After Xiao Guodong announced the expansion of the troops, the appointment of the commanders of the various units, and the allocation and appointment of various units and departments of the civil affairs and organs, Xiao Guodong sat down. Everyone knew that Song Zhewu was going to speak, and everyone hid the joy and excitement brought by the appointment just now, and waited quietly for Song Zhewu to speak.

Song Zhewu glanced at everyone and was very happy! Not only is he satisfied with the respectful attitude of the crowd towards him, but he is also satisfied with the achievements he has made in the past few years since he came to this era. If it is said that when he first came to this era, he only relied on a patriotic enthusiasm and was determined to use his own efforts to avoid and reduce the suffering of the Chinese nation in the upcoming World War II. Song Zhewu is now thinking about how to revitalize the Chinese nation in advance. These people here will be the backbone and backbone of his ideals.

Song Zhewu coughed and said: "Just now, the chief of staff has announced the personnel appointments for the military, civil affairs, and scientific research of our Fourth Route Army, and I will talk about the economic affairs of our Fourth Route Army in a moment. These are no longer just simple personnel appointments and dismissals, but also the development plan and direction of our Fourth Route Army. ”

Song Zhewu looked at the pen and notebook in front of everyone and said: "From now on, except for the confidential staff officers of the headquarters, no one else will be recorded, and the content of the meeting will be kept strictly confidential, even after you go back, you must not disclose it to your subordinates when arranging the corresponding preparations, you can find your own reasons." ”

After everyone put away their pens and notebooks, Song Zhewu said with a solemn face: "All of you here are the backbone and backbone of our Fourth Route Army, and the scale and situation of our Fourth Route Army today are precisely achieved by the efforts of your people, and even its future will be decided by you." So, there are some things that you should be clear about now. Next, I want to tell you about the purpose of the founding of our Fourth Route Army, which is, of course, the purpose of my Song Zhewu and our recent development direction. ”

Song Zhewu saw that everyone was listening carefully with serious expressions, and continued: "I believe that the purpose of our army building is clear to many people, that is, what I used to call 'resisting foreign captivity', to put it bluntly, it is to resist the invasion of myself. To this end, our Fourth Route Army has been working hard to make all kinds of preparations. Not only military, but also scientific, technological, and economic preparations. Of course, the same is true of the civil affairs arrangements just now, which are also auxiliary to the above points, and will be the basis of all our work. ”

Song Zhewu lit a cigarette and said, "First of all, military. Since we built our army in Tianjin three years ago, our Fourth Route Army has made tremendous progress not only in terms of scale, but also in terms of quality. I am proud to say that our Fourth Route Army is an elite army. Through the efforts of all of you here over the past three years, our Fourth Route Army is not only well-armed, but also very distinctive. Lin Wei, Zhang Zhizhong, He Yingqin, Chief of Staff Tao and Canxuan, Chairman Shang Zhenshang, and others all believed that our troops not only had the characteristics of the Japanese army but also the characteristics of the German army, and were even stronger than them in some characteristics. But if you want me to say that, this statement is wrong, or at least inaccurate. ”

Taking a puff of cigarette, Song Zhewu continued: "It is said that our Fourth Route Army has the characteristics of an army, and that is because of our stabbing skills. However, although we and Yue Jun both pay attention to fighting stabs, there are still significant differences. It is said that the army is more old-fashioned, for example, when fighting stabbing, it is necessary to withdraw the bullets from the chamber of the gun, and this is clearly required in their infantry regulations. The reason why they did this was that they found in the Russian War that it was easy to hurt their own people when shooting during the stabbing process, especially the penetration of the 38 style was very strong, even if they hit the opponent, because of the dense crowd during the stabbing process, the bullet was likely to injure their own people after penetrating the opponent, and the second person who was injured was often fatal, because the kinetic energy of the warhead had been greatly weakened after passing through the body of the first person. Although our Fourth Route Army now also uses the 38 style, it does not require that it must be withdrawn when stabbing stabs, but only that it is not easy to shoot when it is not sure. In particular, we are more distinctive in the formation and weapon configuration when stabbing, our squad platoon is equipped with a large number of pistols, and the pistols can easily hit the enemy in any direction because of the small radius of rotation when stabbing. The Mauser 7.63 pistol not only had a lot of ammunition, but it also had absolutely no penetration. It can be said that our fighting thorns are far stronger than the army; As for the German army, our Fourth Route Army is only somewhat similar to them in terms of military philosophy, and because of the weapons, we and the German army have no comparable surnames. ”

Song Zhewu took a sip of water and said: "Actually, our Fourth Route Army has its own characteristics, and these characteristics are more reflected in tactics, and these characteristics will not be discovered in a short period of contact with our troops. Three fierce tactics. A little two-sided. Three-three system. Four groups in one team. Technical and tactical requirements such as three fast and one slow are our characteristics, and this is also the essence of our Fourth Route Army as a strong army. For example, this time at Huayuankou, Xu Fang's regiment completely annihilated Deng Baoshan's regiment in a very short period of time, which can be said to be an example of the three fierce tactics. ”

Song Zhewuxin said that this was the magic weapon of Marshal Linb in later generations, and it was a tried-and-true weapon.

