Chapter 5: The Sichuan Army Advances

7.5 The Sichuan army was opened

"Commander Pan! This is an order from the Ministry of Military Affairs! Black and white!! Brother, I am by no means deliberately embarrassing Commander Pan! Soldiers, they should obey the orders of the superiors! Our Sichuan army went out of Sichuan to resist the Japanese, and it was under the banner of the government! Now your 23rd Army does not listen to the orders of the Ministry of Military Affairs, what is the difference between this and rebellion? It's the shore to turn around! ”

Pan Wenhua, the commander of the 23rd Army, Zhou Shaoxuan, the commander of the 14th Independent Brigade, Tian Zhongyi, the commander of the 13th Independent Brigade, and Liu Zhaomu, the commander of the 146th Division, could only watch Tang Shizun pretend to perform in front of them without saying a word.

All this is because of the new order issued to the 23rd Army Corps two hours ago, and now Tang Shizun has the military order issued by Minister He in his hand to lead the entire 23rd Group Army to Jiujiang, and Pan Wenhua can really only obey the order. www.biquge.info Before Liu Xiang fell ill, Tang Shizun was the deputy commander of the 23rd Group Army, and in terms of position, Pan Wenhua was Tang Shizun's subordinate.

Pan Wenhua is Liu Xiang's confidant, and he is very shameful about Tang Shizun's behavior of colluding with the highest authorities in private. Originally, Pan Wenhua planned to use Huang Haoran's strength to draw a line between his 23rd Army and Tang Shizun's 21st Army, and after his troops withdrew to Anqing, Pan Wenhua could pull his 23rd Army to the north of the Yangtze River, opposite Tang Shizun's 21st Army across the river, but now the arrival of this order has broken Pan Wenhua's plan!

It is really strange to say that Huang Haoran has made such a great contribution to standing up for the highest authorities in Nanjing, but the commendation order and promotion order of the Military Commission to the Nanjing Garrison have not come to Anqing for a long time. On the contrary, the Military Commission also transferred the Central Army, which originally belonged to Huang Haoran, to the 5th Theater, and yesterday, the 57th Army, which originally belonged to the Northeast Army, was also transferred to the 5th Theater, and now, it is the turn of the 23rd Group Army!

Could it be that the influence of those literati in the rear who attacked and questioned Huang Haoran in the newspapers some time ago has not been eliminated until now? Or is it that the highest authorities are now going to cross the river and tear down the bridge? Looking at the high-spirited Tang Shizun, Pan Wenhua's heart suddenly became very bottomless!

The fate of the withdrawal of the 23rd Army to Jiujiang is obvious! The supreme authorities have long coveted Sichuan, and now taking the opportunity of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the Military Commission will certainly demand that the Sichuan Army further reduce its strength and wipe out all the Sichuan troops that went out of Sichuan to resist Japanese aggression on the battlefield of resistance against Japan.

Some people say that Liu Xiang's stomach bleeding was strange as soon as he came out of Sichuan, and it was the highest authorities who poisoned Liu Xiang, the special team of the military command! Although Pan Wenhua can't find any evidence now, there is no wind and no waves? For this rumor, Pan Wenhua has believed eighty percent!

Pan Wenhua is a hundred unwilling to withdraw to Jiujiang in his heart!

Both he and his 23rd Army need a reason for disobedience!

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Dalongshan Town, the headquarters of the 99th Army.

Huang Haoran's 99th Army suffered heavy losses on the battlefield of Nanjing, with the casualties of the two main divisions, the 99th Division and the 139th Division, both exceeding 40%; The situation of the 121st Division and the 47th Independent Brigade was even more serious, with Wu Jianping's 121st Division suffering more than half of the casualties, and Xie Wendong's Independent 47th Brigade had less than 800 men left, barely holding on to its number. Several units directly under the military headquarters were also damaged, and the engineer regiment, the special service battalion, and the guard battalion were all thrown into the Nanjing battlefield by Huang Haoran, and the casualty ratio exceeded 20 percent.

After the troops withdrew to Anqing, the top priority of the 99th Army was to replenish the troops and retrain the troops! With the experience of two previous expansions from brigade to division and from division to army, Huang Haoran had a good understanding of Fan Jie and Feng Haoran. Richie is relieved!

After throwing all these things to Fan Jie and Feng. After Ritchie's German advisory group, Huang Haoran began to cultivate a relationship with the two Soviet advisers. If it weren't for Xu Xinghua, chief of the secret service department, who had given more full consideration and had arranged for manpower to block all possible ways of leaking secrets earlier, I am afraid that the "military unification" and the "central unification" would have sent people to Anqing to talk to Huang Haoran about his position.

The reason why Huang Haoran resolutely leaned to the side of the Soviet advisers was for his reasons, entering 1938, China's War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression would face an unprecedented period of difficulty!

