

Zhao Rui saw An Yi holding the teacup and thinking about things silently, ordered Jiang Li to remove the banquet, picked up the teacup and asked Wei Lihuang and Chen Jiji why they didn't come back after two days?

An Yi proposed two possibilities: first, the battle plan of the Right Route Army failed to win the support of Chiang Kai-shek and General Xuan. The Central Route Army is considering the transfer of Wei Lihuang's column to use, and at this time, the suppression of the whole situation will not change its original intention because of the local plan of the Right Route Army, although this plan is very bold and novel, and it also shows the military skills of the strategists. It is a very insightful and excellent plan that is also worth implementing, but in the eyes of those stubborn and stubborn generals, it may not be considered excellent; Second, it may have aroused great attention from the general authorities, and is being repeatedly deliberated and improved.

Curiously asked, which of the possibilities would arise? An Yi did not hesitate to answer: What is the first possibility? Why? An Yi looked at the ceiling and sighed: Because so far, President Ji and General Wei Lihuang have not called to ask for their opinions, so the speculation is self-evident.

Things were as An Yi expected, at eleven o'clock in the morning of the next day, Wei Lihuang and the three of them landed at Bengbu Airport on the plane piloted by Huang Yuyi and the three apprentices, and An Yi could get the answer from the ugly faces of the three of them as soon as they got off the plane.

An Yile greeted him, but he didn't ask anything about it at all. Instead, ask how the plane is. How does it feel? Then he took the briefcase handed by Huang Yuyi. The two whispered for five or six minutes, and Huang Yuyi saluted and said goodbye. Then he flew back to Nanchang.

Wei Lihuang and the three of them watched the plane disappear into the sky. Seeing An Yi turn around, he still didn't ask what the result was. They all secretly admired An Yi's composure and patience. After thinking about it, he was not in the mood to talk about the anger he had suffered in Hankou in the past two days, but Wei Lihuang told An Yi quite apologetically: His column had been returned to the Middle Route Army under the personal command of the commission. Although there has not been much change in the defense area, in the future, it can only obey the command of the headquarters of the Central Route Army, and unless the commander gives an order, it will no longer be able to cooperate with the colleagues of the Right Route Army.

At half past two in the afternoon, the Right Route Army held a military meeting at the brigade commander level and above, and Wei Lihuang attended the meeting for the last time

The meeting was presided over by Deputy Commander-in-Chief Wang Jun. At the meeting, Chen Jiji conveyed the spirit of the latest instructions of the General Command of the Suppression Command, which he brought back from Hankou, and still persisted in implementing the strategic principle of "attacking separately and together," and the Right Route Army should concentrate its main efforts on the line between southern Anhui and eastern Hubei. We should strive to come up with a sound and feasible battle plan as soon as possible, and strive to fight a large-scale war of annihilation on the front line in southern Anhui and eastern Hubei Province.

An Yi sat in the center. Not a word. After Chen Jiji finished conveying it, Wang Jun asked the chiefs of the participating ministries as usual what suggestions and opinions they had? Seeing that there was no movement from the generals, Wang Jun discussed with Chen Jiji in a low voice for a moment, and asked An Yi to move to the combat command hall next door.

More than 70 generals left the venue. Yuguan entered the command hall, and the staff officers had already lifted the cover on the huge sand table in the center, and divided the colonels into two layers around the sand table, Hughes, Blante and the German advisory group were standing directly opposite An Yi. Chen Jiji lifted the two-meter-long baton and began to explain in detail the status and situation of southern Anhui and eastern Hubei. Combined with the spirit of the instructions of the General Commander, I ask everyone to "speak freely" about the new operational plan brought back from the General Commander.