Beacon starts from the departure of a strong man

Shu County!

After discussion with Liu Wenhui, Pan Wenhua, Deng Xihou and others, He Guoguang and Fan Shaozeng requested to go out to Sichuan to fight every time.

This time the Sichuan Army's Second Route Army chose Fan Shaozeng's 88th Army to leave Sichuan and go to the Wuhan battlefield.

Now the Wuhan War has attracted the attention of the whole world. After the fall of Jinling, Wuhan became the base of the Nationalist Government.

International attention has also turned to Wuhan. Now on the Wuhan battlefield, the newly formed troops are simply unable to resist the Japanese attack. Many of the newly formed troops quickly collapsed in the face of the Japanese attack.

Now that the Wuhan area needs soldiers, for the sake of the nation and the country, the Sichuan Army did not hesitate to mobilize an army out of Sichuan again.

Even He Guoguang himself did not expect that Liu Wenhui, Pan Wenhua and others would actually agree to Fan Shaozeng's departure from Sichuan, and that all the 88th Army would leave Sichuan without leaving a single regiment or battalion behind.

You know, now all the major generals of the Sichuan Army have left Sichuan, and there are not many real-power generals left in Sichuan Province.

He Guoguang has been dealing with the Sichuan Army for many years. According to his understanding of the Sichuan Army, the Sichuan Army should leave a lot of troops behind to look after the country.

However, this time Fan Shaozeng did not leave any troops behind, but pulled them all out. Moreover, Pan Wenhua, Deng Xihou and others did not ask Fan Shaozeng to leave troops to look after his family.

Now that the 88th Army of the Sichuan Army has left Sichuan to fight, He Guoguang has completed his mission. He also bid farewell to Pan Wenhua, Deng Xihou and others, and reported the relevant situation to the National Government in Wuhan.

After Fan Shaozeng received the order from Chuchuan, he headed for the mountain city non-stop.

His 88th Army has been stationed in the mountain city for almost eight months, and has been training continuously during the period.

Horses, vehicles, and various artillery from several counties hidden around the mountain city began to continuously gather in the mountain city.

Since the formation of the 88th Army, Fan Shaozeng followed Yu Hua's instructions and divided the troops into several counties and cities for training.

In this way, it can not only reduce the detection of Sichuan troops by Japanese spies, but also reduce the logistical pressure on the troops.

The 88th Army has many horses and vehicles. After the literate student soldiers join the army, they begin to run in and train with artillery and automobiles.

The illiterate soldiers were trained with the horses!

Since the Sichuan Army repeatedly annihilated the Japanese army on the battlefield and caused a large number of casualties to the Japanese army, it moved to many colleges and universities in Sichuan Province. The first choice of many students was to join the Sichuan Army.

Therefore, Fan Shaozeng's 88th Army has a lot of student soldiers, and many student soldiers give priority to the Sichuan Army Noncommissioned Officer School for training.

The Sichuan Army Noncommissioned Officer School was expanded from the previous Martial Arts Lecture Hall. In the school, the lecturers are all officers with rich experience in combating Japan.

There are even military attaches from Europa in the school!

As for the teaching materials of the Sichuan Army Noncommissioned Officer School, they are two emasculated sacred books, "Military Military Training Manual" and "Friends of Military-Civil Dual-Use Talents" that Yu Hua dedicated to Marshal Liu.

After Fan Shaozeng came to the mountain city, he began to summon his cronies.

A brief military meeting was held at the headquarters of the 88th Army; since Fan Shaozeng dispersed the troops for training, until now, he himself does not know how many people the 88th Army has.

At the military meeting, Fan Shaozeng asked his cronies how many people there are in the army now?

"Commander?" Zhang Hu, one of Fan Shaozeng's confidants, said, "We don't know how many people there are in the army now."

"That's right...Commander! We don't know either!"

"After all, according to your instructions, we developed dispersedly. Now we really don't know how many people we have under our control."

