Chapter 210 Chen Ziyun is transferred to the head of the 358th Regiment

Chu Yunfei and Chen Ziyun finalized the reorganization plan for the 48th Independent Brigade, and after meeting Donglai, they began to wait patiently for the arrival of additional troops.

Beginning at midnight on August 30th, Fang Ligong, Lin Zhiqiang, and Sun Ming began to bring relevant soldiers to the Xinxian area one after another.

The Seventh Army also specially dispatched a group of soldiers to supplement it after obtaining Yan Laoxi's approval.

Lin Zhiqiang and Sun Ming recruited a certain number of young people in nearby villages and towns to join.

Please tell me that the Jinsui Army has been nestled in the western Shanxi area before, and they hardly fought against the Yue Army.

Most young people in Shanxi Province are unwilling to join the Shanxi-Sui Army, so it will be difficult for the Jin-Sui Army to recruit more soldiers.

However, the recruitment situation of the Independent 48th Brigade is completely different at the moment. When the names of Chu Yunfei and Chen Ziyun were announced, many people responded positively.

And did Chu Yunfei take out the reward he had received before? Each of the soldiers he recruited was given five yuan!

As soldiers arrived one after another, the 48th Independent Brigade began to reorganize on the front line.

Can the 358th Regiment be Chu Yunfei's main field regiment? According to the latest organizational adjustment, they have a full strength of six battalions.

Therefore, the 358 regiment has received key reinforcements, and relevant soldiers have been selected with priority.

The 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Battalions gradually returned to full strength, and they added a large number of troops.

Of course, with the replenishment completed, there will be a certain number of new soldiers outside the four infantry battalions.

These new recruits are also exposed to firearms for the first time, which will reduce the overall combat effectiveness of the 358th Regiment.

Zhang Wu's cavalry company was directly expanded into a cavalry battalion.

It is worth mentioning that Zhao Yinfu, commander-in-chief of the Seventh Group Army, has a standard cavalry background. He graduated from the cavalry department of a military academy.

There is a cavalry establishment outside the Shanxi-Sui Army, but the number of cavalry is pitifully small, and it is also the same as outside the pass, with a large formation and a small number of troops.

Each cavalry regiment only has three to four hundred cavalry troops.

That time, the 48th Independent Brigade completely eliminated the 7th Division of the Puppet Mongolian Army and captured many war horses and corresponding equipment.

As for the cavalry personnel, Fang Ligong had some connections with Zhao Yinfu and got some supplements.

Regardless of whether the cavalry is a declining branch, if you want to support a cavalry force, the costs in all aspects are unimaginable.

If you raise one cavalry, you can raise several infantry.

Therefore, the Shanxi-Sui Army focused on developing infantry and artillery, and the cavalry did not receive much attention.

This resulted in some Jinsui Army cavalry being forced to change careers and directly become infantry.

Zhao Yinfu was born in the cavalry, so he naturally knew the situation of the cavalry. Did he select a group of cavalry to supplement it that time?

In addition, when Lin Zhiqiang and others recruited soldiers in nearby villages and towns, did they specifically select young people who could ride horses?

The cavalry battalion was barely established. They had three cavalry companies, a machine gun company, and a cavalry reconnaissance platoon in the east.

Each cavalry company has one hundred and fifty men, equipped with nine crooked light machine guns, nine grenade launchers, and one hundred Czech-style rifles or Type 44 rifles.

The cannon battery is equipped with four Type 92 heavy machine guns and four 81MM mortars!

Otherwise, the directly subordinate cavalry reconnaissance platoon would be equipped with forty Jin-made submachine guns!

The entire cavalry battalion has a strength of close to 600 men, which is almost equivalent to the strength of two cavalry regiments of other troops.

With such a large number of cavalry troops, do they have a considerable number of new recruits?

And in that army, there were even many soldiers who couldn't ride a horse.

So I wonder if it will take longer for that force to gather combat effectiveness.

As for the artillery battalion, if they were directly transferred from the 11th Reserve Regiment, they would not suffer much losses.

The battalion commanders of the four infantry battalions did not make any adjustments and continued to serve as the previous battalion commanders. None of them were promoted by Chu Yunfei.

Whether the cavalry battalion can be expanded into a cavalry company, Zhang Wubuqiuge will serve as the battalion commander according to his seniority.

The number of cavalry in the independent 48th Brigade is pitifully small, and cavalry officers are even rarer to see.

After Chen Ziyun's personal recommendation, Zhang Wu was promoted to the commander of the cavalry battalion!

The artillery battalion directly under the 358th Regiment also made personnel adjustments after being mobilized.

Liang Guoping, the former battalion commander, was transferred to the field artillery battalion directly under the brigade headquarters as lieutenant colonel battalion commander.

Li Yang, commander of the first mountain artillery company of the artillery battalion, was promoted to major battalion commander of the artillery battalion; Sun Xiong, former commander of the second mountain artillery company, was promoted to lieutenant deputy battalion commander of the artillery battalion.

