The 37th Brigade and the Iizuka detachment had a fierce confrontation under the ** county seat, and the total number of troops invested by both sides was tens of thousands. （）

The Japanese army, who was unwilling to lose, obviously wanted to win back a game under the ** city.

However, Iizuka Kunigoro wants to repeat the glory of the Taiheiji First War, I am afraid that there is no good opportunity, and the new 37 Brigade will surpass the Iizuka detachment in terms of strength, not to mention the heavy artillery regiment and armored brigade to help.

In this battle, Iizuka Kunigoro was doomed to lose.

Leng Feng handed over all the command to Liao Sen, and Liao Sen commanded the troops to fight for three days and three nights in Iizuka Kunigoro, and finally designed to introduce the Iizuka detachment into the city, and severely damaged the Iizuka detachment with heavy artillery.

Iizuka Kunigoro hit his head under the ** city and broke his blood, lost more than half of his life, lost a large number of weapons and ammunition, and the new 37th Brigade became famous throughout the country at once.

Liao Sen became famous in the first battle and became a famous anti-Japanese general!

If it weren't for the arrival of the main force of the 9th Division of the Japanese Army and the rescue of the remnants of the Iizuka Detachment, the Iizuka Detachment would have been eaten by the new 37th Brigade in one bite.

The secret that the heavy artillery regiment of the 1st Division of Honor was not destroyed by the bombing of Japanese planes was then known to the Japanese army.

Shunroku Hata went crazy, and he couldn't draw more troops on land for a while, so he could only use air power to retaliate.

The Japanese army once again dispatched dozens of bombers to bomb the 1st Division of Honor and the county seat, and even used the ammunition originally planned to be used to bomb Wuhan for the bombing of the 1st Division of Honor.

This can be regarded as preventing disasters for the people of Wuhan.

Within three days, **, Quanjiao and Chuxian, all the key cities in the area controlled by the Honor 1st Division were heavily bombed by the Japanese army.

Later, the relevant departments recorded statistics that the amount of ammunition used by the Japanese army in bombing the Honor Division was roughly the same as that used by the Japanese army to bomb Nanjing during the Battle of Nanjing.

It can be imagined how much the Japanese army hated Leng Feng and his honorary first division at this time.

The failure of the "strangulation" plan plunged the Japanese army into an unprecedented crisis, and the 13th Division was again trapped by the five armies of the Fifth Theater of Operations, with more than 100,000 troops, in the area south of the Huai River and north of the Chi River.

With a ten-to-one force, they had an absolute advantage, and the country's expectations for victory in this battle suddenly rose.

The reversal of the tide of the war has greatly encouraged the people's anti-war morale.

The Japanese army wanted to come to the rescue at the moment. However, there are only a part of the main force of the Ninth Division in the Yangzhou area, more than 10,000 people, and these more than 10,000 people still have to deter the honorary first division that has gained a firm foothold in the Chuzhou area.

Therefore, after the 9th Division rescued the Iizuka detachment, it immediately retreated to the Yangzhou area.

Continuing to withdraw troops to the north, the Nanjing area has become a vacuum, and as a last resort, Shunroku Hata transferred the 18th Division stationed in Huzhou to Nanjing. And it is also intended to mobilize two or three divisions from the mainland.

The fighting in the north was fierce, and the Japanese army in the south was also in full swing to deploy troops. Leng Feng's side calmed down instead.

Hesitation used too many aerial bombs on the 1st Division of Honor, and the Japanese aviation did not have enough ammunition to support the trapped 13th Division.

Therefore, the Fifth Theater of Operations reported frequent successes, and the depth of the Japanese army's defense was constantly compressed.

On the 25th, the 7th Army converged with the 136th Brigade of the 46th Division, recovered Dingyuan, eliminated more than 1,000 Japanese troops, and the remnants of the Japanese army in Dingyuan retreated in the direction of Fengyang.

On the 26th, Xiaobengbu was recovered.

28th......

The first division of honor came out of Nanjing. After fighting for 20 days, there was hardly a day of rest, and the troops urgently needed to rest and recuperate, so after completing the first stage of "capturing the wolf", Leng Feng ordered to switch to rest and recuperate, as long as the Japanese army did not take the initiative to provoke. The 1st Division of Honor is not in sorties.

The credit should also be shared with others, and besides, he is beyond his strength, and the troops are always tired of fighting, and the consumption is too great, which is also not conducive to growth.

The 1st Division of Honor is not counted as the new 38th Brigade. There are already four infantry brigades, a heavy artillery regiment, an artillery regiment (formed after the completion of the first phase of the wolf capture plan), a cavalry regiment, an armored tank brigade, a water detachment, a special forces directly under the division headquarters of the transportation support regiment, and so on.

Numerous. There are already 30,000 people in total, which is far more than the size of an army.

The captured Japanese-style weapons in Leng Feng's hands were enough to fully equip the troops at hand, and there was even a large part of the surplus, so Leng Feng had no intention of expanding the troops.

However, the time has come for the optimization and reorganization of the troops' training that brooks no delay.

Originally, Leng Feng planned to hold a meeting on the reorganization and training of the whole division after the division headquarters was transferred to Chuxian.

However, Chuxian County was bombed by the Japanese army, and many houses were damaged, and the Chuxian Middle School building, where the division headquarters was originally scheduled to be stationed, was partially blown up, and the division headquarters could not get through.

So Leng Feng decided that the headquarters of the Honorary First Division would be temporarily stationed in Wuyi Town.

This was the first military meeting of the entire division at or above the battalion level that Leng Feng was appointed commander of the 1st Division, and the meeting was held in the open air, and in the back garden of the temporary division headquarters, except for the new 38 Brigade who sent people to attend the meeting as observers, all the military commanders of the 1st Division at the battalion and regimental level attended the meeting, and they were not allowed to be absent without reason.

