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The big purge to rectify military discipline was a good opportunity for Zhang Anping to identify people.

If the commander of the unit cooperates with the purge, then the other party can be accepted;

If the commander of the troops is secretly obstructing, and he has not committed many evil deeds, just give him some troops and send them to the third war zone;

If the commander of the troops takes the lead in refusing to cooperate or protects the scum, and he himself has a long history of bad deeds, he will be given plenty of peanuts!
The Loyal Rescue Army he wanted was a force that could fight behind enemy lines and would not harm the people, not a group of bandits that could not only fight but also harm the people. This reorganization could just achieve his goal.

And this is what Zhang Anping has been doing in the past - he used to have limited abilities and could only influence the military discipline of the Loyal Rescue Army through the Songhu Detachment, but now, the entire Loyal Rescue Army can be manipulated by him, so he naturally wants to avoid letting the Loyal Rescue Army become the enemy-behind-the-line armed force in the original time and space that was both praised and criticized.

The military discipline rectification lasted for ten days. Through rewarding reports and lenient treatment for those who confessed, the Military Discipline Rectification Committee led by Tan Zhongshu dealt with more than three thousand soldiers of the Loyalty Rescue Army in just ten days. Most of them were let off lightly, but more than three digits were still punished by being shot or sent to punishment camps.

In addition, 37 middle and lower-level officers were executed with execution orders signed by Zhang Anping himself, and another 16 were stripped of their military posts and sent to a punishment camp.

A detachment commander was executed during a previous meeting. During the military discipline rectification, another detachment commander, three general commanders, and nine battalion commander-level officers were punished and sent directly to Chongqing by Zhang Anping.

Although there were certainly many loopholes in this military discipline rectification, the iron law of military discipline of the Zhongjiu Army was established.

And because of Zhang Anping's iron-fisted performance, he won the welcome and support of a large group of middle and lower-level officers in the Loyalty and Rescue Army. At this time, it had been more than a year since the establishment of the Loyalty and Rescue Army, and most of the officers who came from military academies and commandos had not yet been completely corrupted. Zhang Anping's iron-fisted methods naturally won their favor.

If he lets it go for another one or two years, Zhang Anping would have to kill a lot of people to enforce military discipline. Unlike now, the total number of people executed is only over forty.

After the military discipline was rectified, Zhang Anping began the first round of reductions in the huge Loyalty and Rescue Army.

This round was mainly aimed at the elderly, the weak, the sick and the disabled who were forced into the army. A total of more than 6,000 people were eliminated. These people were sent away after receiving travel expenses.

Afterwards, Zhang Anping began the major reorganization. More than 1.2% of the Zhongjiu Army soldiers were "eliminated" from the Zhongjiu Army sequence, and the entire Zhongjiu Army was only retained with a size of people. The eliminated soldiers were organized into two supplementary divisions and taken over by the Third War Zone.

He also took this opportunity to stuff some of the middle and senior officers of the Zhongjiu Army into the Third War Zone. After the reorganization was completed, less than one-third of the officers at the rank of detachment commander and above of the Zhongjiu Army remained, and half of the officers at the level of battalion commander and chief commander remained.

However, the vast majority of low-level officers were retained. If the army were organized according to the regular system of the National Army, the retained officers could expand the number of personnel to more than 25,000.

During the purge and reorganization, some people were dissatisfied with Zhang Anping's actions and made various complaints to Chongqing, but these telegrams of complaints were shelved by Old Dai, so much so that many people in the Military Intelligence Bureau dropped their jaws. How could Boss Dai, who has always been stingy with power, have such great trust in Zhang Xiao?
Isn't he afraid that Zhang Xiao will take over the position and turn the Zhongjiu Army into his own private army?
What they didn't know was that Boss Dai's actions actually made the captain look at him with admiration.

