The 11th Division is the pillar of the civil engineering department, the elite of the first class, their main regiment is about 3,000 troops, and about 1,500 coolies or supplementary troops will be strengthened in wartime; Take the current 61st Regiment and 62nd Regiment as an example, they have 3,500 men before they are fully established; But there are not so many of those miscellaneous groups, as few as 800 people, and as many as more than 1,000 people, but definitely less than 200 people.

Feng Ye now has more than 1,600 troops in the battalion directly under him, and in addition to the communications squad, the sanitation platoon, and the cooking squad, he also has more than 1,400 troops.

"The communications corps and the sanitary platoon can't move."

Feng Yi groaned, first of all, the two units were divided, and then the cooking class, because he was afraid that he would not have anything to eat.

"Fourteen hundred! It would be nice if two elite battalions could be trained. ”

Feng Yi's eyes lit up green when he looked at this number, the battalion of 650 people should be able to make two, but there is a problem here, that is, the people in the labor battalion are not considered soldiers, and this part of the people should talk to the brigade commander.

"Beep, beep, beep......"

The wake-up whistle sounded in the village, and the soldiers who were sleeping soundly climbed out of bed to start a new day's training.

"Battalion commander, the battalion under the command has been assembled."

Wang Lun reported the situation loudly.

"Gao Yurong."

"Here!"

"Everyone here, continue to train according to the original plan, veterans and recruits train together, start!"

Feng Ye shouted loudly, and then walked to the queue, for him, morning exercise has become a habit, and the backpack and equipment on his back indicate that he is ready to go cross-country in full armor.

"Battalion commander, it's just morning training, are you?"

Wang Lun was a little surprised, the morning training of the battalion under his direct command was always freehand, including when Feng Yi trained recruits, when did he have to arm the cross-country?

"You go on, I'm used to it!"

Feng Yi motioned for start.

"Scout Company, run and go!"

"Guards company, keep up!"

……

"Bang Bang Bang ......"

Amid the sound of neat footsteps, the team of less than seven hundred men slowly ran out of the village, and after yesterday's assembly post, no one would worry that these recruits would become deserters, and this was the beginning of trust.

"Brigadier Commander, I have an idea and would like to report back to you."

After breakfast, Feng Ye found Mei Chunhua, he had the idea of fighting the labor camp.

"What's the matter? Guns or ammunition? Say! ”

Mei Chunhua was very happy and asked Feng Ye to say directly.

"The battalion directly under it will start training today, including the labor camp."

Feng Yi said cautiously.

"Oh? And what about our logistical supplies? ”

Mei Chunhua was not worried about the issue of military registration at all, and the labor camp was originally a source of supplementary soldiers when it was forced to do so.

"In addition to the communication class, the sanitation platoon and the cooking class, all the units directly under the brigade headquarters participated in the whole training, and those who did not pass the grades and had no special skills entered the labor camp and were responsible for the transportation of logistics materials; Besides, didn't I get back dozens of horses? That's a lot of manpower! ”

Feng Yi played his own little Jiujiu, in his plan, there would not be many people who would be eliminated to the labor camp in the end, two hundred people were too many, in fact, he took more than four hundred people from the labor camp alive.

"There was a recent replenishment of supplies, and there was no labor camp, what about the transportation of ammunition and supplies? The division commander will not draw heavy troops from the division headquarters to us. ”

Mei Chunhua frowned, the labor camp was not idle and had nothing to do, in fact, they often shuttled on the transportation line to transport all kinds of materials that were urgently needed for the 31st Brigade.

"Let the veterans go with the horses, and if it doesn't work, I'll draw people from the recruits to cooperate."

Feng Yi thought for a while, this is the only way at present, the urgency of the veteran training of the reconnaissance company is relatively light, and the subjects of the training of these recruits have already been experienced, and now they only need to be strengthened, and he still doesn't know what the foundation of the rest of the troops is.

"The division headquarters and brigade headquarters don't have so many officers to supplement you, what are you going to do?"

Mei Chunhua has been working for so long, of course he knows what Feng Yi wants to do, he does this, it is a lack of a large number of squad and platoon leaders, after all, the squad and platoon leaders of auxiliary troops and combat units are two concepts.

"Training during the day, tutorial classes at night, all veterans and literate brothers participate, and those with good comprehensive results are temporarily promoted to squad leader."

Feng Yi said that he was going to reopen the training class in the third battalion of the 62nd Regiment.

"I don't know how Chen Hua is doing now, I hope he's okay!"

Feng Yi suddenly remembered that he still had apprentices staying in the third battalion of the 62nd Regiment, and he didn't take the opportunity to ask in the last battle of Mopanshan.

"Okay, I'll give an order and let all the troops directly under the brigade headquarters cooperate with you."

Mei Chunhua nodded, in his understanding, Feng Ye was preparing to select the best of the best and train an elite division, he didn't expect Feng Ye to prepare to expand the combat troops of the battalion directly under him.

On June 18, the same day that Feng Ye decided to be ordered to reorganize the battalion directly under him, the Japanese army headquarters issued an order to prepare for the Hankou operation with Mainland Order No. 119. According to the instructions of the base camp, the Japanese army transferred the 10th, 16th, 9th, 13th, and 6th divisions that were in eastern Henan and northern Anhui after the Battle of Xuzhou to the south and assembled in the Hefei area. It also transferred troops from North China and Japan to strengthen the 11th Army under the command of Okamura Ninji in Central China and to strengthen the strength of the anti-river combat force.

In order to carry out the Wuhan operation, the Japanese army base camp concentrated the strength of 14 divisions and regiments in Central China. Directly participating in the Wuhan operation were the strength of the 2nd Army and the 11th Army, a total of 9 divisions and regiments, about 250,000 troops, as well as the 3rd Fleet and the Air Corps, with a total of about 120 ships of various types and about 300 aircraft of various types.

For the Chinese government, which was struggling in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, after several large-scale battles, it finally understood a truth: Fighting the Japanese army, which had superior firepower and air superiority, should not be limited to the success of the defense of one city or one region, and should be conducted in a mountainous area to offset the Japanese army's firepower superiority.

Under the guidance of this ideology, the government organs, the central party headquarters, the universities, and the factories relocated from Shanghai in Wuhan continued to move to Chóng Qìng, Chengdu, Kunming, and other places, and the government tried to make strategic arrangements with the southwest as the rear area, implement the strategic policy of "exchanging space for time", maintain the capital of the Chinese people in the war of resistance during the battle, and use strategic depth and fortifications to consume the strength of the Japanese army as much as possible, so as to achieve the goal of a protracted war of resistance.