Anti-Japanese War: From Becoming Chu Yunfei to Rising

Chapter 304: Harvest and Organization Inventory! 105mm Howitzer? (Subscribe)

The troops participating in the battle were not just Chu Yunfei’s.

The remaining troops also need pensions, resettlement, reinforcement of troops and replenishment of weapons and equipment.

If you add up all these numbers, it's an astronomical figure.

When the report was submitted to Chiang Kai-shek.

Chiang Kai-shek was also surprised at this time. He stopped the brush in his hand that was reviewing the official documents, looked up and asked again: "How much?"

"A total of 103,690,000 national currency."

Kong Yongzhi pushed his glasses and repeated it in a low voice.

Next to him stood He Yingqin, Chief of the General Staff of the Military Commission, who held multiple positions.

Chiang Kai-shek frowned.

He was very happy because the battle was won.

But it was time to pay after the war.

Chiang Kai-shek felt very uncomfortable.

One hundred and thirty-nine hundred thousand national currency.

This is not a small number.

Especially at this point in time, the Republic of China's fiscal expenditure was negative almost every year.

This lack of money actually has no direct relationship with corruption, and the impact of corruption is even very small.

After all, no matter how many corrupt officials there are, they cannot create a hole of 10 billion national currency in a year.

This has a certain relationship with Chiang Kai-shek's previous insistence on starting a civil war, but it is not absolute.

This thing is hard to describe, and hard to say.

Everyone has their own opinions, and there is no consensus in the academic community yet.

anyway.

It is now the end of the year.

One hundred million more or one hundred million less.

It's just the financial statements at the end of 38 and the beginning of 39.

"Mr. Chiang, perhaps we can take advantage of this opportunity to raise relief funds across the country and invest them in post-war reconstruction costs." He Yingqin gave his opinion.

He actually came here this time for this matter.

some of

Chang Kaishen nodded.

It's just the same old way. I guess this foundation is useful.

It really does work.

But more often than not, they place their cronies at all levels and in all places and take control of the situation.

When this kind of thing can't be hidden.

Some people will not like it and will report it to Chiang Kai-shek.

By then, Chiang Kai-shek will kill some people and win over some others.

It's a common little trick and also a tacit understanding between the two.

As for squeezing the people's fat and blood.

For Chiang Kai-shek and the top leaders of the Blue Party.

It can be said that I am not afraid of being bitten by lice because there are too many of them.

These are not the most critical issues at the moment.

The Nationalist government was facing a situation of declining human strength and financial difficulties.

It's not something that happens in one or two days.

What Chiang Kai-shek was frowning on and deeply worried about was not actually the issue of money.

Instead, each war zone wanted to provide pensions according to the standards of Chu Yunfei's troops.

“Delin has gone too far in this matter.”

The first telegram sent by the Fifth War Zone.

Next are the Eighth War Zone and the Tenth War Zone.

However, Yan Laoxi, the commander-in-chief of the Second War Zone, the stronghold of the Shanxi-Suiyuan Army, did not call.

Because Old Man Yan knows everything better than anyone else.

It is indeed not appropriate to cause trouble for Chiang Kai-shek at this time.

But Li Zongrenke did not have this psychological burden.

His goal was to turn parts of Anhui and the Dabie Mountains into another base for the New Guangxi Clique.

Chiang Kai-shek naturally noticed his little thoughts.

Otherwise, Wei Lihuang would not have been transferred to the newly established First War Zone as its commander.

Transferred from Wei Lihuang.

Chiang Kai-shek actually made a good move.

On the one hand, Wei Lihuang's ability is there, he can effectively curb the development of the New Guangxi Clique in the Dabie Mountains and other areas.

On the other hand, it could also avoid further contact between Wei Lihuang and the Red Party.

Although Wei Lihuang was one of Chiang Kai-shek's Five Tiger Generals.

But he has a lot of experience. When he was a revolutionary, he took the oath when he was a soldier in front of Sun Yat-sen.

Naturally, Chiang Kai-shek could not use any extreme means against him.

Wei Lihuang's qualifications and abilities basically put him in an irreplaceable position in the Blue Party.

As for the proposals of Li Zongren and others.

Chiang Kai-shek naturally would not want to set such a bad precedent.

If ordinary troops were compensated like combat assault troops.

Even if the entire Republic of China was sold, he still wouldn't be able to afford the compensation.

Refuse, you must refuse.

But let’s talk about whether the Fifth War Zone has made any contribution.

He certainly made a lot of contributions, especially in resolving the crisis of the Fourth Army.

It launched a powerful flank attack on the 16th Division that was invading Shaanxi.

