Chapter 37 reborn

Chen Cheng's general Fang Jing was transferred to the Thirteenth Division as division commander.Before taking office, he went to see He Yingqin.When He Yingqin heard that Fang Jing was going to the Thirteenth Division, he shook his head again and again, because he knew that this division had always been disobedient, and could throw away their division commanders after going to the battlefield, "Go, can you take it with you?" Fang Jing was also worried about this matter, and he came to see He Yingqin because he wanted to ask him for advice.He Yingqin and Fang Jing had the friendship of Whampoa division commanders, so naturally they had to plan for it. He taught Fang Jing a "reborn" strategy: "The Thirteenth Division has two brigade commanders and four regiment commanders. You transfer one brigade commander In the Military Commission, a brigade commander is promoted to other division commanders, a regimental commander is promoted to brigade commander, and a regimental commander is promoted to deputy brigade commander. Then you transfer four of your former subordinates to serve as brigade and regimental commanders. In this way , isn’t the whole teacher under your control?”

Fang Jing suddenly realized, and since then he has followed the same pattern every time he arrives at a new unit, and the results are unsatisfactory. Even Chen Cheng often praises him: "No matter how difficult a unit is, Fang Jing can fix it!" It's not the first day for Yu Jishi to be disturbed in the muddy water of officialdom, how can he not understand the joints and tricks here?During Wang Yaowu's half-truth and half-fake recuperation period, he transferred Chen Shizheng to Zhejiang as the army commander, and He Lingxiao, the deputy division commander who was born in the second phase of Whampoa, also transferred to Zhejiang as the division commander. promotion.

After "reborn", it is "reborn".The newly transferred deputy commander, Liao Lingqi, was a member of the Whampoa Fourth Period, and none of the officers above the commander of the division had surpassed the Whampoa Fourth Period, so Wang Yaowu was in control. Only by completing the necessary foreshadowing can the successor not be in danger of being emptied.On June 24, Wang Yaowu was promoted to the commander of the 74th Army, and the commander of the 51st Division was replaced by Li Tianxia, ​​the deputy division commander. More than a month later, the Seventy-Fourth Army was ordered to reorganize.With the continuation of the war, both the Chinese and Japanese militaries found that the brigade level (the Japanese army is the brigade) played little role in the ordinary infantry division based on the summary of the actual combat in the previous stage. efficiency of action.As a result, some of the newly established divisions of the Japanese army abolished the brigades, and the four-team system in the teacher's regiment also became a three-team system.The organization of the Chinese army used to be based on the German-Japanese model. You can change it and I can change it. The Military Commission decided to abolish the brigade organization and let the division headquarters directly command the affiliated regiments.

In the reorganized Seventy-Fourth Army, each division is composed of three organic regiments and one field supplementary regiment (field supplementary regiment), and the regiment number is also changed immediately.Once the brigade headquarters was withdrawn, the brigade commanders had to find their way out again. Zhou Zhidao, the former commander of the 151st brigade, was promoted to the deputy commander of the 51st division. After all, the position of deputy division commander is limited, and the Military Commission also took this into consideration, so it allowed divisions in need to set up the post of infantry commander, and stipulated that brigade commanders with less seniority could be transferred to division infantry commanders.

The concept of the division infantry commander was also learned from the Japanese organization reform. The Japanese army called it the infantry commander.It’s just that the commander of the infantry regiment of the Japanese army has real power and can command the three infantry regiments of the division. China has its own national conditions. Infantry commanders are just like Gao Can. For example, Zhang Lingfu, who is still recovering from injuries in other places, is the infantry commander.Of course, this is also beneficial, that is, it can retain talents, and once there is a real shortage, it can be filled immediately.

Wang Yaowu belongs to the kind of extremely smart person who can gain a lot of knowledge once he is instructed. Not only is he not inferior to his predecessor in terms of being good at dancing, but he also has his own unique skills, that is, he is proficient in economics and good at doing business. At that time, the Kuomintang army was divided into two types. One was reorganized divisions, which belonged to Chiang Kai-shek’s direct line troops. The amount of funds, the specific distribution will not be involved.As a result, the generals of the "contractors" often did not pay their salaries for several months, and even if they did, they had to discount them in order to fill their pockets.

The 53rd Division, which is dominated by Hunanese, is such a "contract division". Not only is Li Yunheng, the division commander, like Xia Chuzhong, he loves to use fellow villagers, so that most of the officers at all levels are Hunanese with the surname Li, and everyone is united in drinking blood. , and made the soldiers miserable.A quartermaster who knew the inside story was really angry, so he wrote a couplet on a note and secretly pasted it at the entrance of the division. "The second line is: "60% of the salary, 50% of the salary, 40% of the salary, regardless of the salary, the chief sits on the ground and divides the spoils!"

During the civil war, the 53rd Division fought against the Red Army in Jiangxi. After being captured, the soldiers walked and scolded: "Damn it, we haven't been paid for several months. I didn't expect that the Red Army would pay us three One dollar! In the future, when we go to war, we might as well hand in our guns first, and then receive a reward from the Red Army. Of course, it is impossible for such a force to have much combat effectiveness.Later, in the Battle of Wuhan, Li Yunheng, who had already become the commander of the army, was dismissed and retired because of the fall of Ma Dang. This is more or less because he used to only know about greed for money, but did not know the root of the disaster in the army and training.

Wang Yaowu is ambitious, never greedy for money, and his private life is very serious and simple, he doesn't play cards, doesn't smoke, and doesn't ask for concubines.As early as the supplementary brigade period, he often told the officers and soldiers: "I don't want a penny from you, I don't drink the blood of soldiers." No bones of parents!" Wang Yaowu did what he said, but he couldn't bear the pain of having no money. It wasn't that he was short of money, but that the army was short of money.Before the supplementary brigade was reorganized, it belonged to a miscellaneous brand in the direct line, and the funds were not abundant. Wang Yaowu led his troops to Jiangxi to fight the advance team of the Red Army going north. In less than a year, the soldiers were owed four months of military pay.In addition, money is needed to manage the top and bottom, and Wang Yaowu is unwilling to find a way out of the shortage of soldiers, so it is impossible for the money to fall from the world.

If you don't have money, you have to find a way to earn it.Forced to do nothing, Wang Yaowu had to assume another role outside the army.