Volume 5 Heavy Tree History Chapter 836 Western Regions
It doesn't matter if you are drunk, you have been drunk for two days, and when Wang Maoru came to her senses, the airship had already crossed to Yining and was about to enter Taixi Province. The White Tiger Regiment of the Western Regions Military Region has five divisions and regiments, namely the 3rd, 10th, 16th, 31st, and 32nd divisions, as well as four armed police brigades and 14 reserve regiments, with a total strength of 150,000 troops.
The 3rd and 10th Divisions of the White Tiger Regiment are the absolute elite units of the regiment, and usually the 3rd Division is stationed in Almaty, and the 10th Division will go out to fight, while the 10th Division will return to Almaty to rest and recuperate, which means that the 3rd Division will fight. The 16th Division is a cavalry division with two cavalry brigades, with a number of 15,000 people, including 12,000 combat surprise soldiers, and it is also the unanimous decisive force in the hands of Ren Yuanxing.
The 16th Division was mainly Turkic, and later absorbed Mongols, Kazakhs, Tajiks, Uyghurs (now Uyghurs, known as Uyghurs in the Republic of China), Hui, Han Chinese, and even a considerable number of Persians and Indians. This strange cavalry unit was brave and good at fighting, and was not afraid of death, and even allowed these people to show off by cutting off the enemy's head in battle. In addition to the unified configuration of Minjiu rifles and C2 submachine guns, some of them got a few small axes, some got hammers, and some got throwing knives.
Wang Maoru asked Ren Yuanxing how the soldiers of this army were so complicated, and how he managed it, Ren Yuanxing smiled and said that this army was as murderous as its life, and where it was put to suffer, so it was directly sent to the front line to fight. Now that a steady stream of Han immigrants and reclamation troops are being sent to the rear, he has gradually adjusted the racial ratio of the 16th Cavalry Division. But the fighting style of fighting without fear of death seems to have been settled, and he can't change it. Wang Maoru smiled and said it's okay, it's okay. As long as you are not greedy for life and afraid of death, it is better not to be afraid of death.
The 31st Division and the 32nd Division were specially increased by Wang Maoru after the reorganization of the White Tiger Regiment in order to avoid a decrease in troops. The combat effectiveness of these two divisions was not comparable to that of the first three divisions, but the long-term struggle against barbarians, tribesmen, religious elements, as well as Soviet Russian guerrillas, Tsarist nationalists, and the armed forces of the Western Regions against the central government made these two divisions extremely brave. War is the best way to train the army. Out of the most dangerous armies of the Western Regions, even the second-line army is far more powerful than the comfortable first-line troops.
The four armed police brigades are located in several large cities in the Western Regions and play a defensive role. They are the guard troops and basically do not participate in the fight against the bandits.
The nearly 40,000 people of the 14 reserve regiments were redundant soldiers from all over the country, and they were all sent to the Western Regions with their families. They were reluctant to come to the Western Regions, which was far away from their homeland in the Central Plains. All around is danger. Who would want to come here. But they were soldiers, and they could not disobey military orders without permission, and they were not allowed to come with their families. When they crossed the Tianshan Mountains, they found that there was such a fertile soil here in the Western Regions, and Ren Yuanxing's policy to them was that each family had two hundred acres of land and four cows, and if you did it, you could also apply for one hundred acres, all of which were free government support.
Everyone in the Chinese wants to be a landlord, and 300 acres of land is unthinkable in their hometown. Here, everyone doesn't need to pay anything, and they get 300 acres of fertile land and four cows. Who is it who doesn't want to stay? These people were also issued with guns, which were E1S rifles that had been eliminated by the Wehrmacht, and the bullets could be used in conjunction with the Minjiu rifle to protect themselves. When the enemy guerrillas invaded, the reserve regiment was immediately transformed into a combat corps and accepted the unified command of the White Tiger Regiment. Of course, these fourteen corps were light infantry regiments, and each fighter was armed with bayonets in addition to rifles, submachine guns, machine guns and grenades. Everyone who came to the Western Regions had to regain the alert, courageous, and warlike state of the Han people 2,000 years ago, because in the Western Regions, once the Han people who were inferior in numbers were weak, the rule of the Western Regions would be immediately ended. And the weak Han people did not live more than three years here, either by the enemy, or by their comrades-in-arms condemned to suicide, or even unable to stand the tense atmosphere of being ready to fight and went crazy.
After Wang Maoru's old rival and old friend Xu Shuzheng was sent to the Western Regions by Wang Maoru, he participated in and commanded more than 30 battles as a regiment commander, and he was very heroic, and he now holds the position of commander of the 94th Brigade. Wang Maoru did not erase Xu Shuzheng's merits because of his contradictions with himself, and even Xu Shuzheng himself was surprised that Wang Maoru would promote him to major general of the National Defense Force because of his military exploits. Xu Shuzheng was originally a Beiyang general, but after being assigned to the Western Regions, he dropped four levels and became a colonel of the National Defense Army, and was promoted to brigadier general and later major general because of his accumulated military merits. And Xu Shuzheng felt that he finally knew the reason why Wang Maoru defeated him, in Wang Maoru's army, if an officer wants to be promoted, there is only one way to go and make war achievements. Those who do not make military achievements will not be promoted until they die in the army. Xu Shuzheng originally came to the Western Regions with the determination to die, but sometimes people are like this, the more you want to die, the more you can't die, the more Xu Shuzheng wants to die, the happier he is, and the result is that he was promoted from regiment commander to brigade commander within two years.
