The time came to the end of September of the 27th year of the Republic of China (1938), when Qiao Youhua won a rare respite and vigorously developed and expanded his anti-Japanese base area.

The Battle of Wuhan, which has been going on for more than two months, is also in full swing, and Xue Yue's 1st Corps is more than 100,000 troops in Wanjialing besieging the 106th Division of the enemy's 11th Army, which is deep in the army.

The most famous victory of the frontal battlefield in history is slowly being staged along its original historical trajectory.

In order to win the Battle of Wuhan and attack Wuhan, the Imperial Japanese Army can be said to have done its best, mobilizing more than 300,000 troops, more than 500 aircraft, and more than 100 naval warships.

You must know that at this time, there is only one Guards Division left in the Japanese mainland Army, and it must be ready to fight at any time.

The reason why the Japanese army stormed Wuhan so much at any cost was because Wuhan was located on the Jianghan Plain and was the intersection of the Pinghan and Guangdong-Hanzhou railways. In November 1937, after some of the organs of the Nationalist Government were moved from Nanjing to Wuhan, the place actually became the center of China's military, political and economic affairs, and its strategic position was very important

Located in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, Wuhan is now China's largest city with a population of more than two million, and although the Nationalist Government moved its capital to Chongqing, most of the government offices and military headquarters were located in Wuhan, and Wuhan actually became the country's military, political, and economic center and strategic location as the wartime capital.

Therefore, Chairman Chiang mobilized more than 110,000 troops and deployed them in the vast area outside Wuhan, and the Japanese army believed that by capturing Wuhan, they would be able to expel the Chiang regime from the Central Plains and reduce it to a local power, and they would no longer be able to lead the whole country and the whole nation in the war of resistance.

Thus forcing the Nationalist Government to submit to its ambition of conquering China.

It is precisely because of this that Rao is Qiao Youhua inflicted such a heavy blow on the Japanese army in North China in North China, and the Japanese army base camp still continued the Wuhan Raid in the most intense stage on the grounds that the enemy in Feiyunling was a disease of mustard and the Nationalist Government on the frontal battlefield was the danger of the henchmen.

However, in order to give an explanation to its own people and public opinion, the Japanese base camp decided to dismiss the current commander of the North China Front, General Terauchi Shoichi, and the chief of the General Staff, Naosaburo Okabe, from their posts, and to withdraw them to the Japanese mainland and transfer them to the reserves.

The new General Sugiyama Mototo and the former deputy chief of the general staff of the North China Front Army, Kawabe Shozo, were newly appointed to form the new North China Front Army Headquarters, and at the same time, Kawabe Shozo's military rank was also promoted from major general to lieutenant general.

It can be regarded as the biggest beneficiary of the personnel adjustment of the North China Front.

In addition to changing the new headquarters, in order to make up for the lack of battle losses of the North China Front in terms of troops, the Japanese base camp urgently reorganized into a new 21st Division in China, which is a second-line division of three units.

The division headquarters is directly under the jurisdiction of three main field infantry wings, a baggage wing, an artillery wing, and a cavalry wing, or a tank search brigade.

After the formation of the 21st Division, it quickly set out from the Japanese island of Kyushu, was transported by naval ships, and after arriving at the port of Tianjin, it would rush to Shimen by rail, so as to strengthen the strength of the Japanese army in this area, ensure the safety of the Zhengtai Railway, and suppress the development of the Longya Independent Column. Of course, that's all for later.

In addition, the corps of the army stationed in Mongolia was also incorporated into the battle sequence of the North China Front Army, and it was under the direct command of the Front Army Headquarters headed by General Sugiyama Moto.

At the same time, a cavalry group originally subordinate to the Kwantung Army was transferred from outside the pass to enter the customs and incorporated into the battle sequence of the Mongolian army, so as to curb the anti-Japanese forces such as the Eighth Route Army and the Jinsui Army that were active in the Pingsui Railway.