This is the first achievement.

Naturally, it was Tang Enbo's direct line of the Central Army, followed by the 22nd Army Group of the Sichuan Army.

But this time.

Chiang Kai-shek decided to be a little more partial and pay a little more price to win over the Sichuan Army.

Built on this basis, resources are allocated to the five war zones.

We should focus more on the Sichuan Army.

The combat performance of this group of Sichuan troops was indeed good, especially when they were connected with the defense zone of Tang Enbo's Central Army.

This kind of deployment was actually intentional on Li Delin's part.

He set up the defense zone of his own direct subordinates and Sun Lianzhong's Northwest Army in the Dabie Mountain area.

As for the combat troops with whom he had a bad relationship, they were placed on the Henan front line to directly confront the Japanese invaders.

The situation in the Fifth War Zone was relatively easy to handle for Chiang Kai-shek.

The main reason is that Li Zongren, this old fox, is very difficult to deal with.

But consider the issue from Chiang Kai-shek’s perspective.

He needs to deal with the current complex situation as well as the situation in other war zones.

Li Zongren's side is actually the easiest to deal with.

The difficult one to deal with is the Tenth War Zone.

Sun Weiru has returned to Shaanxi. He was the previous governor of Shaanxi.

Now that he has returned to his own territory, he will serve as deputy commander-in-chief of the war zone under Jiang Dingwen.

That in itself is unacceptable.

However, Sun Weiru's qualifications were not enough to directly serve as the commander-in-chief of the theater, and Chiang Kai-shek was not very willing to do so.

Think of this.

Chiang Kai-shek immediately approved the financial report sent by Kong Yongzhi and wanted to send him away first.

After reviewing the report in hand.

Chiang Kai-shek seemed to suddenly remember something and asked, "Yongzhi, when will the batch of arms purchased in Europe some time ago be delivered?"

“It will arrive around this month.”

"Twelve million national currency worth of weapons should be enough to equip the 14th and 88th armies, right?"

Seeing Kong Yongzhi looking at him for help, He Yingqin simply nodded slightly and said, "It basically meets the needs of subsequent operations."

Only then did Chiang Kai-shek nod with satisfaction.

"Mr. Yun, the money has been found."

Chu Yunfei said "oh" and turned to look at Fang Ligong who was walking towards him.

He is currently discussing fundraising with Ms. Song Wenying, the current president of Changzhi Newspaper.

Compared with the southeastern Shanxi region and the rear area during the War of Resistance Against Japan, it is relatively stable.

The people are relatively more abundant.

Based on this, Chu Yunfei also set his sights on the rear of the War of Resistance.

He planned to let Song Wenying open newspaper offices in Sichuan, Chongqing, Hubei, Hunan and other places.

But after a brief exchange, it became quite difficult to maintain operations in Shaanxi and southeastern Shanxi.

I wanted to do business during the Republic of China period.

In fact, it is extremely difficult.

The vast majority of national entrepreneurs are actually operating at a loss. It can even be said that the vast majority of enterprises, even military-industrial enterprises, are at risk of bankruptcy.

Even the railway industry is operating at huge losses.

Especially in the military-related industry, it is basically common to owe debts and not pay them.

Even Chu Yunfei himself was no exception.

Just like the war preparations purchased from Changzhi Iron Works during the recent wars.

The first batch required payment of 780,000 national currency, which was given before the war.

In the past three months, they have purchased nearly three million worth of war materials (for repairing fortifications and civilian irrigation canals, etc.)
Steel mills and cement plants are the biggest expenditures at present.

At present, it is mainly used to serve the war, and expenditures on other aspects are much less.

"Brother Ligong, what's the good news?" Fang Ligong pointed to the telegram in his hand: "The Ministry of Military Affairs and the Ministry of Finance have allocated a special fund of 35 million national dollars for post-war reconstruction and relief."

"The chairman also gave instructions on the memorial service for the martyrs who died in battle."

Chu Yunfei took the telegram and nodded: "Let Sun Weimou handle this matter. This guy is very professional in doing these things."

"Also, the resettlement expenses for the newly recruited soldiers should be paid from the public treasury of southeastern Shanxi. Special funds should be used for pensions, and for post-war recovery, let the Construction Corps and the Agricultural Reclamation Corps contribute more."

"Yes!"

Song Wenying blinked her big eyes, didn't say anything, just looked at the two of them quietly.

After a brief discussion, Chu Yunfei turned around with a little apology: "President Song, we still need to raise this money, but the subsequent use method and investment direction may be different.

Since the cost of pensions and reconstruction has been paid, the money will be used to invest in the defense industry."