But Xu Shuzheng still has a knot in his heart, he doesn't want to see Wang Maoru, Wang Maoru was originally his subordinate, and now he is Wang Maoru's subordinate, and it is very embarrassing to meet again. The so-called success and defeat of the king, but Xu Shuzheng, who was arrogant in his heart, was unwilling to bow to Wang Maoru, so he took two regiments to Tashkent to suppress the local ethnic resistance armed forces under the pretext of patrolling.
The troops now resting in Almaty are the 10th Division, the predecessor of the 10th Division was the Kyrgyzstan Army, and up to now the 10th Division has also accounted for about half of the Jilin soldiers. Among the three eastern provinces, the people of Liaoning fought thieves, the people of Heilongjiang fought fiercely, and the people of Jilin were characterized by resilience. The people of Liaoning have a fast brain, and they love to use tactics in marching and fighting, while the people of Heilongjiang are the most pioneering part of the Han people because nearly half of them are not ethnic minorities, and they are also affected by ethnic minorities in their lives in Hei Province, and they are short-tempered and anxious, and they are brave and fearless when they fight, but they often suffer the most casualties after victory. On the contrary, the people of Jilin are very resilient, and they seem to be very soft when they fight, but they just can't eat it, and in the end, they are exhausted and let the Jilin army eat it in one bite.
Therefore, the 10th Division with the Ji Army as the team is also very difficult, and it is called "uncooked beef tendon" by the rebels in the Western Regions. Now the commander of the 10th Division is Wang Maoru's old subordinate Qiao Sanbang, of course, in addition to Qiao Sanbang, who served as a brigade commander when he was once the commander of the Guards Regiment, there is also a person he relies on very much to help him, and there is his deputy Chief of Staff Hou Dingxian.
Hou Dingxian is a native of Hengyang, Hunan, in his words, he was born to watch the people of Hunan and the countryside fight bravely, in the Hunan border, there has never been a shortage of wars, since 70 years ago Shi Dakai took the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom to the Republic of China after several Hunan wars, Hunan has not stopped, during which there was also the White Lotus uprising and so on. Moreover, there are many ethnic groups in Hunan, and they are all brave Miao tribes of mountainous ethnic minorities, ethnic battles, clan heir battles, and in the Republic of China, they have fought for ten years in a row, and the Hunan people have become fine in war. Hou Dingxian originally studied at Hunan Normal College, and later went north to national defense, where he studied in the Infantry Command Section at the Yakeshi Army Non-commissioned Officer College, and has been serving in the 10th Division since graduation. After Qiao Sanbang was sent to the army by Wang Maoru, he dug up Hou Dingxian, who was still the battalion commander at the time, and promoted him to serve as a brigade-level staff officer.
With the help of Hou Dingxian, Qiao Sanbang, the big soldier, only needs to make a judgment, so the brain of the 10th Division is not Qiao Sanbang, but Hou Dingxian, the chief of staff of the division.
In the 10th Division, there are several veterans who are also quite distinctive, the commander of the 44th Brigade Cheng Ming is the old man of the Ji Army, and he has also made many meritorious contributions. Wang Maoru came to the Western Regions this time, and there was also such a promotion ceremony. At the welcome banquet, Wang Maoru announced Cheng Ming's promotion decision, and Cheng Ming's military rank was also promoted from major general brigade commander to lieutenant general division commander.
Everyone applauded to congratulate Cheng Ming on his final promotion, and Cheng Ming's original position as the commander of the 44th Brigade was held by Huang Baitao, another old acquaintance of Feng Yinbin. When Feng Yinbin was serving as the commander of Nanjing's urban defense in Jiangsu, he worked with Huang Baitao, Nian Congsheng, Du Deming, and Shao Yushu to set a plan to eradicate Qi Xieyuan. Subsequently, all five of them were promoted, Shao Yushu directly served as the deputy brigade commander of the 64th Brigade of the 23rd Division of the Jiangsu Army, Du Deming served as the head of the Qinglong Legion, Nian Congsheng served as the head of Li Pinxian's Tengsnake Legion, and Huang Baitao came to the Western Regions as the commander. The biggest advantage of being assigned to the Western Regions Military Region is that there are more battles here, and the rank is promoted quickly, and Huang Baitao is also promoted to the commander of the 44th Brigade because of his accumulated military merits and the fact that he once helped Wang Maoru recover his direct lineage.
After the ceremony, Wang Maoru visited the military exercise of the White Tiger Legion, met with the soldiers, and encouraged the soldiers to defend their homes and countries in the Western Regions. Because of Wang Maoru's high prestige in the Wehrmacht, his arrival made many soldiers cheer. Some soldiers even couldn't help but cry when they saw Wang Maoru, shouting: "I can finally see a living handsome man in this life......"
Due to a long period of loyalty education and brainwashing army management, the national defense army, especially the old troops, the worship of Wang Maoru is extremely strong, the White Tiger Legion is Wang Maoru's old troops, but also the first trump card troops, the propaganda of the people of the propaganda department to the soldiers from beginning to end. Therefore, it is normal for Wang Maoru's arrival to make them excited and unable to help themselves, just like when a certain Jin Xiaopang met with female soldiers, those brainwashed female soldiers cried and sobbed, and the expressions of the brainwashed people are not the same.