Chapter 222 Three Lines of Defense

Standing in front of the large military map, Yang Deming, who waved his baton, began to say, "Marshal, officers and colleagues!"

"At present, our army has a total of three infantry divisions and three mixed brigades and two cavalry brigades. The third division and the first cavalry brigade of the above troops are stationed in Yuguan, the fourth mixed brigade is stationed in Chengde, and the seventh mixed brigade is stationed in Tangshan.

The Ninth Division is stationed on the Jinzhou defense line.

The 10th Division, the 5th Mixed Brigade and the 2nd Cavalry Brigade are currently stationed in Shenyang.

There are more than 8,000 patrol officers outside our army. At present, they are organized into three patrol regiments and six patrol police camps, three of which are stationed in Huludao, Jinzhou and Shenyang. The other six patrol battalions were stationed in Yuguan, Xinmin, Panshan, Yingkou, Changchun, Harbin and other areas.

In addition, Heilongjiang and Jilin provinces also have a considerable number of old troops, as well as patrol police, theft camps and other troops. In accordance with the 26th Marshal Order issued by the headquarters on December 8, the Education Department has jointly reorganized the old armies of the two provinces. After the elimination, it is expected to be reorganized into 18 patrol police camps, a total of about nine More than 1,000 people can be stationed in various prefectures and counties to undertake local security tasks!"

Although these data have long been well understood for the generals, it is now clearer to hear Yang Deming say it.

Yang Deming continued: "In the above troops, there are 53,000 active field troops and 17,000 patrol officers. However, at present, there is a serious shortage of a large number of field troops in our army.

In addition, there are certain gaps in various technical weapons of our army. At present, the 9th and 10th Divisions have only two artillery battalions respectively. During the entry of the customs, the 3rd Division lost four artillery, 16 heavy machine guns and 26 mortars. At present, they have not been supplemented. In addition, they need to be equipped with light machine guns.

In the past two months, Zhao Dongyun has ordered a major expansion. On the basis of the previous three towns, it was directly expanded into two cavalry brigades of the three divisions and three mixed brigades. According to the expansion tradition of the Beiyang Army, certain troops were directly transferred from the active forces as the backbone of the new programming forces.

Therefore, Zhao Dongyun set up the 3rd Division and 5th Brigade in a short period of time, but it also led to a serious shortage of many troops, especially because the 9th Division fell into the customs and the 1st Infantry Brigade and 1st Artillery Battalion were drawn out to form the 7th Mixed Brigade. As a result, the 9th Division actually only has one infantry brigade and two artillery battalions. That's all.

The 10th Division was also transferred to an infantry regiment and an artillery battalion.

The third division was no exception, and an infantry regiment and an artillery battalion were also transferred.

The troops of the above three divisions are used to form the fourth mixed brigade, the fifth mixed brigade and the seventh mixed brigade.

That is to say, in the past two months, Zhao Dongyun's Feng army has actually only expanded a lot, but the actual strength has not increased much. Before the war, his three full-editing divisions have nearly 50,000, and two months later, there are only more than 6,000 more.

The reason why the number of troops did not increase much in the first two months is that the Feng army did not recruit new soldiers, but that most of the newly recruited recruits in the past two months are still training in the new barracks. Starting this month and next month, they will begin to add a large number of new troops to the active troops.

After all, this is a reality rather than a strategic game. It is impossible to say that Zhao Dongyun opened his mouth to expand his army, and tens of thousands of troops immediately appeared in front of him. There must be a time process in the middle. From the moment the soldiers enter the recruitment station, it will take about three months to complete various training and be added to the troops. Now the training period for new recruits is urgent, but it will take about two months. No matter how short it is, it is difficult for the Education Office to ensure the quality of new recruits. Measured.

Zhao Dongyun looked at Zhao Dongping of the Ordnance Department at this time: "How long will it take to complete the armor replenishment of the army?"

Zhao Dongping has a bitter face again. Xiong Xiling, the government's financial steward, has recently lost his hair in order to maintain the finances, but Zhao Dongping is not good enough to go there.

He is the general office of the Ordnance Department of the Fengtian Army, and the ordnance Department he is in charge of is not only in charge of ordnance research, procurement, etc., but also has a payroll department under him, which is responsible for the payroll of the whole army. To put it bluntly, Zhao Dongping is the one who spends money in the Feng Army.

However, there is no military expenditure allocated by the State Administration of Finance. Zhao Dongping is also a skillful woman to cook without rice. Since entering the customs, the military expenditure of the Feng army has soared. On the surface, people may have only spent about one million yuan to enter the customs, but in fact, the military expenditure of the Feng army in these two months has been as high as eight million. Among them, the war expenses are only small, and most of them are used to expand the army and purchase technical weapons!

The import of 75mm field artillery from Germany alone cost him 500,000 yuan, and then purchased the old-style field artillery from the Japanese side. At the same time, he also purchased a new type of tube retreating mountain cannon from Fuyuan Machinery Factory. In addition, it costed no less than the artillery itself.

Zhao Dongping spent at least 4 million to purchase artillery, shells, heavy machine guns, light machine guns, rifles and other ordnance.