At the same time, those two men continued to serve as company commanders concurrently.

It can be said that the artillery battalion is now completely controlled by Chen Ziyun's confidants.

The 358th Regiment began to quickly replenish its troops, and by two o'clock in the morning on March 11, all their battalions were fully replenished.

At this time, they had four infantry battalions with a combat strength of 2,800 people.

Counting artillery battalions, cavalry battalions, reconnaissance platoons and other units, their strength is about 4,000.

I would like to know whether the infantry divisions of many miscellaneous armies usually only have four to five thousand troops.

After two o'clock in the morning, the 48th Independent Brigade began to focus on preparing the 11th Regiment, and the troops directly under the brigade headquarters carried out combat reinforcements.

After daybreak, the reserve 11th regiment will be replenished. Of course, they are currently short of personnel.

If that unit wants to be restored to full strength, it will need to wait until the security team sent by the first theater area comes to supplement it.

By 10 o'clock in the afternoon, the 48th Independent Brigade was fully replenished.

Did Chu Yunfei immediately issue an order from the Seventh Army Headquarters and the Second Theater Command Headquarters?

Chen Ziyun was transferred to the school regiment commander of the 358th Regiment and continued to serve as the infantry artillery commander of the 48th Independent Brigade.

Wu Ziqiang, commander of the 5th Battalion, was promoted to acting commander of the 11th Reserve Regiment and continued to serve as commander of the 5th Battalion.

Qian Bojun, the former acting leader of the 358th Regiment, was transferred to the supplementary regiment as the leader.

Zhang Fuyun removed his position as head of the supplementary regiment and was appointed as lieutenant colonel of the supplementary regiment.

Zhou Wenbo, the company commander of the field artillery company directly under the brigade headquarters, was appointed as the deputy battalion commander of the artillery battalion.

Due to the lack of enough artillery officers, Zhu Mingxuan, the former commander of the artillery company directly under the 358th Regiment, was transferred to the field artillery battalion as company commander.

Is that artillery company currently attached to the 11th Reserve Regiment?

After that adjustment, will the 48th Independent Brigade have a stronger artillery force?

The field artillery battalion directly under the brigade headquarters has four Liao-made 77MM field guns and six Liao-made 75M field guns.

The artillery battalion directly under the 358th Regiment has six Bofors Mountain Cannons and six Type 94 Mountain Cannons.

The 11th reserve regiment and the supplementary regiment have artillery companies directly under them. Each artillery company is equipped with four newly-made 75MM mountain guns.

They have thirty artillery pieces, which far exceeds the twenty-four artillery pieces of an artillery regiment of the Shanxi-Sui Army.

In addition, each infantry battalion will have directly affiliated 81MM, 82MM, and 75MM mortars.

Even among the supplementary regiments, there is an additional regiment directly under the 82MM mortar company!

Can such an artillery unit have strong artillery strike capabilities?

After the 48th Independent Brigade was replenished, they began to run in.

However, there was still no fighting taking place in Xin County. The Yue puppet troops were stuck in the hilly area and they were standing still.

The 48th Independent Brigade did not surround it and did not take the initiative to conduct offensive operations.

As for Li Yunlong's new group, they were quickly supplemented after contact.

Xiangcuobi directly recruited more troops from the Shanxi-Sui Army and other units, and transferred local security corps to supplement the field troops.

Is the Eighth Route Army's replenishment system relatively complete, and have they gradually developed a corresponding system?

Militia teams, district squads, guerrillas, county brigade and other local armed forces can be quickly replenished into field troops at any time.

Moreover, most of the soldiers they recruited had never touched a gun, or even fired a gun to fight against the Japs.

That point is, it is definitely better than temporarily recruiting new recruits and deploying security teams to supplement the situation.

At this time, Li Yunlong's new regiment had recovered to 2,000 troops, and there were more than 100 militiamen assisting in transportation.

They didn't get much benefit from that battle, but they did capture a lot of ammunition.

Moreover, they also found an advantage on the battlefield. Currently, Sun Desheng's cavalry company has 200 horses and corresponding weapons and equipment.

Of course, the new regiment also faces a problem, that is, there is no corresponding cavalry to supplement it.

As for whether that question was not difficult for Li Yunlong, did he arrange for Zhao Gang to take more than 300 captured Liao-made rifles and go directly to the north to find the 120th Division troops?

The 120th Division wants to operate in areas such as northern Shanxi, which is close to the Sucha Grassland area.

Therefore, it is not difficult for the people there to ride horses.

Does Li Yunlong want to use the 120th Division to supplement some warriors who can ride horses?

Li Yunlong was excited just thinking about the two hundred cavalry troops.

By the morning of March 11, Zhao Gang came over with some soldiers, and the cavalry company directly under Li Yunlong's regiment had also expanded to 200 people!
To be continued...