Pheasant and Jilongshan military camp, the headquarters of the Tiger Ben Army.

Qiao Anbang carried one hand on his back, and the other hand was pacing back and forth in the headquarters with a half-burned cigarette, beside him, Jiang Jun, deputy head of the guard regiment, and Liang Haoyao, an overseas Chinese in Germany who had newly joined the Tiger Ben Army some time ago, were standing tall and not squinting.

Qiao Anbang frowned and paced back and forth, until the half of the cigarette in his hand burned his fingers, he hurriedly threw the cigarette butt to the ground, and put on his right foot in cowhide military shoes to crush the cigarette butt.

Jiang Jun and Liang Haoyao looked at each other, and in the end, Jiang Jun couldn't bear the surname, and asked: "Junzuo, you summoned lowly people to come, is there anything wrong?" ”

Qiao Anbang turned his head to look at Jiang Jun and Liang Haoyao, and finally said, "Jiang Jun, Liang Haoyao!" ”

The two of them hurriedly straightened up and looked at Qiao Anbang without squinting.

"Don't be too stubborn, I came to you today because I want to discuss something with you," Qiao Anbang saw that the atmosphere was a little solemn, and immediately smiled and waved his hand to signal the two to sit down.

After Qiao Anbang sat down, Jiang Jun and Liang Haoyao were not hypocritical, and immediately sat down.

After a pause, Qiao Anbang said in a deep voice again: "Here's the thing, after I discussed with the deputy army commander, it was decided to expand a fifth division, after careful consideration, I decided to let the two of you pick the big beam, with Jiang Jun as the commander of the fifth division, and Liang Haoyao as the chief of staff of the fifth division, I don't know what you think?" ”

Jiang Jun and Liang Haoyao changed color when they heard this, and Liang Haoyao was the first to speak: "Military seat, lowly and shallow in learning, lack of experience, and when I just joined the Tiger Army, I am afraid that I will not be able to take on this important responsibility because of my qualifications!" ”

"No one fights from the mother's womb! You are a graduate of a professional military academy and have a strong professional knowledge and cultural foundation, what you lack is leading troops and actual combat experience, and this point, you and Jiang Jun just complement each other, so I decided to form the fifth division by the two of you! Qiao Anbang waved his hand.

Liang Haoyao wanted to say something more, but was pulled by Jiang Jun, and said first: "Military seat, to form the Fifth Division, do you also want to give us some backbones, otherwise it will be difficult for all recruits to form combat effectiveness in a short period of time!" ”

"Of course, I have already decided, two to three companies will be transferred from the guard regiment, and another veteran battalion will be transferred from the first division to you, and the fifth division will be expanded with them as the backbone!" Qiao Anbang nodded.

"Great, thank you Gunza!" Jiang Jun was overjoyed when he heard this, and hurriedly got up and said.

"However, Jiang Jun, don't be happy too early, you have to remember to Lao Tzu, I will hand over the fifth division to you, but you have to give me life-threatening training, I will give you three months, you have to train those recruits to me into an elite division that can fight, if you can't lead the team after three months, then don't blame me for taking you down, my tiger army has always been a capable person, never raise cowards, whether you can be qualified for the position of division commander and chief of staff, it depends on you." Jo Anbang's carrot and stick put a tightening spell on the two.

"Yes! Please rest assured, Chief of Staff Liang and I will go all out, and in three months, our Fifth Division will definitely be able to complete any task assigned to us by Junzao! Jiang Jun patted his chest and said loudly.

"Good! I'm relieved to have your words. In this way, tomorrow you will start recruiting troops, send people to post recruitment notices to the counties in the base areas, and if necessary, you can also enter Henan to recruit troops, as for the station of the Fifth Division, it is in Pheasant and Ji! Qiao Anbang raised his hand with a slight groan.

"Yes!" Jiang Jun and Liang Haoyao stood up and saluted at the same time, and then turned around and left.

In Qiao Anbang's imagination, the Fifth Division is the mobile strength of the Tiger Army, and now there are divisions stationed in all four directions of the base area, so the Fifth Division naturally has to stay in Pheasant and Ji, after all, the number of recruits in the Fifth Division is more than that of the Fourth Division and others, and staying in Pheasant and Ji is also conducive to training.

As for the selection of the commander and chief of staff of the Fifth Division, Qiao Anbang has also been carefully considered, and Jiang Jun has a lot of combat experience and experience in leading troops, and with a little training, he can be qualified for the post of division commander, after all, don't the division commanders of many units grow up from the grassroots level?

