It's not just the Navy and Air Force that have changed a lot. The changes in the Army are even greater. For the first time, thirteen companies of the Naval Resistance Army reached full capacity. The total number of people is more than 3,300.

The 13 companies of the second echelon have also completed three months of recruit training and three months of basic weapons training. A three-month training in company and platoon tactics has begun. The total number is around 1,500.

The thirteen companies of the third echelon have also begun a three-month training in basic weapons. The total number reached fifteen hundred.

The fourth-echelon recruit company is the largest, with army training camps as well as navy and air force training camps, with a total number of about 2,500 personnel, including more than 350 naval professionals transported from China.

By August of the 40th year, the total number of troops in the Naval Resistance Army had reached six or seven thousand.

Li Guang was already very satisfied with the scale in front of him, and he must know that there were 2,000 student soldiers in Kunming, China, and nearly 10,000 recruits in Xu Zhan.

The army with 13 companies fully manned is already a huge improvement for the naval resistance force, which is seriously lacking in land combat strength.

The development of the troops has reached this point, and it is necessary to consider the actual combat establishment. Although the 13 companies of the Naval Resistance Army have complete arms, there is a lack of coordination between the arms, and if they encounter a battle, they will temporarily combine their troops, which is obviously a drawback.

If Li Guang wants to organize the unit of troops, it is not a division but a regiment. However, it is clearly not in the conditions at the moment. With so many troops, Li Guang could only form a battalion-level unit first.

Li Guang called this kind of establishment a modular battalion, and hoped that one day it would be expanded into a modular regiment.

The so-called modular battalion (regiment) actually refers to a combat team with a professional surname. This method of building the army of the modular regiment was one of the pioneering achievements of the German Army at the end of World War II, and its advantages are that the training of the troops is relatively simple, the target is stronger, and the combat capability is strong. However, for various reasons, the Germans were not able to extend this method of formation to the entire German army.

Li Guang had heard of this before, and thought of this method when the Marine Corps was beginning to take shape.

In August of the 40th year, the first batch of thirteen companies of the Maritime Resistance Army formed seven modular battalions.

The first battalion, the field battalion. The main combat objective is siege field warfare. Battalion commander Bao Gang.

The second battalion, the mountain battalion. The main combat objective is to attack and defend in the mountains. Battalion commander is temporarily vacant

The third battalion, the jungle battalion. Aim at jungle warfare, especially tropical jungle warfare. Battalion commander Su Qing.

Fourth battalion, amphibious battalion. The main objectives are landing operations and counter-landing operations. Chief of Staff Cheng Zhongying concurrently served as the battalion commander.

Fifth Battalion, Artillery Battalion.

6th Heavy Artillery Battalion.

7th Battalion, Armored Battalion. Battalion commander Qin Zhan.

The plan is ambitious, but it is still far from being realized. Among them, the jungle battalion was actually a Hainan guerrilla force led by Su Qing, and only one recruit company was supported on Shixiang Island.

The mountain battalion also has only one recruit company, and it is ready to transfer some veterans from Xu Zhan's troops to enrich it.

The amphibious battalion is five companies, but for the time being it is not fully organized.

The shelves were all erected, but only the first field battalion could really be called an army. Battalion commander Bao Gang.

The battalion adopted a five-company system, with three infantry companies plus a battalion headquarters company (also called a fire company, with three specialized platoons and a headquarters) and an engineer baggage company, each with more than 250 men, a total of 1,300 men.

The firepower of the 1st Field Battalion was very powerful, not only stronger than the Chinese army at home, but also no worse than the German army.

The company-level artillery of the three infantry companies is a replica 70mm infantry gun and a 37mm anti-aircraft gun, plus a mortar light and heavy machine gun.

The three specialized platoons in the fire company had a heavy machine gun platoon (four heavy machine guns), a platoon of imitation German 76mm infantry guns (four guns), and an armored platoon (three British Matilda I tanks and one French B1 heavy tank).

