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Outside the Great Wall in winter, the wind is colder than your heart.

But Wang Chengzhu felt hot in his heart, not because of the alcohol, but because he saw a large number of howitzers.

The foreign-style markings on the gun are pleasing to the eye.

Heavy howitzers have always been the equipment of the direct-affiliated troops. Each column has at most a howitzer battalion. The main force is still in the hands of Wang Chengzhu and is controlled by Ding Wei.

There has been no standardization and lack of reasonable organizational management.

An artillery headquarters should be established to coordinate all artillery personnel of the unit.

Form group firepower and unify training and assessment.

Because of the large number of German and American artillery, the gunners needed to become familiar with them again, with emphasis placed on training on how to deploy and quickly move the artillery.

First practice the arrangement of artillery positions and deployment of artillery formations, and then consider the issue of accuracy.

Braving the heavy snow, the gunners began training near Harbin.

The food supply for breakfast, lunch and dinner is full, with stewed meat at noon and canned food in the morning and evening.

The rice is enough to fill you up.

I am willing to sacrifice my life to get rid of the fat.

A brief ceasefire period arrived, and all domestic conflicts came to a halt thanks to the mediation of the Americans.

Troops were stationed outside the Great Wall, in North China, and in the Northwest region respectively.

It's war or peace, sometimes war and sometimes peace, which makes everyone's scalp tingling.

This requires extremely high comprehensive qualities of a commander, who must be able to both stabilize the situation and make decisions.

After Brother Biao came to power, he made new arrangements for the current situation. He divided the areas outside the Great Wall into multiple military regions, decentralized the troops to the local areas, carried out land reform, and gained a mass base.

At the same time, we can extract the elite from the troops and form field troops to fight against bandits and develop offline forces as needed.

Follow the most familiar route and surround the city with the countryside.

Just as we fought the Japanese before, we are now confronting the National Army in the same way we did before.

This requires Ding Wei's support. As we all know, Ding Wei's troops are the most elite.

The two sides were able to smoothly reach the ceasefire stage thanks to a fierce attack by Zhang Dabiao's column, which wiped out 13% to 89% of the troops of the th Division of the th Army and directly crippled the American-equipped division.

The casualties of Zhang Dabiao's Third Column were negligible.

The army changed its name because many bandits liked to call themselves the Autonomous Army, the National Salvation Army, etc. The previous names sounded like "beards" and were likely to arouse resistance from the masses.

Reorganized from the Manchurian People's Autonomous Army, the Manchurian Democratic Alliance Army initially divided the scope of defense, striving to develop an elite team during the armistice period.

Brother Biao is an all-round talent who has made achievements in military affairs and is also excellent in political work.

When balancing the forces of all parties, you can also come up with ideas.

Like Da Huang from the New Fourth Army, he has always been dissatisfied with this and looked down on that. Facing Brother Biao, he decisively handed over the command of the Third Division.

The current military forces will be divided into four major military regions, namely the East Manchuria, West Manchuria, South Manchuria and North Manchuria Military Regions.

The East Manchuria Military District covers the Hebei-Liaoning area, with 6.8 troops;

The Western Manchuria Military Region was the Liaore front line, with 6 troops;

The South Manchuria Military Region is Liaodong, with 11 troops;

The North Manchuria Military Region is Heilongjiang and Jilin, with 6.4 people.

Ding Wei was originally the commander of the North Manchuria Military Region, and he was given another 6.4 people for the mobilization and command of the North Manchuria Military Region.

这6.4万人是原冀热辽的19旅、山东的第7师、由359旅扩编的6个步兵团跟1个骑兵团，以及新成立的松江警备1/2旅，北安警备1、2、3旅。

Six brigades, one division, and seven regiments were stuffed in at once. The seven regiments evolved from the 6th Brigade were equivalent to column-level forces.

It is said that Brother Biao can do great things. Ding Wei has been operating in the Northeast for more than two years, spreading all the way from Suiyuan and Chahar. Giving him troops directly is both a trust and a request for help.

They trusted that Ding Wei could be a good home for North Manchuria, stabilize the rear area, and ensure that the Northeast region would remain invincible.

The reason for asking for help was to use Ding Wei's methods to properly train and reorganize these 6.4 troops.

It requires equipment, training, and rest to reorganize into a field army.

Unlike other military regions, the current 30 troops come from multiple places, including Jizhong, Shandong, Suzhong, Jibei, Jidong, and Jinbei.

They are under the command of different people and their temperaments are difficult to train.

There is no so-called field army at all. We must work together to have a chance to confront the main force of the National Army.

It is divided into four major military regions, with several second- and third-level military regions under them. The goal is to take control of the area and build a field army in the shortest possible time.

Ding Wei did not refuse, but only made one request, that Kong Jie's regiment be transferred back.

This guy Lao Kong left all his assets in southern Hebei and northern Henan, and only brought his old team to the Northeast.

Should we say that he is honest and obedient, or should we say that he is stupid?

With Kong Jie's ability, he is more than qualified to be a column commander. After all, he was already a column commander before coming to the Northeast.

This old comrade's personality is suitable for leading more troops. He has strong ability to command troops and is steady in fighting.

In the past, the Eighth Route Army fought in small groups and conducted guerrilla warfare, using many tricks to gain every advantage.

In serious operations at the division, army, or corps level, military discipline must be strict, execution must be strong, and all crooked ideas and tricks must be put aside.

Kong Jie's character is just perfect in terms of execution and military discipline.

He is absolutely suitable to be the deputy of a large military group, cooperating with good command and executing tactics.

They have rich combat experience and were once the iron triangle of northwest Shanxi.

At that time, the division commander transferred Kong Jie and sent him to develop Shanxi, Hebei, Shandong and Henan. Ding Wei felt heartbroken for a long time. Now, after many twists and turns, he is back again.

The question facing Ding Wei was whether the second column should be formed.

At that time, the Second Column was always vacant. Later, the Mudanjiang Detachment and the Second Detachment considered merging into a column.

The comrades all developed relatively quickly. Zhao Gang formed a column in Mudanjiang, and Kong Yong formed a column in the Pingjin area.

The number of people in the columns varied. Some, like Zhang Dabiao's column, had more than 6 people in one go.

Some, like the Kong Yong and Zhao Gang columns, had only a little over 10,000 men.

Now that 6.4 people have been brought here, Ding Wei has to consider training them properly.

There is no doubt that the First Column and the Third Column guarantee 3 troops. On this basis, how the two men expand is up to them.

To be conservative, 4 divisions in each column will be enough to ensure to people.

The Second Column also let Kong Jie take over and organized the 6.4 people into five divisions and 5 regiments, of which 15 were under Kong Jie's command.

Including the direct troops he brought with him, there were more than 4 people in total.

Wang Chao's troops of the Fourth Column were stationed in Harbin and renamed the Harbin Column.

Wang Tao organized the Fifth Column into three divisions, and the troops under his command were sufficient. This guy was a master at recruiting soldiers and had recruited many people from northern and eastern Hebei.

A lot of people were also drawn from the Pingjin area, and the military strength was just over 4.

The column was stationed in Tongliao, migrating from the Hebei-Rehe-Liaoning area, taking over the garrison area of ​​the former Fourth Column and being reorganized into the Tongliao Column.

Of the remaining three divisions, one was incorporated into Zhao Gang's Mudanjiang Column, with a strength of more than 2.5 people.

One division was incorporated into Kong Yong's column, with a full strength of 2.6 troops.

The First, Second and Third Columns of North Manchuria were composed of three divisions respectively, among which Kong Jie's Second Column had the skeleton of four divisions.