Comparing the firepower equipment of an ordinary German army division, it can be seen that 2 brigades and 4 regiments (infantry), each regiment has 1 mortar company and 6 firing barrels. And machine guns were popularized to squads. THE HEAVY FIREPOWER IS ONE ARTILLERY REGIMENT UNDER THE JURISDICTION OF THE DIVISION, EQUIPPED WITH 60 75MM** GUNS OR 105MM CANNONS.

And the best army divisions in China, with the same structure (at this time, the Chinese division was from Germany, all of which were 2 brigades and 4 regiments), each regiment had only 1 heavy machine gun company (Makqin water-cooled), 4 to 6 machine guns, and the divisional artillery regiment had 54 75MM mountain guns or field guns.

Remember, China currently has only 6 such divisions, and the rest of the first-class units are only equipped with an artillery battalion of 18 guns, and the worse ones are not to mention the miscellaneous units that "have no artillery and no cavalry units".

IT IS ALSO NECESSARY TO KNOW THAT GERMAN'S ARMY DIVISIONS HAVE ALWAYS BEEN ENGAGED IN BATTLES UNDER THE SUPPRESSION OF ENEMY FIRE BY SUPERIOR ARTILLERY UNITS, AND THESE MILITARY ARTILLERY PIECES ARE ALL ABOVE 125MM IN CALIBER...

Moreover, Germany's logistical support capability, troop mobility capability, and training quality of officers and men are not comparable to those of the Chinese army. For the same division, the German division can be worth 3-4 Chinese divisions! This is the disparity in national strength, and there is no doubt about it.

This is still the best time in modern China, until the Sino-US Korean War in official history, a single army of volunteers has not been able to eat the regiment formed by the US army, and even China has not completely annihilated a battalion of the US army!

Therefore, Duan Qirui wants to participate in the war at this time, which will cost a lot of money, and it is inevitable that he will be dissatisfied with President Feng Guozhang, who replaced him.

Previously, Zhang Guogan, who had been trying to mediate the dispute between the government and the court, strongly persuaded Duan Qirui to welcome Li Yuanhong to the throne. He said: "Relatively speaking, it is actually easier to work with Li Yuanhong, because he has no soldiers in his hands, and he has just experienced setbacks, so he will learn from them; And Feng Guozhang has both military power and a new official, so he is bound to be strong and competitive in case of trouble, so it is even more difficult to deal with. ”

Zhang Guogan's analysis is reasonable, completely out of love for Duan Qirui. If Duan Qirui can accept it, the ancients will be reconciled, and maybe a win-win situation can be created. It's a pity that he was angry about Li Yuanhong's dismissal of himself, and finally abolished the public because of his own interests, and he forgot his righteousness with anger and rejected this suggestion.

The old Beiyang Feng Guozhang entered the government of Beijing, and together with Foreign Minister Wang Shizhen, the three brothers of Beiyang "Dragon, Tiger and Dog" began their honeymoon career that should be like glue in theory. They recounted the old feelings of the "Three Heroes of Beiyang" and said, "Our three old brothers are united, regardless of the president, prime minister, and general chief, and only seek to work together, and from now on there will be no more disputes between the government and the court."

In fact, it is not.

Friendship is friendship, politics is politics. The first thing Duan Qirui did after returning to power was to increase the power of the cabinet and make the president a complete ornament. Because Duan Qirui once called to force the Qing Emperor to abdicate, resisted Yuan Shikai's claim to be emperor, and crusaded against Zhang Xun's restoration, he made great contributions to the development of the Republic of China for three consecutive times, so he has the reputation of "three republics". "Three Republics" is Duan Qirui's political capital, and it is his magic weapon to elevate himself and fight others, so he often prides himself on it.

He and Li Yuanhong had a big dispute over power, and Li Yuanhong lost because he had no backing; But when Feng Guozhang, who was not weak, came to power, the two gradually quarreled over political discord.

