"Do you have any opinions on the reorganization of the troops, and if you have any words, you can say them?" Chen Feng said.

After listening to Chen Feng's reorganization plan, the atmosphere in the entire conference room suddenly rose, and it is no wonder that these officers are happy, how long has it been since the army has been formed, how long has it been since they joined the army, and they have all reached the level of military and political commanders at the brigade and regiment level.

This has to be left to other troops, and even the platoon-level officers have survived, and many of them are even new recruits, and the gap is not ordinarily big.

Chief of Staff Yang Yi said with a little worry: "Division, we used to only have three infantry regiments and two cavalry regiments, but this time it has been expanded to fifteen regiments, isn't it a bit fast?" In addition, the Nationalist Government only gave us a total of four regiments and numbers, and we expanded so many troops at once, won't we blame the summit? ”

"The pace of army expansion is indeed a bit big, but this is also forced by the situation. If we are still the number of the previous security regiment, it is nothing, and the little devil will not take us seriously, a small security regiment, even if it comes to attack again, it will only be a brigade at most, and it will definitely not send divisional and regimental level troops to encircle and suppress us, because the little devil can't afford to lose this person. But now that Chairman and Chief Yan have made such a fuss, we have been put on the stove, and no matter how many troops we actually have, we are already an infantry division to the outside world. The little devils suffered a big loss in Tianzhen this time, and with their character of retribution, the next attack will be a shock, and the next time we face is a complete field division of the Japanese army, can we do it without expanding the army? ”

Then Chen Feng continued: "As for Nanjing, it doesn't matter if it's to blame or not, we don't fight devils for him. This army is the pole that I Chen Feng pulls up, and every penny spent is also from my Chen family, and it has nothing to do with the national government, so I have the final say on how to expand the army and how much it should be expanded. Moreover, the affairs of the garrison brigade are only known to us internally, and we do not announce it to the outside world, so we only have two brigades externally, and the Nanjing side will not have any opinions. ”

"Division, the army has expanded so many people at once, and the equipment and food required are astronomical, and our logistics can keep up?" Li Wensheng asked.

"We are not short of weapons and equipment, even if the weapons and equipment promised by Nanjing and Taiyuan cannot be fulfilled for the time being, the weapons and equipment in our inventory and the weapons captured by the Japanese army are enough to arm the entire army, and our arsenal is now regular, and the rifles and ammunition can basically be self-sufficient. It's just that there is still a lack in artillery, especially large-caliber artillery. The food and salary are enough for the time being, but the source of soldiers is a problem, Xinghe is so big, even with the addition of Jining and Fengzhen counties, it is impossible to recruit so many soldiers in a short time. In addition, there is a large shortage of officers and doctors. Chen Feng said.

"Division, according to your expansion plan, the total number of our 222nd Division is nearly 45,000, and we are only about 12,000 now, not counting the wounded, and the gap is indeed not small. However, aren't the original security regiments of Jining, Shangdu and Fengzhen assigned to us, and these two security regiments should be able to be merged into one infantry regiment. In addition, Chief Yan did not promise to add eight new recruit companies to us, and there are more than 1,000 people in total, so the shortage of soldiers in the army should be about 30,000. Yang Yi said.

"Far more than 30,000 people, in addition to the army needs people, our arsenal, clothing factory, steel factory, mining field all need people, because of the lack of people and raw materials, the production capacity of our steel plant can only reach one-tenth of the design capacity, and our arsenal cannot produce at full capacity, so we need at least 50,000 people, 30,000 soldiers and 20,000 workers." Chen Feng said with a frown.

"Shizuo, in the past few days, I have collected relevant information about the three places of Fengzhen, Jining, and Shangdu, and these three counties are not bad in Jining, and the Pingsui Railway passes through there, and the population of the county is about 250,000. Fengzhen and Shangdu are in a similar situation with Xinghe, both are notoriously poor places, and there have been deaths of starvation in the past two years, and the combined population of the two counties is less than 200,000, which means that the total population of our jurisdiction is less than 500,000, and it is impossible to recruit 50,000 young and strong laborers in any case. If the strong men are forcibly arrested, on the one hand, it will provoke the revolt of the common people, and on the other hand, the land in the area under its jurisdiction will be left uncultivated, and the food and salary of the troops will also be in trouble. Yang Yi said.

"In fact, the shortage of 50,000 people does not necessarily have to be young men, but also young women, such as quilt factories and arsenals, the work in these places is most suitable for women to do, not to mention the quilt factory, so that the sewing machine is a woman's specialty. The vast majority of all the work in the arsenal is done by machines, and both men and women can do it. In addition, it is not necessary to recruit soldiers in our jurisdiction, this world is chaotic, chaos will produce refugees, what are refugees? Refugees are people who can't survive, and these people are the easiest to be absorbed into the army, and some of the officers here were refugees before, so we can't limit our vision to just our one-third of an acre of land. Chen Feng said.

