Chapter 35 Escort Force Reform
How many people in an industrialized country can support a military man?
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During World War II, RB, with a population of 80 million, armed 9 million troops, and Germany was even more terrifying, with a population of only 60 million before World War II, and armed with tens of millions of troops during World War II.
Yuanhe City, which has only developed industry for a few years, naturally cannot be like the crazy rioters of Germany in World War II, the ratio of the total population and the number of troops reaches 10:1, which is really crazy, with the strength of Yuanhe City now, the ratio of the total population and the number of troops to 50:1 is okay, if there is an emergency, it can also reach 20:1, and then it will affect the industrial production of Yuanhe City.
In other words, the total population of Yuanhe City has just exceeded 100,000, and there is an army of 2,000 people.
The reform of Yuanhe City has been completed, and the escort force must also be reformed, so that the advanced weapons and equipment of the escort force will greatly enhance the combat effectiveness of the escort force.
The escort will be renamed the Yuanhe City Garrison Regiment.
Garrison regiment
Leader: Cheng Ying
It has five battalions, namely: three infantry battalions, one artillery battalion, one cavalry company, one regimental guard company, and one recruit training battalion.
Each infantry battalion has four infantry companies, and the infantry battalion has no separate artillery units.
Each infantry company has three platoons and a mortar support squad, and has two 60mm mortars (this thing is easier to make than a rifle as long as the barrel steel is good).
An infantry battalion numbered around 550.
Zhao Gang, commander of the first battalion, and Wang Xinwei, political commissar.
The commander of the second battalion, Niu Dehou, and the political commissar Yan Yongle.
Chen Haojie, commander and political commissar of the third battalion.
The artillery battalion has three artillery batteries with a total of 24 60-mm mortars and a total of 233 people.
Dong Xiangshan, commander of the artillery battalion, and Li Feng, political commissar.
Cavalry company, a total of 116 people, 116 horses.
The regiment belongs to the guard company, and like the ordinary infantry company, an 11-man cavalry communications squad is added.
The boot camp is a separate establishment and the actual number of personnel is not counted in the garrison regiment.
Sun Ran, commander of the recruit training camp.
The guard regiment has a total of 2,152 people, equipped with 2,008 Zhonghua Type 1 rifles, 27 sniper rifles (modified from Zhonghua Type 1 rifles, equipped with 4x optical sights), 48 60mm mortars (it is not a big problem to equip so many mortars), as well as more than 140 war horses, not counting grenades.
In addition, heavy machine guns and pistols are being developed on a trial basis, and it is expected that mass production will be carried out by the end of 78 to equip the garrison regiment.
The specific data on the 60-mm mortars that have been equipped with the garrison regiment are as follows:
1877 standard 60 mm mortar
Range: 91~1300 meters
Directional firing boundary: 14 degrees
High and low shooting boundary: +40-85 degrees
Gun length: 710 mm
Total weight of the gun: 43.27 kg
Weight: 1.39 kg
The arsenal can produce 20 such mortars a month, and if the production is increased, it will be even more, although the garrison regiment has been equipped with enough mortars, but the arsenal is still producing mortars, which are reserved for future expansion of the army.
Then there is the recruit training camp, and the recruits recruited by the garrison regiment will enter the recruit training camp for training and education for three months before they can officially join the garrison regiment.
Another point to mention, with the advanced weapons and equipment of the garrison regiment, the garrison regiment also issued two sets of brand-new gray military uniforms per person, the style of the military uniform is the German military uniform in World War II (it seems that many people think that this military uniform is the most handsome), and the black clothes of the former escort team can be officially eliminated, and even the military uniform can not be called.
Now, the soldiers of the garrison regiment are wearing brand-new military uniforms, stepping on black and shiny leather boots, and then taking their weapons and lining up in a neat queue, coupled with their spirits, they have a completely demeanor of the German army in World War II, which makes Yan Xueyi, who is standing in the front, feel surging.
"This is my army."
Yan Xueyi believed that as long as he had such an army of 20,000 people, it would be enough to occupy Siqi Province, and he would not have any worries in the face of the Manchu counterattack.
Thinking about the invasion of China by the Eight-Nation Alliance, only with a ragtag army of less than 20,000 people was able to fight from Jinjin to the capital, I am afraid that the weapons and equipment of the Eight-Nation Alliance Army cannot catch up with the current equipment of the garrison regiment, and Yan Xueyi has an army of 20,000 people, so no one needs to be afraid.
However, now the garrison regiment has only just been equipped with these advanced weapons, and they are not proficient, and it will take a certain amount of time to form combat effectiveness, not to mention how long it will take to build an army of 20,000 people, at that time, Yuanhe City needed at least 400,000 people to support an elite army of 20,000 people, and now the population of Yuanhe City has just exceeded 100,000, which is still early from 400,000.
In addition, Yan Xueyi found that the garrison regiment still lacked a killing temperament compared with those battle-hardened armies, and the soldiers of the garrison regiment should also see blood, although sometimes killing poultry and killing blood, but killing poultry and killing people are completely different concepts, Yan Xueyi didn't want his soldiers to look at the dead people all over the ground one by one when the two sides were fighting and then hold their stomachs and vomit, so what combat effectiveness does such an army have.
Killing bandits is a good way, in Chinese history, there will be a large number of bandits in the late period of each dynasty, which is the characteristic of the decay and decay of the dynasty, Siqi Province and even Linyue County is no exception, even if Linyue County is Yan Xueyi's second uncle in governance, but there are still a lot of peasants who can't survive in Linyue County to form bandits, in Linyue County, bandits block the road to kill people and rob from time to time, Yan's convoy of the firm never dares to act alone, and the more tragic Chang Botao, just came out of Ningyuan was targeted, If it weren't for the destitute like a beggar, you would have to meet bandits.
Bandits basically only hold cold weapons, at most a few shotguns or something, even with such strength, the officers and soldiers of the Manchu Qing Dynasty can not exterminate many bandits, smoke the army you think about how much combat effectiveness can be, bandits run when they encounter officers and soldiers, officers and soldiers can't catch up.
It is much easier for the garrison regiment to go to suppress the bandits, not to mention that the garrison regiments are now equipped with advanced thermal weapons, even the soldiers of the garrison regiment can go for a cross-country run at will, and they will not be run away by the bandits when they are fully armed.
Of course, it is impossible for the garrison regiment to carry out large-scale operations to suppress bandits, at most it can only act one company at most, if the entire garrison regiment acts together, even if Linyue County is the sphere of influence of the Yan clan, it will also be noticed by outsiders, so it is better to act as a company, as long as a company does not encounter a brigade of bandits of more than 1,000 people, it can be easily defeated, and there are no bandits in Linyue County, even if there are almost no bandits of more than 100 people, at most there are small bandits of more than a dozen or dozens of people.
So the garrison regiment began to act, and then the people of Linyue County felt that there were a lot fewer bandits who had come to harass recently, and they couldn't even see any of them, and they thought that the bandits had gone to other counties, and they didn't know that the garrison regiment was exterminating the bandits.
In addition, there is another thing that makes Yan Xueyi and the soldiers of the garrison regiment distressed, that is, the big braid on the back of his head, Yan Xueyi has always hated this big braid, and the soldiers of the garrison regiment also hindered themselves because of this big braid when they trained.
I wish I had cut off this ugly braid sooner.