I am Jiang Weiguo in World War II

Shan State in the northern part of Myanmar has a population of more than 300 million and an area of ​​more than 15 square kilometers. The main ethnic group in Shan State is the Shan ethnic group, and the Shan ethnic group is the Dai ethnic group. As for the second largest ethnic group in Shan State, it is the Chinese ethnic group; The border between Yunnan and Myanmar and Thailand is the Wa state, and there are [-] Wa people living there. These Wa people in Myanmar are basically the same ethnic group as the Wa people in China, and everyone in the Wa state speaks Chinese; Chin State is basically a copy of Wa State. The Kachin ethnic group in Kachin State is the Jingpo ethnic group in China, and Kachin State used to be Chinese territory. In northern Myanmar, Kokang District is the most "sinicized". First of all, the Kokang District was originally Chinese territory, which was ceded to the British by the Manchu Qing government. Secondly, the Kokang people in the Kokang District are compatriots of the same race as the Han people in China. It is conceivable that Jin Dingguo and others lived in northern Thailand and northern Myanmar. How "like fish in water" is, there are compatriots or compatriots living in foreign countries everywhere; thirdly, Thailand, Myanmar, and Laos are all Buddhist countries, so the folk customs are weak, and the combat effectiveness of the army is almost inferior and no threat; Fourth, the Golden Triangle area is surrounded by mountains and rivers like a net, which is very easy to defend and difficult to attack militarily.

According to Jin Dingguo's report in the telegram, among the 1024 people who went together, 45 people died, nearly half were killed in battle, half were killed when encountering poisonous snakes and beasts in the primeval jungle, and a few died of illness , but the combat effectiveness of their troops has not decreased but increased, and it has increased sharply, because they used money to recruit more than 2000 local Han people from Shan State, Kachin State, and Kokang District.

These Burmese Han people are very loyal and reliable. Firstly, they are all of the same race. Secondly, they have been forced to live in poor mountains and bad waters for a long time. Their lives are difficult and they desperately hope to improve. Jiang Weiguo’s money), and pointed out a way for them to get rich (drug production and drug trafficking), so they are loyal.

Right now, the four members of Jin Dingguo have established a "big army" of more than 3000 people (the members of this "big army" are all Han Chinese, some are Chinese Han, some are Burmese or Thai Han, more than 500 have guns, 500 Many people are holding machetes and other cold weapons), Jin Dingguo and Zeng Liwei are the chief and deputy leaders of the team, Zhao Haijun and Tang Feihu are the chief and deputy commanders of the combat force, after a month of fighting, they have eliminated more than ten unknown soldiers in the Golden Triangle area. Current affairs or tribal villages that do not know how to praise (Jiang Weiguo estimates that they killed many people), and at the same time conquered more than 30 tribal villages that were willing to surrender, controlled a population of more than 1, and obtained a total area of ​​about [-] square kilometers. The speed of development can be described as snowballing.

In the "preliminary development" at this time, the four Jin Dingguo did not attack the towns, because it was easy to startle the enemy, they attacked the vast mountainous villages in northern Myanmar and northern Thailand, and the local communication conditions were very backward, so they did not trigger the British occupation of Myanmar. authorities, French and Lao authorities, and the Thai government.

The four of Jin Dingguo will next prepare to "support war with war". On the one hand, they will use the existing territory as a base to start large-scale and organized planting of opium poppies to solve the funding problem. Although it will not bring income to Jiang Weiguo for a while, at least If you want to be able to support yourself, you can no longer reach out to Jiang Weiguo; on the one hand, continue to "expand the territory" to obtain more fertile land suitable for growing opium and a larger population.

The total area of ​​the Golden Triangle is 10,000+ square kilometers, and the four members of Jin Dingguo only occupy a few thousand square kilometers at this time, so they have "great development potential" in the local area.

Jiang Weiguo was very satisfied, and he called back: "Do it well, just tell me what you need!"

