The cold and arrogant reaction of the Spaniards did not provoke the Tang officials, which is actually a reasonable thing, but the ultimatum on Monterrey and San Diego must continue to be implemented, once the ultimatum expires and Spain does not take the initiative to withdraw from these two places, the Tang army must implement coercive measures. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

On the second day of Bai Nan's return, the cabinet held a meeting and resolved to promote the process of building the army of the Tang Republic. This time, the Ministry of Defense directly threw out a military expansion plan, intending to increase the number of Datang service personnel to nearly 3,000.

Xue Yue and Liang Zhenhai both expressed varying degrees of opposition and concern about this, Xue Yue said: "Los Angeles has a total of such a small number of people, and if there are 3,000 troops at once, the military-civilian ratio will inevitably be out of balance, and it will also squeeze the labor force of industrial and agricultural production. ”

Liu Tian said-for-tat: "Generally speaking, the smaller the population of a country and the more threats it faces, the military-civilian ratio will inevitably be greater. Since the day of its establishment, Datang has faced the encroachment of unfriendly aborigines, as well as the covetousness of Western colonizers all the time, and our outward development has also determined that we must have sufficient strength. Therefore, I think this expansion plan is the best choice within the acceptable range. ”

Although Liu Tian stepped down from his military post, he still absolutely supported the army, so as the minister of civil affairs, he vigorously supported this plan to expand the army.

Zhao Daling took a sip of tea, put on his glasses, took the document in his hand and said, "Let's talk about this army expansion plan in detail." At this stage, the highest combat unit of our army is the regiment, with the 001 regiment and the 201 regiment, and the 001 regiment is given the flag 'Passing Light Regiment', with an establishment of 1,200 people, and four combat battalions are expanded from the two infantry battalions of the current army. The 201st Regiment is composed of an expanded cavalry hunting battalion, a cavalry battalion, a car battalion and a hunting battalion, and an aboriginal mercenary cavalry company, with a total number of 670 personnel, and is given the banner 'Hunting Cavalry Regiment'. ”

In this way, in terms of organization, the army has been fixed and unified. The Light Transmission Regiment formed with the peacekeeping battalion as the core will be the core combat force of the army in the future, and it will also have the largest number of personnel. The hunting cavalry was unified into the army establishment and became the hunting cavalry regiment.

It is worth mentioning that the first battalion of the Chuanguang Regiment is set up as a machine infantry battalion composed of all peacekeeping soldiers, with only about 200 personnel, but it is equipped with 16 6x6 infantry fighting vehicles and 8 warrior vehicles, and the equipment used is also more advanced equipment such as the 95-type of the original peacekeeping battalion. This is obviously Zhao Daling's descendant troops, and it is also the Zhenshan Stone of Gongwei's current power core.

The automobile battalion of the Cavalry Hunting Regiment is also equipped with military vehicles, with 24 warrior armored vehicles as the core, which will carry the main armored assault force, because the first battalion of the Chuanguang Regiment will mainly defend Los Angeles, so if the Tang Army wants to fight externally, the automobile battalion of the Cavalry Hunting Regiment will become the core of the battle.

In order to adapt to more intense battles, such as fortifications and fortifications, not only were the warrior vehicles of the automobile battalion equipped with heavy machine guns, but some were also armed with bazookas and mortars.

Zhao Daling cleared his throat and continued: "As for the navy, although we now have more ships, it is difficult to use them all, and there are more maritime practitioners such as sailors, but to be competent for the profession of navy people, a lot of training is still needed. This year, the navy tentatively has the Qilianshan dock landing ship with 175 personnel, one Yangwei-class cruiser with 288 personnel under construction, five Qi Jiguang-class frigates with three under construction with a total of 568 personnel, and the White Shark missile boat with 35 personnel. ”

In this way, the total number of personnel in the Navy is also in the early 1,000s. In contrast, the gap in the Navy may be even larger than that of the Army in the future. Relying on shore fortifications and the White Shark, Los Angeles' coastal defense is not a problem, but if Datang wants to go to the ocean and obtain benefits from further afield, the number of these ships will not be enough. At this time, the sail battleship needed more personnel to maneuver, and no matter how streamlined it was, it still needed more manpower. Warships are not the same as civilian ships, and there are obviously fewer sailors on civilian ships, while warships have many more departments, so they naturally require more manpower.

Although Los Angeles still has a lot of staff, if it continues to increase the number of naval warships in the coming year, it will inevitably reduce the labor force of some other industrial sectors.

But fortunately, although the number of ships in the Datang Navy is small, the displacement is relatively large, and the firepower is strong, if the military factory produces new naval guns, then a combination of a cruiser with two or three frigates is enough to face the fleet of the Western powers three or four times the size of its own.

