After receiving Qiao Youhua's order, the 1st Division, 2nd Division, 3rd Division, Tank Regiment, Artillery Regiment, Guard Regiment, Baggage Troops and other directly subordinate units all began to select the best soldiers and backbones in their hands, and then sent them to the Pingshan County Column Headquarters for gathering.

For a time, the Dragon's Tooth Headquarters was full of talents, after all, those who could be selected to go to Germany for training were the most elite military backbones and the best soldiers of the Dragon's Tooth Column.

The vast majority of them are young intellectuals who responded to Qiao Youhua's call for 100,000 young people and 100,000 troops, and after the training of the Longshan Army School, they have rapidly grown up in their respective units and become excellent grassroots officers and military backbones.

Now, they will play an even bigger role and go abroad to further their studies in Germany.

In order to encourage the soldiers who are about to leave their homeland and go to other countries to have high morale and a good attitude to study hard, Qiao Youhua and Zuo Quan decided to hold a farewell meeting after discussion.

On the school (jiao) field in the west of Pingshan County, more than 300 outstanding officers and men from various departments of the Longya Column had already received the notice and lined up in a neat and uniform queue, as if the troops were about to be paraded, waiting for the chief's visit to inspect it.

In the waiting voices of the officers and soldiers, Qiao Youhua and Zuo Quan each wore a brand-new uniform of major generals of the National Revolutionary Army, and Qiao Youhua was also equipped with a Zhongzheng sword awarded to him by Chairman Jiang at his waist, and came to the school field surrounded by Guo Meng, Jiang Haidong, Ma Biao, Wu Ming, Zheng Yunshan, Ma Yunlong, Li Yunlong and other divisions and military commanders of various directly subordinate units.

Seeing Qiao Youhua and other chiefs appear, as Qiao Youhua's personal adjutant, Li Yansan, who was specially arranged by Qiao Youhua to participate in this overseas training, hurriedly took the lead and shouted: "Salute!" ”

More than 300 elite officers and soldiers followed and saluted Qiao Youhua and them, one by one, with their heads held high, and their heroic spirit was compelling.

Qiao Youhua, Zuo Quan and others came to the front of the queue, and after saluting the soldiers in return, Qiao Youhua waved his hand to signal everyone to take a break, and then swept his eyes over everyone's faces one by one.

The warriors hurriedly straightened their bodies and looked at Qiao Youhua without shying away from it, as if the wolves were being inspected by their wolf king, full of unruliness belonging to the wolf pack, but there was no lack of respect for the wolf king.

They are all the most elite fighters of the Dragon Tooth Column, and it is no exaggeration to say that they represent the core backbone of the Dragon Tooth Column, so just one look at Qiao Youhua is enough to make them enthusiastic, and they can't wait to do something immediately, showing themselves.

After glancing back and forth over everyone, Qiao Youhua cleared his throat and said in a deep voice: "Brothers, you are honored to be selected as the first batch of pilots to go abroad for training.

Today, Japanese imperialism has invaded our land and frantically slaughtered our compatriots and people, and the country and nation are in a critical autumn, and our generation of soldiers should do their utmost to fight to defend the territorial integrity and dignity of the country.

However, in the vast territory of China, with an airspace of more than 10 million square kilometers, not a single fighter plane of our own is flying in the air, and we have no air supremacy, and this is absolutely a shame for the Chinese nation.

Therefore, I will not hesitate to send you out by all means, just hoping that you can succeed in your studies and win glory for the country and the nation!

You should remember to me that you are shouldering the great mission of avenging the shame of the country and the nation and defending China's airspace, so you must study hard, strive to return home as soon as possible, defend China's airspace to the death, and no longer let Japanese warplanes fly wantonly in our airspace.

Wanton air raids have killed our fathers, elders, villagers, brothers and sisters! ”

After listening to Qiao Youhua's words, Li Yansan and other officers and soldiers all felt a heavy pressure on their shoulders and hearts, but they still responded in unison: "Please rest assured, commander, we promise to succeed in our studies, return as soon as possible, and defend our airspace to the death!" ”

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With endless feelings for serving the country and the heavy mission of national dignity, Li Yansan and more than 300 other officers and soldiers bid farewell to their comrades-in-arms and their commanders, and embarked on the journey of studying abroad.

After sending away Li Yansan and other elite officers and soldiers, Qiao Youhua began to get busy again, there are many things to be busy, in addition to the recruitment of new recruits for the troops, as well as the expansion of Long Yingwei, with the recovery of Shanxi, Suiyuan, Chahar, Inner Mongolia and other vast areas, it is time to expand the coverage of Long Yingwei's sphere of influence.

However, these things do not need Qiao Youhua to do it himself, only need to issue an order, and his subordinates will carry it out.

With the completion of the three main roads, the railway rehabilitation plan for the Zhengtai Railway and even the Baoding-Shimen section of the Pinghan Railway has also been officially launched.

With the construction of roads, it is convenient for the railway repair army to transport all kinds of iron and steel equipment and road construction materials, and the speed of railway repair has been greatly accelerated.

In terms of troop reorganization, as the original left-behind units were drawn out of the road construction team and officially rebuilt, Qiao Youhua, Zuo Quan and others discussed and decided to combine the newly recruited more than 20,000 people with the two elite infantry regiments under Li Yunlong's department to form the Fourth Infantry Division of the Longya Column.

For the time being, the division commander is part-time the chief of staff of Zuo Quan, and Li Yunlong is the deputy division commander and political commissar. As a matter of fact, Li Yunlong was basically in charge of the work of the Fourth Division.

Originally, Qiao Youhua planned to use the two infantry regiments brought by Zuo Quan as the backbone and integrate them into various divisions and regiments respectively to improve the quality of middle and grassroots officers.

However, in the Tongguò Southern and Western Expeditions, the troops of all divisions have been tempered by a good baptism of war, and the officers and soldiers at the grassroots level and the backbone soldiers have grown rapidly, and there is no longer much need to supplement the officers and backbone officers at the grassroots level.

Therefore, it is better to reorganize these two elite infantry regiments into a field infantry division based on these two elite infantry regiments, and expand the total strength of the Dragon's Tooth Column to four divisions, four regiments directly under it, and about 130,000 people.

After completing the reorganization of the Fourth Infantry Division, Qiao Youhua announced that he would equip all infantry divisions with three regiment-level combat units directly under the division headquarters: tank, artillery, and air defense.

The tank armored brigade that was originally directly under the column headquarters remained unchanged, the artillery regiment and the air defense unit were separated, and the heavy artillery brigade and air defense brigade directly under the column were formally formed.

He also ordered the production workshops of tanks, artillery, anti-aircraft guns, and anti-aircraft machine guns in the arsenal to run at full capacity and go all out to produce them, and strive to make the tank armored brigades, heavy artillery brigades, air defense units, and combat units directly under the divisions worthy of their names and become veritable elite units at an early date.

At this time, the time has come to 1940, on the European battlefield, with Britain and France and other countries also declaring war on Germany, World War II officially broke out, but at this moment, most of Europe has been captured by the German army.

In eastern Europe, the Germans invaded Poland with a million-strong army and went toe-to-toe with the Soviets, as if they could attack the Soviet Union at any time.

The western and northern parts of Europe were also in the hands of the Germans, and only in the French direction were fierce battles with the Anglo-French forces.