Section 070 Reserve (1)

In mid-October and late October, Jiang Weiguo did not stay in the army. He ran around all day. He inspected here today and gave "important instructions" on this. It's just too much.

Although Jiang Weiguo used the rank of a mere army captain to worry about "military and national affairs", it seems a bit "salty to eat radish and not worry about it", but this is his "natural mission".

After worrying about the Air Force, worrying about the Navy, worrying about the military industry, worrying about the chemical soldiers, worrying about the airlines, worrying about oil refining, smelting iron and coal mining, and finally worrying about it, Jiang Weiguo began to worry about the army.

At this time, the Chinese Army, in the words of later generations, was "painful", and Jiang Weiguo didn't want to worry about it, because he knew that the internal affairs of the National Army and the Army were very complicated and chaotic, and various problems were intertwined and entangled. Ten years of heart is useless, let alone Jiang Weiguo, but in any case, Jiang Weiguo still has to do his best. After all, the army is the foundation of the army, navy and air force.

Facing the overwhelming Japanese invaders, the navy and air force certainly played an irreplaceable role, but in the end, it was mainly the flesh and blood of the army that resisted the iron hooves of foreign enemies.

The disadvantages of the Chinese Army can be said to be numerous. The biggest disadvantage is that there are many internal factions.

In order to allow the Chinese Army to get rid of all its grievances and renew itself, as early as 1933, General Hans von Seeckert, the head of the German military advisory group who came to China, formulated the "Chinese Army Reform Proposal" tailored for the Chinese Army. "Book", Chiang Kai-shek, who trusted him very much, readily accepted his reform plan. Subsequently, the Nationalist Government announced the "Provisional Formation of Army Divisions" and spent huge sums of money to start the process of dismantling the huge, bloated, chaotic, and outdated equipment. The army (including the central army and local warlord forces) carried out a large-scale rectification and clean-up aimed at building a modern army in batches. The department in charge of this huge project was the "Army Reorganization Office". Lieutenant General Chen Cheng, head of the department.

After Jiang Weiguo came to the Army Reorganization Office, he read a lot of materials and had a deeper understanding of the gap between the Chinese and Japanese armies (armies).

Let me talk about the Japanese Army first.

The basic strategic unit of the Japanese army is the "division", the basic tactical unit is the "wing", and under the division and above the wing is the "brigade".

The divisions of the Japanese army can be divided into two types, one is the four-team system, and the other is the three-team system. In the former, each division governs 2 brigades, and each brigade governs 2 regiments. Therefore, each The division has 4 regiments with a total strength of more than 2.5 troops; each division of the latter directly governs 3 regiments with a total strength of more than 1.5 troops.

The Japanese Army currently has 17 divisions, all of which have a four-team system. Each division is not only full of soldiers, but also all veterans who have been trained and skilled.

In terms of individual combat skills, the Japanese army has always paid close attention to the two major aspects of "shooting with no bullets" and "seeing red with bayonets".

The Japanese army’s initial requirements for shooting training: For a target with a range of 300 meters, not only must all 5 bullets hit, but at least 3 bullets must be concentrated in an area the size of a fist; At first, it is required to hit a target 4 meters away within 300 seconds, and then it will be required to hit a target 2 meters away within 300 seconds.

Almost all the Japanese infantry trained according to this requirement were snipers.

As for hand-to-hand combat, this is the housekeeping skill of the Japanese army, so there is no need to say more; in addition, the "exclusive weapon" of the Japanese army should not be underestimated. The hit rate within 400 meters can reach more than [-]%.

In terms of the quality of its soldiers, the Japanese army already has a great advantage, but in terms of the number of soldiers, China, whose population is six and a half times that of Japan, is still at a disadvantage.

China now has a population of about 4.5 million, and Japan now has a population of more than 7000 million (in Japan). However, Japan has a complete military service system. In addition to 17 active divisions and 50 regular troops, Japan has more than 150 million regular troops The same well-trained reserve soldiers; as for China, the Chinese Army now has a total of more than 200 million troops, but the military quality of the regular army is already mixed. As for the reserve troops, there are basically no. Filling the holes in the front line with strong recruits who have hardly received perfect and strict military training is tantamount to fighting fires with paid salaries.

