"You must be Mr. Li Qiufan."
Li Qiufan was shocked by the boss's generosity, when suddenly a man came forward and said.
"Hello, I am Li Qiufan, who are you?"
Looking at the man in military uniform in front of him, Li Qiufan was a little confused. He had never seen this man before.
"Haha, I was assigned by the boss to hand over weapons and soldiers to your independent division."
The man introduced himself and found out that he was sent by the boss.
"Hello, this trip has been really hard on you."
When he heard that it was the person sent by his boss, Li Qiufan suddenly realized and thanked him.
"By the way, are you sure the boss gave me all these weapons? You won't regret it!"
After being polite, Li Qiufan pulled the man aside and whispered.
"Haha, of course it's for you. The boss fought against all opinions for this matter!"
The person in charge smiled and patted Li Qiufan's hand to reassure him.
"Against all opinions? What's going on?"
Li Qiufan didn't understand what was going on.
"This time the battle in Taiyuan resulted in huge seizures. The commanders of each unit were squatting at the headquarters, just thinking about asking the boss to allocate more weapons and equipment."
"What the hell, you guys are so greedy for those people. It was the boss who pushed them down and made the final decision to bring them to you!"
The person in charge explained the reason to Li Qiufan, and secretly sighed in his heart. This was the first time he saw a boss supporting a subordinate like this.
The equipment brought by the headquarters this time is not much, but all of them are hard goods.
The most important thing is the twelve 96-type 150mm howitzers, which the Japanese claim to be the most perfect 150mm caliber howitzer.
Unexpectedly, the boss would be so generous and directly approved twelve projects for him.
Although there were two heavy artillery brigades among the Japanese troops in this encirclement and suppression campaign.
But there were twelve approved projects for Li Qiufan alone. You can imagine how much pressure the boss was under.
And each cannon was equipped with a base number of sixty rounds of shells, which made Li Qiufan even more overjoyed.
Even Li Qiufan was wondering whether the boss sent the cannon to him because he knew that his artillery regiment had not been expanded.
With these twelve heavy cannons as the starting point, Li Qiufan no longer cares about other things.
"Mr. Li, don't just watch the cannons. Should we go through the formalities?"
The person in charge saw that Li Qiufan was looking at the howitzer, and stretched out his hand to tug on his clothes.
"Uh, yes, let's go through the formalities first!"
Li Qiufan finally came to his senses and took the person in charge to the headquarters of their independent division.
After completing the formalities with the person in charge, Li Qiufan came to Zhao Gang excitedly.
"Old Zhao, I'm so angry!"
Li Qiufan danced happily, like a mental patient.
"Okay, I say Qiu Fan, you're almost done. If you keep going like this, I'm going to go crazy because of you!"
Zhao Gang said helplessly to Li Qiufan, he really couldn't bear it anymore.
"Well, I'm just too happy, please forgive me, Old Zhao!"
Seeing Zhao Gang getting angry, Li Qiufan finally calmed down a little.
"Stop making trouble, let's talk about the troops. Now we have too many troops, and you, the division commander, have to make the decision on this matter!"
Zhao Gang waved his hand and took Li Qiufan to talk about the army establishment.
"I've already thought about this."
Li Qiufan thought it was something, but when he heard it was a matter of staffing, he immediately expressed that he had some ideas.
"Have you thought about it? What do you think?"
Zhao Gang asked Li Qiufan after hearing what he said.
"Expand an infantry brigade and the artillery regiment into a heavy artillery brigade."
"As for the cavalry regiment, let's cancel it, merge it with the guard regiment, and expand it into a guard brigade."
Li Qiufan immediately expressed his thoughts. Zhao Gang expected the expansion of the infantry brigade and artillery regiment, but the arrangement of the cavalry regiment surprised him.
"Qiu Fan, the cavalry regiment has been withdrawn?"
Zhao Gang couldn't bear it and confirmed towards Li Qiufan.
"Withdraw. The cavalry regiment that went to support Lao Li was crippled. There are only a hundred or so of the two thousand people left. Rebuilding is too energy-consuming."
Li Qiufan nodded and explained the reason. In fact, the main reason was that the cavalry would be of little use in the future and would be banned sooner or later.
"Okay, then do as you say!"
Zhao Gang did not object after hearing Li Qiufan's words, and nodded in agreement. It is true that the current independent division does not have many resources to rebuild the cavalry regiment.
In the days that followed, the entire independent division became very busy, expanding, expanding, merging, and merging.
After several days of reorganization, the independent division now has three infantry brigades, a heavy artillery brigade, and a security brigade.
The three infantry brigades and the heavy artillery brigade each have a strength of more than 7,000 people, while the guard brigade is smaller, with only more than 5,000 people.
Today's independent division has reached about 35,000 troops, already the size of an army.
Even Li Qiufan found it a little unbelievable. Thinking about the initial team of a few hundred people, and looking at the tens of thousands now, he couldn't help but be filled with emotion.
Time flies by like a flash, and the day soon comes that the Chinese people will never forget.
On August 15, 1945, the Japanese surrendered, and the Japanese emperor broadcast the news of the surrender in China.
On this day, Li Qiufan put on a brand new military uniform and came to the place where the ashes of the fallen soldiers were buried after the Battle of Taiyuan.
"Brothers, we have won!"
Li Qiufan solemnly saluted the military salute and said in a choked tone.
Looking at the tombs without tombstones, his eyes turned red.
Although I have long known that there is such a day, I also know the exact time of this day.
But when the day finally arrived, he still couldn't control himself.
"Qiu Fan, why are you here? I haven't even looked for you... What's wrong with you?"
Zhao Gang suddenly came over. He originally wanted to see Li Qiufan for something, but he didn't expect that Li Qiufan was not at the division headquarters. He asked several soldiers before he found this place.
After arriving here, Zhao Gang suddenly discovered that Li Qiufan was a little different today. He couldn't tell exactly what was different, but his whole temperament had changed.
"Old Zhao, you are here."
Li Qiufan followed the sound and found that it was Zhao Gang who was coming, and immediately calmed down his emotions.
"Qiu Fan, what are you doing?"
Zhao Gang saw Li Qiufan's red eyes at a glance and asked worriedly.
"Haha, it's okay. I'm a little happy today."
Li Qiufan shook his head and continued to turn around and look at the tombs.
"Qiu Fan, if you have something to say, just say it. Don't hold it in yourself!"
Zhao Gang became a little anxious when he saw Li Qiufan's actions. He was really afraid that Li Qiufan would stifle him.
"Old Zhao, we have won!"
Li Qiufan turned his back to Zhao Gang and suddenly said something that made him confused.
