The reorganization meeting of the New First Army was held in a relatively low-key manner, much more low-key than the previous defense meeting in northern Henan, and even no news was released to the outside world at all. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Although some reporters were very well-informed, and chased and intercepted spokesman Liang Dongwei at a routine press conference, they were all dealt with by him in a way that made a thousand pounds of money.

The replenishment and refurbishment of the four main brigades of the New First Army then began.

The new 36th Brigade is stationed in Jiaozuo, the new 37th Brigade is stationed in Xinxiang, and the 201st Division, which is formed with these two brigades as the main force, is stationed in Jiaozuo, and the division headquarters is stationed in Jiaozuo.

The new 39th Brigade is stationed in Puyang, the new 40th Brigade is stationed in Anyang, the 202nd Division formed with these two divisions as the main force, the division headquarters is stationed in Anyang, Wu Xinhua serves as the deputy division commander and acting division commander, the new Major General Yu Wancheng (Navy) serves as the chief of staff, and Liang Dong is transferred to the senior staff officer of the office of the North Henan Administration and concurrently serves as the mayor of Xinxiang City.

The only cavalry brigade (two-regiment system) was stationed in Tangyin, and Hu Bagui, the former commander of the cavalry regiment, served as the commander of the cavalry brigade.

According to the current establishment of the National Army, in fact, the four main brigades are already considered to be the size of divisions, and if Leng Feng loosens his mouth a little, these four brigades will be four integrated divisions.

It is equivalent to four integrated divisions, plus an assault brigade with strong combat effectiveness, and an elite cavalry brigade, and the combat strength is close to 50,000.

If we include the supplementary brigades and auxiliary personnel, the size of the new 1st Army is definitely more than one corps, ranking first among the main corps of the National Army.

100,000 with armor!

Good guy, when Du Guangting heard this, he couldn't help but touch his forehead to see if there was a layer of sweat.

The overall strength of the new First Army is so strong, it definitely surpasses the original teaching corps, which is more than that.

Leng Feng is definitely an ambitious person, as long as such a person does not make mistakes, he will at least become a giant in the future, and maybe even further.

Is the old man now worried that Leng Fengwei is too big to control and difficult to control?

Leng Feng did not blindly expand the army, because blind expansion will not only reduce combat effectiveness, but also bring a serious burden to logistics.

According to Leng Feng's design, the four main brigades will undertake the training tasks of the four garrison brigades, and at the same time train the four garrison brigades at the same time.

The supplementary brigade was recruited separately, and this brigade was all recruits, not veterans, and this was a unit that Leng Feng intended to build as a seed.

Leng Feng will supplement the training of the Yaksha Special Operations Brigade (the Yaksha Battalion has officially become a special force of the new First Army with an experimental nature).

The units directly under the New First Army also have an air defense battalion, a transport vehicle regiment, a boat bridge brigade, a water transport brigade, an anti-chemical warfare battalion, and an engineer regiment directly under it.

After careful calculation, if the new First Army were to be fully staffed, the entire establishment would exceed 50,000 people.

50,000 troops, and a small group army does not have such a large number of troops, not to mention the local garrison brigade and supplementary brigade in northern Henan that will be reorganized and under the command of the new First Army, as well as auxiliary personnel, it will exceed 100,000 people.

100,000 people, what other local army in China now has more than 100,000 troops?

Although the land of northern Henan is rich, it is obviously not enough to feed an elite army of 100,000 people, Leng Feng wants to work hard to streamline the troops, but he finds that he can't reduce it.

In the end, there was no way, he drew a hard target, 100,000 people is the limit of what can be withheld.

Raising soldiers is very expensive, and Leng Feng's requirements are high, which is also to ensure the training of soldiers and maximize their combat effectiveness.

Therefore, the new First Army spends more than twice as much on each soldier as far as the standard of food is concerned, not to mention other aspects.

According to a rough calculation by the logistics department, if each soldier were to be given two sets of summer clothes and two pairs of canvas sneakers, it would cost nearly 200,000 oceans.

This money still has to be paid, and it cannot be saved.

Clothing, food, drink, as well as soldiers' salaries, ammunition loss for training, and so on.

Although Lao Chiang will allocate a part, this part can only keep the troops basically from starving to death, and if you want to reach the level of Leng Feng, the investment must be increased at least three times.

Where does the money come from, where does the food come from, where does the weapons come from, where does the ammunition come from......

Sitting in the land of grain production in northern Henan, the food problem is easy to solve, as long as you have money, you don't have to worry about not being able to buy food, weapons, pick up your own family foundation, and you can find some more to make up, at least you can have a handful of ammunition, and a lot of ammunition has been seized from the little devils.

It's barely enough, if you don't fight a general battle like Taierzhuang.

There is still a batch of ammunition ordered from Yan Lao Xi'er that has not been delivered, but this has to be paid, and if you don't have money, you can use other things to pay for it.

The question is just one word: money!

Where does the money come from, even if Leng Feng occupies Xinxiang, steals the devil's bank and kills a lot of traitors, and confiscates a lot of family property.

But this can only last for a while.

This cost money like flowing water, which only accounted for half a month in northern Henan, and millions of oceans and fiat currency were spent to build military camps, distribute military salaries, make military uniforms, buy military rations, and so on.

Shen Zhiming, the Minister of Logistics, had already complained to Leng Feng, and if he continued like this, it wouldn't be long before he, the Minister of Logistics, would become the leader of the beggar gang.

It's not that there is no money, but it's not in hand, part of it is used to settle the refugees who fled from Nanjing, this is the big head, Leng Feng brought out the property from Nanjing, which was all looted by the Japanese army to loot the people of Nanjing, and this money should be used on the people, and this money cannot be moved.

