Chapter 394 Reorganized the Shaanxi Army

After the Shaanxi mutiny was quelled, Tang Qiuli spent more than a month walking through all the units of the Northeast Army and the 17th Route Army.

In addition to understanding the soldiers, weapons and equipment of the troops, the main thing is to understand the discipline, combat effectiveness, and morale of the troops.

He took only Mei Ting, Shanhu, and more than 20 soldiers of the special guards, and resolutely did not want to be accompanied by senior officers, and went deep into the grassroots companies, where he ate and lived with ordinary soldiers for a few days.

At the beginning, the soldiers all respected this big official, Tang Qiuli didn't care, after a few days of getting along, the soldiers all regarded this General Tang as a person who could speak to his heart, so that he had a lot of first-hand information.

Tang Qiu had to do this, how to deal with the Northeast Army and the Seventeenth Route Army, has always been his most cautious thing, Tang Qiuli did not want to let the two troops with the glorious tradition of the Xi'an Incident, in their own hands, become a term in history.

In that case, he would feel uneasy in his conscience, and he would also be sorry for Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng, the two Zhijio, although doing so was very much to the thoughts of Chairman Chiang and some senior officials of the state government, and their original intention was to let these two troops with backbones behind their heads become history, and the more scattered they are, the better.

Officers and ordinary soldiers at all levels of the Northeast Army have a generally good impression of Tang Qiuli, with Zhang Shaoshuai's handwritten letter, coupled with the fact that they are fellow villagers in the Northeast, the majority of officers and soldiers of the Northeast Army unconsciously regard Tang Qiuli as a substitute for Zhang Xueliang and become their new leader of the gods, the actual leader, and become their backbone.

Because of Zhang Shaoshuai's detention, the Northeast Army, which was almost falling apart, was disheartened, and its cohesion had declined sharply, since Tang Qiuli took over, solved their urgent practical problems materially, and channeled their confused and hesitant mentality from the perspective of God.

In addition, Tang Qiuli also specially held political counseling classes for officers at all levels of the Northeast Army and the 17th Route Army, and he personally gave lectures on the current domestic and international situation, the future tasks of the two units, and the historical mission.

This hand is very powerful, unifying the thinking of officers at all levels from the mind, so that they can clarify the future direction, Tang Qiuli looked at the different looks of the officers, and was greatly impressed by the power of the ideological work, which is called the political command.

The appearance of Tang Qiuli was just in time to fill the gap left by the Northeast Army, which had left its hometown and had the infamy of non-resistance, because Zhang Xueliang was suddenly detained, and with its unique personal charm, it became the pillar of the Northeast Army for officers and ordinary soldiers at all levels.

From then on, these officers no longer called Tang Qiuli's official title, Chairman Tang or Tang Commander-in-Chief, all called him Tang Dashuai, Tang Qiuli was honestly afraid, this can not be helped, this is Zhang Xueliang's exclusive title for Lao Tzu, how dare he be.

Tang Qiuli stopped it many times, helplessly, these officers, they came as soon as they opened their mouths, they called very naturally, and they showed such an intimacy, in the words of these officers from the Northeast: "Calling like this, it seems close, and it has a hometown flavor, besides, our Tang Dashuai can afford to be called this pimple." ”

Therefore, the name of Tang Dashuai spread within the Northeast Army, and the same was true of the Seventeenth Route Army, compared to the more than 200,000 Northeast Army, the Seventeenth Route Army, which only had more than 60,000 people, seemed to be weak, especially after Yang Hucheng was forced to go abroad.

Worried about being annexed by the Central Army or foreign forces, these soldiers from Shaanxi are all locals, they don't want to be confused, and they are pulled by other forces to be cannon fodder, Tang Qiuli's attitude towards them equally, gradually conquered the hearts of the officers and soldiers of the 17th Route.

They also followed the name of the Northeast Army, calling Tang Qiuli Tang Dashuai, and this Tang Dashuai made a bold move, and suddenly closed the salary for several months, and greatly improved the living conditions and food standards of each army.

After all the preliminary preparations were done, Tang Qiuli returned to Xi'an and began to reorganize the troops stationed in Shaanxi.

After more than a month, he has obviously darkened and lost a lot of weight, making Mei Ting so distressed that he stews supplements for him every day, and resolutely interrupts Tang Qiuli's conjugal life every night, on the grounds that for the sake of his body, nòng makes him depressed.

For more than a month, Mei Ting has been by Tang Qiuli's side every inch, for her husband's awesomeness, Mei Ting feels that there are new discoveries every day, her husband is like a book that can never be finished, turning a page, it is a new content.

Jin Shaanxi Jiāo boundary, the west bank of the Yellow River on the Shaanxi side, across the river is the historical Fenglingdu, in the evening, the afterglow of the sunset, rendering the sunset full of sky, reflecting the loess plateau purple gold dark red, the strong northwest wind in winter, whistling across the empty sand by the river, the yellow water Xiaoxiao, the west wind is long, several cars from far and near, behind the car is the rolling earth dragon-like dust, the car is close to the shore, abruptly stopped.

