Qin Linjun faced Zhao Dongyun's questioning, and immediately said: "Our army's existing basic infantry tactics still continue the era of the standing army, and the basic structure of divisions, brigades, regiments, battalions, and companies has not changed!" The addition of new weapons and equipment, such as light machine guns, heavy machine guns, and mortars, to this basis will require an additional increase in troops and strength. At the same time, the logistical capability of our army's artillery units is extremely poor, and the strength of the artillery regiment itself has always been rather tight; two years ago a regiment had only 1,500 men, and even though the artillery establishment was increased last year, it is now only 1,800 people. In contrast, the artillery regiments of the divisional artillery regiments of the Japanese army are the same as ours in terms of type and number, but the strength of one of their artillery regiments is more than 2,000 men. ”

The understaffing of non-infantry combat units such as artillery, baggage, and engineering has always been an old defect of the Beiyang system army, which is related to the fact that contemporary domestic generals do not pay attention to these.

As a matter of fact, in a mule-horse army, where there are no automobiles and other traction vehicles, an artillery regiment with 48 75-millimeter tube cannons needs at least 2,500 people, so that the artillery regiment can be able to maneuver and fight normally at the most basic level. In order to give full play to the combat effectiveness of such an artillery regiment, and at the same time, in a mountainous and hilly area like China, it is better for an artillery regiment with a total of 48 guns in a three-battalion system with more than 2,800 men.

At present, the artillery units of the Fengjun army are too small in strength, and they need the vigorous assistance of the division's baggage regiments in the process of maneuvering and even in the course of operations, otherwise they will not be able to fight at all.

However, the divisional baggage regiment also has other tasks, they not only serve the artillery unit, but also provide logistics supply services for four infantry regiments, a cavalry regiment and other troops, which makes the artillery regiment occupy a large number of baggage troops, and the logistics supply capacity of other units becomes worse.

The so-called new establishment proposed by Qin Linjun to Zhao Dongyun has not changed in terms of weapons and equipment, the most basic infantry tactics, and the structure of the overall division, brigade, regiment, battalion, battalion, company, and platoon, and there are still so many light machine guns and artillery, so what has changed? That's the logistical baggage personnel.

In this new establishment of the Qin Lin Army, it was required to add an ammunition platoon to each infantry battalion and increase the number of artillery regiments to the artillery regiment, so that the number of artillery regiments increased to 2,000 people.

In addition, there is another thing that surprises Zhao Dongyun is that this new establishment has increased a large number of medical and nursing troops to the troops.

Although there are some medical troops in the Feng Army, they are quite poor on the whole, and only a medical platoon is set up at the regimental level, but now the new establishment of the Qin Lin Army requires that an infantry platoon be set up with a medical officer, and at the infantry company, a military medical officer and three medical soldiers, at the battalion level, three military medical officers and six medical soldiers, and the regiment should set up a medical platoon, and five military medical officers and 15 medical soldiers should be dispatched.

Finally, a medical company was set up at the division headquarters, and a division-level field hospital was formed from this medical company in wartime.

In Zhao Dongyun's view, these ideas seem too advanced, and he personally knows that the level of treatment and medical care in the army is very scummy, but that is also forced by reality. If a division needs dozens of military medical officers, then the entire Feng army must not need hundreds of people, don't look at the number of only a few hundred, but if you want to find so many qualified doctors who can perform surgery and deal with war wounds in the contemporary Soviet system, let alone the Soviet system, even if it is placed in the whole of China, you will not be able to find so many qualified military medical officers, what is the use of these establishments that you have set up that no one can draw?

Naturally, Qin Linjun also has a response plan: "We can't get skilled military doctors in a short period of time, but if we are recruited and urgently trained, our army is expected to obtain a batch of preliminarily qualified military doctors within a year." ”

Qin Linjun naturally didn't say what the standard of these preliminarily qualified military doctors was, they were generally able to suture the wound and amputate the limbs, and he didn't expect these military doctors to be able to directly do major surgery on the front line, because that would be meaningless, in the era when there were no antibiotics, and even modern surgery anesthetics were not available, there was no difference between performing these large-scale surgeries and being directly sentenced to death.

Before World War I and even during World War I, after the soldiers were injured, they could basically only hope that God would not give them face, if they were lucky, they would not be infected, and if they were unlucky, they would be infected and wait to shake hands with death! Truth be told, the military's battlefield ambulance plays a rather limited role in this.

Zhao Dongyun was a little hesitant after seeing the so-called new establishment of Qin Linjun in detail, this establishment table has greatly increased the number of troops at all levels of the Feng Army, and a division has increased from 16,000 to 18,000, and the extra 2,000 people can eat and drink, and they all have to be paid.

Moreover, although Qin Linjun said that increasing the number of troops would greatly improve the combat effectiveness of the existing troops, to be honest, Zhao Dongyun still had doubts.

Expanding the army is necessary, but Zhao Dongyun himself is more inclined to set up new troops, rather than saying that like Duan Qirui, he desperately expands the main divisions under his hands.

After all, this is to unify China, he Zhao Dongyun can't just use the third division, the ninth division, and the tenth division, the three troops, China is so big, Zhao Dongyun needs not a few troops with strong combat effectiveness, he needs a dozen or even twenty or thirty ordinary troops with acceptable combat effectiveness.

