The next day, the troops returned to the establishment, and Li Qinglin and the 5th Company, who had 42 people, returned to the 145th Regiment of the 73rd Brigade to rest.

The prize money from the division was given out, and Li Qinglin and his team were also promoted. Li Qinglin is now the lieutenant company, Zhang Ergou, the big man, and the little sixth son were promoted to the second lieutenant platoon leader, and other veterans were promoted to the second lieutenant platoon leader in succession. Wu Cheng was promoted to the sixth company captain company commander, and Zhao Shuanzhu was promoted to the second lieutenant platoon leader.

In early December, the 20th Army returned to the command of the First War Zone, and the 52nd Army drove to Zheng County for rest. A week later, the 145th Regiment was ordered to move to Luoyang to reorganize and supplement.

The rest and repair site of the 73rd Brigade is in Luoyang area. The 145th Regiment is stationed in several large villages northeast of Luoyang City. The village where Li Qinglin's Fifth Company is stationed is called Sunzhuang Village.

The 145th Regiment had a full staff of more than 2,500 people. It has not been truly supplemented since the Battle of Caohe and Zhanghe. Now there are only more than 1,100 officers and soldiers left. Even this 1,100 people have not been completely saved, because the other regiments of the 25th Division were even worse, and some regiments were basically empty. Therefore, the division transferred 600 veterans from the 145th Regiment. Because the 5th Company of the Second Battalion and the 6th Company were annexed from other troops, and the 5th Company and the 6th Company were not drawn.

The 145th Regiment is now short of soldiers and officers, so it is urgent to add additional services.

Each division of the National Army has a management area, and Luoyang is the division management area of ​​the 25th Division. In principle, the source of troops of the 25th Division should come from here. The new recruits who were supplemented from the division have been sent from the Zhuang Ding Battalion to the 145th Regiment.

The soldiers were already there, but the officers had not yet settled. After passing through the fierce battles in Caohe and Zhanghe, the 145th Regiment was actually short of more than half of its personnel. After arriving in Luoyang, the division drew some officers and veterans to strengthen other troops. The 145th Regiment now lacked half of its platoon leader. Even though many veterans like Li Gousheng were urgently promoted to squad leader, the squad leader was still short of one-third of its personnel.

At the end of November, the regiment asked more than 20 military academy students to urgently replenish the company from the Luoyang No. 1 Branch of the Central Military Academy. The platoon leader was short of the amount, but the number of people was far from enough, and Li Qinglin was still acting as company commander.

In order to improve the combat effectiveness of the troops as soon as possible, the Education Brigade of the 25th Division Division established a class and a platoon leader training class, which took turns to train students, officers who had just graduated from military academy and platoon leaders who were promoted from soldiers for military achievements.

Xiao Liuzi is a bit of a culture, and he can keep up with this kind of training. Zhang Ergou, big man, Li Gousheng and others basically don’t know a single word. They feel dizzy when they see books and think that learning is a headache, so they run to Li Qinglin to complain.

Li Qinglin didn't give them a good look. He took this opportunity to curse these people. After Li Qinglin scolded him, he also gave Xiao Liuzi a task. He asked Xiao Liuzi to teach these people a word every day until they could read and write.

Because company-level officers like Li Qinglin who were promoted with military achievements did not systematically learn military command courses, and newly assigned military academy students did not have practical experience in battlefields. In order to improve the tactical level of company-level officers promoted from ordinary soldiers and increase the battlefield experience of student officers, the 25th Division Education Brigade also opened an officer training class to provide comprehensive training for all company-level officers in the division.

The textbooks learned by the officer training class are textbooks from the Army University, focusing on courses such as war history, combat outline, tactical homework and ancient military strategy. More importantly, the textbooks compiled by the General Staff of the Fifty-two Army, which summarize the experiences and lessons of various troops in Japan since the Great Wall War of Resistance, and comment on the successes and failures of combat based on various real battle examples. These practical experiences are particularly guiding for grassroots officers.

Through this training, Li Qinglin realized that Guan Linzheng was called "Guan Tie Fist" not only because of his bravery, but more importantly because he was good at fighting and learning. The 52nd Army led by Guan Linzheng was an army that was good at learning and dared to admit his mistakes. Therefore, the 52nd Army was called the sixth main force besides the later five main forces of the National Army, and it was not a false reputation.

