"Can you keep the number and the shelf troops, if there is an emergency, these troops will be fully equipped immediately." Lei Hu tried to come up with a revised proposal for disarmament.

There were not too many people attending this meeting, and they were all well-known veterans in the Liberation Army. Ke Gongyu, who became the principal of the military academy, rarely came to attend the meetings of the Military Commission, but this time he appeared. Before Wei Ze could speak, Ke Gongyu couldn't help but speak, "Tiger, do you think this disarmament is an officer or a soldier?" ”

After hearing this, Lei Hu was stunned. Hu Chenghe, Ruan Xihao, Lin Jiajun, Liu Sha and others were all stunned, and only Shen Xin, Wei Changrong, Lin Asheng and other original bigwigs did not show surprised expressions.

Lei Hu is very experienced, and he also understood a little when he heard this. At its peak, the various units of the Liberation Army once reached 8 million, and later the railway troops were separated to form the Ministry of Railways, and the engineering troops were separated to form the Ministry of Construction. Weize forcibly adopted the policy of abolishing and merging military regions, and a large number of local armed forces, some of which were reorganized into armed police, and some of them into many units and organizations that needed to establish their own armed organizations. For example, gold, tobacco, tax authorities.

At present, the number of the Liberation Army has been reduced from more than 2.9 million to about 2.2 million, and the number of China's standing army still firmly occupies the first position in the world. Lei Hu quickly understood that the purpose of disarmament was to eliminate a large number of officers, so there was a great deal of opinion among the officer class. Various theories have also come out.

"After the disarmament, we don't have enough troops. What is 1.8 million troops enough for? If there is a war with the Americans, all these 1.8 million troops will not be enough to throw into the United States......"

"The army and navy now add up to only 2.2 million, and there are many logistics troops, and they have not encountered this situation for many years......

"The troops have a glorious history, and this cancels the inappropriate ...... of the troop number"

Lei Hu wanted to appease the officer class, but now listening to Ke Gongyu's statement, Wei Ze's purpose was to target the officer class. But Lei Hu didn't dare to believe it completely, and he moved his gaze from Ke Gongyu to Wei Ze. Among these people who were engaged in military order work, they all looked at Wei Ze, hoping to hear Wei Ze's final explanation. Those comrades who were engaged in military politics or who had left the army did not go to see Weese. Just listening quietly.

"Soldiers grow gradually. Soldiers grow into non-commissioned officers because they are proficient in military technology and can respond to the orders of their subordinate commanders. Lower-level commanders are able to make judgments on the battle situation on the front line and command tasks at the realistic combat level. The mid-level commander designs and discusses combat-level operations. Senior commanders are responsible for the practical implementation of army building. The highest-level military commission has devised ideas for army building. Wei Ze first gave a theoretical explanation, and the members of the Military Commission present could basically understand it.

Without even Wei Ze continuing to speak, Lei Hu could already roughly guess what Wei Ze wanted to say. Hu Cheng and this kind of felt quite a sense of crisis. The Central Military Commission is responsible for the idea of army building, and a large part of Hu Chenghe's work is just carrying out army building, and his real contribution to the idea is very limited. In the past, it was Wei Ze who put forward the ideas, Wei Changrong and other training departments carried out, and it was Ke Gongyu's teaching brigade that trained officers and realized the operation of the troops. Those commanders are really just in command.

Weeser continued: "The equipment and training of our troops have undergone tremendous changes over the years, so it is unlikely that some middle and high-ranking comrades will be able to undertake the work of army building after so many years. At this time, it will take on the work of the younger comrades, and make our great army more effective in the light of the size of the army as it is now needed. Disarmament is what appears to be the external manifestation of this adjustment, and the internal manifestation will be more complex. ”

One out of four people has to be cut, can this inner thing not be complicated? It is very easy to simply reduce the number of troops, reduce the number of conscripts and retire normally, and after two or three years, these hundreds of thousands of people will be laid off. Officers are a carrot and a pit, and the higher the rank, the fewer the posts. For those army commanders and division commanders who have served for more than 20 years, how easy is it to mobilize them to retire on their own initiative.

Lieutenant Qi Rui's rank is far from this level, and all those who are willing to go to North America are first sent to Shenyang to receive training in the Northern War, and experience the climate in the north by the way, at least in the plan.

But Lieutenant Qi Rui and Lieutenant Li Shaokang were not hot at the training ground in Shenyang, and they were told to prepare to go to North America immediately. On the third day in Shenyang, more than a dozen trainees were first put on a train to Vladivostok. After getting off the train, he was named and the next day he was stuffed into a large cargo ship bound for North America with dozens of trainees. This can make these two young soldiers miserable, and Shenyang and Vladivostok in early October are not warm at all. They only have short-sleeved summer clothes and long-sleeved autumn clothes in their baggage, and the rest is a military quilt. In the past few days, the two young people have deeply experienced what it means to be called the north.

