I really came here to fight against Japan

Chapter 148: Inventory of the Main Force of Nearly 3 People

After everyone watched the old man leave, they sat down again and Brother Ren Jiu continued the conversation.

"The number of our troops outside, as far as we can verify, is more than 125,000.

Now let’s talk about the number of troops of our Gannan Allied Forces in our headquarters in Gansu.

Our cavalry column consists only of the First Cavalry Division.

The commander of the cavalry column is Sun Desheng, and the commander of the first division is Huo Jiaqiang. "

Song Wenwan looked at Sun Desheng who was pouting, and said with a smile: "You don't have to envy Master Huo."

"Didn't I tell you that within a month, our Commander Huo will be crying and begging to switch places with you?"

Brother Jiu continued, “Now the number of people in our Gansu Army’s First Cavalry Division is controlled at around 20,000.

In fact, everyone has seen it this time, although our cavalry numbers are small.

But once there is a need for war, we can expand it to 40,000 to 60,000 cavalry troops at any time.

And just a few days ago, we had a conflict with the Ma family army.

This has been verified in practice.”

“Now let’s talk about the number of our Gannan infantry troops.

Over the past year, a large number of refugees have poured into Sichuan.

So we are not short of soldiers right now, but we have to temporarily suspend recruitment because we need to screen them.”

Song Wenwan said, "This is easy. Let's borrow Yang Qingwen from Shanxi first. This guy is good at investigating Japanese spies."

The Ninth Brother recorded it, and then said: “Now our infantry is composed entirely of veterans, two columns and four detachments, a total of 80,000 people.

Deputy Commander Qin Haichuan's Second Marine Artillery Brigade, the First Heavy Artillery Regiment, and the Motor Vehicle Regiment have completed training, with a total of 20,000 people.

We followed your prior arrangements and made sure they could all meet the requirements of mechanized warfare."

Song Wenwan interrupted, "Look at this guy. He doesn't want to be the artillery commander, but he has to compete with the infantry for jobs.

This time we will also set up a new artillery unit and appoint Qin Haichuan as the commander-in-chief of the Gannan Allied Forces artillery.

First, he was given the numbers of two artillery columns, consisting of the First Artillery Regiment and the First Heavy Artillery Regiment, forming the First Artillery Column.

As for the Second Artillery Column, it is formed by the newly delivered new artillery, so from now on we will call it the Second Artillery!"

Brother Nine continued, “We also have thirty county security regiments, all of which are core regiments of a thousand men, a total of thirty thousand troops.

The students in the officer training school under Deputy Chief of Staff Guan have graduated.

There are about 1,200 combat and political cadres who have graduated and have been added to the lower-level troops.

This year we recruited about 30,000 new soldiers from the refugees.

The quality of this group of soldiers is very good, and many of them have escaped from Shanghai and Nanjing.

There were even students from Peking who had a relatively high level of education.

According to the commander's request, all of them have been selected for use in your newly formed troops.

With this calculation, our total military strength has now reached 300,000 people."

"How many do you think we have? We already have a main force of nearly 300,000 people?"

Guan Zhan said: "The current situation is that the Japanese invaders are wreaking havoc in the Central Plains and the common people have to leave their homes.

Now, we can recruit as many soldiers as we have food and guns.

The 300,000 is just an estimated number. As long as the First Army in Xi'an can release the people, Lao Xie might be able to mobilize another 10,000 people.

There is also the Second Guerrilla Detachment in Shanxi, which sent a telegram last time to report on its work.

When I saw it, I was surprised to find that they were talking about the equipment issue for forming the Third Brigade.

After a while, they changed their words and said that the telegram was sent incorrectly and that what they wanted to form was the Third Regiment, not the Third Brigade.

But the equipment is according to the requirements of a brigade, there must be something fishy here."

Song Wenwan said: "When I left, the first team said that there were more than 20,000 people.

It seems that they have ambushed me. Are they going to form a third brigade? It seems that they have at least 30,000 people."

He looked at Zhu Bei and said, "Inform northern Shaanxi and help the first team solve the problem first.

I will have their stock replenished within a month."

The transportation of materials takes time. It takes at least five days to travel from Longnan to northern Shaanxi.

Song Wenwan can't just "produce" supplies out of thin air every time, as this would easily arouse other people's suspicion.

Therefore, it is reasonable to take one month to replenish the warehouse in Hengshan.

Song Wenwan sighed and leaned back in her chair.

He said with a sad face: “I never thought that I now have so many people.

Three hundred thousand people, this is much stronger than the Guangxi clique. "

Song Wenwan was not exaggerating on this point. His 300,000 soldiers were not militia.

These are regular field troops including cavalry, artillery and special forces.

But Song Wenwan's annoying look seems to be annoying no matter how you look at it.

Brother Jiu secretly clenched his fists and tried his best to focus on the document in front of him.

Then he reported on the economic conditions of agriculture, industry, commerce, military industry, schools, etc. in various counties in Gannan.

This is a bit of nonsense in the military industry, mainly to cover up the truth.

Otherwise, you have to give people an explanation of where your weapons came from.

Agriculture has developed the best. Song Wenwan has signed in for many seeds developed by Grandpa Yuan.

He has distributed it to farmers in Longnan in recent years, and the harvest is now quite good.

In other words, Longnan has had bumper harvests for three consecutive years.

Although Song Wenwan was able to grab a large amount of rice and flour.

But if we can really help the people of this world, we can achieve self-sufficiency in agriculture.

Then it wouldn't be considered that he came to this world in vain.

In terms of industry, due to the lack of electricity here, most of the limited electricity resources are provided to the arsenal.

Also, due to the unfavorable war situation, several coastal universities were moved to Gansu.

Ninth brother strongly supported this matter. He approved land and supplies for them, and finally allowed them to stay in Longnan.

He remembered Song Wenwan, who once said in the Song's Bookstore: Knowledge represents the primary productive force.

Therefore, establishing a university in Longnan and improving the basic skills of Longnan’s students is the first priority of the Gannan coalition.

Song Wenwan asked, "How is the training of the young Sichuan Army from western Shandong going?"

Guan Zhan said: "They are basically all malnourished children. What have the Sichuan troops been doing over the years?

All they do is fight each other, and no one thinks about how to improve people's livelihood.

This time, more than 12,000 soldiers under the age of 18 were selected from various units of the Sichuan Army.

At first they were unwilling to hand over the people, but it was your idea, Commander, to exchange them for weapons and ammunition.

Although this resulted in a significant reduction in the size of their Sichuan Army troops.

But after the supplements we gave them, their strength has increased a lot.

Because Commander Wang, Deng Beihou, and Fan Haer all fought well, the Sichuan Army became famous.

Now the commanders of the Nationalist army in various war zones will no longer look down on them just because they are Sichuan troops. "

Suo Wuxing said, "I also heard from Master Lu that he is particularly envious of Deng Beihou and his men."