During the month and a half when the 600 soldiers in training were busy moving materials, learning to build houses and understanding the characteristics of architecture, Liu Lang was not idle either.
The thirty instructors needed, including qualified regimental deputy Zhang Ruhao and deputy captain Li Guobin, are only 8. The independent regiment is still short of 22 instructors.
The Red Army has decided to send ten red cadres who are worried about both the government and the military. However, they are still receiving underground work training on the march. Liu Lang has arranged for the backbone of the Huashang Group to send a caravan again to where the Red Army has arrived.
Wuqi Town in northern Shaanxi was the end point where the Red Army declared victory in the great strategic shift.
Liu Lang had already learned from the telegram that, just like in the past, the red troops arriving at Wuqi Town set up an ambush on the outskirts of Wuqi Town in order to prevent their pursuers from being brought into the red base.
However, this time was different from the time and space that defeated the Northeastern Army's cavalry army and Ma Hongbin's 35th Division, which had more than 2,000 people each. There were suddenly 72 more light machine guns, 24 heavy machine guns, and 24 more guns.
The red troops who fired the cannon almost beat the young marshal far away in Xi'an to tears. A cavalry brigade of the Northeast Army that showed its last brotherly love to the bald man only escaped less than one-fifth. The fierce Ma Jiajun cavalry rushed forward.
The most ruthless and fastest, they rushed into the ambush circle where the first and second columns of the Red Army were also in Toudaochuan, Erdaochuan, and Sandaochuan. None of the three thousand people escaped, and they were all eaten up.
.
Not counting the more than 600 war horses, light and heavy machine guns, mortars and other trophies captured in this battle, the Red Army destroyed more than double the number of enemies in time and space. They directly defeated the warlord cavalry who threatened the base area in northern Shaanxi.
Heartbroken.
Even the fierce Ma Jiajun was afraid of the red troops from now on, and no longer dared to shout that "annihilating a bunch of peasant soldiers is easy". Marshal Zhang's Northeastern Army was even further away.
His righteousness was sufficient, but his troops were wiped out. Marshal Zhang was not so lacking. Without his troops, his brothers had nothing to do.
This time, the Huashang Group's caravan was not going to deliver supplies, but to bring those ten outstanding red cadres back to Sichuan. Liu Lang even ordered all ten of them to have new identities created.
The ten people who speak Cantonese from Guangxi, Guangdong and Guangdong are perfectly suitable as former officers of the 19th Route Army, a powerful army that has disappeared. And that requires Zhang Yan's help.
After Liu Lang arrived at the headquarters of the new 61st Brigade and had a secret talk with General Zhang Yan all night, ten lieutenant identification certificates stamped with the seals of the new 61st Brigade were put into Liu Tuanzuo's pocket. At the same time, the newly formed 61st Brigade
It also supported twelve lieutenants and captains from the Artillery Section, Infantry Section, Baggage Section, and Engineering Section to become the first instructors of the independent regiment training team.
What Liu Tuanzuo paid was the monthly training allowance of NT$50 for each of the twelve instructors and the small arms equipment that Huamei Company would deliver to the two infantry battalions of the newly formed 61st Brigade at the end of the first month after the company was put into production.
With Liu Lang's assistance alone, the infantry regiment of the newly established 61st Brigade will be completely re-equipped by the end of 1935. They will all be equipped with brand-new imitation Hanyang-made rifles, imitation Czech ZB-26 light machine guns, and imitation Maxim water-cooled machine gun secondaries.
Type IV heavy machine gun, 82 caliber mortar.
And Liu Lang is by no means cutting corners. The number of light machine guns has even reached one for each squad, and 27 for each infantry battalion. The number of imitation Maxim 24 heavy machine guns has reached 12, in addition to the machine gun companies directly under the battalion.
In addition to the 6 mortars, 2 additional mortars were added to each of the three infantry companies. Each infantry battalion had 6 mortars. 3 mortars belonged to the machine gun company of the ration battalion. In addition, each infantry company had 6 mortars.
Add an 82mm mortar.
There are also submachine guns. Liu Lang also has a strong preference for submachine guns. In fact, this is also the favorite of all Chinese armies. Because there are few light and heavy machine guns, all Chinese armies like to use this short-range weapon that can shoot quickly as a supplement to fire suppression.
.So Liu Lang also specially provided two platoons with a total of 100 submachine guns to the newly formed 61st Brigade.
