Chapter 319 Reinforcement Subei

In addition to ordinary soldiers and grassroots officers, an army naturally needs middle-level officers and senior generals!

It is naturally impossible for officers above the middle level to be trained in a short period of time, but the gap is large. Although there is a group of advanced students, although the group of advanced students is famous, the actual number is not large. There are only more than 200 advanced students who have graduated and served, and the next group of advanced students get It will not be supplemented until next year, but there will be only 60 students in the 08 class who will graduate next year, and the combined number will not exceed 300.

The reason why this group is special and famous is that in addition to their self-respecting as Zhao Dongyun's students and direct lineage in the direct line, it is also related to their general holding of various important positions. They casually pull out a trainee, and the last time they are also a major battalion commander. Most of them are lieutenant colonels and colonels, generally serving as regimental commanders, division brigade chiefs, army Command, section chiefs of the command department, combat staff, etc., such as Shi Yanglin, who is a major general in the combat department.

However, it has a great reputation. Among so many school officials in the Fengjun, in fact, the trainees only account for a very small group. Most of the school officials are still grass-roots officers of various backgrounds who have been promoted directly. Although the quality of those non-educational students is generally not as good as those of trainees except for a few, there is no way. After all, the army needs so many regimental commanders and battalion commanders. You can't be without it, so don't care whether it's good or bad.

As for the senior generals, there are actually only a few senior generals in the Feng army, but there are only so many senior generals in the Feng army now, and they barely rely on the team formed in earlier to gather the required brigade commanders, division commanders, etc.

It's just that these people's qualifications are generally enough, but their personal abilities are very different from each other. There are excellent people such as Gu Lanyu and mediocre people such as Lin Yongquan. These few dozens of people can't be unified.

In order to solve the gap of officers needed by the 14th and 15th Divisions, Zhao Dongyun not only transferred the backbone officers of the existing troops, but also prepared to appoint a large number of newly graduated military students. Although these people are a little young, Zhao Dongyun did not expect them to fight with Duan Qirui's direct main force, the Fourth Division at once. !

After the personnel's problem is prepared, this ordnance is also a troublesome thing. For the time being, Zhao Dongyun intends to set up the shelf first. If the front-line war situation is critical, even if there is no heavy weapons now, it will be used as cannon fodder first. If the front-line war is loose, then train for a few months and wait for the weapons to be in place. Once a few months of training and then equipped with heavy weapons, two main divisions will be in hand by next year.

In these days, the definition of the main division can be said to be very simple. One is that the number of soldiers is full, weapons, especially heavy weapons, in place, and then after three or five months of training to maintain sufficient logistics supply, then such troops are basically the main division.

Well, don't mention it. In fact, this kind of unit can already fight with the 4th Division under Duan Qirui's command, the 3rd Division, 9th Division and 10th Division under Zhao Dongyun's command. If you experience one or two more battles, um, the premise is that it is not as defeated as the 11th Division and 12th Division under Wang Yingkai. If it collapses, then this force can quickly grow into the elite main force in the hands of major warlords.

Therefore, Zhao Dongyun made two preparations for the two newly formed divisions. On the one hand, he used them as cannon fodder when the situation was in economic conditions. On the other hand, if he had the opportunity, he still hoped to make them into the main division.

So in this way, although all kinds of ordnance cannot be in place in a short time, part of all kinds of weapons must be allocated first to let the troops train first, that is, the so-called equipment.

In this matter of ordnance, problems such as rifles and machine guns are small, but this gun is the most difficult to solve. Feng army was originally extremely short of artillery. Except for the third division, the ninth division, the tenth division and the four mixed brigade, the fifth mixed brigade and the seventh mixed brigade, the other first The artillery regiments and battalions of the 8th Division, the 11th Division, the 13th Division, the 1st Mixed Brigade, the 9th Mixed Brigade and the 10th Mixed Brigade were not fully formed.

Most of these missing troops have more than 30 artillery pieces of artillery battalions in the 13th Division. Generally, the 1st Division and 11th Division only have 32 artillery pieces of artillery in two battalions, while the 8th Division has only 16 guns.

And many of the above-mentioned artillery have been all the possessions accumulated by the Soviets from Fuchang and imports in the past years. In addition, they still have the scale after capturing and capturing many artillery of the direct army, the Lu army and the Henan army.

As for increasing the number of artillery now, there are two ways. One is to rely on the production of Fu Factory, but the output of Fu Factory is actually limited, and the situation of mountain cannons is better. After two years of expansion of production of 1905 75 mm tube mountain cannons, it has been able to reach the day and night shifts. 15 products are produced every month. The field guns are much less. Fuchang only began to test produce a small number of anti-German 75mm field guns this year. Although the process of expansion has been accelerated during the war, in fact, the monthly output is only seven or eight. The total monthly output of Fuchang is only 20 guns.

If you want to rely solely on self-production, it is actually difficult to meet the demand for Fengjun's huge artillery, especially field guns, by relying on the current output of Fuchang.

