"Wu Huawen?" Meng Xiang couldn't help but have a toothache when he heard this.

Although he was a little white about the military in his previous life, he remembered all kinds of gossip in his head. Wu Huawen's name naturally knows him, and he has changed hands four times in his life. Every time, I worked hard and performed well. When he took refuge in the no-man's land, he was active when he took refuge in the Central Army, and after the uprising, he was the first to attack the presidential palace in Nanjing.

How can such a person be used with confidence? If there is a bad pool, one move is wrong, and the whole game will be lost.

"Yes!" Meng Xiang hesitated in his heart for a long time, and finally decided. The strength of the elite pistol brigade in Han Fuyu's hands alone is enough to make people unbearable to give up. When the time comes, a Wu Huawen can be stared to death with a few clone warriors.

Pharmacist Tang didn't say anything beside him, but after seeing that Meng Xiang finally told Zhanshutang about the conditions provided to the pistol brigade, he still nodded slightly with relief.

Meng Xiang directly threw out the compilation of a 10,000-person brigade, so that Zhanshutang couldn't help but secretly appreciate it in his heart.

The salary of the vanguard army is also higher than that of others.

As long as a recruit is qualified to become a private, he will be paid 10 yuan from the ocean.

Private 1st Class mentions $15; 20 yuan for a private; The corporal's salary is 30 oceans; $40 for sergeant; $50 for sergeant; $100 for second lieutenant; Lieutenant $130; Captain $160; $200 for majors; Lieutenant Colonel 300 yuan; Colonel 500 yuan; Major General 1,000 yuan; Zhanshutang is the rank of lieutenant general, and Meng Xiang is also refreshing, directly a military salary of 2,000 yuan.

You know, this is a real ocean. This amount may not be much for high-level officers who spend a lot of favors, but it is very affordable for middle- and lower-level officers and soldiers, especially now that it is a troubled time, and the ocean is still safer.

Although the central government had banned the use of silver dollars in 35 years, the vanguard army directly implemented metal military tickets in the army.

The one-yuan military ticket weighed 12 grams, and the transaction price was half of Yuan Datou's. Two one-dollar vanguard military tickets can be exchanged for an ocean. It's also a great deal.

Even copper rounds and copper are genuine brass. As soon as the military ticket was introduced in early March, the people in the base areas accepted the new money. Since it can be spent and exchanged at the Taiping Bank, the soldiers generally accepted this kind of military ticket.

In order to prevent the devils from using the fiat currency of the fallen places to exchange metal military tickets, as well as the impact of external fiat currency on the military tickets in the base areas, it is forbidden to exchange fiat currency for military tickets on the ground, and the fiat currency is also circulating as usual. But over time, the shrewd people became aware of the benefits of military tickets and the instability of fiat currency. So they handed over the fiat currency to some special purchasing groups and went to the rear to spend shopping.

Military tickets can be used as oceans, and the same is hard currency.

This is also one of the reasons why Zhanshutang couldn't bear the instigation of his subordinates, gave up following Sun Tongxuan, and defected to the vanguard army under the pretext of losing too many troops. For those officers at the rank of lieutenant, this money can be said to be stable. For soldiers, these salaries are more than enough to spend. I heard that the vanguard army never withheld silver.

He believed that Wu Huawen would also have a choice, and a few days ago he was still complaining to himself that he would never follow Lao Jiang. Except for Lao Jiang's generous conditions, other forces such as the Gui family will never be able to get such a good treatment.

But what he didn't expect was that when he contacted Wu Huawen again, Wu Huawen had already become the commander of the Shandong Security First Division appointed by the Central Army. There are some coincidences and deviations in history, Wu Huawen was just sent away by Lao Jiang's reading brigade, but now that there is a vanguard army, Wu Huawen's price increase has also risen.

For more than a month, the vanguard army and the Central Army have been co-opting and infiltrating Han Fuyu's troops.

As soon as Han Fuyu died, Lao Jiang put the name of the Third Army on Yu Xuezhong's head, which disappointed Meng Xiang, who had always looked forward to it and was moving around, but the title of a deputy commander-in-chief was better than nothing.

Sun Tongxuan was also named deputy commander-in-chief by Lao Jiang, and Cao Fulin was the commander-in-chief of the former enemy.

After spending a few days at the headquarters of the Third Army, Yu Xuezhong left. Without a foundation, he can't face the posture of the old Korean army reaching out for money.

Sun Tongxuan was directly self-reliant and watched coldly. Although he lost the 81st Division, the old foundation of the main 20th Division did not move. And with the death of Han Fuyu, his strength with the highest prestige has increased even more, and in terms of overall strength, he is still the strongest.

Although he had some opinions about the vanguard army, he had more opinions about Lao Jiang because of Lao Han's affairs.

Cao Fulin and Gu Liangmin had a conflict. The two were already at odds, and the Yellow River River Defense and Tai'an blocked the two battles, and the two accused each other even more. As soon as Han Fuyu died, the contradiction between the two broke out completely. In order to win over the powerful Cao Fulin, Sun Tongxuan pulled a biased battle. Gu Liangmin was angry, and under the persuasion of He Siyuan, he directly took refuge in the vanguard army.

