Chapter 416 New Preparation Plan

Facing Zhao Dongyun's question, Qin Linjun immediately said, "The existing basic infantry tactics of our army still continue the era of standing army, and the basic structure of the division and brigade battalion has not changed! On this basis, adding new weapons and equipment such as light machine guns, heavy machine guns and mortars requires additional troops and personnel. At the same time, the logistics capacity of our artillery unit is extremely poor, and the artillery regiment's own strength has always been relatively tight. Two years ago, there were only 1,500 people in a regiment. Even though the number of artillery units was increased last year, it is only 1,800 now. In contrast, the artillery of the Japanese Army's divisional artillery regiment is the same type and number of artillery as all of us, but one of their artillery regiments has more than 2,000.

The small number of non-infantry combat forces such as artillery, heavy arms and engineering has always been an old defect of the Beiyang system army, which is related to the fact that contemporary domestic generals do not pay attention to these.

In fact, in the mules and horse army, there are no traction vehicles such as cars. An artillery regiment with 48 75 mm tubes of annealing guns also needs at least 2,500 people, so that the artillery regiment can basically move and fight normally. And if you want to fully exert the combat effectiveness of such an artillery regiment, and at the same time, in a mountainous and hilly area like China, it is better to have more than 28,000 artillery regiments with a total of 48 artillery pieces of three battalions. Anyway, the more people, the better. Even if they use drag artillery as livestock, they are better than no one. Good luck.

The current artillery force of the Feng army is too few. In the process of maneuvering and even in the process of combat, they need the strong assistance of the subordinate regiment, otherwise they can't fight at all.

However, the division has other tasks. They not only serve the artillery units, but also provide logistical supplies for four infantry regiments, one cavalry regiment and other units, which makes the artillery regiment occupy a large number of heavy troops and makes the logistics supply capacity of other units worse.

The so-called new establishment proposed by Qin Linjun to Zhao Dongyun has not actually changed in weapons and equipment, the most basic infantry tactics, the structure of the overall division, brigade and battalion. There are still so many light machine guns and artillery. So what has changed? That's the logistics personnel.

The new formation of the Qin Lin Army requires adding an ammunition platoon to each infantry battalion and increasing the number of artillerymen to the artillery regiment, increasing the number of artillery regiments to 2,000.

In addition, what surprised Zhao Dongyun is that this new establishment has added a large number of medical troops to the army.

Although there are some medical troops in the Feng army, they are quite poor on the whole. They only set up a sanitary platoon at the regiment level. However, now the new establishment of the Qinlin Army requires the establishment of a medical soldier for the infantry platoon, and a military medical officer, three medical soldiers, and three battalion levels in the infantry company. Military medical officers and six medical soldiers, the regiment set up a health platoon, dispatched five military medical officers and 15 medical soldiers.

Finally, a health company was set up in the division headquarters, and a division-level field hospital was established by this health company during the war.

In Zhao Dongyun's opinion, these ideas are too advanced. He personally knows that the level of medical care of the army is very poor, but it is also realistic. If a division needs dozens of military medical officers, then the whole Feng army still needs hundreds of people. Although it's just a few hundred people, if you want to find so many qualified doctors who can operate and deal with war wounds in the contemporary Soviet control area, let alone the Soviet control area, even if it is placed in the whole. You can't find so many qualified military medical officers in China. What's the use of no one to transfer these establishments you set up?

Naturally, we also have a response plan for Qin Linjun: "In a short period of time, we can't get skilled military doctors, but through recruitment and emergency training, our army is expected to get a group of initially qualified military doctors within a year."

Qin Linjun naturally did not say what the standard these initially qualified military doctors are. Generally speaking, they can suture wounds and amputate their limbs, and does not expect these military doctors to directly perform major operations on the soldiers on the front line, because that is meaningless. There are no antibiotics, not even anesthetics for modern operations. In this era, there is no difference between these large-scale operations and being directly sentenced to death.

Before and even during World War I, after the soldiers were injured, they could only count on God's shame. If they are lucky, they will not be infected. If they are unlucky, they will be infected and wait for them to shake hands with Death! To be honest, the role of the military's battlefield rescue is quite limited.

After seeing the so-called new establishment of Qin Linjun in detail, Zhao Dongyun hesitated. This compilation table greatly improved the soldiers of the Feng army at all levels. One division increased from 16,000 to 18,000. The extra 2,000 people can eat and drink, and they all have to be given military benefits.

And although Qin Linjun said that increasing the number of troops will greatly improve the combat effectiveness of the existing troops, to be honest, Zhao Dongyun still has doubts.

The expansion of the army is necessary, but Zhao Dongyun himself is more inclined to set up new troops than the main divisions under his deadly expansion like Duan Qirui.

After all, this is to unify China. Zhao Dongyun can't only use the three units of the 3rd Division, the 9th Division and the 10th Division. China is so big that Zhao Dongyun needs not a few strong troops. He needs more than a dozen or even 20 or 30 ordinary troops with good combat effectiveness.

Those trump cards are used as fists and act as breakthrough forces when necessary. However, the whole war still relies on more ordinary troops.

