In the afternoon, Liu Yu rushed to Niangziguan and welcomed those coming from the 129th Division, including a total of 200 graduates of the Anti-Japanese University dispatched from the headquarters, 510 cadres at all levels, and 1,125 veterans of various arms.
These people formed a group and swaggered through Pingding and took the Shitai Highway to Jingxing. The Japanese soldiers stationed in Pingding didn't even dare to fart when they saw these murderous Eighth Route Army soldiers.
After the lady closed the door, Liu Yu held the hands of Guo Huaruo, Tang Tianji, Ouyang Wen and others who had led the team, and did not want to let go for a long time.
"Comrade Hua Ruo, I look forward to you, but I look forward to it so hard that I can't wait to see you!"
Guo Huaruo, a graduate of the fourth class of Huangpu and the originator of the New China Military Academy. With him, Liu Yu's military academy can be started. Instead of asking Lao Wang to lead a short-term training class like before, regardless of whether the effect is good or not, I feel heartbroken just to see Lao Wang training recruits during the day and having to attend classes until 10 o'clock in the evening.
Tang Tianji, who also graduated from the fourth class of Huangpu, previously served as the commander of the Shanxi-Henan border guerrilla detachment. Before coming here, he had just led troops to fight against the Japanese. He was a tiger general in Liu Shuai's hands.
Ouyang Wen joined the old revolution of the Red Army at the age of 18. Leaving aside other things, Liu Yu knew that this man was a real genius with excellent learning ability. He never understood anything. Later, he learned by doing and became the leader of New China. Experts in the two industries of machinery and electronics.
These three alone are worth at least three organizers' equipment in Liu Yu's heart!
He’s not an organizer like Lao Jiang!
Among the remaining cadres, there are relatively few military chiefs, and most of them are political cadres.
As a newly established division, and also as a reorganization division, I understand everything, so there’s no need to say more.
The more than a thousand veterans surprised Liu Yu. There were not many artillery at the headquarters, so among the 500 veterans transferred from them, there were more than 300 artillery!
These artillerymen were all captured from Yan Laoxi'er during the Eastern Expedition, and now they have no artillery to shoot.
On the contrary, among the more than 600 veterans transferred from the division headquarters, there was not a single artilleryman.
Liu Shuai said: If he had known that there would be big guns, he would not have traded Luo Haiming to Liu Yu.
Guo Huaruo and others also breathed a sigh of relief when they saw the unfaltering joy in Liu Yu's eyes.
They were afraid that this young commander would be arrogant and would be difficult to get along with in the future.
Now it seems that there is no need to worry at all.
Guo Huaruo smiled and said: "Comrade Liu Yu, from now on we will just eat from the same pot. I hope you will take care of me."
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When we returned to Jingxing, it was already evening, and Lao Song had already arranged a reception banquet. As soon as people arrived, the banquet started immediately.
A sumptuous banquet surprised all the newcomers and they also began to integrate into the big family.
After the meal, there was a military division meeting.
At the meeting, Commander Liu Yu officially announced the establishment of the 122nd Division of the Eighth Route Army.
Then after discussions at the meeting, the personnel appointments for units at all levels of the military region and the 122nd Division were determined.
The first is the military zone.
Military Region Commander: Liu Yu.
Deputy Commander and Logistics Minister: Wu Hongbo.
Political Commissar of the Military Region and Minister of Finance: Song Renqiong.
Minister of Security: Xu Liqing.
Organization Minister: Xu Guanghua.
Minister of Education: Guo Huaruo.
Minister of Industry: Ouyang Wen.
Minister of Health: Ding Shifang.
Minister of Agriculture: Long Fucai.
Propaganda Minister: Jiang Yueqin.
Director of the Military Region Scientific Research Institute: Wang Qian
Military Region Guard Battalion Commander: Han Tao
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Next is the 122nd Division.
Teacher: Liu Yu.
Political Commissar: Song Renqiong.
Deputy division commander: Wu Hongbo.
Chief of Staff: Wang Zhitao.
Director of the Political Department: Xu Liqing.
Brigade 364:
Brigadier: Liu Yu (concurrently)
Political Commissar: Tang Tianji
Deputy Brigadier: Huang Zhentang
Chief of Staff: Li Dinghai
Director of the Political Department: Cheng Yuechang
The 364th Brigade has jurisdiction over the 727th Regiment, the 728th Regiment, and an independent regiment. The regiment leaders and political commissars are respectively Li Tianda, Li Lin (727th Regiment), Li Jingchao, He Kecui (728th Regiment), Li Hehui, and Wu Longzhui (independent regiment).