The British were already preoccupied with the Germans' provocations, and the United States across the Pacific was still pursuing their self-righteous isolationist policies. The Japanese sank a US warship on the Yangtze River, and the US Government, after weighing the pros and cons, actually threw out a decision to stop the export of weapons and equipment to China and Japan at the same time.

This seems to be a very fair way for the Yankees, but in fact it is an out-and-out unequal treaty!

Japan has a strong industrial base, while China's poor modern industry has basically been paralyzed by the War of Resistance Against Japan, and the US government has not included military supplies such as steel, rubber, and oil in the embargoed list, which has led to the fact that the decision made by the United States now has caused far more harm to China than to Japan!

In fact, Japan, which has a strong industrial manufacturing capacity, can still obtain a steady stream of war materials from the United States, and then process them into weapons and equipment needed by the army; However, China not only could not buy the weapons and equipment that was most urgently needed in the war of resistance, but even if it bought the raw materials that the United States had openly supplied, it did not have enough production capacity to convert them into weapons that could be used.

I really don't know if the Americans are punishing Japan or China!

For a long time to come, the US trade with China and trade with Japan will become even more unbalanced. The Chinese government has lost the channel to import weapons from the Western world, which means that the 99th Army can only rely on smuggling if it wants to obtain weapons produced in Britain and the United States!

The 99th Army is no longer a small business when Huang Haoran started, from division to army, and then to possible larger combat units in the future, it is impossible to meet the needs of the troops by relying on Huang Haoran to smuggle American-style equipment out of his own pocket.

The transfer of the Ministry of Military Affairs will be the main way for the 99th Army to obtain weapons in the future!

If you want to obtain a considerable amount of imported equipment in a short period of time to narrow the gap between the 99th Army and the Japanese army, the only realistic way is to start with "Soviet aid"!

Huang Haoran hoped that Barakov and Bodinov could act as a bridge between the 99th Army and the Soviet ambassadors, and his ultimate purpose in doing so was nothing more than to get a piece of the pie in a large number of Soviet aid!

Since you want to get benefits from the Soviets, you have to learn to do what they like, Huang Haoran asked Xu Zilong to return to his old business, and took the officers and soldiers of the special battalion to collect strong liquor everywhere in Anqing City, and set friendships on the wine table to talk about business, although this method is a bit old-fashioned, but it is really very effective for Lao Maozi!

Of course, Huang Haoran's alcohol consumption is not the opponent of Balakov and Bodinov, the two Soviet wine barrels, but fortunately, his guards are very clever and always try to help Huang Haoran mix water into the wine bottle.

Barakov and Bodinov drank, Huang Haoran drank water, and in the end, it was only the Soviets who lay under the table.

If you want to eat pancakes, you have to go around the pot! As long as Balakov and Bodinov, the two old hairy men, can bring a lot of Soviet aid to the 99th Army, Huang Haoran is willing to soak them with good liquor!

After the two Soviet advisers, Balakov and Bodinov, drank dozens of catties of good wine, the effect that Huang Haoran had been looking forward to finally appeared!

Jiang Baili from Wuhan told him in a telegram to Huang Haoran that the Soviet ambassador had mentioned Huang Haoran and his 99th Army many times in front of the highest authorities in the past few days, and that the Soviet government hoped that their aid to China could be provided to the real Chinese elite! The supreme authorities were very happy that Huang Haoran's prestige could reach the ears of the Soviets, after all, the 99th Army was the Central Army, and the Soviet ambassador's praise of Huang Haoran's bravery and good fighting was tantamount to praising the supreme authorities' discernment!

Huang Haoran has reason to believe that in the near future, his troops will receive a surprise from a polar bear!

In the early days of the Anti-Japanese War, the polar bear gave the Chinese government a lot of good things, 115 howitzers, T-26 tanks, 76mm anti-aircraft guns, these are all high-end goods that Huang Haoran can't buy back with money!

As long as you get some back, you can make the combat effectiveness of the 99th Army increase a lot!

What's more, these things don't need Huang Haoran to pay out of his own pocket!

Whenever he thinks of such a business, Huang Haoran can't help but drool......

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Since the artillery regiment rushed from Jiujiang to Anqing to return to construction, Huang Haoran would be woken up from his sleep every morning by the rumbling sound of artillery!

Shi Jincai's artillery regiment starts shooting training every day on time like an alarm clock, and sometimes Huang Haoran really wants to lock up Shi Jincai for a few days!

Of course, it's just a matter of thinking about it......

Because Huang Haoran's previous excellent performance in Nanjing made the 99th Army the most special unit in the Central Army, the officers in charge of logistics of the Ministry of Military Affairs did not dare to deduct supplies to the 99th Army. With the artillery shells allocated by the Ministry of Military Affairs and the large number of private goods bought back by Wang Huanzhi relying on his wild road, Shi Jincai's artillery regiment has been tossing and turning on the shooting range very happily in the past few days!

Listening to these somewhat chaotic cannon sounds, Huang Haoran felt as if he had returned to Changshu City before the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, and Shi Jincai at that time also led his artillerymen to train on the shooting range, with a posture of not giving up if Huang Haoran's pockets were squeezed dry!

