Hundreds of thousands of people under the Ministry of Munitions, even if a person has a salary of one full month, plus food and drink, etc., then there will be no millions of expenses per month, and this money can allow the Feng army to raise several more divisions.

Therefore, except for the captains of sea and river transportation, sailors, grooms and other technical personnel with high technical requirements, other ordinary coolies and men cannot get a dime.

Of course, the Feng army's conscription of them will not last long, and they can usually leave as long as they work for a month or two, anyway, there are many people in the Soviet system's administrative areas, especially Henan, Anhui, Shandong and other provinces that are close to the front line, and the population is very large, which is enough for the Feng army to keep taking turns to recruit hundreds of thousands of people to support the front-line troops.

This kind of thing also seems to be very fucked up to future generations, and it is not reasonable for a normal modern country, but it is a very normal phenomenon in contemporary China.

If Zhao Dongyun has to hold the universal values of later generations or the thinking of a good person, and does not recruit people or pay people to hire people, then he is definitely funny.

After the Quartermaster Department began to split a large number of active transport regiments and then replenish them to the field troops, on the one hand, the field troops obtained a large number of baggage personnel, and on the other hand, it can be regarded as simplifying the personnel that the Quartermaster Department needs to manage.

Don't look at the Quartermaster Department is just an organization responsible for logistics, but in fact, the Quartermaster Department has a very large number of personnel, before the Quartermaster Department had more than 10 transport regiments, under the management and command of the Quartermaster Department of active duty as many as more than 30,000 people, non-active civilian personnel reached more than 300,000.

Now that these transport regiments are handed over to the field troops, the Quartermaster Department is left with only civilian men of various names, and the management is much simpler.

After a large number of transport regiments of the Quartermaster Department were replenished to the field troops, the 3rd, 9th, and 10th Divisions were first expanded into 1908-type units, and then the 1st Division, the 14th Division, the 4th Mixed Brigade, and the 1st Mixed Brigade were also successively expanded into 1908-type units.

The other 8th, 11th, 13th, 16th, and 15th divisions have no expansion plans for the time being, because these troops are not in the front line, and the transportation regiment of the quartermaster department is also replenished. Therefore, when the Jiangnan strategy is tense now, Zhao Dongyun just plans to continue to expand the 15th Division, because this unit is formed as the main division, and it will soon go to the south to fight, so the expansion is needed. As for the other troops, they will hold off for a while, and then talk about it when military spending is relaxed.

In this way, there are two kinds of establishments in the Fengjun troops, one is the old establishment of the 1907 type, and the other is the new establishment of the 1908 type, and the difference between the two types of establishment is not in the technical weapons and combat personnel, but in the gap in logistics personnel.

And this gap in staffing is somewhat similar to that of peacetime and wartime staffing in other countries.

In Japan, Germany, and other countries, the actual strength of their troops in peacetime is not as large as that in wartime, and taking the Japanese Army, which is relatively similar to the Beiyang Army, as an example, one of their standing divisions actually has only more than 10,000 people in peacetime, which is not much more than the number of the Beiyang Standing Army.

However, during the war, one of their divisions was able to expand to more than 20,000 people, and the more than 20,000 people in one division and regiment known to later generations were actually the establishment after fully replenishing the troops, especially the logistics personnel, during the war.

The total strength of several main divisions of the Feng army has increased a lot, but in fact, the total strength of the Feng army on the Jinling front line has not changed at all, and the only difference is that many logistics personnel who originally belonged to the quartermaster department have been directly assigned to those field troops. The total strength of the Feng army did not increase much.

However, although the total strength of the troops has not increased, the logistical structure has been simplified, and the logistical personnel set up within the division-level units have been greatly increased, which has effectively improved the combat effectiveness of the front-line troops of the Fengjun Army to a certain extent, especially for the main forces such as the Third Division and the Ninth Division.

In the past, they were limited by the shortage of their own logistics personnel, and when they were fighting, they often talked to the military department or the quartermaster department and communicated with them, so that they could provide front-line logistics support, but now, their own logistics force is enough to complete their front-line supply tasks.

In particular, the distance between the material supply point and the front line within five kilometers used to be completed by the transport regiments of the military headquarters and the quartermaster department, but now the division-level troops' own baggage troops are enough to complete the transportation task of this distance, which invisibly improves the supply efficiency of the troops, and the supply efficiency is improved, and the ammunition of the front-line troops is sufficient, which is even more convenient to fight.

This improvement was even more evident when the Feng army launched a general attack on the city of Jinling, where a large amount of ammunition had been hoarded in the rear, but it was not uncommon for the artillery positions on the front line to have no shells after two shells.

With the support of artillery, tens of thousands of Fengjun infantry bent down to the sound of the officers' bronze whistles and the drumming of the military band, and quickly trotted towards the Anhui army in front.

On 3 April, the 3rd and 14th Divisions of the Feng Army launched their first all-out assault directly south of Jinling, and on a front of only six kilometers, more than 20,000 Feng soldiers charged under the sound of artillery fire.

The shells of the Anhui army fell in the charging Feng army, and the shamprapnel and shock wave after the explosion overturned one Feng soldier after another, and in the heavy machine gun click of the Anhui army on the opposite side, countless Feng soldiers fell in pieces.

