At the beginning of September, it was already early autumn weather, and the heat in North China gradually receded, and the cool breeze was blowing, and the autumn air was crisp.

With the recovery of North China, there is no war in the entire land of North China.

The expansion of the 36 th Group Army is in full swing, and the 36 th Group Army has under its jurisdiction 10 columns, a flying brigade, an independent division, a guard division, and an antiaircraft artillery brigade directly under its command, and each column will be expanded from the previous 35,000 to 50,000 people, and the total strength of the 36 th Group Army will exceed 600,000, which will be the largest and largest of all group armies in China.

Even the Eighteenth Group Army is not as large as the Thirty-sixth Group Army, which has been expanding, with more than 300,000 regular troops, in addition to some guerrillas, county brigades, and district squads, totaling about 100,000 people. The total number of the Eighteenth Army, including guerrillas, county brigades, and district squads, was about 500,000.

In addition to the more than 600,000 regular troops, the 36 th Group Army also has 10 local garrison brigades, totaling more than 100,000 people, and these 10 local garrison brigades have played an important role in maintaining local public order and maintaining social stability.

In Shaanxi, Gansu, Qinghai, and even Xinjiang and Inner Mongolia, these 10 local garrison brigades have played a very important role in the vast base areas of the 36 th Group Army; in these areas, with these local garrison brigades, public order is very good and stable; coupled with the various policies formulated by the 36 th Group Army to encourage development, society has developed rapidly, and the lives of the common people have undergone noticeable changes in a short period of time.

This time, in addition to the expansion of ten columns. Zhang Yunfei plans to set up 10 more local garrison brigades in North China.

North China was recovered, and the 36th Army controlled a large number of places, some important areas. Most of the big cities were controlled by the 36th Army, which was under the jurisdiction of the 36th Army. The population reached tens of millions.

If regular troops are stationed in these areas, a large part of the troops will be contained, and there are no more small devils and puppet armies in these areas, so there is no need to use regular troops at all.

Zhang Yunfei plans to set up 10 more local garrison brigades, and the weapons will be the weapons of the captured Japanese puppet army, each garrison brigade will have more than 10,000 people, according to the size of the area under its jurisdiction. Each garrison brigade has five or six, or seven or eight regiments.

The formation of 10 new local garrison brigades is just a trivial matter.

Zhang Yunfei's key work was the expansion of the 10 columns of the 36 th Group Army.

The expansion plan has already been submitted to the Central Military Commission for approval, and the central authorities are encouraging the expansion of the following units, and Zhang Yunfei's expansion plan will be submitted to the central authorities as soon as possible. The central government immediately approved it.

At present, the expansion work of the 10 th Column is proceeding in an orderly manner, and everyone has been relatively busy these days. A large-scale expansion of the troops is not a trivial matter.

Fortunately, the supply of troops is sufficient, and the recruits for expansion have long been recruited, and they have been training in Datong, Taiyuan, Beiping, Tianjin, Shijiazhuang and other places for a while. After this expansion, these hundreds of thousands of recruits will be supplemented into various columns and continue to train military skills for a period of time.

The 10 major columns, each with about 50,000 people, each column has three motorized infantry divisions under its jurisdiction, and each infantry division is equipped with a large number of trucks and can quickly maneuver.

If motorization is implemented, the number of large trucks needed will be large, and each infantry division will need to be equipped with at least five or six hundred large trucks, and thirty infantry divisions will need 10,000 or several thousand large trucks.

Although the Datong Automobile Factory has been built and put into operation for more than two years, the output in the early stage is not large, and later, after continuous expansion, the annual output has now reached the scale of 20,000 vehicles, but now the 30 infantry divisions have all been motorized, and the shortage of cars is still several thousand units. …,

The Datong Automobile Factory will need to run at full capacity for two or three months before it can produce the cars needed by the troops, that is, it will take at least two or three months for all infantry divisions to be motorized.

Despite this, the infantry divisions of each column are still called motorized infantry divisions, and the formation and training of the troops are carried out in accordance with the motorized infantry divisions.

Although there is not enough trucks, there is a shortage of several thousand, and more than half of the infantry divisions still have enough trucks, and they are already motorized infantry divisions in the true sense.

Each column has three motorized infantry divisions, and each motorized infantry division has six motorized infantry regiments, an artillery regiment, a mechanized infantry regiment, and a tank regiment.

Each motorized infantry regiment has more than 100 large trucks and 20 or 30 off-road vehicles, with large trucks mainly transporting soldiers and ammunition, and off-road vehicles mainly communication vehicles equipped with radio stations and other communication systems.

