As soon as such a high pension system was announced, it quickly caused a huge shock within the 222nd Division, and it was the most normal thing to be a soldier to eat food and work for the commander in this year, even if he lost his life that day, he could only blame himself for his bad luck. As for the word bereavement, the word "bereavement" is really a bit far away from these non-central army soldiers, and after their deaths, at most, the battalion and company commander who was where they were alive will collect a small amount of money and give it to their families.

Although the 222nd Division's bereavement system was formulated, the soldiers were a little worried about whether this system could be implemented and how long it could last. If you want to know that the money spent by such a high standard of Lu Dao will be an astronomical amount, take the battle just past, for example, the 222nd Division has more than 7,000 soldiers killed in the battle, and the pension needs at least 3 million yuan.

Moreover, the 222nd Division also needs to give pensions to those disabled soldiers, and the pensions of more than 8,000 disabled soldiers also need at least more than 1 million yuan, and the total of these two items is more than 4 million yuan. The officers and men knew better that such a high standard of bereavement could not be a decree issued by the Nationalist Government, that is to say, Chairman Chiang in Nanjing would not pay for the division, and the Chen family did have money, but no matter how rich they were, it was impossible to withstand such spending, so many people, including a large number of officers, were very skeptical about how long this system could be implemented.

The officers and soldiers below were talking, but Chen Feng himself didn't care. He asked the county magistrate Feng of Xinghe County to take the lead in setting up a working group for the bereavement of the 222nd Division, which had full authority to handle the bereavement of the dead and wounded officers and soldiers of the 222nd Division.

Then Chen Feng devoted himself wholeheartedly to the recovery and expansion of the troops, and the battle had just ended, although the 222nd Division suffered a lot of losses, but it did not hurt his muscles and bones. Compared with the huge losses of the Chahar Corps, the actual losses of the 222nd Division were only more than 8,000 people, 7,000 were killed and wounded and 1,000 were disabled, and the rest of the wounded could return to the unit after they recovered. Therefore, Chen Feng is not worried about the retaliation of the Japanese army at all, in Chen Feng's opinion, the current Japanese army is a beast that has just finished fighting, and all he can do is to lick his wounds quietly.

The 222nd Division must regain its combat effectiveness in the shortest possible time, and the troops must be expanded on a certain scale on the basis of the original. According to the commendation order issued by the National Government, the establishment of the 222nd Division has been expanded from the B Division of the two brigades and four regiments to the A division of the three brigades and six regiments, and in addition to the 222 and 223 brigades, a new 224 Brigade has been added.

After Chen Feng's overall consideration, the establishment of the 222nd Division was finally decided, and in addition to the guard regiment, artillery regiment, air defense regiment, and special operations brigade directly under the division, a new cavalry group directly under the division headquarters was added, and the field troops below were also expanded from three brigades to four brigades.

The most important thing is that each brigade has also been expanded from more than 11,000 to more than 17,000, and according to Chen Feng's idea, each brigade under the jurisdiction of the 222nd Division is a fully equipped strategic unit with complete offensive and defensive capabilities.

After reading Chen Feng's plan for the reorganization and expansion of the army, Ye Helina, Yang Yi, Li Wensheng, and others were all smacked for a while, and if Chen Feng's plan was implemented, the 222nd Division would become a behemoth with more than 88,000 troops in the near future.

However, it is not easy to complete this plan, at least the shortage of soldiers is very tricky. According to the results of statistics a few days ago, the total number of the three brigades of the 222nd Division, plus the troops directly under it, is only more than 26,000, and the number of troops that have returned after recovering from their wounds is only more than 33,000, which is still far from the huge gap of more than 88,000 people.

However, the recruits of the four regiments replenished by the 222nd Division in the Second War Zone and the Nationalist Government are already on the way, and they will arrive in five days at most, which will solve the vacancy of more than 10,000 people. In addition, nearly 13,000 puppet soldiers were captured in this operation, and these people were all potential soldiers of the 222nd Division.

After seeing the strength of the 222nd Division, most of these puppet soldiers are willing to follow Chen Feng to fight devils, of course, it doesn't matter if you don't want to join the 222nd Division, as long as you serve 8 years of hard labor in the mines and factories under the control of the 222nd Division, you can be released.

Moreover, now Chen Feng's territory has also tripled, and two new counties of Zhangbei and Taolin have been added, and the population in the jurisdiction exceeds 850,000, and the recruitment is not as difficult as before, so Chen Feng let the 222 Brigade move to Fengzhen, the 2223 Brigade to move to Shangdu, the newly formed 224 Brigade to move to Taolin, and the garrison division to control Xing and Zhangbei counties, Chen Feng moved to Jining with the division headquarters, Chen Feng's order to the brigade commanders is that the troops must be full within three months, and the weapons and equipment are provided by the division headquarters, but the soldiers are recruited by themselves.

Under Chen Feng's order, all units of the 222nd Division worked hard to recruit soldiers, and this battle caused the three brigades that were already dissatisfied to lose a large number of soldiers, and Chen Feng said that they had no part in the soldiers of the four regiments from the Second War Zone and Shaanxi, that was the foundation for the formation of the 224 Brigade, and the puppet army captured them Don't want to get involved, it is used to build the cavalry group of the division headquarters.