In addition, because the production of field guns in Fuchang is too low, and the output of mountain guns is more than half that of mountain guns, at present, many troops in the Feng army have seen more mountain cannons than field guns, especially those mixed brigades are more than mountaineers.

In addition to self-production, we can only rely on imports. There are many import channels. Although Japan refuses to sell artillery to Zhao Dongyun, there are also Germans, French, British and even Russians. Only with money, it is basically not difficult to buy artillery. But the problem is that Zhao Dongyun has no money!

After a period of intensive and large-scale outlays from 1906 to mid-1907, the real gold and silver that can be used in the Ministry of Finance have basically been spent, while foreigners do not recognize paper money.

In this case, if you still want to import on a large scale, you can only use the gold and silver reserves of the Bank of China. You should know that these gold and silver reserves are not fiscal revenue, but the money of depositors. If you use them, it will not be a matter of credibility, but ** naked direct robbery. The people in the area have money. If this kind of thing is really done, it is the kind of digging a grave for yourself and jumping down, and then filling the soil for yourself.

As for part of the funds raised by the recent issuance of patriotic bonds, although some of them are also expected to be used for import, this import is used to purchase various raw materials. There are also many raw materials and parts that cannot be produced by Fu factory. In terms of raw materials, there are various high-performance alloy steels, such as the seamless steel pipes needed to make mortars. In fact, they have always relied on imports. Well, they are still used in the name of imported water pipes.

There are high-precision optical instruments on the parts: artillery mirrors used by artillery. Not to mention that the whole Far East, including China and Japan, cannot be produced by Fuchang. Japan has to be imported from Germany before and after World War I. As for China, it did not begin to try to imitate military optics until the end of World War II. qi.

There are also seemingly simple parts, such as springs and even high-strength screws, which cannot be manufactured according to China's current industrial basic capabilities.

Contemporary China, including historical Chinese industrial development, has a characteristic, that is, it has the ability to assemble finished products and even imitate high-end weapons, but it lacks the research and development and production capacity of basic materials. You see, China in the late Qing Dynasty can build thousands of tons of warships by itself, with a large diameter of more than 12 inches. Caliber naval guns, other heavy machine guns and field guns can also be imitated, but they are extremely lacking in basic industrial capabilities.

For example, Fuyuan Machinery Factory can imitate the most advanced MG01 heavy machine guns and the 1975-mm hydraulic spring field gun in modern times, but they are actually unable to produce the high-performance springs needed for the gun.

Whether it is Fu factory or other domestic manufacturers, in fact, advanced mechanical products have been produced, but many raw materials and parts in it are imported.

Although this kind of import of key parts is much cheaper than the price of directly imported whole artillery, it has accumulated more, and foreign banks can do whatever you do, they have to deliver the goods with one hand and pay for real money.

Therefore, Zhao Dongyun's limited gold and silver need to be retained for these key matters. Even if there is still a surplus, it will also be used to buy large-caliber cannons and howitzers that cannot be produced in China. It cannot be wasted on 75mm field guns and roller coasters.

In this case, if the newly formed 14th and 15th Divisions want to have a complete artillery regiment, it is estimated that they will have to wait for the Fu factory to slowly produce equipment until next year or directly fall from the sky with dozens of artillery.

Despite facing many difficulties, under Zhao Dongyun's insistence, the plan for the formation of the 14th and 15th Divisions was quickly pushed. In the face of Zhao Dongyun's personal orders, although the chiefs of the departments below felt numb, they had to harden their scalp.

As the formation of these two divisions was put on the agenda, Zhao Dongyun also increased his troops on the front line of Xuzhou again, but this time it was not a regular army. Now Zhao Dongyun can't squeeze any regular army on his hand. He can't stay without a single army in the three eastern provinces and the Gyeonggi region!

So it was the patrol force that was transferred to reinforce the front line this time!

In early October, Zhao Dongyun transferred three well-like patrol police regiments in Fengjun and Zhili provinces, namely, the Fengtian Fifth Patrol Regiment, which was originally stationed in Shanhaiguan, the Fengtian Eighth Patrol Regiment, which was originally stationed in Jinzhou, and the Zhili Second Patrol Police Regiment, which was formed by the Zhili Provincial Army. These three patrol regiments are in a better situation among the dozens of patrol regiments of the Feng army.

The reinforcement of the patrol force is not limited to the northern part of Jiangsu. In Henan and northeastern Shandong, with the name of Zhao Dongyun, all local patrol forces are required to be transferred to vigorously participate in logistics transportation, and the garrison and other tasks, so as to free up more main troops to participate in the war in northern Jiangsu. Under such circumstances, Fengjun squeezed out tens of thousands of people to participate in the front-line war in northern Jiangsu.

You should know that although these people were also in the northern Jiangsu region, they were responsible for other messy tasks before and did not actually participate in various front-line battles. Now that these troops have been pulled out, although the total field strength of the Feng army on the northern front line of the Soviet Union has not changed, the combat personnel who can be used for combat Tens of thousands more came.

After receiving the reinforcements of these troops, the Feng army once again increased its offensive against Xuzhou!