Song Zhewu said: "I say this, mainly to say that our Fourth Route Army is not only very large, but even a strong army with its own style, and because of the addition of a large number of outstanding and experienced officers and soldiers of the former 19th Army headed by Chief of Staff Tao and Division Commander Li, and the Northwest Army headed by Chief of Staff Li and Brigade Commander Zhao, our Fourth Route Army can even be said to be a mature army. What we need to do now is to continue to develop and improve it on this basis, and continue to grow it. We already have an air force, and although these aircraft are still old from the First World War, they are the foundation on which we built our air force and make it possible for us to train a large number of pilots. Our air force must continue to develop like our army, and we must not only have more advanced aircraft, but we must also build our own aircraft and build the most advanced aircraft. ”

Wu Jin stood up excitedly and said: "Commander, since you trust me Wu Jin and hand over the Air Force to me, I will assure you today that my Wu Jin will go to the soup and fight the fire, and I will definitely train the Air Force to the commander!" ”

Song Zhewu smiled and waved his hand, motioned for Wu Jin to sit down, and said: "We now say to the outside world that our Fourth Route Army has five divisions, five brigades, a teaching corps, and a cavalry corps, and it is estimated that only Yan Xishan can guess about the air force, and the others do not know it for the time being, and the outside world estimates that the number of our troops is between 220,000 and 280,000. But I have one more thing to tell you, so that you really know how powerful our Fourth Route Army really is. After speaking, he gestured to Xiao Guodong with his eyes.

Except for Wei Guanghui, Xiao Guodong, and Wang Xu, everyone else was a little surprised. Among these people here, except for Li Rujuan, they are all senior generals of the Fourth Route Army, although Tao Rong, Li Sichi, and Li Wentian came relatively late, but Song Zhewu trusted them and did not hide anything from them, and they didn't dare to say that they knew about the family background of the Fourth Route Army, but they still roughly knew the number of the Fourth Route Army. The number of the Fourth Route Army in Handan and Laiyuan was 250,000, plus the 30,000 of Wei Guanghui's cavalry army, that is, 280,000. Could it be that Song Zhewu still has hidden power and didn't tell them?

Among these people, Tao Rong, Li Wentian, and Li Sichi felt the strongest, they thought that they had joined the Fourth Route Army for too short a time after all, and it was normal for them not to know some things. But when they looked at Gao Zongbao, Zhang Tao, Liang Fang, Wu Jin and others, they also looked confused, and even Zhang Yafei, Song Zhewu's absolute confidant, and Li Rujuan also looked uncertain, Tao Rong, Li Wentian, and Li Sichi settled down. Tao Rong, Li Wentian and Li Sichi have also been in the military for many years, and it is normal for an aspiring person like Song Zhewu to have a force that is not known to outsiders.

Li Sichi was even secretly happy in his heart, the 280,000-strong Fourth Route Army was already more than the strength of the Gui system in its heyday, not to mention that the weapons and equipment were far stronger than the Gui system, if Song Zhewu had another force, even if there was another division, it would be 300,000 people. Although Feng Yuxiang's Northwest Army has more than 300,000 troops, its equipment cannot be compared with the Fourth Route Army, even with the Gui system. The Fourth Route Army is the largest force in China except for the Central Army, and with Song Zhewu's scheming and means that are stronger than Feng Yuxiang, it is possible to compete with Chiang Kai-shek in a few years, so that he will not be just a division commander. It seems that the move of defecting to the Fourth Route Army is right, and I really have to settle down and do things for the Fourth Route Army in the future.

Xiao Guodong was delicate, and when he saw the expressions of Tao Rong, Li Wentian, and Li Sichi, he had already guessed seven or eight points about their thoughts, afraid that they would have thoughts from the outside, and said with a smile: "Because I want to keep it secret, I am mainly afraid that Chiang Kai-shek and Yan Xishan will know, and this matter is now only known to the commander, me, Chief of Staff Wang, and Commander Wei." What the commander asked me to tell you is that our Fourth Route Army now has more than 250,000 troops, not counting the cavalry army, but if we count the cavalry army, we have a strength of 350,000 troops. ”

"Three hundred and fifty thousand!" Many people couldn't hide their surprised expressions, and Li Rujuan even almost shouted, and hurriedly covered her mouth with her hands.

That is to say, Wei Guanghui's cavalry army has 100,000 people! Now, even if the cavalry of the powerful factions in various places is combined, including the cavalry of the Central Army, there will not be 100,000, and the Fourth Route Army itself will have a terrifying scale of 100,000 cavalry, which cannot but surprise these people.

Xiao Guodong's reminder also made Song Zhewu, who was a little proud, understand, glanced at Tao Rong and the others and said: "'The king does not lose his country, and the minister does not lose his body. Everyone should know this sentence, in order to come in handy when needed, give our opponent a sudden and hard blow, without telling everyone in advance, don't be surprised. ”

(To be continued)