At present, the Japanese occupied southern Jiangsu and Hangzhou, Shanghai and Nanjing, and sometimes went south to capture the entire territory of Zhejiang. The Third War Zone arranged several troops in this area. Among them, the 66th Division stationed in Wuzhen was a new army that was newly formed in the war area. The main task of this new force with more than 6,000 people was naturally to defend Wuzhen and Baima Pass, a key area twenty miles north of Wuzhen. Several main forces were all deployed behind the defense line of the 66th Division. In other words, the main task of the 66th Division was to act as cannon fodder. While being crushed by the Japanese chariots, they also used the flesh and blood of the 6,000 soldiers of the 66th Division to block the Japanese's edge and consumed the Japanese's aura.

No wonder the commanders of the war zone made such arrangements. As we all know in the Third War Zone, the Supreme Commander tacitly divided hundreds of thousands of troops into three levels.

The first level is naturally the 19th Army under the command of Luo Zhuoying. This team, the backbone of the wooden and earth system of the chairman's direct legion, is now being repaired behind the front due to excessive losses in the Battle of Shanghai.

Some directly affiliated troops in the theater such as Ningbo and Wentai garrison areas enjoy first-class treatment, as well as the 19th Army.

The second level is the 10th Army, led by Liu Jianxu, composed with the Hunan Army as the main force. On the one hand, the Hunan Army has strong combat power. Although He Jian no longer serves as the chairman of Hunan Province, his power is still there. The central government naturally admires Liu Jianxu's troops, who are He Jian's direct descendants, in the local army.

The third level is naturally the 23rd Army and the 28th Army, which are all composed of the Sichuan Army.

The Sichuan Army's equipment level training level is not only far behind the Central Army, but also far inferior to the Hunan Army. Although there are two armies in name, they are actually just two armies leading some direct troops. In addition, Liu Xiang, the commander-in-chief of the Seventh War Zone, fell ill on the way out of Sichuan to fight against Japan, and now he is hospitalized in Hankou. The Sichuan Army has no leader and has become a mess of sand. The weak combat power is not as important as the Hunan Army.

For example, the temporary units of the 66th Division are not above the above three levels, and are the perfect super fish troops. They are the kind of troops that are not loved by their uncles and can be used to block bullets for their direct descendants at any time.

The bosses of the commander's headquarters in the Chenshang War Zone also fully reflected the intention of the Supreme Commander. Not only did the 66th Division lead the lead, but the front and back configurations of other troops also made people understand the battle zone carefully and clearly. It is basically arranged according to the closeness and distance of the troops. The closer they are to the central troops, the safer they are placed in, and the defenders on the first and second lines are almost all local military brigades.

Of course, there are troops with lower status than the 66th Division in the Third War Zone, so it is considered to be the newly formed Fourth Army.

Although the direct troops of the New Fourth Army's theater were nominally directed, for well-known reasons, the officials of the theater would not let the chairman's old enemies really enjoy the generous treatment of the direct troops of the theater.

At least in terms of daily funds and logistics supplements, the New Fourth Army can be assigned the most difficult tasks every time, and it is called "the capable ones work harder.

In terms of assigning combat tasks, the theater commander and the Supreme Commander prefer the New Fourth Army and have great trust. In fact, they really regard the New Fourth Army as a full-fledged main force. Of course, they don’t think about the addition after the war.

Compared with the New Fourth Army that can only receive 75% of the funds of a full division every month and that the food and ammunition are not supplemented by the service personnel, the 66th Division is naturally much happier.

Although it is also regarded as a cannon fodder that consumes the Japanese army and is supported by stepmothers, it is still a Kuomintang army. At least no matter how much it is, it is still a little supplementary. The monthly funding of 500,000 French currency was still fully distributed from the war zone.

Because the troops formed by China New China and the new German military uniforms of the 24th year of the Republic of China, they looked very majestic when they marched. You should know that only a few troops of the Central Army have changed their clothes at present. If it weren't for the only such new military uniforms in the quilt warehouse in the war zone, it would be impossible to say that the 66th Division will temporarily wear this military uniform.

No matter how much combat power this army, which was expanded from the southern Zhejiang security force, actually has, it looks like the 66th Division is glamorous and tight.

However, the entire theater knew that most of the 66th Division, such as the 66th Division, were the combat power of the new recruits, which was only one or a little stronger than the combat power of the new recruits. Not to mention that compared with the elite of the Central Army, it was much worse than that of the Sichuan Army, which had always been known for its lack of combat power and chaos. Although the Sichuan Army was poor in equipment and was not uniform in all its personnel, it still fought a civil war in Sichuan for twenty years. No matter what, it still had some practical experience.

So the 66th Division and other new troops temporarily formed since the Anti-Japanese War were nicknamed as horse manure eggs, which undoubtedly meant that the outside was bright and the inside was loose.

Even when Xia Weimin, the commander of the 66th Division, refuted this statement on the official side, he had to privately admit that this statement also had its reasons.

The 66th Division currently has 6,000 troops. Although the number of people cannot be compared with the elites of the Central Army such as the 88th Division of the 36th Division, it is already considered a full-time division in the local army. However, this actual combat power is really unsatisfactory.

Xia Weimin himself also carefully calculated in his mind that if the 66th Division is on the battlefield, he will probably not even be able to defeat any brigade of the Central Army, let alone fight head-on with the Japanese army.

This is mainly because there are too few veterans. Xia Weimin's original troops were not replenished for many years before the Anti-Japanese Army. This time it was expanded to the 66th Division. More than 30% of the veterans were concentrated in the division headquarters and brigade headquarters. The proportion of veterans in the front-line combat troops was even smaller. The rest were strong men. Once it started, it would be good to escape without a fight. In fact, there were no less than 300 new recruits who had escaped in the past few months. The combat power of such troops was naturally not higher.

At the same time, Chu Yuan also basically understood the origin of the 66th Division from these people.

His cheap brother-in-law Xia Weimin is from Jinhua, Zhejiang. He was born in the seventh phase of the Baoding Military Academy. He was originally a brigade commander under Zhejiang Governor Lu Yongxiang. During the Northern Expedition, he was incorporated into a division commander of the National Revolutionary Army by the Kuomintang.

During the Second Northern Expedition, he made military achievements and was promoted to the commander of the 53rd Army of the National Revolution at the end of the 18th year of the Republic of China.

During the Central Plains War in the 19th year of the Republic of China, he stood on the side of the anti-Chiang coalition. Although he later joined Jiang in Henan, his troops still sent most of the central government to dismissal. The remaining more than 3,000 people were sent to southern Zhejiang by the supreme authorities and became the local security force in Zhejiang Province.

If it weren't for the July 7 Incident and the formation of the national anti-Japanese war situation, this team would not have been remembered by the Supreme Commander again in any case. After seven years as a security force, it would have become a dignified and regular national army.

From a certain point of view, Xia Weimin really thanked the Japanese. If it weren't for them, the Supreme Commander would not have allowed Xia Weimin to command this miscellaneous unit to expand and develop.

As far as Chu Yuan knows, this is also the most ironic humor of that era.

It was the bloody battles of millions of local troops that blocked the flesh and blood body of the Japanese army's rushing straight into the Chinese land, and the existence of the Japanese army on the land of China was the basis and prerequisite for these local troops to survive and develop.
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