Base System of Bashu Heroes

Liu Tianchu's words are reasonable. If the Military Commission really issues an order, the Sichuan Army will have no choice but to obey its orders.

With the communication between Liu Tianchu and Chen Cheng, Dongfang Zhenhua quickly returned to Xuzhou, bringing back the 400,000 military pay allocated by Chen Cheng from the Ninth War Zone and the seconded pilots. This meant that it was inevitable for the Sichuan Army to send troops to Hubei, Henan, and Anhui.

More than fifty pilots from the Northeast Aviation School also arrived in Xuzhou one after another. Dongfang Zhenhua recommended to Liu Tianchu Sun Zhigao, the former flight instructor of the Northeast Aviation School, to serve as the pilot's follow-up training. The pilots from the Northeast Aviation School had not flown in several years, although they had basic knowledge.

, but it will take some time to truly form combat effectiveness. Since it was recommended by Dongfang Zhenhua, Liu Tianchu immediately agreed, and Sun Zhigao became the first flight instructor of Xuzhou Aviation School.

Shops and factories in Qilu are also opening one after another, and individual soldier training is in full swing. The five divisions of the 22nd Army gradually replaced their defenses with the 23rd Army, and slowly gathered near Xuzhou, preparing to send troops to Wuhan at any time.

Taking advantage of the gap between the wars, Liu Tianchu made major adjustments to the functions of all the army's departments. The military headquarters has eight departments including the Staff Office, Adjutant's Office, Munitions Department, Ordnance Department, Machinery Department, Military Medical Department, Military Law Department, and Printing Department.

Technical Research Committee and Material Purchasing Committee, the latter is mainly responsible for purchasing related materials in Shanghai and other places.

At the same time as the eight divisions were established, Ma Liangjun's 135th Division was reorganized. The Armored Brigade was changed to an Armored Division, a fully mechanized division equipped with 200 Hero tanks, 60 155mm self-propelled howitzers, and 10 vehicle-mounted 24-barreled rocket launchers.

, and assigned 300 vehicles to the infantry brigades under its jurisdiction, and reorganized the fuel supply regiment, baggage regiment, engineering regiment, maintenance company, fire protection company, anti-aircraft artillery company, supplementary company, combat defense company, search company, etc.

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During the training of the Sichuan Army troops, the division commanders and army commanders of each department proposed five eliminations of three habits: elimination of arrogance, elimination of gambling, elimination of hypocrisy, elimination of evil, and elimination of evil. The three habits: Xi Jing, Xi Cheng, and Xi Qin. In each barracks and training venues

, Liu Tianchu wrote in his own hand: "The playground is the battlefield", "Peacetime is wartime", "Sweat more and bleed less", "Art is high and bold", "Attack must be conquered, defense must be solid" and other slogans. He often went deep into it.

The company spoke to the officers and sergeants, using the slogan "Know yourself and the enemy, and you will never be in danger in a hundred battles", emphasizing the importance of training officers first, requiring officers and sergeants to train themselves strictly and teach by example. During combat, the unit commander's position should be placed on the battlefield where the decisive battle is fought, and he should be placed where there is an emergency.

Wherever you go, charge forward and retreat behind.

While training the infantry, Liu Tianchubian and Ma Liangjun consulted on the mechanized combat tactics of the Army Armored Corps. They also worked hard to learn driving and repairs. They often got under the car to repair the chassis like soldiers, and brought up newly discovered problems to discuss with everyone at any time.

He carefully discussed the combat tactics of mechanized troops and gradually and systematically mastered the combat command essentials of this new type of arms.

In terms of military discipline, Liu Tianchu promulgated the three prohibitions: no unauthorized entry into private houses, no unauthorized taking of civilian property, and no unauthorized borrowing of civilian property. Three prohibitions: gambling, cheating, and corruption. Three kills: those who molest women will be killed.

Those who seize people's houses will be killed, and those who use troops to disturb the people will be killed.

