Anti-Japanese War: From Becoming Chu Yunfei to Rising

Chapter 257: Another Cavalry Division! All units take turns to fight, targeting the th Division of the Japanese Army (Subscription Request)

"Train for battle, not for show. To defend the country, we need to integrate with the troops as soon as possible. At present, all units have stepped up their reconnaissance of the Japanese troops along the Zhengtai Railway, including the 108th Division of the Japanese Army in the direction of Handan City and the th Division in the direction of Taiyuan. They may be our combat targets in the next stage.

The assault battalion is a sharp blade of the Flying Tiger Honor Division. I need it to be able to tear through the enemy's defenses during the fierce battle and turn the tide of the battle."

"Yes, please rest assured, Commander Chu. I, Zhou Weiguo, will never let you down."

Chu Yunfei patted his shoulder as if to encourage him: "Regarding how to establish firepower advantage in close-range fierce fighting, this research is left to you, the commander of the assault battalion. I have other work to do."

"Yes!"

Changzhi City, Changzhi Newspaper Office.

"Sister Manli!"

"Wenying, good news. Shaanxi has agreed to let us publish a newspaper, and we have already negotiated the location. We will acquire the local Morning China Daily. Here is the contract and the amount."

He Manli was not in a hurry and opened the map she had placed on the table.

"It's around this location, and it has everything. It was nearly bankrupt due to poor management. We got in touch with the locals, and when they learned that we were the Changzhi newspaper, they welcomed us very much."

"The elders in my family have also contacted them, so I don't think there will be any big obstacles." Song Wenying smiled gently, "Sister Manli, how much is the other party's offer?"

"Eight hundred thousand national currency."

"So many?" Even Song Wenying was shocked at this moment.

It cost less than 400,000 yuan to run this newspaper in Changzhi.

Today, more than half of the cost has been recovered.

It is expected that the company will even be able to achieve profitability before the end of the year.

"It was a lot, so I rushed back to see if I could think of a way to lower the price."

Although He Manli said that she wanted to lower the price, her finger was pointing upwards.

Obviously, what she was thinking was that Song Wenying would use her family connections to get them a suitable price.

Song Wenying asked again: "Sister Manli, is this a fair price?"

"Yes, but we can't afford so much money."

He Manli nodded, she sighed slightly, feeling a little helpless.

Eight hundred thousand national currency is indeed a fair price.

The newspaper is quite famous in the local area and has a stable sales channel.

It can provide the boss with a fixed income of 20,000 to 50,000 yuan every month.

According to the newspaper owner, the Japanese army had already reached Zheng County, and no one knew whether they would enter Shaanxi in the future.

He didn't know what the future would be like, otherwise the price would not be 800,000, but 2 million.

Song Wenying said without hesitation: "The money can indeed be taken out, but it's all with my uncle."

"Sister Manli, when you go again this time, I will persuade my uncle to go with you."

"it is good!"

While the two were talking.

Chu Yunfei came to the Changzhi newspaper office.

Song Wenying had already sent someone to inform them.

In Chu Yunfei's eyes, running a newspaper is also of utmost importance.

He is very concerned about publicity.

Chu Yunfei has seen and understood the power of public opinion.

How to turn black into white, how to spread rumors and slander. In this era, the methods are relatively low-level.

"Commander Chu, you are here."

Chu Yunfei smiled slightly: "Ms. Wenying, Miss Manli."

"Commander Chu, please take a seat."

"This is the contract, this is the position, the discussion is going smoothly, except for the money."

Chu Yunfei glanced at it and nodded with satisfaction: "I will withdraw 500,000 yuan from the Civil Affairs Treasury to support your acquisition work. Of course, Changzhi Civil Affairs will also hold 50% of the shares. After the newspaper makes a profit, 40% of the profits will be directly injected into the treasury."

"As for the taxes that are due, they still need to be paid. Paying taxes is the obligation of every citizen."

Chu Yunfei emphasized.

He Manli was a little puzzled: "Doesn't Chief Chu have a personal stake?"

"Money is useless to me." Chu Yunfei smiled and said, "I am a soldier. All my food and drink expenses are in the army. Even if there are some business entertainment needs, the Civil Affairs Bureau will pay for it."

"I came here this time to ask your newspaper to write an article to raise funds. I want to build a martyrs' shrine in the suburbs of Changzhi to commemorate the officers and soldiers who died in the war."

"Outskirts of Changzhi?"

Chu Yunfei nodded: "The location has been chosen, it's at the foot of Tianji Mountain..."

"How much is the estimated cost?"

"It is estimated that two million national currency is needed. Changzhi Civil Affairs has pledged 1.5 million national currency, and will make corresponding investments for maintenance in the future. As for the remaining 500,000 national currency, we still need your support."

