Chen Dazhu didn't know how he got home, and he didn't even know that his daughter-in-law was calling him to eat.

Chen Dazhu's daughter-in-law is an honest rural woman, she knows that her husband is in a bad mood today, and she doesn't know how to comfort people, so she just poured a glass of water and put it next to Chen Dazhu and has been sitting by her husband's side.

Chen Dazhu recalled that when Commander Su first arrived at the militia regiment, he was promoted to deputy regimental commander, and now he is now the division commander, but it has only been a year. It's only been a year for all this, look at yourself now, is this still the simple Chen Dazhu in the past?

The night passed quickly, and when the sunlight shone slightly on the window, Chen Dazhu woke up from his memory, and he gently covered the blanket on the bed and stood up by himself on his daughter-in-law, who had been leaning on his side.

"Alas" reached out to extinguish the cigarette butt and put on his hat, ready to go out.

"Daddy, where are you going?" The daughter-in-law, who had been with Chen Dazhu all night and had not slept by her side, asked timidly.

"Go and confess to the military seat." Chen Dazhu went out without looking back.

walked to the door of the small villa where Su Tong lived and was about to knock on the door, just when he saw Wang Li, who was also red-eyed, coming over, the two of them smiled relatively wordlessly, and after a while, the two of them walked into the door of Su Tong's house together.

Half a month later, the military headquarters issued an order, Chen Dazhu was ordered to go to Ulji, on the border between Chahar and Mongolia, to form a new second garrison brigade, and Wang Li went to Duolun to form a new third garrison brigade. The commanders of the 102nd and 103rd Divisions were replaced by Hu Lian and Zeng Li'an respectively.

As soon as this order to kill chickens and monkeys came out, all the officers and men of the whole army were awe-inspiring, and they no longer dared to disobey the orders of the military seat, and Su Tong's prestige in the 37th Army also reached an unprecedented increase.

In the apartment of the chief of the Soviet Union, the two highest commanders of the 37th Army were playing chess.

"General!" Jiang Baili jumped forward and checkmated the old commander of the Su Commander.

"Hey, my chief of staff, you also know that this stinky chess basket of me is not your opponent, why do you want to abuse me?" Chief Su has been abused for more than a dozen times, and he really can't stand the harassment of this unscrupulous old man, so he has to obediently raise his hand and surrender.

"Huh? How many times have you sent all my students to Duolun to see the oil fields, and I will kill you a few times? Jiang Baili said with a glare.

"Uh" feelings, this old man is here to fight for his students.

"Didn't I also send Chen Dazhu to Duleji," Chief Su was not convinced.

The two glared at each other like fighting cocks, but Jiang Baili softened first. "Alas! I also know that it's good to grind their hearts, but Jianming, I can understand that you sent Wang Li to Duolun to guard the oil field, after all, it is our oil production base now, but did you send Chen Dazhu to Durje to have any thoughts about Mongolia? Jiang Baili asked with some curiosity.

"Knowing that I am the Duke of Ningye," Chief Su first patted Jiang Baili on the back of a small sycophant, and then continued: "Now Mongolia is in the hands of those princes, and most of those princes are thinking about setting up [***], and Mongolia's geographical location is so important to our country's national defense and security, and Lao Maozi has long been eyeing Mongolia." If we don't step up our actions, we will be in trouble if we wait until the Mongols declare that they are reading or Lao Maozi is stationed there. ”

Jiang Baili was silent for a while and nodded: "I have also considered what you said, but our current strength is not enough to shake the behemoth of polar bears." ”

"If you can't shake it, you have to shake it, no matter how powerful he Stalin is, I will know him, I don't believe that Lao Maozi is invulnerable with three heads and six arms?" Chief Su stood up violently and said firmly.

April of the 25th year of the Republic of China (1936).

With the influx of immigrants from other provinces into Chahar, Su Tong's army expansion plan began to be implemented, and in the three months from April to July, Chahar expanded its army to 300,000 like balloons, which made the central government of Nanjing feel uneasy.

"What does this Su Jianming want to do? He wanted to rebel in a province that had formed so many troops without the consent of the central government? At the leader's official residence in Nanjing, Chairman Chiang was furious at Dai Li, the head of the military command, and Yang Yongtai, the senator.

"Headmaster, according to intelligence, this Su Jianming's large-scale expansion of the army does not seem to be to enter the customs to compete for the world, but instead to hoard most of his troops in the border with Mongolia." Dai Lian said cautiously.

"Well, does he want to fight Lao Maozi?" is worthy of being the leader of a country, and after a little pondering, he guessed the intention of Chief Su.

"According to the analysis of the intelligence obtained by the humble position, this Su Tong did not have much interest in the territory of the country, but he was always obsessed with the reading sentiment of Outer Mongolia and the territory ceded to the Soviet Union by the Manchu Qing Dynasty, otherwise he would not have transferred most of his troops to the border of Outer Mongolia." Yang Yongtai said cautiously.

"Did the tax paid by the Chahar political axe last month increase by 10 million?" There was a silence for a while, and the chairman asked.

"Yes, the tax paid by Chahar has increased significantly in the past few months."

"Alas, in that case, Changqing, you go and inform the Ministry of Military Affairs and ask them to give Su Tong the number of the 37th Group Army," since he, Su Tong, is not here to touch my Jiang someone's cake, and Chairman Jiang is also happy to be a favor under the peach.

"Yes, let's do it"

"Jianming, congratulations, you have been promoted again, this time you have become the commander of the group army." Jiang Baili said to Su Tong with a smile with the letter of appointment just sent by the Ministry of Military Affairs.

"Well, it's not bad, it's not in vain that we have paid so many taxes to Lao Jiang in the past two months." Someone pretended to be calm.

"Pretend, you pretend," said the chief of staff, who had long seen through someone's essence, with disdain.

As for the central political axe's promotion of the 37th Route Army to the 37th Group Army, the whole army has a welcoming attitude, after all, the boss has been promoted, and the people below can be promoted justifiably. You see that even Chen Dazhu and Wang Li, the two people who made mistakes, can be reinstated, so can others be worse?

In this way, with the acquiescence of the central authorities, the implementation of Chahar's army expansion plan went unexpectedly smoothly.

After some discussion with Jiang Baili, Su Tong decided to set up the entire group army into eight infantry divisions, two armored divisions, three garrison brigades, and two flying divisions.

By August, the preparations for each division had been largely completed, and all that remained was to do a good job of training and form combat effectiveness as soon as possible.

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