In addition to not equipping the infantry regiment with mountain artillery, Liu Lang's list of weapons and equipment for the newly compiled 61st brigade even exceeds that of the German weapon divisions currently being reorganized by the national army.
Faced with such a temptation, let alone creating false identities for the former "brothers" of the 19th Route Army, even if Liu Lang said to come and follow me, Brigadier Zhang would probably not hesitate at all. Anyway, Liu Xiang and Liu
Langdu's surname is Liu, and both of them have a common characteristic, they particularly like "little devils", of course, the word "打" must be added in front.
If Liu Xiang hadn't promised when he recruited the remnants of Zhang Yan that once the war against Japan resumed, the Sichuan army would not be swayed, how could Zhang Yan agree to lead the remnants of the army to surrender? The remnants of the 19th Route Army
Don't forget the thousands of brothers who died on the front lines against Japan in the "128 Shanghai Incident" three years ago.
Of course Liu Xiang was dissatisfied with Liu Lang for having secret talks and sending equipment to his subordinates, and he would probably be dissatisfied with anyone else, even if Liu Lang was already his nephew, whom he relied on. For Liu Xiang, the person he relied on
The uncle Liu Wenhui whom he supported was a lesson learned from the past, and when he became fully fledged, he would compete with him for the position of Lord of Sichuan Province.
As soon as Liu Lang left the military camp of the newly formed 61st Brigade, he was stopped by a special car sent by Chairman Liu. This was also a way to hammer Liu Lang. There was nothing in Sichuan that Liu Xiang wanted to know but didn't know.
Liu Lang, however, was not panicked. He had no intention of hiding the close contact with Zhang Yan's newly formed 61st Brigade from Liu Xiang. The troops he could control now were only 6,000 in the Independent Regiment and the Security Regiment. Even if the new troops were added,
The 61st Brigade has more than 4,300 people, with a total of only 10,000 people. It does not pose much of a threat to Liu Xiang, who holds 52 regiments with a total strength of more than 100,000.
In fact, Liu Xiang's establishment of a security regiment may not necessarily mean that he is completely on Liu Lang's side. As the leader of Sichuan Province, Liu Xiang's sophisticated methods are beyond the reach of ordinary people. From a clear perspective, the independent regiment is divided into troops.
The establishment of the Northern Sichuan Security Regiment doubled the controllable force to 6,000. However, due to the withdrawal of the backbone force, the combat effectiveness of the independent regiment, which was composed of 2,000 veterans who had survived the bloody battle of the Great Wall of China and recruits who had been trained for two years, dropped instantly.
One-third, and that is the most direct combat power in the hands of Liu Lang's old base.
As for the Northern Sichuan Security Group, which is composed entirely of former independent regiment officers and soldiers as well as farmers from the countryside of Guangyuan, in Liu Xiang's view, as long as they are human beings, they have desires. Liu Lang can give the security group generous military pay, but he can give the security group a lot of money.
A higher status as an officer was something Liu Lang could not give him. Between fame and fortune, how to choose? Liu Xiang confidently believed that he could win over such a new army that was far away from the independent regiment.
This is the traditional way of being a superior in China from ancient times to the present. I will pamper you but also guard you, and I will beat you from time to time to make you understand that everything you have now is given by me, but if you are disobedient,
With my heart, you really have to have some fun.
Otherwise, the higher you get, the lonelier you become! Because the greater the power, the more you crave power, and the essence of protecting power from losing is to guard against everyone, even the person next to you or as close as your nephew.
The one you trust the most is always yourself.
As an emperor, it is very majestic to sit on a high position and see the mountains, but who can understand the deep loneliness in their hearts!
Liu Lang didn't understand this in his previous life. He was just a sword, a sword that the country and the nation needed and could be unsheathed at any time. But in this era, he not only wanted to become a sword that the country and the nation needed, he
He must learn to hold the sword and hide its edge. Once it is taken out of the sheath, the situation will change. As long as he wants to do more for his country and nation.
So Liu Lang is also learning and making progress. He has to learn to walk on the edge of these whirlpools of forces, otherwise, if he is not careful, his ideals will be wiped out. This cannot be accomplished with just patriotic enthusiasm.
He first had to tell the current Lord of Sichuan with facts that his eyes were not on Sichuan, but had always been on the north of China, on the group of jackals who were eyeing the fertile land of China.