And the General Administration of Finance only gave about half of the money. Even if Zhao Dongping found Xiong Xiling's family in person, Xiong Xiling was still a scoundrel and said that he didn't want money. Anyway, the General Administration of Finance had so little money, and he didn't squeeze it out, so Zhao Dongping could only spend the money in the small treasury.

And the money in this small vault has been painstakingly saved in the past few years. In order to accumulate these families, Zhao Dongyun and other Soviet generals took the risk to do military supplies business with Japan and Russia, and even killed the famous bandits on the ground, thus saving about 5 million. Zhao Dongping didn't worry about how he had lost half of his possessions in the past two months.

The money in this small vault is used for emergency prevention. This can't be used until the critical moment of death.

If the deficit of the General Administration of Finance continues to deteriorate and can't squeeze out enough military spending in the past few months, then the remaining two or three million small treasury in Zhao Dongping's hand will also have to be spent. At that time, everyone will probably have to drink the northwest wind.

Zhao Dongping, who looked bitter, said, "The list of the ordnance needed for this supplement has been placed in the past two or three months. It can be made up one after another, but there is still some of the final payment that has not been given, and this month's salary and financial bureau has not been allocated yet!"

Hearing Zhao Dongping's complaints, Zhao Dongyun frowned slightly. He knows this financial difficulties better than Zhao Dongping, but today's occasion is not the time to say these. He and the government have to find another way to solve the financial problems. There is no need to say this at the military defense meeting.

So he interrupted Zhao Dongping's words: "Well, it's good to have an ordnance supplement. As for the issue of military expenditure, you can come with Director Xiong tomorrow!"

He quickly turned his head and looked at Yang Shande: "How is the training of the recruits in the Education Department? How long will it take to replenish the existing troops?"

Yang Shande's expression is much better than Zhao Dongping's. After all, he doesn't care about money. The pressure of military expenditure has nothing to do with him. He just cares about recruitment and training. If he lacks money, Zhao Dongping will naturally solve it.

"The new recruits in October are about to complete the preliminary training and are expected to start distribution at the end of the month. The new recruits in November will not be able to complete the preliminary training allocation until the second half of next month. The total number of new recruits in the last two months is 13,000, which has been able to initially meet the existing vacancy of our army!"

Zhao Dongyun showed a satisfied look after hearing this. The work of the Education Office has always been his reassuring department. This has been the case since the era of Lin Yongquan. Although Wang Zhanyuan has transitioned for a month in the middle, it has not caused any negative impact. After Yang Shande took over the work of the Education Office, he is still steadily healthy. It is developing.

At this time, Zhao Dongyun looked at Yang Deming again, and Yang Deming opened his mouth again:

"The Operations Section believes that at present, the defense work of our army is mainly concentrated in three directions: Andong on the southern line, Lushun, Harbin on the northern line, and Yuguan on the west line.

At present, the direction of Yuguan on the western line has been decided, and the Ministry will not repeat it. Next, I am talking about the direction of the southern and northern lines.

In the direction of the southern line, in case of the Japanese army, a few garrison troops of various countries in the Lushun Concession and possible landing troops. In the direction of *, the proposal of the Department of Operations is to defend Andong in the early stage, relying on the Yalu River and Andong, the necessary point of the future Sino-North Korean railway. If possible, it must capture the railway bridge or blow up If Anton can win us at least three months of preparation time for the bridge, and if the situation is not smooth, it should be able to win about a month of preparation time.

The local defense force should be no less than a mixed brigade, preferably with a division.

In the direction of Lushun, due to the small number of troops of various countries in the Lushun Concession, and due to the limitations of many treaties, it is not easy for our army to enter the hinterland of the Liaodong Peninsula. Therefore, the proposal of the Operations Section is to deploy a brigade or so at the camp near the Middle East Railway. Once a military conflict breaks out, seize the Dashi Bridge as quickly as possible. Defend against the possibility of the enemy's landing in the direction of the camp.

In the direction of the northern line, it is important to prepare for the Russian Far East forces. Due to the vast and sparse land in the north, the supply and movement of the Russian army rely heavily on the Middle East Railway, so the opinion of the Operations Department is to give up other areas of Heilongjiang and concentrate its troops on Harbin. As long as we guard Harbin, we can cut off the railway traffic of Russians from Manzhou to Vladivostok. Harbin will not lose for a day, and Changchun and Shenyang will be worry-free for a day.

Because the area may face a heavy attack by the Russian army, the recommendation of the Operations Section is that the local garrison requires at least one division, preferably more than two divisions.

The above defensive strategy of the southern and northern lines is the most ideal situation, but considering that once the war breaks out and the military strength is very different, as Chief Fang said, our army will abandon Harbin and Anton and retreat to Shenyang when necessary. If it encounters difficulties again, it will retreat. Guard Jinzhou and defend it relying on the Jinzhou defense line that has been built for many years.

Although Yang Deming said the deployment of the southern and northern lines, and Meng Enyuan is the defense commander of Yuguan on the western line, as one of the few heavyweight generals in the Soviet system, Meng Enyuan naturally took the lead on behalf of many generals: "According to Colonel Yang, this south and north requires at least one division and two brigades to deploy. . Now our army's troops in Guan are only two divisions and two brigades, which are filled in the north and south lines. How to solve the defense of Shenyang, Jinzhou and Hulu Island?