You know, in this era, all the generals who led troops wanted to have as many soldiers as possible. Who would have thought that Dai Chunfeng, who was criticized by many for maintaining a high level of military strength, would actually be willing to make drastic changes to the men under his command. An army of nearly 50,000 people was forcibly cut down to more than 10,000, and the remaining troops were all transferred to the Third War Zone!
What kind of spirit is this!

How could the captain not commend Lao Dai for this?

Old Dai, who had already supported Zhang Anping's major operations on the Zhongjiu Army, did not expect to gain such benefits after the disarmament. How could he scold his beloved nephew because of a telegram of complaint?

Precisely because countless telegrams of complaint were ineffective, these officers who were "eliminated" by Zhang Anping gave up the idea of ​​secretly confronting Zhang Anping. They packed up and left when it was time to change their jobs, which made the reorganization go more and more smoothly.

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By the end of June, the Zhongjiu Army had completed all its reorganizations.

From then on, the Zhongjiu Army Command was composed of six sub-commands, each of which was composed of two to three action corps. Due to the special circumstances of the Nanjing District, it was specially composed of a separate action corps.

In addition, the general command has two teaching battalions with a total of more than 1,100 people and one direct-affiliated detachment.

On this basis, Zhang Anping unprecedentedly established a [Military Discipline Inspection Committee] in each sub-level command post to be responsible for the military discipline of the Loyalty Rescue Army. This move reminded many veterans of the Loyalty Rescue Army of the sacrificed "General Zhang Shihao".

In this reorganization, Tan Zhongshu became a "dark horse" and was appointed as the deputy commander-in-chief of the Zhongjiu Army, nominally the second-in-command of the entire Zhongjiu Army.

The reorganized Songhu Command was headed by Liu Xinjie and Li Xingyu was appointed chief of staff.

If Tan Zhongshu is a true dark horse, then Madeline's rise to power is surprising.

Before the reorganization, Madelin's intended appointment was deputy commander of the [Northern Zhejiang Command], which seemed to be a promotion in name only and a demotion in reality. But after the reorganization, the commander of the Northern Zhejiang Command actually fell to Madelin, who was treated like a "chicken" and killed by Zhang Anping!
Although the reorganized Zhejiang North Command had three corps with less than 1,500 people, less than the nearly 2,000 people of the previous Hangzhou Corps, the name of Commander Ma was well deserved.

The sudden pie almost knocked Madeline unconscious, causing him to come to Zhang Anping in the middle of the night with three gold bars in his pocket - he was instigated by his old brother.

Zhang Anping was amused by Madeline's bribe.

By the way, this was the first time that someone in the National Army had been bribed for promotion - well, in No. 76, Zhang Anping was blatantly selling positions.

He did not take the gold bars, but Madeline was ordered to write a 500-word self-criticism and was arranged by Zhang Anping to attend the next military training class.

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After the reorganization, the Zhongjiu Army abandoned its few heavy equipment, and rocket launchers, mortars and grenade launchers became the main heavy firepower to suppress the enemy.

Afterwards, training was carried out under the command of Tan Zhongshu, while Zhang Anping at this time devoted his energy to the military training class which had just started.

The military training class is mainly aimed at station chiefs and team leaders of the Military Intelligence System in the three provinces.

Most members of the Military Intelligence Bureau had received intelligence training, which was why the Military Intelligence Bureau was able to perform well after the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War while the Central Intelligence Bureau was eclipsed.

However, when it comes to military command, these station chiefs and group leaders of the Military Control Commission are basically laymen.

It is naturally impossible to train them into professional officers in a short-term military training course, but at least it can make them no longer rookies - you must know that the current positioning of the Loyalty Rescue Army is dominated by the intelligence station. If they are all rookies, it would be irresponsible to the Loyalty Rescue Army!
The purpose of the military training class is to enable them to effectively distinguish between soft and hard persimmons, to guide the Zhongjiu Army to pick on the soft persimmons, and to provide all kinds of support to the Zhongjiu Army based on the intelligence collected. This is also the state of the Zhongjiu Army envisioned by Zhang Anping:
The initiative lies with the intelligence system, but the command power lies with each command center.

