Xu Rui actually heard it clearly, but still asked deliberately: "Commander Gao, what did you say?"
If it were a thin-skinned person, he might have taken back what he just said, but Gao Hanting was not like that.【,
Gao Hanting was not affected at all and said very calmly: "Captain Xu, our four detachments will get 70%, and your independent group will get 30%. How about it? Is it interesting? After all, our four detachments dispatched a total of 9,000 people in this battle.
People eating horses chew consume a lot of money and food every day, and your independent group only dispatched less than a thousand people in total. No matter how you calculate it, your independent group has made a lot of money from this transaction."
Xiao Huadong was stunned when he heard this.
Only the commander could say this, but Lao Xiao would not be able to say it anyway.
It is true that the four detachments dispatched more than 9,000 people. It is also true that the independent regiment dispatched less than 1,000 people. But why don't you say that the independent regiment, with the cooperation of the puppet army, destroyed two Japanese infantry brigades and withstood them?
In the face of the Japanese counterattack by five and a half infantry brigades, if the independent regiment hadn't transferred all the Japanese, how could it have been so easy for the four detachments to occupy the stronghold outside the city?
Therefore, if the spoils are distributed according to merit, the independent group should get the lion's share, and at most it will be split 50-50.
Xu Rui laughed after hearing this, and after he finished laughing, he said: "In terms of the number of troops sent, let alone three or seven, I have no objection to twenty or eight. Really, but Commander Gao, this battle to regain Feicheng
But it's not just you and me. In addition to your four detachments and our independent regiment, there is also the puppet army's Wanzhong Garrison Division."
"Puppet Army?" Gao Hanting waved his hand and said domineeringly, "The Puppet Army is not qualified to distribute the spoils of war. It would be good if I don't hold them responsible for the traitors who defected to Little Japan."
Xu Rui would use the puppet army's Wanzhong Garrison Division to make up the number. Gao Hanting had expected this, because Nan Batian, the commander of the puppet army's Wanzhong Garrison Division, was originally Xu Rui's internal agent. If the puppet army's Wanzhong Garrison Division were to participate in the division-level organization
As for the distribution of the spoils, their four teams would suffer a huge loss, so they absolutely could not agree to it.
Gao Hanting's countermeasure was not to recognize the equal status of the puppet army.
Xu Rui added: "What if the Wanzhong Advance Brigade in the Third Theater Zone is deployed?"
"The Third Theater Anhui Advance Brigade? What kind of army is this? Why have I never heard of it?" Gao Hanting was stunned when he heard this, then turned to ask Xiao Huadong, "Old Xiao, have you heard of this army?"
Xiao Huadong shook his head like a rattle and expressed that he had never heard of it.
Gao Hanting said: "Captain Xu, you are wrong. If you have any objections to the 30-70 split, you can raise it. It's like doing business. One can ask for a high price, and the other can bargain. Even if we can't talk about it for a while,
We can still talk slowly, so why create a non-existent force like the Central Anhui Advance Brigade?"
"Commander Gao, blame me, blame me for not saying it clearly." Xu Rui smiled and continued, "The Central Anhui Advance Brigade was actually just organized into an army. Due to the outstanding performance of the remnants of the 88th Division in the battle to regain Feicheng, the National Army's 3rd
The Commander-in-Chief of the Third War Zone decided to organize the Central Anhui Advance Brigade based on the remnants of the 88th Division, which will be temporarily stationed in Feicheng, with Luo Feng as the brigade commander."
"What did you say?" Gao Hanting was surprised, "Is there such a thing?"
Xu Rui nodded repeatedly and said, "Yes, this is true."
Although Xu Rui has not yet had a secret conversation with Yang Banan, he already knows the contents of the secret order from the commander of the Third War Zone.
Because Yang Banan can be considered a smart man, he knew that there was a big misunderstanding between him and Xu Rui, and there were big obstacles in communication, so before coming to Feicheng, he first went to Meizhen and met with Wang Husheng, political commissar of the Independence League.
They met and revealed the secret order from the Chief's Department to Wang Husheng.
Yang Banan's intention is self-evident, which is to hope that Wang Husheng can mediate.
Wang Husheng did not disappoint Yang Badan. He actually sent a telegram to Xu Rui, asking Xu Rui to carefully consider the opinions of the commander of the Third Theater Command of the National Army. In any case, the New Fourth Army belongs to the third theater sequence, so for Gu Shu and others.
This titular commander-in-chief must still be respected.
Of course, the reason why Wang Husheng persuaded Xu Rui to accept the secret order was not really out of respect for Gu Shutong, the commander-in-chief, but for the interests of the Dameishan Independent Regiment. In any case, Yang Banan's Wannan independence
The regiments are all one regiment. Even after an internal strife, there are still seven to eight hundred officers and soldiers.
Moreover, most of these seven to eight hundred officers and soldiers are veterans who have participated in the Battle of Songhu and the Battle of Nanjing. If the Dameishan Independent Regiment can really incorporate the Wannan Independent Regiment, its strength will rise to a higher level in an instant. This is much better than recruiting seven to eight hundred from the base area.
It’s much easier to train new recruits into veterans.
Out of such considerations, Wang Husheng sent a telegram to Xu Rui.
At present, Xu Rui already knew Gu Shutong's plan and accepted the chips he released.
