"Report, Zhongjing Telegraph!"

Shortly after Cao Kun finished giving the order, another staff officer walked into the headquarters with a telegram from Zhongjing, with a slight expression of excitement on his face. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Cao Kun took the telegram, looked at the contents of it, and immediately showed an excited expression on his face, but this expression quickly dissipated, and was replaced by a solemn face.

"Commander, what did Zhongjing say?" Cai Yi on the side looked at Cao Kun's extremely rich expression and couldn't help but feel curious.

The telegram that can make Cao Kun's face constantly change seems to have not appeared in my impression, right?

Cao Kun handed the telegram to Cai Yi, and said in a solemn tone: "Your Majesty has assigned the first division to us, and take a special train directly from Zhongjing to Vladivostok, the main force of the Hakodate battle is the first division, and we need to make corresponding tactical changes." ”

"First Division?" Cai Yi's face changed greatly.

The telegram did not say too clearly, but said that the 1st Division had boarded the train and set off, and it was expected to arrive in Vladivostok in two days, and that the navy should be prepared to transport the 1st Division to Japan as soon as possible, and that the Japanese Command would change the plan and assign the task of the main force to the 1st Division, with the rest of the troops assisting, and that the rest of the troops would obey the command of the 1st Division if there were special circumstances.

This matter was ordered by the emperor himself, and there was no problem of overstepping his command, and the First Army was originally the imperial garrison that defended Kyoto, and it was the most elite unit in the entire Chinese army, and there was no one.

The First Division is subordinate to the First Army, and similarly, the First Division is also the top priority in the First Army, with a large number of advanced equipment and excellent soldiers all transferred to the First Division, and only those who do not want the First Division will be divided into the other two divisions.

Sending the royal guards guarding Kyoto and the Imperial Palace to the battlefield was an unexpected move, but just sending the 1st Division to the front line was far from enough to shock Cao Kun and Cai Ye.

However, what really shocked them was that the First Division had just been rebuilt a year ago, and within the Imperial Military Leadership, almost everyone knew what the First Division meant, and Cao Kun and Cai Yi were now also high-ranking generals of the Imperial Army, so they were naturally qualified to know about the situation of the First Army.

The establishment and the ratio of weapons and equipment before the reconstruction of the First Army are the current establishment and equipment configuration of the Chinese Army. However, there were not so many machine guns at that time, so they were temporarily equipped with a platoon of machine guns.

It can be said that the reorganization of the First Division basically means that in the future, the whole army will closely follow the pace of the First Division in carrying out reconstruction, and the First Division will basically be the vanguard of the reform of the whole army.

Sending the First Division to the front line means that the run-in after the reconstruction of the First Division has been completed, and then they will go to the battlefield to face the challenges of actual combat, and then improve and supplement, and when the First Division is almost done, then the reform of the whole army will gradually kick off.

During the first all-army reform, the First Army spent only two months in actual combat to look for problems, and then in the third month it kicked off the prelude to the reform of the whole army, and at that time, the first thing to reform was the establishment, and it was only in the next two years that the weaponry gradually caught up.

"It's a bit too big this time, isn't it?" Cai Yi was shocked and said, the last reform was five years ago, that is, the second year after the founding of the People's Republic of China, until now has not been able to complete the goal of the reform five years ago, its biggest loophole lies in the equipment of machine guns, one is because of the insufficient production of Makqin heavy machine guns, and the other is because the above deliberately limited the production of Makqin heavy machine guns at that time, and intended to use a large amount of production capacity for Type 08 general-purpose machine guns, but what I didn't expect at that time was that the time would be postponed for three years before finalizing production.

"Maybe Your Majesty has other purposes." Cao Kun shook his head with a wry smile, and sighed helplessly: "Hey, we still can't keep up with His Majesty's thinking." ”

"And what to do at the front? Your Majesty is going to send the 1st Division to the front, what if we destroy the Japanese army of four divisions and scare little Japan, and the 1st Division does not have enough enemies to experiment with them when it arrives on the battlefield? Cai Ye said helplessly, "Why don't you order the 49th Division and the tank battalion to break forward 10 kilometers and arrange a defensive line?" Let the 371st Division break through? ”

"It's certain to give up the plan, and it's certain to break out, but we must not let Little Japan's life be too easy." Cao Kun said subconsciously, and then continued: "Order the tank battalion to go and meet the remaining troops of the 371st Division, the 49th Division and the 37th Army to build a defensive line. ”

Cai Yi nodded, now it can only be like this, if you don't send troops to respond, although the 371st Division can also break through smoothly, but there will definitely be something left.