For example, if the intelligence station finds a soft persimmon somewhere, it will lead the Zhongjiu Army to attack this soft persimmon, but how and when to attack is what the command center is responsible for considering.

Compared with our party’s base model behind enemy lines, this is actually a compromise - only the base model can continuously strengthen itself, but the Military Control Commission and the Loyalty Rescue Army cannot imitate our party.

The Central Bureau of Investigation and Statistics did have such an idea. They followed the example of our Party and established several guerrilla forces and developed guerrilla zones. But the effect... cannot be said to be bad, only that it was non-existent.

Now there are only two or three guerrillas left, and the so-called "base" is really vulnerable.

The days passed quietly, and a piece of news from Nomonhan made the three words "germ warfare" known to the world.

On July 1939, 7, the Ishii Unit (13) of the Japanese Army threw more than 731 kilograms of typhoid, cholera, plague, glanders and other pathogens into the river. It is unknown how many Soviet soldiers were infected, but more than a thousand Japanese soldiers were injured.

Zhang Anping learned the news in the second half of the month. After learning the news, he immediately sent a telegram to the headquarters of the bureau, requesting the headquarters to order all district stations to strictly investigate the Japanese army's bacterial units, bacterial research institutes and other related information. At the same time, he sent a telegram to Yu Xiuning and others who were training in Hubei, asking them to collect various intelligence about Ishii's troops after they went to the Northeast.

In July and August, the situation in Nomonhan changed rapidly. The arrogant Japanese army's attempted offensive failed. After the Soviet counterattack, they retreated and began to defend. Unexpectedly, in the early morning of August 20, the Soviet army launched a full-scale counterattack in Nomonhan.

After 11 days of bombing with tens of thousands of tons of artillery shells, the Japanese army suffered heavy losses, with three officers at the rank of colonel being killed!

By August 8, the Japanese troops that were heavily besieged began to break out. At this time, the Japanese Kwantung Army decided to send more than 31 troops to Nomonhan to continue the fight.

The Chinese generals who were paying attention to the Battle of Nomonhan were all complaining about the Soviet army's outward strength but inner weakness - with a mechanized army of nearly 4 against a Japanese army of less than 1, with absolute advantages in heavy firepower, armor, and air force, as well as a troop strength advantage of nearly :, the battle had not yet been resolved.

If these equipments were given to the national army, how could they live a comfortable life in China?

When the Kuomintang generals, who were both envious and complaining, were looking forward to the expansion of the Nomonhan Campaign to drag the Soviet army into the war, an unexpected news came:
On September 1939, 9, Germany, which was "seriously overdrawn on credit cards" and "seriously overdue on 'online loans'", turned the table!
The German army launched a blitzkrieg against Poland with 58 divisions, 2800 tanks, 2000 aircraft and 6000 artillery pieces.

On September 9, Britain and France declared war on Germany - although it was a declaration without fighting, the world situation had suddenly changed.

Zhang Anping sighed after receiving the news:
【World War II has completely broken out! 】

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The battle between the Japanese and Soviet armies at Nomonhan ended in complete defeat for the Japanese army as it broke through.

But at this time their allies launched a blitzkrieg against Poland. As Britain and France declared war on Germany, the Japanese, as Germany's allies, had to do something to boost morale and enhance their own value.

The Japanese in the original time and space therefore chose to launch the first Battle of Changsha to boost morale. As the district chief of Shanghai, Zhang Anping had to return to Shanghai to collect relevant intelligence and warn the Ninth War Zone in a meaningful way.

Therefore, after Britain and France declared war on Germany on September 3, he handed over the work in his hands to Xu Baichuan, who had completed the general officer training and served as the commander-in-chief of the Loyal Rescue Army, and hurried back to Shanghai.