Fortunately, the lieutenant colonel on the same ship was very capable, and when he saw that this group of young people were all like this, he didn't have time to apply for it at the logistics department, so he could only let these young people buy a winter suit, two thick quilts, and a blanket at the supply and demand store out of their own pockets. The cargo ship was carrying steel rails, the cargo hold was not full, and tents were set up on the relatively smooth steel rail pile, and the young soldiers finally set up a "training camp".

After a night's sleep, the young soldiers' evaluation of Lieutenant Colonel Deng improved a lot. They thought that such a large cargo ship would always be warmer, but they didn't expect it to be like that at all. It was cold inside the empty cargo hold. The portholes of those freighters only provide some lighting, not the warmth of the sun. Whoever had put on the two-layer quilt felt the full coolness in the tent, and when he climbed out of the tent in the morning, he immediately felt the cold outside the tent.

Had breakfast and did a routine morning exercise on deck. The lieutenant colonel gave a lesson to the cadets, who were no longer seasick, and the first question was the impact of equipment in northern operations.

"Fighting in the harsh conditions of the natural environment, equipment is very important. Have any of you ever experienced minus 20 degrees? Lieutenant Colonel Deng asked.

Students, you look at me, I look at you. The northernmost of these people are also in Henan, and occasionally experience "extreme weather" of minus 10 degrees. In addition to private communication, these students also reported their homes. They are all recently promoted lieutenants, or soon-to-be-promoted captains. Either in Ceylon or in southern Tibet. Needless to say, Ceylon and the Assam region that was snatched from the British is not cold. For at least two years or so, you don't know what sub-zero is.

Seeing that no one responded, Lieutenant Colonel Deng continued: "Then everyone should be mentally prepared, in the six provinces of North America, it is very common to have minus 20 degrees in winter. It is common to maintain minus 10 degrees Celsius in winter. In that kind of weather, the enemy is not only humans, but the weather is a very important enemy. Every year, there are cases of people accidentally getting lost in the wild and getting frostbitten or even freezing to death. ”

The word "frozen to death" is too far away for this group of people from hot or warm areas, sung in the opera "The White-Haired Girl", the north wind blows, and the snowflakes drift. It is very popular among the people, and everyone can hum a few words. Freezing to death was completely beyond the imagination of these students. How cold does it have to be to freeze humans to death?

During the break, Hu Xingzhi said privately: "Speaking of those who froze to death, I think of being bitten to death by mosquitoes." ”

Lieutenant Li Shaokang and Second Lieutenant Zhou Shun, who had drunk together, couldn't help but smile bitterly, the natural environment of this era was too terrible. Young people who grow up in cities don't really understand how harsh those environments really are without getting to those harsh lives.

Lieutenant Qi Rui said, "It seems that the people who came together this time have just come down from the battlefield, right? ”

This question pointed out the idea for the young soldiers, who seemed to have at least seven or eight hundred people who went to the north for training together, but only a hundred or so were stuffed into freighters, and they were all young officers who had performed well in the war. What the hell is going on with this to make them so different. Why was it sent to North America in a hurry?

Young soldiers do not know what the reason is, and the first element of eliminating the army is to determine who will not be eliminated. Those good young officers are not among the eliminated. The training department of the Shenyang Military Region was ordered to send those outstanding officers who had come down from the front line to Vancouver to receive training in the north there. As for the rest of the personnel, we will have to go through a round of screening. This trip to the north means promotion, and promotion naturally has to extend the length of service, and it is not only those soldiers who have just left the battlefield who value this opportunity, but also the promotion may be more attractive to soldiers who have not gone to the battlefield.

"Will we fight when we get to North America?" Li Shaokang asked.

"Then it depends on which military region you are assigned to, right?" Lieutenant Hu Xing replied.

The Republic of China had six provinces in North America, Alaska, Yukon, Arctic, American West, American Central America, and American East. The three provinces of the West, the United States, and the East of the United States border the United States, and these are the three provinces most prone to war.

"Isn't it said that military regions will be abolished now, and there will be no military divisions in non-combat areas." Second Lieutenant Zhou Shun put forward his opinion. At present, there are seven military regions in the mainland region of China's essence, and there are only these seven military regions.

The purpose of the discussion among young people is for the war, but when the Central Military Commission discusses the military region, it is a personnel struggle. Lei Hu sighed: "If there is a military division, we can temporarily settle these old brothers." ”

Wei Ze sighed: "If it must be abolished, why do it? ”

Lei Hu didn't agree with Wei Ze's idea, "Just let the commander of the military division do nothing, everyone will go home directly, and it will always be uncomfortable in my heart." ”

This suggestion is a bit interesting, and Weeser can't help but consider the feasibility of such an approach.