Chapter 34 The Red Fifteenth Army
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First of all, it was Hu Weidong himself who underestimated the enemy, who only saw the incompetence of the enemy's generals, but underestimated the impact of the quality of officers and men at the grassroots level on the army's combat effectiveness; if it were not for the fact that the commander of the 88th Division had not been replaced by the famous General Chen Mingren to the "Flying General" Sun Yuanliang and "Commander Tang" who happened to go to the front line to supervise the battle and died under the Red Army artillery fire, the independent division might have suffered a major defeat in this battle. Thinking of this, Hu Weidong couldn't help but be afraid for a while, so he even put down the face of the division commander and openly reviewed it to the whole division, but who knew that it won a higher prestige in the whole division.
In addition to the 70,000 or 80,000 combat troops, there are also more than 30,000 technicians, experts, and young cadets from the three major schools, all of whom are not combatants, and they have to be protected by the army. The exposure of these two problems also became an important reason why Hu Weidong gave up field artillery and automobiles and greatly reduced the combat force shortly after
Hu Weidong knew that this was due to the rapid increase in the scale of the battle, after all, it was still possible to destroy the headquarters of a regiment or a brigade, and if you want to send a small team of men to destroy a military headquarters, you must have the luck of going against the sky. As for reconnaissance work, it is enough to train a special reconnaissance unit, and the training cost is much lower than that of multi-purpose special forces, and as for the harassment work behind enemy lines, such as sabotage, which has a lower jishu content, the cost of letting the guerrillas do it is 10 million times higher than that of the special combat team. But are special forces really useless in a large-scale war? Or is it flashy? Based on emotional factors, Hu Weidong was always reluctant to admit it, but now he didn't expect that it was precisely because of his persistence that the little devils who fought with him later suffered a lot
After the war, many infantry shouted the slogan "Long live the artillery", which made the tradition of attaching importance to firepower of the independent division more deep-rooted, but there were also hidden worries. In addition to affecting the mobility of the whole division, because the arsenal has been operating with the army and lacks some necessary equipment, it is currently unable to produce qualified shells for 75mm mountain artillery. If it weren't for the fact that the Fourth Division of the National Army had discarded a lot of ammunition, the Independent Division would definitely have suffered a big loss in terms of ammunition, especially shells, and the weapons were damaged and the arsenal might have been repaired, but as soon as the ammunition was blown up, there would have been nothing left. Hu Weidong now finally has some experience of the pain of the people's army in history, no matter how many enemies are annihilated, if more weapons and ammunition are captured than consumed, then this battle is no different from losing it. After that, while advocating the development of firepower, the independent division also began to emphasize the importance of saving ammunition, after all, even if the arsenal can build everything in the future, it will be all money, China is still very poor, all aspects need money, there is no luxury and waste of capital at all
The independent division once again annihilated and defeated the three divisions of the Central Army (including the Ninghua Battle before Tang Enbo), which was a great blow to Lao Jiang, and Gu Zhutong was too cautious and did not go south for a long time, which made him more and more dissatisfied, he finally made up his mind to let Liu Zhi take over Gu Zhutong's position, and take over the heavy task of suppressing bandits in the two provinces, and at the same time ordered Chen Cheng's 18th Army to leave southwest Jiangxi and also participate in the encirclement and suppression of the independent division, and in Fujian, Lao Jiang finally stopped cronyism under heavy pressure, so that the more talented Wei Lihuang took Jiang Dingwen's place, In this way, he thought that it was foolproof, there were elite soldiers and strong generals in three directions, and no matter how powerful the Red Army was, it would be impossible to escape...,
While Lao Chiang was daydreaming, the Party Central Committee during the Long March also learned the good news of another great victory for the Independent Division, and the victory of the four crossings of Chishui had made Taizu's prestige in the Red Army and the Party unprecedentedly high, and he could finally give the independent division the meritorious reward he deserved according to his own wishes. However, Taizu's motion to upgrade the independent division to a corps in one fell swoop still failed to pass, Hu Weidong was too young on the one hand, and the record was not fully confirmed on the other
Taizu was also helpless about this, so he had to obey the majority and only upgrade the independent division to the Red 15th Army for the time being, but the Central Revolutionary Military Commission finally collectively passed Taizu's proposal, that is, in the future, Hu Weidong's Red 15th Army and its recovered Soviet districts and counties will be directly responsible to the Central Revolutionary Military Commission, and those Red Army guerrillas who were incorporated into the independent division will also follow the Red 15th Army in the future, which directly led to the rapid development of the Red 15th Army because of the looting of a large number of later generations of cattle who were not conspicuous (relatively speaking) at this time, and produced a series of far-reaching impacts
Among them, the four guerrillas of the Red Army in western Fujian directly raised the strength of the Red 15th Army almost to a higher level, and Chen Tanqiu, Deng Zihui, Tan Zhenlin, and Zhang Dingcheng were all famous figures in later generations. It is precisely because of this that Hu Weidong, who at least for now does not have much insight into people, has easily managed to know people and be good at his duties, and he has put Chen in charge of mass work, Zhang in charge of organizational work and internal rectification, Deng in charge of rural and logistical work, and Tan in charge of military and political work, all of which have achieved good results. In addition, since all of the four of them, except for Chen, had some ability to lead troops, Hu Weidong naturally would not let them go to waste, and he arranged for three people to serve as political commissars of the three main brigades, among which Tan Zhenlin also served as the brigade commander of the third brigade of the independent first division, and their excellent work gave Hu Weidong great help.
In fact, with the talents, merits and qualifications of the four people, holding such a position is somewhat aggrieved, but Mao Zetan, the great man's own brother and Mao Zetan, who was not lower than them before joining the independent division, is now just a regiment commander, and they have nothing to say, as for whether they have complaints in their hearts, Hu Weidong does not know. But in any case, he must establish in the army the concept that "actual work performance determines the level of the post", and only in this way can he block the door of speculation from those internationalists who have no ability and rely entirely on their qualifications in the Soviet Union (those who have real talent and real learning) are not to be counted.
However, the hearts of the four people are not as small as Hu Weidong thought, and besides, on the surface, the position is demoted, but the scale of the Red 15th Army is beyond the reach of their previous team, a brigade has more troops than one army, the firepower exceeds that of a regiment, and the living conditions are much better, so what are they not satisfied with?
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