The intelligence work in the Shanghai District was very solid. As soon as Zhang Anping arrived in Shanghai, the Shanghai District learned about the movements of the Japanese army through three different channels. Jiang Sian even obtained a copy of the "Jiangnan Operations Guidance Outline" formulated by the Japanese army in August.

Zhang Anping immediately reported the information to the bureau headquarters and speculated that the Japanese army intended to attack the Ninth War Zone and seize Changsha in order to maintain stability in Wuhan.

The intelligence from the Shanghai area was very timely. After receiving the telegram from the Military Intelligence Bureau headquarters, the Ninth War Zone immediately began deployment and prepared for the next Japanese offensive.

In view of the fact that the Japanese army was mobilizing troops to attack Changsha, Zhang Anping ordered the Zhongjiu Army, which was undergoing training in Xiaofeng, to immediately end its training and rush to their respective areas while the Japanese army was having gaps in its forces, in order to prepare for actively cooperating with the Ninth War Zone in carrying out operations behind enemy lines.

This was the first guerrilla warfare against Japan under the new model after the reorganization of the Zhongjiu Army. Zhang Anping attached great importance to it. After discussing with Xu Baichuan, he asked the General Command to temporarily work together with the Songhu Command to facilitate the command of the first round of anti-Japanese operations after the reorganization.

But just as the two corps of the Songhu Command were heading towards Shanghai, a message came from Nanjing:
The former Central Army General Hospital on Zhongshan East Road in Nanjing was occupied by a mysterious force called the "Central Branch Epidemic Prevention and Water Supply Force." According to the investigation in the Nanjing District, this force was most likely the bacterial force that the bureau headquarters requested to be strictly investigated.

Zhang Anping was horrified. He had not expected that the Japanese actually had a bacterial unit in Nanjing. He immediately asked the Nanjing District through the bureau headquarters to conduct a thorough investigation of the specific situation of the "Central Branch Epidemic Prevention and Water Supply Unit" to determine the nature of the other party.

Faced with the strict order issued by Zhang Anping through the bureau headquarters, Li Weigong naturally did not dare to delay and deployed two intelligence teams to conduct an investigation.

Through various investigations, the Nanjing District confirmed that the unit's number was the "Rong" 1644 Unit, and its first commander was Takeo Kikitana - this unit was a subordinate unit of the Ishii Unit that released bacteria in Nomonhan!

This also confirmed that the unit was indeed an institution for studying bacteria.

After confirming the investigation results, the Nanjing District was planning to evacuate the investigators, but unexpectedly, the leader of the intelligence team, Chen Mingchu, was discovered and arrested by Japanese spies. After being arrested, Chen Mingchu chose to surrender at the first opportunity and gave out the name of another team leader, Tan Wenzhi, who was about to end the investigation.

Japanese spies then arrested Tan Wenzhi.

After being arrested, Tan Wenzhi surrendered immediately.

Based on the information provided by Chen Mingchu and Tan Wenzhi, the Japanese immediately arrested more than 60 people from the two intelligence groups. At the same time, based on the clues, they also successfully arrested the leader of another intelligence group.

The leader of the intelligence team did not defect like Chen Mingchu and Tan Wenzhi, but chose to die bravely. However, one of his trusted aides defected, resulting in the arrest of most members of the intelligence team.

In just two days, the Nanjing District lost two and a half intelligence groups with hundreds of people. As a result, the Japanese knew Li Weiguang's true identity. Faced with the strict investigation by the Japanese, Li Weiguang had no choice but to move some personnel of the Nanjing District to Shanghai.

When Matsumuro Yoshitaka, who was far away in Shanghai, learned that the Military Control Commission's Nanjing district had suffered a severe blow and two senior agents had defected, he immediately asked the Japanese spy agency in Nanjing to send Chen Mingchu and Tan Wenzhi to Shanghai.

Because these two people not only met Zhang Xiao, the current head of the Military Control Commission's Shanghai District, but also worked with him, Matsumuro Yoshitaka planned to use these two people to replicate the victory of the Nanjing Secret Service. (End of this chapter)