The newly formed 8th Infantry Regiment of the Republican Army.

Cao Ang served as a second lieutenant platoon commander in the infantry regiment of this line. Their troops were reorganized again, this time at 3,000 and 200 men. In numbers, they already met the establishment of an infantry regiment. But their firepower still lacked enough artillery to meet their offensive strength. Originally, they had a field artillery battalion, but at present, only one artillery battery exists, and it is still equipped with old-fashioned four-inch bronze guns. Bulky and not easy to operate. Not flexible at all. The training of artillery did not keep up. This is very disadvantageous for an infantry regiment with only a large part of the infantry.

"We're in good enough shape. The Army's new 9th Infantry Regiment is all infantry. The commander of the 9th Infantry Regiment was only a lieutenant colonel assigned from the staff department, and the lieutenant colonel had been running around the logistics department constantly lately in order to get an artillery, and the logistics department only had extremely bulky old mortars to provide the other side, and I don't know what kind of expression the regiment commander had when he heard such news. Cao Ang wrote in his diary.

The IRA is in the midst of a new state of military build-up, and they have reorganized militias in several regions. They formed nine new infantry regiments. Infantry weapons are easy to handle, and they can quickly allocate them from their arsenals. Quilt equipment is also easy to solve, but artillery is not easy to handle. This required recasting at the Republican artillery factory. But the problem is that copper is in short supply. In order to solve this dilemma, artillery factories had to use iron for casting, because the price of iron was much cheaper than copper. But there are some technical difficulties.

This is being tackled by artillery factories, but it will take a longer time to produce.

In fact, the Republican army had artillery in its arsenal. The Republican Army maintained about fifty or so artillery units for storage, including twenty-four five-inch guns. But it's a pity that in order to solve the problem of tight military spending, the Republican Army sold artillery to Dong Zhuo. The other artillery pieces were weaker, including two-inch guns.

While the expansion was underway, the Republican artillery was suddenly insufficient. There is no way, they can only cast.

Although the casting process of the bronze cannon is very mature. But materials were expensive, and the number of reserves was small, and the republican army relied mainly on artillery. The advantage in firepower, which would have caused them a lot of trouble without these, was definitely not what they wanted the most.

"The training of the new troops is very quickly put into it, and after two months of recruit training, our troops will go into specialized training, and the division of arms will be further separated, which is a good thing for us, and I think it will not be long before they will be able to fight. But this will take some time, at least, we will have to go through several exercises to ensure the combat effectiveness of the troops. Cao Ang wrote.

He has written fewer recent letters, and Cao Ang is not too clear about what happened in Luoyang. Because of the training, they are basically in a semi-closed state, but judging from the current situation, their situation is a little bad, because the stationing of the troops is not too far away from Luoyang, the capital division, and there are a lot of materials in reserve. This made Cao Ang very worried, and the next target of the Republican Army was Luoyang. And his father is in Luoyang, and he doesn't know exactly what happened there.

The IRA has been stockpiling war materiel. Their food supplies have far exceeded their rations. But nearby warehouses are still stockpiling. Not only that, but there are also a lot of quilts. Even winter clothes have begun to be stockpiled, and it seems that the Republican Army is ready for a larger war.

Cao Ang can only speculate on the scale of this war from the details, but the war department of the Republican Army can make adjustments from the global observation of more data.

"The number of artillery pieces is too small. That is, we use iron artillery, but the iron cannon is extremely unstable, I have read their research report, the iron cannon is still unstable, after many launches, there will be all kinds of emergencies, which is a big loss for our artillery, and it is easy to cause a greater disaster. We must pay attention to this. "Shang Wu is obviously very dissatisfied with the number of artillery.

Most of the newly formed troops lacked artillery, and most of them symbolically formed an artillery company, yes, an infantry regiment, with only one artillery company, four guns to fight. The firepower output was significantly lower than expected, which was very bad for the infantry. Shang Wu was very worried that this data would cause them to be in a very passive state.

