In terms of the second body, Zhuang Jihua was quite satisfied with the training of the four divisions. The young students who joined the army in Dongwuzhou were very proactive in training. The officers of the army generally reported that this group of soldiers was the easiest to be capable, and they mastered weapon skills very quickly.

com Moreover, Chiang Kai-shek attached great importance to the Youth Army. All the troops were equipped in place, and a considerable number of them were American weapons.

"The Youth Army should become a model for all armies." Zhuang Jihua was leaving to the officers of the division headed by Yi Anhua. Ding Gui said: "Whether it is tactical skills or military discipline, it is necessary to eliminate disturbances to the people, eliminate empty quotas and corruption, just like the Huangpu Educational Group, the company's financial disclosure should be made, the role of party members should be fully played, the role of the Three Youth League members should be played, and the combat team should be formed with party members and league members as the core. In addition to weapons and equipment, soldiers should also be armed with faith.

"Please rest assured, commander, we will follow your orders, practice strictly and form combat effectiveness as soon as possible." Yi Anhua assured Zhuang Jihua, and Wu Yanyang, director of the Political Department, solemnly promised: "We political workers must do our best to do a good job in political work.

"In political work, we should learn from Ning., and their political work is very good." Zhuang Jihua was still worried and continued to say to Wu Yanyang: "Political work must be targeted and follow current affairs. Although they have joined the army, they are still young people. As long as they are young people, they will be interested in society and current affairs. So you must be ahead and walk ahead, and don't wait until things happen before making up for it.

Zhuang Jihua was very worried about political work. The Kuomintang's political work in the army has always been weak and did not know how to carry out political work. Zhuang Jihua suddenly thought of Gong Chu and He Wei, especially Gong Chu. He once served as political commissar in the Red Army and could ask them to write a booklet on how to carry out political work, so that Li Zhilong and Gong Chu could run a political cadre school.

After leaving the Youth Army, Zhuang Jihua still did not return to Laohekou Headquarters, but went to the New 17th Army. The New 17th Army was also a new unit. In fact, in order to supplement the vacancies of the 50th Army after the 58th Army were transferred, Zhuang Jihua mixed up the 49th Army and the 60th Army, and adjusted the middle and lower-level troops. In order not to damage the combat effectiveness of the 60th Army, he transferred 3,000 people from the 49th Army, 5,000 people from the 60th Army, and then transferred 31st Brigade, Dixi, Fangxian and other places.

The security regiment, plus the more than 16,000 new recruits recruited by western Henan and northern Hubei, had a total strength of 32,000. The commander of the New Seventh Army, An Enfu, had two B Divisions (11,000 troops per division) and one mixed brigade (5,000 troops in total). In addition, there were direct military regiments, reconnaissance battalions, engineer battalions, heavy artillery regiments, etc. The new 52nd Division and the new 53rd Division were mixed into the 124th Brigade, the commander of the new 52nd Division, Yun Yingshuang, the commander of the new 53rd Division, Liu Yuantang, and Shi Yuanxing, the commander of the 124th Brigade.

An Enfu chose the training grounds of the New Seventh Army in Junxian northwest of Laohekou. The situation of the New Seventh Army is different from that of the Youth Army. This unit has a complex source. Before the army was formed, various formed superior and subordinate relationships had already formed in the army. If this relationship is used well, it can increase the combat effectiveness of the troops, but under the current circumstances, it is very unfavorable to the training of the new army. In order to break this relationship, An Enliang simply disrupted all the troops and reorganized them. All the chief officers were transferred from the original troops and re-arranged their positions.

In carrying out such a reorganization, the troops were very chaotic in the early stage. An Enfu promoted a group of sergeants from the soldiers supported by the Sixty and Forty-Ninth Army, set up a teaching team in the military headquarters, transferred some thorns to the teaching team to study, and asked the deputy commander Liang Dai to be responsible for it. He went to the army every day. After more than a month of rectification, when Zhuang Jihua arrived, the troops finally looked like this.

An Enfu accompanied Zhuang Jihua to the army for inspection. As an old man of the Forty-Ninth Army, especially from the 101st Army, An Enfu's color of the Yunnan Army gradually faded, and the color of the Zhuang Army became stronger. Liu Yuantang was an alien. When the troops were reorganized, Zhuang Jihua was the only unit transferred from Liu Wenhui's 24th Army, but in the end he was not transferred out of Sichuan. Zhuang Jihua still had concerns about the problem and left behind Liu Wenhui.

But when Liu Wenhui entered Tibet, he did not lead the troops and left him to guard the house, which made Liu Yuantang unwilling. The soldiers in the ** brigade were unwilling to go out to Sichuan to participate in the War of Resistance. Chiang Kai-shek was about to take time out of Sichuan and Kang, so he transferred Liu Yuantang's troops out of Sichuan after the Battle of Wuhan. He first transferred to the First War Zone. After Zhuang Jihua took office as the Fifth War Zone, Liu Yuantang made a report and asked to go to the Fifth War Zone. Zhuang Jihua also asked to train the new army Xiaorang Fifth Army to be fully organized, so Chiang Kai-shek followed the flow and transferred Liu Yuantang to the Fifth War Zone and handed it over to Zhuang Jihua to expand.

Liu Yuantang and An Enfu were the opponents on the banks of the Jinsha River. An Enliang first chased Liu Yuantang to fight, but later Zhuang Jihua intervened and was completely wiped out by Zhuang Liu's coalition forces on the north bank of the Jinsha River. He was also captured again. But now the two have become colleagues, looking at each other and smiling, all the grudges have disappeared in this smile.