In terms of weapons and ammunition, the national government at this time only reserved ammunition that could be consumed by 20 divisions for 3 months.

The main body of the project that Chen Cheng was in charge of at this time was to build 60 reorganized divisions. The so-called "reorganized divisions" were formed by reorganizing and reorganizing the internal personnel relations of the original army; in addition to the "reorganized divisions", there were also "Adjustment division", "organization division", "new editor division".

These divisions have two brigades and four regiments. Each division has two brigades and each brigade has two regiments. The division has four main regiments with a total strength of more than 1.4.

The project is only a third of the way now, and the rest will take at least two years.

At this time, Jiang Weiguo was more worried about the reserve troops of the army. If China had 200 million regular troops and 500 million well-trained reserve troops, then the war would be much easier. As much as the regular army troops lost, the reserve troops would be replenished immediately, so that Ensure that the regular army is always manned and combat-strength.

However, it is not easy to train millions of reserve troops. It requires sufficient time, professional personnel, a sound system, and a large amount of weapons and ammunition.

Soldiers in the reserve army can't practice marksmanship with fire sticks, can they?But in fact, the national army's current supply of weapons and ammunition to the regular army is not enough, and there is no surplus supply to the reserve forces.

It's hard for a clever woman to cook without rice, and Jiang Weiguo can't do anything about it.

"I think we should follow the example of Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi in Guangxi!" When Jiang Weiguo discussed this important issue with Jiang Baili, Jiang Baili said without hesitation, "Jianhao, do you still remember the Guangdong and Guangxi Incident more than a month ago? After Guangdong collapsed, Guangxi became lonely. The chairman dispatched 50 troops to deal with Guangxi. Before the incident, there were only 20 regular troops in Guangxi. Where did it come from? La Zhuangding? No.

At the end of the incident, the strength of the Gui army doubled overnight, but the combat effectiveness of the army did not decline, because the nearly [-] extra soldiers were also well-trained.

Can Bai Chongxi, the 'little Zhuge', really turn beans into soldiers?I have studied that the population of Guangxi province is about 1100 million, and the province is divided into 44 counties. Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi implemented the militia system of "Tibetan soldiers in the people" in Guangxi. Except for more than 44 regular troops, each county Set up a militia. The members of the militia are half civilians and half soldiers. They receive military training while farming and working normally. These [-] militias are the reserve troops of the Gui army. Once the regular army needs them, these militiamen can be added to the regular army immediately and will not be due to the quality of the reserve soldiers. Not high, leading to a decline in the combat effectiveness of the regular army.

The militia system created by the two Li Bai is indeed very good, and the government should learn from it!"

"Then what are we waiting for?" Jiang Weiguo said eagerly, "Quickly follow the example of Guangxi and establish a strategic reserve force for the national army!"

Jiang Baili said helplessly: "That's what I said, but... this kind of 'militia system' can still be implemented in a province, but if it is implemented nationwide, it is easy to form new local factions.

Think about it, for example, Hunan Province, if the government implements this "militia system" in Hunan Province, there are more than 100 counties in Hunan Province, and each county has a militia group with hundreds of thousands of militiamen, then problems will arise.

Hundreds of thousands of soldiers from the Hunan Army who are rooted in their hometowns in this province, who do they listen to?In name, they must listen to the central government, but the place is as high as the sky and the emperor is far away. Who can guarantee that the hundreds of thousands of Hunan militiamen will not form a second Hunan warlord faction?If they are placed in the hometown of the province, it is easy to mix with various forces in the province and become a new force of the separatist party; if they are transferred away from the province, they are not militias, because they cannot participate in farming and labor in their hometown, they are pure soldiers. It needs the central government to spend money to raise them. Doesn't it run counter to the purpose of "hiding soldiers for the people"?If the army is sent to supervise, it will weaken the existing strength of the regular army!"