"I'm a little bit more aware of that. But at the moment we really have no choice, the artillery factory has several workshops that can be produced, but the problem is that the material is extremely scarce, and we need copper in many places. For example, newspapers and periodicals. They have used other metal printing layouts instead. But the problem is that we still can't change this situation, and it's very troublesome for us. Jia Xu said.

This is where the Republican Army has the advantage, but without artillery, it will be difficult for them to solve this problem further. This is the disadvantage of overly technical equipment. Without such an advantage, their advance becomes unconfident.

"I think we can solve this problem in other ways." Shang Wu touched his chin and said.

"Anything else?" Jia Xu looked at Shang Wu and asked.

"Yes, I think we're really too focused on the number of artillery. In fact, there are other types of artillery, or other ways to achieve this, and maybe a certain number of killer features can be formed. Shang Wu said.

"I don't understand what you mean, maybe it's another way technically, right?" Jia Xu asked.

"yes, that's kind of what it means." Shang Wu nodded and said.

"My opinion is this, we can achieve such a situation through other ways, for example, the use of ***, we have conducted research before, but this kind of *** at the beginning of our *** is too expensive, plus the cost of use, and the problem of processing costs, we have not promoted, mainly because his killing range is too wide." Shang Wu said.

Yes, the Republican Army used to use ***, but *** has many shortcomings, first of all, his accuracy, it is difficult for people to control. Launching it to hit the target is basically a matter of luck, and moreover, *** uses **, and the number of the Republican Army in the early days was seriously insufficient. It may be that the early Republican Army used *** to make up for the lack of artillery, but the effect of *** is really somewhat unsatisfactory. Therefore, the Republican Army did not take such weapons seriously, and this technology tree did not continue to light up.

But the current situation is that the Republican Army also lacks artillery, because a lot of artillery needs to enter the defense equipment in the north, and they have become a fixed fortress, and the lack of artillery means that they lose more firepower, which is too much of a threat to the Republican Army that lacks mobile forces. In order to reduce such a threat, they can only compensate for it with such a weapon. This is perhaps the biggest point of the IRA, which can make up for their shortcomings to the greatest extent, which is also a benefit for them.

"***, what I'm worried about is that we can't develop such a weapon in a short period of time, or the effect is not good at all, which is a disadvantage for us." Jia Xu said. Shang Wu nodded and agreed with such a situation, after all, it will take some time to study *** and make *** appear as a great weapon of destruction. But there may not be much time for them to come from some possible change events.

"Perhaps, we can also solve it from other aspects, for example, airships, we can use airships, on the one hand, to provide us with some reconnaissance advantages, on the other hand, it can also provide us with some opportunities to bomb the other side, put ** on the airship, throw it from the sky, we have done this more than once. If they can give full play to the superiority of aerial artillery, our advantage will still be great. Shang Wu said helplessly.

There was no way, they were seriously underrepresented in the number of artillery. The IRA needs to find such a platform that can be used to supplement their firepower advantage.

Airships are the best option, and the IRA still uses airships as a reconnaissance platform. Because of their lack of cavalry strength, plus the airship has many, many flaws, after all, the airship has a very problematic air communication. Most of them can only be carried out by means of different colored flares in the air, indicating some of the situations that are happening on the ground. This is both advantageous and disadvantageous for the Republican Army.

It may be the first time the IRA has done so as a weapon platform. But it's also a bold innovation.

And all this was born out of the fear of the Republican army about the lack of firepower. Without these, the IRA probably wouldn't have used some of these weapons, even though they already had such a base. But they didn't have any more research.

But now, the circumstances of the war have compelled them to conduct such studies, and if they do not conduct such relevant studies, they may lead to an unprecedented kind of loss, and they have no choice but to do so in order not to let such a situation happen. It may be frustrating, but it's also an improvement.