"Xie Niancheng is hereby appointed as the instructor of the First Army of the Chinese Revolutionary Army and the commander of the third regiment and three battalions.

Central Military Commission of the Socialist Party of China, June 10, 2013. ”

After getting the letter of appointment, Xie Niancheng's heart finally fell to the ground.

With a number, you can do a lot of work, and if you don't have a number, even if you form a unit, you can't move an inch. If you want to realize your ideals, you can't do without the banner of the Socialist Party for the time being.

These days, the bigwigs from all sides are still trying to win over Xie Niancheng, but Xie Niancheng has not wavered in the idea of returning to Sichuan to go alone. He knew very well that whether it was Guangdong, Lianghu, Jiangsu and Zhejiang, he did not have any foundation in these places, and if he wanted to gain a firm foothold in these places, not to mention a reinforced battalion, it was not enough to have an army.

After announcing the good news to Xu Geng and others, everyone used their brains together to finally determine the establishment and equipment of this battalion.

The instructor of the First Army of the Chinese Revolutionary Army taught the third regiment and the three battalions to form a table:

Battalion Commander: Xie Niancheng;

Deputy Battalion Commander: Zhang Chengyue;

Chief of Staff: Huang Xue;

Director of the Political Department: Su Wei.

Company commanders of three infantry companies: Xu Geng, Peng De, and Su Huaiyu.

Artillery Company Commander: Wen Deyun;

Commander of the Engineer Baggage Company: Wu Yongqiang.

In addition to the five formed companies, the battalion headquarters directly subordinate about 150 people in the guard platoon, reconnaissance platoon, cavalry platoon, sanitation squad, communications squad, and cooking squad.

The infantry company has three platoons and nine squads of infantry, and the company belongs to the fire platoon, cooking squad, communication squad, hygienist, and guard; Each company had 80 rifles, 20 submachine guns, 9 light machine guns, several pistols, 2 heavy machine guns, and 4 60 mortars. The company has an establishment of about 170 personnel.

The artillery company is mule and horse-mounted, with two artillery platoons, six artillery squads, and one baggage platoon, equipped with 12 80 mortars, and the whole company has about 130 personnel.

The engineer baggage company is mule and horse, with two engineer platoons and two baggage platoons, and the whole company has about 180 personnel.

The total strength of the battalion was 970 men, including 120 mules and horses, 40 light and heavy machine guns, and 24 artillery pieces.

Xu Geng looked at the final compilation table and blurted out: "My good boy, battalion commander, our battalion is more bullish than a regiment." ”

Xu Geng was right, teaching that the first regiment and the second regiment had only about 1,800 people, and each regiment had only six heavy machine guns, and there were no light machine guns. The divisional artillery battalion also had only six mountain guns, and in terms of firepower, this battalion was completely superior to a regiment.

"Hehe, a company has more than 20 flower traps and four guns, I think one company is comparable to a regiment!" Peng De's tone was even greater, he was from the old warlord army, and some warlord troops only had two heavy machine guns in a regiment, and there were no artillery, so it was not unreasonable for him to say this.

"Lao Peng, I said it, it's called a submachine gun, it's not a flower machine, it's not a machine gun." Su Huaiyu, who is usually good-natured, will always be extremely rigorous when talking about military issues.

Zhang Chengyue usually felt bowed in front of this group of military cadets, and when he heard them discuss these equipment for a long time, a sense of superiority arose in his heart: "These people still don't have enough knowledge, they are happy to be like this when they look at this little thing, if they see those big guys in the warehouse, they must not be stupid directly?" ”

In addition to the regular battalion, the Meiling base has appointed Mangzi as the battalion commander of the supplementary battalion, responsible for recruiting and training recruits, and now there are three recruit companies, and the base also has 600 recruits.

All other affairs were left to the old black and the water ghost.

The graduation ceremony of the first phase of Qingpu was held on 30 June, but Xie Niancheng, who already had soldiers, left the military academy to familiarize himself with the troops and conduct training day and night.

War can start at any time, and at this time, every day of training may give you more chances of winning in future battles.

General Huangshi, who boasted that "except for the commander, everything that can fight is not as good as my writing, and all the good writing is not as good as I can fight", as recorded in his heart, the experience of the three battalions becoming an army:

"In May 2013 in the Han calendar, Fei Ge (Marshal Zhang Chengyue) passed down the order, saying that he wanted to take Hanxing's brothers to join the Chinese Revolutionary Army.

"At that time, there was a strong revolutionary atmosphere in the Guangzhou area, and everyone was very enthusiastic about joining the army, basically they all signed up, and finally screened out, persuaded some older and weaker brothers to come back, and finally reported to the Meiling base, all of them were about 20 years old."

"When I arrived in Meiling, there was already a large military camp over there, and there were about 1,000 people in the barracks, many Sichuan villagers, but more of them were local young people in Guangdong, and what was particularly eye-catching was dozens of foreign instructors."

