The 37th Brigade and Iizuka Detachment had a fierce confrontation under the city of ** County, and the combined force of the two sides invested tens of thousands of people.

The Japanese army, who were unwilling to fail, obviously wanted to win a game under ** City.

However, Iizuka Kiyogoro would not have a good chance to repeat the glory of the Taipingji battle. The new 37th Brigade's strength combined exceeded that of the Iizuka Detachment, not to mention the heavy artillery regiment and armored brigade.

In this battle, Iizuka Kiyogoro is destined to fail.

Leng Feng handed over all the command to Liao Sen. Liao Sen commanded the troops Yu Iizuka Kiyogoro fought for three days and three nights, and finally designed to introduce the Iizuka Detachment to the city of ** and severely damaged the Iizuka Detachment with heavy artillery.

Iizuka Kiyogoro hit a head and bloodied under the city of **, losing more than half of it, and throwing away a large number of weapons and ammunition. The anti-Japanese brigade of the New 37th Brigade suddenly became famous across the country.

Liao Sen became famous in one battle and became a famous anti-Japanese general!

If the main force of the Japanese 9th Division had not arrived and rescued the remaining troops of the Iizuka Detachment, the Iizuka Detachment would have been eaten by the New 37th Brigade in one bite.

The secret that the Heavy Artillery Regiment of the Honorary First Division was not destroyed by Japanese aircraft bombing was then known by the Japanese army.

Shinji Hata was crazy. He couldn't pull out more troops on the land for a while, so he could only use air power to retaliate.

The Japanese army once again dispatched dozens of bombers to bomb the Honorary First Division and the ** County, and even used the ammunition originally planned to bomb Wuhan to bomb the Honorary First Division.

This can also be regarded as stopping the disaster for the people of Wuhan.

Within three days, **, Quanjiao and Chuxian, all key cities in the area controlled by the Honorary First Division were violently bombarded by the Japanese army.

Later, relevant departments recorded statistics that the amount of ammunition used by the Japanese army to bomb the Honorary First Division was roughly the same as the amount of ammunition used by the Japanese army to bomb Nanjing during the Nanjing Defense War.

It is conceivable how much the Japanese army hated Leng Feng and his honorary first division at this time.

The failure of the "strangation" plan put the Japanese army in an unprecedented crisis. The 13th Division was further trapped by five armies in the Fifth War Zone. More than 100,000 troops were trapped in the area south of the Huai River and north of the Chi River.

With a 10-to-1 force, the domestic expectations for victory in this battle suddenly increased.

The reversal of the battle situation greatly inspired the fighting spirit of the whole people.

The Japanese army wanted to rescue at this moment, but only part of the main force of the 9th Division far away in Yangzhou area, with more than 10,000 people. More than 10,000 people still had to deter the honorary First Division that had gained a foothold in Chuzhou area.

So after the Ninth Division rescued the Iizuka Detachment, he immediately retreated to the Yangzhou area.

The troops were continuously drawn out and the Nanjing area had become a vacuum. As a last resort, Hata Shunrok transferred the 18th Division stationed in Huzhou to Nanjing, and also planned to mobilize two to three divisions from the local area.

The battle was fierce in the north, and the Japanese army in the south were also busy dispatching troops, but Leng Feng calmed down.

Hesitated to use too many aviation bombs on the Honorary Division, and the Japanese aviation forces did not have enough ammunition to support the trapped 13th Division.

Therefore, the fifth war zone was full of victories, and the depth of the Japanese army's defense was constantly compressed.

On the 25th, the 7th Army joined forces with a unit of the 136th Brigade of the 46th Division to recover Dingyuan. More than 1,000 Japanese troops were eliminated, and the remnants of the Dingyuan Japanese army retreated towards Fengyang.

On the 26th, Xiao Bengbu was recovered.

28th...

The Honor Division 1 came out of Nanjing and fought for twenty days, and almost never had a day off. The troops urgently needed rest. Therefore, after completing the first stage of "Catching the Wolf", Leng Feng ordered the relocation to rest. As long as the Japanese army did not provoke, the Honor Division 1 would not be dispatched to attack.

The credit should be given to others. Besides, he is not able to do so. The troops are always tired of fighting and consume too much, which is also unfavorable to growth.

The Honorary First Division is not counted as the New 38th Brigade, but it already has four infantry brigades, one heavy artillery regiment, one artillery regiment (formed after the first phase of the Wolf Capture Plan is completed), one cavalry regiment, armored tank brigade, water detachment, special forces directly under the division headquarters of the Transportation Support Regiment, etc.

There are a lot of people, and there are already 30,000 people in total, which is far more than the size of an army.

The Japanese weapons seized by Leng Feng were enough to fully equip the troops at hand, and there was even a large part of the surplus. Leng Feng did not intend to expand the troops.

However, the troops' optimization and reorganization training is urgent.

Originally, Leng Feng planned to hold a training meeting for the reorganization of the entire division after the division headquarters was transferred to Chu County.

However, Chu County was bombed by the Japanese army and the houses were damaged a lot. The Chu County Middle School building, which was originally planned to be stationed in the division headquarters, collapsed, and the division headquarters could not get through.

So Leng Feng decided to temporarily stay in Wuyi Town, the first division of Honor.

This is the first military meeting of Leng Feng as the commander of the Honorary First Division. The meeting was held in the open air. In the back garden of the temporary division headquarters, except for the New 38th Brigade who sent people to attend the meeting, all military chief officers at the Honorary First Division battalion level attended and were not allowed to be absent for no reason.

