Chapter 169: Talents (Asking for Subscriptions, Monthly Passes, and Various!! ）

For the combat effectiveness of Chen Feng's department, Terauchi Shouichi and the others are completely immune, and a force like this that is capable of annihilating the combat units of the imperial brigade and regiment at every turn, they can only attribute it to the fact that the enemy is too strong, and they will not think that they are too weak.

However, in the face of the Nationalist government's counterattack in the Second World War zone, Terauchi Shouichi could not turn a blind eye. I remember that during the Battle of Xinkou, it was also the second war zone in China, when Yan Xishan commanded only more than 30 infantry divisions plus two artillery brigades, but he could not resist the strength of half of the fifth division, and was beaten by Itagaki Seishiro and lost his armor. In just half a year, the people of Shina were able to take the initiative to launch a counterattack, which made Terauchi Shouichi feel a crisis.

In addition, when defending Beiping City, General Terauchi Shouichi also saw the power of the artillery of the 61st Army, which was no worse than that of the North China Front Army, and even surpassed, so General Terauchi Shouichi had to strengthen the strength of the artillery unit.

In addition, the North China Front's armor strength has also been enhanced, and compared with the armor strength of the two independent armored vehicle brigades at the beginning of the establishment of the North China Front four months ago, the strength of the North China Front that has been adjusted this time is much stronger in this regard. Not only did the First and Second armies each have two armored wings, but even each of the other divisions had a squadron of tanks, and if all these tanks were grouped together, their numbers would be enough to form a reinforced armored division.

In addition, on the issue of the subordination of the troops stationed in Mongolia, the North China Front also received the full support of Emperor Hirohito, and the previous troops stationed in Mongolia were directly subordinate to the emperor. Directly accountable to Emperor Hirohito. However, after adjustment, the army stationed in Mongolia was not only assigned to the North China Front, but also the fourth division was also included in the battle sequence of the army stationed in Mongolia.

In this way, the troops under the command of the Mongolian army include the 26th Division and the 4th Division, as well as the 15th Brigade and other units, with a total strength of more than 50,000 people. More importantly, the Mongolian army directly governs the 4 cavalry divisions and 3 infantry divisions of the puppet Mongolian army and the 2 cavalry divisions and 1 infantry division of the puppet Manchurian government.

In this way, the North China Front will have a huge strength of more than 320,000 troops in a short period of time, which is twice as many as before. But Shouichi Terauchi also knows that a plan is a plan. It is not the same thing as actual combat effectiveness. If the base camp moves fast. It will be possible to complete the replenishment of the troops in two or three months, but if the speed is slow, I am afraid that half a year may not necessarily enable the troops to form combat effectiveness.

At this time, the North China Front had only 1230,000 troops, and the lack of troops had reached a very critical juncture. If at this time the 61st Army and the Central Army of China. And that hateful dirt hachiro. If they unite and launch an attack on the Front. That's dangerous. Therefore, for the North China Front, the future is bright, but the road is tortuous and bumpy.

The meeting finally reached a resolution. The front army was fully contracted, and only six counties of Daixian, Fanzhi, Pingyuan, Wutai, Dingxiang, and Xinkou were retained in Shanxi, and all other places were abandoned. At the same time, the vast majority of Chahar's territory was abandoned, including Zhangjiakou, Xuanhua, Huai'an and other counties. In addition, Weixian and other places in Hebei Province also gave up, and concentrated their troops mainly along Pinghan Road and Zhengtai Road to ensure the safety of major cities in the Pingjin area, waiting for domestic replenishment.

Later, the North China Front also decided to send people to secretly contact Chen Feng's unit to see if it could exchange the more than 20,000 overseas Chinese in the form of prisoners of war, so as to reduce the pressure of public opinion in China.

Chen Feng didn't know what the North China Front was doing, but as the Japanese army continued to shrink, Chen Feng also knew that the Japanese army really didn't have the heart to fight him anymore, so Chen Feng's hanging heart was also relaxed.

Now that the external threat has been eliminated for the time being, Chen Feng plans to enrich the interior of the office in the next time. As a result of this campaign, the 61 st Army suddenly increased the number of 15 counties in Hunyuan, Guangling, Lingqiu, Yingxian, Shanyin, Yangyuan, Weixian, Huai'an, Wanquan, Xuanhua, Chongli, Shangyi, Guyuan, Chicheng, and Kangbao, as well as a provincial capital city in Zhangjiakou, and if the previous 12 counties and one city were added, the territory of the 40th Group Army would reach the scale of 2 cities and 27 counties, and the current 40th Group Army would not be able to control such a large area at all.