A group of heavily armed soldiers quickly set up a cordon on the shore, and in the last two cars, seven or eight young people came down, all dressed in civilian clothes, led by mottled green silk mixed with wisps of white hair, if there were people who were familiar with them, they would definitely be surprised to find that the leader was Tang Qiuli, who held the actual power in the north.

And several other people, who were sentenced to death, the core figures of the former Northeast Army Shaozhuang faction officers, Ying Detian, Miao Jianqiu, Sun Mingjiu and others, haven't they been shot? How did he appear here alive, and he was personally accompanied by Tang Qiuli, who had a prominent official position?

How to deal with Ying Detian and others is something that makes Tang Qiuli more entangled in his heart, the Xi'an Special Military Court, put the final ruling power into his own hands, how not to hope that he will open the net and keep people under the gun.

These people are not heinous people such as Zhang Mutao, just because they were blinded, enthusiastic, and lost their minds, they made a big mistake and killed them, how could Tang Qiuli bear it?

Tang Qiuli did not sign the verdict, and the special military court did not inquire about the matter, so the case was shelved, and everyone knew that the dead were gone, so what was the use of killing them?

However, the Northeast Army couldn't stay any longer, so Tang Qiuli thought of a way, and now, it is to send them east to cross the Yellow River, take Beiping, and return to their hometown in the Northeast.

Tang Qiuli gave each person 1,000 yuan for the journey, and wrote a letter to General Yang Jingyu of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Federation, introducing the situation of several of them in detail.

The ferry has docked at the shore wharf, Ying Detian and others, never thought that things would end like this, and the handsome sent each other in person, five or six men, kneeling on one knee with a brush, clasping their fists with both hands: "Dashuai, your kindness, let me repay it in the future" After speaking, he resolutely turned around and left, and the man's tears splashed down on the long yellow earth.

After Ying Detian and others returned to their hometown in the Northeast, they did not defect to the Anti-Japanese Federation, and used the travel expenses given by Tang Qiuli to pull up a team and fight bloodily between the white mountains and black waters.

Later, the main force of the independent division went out to fight against the Japanese Kwantung Army, and the troops of Ying Detian and others were returned to the independent division, at that time, it was already a force of nearly 10,000 people, and it became an anti-Japanese armed force with the same name as the Northeast Anti-Japanese Allied Army, and was one of the major troubles of the Japanese Kwantung Army.

On 2 March, a month after the Shaanxi Mutiny, the reorganization plan for the Northeast Army and the 17th Route Army was handed down to two units.

The Northeast Army has undergone repeated changes, its strength has been greatly inferior to before, except for those who died in battle and fled, there are more than 178,000 soldiers, Tang Qiuli carried out jīng Jane on the troops, the old, weak, sick and disabled, all of them were placed in the major industrial and mining enterprises in the Dingbian Special Economic Zone, and each person enjoyed a retirement allowance of ten yuan per month, which was enough for them to live a normal life in Dingbian, not to mention, there was also wage income.

In good health, but on the older side, they are assigned to the reserve teaching brigade of the Dingbian Garrison District, and are responsible for the garrison tasks of the Dingbian Special Economic Zone in peacetime, and are responsible for training new soldiers.

The soldiers of Jianhou were all young and strong, and the political composition was better, and the Northeast Tǐng Command Headquarters of the Independent Division was formed, with the deputy commander of the Independent Division, Major General Liu Tiehan, as the commander, and eight brigades under its jurisdiction, each with 15,000 soldiers.

Northeast tǐng into the first brigade, the brigade commander is Zhao Yi, the former commander of the 109th Division of the Northeast Army, the brigade commander of the Northeast tǐng into the second brigade, the brigade commander is Zhou Fucheng, the former commander of the 116th Division of the Northeast Army, and the brigade commander is Miao Zhengliu, the former commander of the 57th Army of the Northeast Army.

Northeast Tǐng entered the Fourth Brigade, the brigade commander was Huo Shouyi of the former 112th Division of the Northeast Army, the Northeast Tǐng advanced to the Fifth Brigade, the brigade commander was Wu Keren, the former commander of the 67th Army of the Northeast Army, and the Northeast Tǐng entered the 6th Brigade, and the brigade commander was Zhang Wenqing, the former commander of the 108th Division of the Northeast Army.

The Northeast Tǐng marched into the Seventh Brigade, and the brigade commander was Wan Fulin, the former commander of the 53rd Army of the Northeast Army, and the Northeast Tǐng marched into the Eighth Brigade, and the brigade commander was Chang Enduo, the former commander of the 111th Division of the Northeast Army.

In addition, an independent division was formed into a brigade of cavalry hún of the Northeast Tǐng Advance Command, the brigade commander was He Zhuguo, the former commander of the Second Cavalry Army of the Northeast Army, and the brigade had eight cavalry reinforcement regiments, each with 2,300 soldiers, including all the cavalry units of the former Northeast Army, and was the strongest unit in the Northeast Tǐng Advance Command.

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