"Yubai, you have to work hard in the future!" After Lao Jiang conferred a new military rank on Meng Xiang, he said with a smile.

"Be loyal to the country, and then die!" Meng Xiang also had a cliché with Lao Jiang.

The award ceremony was held in Wuhan.

The situation in Wuhan has also stabilized. Because the devils in Central China needed to strengthen the defense of Henan and the Lianghuai region, the vanguard army on the opposite side resisted the two divisions to the death. In addition, the other central armies were also desperately defending, and it was no longer a rout under the sudden attack as at the beginning. Having lost the superiority in the air and ships, it was also very difficult for him to break forward. Both sides suffered heavy losses, and a standoff temporarily formed east of Wuhan.

The situation in Wuhan is temporarily stable, but it is still in danger, and the devil's army has reached the suburbs. Factories in Wuhan were asked to evacuate. Without the bombing of devil planes and the attack of gunboats, the evacuation was orderly. The Battle of Wuhan has come to an end, and the vanguard army, as the hero of this battle, naturally needs to be rewarded.

Although the vanguard army has repeatedly won military exploits and laid down a large area of lost territory, it has not been recognized by the central political axe because it is beyond the scope of the seventh theater. After all, at this time, the vanguard army occupied too much territory, which had already threatened the central power, but because the vanguard army had a great merit, it was impossible to say that it would not be rewarded without rewarding, so Lao Jiang also threw away a lot of medals or something, but the actual things were not given at all.

Because Meng Xiang already had a Blue Sky White Medal, he was only awarded the first-class Yunlu Medal at this time. However, the rank was promoted from the original army superior to the second rank of general.

In order to downplay Meng Xiang's promotion, Lao Jiang was promoted to the rank of second-class general this time and Wei Lihuang. In Shanxi and Luoyang, Wei Lihuang took advantage of the fact that the main force of the devil was involved in the vanguard army, and he also made a lot of achievements. Some centrally-controlled media outlets have trumpeted and downplayed Meng's promotion.

The award ceremony was originally scheduled to be held in Yucheng, but although Meng Xiang was very relieved of Lao Jiang, he was not at ease with others.

Lao Jiang still has to take care of the rules and face, and he may not necessarily attack Meng Xiang, but it is difficult for others to say. Besides, the Central Army is simply an intelligence sieve, and it is strange that I have no action against it. Even if there is no one, there will be actions among others, mainly because the vanguard army is blocking the interests of too many people.

It's not that Meng Xiang is afraid of death, the main thing is that once Meng Xiang has an accident, the vanguard army will inevitably collapse. An opportunity to change history is lost.

Meng Xiang is worried about the base, others have calculated that it is the vanguard army, but it has only been established for more than a year, and the internal situation is extremely unstable.

Meng Xiang would never take this risk, but he also took a step and took advantage of Lao Jiang's inspection of Wuhan, and rushed to Wuhan by plane, where he completed the award. There is a teaching team that can mobilize guards nearby, and the safety of the surname has the greatest guarantee.

According to the merits of the vanguard army, it is enough for Meng Xiang to be promoted to a first-class general, but you must know that he has just been promoted to general for less than a year, and if he is promoted too quickly, it will inevitably cause imbalances in other aspects. At this time, there were only nine first-class generals such as Feng Yuxiang, Li Zongren, and Yan Xishan, plus Liu Xiang, who was posthumously promoted, but there were only ten people. Cao Kun has not died because of the treatment of the vanguard army, but he has not been posthumously awarded a first-class general.

Of course, Lao Jiang is unique, a special general. However, Bai Chongxi and others were only second-level at this time, and they only became first-class until the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, and Han Fuyu was only second-level general back then. Although Meng Xiang has far surpassed these local warlords, after all, his qualifications are too shallow, and no one is willing to break this rule. If you are not yet thirty years old, you are already a second-class general, which is already scary enough, and if you want to be promoted again, you need to wait for a year or two.