After killing 10,000 enemies and losing 8,000 of its own troops, the 61st Army single-handedly confronted the two major strategic blocs of the Japanese army, the North China Front Army and the Mongolian Army. Compared with the Japanese army's loss of nearly 100,000 expatriates and troops, the loss of 25,000 people under Chen Feng's headquarters was already insignificant, and the ratio of casualties between friend and foe reached 4:1, which was unprecedented in the nearly eight months since the start of the war. Chen Feng clearly remembered the relevant statistics on the Sino-Japanese War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression decades later, in the eight years of the Anti-Japanese War, the Chinese army killed 1 Japanese soldier for every 28.5 casualties. For every 87 casualties paid by the Chinese army and people, 1 Japanese soldier was killed. If the calculation is based on the fact that the Japanese army died only 200,000 people on the battlefield in China, then the casualty ratio of Chinese soldiers and civilians doubled.

This data is nothing less than the great shame of the Chinese nation, in the Battle of Songshan in the Battle of Western Yunnan in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the Kuomintang army once besieged 1,200 Japanese invaders with 100,000 troops, leaving us with an extremely tragic and tragic scene. According to the statistics of the battle report, only one Japanese army broke through the siege, but our army lost more than 10,000 people!

Therefore, the casualties of 25,000 people are actually nothing, but it is still the same sentence, Chen Feng's department and the North China Front Army have their own strengths and weaknesses, the 61st Army attacked sharply but has no background, and the North China Front Army has been defeated and fought repeatedly, but it has a profound background, and behind it is a capitalist country that has worked hard for a hundred years to develop strong, and it is undoubtedly the first in Asia in terms of comprehensive national strength.

Therefore, the loss of 100,000 troops of the North China Front was only a great loss of vitality, and the loss of Chen Feng's department was only a quarter of that of others, but it was broken. Before the outbreak of the battle, Chen Feng's total strength was more than 118,000, less than 120,000. And now the number of the troops has been expanded to a group army. However, the total number of troops is only more than 90,000 people, so Chen Feng needs to enrich the troops.

Although Chen Feng has lost 25,000 troops, there are more than 20,000 student soldiers recruited from Tianjin, Zhangjiakou and other places, and with other soldiers, the 40th Group Army has more than 40,000 new recruits in addition to the more than 90,000 veterans.

In addition, more than 12,000 puppet soldiers were captured by the combat unit this time, and they could also be incorporated into the army after a little education. But recruits are recruits after all, and those student soldiers don't have enough time to train. Pulling into the battlefield is just delivering food to the little devils. Nothing else. Just throwing a few bombs from an airplane can make these recruits completely desert from their eggs. Not to mention their group of recruits, those three garrison brigades have been following Chen Feng for a while, and there are not many recruits who have not been on the battlefield. But just by relying on a surprise attack by the Japanese army's half-hung paratroopers, the army was almost frightened into a rout. So this is also the reason why Chen Feng is unwilling to go to war with the Japanese army now.

For the time being, Chen Feng did not plan to reorganize the troops according to the establishment given by the Nationalist Government. At present, all units are in a state of serious shortage. Therefore, Chen Feng ordered each unit to recruit recruits on its own, and on the other hand, he concentrated all the more than 40,000 recruits in Dashan for intensive training.

The first brigade of the special operations division is responsible for the intensive training of recruits, and Chen Feng does not require the special combat team to train all these recruits to become special combat members. However, he demanded that the special combat team should teach these recruits to become real soldiers in the shortest possible time, and at least they would not be frightened to death by enemy planes when they went to the battlefield. In fact, the highest mortality rate for recruits is the first time they go to war, and as long as they survive the first day, then the chances of survival are much higher.

It is one thing to train recruits, another thing is that the training of armored brigades and flying brigades must also be on the agenda. After the whole army found out, Chen Feng really found a few talents, and there were three that Chen Feng liked the most, namely Lu Haihang, Liu Jiani and Li Zong, who was born in Orion.

Lu Navigation, a native of Huainan, is 32 years old this year. A graduate of Baoding Military Academy, he first served in the Northwest Army, and after the Central Plains War, he joined Chiang with his commander and became the Central Army. Later received by the German military adviser German Mile West. Feng. In 1933, Admiral Rattle was assigned to study at the Berlin Military Academy in Germany, and he was also the only overseas student officer who was not from the Whampoa system at that time.

In Germany, he studied armour, and in June 1935 he was assigned to the 2nd Panzer Division of the Wehrmacht with 354 cadets of the Panzer Section, and participated in military operations into the demilitarized zone of the Rhine, where he served for the next two years until May 1937.

In May 1937, the haze of war had already affected German students, and the Nationalist Government ordered all the Ninth Sessions of the Central Military Academy to return to China ahead of schedule.