Speaking of this matter, Chu Yunfei also felt a little helpless.

I am still poor, and I would like to split a dollar into two halves to spend.

There are some constraints in doing anything.

Fortunately, the establishment of the public treasury has basically alleviated the current situation.

Especially with the improvement of infrastructure in southeastern Shanxi.

in the future.

The increase in productivity is also visible to the naked eye.

But you can't become fat in one bite.

Chu Yunfei is not specialized in economic development.

He leads troops to fight in battles, so he won't put too much energy into this aspect.

Sun Weimou was mainly responsible for local economic development.

He also squeezed out the 1.5 million after discussing with Sun Weimou.
Sun Weimou has already planned the use of every sum of money.
Even within three months, it will all be spent.

If Chu Yunfei hadn't acted quickly.

I have to ask Mr. Yan for the 1.5 million.

God knows, how much money does Mr. Yan have?
After briefly discussing the relevant newspaper work with Miss Song and Miss He.

Chu Yunfei's next trip is to visit the Chamber of Commerce.
Busy, really busy.

It was not until four o'clock in the afternoon that we rode back to the camp.

Follow the itinerary.

In the next period of time, he will work with Zhang Dayun and Gong Yuxin to draw up a plan for the first round of rotation.

They also sort out the intelligence transmitted by various reconnaissance units, select combat targets, and assign corresponding troops.

"Currently, the number of our military combat troops in the entire Shanxi region has reached 350,000?"

"Isn't this pure nonsense?"

Sun Ming smiled and said, "Could it be that the Chairman distributed food and wages to 350,000 people?"

Chu Yunfei was shocked.

In his hand he held a telegram from the High Command.

This is simply outrageous to the extreme.

From the perspective of establishment, it is indeed 300,000 people.

But in reality, having 250,000 combat troops is already the maximum we can have.

Chiang Kai-shek’s meaning is very simple: if you like leading troops, lead more of them.

But I have to withdraw troops from Shanxi to fight in the Battle of Wuhan.

Say hello in advance.

The number of troops withdrawn was not large, but four divisions were withdrawn from the Taiyue Mountain area.

These troops originally belonged to the Southern Route Army and had made contributions in the previous Anti-Japanese War in Shanxi, but they had a low presence after the Battle of Taiyuan.

Zhu Huaibing's troops have been transferred to the First War Zone, so we will not mention them for now.

The main troops mobilized were Li Jiayu's 47th Army (the Sichuan Army in Shanxi), Wang Qifeng's 4th Cavalry Division, and two divisions of the 14th Army Group.

Chu Yunfei had no objection to transferring the 47th Army.

On the one hand, he was not very familiar with this unit, which also belonged to the 22nd Army Group.

Another thing is that being transferred back to the 22nd Army is a good thing for Sun Zhen and also for the Shanxi region.

As for Wang Qifeng?
If I remember correctly.

It seems that this Northeastern Army will soon be swallowed up by the Central Army?

The 4th Cavalry Division has a low presence at this stage.

Because they could only launch raids, harass the Japanese supply lines, and blow up some military vehicles.

Taking advantage of the Japanese army's change of guard, they launched a surprise attack on Japanese strongholds in a piecemeal manner.

Over the past six months, they have eliminated hundreds of puppet soldiers and Japanese devils.

It's just such efficiency.

In Chu Yunfei's opinion, it was too low.

However, he also knew that this was not entirely the fault of this group of Northeastern troops.

During the initial fighting after the July 7 Incident broke out.

It’s not that they didn’t engage in direct battle with the Japanese army, but they also suffered heavy losses as a result.

Now a division.

In total, including non-combat personnel, there are less than three thousand people.

There are still nearly 2,000 military horses, but their training is extremely poor and the supply situation is also worrying.

This is actually normal in the Second World War zone.

Up to now, Zeng Wanzhong's Third Army has not yet replenished its combat strength to 6,000 men.

The local troops are essentially unwelcome guest troops, and Yan Laoxi can help to supplement them when he has some financial resources.

Now is the time when we are busy taking care of ourselves.

It would be a lie to say that I am not excited about the organization of a cavalry division.

So he sent a telegram to the headquarters.

It is hoped that this force can be separated from the Eastern Army.

He was entrusted with commanding the subsequent raiding operations to support the Battle of Wuhan.

Wuhan, headquarters.

Seeing this telegram, Lin Wei, director of the First Attendant Department, was shocked.

[Due to combat needs, I propose to transfer the 4th Cavalry Division to the Flying Tiger Honor Division. I, Chu Yunfei, present this to the Chairman.]

This telegram can be sent in this way.

Lin Wei was finally enlightened.

Come to think of it.

Chiang Kai-shek personally flew to Taiyuan to award him the medal, but he dared not attend the ceremony because he put the war first.