In the blink of an eye, another three days passed.

Each unit completed the final summary of captured items and casualties.

The 88th Group Army has two armies under its command.

One is the old unit, which is the 358th Army known as the Flying Tiger Attack Army.
The other is the newly established eleventh one, which is under construction and is under the charge of Huang Baitao.

among them.

The Flying Tiger Attack Army was composed of the Flying Tiger Honor Division (Qian Bojun, Wu Ziqiang, Qian Zhaoyou, Luo Weiguo), and the New Thirteenth Division (Luo Weiguo)

The Flying Tiger Honor Division is composed of the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 7th, 8th, and 9th Infantry Regiments.
The newly formed 13th Division was originally composed of the 4th, 5th and 6th Infantry Regiments.
After the adjustment, the newly formed 13th Division will transfer the original 6th Infantry Regiment to the newly formed 11th Army, and on the basis of the 6th Infantry Regiment, it will form the 11th Infantry Regiment with the 7th Infantry Regiment as a template and use it as the main force.

As for the newly formed 13th Infantry Regiment under the Flying Tiger Attack Army, it retained the number of the 6th Infantry Regiment after the adjustment.

And the 10th Infantry Regiment was newly added.

In other words, after the adjustment, the Flying Tiger Attack Army was composed of ten infantry regiments, from the first to the tenth.

Even though an infantry regiment was withdrawn, the number of people did not decrease.

Chu Yunfei will also set up a new infantry regiment under the newly formed 13th.

As for the newly formed eleventh unit under Huang Baitao.

It is under the command of the 11th Infantry Regiment, the 1st Sichuan Army Regiment, the 2nd Sichuan Army Regiment, and the 3rd Sichuan Army Regiment.

The upper limit Chu Yunfei gave Huang Baitao was ten groups.

There is no requirement that all the members of the Sichuan Army Corps who call themselves the First or Second Regiment must be from Sichuan.

But it will definitely be a main infantry regiment composed mainly of people from Sichuan.

Among the above infantry units.

Among them, the 1st, 4th, 7th and 11th Infantry Regiments were used as the main force.

The remaining regiments serve as core regiments and undertake basic tactical tasks.

As for the combat troops directly under the 88th Group Army.

It is the 4th Cavalry (Wang Qifeng, Deputy Commander Zhang Dongkai, and Chief of Staff Liu Zhonglin).

Assault Regiment, and Mountain Artillery Brigade (30th Artillery Regiment, 31st Mountain Artillery Regiment)
The two regiments of the mountain artillery brigade each have two artillery battalions.

The 76th Artillery Regiment was mainly equipped with twelve Soviet 1902mm mountain and field guns (M30/75 model) and twelve Shanxi-made mm mountain guns.

The 31st Mountain Artillery Regiment was also expanded from the original Liang Guoping Artillery Battalion.

It is now equipped with 75 Type mm mountain guns.

As an artillery unit directly under the command of Chu Yunfei.

Today they are much bigger than before.

The two artillery regiments were equipped with a total of fifty-six guns.

This is also the fundamental reason why the consumption of artillery shells is far greater than before.

The firepower has increased by more than three times compared to the beginning.

After this battle, some adjustments to positions are also needed.

First of all, the direct troops.

There was nothing much to do with the artillery units, and there was no position for adjustment.

There are no adjustments to the assault regiment either.

Zhou Weiguo still serves as the commander of the assault regiment.

Zhou Weiguo will have to stay in this position until a new leader is trained.

But the position of Zhang Dongkai, deputy commander of Cavalry 4, needs to be moved.

The newly formed 11th Huang Baitao unit is currently short of many officers.

He happened to be promoted to be the commander of an infantry division under Huang Baitao.

Huang Baitao had just arrived and did not have any serious subordinates who could be promoted.

Zhang Dongkai had someone he could use in the past.

Send Wu Sizhong, Sun Ming and others over there.

It was also to help Huang Baitao.

As the military reforms gradually progressed after the Nanyue Military Conference.

At this stage, almost all division-level units do not have brigade-level organizations.

Of course, there are not exceptions.

Such reforms mainly focus on the central army and local military forces.

The army has regiments directly under it, but no one is in charge
It is against the norm that Kaishen pays out money according to the original plan, but whether or not the money is actually paid is another matter.
Sun Ming took this opportunity to move up a step and become Zhang Dongkai's deputy.

First build the new ten-story frame.

As for when it will be able to form combat effectiveness, Chu Yunfei himself cannot say for sure.

The Flying Tigers attacked the army.

