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Text Chapter 363: Chinese Navy (Part 1)

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    In a blink of an eye, the time has arrived in mid-October of the 27th year of the Republic of China, that is, 1938.

    Qingdao in October has bid farewell to the cool autumn and ushered in the colder winter. Because Qingdao is close to the vast East China Sea, whenever the tidal wind blows, it appears to be much colder than inland cities.

    However, today is a rare sunny day in Qingdao in winter. The not-so-strong sunlight shines on the earth, giving people a warm and comfortable feeling.

    On the Qingdao pier, hundreds of small gunboats, transport ships, cruisers of various types, and two battleships with a displacement of more than 50,000 tons are parked densely in the pier military port.

    The shore has already been guarded by thousands of heavily armed Japanese soldiers, making it impossible for idlers to approach the dock.

    However, as a piercing car horn sounded on the road heading towards Qingdao city, countless people who were blocked by security forces outside the dock suddenly began to boil.

    These people are all local workers, students, and other passionate patriotic people in Qingdao. The reason why they gathered involuntarily outside the heavily guarded Qingdao Pier is because Qiao Anbang, commander-in-chief of the Huben Army and the anti-Japanese hero of the Chinese nation, was in Qingdao yesterday.  It was officially announced in a speech in the city.

    The founding ceremony of the Chinese nation¡¯s first truly modern and powerful navy was held today.

    As soon as the news came out, the entire Qingdao and even the entire Kuomintang-controlled area suddenly became excited. Anyone with a little common sense knows that the navy composed of the old and dilapidated ships originally received by the National Government from the former Qing Dynasty cannot be regarded as a real navy at all, and  As early as the Battle of Songhu, they had already suffered all losses.

    Until now, in this huge China, with 40 million Chinese people and more than 10,000 kilometers of coastline, including the Yangtze, Huaihe and other inland rivers of China, there is not a single Chinese warship flying the Chinese flag.

    This is an absolute shame, and today, the Chinese nation¡¯s unparalleled anti-Japanese national hero, the founder and leader of the Huben Army, the most elite unit of the Chinese National Revolutionary Army, Qiao Anbang.  Finally, we have to personally build a truly modern navy of the Chinese nation.

    Once such exciting news spread, patriotic people, passionate youths, workers, businessmen and other people from all walks of life in Qingdao rushed to the Navy Pier outside the city, which had long been designated as a military restricted area.

    It was also Qiao Anbang's intention to allow his compatriots to visit and witness this glorious moment that would go down in history, so he instructed the garrison responsible for the security of the pier to allow visitors to enter the safe area to observe the navy's inauguration ceremony.

    The car horn rang several times in succession.  The checkpoints set up along the highway lifted their cards to let people pass, and the officers and soldiers at the checkpoints saluted Qiao Anbang's car as it passed by slowly.

    Sitting in the passenger seat of the jeep in the middle, Qiao Anbang, with a smile on his face, frequently saluted and waved to the sentries on both sides and the people in the distance.

    Opening the road in front of Qiao Anbang's car were two three-wheeled motorcycles carrying three elite soldiers. In addition to one machine gunner, the soldiers on each motorcycle were equipped with mg42 general-purpose machine guns. The driver and the soldiers on the back seat were all equipped with  stg44 fully automatic assault rifle.

    They all performed their duties with stern expressions and unswerving eyes.

    "The number of jeeps following Qiao Anbang's car contained most of the division and above officers of the entire 11th Group Army. It can be said that except for a few division commanders who were unable to come due to special reasons.  All the dozen or so brigade commanders under Qiao Anbang arrived.

    In addition to the personal guard Liang Jiahan who was in the driver's seat, those riding in the same car with Qiao Anbang were Li Pinxian, deputy commander-in-chief of the 11th Group Army, and Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi, the current commanders and chiefs of staff of the fifth theater.

    The two of them were also invited by Qiao Anbang to rush from Chongqing to witness the founding ceremony of the navy. This was because during the period when Qiao Anbang was abroad, due to the failure of Gu Zhutong's third theater counterattack on Shanghai, the strength of the Jiangnan army was greatly damaged and it had been recovered.  Nanjing, the capital, was once again under the threat of Japanese troops.

    So in a hurry, Chairman Chiang hurriedly sent a telegram to order the main force of the Fifth War Zone, which had penetrated deep into Shandong, to turn around and go south, cross the Yangtze River, and go to the Nanjing front line to deploy defenses.  Consolidate Nanjing's defense line.

    Therefore, Li and Bai were naturally called by Old Man Chiang to go to Chongqing to hold the so-called strategic meeting of the Military Commission, but.  However, Old Man Chiang did not move Tang Enbo, who had actually formed a confrontation with Qiao Anbang's 11th Group Army and occupied most of central and western Shandong, to go south.

    In addition, Liu Zhi, the main force of Cheng Qian's first theater, and his second group army were also mobilized to advance eastward, which greatly threatened Qiao Anbang's home base of Pheasant and Ji, which is the base area in northern Anhui.

    ¡°Furthermore, the elite main force of Hu Zongnan¡¯s troops originally stationed in Shaanxi has begun to gradually move eastward. The strategic purpose is self-evident.

    At this point, Old Man JiangThe intention can be imagined.

    However, Qiao Anbang did not do nothing. In less than a month after returning to China, he quickly divided the entire Eleventh Army into two from ten reorganized divisions and expanded it to twenty reorganized divisions. Of course, the so-called expansion meant that the entire Eleventh Group Army was expanded from the original one.  According to the actual situation of each division, one-third or half of the veterans and recently recruited recruits will be selected from the ten divisions to form a new mechanized infantry division.