At this time, Lao Jiang was worried, if the vanguard army made another miraculous feat, Meng Xiang would reach the top after stepping into the first-class general, should he also be given a special general?

Meng Xiang doesn't care too much about it, strength determines everything, and these false names don't matter. He has nearly a million elite troops in his hands, which is not weaker than the Central Army, and he still needs other people's rewards?

It's the rewards that need to be rewarded under his hands, and the ones that need to be adjusted.

Lao Jiang didn't give him much real things, but he was really trying to win over those under him. Lao Jiang is very willing to spend money in this regard, according to Meng Xiang's mastery, Lao Jiang has already smashed several millions, but there are very few who can be wooed. At this time, the future of the vanguard army is definitely stronger than following the central army, not to mention that a group of veterans of the central army have sealed the space to climb up, even those salaries and silver treatment, as well as the army's equipment, are also comfortable to stay in the vanguard army.

However, the commanders of the three clones followed Meng Xiang's instructions and leaned over there, which can be regarded as a chess piece that Meng Xiang planted for the future.

In the same way, there are many other people's chess pieces in the vanguard army, or those who stand on their own, and they need to be smoothed out. The armies that defected also needed to be integrated, and at this time, Meng Xiang made a comprehensive adjustment with the help of the change of the military system.

At this time, the vanguard army already had Sun Lianzhong's Second Group Army in its hands, the vanguard army was obtained from the Third Group Army from Han Fuyu's hometown, the old number Seventh Group Army brought out by Fu Zuoyi, the 33rd Group Army newly obtained by Zhang Zizhong, and the 36th Group Army obtained by the replacement organization. There is also a 10th Army Corps of Shi Yousan.

The vanguard army sank the devil's troop carrier, and completely annihilated a reading force mixed into the 12th brigade, although it only got the establishment of the new 50th division, but there was a new establishment of the 10th army, Meng Xiang made a promise to Lao Jiang, took the initiative to reduce the number of people in each division, and lowered the large establishment of more than 30,000 people, plus the credit of defending Wuhan and conquering Huaibei and other places, as well as the continuous activities behind it, and all together got the establishment of a 37th Group Army.

In this way, Meng Xiang has 6 group armies and one corps in his hands. On this basis, Meng Xiang readjusted the establishment of the vanguard army.

Sun Lianzhong's Second Army consisted of the 30th Army and the 42nd Army, and later Cao Fulin's 55th Army and Liu Ruming's 68th Army also joined the ranks. This time, they defected to the vanguard and brought them all together.

Feng Anbang, the commander of the 42nd Army, showed courage in the Battle of Xuzhou, but was seriously injured by a plane during the Battle of Wuhan, and was directly killed in the original history, but because of the first aid of the Pioneer Army Medical Team and the impact of the Pioneer Air Force's participation in the war, he saved his life. So the establishment of the 42nd Army was not canceled either.

In this adjustment, because each group army only retained three corps, the second army only retained the 30th, 42nd, and 68th armies. Cao Fulin's 55th Army was incorporated into Zhang Zizhong's 33rd Group Army.

The 30th Army was formed from the foundation of the original Ji Hongchang, and the former army commander Tian Zhennan was promoted to the deputy commander-in-chief of the Second Army by Meng Xiang at this time, and Chi Fengcheng, the fierce general in Taierzhuang, was promoted to the commander of the 30th Army. Under the jurisdiction of the 30th and 31st Divisions and the provisional 130th Division inserted by the Vanguard Army.

Because the commander of the theater of the provisional division can make a decision, he only needs to report to the central authorities. Such divisions, which were abolished after the war, were not included in the regular establishment of the Central Army. Meng Xiang inserted a provisional division into each army, just adding a hundred digits to the serial number of each army.

