A new report is written in Ma Hengzheng's office. The report is on military reform.

Shang Wu, who was far away in Lijiazhuang, was the first to express this view, because war is active. Every war is different, defeat will bring new escalation to the enemy, if the original method of fighting is still carried out, the result will be extremely serious losses, in such a situation, their situation is extremely unfavorable, so, just after the war against the Huns, Shang Wu and Ma Heng telegraphed, expressing such an idea, he hopes to complete such a situation through such some views, take the initiative to carry out military reform, adapt to the changes in the future war.

However, the question is whether to fight future wars and how to carry out military reforms, whether to reform on the basis of original experience, or to carry out reforms with bold predictions. These are all difficult problems, which greatly exceed Ma Heng's ability to work.

Shang Wu began to express his views on future wars, and he hoped that the future Republican Army would pay more attention to the use of firepower, especially that they should be further popularized to the infantry battalion and the cavalry battalion, so that they could form a huge crushing advantage to the greatest extent. It was also under such a situation that Ma Heng began to reorganize the infantry division and the cavalry division.

The appearance of mortars greatly made up for the lack of firepower of infantry companies and infantry battalions in the past, and the shortcomings of direct-fire artillery were also very large, they could not deal with the impact of the opponent who also used the tunnel to fight, in such a situation, they could not form such an advantage at all, in this case, their state would form a huge disadvantage, in such a situation, the Republican Army began to make a new reform.

Reform things need to make some new changes, and whether the IRA can adapt to such changes.

Shang Wu came over with a problem. That is, anything can change everything through the output of firepower, not only these, they continue to strengthen their firepower, and their tactics have also begun to develop in this direction, constantly outputting firepower, and further increasing the change in firepower, but in Ma Heng's view, there is a very serious shortcoming.

The pressure on logistical supplies has increased, and the traffic situation in the future combat area is very bad. This is a situation reported by the front-line mountain divisions, where the kind of four-wheeled ox carts that raise logistics supplies are simply not available. Some of these conditions will form the greatest disadvantage to the greatest extent, and in such a situation, many of their situations will form a big disadvantage.

"This is the biggest problem of increasing firepower at present, this problem not only exists in the north, but also in the south, and other regions more farther away, there is such a problem, if we continue to improve firepower, the pressure on transportation and logistics supply will become very large, so big that many of our problems are difficult to carry on." Ma Heng wrote in his report.

There is nothing wrong with increasing firepower, and the reform is basically carried out with firepower as the center, and the increase in firepower is also a burden, especially the pressure on logistics and supply, which will exert pressure to the greatest extent.

Ma Heng considered it comprehensively, the Republican Army does have the ability to increase the output of firepower, because the more the army consumes, the more military orders will increase, and the more willing his factory is to add such things to them. Because that's the driving force of production.

But their transportation problems could not be solved.

This is only one of them, and the other is that the size of the troops needs to be appropriately reduced, and he believes that the infantry division should be controlled at about 8,000 people, so that their firepower can be increased to such units, and at the same time military flexibility can be increased, which is also in accordance with the meaning of martial arts. Such an establishment is very large, with a minimum of 12,000 people. If you add the logistics personnel and the field hospital, the number will be more than 18,000 people, which is quite a large number. The current level of command of the Republican Army is not yet capable of such effective control.

For example, taking the mountain division as an example, the front and rear were once chaotic, and in such cases, many of their things will become extremely unfavorable, and if such situations continue, the result will become extremely unfavorable, and this is the most unfavorable situation for them at present, and it is difficult to complete such things.

As for the 8,000-strong small infantry division, especially if it is changed into one division and three regiments, and the other units will be directly changed into battalions directly under them, the situation of their troops will cause greater changes to the greatest extent, the difficulty of their command will be greatly reduced, and the flexibility of their troops will be greatly enhanced.

The troops will have a lot to think about, and in such a situation, their advantage will be expanded.

Li Jiazhuang, Shang Wu and Jia Xu considered things that were much more complicated than Ma Heng's.

"It is best to control the number of troops at about 150,000, so that our military burden can be reduced a lot." Shang Wu said.

The reason why Shangwu carried out military reform was to the greatest extent that they needed to reduce the military burden, that is, they also needed to restore the economy and reduce the size of the troops.

"In this case, the troops will be reduced by many, and I am afraid that the mood of the army will be very large." Jia Xu said.

"I know, so, we need to transfer some of their work, provide some services, and train them so that we can do some of these tasks to the greatest extent." Shang Wu said.

"But if we don't change it like this, it will increase our economic burden a lot, and as for the number of the infantry division, we will not revoke it for the time being, but just retain a basic backbone, that is, about two thousand, in this way, we can still maintain their combat effectiveness." Shang Wu said that the republican army cannot fight all the time, and in this case, the combat pressure on the republican army will become extremely huge, and even, crush the last military strength of the republican army, and such a situation will be unfavorable to the greatest extent.

In order to avoid such a situation, Shangwu had to carry out some reforms.

In order to reduce the burden on the economy, the IRA needs to increase military spending in times of war, and in peacetime, reduce military spending in order to alleviate the enormous pressure on the economy, after all, no government can continue to cope with such great financial pressure. In this case, it is good for the Republican Army. However, the pressure on the troops is still relatively large, because the combat effectiveness of the troops will decline a lot rapidly. In such a situation, only one method can be adopted, that is, to professionalize soldiers, that is, to provide for officers and non-commissioned officers, and when a large-scale war breaks out, the troops can be transferred and trained to restore combat effectiveness.

"The purpose of our doing this is to build more cavalry units, reduce the highly repetitive infantry units, and let such units start to readjust, so that we can complete such a change of posture, which is a favorable situation." Shang Wu said.

Military reform is to find things to do for themselves, to adjust to the best state, and the best state of efficiency, only in this way can the Republican Army be able to adjust to such a state in time to deal with such situations, this is their favorite situation.

"If we strengthen some troops to cavalry units, will there be more pressure on us?" Jia Xu said worriedly. target

If the transformation is not successful, will it bring them more trouble, Jia Xu is worried about the occurrence of such a situation, you know, such things will cause them to the greatest extent of the unfavorable situation, if such a thing really happens to you, it will cause the greatest disadvantage.

"We have to do it because that's the only way we can get into the best shape we can be." Shang Wu said. The transformation must continue.

The militant Republican Army is a highly mobile combat force, because only in this way can it be professionalized and professionalized in military combat, and only then can their situation become advantageous.

This is because this can save troops to the greatest extent possible in combat, and the main purpose of mobile combat is to save troops and at the same time enhance the specialization of troops. That's the ultimate purpose.

"Such a reform is not easy to carry out, and there must be some emotions in the troops." Jia Xu said.

"There's even more trouble. The problem of our military bonds needs to be partially repurchased, so as to reduce the pressure of future repayment, and in this case, they still need to do a lot of things. Shang Wu said.

"Hmm. I remembered one thing just now. That is, Cao Cao needs an officer advisory group, as well as a training group, we can transfer some officers and non-commissioned officers to this, and at the same time increase their influence on it, which can help us alleviate this pressure to the greatest extent, and at the same time, we can also improve and ease the military pressure in other regions. Jia Xu said.

"Well, it's a good choice, and in that case, we're a lot better." Jia Xu said.

"Well, okay. That's it, it's a new all-round development for us, and in this way, it's going to be a big development for us. Shang Wu said that what they need now is such a posture.