Chapter Eighty-Nine: The Eve of the War
The next day, after explaining all the things in the division, Liu Hua and Guan Xiangying rushed to the central station with a guard company, and when they arrived at the central station, it was already noon, and there were many war horses tied to the door, and there were also many guards patrolling.
"Commander, it seems that the scale of this meeting is not small! I heard that the Central Committee and the Kuomintang have already discussed the issue of the reorganization of the troops, but today it will not be the issue of the reorganization of the troops! Political Commissar Guan Xiangying looked at the bustling crowd at the door and said, Liu Hua smiled silently, nodded, and answered.
"Chief, please hand over your pistol." The guards at the door stopped Liu Hua and Guan Xiangying, who wanted to enter the door. The two smiled, handed over their pistols and signed their names, and walked into the conference room. At this time, half of the seats in the conference room of Nuoda were already occupied, and Liu Hua and Guan Xiangying found their seats. Looking around, there were few familiar faces. Seeing Liu Hua's eyes looking around, the political commissar hurriedly reminded, "Division commander, many of the cadres here are division commanders and political commissars of various regiments, many of whom you don't know, I will help you introduce them after the meeting." ”
Liu Hua nodded. Just when Liu Hua was talking to the political commissar, the conference room was already full of people, and when the door was opened again, the lively conference room was quiet in an instant, and he came down, [***], Vice Chairman Zhou, Commander-in-Chief Zhu, and Chief of Staff Liu walked onto the rostrum. The conference room immediately burst into applause.
The chairman stood up and waved his hand. "Comrades, there is a reason why we have called you from your posts for a meeting today, first of all, to congratulate our Vice Chairman Zhou on the certain results achieved in the negotiations with the Kuomintang Party, and that we, the Red Army, have decided to cooperate with the Kuomintang again in order to respond to the call of the people of the whole country to carry out the all-people war of resistance." Before the change was finished, the conference room quarreled again, some for and again
"Comrades, comrades, I know that your team has a very prejudiced cooperation with the Kuomintang, to be honest, I don't want to, just so many comrades-in-arms sacrificed for us, I don't want to, but now I have already fought at home, if we continue to fight, then we will lose the country, then we will all be sinners of the nation, sinners of the country, now I can give you a statement, now in order to resist the Yue, we have been changed to the National Revolutionary Army, but we have our own autonomy, and after defeating Yue himself in the future, Our chairman gave a long explanation, and the faces of those indignant cadres improved.
"Next, Chief of Staff Liu Bocheng will announce the order for the reorganization of the troops." Vice Chairman Zhou stood up and said.
"According to the discussion of the Military Commission, now the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army is reorganized in a unified manner, and the future combat sequence is the Eighth Army of the National Revolutionary Army, the commander of the army, Commander-in-Chief Zhu De, deputy commander, Comrade Peng Dehuai, under the jurisdiction of three divisions, respectively, the 115th Division, the division commander, * Half an hour has passed, the chief of staff breathed a sigh of relief and sat down, however, the conference room is still silent, everyone thinks about their own troops, but at this time Liu Hua's heart is very excited, the commander of the 120th Division's Reading Brigade, the brigade has a total of 8,500 people, Political Commissar Guan Xiangying and Chief of Staff Li Qing have three main regiments, a recruit regiment, a baggage battalion, an artillery battalion, a reconnaissance battalion, a guard battalion, a teaching team, a communications company, a cavalry company, and a sniper company
Hearing such an establishment, Liu Hua couldn't help but secretly laugh, you must know that the current more than 8,000 people, if they know the history, after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, they can at least increase tenfold, and at least he will be the commander of the column, hehe, at least a general
Just when Liu Hua was in Yiyin, the political commissar pushed himself, it turned out that the meeting was over, and the two of them were the last to leave the venue.
Division, what are you laughing at, look at your appearance, you must know that you are demoted now. The political commissar said depressedly.
"Hehe, commissar, really? I don't think, if you look at other division commanders, there are a few who are now brigade commanders, hehe, and also, we are a reading brigade with great autonomy, that is, in the future, we can not be controlled by personnel on the battlefield of resistance against Japan, and we can expand a large number of troops, aren't so many cadres in our hands idle, you think about it, we have earned. Liu Hua explained with a smile.
"Let's go, don't think about it, Mr. He is greeting us, it is estimated that our 120th Division will also hold a short meeting, it is estimated that we are going to bleed." Liu Hua pulled the political commissar who was in a daze.
"Liu Hua, Brigade Commander Liu, hehe, here, several cadres of our 120th Division are holding a short meeting, on the issue of troop establishment and weapon allocation, I estimate that we will soon go to the battlefield, we can't let the soldiers hold rifles without bullets or go to the battlefield empty-handed!" Seeing Liu Hua and Guan Xiangying walking into the conference room, Mr. He said.
"Mr. He, how is the situation of the 358 and 359 brigades now!" Liu Hua asked when he saw Mr. He's frown. Now the heavy weapons of the troops are almost gone, they are all lost when crossing the grass and climbing the snowy mountains, the mountain artillery company you sent to the headquarters at that time was also buried on the spot because there was no ammunition, and I don't know when I will be able to take it out, there are still some heavy machine guns and mortars, but there are very few, and the bullets are estimated to be about 30 rounds per soldier, we have so many family backgrounds, what will we do on the battlefield in the future! After saying that, everyone in the venue frowned.
Mr. He, our brigade still has some ammunition in storage, so I will send a telegram tomorrow and ask the chief of staff to ask the baggage battalion to send some over, which should be able to be adjusted. At this time, Liu Hua can only help so much.
"How many," Mr. He asked eagerly.
Liu Hua thought for a moment and said, "6 mountain guns, 24 mortars, 36 heavy machine guns, 150 shells each, 3,000 heavy machine gun shells, 300,000 bullets, that's all I have." “
"Okay, okay, Liu Hua, it's really good, I really didn't expect you to have so much ammunition, hehe, I took these things. : Mr. He said with a smile, his eyes almost narrowing into a slit.
In this way, Liu Hua returned to the division headquarters with a depressed political commissar and prepared to reorganize the whole army, but there is almost no need to reorganize the current 13th Division, because the reorganization task has been completed half a year ago, and what needs to be done now is to compress the heavy fire regiment into an artillery battalion, and the weapons of each regiment are neatly equipped, ready to open the box and resist the battlefield at any time.
Time passed day by day, and the day of July 7th was approaching, and Liu Hua did not look north. "Brigade commander, what are you looking at, suppressing your uncertainty these days." Due to the previous reorganization of the 13th Division, which has now become a brigade, that is, Liu Hua has been demoted, so soon the troops resumed training, and Liu Hua and the political commissar had very little to do.
"It's nothing, I'm wondering when we're going to fight the battlefield." Liu Hua responded to the water's edge.
"Look at your urgency, oh now the morale of the troops is very high, I also want to hurry up and drive to the battlefield of resistance, so that I can see the devil who is armed to the teeth in your eyes." The commissar replied with a smile. "It's coming, it's coming!" Said to himself.