On October 1, the 222nd Division reported to the Headquarters of the Second War Zone Commander, and the commander of the newly formed 224 Brigade was served by Xu Fufu, the former deputy commander of the 223 Brigade, and the deputy brigade commander was Zhang Zhigang, chief of staff of the 222 Brigade, and the two regiment commanders were Xu Jiangang, deputy commander of the first regiment of the former 222 Brigade, and Wei Changhu, deputy commander of the first regiment of the former 223 Brigade.

Of course, this was only reported to the Commander's Department of the Second War Zone and the Ministry of Military Affairs of the Nationalist Government for the record, in fact, there are still many people on the list of officer appointments to the newly formed units of the 222nd Division, but these are only known to the senior leaders of the 222nd Division.

The officers of the newly formed 224 Brigade are as follows: Brigade Commander Xu Fufu, Deputy Brigade Commander and Chief of Staff Zhang Zhigang, First Regiment Commander Xu Jiangang, Second Regiment Commander Wei Changhu, Third Regiment Commander Jia Jinyuan, and Cavalry Regiment Commander Bazat. Dorji, machine gun commander Zhang Hao.

The officers of the newly established cavalry group are as follows: group commander Ye Helina, deputy commander Andrei, chief of staff Ouyang Hai, Ye Baoguo of the 1st Cavalry Regiment, Li Haihan of the 2nd Cavalry Regiment, Li Yisheng of the 3rd Cavalry Regiment, 4th Cavalry Regiment **, and 5th Cavalry Regiment Uzham.

After the shelves of the troops were erected, Chen Feng delegated the specific enforcement power to the troops, and he himself was concentrating on guiding the administrative personnel of the six counties under his jurisdiction to carry out the construction of his base areas; according to Chen Feng's instructions, all the county magistrates of the six counties were temporarily retained, but they were evaluated according to their performance, and after passing the assessment, they would continue to serve as county magistrates, and if they were not qualified, they would be immediately removed or demoted.

Now who doesn't know that Master Chen is a celebrity in front of Yan Dashuai and Chairman Jiang, who dares to say a word in his orders. In addition to normal taxes, the people in the area under their jurisdiction must sell grain to the government if they want to sell grain, and the government will buy it at a price 5 to 10 percent higher than the market price. If those squires and landlords do not cooperate, I am afraid they will not be able to please Lu.

Second, Chen Feng also demanded that the county magistrates do a good job of clearing the wilderness, not only to find good places for the people in the areas under their jurisdiction to go into the mountains and forests, but also to make preparations for the relocation of the government departments in the counties; once the Japanese army breaks through the outer defense line, all counties must evacuate the county seat and some important towns and towns as soon as possible.

One after another orders came out from Jining County, the entire Suiyuan Second Prefecture and the 222nd Division all moved, and the entire area seemed to come alive all at once, and the government lords who had nothing to do before were too busy to live at home every day, sweeping away the decadent and mediocre atmosphere of the past.

It took five days for the Japanese army to finally end the dispute between the top leaders, and decided to revoke the number of the Chahar Dispatch Corps, and to form the 26th Division with the 11th Brigade as the backbone, and instructed Lieutenant General Chun to serve as the division commander of the 26th Division. At the same time, the 26th Division was used as the backbone to form an army stationed in Mongolia.

The newly formed army stationed in Mongolia was directly under the command of the Japanese base camp, and Lieutenant General Lian Zhaopan was in charge of the formation of the army stationed in Mongolia. In view of the fact that there was the 35th Army of the Jin Sui Army and the 222nd Division of China, which had extremely strong combat capability, the Japanese base camp deliberately assigned the 15th Brigade, the 4th Cavalry Brigade, the 2nd Infantry Division of the Manchukuo Defense Army, and the 1st Cavalry Division, which originally belonged to the battle sequence of the Kwantung Army, to the battle sequence of the Mongolian Army. At the same time, he also ordered King De and Li Shouxin's puppet Mongol army to cooperate with the military operations of the Mongolian army.

Because the establishment of the Mongolian army is far larger than that of the Chahar Corps, and the entire group of the puppet Mongolian army has more than 100,000 soldiers, and many troops are still thousands of miles away, the Mongolian army did not have any major military operations before the troops were assembled.

At the same time as the formation of the army stationed in Mongolia, the intelligence agencies of the Japanese army also worked at full speed to collect information about Chen Feng and the 222nd Division, this time the base camp was really on fire, a lieutenant general and a complete infantry brigade were annihilated in this way, this was the worst blow suffered by Japan since the Meiji Restoration, so Emperor Hirohito personally ordered a thorough investigation of the matter, and at the same time strictly ordered the army in North China to immediately launch a retaliatory attack.

Of course, this retaliatory attack could not be aimed at the 222nd Division, because the Chahar Corps had collapsed, and only a few remnants of the army were left in Zhangjiakou waiting for the new commander to take office, how could they dare to provoke the 222nd Division. In addition, Zhangbei, the gateway to the north of Zhangjiakou, has fallen into the control of the 222nd Division, and as long as the 222nd Division is willing, it can launch a full-scale attack on this important town in southern Chanan at any time.