The expansion plan, Qiao Youhua has been brewing for a long time, but he has not had the time and opportunity to put it into action, and now the war on the north and south lines has temporarily ended, plus the puppet army captured in the Liaocheng Campaign, the total strength of the combat troops of the Dragon's Tooth Column has exceeded 70,000.

It is obviously a bit inappropriate to use the brigade-level system again, so it is time to expand it again.

This expansion is not simply an expansion of the organizational structure, but a comprehensive reform and expansion of the arms and troops.

In order to solemnly take the matter seriously, after Qiao Youhua and Guo Meng preliminarily finalized the reorganization plan, they telegraphed the commanders of the three infantry brigades and the commanders of each directly subordinate regiment to return to Pingshan for final discussions.

A few days later, Jiang Haidong, Wu Ming, Ma Biao, Liu Jianhua and others all arrived, and after deliberation, it was decided to officially expand the three brigades under the jurisdiction of the Longya Column into three infantry divisions.

Tanks, air defense, and two directly subordinate regiments have also been expanded into brigade-level combat units, of which the tank regiment has been reorganized into an armored brigade, with the existing tank regiment as the backbone, and will be expanded to have one or two tank regiments and one armored regiment in the future.

The air defense regiment was officially expanded into an air defense brigade directly under the Dragon's Tooth Column, and in the future it will be expanded to the scale of three air defense regiments and one guard battalion, making it the strongest air defense combat unit in the entire column.

In addition, the cavalry battalion under the original jurisdiction of the tank regiment and the reinforced artillery battalion under the air defense regiment were transferred from these two combat units respectively.

The cavalry battalion was officially incorporated into the guard regiment directly under the column and changed into a cavalry reconnaissance battalion. The artillery battalion was also incorporated into the guard regiment and became the artillery combat unit of the guard regiment, which just made up for the shortcomings of the guard regiment without artillery.

After this reorganization, Qiao Youhua's guard regiment has become a complete combat unit and has the ability to fight independently.

The specific reorganization is still in the three newly established infantry divisions, and the goal discussed by Qiao Youhua and several brothers is that the three infantry divisions will gradually develop and expand into armored motorized infantry divisions in the future.

These three divisions do not have brigade-level combat units, but they must have three regular main infantry regiments, plus an artillery regiment, an air defense regiment, and a tank regiment.

The overall strength is positioned at the size of the A Infantry Division.

Of course, the current three divisions, the tank regiment, and the air defense regiment are still blank, and the artillery regiment can only be a weakened artillery regiment composed of artillery drawn from the artillery unit directly under the brigade headquarters and several other infantry regiments.

The real strength can only be equivalent to the B division, but as long as the Dragon's Tooth Column is given a period of steady development, it is not impossible to achieve this goal.

Because, with the continuous running-in and proficiency of various factories in the arsenal, the production speed of all kinds of weapons and equipment is constantly improving, as long as there is enough time, I believe that it will not be long before this goal can be achieved.

As for the future, once the Longya Column completes this reorganization and its strength is qualitatively improved, it will be able to obtain broader import opportunities and roads if it goes north to recover Pingjin, and then some military production lines will be introduced, or it will not be long before it will be able to mass-produce German-style equipment and expand the troops on a large scale.

When that day comes, the process of victory in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression will be greatly accelerated, but there is a premise, that is, there will not be much change in the Japanese military government.

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After determining the direction and goal of the reorganization and expansion of the troops, Jiang Haidong, Ma Biao, Wu Ming, Liu Jianhua, and others soon left the Pingshan base camp again, returned to their own stations, and began to implement the expansion and reorganization plan.

After everyone left, Qiao Youhua was rarely idle, and the military commanders at all levels of each unit were responsible for the reorganization, and the affairs of the column headquarters and arsenal were shared by political commissar Guo Meng and others.

So Qiao Youhua stole half a day of leisure and came to Lin Xian'er's residence.

Lin Xian'er lived not far from the column headquarters, a courtyard house that looked very simple, Qiao Youhua came to the courtyard gate and found that the courtyard gate was closed.

As soon as he walked over, he was about to knock on the door, but the black courtyard door suddenly opened from the inside, and Lin Xian'er, who was dressed in white and snow, appeared in the field of vision.

I haven't seen her for many days, Lin Xian'er is still beautiful, her fair skin is set off by a white dress, and the whole person looks full of fairy spirit, like a fairy who does not eat fireworks in the world.

probably sensed Qiao Youhua's arrival a long time ago, so when she met Qiao Youhua's eyes, there was not too much surprise in her beautiful eyes.

"Sister Xian'er!" Qiao Youhua was stunned and blurted out.

"Why do you have time to come to me today?" Lin Xian'er's voice was still cold.

"Hehe, I'm not so busy for the time being, so let's take a look, I don't know if Sister Xian'er has time today, let's go to the Hutuo River to play together, cultivate and cultivate sentiments, and mainly accompany you to relax, so as to make up for the neglect during this time!" Qiao Youhua said with a smile.

Lin Xian'er was happy in her heart, but she said, "Who wants you to accompany you." ”

After speaking, he turned around and walked into the courtyard. Qiao Youhua noticed that Lin Xian'er did not close the door easily, obviously leaving the door for herself.

He smiled and immediately followed.

Entering the courtyard, Qiao Youhua saw Lin Xian'er push the door into a master bedroom, he immediately followed, but was pushed out by Lin Xian'er and said, "Wait outside." ”

Qiao Youhua smiled a little embarrassedly, his feeling was that he would be wrong, and he thought that Sister Xian'er was going to go into the house with him to roll the sheets.

Just when Qiao Youhua wanted to get into trouble, Lin Xian'er walked out of the house with an extra sword in her hand.

Qiao Youhua asked, "What are you carrying a sword for?" ”

"Self-defense, of course!" Lin Xian'er said.

Qiao Youhua said with a smile: "Don't worry, the Hutuo River is now the hinterland of our base area, within the absolute sphere of influence, there will be no danger, besides, you don't know my strength, there is danger, and I will protect you a little more, right?" ”

Lin Xian'er said in a shocking voice: "I'm not defending against assassins, but perverts!" ”

Qiao Youhua was stunned when he heard this, and said, "What kind of person do you see me as emotional?" Isn't that too much of a wronging of me? Qiao is a righteous gentleman! ”

"Are you still going? If I don't go, I'll go back to practice. Lin Xian'er said coldly.

"Of course go, but, Xian'er, you are not my opponent, even if you bring a weapon, it is meaningless, it is better to hurry up and arrest it, from this king, from now on follow me to eat and drink spicy, otherwise ......"

Before Qiao Youhua finished speaking, he was interrupted by Lin Xian'er: "Otherwise, what will happen?" ”