Quartermasters can also fight the devils

The disarmament of the top level of the Chinese government also has an important purpose, which is to adjust the Chinese government's military strategy. The top level of the Chinese government decided to cut some troops and reorganize the structure and command system of the remaining troops, so as to achieve the goal of improving the combat effectiveness and efficiency of the Chinese government's troops.

What many people could not imagine was that the top leadership of the Chinese government was willing to downsize. After all, in addition to the regular army, the Chinese government also had a large number of advance teams and guerrillas, plus the puppet troops and military agencies that were taken over after the Japanese surrender. These made the number of Chinese government's army too large.

With so many military personnel, the military salaries alone would bankrupt the Chinese government's finances, not to mention that most of these troops do not have the ability to engage in field combat, so the Chinese government will also lay off these redundant personnel.

In the disarmament and reorganization of Chen Changguan, the Minister of Military and Political Affairs of the Huaxia Government, those spineless puppet troops that surrendered to the Huaxia Government after the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japan were particularly severely disarmed and reorganized. Of the 630,000 puppet troops that surrendered, only 230,000 were retained in the end.

In addition to the puppet troops that surrendered after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, the armies of various local factions in China were also the focus of the disarmament of Chen Changguan, the Minister of Military and Political Affairs of the Chinese Government.

Commander Chen, who was in charge of the disarmament of the Chinese government, was in charge of disarmament of the miscellaneous troops in the Chinese government's army. For example, the Guangxi clique, which had always been at odds with the Chinese government's direct troops, retained the strength of five armies after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War. Commanders Li and Bai originally had five armies under their command, namely the 7th Army, the 31st Army, the 46th Army, the 48th Army, and the 84th Army.

As a result of the disarmament and reorganization planned by Chen Changguan, the Minister of Military and Political Affairs of the Chinese Government, the 31st Army and the 46th Army, which originally belonged to the Guangxi clique, were merged into the 46th Reorganized Division, and the number of the 31st Army was naturally cancelled.

The 21st Army Group of the Guangxi Clique in Central China originally had three armies, namely the 7th Army, the 48th Army and the 84th Army. Finally, the 7th Army was reorganized into the 7th Division, and the 84th Army was directly disbanded. Only the 7th Army and the 48th Army were still intact. This reduced the Guangxi Clique's troops from five armies to two armies and seven divisions, greatly weakening their strength.

Commander Li was the director of the Peking Headquarters of the Chinese government at the time, and Commander Bai was the Minister of Defense. Both of them were considered to be powerful people, but in Commander Chen's disarmament plan, their strength was forcibly cut by nearly half of their troops. One can imagine how bad the situation of the remaining miscellaneous troops would be.

As for other local system troops in the Huaxia government, such as the Guangdong system troops, the Minister of Military and Political Affairs of the Huaxia government, Chen Changguan, only retained the 4th Army, the 60th Army, the 62nd Army, the 63rd Army and the 64th Army.

The disarmament and reorganization proposed by Commander Chen, the Minister of Military and Political Affairs of the Huaxia Government, also caused Commander Bai to curse at the meeting: "What's the point of fighting the rebellion? How can we fight the war if we continue like this?"

Moreover, the warlords in the southwest of China also thought so. Minister Xu of the Military General Staff of the Chinese government, who was famous for his fairness, felt that the military reorganization plan of Minister Chen of the Military and Political Affairs Department of the Chinese government was simply a trap for the Chinese government's army. Even the factions of Commander Hu, Commander Tang, and Commander He, who were the majority within the Chinese government's direct troops, had their strength weakened greatly in this disarmament and reorganization by Minister Chen of the Military and Political Affairs Department of the Chinese government. Even Commander He himself was squeezed out by Commander Chen and went directly to the other side of the ocean for inspection.

As a result, the disarmament and reorganization led by Chen Changguan, the Minister of Military and Political Affairs of the Chinese Government, not only offended some middle-level generals in the Chinese Government’s army, but also offended some local factions in China, and even almost offended some factions within the Chinese Government’s direct line.

During the disarmament of the Chinese government, Commander Chen, the Minister of Military and Political Affairs of the Chinese government, who was in charge, used his "Star-sucking Technique" to perfection. In order to absorb dissidents and eliminate miscellaneous troops, Commander Chen constantly mixed sand among the various troops. For example, he only transferred generals but not soldiers, causing the organization of the troops to be very chaotic, with soldiers not knowing their generals and generals not knowing their soldiers. He then divided and disintegrated the troops and used the panicked troops for his own use.

During the process of disarmament, Commander Chen simply dismissed some generals who were really uncooperative and replaced them with officers from the Whampoa Military Academy.

As a result, the number of officers who were removed reached a huge scale. How to resettle these officers became a big problem. If not handled properly, these removed officers might lead their troops to cause trouble.

Therefore, Commander Chen came up with a buffer method. In the name of training, he arranged those redundant generals into the Officers Corps, falsely claiming that the government would arrange jobs for them after graduation. He then incorporated more than 300 lieutenant generals and major generals who were laid off from the Chinese government's army into the twelve Officers Corps.

As for the Huaxia government's direct troops, the Huaxia government's Minister of Military and Political Affairs, Chen Changguan, also has a plan to deal with it, because the "Reorganization Plan" only stipulates that the Huaxia government's army will be organized into 90 divisions, but does not specify how many people are in each division.

Therefore, Chief Chen, the Minister of Military and Political Affairs of the Huaxia Government, changed the original army-level designation to a reorganized division. Each reorganized division had two to three reorganized brigades under its jurisdiction. A reorganized brigade was equipped with two regiments, but there was also an additional supplementary regiment. This meant that the actual number of the Huaxia Government's direct troops did not decrease at all.

Moreover, under the pretext of lifting layoffs, Commander Chen, the Minister of Military and Political Affairs of the Chinese government, can also reasonably eliminate the old, weak and wounded soldiers in the army, and then supplement them with young elite soldiers for training.

The original Fifth Army of the Chinese government was reorganized into the Reorganized Fifth Division, the original Eighteenth Army was reorganized into the Reorganized Eleventh Division, and the original Seventy-fourth Army was reorganized into the Reorganized Seventy-fourth Division. These main forces of the Chinese government are not only replenishing their personnel, but are also updating their American equipment, and their firepower intensity and combat effectiveness have been significantly improved.

This combination of moves by Chief Chen, the Minister of Military and Political Affairs of the Chinese government, greatly enhanced the strength of the Chinese government's direct troops, and invisibly weakened the miscellaneous troops to the extreme. After all, the Chinese government upholds the righteous cause of "peaceful disarmament", which makes those powerful warlords dare not violate it. From the perspective of the top leaders of the Chinese government, disarmament is indeed a very good thing.