Chapter 711: Surrender to the enemy
I heard that Yang Ling and the others had returned from their studies, although General Wang Yaowu, who had also served as the deputy commander of the army, was recuperating from his illness, he still personally met with Yang Ling.
"Haha, that's so spirit!" Seeing Yang Ling, who was standing straight and saluting, General Wang Yaowu looked very happy.
"Sit, sit down and talk, don't be restrained." General Wang Yaowu beckoned Yang Ling to sit down.
Although Yang Ling didn't have a lot of contact with his immediate boss, he also knew that he was right, so he sat down.
During the period when Yang Ling went to study at the Nanyue Guerrilla Cadre Training School, General Wang Yaowu not only served as the commander of the 51st Division, but also began to serve as the deputy commander of the 74th Army.
"Junzao, I heard that you are sick, this is a little tonic that I specially went to buy for you, please accept it." Yang Ling took out the things he was carrying.
"You've got a heart." General Wang Yaowu was also full of smiles and let the orderlies take it.
"How did you study in the Nanyue guerrilla training class?"
"The instructors taught very well, and we learned a lot about guerrilla warfare."
General Wang Yaowu nodded with a smile and said: "Wow, in the past, we didn't attach importance to guerrilla warfare and suffered a lot of losses, and when you return to the army, you must organize company and platoon officers to set up training classes, give them what you have learned, and then let them teach the officers and soldiers at the grassroots level, we must not only be able to fight regular warfare, but also learn to fight guerrilla warfare, so that we can always be invincible in the battle against devils." ”
"Yes, I will go back and do it." Yang Ling hurriedly agreed.
"The army is about to start reorganizing, and the brigade-level command structure will be abolished, and the division will directly command the regiment at that time, so as to facilitate the battle against the devils, you should be temporarily aggrieved, go back and continue to be the regiment commander, and when the time is ripe, how about transferring?"
"Yes!"
Yang Ling's heart is also dumb and eats coptis, and he can't say anything about his suffering, so he can only agree to come down.
First of all, the deputy brigade commander said that he had no military school background, but now he has a military school background, and he has encountered reorganization, which is really untimely.
Division Commander Wang Yaowu also asked about the study in the guerrilla cadre training class, and Yang Ling also replied 1510, which made the division commander very satisfied.
Since the deputy brigade commander could not be promoted for the time being, Yang Ling did not become depressed, but returned to the regiment and gathered the company and platoon commanders to carry out guerrilla training.
Whether you are a regiment commander or a deputy brigade commander, it is all for the sake of fighting devils, and you are on the thigh of the division commander General Wang Yaowu, anyway, there will be opportunities in the future.
After the Battle of Nanchang, the regiment was replenished with a group of recruits, and most of the Whampoa officers who were replenished before were also promoted to company platoon commanders.
The devils have now changed their strategy, and they are only launching offensives in local areas, and Yang Ling and them have no combat missions for a while.
In accordance with the orders of the division commander, General Wang Yaowu, Yang Ling also selected a group of officers and soldiers and launched guerrilla warfare training in the regiment, hoping that the whole regiment would popularize it by the time came.
During this busy period of Yang Ling, the entire 74th Army was also surging.
The news that Yu Jishi, commander of the 74th Army, was promoted to commander of the 10th Army has spread, so the post of commander of the 74th Army is vacant.
Yu Jishi's original intention was to let General Wang Yaowu, the commander of the 51st Division, take over as the commander of the 74th Army, but General Wang Yaowu was able to command the 51st Division, after all, it was his starting unit.
For the other 57th and 58th divisions of the 74th Army, it seems a little powerless, and the commander of the 58th Division is now Chen Shizheng, who was born in the first phase of Huangpu and is the same generation as Yu Jishi.
Once Wang Yaowu is appointed as the commander of the 74th Army, I am afraid that the powerful 74th Army will be torn apart, which is not what Yu Jishi wants to see.
Therefore, during this period of time, General Wang Yaowu stayed away from the whirlpool of this power struggle on the grounds of recuperation.
Commander Yu Jishi took advantage of the fact that he could still suppress the scene, and transferred Chen Shizheng, who was born in the first phase of Huangpu, to Zhejiang as the commander, and He Lingxiao of the second phase of Huangpu was also transferred to other units as division commanders, and all the veteran generals were transferred out of the 74th Army, paving the way for the smooth succession of General Wang Yaowu.
In June, Yu Jishi was smoothly transferred to the 10th Army as commander, and Yangling's division commander, General Wang Yaowu, was officially appointed commander of the 74th Army.
However, this is not the end of the calculation, in view of the fact that there are too many command levels of the troops, according to the order of the Military Commission to streamline the command structure, the 74th Army has carried out another drastic reform.
The four brigades to which they belonged were all abolished, and the old brigade commanders who had been idle were transferred to be deputy division commanders, and the younger ones were appointed as new infantry commanders, which could be regarded as alternate standby.
Yang Ling's old boss, Brigadier Zhou Zhidao, also took advantage of the situation to become the commander of the 51st Division, which was considered a high promotion, and Yang Ling's regiment continued to be under the command of the 51st Division.
The brigade-level command structure was abolished, and the 51st Division directly governed three formed regiments and one field supplement regiment, and Yang Ling continued to serve as the regiment commander.
And when the 74th Army took the opportunity to reorganize, a piece of news that shook the whole country also came.
"Something big, something big!"
When Yang Ling and his men were organizing the officers and men of the guerrilla training class to swim across the river, the staff officers of the regiment headquarters rushed over out of breath.
"What's the matter, Counselor Wang?" Yang Ling was also surprised to see that the staff officer, who had always been relatively calm, was so panicked.
"Wang Jingwei surrendered the little devil!" Staff Officer Wang replied angrily.
"What, where did you hear from you, how is that possible?"
The first reaction of the brothers was disbelief, and in the eyes of the brothers, Wang Jingwei was the number two person in the party, second only to the chairman of the committee.
If he has defected to the enemy, how will this battle be fought, does it mean that the government is also going to surrender, is it really going to be a slave of the country?
The brothers who heard the news had no intention of training for a while, they fought desperately on the battlefield and fought bloody battles with the little devils, did they get such a result, they were immediately extremely depressed, and their future suddenly felt bleak and confused.
"It's been circulating everywhere, and it's been confirmed that it's true." Counselor Wang said categorically.
In fact, in May, Wang Jingwei had already changed his route to Shanghai by plane, but Chongqing had been blocking the news, after all, such a figure had defected to the enemy, which was undoubtedly a heavy blow to the country's anti-Japanese war.
Moreover, this time, there were more than 20 central officials who followed Wang Jingwei into the arms of the devil. The members and generals also had a large number of troops, and their influence was extremely bad.
However, as Wang Jingwei delivered a speech in Shanghai, the paper could not contain the fire, and the shocking news quickly spread all over the country, and for a time the people of the country were panicked.
In the past, everyone had been insisting on the War of Resistance against Japan, and everyone was working together, but now that the senior officials in Chongqing had surrendered, people's confidence in the War of Resistance suddenly collapsed, and they became terrified.
"What are we still training, go home and plant crops, damn, the commander has defected to the enemy, what are we still busy working ...... here"
The impact of this news on the brothers was undoubtedly enormous, leaving them with pessimism, disappointment, and frustration.
"What?! Do? Seeing these brothers who were clamoring to go home, Yang Ling stopped them with a cold face.