Seeing that Wu Jin promised to be the commander of the First Air Force Division, Song Zhewu said: "The pilot's business is easy to do, this time Xinggang recruited more than 300 students, and all the people who are physically qualified here will be handed over to you, in addition, all the students in our Fourth Route Army are up to you to choose." One of your divisions will temporarily have 54 aircraft, and it will be organized into three brigades. Fifty-four aircraft normally have pilots in a 1:1.5 configuration, and there should be 81 pilots. But you can't just recruit eighty-one pilots, but as many as you want. In your 1st Air Force Division, you also have to set up a pilot training school, to train a large number of pilots, and we will have more and better planes in the future, all of which need to be piloted, and all qualified pilots will start with the rank of lieutenant and be promoted by virtue of their combat merits. A squadron of aircraft can be deployed in the school for the training of cadets. All the trainees and the young mechanics we recruit are involved in the assembly of the aircraft, familiar with the structure of the aircraft, and in the future, there will be a large number of aircraft technicians and engineers to maintain the aircraft. In addition, another battalion will be transferred from the guard brigade as the backbone to form a base guard unit, and the scale will be temporarily set at a regiment, which will be expanded according to the situation after the number of bases and aircraft factories increases. ”

Seeing Ye Changgui's sad face, Song Zhewu smiled and said: "Brigade Commander Ye, your guard brigade will select a group of people from various units to supplement it, and if there are conditions in the future, the guard brigade will be expanded, so you don't have to be sad anymore." ”

As soon as he heard that not only would he be able to replenish the personnel who had been withdrawn, but also that he would be able to expand the number of personnel in the future, Ye Changgui couldn't help but smile, and the sad look on his face was immediately swept away.

Li Sichi and Tao Rong were once again secretly glad that they had made the right move to defect to the Fourth Route Army, and the Fourth Route Army was really wealthy, not only with high salaries and good weapons and equipment, but also bought more than 200 planes!

And it seems that Lao Jiang also values them, and even gave them the number of two divisions at once, you must know that a division of the Fourth Route Army is equivalent to an army of others. According to the establishment of Song Zhewuding's first division just now, there must be more than 30,000, nearly 40,000.

Tao Rong had more thoughts than Li Sichi, seeing that Li Sichi was the commander of a division of more than 30,000 people, and Song Zhewu wantonly sealed his old subordinates, but he didn't arrange a position for Tao Rong, so he couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed. Just thinking about his thoughts, Li Sichi beside him touched him, and then woke up. It turned out that Song Zhewu was calling him.

Song Zhewu said: "Chief of Staff Tao, I have to wronged you for the time being. I would like to ask you to serve as the deputy chief of the general staff of our Fourth Route Army, specifically in charge of our combat work. What do you think? ”

For this position, Song Zhewu thinks that Tao Rong is still very suitable. He went to Hankou this time and learned about Tao Rong with Liu Wendao and others. Tao Rong was born in Yunnan Jiangwutang, has no background, and has been doing staff work in the troops of the Gui department. Being able to be the chief of staff of the 19th Army, the main force of the Gui system, is enough to show his ability. With his qualifications, ability, and experience, he surpassed Song Zhewu and Xiao Guodong, and Song Zhewu was very relieved to find someone like Tao Rong to be in charge of the battle.

Although his position was demoted by half a level, Song Zhewu handed over one of the most important positions in the Fourth Route Army to him, which showed that Song Zhewu did not treat him Tao Rong as an outsider at all, which could not help but move him. Tao Rong stood up, her face flushed with excitement, and she said after a while: "Tao Rong has just joined the Fourth Route Army, and the commander trusts him so much, Tao Rong is inexplicably grateful!" In this life, Tao Rong was born as a person of the Fourth Route Army, and died as a ghost of the Fourth Route Army! We will do our best to live up to the commander's trust! After speaking, he solemnly gave Song Zhewu a military salute.

Song Zhewu looked at the excited Tao Rong, knowing that Tao Rong and Li Sichi had been recovered by themselves. said with a smile: "Chief of Staff Tao is serious, no matter when he joins our Fourth Route Army, as long as he sincerely does things for the Fourth Route Army, I, Song Zhewu, will treat him as a good brother." ”

Song Zhewu said to the cavalry brigade commander Han Guang: "Brigade Commander Han, your cavalry brigade will be directly under the headquarters in the future. He turned to Xiao Guodong and said: "Tell Wei Guanghui that he will replenish the troops in the future, not all of them should be trained as cavalry, but as infantry who can ride horses, and the cavalry can be kept as a division." A group of instructors was transferred from the training corps, and a group of officers were transferred to him from the second and third divisions, so that he could begin to form an infantry unit that could ride horses. ”

Song Zhewu glanced at the few people present and said solemnly: "The reorganization of the troops of the First Division will be carried out immediately, and after the meeting, Chief of Staff Tao will be in charge, and together with Division Commander Zhang, Division Commander Li, and Division Commander Wu, he will organize the transfer of personnel. All these matters must be handled immediately, and the troops of the first division must be basically organized tonight. Wang Xinggang assisted Chief of Staff Xiao in arranging the loading of materials and the transfer of personnel. Chief of Staff Tao had just taken office, and Chief of Staff Xiao was responsible for arranging for the Operations Department to formulate the action plan and the order in which each unit was to be deployed. Before dawn tomorrow, all the materials and personnel will leave Xiaogan. ”

After the meeting, everyone immediately became nervous and busy......

