Chapter 396: Seal the sky and go abroad
The latest expansion plan of the Northland Volunteer Army was released, and Fengtian issued an order: a special group army was established, and the original guard army was upgraded to a special group army. The main responsibility of this group army www.biquge.info is to guard the core area and serve as a mobile unit of the Northland Volunteer Army, supporting battlefield operations at any time.
Moreover, this army group is also armed with some of the most advanced weapons.
With the addition of Fu Zuoyi's 35th Army after reorganization, the Beidi Volunteer Army will be reorganized into ten group armies, of course, the 35th Army will be dismantled and reorganized, and then integrated with the Beidi Volunteer Army, and Fu Zuoyi will serve as the commander of the 10th Group Army.
As for the garrison army, of course, it must also be upgraded and smoothly transformed into the formation of ten armies.
Among them, Nanyun Province and Xiyun Province each have two corps and one mountain army.
Although the mountain divisions were not upgraded, they were changed from two mountain divisions to six mountain divisions to meet the needs of the expanding theater of operations.
Of course, this is not feasible because of this large-scale expansion of the army has led to a large reduction in the number of troops in the agricultural reclamation army, and it has forced the agricultural reclamation army to continue recruiting troops, and the original plan was to maintain the scale of 2 million, but it was ordered by the heavens to expand the agricultural reclamation army to 3 million, and gradually transition to the scale of 4 million.
It makes sense for Feng Tian to order the agricultural reclamation troops to continue to expand, the ground is getting bigger and bigger, the area of cultivation is also expanding, and the agricultural reclamation army is inevitably needed, and this reason could not be simpler.
In addition to providing soldiers for the regular army and assisting the regular army in combat, the biggest task of the agricultural reclamation army is to ensure the food supply of the Beidi Volunteer Army.
The engineering corps also needs to be expanded, and it is planned to expand to 2 million.
Although the territory is larger and the amount of work is also increasing, the engineering troops can be less.
Because, the Northland Volunteers have millions of captives in their hands, and they are all laborers.
In addition, other branches of the army are expanding, such as the fire support unit, with the same name as the change, but with an increase in missile strike capabilities.
As a branch of the army, the border guards need to patrol and lengthen the borders, and the army will inevitably need to be expanded.
The most unfortunate were the armored cluster troops, which this time not only did not expand their units, but they were also broken up and flooded the armies.
This step must be done, because the establishment of an army group is large enough to fully accommodate armored troops. And the armored forces cannot expand indefinitely, maintaining the division level or even the brigade as well, the establishment is just right.
In addition to the reorganization of the army, other branches of the armed forces also need to be reorganized.
In this reorganization, the aviation unit has not been expanded, and it has been downsized, and quite a few pilots have been transferred.
This is because, in order for the Navy to set up a naval aviation system, in addition to the original pilots on the two aircraft carriers, it needs to supplement a large number of pilots with actual combat experience.
Unlike land aviation, Hainan Airlines needs to take off and land on the deck of an aircraft carrier, and in addition to rich experience in piloting aircraft, pilots are also required to have the psychological quality of people beyond ordinary people.
Therefore, these pilots must be selected from the air force units, and only qualified pilots can join the HNA team.
This toss has caused the Army Airlines to lose a large number of excellent pilots.
In this case, it is impossible for the aviation units to expand their forces.
There is a serious shortage of pilots in the Army Aviation, and training pilots cannot be completed in a short period of time.
Pilots can only be cultivated slowly, and they can't rush if they want to.
Another important factor is that the aviation units of the Beidi Volunteer Army have changed their equipment this time, and all of them are using new aircraft, so it is indeed not necessary to maintain superiority in terms of numbers, but to occupy the commanding heights in technology.
Gao Zhihang was appointed commander of the Navy, and the other two commanders were also promoted to deputy commanders of the Army.
The Navy was officially formed, with Navy Commander Chen Lei and Navy Commander Gao Zhihang concurrently serving as Deputy Commander of the Navy, and political commissar Chu Xiaoyan.
The Navy is based on the twin aircraft carrier formations that arrived at Rengang this time, with two aircraft carriers, 10 destroyers and 10 submarines as the backbone, which is the main ship of the Navy on the surface.
This time, among the large transport fleets that returned with the twin aircraft carrier formation, there were some ships that were almost empty and could sail freely, but there were no weapons and equipment, and no one found out that they were warships.
In fact, this is a new type of warship built at European shipyards, the base of equipment has already been reserved in accordance with the drawings, and there are ten new destroyers in it.
At this time, the ten new destroyers were being equipped with a variety of new weapons, including radar installations, as well as missiles.
In other words, this is the world's first missile destroyer.
In addition to destroyers, there are also some supporting ships, such as submarine hunters, minesweepers, landing craft and supply ships.
As for those warships that have already formed combat effectiveness, including aircraft carriers, they do not need to be renovated for the time being, and they will continue to maintain their original appearance.
The aircraft carrier has already been remodeled, and after sailing into Europe, the aircraft carrier has been remodeled for the second time, although it basically maintains the shape of the original warship, but only some weapons and equipment have been added.
In this transformation, the aircraft carrier and destroyer only added radar and other equipment, while the submarine changed very much, adding the most advanced weaponry.
Why can the new ships be installed with these equipment as soon as they arrive in Rengang?
Because, all weapons and equipment are produced here, and European shipyards are only responsible for reserving the base, and the two sides are docked through drawings.
For the sake of secrecy, it is impossible for these new weapons to be installed in Europe, and Fengtian can only adopt this way.
That is to say, the Northland Volunteer Navy currently has two aircraft carriers, six conventional submarines, four submarines equipped with missiles, ten destroyers and ten missile destroyers, which should be said to be relatively strong.
For a short time, Han Province could only rely on this naval force for protection.
This is because at present the shipyard does not yet have the production capacity, and it will take some time for the equipment to be installed, and perhaps in 1938 it will be possible to start producing some small warships, such as missile boats.
I am afraid that it will not be until the second half of 1938 to build large warships, when all the shipbuilding equipment is in place and all the supporting projects are completed.
A shipbuilding enterprise is not so simple, although the shipyard was relocated from Europe as a whole, the technology is mature, and the personnel are quite complete, but there is always a certain amount of time for equipment installation.
Don't worry about shipbuilding, because Feng Tian was originally in this business.
After so many years of development, missile technology is not a problem, and even the countdown to satellite launches has begun.
If they could, atomic bombs could be made, and the key question was whether they were needed or not.
When the Northland Volunteer Army officially kicked off the reorganization, it was time for Feng Tian to leave, and he was going to leave the Northland and go abroad.
At the Green Province Airport, Feng Tian boarded a plane, took off under the escort of two other fighters, and flew to Han Province, where the headquarters of the Beidi Volunteer Army will all be relocated.
The plane that Feng Tian took was not ordinary, it was Air Force One, that is, Feng Tian's special plane.
The problem is that this is the world's first jet, and the two escort fighters are also the only jet fighters of the Northland Volunteers.
Gao Zhihang, who had just been promoted to commander of the HNA Navy, piloted the plane for Feng Tian, and there were very few pilots who could fly jets in the Northland. (To be continued.) )