"Commander, we can only know how many there are after all the troops are assembled." Fan Shaozeng frowned slightly. Even his cronies didn't know how many people there were in the 88th Army?

This makes Fan Shaozeng a bit difficult to handle. As the saying goes, before the troops and horses are moved, food and grass go first. Now I don’t know how many people there are in the 88th Army. How can I arrange food, grass and ammunition by myself!

There was no way, Fan Shaozeng could only wait for the troops to gather. Fortunately, Fan Shaozeng's troops were scattered in several counties and cities, not far away, and could arrive within two days.

Two days passed quickly!

The 88th Army was assembled. Lao Fan was shocked when he saw the 88th Army under his command and the dark crowd.

When did you have so many troops? This is definitely not an army man?

After a period of counting, Lao Fan discovered that his 88th Army had become the "88th Group Army"!

Originally, according to the establishment given by the Ministry of Military Affairs, the 88th Army originally had the new 20th Division and the new 21st Division, each with a strength of people.

Although the commanders of the two newly formed divisions still bear the title of division commander, the soldiers under them have completely become an army.

Especially after the division of troops, the 88th Army dispersed its training in various counties and cities. There must be a name for the training, so local security brigades should be formed.

With the formation of a security brigade in this way, the security brigades of several counties and cities can now form an army.

In particular, some of these local security brigades are trained to transport ammunition and baggage, and their field capabilities are not bad at all. Others are completely trained to be based on newly formed units.

This is no longer a local security brigade, this is a regular army!

Now the Sichuan Army has opened factories and various enterprises in Sichuan Province, and the enterprises that have moved to Sichuan Province have also resumed production.

Today's Sichuan Army is very wealthy, and there is no shortage of soldiers, food, weapons and equipment. Fan Shaozeng is very melancholy. His 88th Army has a total of people.

With so many people marching to the battlefield in Wuhan, how should the Ministry of Military and Political Affairs get through this?

Moreover, many people knew that they were going out to Sichuan to fight the Japanese, and they all ran to Fan Shaozeng's office, telling Lao Fan to take them out of Sichuan to fight the war.

Lao Fan, who was melancholy about this, sent a message directly to Yu Hua asking how to solve the problem.

Wanjialing!

After Yu Hua received Fan Shaozeng's message, he was stunned for a moment. Fan Shaozeng's 88th Army unexpectedly turned into a group army, with a total of people.

After thinking for a while, Yu Hua decided to let Lao Fan bring all 60,000 people to the Wuhan battlefield.

As for the extra people, they are said to be the Sichuan Army's local security brigades, which are used as the reserves of the Sichuan Army's two armies and Sun Tongxuan's third army.

After getting the solution, Lao Fan also began to arrange food, weapons and ammunition for the troops.

First of all, during the previous training of the garrison brigade, the rifles they were equipped with were all medium and formal rifles. Although this gun is the equipment of the Central Army, it is not suitable for the Sichuan Army after it can produce Mauser 98K.

The Sichuan Army really doesn't like to use the official rifle. Compared with the Mauser 98K, it is much worse.

As for machine guns, the security brigades are equipped with imitation Czech light machine guns and imitation Maxim heavy machine guns, such as the civilian 26-type general-purpose machine gun and M2 heavy machine gun.

In terms of artillery, the garrison brigade is also equipped with 60 mortars and 82 mortars, as well as the Japanese Type infantry artillery, mountain artillery and field artillery.

Lao Fan visited the arsenal in Shancheng. The 98K and Czech light machine guns, as well as the Civilian 26 general-purpose machine gun and M2 heavy machine gun stored in the warehouse can equip more than troops.

As for artillery, the 88th Group Army only needs each division to be equipped with six Type mountain guns and six Type mountain guns, plus a military-affiliated Schneider Mountain Artillery Regiment.

The number of mountain artillery can also be achieved. The 88th Army, after changing its equipment in the mountain city, began to march to the Wuhan battlefield. (End of chapter)