Chapter Twenty-Four: Old Friends in the Trenches
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7.24 Old friends in the trenches
Huang Haoran's troops completed a major expansion in Anqing. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 infoAfter Wang Shankui was promoted to the commander of the 100th Army, Li Yuhe, the former commander of the 539th Regiment, became the second commander of the 139th Division, and the first battle after the 25th Army arrived in the 5th Theater was fought by Li Yuhe with the 139th Division and the 99th Division!
The position of division commander of the 99th Division has now been replaced, and Qian Guoliang, the former commander of the 301st Brigade, has taken over Shen Yuanlong's position.
More than half a year ago, Qian Guoliang and Li Yuhe were only two small regiment commanders in the 99th Division. Now, they have become the commanders of the respective ace divisions of the two main armies of the 25th Army! War is indeed the best way for soldiers to get promoted!
Li Yuhe is going to greet an old friend of his in the defense area of the 139th Division in Meiqiao Township tonight---- Zhang Jing, the current commander of the 189th Division!
In Li Yuhe's opinion, Zhang Jing's luck is dark enough, when Li Yuhe was the commander of the 99th Division, Zhang Jing was already the deputy brigade commander of the 301st Brigade of the 99th Division! Unexpectedly, now that Li Yuhe has become the commander of the 139th Division, Zhang Jing has been transferred to the 189th Division, a newly established fish belly unit!
From brigade commander to division commander, it seems that Zhang Jing has been promoted two levels in a row, but who among the main generals of the 25th Group Army does not know that this 189th Division is not comparable to the 301st Brigade where Zhang Jing served as the brigade commander before!
The 189th Division is purely a product of the 25th Army's recruitment work in Anqing in the later period! Since Huang Haoran re-hung the name of the 99th Army at the recruitment point in Anqing, the originally empty recruit barracks quickly became overcrowded. By the time the 25th Army started from Anqing, there were more than 40,000 recruits in the long marching ranks! The training office of the 25th Group Army, which performed well, exceeded its task! Not only did it make up for the gap in the strength of the combat troops, but in the end, it actually "surplus" a group of new recruits! Later, at the suggestion of Fan Jie and Shen Yuanlong, the originally planned 189th Division was formed in advance.
To put it bluntly, the 189th Division is actually a huge recruit shelter, and among these recruits who have just entered the barracks, the oldest person has only worn a military uniform for ten days! Many people even drove to the 5th theater with the large forces of the 25th Army as soon as they took off their civilian clothes.
Compared with the "big brother" troops of the 99th Division and the 139th Division, the 189th Division is a little brother who is still breastfeeding, and Zhang Jing, the division commander, has a thin family background and even a little pitiful......
According to the establishment, the 189th Division is a four-regiment infantry division. In fact, there were not so many "surplus" recruits in the 25th Army, so the 189th Division was now not fully staffed, with a total strength of about 7,000 people. The weapons and equipment are also cobbled together by the logistics department of the 25th Army, all sorts of things, everything!
Seeing that the quality of the soldiers and weapons and equipment of the 189th Division could not be changed in a short period of time, Shen Yuanlong, commander of the 99th Army, could only hope to find a good division commander for the 189th Division. In the end, Shen Lao Er pulled back and forth, and Zhang Jing became the first commander of the 189th Division!
In order to allow the 189th Division to form its combat effectiveness as soon as possible, Huang Haoran allocated more than 200 veterans and officers of the 189th Division from several other divisions.
The combat styles of the various units of the 25th Group Army are extremely different, their predecessors are local troops and the Central Army, and more than 200 veterans and officers from different backgrounds have completely turned the 189th Division into a hodgepodge!
Zhang Jing's four regiment commanders now, one from the Sichuan Army, one from the Guizhou Army, one from the 1st Army, and one from the 139th Division, plus Zhang Jing himself, who originally belonged to the 99th Division, the composition of the officers of the 189th Division is simply very complicated!
Such a pure new army should not have been pushed into the firing line so quickly, and the reason why Shen Yuanlong was in such a hurry to let Zhang Jing take the 189th Division into battle was to take advantage of the current favorable situation to train and train troops!
Although the Chinese army blocked the advance of the Japanese army, the 5th theater did not have the strength to drive the Japanese back to the south of the Huai River. As a result, China and Japan fell into a positional war.
The 13th Division on the opposite side will attack a number of positions of the 99th Army every day, and the 99th Army will also launch a counterattack on a number of positions of the 13th Division.
In Shen Laoer's eyes, such a battle is an offensive and defensive drill! There is absolutely no need for ace divisions like the 99th and 139th Divisions to waste time on such a battlefield! This kind of low-intensity combat is more suitable for recruits to train their courage. So Shen Lao Er ordered Zhang Jing's 189th Division to drive to the Fangjiagou area to experience the battlefield atmosphere.
Shen Yuanlong's order was understated, but Li Yuhe was worried that these recruits under Zhang Jing would not be able to cope with it!
The 13th Division is also one of the elite army divisions of the Japanese army, and if there is an accident, the 189th Division may collapse! Even if you know that the fish belly in the 189th Division and the 25th Group Army, it will shake morale, right?
Li Yuhe plans to give Zhang Jing a wake-up call! When fighting, take it easy, if you can't withdraw, anyway, there are 99th and 139th divisions behind you! Li Yuhe believes that as long as the 189th Division dies to save face, there is still the ability to retreat decently!
As long as there is no big loss, the commander shouldn't blame the military seat, right?
After waiting in the trench for more than ten minutes, Li Yuhe finally met Zhang Jing! Li Yuhe stepped forward and saluted Zhang Jing, and after Zhang Jing returned the salute, he punched Li Yuhe in the chest with a smile!
The old men of the 99th Division have all stirred the horse spoon in a rice pot, and they have a deep relationship with each other.
Zhang Jing said to Li Yuhe: "Master Li! How can you, an ace teacher, salute me first? Have you forgotten? We've said it before! The officers of the 99th Division are three levels older than others wherever they go! ”
Zhang Jing's words reminded Li Yuhe of the days when these old friends were messing around in Changshu, at that time, the 99th Division was not yet famous in the world, plus Huang Haoran could hide his strength, except for them, the officers within the 99th Division, no one regarded the 99th Division as an elite, once Li Yuhe said to his colleagues at a dinner party after training, and the 99th Division would become the trump card of the Central Army in the future! He asked Division Commander Huang to send a telegram to the highest authorities, asking the Military Commission to order that all officers of the 99th Army should be three levels older than others wherever they go! For this sentence, Zhang Jing and Zhang Guangfu laughed at Li Yuhe.
Now that I heard Zhang Jing make such a joke again, Li Yuhe had a different taste in his heart!
"Travel! Don't make fun of me! When is it! You're my brother too! ”
Don't call me a traveler anymore! Now you are the commander of the 139th Division, and I am also the commander of the 189th Division! You can't call it like you used to....."
Li Yuhe's words made Zhang Jing's heart soft, and Zhang Jing patted Li Yuhe's shoulder vigorously as she spoke. (To be continued, if you want to know what will happen next, please log in to the www.qidian.com, more chapters, support the author, support genuine reading!) (To be continued.) )