Fierce fighting on both sides of the Xinbian River was in full swing, and in Xiangcheng City, a large number of Northwest Army routs had walked out of the north gate of Xiangcheng in an orderly manner under the guidance of the heavily armed guard regiment soldiers, and gathered in the designated open space outside the north gate.

At the front of the clearing, Qiao Anbang, Zhang Zizhong, Liu Ruming and others had already arrived here in a jeep, and the three of them got out of the car and waited solemnly for the rout to gather.

Qiao Anbang naturally chose the location of the rout here for ulterior motives, this place is close to the battlefield, but it will not be hit by stray bullets flying everywhere, but the deafening sound of gunfire and shouting along the Xinbian River can be clearly heard.

About half an hour later, nearly 20,000 Northwest Army rout soldiers finally assembled, although it seems, the number of rout soldiers caused a little chaos, but after all, they are all trained soldiers, and hurriedly fought with the army in Xuzhou, plus there are Tiger Ben soldiers on the side to supervise and spur, so the performance is still better than the newly enlisted peasants.

When all the defeated soldiers were assembled, Liang Jiahan took out Qiao Anbang's special megaphone from the jeep, Qiao Anbang took the megaphone, climbed into the jeep, raised the horn and opened his throat and shouted: "Brothers, please be quiet, I have something to say to you with your superiors." ”

Through the loudspeaker, Qiao Anbang's volume was expanded a lot, although it was impossible for nearly 20,000 people to hear all of them, but through the soldiers communicating with each other, soon all the soldiers knew what Qiao Anbang said, and the originally noisy crowd gradually began to calm down.

After all, Qiao Anbang's name and their defeated soldiers have long been thunderous, and Qiao Anbang has inspected many resettlement sites in the past two days, so most people recognize Qiao Anbang, and most of the soldiers worship such a world-famous anti-Japanese hero.

There are also some soldiers who are grateful to the Tiger Army and Qiao Anbang, because the Tiger Army rescued them from the pursuing guns of the Yue Army, and gave them enough food. Especially the recruits who have just joined the army, it is not too much to describe it as a mother with milk.

Therefore, subconsciously, most of the soldiers who just joined the 59th Army and the 65th Army a few months ago are already grateful to Qiao Anbang, and even many soldiers want to join the Tiger Army, at least in the Tiger Army, not only are they well-fed, but they can also eat well, and they also occasionally know from the mouths of the soldiers of the guard regiment that the Tiger Army is well-equipped and goes to the battlefield, and they will never fight with the devil with bayonets, because their bullets are enough.

Let's ask, if the bullet tube is enough, who is willing to go to the devil to carry out the most tragic white-knuckle stabbing until the last resort?

After all the officers and men present had quieted down, Qiao Anbang waved his hand to signal the jeep to start, during which Zhang Zizhong and Liu Ruming were already sitting in the back seat of the jeep, and after receiving the order, the driver started the jeep and slowly drove along the crowd.

Qiao Anbang raised the megaphone in his hand again, opened his throat and said loudly: "Brothers, I have summoned everyone here today to inform you that from now on, you will all be part of my Tiger Army!" Six oceans per person per month, and anyone who dies and dies will receive a generous pension! ”

Qiao Anbang's voice fell, and those who were the first to hear it began to talk one after another, most of them were surprised and delighted. They have long been greedy for the treatment of the Tiger Ben Army, not only the salary is high, the treatment is good, and the equipment is even more leveraged.

However, some veterans of the former 59th Army and the 65th Army raised questions, and a colonel officer of the former 59th Army pushed aside the crowd in front of him, strode into Qiao Anbang's jeep, and asked loudly: "Sir Qiao, I respect you as a national hero, but there is something I must ask clearly." ”

"This brother, please speak!" Qiao Anbang raised his hand and gestured.

"The chief wants to take us in, so what about our chief?" As he spoke, the colonel officer looked at Zhang Zizhong, who was sitting in the back seat of the jeep.

Qiao Anbang smiled with relief and said, "Brother Xin Chen is naturally still your chief, is there anything wrong with this?" ”

"Is this true, sir?" The colonel's eyes lit up.

"Xu Tingzhi, don't make a mistake! General Qiao is determined to save the country, and his words naturally count, no matter when it comes, I will be your commander! Zhang Zizhong got up and jumped out of the jeep and scolded.

"Yes!" The colonel's officer replied with a bang, and immediately turned back into the crowd.

After seeing Xu Tingzhi leave, Qiao Anbang and Zhang Zizhong looked at each other and smiled, Zhang Zizhong turned around and got into the jeep, and the jeep continued to drive forward.

At this time, the crowd was already boiling, and Qiao Anbang's words just now had already reached the ears of every Northwest officer and soldier present. Everyone was talking about what it would be like to join the Tiger Army.

Nearly 20,000 people, except for Xu Ting just now, there was no one who objected, and the entire reorganization operation went surprisingly smoothly, which made Qiao Anbang, who had prepared a lot of rhetoric early, a little disappointed.