The commander of the Flying Tiger Honor Division was adjusted to Bian Fucheng, and the deputy commander was Xue Jie, the former commander of the Second Infantry Regiment.

Liu Wang, former deputy commander and supervisor of the Second Infantry Regiment, was promoted to commander.

Sun Xinpu, commander of the 3rd Infantry Regiment, also serves as deputy chief of staff.

The commander of the First Infantry Regiment, Zhang Fugui, had his title of acting commander removed and he became the commander in the true sense of the word.

The former commander of the newly formed 13th Army, Luo Weiguo, was promoted to deputy chief of staff of the 88th Army.

The commander was adjusted to Pang Junming and the deputy commander to Cao Potian.

The chief of staff was commanded by Guo Yanzheng, the former commander of the 7th Infantry Regiment.

Pang Junming continued to serve as the commander of the 4th Infantry Regiment.

The post of commander of the 5th Infantry Regiment was taken by Zhou Daxing, the former commander of the 9th Infantry Regiment.

The Sixth Infantry Regiment is to be established.

The 7th Infantry Regiment will not be adjusted.

Gong Yuxin, former deputy commander of the 9th Infantry Regiment, took over the position of commander.

As for casualties.

The total casualties of Chu Yunfei's combat troops amounted to 17,357.

Twelve thousand men died.

It can be said that it is a complete breakdown.

The statistics on equipment loss are even more frightening.

The most serious losses were in light weapons:
The losses of rifles were as follows: 3,400 Jin-made Type 65 rifles, 670 Jin-made Thompson rifles, 1,740 Hanyang-made rifles, and 196 American-made Thompson rifles.

The machine gun losses were as follows: 24 Shanxi-made Type heavy machine guns, Shanxi-made Czech-type machine guns, Czech-type light machine guns, and Type heavy machine guns.

The Shanxi-made Type 38 heavy machine gun has various problems in terms of performance and quality control.

Nowadays, the number of losses is increasing, but Chu Yunfei doesn’t find it surprising.

Under such high-intensity combat, being able to persist for such a long time is already very impressive.

The losses of support weapons were as follows: twelve 107mm mortars, three mm mortars, six mm mortars, and two mm mortars.

In terms of direct-fire artillery: four PAK36s, four Type 37 infantry guns, and two Soviet-made guns.

The equipment for direct-fire artillery is indeed a problem at the moment.

All the PAK36s originally ordered have been consumed so far.

As for the Type 92 infantry gun, the problem of ammunition needs to be solved.

The performance of the Soviet-made 37mm gun was very poor, so poor that the soldiers were somewhat disgusted with it.

The degree of wear and tear is very high, and it is basically impossible to shoot accurately, and most of the time you can only hear a noise.

This second-hand equipment is really cheap.

But just because the Soviets sold at a low price didn't mean they wouldn't tamper with the equipment delivered under the military procurement contract.

There was not much loss in heavy weapons.

But the cavalry lost another 570 horses.

Altogether forty draft and pack horses were lost.

The loss of horses was incurred early in the pursuit.

The loss of draft horses and pack horses is normal wear and tear.

When wars were frequent, horses would become too tired and become sick or even die of exhaustion.

Even though the veterinary officer took good care of it.

The National Army treats the position of veterinarian fairly favorably, considering it a semi-technical branch of the military, and its salary is slightly higher than that of ordinary non-commissioned officers.

The number of horses can reflect the combat effectiveness of a unit to a certain extent. A unit with more pack horses can often carry more ammunition, and the soldiers can also be more relaxed to ensure that they still have the physical strength to fight.

In terms of weapons and equipment, after the arrival of American aid, it was basically able to meet most of the needs.

However, obtaining pack horses and riding horses is still a difficult problem.

What is the future of the 4th Cavalry Division?
Whenever he thought of this, Chu Yunfei would subconsciously turn his gaze towards the direction of the Eighth War Zone.

It's such a pity that such a great place as the Northwest Horse Farm is in the hands of these bastards.

The number of items seized is also very substantial.

When the 114th Division was completely wiped out, not much weapons, equipment or ammunition was captured.

At the last moment before their death, these Japanese soldiers destroyed most of their weapons and equipment.

Later, when the 108th Division and the 109th Division were defeated.

Instead, a lot of weapons and equipment were seized.

Chu Yunfei was checking the seizure report.

The first thing you see is the 105mm howitzer placed in the front row.

He turned to look at Liu Shuzeng who was chatting with Zhao Pengcheng: "Good fellow Liu Laocai, which unit captured these two 105mm howitzers?"

"You may find it a little surprising to hear that it was pulled out of Songxi River by a battalion commander named Chen Feng."

(End of this chapter)