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During the Mid-Autumn Festival, the temperature also dropped, the climate became very cool, and Xia Jun's autonomy storm spread to half of Fujian, making those county officials feel cold.

In recent months, there have been many townships and towns sending the "XX Autonomy Declaration", which has made them anxious and make them think about changing jobs one by one.

At this time, the private capital of various provinces in China had already marched into the railway, which was destined to bring a piece of chicken feathers and duck blood, and it was also an act of the Manchu Qing Dynasty digging its own grave.

Xia Jun began to think about whether to start planning for next year's Xinhai Revolution.

What worries him the most is Xu Chongzhi, the commander of the Tenth Town, this guy is a revolutionary party, this is nothing, the problem is that Xu Chongzhi is from the Alliance, and it will be really difficult to fight when the time comes.

At the same time, now Xia Jun has scattered all the battalions outside, and it is not easy to conduct joint training, and it is impossible to talk about any infantry and artillery coordinated training, but it is not possible to draw back the battalions.

What a headache!

But fortunately, the enemy to face at the moment is only the Manchu Qing, and these more advanced things are not needed.

At this time, the factory no longer needs Xia Jun to interfere excessively, Li Shijing takes care of him very well, and Xia Jun feels that there is no need to continue to expand the factory, because it is expensive to exchange those leading equipment.

Xia Jun feels that he should switch from directly buying factory equipment to developing independently, and sulfonamides are a typical example.

Zhang Cheng has already manufactured sulfonamides, and now the sulfonamide factory is under construction, although this factory is a bit like a workshop, but the profits of sulfonamides are very high, and there is no problem with backward production methods.

Therefore, Xia Jun can take time off from the construction industry at this time and continue to strengthen the combat effectiveness of the army.

At this time, the financial problem has been greatly solved, Xia Jun has the idea of expanding the army again, and it is a [***] scale expansion of the army, the Xinhai Revolution is just a local collective rebellion, but Xia Jun is different. Xia Jun not only wanted to oppose the Qing Dynasty, but also not allow the old forces in these places to continue to exist.

Therefore, Xia Jun needs enough force to seize administrative power, and now the ten infantry battalions in his hands are obviously not enough.

There are also many problems in the military, first of all, the use of American-made weapons and American-made bullets, which does not conform to the face of a country.

At the same time, the army lacked light machine guns, mortars and other equipment, and an artillery company was obviously not enough after the expansion of the army, and there was a lack of howitzer battalions.

How to change these problems needs to be studied again.

Xia Jun searched in the system for a while and found a 7.62mmnato bullet, the 7.62x51mmnato rifle cartridge and the .30-06 Springfield rifle cartridge (7.62x63mm) have a similar trajectory. Although the shell is shorter, a similar warhead with a standard charge can still obtain a similar muzzle velocity, and a smaller charge can still obtain the same muzzle velocity. A shorter cartridge case favors less weight, while also reducing the overall size of the weapon.

Most of the future automatic rifles will use low-power bullets, but the 7.62x51mmnato is still the mainstream ammunition for sniper rifles and machine guns in various countries in later generations.

This bullet is good! Xia Jun hurriedly checked to see if he could change the M1 Garand to use 7.62x51mmnato shells.

The result turned out to be really possible, the weight of the revised M1 Garand's empty gun has changed from 4.37 kg to 4.03 kg, which is 0.34 kg lighter than the original, and the surname can remain the same, but the exchange price has been increased to 36 points per piece.

The changed M1 Garand rifle has the same caliber, but the bullet used is different from the 30-06 Springfield rifle cartridge (7.62x63mm) used in the United States.

At this time, the 7.62x51mmnato bullet has not yet appeared, and the intellectual property rights of the 7.62x51mmnato bullet belong to Xia Jun.

In terms of light machine guns, Xia Jun weighed for a long time and chose the Czech ZB-26, although this light machine gun is not as easy to use as Madsen, but it is cheap, reliable, and enough to deal with the war of this era, at least there is no problem in dealing with Xiao Yueben.

A ZB-26 light machine gun can be exchanged for only 50 points, which is very cheap, and Madsen has 120 points left.

The Madsen light machine gun is indeed better than the ZB-26, but it is too expensive, and Xia Jun does not want to buy such an expensive one.

After the addition of light machine guns, there were fewer than 11 people in a squad, and Xia Jun decided to expand a squad to 13 people.

A squad will be armed with: 1 ZB-26, 1 Thomson submachine gun, 1 sniper rifle, 2 grenadiers, 2 pistols, 9 M1 Garands, 2 blasting canisters, 65 grenades, 2 blasting canisters.

