Chapter 46: The mountain rain is coming

4.46 Mountain rain is coming

What is Huang Haoran, the commander of the 99th Division, the fierce enemy of the Japanese generals of the "Shanghai Dispatch Army", the fierce enemy in the minds of---- at the moment?

The answer is that he is being received by Vice Minister Chen. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

On the night of August 21, Vice Chief Chen arrived in Shanghai, and the first thing he did after arriving at General Zhang's headquarters was to take a group of reporters from the Central News Agency to the headquarters of the 99th Division.

The highest authority personally issued a letter of appointment, Vice Minister Chen conferred the title on Huang Haoran, one gold star became two gold stars, and Huang Haoran is now a lieutenant general!

General Zhang also came to the scene, and also brought a military band, and for a while, the magnesium lights flashed wildly, dazzling Huang Haoran!

These reporters want to mold Huang Haoran into a model for young soldiers!

Huang Haoran was very cooperative and delivered an impromptu speech, which won the applause of reporters and colleagues, fortunately Shanghai was in the war zone, so the ceremony was relatively brief, Huang Haoran began to check the dividends brought by this promotion with a few henchmen after sending off Vice Minister Chen and General Zhang.

The Ministry of National Defense appointed Huang Haoran as the commander of the 99th Army, which was specially approved by the highest authorities, and was not linked to the numbers of other units of the Central Army, and at the beginning of the Anti-Japanese War, China only had 191 division-level units, and it was impossible to make up such a large number as the 99th Army in any case.

Vice Commander Chen told Commander Huang in private that this was the preferential treatment of Hao Haoran by the highest authorities, so that the glorious number of 99 could be passed down and the establishment expanded, but the number remained unchanged, and the spirit of the officers and men was still ......

The highest authorities are very fond of using these small means of buying people's hearts, although it is only to determine a simple military rank, and it can also play some different meanings in the hands of the old man.

Huang Haoran naturally made a grateful expression, Vice Minister Chen was very satisfied with Huang Haoran's reaction, he patted Huang Haoran on the shoulder, said a few words of greeting and left.

The unit is upgraded, which means that the business and trade will start to grow, and there will naturally be new guys coming in.

The reason is very simple, Huang Haoran has been promoted to army commander, and the 99th Division has become the 99th Army, so there will naturally be personnel changes, but you have to keep your eyes open and don't let the newcomer occupy the seat.

Huang Haoran, a person who has been detached from low-level interests, is naturally much more noble than his subordinates, and he only cares about how much capital he has in his hands.

The number of the 99th Army was personally set by the highest authorities, but the specific unit structure of the 99th Army is a matter for the Ministry of National Defense and the Ministry of Military Affairs, and General Gu Mosangu is also very worried about the formation of the 99th Army.

The subordinate units of the 99th Army have become a big problem!

Give all the new numbers and let Huang Haoran build his own, now it is impossible to pull up a new team in wartime.

Annexation of other names? and inevitably offend people.

The result of the discussion between General Gu and Vice Minister Chen was a compromise solution, the 99th Army originally had the 99th Division, the main division, and the Ministry of National Defense transferred one division and one brigade to Huang Haoran, and then gave the 99th Army an empty division, so that the past can be explained openly and secretly, and the resistance will be much smaller.

Which division and which brigade to transfer to the 99th Army is also a university question, and the miscellaneous army is the object that the highest authorities have always wanted to annex, but now that the Anti-Japanese War has just begun, if Nanjing makes a big move against the miscellaneous troops, it will inevitably be criticized by the people, so it can only give up this idea.

The basic troops of the Central Army are all behind the big men from all walks of life to take care of them, and it is simply sad to move these troops, and they can only give up.

The remaining choices are some marginal troops in the central army system and the new army established after the start of the Anti-Japanese War, these troops have a shallow foundation and poor equipment, and most of them are some local warlords who have been incorporated by the central army, and it is easy to command and mobilize, and the bigwigs in other central armies will not care too much about the change of command of such troops, and it seems that the vacancies of the 99th Army can only be selected and supplemented from these troops.

So Huang Haoran saw the thing that formed the text in his hand now:

"The 121st Division and the 12th Provisional Brigade of the Army are hereby ordered to be included in the establishment of the 99th Army, and a division-level number is assigned to the 99th Army, which is formed by the 99th Army itself, and the unit number is the 139th Division......"