But it's normal to think about it, after all, Zhang Zizhong and Liu Ruming came forward, the commander is still their commander, the officers and soldiers just changed the number of the troops, and they also joined the famous Tiger Army, the officers and men of the Northwest Army are like the motherless children, they found their home all of a sudden, and naturally no one will object.

After the reorganization, the 65th Army and the 59th Army were all compressed into a division, numbered as the 6th and 7th Divisions of the Huben Army, Zhang Zizhong served as the commander of the 7th Division, Liu Ruming served as the commander of the 6th Division, and as for the remnants of Pang Bingxun's 40th Army, most of them were also incorporated into Zhang Zizhong's 7th Division.

The new 6th and 7th Divisions, like other divisions of the Huben Army, do not have brigade-level combat units for the time being, and the whole division has three infantry regiments, each with about 2 to 3,000 people. Due to the rush of time, except for a guard company and a communications company attached to the division headquarters, other units directly under the division, such as the artillery regiment, have not yet been formed.

Zhang Zizhong and Liu Ruming had no complaints about the demotion to the division commander, after all, they both thought that they had lost the battle, and they also knew that whether it was the division commander or the army commander, they were all vain, and the most real thing was that their troops finally got rid of the hat of a miscellaneous army and turned into an elite ace army.

Zhang Zizhong and Liu Ruming had no complaints as army commanders, and the division and brigade commanders below naturally did not dare to have any objections.

After the reorganization was completed, Qiao Anbang sent new weapons and equipment to the 6th and 7th divisions, and the equipment of these two divisions was the same as that of several other divisions, using German-style equipment, but the semi-automatic rifle was still the M1 Garand rifle, because the German-style assault rifle had not yet been launched, and the automatic development function of Yali's aircraft had not yet been repaired, so the American-style Garand rifle could only be temporarily selected as the standard equipment of most of the infantrymen.

By the afternoon, the two divisions had all been reequipped, and the equipment of the officers and men of the 6th and 7th divisions had all been replaced with brand-new German and American equipment, except for the uniforms, shoes and hats that could not be replaced due to time urgency.

Immediately, Qiao Anbang ordered the 6th and 7th divisions to join the battlefield, and the 6th and 7th divisions were joined by the two new forces, and the strength of the guard regiment and armored brigade increased greatly, and even launched a counter-charge to the north bank for a time, and fought back to the north bank, but in the end, due to geographical restrictions, Qiao Anbang still ordered the troops to withdraw from the north bank.

After suffering serious losses, Itako Seishiro finally ordered the attack to be suspended, and the two sides began to confront each other across the river, but the tank group of the Tiger Army was not idle, and from time to time they fired artillery on the north bank.

……………………………………………… Guanqiao Town on the north bank, the headquarters of the Fifth Division of the Army.

The commander of the Fifth Division, Ban Heng Seisishiro, slapped the table in anger and roared: "Baga, the people of the branch are arrogant, and they order the artillery wing to return fire immediately. ”

"Your Excellency the division commander, by all means, the Xinbianhe front line is close to the hinterland of the base area of the Tiger Army of China, and their fighters can fly over our army's position in just a few minutes. Chief of Staff Sakurada Takeosa hurriedly persuaded him.

"Bageyalu, what about our aviation? Call for aviation support now! Itachi Seishiro said angrily.

"General, since the Xuzhou airport has not yet been repaired, the imperial army's aviation can no longer effectively support our operations when it takes off from Jinan, so we will not be able to get air support from the aviation for the time being." Takeshi Sakurada replied with a bitter face and bowed his head.

"What? Xuzhou Airport has not been repaired? Banheng Seishiro was furious when he heard this, and immediately roared: "Call the logistics department immediately and repair Xuzhou Airport as soon as possible!" Thinking of Xuzhou Airport, Ban Heng Zhengshiro gritted his teeth with hatred, Xuzhou Airport was blown up by Liu Ruming's troops before retreating, and the Fifth Division had already surrounded the 65th Army Corps in Xuzhou, and was about to be eliminated in one fell swoop, when the air force of the Tiger Ben Army roared and bombed the offensive positions of the Fifth Division.

As a result, Liu Ruming's troops got a chance to breathe, and broke out of the encirclement that night, the pursuing troops of Banheng Zhengshiro had caught up with the 65th Army, but they never thought that the armored troops of the Tiger Army suddenly killed again, not only caused very heavy losses to the Fifth Division, but also rescued Liu Ruming's troops.

Ban Heng Seishiro was in a hate, a rush of footsteps suddenly sounded, turned around and saw that a communication soldier had already hurriedly run over, and before he arrived, he suddenly closed his feet and saluted and reported to Ita Heng Seisishiro: "General, the front army headquarters is in an emergency!" ”

"Read!" Itachi Seishiro brushed the ground and waved his hand.

"The 108th, 109th and the 3rd Heavy Artillery Brigade directly under the Front Army are rushing towards your headquarters, and the Front Army Headquarters orders our department to break through the defense line of the China Army within five days, and join the Central China Front Army to attack the Pheasant and Ji, the base camp of the Tiger Ben Army!" The Signal Soldier said quickly.

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(To be continued)