On the other hand, when the British launched the First Opium War, they only sent a total of eight warships, of which only two were 74-gun third-class battleships. With the level of such a fleet, the Datang Navy can steadily destroy it.

Although there is still a certain amount of hesitation within the cabinet of an armed force of nearly 3,000 people, this matter is also of full significance. No one can be sure that Spain will really lose its mind, and it is always right to send a large army to threaten Los Angeles.

Ye Baozao, governor of the central bank, is also more in favor of thoroughly determining the military system, and it will not be long before the "dragon yuan," the currency of the Tang Republic, will be officially issued, and the market economy will also develop normally. The various expenditures and procurements in the work of the government will also be clarified. Zhao Daling himself is an upright person who will not play his own petty calculations, so although the cabinet he has engaged in is relatively centralized, Zhao Daling has promoted the government's various expenditures to be publicized publicly. Ye Baozheng belongs to the capitalist elite of the Republic of China, and in his opinion, such a transparent measure is extremely meaningful.

The military system is fixed, everything from training consumption to soldiers' salaries is fixed, and every amount of money invested by the authorities can be seen, and some selfish corrupt silverfish have been eliminated.

However, as soon as the establishment was determined, there were also some embarrassments, such as the Hunting Cavalry Regiment belonged to the regimental establishment, but its commander was Liu Fangwu, who had the rank of major general; The size of the navy is too small, and it is not suitable for forming a fixed fleet, and the commander of the navy, Deng Xiyi, is only a colonel, and in order to maintain his highest military rank, the highest military rank of others can only be a colonel, such as Hong Bao, who was appointed a colonel before, but before he put on the uniform of a colonel, he became a colonel again.

Paek Nam's military rank has not changed, but most of his work is now not in the army, but in politics. The White Shark missile boat is still nominally his captain, but in order to save fuel, the White Shark has stopped operating, and the White Shark will only set sail when it encounters another crisis. At present, the vast majority of fuel is used to supply land vehicles. As for the few Red Hawk helicopters, they have hardly been in the sky since they arrived in Los Angeles.

Since the day it was adopted, the army expansion plan has been carried out in a grand way. Since there is still a large shortage in the army, the Ministry of Defense has also begun to recruit soldiers among the citizens. This kind of recruitment is relatively conditional, such as talents with professional and technical ability, such as agricultural experts, professional fitters, etc., must not be allowed to serve. In addition, it is the evaluation of the applicant's personal physical fitness and personal ability. In principle, people who are physically fit and have some cultural knowledge are the best choice.

Many of the defeated soldiers of the government army were pulled by Zhuangding, and many of them were fundamentally disgusted with the army, so these people basically refused to serve again after becoming farmers, workers, and even civil servants, but many of them were used to fighting and hoped to return to the army. However, the military is not fully acceptable, and the kind of veterans whose loyalty cannot be guaranteed, or whose personal habits are very poor, are also not acceptable, or they may be subject to a severe rectification after entering the army.

There were also some military families in the Ming Dynasty who had good martial arts and were courageous, but generally these Ming Dynasty warriors were illiterate, and after entering the army, they had to study, and they also had to relearn how to use modern weapons.

Some citizens who had no military experience also joined the army after selection, but there were not many of them. The entire recruitment operation lasted two weeks, and finally nearly 3,000 soldiers were selected, and after all of them were rebuilt, a large-scale military training operation was launched.

Except for the first battalion of the 001 regiment, which was still equipped with PLA standard weapons, the equipment of other units of the army became the equipment of the former national army. The standard rifle was officially identified as the M1903, and its official designation became the S1 rifle. The M1 carbine used by the cavalry units, the designated type S2. The Browning machine gun was S3, the Thompson submachine gun was S4, and the M1911 pistol was positioned S5. The 75mm 92 infantry gun was designated as the S1772 gun, and the M101 105mm gun was changed to the S1775 gun. S stands for the first letter of the kanji "式".

As for the Type 92 machine gun, which was not intended to be copied, or the 6x6 infantry fighting vehicle and other weapons that could not be copied for the time being, no model number was given.

The army's uniforms are relatively easy to solve, basically using the green khaki former national army American military uniform, the exception is that the first battalion of the light transmission regiment still wears 07-style camouflage. The navy didn't have that many uniforms to wear, so it had to be re-customized, and it was not easy to reach the level of PLA in later generations, but it was not difficult to do it well.

Basically, the navy uniform is modeled after the 07-style PLA naval uniform, but because of the limited materials, there are basically not a few pieces of the regular uniform. A relatively large number of navy training uniforms are actually dark blue, and in addition, the sea soul shirt, which has a traditional and heroic complex, has also been retained and distributed to the soldiers of the navy.