Those trump cards were used as fists, acting as a breakthrough force when necessary, but the whole war was carried out by relying on a larger number of ordinary troops.

However, this plan of the Qin Lin Army was based on a very simple increase in the combat effectiveness of the existing troops, especially the existing several main divisions, and did not take into account the actual pressure of the Feng army's military spending and the Feng army's urgent need for a larger number of troops.

Qin Linjun's idea is not wrong, after all, the current operation of the Feng army is extremely dependent on the three main divisions, and it is unceremoniously said that the three divisions of the third division, the ninth division, and the tenth division hold up the sky of the Feng army, although other troops also say that they have also contributed, but it is difficult to independently support the overall situation of the Feng army.

On the one hand, there is a need for more troops, and on the other hand, it is also necessary to improve the combat effectiveness of several main divisions, and Zhao Dongyun is also a little hesitant about this.

Qin Linjun also saw Zhao Dongyun's hesitation, and immediately said: "Since it costs a lot to integrate all the troops into a new establishment, we can also make an appropriate trade-off in this regard, only replenish the personnel of a few main divisions, and keep the other troops in their current state to reduce costs!" ”

Obviously, Qin Linjun is not a person who can only make up some kind of fake and empty space, and he should not only start from the angle of improving the combat effectiveness of the troops, but also take into account the financial problems of the Soviet system.

Although it is said that after receiving the aftermath loans from various countries, the financial situation of the Soviet Department has greatly improved in a short period of time, and not only has it taken this opportunity to reorganize the 15th Division, but it has also replenished many units to full strength, and even paid back the salaries of civil servants who had been in arrears for a long time.

However, this is not to say that the Soviet Union has enough money to make every army into the main force.

Moreover, for an army, military spending is in short supply at any time, even if it is hundreds of millions of military expenses for the Feng army, but it is still not enough for the Feng army.

Therefore, at all times, it is necessary to take into account the problem of shortage of funds and build an army with the largest combat effectiveness under the condition of limited funds.

Now Qin Linjun proposed one of the solutions to Zhao Dongyun.

Because Qin Linjun himself knew that it was impossible to build all the Fengjun troops into the ideal troops in his heart, so that the pressure of military spending would force the Soviet finances to go bankrupt again. Therefore, before he proposed this plan to Zhao Dongyun, he had already prepared this plan in advance, that is, the other Fengjun troops should not be left alone, and the few main divisions of the Fengjun army should be reorganized into an ideal establishment first, and then the other troops would be gradually raised to the ideal establishment according to the situation.

In time, Qin Linjun believed that all the troops of the Feng army could be reorganized into the ideal organization in their hearts.

For the plan proposed by Qin Linjun, Zhao Dongyun did not make any decision at the first time, this kind of important matter related to the development of the entire Fengjun, he also needs to refer to the opinions of more people, although many times Zhao Dongyun is quite arbitrary, but he is still very good at listening to other people's opinions in some things.

The next day, in the military intelligence conference room of Jurentang, a small meeting related to the future of the Fengjun army was launched, and there were not many people attending the meeting, only a few high-ranking generals of the Fengjun army who were in the Beijing division, including Fang Biyong of the General Staff Department of the General Headquarters, Zhao Dongping, chief of the Ordnance Department, and Hong Putao, chief of the Quartermaster Department, three generals representing the general headquarters, in addition to Cao Kun, commander of the 15th Division representing the field troops.

At present, the 15th Division has not yet moved south, and its commander Cao Kun, as the highest-ranking field general in Beijing, has often represented the army's field generals in meetings of the headquarters for some time in the past.

Since the new ideal type proposed by Qin Linjun has not been officially made public, only a few people participated in today's meeting.

When everyone present looked at the thick stack of texts, Zhao Dongping, the chief financial steward of the Feng army, spoke first: "According to this plan, the current monthly cost of each division needs to increase by at least 50,000 yuan, and if the three divisions are expanded together, even if the wartime expenditure is not calculated during the calculation period, it needs to increase by more than 2 million per year!" ”

"And he didn't see an increase in the number of combatants from this schedule, the additional 2,000 people were all logistics personnel, so that the combat effectiveness of the troops really increased?"

Zhao Dongping's thinking is still relatively traditional, in his opinion, this expansion of the army is needed, but the increase in the number of personnel in the expansion of the army is all logistics personnel, not a single front-line combat soldier has increased, and millions more are spent every year for this, no matter how you look at it, it does not seem like a reliable thing.

However, unlike Zhao Dongping, who only focused on funding, Cao Kun on the side, as a general of the field army, had a great impression of this plan.

"In the many battles of our army in the front, there was often a shortage of supplies, and thanks to the strong support of the Quartermaster Department, from the rear to the front line, the transportation and supply of our army was relatively smooth. However, when a lot of ammunition reaches the front line, especially at the division level, it is often difficult to transport it to subordinate units. The Ninth Division's own logistical strength was so insufficient that it was difficult to transport the ammunition supplies from the beachhead to the front-line units when crossing the river. ”

"Therefore, it is necessary to increase the number of logistics personnel in the divisional troops!"

Cao Kun said this, and Zhao Dongyun on the side turned his gaze to Fang Biyong after hearing it.