The personnel establishment of the mountain troops is relatively large (ranking second in the army, the first is the Marine Corps, which plans to adjust its establishment after being equipped with new weapons, and a fully equipped Marine Division has more than 36,000 people. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info), a fully manned mountain division, including non-combatants, has a total strength of more than 35,000 men (which is also an important reason why brigades or even regiments are generally used as independent combat units). ）。

However, even so, there are only 5 mountain divisions after all, and the total strength of the whole is only 1780,000, accounting for only a very small part of the Chinese army. Li Hui: They are so painstaking, in fact, considering that the strength of the US Army is rapidly increasing, and because the distance is too far, Western Canada cannot accommodate much population, even with systematic help, it is difficult for China to invest too many troops in the North American war, so it can only make a fuss about the quality and try to improve the exchange ratio, and these mountain divisions are the protagonists in the future war against the United States!

The U.S. Federal Army, which had only a few tens of thousands in 1894, had swelled to more than 300,000 by the end of 1895, and by the summer of 1896 that number had soared to more than 800,000. Such a huge army is unmatched even by a large army power such as France and Germany, and only a little less than China and Tsarist Russia, with a population of more than 100 million. Moreover, with the world's largest industrial strength of the United States and the tradition of all the people being soldiers, once a war breaks out, this number can increase several times!

And even if the technical staff officers of China's General Logistics Department rack their brains, they can only devote more than 100,000 people to the North American battlefield at most, and even if the tonnage of China's merchant ships can still increase rapidly in the future, it will only add tens of thousands. Li Hui also took into account the strength of the "Momen" (system), and estimated the number of front-line troops directly engaged with the enemy at 200,000, plus the same number of reserves, if he wanted to defeat the US Army, which was likely to be as many as several million at that time, he would have to have at least a dozen times the exchange ratio.

Even taking into account the superiority of the Chinese army's weapons and tactics, it is not easy to achieve such an exaggerated record, but fortunately, the main battlefield is precisely the lofty mountains and mountains that are conducive to the play of the mountain troops, and there are barely a dozen of them. Otherwise, Li Hui would rather take the risk of uniting the entire West and attack the United States before the expanded US forces have formed combat effectiveness, so as to reduce the US population, strike a blow to the US economy, and reduce the pressure on the real decisive battle in the future.

The unique geographical location of the United States has given China's world-leading army no chance to play its full role, even if China has taken a similar advantage in the previous war against Britain, Li Hui will inevitably regret it, "It's hateful, if only the United States were adjacent to our land, with our population advantage, just push the army over." ”

Two years ago, it was still "although the urine bubble is big", but now it is the first in the world, which seems a little incredible, but this is an undoubted fact. With more than 100,000 biochemical soldiers as the backbone, the total number of Chinese army troops had exceeded 1 million by the end of 1895. With the unlocking of the mountain soldiers, all the weapons and tactics before the appearance of tanks and planes were gathered, and Li Hui immediately activated the army reorganization plan that had been prepared long ago......

According to this plan, the Republic of China will be organized into seven field armies (each army has three infantry divisions under its jurisdiction, with a total strength of more than 100,000 troops). ), five mountain divisions, and three cavalry divisions (Originally, Li Hui wanted to organize three cavalry corps as a strategic mobile force, but under the current situation that agriculture still relied on animal power, the cavalry was too large and too extravagant, and finally wisely gave up. ), three marine divisions, two garrison divisions, and 12 former garrison brigades that were renamed the Naval Fortress Brigade (the strength and equipment of this establishment are not fixed, with more than 10,000 people at the most, and more than 3,000 at the few, depending on the specific situation of the naval base being garrisoned.) That's almost 1.2 million people.

These 1.2 million troops are the backbone of China's ground forces, located at the first level of the mobilization system of the Chinese Republic, and all of them adopt the system of shadow troops, even if all these 1.2 million people are exhausted, China can pull out 1.2 million fully equipped troops in no more than one month, and they can be immediately put into actual combat, and their combat effectiveness is not much worse than the original 1.2 million people.

Among them, the three special arms of the mountain division, the cavalry division, and the marine division are particularly important, and Li Hui calls them "rapid reaction forces." If it is a local war, it is generally enough to send them into battle, after all, these more than 300,000 people are elite, even if the enemy has a million troops, they are not afraid, this is almost certainly a world war......

The armed police force and the border defense force, which have a total strength of more than 2 million troops, are the second level of armed forces, and as long as it is not a world war, they generally have no chance to fight, and their role is more reflected in internal than external. Although there are corresponding reserves, because there is no special system like the shadow army, it generally takes half a year for the expansion or new units to take shape, but with the large number of China's standing army, it is not difficult to win so much time.

In addition, China's golden troops, fire brigades, engineering troops, and railway troops are also part of the military system, with a total number of more than 5 million, and the number of police officers has also expanded to 2 million (this is almost a historical peak, and the number will slowly decline as the domestic security situation improves). ）。 Although their main role is embodied in domestic construction and stability maintenance, after all, they have been subject to militarized management for a long time, and if there is a military need. It is certainly easier to train and shape than ordinary civilians, and in fact it is also a potential national defense force that cannot be ignored.

Since China's weaponry does not suffer in this time and space, but has a certain advantage (and in some periods this advantage is quite large), in general, these armed forces alone are enough for China to deal with the threat of a world war.

However, if the most terrible situation arises, and the entire Western world unites to encircle and suppress China, war will not only be a matter for the regular army and combat troops, but the whole people must participate in saving the country. Although there is no such danger now, it is always wrong to be prepared for danger in times of peace, so Li Hui has always attached great importance to the construction of the militia in China, and he stipulates that from middle school to university, every summer vacation (winter vacation in cold areas) must be set aside for one month to receive military training, and with the continuous increase in the enrollment rate of middle schools and colleges, almost all Chinese citizens will receive military training to varying degrees in the future. In this way, once the country needs to recruit into the army, China's recruits can be trained and formed faster than other countries, which will greatly speed up the replenishment of China's army, thus further exploiting the advantages of its own abundant manpower. (To be continued.) )