"Shizuo's statement is reasonable, since the beginning of July, refugees have fled to us one after another, and in recent months the number has increased, and the number of refugees who fled to us last month alone was enough to eight or nine thousand." Yang Yi said.

"Well, I'll tell you about the recent missions of your three brigades. The 222 Brigade immediately transferred to Fengzhen, the 223 Brigade transferred to Jining, and the garrison brigade sent a battalion to the county seat of Shangdu. As for where you recruit troops and how you recruit them, I don't care. But there is one thing you should pay attention to, you can't catch strong men, and whoever dares to disobey the order will be removed from office on the spot. ”

"In addition, the little devil won't give us much time, at most there will be a big move in half a month, your speed is fast, I will solve the equipment, food and all the logistics support, you just rack your brains to recruit people for the division commander, do you understand?" Chen Feng asked loudly.

"Got it!" The officers replied in unison.

After the meeting, Chen Feng took Ye Helina and Xu Hu to the Daqingshan base, at this time the Daqingshan base has undergone earth-shaking changes compared to half a year ago, from the foot of the mountain to the light and dark sentinels everywhere, in addition to the entrance to the mountain Chen Feng also found a large number of semi-basement cement bunkers.

Although there is only one road up the mountain as before, this mountain road has been forcibly widened to about three meters, and the road surface is not badly rested, although it is not possible to drive cars, but horse-drawn carriages can walk.

There are a large number of wooden houses built on the mountain, which are densely packed and countless, and there are also a large number of huge caves on the mountain, and people come and go very lively.

"Huzi, how many people are there on the mountain now?" Chen Feng asked intently.

Xu Hu thought for a while and said: "Now there are more than 3,600 troops on the mountain, more than 6,000 workers, and more than 500 field hospitals, a total of more than 10,000. ”

"Is there anything in the house to live in?"

"Not enough, there are now five areas on the mountain: a steel factory, a mining field, an arsenal, a gunpowder factory, a field hospital, and a warehouse, except for the field hospital, which has a fixed wooden house to live in, the rest live in caves, the smaller caves live in twenty or thirty people, and the larger caves live in one or two hundred people, and each worker has a bed board and a set of salutes, and the conditions are very difficult." Xu Hu replied.

"Where do those Jews live?" Chen Feng suddenly thought of the eight or nine hundred Jews sent by Delixi.

"The master told them to treat the foreigners well, so they were concentrated in wooden huts near the steel mills, and if they did not have a family, they had a room for four people, and if they had wives and children, they would share a wooden house for the family, and the old men would each have a separate room."

Chen Feng knew that the old man Xu Hu was talking about was those experts and professors, these were all high-level talents, as soon as he went up the mountain, Chen Feng told Xu Hu to treat these people well, and everything had to be the best.

The conditions on the mountain were very difficult, and the troops lived in tents, even Xu Hu, the boss of the mountain garrison. After coming to the barracks, Chen Feng asked Xu Hu to immediately notify the heads of each factory and his old man to go to the barracks for a meeting.

Half an hour later, the heads of all the factories arrived, including the experts designated by Chen Feng, and the small tent was full.

Some of the responsible persons of these factories were designated by Chen Feng, such as Nangong Yi, director of the arsenal, Xue Zhiping, director of the iron and steel plant, and Hu Jishi, director of the field hospital. But there is still a part of it that was appointed by his father after he went up the mountain, and Chen Feng is not very familiar with this part of the people.

"Ladies and gentlemen, there are three things for everyone to come here today, the first thing is to announce to you a good news, that is, our security regiment has achieved brilliant results in the first test, the battle of Tianzhen, our army eliminated more than 14,000 Japanese puppet troops, completely annihilated an infantry wing and two infantry brigades of the Japanese army, and also killed the commander of the first brigade of the Japanese army, Major General Sakai Hoji, and the results were brilliant. For this reason, the Nationalist Government issued a commendation order, and the Security Corps was upgraded to the 222nd Independent Division of the National Revolutionary Army, and I was promoted to the commander of the Major General of the 222nd Independent Division. The troops were able to achieve such results without the bloody battles of the soldiers at the front, and even more inseparable from you, the heroes who fought silently in the rear. Therefore, the division commander specially approved 30,000 oceans to reward the workers and leaders in the base. ”

As soon as Chen Feng's words fell, warm applause rang out in the conference room. The troops won the battle, everyone was very happy, and as Chen Feng said, they had a share of the credit. Besides, there are only more than 10,000 people in the base, and after removing those who are soldiers, there are only more than 6,000 real workers, and everyone can get an average of five yuan for each person in 30,000 oceans, and five oceans is almost enough to catch up with their salary for half a year.