Although I had never seen any telegrams between the two before.

Seeing it for the first time, I realized that Chu Yunfei was really not polite at all. Lin Wei hesitated for a moment and decided to polish it slightly.

The main reason was that Lin Wei felt that with Qian Dajun's meticulousness, such an oversight would never occur.

"Wuhan Chairman and Principal Jiang Junjian, due to the need for the second phase of the raid, the department intends to transfer the 4th Cavalry Division from the Eastern Route Army's combat sequence and assign it to the Flying Tiger Honor Division. Everyone is informed. Student Yunfei knocks."

When Chiang Kai-shek saw the telegram, he immediately felt something was a little strange. His face changed slightly. "Are you sure it was sent by Chu Yunfei?"

Lin Wei did not hide it and shook her head: "I polished it a little bit."

Chiang Kai-shek suddenly realized: "No wonder I always feel like it was sent by the General Staff. OK, I won't have to help him polish it next time. He is a soldier, not an official, so it is better to be more concise in his words. Since he wants it, let him command it."

Chiang Kai-shek hesitated for a moment, then added: "Let the Japanese know about this, too."

Lin Wei nodded: "Yes, Chairman."

Shanxi.

Southern section of Taihang Mountains.

Wang Qifeng, who received the telegram from the Chairman, was also shocked.

He could still accept being placed under the jurisdiction of the Eastern Army.

After all, the commander-in-chief’s qualifications and age are there.

But now, let him listen to Chu Yunfei
Wang Qifeng found it a little hard to accept.

The two people's qualifications and ages do not match at all.

Chu Yunfei is a dozen years younger than him.

Wang Qifeng was born in 1897 and is now years old.

He simply claimed to be sick and refused to cooperate.

Chu Yunfei was naturally prepared.

He immediately ordered Deputy Division Commander Zhang Dongkai to lead his troops to Changzhi for reorganization.

This made Wang Qifeng and Zhang Dongkai extremely panicked.

"Brother Wang, another telegram has arrived, saying that they are planning to arrange for you to go to Changzhi Hospital for recuperation."

"Let me lead the troops to accept the transformation first."

If you are sick, of course you are not sick.

Wang Qifeng was not only in good spirits, he even had the leisure to ask his adjutant to play chess with him.

That's an excuse.

Everyone can guess Wang Qifeng's plan.

But Chu Yunfei obviously doesn't care. You have to reorganize it whether you want to or not.

The National Revolutionary Army is not a private army.

You, Wang Qifeng, can never be Zhang Zuolin.

Chu Yunfei's attitude was quite tough, leaving the two of them at a loss as to what to do.

When they still wanted to rely on the local army's previous strategy of resisting reform to deal with Chu Yunfei.

Chu Yunfei did not have the patience to send a telegram to persuade, but sent a telegram directly to Qian Bojun and Sun Xinpu of the 3rd Infantry Regiment.

Zhang Dongkai was quite helpless: "This Chu Yunfei is coming with great force. He has directly dispatched two main regiments. I feel that if we don't cooperate, he is likely to attack us."

Although they came from the Northeast Army and admired Chu Yunfei, they were unwilling to give up their position and power.

Aren't they fighting the Japanese in the same way?
Went to Chu Yunfei.

It would be strange if they could get anything good out of it.

The process of centralization of the motley crew.

How could they not know when they reached this point?

It would have been them.

The first thing to do is definitely to place your own people to take over the positions below.

Then, in the name of recruiting new soldiers, they reduced the number of their Northeast veterans from the majority to a minority.

The command of this force will soon fall into the hands of Chu Yunfei, the military commander.

And it is no longer a force that belongs exclusively to him, Wang Qifeng.

Let's take a step back.

Even the two of them were reluctant to give up the little military power they held.

But when Wang Qifeng and Zhang Dongkai faced Zhu Huaibing's annexation of the 4th Cavalry Division under his command.

I never thought of surrendering to the Japanese.

After the centralization of the miscellaneous troops, they can often get better supplementary supplies in the ranks of the national army.

To put it nicely, it is called annexing local military forces, and they grabbed the bald man and accused him of having selfish motives.

To put it bluntly, isn't this just a normal reorganization of troops and the centralization of miscellaneous troops?

Wang Qifeng was silent for a moment: "Brother, we are Chinese. No matter how Chiang Kai-shek treats us, we will never surrender to the Japanese."

"Neither He Jingzhi and Chen Cixiu from the National Government nor Yan Laoxi from the Second War Zone is worthy of our support."

"Perhaps accepting the reorganization of Chu Yunfei's troops is our only way out."

"It's understandable that Chu Yunfei is young and hot-tempered, but I don't think he is an unreasonable person."

"It's unlikely that he will replace the division commander right away. As far as I know, he doesn't have a suitable cavalry commander."

