Chapter 82: Expansion of the Army

After thinking about it for a night, Young Master Liang decided to set up a new army formation.

In view of the shortage of grassroots officers and the serious shortage of high-level officers after the expansion of the Liang Family's army, the army established by Young Master Liang is at the military level, so that the Liang Family's army can also live up to its name! However, only two brigades were set up under the army, which was equivalent to the direct expansion of the original two training battalions into brigades; The peculiarity of this establishment lies in the fact that there are a large number of departments and units directly under the military department, including a staff office, a political work office, an equipment office, a logistics office, a discipline inspection office, a statistics office, an examination office, an organization office, a propaganda office, a communications office, and an adjutant's office.

The reason for the establishment of so many management departments is that the total number of troops has already exceeded 50,000, and there will always be many new problems that are unexpected, and the purpose of increasing the number of management departments and management personnel is to improve the management system, plug up the loopholes in management, and promote the healthy development of the troops.

Needless to say, the role of the Guard Regiment, the Military Police Regiment, the Engineer Regiment, the Baggage Regiment, the Cavalry Regiment and the Heavy Artillery Regiment is a unit equipped with automatic weapons such as submachine guns and light machine guns, which is specially designed to quickly storm the enemy's position and pursue the enemy, and will become a sharp knife in the hands of Master Liang, and no army in the world today can withstand the rapid attack of this army.

The special mission was set up to cooperate with the special combat team in carrying out special operations; When encountering the capture of the enemy's city, the special combat team is responsible for infiltrating and reconnoitring the enemy situation in advance, and the special combat team then disguises itself as civilians or caravans and enters the city in large numbers to cooperate with the special combat team.

In short, under the condition that it is not yet possible to equip mechanized troops such as tanks and armored vehicles, it is the best way for Young Master Liang to think of to subdivide the functions of each unit, highlight the advantages of technical arms, and strengthen the cooperation of various services; Instead of filling the battlefield by increasing the number of pure infantry, even if such troops can win on the battlefield, the price and sacrifice will be very great and painful; Just as countless good sons and daughters of China died under the gunfire, aircraft bombing and machine gun bullets of the Japanese army during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression in later generations, such tragic and heavy sacrifices may be just a bunch of numbers in the eyes of politicians, but they are the flesh and blood of countless Chinese sons and daughters!

I have to say that they are all victims of the stupidity of those so-called superiors!

Let's go back to the troop establishment of the Liang family's army, the newly established infantry regiment of Master Liang includes three infantry battalions, a heavy artillery company, an engineer company, a guard reconnaissance company, a baggage platoon, a communication class, a service clerk class, a cooking class, and a health center, with a total number of about 4,000 people.

An infantry brigade contains three infantry regiments, a heavy artillery battalion, an engineer battalion, a guard company, a reconnaissance company, a baggage company, a service squad, a clerical squad, a communications squad, a cooking squad, and a small hospital, with a total number of nearly fifteen thousand people.

Young Master Liang served as the commander of the Liang Family Army and the commander of the First Brigade, Liang Haowen served as the military instructor, Huang Qiying served as the deputy commander and the commander of the Second Brigade, and Liang Kun served as the deputy commander and director of the Intelligence Bureau; The Intelligence Bureau is a secret organization, and is only responsible for Young Master Liang, and is not included in the establishment of the Liang family's army; In the future, the Intelligence Bureau will have a successor, and the commander of the First Brigade concurrently served by Young Master Liang can be transferred to Tieqiao III.

In this way, the establishment of the Liang Jiajun reached 60,000 people, and if there were any more surplus personnel, then some of the Vietnamese prisoners who performed better would form an engineering construction corps, and the main task of this engineering construction corps was to engage in the engineering construction of the Liang Jiajun, and also participate in military training, equipped with the original American rifles; With this engineering construction corps, it will be able to speed up the completion of various construction tasks and reserve a source of reserve troops.