A series of victories and honors, the officers and soldiers in the First Division were all highly motivated and their mental outlook was completely different from those in the past. Even the rescued prisoners of war, who later joined, had obvious changes.

For a unit, cohesion and centripetal force are very important.

At the meeting, Leng Feng first talked about the international and domestic situation. Some were external information collected by the "Silver Fox", while others were things stored in Leng Feng's own mind.

The War of Resistance will definitely last for several years. As for whether it will be eight years, Leng Feng is hard to say now. After all, some have changed. Of course, this is just between China and Japan. The international situation is still advancing towards a predetermined trajectory, and there is no big change.

Therefore, he must firmly uphold his subordinates' determination to resist the war and firmly uphold his belief in winning the war.

Of course, what he has to say on whose stool he is sitting now is almost the same, and he cannot win or lose for a moment.

At the conference, Leng Feng announced three things. The first thing is that the Honorary Division will carry out a small reorganization. In principle, no new recruits will be recruited. If you have specialties or excellent conditions, you can consider it. Second, you will start an officer workshop, and Leng Feng will be the head teacher in person, mainly for grassroots officers. In principle, officers below major (including majors) can register. Third, the pension for disabled soldiers and the burial of dead soldiers.

These three things are urgent and must be done now.

The meeting was held all day and continued until the evening. The meeting was still held for discussion, and the main issue was still focused on the reorganization of the troops.

After preliminary statistics, the number of officers and soldiers and auxiliary personnel of the Honorary First Division has exceeded 40,000, which greatly scared Leng Feng.

Leng Feng estimated it himself that the Honorary Division had about 30,000 people, and he included the injured officers and soldiers. No more than 35,000 people.

Now 40,000 people are sent in one go. Where did these people come from?

There are too many people in the army, but it is not necessarily a good thing. There are too many people, and it is also expensive. What you eat, drink, and wear, how much you consume every day, and you have to fight wars. This is astronomical.

"The army must be streamlined. One of our divisions will soon catch up with the other party. What do you want others to think?" Leng Feng did not obey anyone's opinions. He had a rather arbitrary meaning and set the principle of streamlining.

Only military and political officials above the brigade level are eligible to participate in such high-level discussions.

"The supplementary brigade needs to be abolished, and the officers and soldiers of the troops will be dispersed and organized into other troops." This is Leng Feng's second decision on the reorganization. "Our army is too organized, and it looks strong, but in fact, there is still a considerable gap between the Japanese army's combat effectiveness. A soldier can stand up to the three of us, and they are also humans. Why can't we do it?"

"Every soldier in my honor of the First Division must surpass the Japanese army. This is why I decided to streamline it, concentrate limited resources and train a strong army, instead of sharing the poor resources, spreading them over and over again. In the end, no one can get enough for a fight, how can we fight?"

"I believe everyone understands the meaning of the master. Don't hold on to the little mountain in your mind and pay attention. I think that if there are too many people, you can win a big battle. You can just go back and pull out a main team and fight against the Yaksha Battalion directly under the division headquarters. The lost team will be directly abolished and reduced. Do you dare?" Chief of Staff Xie Jiyuan had already reached an agreement with Leng Feng.

Leng Feng's idea inspired Xie Jiyuan a lot. Why can the Japanese use less troops to fight against several times the ****? Are the Chinese worse than the Japanese?

No, although there are reasons for the poor national strength and the quality of soldiers, if limited resources are concentrated, it will be possible to forge an elite strong army.

No one said anything. Do they know what kind of combat effectiveness of Yasha Camp is?

No need to fight, you know you can't win.

It was originally selected from the elites of the teaching team, and after Leng Feng's training, his personal combat effectiveness was second only to the Yaksha Special Operations Team.

In the past twenty days of battle, it has been basically used to attack and the most critical moment, and rushed to the front, which is obvious to all the officers and soldiers of the Honorary First Division.

"Teacher, do you remember a few days ago, we agreed to cooperate with xsj because of insufficient troops, and then we ate the 65th Japanese Regiment?" Ju Youlin was still worried about this matter. After all, what could have allowed his 39th Brigade to enjoy this great contribution alone, but most of it was separated.

It would be fine if it was my own people, but it was xsj, which was very taboo for the old man.

This question is very sensitive. Now that Ju Youlin has raised it, Leng Feng knows that he has to face it, but he has already had the answer.

"This question is easy to explain. It is not that we lack troops, but that we lack overall combat effectiveness. Think about it, if we only need one regiment to fight against the Japanese army head-on, then we only need four regiments to surround the 65th Regiment. How many people are there in the four regiments? How many people are there in the full range of 8,000 people? How many people have we used to encircle and annihilate the two corners? There are six regiments. This is not included in xsj. So, as long as the combat effectiveness of our troops is improved, we can achieve 60,000 combat power and momentum of 20,000 people. What should 40,000 people do?"

"Master, can our financial resources be achieved at this stage?"

"It is up to humans, and even Japanese people can do it. Why can't we? When we see the gap, we have to catch up. We don't lower our heads, act as ostrichs, and see them as not seeing them."

"Trial seat, how many people are you planning to reduce the troops to?"

"At least ten thousand people must be cut off."

"How to place so many people?"

"I plan to take out some money and set up a Vanguard company, mainly to resettle disabled soldiers and families of our Honorary First Division, as well as some soldiers who retired due to injuries and illness. Those who have been removed from service can be transferred to non-combat troops. I plan to set up an engineering army, whose main responsibility is to build bridges and pave roads, and a batch of engineering equipment we seized from the Japanese can be used." Leng Feng said.
Chapter completed!