Brigade 366:
Brigadier: Wang Zhitao (concurrently)
Political Commissar: Wu Zongxian
Deputy Brigadier: Yuan Xuekai
Chief of Staff: Li Yinzhang
Director of the Political Department: Chen Huan
The 366th Brigade has jurisdiction over the 731st Regiment, the 732nd Regiment, and the Teaching Group. The chief officers are Zhang Jianting and Chen Deren (731st Regiment), Jiang Fengchun, Zhao Baosheng (732nd Regiment), and Zhang Chuanshun and Hu Weiguo (Teaching Group).
Division Artillery Regiment: Regiment Commander Luo Haiming, Political Commissar Zhou Luru.
The two brigades plan to expand on the basis of the original first and second regiments. Currently, the two regiments are still staying at Tumen Pass and Niangzi Pass respectively, and will be reorganized after the training of this batch of new recruits is completed.
Because the shelf is bigger, it is definitely not possible to use one team to support two sets of brands like before. Besides, there are enough manpower now, so everyone no longer has to work as hard as before. Therefore, after everyone discussed and decided, we should implement the strategy of separation of military and political affairs, that is, the troops will only be responsible for fighting, and the management of the base areas will be handed over to the administrative personnel.
Then there was the establishment of the Jingxing Branch of the Border Bank. The position of president was given to a graduate of the Anti-Japanese University named Zhou Yueru, who was also a lesbian and a top student in economics at Yenching University.
The most eye-catching thing is the director of the scientific research institute, Wang Qian, whose beautiful appearance made all the gentlemen stare. Finally, Lao Song introduced her grandly, saying that she was the commander's "fiancée", and there was another burst of excitement. Heckle.
Wang Qian was generous and introduced herself with a smile, but Liu Yu blushed to the root of his neck with embarrassment.
After all the duties were assigned, Liu Yu proposed the arrangements for follow-up work at the meeting.
The first step is to put all the new military cadres and veterans into the Zhangzhuang Town Recruit Training Base, and integrate them with the previous batch of recruits who are about to complete the first phase of training. After training for a period of time, they will be integrated with the recruits. Now the latest batch of more than 24,000 recruits have been integrated again and trained for another month.
The first integration is in the hope that those cadres and veterans can become familiar with the independent column, or the current training methods of the 122nd Division, which will help them understand what the soldiers under their own hands will be like in the future.
The second integration into their hometown was to allow these veterans to pass on their battlefield experience to the new recruits as much as possible.
Those veterans, especially the two companies transferred from the 772nd Regiment, are all old Red Army veterans who have experienced the Long March. Each one has more than five years of military service. Each one is a treasure!
Liu Yu's proposal was unanimously approved by the participants.
As for the organization and weapons equipment of the troops, as previously planned by Liu Yu, the division has 2 brigades and 6 regiments, as well as directly affiliated artillery regiments, engineering regiments, baggage regiments, guard battalions, special operations brigade, field hospitals and other directly affiliated units. There were few other changes to the organization at the infantry regiment level. The artillery company was expanded into an artillery battalion, with a total number of more than 22,000 people in the division.
The military region now has a total strength of more than 32,000 troops. The 122nd Division will serve as a field force in the future. The remaining 8,000 people will be organized into three military region security regiments and other security personnel. They will be responsible for Tumen Pass, Niangzi Pass, Xixi, etc. The defense of Yang County was placed under the unified command of Security Minister Xu Liqing.
Originally, according to Liu Yu's idea, two three-unit divisions were directly reorganized, and there were no brigades below the divisions, but considering that the conditions were not yet mature, he gave up.
The most important thing is that there is currently a surplus of senior cadres who can serve as regiment level or above. The army has been expanded. If it is reorganized according to Liu Yu's idea, many people will not be able to be promoted.
Although everyone will not be emotional on the surface, they will feel somewhat uncomfortable in their hearts.
Now many people have been promoted to brigade-level cadres, and everyone is happy.
The meeting lasted for three full days. These three days determined the future development of the Jingxing area and also greatly affected the pattern of central Shanxi Province. Of course, this is a story for another day.
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