After returning to China, due to the different majors and non-Whampoa system background and other reasons, Lu Navigation has not been able to get the important responsibility of the national government authorities, at that time, most of the cadets of the Central Military Academy who went to study abroad were promoted to the rank of major after returning, and then were appointed as the battalion commander or regimental deputy, but Lu Navigation was appointed as the commander of the 2nd Battalion and 1st Company of the 3rd Regiment of the 438th Brigade of the 66th Division of the National Revolutionary Army, with the rank of major.

That's all there is to it, but the 66th Division is not a descendant of the Nationalist Government, but a frame division upgraded from the security regiments in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and the whole division has only one brigade and one regiment, with a total strength of only 5,800 people. The most important thing is that the 66th Division has no armored vehicles, let alone tanks, not to mention these things, there are not even a few heavy machine guns.

It is easy to imagine what the outcome of such a unit is after being pulled into the battlefield, the 66th Division participated in the battle of Songhu to attack the big field, in just two days, there were less than 1,000 people left in this division, even the division commander Xia Zongwei was killed in battle, and then the unit was absorbed by the 17th Corps, because the main officers of the 66th Division had all been fighting, so Lu Haihang was appointed as the acting head of this remnant regiment.

After the Battle of Songhu, the troops returned to Guanzhong with the 17th Corps, and then were reduced to a reinforced battalion, and Lu Haihang was appointed as a lieutenant colonel battalion commander.

A few months ago, in order to win over Chen Feng, the Nationalist Government deliberately transferred two supplementary regiments from Shaanxi to the command of the 61st Army, and the infantry battalion of the army navigation was among them.

After coming to the 61st Army, this reinforced battalion of the army navigation was directly dismantled and mixed with other units, and he, the lieutenant colonel battalion commander, was also appointed as the commander of the third battalion of the 307th Regiment of the 101st Division, and his rank was demoted to major again.

But after several major battles, Lu Navigation finally discovered the extraordinary of the 61st Army, in the Songhu battlefield he saw the elite units of the Japanese army, but also fought with Fujita Jin's third division, the strength of the Japanese army surprised him. The Fifth Division, which was at the same level as the Third Division, was a special division of the Japanese Army, but the Fifth Division was repeatedly defeated in several major battles.

The 61 st Army not only has strong combat effectiveness, but also gets along very well with the officers and men, especially because there are not so many shady scenes in the Nationalist Government troops, and the promotion rewards all depend on ability; in just a few months, he took the third battalion to win two second-class meritorious services, and the 3,000 oceans directly allocated by the military department were all in place on time, and there was no such phenomenon as deduction, which was simply impossible among the Kuomintang troops.

Not long ago, Chen Feng ordered the whole army to recruit young soldiers who can drive and understand knowledge to the armored brigade and flight brigade, and learned that the unit had captured a large number of tanks and armored vehicles from Tianjin this time, Lu Nautical was extremely excited, and took the initiative to recommend himself to the military department; after Chen Feng's personal assessment, Lu Nautical was directly transferred to the armored brigade, and served as the training director of the armored brigade and the head of the first armored regiment, and was promoted to colonel.

Liu Jiani's situation is similar to that of Lu Hanghang, he is a native of Fengtian in Northeast China, 31 years old this year, and was a pilot of the Third Flight Group of the Northeast Army with the rank of lieutenant. After the September 18 Incident, the Northeast Army fled without a fight, and the Air Force all entered the customs. Liu Jiani is also among them.

Last year, Liu Jiani received news that because the Japanese wanted to build a prison on the outskirts of Mukden, and the place chosen by the Japanese was where Liu Jiani's family was located, because the villagers refused to relocate, the village was razed to the ground by the Japanese overnight, and Liu Jiani's parents and more than 700 people in the village were all missing.

After hearing the bad news, Liu Jiani quietly escaped from the Northeast Army with two guns, and rushed to the Northeast from Guangzhou with two brothers. But before they rushed back to the Northeast, the War of Resistance broke out in full swing, coupled with the defeat of the Nationalist Government, the Japanese army occupied most of North China in a short period of time, and the road to the Northeast was cut off.

Because he was a deserter, Liu Jiani didn't dare to say that he had been a soldier before, so he had just been appointed as a captain and company commander for more than half a year. Later, when he heard that the military department was recruiting pilots, he had the courage to sign up, but unfortunately he was recognized by Chen Feng in the first training, and Liu Jiani had to reveal his life experience after several investigations.

The imaginary punishment did not come, but what came was Chen Feng's appointment, and from now on, Captain Liu Jiani was promoted to major of the National Revolutionary Army and appointed as the captain of the 61st Army Aviation Brigade, responsible for the training of the aviation brigade. (To be continued......)

PS: I was originally going to write two separate chapters, but it was too late, so I had to send it at once, a big chapter of 4,000 words, let's count the votes! Hehehe!!