But if it is the tank battalion that responds to them, then the situation will be different, the tank battalion has a strong mobility ability, strong firepower, the Japanese army can not bite them by infantry alone, and the Japanese army also lacks weapons to deal with tanks, for the 109th armored division, which is all equipped with butcher tanks, the Japanese army is definitely not their opponent even if it is an armored force.

Now all plans had to make way for the 1st Division, there was no doubt about that, and no matter who sat in the position of commander of the garrison, no matter who sat in the position of commander of the garrison, could change this principle.

And another reason why they couldn't shake the position of the First Division was that there was no need for others to say it, Cai Yi and Cao Kun also knew it very well in their hearts, because before the formation of the Japanese Army Headquarters, the two of them had gone to Zhongjing to accept the emperor's summons, and visited the barracks and daily training of the First Division.

If it weren't for that visit, Cao Kun and Cai Ye would not have suddenly changed their faces when they saw the words "First Division". There is no way, the First Division is so powerful, so powerful that just listening to the name of the First Division can make people tremble.

The current standard establishment of the Chinese Army is 18,000 men per division, but with the outbreak of war, the establishment of 18,000 men has obviously not been able to meet the demand, so each division has been expanded to 22,000 people, an increase of 4,000 people, but these 4,000 people are not combat troops, but all are logistics baggage troops.

Although it is equipped with a large number of military trucks, the number of logistics and baggage units in the current unit is still too small, and there are 18,000 men in one division and 3,000 troops in only one regiment.

Therefore, the current army configuration is 15,000 combat troops and 7,000 logistics troops, and each logistics unit has to ensure the logistics supply of two soldiers on average. If there were no trucks, the logistic soldiers would be exhausted, but with trucks, the logistical pressure would almost nonexistent.

The two regiments take turns to be resupplyed, and if they are close together, they can be resupplied once a day, and if they are far away, they can be resupplied at least twice a week.

However, the 1st Division completely broke the original rules and restrictions, so to speak, the current establishment of the Japanese division is 24,000 men, while the standard establishment of the 1st Division is 32,000.

It was 8,000 more than the Japanese divisions, but the combat strength of the first division was not much more, and its regimental level was still the same as before, with more than 3,100 people in each regiment, and every three regiments were a brigade, one of which had a baggage regiment, and later the baggage regiment was divided separately to form a baggage brigade, consisting of two baggage regiments, and the other brigade had only two regiments left.

That is, the establishment of each division is now composed of a brigade of three regiments as the main force, an auxiliary brigade of two regiments, and a baggage brigade of two regiments.

In terms of combat troops, the first division is composed of a five-regiment brigade, that is, there are five regiments of pure infantry strength, which is more than 15,000 people, and among the remaining 15,000 people, there is a mixed artillery regiment composed of 2,000 people, equipped with two battalions with a total of 64 155-mm heavy guns and two 85-mm infantry artillery battalions.

The remaining 13,000 people were all baggage troops, and the 13,000-odd baggage troops formed the baggage brigade.

That is to say, the composition of the 1st Division consisted of an infantry brigade, a baggage brigade and a mixed artillery regiment, and compared with the other units, the combat strength did not increase, but there was an additional mixed artillery regiment of 2,000 men, but the baggage troops were 5,000 more than the other units.

On the premise of owning trucks, the ratio of logistics combat has reached nearly one to one, what is this concept?

The expansion of the establishment is not just as simple as increasing the number of baggage troops and a mixed artillery regiment, and the expansion of each branch of the army has its own significance.

For example, with the expansion of the baggage brigade, although the number of people has increased, the pressure on it has not decreased, but it is even greater than the pressure of ordinary troops; if not all the troops are equipped with trucks, the infantry can also carry some ammunition by themselves, and if there is no need to go to the baggage troops at any time, the baggage brigade will not be busy at all.

So the question arises, why are the infantry of five regiments so depleted?

The answer is that the consumption is far greater than you think.

First of all, the single-shot rifle was eliminated from the infantry, and all the soldiers of the 1st Division were equipped with Type 03 automatic rifles, which alone was enough to make it difficult to support.

Then the real equipment configuration is that a squad of twelve people, the principal and deputy squad leaders are each equipped with a Mauser pistol, each with a Type 03 automatic rifle, each squad is equipped with a sniper, equipped with a Type 03 sniper rifle and a Mauser pistol, six of the remaining nine fighters are each equipped with a Type 03 automatic rifle, and the remaining three are equipped with a Type 08 general-purpose machine gun and two Mauser pistols.

The equipment situation of one squad came out, four Mauser pistols, eight Type 03 automatic rifles, one Type 03 sniper rifle, and one Type 08 general-purpose machine gun.

Such team firepower is so powerful that it makes you desperate, but this is not the end, just the beginning.