"Damn it!" Jiang Weiguo finally understood that his father didn't form a strategic reserve force for the national army. It wasn't because he was confused or short-sighted. On the contrary, it was because he was very shrewd and too shrewd.

It took Chiang Kai-shek so many years and exhausted efforts to wipe out the warlords, large and small, all over the country, and there are still many local snakes that have not been eradicated. Naturally, Chiang Kai-shek will not tolerate any It may lead to a new wave of local warlord forces that "wildfires will never burn out, and the spring breeze will regenerate".

Jiang Weiguo was very helpless and speechless. Many things in China are like this. Because they think too much, they mess up.

"The expedient measure can only be a compromise!" Jiang Baili and Jiang Weiguo felt the same way, "Let's take Hunan Province as an example! Hunan Province's current population is 3100 million. It is reasonable to say that there are more than 3000 million people. It is not a problem to form a 50 militia. , but it is easy to generate new local forces, so discount it, and make it bigger, form a hundred thousand militias, and disperse them in the counties of the whole province. There are only 800 people in a county. At that time, battalions or even companies will be used as units , and after they were dispersed, they were added to different front-line troops in the north and south, even if there were any local forces, they were diluted!"

Jiang Weiguo became more and more speechless: "One hundred thousand reserve troops will be formed in one province? If there is a full force, only one million will be formed in the Kuomintang-controlled area.

The 200 million regular troops have been exhausted, and the 100 million reserve troops have been exhausted. What next? "

Jiang Baili smiled wryly: "Next, we can only hold our feet temporarily and form the second batch of reserve forces.

Of course, when the war is raging, the military situation is urgent, and the front line is tight, where will there be so much time to train the second batch of reserves?It's no different from Latino!"

Jiang Weiguo felt very heavy, and felt more and more that this matter was urgent.

During the eight years of the Anti-Japanese War in history, the Chinese army (national army and communist army) died a total of about 380 million people. How many Chinese civilians died?It is no longer possible to get precise and detailed figures on this issue, but no matter what kind of statistics it is, it is appalling.

It is conservatively estimated that about 900 million Chinese civilians died in the war, and another 800 million died from other factors.

According to Mr. Jiang Menglin, a famous educator in the Republic of China, "During the eight years of the Anti-Japanese War, 1400 million strong men died of hunger, disease, fatigue, and abuse before going to the battlefield." During the eight years, at least 350 million strong men died of various factors without going to the battlefield, another 240 million fled or disappeared, and 340 million were disabled.”

Jiang Menglin wrote in a letter to Chiang Kai-shek: "...Menglin saw outdated young men along the way during his inspection, or they were yellow and emaciated, as thin as sticks, or lying on the side of the sick road, dying, or looking like walking corpses, wandering the mountain road, or lying dead by the roadside, Let the dog chew.

There were 27 strong men in Guangdong, but only 800 remained when they arrived in Guiyang; there were 150 strong men in Jiangxi, and only [-] remained when they arrived in Guiyang.

Ten strong men, three deaths, three illnesses, three escapes, and only one tenth of those who actually joined the army!" Undoubtedly, these statistics and the current situation are very distressing. The Chinese are not short of patriotic blood, but because of various factors And was ruined.

Section 071 Reserve (2)

Jiang Weiguo knew that he was "a man with a low voice", but he still had to do his best for this great event, not only for the sake of the motherland's war of resistance, but also to reduce the suffering of his compatriots.

Why can the national army only rely on "catch by force" and "tie with rope"?Jiang Weiguo and Jiang Baili repeatedly analyzed and found five reasons:

First, the public lacks a favorable opinion of the government.

The people are protected by the state and can live and work in peace and contentment. Once the country is in danger, the people will respond to the call of the country and shed sweat and blood in order to protect the country and their own interests.

