Although the disaster relief is mainly carried out by Shanghai, Qingdao's East China Disaster Relief Operation also attaches great importance to this disaster relief operation, because this is the first large-scale disaster relief operation in East China, and at the same time, there are huge political goals, and it is carried out on the territory of the Qing court, and the situation is extremely complicated, so the Shanghai Disaster Relief Command Headquarters will send a report to Qingdao every day to introduce the disaster relief situation of the day. The Qingdao Executive Yuan also devotes a certain amount of time every day to discussing the report sent by Shanghai and studying the issue of disaster relief.

The Shanghai Disaster Relief Command Headquarters dispatched an inspection and interview group to the disaster relief camps, and also said that the first phase of the disaster relief work has basically been completed, and the shelter camps for the victims have basically been established, and the next step is to shelter more disaster victims and try their best to organize the disaster victims to prepare for production and self-rescue after the flood recedes. Therefore, the Shanghai Disaster Relief Command Headquarters also sent a phased summary report to East China.

East China also organized personnel to discuss the report and gave high praise to the work of the Shanghai Disaster Relief Command Headquarters. At present, the shelter camp for disaster victims has been fully rolled out, and more than 600,000 people have been sheltered, and quite good substantive and social results have been achieved.

Wang Yunpeng said: "They really did a good job this time! They were able to bring the disaster relief work to this point in just over one month." ”

Xu Jichao also said: "Yes! Now our disaster relief operation has achieved very good social results, and frankly speaking, only in terms of social effects, the impact of this disaster relief operation is no less than the victory of a war." ”

Xia Bohai said: "So far, the results have been really good, which also shows that we made the right decision. However, what we have achieved so far has been carried out with little interference, because the response of the Qing court was too slow, and the local officials of the Qing court did not want to do much, and our disaster relief operations also helped the local officials of the Qing court to solve the problems of the victims to a certain extent, so our disaster relief work was not disturbed much. But now the Qing court has apparently reacted, and in Beijing, the Qing court has asked us to stop the relief efforts, and at the local level, the governor of Anhui Province, Enming, has ordered local officials to expel our disaster relief personnel. Now it seems that the real test lies ahead. ”

Wang Yunpeng said: "Yes, I am afraid that we will face a complicated struggle in the future, and we need to be more careful." ”

Xu Jichao said: "What will the Qing court do against us? Will it send troops to attack our camp?"

Wang Yunpeng shook his head and said, " I don't think this is very likely, because we have stationed troops in each camp, and it is difficult for the Qing court to transfer the Beiyang New Army from Hebei, the strongest army in the Yangtze River valley is the Hubei New Army founded when Zhang Zhidong was still there, but the total strength is not even 20,000, and Zhao Erxun, the governor of Huguang, is a smart man, it is impossible to mobilize the Hubei New Army to attack our camp at this time, and except for the Hubei New Army, the troops in other places are not enough to filter, of course, it is estimated that the officials in these places will not dare to start a war against us. I'm afraid that they will use other ways to deal with us, after all, such an approach is too passive in public opinion. ”

Xu Jichao said: "Then what way will it be used to deal with us?"

Wang Yunpeng said: "According to the calculations of the Ministry of Security, using local bandit forces, or victims of large-scale riots, to deal with us, so that the government can stay out of trouble and avoid a lot of trouble." ”

Xia Bohai nodded and said: "Notify the Shanghai Disaster Relief Command Headquarters to require all disaster victims to strengthen their security, and ask the Ministry of Security to strengthen intelligence collection and provide early warnings to disaster relief camps in advance." ”

Wang Yunpeng said: "Yes." ”

Xia Bohai said again: "What is the situation in the Northeast? Now the things in the Northeast should be about the same, we can transfer Lao Qin back, and now we still need Lao Qin here." ”

Xiao Jianjun said: "He is discussing the restructuring of the army with the command, as long as this matter is over, Lao Qin can come back." ”

After the People's Army defeated the Mongolian army and occupied Chifeng, the situation in the Northeast was basically stabilized, and the last thing was the army restructuring, the reason why the army restructuring work should be done in the Northeast is because the Northeast region is vast and borders with Russia, North Korea, Mongolia and other places. The Northeast Theater Command, the two temporary war organs, must also maintain sufficient troops in the northeast region, so the army restructuring will be completed in the northeast region to ensure that sufficient troops will still be maintained in the northeast region after the restructuring.

At present, the KPA Army has a total of 6 corps, each with 4 divisions, 2-3 reserve regiments, and a number of other auxiliary armies, so there are a total of 24 divisions and 15 regiments, with a total strength of about 450,000.

Of course, such a force is a lot, if it was before the war in the Far East, it would be even too much, but now the total territory of East China is 3.5 million square kilometers, the population is more than 85 million, and the army strength should be maintained at about 600,000 to be enough.

