Sun Liechen was stunned for a moment, and then immediately thought of the order that Yang Xingguo had sent back when he was still in the capital. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

After some hesitation, he replied to Yang Xingguo: "Commander, you are going to form six main divisions, thirty local garrison regiments, one guard division, one heavy artillery division, and one recruit training office. ”

"Yes, as long as the base area is not expanded, there will be so many troops for the time being. Besides, with the current population and territory of Liaodong, it is already the limit to be able to feed so many troops. After all, today's troops are no longer the original cold-weapon troops, and a live-fire training in peacetime requires a lot of money. Yang Xingguo did not hide it, and directly affirmed.

Sun Liechen picked up the statistical tables in front of him and began to calculate.

Soon affirmed Yang Xingguo: "Yes, commander." We have 16,000 people in 16,000 garrison regiments in Liaodong, and we can make up for all the shortages in the main force by drawing out eighty percent of the soldiers! ”

"As for the shortage of nearly thirteen thousand men in the garrison regiment, the recruit training office has only about five thousand recruits. But there are still more than 2 million immigrants in Yingkou, and as long as we want, we can recruit 8,000 new soldiers at any time! ”

"That's fine, when the troops are full, there will only be one shelf in the recruit training office. In the event of war, recruit for training according to the actual situation. When there is no war, he instructs young people in various places to conduct simple military training for one month every year. In the future, this matter will form rules in the base areas controlled by our Liaodong Army. After a few years, every young man in the base area will have some basic military attempts, and know how to save his life in the event of war, instead of waiting for the enemy to slaughter! ”

After ordering the staff officer to record all of Yang Xingguo's orders, Sun Liechen continued to ask: "Commander Ma, is the equipment of the troops according to the standard configuration you sent back a few days ago!" ”

Yang Xingguo didn't answer directly, and after thinking about it, he asked Sun Liechen rhetorically: "What do you think?" ”

"The original firepower of the troops was too wasteful, fifty or sixty light and heavy machine guns, and after a battle, hundreds of thousands of rounds of ammunition were used casually. The Beiyang Army, which was the best equipped in the imperial court, was equipped with more than 10,000 people in a town and only equipped with 36 heavy machine guns in a heavy machine gun battalion. A division of 10,000 people in the Russian army is also three heavy machine gun companies with 36 heavy machine guns. And we, a division of light and heavy machine guns add up to more than one hundred and fifty units, which is completely unnecessary! ”

"And artillery, even if we have more artillery in our hands, we can't waste it too much, each regiment is equipped with one or twenty guns."

"As far as I know, the most elite Beiyang Army in the imperial court is only equipped with a mountain artillery regiment or a field artillery battalion, and the number of artillery pieces adds up to more than ten to more than fifty."

"And what about one of our divisions, a field artillery regiment plus three mountain artillery battalions, a full hundred mountain field artillery, even against an elite field division of the Japanese army, it is only a lot more!"

"And that's not even counting the mortar company you often talk about, Commander. Speaking of which, I would like to remind you, commander, that after the troops are equipped with so many artillery pieces, the people below will start a battle, and as soon as they go up, they will use artillery bombardment, and after the shelling is over, they will attack by infantry, and they will not pay any attention to tactical tactics at all. ”

"What they don't know is that we can't produce our own shells before we shoot one shell and one less shell. In the future, if we run out of shells, I don't know if they, who already like shelling, will command their troops to fight. ”

Yang Xingguo did not expect that he would cause so many problems after strengthening the firepower allocation of his troops.

The chief of staff has just made an analysis, although he does not agree with some of his views. But one thing the chief of staff was right. A unit that relies on artillery bombardment on the battlefield will never be able to become a truly elite force.

Also, the troops are equipped with so many artillery, it is indeed too wasteful of shells.

With the Liaodong Army's current artillery shell reserves, according to the attrition rate of the last anti-encirclement and suppression operation, the limited artillery shells will be used up in two battles in the sky.

Thinking of this, Yang Xingguo no longer hesitated, and decisively decided: "Then it's decided!" The field artillery regiments of each division were reduced from the current 54 field artillery pieces to 36 guns, divided into three battalions, each battalion with 12 guns. ”

"The regimental mountain artillery battalion has been reduced from the current 18 mountain artillery pieces to 12 guns, divided into three companies, each company has two mountain artillery platoons equipped with four mountain guns and one ammunition platoon."

"The battalion mortar company and other arsenals made the mortars and reduced them to a mortar platoon, equipped with three mortars."

"Light and heavy machine guns were also reduced in configuration, and the battalion was equipped with a platoon of heavy machine guns, armed with three heavy machine guns. The company is equipped with a light machine gun squad and is equipped with three light machine guns. All platoon and below were armed with rifles, and the platoon commander was armed with Mauser pistols. ”

personally wrote down Yang Xingguo's decision and calculated it in the notebook. After a full minute, Sun Liechen raised his head and replied: "Compared with a town of the Beiyang New Army, although we are equipped with nine fewer heavy machine guns, we are equipped with light machine guns that the Beiyang New Army does not have, and the whole division has more than seventy in total, which is completely inferior to a town of the Beiyang New Army in terms of firepower." “

"As for the artillery, then it goes without saying. A town of the Beiyang New Army is definitely not as good as a division of ours! ”

"Then it's decided!" Yang Xingguo said with a firm face.

After finishing, he continued to order Sun Liechen: "The firepower configuration has changed, and the troop configuration of each company, battalion, and regiment will definitely change. How it will change is up to the General Staff to decide. ”

Sun Liechen thought about it and replied: "No problem, I'll give you the result in two days!" ”

At this time, Sun Liechen continued to ask: What about the garrison? Although the garrison regiments in various counties rarely participated in the battles, they still couldn't hide from some of the battles against bandits! “

"The artillery garrison regiment is not needed, the mortars will come out after the wind, and a garrison regiment will be equipped with a mortar platoon of three mortars!"

"Heavy machine guns must be equipped, otherwise in the event of an ordinary bandit fight, the garrison regiment will not even have the firepower to suppress it."

"There are not many light machine guns in the whole army, but they must be equipped. Otherwise, the garrison entered the main force, and they had never even seen a light machine gun. Therefore, the garrison must train a group of qualified light machine gunners for the main force. ”

"In this way, each garrison regiment tentatively has a mortar platoon with three mortars, a heavy machine gun platoon with three heavy machine guns and a light machine gun squad with one light machine gun!"

"Although there are not many heavy weapons, these three squads and platoons must reach full strength, and if possible, each garrison regiment can train twice as many light and heavy machine gunners!"

"In the end, there is a cavalry division and a heavy artillery division: the cavalry division is now the same establishment, but each division must form a cavalry company of 100 men with the war horses of the captured Japanese cavalry!"

"The heavy artillery division was abolished at the brigade level and reduced to four heavy artillery regiments. The extra heavy artillery is in reserve, and in addition, the heavy artillery division has set up a guard pattern and a baggage transport regiment! (To be continued.) )