Shashi, the 19th Brigade station.

The training of new recruits and veterans has been basically completed, more than 100 wounded who went to Hankou for treatment have also returned to the team one after another, and the personnel of the 19th Brigade have gradually been put in order, and there is still half a month before the military parade, and it is almost time to carry out synthetic training.

The 19th Brigade said that it was a battalion-level combat unit, but in fact it was almost a regiment-level establishment.

The first thing to determine is the establishment and the appointment of officers, regarding this Xu Shijiu has absolute authority, Feng Shengfa has no intention of asking.

In terms of employing people, Feng Shengfa is different from other senior generals of the national army, and the first principle that other generals consider when employing people is, whether it is their own lineage? It's not that the descendants are capable and will never be reused, it's that the descendants have to be reused no matter how incapable they are, but Feng Shengfa is not like this, the first thing he considers when employing people is ability, as long as you have the ability, you can be reused even if you are not a descendant.

Xu 19 temporarily organized more than 1,200 officers and men into three infantry companies, an artillery company, and a guard platoon.

The commander of the first infantry company, Gao Shenxing, has a strength of 400 people, and all of them are veterans selected by Gao Shenxing, which is also the consistent style of Xu 19, or the consistent tradition of the 19th Route Army.

Zhang Youquan, the commander of the second infantry company, has a strength of 300 people, only half of whom are veterans.

Shu Tongwen, the commander of the third infantry company, also has a strength of 300 people, but even fewer veterans.

The commander of the artillery company is still Hu Jie, and there are only about 100 soldiers, and all of them are new recruits.

In addition, there is a platoon of black blind men, with a strength of eighty people, all of whom are veterans who have returned from their wounds.

The platoon commanders of each infantry company are all veterans who have been in the army for many years, and the dozen or so cadets of the Central Military Academy who participated in the training of recruits only became deputy platoon commanders.

This was also a major factor in the poor performance of the Central Army in the Battle of Songhu and the Battle of Nanjing, because most of the grassroots officers of the Central Army were graduates of the Central Military Academy.

Of course, the dozen or so military cadets did not think so, their classmates in the same period all became platoon commanders as soon as they graduated, but they were only deputy platoon commanders, it was inevitable that they would not accept it, and they would inevitably complain, Xu Shijiu was not moved at all, he would never hand over the troops to a group of novices without any actual combat experience, even if they were high-achieving students who graduated from the Central Military Academy.

Satisfied, he looked at the queue of the 19th Brigade in a vertical and horizontal line, and Xu 19 said: "Take the platoon as a unit, set off"

Standing on the far left side of the queue, a company and a platoon ran out of the column under the leadership of the platoon commander, and went to the quartermaster office to receive military uniforms, the division headquarters quartermaster office was not far from the 19th brigade station, and after ten minutes, the company and the platoon received the new military uniform, and they were neatly dressed, a gray khaki cotton uniform, a black cloth shoes with rubber soles, and a German-style steel helmet, and even the bullet pouch on the shoulder was replaced with a new canvas bullet bag, and a military kettle.

Ye Ruxue got off the car and saw a neat and energetic national army at a glance, they were wearing brand new military uniforms, leggings, and steel helmets.

In Anqing, Jiujiang and Wuhan, Ye Ruxue also went to several troops to interview, including the 87th Division, which has a glorious past, but the results of the interview disappointed Ye Ruxue, most of the officers and soldiers of these German armor divisions are mentally wilted and dull-eyed, and there is a world of difference from when they first set foot on the Songhu battlefield.

And the army in front of her reminded Ye Ruxue of the Fifth Army that had just entered Shanghai

Ye Ruxue involuntarily picked up the camera on her chest and pressed the shutter again and again.

Hearing the sound of the camera shutter of "click" and "click", the officers and soldiers lined up on the playground stood still, and none of them turned back from the strict training, only Xu Shijiu in front of the queue turned his head with a cold face, Ye Ruxue turned the shutter, gently pressed the shutter in front of Xu Shijiu, and then put down the camera.

"Is that you?" After seeing Ye Ruxue's face clearly, Xu Shijiu couldn't help but be slightly stunned, the female reporter in front of him was a little too beautiful, so he still had the impression that she was not the war correspondent of the Miller's Review Newspaper that he met on the Honghe Road and Bridge position that day, as if her name was Ye Hexue.

Ye Ruxue smiled at Xu Shijiu and said, "I said, we will still zaijian, Chinese soldiers." ”

At this moment, Ye Ruxue's mood was unprecedentedly good, and the haze that had shrouded her heart these days had also dissipated.

Xu Nineteen couldn't help but be happy when he heard this, he remembered the number of "Chinese soldiers" reported to the other party that day, but his expression immediately dimmed again, because then he remembered the more than 500 brothers who died on the Honghe Road and Bridge position, that battle, the 19th Brigade fought really fiercely, and more than 600 people were almost wiped out.