Shi Jincai's artillery regiment can be regarded as an outlier in the 99th Army! From Shanghai to Changshu, and then from Changshu to Nanjing! The overall strength of the artillery regiment has not only not decreased, but has become stronger!

Big fish eat small fish, this is the reason why Shi Jincai's artillery regiment can continue to grow despite continuous fighting!

Under the instruction of Huang Haoran, Shi Jincai's artillery regiment has been constantly annexing a small group of scattered artillery since the beginning of the Songhu Anti-Japanese War, and after retreating to Nanjing, Huang Haoran used the convenience of his authority to let Shi Jincai eat several artillery battalions directly under the city defense headquarters step by step!

This frenzied annexation of small artillery units has also brought some side effects to Shi Jincai's artillery regiment, first of all, the types of artillery have become very complicated, just 75 mm caliber mountain artillery, the 99 Army artillery regiment now has three categories: British, legal and Japanese, these guns are not only different from the old and new, but also the parts and shells of each other can not be used, plus the original artillery using these artillery has its own set of tactics, Shi Jincai's artillery regiment is in chaos for a while!

When he was in Jiujiang, due to the lack of shells, Shi Jincai could only take these artillerymen to talk on paper first, and simply design and compile according to the type and caliber of the artillery. A salvo of artillery of the same caliber can be hit by a distance of several hundred meters!

No wonder Shi Jincai will go crazy and engage in live-fire training!

A good gunner, like a sharpshooter, is fed with ammunition! The difference is that the ammunition used by the artillery is much more expensive!

The supplies of the Ministry of Military Affairs were quickly exhausted by Shi Jincai, and now every explosion on the side of the artillery regiment is Huang Haoran's real money! Watching Shi Jincai's artillery regiment burn money like crazy every day, Huang Haoran still has to slap and applaud! This depressed energy is gone!

"Grandma's! Today is another big military training! Give Lao Tzu back to shoot in groups! Shi Jincai, you loser! Sooner or later, Lao Tzu will find trouble with you! ”

Huang Haoran swore while spitting the mouthwash in his mouth to the ground, and the two guards standing behind him listened with black lines on their faces.

Isn't it because the artillery regiment said a word to Shi Jincai to improve the shooting accuracy of the artillery to a good level within ten days? Why does it seem that the military seat has forgotten what he said now?

"Towel!"

"Yes!"

Huang Haoran's interruption made the two guards stop their eye contact, and the one on the left hurriedly handed over the steaming hand towel, Huang Haoran took the hand towel and wiped it vigorously on his face, and then threw it to the guard standing on the right side.

It feels so good to have someone to serve you!

Huang Haoran stretched comfortably! At the end, another sentence broke out: "The cannon of the dog day!" ”

Shi Jincai felt a chill on his back on the artillery range......

"Big brother! Something is wrong with the 23rd Army! The 532nd regiment said that Pan Wenhua seemed to be going to be pulled! Tang Shizun's 21st Army is also packing up! Didn't you say that the 23rd Army would come with us? The Sichuan army is now slipping away without saying hello, are these Sichuan Yankees going to play tricks? ”

There are really not many people who dare to shout so loudly and break into Huang Haoran's bedroom, but there is only one person among these people who can call Huang Haoran the eldest brother, and that is Shen Lao Er! Wang Huanzhi doesn't have such a good voice as him!

"What's the hurry! Is the situation clear? Where is the 23rd Legion going? Whose command was it? It is impossible for the Sichuan army to run around on their own without an order, and they are afraid that the highest authorities will not give them enough small shoes? ”

Shen Laoer's words surprised Huang Haoran, Jiang Baili had already told Huang Haoran that he would soon get a new group army number, and in Huang Haoran's plan, the 23rd Army, the Sichuan Army, was the object he was going to be ready to absorb.

Pan Wenhua took the initiative to lean towards the 99th Army, and now he is leading the troops to suddenly pull out, what does this mean?

The disapproval of the highest authorities to the Sichuan Army is already a semi-public matter, could it be that Pan Wenhua has found a better backer than the 99th Army? But soon Huang Haoran overturned this assumption!

In addition to returning to Sichuan, Pan Wenhua has no better choice than to join the new group army that Huang Haoran is about to form! Liu Xiang's illness has reached the final stage, and as soon as this Sichuan bigwig dies, the highest authorities no longer have any worries about attacking the army!

Knowing that there is no better way out, how can Pan Wenhua cut himself off now?

There must be an article in this!

"Throne! The latest order of the Ministry of Military Affairs! The 23rd Army is going to Jiujiang!"

A voice came in from the door, and this time the person who spoke was Fan Jie, Wang Huanzhi, Wang Shankui and Xie Wendong were standing behind Fan Jie!

As soon as Huang Haoran saw that all the members of his old team had arrived, he suddenly realized in his heart:

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