After hearing the words of Wang Fengqi, the confidential staff officer of the war zone, Yang Ling was also stunned, not knowing what he meant.
Wang Fengqi saw the confusion on Yang Ling's face, opened the folder, took out a letter of appointment and said: "Chief Chen has appointed you as the senior counselor of the War Room of the War Zone Commander's Department."
Yang Ling took the letter of appointment stamped with the seal of the Sixth War Zone and had a strange look on his face. He had always been in the combat unit, and now he was asked to be transferred to the war zone war room as a senior adviser. What did this mean?
Compared with the front-line combat troops, although the military rank does not change much when you become a senior staff officer in the commander's department of a theater, after all, if you stay with the commander, as long as you perform well, you can be promoted in minutes.
Yang Ling remembered the Wang Fengqi in front of him. Although he graduated from "Mainland University" not long ago, he followed Chen Cheng in the Sixth Theater first, and then went to the expeditionary force, and was quickly promoted to major general staff officer.
"Brother Yang, with your rich experience in front-line combat and your experience in the War Zone Commander's Department, your rise to the top is just around the corner. But don't forget about me, brother."
Seeing Yang Ling's strange expression, Wang Fengqi thought that Yang Ling was too happy and hadn't reacted yet.
"Commander Wang, I am affiliated with the Sulu War Zone. Why did I suddenly end up in the Sixth War Zone..." Yang Ling said.
"Hey, our Commander Chen has already contacted the Sulu Theater and the Fifth Theater. Now the Lieyan Special Warfare Brigade is under the command of the Sixth Theater."
"Of course, our Chief Chen said that although you are appointed as the senior counselor of the theater war room, you will still command the Lieyan Special Warfare Brigade." Wang Fengqi explained.
Yang Ling frowned and said, "Then don't I have two jobs? It would be bad if I mess up things by doing two things."
Wang Fengqi smiled and said: "Brother Yang, those who are capable should work harder. Besides, holding two positions is nothing. Isn't our Chief Chen the chairman of Hubei Province and the commander-in-chief of our sixth theater now?"
"Of course, if you think you will be too busy then, just go to the war zone war room when something happens. You will still be mainly responsible for the Flame Special Warfare Brigade."
Hearing Wang Fengqi's explanation, Yang Ling also smiled bitterly and shook his head. He finally saw that this was not a case of overwork for the able, but simply to use a high-ranking official in name only to keep himself in the Sixth War Zone.
But when I turned around and thought about it, as a soldier, he was fighting against Japanese invaders no matter where he was. Since he was asked to stay in the Sixth War Zone, he was fighting against Japanese soldiers anyway, so it didn't matter.
"Chief Chen attaches great importance to the Lieyan Special Warfare Brigade, but he feels that the Lieyan Special Warfare Brigade is too weak, so he wants to expand the Lieyan Special Warfare Brigade. I wonder, Brother Yang, what do you think?" Soon, Wang Fengqi asked.
Get to the point.
He was ordered to go to Yangling and the Fiery Special Warfare Brigade. In addition to telling Yangling that they would be under the control of the Sixth War Zone in the future, the most important thing was the expansion of the Fiery Special Warfare Brigade.
"Expansion?" Yang Ling didn't expect that Chief Chen had this idea.
Yang Ling naturally hopes that the Lieyan Special Forces Brigade will become stronger and stronger, but he also knows very well that the expansion of elite troops is not an easy task.
"Commander Wang, I will tell you the truth. I have no objection to the expansion of the Lieyan Special Warfare Brigade. However, every soldier in the Lieyan Special Warfare Brigade is carefully selected. If we blindly expand the establishment, I am afraid it will be counterproductive and the combat effectiveness will be reduced."
It will go down.”
"Chief Chen is also worried about this, so he sent me to ask for your opinion on how to avoid such a thing from happening." Wang Fengqi said with a serious face.
Yang Ling thought for a while and replied: "There is only one way to expand without reducing combat effectiveness, and that is to select veterans from each army, equip them with the best weapons, and the nutrition must keep up."
Yang Ling once wanted to organize more elite special operations forces when he was in the Sulu Theater, but due to limitations such as limited funds, limited weapons and ammunition, the scale of the Flame Special Operations Brigade has always been small.
Now, if the Sixth War Zone can concentrate its efforts to support him, then the Flame Special Warfare Brigade may really become a large-scale elite force.
When the time comes, whether we concentrate our efforts to fight or disperse and carry out separate tasks, we will become a force that the Japanese will fear.
Wang Fengqi asked: "If all the conditions you mentioned are met, how long will it take to form combat effectiveness?"
Yang Ling thought for a while and replied: "It will take at least a month to initially form combat effectiveness, provided that all soldiers are veterans with combat experience."
"Okay, then you should be prepared. I will go back and report to Chief Chen to implement it as soon as possible."
"So urgent?"
"You also know that our Sixth War Zone does not have many conventional troops, but it has to shoulder the important task of defending Chongqing. Therefore, there is an urgent need for an elite mobile force to support various places and take the initiative to attack the Japanese and puppet troops. In the future, I am afraid that this
The burden falls on your shoulders."
Hearing what Wang Fengqi said, Yang Ling felt a heavy weight on his shoulders. This was not an easy task. He asked, "How many people does Chief Chen want our Lieyan Special Warfare Brigade to expand to?"
Wang Fengqi stretched out two fingers and said: "In the first stage, we will expand to 2,000 people."
In the Sixth War Zone, Chen Cheng saw that Yang Ling and the others were capable of rescuing thousands of captured officers and soldiers from the heavy enemy encirclement, so he hoped that the more people in the Lieyan Special Warfare Brigade, the better.
But he also knew that it was almost impossible to have a large number of people without losing combat effectiveness, so he finally set a standard.
That is to expand the number by 2,000 people previously, and then continue to expand when conditions permit. It would be great if an elite mobile division-level force could be formed.
Although there are many troops in the Sixth War Zone now, they are all good and bad. Moreover, if we reorganize a mobile force on the spot that can advance, attack, retreat and defend, it will involve all aspects.
Moreover, Chen Cheng did not trust many officers in the army, and was worried that when the funds went out, they would eat up their free wages, delaying his own major events.
So after careful consideration, he decided that instead of selecting the original conventional troops for reorganization, it would be better for Yang Ling to form a new army as a pilot.
Yang Ling's unit is directly under the jurisdiction of the Sixth War Zone Commander's Department, and his confidants and confidential staff Wang Fengqi and Yang Ling are personally responsible for the related matters of its formation.
Yang Ling originally thought that the expansion would mean adding one to two hundred people to them, but he did not expect that the war zone commander Chen Cheng had such a big appetite that he would expand to two thousand people in the first phase.
However, the more soldiers Han Xin has, the better. With the support of the Sixth War Zone, Yang Ling believes that the Lieyan Special Warfare Brigade will usher in a period of vigorous development.
Yang Ling couldn't help but get excited when he thought that a special operations force of 2,000 people would go deep into the Japs' occupied areas and carry out operations. I'm afraid the Japs would be in dire straits by then.
"Commander Wang, we are going to form a two thousand-strong Flame Special Operations Brigade. Key officers at the grassroots level are very important. I want to send some brothers who I trust from the North Jiangsu Corps."
"That's no problem. You make a list and I'll report it to Chief Chen."