In the process of emphasizing "strict discipline", Liu Tianchu often felt that his strictness was sometimes lost in harshness, and his authority was sometimes lost in anger. He took the motto of "Those who are good at bullying do not lightly anger" to deepen his

Cultivation. In terms of military life, Liu Tianchu also leads by example and resolutely implements the system of sleeping out for officers. Married people sleep out on Mondays, Thursdays, Tuesdays, Fridays, Wednesdays and Saturdays every week. On days other than sleeping out, he stays

At the military headquarters, use this time to inspect the officers' dormitories or summon junior officers for individual talks.

In terms of meals, we insist on group-based meals. Company headquarters are not allowed to open small stoves. The meals in the military headquarters are not divided into generals, colonels, and lieutenants. All meals are provided according to the regulations, plus the military headquarters allowance. Liu Tianchu himself insists on eating in the military headquarters, and the people at the same table are sometimes generals.

Officers, sometimes with the rank of captain, are often transferred, so that they can get to know their subordinates closely. Company commanders of units directly under the army can basically call out their names. Liu Tianchu's subtlety earned him the affectionate nickname - Squad Leader Liu from the officers and soldiers.

With the assistance of Ma Liangjun, Chen Jiaqi, Jiang Hui'an, Li Dayong and others, Liu Tianchu boldly abandoned the old formalism and focused on practical training. Every officer and soldier was strictly required to master shooting, stabbing, bombing, night fighting, and close combat.

and other military technologies. Considering that modern warfare has developed into joint operations of multiple arms, Liu Tianchu also paid special attention to strengthening the unit's infantry, artillery, and infantry-vehicle cooperative combat capabilities. The armored division's combat effectiveness improved rapidly, and the morale of the troops was also very strong.

As an outstanding staff member, Li Dayong had outstanding talents and was especially appreciated by Liu Tianchu. He originally intended to be promoted to the chief of staff of the group army. However, Li Dayong did not have this ambition and refused. He only committed himself to the commander of the police battalion and devoted himself to training his Snow Fox Rangers.

During the training, Chen Jiaqi attached great importance to the training and education of the army, believing that this is an important measure to improve the combat effectiveness of the army. If every soldier can receive correct and good training and education, the army will be strong. If the army is strong, the city will be strong, and if the city is strong, the city will be strong.

Guojian. In educating officers and soldiers, Chen Jiaqi pays equal attention to ideological education and professional education. The first is to improve the awareness of officers and soldiers, emphasizing that the responsibility of soldiers is to "protect the country and the people." In order to shoulder major responsibilities, modern soldiers must have loyalty, courage, and

Characteristics of diligence and honesty. According to these requirements, Chen Jiaqi gathered all the officers of the 21st Army for training in stages.

Most of the soldiers of Pan Wenhua's unit of the 23rd Army are soldiers from Sichuan. When the training began, Army Commander Pan Wenhua took the lead in shouting the slogan "Weapons are the second life of soldiers." During the training wave, Pan Wenhua stipulated that the company commander was responsible for training new recruits, and the battalion commander was responsible for training.

The regiment organizes a sergeant education company to train sergeants in three phases. The division establishes an officer corps to train cadres below the deputy battalion commander. Battalion commanders and other cadres are arranged to report to the division headquarters every week.

Taught two or three hours of tactical education in person. In terms of training content, soldiers mainly focus on shooting, stabbing and throwing grenades. In addition to soldier courses, corps commanders focus on sentry commander and scout training, and sergeants focus on squad command. Cadre education focuses on actual soldiers.

For command and mid-level cadres, they are taught step by step through white paper tactics, map operations, war games, on-the-spot tactics, and semi-actual troop command. In troop training, squads focus on alert and search, companies focus on attack and defense, and battalions focus on joint exercises of various arms.

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The training experience of the three armies was combined to summarize the daily training outline. At this time, the Sichuan Army was slightly higher than the Japanese Army in both light and heavy firepower. The soldiers' standard firearms were semi-automatic 37 rifles and two assault rifles per squad. The squad leader and deputy squad leader

General machine guns were equipped to the platoon level, and now there was air support, so Liu Tianchu only casually said that he would meet with Okamura Neiji on the phone with Chen Cheng.