The devil was busy with personnel changes and troop transfers, while Qiao Youhua was busy training recruits, and he combined the first batch of more than 1,000 recruits with the guard company into a temporary training brigade.

Every day, he personally guided the training, so that he could quickly improve their combat effectiveness and replenish them to the peripheral battalions and companies.

In the past few years, more and more young people rushed to the peripheral counties to ask to join the Eighth Route Army, and today, Jiang Haidong's first battalion and Wu Ming's third battalion have successively sent more than 900 recruits.

With the addition of more than a thousand people from the previous one, the number of recruits increased to two thousand.

Qiao Youhua divided the previous 1,000 people into two divisions and supplemented them with the first and third battalions respectively, and reorganized the more than 900 new recruits into the guard company, and Zheng Yunshan led the veterans to train them according to the previous regulations.

Qiao Youhua took the time to go to the Guojiacun Arsenal, where the civil construction had already been completed, and the factory was being built, leaving the head engineer in charge of the entire preparation of the arsenal named Johnson, a guy in his forties.

It's not the first time he and Qiao Youhua have met, and they like Qiao Youhua's boldness and generosity. Qiao Youhua used gold bars worth 200,000 oceans to completely "smash him", an engineer who was almost unemployed in the UK, and said that Qiao Youhua would be his boss in the future, and he was willing to stay here, and he had been assisting Qiao Youhua in developing the base and fighting devils!

Although it was bought with money, Johnson still worked very hard, without the frame of the chief engineer of the project, and often worked with the Chinese people who were not afraid of being dirty or tired.

Seeing Qiao Youhua coming, he didn't care about wiping the dust and dirt on his face, so he ran over and said with a smile: "Oh, respected Boss Qiao, you are here." ”

No way, Boss Qiao is Johnson's name for Qiao Youhua, and in the end, it has become the common name of all foreigners who were co-opted by Qiao Youhua with money.

Qiao Youhua nodded, said hard work, and was about to help, by the way, condolences to the people to check the progress of the project, at this moment, a war horse passed through the dense forest and came to the construction site, and the horse riding on it was Zhao Tiezhu, the deputy company commander of Qiao Youhua's newly promoted guard company.

Zhao Tiezhu was an excellent scout, Qiao Youhua had always had an impression of him, and now that the army was about to expand, he was transferred from the third battalion under the pretext of training new soldiers.

Although he was only a deputy company commander at the regiment headquarters, everyone knew that the guard company directly under the regiment headquarters and the commander of the second company of the third battalion were high and low.

Qiao Youhua's idea was that Liu Jianhua, the former commander of the reconnaissance company, was still seriously injured and had not yet recovered, even if it was good, he would have to be entrusted with a heavy responsibility, and the commander of the reconnaissance company would be Zhao Tiezhu, who had been very good in the previous battle.

Zhao Tiezhu turned over and dismounted, ran to Qiao Youhua and saluted: "Regiment commander, today the commander of the third battalion sent a group of foreign reporters, both men and women, I heard that they came to the base area to interview you and our Dragon Tooth Task Force, the political commissar is entertaining, but she doesn't understand foreign languages, let me come and ask you to go back quickly!" ”

"Foreign correspondents? What are the countries? Qiao Youhua's heart moved and asked.

"It seems that there are also British, Germans, Soviets, French, oh yes, and Americans." Zhao Tiezhu replied.

Qiao Youhua was overjoyed when he heard this, and patted Johnson's shoulder fiercely and said, "I'll go and get busy first, and I'll come to see you when I'm free!" I'll treat you to a drink next time! ”

After speaking, he took the lead and walked out, and said to Zhao Tiezhu: "I'll ride away your war horse first!" "I'm worried that I can't contact the Germans and the Americans, so you sent them to the door, God help me!

PS: Chapter 5 is here! Freshly baked! San Lang really fought hard for a monthly pass! There's another chapter in wait! Asking for a monthly pass!!