Chapter 1072: Dragon's Tooth Corps

With Yadru in charge of the Dragon Tooth Column aircraft factory, oil refinery and other related matters, Qiao Youhua just asked Guo Meng to participate in it with a group of technical backbones, and he had nothing to do on weekdays to draw pictures, chat and drink tea with a few confidants, and occasionally snapped, and lived a happy life.

However, a few months passed in a blink of an eye, and the time came in 1941, and the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army sent a secret telegram, the content of which was very simple, asking Qiao Youhua to prepare and lead at least 100,000 troops of the Dragon Tooth Column to the south to assist the country? People? Politics? Fu counterattacked Jiangnan.

Moreover, the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army decided to formally expand the Dragon's Tooth Column into the Dragon's Tooth Corps, and to transfer 150,000 soldiers from the Eighth Route Army's ranks in Shandong, Hebei, and other places to combine with the existing 100,000-strong army of the Dragon's Tooth Column to form a new Dragon's Tooth Corps.

After the expansion, the Dragon's Tooth Corps will have more than 300,000 troops, and all the original regiments will be expanded into divisions, and a total of 10 integrated divisions will be expanded.

The main military commanders of each division still have the same position, and the military commanders of each regiment of the Dragon's Tooth Column hold the positions, and it can be said that the officers of the entire Dragon's Tooth Column have all been promoted by one rank, and some have even been promoted by two or three levels in a row.

In addition to the expansion of the original four divisions into 10 divisions, the original units directly under the Longya Column also need to be expanded, of which the air defense brigade has been expanded into an air defense column, with 10 air defense regiments under its jurisdiction, and this is not an air defense regiment for the purpose of equipping it with a division, because each division will expand its own air defense, tank, artillery, and baggage regiments and brigades directly under its own on the basis of the original divisions and regiments.

These 10 air defense regiments are directly under the command of the Corps Headquarters and are specifically responsible for air defense and garrison missions in important areas during non-war time, as well as air defense tasks during combat.

The tank armored brigade has also been expanded into three tank divisions, which are also directly under the command of the corps headquarters and will be used as the most powerful assault force of the corps.

The original heavy artillery brigade was directly abolished and dispersed, with them as the backbone, plus the original artillery regiments and other units directly under the divisions, and the newly formed 10 A divisions were formed with heavy artillery brigades directly under them, and each division will be equipped with 105 mm and 150 mm howitzers as standard.

After all, in the future, the main task will be the task of these 10 divisions, and with the continuous expansion of the combat area, it is impossible for the heavy artillery brigade to run back and forth to several battlefields, and it is necessary to support troops in need of fire support for thousands of miles, so it is necessary to equip each division with its own heavy artillery units.