There is also the start-up capital of the Invalids Company, which is related to everyone's future, and cannot be touched lightly, and this money has been transferred to the accounts of the Invalids Company.

The rest of the money, Leng Feng is reserved for emergency use, after all, the new First Army is still a national army, since it is a national army, then the national government has to take care of it.

The old Jiang agreed to the military salary, but it always had to be delayed when it was issued, and the government had no money, otherwise the dignified finance minister would not need to go everywhere to resolve the fate.

Soviet Russia has provided a batch of weapons and ammunition, and there are a lot of things, and Leng Feng is not interested in light weapons at all except for the light weapons aided by Soviet Russia, and he is really not interested in heavy weapons at all.

If Soviet Russia gave him some planes, it would be okay, but I am afraid that Jiang will not be willing.

If you don't have enough money to spend, you have to think about it, but you can't wait until your pockets are empty to think about it, it's too late by then.

We can't increase the burden on the people, we have to abolish the exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes, and we have to increase public investment, where will the money come from?

Only when industry and commerce develop can tax revenue be better and money can be revitalized only when it flows.

Run an industry, run a factory, build a road!

According to the prior agreement, the heavy weapons such as chariots and heavy artillery left behind by the Japanese army belonged to the new army.

Although it is a foreign pick-up, there are still a lot of good things.

On this basis, Leng Feng decided to form another fist unit of the new First Army: the Field Heavy Artillery Brigade.

Field Heavy Artillery Brigade, codename: Flamingo.

The field heavy artillery brigade has four regiments, and the commander of one regiment: Yan Shunkai, mainly equipped with 150 mm caliber heavy howitzers, 150 caliber howitzers of the Taisho 4 type with the same model, 24 guns, and captured logistics and a large number of spare parts to disassemble, spare and replace.

Commander of the Second Regiment: Qin Huaiyi, mainly equipped with 96-type 150 mm howitzers, is the latest howitzer of the Japanese army, the firing range is farther than the Taisho 4-year type, and the accuracy is also high, but there are only 12 guns, and the captured Japanese army's two field heavy artillery brigades have made up this number, plus 12 Taisho 4-year howitzers, and 24 guns.

The commander of the third regiment: Zhang Yingqi, the commander of the fourth regiment: Peng Yuexiang, the twelve guns of the third regiment are 38-type 120-mm field howitzers, and the twelve 105-mm field cannons of the 4th regiment are Type 92. (The original 17th Independent Artillery Regiment was integrated into the field heavy artillery brigade of the New First Army as a whole)

The 3rd and 4th regiments are ready to be equipped with Russian-made artillery again, and the equipment is already on the way.

After thinking about it, Leng Feng, commander of the field heavy artillery brigade, decided to adjust it and transferred the old regiment commander from the new 37 Brigade to serve as the brigade commander of the field heavy artillery brigade.

The brigade commander of the new 37th Brigade is Cheng Yiding, deputy commander of the 201st Division, who has just arrived.

At the same time, the field heavy artillery brigade was also pulled back to northern Henan for rest and recuperation.

In addition, after receiving the personnel and weapons of the 8th Army, plus the support of the New First Army, Luo Yufeng also formed a tank squad within the 8th Army, as well as field artillery, mountain artillery and howitzer battalions.

After halving the establishment and equipment, report to the top, good guys, Lao Jiang and the bigwigs of the Military Commission have green eyes, how can there be so many artillery?

Where did they get it, they all said that the national army had won the battle, but why did other troops get some rifles, machine guns, and so on, and the most amazing thing was a few mortars, mountain artillery, and so on.

The new 1st Army and the 8th Army reported heavy howitzers, tanks and armored vehicles?

The total number of troops in the New First Army is only 30,000 or 40,000, and even if you count the logistical support personnel, it is only about 60,000, accounting for about one-thirtieth of the country's total strength at present, but the number of artillery pieces, especially heavy artillery, is almost half of that of the whole country! (There are real figures, before and after the Anti-Japanese War, the Nationalist Army purchased a total of 44 150 heavy howitzers from Germany from Germany, a total of 44 Rhine 150 heavy howitzers, eight were damaged in the Battle of Songhu, and now there are 36 left, organized into two regiments, one artillery 10 regiments, one artillery 14 regiments, the artillery 14 regiments have not yet formed combat effectiveness, and are still training in the rear, the main participants in the war are the artillery 10 regiments, and the artillery 10 regiments are affiliated with the Tang Corps to participate in the battle of Xuzhou)

In addition to the field heavy artillery brigades, each division also directly organized artillery regiments, which were mainly equipped with field artillery and mountain artillery.

Of course, most are now just a shelf, and the personnel and equipment are not yet in place.

If Leng Feng's reorganization plan continues, the work of streamlining the number of troops is really not easy to do, and if he does this, the establishment of the two divisions of the New First Army will go straight to 20,000.

If it is according to the reorganization plan, it will almost be comparable to the two main field divisions of the Japanese army.

Constrained by the fact that manpower, financial resources, and weapons and equipment are not in place at all, some of the envisaged units can only be downsized, and those who plan to form a regiment can now only be one battalion, and each battalion should be organized into a company first.

In addition, it is necessary to optimize the establishment of the original troops under the principle of not reducing the combat strength of the troops without increasing the number of troops.

Leng Feng summoned the staff officers to make a detailed reorganization guidance plan, stipulating the number of squads, platoons, companies, weapons, firepower, and so on.

Subsequently, it was distributed to the whole army, and a large-scale and small-scale adjustment of personnel began.

After this reorganization, the structure of the new First Army has basically taken shape, and in the future, it will be added and adjusted in a small area, and there has not been much change on the whole.