The 42nd Army originally had only one 27th Division and a Reading 44th Brigade. Because Feng Anbang was seriously injured and could not be treated, the 42nd Army was taken over by Meng Xiang, and Niu Sanlai was arranged to temporarily serve as the commander of the 42nd Army, with 27 divisions under his jurisdiction, with a new formation of 40 and a new formation of 50.

Liu Ruming of the 68th Army was Song Zheyuan's old department, under the jurisdiction of the 119th and 143rd Divisions, and the 40th Brigade of Reading Li was also incorporated into it, and the Vanguard Army gave a provisional 168th Division.

The 2nd Army was a new formation of the 9th Brigade of the 27th Division of the Three Armed Forces. It's just that the number of people in the team has been changed from 15 to 10. The others are also three-three compilations.

A squad of 10 people, a three-person team with an MG-42 machine gun, the rest are still qualified veterans with Suomi submachine guns, and the recruits use Mauser K98K rifles.

The rapid expansion of the vanguard army made the base not provide enough guns. The scale of production at the base is limited, and even if production is continuous, excluding the attack of ammunition, the production in the logistics support center is still not enough to replenish the 800,000 people. Coupled with the loss, there are only more than 600,000 people who can pick up a gun in their hands at this time. There are still hundreds of thousands of vacancies. Fortunately, there are 300,000 recruits who are still training, and there is no need for everyone to have a gun, and the base is also in full production.

As usual, soldiers also fire pistols.

Under the new system of the Vanguard Army, as long as you get rid of the hat of a recruit and are promoted to a qualified first class, you can pick up a pistol. Recruits are trained with pistols in their training, so they don't have to worry about them going off.

This move alone brought the hearts of the soldiers who had fled to him back. However, the premise is that they are qualified, and all the soldiers who defect to the army need to be rebuilt, inculcate patriotic ideas, strictly discipline, learn culture, and receive training in new techniques and tactics such as infantry and artillery coordination, infantry and tank cooperation, street fighting, air defense, and anti-poison.

At first, some veterans were arrogant, which meant that it was just a passing scene, but many of those new techniques and tactics were unheard of by them. Even if it is better than marksmanship, those recruits who are trained to be fed with bullets are better than those veterans. Under strict discipline, it is not a formality, and the punishment of killing a hundred makes those veterans complain. A few extremely bad soldiers and bandits were directly dealt with by military law and executed, and everyone was immediately suppressed.

But the conditions of the vanguard army are really good, they are well fed, they eat meat, fish, and eggs every once in a while, and rice and white-flour steamed buns are enough, so that the soldiers of those miscellaneous armies think that they have gone to heaven.

Not for anything else, for the sake of the military salaries and generous pensions that were never in arrears, those soldiers also actively integrated into the vanguard army and strived to be a qualified soldier.

The requirements within the squad are not very high, and the skills of machine gunners, submachine guns and rifles are easy to master.

In addition, a part-time hygienist is indispensable in a class. On-site emergency first aid can save the lives of many people, and sometimes a little professional knowledge is better than carrying it down and sending it to the front hospital for half a day. A clone soldier with the rabbit surname is not needed to evolve into a doctor, only a simple trained ordinary soldier can do the job. With an emergency medical kit, you can buy a little more time for treatment and save a soldier's life.

In addition, each soldier will also carry a first-aid kit with bandages, white medicine and everything.

The base also produces white medicine, which surprised Meng Xiang. The formulas of baiyao in later generations were all confidential, and although baiyao could not be developed at this time, it did not hinder the production of the base.

The soldier also had a Band-Aid on him.

Band-aids were invented as early as the beginning of the 20th century, and as soon as Meng Xiang heard about it, he bought a patent production license to produce a new Band-Aid based on the Baiyao Band-Aids of later generations. For some small wounds on the battlefield, the soldier can cover the bleeding by himself to stop the bleeding, and then come back and treat it carefully. Don't look at these little things, sometimes a little gadget can save lives.

Correspondents are also essential. In the new formation of the vanguard army, the position of correspondent is becoming more and more important.

