In the end, the authorities reprimanded Lin Wei because he was clearly in a dilemma. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info Huang Haoran can always surprise the highest authorities at critical moments, and such an excellent general is what every ruler needs. But Huang Haoran also has a fatal flaw, that is, he is not obedient enough.

The secret service organizations formed within the 25th Group Army and the young officers' associations that already have a certain size are very bad signs. Even if Huang Haoran did not support it, at least he had a conniving attitude, which would lead to its development and growth.

In the eyes of the highest authorities, if some people from the Political Department are not sent to intervene in the management of the 25th Army, it is difficult to say who this elite unit will follow in the future.

It is still a trivial matter to raise a group of arrogant soldiers, and the highest authorities are more worried that their own victorious army, armed with expensive foreign currency, will eventually become a bargaining chip in the hands of political opponents, and in turn stab him.

You can't say that the supreme authorities are unfounded, because it is not uncommon in the military circles of the Republic of China to say that the role of turning the other cheek at a critical time is like this. Even during the years of warlord warfare, the supreme authorities themselves were part of it, and countless political opponents were stabbed in the back by him.

Therefore, the highest authorities are very resistant to the Huang Haoran group's current desire to self-contain. If it weren't for the tight fighting at the front, I was worried that the placement of personnel at this time would shake the morale of the 25th Army. I am afraid that the highest authorities have already carried out a purge of the 25th Army through the Military Command and the Political Department.

At present, Huang Haoran is injured and hospitalized, and the 25th Army is leaderless, which is a good opportunity that the highest authorities have been waiting for. If we don't seize the opportunity to sort out Huang Haoran's small group now, we don't know when the next opportunity will come.

This is a great temptation, and the highest authorities have some difficulty in suppressing their impulses. Because he himself has always had an extraordinary love for the integration of the troops. In the first half of his life, the supreme authorities have been constantly absorbing other people's troops, and his central army has stepped on the corpses of others to reach the peak.

When the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression broke out in 1937, the total number of troops directly commanded by the highest authorities was only about 1.7 million. After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, the government army was greatly expanded, and by the time of the Battle of Wuhan, although hundreds of thousands of officers and soldiers had been lost in many battlefields, the total strength of the Central Army of the highest authority had increased to about 1.9 million. In this regard, many units of the local army were absorbed and digested.

The term "Central Army" may be used a lot by the Ministry of Military Affairs in its external propaganda, but there has always been no strict standard for accurately defining the scope of the Central Army.

Generally speaking, the Central Army is a descendant unit that directly obeys the orders of the supreme authorities. In essence, the local warlords who only controlled the central power were not much different from the Gui, Cantonese, Jin, Yunnan, Northwest Army, Northeast Army, and local warlord armies.

The armed forces of the Republic of China are quite independent and control local political power and financial power. The Central Army, the supreme authority, has always controlled seven provinces and one city in East China, using seven provinces and one city in East China as a source of money and supply bases. After the start of the Anti-Japanese War, the Central Army retreated all the way, and the areas that the highest authorities could actually control were actually moving with the Central Army. It is not so much that the supreme authority controls the government, but that he controls the Central Army and the territory occupied by the Central Army. This was the case before the start of the Anti-Japanese War, and it was also the same when it came to the Battle of Wuhan. The supreme authority is only the nominal leader of the various factions in the country, and the central army is his foundation.

According to the relationship with the highest authorities, the Central Army is roughly divided into the following three parts:

1. The troops under the command of the generals of the Huangpu lineage are called the descendants of the Central Army;

2. The troops continuously recruited by the supreme authorities in the Northern Expedition and the previous warlord melee are called the collateral of the Central Army in the central sequence, and most of them are the Beiyang troops that have been absorbed. Many of these units were annexed and reformed by the central lineage and turned into lineage.

3. Those who have been defeated by the highest authorities or other warlords in the warlord melee, lost their territory, and were incorporated into the central sequence, but still maintained a relatively independent personnel system. These troops often came from local powerful factions, and after losing their power, they still maintained inextricable ties with the localities, such as the 19th Route Army in Guangdong, Xue Yue in Guangdong, and Yang Sen in Sichuan.

In order to stabilize the strength in their hands, the supreme authorities have not stopped transforming the latter two types of central military forces for many years. The third category, in particular, is the top priority of the highest authorities in the process of reorganization.

The methods are still the same old-fashioned, pinching the head and removing the tail, and this method has been used by the warlords since the scuffle, and the highest authorities are already familiar with it.

The "method of removing tails" is mainly aimed at ordinary soldiers, and the third category of the Central Army, which has suffered relatively large losses in battle, is often forcibly reorganized by the Military Commission with a single order, and takes advantage of the shortage of personnel after the defeat of the battle to organize these units from one army into one division or several regiments and then into the basic units under the control of the Whampoa Department. Or, more directly, destroy the establishment and digest it directly after breaking it up. Along the way from Songhu to Wuhan, the highest authorities did not digest the local troops, and many central armies had even deliberately mixed the rout of the local troops when retreating, and they had already used the miscellaneous army as a prop to replenish their blood.

As the name suggests, it is to remove the minds of the troops; since most of the old units in the past were private troops, once the minds are gone, the troops are basically leaderless and can only be at the mercy of the troops. There are also two kinds of head-pinching methods: civilized and uncivilized, and the civilized one is to use various letters of appointment to promote senior officers and transfer them from idle posts; What is uncivilized is to find a crime, such as military discipline corruption, corruption, ineffective combat and the like (these charges are really not fabricated to a large extent), get rid of the commander-in-chief, and the troops will naturally be digested.

By the end of October 1938, the supreme authorities had instructed the Military Commission to assign more than 18,000 officers of the rank of captain, colonel, and general from the defeated troops, and then transfer all of them to be centrally controlled in the name of study. The so-called "Central Officers Training Corps" in Changsha, Chongqing, and Xi'an alone has more than 200 officers at the rank of lieutenant general and major general. Most of these people had contributed to the Northern Expedition and shed blood, but now they have been sent to the cold palace by the highest authorities.

According to the plan of the highest authorities, Huang Haoran was injured and poisoned and admitted to the hospital, which saved the effort of pinching his head. In the operation to rescue Huang Haoran, the non-central subordinate units of the 25th Group Army performed poorly, which just happened to be a reason to play the topic and become a reason to go to the end.

Huang Haoran's basic troops, such as the 99th Division, the 139th Division, and the 188th Division, only need to strengthen political work and eliminate the internal youth officer groups.

The focus of the Military Command and the Political Department will be on the third category of troops such as the 55th Army, the 27th Army, and the 121st Division of the Sichuan Army in the 100th Army. First, in the name of the officer training corps, some of the original officers were transferred and mixed into the new Whampoa officers. Then, they used the charge of unfavorable operations, abolished the old number, and disorganized the officers and men and dispersed them into the central army. (To be continued.) )