The matter of transferring personnel from the absorbed troops was handled by Tao Rong and Li Sichi. Not only the troops directly under the 19th Army and Li Sichi's division brought by Tao Rong, but also the disarmed Li Yixuan division, Tao Rong and Li Sichi are also very familiar with each other, and they are the most suitable to do it.

Tao Rong was in charge of the transfer of troops from the troops directly under the 19th Army and Li Yixuan's division. It is very simple to transfer the artillery battalion, just to divide the personnel of the artillery battalion directly under the 19th Army and the artillery battalion of Li Yixuan's division, and with the addition of Li Yixuan's artillery battalion, the three battalions can just form a division artillery regiment. The 75mm mountain artillery and all the 60mm mortars of several divisions of the 19th Army were confiscated by Gao Zongbao in Zhujiahe, the reason was that for safety, heavy weapons must be collected first.

In the selection of personnel for the next baggage regiment, guard battalion, communications battalion, and reconnaissance battalion, Tao Rong felt a little difficult. According to the establishment of the Fourth Route Army, these troops will add up to more than 10,000 people, and since Song Zhewu appointed him Tao Rong as the deputy chief of staff of the Fourth Route Army, he will have to take responsibility for this reorganization. Tao Rong, who has been in the army for many years, understands very well the reason why Song Zhewu wants to break up and reorganize the recruited personnel, that is, to avoid defection in the future when the incorporated personnel become an organized system.

This is the most thorough way to do this by name and selection, but time is very tight, and it will be too late to finish it tonight. After thinking about it, I finally decided to transfer it as a company. The personnel of the troops directly under his army were too small, only more than 2,000 people, so they had to draw out half of them. From Li Yixuan's division, 5,000 people were drawn from the company, and Li Sichi could draw another 4,000 people.

didn't wait for him to go to Li Sichi, Li Sichi brought the people he dispatched to him. Li Sichi saw Tao Rong transferring people one by one, and asked with some puzzlement: "Chief of Staff Tao, are you pulling out a few regiments and ending it soon, why are you making it so complicated?" ”

Tao Rong glanced at the troops brought by Li Sichi, and saw that Li Sichi only brought one regiment, and it was a complete range of officers, and Tao Rong knew all those regiment-level officers. looked around, saw that there were only two people nearby, he and Li Sichi, and asked Li Sichi in a low voice: "Are you a direct group of troops?" ”

Li Sichi said with some embarrassment: "Yes, I only brought one regiment." I want to discuss with the chief of staff, are the rest of the personnel transferred from Li Yixuan's division? ”

Tao Rong glared at Li Sichi and asked Li Sichi seriously: "The reason why Commander Song insisted on breaking up and reorganizing the troops before he absorbed us was because he was afraid that the troops that were incorporated would not be able to control it if they did not have the same heart as the Fourth Route Army. Your division is three fully equipped brigades, each brigade is three regiments, counting more than 11,000 troops directly under your division, you only take out one regiment, how can this work! Do you still want to be incorporated into your troops when your divisions are formed? ”

was told by Tao Rong to think about it, Li Si blushed and said: "Chief of Staff Tao, brother can't lie to you, I do have this thought." Several brigade and regiment commanders under my command have approached me, and the brothers are reluctant to separate, and they are all afraid of being bullied in other divisions, and they all want to follow me, and I can't help it. ”

Li Sichi saw Tao Rong looking at him with a serious face, and said with a little humility: "The brothers have been together for more than ten years, and it is understandable that they are unwilling to separate. ”

Tao Rong stomped her feet angrily, lowered her voice and said hatefully: "What brothers don't want to separate, I think you don't want to let them leave you?" You're confused! Commander Song acted above board, and made it clear before the incorporation that if he wanted to integrate the troops, he would have to break up and reorganize all the troops, otherwise he would not be reorganized. And now we see that we made the right move. Otherwise, we have to be the same as Li Yixuan and Zheng Zheng. Your brigade commanders and regiment commanders must also be dismissed, and you must know how to advance and retreat, not to be long. You agreed to the dispersal and reorganization of the troops at the time, and then you have to regret how it was too late. If you only take out one regiment for the reorganization of this division, and when you go to Hebei for reorganization, you will take out two or three more regiments, and your troops will almost still maintain two fully formed brigades. Can others reassure you? Can you sit comfortably as a division commander? ”

Listening to Tao Rong's words, Li Sichi couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat.

Tao Rong continued: "At that time, not only could you not be your division commander, but you also couldn't be in the Fourth Route Army. And it's not just you, these brigade commanders, regiment commanders, and even all the officers under your command are difficult to be trusted, let alone reused, you are not helping them, you are harming them. ”

(To be continued)