At the time of the exhibition hall, Gu Liangmin's team was also on the way to this side.

Meng Xiang didn't care much about his team of only four or five thousand people left, what he needed was the hat of the 56th Army on Gu Liangmin's head. Although Gu Liangmin's 56th Army only had a 22nd division, it had a name.

This time, Zhanshutang came to defect, and he was directly arranged in the 56th Army.

Meng Xiang, the deputy commander-in-chief, directly manages the 56th Army, and not many people say this, not to mention that Gu Liangmin is still holding the position of army commander.

After Cao Fulin was the first to throw himself at Lao Jiang, although Li Hanzhang, who still belonged to Cao Fulin's 55th Division of the 74th Army, chose to watch from the sidelines and did not follow Cao Fulin directly. has not expressed his position, and has started the idea of making a price to be sold.

In general, Lao Han's team was more biased towards Lao Jiang, and the vanguard army only got a few establishments, but this was what made Meng Xiang happy. By this time, the vanguard army had expanded to 100,000 men. Staffing is a big problem.

"Commander Meng, we just came alone, and we didn't bring anything!" Fu Jianheng, the commander of the Second Artillery Regiment of Reading Force, said with some shame. Their guns were all detained in the Central Army. Xie Shijie of the first group followed Sun Tongxuan directly. However, under the persuasion of Gu Liangmin and Zhanshutang, he threw himself into the vanguard.

"It doesn't matter. Welcome to the anti-Japanese war family of the vanguard army! Meng Xiang said with a smile. He really didn't care about Han Fuyu's cannon, he was only short of people now. Also coming was Zhou Zunshi, the commander of the heavy mortar regiment, who also came empty-handed. It's simply impossible to come out with a cannon. He threw empty-handed, and others didn't care too much.

Kong Ci's artillery brigade has now been promoted to a divisional level, so two regiment commanders have been arranged.

"No wonder people don't care! Look at these cannons, our cannons don't look at them at all! Zhou Zunshi couldn't help but smack his tongue when he saw the 36 M1938 120mm mortars in the new mortar regiment.

In fact, he didn't know that if it weren't for the fact that the price of these new guns was a little higher, Meng Xiang would definitely be able to increase it ten times more in one go. In the case of limited production time, it is also cost-effective to spend a little more money on better equipment. The classic of the Soviet Russian M1938 120mm mortar, Meng Xiang has also heard of it, and directly set the large-caliber mortar as this. Several large-caliber guns made in Germany before World War II were slightly inferior in terms of weight and range, and Meng Xiang did not have many options, so he went directly to the M1938 type.

"yes!" Fu Jianheng also sighed, he just saw the 48 howitzers with the smallest caliber of 105 mm in his new artillery regiment, and thought about the 12 75 mountain guns in his original regiment, which were directly not at the same level.

"We've come to the right place! It's a pleasure to bombard the little devils with these cannons! He patted Zhou Zunshi on the shoulder and said, they had long heard that there were heavy artillery in the vanguard army, and after seeing the 12 203 mm heavy guns in the first heavy artillery regiment in the artillery division, their hearts were shocked.

"Yin Xuan, you're here!" He Siyuan held Li Shuchun's hand tightly.

As soon as Han Fuyu died, his subordinates were scattered, and there were not many people around Li Shuchun, who had always been the chief of staff of Old Han, to follow. Because of Li Shuchun's loyalty to Lao Han, Lao Jiang also had some scruples about him, and gave him the position of a member of the Provincial Political Axe Committee and Director of the Civil Affairs Department. At this time, in addition to the large tract of land in the hands of the vanguard army, Shandong was left with only scattered forces and territories occupied by devils. In fact, the director of the Civil Affairs Department is also in name only.

Instead, he was given the title of director of the Luxi Administration, so that he could master part of his military strength. But there is no territory, no money, no guns and no people, so in this case, they can only fight guerrillas. In addition, Lu Southwest and Lu Northwest have Shen Honglie and Fan Zhuxian respectively, and he has done nothing for a month.

He Siyuan's persuasion gave him hope.

At this time in Shandong, in addition to the vanguard army, there were more than 100,000 people of all kinds.

The 41st Division of the Vanguard Army swept all the way through Yinan County and stopped. To the south was Shi Yousan's 60th Army, which was sent by Lao Jiang in advance, and had already occupied a large area north of Linyi County.

It turned out that Shen Honglie, who was guarding Luzhong in history, did not move away after setting up a provincial political axe in southwest Lu because of the factor of the vanguard army. plus Fan Zhuxian, who was stationed in the northwest of Lu and did not retreat. These are the three major forces in Shandong in the original history.

But at this time, with the emergence of the vanguard army, the vanguard army has become the largest force in Shandong. Although the vanguard army is more eye-catching, it is the one that Li Shuchun admires the most. He has served as Han Fuyu's chief of staff for a long time, and he still has a little vision. Hearing that the vanguard army is governing the people's livelihood in the chassis, he has been engaged in civil affairs in recent years, and he has experienced the general trend of the vanguard army.

"If there is no Yuekou, the vanguard army will definitely be the new overlord of Shandong. Can you sit idly by? ”