In 1941, with the expansion of World War II, China's importance in the world war gradually became prominent, not only Britain needed China to help them defend Burma, but even the United States began to promote a Sino-British military alliance.

At this time, the Yunnan-Burma Highway had become the only channel for international assistance to China, and if China could not withstand Japan's pressure and surrendered to Japan, it would be extremely unfavorable to the global strategy of the United States, and the Americans needed China to continue to fight.

On the day the recruits were taken away, the 16th Supplementary Training Office once again ushered in Zhang Dingfan, deputy director of the Ministry of Military Affairs, and the supplementary regiment and a new regiment had been assembled, waiting for the commander's lecture at the training ground.

"General Ma Weiji is hereby appointed as the commander of the new 29th Division......"

In all the eyes, Zhang Dingfan announced the life of the Ministry of Military Affairs, Ma Weiji, a native of Xindu, Sichuan, graduated from the second phase of Huangpu, and has rich practical experience.

These materials were all brought by Zhang Dingfan, and what could be read out on such occasions were very simple materials, and the next step was the appointment of the heads of each regiment.

Feng Yi's position as infantry commander is still there, Li Yinxing, the battalion commander directly under the division headquarters, has the 85th Regiment under his command, and the regiment commander is concurrently served by Feng Yi; 86th Regiment, Regiment Commander He Shuping; 87th Regiment, Regiment Commander Chen Haiquan.

The newly formed 29th Division is now considered an army, temporarily belonging to the Chongqing Garrison Headquarters, and is still stationed in Qijiang for training and standby.

As for the more than 1,000 people that Feng Yi made out, it was actually not a big deal, because the troops that division commander Ma Weiji could bring were not even enough for a regiment, and they were the troops that had been disabled on the front line.

That night, Feng Ye drove out of the training base of the supplementary training office with more than 5,000 recruits and officially entered the military camp in Qijiang.

The headquarters of the newly formed 29th Division was on the south bank of the Qijiang River, and Feng Ye was half an hour's distance from home, and now if he wanted to go home, he had to pass through the card point and cross the stone bridge over the Qijiang River.

"The division commander has arrived!"

The first meeting of the newly formed 29th Division was held after settling the troops, and with the shouts of the guards at the entrance of the division, Feng Yi and several officers he didn't know stood up together.

"Please be seated."

Ma Weiji is almost forty, and his perennial military career has left him with a very strong wind and frost, and after sitting down in his position, let all the officers sit down.

In addition to the division commander, Huang Yuanzhong of the Political Training Office is currently the second person in the new 29th Division. Because of the false position of infantry commander, Feng Ye became the third person in the new 29th Division.

Among the people brought by Ma Weiji, there are many officers, but there are not many soldiers, among the people who came from Feng Ye and the supplementary training office, there are very few officers, and there are many recruits.

"Okay, don't blow it, don't I know what kind of battles you're fighting? Labor and management dare to say that Colonel Feng's battlefield experience is the most sufficient, from Songhu to Changsha, who of you can compare? ”

Ma Weiji couldn't listen to it anymore and asked Chen Haiquan to stop.

"Colonel Feng, now the soldiers of our division are mainly from the supplementary training department, you know the situation better, you can first introduce the situation of the two new regiments in the supplementary training department."

What Ma Weiji wants to know most is this, he now wants to twist the new 29th Division into a rope, he also knows that Feng Yi is a very important person, these recruits are all trained by Feng Jie, these two regiments, Feng Yi has absolute prestige, but he wants to get at least half of the soldiers out through the reorganization of the source of troops and officers.

"Division commander, there are not enough officers in the supplementary training department, so the situation of the original supplementary regiment is not quite the same as that of the recruit regiment, because of the need to train recruits, two-thirds of the company platoon commanders in the supplementary regiment have been drawn to the recruit regiment, so now the supplementary regiment lacks many company platoon commanders, in fact, now only three battalion commanders are supporting; The situation in the recruit regiment was the opposite, with all three battalion commanders vacant; All the rifles used for training in the retraining office have been returned, and now our two regiments do not even have rifles ......, except for the battalion company commander, who has a gun."

After introducing the situation, Feng Ye began to pour bitter water, and now he lacks everything.

"The issue of guns and ammunition, the military quartermaster of the Ministry of Military Affairs will replenish us, this will not be considered for now; Our division, according to the establishment of the Ministry of Military Affairs, should be more than 8,000 but less than 9,000 people, and now there are only more than 6,000 people in place, and more than 5,400 of them are still obtained by Colonel Feng from the supplementary training department, and I thank you for this; I will first talk about the replenishment of officers, all those who lack company and platoon commanders, after the meeting, Regiment Commander He and Regiment Commander Chen, you two will divide the brothers in your hands, and let them go down to lead the troops first, we may be drawn to the front line at any time, and the training of the troops cannot be stopped. ”

Ma Weiji did not let Feng Ye continue to play, but quickly solved the problem of the company platoon commander, in his heart, the company platoon commander is the cornerstone of the army, as long as he grasps this lifeline, Feng Yi may only gradually become a regiment commander.

"Okay, let's do it first, everyone will get busy first, and the meeting will be dismissed!"

The two-hour meeting was finally over, Feng Ye walked out of the division headquarters, he was not very interested in the new division commander, at least he did not have the encouragement and selflessness of the commander of the eleventh division, of course, compared with Shi Zude and Qiu Qingquan, it was far worse, and he didn't even have a basic pattern.

"Division commander, I did the math, plus those grassroots officers in the recruits, after our veterans and officers are separated, the company platoon commander is no problem now, but we still lack at least one regiment, and there is no shadow of the troops directly under the division headquarters, do you want to reserve officers first?"

After Feng Ye left, Ma Weiji, Li Yinxing, He Shuping, and Chen Haiquan had another small meeting, and they were discussing the future of the new 29th Division.

"Division commander, I don't think it's better to let Feng Ye hand over the extra regiment first, this will be over, he still has two regiments in his hands, and it doesn't conform to the rules!"

Li Yinxing put forward an idea in the eyes of the two group leaders.

", you think I didn't think about it just now? It's just that I don't know how to divide it. ”

Ma Weiji glanced at Li Yinxing, he was very painful now, he originally wanted to directly put up all the shelves and redistribute all the existing recruits, so that if there are new recruits who are added, only one thing needs to be added to each unit, so that the combat effectiveness and training work can be carried out; But he didn't dare, he was afraid that the commander of the 29th Division would not be him, and he was afraid that he would have to listen to Feng Ye when he went to the battlefield.