In seven days, the 42nd Army was indeed formed.

The 42nd Group Army has jurisdiction over the 52nd Army and the 53rd Army, and the group army is affiliated with independent tank divisions, artillery regiments, baggage regiments, communications battalions, cavalry battalions, reconnaissance battalions, rapid reaction brigades, field hospitals, etc., with a total strength of 62,000 troops.

The 52nd Army has jurisdiction over the 521st Division, the 522nd Infantry Division, the armored infantry regiment, the artillery regiment, the baggage regiment, the communications company, the cavalry company, the reconnaissance company, the quick reaction brigade, the medical brigade, and so on.

The 53rd Army has jurisdiction over the 531st Division, the 532nd Infantry Division, the armored infantry regiment, the artillery regiment, the baggage regiment, the communications company, the cavalry company, the reconnaissance company, the quick reaction brigade, the medical brigade, and so on.

In order to rapidly enhance the combat effectiveness of the 42 nd Group Army, Xie Tian ordered a group of capable commanders from the 41 st Group Army to be transferred to the 42 nd Group Army to serve as leading cadres of various armies, divisions, and regiments.

Guo Kaiming, the former commander of the 102nd Division, was transferred to the commander of the 52nd Army.

Ding Wei, the former commander of the 302nd Division, was transferred to the commander of the 53rd Army, and this time the cadre team of the original 386 Brigade was gradually disrupted, and a group of cadres were also transferred to the 53rd Army with Ding Wei, who was Ding Wei's own general.

Ge Dazhuang, the former deputy commander of the 41st Group Army Tank Division, was transferred to the commander of the 42nd Group Army Tank Division, and Zhang Dabiao, the former deputy chief of staff of the 301st Division of the 51st Army of the 41st Group Army, was transferred to the deputy commander of the 42nd Group Army Tank Division, and became a partner with Ge Dazhuang.

The team is pulled up, and the first thing to be solved is the problem of weapons and equipment.

More than 3,000 guns of various types were seized from the people, and the types of guns were all kinds and the calibers were also chaotic.

Fu Zuoyi originally thought that Xie Tian would allocate this batch of weapons and equipment to him, but Xie Tian waved his hand, and all these weapons and equipment were replenished to the local security forces, and the regular army did not want them.

Xie Tian gave an order, 25 Vulcan rapid-fire machine guns, 77 imitation Japanese Type 94 heavy machine guns, 300 light machine guns, and more than 2,200 rifles were transferred from the arsenal.

These weapons are of high quality, but they are not enough to equip an army group, and they are far from good.

But now the production capacity of the arsenal has reached its limit, there are people, but there are not enough machines.

In fact, Fu Zuoyi is already very satisfied with this, the army has just been established with so many weapons and equipment, even if you don't count the tank division equipped with 72 tanks and armored vehicles, the firepower intensity of these weapons and equipment is now comparable to the firepower intensity of Fu Zuoyi's original Seventh Group Army.

Then we have to say how weak the combat effectiveness of the Seventh Army is.

What does combat effectiveness rely on?

First of all, it must be weapons and equipment, without good weapons and equipment, even if the quality of the soldiers is high, how much combat effectiveness can they exert?

It's like fighting with a big knife and a spear and a devil, a tank, a cannon, a machine gun, this battle can't be fought at all.

Moreover, the vast majority of the troops in the battle sequence of the national army have been corrupted to the point of appalling, and an American reporter once took a set of photos during an interview, and the US congressmen who had seen this set of photos could not help but shake their heads, and it was strange that such troops could win the battle.

In the photo, seven or eight generals of the national army are enjoying their lunch in the forward command post, there are seven or eight meat and vegetable dishes on the table, as well as a pot of soup, the generals are eating deliciously, and behind the generals stand two yellow-faced and thin-skinned orderlies, the orderlies keep their mouths tightly closed, but their eyes are firmly fixed on the food on the table.

In another set of photos, scrawny soldiers of the Nationalist Army are sitting on the ground eating their lunch, one holding a bowl with only brown rice and a few vegetable leaves, and the brown rice has been artificially mixed with grains and even gravel, and the soldiers jokingly say that they are eating eight-treasure rice.

There is also a female soldier smoking in this group of photos, and the female soldier looks sluggish and confused, and it seems that she has no future and no hope at all.

Eating empty salaries and deducting military rations is a normal thing in the battle sequence of the national army.

And the polarization of the treatment of officers and soldiers corrodes the combat effectiveness of this unit like poison.

How many soldiers in such a unit are willing to fight for those who are officers?

Fu Zuoyi's original Seventh Group Army was quite good, a unit sitting on a cold bench, the situation between officers and soldiers was similar, and the little military supplies given by Yan Xishan were not enough to eat, and they were not worth deducting.

It is no wonder that the five armies of Fu Zuoyi's Seventh Army actually only have more than 10,000 people, but when they make a book, they reach more than 60,000 people, and when they write more on the roster, Yan Xishan will always give more when he allocates military supplies, and if he actually makes a book of more than 10,000 people, then the military supplies allocated by Yan Xishan are probably enough for a regiment to last a few days, and the team does not have to fight, and the soldiers are starving to death.

Take the tank divisions of these two group armies as an example, according to the standard configuration, a tank division should be equipped with three tank regiments, a self-propelled artillery regiment, an armored infantry regiment, and an air defense regiment, and be equipped with no less than 330 tanks.

However, when Li Changshun's tank division only had more than 30 tanks and 20 armored infantry vehicles, it had already been upgraded to a tank division, and the frame was quite large and quite bluffing, in fact, the equipment of Li Changshun's tank division at that time was not even qualified to equip a tank regiment.

But now Xie Tian has added forty X-1 main battle tanks to Li Changshun, and then mixed and matched those Type 94 and Type 97 captured in Little Japan, which can barely equip two tank regiments and one armored infantry regiment.

The same is true for the tank divisions that Xie Tian equipped the 42nd Army, the shelves are large, and there are only two tank regiments and one armored infantry regiment.

This is the consistent style of Xie Da's family, when he first pulled up the team, he dared to wave the banner of the PLA Independent Regiment, and if he couldn't kill you, he would scare you to death.

But then again, the PLA's tank divisions still have a killer weapon, he equipped each division with a self-propelled anti-aircraft fire battalion, and each battalion is equipped with 27 armored vehicles equipped with Type 01 close-in defense guns and Grim Reaper rapid-fire machine guns, which can not only deal with the Zero fighter of the little devil, but also the Type 97 tank of 20 mm caliber close defense artillery to fight the little devil is enough, and it can also be used as an assault vehicle at a critical moment.

Far away, Xie Tian not only prepared these weapons and equipment produced by the arsenal for Fu Zuoyi, but he also transferred a large number of weapons from the 49th Army and the 50th Army, which was enough for Fu Zuoyi to arm the 42nd Group Army to the teeth.

In the Battle of Yangquan, the 49th Army completely annihilated the 41,000 Japanese troops of Miyamoto's division, captured a large number of weapons and equipment, and had a lot of surplus in addition to damage and self-use.

Now the 49th Army has been issued weapons even with the soldiers and grooms of the cooking squad, and they are simply very rich, and the surplus weapons will not be piled up in the warehouse to rust if they are not used.

The 50th Army's Pingxingguan repelled the Nakamura Division in the first battle, and also captured a lot of weapons and equipment, and it is also capable of supporting Fu Zuoyi, at least thank God that he will not worry about weapons and equipment.