In addition, each motorized rifle division also has a 105-mm howitzer artillery regiment, equipped with 60 105-mm howitzers, more than 2,000 people in the regiment, nearly 200 large trucks, and a small number of off-road vehicles.

At present, the demand for off-road vehicles in the army is also very large, and the officers and men of all units are very fond of the outstanding off-road performance and strong protective armor of the off-road vehicles, and the off-road vehicles are in high demand.

There are two main types of off-road vehicles, one is an armed off-road vehicle equipped with a 30 mm cannon, and the other is a communication off-road vehicle, which is equipped with a high-power radio station, an inter-vehicle communication system, and so on.

Off-road vehicles are produced by Datong No. 2 Automobile Factory, while large trucks are produced by Datong No. 1 Automobile Factory, and both of these two automobile factories have an annual production capacity of 20,000 vehicles.

Tank regiments and mechanized infantry regiments, as in the original formation, have not changed, the only change is that previously there were two tank regiments in one column, two mechanized infantry regiments, now there are three tank regiments, three mechanized infantry regiments.

It's just that because the number of Type 39 tanks and Type 39 armored vehicles is still insufficient, every tank regiment and every mechanized infantry regiment is almost not fully staffed.

Considering that the team site has a great need for tanks and armored vehicles, Zhang Yunfei has already ordered the construction of a larger-scale tank factory in Tangshan to produce the Type 39 tanks urgently needed by the troops. Construction of an armored vehicle plant was started in Shijiazhuang for the production of Type 39 armored vehicles, which were urgently needed by the troops.

With the recovery of North China, the expansion of the base area, the expansion of many factories is also being carried out, in North China, many branch factories will be built, the construction of factories, no longer limited to Datong, Taiyuan and other places.

For example, in the southern suburbs of Beijing, a construction site is also in full swing, and tens of thousands of people are busy on the construction site, here, in an area of several kilometers, an aircraft factory will be built, and after completion, there will not only be an aircraft factory, but also a small airport, from which the newly produced planes will take off and equip the troops.

Although there has been a war in the past few months, the construction of the base areas and the construction of many new factories have never stopped, and in this regard, Comrade Fang Zheng, deputy director of the General Political Department, has made a great deal of painstaking efforts.

By the way, in the future, Fang Zheng will no longer be the deputy director of the General Political Department, and from now on, he will be called the head of the General Logistics Department, and he will be called Minister Fang.

In this large-scale expansion of the 36 th Group Army, Zhang Yunfei added two new departments, namely, the General Logistics Department and the General Armament Department, and now there are four major departments under the 36 th Group Army, namely the General Staff Department, the General Political Department, the General Logistics Department, and the General Armament Department.

Comrade Zuo Qingquan is the head of the General Staff, and Comrade Liu Dazhu, deputy commander-in-chief, is also the deputy director of the General Staff. Comrade Deng Wenping, Director of the General Political Department; Comrade Fang Zheng, director of the General Logistics Department, and Zhang Yunfei are temporarily concurrently serving as the head of the General Armament Department, but Comrade Fang Zheng is actually in charge, and Zhang Yunfei is only in name. …,

In addition to three motorized rifle divisions, each column also has a heavy artillery brigade with two heavy artillery regiments and one rocket artillery regiment, each of which is equipped with 36 155-mm howitzers, and the rocket artillery regiment is equipped with 60 rocket launchers.

All rocket launchers are 40-barreled 200 mm rocket launchers with a maximum range of more than 10 kilometers.

The heavy howitzers of the 155 mm caliber of the heavy artillery regiment are still towed by cars, but it may not be long before the self-propelled howitzers will be massively equipped with heavy artillery brigades.

Since the first 105-mm self-propelled howitzer was produced in February of this year, more than a hundred 105-mm self-propelled howitzers have been produced, and these self-propelled howitzers are now in storage.

With the mass production of 105-mm self-propelled howitzers, the production of 155-mm self-propelled howitzers has also begun, and half a month ago, the first 155-mm self-propelled howitzer rolled off the assembly line.

In addition, the major columns also have their own transport regiments, engineer regiments, and other auxiliary arms, and each column is an independent combat unit, and each branch of the armed forces is complete, and it can fight alone or jointly.

After the expansion of the 36th Group Army, the 10 th Column, in addition to the guard division, the independent division, the flying group, the antiaircraft artillery brigade, and the navy under construction, totaled more than 600,000 people.

The 36 th Group Army is equipped with more than 10,000 large trucks, 1,800 105-caliber howitzers, 720 155-caliber howitzers, more than 1,000 Type 39 tanks, nearly 2,000 Type 39 armored personnel carriers, nearly 10,000 off-road vehicles of various types, and several hundred aircraft.

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