Regardless of whether it is the army or the navy, the needs of the military are endless, the army not only strongly requires the strengthening of infantry firepower, but also strongly recommends increasing the number of artillery equipment, whether it is a 75 mm field gun, or medium and large caliber howitzers, cannons, all need more, better and bigger!

But if you really follow the advice of the army generals, the imperial finances will not be able to support it, and if you force it to do it, you will have to issue a large number of national bonds, plus the imperial finances already owe nearly one billion national bonds, Lin Ziran is very worried that the follow-up financial revenue will not even be able to repay the interest on the national bonds, and finally lead to financial bankruptcy.

Therefore, although the Army's demands are strong, it is still impossible to achieve them.

Anyway, there is only so much money, and it is impossible to take care of only one of them, and it is impossible to cover everything.

It is necessary to increase firepower, but in the face of limited military spending, we cannot blindly adopt an all-round reinforcement, but should focus on it.

For example, machine guns are directly distributed to the company, and a machine gun platoon is set up in the battalion, and a machine gun company is also set up in the regiment, and an infantry regiment must be equipped with more than 20 heavy machine guns.

The firepower of such a front-line infantry is certainly strong, but the Imperial Army is not only one regiment, the Imperial Army has more than 200 infantry regiments, not counting the garrison divisions, and the large-scale infantry fire machine guns in a short period of time will put too much pressure on military spending.

And the firepower that the troops need to strengthen is not only the front-line infantry firepower, but also the artillery firepower, and this is even more important.

The many combat experiences during the War of Unification told the Imperial Army and Lin Ziran that rifles, machine guns, rapid-fire mortars and the like were certainly important, but the barreled artillery was even more important.

When fighting, the firepower in other areas can be less, but the artillery fire cannot be less!

Therefore, in the case of effective military spending, Lin Ziran is more inclined to strengthen artillery!

Especially after the armies of various countries have now begun to urgently develop breech-loading rifled artillery equipped with it, Lin Ziran believes that it is necessary to further strengthen the artillery of the troops.

For example, many early artillery guns, these guns were hastily produced in the early stage of the war, and their performance and quality were defective, and after many battles, the barrels of many early artillery guns have reached the end of their service life.

These guns actually need to be replaced, otherwise they are just in vain, and if they really face any war, they will have to be blown up after any high-intensity battle.

Equipment, establishment, personnel adjustment and many other issues are all important tasks for the in-depth reorganization of the army this time, and Lin Ziran will naturally not watch such an important reorganization of the troops, but use his limited experience on the earth to provide guidance for relevant plans.

In April of the second year of the reign of Qiansheng, the Imperial Army announced a reorganization plan.

At the heart of the reorganization plan was the establishment of a new infantry division, which was adjusted by the Imperial Army in the light of the experience of the War of Unification.

However, this kind of adjustment is not a large-scale adjustment, but a targeted improvement of the defects of the period of the unified war, aimed at further enhancing the independent combat capability of the infantry divisions, adjusting some irrational establishments in the front-line troops, and increasing the technical strength at the same time.

After the readjustment, the infantry company, the core basic tactical unit of the army unit, still maintains the scale of 14 infantry squads, and three infantry squads form an infantry platoon.

The standard strength of an infantry company is 156 men, including five officers; One hundred and fifty-one soldiers.

The four infantry companies, together with the battalion machine gun platoon (2 heavy machine guns), the battalion rapid-fire mortar platoon (2 60 mm rapid-fire mortars) and the battalion headquarters, formed an infantry battalion with a total strength of more than 700 men.

Three infantry battalions, plus a regimental machine gun company (6 heavy machine guns), a regimental rapid-fire mortar battery (4 80-mm rapid-fire mortar guns), a regimental 75-mm infantry artillery platoon (2 75L9 infantry guns), and regimental headquarters (military doctors, heralds, regimental staff, guards, etc.) form an infantry regiment, with a strength of 2,500 infantry regiments.

Two infantry regiments formed an infantry brigade.

Two infantry brigades, together with a divisional artillery regiment, divisional heavy rapid-fire mortar artillery battalion, divisional cavalry regiment, divisional baggage regiment, divisional engineer battalion, divisional health battalion, divisional military band, etc., form an infantry division.

Such an integrated division would have a total strength of more than 16,000 men, 36 75-mm field guns, 18 105-mm howitzers, 52 heavy machine guns, 18 120-mm rapid-fire mortars, 16 80-mm rapid-fire mortars, and 24 60-mm rapid-fire mortars.

Compared with the old establishment, the most obvious change is that the artillery establishment has been changed, replacing the 75-mm howitzers in the previous divisional artillery units with 105-mm howitzers.

The performance of this 75mm short-barreled howitzer is a little embarrassing, let's say it's a light artillery, this thing also weighs four or five hundred kilograms, don't expect to be able to maneuver quickly, let's say it's a medium artillery, the effective range of this thing is only four thousand meters.

When the field artillery is used, the effective firing range is too short, not to mention that the new Type 53 75L27 field gun can hang it, even the Type 51 75L20 field gun that has already planned to be retired can hang it.

When light artillery is used, it can be directly used with 75 mm infantry guns, and the weight of the 53 type 75L9 infantry gun is very light, only more than 250 kilograms in total, and the barrel and gun carriage and wheels can be disassembled for maneuvering, and it can be pushed by horses, and when the situation is urgent, find a few more artillery to carry it together, and you can carry it directly......

And don't look at it small, light weight is performance scum, people are also rear-loading rifled barrel artillery, within a range of two kilometers, the hit accuracy can be stronger than those rapid-fire mortar guns with front-loading smoothbore barrels, I don't know how many times.

However, the most important thing is that the caliber of the Type 51 75L14 howitzer is too small and the power is too small.

After all, this thing is a howitzer, and the range cannot be compared with the field artillery, so it can only rely on curved shooting to bomb people.

At this time, the designers of the Jingzhou Machinery Bureau under reconstruction came up with a 105-mm howitzer, so the army officially decided to throw away the 75-mm howitzer that was not low or high, and directly attached a battalion of 105-mm howitzers to the divisional artillery regiment.

This 105 mm howitzer, the army likes it a lot, the effective range of this thing has reached 5,500 meters, although it is a little heavier, but the army said that there is no pressure.

From the armament of the one hundred and five-mm howitzer, we can know how fervent the Daheng Army's paranoia about large-caliber artillery is.

The Daheng Imperial Army has always been a big believer in large-caliber artillery.