In late May 1937, the two parties finally reached a formal agreement that was not limited to the reorganization of the Red Army, but also involved Germany and the Soviet Union. And half of Hu Weidong's proposal was implemented, and the concept of "integrated division", which only appeared during the Liberation War in history, appeared in advance in this time and space

Compared with the "A Division," the strongest division-level unit established by the Third Brigade and the Sixth Regiment, the basic strength of the "integrated division" established by the Third Brigade and the Ninth Regiment is significantly much larger, and the division headquarters can also directly administer a special service regiment and a maximum of one "special forces" unit such as artillery, baggage troops, engineers, air defense units, and armored units, which are established at the regimental level, and theoretically the strongest "integrated division" has nine infantry regiments under its jurisdiction and one artillery regiment, one air defense regiment, one special service regiment, one engineer regiment, one baggage regiment, and one armored regiment directly under the division headquarters. In addition, there are telecommunications brigades, field hospitals, special combat teams, etc., with a total strength of 30,000 to 50,000 troops (depending on the establishment of regimental troops, generally speaking, the better the equipment, the smaller the number). However, with China's current national strength, it is an extravagant hope to equip division-level troops with armored regiments, air defense regiments, and even baggage regiments and engineer regiments, and it is considered the elite of the elite to have an artillery regiment, according to the minimum standards urgently formulated by the Military Commission, a division only needs to have 9 infantry regiments, a special service regiment and at least one company, 12 artillery pieces (excluding mortars) artillery units, and automatic weapons (light machine guns or submachine guns) at the squad level. Heavy machine guns are equipped to the company (or battalion-level machine gun platoon or machine gun platoon), mortars are equipped to the battalion (or there is a mortar company at the regimental level), rifles are sufficient (not to be equipped with some cold weapons such as broadswords and spears), and the total strength is not less than 20,000. You can call it an integrator

For example, Pang Bingxun's 40th Army from the Northwest Army said that it was an army, but in fact there was only one division below (later after Pang Bingxun was promoted to corps commander, there was still only one division below), and if it was calculated according to the establishment of the integrated division, he could only be a brigade commander. But if Pang Bingxun, a lieutenant general, is asked to be a brigade commander, how can he accept it? Therefore, it is natural to resolutely oppose it, and the attitude of warlords in other places is similar. Only the 29th Army, which was neither short of money nor people (others, such as the Yunnan Army lacked men, the Sichuan Army lacked money, and most of the Northwest Army was short of both money and manpower. He expressed his support, because Song Zheyuan could recruit troops to fill the strength of the army, or even further expand it. As for the Central Army, in fact, Lao Jiang also did not have the financial resources to expand all the more than one million people in the form of integrated divisions. Therefore, the original A, B and C divisions were eventually retained, but some adjustments were also made. Division A is 3 brigades and 6 regiments, with a number of 12,000-10,05; Division B is 2 brigades and 4 regiments, with 8,000 to 12,000 men; The C Division does not have a brigade, and has three infantry regiments directly under its jurisdiction, with 5,000 to 8,000 men.

Among them, the 36th Division, the 87th Division, and the 88th Division, the three historical "German Armament Divisions", as well as the 1st Division of Hu Zongnan's 1st Army, the two main divisions of the 18th Army, the core of the Civil Engineering Department, the 11th Division and the 14th Division, were later merged into the 51st Division and the 58th Division of the 74th Army. and the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Divisions, which are also descendants of the Central Army, with a total of 9 divisions and a total strength of more than 300,000 troops. In the miscellaneous army, only the 38th Division of the 29th Army (Zhang Zizhong was the division commander) was reorganized into an integrated division, adding up to a total of ten. In addition, although the two special units of the Central Military Academy, the Teaching Corps and the Tax Police Corps, have not been reorganized into integrated divisions, they are both in terms of strength and equipment. are not weaker than the average integrator.

Of the 10 reorganized divisions (in fact, the teaching corps and the tax police corps were better equipped than all the reorganized divisions), the 36th Division, which was almost all equipped with German-style weapons, was the most well-equipped, but due to the unexpected return of the teacher commander Chen Mingren (Note 1), the 88th Division's military discipline and training, which had rapidly declined during Sun Yuanliang's tenure, improved rapidly, and it became the most combat-effective division-level unit in the Central Army. …,

The most embarrassing is the tax police corps, which was originally one of the best elite troops in China, although Sun Liren was released by the Red Army, although he did not suffer much difficulty. But at this time, the tax police corps had been taken away control by Lao Jiang, and his confidant Huang Jie was appointed as the head of the corps, and the situation of the tax police corps has been getting worse day by day. Fortunately, Sun Liren was not discouraged by this, and did his best to train the 4th Division, which had just been rebuilt before his return, so that it would soon become an elite unit, and because of the great progress in the strategic and tactical level during Sun Liren's capture, this unit is now stronger than the 4th Division he was at the beginning.

On the Red Party side, according to the agreement, the main force of the Red Army in Shaanxi, Gansu, Ningqing and Jinchaji Base Areas was unified and reorganized into the Eighteenth Group Army of the National Revolutionary Army, also known as the Eighth Route Army, referred to as the Eighth Route Army, the candidates for commander-in-chief, deputy commander-in-chief and political commissar are the same as in history, with 4 divisions under its jurisdiction, except for the 3 divisions in history (the personnel arrangements are basically the same as in history, only the 129th Division was transferred to the 15th Army because of Zhang Hao's transfer to the 15th Army, and Deng Gong became the political commissar of the division in advance. There is also an additional 125 division, the personnel are mainly some of the former Ma Jiajun, the 17th Route Army and the Northeast officers and soldiers of the Red Army in the past few months, but the backbone is still more than 1,000 old Red Army soldiers who have passed the test of the Long March, the division commander is Xu Xiangqian (the first leader), the deputy division commander is Xiao Jinguang, and the political commissar is Tan Zheng.

These four divisions are all integrated divisions, and Lao Jiang also gave the 18th Group Army the establishment of five security brigades (the security brigade is basically one in each province, and the number of people is not necessarily less than that of the C division, but the military salary is all raised by the province itself, and the Military Commission will not bear it.) As a result, the total strength of the Eighth Route Army exceeded 150,000 people, which seemed to be the establishment of the B type group army, but in fact the number of troops was more than most of the A group army, not to mention the combat effectiveness

Note 1: In history, Chen Mingren had to be refrigerated for more than a year before he could go out of the mountains to lead the troops again, and he was demoted, but in this time and space because of the fact that the senior generals were killed by Hu Weidong, there were many vacancies, and now it was the time to employ people, and Lao Jiang, who knew Chen Mingren's military talent, sent this unruly guy back to his old army. It is said that Lao Jiang has always appreciated Chen Mingren, but this guy is too capable of offending people, and Lao Jiang has heard bad things about him from morning to night, which has caused Chen Mingren to always have ups and downs, and it is difficult to be reused (to be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to (.) to vote for recommendation, monthly pass, your support is my biggest motivation. )