The officers were studying, and the training of the recruits did not stop. Under the leadership of the squad leader, the Fifth Company strengthened the training of the recruits who were supplementing the recruits.

As the main force of the National Army, the 25th Division was supplemented according to the organization of the reorganized division. Li Qinglin's fifth company added nearly 100 new recruits this time, all of which were sent by counties in western Henan. Among these hundred individuals, some were strong men who were forcibly arrested, and some were rich families who paid for the top quota. Only a very small number of people volunteered to join the army.

Li Qinglin knew that there must be someone selling the ranks here, so he ordered the squad leaders of each squad to take his subordinates' favor. If someone escapes, the squad leader will be punished by military law. In order not to be implicated by deserters, the forty-one veterans of the 5th Company stared at these new recruits all day long.

Among the eighty recruits, there are really two veterans who sell strong men. Before entering the barracks, they had already made up their minds to take the time to escape. Later, they saw that the veterans of the Fifth Company who had been on the battlefield and killed people were guarding the enemy all day long, and they felt guilty. The two of them ran to Li Qinglin and admitted that they were the ones who sell strong men, but they repeatedly promised that they would never run away because they knew that they would never be able to escape the veterans' guns.

What's even more annoying is that there are four people inside who smoked big cigarettes. The four people are pale and thin, and they are so weak that they can't even hold a gun. As soon as they enter the barracks, they become addicted to big cigarettes. They yawn and their noses are covered in saliva.

Li Qinglin ordered Xiao Liuzi to lock the four people in a room and forcefully quit smoking, because he was afraid that they would be too weak and not be able to quit smoking during the quit period. Li Qinglin also specially asked the chef Bao Jiafa to prepare better food to increase nutrition for them.

In the 25th Division, the training of the recruits consists of two parts, one is political education and the other is military training.

Political education is a political lesson for new recruits by people from the Political Training Department. They teach soldiers three *mul*ism, the significance of the War of Resistance, and the ultimate truth that the victory of the War of Resistance belongs to us.

Military training is led by the platoon leader of each squad, mainly including shooting, assassination, bomb dropping, fortification construction, night combat, field service and other projects. After basically passing the individual training, the offensive and defensive tactics of the squad and platoon teams launched by Li Qinglin naturally became the key training subjects.

During this period, the relationship between Li Qinglin and Wu Cheng became closer. Wu Cheng's 6th Company was also established based on the veterans brought by Li Qinglin. They were also outstanding in the battles of Zhanghe and later. Now, like the fifth Company, they have become the main company in the Second Battalion and even the regiment.

Wu Cheng made a bad luck during the battle in Fenglishan, so he felt that he couldn't raise his head for a long time. Since he had experienced several tough battles at the 25th Division, he has gradually matured. Since he came from the 10th Division, Wu Cheng and Li Qinglin naturally became close.

Just as the troops were training in full swing, Wu Cheng was in trouble.

One day after dinner, Wu Cheng came to Li Qinglin with a soldier with a frown. It turned out that the Director of the Political Training Department of the Division Headquarters talked to him this afternoon.

Wu Cheng was a military academy student. In the past, he thought that he was not of the same level as ordinary soldiers, and looked down on them a little from the bottom of his heart. Later, in repeated battles, Wu Cheng found that he was not much nobler than those illiterate soldiers, and even worse than those soldiers in many aspects, which made him feel ashamed.

Wu Cheng's advantage is to correct mistakes, so from this training, he consciously became a group with the soldiers.

While the military training was intense, in order to make the soldiers serve with peace of mind, he thought of many ways. He and the platoon leaders wore the same clothes, ate the same food, and slept in the same barracks. He asked a special person to send the soldiers' military pay and food to his family, and also mimeographed a letter of condolence to his house. He also asked the people at the garrison to make military shoes for the army, wrote letters of condolences, held condolences, etc.; during the tense training, he also sent soldiers to help the people do farm work and hygiene.

These practices of the 6th Company of Wucheng were welcomed by soldiers and even more popular by the people at the garrison. The military-civilian relationship was very harmonious. However, this matter attracted the attention of those who were interested. This afternoon, the Secretariat Training Department specially talked to him.

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