When the Sichuan Army was training and preparing to send troops to Wuhan, the Japanese Army's Botian Detachment (Taiwan Mixed Brigade) marched westward from Wuhu to attack Anqing. The Botian Detachment took advantage of the rainy night to raid Anqing. The Yang Sen Department of the 27th Group Army of the Sichuan Army failed to fight well and was driven out of the city overnight. Chiang Kai-shek

Furious, he called Yang Sen and told him to "abandon the famous city and laugh at the friendly country". He asked him to counterattack Anqing. Yang Sen, then commander of the 27th Group Army, passed the responsibility to Xu Yuanquan's 26th Group Army on the flank and blamed the 26th Group Army for covering it.

Unfavorable, the two blamed each other and passed the blame.

After capturing Anqing, the Botian detachment continued to sail westward along the Yangtze River on naval ships. A few days later, they arrived outside the blockade of Madang, a river defense fortress. The Madang fortress was designed by a German military consultant and operated by the Chinese Navy for several months.

, costing countless money and extremely strong, it was a strong fortress that blocked the Japanese navy. Chiang had high hopes for it, believing that it could stop the Japanese offensive for at least a month. The Japanese navy first tried to open a channel from the river, but was helpless by mines, shipwrecks and

There are too many artificial reefs, and minesweepers cannot clear mines under the gunfire of the defenders.

Seeing that it was impossible to move up the river, the Japanese army switched to a roundabout attack on land. The 16th Army, whose garrison was Li Yunheng near Madang Fortress, did not know which link was wrong two weeks ago. The enemy actually organized a two-week "

"Anti-Japanese Military and Political University". Li Yunheng also held a grand graduation ceremony with great extravagance, inviting officers of all levels of the 16th Army and local gentry to participate.

The Japanese army must have obtained this information in advance, so in the early morning of the same day, they successfully landed in Dongliu, the defense line of the 16th Army, and then successfully captured Xiangshan, Xiangkou and other places that were neither prepared nor commanded by the commander. Fortunately,

The 2nd Battalion of the Marine Corps, which defended the core position of Changshan in Madang Fortress, did not send anyone to attend the graduation ceremony. Under the command of Captain Bao Changyi, the 2nd Battalion resisted tenaciously and repelled three large-scale group charges from the Botian detachment.

Bao Changyi's side fought in a dark manner, while Li Yunheng's side had a grand graduation ceremony. After his speech, he had a meal and drank in a mess. Seeing that the 16th Army could not be counted on for the time being, Bao Changyi hurriedly sent a report to the people in Wuhan.

His old boss Xie Zhegang. Xie Zhegang was shocked when he read the telegram. He immediately reported it to Chiang Kai-shek and also urgently requested the air force to dispatch. The Chairman of the Generalissimo was even more shocked when he read the telegram sent by Xie Zhegang and immediately called Bai Chongxi who was inspecting Tianjia Town.

Let him think of a way.

Bai Chongxi quickly reacted. After looking at the map, he immediately called Peng Ze's 167th Division and asked the division commander Xue Weiying to immediately lead his troops to reinforce Changshan. Here, Li Yunheng and Bao Changyi also reacted after talking on the phone. What a coincidence.

Hitting the 167th Division. Xue Weiying received two different orders at once. Bai Chongxi ordered him to rush to rescue from the highway, while Li Yunheng asked him to take a small road. Faced with two different orders, Xue Weiying thought for a long time and finally issued

Because of his disdain for the old miscellaneous deputy commander Bai, he chose to follow Li Yunheng's advice and take the narrow road. After Bao Changyi's 2nd Brigade persisted for two days, it had suffered more than half of its casualties and had run out of artillery shells. In order to avoid the annihilation of the entire army, the 2nd Brigade must not

Do not evacuate the position.

After the Japanese army occupied the Changshan position, the 16th Army counterattacked, but it soon failed, and even the Madang fort was lost. Chiang Kai-shek saw that Madang, which he had hoped to defend for a month, was lost without even being able to defend it for a week.

The Japanese army relied on Madang's solid first-level national defense preparations to resist tenaciously, and the Chinese army's attack

After repeated setbacks and heavy casualties, Chen Cheng had to order to stop the attack and retreat to Pengze. Chiang Kai-shek was really dissatisfied with the result. Li Yunheng was dismissed from his post and investigated, and Xue Weiying was shot.