Chapter 219: Military Reform Again
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Compared with the repercussions under the Ming court, the repercussions of the armistice between the People's Army and the Ming court under the rule of the People's Army were smaller, probably because the People's Army had defeated the Ming army so many times, and this armistice could not surprise people so much.
With the truce, hundreds of thousands of KPA soldiers can now rest and recuperate, and many KPA soldiers have not returned home for half a year, and this time they can go home on leave in batches.
At the same time, Fang Nan wanted to readjust the strength of the People's Army again, mainly the army.
At present, there are three group armies in the People's Army, namely Wang Shengrong's First Group Army, Yan Han's Second Group Army, and He Yan's Third Group Army.
A group army has a number of firearms units, a number of advance troops, a number of grenadier units, a number of cold weapons units, as well as female soldiers and medical units.
All units are under the jurisdiction of the group army headquarters, and are under the command of the group army headquarters during operations; if they are engaged in small-scale battles, they can mobilize a certain number of firearms units and advance troops to form a mixed force to carry out combat missions.
The main reason for the current military system is that the number of firearms troops is too small, but with the increase in the output of various firearms at the Foshan Arsenal, the current military system will gradually become inapplicable, so Fang Nan wants to gradually restructure the People's Army again.
The main thing is to put various units together to form a mixed division, a division is a combat unit, which can carry out small and medium-sized combat missions, and multiple divisions form a group army to carry out large-scale combat missions.
Fang Nan convened Hu Zhuang, Zhou Yi and others from the Ministry of War to discuss, and finally finalized the plan for the restructuring of the People's Army.
The most important thing in the restructuring plan is the basic combat unit of the People's Army, the division.
A division will have a musket regiment, a heavy artillery regiment, a pioneer regiment, a grenadier regiment, two ordinary (cold weapons) regiments, plus the division headquarters, a division totaling more than 8,000 people.
The four regiments of the musket regiment, the heavy artillery regiment, the pioneer regiment, and the grenadier regiment are the main combat forces, and the two ordinary regiments are combat auxiliaries, which can go to the battlefield to fight, and more often are responsible for logistics.
A reorganized division must have the strength to defeat 20,000 enemies on the battlefield, and at least be able to resist the attack of 30,000 enemies.
Basically, it can be seen that from the time the People's Army raised the flag to the present, the musketeers are still the absolute main force of the People's Army, and Fang Nan really can't wait for every People's Army soldier to be equipped with a tiger head gun.
Hu Zhuang said many times that if he gave him 100,000 troops, as long as there were 10,000 musketeers, he would be able to fight from Guangdong to the capital, and if the 100,000 troops were musketeers, then the entire Ming Dynasty would be overthrown by the People's Army.
But even if the People's Army was given three years to produce tiger head guns with all its might, it would not be able to equip 100,000 troops.
In July, the Foshan Arsenal produced more than 1,400 tiger head guns, and by the past January, the monthly output of tiger head guns had reached more than 1,600 pieces.
In three years, it is estimated that within three years, the People's Army will have 320,000 troops in 40 divisions, 40 musket regiments and more than 40,000 tiger head guns in 40 divisions.
Almost all of the tiger head guns produced by the Foshan Arsenal were sent to the front line, and minus the tiger head guns that had been damaged and could not be repaired, the number of tiger head guns equipped by the People's Army has reached 14,000, which is a relatively high number.
When the People's Army raised the flag, there was only one musket regiment and more than 1,000 tiger head guns, which were built in several years, and with the occupation of Foshan by the People's Army and the acquisition of a large number of craftsmen, the production of tiger head guns increased by leaps and bounds, from dozens of tiger head guns a month, to hundreds a month, and then to thousands a month.
Among them, hydraulic machine tools have also made a great contribution to the production of tiger head guns.
At present, the number of people's army troops and equipment tiger head guns has reached Hu Zhuang's goal, and he can fight all the way to the Ming court's lair, but this plan is not very useful, and logistics supply is a very serious problem.
The People's Army was very clear about the Ming Court's large-scale military expansion, and even the agents of the Military Intelligence Department made trouble under the rule of the Ming Court, spreading news such as "the Ming Army will be defeated and will die on the battlefield" to slow down the Ming Court's cross-army.
The activities of the agents did play a lot of roles, originally many people who did not have enough to eat wanted to join the Ming army, but because they were afraid of death and did not go, many local governments had to start arresting strong men in order to complete the above tasks, and there was a lot of confusion for this.
The Ming court claimed to expand its army by one million, but no one knew how much the Ming court would expand in the end, nor did it know how much the new army would fight, and all the People's Army could do was to constantly increase its own strength and have a tiger head gun that was constantly loaded, so that the People's Army would have the confidence to defeat the Ming Army, which was constantly increasing in strength.
The main thing is to gradually expand the size of the naval fleet and prepare for the large-scale development of the navy by the People's Army in the future; even if the time for large-scale development of the navy may be five or even 10 years later, if there is no certain foundation, it will be much more difficult to develop the navy on a large scale in the future.
It is impossible for the navy to always use the converted civilian ships as warships, and the Ministry of Industry has the control of several "large" shipyards, from some large families that were confiscated during the occupation of Guangdong, and some shipyards have built warships for the Daming Navy, and now it is possible to build a few warships for the navy.
In addition, Fang Nan also wanted to train a group of ship designers to prepare for the birth of steam engines and steamships.
The People's Army is very concerned about the Daming Naval Division, Western countries have started the Great Voyage, and shipbuilding technology has developed rapidly, but in the waters around the Ming Dynasty, the Daming Naval Division is still the strongest, and the navies of Western countries have come from afar, and they will definitely not be the opponents of the Daming Naval Division.
As long as you know that the Daming Navy Division is very strong, the People's Navy, which was born not long ago, is far from being the opponent of the Daming Navy, so Fang Nan's task to the Navy is mainly training, and there are few missions to go to sea and sail, so I am afraid of encountering the Daming Navy.
The People's Army and the Ming Dynasty have been at war, but the Ming Dynasty did not send a naval division to attack the People's Army from the direction of the sea, but no one can be sure that after the outbreak of the next war, the Ming Dynasty will not send a naval division to fight, at that time the People's Navy will still not be the opponent of the Ming Naval Division, and the coastal defense of the People's Army still needs to be paid attention to.