But in this way, Xia Xinsheng still feels uneasy, but there is no general available in his hands, although the Military Commission has established a cavalry regiment directly under it, and there are also strong generals who can be seconded, but it is not appropriate to think about it, and there is another fierce general who can be used, that is General Xu Shiyou, he brought a lot of cavalry when he was in the Fourth Front Army, it was a whole cavalry division, but now it is staying in Wayaobao. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 infoXia Xinsheng came so much before, and now he has almost made a feud with the entire Four Front Army. It's not easy.

However, it is not a good thing to let the cavalry army dominate in this column, and it may make them arrogant. The heavy tail is too big, and it may even appear under Zhang Shaoshuai's operation to backhand suddenly, relying on the "grievance campaign" and "three checks" alone still do not have the confidence to completely solve this matter, and it is also very naïve to put all the treasures on the mind.

Now the position of the column is exactly under the attack of the Ma Jiajun and the Northeast Army, and the troops are always in such a state that makes the commander-in-chief feel insecure, but it is not good. After the first adjustment of the troops, Xia Xinsheng made adjustments again: First, all the artillery units were gathered together for intensive training, and the Red Star Column Artillery Training Headquarters was established, and the artillery of the whole column was trained and commanded by the Artillery Command in wartime, and the combat units were equipped according to the needs in wartime. Of course, the ideological work Xia Xinsheng completely became the shopkeeper and handed it over to Luo Ronghuan to solve. With such a good talent, why should he go out and sacrifice this ugliness.

Second, all the cavalry competed and concentrated the elite in the armored cavalry division. This problem is easy to solve, after all, out of the cavalry army, this unit is still in the hands of the old northeasterners, and the cavalry army is not dissatisfied.

In this battle against the Northeast Army and the Ma Jia Army, the equipment harvest was very rich, even if it was about to take away a lot of the 25th Army, the Red Star Column still had to have more than 10,000 guns. Moreover, although the factions in the ranks of the party are not as serious as those of the Guomin Party, they are still divided into different hills. The officers and men of the old Red Star Column are less than a fraction of the new cavalry corps, which is naturally inappropriate. It is also not conducive to the development of the entire new Red Star Column.

Therefore, after Xia Xinsheng and Luo Ronghuan discussed, after sending a request for expansion to the central government and getting approval, Xia Xinsheng expanded in Qingyang and WQ County and other places, especially with the help of Liu Zidan, the pace of expansion was very rapid. In less than half a month, the army expanded in the western part of northern Shaanxi and several newly defeated county towns, plus Chen Geng's expanded troops and liberation fighters in the newly defeated two county towns. On the basis of the three regiments of the Red Star Column, Zhong Wei, He Dongsheng, and Kuwa, three divisions of the Red 21st Division, the Red 22nd Division, and the Red 23rd Division were established, and the subordinate numbers were respectively, 63 to 71, a total of nine regiments, each regiment was still a large regiment of 2,000 people, and each division plus the troops directly under the division reached as many as 8,000 people.

After careful consideration, the central government gave the three divisions a corps-level number, and asked the Red Star Column to organize the three divisions into the Red Eighth Army Corps. In order to show that everyone is treated equally, Xia Xinsheng concurrently served as the commander of the corps and Chen Geng served as the deputy commander, and the corps established more than 1,000 directly subordinate troops and various directly subordinate departments.

In addition to the armored cavalry division directly under the Red Star Column, an artillery brigade has been established, which is under the direct command of the Artillery Training Command led by Zhao Zhangcheng. Column field hospitals, engineer regiments were created. After getting Liu Ding's approval, he applied to the central government to temporarily seconded Liu Ding to the Red Star Column to set up an ordnance department, and concentrated the maintenance equipment of the ordnance repair department of the cavalry army to the ordnance department.

In this way, the troops and logistics personnel directly under the headquarters of the Red Star Column and the Light Column Headquarters added up to more than 5,000 people. Together with the cavalry corps and the Red Eighth Army Corps, the entire Red Star Column had more than 45,000 people. Xia Xinsheng felt like a bookkeeper, so left and right, the cavalry army was not the largest force.

The last part is Xia Xinsheng's heart, the reconnaissance team, although the establishment of the reconnaissance brigade has come up, but the scale has not been large. This time, the base of the Red Star Column has come up, and many soldiers have improved their abilities quickly under the test of life and death. Xia Xinsheng specially asked Mengzi to make a selection in the whole column. The reconnaissance brigade absorbed more than 600 seed troops, and was organized in the same way as reconnaissance units in later generations, and used as real scouts in peacetime. After waiting for further assessment and training, they will be absorbed into the core force according to their strength.

In order to increase everyone's enthusiasm for participating in the reconnaissance brigade, the column raised the level of the reconnaissance brigade up, and the most ordinary soldier is the squad leader level, and the core part is directly the company commander. To Mengzi, he is a teacher-level cadre. Originally, the commanders who didn't want to release the good soldiers in their hands couldn't hold it anymore, after all, they could do anything, but it was easy to say that it was not good to say that they blocked the way of their subordinates' progress, and no one wanted their subordinates to deviate from themselves, so the commanders who were originally unhappy with the boss, like Zhong Wei, could only reluctantly let them go.

The establishment of the Red Star Column was officially released, with the column commander Xia Xinsheng, political commissar Luo Ronghuan, and chief of staff Chen Geng.

Directly under the reconnaissance brigade, captain Liu Mengzi. There are more than 700 posts in total.

Directly under the armored cavalry division: division commander Xia Xinsheng, political commissar Luo Ronghuan, deputy division commander and chief of staff: Meng Shaozhou, deputy political commissar and director of the political department: Xiao Jinguang. The total number of posts is 4,000

Field Hospital: Director Zhang Tiejun, Central Support. There are 300 people in total

Ordnance Department: Minister: Liu Ding, a total of 300 people

Engineer Corps, regiment commander Wang Yaonan, transferred from Wayaobao, a total of 2,000 people

Artillery Training Command: Commander and Artillery Brigade Commander Zhao Zhangcheng, with a total of 3,000 personnel

Cavalry Army: Army Commander: He Zhuguo, Political Commissar: He Changgong, Chief of Staff: Huang Xiansheng, Director of the Political Department: Su Jin

Third Cavalry Division: Division Commander: Guo Xipeng, Deputy Division Commander: Zhang Chengde, Chief of Staff: Hu Jingxian

Fourth Cavalry Division: Division Commander: Wang Qifeng, Deputy Division Commander: Xu Liang, Chief of Staff: Chen Changxi

Seventh Cavalry Division: Division Commander: Men Bingyue. Deputy Division Commander: Liu Fengqi, Chief of Staff: Xiao Kewei

All division-level political commissars are selected by the Central Committee. The total number of personnel in the army is more than 15,000

Red Eighth Legion:

Corps Commander: Xia Xinsheng, Political Commissar: Luo Ronghuan, Deputy Corps Commander and Chief of Staff: Chen Geng

21st Division: Division Commander: Zhong Wei

22nd Division: Division Commander: He Dongsheng

23rd Division: Division Commander: Zhao Kuwa

The political commissar and chief of staff are waiting for the central government's appointment, and there are more than 25,000 personnel in the entire corps for the time being