"The food in the barracks is so good, there is meat at every meal, and I see that some Guangdong recruits have just been here for a few days, and they have their stomachs bulging every time. Looking at their appearance, I also thought that when I first entered Hanxing, I was like them, and I had a bad stomach after a few days. ”

"The month of recruit training, it was really hard, I practiced day and night, especially at the beginning of the training queue, because I just went, the pace was not familiar, so I could only learn to walk step by step with the brother next to me. It was very strange, as I walked, my steps were confused, and the squad leader of the recruit class said, 'You go and watch for yourself for a while before entering the queue, you have messed up the footsteps of the whole class', and my temper came up, and I just refused to leave the queue. ”

The squad leader's face sank, I was a little afraid, so I stood aside and looked at it for a while, and felt that it was almost over, so I lined up again, walked for a while and was chaotic, and was driven out by the squad leader again. Seeing that the brothers who entered the team with me were walking decently, I was in a hurry, and then the squad leader went to the meeting, and I slipped into the team again and followed the brothers. ”

"After walking for more than ten days, I feel like a soldier, at this time an instructor came to ask me what I wanted to be a soldier, I liked the flower mechanism at a glance, speaking of the flower mechanism, I really have a fate with it, after handing it over to me, it didn't take long to play very familiar, even the instructor said, I am a genius."

"There are more and more people in the base, at the beginning of June, the base came to a big selection, a big competition, and running, jumping, and shooting, and finally selected more than 900 people, saying that they would be issued military uniforms, and officially organized into troops, of course, I passed the selection, hehe, and because of my excellent grades, I was directly appointed as the squad leader, a class is not simple, twelve people."

"The troops are getting more and more imposing, and I heard from the instructor that our side is a battalion formation, and it didn't take long for the formation table of the whole battalion to be posted. Fei Ge became the deputy battalion commander, and when he heard that the battalion commander was a young man who was not yet eighteen years old, many brothers were quite unconvinced, but no one in the army dared to say strange things. ”

"At that time, I was appointed as the squad leader of the second company and the second platoon, and our company commander was Peng Shuai!"

"On the whole day of 19 June, there was no training in the troops, and an order was passed down from above, to rest for a day, to sort out the appearance of the troops, to issue military uniforms in the afternoon, and to hold a military ceremony the next day."

"To be honest, at that time, everyone was very yearning for military uniforms, and they were all thinking, 'If the military uniform of the Chinese Revolutionary Army is worn on my body, how majestic it will be?' At noon, the new military uniform was held in our hands, and after they were put on their bodies, they looked at each other, and many people cried excitedly, and the clothes issued to us were not the blue-gray military uniforms we had seen on the street before...... Our military uniforms are dark green, and the material is not ordinary homespun cloth, and it is very tall when worn on the body. ”

"At that time, a black steel helmet was also issued, and the red star on the steel helmet was also different from the white star I had seen before. The uniforms are not exactly the same, our infantry has rifles on their left arms, artillery armbands are cannons, cavalry are horses, and military doctors are red crosses...... The funniest are the cooks, whose armbands are pots. ”

Among all the equipment, the brothers' favorite at that time was the boots issued by the army, and many of the brothers were poor and grew up barefoot or wearing straw sandals. When the boots were first issued, few people were willing to wear them, and many of them held new boots in their hands and wiped them over and over again with a rag, just like hugging a little daughter-in-law. ”

That afternoon, many brothers changed into new military uniforms and went to the training ground with a full set of equipment on their backs, and without the command of an officer, everyone spontaneously lined up in a marching column, singing the military song taught by the army as they walked, over and over again. I also went, and a few Cantonese soldiers next to me kept saying, 'Being a soldier is so majestic, even if it's worth dying'! ”

"On June 20th, I will never forget it, the genius is numb, the brothers don't sleep, they all get up and dress neatly, and just after breakfast, they spontaneously go to the playground to form a team."

"I stood in the middle of the line, looking left and right, and there were all the brothers who were standing upright, and at this time, I found that they were holding rifles with bayonets that were much more powerful than my flower machine, but when they went to battle, they must still be good at my flower machine."

"The officials haven't arrived yet, but the whole playground is silent, and everyone just stands, waiting for the meeting to begin."

"I guess the officials got the news and it didn't take long for them to come. The company commanders of each company walked to the front of their own company and faced a platform that had been set up temporarily. ”

"Xie Dashuai was really young at that time, but he was very powerful, he was wearing an officer's clothes and a big cap, and he walked in the front, followed by Fei Ge and several other officers."

"Xie Dashuai walked up to the stage, his voice was loud, and every one of our brothers could hear it clearly, and he said, 'Brothers, from today onwards, we will be a member of the Chinese Revolutionary Army. Now that the great enemy is at present, the country and the nation are in danger, and we join the army to let the people of the world live a good life! ’”

"'Today we wear this uniform, which means that we are willing to use our lives to achieve our revolutionary goals!'" We, the Chinese Revolutionary Army, fought for the people of the whole world, and in the future, we will change our name to comrades, and we will be soldiers who fight for the people of the whole of China! ’”

"After speaking, Xie Dashuai took those officers to salute us, and all the brothers, no, all comrades also saluted Xie Dashuai and the military flag with gold stars on a red background."

"Not long after the inauguration ceremony, the troops marched to the battlefield of the Eastern Crusade!"