If a country doesn't care for its people, and even its own government is more cruel and cruel to its own people than foreign invaders, why do people still support this government and protect this country?Liang Qichao once said, "The long-term brutal suppression of the people has turned the people into slaves and made the people's backbones more and more bent. When facing the invasion of foreign enemies and the chaos at the head of the war, they expect the people to continue to bend down in front of themselves and ask the people to be slaves to foreign enemies." Straighten your waist and resist in front of you, isn’t this a daydream?” Jiang Weiguo deeply believed in this, and the “Henan Famine” in history is the best example.

The Nationalist government turned a blind eye to Henan where the famine broke out, ignored it, and even continued to carry out levies and expropriations, which caused the people in Henan to boil. The Japanese army who attacked Henan distributed food to the hungry people while attacking the national army. Over there, turn over the weapons of the national army;

Second, the level of education of the people is very low, and most of the strong men are illiterate and do not have "national consciousness";

Third, the government has not established a complete and reliable "household registration system";

Fourth, the treatment of soldiers deteriorated sharply as the war continued, and the income of the strong men as soldiers was not as good as farming in their hometown;

Fifth, the road from the rear to the front is too difficult.

The strong men advance to the front line from the rear and basically can only advance on foot. There are no trains, cars, or planes. The physical exertion is great, the food is scarce, there is a lack of medical treatment, and the sanitary conditions are poor. These further reduce the ability of the strong men to serve the country in the army. belief.

Historically, due to reasons such as warlord separatist regimes and numerous factions, the national government failed to establish a "conscript" system before the War of Resistance.

When the Anti-Japanese War broke out, the national army had about 200 million regular troops and only 50 reserve soldiers. After several large-scale battles in the early days of the war, the regular army suffered heavy losses and the reserves were exhausted.

During the Anti-Japanese War, several provinces in Southwest China were the main rear area of ​​China’s Anti-Japanese War. However, in order to maintain the “privatization” of the military forces in their provinces, the local warlords tried their best to resist the “conscript system” implemented by the Nationalist Government, which resulted in the Nationalist Government’s serious shortage of reserve forces during the Anti-Japanese War. The troops and reserve soldiers, in desperation, had no choice but to recruit strong men into the army.

Jiang Weiguo and Jiang Baili spent several days studying this issue.

Right now, there are 10 provinces that are really controlled by the national government: Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui, Jiangxi, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Fujian, Guizhou, and Guangdong (including Hainan Island).

Fortunately, most of these ten provinces are China's "elite areas" and are densely populated.

Jiangsu has a population of about 3300 million, Zhejiang 2100 million, Anhui 2300 million, Jiangxi 1800 million, Henan 3300 million, Hubei 2700 million, Hunan 3100 million, Fujian 1500 million, Guizhou 1200 million, and Guangdong 3400 million, totaling about 2.5 million people.

Since Jiang Baili is a strategist and Jiang Weiguo is a "strategic genius", the two coincided with each other and believed that if the Japanese army invaded China on a large scale, the main offensive route must be one north and one east. On the battlefield in North China, the three provinces of Shanxi, Hebei and Shandong will bear the brunt , on the East China battlefield, the three provinces of Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Anhui bear the brunt, but the three provinces of Shanxi, Hebei, and Shandong are all territories of local warlords. The government will definitely not be able to form reserve troops in these three provinces. The three provinces of Shandong are supporting in the front, and Henan is in the back for blood transfusion. When the three provinces of Shanxi, Hebei and Shandong are collapsed, Henan will be on top; the situation in East China is much better than that in North China. To become the main battlefield, but also to prevent problems before they happen, the two provinces of Guangdong and Fujian must take on the heavy responsibility of the frontier fortress in South China; therefore, in summary, the first batch of reserve troops should be established in the six provinces of Henan, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui, Guangdong and Fujian. Among the provinces, Henan and Anhui are the most important provinces. If Shanxi, Hebei, and Shandong collapse, Henan will take the lead, and Jiangsu and Zhejiang will collapse, and Anhui will take the top. Moreover, Henan and Anhui are bordering each other, and the two provinces can also help each other and help each other.