An Enfu had known for a long time that with Zhuang Jihua's style of service, he would never ignore the new army. However, Zhuang Jihua arrived so soon, which surprised him because this was not Chongqing. After all, the entire Fifth War Zone, the party, government and military were on Zhuang Jihua's shoulders. He could not have cried so much.

The commanders of this army were all old subordinates, and Liu Yuantang was also an old acquaintance. Zhuang Jihua had a very relaxed and casual conversation with them, but not long after sitting in the military headquarters, Gong Xiuhua came in and handed a telegram to Zhuang Jihua.

After reading it, Zhuang Jihua thought for a moment and said to An Enliang: The Japanese have made moves. Anan Wei has recently obtained reinforcements. The number of troops has not been determined. The vanguard's troops **Munchengkou Brigade has arrived in Wuhan, and the subsequent troops and materials are still coming in a steady stream."

"Why are the little Japanese going to move? Liu Yuantang asked first, "He didn't catch up with several major battles in the Sichuan Army," and heard the news ahead, especially the news of the Sichuan Army's meritorious service, which made the soldiers of the entire brigade excited and jealous. But after they left Sichuan, the front battlefield had calmed down, and there were even fewer wars in the first war zone. They only participated in a few guerrilla activities. The largest battle was not at the battalion level. The whole brigade had been holding back and wanted to have a good fight with the Japanese.

"No matter how hard you are, you will have nothing to do." Zhuang Jihua said angrily, and Liu Yuantang's expression suddenly dimmed. Zhuang Jihua ignored him and continued: "Your top priority is to train the troops. Within half a year, you will have no combat tasks. Remember, half a year later, I want a unit that can fight tough battles.

An Enliang and Liang Dai exchanged glances, and An Enfu sighed: "Commander, the army now has 32,486 people. The people are in place, but what about the weapons and equipment? The Logistics Department said that weapons will have to wait for two months. Can the commander urge Hong Junqi? Our weapons can be faster."

**The weapons of the 31st Brigade were made in Chongqing and barely met the requirements, but the other troops were far from each other. The weapons of the security regiment were even more diverse, from the old-fashioned Qing Dynasty to the Hanyang to the formalities of the Central Committee, and there were all kinds of styles. But in this way, those who had just worn military uniforms had only wooden sticks in their hands.

The new army is also in sharp contrast with the New Seventh Army. Zhuang Jihua is still in charge of the expansion of the New Seventh Army. It is even more conceivable to replace it with others. Zhuang Jihua has no choice but to do this, and he doesn't think Hong Junqi will suppress him.

"Although the supplies are more abundant than before, the war zone troops have been expanded recently. Not only are we expanding, but we are expanding, but the nine war zones and the first war zones are expanding. It is certain that there is not enough materials. You can only overcome them for the time being." Zhuang Jihua said: "When I was in the imperial examination, there were only seven rifles in the school, and one of them was broken by Chen Ping. We all used wooden guns to train them. Explain the situation clearly to the soldiers. The shortage of materials will change at the latest in July. Then all weapons will be available."

Zhuang Jihua didn't care much about the Japanese army's increase. The Japanese army had only so many troops. No matter which aspect it was to dispatch troops to the 11th Army, at most two or three divisions were transferred. The 11th Army had to face three war zones, and there were four divisions in the other two war zones. In this way, the Japanese army could invest more than seven divisions and a total of more than 100,000 troops. His fifth war zone had as many as 500,000 people, and was well-equipped and well-trained, especially the Chinese

The first mechanized army in the country was in hand, and there were 50,000 people from the upper reaches of the Yangtze River Command, which could be assigned to him when necessary, so he did not care much about the actions of the Japanese army and did not want to interrupt his patrol because of this incident. However, the development of the matter was not expected by him. During the inspection of the New 52nd Division, another telegram flew from the headquarters to catch up with him. The telegram was jointly sent by Chief of Staff Xu Zuyi and Director of the Operations Department He Wei, and the content of the telegram was still the trend of the Japanese army.

He Wei analyzed the Japanese army's mobilization in the past two months and found that the Japanese army had calmly assembled six divisions in the front of the Fifth War Zone, and now one division was transferred from the army stationed in Shanghai. In addition, according to the information, two mixed brigades in Shandong and Hebei were transferred to Wuhan. After the Japanese army in North China was in the wing, they stopped attacking, and various materials were gathering in the 11th Army in Wuhan. Based on the above situation, He Wei believed that the Japanese army's attack was imminent.

After receiving this telegram, Zhuang Jihua immediately interrupted the inspection at the New 52nd Division, rushed back to the Laohekou War Zone Command overnight, and stepped into the command gate. The soldiers' unique sensitivity immediately noticed some differences in the command, and there was an inexplicable nose in the air.

The inner courtyard has added double posts and the patrol team has also increased. Although the night is already deeper, the combat office is still brightly lit. When Zhuang Jihua entered the door, Xu Zuyi, He Wei and Deputy Director of the Operations Office Sun Xiaochuan were discussing in front of the map. The sun flag around the fifth war zone on the map had been added several times.

"Commander" Sun Xiao" first discovered Zhuang Jihua at the door and hurriedly came up. Xu Zuyi and He Wei also turned around, Zhuang Jihua rushed towards Sun Xiao" nodded, walked to the map a few steps, looked at the newly added small flags on the map, and thought for a while before saying.

"Director He, please introduce the situation

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