Meng Xiang has begun to use Motorola's walkie-talkies and walkie-talkies.

Radio stations have been set up in the company, and walkie-talkies are being deployed to the platoon level. It's just that at this time, production still needs to continue, and the gap is very large.

When Meng Xiang's army expanded to 1 million, he planned to postpone the expansion of the regular army first. Develop more reserves. The main reason is that the gap in various equipment is constantly getting bigger, and it takes time to arrange adjustments. Meng Xiang didn't want his soldiers to go to the battlefield with wooden sticks as well. For the time being, the reserves do not need one gun per person, and the consumption is small, but when needed, after a short period of training, they can be pulled out to fight.

Because of the future communication setup, it is enough to have a part-time correspondent in the class now.

Grenades are still carried with two M1924 or M39 grenades per person. According to the actual situation of the battle, it can be freely replaced.

Each class can be divided into 3 groups of 3 people and 2 groups of 5 people, which are also assigned separately.

Similarly, the configuration of each squad in each unit can also be adjusted on its own. For example, a squad can increase the number of machine guns and submachine guns as a support squad, or it can be mixed, and it can also be a rookie of ordinary rifles. This reorganization only provides a basic model, a general framework. It is also necessary for the commanders of the various units to make repairs according to the actual situation.

These platoon-level commanders and fighters can be arranged.

Each platoon has 3 squads, plus a fire support squad. The fire support squad had two MG-42 machine guns and two 45-mm M35 mortars.

Although such firepower is slightly weaker than the original one because of the small number of people, this is only the establishment of an ordinary infantry division.

The Vanguard Army's adjustment of infantry divisions has been divided into four categories. Ordinary infantry divisions, motorized infantry divisions, mechanized divisions, and armored divisions are equipped with trucks, etc., and the transportation capacity has been strengthened, and sometimes an artillery run is added to the squad to strengthen the firepower. Even large-caliber heavy machine guns will be equipped in the platoon.

At this time, the troops had a bit of a motorized rifle division.

And the stronger ones are mechanized and armored divisions.

Mechanized divisions are infantry divisions with tracked armored motor vehicles as the main mobile equipment, which is different from motorized divisions with wheeled vehicles as the main equipment, and is even more different from armored divisions that mainly focus on tank combat.

Of course, for those newly rushed troops at this time, ordinary infantry divisions were already several times better than their original equipment, and there was no comparison with ammunition alone. The supply of bullets is almost open, and I'm afraid you won't be able to take it. As for the tanks and the like, they can't handle it now.

Even the more demanding snipers were gathered in the company. This allows them to have a greater range of activities and more flexibility in their arrangements.

A company has three ordinary platoons and a fire support platoon and a sniper squad.

The heavy fire platoon at the company level retained only 2 34 80 mm mortars and 2 Browning M2HB large-caliber heavy machine guns with anti-aircraft mounts for anti-aircraft fire.

Large-caliber heavy machine guns are no problem against the little devil's Peeon tank.

Compared with the establishment of the platoon-level fire squad, the fire support platoon at the company level has a greater ammunition consumption, and the company headquarters has arranged a logistics team to ensure the supply of ammunition.

The sniper team of 12 people is still a team of two, but they are often arranged to cooperate with the operation at the squad and platoon level. Most snipers are not very high-level, so they need to cooperate, such as sniper rifles, shooy, and iron fists are a combination of street fights.

The number of personnel directly under the company headquarters has also increased correspondingly, including 4 officers, company commanders, deputy company commanders, instructors, and division chiefs.

9 people in the cooking class and 3 members in the medical team; 3 members of the communication team; The logistics team consists of 6 people and a 3-ton Opel truck. There is also a KS750 motorcycle.

When I arrived at the battalion headquarters, I had a barrel car and two KS750s to communicate with each other.

A battalion has three ordinary infantry companies and a fire support company.