However, Qin Lin's plan is a very simple way to improve the combat effectiveness of existing troops, especially several existing main divisions, and does not take into account the real pressure of Feng's military expenditure and the urgent needs of Feng's army for more troops.

This idea of the Qin Lin Army is not wrong. After all, the battle of the Feng army now relies heavily on the three main divisions. It is rude to say that the three divisions of the 3rd Division, the 9th Division and the 10th Division support the sky of the Feng Army. Although other troops have also contributed, it is difficult to support the overall situation of the Feng Army independently. .

On the one hand, it is a demand for more troops, and on the other hand, it also needs to improve the combat effectiveness of several main divisions. Zhao Dongyun is also a little hesitant about this.

Qin Linjun also saw Zhao Dongyun's hesitation and immediately said, "Since it is more expensive to integrate all troops into a new establishment, we can also choose appropriately for a few main divisions to supplement personnel, and other troops maintain their current state to reduce costs!"

Obviously, Qin Linjun is not a person who can only make fake air. His work on these staffing is not only from the perspective of improving the combat effectiveness of the troops, but also takes into account the financial problems of the Soviet system.

Although it has greatly improved the financial situation of the Soviet system in a short period of time since it obtained the after receiving the aftermath of the aftermath of the countries. Not only did it take this opportunity to reorganize the 15th Division, but also supplemented many troops and even reissued the salaries of civil servants who had been in arrears for a long time.

However, this does not mean that the Soviet Union has enough money to turn every army into the main force.

And for an army, military expenditure is always short, even if it gives hundreds of millions of military expenses to the Feng army, but it is still not enough for the Feng army.

So at any time, we must consider the shortage of funds and build the most powerful army in the case of limited funds.

Now Qin Linjun has proposed one of the solutions to Zhao Dongyun.

Because Qin Linjun himself knows that it is impossible to build all the Feng army troops into the ideal troops in his heart, so that the pressure of military spending will force the Soviet finances to go bankrupt again. Therefore, before he proposed this plan to Zhao Dongyun, he had prepared this plan in advance, that is, other Feng army troops should first reorganize a few main divisions of the Feng army into an ideal establishment, and then slowly improve other troops to the ideal establishment according to the situation.

With time, Qin Linjun believes that all the troops of the Feng army can be integrated into their ideals.

Zhao Dongyun did not make any decision on the plan proposed by Qin Linjun at the first time. He also needs to refer to the opinions of more people for this major matter related to the development of the whole Fengjun. Although Zhao Dongyun is quite arbitrary in many cases, he is still very good at listening to other people's opinions on some matters. Of.

The next day, in the military information conference room of Jurentang, a small meeting related to the new formation of Fengjun's future was held. There were not many people attending the meeting. There were only a few senior generals of Fengjun in Beijing, including Fang Biyong of the General Staff of the Command, Zhao Dongping, Chief of the Ordnance Department, and Hong Putao, Chief of the General of the Munitions Department. There are generals representing the command, in addition to Cao Kuan, the commander of the 15th Division representing the field forces.

At present, the 15th Division has not yet gone south, and its division commander Cao Kuang, as the highest-ranking field army general in the capital, has often represented the military's field generals at meetings of the command in the past. Although it is impossible for him to make any decision at the meeting, he can represent the vast field troops. The generals made reasonable suggestions, so that the generals of the command who only deal with documents and data every day ignore the situation of the front-line generals and do all kinds of messy things.

Since the new ideal system proposed by Qin Linjun has not been officially made public, only a few people participated in today's meeting.

After the people present read the thick stack of documents, Zhao Dongping, the financial steward of Fengjun, first said: "According to this plan, the current monthly expenditure of each division needs to be increased by at least 50,000 yuan. If the three divisions are expanded together, even if the wartime expenditure is not calculated during the period, it needs to be completed every year. If you want to increase the unused one, it will increase by more than two million!"

"And he didn't see an increase in combatants from this schedule. The increase of 2,000 people are all logistics personnel, which really increases the combat effectiveness of the troops?"

Zhao Dongping's thinking is still relatively traditional. In his opinion, this army expansion is needed, but the personnel increased by the army expansion are all logistics personnel. None of the front-line combat soldiers have been increased, and millions more are spent on this every year, which does not seem to be reliable. Love.

However, unlike Zhao Dongping, who only focuses on funds, Cao Kui, as a general of the field troops, has a great impression of this plan.

"In many battles of our army, there was often a problem of insufficient supply, and thanks to the strong support of the quartermaster's department, the transportation and supplies of our army from the rear to the front line were relatively smooth. However, many ammunition reach the front line, especially after reaching the division-level troops, it is often difficult to transport these ammunition smoothly to subordinate units. The operation of the ninth division in front fully illustrates this point. The ninth division's own logistical strength is so insufficient that it is difficult to transport the ammunition from the beach to the front-line troops when crossing the river. Finally, it transferred the logistics personnel of the military department and the quartermaster department to help, which can meet the combat consumption of the ninth division!"

"Therefore, it is necessary to increase logistics personnel in the division-level troops!"

Cao Kuan said this, and Zhao Dongyun, who was beside him, turned his eyes to Fang Biyong again.