Despite the continuous heavy casualties suffered by the Feng army from the beginning, the commander of the Fourth Army, as the supreme commander of the Battle of Jinling, did not give any order to retreat, and as usual, he climbed the hill with a large number of officers, and then watched his soldiers fall in pieces with binoculars.

In the face of hundreds or even thousands of casualties, Meng Enyuan did not show any pity, on the contrary, he smiled when he saw a regiment of the 14th Division rushing into the position of the Anhui army and directly seizing the position with bayonets.

"Good! The 14th Division's bravery in this battle is not inferior to that of the 3rd Division's old troops! Meng Enyuan put down the binoculars excitedly, then turned to the officers beside him and said, "After this battle, I will personally ask the president for the officers who fought bloodily up and down the 14th Division!" ”

"Although Ming Shuai is a rising star of our army, his combat bravery is not much worse than Yu Shuai!" Major General Gu Qizhi, chief of staff of the Fourth Army on the side, also praised him one after another.

Gu Qizhi is also an old man in the Feng army, in 1901, he was Zhao Dongyun under the command of the second battalion of the Wuwei Right Army and the team officer, and Zhao Dongyun participated in the pacification of the Guangzong Rebellion, and later Zhao Dongyun left the third association of the commander of the Wuwei Right Army, although he did not follow, but when Zhao Dongyun went to the northeast to train the third town, he went to the northeast again to defect to Zhao Dongyun, and later served as the battalion officer, the standard, last year was promoted to the rank of general, after serving in the headquarters for half a year, this year he was transferred to the chief of staff of the Fourth Army.

Because he missed the years that he followed Zhao Dongyun, his status in the Fengjun was much lower than that of Lin Yongquan and others, who were also team officers back then.

And the Ming Shuai in Gu Qizhi's mouth is naturally Yang Deming, and what Yu Shuai said is not Gu Lanyu in later generations, according to some secret names in the contemporary Feng army, subordinates generally refer to senior generals at the level of division commander as a certain handsome, and they are generally named one of the words, while some people take one of the words, which is different.

With Yang Deming taking office as the commander of the 14th Division, those subordinates naturally called him 'Ming Shuai' according to this habit, but this Ming Shuai is generally only called by people with a military rank and status lower than him, and the division commander with a fairly similar status, mixed brigade commander and the like generally call him 'Yang Division Commander' or General Yang, and he will also be called his character on informal occasions, and those who have a better relationship may be called 'Brother Yang' or something like that.

As for the status higher than him, for example, Meng Enyuan sometimes calls him Master Yang, and sometimes directly calls him 'Deming'.

And the name 'Deming', in the entire Soviet system, except for Zhao Dongyun, the commander, there are only a few generals' who can call it that, and everyone else is not qualified for this.

In this era, people are more particular about what they call them, and it is easy for later generations to get confused.

Since Yang Deming led the 14th Division to participate in the Jinling Campaign, he has not insulted the title of 'Ming Shuai', although the 14th Division has suffered relatively large losses in previous battles, but the results are quite large, and the results are comparable to those of the Third Division.

The excellent performance of the 14th Division makes people see the next Gu Lanyu slowly surface, and at the same time, it also makes people have more expectations for the 14th Division, hoping that this division can become the next third division.

However, Yang Deming's fame in the Feng army, the growth of the 14th Division was extremely costly, since crossing the river to participate in the battle, the 14th Division has accumulated more than 3,000 casualties, of which nearly 2,000 were killed.

Most of the casualties of the Feng army in the Battle of Jinling were actually casualties of the 14th Division.

The huge casualties forced the Ministry of Education to replenish the 14th Division almost every few days to keep the 14th Division at full capacity, but the more people who were replenished meant that there were more casualties, and the huge casualties of the recruits serving in the 14th Division even reached the recruit camps of the Feng Army.

Many recruits who had just completed their recruit training were full of worries when they heard that they were going to be added to the 14th Division, and there were even several incidents of desertion.

The casualties among the soldiers were large, but the casualties among the officers of the 14th Division were not large, and most of the officers of the 14th Division, except for the outstanding graduates who had been supplemented by the military academy, were officers who had served for many years and had rich combat experience, and it was the experienced officers who supported the 14th Division.

Even though the soldiers of the 14th Division suffered huge casualties and were replenished by new recruits one after another, the 14th Division became stronger and stronger, and the outstanding officer group played a very huge role.

This is the case with the current 14th Division, although the 14th Division participated in the attack suffered heavy casualties, but under the leadership of those officers with rich combat experience, the 14th Division successfully broke through the defensive position of the Anhui army and was advanced to the Jinling city for the first time by the Feng army's battle line.

When the news of the 14th Division's invasion of Jinling City reached Jurentang, Zhao Dongyun did not feel too surprised, but said with a smile: "He fought okay!" ”

Zhao Dongyun's expectations for Yang Deming are quite high, Yang Deming, as one of the few people in the Feng army who has received a complete higher military education, and is also a high-achieving student who graduated from the Berlin military cadet, Zhao Dongyun hopes that he can grow up quickly and finally become the commander of the first army.

If he, a high-achieving student of the Berlin military cadet, could not win a big victory in the generally low military environment at home, then Zhao Dongyun would have to doubt the level of German military education.