Of course, you get what you pay for, and the mountain soldiers can be recruited for up to 3 times as much as the infantry, but it's definitely worth the money. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 infoIn addition to mountain warfare, mountain soldiers are also good at dealing with harsh environments and climates, which is even more useful than combat effectiveness in many special battlefields.

In addition, as an individual, the Mountain Soldiers are not only the most hard-working of all the troops, but also have a huge advantage in terms of comprehensiveness, as a Tier 3 class, according to the type of specialization selected for each level of the Mountain Soldiers, they can fully master the infantry, medic, artillery, engineer and gendarmerie (previously set as a Tier 3 class, but later felt inappropriate and changed to a Tier 2 class). and is not inferior in level, which gives Li Hui a deeper understanding of the "backward compatibility" of biochemical soldiers.

According to the analysis of the General Staff, if the army is to be the main force, the decisive battle in this war will most likely take place in the cold and oxygen-deficient Rocky Mountains. In view of the fact that the training methods of mountain troops are very different from those of ordinary units, even veterans of field units who have experience in mountain operations will have to undergo special training for half a year to a year to meet the requirements, and the sooner the "mountain artillery" science and technology research and development is completed, the sooner the mountain troops can be formed and begin training.

According to Li Hui's plan, the Huaxia National Defense Force will set up five mountain divisions to meet the needs of various battlefields.

The soldiers of the first division are mainly from the old base area of Jiaodong, with the most veterans, the best equipment, and the strongest strength; The soldiers of the second division are mainly from the mountainous areas of Zhejiang, with the largest number of Yiwu people, this area is the source of the Qijia army, the soldiers are hard-working and not afraid of death, the combat effectiveness of this division is naturally also worth looking forward to, and they are more adapted to the warm and humid climate than the first division; The soldiers of the 3rd Division are mainly from Guangxi, which is also a place to produce strong troops, if it is to fight in the hot and rainy tropical or subtropical mountains and forests, this division will be the first choice, most of the officers of the division have participated in the war against Britain, and the foundation is very good, second only to the first division; The soldiers of the Fourth Division mainly come from the three major mountainous areas in the northeast, and they are very adaptable to the cold weather, and this division has more soldiers from ethnic minorities, and even many former flag men (basically outside the Guan, the flag people in the Guanxi are too wasteful, and this time can not be transformed. ）； The soldiers of the Fifth Division are all from the newly liberated serfs in Tibet, without exception, although most of them have not yet learned Chinese, but their loyalty to the Republic is beyond doubt, due to the small population of Tibet, this division is generally not easy to put into actual combat, most of the time it is placed on the two plateaus to deter the British in the south and the Russians in the west, but if the battlefield is a high-altitude area, this special unit has a chance to play......

The Rocky Mountains in North America are at a very high altitude, although they cannot be compared with the Himalayas, but they can also be called towering, with peaks of three or four thousand meters abounding, and the thin air will greatly increase the burden on the human body, and its northern latitudes are very high, and the cold climate in winter is even worse. In such an extreme environment, the 5th Mountain Division, which is more adaptable, can obviously take advantage of a lot of advantages and further amplify the advantages of the mountain troops.

Therefore, the Fifth Mountain Division will definitely play an extremely important role during the Sino-US war in the future, but after all, this division is the latest to be formed, and the training and formation will naturally take the longest, which is also an important reason why Li Hui is happy to see the old American cowardice.

In addition to training, mountain troops also need some special equipment, such as pack animals that are good at walking mountain roads, so Li Hui also used the system to breed a super donkey and mule (Note 1), just as he did when he bred the sacred mule and the heavenly horse, the father of which is a Chinese heavy horse, and the female is a Chinese Guangling donkey, a Xinjiang donkey and the world's largest long-haired donkey.

The pedigree of the Guangling donkey, the Xinjiang donkey and the Mongolian horse gives this super donkey mule the advantages of strong climate adaptability, tolerance to rough feeding, strong disease resistance, long life and good walking on mountain roads, but what is even more amazing is its tall size and amazing strength that distinguishes it from ordinary pack animals.

Because of the genes of the world's largest shire horse and long donkey, the system is produced and all of the high-quality products, this donkey and mule weighs more than 800 kilograms, the size is larger than most horses in the world, can easily carry more than 800 pounds of weight on the mountain road such as walking on the ground, and its pulling force is far from being compared with the weight of 1.6 tons of mule, but it can also easily pull a wooden wheel cart with a full weight of thousands of pounds on the dirt road in general condition, which is larger than the general heavy horse.

The appearance of this super donkey and mule even made Li Hui specially designed a heavy mountain cannon for it, with a caliber of 105mm, and its firing range exceeded 12 kg. As long as the mountain road is not too steep, the Chinese mountain division can carry this kind of heavy artillery, and the heavy firepower in the field can definitely overwhelm the enemy, even if it is attacked, there is no pressure.

Of course, if the mountain road is too steep, or even no road at all, such as when you need to cross the tropical rainforest, then you can only bring a light mountain gun of 75mm caliber, which is disassembled into 11 parts, and the heaviest is only a few tens of kilograms, which can be carried by manpower alone. Although the power and range were not very good, considering that the enemy did not even have such mountain artillery, the advantage was still overwhelming. If there is no need for flat fire, then the mortar that is lighter and has higher lethal efficiency is the first choice, if it is not a recoilless gun, there are several technical problems that have not yet been overcome (although the structure of the recoilless gun is simple, the technical threshold is not low, and it is a hard threshold of material technology. ), and not in the system technology tree, Li Hui will even consider giving up the mountain artillery, a transitional artillery type......

Note 1: Donkey and mule refer to the male parent of a horse and the female parent of a donkey, and the common horse and mule (donkey is the male parent and the horse is the female parent). In contrast, donkeys and mules are smaller and slower to run, but they are more able to carry and walk mountains, are more resistant to disease and rough feeding, and have a much longer lifespan. The reason why donkeys and mules are relatively rare in life is that in addition to the small proportion of mountain people in the total population, so the service value of donkeys and mules is not as good as that of horses and mules with strong pulling strength, the main reason is that the probability of conception of male horses and female donkeys is very low (male donkey mares> male donkey female donkey> male horse mare > male horse female donkey), but Li Hui used systematic production to avoid this problem, but because of the small size, the unit price is much cheaper than that of the mule...... (To be continued.) )