On the highway from Changsha to Wuchang, more than 20,000 officers and men of the army were marching forward in a mighty manner.

No more common people came to see them off, and the common people in the vicinity all hid in their homes, looking uneasily at the ranks of the national army driving on the highway through the cracks in the closed doors and windows; with the depletion of the national government's finances, arrears of military salaries have become the norm, and the officers and men of the national army have not received their salaries for a long time, and problems inevitably arise.

After the land of North China and East China fell to a large extent, more than 100 divisions of the Nationalist Army retreated to Hunan, Hubei, Jiangxi, and other provinces for rectification, which brought a great burden to the local governments and caused serious nuisance to local public order.

This is not to say that the military discipline of the Gui Army, the Sichuan Army, and the Guangdong Army is not good, and they are actually not willing to rob the local people, but the Nationalist Government cannot pay the military salaries at all, and the little funds they brought with them when they set out for the expedition have already been exhausted, so they can't let hundreds of thousands of officers and soldiers starve to death, right? There is really no way, so I can only reach out to the people.

Therefore, in Jiangxi, Hunan, and several provinces in Hubei, the common people's perception of the national army has been very negative.

Gui Yongqing saw that none of the people and gentry along the way came out to welcome and reward the army, and he inevitably felt unhappy, so he asked the driver to stop, and then climbed a hill on the side of the highway with a big belly.

A small car suddenly appeared on the highway to the north, going all the way south against the marching columns of the army, followed by two trucks, this convoy occupied the center of the road, causing a riot in the marching columns, and the feeling of rolling iron and magnificent momentum just now suddenly disappeared.

When Gui Yongqing was frowning and displeased, Deputy Army Commander Li Shusen ran up out of breath and reported to him: "Military seat, Minister He is here." ”

"Minister Ho?" Gui Yongqing's face changed slightly, and he quickly trotted down the mountain.

When Gui Yongqing ran down the mountain panting, the convoy had stopped, the door opened, and He Yingqin's adjutant got out of the car first, Gui Yongqing hurriedly took two steps forward and covered the upper edge of the car door with his hand before the adjutant

He Yingqin got out of the car with his head down, and Gui Yongqing and several officers hurriedly stood up and saluted He Yingqin.

He Yingqin replied casually, and went straight to the hill where Gui Yongqing had stopped just now, Gui Yongqing, Li Shusen, and several staff officers of the military department were confused, so they could only follow up the hill.

When He Yingqin climbed the hill, the army's marching columns had already restored order, and the magnificent momentum of the marching army that Gui Yongqing had felt just now came to his face again, and it must be admitted that there were still a few strong generals in the teaching corps of the Central Military Academy, and although Qiu Qingquan and Liao Yaoxiang were transferred, Zhou Zhenqiang and Ma Weilong were still there.

Under the training of Zhou Zhenqiang and Ma Weilong, although the 46th Division was unable to restore the old atmosphere of the Central Military Academy's teaching corps, it was obviously much stronger than other Central Military Moral Armament Divisions.

In the current battle sequence of the national army, the army is definitely worthy of the word elite.

After a full quarter of an hour, He Yingqin turned back to Gui Yongqing and said, "Be honest, you have a good way of governing the army." ”

"Where, where." Gui Yongqing was proud in his heart, but he said modestly, "It's not that the head seat is well cultivated." ”

He Yingqin is really worthy of cultivating Gui Yongqing, and after the meeting of Gui Yongqing in the defense of Nanjing, he went straight to Xiaguan Wharf to cross the river by boat, but left the troops to Qiu Qingquan, chief of staff, and Chairman Jiang was extremely annoyed at first after hearing the news, but thanks to He Yingqin's maintenance, Gui Yongqing retained his position as captain.

Later, the commander of the Central Military Academy Teaching Corps was promoted to the commander of the army, which was promoted by He Yingqin.

Of course, He Yingqin's care for Gui Yongqing is far more than that, and the two are still in-laws.

He Yingqin tightened his coat and said, "I heard that the training of the 74th Army is also good, can you be confident that you will win the battle in the Huangpi military parade?"

"74th Army? It's just a miscellaneous card. Gui Yongqing said disdainfully, "Don't worry." ”

"Don't be careless, although the 74th Army is a miscellaneous card, it can perform well in the Battle of Songhu and the Battle of Nanjing, and your army must show great ability, and it must not be taken lightly." Saying that, He Yingqin patted Gui Yongqing on the shoulder again, and said with a smile, "As long as you defeat the 74th Army in the Huangpi exercise, the equipment of the 46th Division Artillery Battalion will also be lost." ”