Despite the victory in the Far Eastern War, the army, like the navy, had many problems in its establishment, which required certain revisions and adjustments.

At present, the strength of an army is between 7 and 75,000, which is not a big problem in a large-scale war, but in a small- and medium-sized war, there is an embarrassment that it cannot be raised or lowered, because if it is to deal with a small-scale war, the strength of 70,000 is obviously too much, and it is not enough to deal with a medium-sized and large-scale war.

At the same time, like the Marine Corps, the army has also increased the establishment of brigades, so that the allocation and mobilization of troops will be more flexible, and a field army will have two divisions, one brigade, and one artillery regiment, and in addition, according to the actual situation of the garrisons of each field army, it can also be equipped with such armies as cavalry regiments, heavy artillery regiments, armored trains, and other troops, and the strength of a field army can be controlled between 4 and 45,000 left. At present, the East China Army has a total of 12 field armies, with a total of about 500,000 troops, plus more than 80,000 troops of the Marine Corps, the total number is about 600,000, and the scale of such an army is also in line with the current region and population of East China.

However, the field army is the basic establishment of the KPA army, and on top of the field army, there are two larger establishments, the group army and the front army; in peacetime and small-scale wars, it is sufficient to maintain the establishment of the field army; in the event of a medium- or large-scale war, two or three field armies will be concentrated to form a group army; and in the event of a large-scale war, three or five group armies will be concentrated to form a front army to deal with it. In this way, the KPA and the ground forces will form a three-level establishment of field armies, group armies, and front armies to cope with wars of different scales.

Another is not the problem of the establishment of the army, but because the territory of East China has increased greatly, and the northeast, Shanghai, and Borneo are not connected to Shandong, so the layout of the army and the defense area also need to be reasonably distributed. In addition, East China has already formulated a plan to overthrow the Qing court and establish New China, so considering the arrangement of the army and the defense area, we must also take into account the adjustment after the establishment of New China, and this adjustment should be as small as possible, and we should not overturn it and start over.

After discussions, the War Department decided to set up five military regions in the northeast, southeast, central, northwest, and southwest, so that after the establishment of New China, these five military regions could directly correspond to the arrangements of the whole country.

At present, the distribution of the garrisons and troops of the five military regions is as follows:

The Northeast Military Region, with commander Qiu Yahui, has jurisdiction over the 2nd, 7th, 8th, and 10th Field Armies; stationed in the northeast region, with its headquarters in Shenyang; each field army is equipped with one cavalry regiment, the 2nd and 8th Field Armies are equipped with a train unit, and the 7th and 10th Field Armies are equipped with heavy artillery regiments. The task of this military region is to guard the northeast region, because the area to be guarded is the largest, and at the same time it borders Russia, Korea, and Mongolia, so the deployment of troops is also the largest, of course, the northeast region also needs so many troops.

The Southeast Military Region, commander Liu Tie, has jurisdiction over the 1st and 9th Field Armies, and is stationed in Shanghai, with its headquarters in Shanghai. Of course, the task of this military region is to guard Shanghai and at the same time manage the Yangtze River valley, but because Shanghai itself is not large and there are also marines stationed in it, this military region has only two corps, and the direction of operations is mainly in the river and lake areas, so there are no cavalry regiments and heavy artillery regiments.

The Central Military Region, with commander Zhang Zhengjie, has jurisdiction over the 3rd, 4th, and 11th Field Armies, and is stationed in Shandong, with its headquarters in Qingdao, of which the 3rd Field Army has one cavalry regiment, the 3rd Field Army is equipped with a train unit, and the 11th Field Army is equipped with a heavy artillery regiment. The task of this military region is to defend Shandong, that is, the center of East China, and the strength of the military region is naturally strong, and with the garrison of the marines, the actual strength is not much worse than that of the Northeast Military Region.

The Southwest Military Region, with its commander Jin Suidong, has jurisdiction over the 6th and 12th Field Armies, and is stationed in Henan, with its headquarters in Luoyang, of which each field army is equipped with one cavalry regiment, and the 6th Field Army is equipped with a heavy artillery regiment. The task of this military region is to guard Henan and cut off the north-south communication of the Qing court, and the two field armies are indeed a little less, but Henan is connected to Shandong, in fact, Shandong's garrison troops are somewhat excessive, and they can support Henan at any time.

The Northwest Military Region, with Commander Wang Jianping in charge of the 5th Field Army, is stationed in Luzhou Prefecture, with its headquarters in Changzhi and one cavalry corps. This is completely a military region that has been established first, so there is only one field army, and after the establishment of New China, it will be formally stationed in the northwest and then expanded.