A series of victories, the officers and soldiers in the honorary first division are all high-spirited, and their mental outlook is completely different from the past.

A force, cohesion and centripetal force are very important.

At the meeting, Leng Feng first talked about the international and domestic situation, some of which were external intelligence information collected by the 'Silver Fox', and some of which were stored in Leng Feng's own mind.

The War of Resistance will definitely take several years, as for whether it will be eight years, Leng Feng is not easy to say now, after all, some have changed, of course, this is only between China and Japan, and the international situation is still advancing towards the established trajectory, without much change.

Therefore, he must strengthen the determination of his subordinates to resist the war and strengthen the belief that the war of resistance will be won.

Of course, whoever he is sitting on now, what he has to say, in short, the meaning is almost the same, and it cannot be won or lost in the end.

At the conference, Leng Feng announced three things. The first thing is to carry out a small-scale reorganization of the Honor First Division, and in principle, no new recruits will be recruited, and those with special skills or excellent conditions can be considered; second, an officer workshop will be held, and Leng Feng will personally serve as the class teacher, mainly for grass-roots officers, in principle, officers below the rank of major (including major) can sign up, and third, the pension of disabled soldiers and the burial of fallen soldiers.

All three of these things must be done now.

The meeting lasted all day and continued into the evening, and discussions were still being held, and the main issue was again focused on the reorganization of the troops.

According to the statistics in the early stage, the number of officers and soldiers and auxiliary personnel of the 1st Honor Division has exceeded 40,000. This number greatly startled Leng Feng.

Leng Feng himself estimated that there were about 30,000 people in the 1st Honor Division, and even if the wounded officers and soldiers were counted, it would not exceed 35,000.

Now 40,000 people are sent in one go, where did all these people come from?

A large number of troops is not necessarily a good thing, and a large number of people will also consume a lot. Eat, drink. What to wear, how much to consume every day, and to fight, this is an astronomical amount.

"The troops must be streamlined, one of our divisions is about to catch up with one of the other people's group army, what do you make others think?" Leng Feng didn't listen to anyone's opinions, and was quite arbitrary, setting the principle of streamlining.

Only military and political chiefs at and above the brigade level are qualified to participate in such high-level discussions.

"The supplementary brigade should be abolished. The officers and men of the unit were scattered and integrated into other units. This is Leng Feng's second decision on the reorganization, "Our troop is too large, it looks like the soldiers are strong, but in fact, there is still a considerable gap between the combat effectiveness and the Japanese army, one soldier can beat the three of us, and the same is also a person, why can't we do it?" ”

"Every soldier of my 1st Division of Honor surpassed the Japanese army. That's why I decided to streamline, to pool my limited resources and train a strong army, rather than spreading the pitiful resources and spreading them over and over again, in the end. No one can have enough to eat, how can they fight? ”

"The meaning of the division, I think everyone understands it, don't pay attention to the little mountain in your mind, thinking that a large number of people can win a big victory, you can just go back and pull a main force out to confront the Yaksha battalion directly under the division headquarters. The losing regiment was directly dismantled and downsized, do you dare? Chief of Staff Xie Jiyuan had already reached an agreement with Leng Feng.

Leng Feng's idea inspired Xie Jiyuan a lot, why can the Japanese use fewer troops to fight several times the ****, are the Chinese worse than the Japanese?

No, of course, there are reasons for the weakness of the national strength and the quality of the soldiers, but if the limited resources are concentrated, it is possible to forge an elite and strong army.

No one said anything, what kind of combat effectiveness is the Yaksha battalion, don't they know?

You don't have to fight, you know you can't win.

Originally, it was selected from the elite of the teaching corps, and it was transferred by Leng Feng. Teach, the individual combat effectiveness is second only to the Yaksha special operations team.

In the past 20 days or so, the battles were basically used to attack fortified positions and at the most critical junctures, rushing to the forefront, which was obvious to all the officers and men of the Honorable 1st Division.

"Shizuo, do you remember a few days ago, we agreed to cooperate with XSJ due to insufficient troops, and then we ate the 65th Wing of the Japanese Army?" Ju Youlin is still worried about this matter, after all, this could have allowed his 39th Brigade to enjoy this great credit alone, but it turned out to be shared by most of the people.

It's just your own person, but it's XSJ, and the old man is very taboo.

This question is very sensitive, and now that it has been brought up by Ju Youlin, Leng Feng knows that he has to face it, but he already has an answer.

"This problem is very easy to explain, it's not that we don't have enough troops, but our overall combat effectiveness is insufficient, think about it, if we only need one regiment to confront the Japanese army head-on, then we only need four regiments to surround the 65th Wing, how many people are in the four regiments, and the full battle is 8,000 people, and how many people did we use to encircle and annihilate the two corner wings, a full six regiments, this is not counting XSJ, so, as long as the combat effectiveness of our troops is improved, 20,000 people we can play 60,000 combat effectiveness and momentum, So what do you want 40,000 people to do? ”

"Master, can we do it financially at this stage?"

"Things are man-made, and the Japanese can do it, why can't we, when we see the gap, we have to catch up, not to lower our heads, to be an ostrich, as if we didn't see it."

"Division, how many people do you plan to reduce the force to?"

"At least 10,000 people will be laid off."

"How do you settle so many people?"

"I plan to come up with a sum of money to set up an invalids company, mainly to house the disabled servicemen and their families of our honorary first division, as well as some servicemen who have been discharged due to injury and illness, and those who have been laid off can be transferred to non-combat units, and I plan to set up an engineering unit, whose main responsibility is to repair bridges and pave roads, and a batch of engineering equipment that we have captured from the Japanese can be used." Leng Feng said.

(To be continued.) )

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