Chapter 86: Resolutely go back to your hometown

The military subdivisions of each state should form a standing division, which exists as a unit that performs various military tasks on a daily basis, and the non-commissioned officer system is implemented in the standing division, that is, every soldier in the standing division is a non-commissioned officer. At the same time, this standing division is also responsible for the military training of other people of appropriate age in the state, whether it is workers, farmers or even government officials, as long as they are within the service age range, they must participate in regular military training once a month to master military skills such as shooting and fighting.

Every quarter, each state holds a division-level military competition of reserve forces, and the winners participate in a semi-annual national reserve competition. The results of the competition will be used as an important performance index for the military and political governors of each state.

This is the plan for "Tibetan army and civilian use" drawn up by the General Staff Headquarters, which has been unanimously approved by the top military leadership. With the relatively small population base of South China, on the premise of not affecting the economic development of non-wartime, it is still possible to quickly build a strong army in wartime, and it can only hide the army from the people.

In the plan, in the event of the outbreak of war, the state military subdivisions will be expanded into corps with standing divisions as the backbone, and each corps will reach more than 100,000 people, composed of combat units of three corps. In the thirteen prefectures of the Han Dynasty, there are thirteen army corps, plus the Guards Corps stationed in the Zhili Capital Special Administrative Region, and nearly 1.5 million troops can be formed within two months, which is enough to cope with the first stage of a large-scale war.

Of course, there is no such thing as a high-tech branch of the armed forces, and sailors, especially those on aircraft carriers, as well as pilots of the navy and air force, cannot be trained in a short period of time, and it is impossible to rely only on the Red Alert soldiers -- the number is too small, and His Majesty does not have much hope of gathering a population of 50 million, but fortunately, the time limit for this mission is five years.

The Navy formed three major fleets: the East and West Oceans and the South China Sea Fleet in the north. As an inland sea fleet, the Northern Fleet is the strongest of the three. The No. 1 Aircraft Carrier Battle Group in the South China Sea, led by two conventionally powered but beveled-decked second-generation aircraft carriers, the Gongjin and Zijing, has more than 30 large and small warships, as well as 10 large submarines with a submarine displacement of more than 2,000 tons.

The second aircraft carrier battle group of the Northern Fleet is headed by the aircraft carriers Ziming and Boyan, and the number of destroyers and frigates is basically the same as that of the first battle group, but the number of submarines is slightly smaller, only six, because the main base combat laboratory is developing second-generation submarines. These four aircraft carriers are different from the first-generation light aircraft carrier Kongming of the Han Dynasty, they have a displacement of more than 50,000 tons, and already have the ability to catapult and take off jet carrier-based aircraft.

However, these two aircraft carrier battle groups are not stationed in the various naval bases in Nanhua Bay, and the military port in Donglai City, where the headquarters of the Northern Fleet is located, is only berthed with the 20,000-ton heavy cruiser Xingba. In order to avoid the prying eyes of other countries, the announced Royal Navy of Dahan is still dominated by battleships and heavy cruisers, and the 43,000-ton battleship Fengxian will be launched at the Royal Shipyard in Perth in early 1938.

The vast Dahan Bay in the south has become a training ground for aircraft carrier battle groups, and the secretly built naval base in the Eastern Islands has become the home port of these aircraft carriers, which have not yet been exposed. The major shipyards in Dahan are stepping up the construction of battleships and cruisers, and no one knows that the giant dockyard on Kangaroo Island has built eight marshal-class aircraft carriers and three monarch-class command ships, and the smaller tonnage of the general-class destroyers and captain-class frigates are exploding at a rate of six per month.

The carrier-based aircraft problem, which worries Zhong Yi the most, has also been successfully tackled, and the Sea Dragon carrier-based fighter codenamed J37-C and the JH37-B Poison Dragon carrier-based fighter-bomber have been successfully put on board and catapulted and taken off. A carrier-based heavy bomber is also being tested, and it is expected that it will also be on board for training in the second half of the year. Because of the application of various advanced radar and electronic targeting equipment, the carrier-based aircraft of the Han Royal Navy did not have a dive bomber that should shine in this era, and another reason for eliminating this type of lethal aircraft is that in the combat laboratory, various types of missiles have been put on the research agenda.

The land-based air force units, which were reequipped earlier than HNA, also bid farewell to the era when the J-5 and H-5 were dominating the world, which is also the reason why the J-5 and H-5 were exported in batches.

