There is another reason that prompted Qiao Youhua to do his best to reorganize, that is, in the past period of time, Johnson has led the mechanics and people to basically complete the construction of the arsenal and some supporting facilities.

The first batch of production machinery and equipment has also been erected and installed, and after the batch of equipment transferred is complete, the arsenal can enter the stage of trial production and operation.

And Qiao Youhua has been in contact with Billy Lavis, and learned that the British fleet will arrive in Tianjin soon, and the batch of equipment and materials will also arrive.

So, it's time to expand the troops, and then prepare to take the initiative and receive the arrival of supplies.

Wan Hu, Xiao Wu and Hu Ling'er had already secretly left the base and went north to Tianjin to plan this transportation.

Before leaving, Qiao Youhua gave him another million oceans as a fund for the preparation of the Dragon Shadow Guard.

After discussing with Guo Meng, Jiang Haidong and others, Qiao Youhua decided to formally reorganize the unit into the Longya Anti-Japanese Column, and the three main battalions were all reorganized into regiments, with each regiment having three infantry battalions under its jurisdiction and a number of companies and platoons directly under its command.

The strength of each regiment is about 2,000 people, which is the size of a type B regiment, and its basic strength and armament are almost the same as those of the previous Dragon's Tooth Task Force, and the only difference is that there is no artillery battalion directly under the regimental headquarters.

As for the military commanders of regiments and battalions, all the former officers were promoted to one rank, and the units directly under the column were all newly formed with the surviving officers and men of the former reconnaissance company, and the soldiers were given priority to some veterans from each regiment, supplemented by new recruits, with more than 700 soldiers.

The original guard company was also expanded into a guard battalion, with more than 100 surviving elite veterans as the backbone, absorbing about 900 new recruits, and the total strength reached 1,000 people, which can be regarded as the scale of a C regiment.

The original artillery battalion was split into two, and some of them were left behind to supplement the new recruits to form a new artillery battalion directly under the column, and part of it was divided into three to integrate the artillery of the original battalions and formally form the artillery companies directly under each regiment.

In addition, a new communication department directly under the column was also established, with Liu Ruhan as the director and Xu Yuer as the deputy director, and it is worth mentioning that Wan Yinger, the daughter of Wan Hu, was also left by Qiao Youhua as the deputy director.

This communications office is equivalent to a company, and belongs to the same level as the cavalry battalion, guard battalion, and artillery battalion directly under the column.

Except for Liu Ruhan, Xu Yuer, and Wan Yinger, the members of the communication office were basically selected from that group of intellectual youth, mainly female students.

In addition, a new logistics department was set up, under which two baggage teams were under its control.

After the reorganization, the soldiers and military commanders of each unit of the Dragon's Tooth Column changed as follows.

The commander of the column, Qiao Youhua, and the political commissar Guo Meng, had three main infantry regiments under the command of the column, with a strength of more than 6,000 people.

There is a guard battalion of more than 700 people in the directly subordinate unit. A cavalry battalion of more than 700 people. An artillery battalion of more than a thousand people. There are more than 150 people in a communications office, and more than 1,000 people in the logistics office.

The total strength is about 10,000.

The commanders of the three infantry regiments are Jiang Haidong, Ma Biao, and Wu Ming, Liu Yidao, deputy commander of the first regiment, Zhou Dasheng, deputy commander of the second regiment, and Zhao Youde, deputy commander of the third regiment.

Zheng Yunshan, commander of the guard battalion, it is worth mentioning that Qiao Youhua transferred the monkey from the first corps to the guard battalion directly under the column headquarters as the deputy battalion commander and the commander of the first company.

Needless to say, the combat capability of the monkey is mainly due to the fact that after the expansion and reorganization, the Dragon's Tooth Column has many directly subordinate combat units, such as the logistics department, the communications department and even the artillery battalion, especially the first two units, all of which need the guard battalion to undertake their security and guard work.

Zheng Yunshan lacked a right-hand man, so he couldn't keep busy at all.

There is no doubt that the commander of the cavalry battalion is Liu Jianhua, the former commander of the reconnaissance company, and the deputy battalion commander is Zhao Tiezhu, the deputy commander of the guard company who has just been transferred and promoted by Qiao Youhua.

The commander of the artillery battalion remains unchanged from Ma Yunlong, the director of the communications department Liu Ruhan, the deputy directors Xu Yuer and Wan Yinger, and the director of the logistics department is temporarily concurrently served by political commissar Guo Meng.

In fact, if Wan Hu hadn't helped Qiao Youhua set up Long Yingwei, Wan Hu would have been a more suitable logistics director.

After the reorganization of the column was completed, Qiao Youhua and Guo Meng looked at the officers' information, only to find that the troops still lacked many middle- and grass-roots officers, and even their column headquarters was incomplete.

For example, there is a lack of the two important positions of deputy commander and chief of staff, the deputy commander is okay, Qiao Youhua can serve concurrently, staff officers are indeed in short supply, and political commissar Guo Meng is a good hand at political affairs and logistics work, but he is obviously not very competent to make plans for marching and fighting.

In fact, this situation is still very common in the units directly under the jurisdiction of the column and in the regimental and battalion-level units, and many regiment commanders and battalion commanders are basically selected by one person for the positions of regiment commander, political commissar, and staff officer.

When the size of the troops is still very small, basically under the unified command of Qiao Youhua, and Jiang Haidong and several other main cadres are specifically implemented, such a situation will not be much of a problem.

However, when the number of troops continues to expand, and the probability of each unit carrying out combat missions alone or jointly increases greatly in the future, the evil consequences of the lack of cadres and officers will gradually manifest themselves.

A person's energy is always limited, for example, in an infantry regiment, if there are basically only one or two major events at the regiment headquarters, and the regiment commander or deputy regiment commander has to handle every matter in the personnel, then they will not be able to keep busy at all.

Because a unit, in addition to combat, there are also training, material logistics, and so on a lot of troublesome things to deal with, but in peacetime, once it is time for battle, the military commander of this unit may face the embarrassment of lack of skills.

Moreover, if the military commander of this unit has an accident and is killed or seriously wounded and can no longer continue to command the troops, then a regiment may lose its effective and unified command and become independent, and eventually its combat strength will be greatly reduced, scattered in a scattered manner, and defeated by the enemy, thus affecting the outcome of the entire campaign.

If there is a political commissar, a deputy regiment commander, a chief of staff, and other military commanders No. 1, 2, 3, and 4, then the probability of such a possibility will be much less.

If the No. 1 commander is killed or injured, the No. 2 commander will naturally take command of the unit, and so on, to ensure that the unit can always maintain unified and effective command and give full play to its due combat effectiveness.

The fact that the personnel are fully organized and that the officers and staff officers perform their respective duties will be of great benefit to the troops, both in terms of training and combat.

Therefore, after discussing with Guo Meng, Qiao Youhua decided to send another telegram to the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army requesting the headquarters to send a group of political officers and staff officers to strengthen the overall strength of the Longya Independent Anti-Japanese Column.

Last time, Qiao Youhua took the initiative to hand over so many weapons and equipment, which greatly alleviated the plight of the lack of ammunition and weapons of other fraternal troops, and effectively supported the development and construction of other anti-Japanese base areas.

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