Huang Haoran had heard of the temporary 12th Brigade, a newly formed unit behind the 10th Brigade, the predecessor of the 99th Division, and now it is under the command of Liu Jianxu, commander of the eastern Zhejiang garrison area.

The 12th Brigade is currently stationed in Chun'an, Zhejiang, and is a unit of former Hunan warlords, with brigade commander Li Guojun under the jurisdiction of 2 regiments, Li Guohong, commander of the 1st Provisional Regiment, and Li Dongsheng, commander of the 2nd Provisional Regiment.

The provisional 12th Brigade is surnamed Li from the brigade commander to the regiment commander, and it can be guessed that this unit has a strong private army color.

However, this 121st division, Huang Haoran is the first time he has heard of it, and he has not seen this number in the Chinese army in the Songhu area, Fan Jie carefully looked through the troop establishment table issued by the Ministry of National Defense and found out that this 121st division is actually a unit of the old Qianjun army, and now it is stationed in Pingxiang, Jiangxi, it seems that this division will not be able to be counted on for a while and a half.

The Guizhou Army was one of the early troops to join the Northern Expedition, and unlike the Sichuan Army and the Yunnan Army, each of which had a complete local military system, the Guizhou Army was only a few "independent" divisions attached to the Central Army.

The supreme authorities have been waiting for an opportunity to solve the problems of the Guizhou army, and deliberately divided the Guizhou army, which has seven divisions, does not have a military-level number, and its equipment is also the worst in the central army, and straw sandals and home-made rifles have become the symbols of the Guizhou army.

The Qianjun is called Huazi in the Central Army!

The 121st Division is a division that has not been reorganized, and there are only three regiments in the whole division, the division commander Wu Jianping, and the commanders of the three infantry regiments are Chang Wenyi of the 659th Regiment, Zhou Wenbin of the 660th Regiment, and Wei Xiling of the 661st Regiment.

Huang Haoran didn't care about the equipment of the 121st Division, from Fan Jie's origin of the 121st Division, Huang Haoran knew that the 121st Division would not have any decent background, he was interested in the combat effectiveness of the Guizhou Army, and several divisions from Guizhou still left some glory in the Anti-Japanese War, so Huang Haoran knew that the 121st Division was still very effective when armed.

The 121st Division, a division of less than 9,000 people, is far away in Jiangxi, and Huang Haoran, the military seat, can actually rely on his 99th Division and the 12th Brigade, which has been ordered to be deployed.

As for the empty number of the 139th Division, Huang Haoran is too lazy to pay attention to it!

Lao Tzu doesn't know how to sprinkle beans into soldiers, where can I find someone to support this empty shelf division?

Huang Haoran asked Fan Jie to use the radio to urge the temporary 12th Brigade to return to Shanghai as soon as possible, he knew that the Japanese were about to arrive in Shanghai at this moment!

On the sea of the Saddle Islands, the commander of the "Shanghai Dispatch Army", Matsui Ishone, finally formulated his battle plan based on the task and what he knew:

"(1) In coordination with the navy, with a strong corps, a strong corps landed near Wusong in the vicinity of Chuansha Town, defeated the enemy in front of him, and then occupied Shanghai and the important area to the north to protect the inhabitants of the empire (in fact, to protect Shanghai as a base of operations).

(2) The landing began at dawn on the 23rd, and then the 11th Division, which landed near Chuansha Town, quickly entered Luodian Town, attacked Jiading, and prepared to advance to Nanxiang and the vicinity of Gujiazhai; The 3rd Division, which landed near Wusong, was to secure the vicinity of Wusong and prepare to advance near Dachang Town. "Attempts to take control of the Beijing-Shanghai railway, cut off Shanghai from Nanjing, encircle the Chinese army in Shanghai and carry out flank attacks.

At the same time, Admiral Matsui Ishine also agreed on a synergistic plan with the Navy:

"(1) The navy coordinated the landing of the army with the main force and made a feint attack at Hangzhou Bay and Qiyakou (about 45 kilometers northwest of Shanghai) in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River.

(2) When the 3rd Division lands, the Special Marine Corps will be used as a landing cover team. ”

After the two divisions of the Japanese army completed their assembly in the Saddle Islands, they began to transfer to small ships in order to facilitate the landing......

Black clouds are pressing down on the city, and the mountain rain is coming!

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