These individual weapons constitute the most powerful individual firepower of the contemporary world army, and to replace the ten battalions with BZ-26, Xia Jun needs to spend 135,000 points, which Xia Jun can still get.

On the issue of army expansion, Xia Jun summoned Chen Xuanyu and several high-achieving students from the Army Academy to discuss, and three of the students in the first phase of the Army Academy were Xia Jun's most valued protégés.

One is named Wu Feng, a member of the Liberation Society, both in study and training, he is the first in every exam in the Army Academy, and he has a high talent in tactics.

One is named Yang Lie, who also studies very hard, competes with Liu Chengyi in the Army Academy, and often gets the first place in the exam, and has a strong sense of the overall situation.

There is also a man named Liu Wenhong, whose grades are ranked lower, but he is thoughtful and has strong calculation skills, and he is a good material for being a staff officer.

Among the students in the first phase, these three people were the most outstanding and valued by Xia Jun, and they were Xia Jun's protégés, so the three of them were called together to discuss.

Xia Jun couldn't make up his mind about expanding the army, after all, he had just expanded the army for more than one month and expanded the army, and the front had not been trained yet.

Several people came to the military headquarters building, and when they heard that Xia Jun wanted to expand the army, Chen Xuanyu said: "Since there is no problem with our finances, it is no problem to expand some of them, but I am afraid that the finances will be able to keep up later." ”

"The finances behind it are not a problem." Xia Jun was not worried about the financial problem at this time, after all, he only had such a small number of troops in his hands, and he was not a dozen divisions.

If there are more than a dozen divisions, then it is said that there will be some financial problems to consider.

"Principal, the students think that the expansion of the army is sooner rather than later, and since we are financially unhindered and there is no shortage of weapons and equipment, we should naturally expand our troops, and we can do more in the event of an incident." Yang Lie stood up and said to Xia Jun.

Wu Feng nodded and agreed: "The students also think that the army should be expanded, at present, we only have one battalion in our headquarters, and the other nine battalions are suppressing bandits and defending the official mansion in the local area, obviously we can't get out, we must have more troops." ”

As soon as Xia Jun asked, everyone present agreed to expand the army.

As for the amount of military expansion, there were some differences among those present.

Yang Lie said that he would expand the army by one division, so that it would be powerful enough. Chen Xuanyu said that if there is a brigade, the nine battalions in the local area will form a brigade, which is exactly one division.

The concept of a division and a brigade is completely different, not only in terms of formation, but also in terms of balance.

If it is said that a brigade is expanded, the nine local battalions will also be organized, and if a division is expanded, it will be the 'Central Army,' and all the officers will be drawn from the military academy, and the nine local battalions will be left aside and reduced to a miscellaneous army.

Xia Jun also considered in his heart, whether to set aside the other nine battalions first and build a central army, but he felt that this would be unbalanced, if he directly built a division, then the nine battalions would not have any internal role in checking and balancing, which was equivalent to breaking the jar, and then pinching a jar like this, just pinching it bigger.

If another brigade were to be formed, and the nine battalions that had been released were also organized into a brigade, then the situation would be very different.

First of all, the 'Central Army' under its control has reached the size of a brigade, and there are three regiment commanders inside, and these three regiment commanders will be the students they teach, and there will be checks and balances between these three people.

Secondly, there are three regiments outside, and although the three regiment leaders are not students taught by themselves, their loyalty to themselves is unquestionable.

In this way, internal and external checks and balances are formed, and no one can jump up, and no one can turn back. Because no one can convince the people, and if they turn against them, they will be besieged.

In the end, Xia Jun still adopted Chen Xuanyu's suggestion and set this expansion as an expansion of a brigade.

Xia Jun paid great attention to the separation of military and political affairs while checking and balancing his subordinates, and if the main reason for the civil war of the modern civil [***] was that the central power was weak, and the military had administrative power.

The reason why this is so is because Yuan Shikai can't control the Beiyang Army he trained, and the background and environment of the times when Yuan Shikai trained the Beiyang New Army doomed him to be unable to unite his subordinates with faith and other forces, so Yuan Shikai always used money to entrap his subordinates.

This may be the reason why the warlords fought for power and profit after he became president, and in the past few years when he was sent back to his hometown by the Qing court, although the Beiyang Army still obeyed his words, it could no longer be completely controlled, but was in the hands of Duan Qirui and Feng Guozhang, resulting in the loss of power.

Naturally, Xia Jun would not repeat this historical lesson, so he never let anyone monopolize power, but tried to balance it, and at the same time strengthened national beliefs, united his subordinates to move in the same direction, and strictly forbade the military to interfere in administration.

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The second watch has arrived! If you don't succeed in slaughtering gods, the gap will widen! It's not powerful! It's really not powerful