The fire company consisted of two mortar platoons and one anti-aircraft platoon.

The mortar platoon is still 80 three- or four-millimeter mortars, but it has increased to four.

The anti-aircraft platoon was four twin M2HB large-caliber anti-aircraft machine guns.

The company headquarters is similar to the ordinary company headquarters, except that there are 2 more technical sergeants.

The battalion has a direct establishment of 60 people.

Battalion commander, deputy battalion commander, instructor, staff officer, 2 clerks, 7 communication squads, 7 guard squads, and 5 cooking squads.

The medical team consists of 12 people, including two doctors, who can perform relatively simple surgical procedures.

The logistics team manages the logistics teams of each company, and the logistics team leader and two members of the team make a total of 3 people.

The reconnaissance platoon has two squads of 12 people each, plus the reconnaissance platoon commander, a total of 25 people.

Similarly, a regiment has three ordinary infantry battalions and an artillery battalion, an anti-aircraft company, an anti-tank company, an engineer company, a reconnaissance company, an anti-chemical squad, a transport squadron.

The artillery battalion had a total of 6 75-mm Bofors mountain guns and 6 Soviet-made M1938-mm 120-mm mortars. Some artillery battalions, depending on the actual situation, used 6 ZIS-3 76-mm cannons.

The main advantage of the 75-mm mountain gun is that it is light and durable, and many such guns in China have been able to produce ammunition in China, which is convenient for replenishment. The new teams are also familiar with it, so it's always been in the process.

Such an ordinary platoon has 45 people, the number of people in a company has reached about 200 people, and the number of people in a battalion has also reached about 800 people. This is the establishment of an ordinary infantry division, so the number of a division has been reduced to less than 30,000, and it can be regarded as Meng Xiang's fulfillment of his promise.

For the time being, the nine divisions of the Second Army were ordinary infantry divisions, but trucks were used to transport ammunition and tow artillery, and motorized wheeled maneuvers were not yet available. Even the number of motorized infantry divisions is limited to 30,000, but there are more transport vehicles.

The Third Army, as the old foundation of the vanguard army, this time it was mainly motorized infantry divisions and mechanized divisions.

The 54th Army under its jurisdiction was the absolute descendant of the vanguard army, and the 41st, 50th, and 18th divisions at this time were all built into mechanized divisions. Mechanized units consisting directly of T-34 tanks, BT-7 tanks and SDKFZ251/1 personnel carrier armored vehicles, as well as Su-76 self-propelled guns.

Each mechanized division consisted of two motorized infantry regiments and a tank regiment, a self-propelled artillery regiment, an engineer regiment, an anti-aircraft battalion, a reconnaissance battalion. The mechanization of equipment will not be small to reach the establishment of the regiment, and no matter how much it is financially unbearable.

The 54th Army was the first mechanized corps of the Vanguard Army.

Sun Tongxuan's 12th Army was also determined to be a motorized formation, and in addition to the 20th and 81st divisions under his jurisdiction, a provisional 112th division was added.

The 56th Army is also a motorized infantry establishment, with the 22nd Division and Zhang Lingfu's 74th Division under its jurisdiction, and a provisional 156th Division.

Due to the lack of production capacity and manpower, these establishments have not been completed, and can only be slowly supplemented with the production of the base.

Fu Zuoyi's 7th Army, under the jurisdiction of the 35th Army and the First Cavalry Army. For the time being, the status quo has been maintained, and it is still the establishment of 4 divisions of the 35th Army, the 101st and 73rd divisions, and the new 31st and 32nd divisions under its jurisdiction.

Fu Zuoyi is also a second-class general, and he has been awarded the title in 35 years. The qualifications are much older than Meng Xiang. For this reason, Meng Xiang established the 101st Division as a motorized division, which also made Fu Zuoyi more satisfied.

Zhang Zizhong's 33rd Group Army also had only the 59th Army and Feng Zhi'an's 77th Army.