Although Duan Qirui and Feng Guozhang both belong to the Beiyang camp, they belong to different factions: the direct line and the Anhui line. In fact, the two enemies officially turned their faces when President Yuan's bones were still cold, and even the generals from various provinces also stood in line, thus forming the two major factions of Beiyang warlords and Anhui in modern Chinese history.

At this time, the direct forces were mainly distributed in Jiangsu, Shandong, Beijing, Hebei, and Jiangxi, and they were the home field in Beijing and Tianjin; The Anhui faction occupies Shaanxi, Anhui, Zhejiang, and the deep connections and forces cultivated by Duan Qirui's re-election as the army chief for seven consecutive terms. In addition, the forces of the "Dharma Protection Movement" led by Sun Yat-sen will also set up a Dharma Protector Government in Guangdong and serve as the generalissimo, forming a confrontation with the north.

The direct line is supported by Britain and the United States; The Anhui system is supported by Japan; The Guangdong regime, on the other hand, echoes Britain and Japan at the same time, but is not recognized by the mainstream of the international community. If time and space had not shifted, it would have turned to Soviet Russia in the near future, thus forming Sun Yat-sen's policy of "uniting with Russia and accommodating the Communist Party and helping peasants and workers".

At this time, the Feng system has not yet completed the integration of forces, and does not have relatively large energy in the political arena. However, the dispute between the first three marks the official entry of modern China into the most chaotic era of warlords.

With the existing forces, Duan Qirui thought that he might not be able to have an advantage over Feng Guozhang, and if there was an opportunity to increase a few more troops, the situation would not be the same, which was also Duan Qirui's selfish intention to support the declaration of war on Germany. Since most of the country's military strength was in the hands of the provincial overseers at this time, and the "national defense force" in the full sense did not exist, Duan Qirui wanted to take the opportunity to reopen the stove and recruit another troops, so that the famous "Chinese army participating in the war" was freshly released.

This contingent, which met Premier Duan's wishes, was initially set to be six divisions, so that it would completely give an overwhelming advantage to the other Beiyang Army. But because of the excessive cost, Feng Guozhang complained, heh, the money from the treasury has been used to expand the army for you, who are you going to deal with? ! In the end, there was no way, and the participating army was finally reduced to three divisions and three mixed brigades.

Similar to the Beiyang Army, it is organized, but the firepower has been significantly increased, because the artillery has really increased, and it is not a false one. All three divisions had a complete artillery regiment with 36 guns in imitation of the Japanese style; The brigade added a 12-gun mountain artillery battalion; The regiment was to add a four-gun infantry artillery company; It is important that the machine guns are devolved to the battalion level. In terms of overall equipment strength, it is superior to any division of the Beiyang Army.

The mixed brigade has three infantry regiments and is equipped with an artillery battalion, an engineer battalion, and a communications battalion, which is almost the same as the formation of the guard brigade under the leadership of Zhang Hanqing (of course, it is the same, Zhang Hanqing was originally a clone of his independent brigade). The heavy artillery was not able to raise for a while, and like Zhang Hanqing, the structure was built first, and then the future establishment was to govern a field artillery battalion. At least, in the future, in the name of "China's warring army", it will be convenient to ask for a salary and a gun, right?

In addition, there is a training office with a heavy artillery battalion and an armoured car company.

Duan Qirui took the opportunity of the European War to take over the Chinese army (because the commander was his confidant Xu Shuzheng), and his strength increased greatly. If he is finally trained, his power will be above all parties, and he will become the most powerful person in China after Yuan Shikai, and there is no one.

The compilation has been completed, and the recruitment of troops has also begun at the Tianjin station, and a very normal and headache problem has not been solved, that is, funding. As soon as the cannon sounded, there were ten thousand taels of gold. To build a new type of army that can rival the European powers on a small scale, equipment alone is a considerable expense. A weak treasury is not good, when Lao Yuan almost wiped out his family funds in order to cope with the "Protectorate War" in the southwest and southeast, where did the money come from?

It is a shame for China that China has no ability to build heavy weapons and lacks the funds to purchase them, and that it cannot manufacture light weapons, and that it has to buy them from its neighbor Japan to the east. But the situation is stronger than people, there is no way!