And Liang Haoyao, although he joined the Tiger Ben Army not long ago, but he graduated from a professional military academy with a high level of professionalism, as Qiao Anbang just said, he and Jiang Jun can just complement each other's strengths and weaknesses, first, Qiao Anbang also wants to cultivate more capable subordinates for himself, and secondly, he also expects to facilitate contact with Germany through Liang Haoyao in the future, so it is necessary to cultivate and win over appropriately.

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The recruitment progress of the Fifth Division is not as smooth as that of the Fourth Division, mainly because in the first few days, the recruitment news of the Fifth Division only reached the Pheasant and the surrounding areas, after the first few successive expansions of the Tiger Army, there is not much left of the Pheasant and the collection of troops in the area, if you forcibly catch the strong men, it will affect the normal life of the local people, not to mention anything else, just say that the people's cultivation, without labor, how can the people cultivate the land? There is no one to plow the land, what do they eat?

Therefore, when the situation is absolutely necessary, Qiao Anbang will never do such a self-digging thing.

A few days later, when Liang Haoyao himself took two companies to Luyi, Dancheng, and Jieshou counties to recruit troops, the recruitment of troops was progressing very smoothly, and in just one week, the Fifth Division had recruited more than 7,000 recruits in the above-mentioned areas, with an average of nearly 1,000 people enlisted every day.

In fact, this is also reasonable, the treatment of the Tiger Ben Army is so generous, and the reputation among the people is also very good, when the news of the Tiger Ben Army's recruitment swept the border of Henan and Anhui like a wind, the number of people who came to sign up for the army every day was not thousands, but there were only about 1,000 people who were really admitted to the army by the Tiger Ben Army.

After all, there are more people, and the Fifth Division can calmly choose the best, and some people who are weaker and older can be excluded, so that the source of recruited soldiers will not be uneven, as long as they go through formal training, they will soon be able to grow into qualified soldiers.

When Qiao Anbang got Liang Haoyao's report, he couldn't help but sigh that China at this stage really lacks everything, that is, there is no shortage of people.

Since Qiao Anbang's purpose in forming the Fifth Division was to use it as a mobile force for the whole army, the Fifth Division was equipped with an additional tank regiment, equipped with 75 No. 4 tanks, which was similar to that of a regiment of the armored brigade, which was not available in other divisions.

In addition, the Fifth Division, like several other divisions, is all mechanized, and all regiments of the division are equipped with military trucks and motorcycles, and the Fifth Division has three infantry regiments, an artillery regiment, and directly subordinate units such as guard battalions, reconnaissance battalions, and baggage battalions.

Because of the addition of a tank unit, the Fifth Division is more powerful than several other divisions in terms of strength, including the most elite main force division, and the total strength of the whole division, plus logistics personnel and combat personnel, is close to 20,000 people.

As usual, Qiao Anbang delivered an impassioned speech at the inaugural meeting of the Fifth Division, which aroused the enthusiasm of the more than 10,000 recruits of the Fifth Division, and the morale was high.

Nominally, Liang Haoyao is the chief of staff, but he is more professional than a professional instructor, and under his guidance, the training of the entire Fifth Division is moving towards regularization, and the results are also very significant.

These days, the flying regiment is not idle, Gao Xiang often leads the pilots to fly fighter planes to attack everywhere, constantly harassing the Hefei airport that the devils are repairing, and under the attack and harassment of the Tiger Ben Army Air Force, the devils have been paralyzed in the repair work of Hefei Airport.

If it weren't for the problem of range, Gao Xiang would have led the air force to bomb the Japanese army in Shanghai and other places, as long as he had to crack down on the arrogance of the devils, after all, the range of the BF109 was still a little too short, only 700 kilometers, that is to say, the combat radius could only be within 350 kilometers, and the BF109 would not be able to return if it was far away.

As the producer of the BF109, Germany, in the original history of the British Air Battle, it was because the BF109 was too short to provide full escort for the German Air Force bomber group, which ultimately led to the failure of the British Air Battle, and Hitler's Sea Lion battle plan went bankrupt.

If the BF109 had had been long enough, perhaps the outcome of the Battle of Great Britain would have been very different, and the whole of World War II might have been changed as a result. However, this is all if, Qiao Anbang, the traverser, does not know why the designers of the BF109 failed to upgrade the shortcomings of the BF109 in the later stage.

However, Qiao Anbang decided that it was necessary to improve the shortcoming of the BF109's short range, although the shortcomings of the short range of the BF109 have not yet become a fatal weakness, but as the war progresses, it is definitely not possible to rely on a range of 700 kilometers, and it is impossible to take care of it on the Chinese battlefield alone, let alone cross the East China Sea to bomb the mainland.

(To be continued)