After the fall of Shanxi, Hebei and Shandong, Henan will die, and the soldiers of Henan will definitely fight bravely; after the fall of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, the same city gates in Anhui will be on fire, and the pond fish will be affected, and the soldiers of Anhui will also fight bravely; Two; as for the third, it is Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, and Guizhou in central China. These four provincial capitals are the sources of the second echelon's strategic reserve forces.

As for other provinces, they are all in the hands of those warlords, and they must not be counted on, at least not completely.

The reason why the two provinces of Henan and Anhui are used as the first echelon is because the two provinces of Jiangsu and Zhejiang (mainly northern Zhejiang) will fall soon after the war. Even if reserve forces are established in these two provinces, there is no time and conditions to Conduct systematic training, so the two provinces of Henan and Anhui, which are located a little later, should be regarded as the real first echelon.

After all, the War of Resistance is a protracted war that requires long-term consideration.

If you want to establish a sound reserve force, determination is secondary, and the most important thing is to have a reasonable system.

Jiang Baili, Jiang Weiguo, and more than a dozen high-level generals invited by Jiang Baili to participate together, after repeated research, discussion, revision, supplementation, and streamlining, finally submitted to Chiang Kai-shek the "Establishment of the Strategic Reserve Forces of the National Army" that was completed after more than a week of hard work. The main content of the draft outline is:

[-]. The Military Service Department of the Ministry of Military Affairs was expanded into the Military Service Department of the Ministry of Military Affairs;

50. Establish a reserve unit of the regular army of the national army in the four provinces of Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Guangdong and Fujian, with a planned number of [-];

100. Establish the first echelon reserve force of the regular army of the national army in the two provinces of Henan and Anhui, with a planned number of [-] million;

Fourth, the establishment of the second echelon reserve force of the regular army of the National Army in the four provinces of Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi and Guizhou, with a planned number of 150 million;

Fifth, in terms of time and focus, Henan and Anhui rank first; Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Guangdong and Fujian rank second, and Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi and Guizhou rank third; when the war begins, reserve soldiers from Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces can directly participate in the war, and reserve soldiers from Henan and Anhui provinces can go to the nearest In the North China and East China battlefields, reserve soldiers from the four provinces of Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, and Guizhou can go to the Central China battlefield as soon as they fall to the enemy in the coastal areas;

Sixth, set up an independent and specialized inspection department outside the Military Service Administration, deploy and establish a nationwide "Military Service Inspection Network", train "Military Service Inspectors", and assign them to various military service districts to conduct supervision and investigation, and strictly prevent all possible incidents. A kind of illegal and fraudulent incidents;

Seventh, the Military Service Administration set up an "Ideological Work Team" to educate the soldiers of the reserve forces and reserve forces on patriotism, so as to instill and strengthen the "national consciousness" of the soldiers;

[-]. Establish a sound and reliable "household registration system";

[-]. Guarantee the treatment of active soldiers, reserve soldiers, and reserve soldiers, and the salary level should exceed the income from farming;

[-]. Set up rest areas, guest houses, health stations and other facilities every ten kilometers on the traffic line of the frontline from the rear to provide rest places, food and medicine to ensure that the reserve soldiers and reserve troops will not suffer from hunger on the road , disease, fatigue and death or injury.

Of course, the "heavy task" of sending this draft outline to Chiang Kai-shek was for Jiang Weiguo to do it. Jiang Baili and others knew that Chiang Kai-shek's love for his young son was increasing day by day.

For example, if you ask Chiang Kai-shek for 20 yuan, others will definitely ask for a discount. At most, you can get 30 to [-] yuan from Chiang Kai-shek's teeth. It will cost [-] when it is completed.

When Jiang Weiguo handed the draft outline to Chiang Kai-shek, Chiang Kai-shek still attached great importance to it. He glanced roughly, and his eyes were immediately caught by the numbers.

"So many?" Chiang Kai-shek was astonished. "50 in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Guangdong and Fujian, 100 million in Henan and Anhui, 150 million in Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi and Guizhou, and a total of 300 million! Too many! Too many!" He shook his head again and again, " There are too many people!"