Zhihe Jilongshan Military Camp, Huben Army Headquarters.

Qiao Anbang carried one hand on his back, and with the other hand holding half of the cigarette left in the burning hand, he was walking back and forth in the headquarters. Beside him, Jiang Jun, deputy commander of the guard regiment, and Liang Haoyao, who had just joined the Tiger Army some time ago, stood with his body tilted and stared without squinting.[..com]

Qiao Anbang paced back and forth with his frown frowning until the half of the cigarette on his hand burned to his fingers. He quickly threw the cigarette butt to the ground, wearing cowhide military shoes, and stepped on it to crush the cigarette butts hard.

Jiang Jun and Liang Haoyao looked at each other, but in the end, Jiang Jun couldn't help but ask, "Secretary, you summoned Beizhi and others to come. Is there anything wrong?"

Qiao Anbang turned to look at Jiang Jun and Liang Haoyao, and finally said, "Jiang Jun, Liang Haoyao!"

The two of them quickly straightened their bodies and looked at Qiao Anbang without squinting.

"Don't be too stubborn. Today I'm looking for you, I need to discuss with you." Seeing that the atmosphere was a little serious, Qiao Anbang smiled and waved his hand to signal the two to sit down.

After Qiao Anbang sat down, Jiang Jun and Liang Haoyao were not pretentious and immediately sat down.

After pausing, Qiao Anbang said in a deep voice: "This is the thing. After discussion with the deputy commander, I decided to expand the Fifth Division. After careful consideration, I decided to let you two take the lead. Chiang Army will serve as the commander of the Fifth Division and Liang Haoyao will serve as the chief of staff of the Fifth Division. I wonder what you think?"

When Jiang Jun and Liang Haoyao heard this, they changed their sarcasm. When they were surprised, Liang Haoyao took the lead and said, "Military ranks, low-level talent, lack of experience, and have just joined the Hu Ben Army for a short time, so they are still inexperienced, and they may not be able to take on this important task!"

"No one will fight when he is just born! You graduated from a professional military academy and have strong professional knowledge and cultural skills. What you lack is the leadership of troops and practical combat experience. This is why you and the Chiang army complement each other. That's why I decided to form the Fifth Division with you two partners!" Qiao Anbang waved his hand.

Liang Haoyao wanted to say something else, but was pulled by Jiang Jun and said first: "Military throne, set up the Fifth Division. Do you also need to give us some backbones? Otherwise, it will be difficult for all new recruits to form combat effectiveness in a short period of time!"

"Of course, I have decided to transfer two to three companies from the Guard Corps, and then draw a veteran battalion from the First Division to you, and use them as the foundation to expand the Fifth Division!" Qiao Anbang nodded.

"That's great. Thank you, Military Officer!" Jiang Jun was overjoyed and stood up quickly and said.

"But, Jiang Jun, don't be too happy too early. Remember, I will hand over the Fifth Division to you, but you will give me life-long training. I will give you three months. You will train those new recruits into an elite army that can fight. If you can't lead the team well in three months, don't blame me for pulling you down. My Tiger Army has always been a capable person and never raises cowards. Whether you can be competent for the division commander or the chief of staff depends on your own." Qiao Anbang put a tight spell on the two of them with a carrot and stick.

"Yes! Please rest assured, Chief Liang and I will do our best. In three months, my Fifth Division will be able to complete any tasks assigned to us by the Chief!" Jiang Jun patted his chest and said loudly.

"Okay! I'll feel relieved with you. Let's start recruiting soldiers tomorrow. Send people to post the recruitment announcement to the counties in the base area. If necessary, you can also enter Henan to recruit soldiers. As for the garrison of the Fifth Division, it's in Zhiheji!" Qiao Anbang pondered for a moment and raised his hand.

"Yes!" Jiang Jun and Liang Haoyao stood at the same time and saluted, then turned around and took the order and left.

In Qiao Anbang's vision, the Fifth Division was the mobile force of the Hu Ben Army. In addition, there are divisions stationed in all directions in the base area, so the Fifth Division naturally had to stay in the Ching and Ji. After all, the number of new recruits in the Ching and Ji is greater than that in the Ching and Ji, and staying in the Ching and Ji is also conducive to training.

As for the candidates for the commander and chief of staff of the Fifth Division, Qiao Anbang also thoughtfully. The Chiang army has rich combat experience and experience in leading troops. With a little training, they can be competent for the position of division commander. After all, don’t the commanders of many troops grow up from the grassroots level?

Although Liang Haoyao, although he joined the Huben Army, he graduated from a professional military academy and had a high professional level. As Qiao Anbang said just now, he and the Chiang army were able to complement each other's strengths and weaknesses. First, Qiao Anbang also wanted to cultivate more capable subordinates for himself, and second, he also hoped to facilitate contact with Germany through Liang Haoyao, so it is necessary to cultivate and win over appropriately.

