Rebirth of the Anti-Japanese Heroes

The first item on the agenda of the conference was to announce the official establishment of the "Revolutionary Bases of Hunan, Guangdong, Guangxi and Jiangxi Borders", which governed the four revolutionary bases in southern Hunan, northern Guangdong, northeastern Guangxi, and southwestern Jiangxi.

第二项，便是宣告正式成立“湘粤桂赣边革命根据地苏维埃临时政府”。政府主席由何长明担任。下直辖32个县级红色政权，包括湘南的18个、粤北的9个、桂东北的4个、赣东南的1个。这其中又包括4个少数民族自治县，即富川、乳源、连州三个瑶族自治县、连山壮族瑶族自治县。

The third item is to announce the official establishment of the "Red Eighteenth Army".No one can understand why it is the "Eighteenth Army".When discussing the plan drafted by Li Jiansheng, Li Jiansheng explained that there are now red regimes and red armies everywhere, and his army is estimated to be No. 18, so he chose this one.This dispelled everyone's doubts a little.In fact, only Li Jiansheng knew that the "Eighteenth" was actually because of the No. 18 Army of the National Revolutionary Army, that is, the Eighth Route Army!It was a heroic and combat-friendly army, and I chose this name because I wanted to be credited to him.In a sense, when the two great men Mao and Zhu established the Fourth Red Army on Jinggang Mountain, why is it "four"?It is also because during the Northern Expedition of the Nationalist Government, there was a Fourth Army in which the Ye Ting Independent Regiment belonged, known as the "Iron Army".This principle is consistent.In Li Jiansheng's view, anyway, the numbers of the Red Army in various places are messed up at this time, so he chose this name himself, regardless of whether there are other Red Army sequences with the same name in other places.

The Legion has a Legion Headquarters.There are seven professional organizations including the Staff Office, the Political Office, the Logistics Office, the Equipment Office, the Training Office, the Intelligence Information Office, and the Security Office.

In Li Jiansheng's first draft, there were no training divisions, intelligence and information divisions, and security divisions, but there was a teaching division with the same responsibilities as the training division, and a maintenance division with the same responsibilities as the intelligence and information division, and no security division.The former two were renamed at the suggestion of Huang Su, an old political worker from Jinggangshan, but their responsibilities were similar; as for the latter, Zhao Boping, who was born in local work, believed that this security office should be established, and the personnel should be transferred from the security company. It is responsible for protecting the safety of the leaders and so on.Reminded by this, Li Jiansheng also remembered that with the expansion of his army, he was afraid that enemy traitors would infiltrate in future battles, so it was necessary to set up this department, so he nodded and agreed.Regarding the equipment department, everyone was puzzled at the beginning, thinking that it was set up repeatedly with the logistics department, and there was no need to set up two identical ones.However, Li Jiansheng specifically pointed out that this equipment is only for weapons, including existing weapons, bullets, and various weapons newly developed and produced in the future; logistics is responsible for clothing, food, housing, and transportation, so it should be set up separately.Only then did everyone understand.Of course, this is just Li Jiansheng's explanation, but he comes from later generations, but he knows that the troops of later generations have both logistics department and equipment department, so he is just copying the experience of later generations.

The regiment consists of artillery regiment, machine gun regiment, engineering regiment, logistics regiment, secret service regiment, teaching regiment, guard battalion, sniper company, reconnaissance company, communication company, cooking squad, field hospital, weapons research institute, and clothing factory.

In Li Jiansheng's first draft of the whole army, there were no artillery regiments and machine gun regiments, but a fire support battalion.Later, after discussing with several others, I felt that it was necessary to set up such two separate firepower organizations, dedicated to firepower support.After thinking about it, Li Jiansheng felt that it was reasonable, so he agreed.What's more, after several years of development, not to mention that our weapons research and development institute has been able to produce some earthen guns, but there are quite a few guns seized from Tan Xiuming's department.Therefore, the artillery regiment he set up this time includes a 60-mountain artillery battalion, a 75-mountain artillery battalion and a soil artillery battalion. The mountain artillery of the 60th Mountain Pao Battalion includes two batches. The first batch was seized from the 27th and 33rd regiments of the former Zhou Hunyuan Department, with a total of 22 60 mountain artillery pieces; the second batch was seized from the Tan Xiuming Department 30 Type 60 mountain guns.This time, in addition to 22 of them being assigned to some grassroots units, the other 30 mountain artillery pieces were reorganized into three 60 mountain artillery batteries, which belonged to this artillery regiment.As for the 75th Mountain Cannon Battalion, it also includes two batches. The first batch was also seized from the 27th and 33rd regiments of the former Zhou Hunyuan Department, with a total of 10 75th Mountain Cannons; the second batch was collected from Tan Xiuming’s 30 75 mountain guns.Li Jiansheng allocated 19 of them to the grassroots combat units, and the other 21 were built into three companies, which also belonged to the artillery regiment.As for the earth artillery battalion, the equipment is relatively easy to assemble, because the earth artillery is made by Li Jiansheng's weapon research and development.Although the power is not as good as these standard mountain cannons, the advantage is that they can be developed by themselves, so the number is more, and a battalion is equipped with 40 guns!Another about 60 units are equipped to each grass-roots unit!

As for the machine gun regiment, it includes a heavy machine gun battalion and two light machine gun battalions.Li Jiansheng didn't have many heavy machine guns at hand, only 42 in total.The light machine guns are pretty good, there are more than 160 of them.For this reason, 18 heavy machine guns were used to form a heavy machine gun battalion, and 36 light machine guns were formed into two light machine gun battalions.The remaining light and heavy machine guns will be equipped with grassroots troops.

The engineering regiment is composed of some recruits from the original reinforced engineering company.The supply regiment was enriched from the original strengthened supply company.The Special Service Regiment was integrated from the former First Special Service Battalion, a part of the reconnaissance company, and a part of the strengthened sniper company.The teaching group is formed by the integration of the original teaching camp plus a veteran.The guard battalion was formed by integrating the original strengthened guard company, part of the reconnaissance company fighters, and part of the sniper company fighters.Both the sniper company and the reconnaissance company were reorganized from the original strengthened sniper company and strengthened reconnaissance company, and are now organized as standard companies.The field hospital was upgraded from the medical team of the Hunan Independent Regiment originally set up by Li Jiansheng. The original Yao girls, except Yun Lei and Yun Bei and Lao Jue, were all merged into this institution.Fortunately, Li Jiansheng has recruited a lot of medical practitioners who are willing to join the Red Army. Although they are still not up to the standard scale of a field hospital, the airs are set up, and their strength is not bad.Of course, because there are not many western medicine doctors and medicines in the hospital, and most are "barefoot doctors" from the people, Li Jiansheng planned in advance to divide the entire field hospital into two departments: western medicine and traditional Chinese medicine.At present, there are only two physicians in the department of western medicine, and the western medicine was purchased when the counties were occupied; the department of traditional Chinese medicine has a large number of physicians, including Yao physicians, Zhuang physicians, and Han physicians. It is not small.As for the weapons development institute, it is now at least three times its original size.The scale of the clothing factory has also increased a lot.The cooking class is still Li Dayuan's class.