The swept J36 Wyvern fighter and its various modifications became the mainstream of air supremacy fighters, and the twin-engine H36 Howler heavy bomber and the four-engine H37-B Cerberus long-range strategic bomber were successively installed in the bomber units of the Han Royal Air Force.

Before the Spring Festival, Ye Zhiqiu returned to Nanhua from China, but Chief Ye did not fly back by special plane, and the HF-707, which had made great contributions in the coup d'état and brought back Jiang Zhongzheng, was approved by the Han Emperor and given to the Nanjing government, and became Song Meiling's special plane after being repainted. Madame Chiang now regards Ye Zhiqiu as a great benefactor, because in the four-party negotiations in Xi'an, Chiang Zhongzheng did not agree to Zhang Xueliang's eight-point demands, but after learning that the Third International had ordered Chiang Zhongzheng to be released there, Zhang Xueliang also understood that it was too late to regret it, and Madame Chiang personally promised that if the chairman was released back to Nanjing, she would never embarrass Han Qing. Ye Zhiqiu also promised to do his best to arrange a way out for the Northeast Army, which was already regarded as a rebel army, to rebuild the army in Nanhua. Especially the last point, Zhang Xueliang is quite moved, since entering the customs, Zhang Shaoshuai has borne infamy, painstakingly maintained, but still can not let the officers and men of the Northeast Army live without worrying about food and clothing, even the military salary is often not paid in full, and equipment and personnel can not be replenished. Now, after the coup d'état, where will the Northeast Army, which has no roots, go?

After Ye Zhiqiu came to Xi'an to meet with Jiang Zhongzheng, he reached an agreement: as long as the chairman of the committee can return to Nanjing safely, and as long as Zhang Hanqing can give him and the whole country an explanation, he will agree to release the Northeast Army and allow all of them to immigrate to South China after retirement. In fact, even if there was no coup d'état, the Northeast Army, which had relatively independent military orders, was still a major problem in the chairman's mind. In this situation, not only can he get out of danger safely, but also completely solve the long-troubled Northeast Army problem, Jiang Zhongzheng will of course promise Ye Zhiqiu with all his mouths.

On the edge of the Furong Garden in Huaqing Pond in the evening breeze, Zhang Xueliang and Ye Zhiqiu sat opposite each other, and Zhang Shaoshuai, who had been muttering for a long time, suddenly drank the tea in the cup, "That's it!" One person does things and one person is responsible for it, so give up a certain person for the safety of 100,000 soldiers! Perhaps this is the only thing I can do for these soldiers who have faithfully followed our Zhang family for two generations. Zhang Xueliang stared at the pool of green water that was wrinkled in the cold wind, "General Ye, Han Qing is willing to personally escort the chairman back to Nanjing!" ”

That night, Jiang Fu proposed to return to Nanjing, and Zhang Xueliang personally saw him off, and Jiang Zhongzheng, who was hiding in the young marshal's guard, was able to board the plane with Madame Chiang. After hearing the news, Yang Hucheng led the army to pursue and exchanged fire with the Han army guards who were responsible for blocking the attack. After the incident, both sides of the war claimed that there was a misunderstanding due to darkness, and there were no casualties on either side.

The light blue HF-707 passenger plane took off smoothly in Dayingpun, and the first thing Jiang Zhongzheng did when he returned to Nanjing was to preside over the burial ceremony for the two Han army special combat personnel who died at Xi'an Airport, and to obtain Ye Zhiqiu's consent to bury them on the shore of Xuanwu Lake in Nanjing. After that, the chairman of the National People's Congress who returned to the presidential palace announced that the coup d'état in Xi'an had been resolved peacefully, and that all the units of the rebel army and all the armies in Xi'an were on standby, and that they were not allowed to go off the rails, and that they were waiting for the arbitration of the coup d'état by the military court.

A few days later, the generals of the Northeast Army, Wang Yizhe, Yu Xuezhong, He Zhuguo, Dong Chengbin, and others announced that they would obey the military court's judgment, and the Northeast Army withdrew from the active service of the National Revolutionary Army, leaving its weapons and equipment in Xi'an, and then all of them took a train to Fujian, boarded a ship and emigrated to South China.

Ye Zhiqiu insisted on returning to China by boat with the soldiers of the Northeast Army, and personally sent a telegram to the Han Emperor on the ship, reflecting the three questions raised by the soldiers of the Northeast Army: First, can there be a chance to return to his hometown? 2. What about relatives and family members? 3. How will China be faced in the future?

The Han Emperor's reply was only one sentence, but it was enough to stabilize the morale of the army: resolutely go back to your hometown and build a prosperous Greater China!