For those Vietnamese prisoners, Master Liang did not abuse them, in addition to those who participated in the robbery of Hongji City, other prisoners also have such a way to progress, and if they perform well, they can join the engineering construction corps of the Liang family's army, and enjoy the same treatment as soldiers, and can get a military salary of four taels of silver per month; This incentive mechanism gave hope to the more than 4,000 Vietnamese prisoners, and they all worked harder than one another.

This shows that the most feared thing is despair; Once there is a little hope, give some sunshine and it will be shining!

After receiving the telegram from the eldest brother Robin, Master Liang sent a pilot ship to Da Nang, Vietnam, to meet Luo Bin and lead the fleet to Sanya.

And he had to think about the staffing of the navy; At the beginning of the establishment of the navy, the commander of the fleet must have been personally concurrently served by Young Master Liang, but he was busy with affairs and could not stay on the warship all the time, and there must be a loyal and reliable deputy commander who would often lead the fleet in training or combat.

There is also the problem of British instructors, it must be stipulated in advance that these retired officers of the British Navy hired are only instructors and do not hold other positions in the Liang Jiajun naval fleet, so that the ownership and command of the fleet are in the hands of Liang Jiajun and avoid being controlled by the British; In 1863, the Qing Dynasty purchased the Li Thai Aspen fleet as a lesson, when the British demanded that the fleet purchased by the Qing Dynasty be completely commanded by British officers, and the British Navy Colonel Aspen served as the commander of the fleet, which was simply ridiculous, and finally the Qing government had to lose more than 700,000 taels of silver in vain to return the goods.

For the sake of the personnel establishment of the navy, Master Liang rushed to Sanya to discuss with his fifth uncle Liang Haowen; This is also to show respect for Liang Haowen as an instructor, after all, Liang Haowen spared no effort to establish Liang Jiajun, and has agreed to join the anti-Qing cause, which is absolutely his own family.

Since Liang Haowen expressed his stance to join the anti-Qing camp, he has become more concerned about the development of Liang Jiajun; Since the victory of the Vietnam War, he has personally experienced the rapid development of the Liang family's army, and after seeing the advanced weapons produced by the military factory, he has no doubt that this nephew can finally replace the Qing Dynasty, not to mention that now the Liang family army will soon have a fleet!

"This position of deputy commander of the navy must be handed over to someone we can trust, I recommend one, can you see if it is suitable?" Leung Ho-man's style is to be straightforward and not talk nonsense.

Young Master Liang came to the fifth uncle for the personnel arrangement of the navy, who talents are available in the Liang family, he really doesn't know, but he knows that the fifth uncle must be clear, so he immediately said: "Is it from our Liang family?" ”

"Yes, it is a member of our Liang family, his name is Liang Jianjian, three years younger than me, and now he is a steward of our Liang family's fleet, and he is more familiar with sea navigation; We've been playing together since we were kids, and this kid is very smart and aggressive, so he'd be happy to let him come over."

"Oh, it's very appropriate to say this, the navy is to advocate offense, and a navy without an offensive spirit has no future" Young Master Liang nodded and agreed with this candidate.

Liang Haowen continued: "We are going back during the Chinese New Year, and we will recruit a group of young people in Guangzhou who are familiar with sea navigation; We have a lot of people in Guangdong, as long as the wages can be paid, we are not afraid of not finding people, not to mention that there is a golden signboard of Tianbaoxing, and there are as many people as you want."

Hearing what the fifth uncle said, Young Master Liang was relieved; The navy is special, if you have never been on a sea ship, just adapting to the bumps of a sea ship can make people's heads big; Because the current sea ships are not as large as the later generations, the tonnage is small, the seaworthiness is poor, the bumps are very bumpy, and the wind and waves are even more terrifying, and ordinary people really can't stand it.

Liang Haowen then said: "Alas, it's just that I went back for the New Year this year, and I don't know how to tell the old man about us."

"Alas, I haven't figured out what to say, let's see the situation when the time comes" Young Master Liang is also big, and both uncle and nephew are sighing.