The recruitment progress of the Fifth Division was not as smooth as the Fourth Division. The main reason was that the recruitment news of the Fifth Division only reached the Jiheji and surrounding areas in the first few days. After the continuous expansion of the Hu Ben Army, the recruitment source of the Jiheji area was almost gone. If you forcefully arrest the strong men, it will affect the normal life of the local people. Not to mention anything else, just talk about the farming of the people. Without labor, how do the people cultivate the land? If there is no one cultivates the land, what do they eat?

So until the situation is absolutely necessary, Qiao Anbang will never do such a thing as digging his own grave.

Fortunately, the base area where the Hu Ben Army is now sleeping has expanded to the west several counties, and there are sufficient military sources. Later, when Liang Haoyao personally led two companies to Luyi, Dancheng and Jieshou counties to recruit soldiers, the recruitment operation of the Fifth Division was very smooth. In just one week, the Fifth Division had recruited more than 7,000 new soldiers in the above-mentioned areas, and an average of nearly 1,000 people were enlisted in the army every day.

In fact, this is reasonable. The treatment of the Hu Ben Army is so generous and has a good reputation among the people. When the news of the Hu Ben Army recruiting soldiers swept across the Henan-Anhui border like a wind, more than a few thousand people came to sign up for the army every day, but there were only about a thousand people who were actually admitted to the Hu Ben Army.

The more people come to enlist in the army, the more conducive it is to recruit soldiers. After all, with more people, the Fifth Division can calmly choose the best. Some people with weak constitutions and older ages can be excluded. In this way, the recruitment of soldiers will not be of varying quality. As long as they have regular training, they will soon be able to grow into a qualified soldier.

When Qiao Anbang received Liang Haoyao's report, he couldn't help but sigh that China really lacks everything at this stage, but there is no shortage of people and has sufficient troops. The Fifth Division was also established soon. Since Qiao Anbang's purpose of establishing the Fifth Division was to use it as the mobile force of the entire army, the Fifth Division was equipped with an additional tank regiment, equipped with 75 No. 4 tanks, which were similar to the Armored Brigade, which was not available to other divisions.

In addition, the Fifth Division is the same as several other divisions, all mechanized, and all regiments of the division are equipped with military trucks and motorcycles. The Fifth Division has three infantry regiments and one artillery regiment. The direct troops include guard battalions, reconnaissance battalions and baggage battalions. In addition, other regiments are also equipped with necessary baggage and direct guard reconnaissance units.

Due to the additional tank unit, the Fifth Division had to work with several other divisions, including the most elite main first division. The total strength of the entire division, plus the logistics personnel and combat personnel was almost close to 20,000. Although there were thousands of logistics personnel, if the battle situation was urgent, these logistics personnel could all use guns to participate in the battle. Although their combat effectiveness was not as good as that of the active combat troops, they were better than those without soldiers.

As usual, Qiao Anbang delivered a generous speech at the founding meeting of the Fifth Division, which made the blood and morale of more than 10,000 new recruits from the Fifth Division boil and the morale was high. In the following days, the Fifth Division began regular training. Liang Haoyao from the Berlin Military Academy really lived up to expectations. With him, the training of the Fifth Division was much more formal than that of the other divisions. Even the entire Hu Ben Army, Xie Jinyuan, could not compare with him.

Liang Haoyao is the chief of staff in name, but he is more professional than a professional instructor. Under his guidance, everything is moving towards regularization. The effect is also very significant. These days, the flight regiment is not idle. Gao Xiang often leads pilots to attack everywhere in battle planes, constantly raiding the Hefei Airport where the Japanese are repairing. Under the harassment of the Tiger Army Air Force, the Japanese's restoration work of the Hefei airport was once paralyzed.

If it weren't for the range issue, Gao Xiang would have wanted to lead the Air Force to bomb the Japanese troops in Shanghai and other places, as long as he had to strike the Japanese's arrogance, after all, the range of bf09 was still a bit too short, only 700 kilometers, which means that the combat radius could only be within 350 kilometers. If it was farther, bf09 would not be able to return.

As the producer of BF09, Germany, in the original history of the Battle of Great Britain, it was because the BFL09 was too short to provide full escort for the German Air Force bomber group, which eventually led to the failure of the Battle of Great Britain, and Hitler's Sea Lion combat plan went bankrupt.

If the range of bf09 is long enough, then the ending of the Battle of Great Britain might be completely different, and the entire World War II might change because of this. However, this is all if, Qiao Anbang, a time traveler, is not clear why the designer of b109 failed to upgrade the shortcomings of b109's short range in the later stage.
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