The Naval Resistance Army picked up quite a few tanks from the European battlefield, a total of 100 tanks. However, the Matilda turret was too small, and its firepower was only two water-cooled heavy machine guns. Li Guang didn't make any major changes to it, but only cut the turret and slightly increased the space for manipulation. The French-made BI heavy tank has great firepower, but the problem is that the personnel of the double turret are extremely complicated. The funny thing is that the tanks of the French, with the driver and part-time heavy machine gunner, are simply too idealistic and do not consider ergonomics at all. Li Guang also made a little improvement in this, removing the 37-mm secondary gun and leaving only the 75mm main gun. It turned out that a heavy machine gun was installed in the place of the secondary gun. Not only does it make the space inside the tank less cramped, but it also allows the driver to concentrate on driving the vehicle. In the subsequent battles, Li Guang's vision was confirmed, and the combat effectiveness of this French-made tank was well played.

After the end of World War II, many military experts commented that Germany's greatest achievement in the use of armored weapons was the centralized use of armored clusters as assault clusters. However, the use of tanks by Ben and France and Britain was dispersed among the various units, making the tank only an infantry fire support weapon. Li Guang does not think that it is completely wrong to use tanks as infantry support weapons, and there are no absolutes in the world.

In addition, the speed of these two tanks is really slow enough, only twenty kilometers at a speed, except for the infantry support firepower, Li Guang really can't see that they can take on the ability to assault the group. What's more, Li Guang has a self-made Tiger One tank as the main battle tank in the future, and the Tiger One tank will definitely be used as an armored cluster.

The Maritime Resistance Army's gains in Dunkirk are large enough, and Li Guang calculates that even if this kind of ultra-high standard modular field battalion is equipped with several battalions, there are enough tanks and there are spare.

However, such a modular battalion has great firepower, but it only uses the strength of a company for logistics, and the plan requires 100 cars of various kinds and 800 bicycles for infantry. The firepower is strong enough, and the consumption is certainly terrifying enough.

Li Guang estimated that the training and combat consumption of such a battalion exceeded that of a regiment of the regular army of the Chinese army in China. In terms of the value of its equipment, it has exceeded 500,000 US dollars, which is more than the total amount of equipment of a miscellaneous division of the Chinese army.

Li Guang spent his blood in order to build a real siege field army.

As for the two artillery battalions and the heavy artillery battalion, they are still in the realm of sufficient weapons and serious shortage of personnel. But after all, the stove has been erected, and it is only a matter of time before the army becomes an army.

The armored battalion was the most lively, and after providing several vehicle crews to the first field battalion, the armored battalion began to train in full swing. One of the most important subjects is armor cluster confrontation.

A total of more than 60 small Polish tanks became the training vehicles of the armored battalion, and the artillery roared on the training ground every day. The intelligence of the fighters was limitless, and in order to raise the real surname of the exercises, the fighters specially made wooden shells and reduced the charge of the cartridge case. Such a shell hitting the armor of a small Polish tank would not cause any damage. I don't know if this is the first of its kind, but the simple tricks have made the tactical level of the armored battalion of the Naval Resistance Army rapidly improved.

Obviously, the young staff officers in the staff of the Naval Resistance Army were most interested in the armored battalion, and they came up with suggestions and ideas to design combat formations for the armored troops. As far as the Naval Resistance Army is concerned, talking about troops on paper is also training, and the formation and tactics of winning in confrontation are good tactics, and everything is based on winning in confrontation.

As a tactic, the process of moving from planning to training to battlefield testing is extremely complex. Not only does it cost a lot of supplies, but it also has to be bloody and sweaty. Now these young people are sweating, and one day they will be on the battlefield.

The army needs the least amount of money compared to the navy and the air force, first of all, there is no money to buy weapons and equipment, and there is an extremely abundant ammunition. Even so, the consumption of means of transportation and fuel required to ensure the tactics is not a small number, and the more than 10,000 troops still in the country will consume a total of nearly one million dollars by the end of 40 years.

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