    As for the source of troops.  From the time he went abroad to the time he returned to China, the number of new soldiers recruited from Shandong, northern Jiangsu, Anhui and eastern Henan exceeded 200,000. Especially in Henan, when he heard that the Huben Army had once again expanded its army on a large scale, some people had previously  The generous treatment of the Huben Army is closely related to Qiao Anbang's personal reputation and the good reputation of the heroic unit of the Huben Army.  Therefore, almost all the young adults in Henan rushed to the Huben Army base area like crazy and signed up to join the army.

    In this way, the Huben Army was able to recruit more than 200,000 qualified soldiers in just one month. After returning to China, Qiao Anbang was slightly surprised by this. After thinking about it, he was relieved.  At that time, it had a population of 40 million, which did not include the population base of Taiwan and the four provinces outside the customs, and the area it occupied was almost the most densely populated East China region in the Central Plains, so the source of troops was naturally not a problem.

    After all, China¡¯s population base is there. Little Japan has less than 100 million people, and its entire military base is nearly 10 million. What about China with a large population?

    Although Qiao Anbang's method of rapidly expanding the troops will cause the overall combat effectiveness of the entire 11th Group Army to decline, it can quickly enable the newly formed divisions to form combat effectiveness as soon as possible, and then use the powerful air force and logistics supply system of the Huben Army to make up for the lack of combat experience of the new recruits.  Disadvantages caused by deficiencies.

    Therefore, as of today, not counting the soon-to-be-established navy, the total strength of the troops under Qiao Anbang's command, not counting the inactive militiamen who help with logistics and transportation, including the air force, the guard regiments, armored divisions and other units directly under the group army, has exceeded five  The one hundred thousand mark.

    This is because all the ten new reorganized divisions have not been recruited and each regiment has not yet been fully staffed. Otherwise, the total strength will directly exceed the 600,000 mark.

    If you include the huge logistics personnel, then the strength of Qiao Anbang's troops will reach an astonishing one million. Why do you say this? Because the logistics personnel and militia are all qualified soldiers. If the war requires them, they can be brought to the battlefield at any time.  The front line acts as a regular force fighting.

    In order to cope with possible changes that may happen next, while Qiao Anbang expanded the army, he also officially expanded Gao Xiang's flying group into the First Air Force Division, which has three full flying groups and more than a thousand combat aircraft and transport aircraft. This is still  Because the newly expanded Air Force Division has many newly selected pilots, they are not yet able to fly aircraft to form combat effectiveness, otherwise the number of combat aircraft will double.

    The expanded 11th Group Army's force deployment is as follows. Four main integrated infantry divisions are deployed on the Shandong front line, namely the 1st Reorganized Division, the 5th Reorganized Division, and the 9th and 10th Reorganized Infantry Divisions that were adapted from the original 31st Army and 48th Army.  editor,

    Among the four reorganized divisions, three (1st, 8th, and 9th) were placed on the front line in central Shandong to monitor the Tang Enbo Group, and one (5th) was responsible for the defense of Qingdao and the Jiaodong Peninsula. In addition, Qiao Anbang's direct security regiment also  Stationed in Qingdao city.

    In addition, on the Taierzhuang line north of Xuzhou, the armored division directly under the 11th Group Army was stationed here, working hand in hand with three integrated infantry divisions to deal with Tang Enbo's troops.

    More than 300 fighter bombers of the First Division and Regiment of the Air Force are stationed at Xuzhou and Qingdao airports respectively, and can immediately provide air fire support and reconnaissance.

    In Xuzhou, since Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi were ordered to lead their troops south, Qiao Anbang ordered Liu Guodong to lead his reorganized 8th Division to station in Xuzhou, to echo Zhang Xudong's armored division and monitor Liu Zhi's troops.

    Along the Xuzhou South and Jinpu Railways, Zhang Zizhong and Pang Bingxun's 6th and 7th Reorganized Divisions with more than 50,000 men were waiting in tight formation, and they formed a long snake formation with Xuzhou's 8th Division.

    Behind the 6th, 7th and 8th reorganized divisions, the newly formed 11th, 12th and 13th reorganized divisions are intensifying their training and are also serving as reserves just in case. If a war breaks out on the front line, they can be quickly deployed.  Fight and fight alongside the frontline defense forces.

    In Qiao Anbang¡¯s home base in northern Anhui, Chu Jingming¡¯s fourth reorganized division plus three new divisions formed the western defense line of northern Anhui, the eastern Henan defense line, to prevent Hu Zongnan¡¯s army from attacking from Henan.

    In addition, hundreds of fighter planes from the Second Flying Group of the First Division of the Air Force are stationed at Longshan Airport, the home base of the Huben Army, on standby at any time.

    On the southern front, Cao Er and Li Gupeng's 2nd and 3rd integrated divisions have advanced the defense line to Huainan, deploying a large number of elite main forces along the Huaihe River. On the north bank of the Huaihe River, four new divisions have formed a strong second-line reserve.  The troops also support frontline troops in operations at any time.

      In addition, in order to cope with the possible battle on the southern front, that is, to prevent the main force of the Kuomintang north of the Yangtze River from suddenly moving north, and to cooperate with the main force of the Chiang Kai-shek Army in the Central Plains to attack the Huben Army, Qiao Anbang ordered a military airport to be built in Guzhen on the north bank of the Huaihe River.  The Third Flying Regiment of the 1st Air Division was deployed here to deter the Japanese troops south of the Yangtze River.

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