Zhang Dongkai was thinking about a person named Mark Ying.

But think about it.

A year ago, Mark Ying was the captain of a small cavalry company.

Even if he has been promoted to the commander of a cavalry regiment, it is unlikely that he will take over a cavalry division, right?
Zhang Dongkai wanted to fight for it: "But Li Kuishan, who was under his command, had made so many military achievements, but he was also squeezed out by him, wasn't he?"

Wang Qifeng's point seemed to be true, as he had convinced himself: "After all, Li Kuishan is General Yang Hucheng's man, so it shouldn't be considered as exclusion. The two of them are not on the same side. And as far as I know, when Li Kuishan was with Chu Yunfei, it was his credit, and Chu Yunfei didn't miss a single thing."

"What's more, the transfer of Li Kuishan was approved by the headquarters and was requested by Corps Commander Sun."

Wang Qifeng scratched his head, feeling quite helpless: "Why don't we just follow Chu Yunfei's wishes? Even if we both lose our positions, it's better to stay in Changzhi and become a rich man."

"Once we drive away the Japanese, we will go back to Northeast China to retire. If we don't live to see that time, there will be nothing we can do."

Zhang Dongkai gritted his teeth and said, "Okay, brother, I'll listen to you."

"Prepare a carriage for me. I have to look sicker."

"Yes!"

Changzhi.

Chu Yunfei Command Center.

After seeing the reply from the 4th Cavalry Division, he also smiled.

"I didn't expect it to be so smooth. Sun Ming, send a telegram to the Third Infantry Regiment and ask them to return to their base."

"Yes!"

Sun Ming had already returned from the independent brigade at this time.

The reorganization of the independent brigade has entered the second stage.

There would be no need for him as an adjutant.

According to Sun Ming, the reorganization work did not go smoothly at the beginning.

Military law, military rules and military discipline are still very torturous for these outlaws who came from bandit backgrounds.

After one month, they had passed the most basic military posture, formation, and housekeeping requirements.

As for the next step of training.

It is arranged in the form of a plan.

In addition, corresponding supervisors and instructors were set up in the independent brigade to carry out corresponding political construction work.

After a month, everything went smoothly.

As the officers and soldiers of various units come to an end of their leave.

The rotation plan formulated by Chu Yunfei and the General Staff.

It also began to be distributed to various troops.

The order of battle is 2nd, 3rd, 5th, 4th, 6th.
The Second Infantry Regiment, led by Xue Jie and Liu Wang, was the first batch of rotation troops.

It is also determined by its stationing location.

Except for the 3rd Infantry Regiment under Qian Bojun which was stationed in Changzhi area.

The First and Second Regiments were stationed in the surrounding areas of Qin County.

As for defensive pressure.

Of course there is no such thing.

Now most of the Japanese troops are confronting the 14th Army Group and the main force of the Shanxi-Suiyuan Army.

As for the southeast direction of Shanxi.

At least one squadron of troops was deployed on all major roads.

A large number of civilians were also mobilized to repair trenches and other defensive fortifications.

Even at the request of Michijiro Umezu.

The original plan to renovate the artillery towers was cancelled at critical stages such as along the railway line.

Instead, they repaired a large number of bunkers.

This further consumed the Japanese army's war resources and subsequent war potential.

As for the original functions of the artillery tower, such as guarding and living.

It was replaced by a watchtower and underground living quarters.

After all, the Japanese are not as rich as those in Europe.

Can afford to repair the towers and fortifications along the railway?
The Second Infantry Regiment is mainly stationed in Qin County.

While undertaking the corresponding defensive fortification repair work, they also maintained the corresponding basic training.

2nd Infantry Regiment, training ground.

"Report to the regiment commander, Captain Song has arrived."

Xue Jie put down the binoculars in his hand and said, "Second Battalion Commander, you guys continue with your training. I'll go back to the regiment headquarters."

"Yes!"

The arrival of the reinforcements means that the battle will begin soon.

He walked back to the regiment headquarters.

The laughter of Song Ming and deputy team leader Liu Wang could be heard from a distance.

"Old Song!"

"Hey, Captain Xue!" Song Ming stood up and saluted.

Xue Jie hurriedly returned the greeting: "You guys are laughing so loudly, what happy thing happened to you?"

"It's a pleasure that Brother Song can come!" Liu Wang grinned.

"And Brother Song's mortar battalion has now completed the corresponding replacement, equipped with a total of sixteen 90mm mortars."

"Brother Song has already promised us that as long as we want support, we will not be stingy with the shells, right, Brother Song?"

Song Ming chuckled: "We do have enough shells. We brought 2,000 shells in total. The purpose of this battle is just training. How many Japanese can we expect?"

(End of this chapter)