But to be honest, what Xu Rui wanted to recruit was not Yang Banan's Wannan Independent Regiment, but Luo Feng's less than 200 remnant soldiers. The quality of Yang Banan's Wannan Independent Regiment only depended on their leader Wang
From Wang Yi's virtue, we can know that the virtue of the Wannan Independent Regiment will not be much better. Such a detachment
Even if the troops are brought in, they will have to spend a lot of effort to reorganize them, and the results of the reorganization may not be ideal.
But Luo Feng's two hundred remnant soldiers are different. These two hundred people are truly elite soldiers in hundreds of battles. Whether it is physical fitness, marksmanship or stabbing skills, they are all equal to each other. It is said that they can block hundreds of people with one force.
That's an exaggeration, but there is absolutely no problem if one is used to support ten.
These two hundred remnant soldiers will be able to become platoon leaders immediately if they join the independent regiment!
Therefore, Xu Rui wanted to recruit Luo Feng's nearly two hundred remnant soldiers more than Yang Banan's Wannan Independent Regiment.
But there was no other way. Gu Shutong didn't seem stupid, and he also thought of taking the less than 200 remaining soldiers of the 88th Division into his hands, and using these remaining soldiers as the basis to form the Central Anhui Advance Brigade, which would be even more powerful.
What's more, Luo Feng was directly promoted from battalion commander to major general and brigade commander, thus completely ending Xu Rui's idea of recruiting Luo Feng.
Luo Feng is now a major general and brigade commander, and he still joins you as the regiment commander? Will you, the regiment commander, command him, the brigade commander, or will he, the brigade commander, command you, the regiment commander?
So Xu Rui no longer thinks about recruiting Luo Feng's remnants, but wants to have a good relationship with them.
Who knows what will happen to Luo Feng's advancing brigade in Central Anhui? Maybe there will be another opportunity in the future?
It is precisely because of this consideration that Xu Rui wants to bring Luo Feng's Central Anhui Advance Brigade to participate in the distribution of the spoils. What he is paying for now is only part of the spoils, but what he will gain in the future is likely to be two hundred or more.
As a veteran who has experienced hundreds of battles, this deal is guaranteed to make a profit.
In times of war, what resources are the most valuable?
Not weapons and ammunition, not gold or silver, but people. To be more precise, they are elite veterans who are proficient in various combat skills. Veteran resources are the scarcest!
After hearing Xu Rui's words, Gao Hanting's brows tightened.
If this is the case, then the newly-formed Central Anhui Advancing Brigade is really qualified to get a share of the pie. You can do whatever you want when they were still a puppet army, but now that they have restored the Nationalist Army, you can't mess around. No matter what
After all, it’s all about cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party. We need to be united sincerely and be united in dealing with the outside world, right?
After holding back for a long time, Gao Hanting said again: "There is no problem that the Wanzhong Advance Brigade will participate in the distribution of the spoils. No matter what, they also participated in the battle to regain Feicheng, but their entire brigade now only has more than a hundred and less than two hundred people.
, I’m afraid I can’t participate in the allocation according to the brigade-level organizational structure? This is unreasonable!”
Divide the spoils according to the organizational structure of the participating troops on both sides. This is the basic principle that Gao Hanting and Xu Rui have agreed on before the war. Based on this basic principle, they will be increased or decreased as appropriate based on the losses of personnel and equipment on both sides, and then the final distribution will be finalized.
plan.
According to this principle, the four teams can get at least 70% of the spoils.
But now a brigade advancing into Central Anhui suddenly appeared, and it had to participate in the distribution of spoils with a brigade-level organization. Even the B brigade organized according to the two-regiment structure had to share a full third of the spoils, and the four detachments
The share split dropped sharply from 70% to less than 50% in the blink of an eye. How could Gao Hanting be willing to accept this?
Xu Rui smiled and said: "So Commander Gao thinks, what organizational structure should the Central Anhui Advance Brigade use to participate in the distribution?"
"At most, they will participate in the distribution based on the battalion-level organizational structure." Gao Hanting frowned and said, "They only have less than 200 remnants left in total. The participation in the distribution based on the organizational structure of a battalion is already overwhelming."
Xu Rui frowned and said: "Commander Gao, isn't this bad? Although there are less than 200 people left in the Central Anhui Advance Brigade, it was a well-organized brigade before the war. We cannot reduce the response to others just because they suffered heavy casualties.
To gain benefits, wouldn’t it make the martyrs who died in battle shed blood and shed tears at the same time? This is inappropriate.”
"Definitely." Gao Hanting interrupted Xu Rui impatiently, "What a complete brigade. Don't think that I don't know the actual situation of the puppet army's Wanzhong garrison division. Luo Feng is nominally the commander of the second brigade, but
He actually only had one regiment under his command, and Huang Shouyi's fourth regiment had nothing to do with him and did not participate in the battle of Feicheng. They all ran away as soon as the battle started."
Xiao Huadong also felt that it was a bit awkward to let the advancing brigade from Central Anhui participate in the distribution of spoils as a battalion-level organization. He immediately said: "How about letting the advancing brigade from Central Anhui participate in the distribution of spoils as a regiment-level organization?"
Gao Hanting said helplessly: "Okay, since you said so, political commissar, then let's do it."
Xu Rui said: "I have no objection, but I'm afraid we still have to listen to Brigadier Luo's opinion."
After finishing speaking, Xu Rui turned around and ordered Mo Zichen, who was still squatting there and devouring the fried noodles: "Old Mo, stop eating. Look at how many bowls you have eaten, and you still want to eat?! Hurry up, go and eat it!"