Liu Yuan has never been a person whose words don't count, since he said that he would help the central government train an elite army, then he has the obligation to work hard for this matter.

It is impossible for the Central Army to have the same weapons as the Southwest Special Economic Zone, so Liu Yuan deliberately purchased a large number of weapons from Germany, and the Germans also had a very good attitude towards their business customers, and did not provide backward weapons and equipment. Rather, they provided weapons to Liu Yuan in accordance with international standards.

The 200,000 army, excluding part of the Central Army's own savings, needs to purchase a total of 160,000 rifles, as well as mortars, machine guns, and mountain artillery. Cannons and so on, thinking of these Liu Yuan is really big, it is really too little budget from the central government.

According to the establishment of the A division, a division has 18,000 men, 1,000 light and heavy machine guns, more than 200 heavy machine guns, and a total of 300 mortars and mountain guns of all kinds.

With such a huge establishment, Liu Yuan felt that even the southwest could not bear it, so Liu Yuan personally sent a telegram to Chiang Kai-shek, and Chiang Kai-shek called back not long after.

Chiang Kai-shek could not have done so much blood under any circumstances, so Chiang Kai-shek's suggestion was to abolish heavy machine guns and mortars below the platoon level, and to decentralize heavy weapons to company-level units, while keeping the original number unchanged and giving squad platoons light machine guns to supplement.

As a basic firepower unit, the company should have a heavy machine gun platoon, three light mortars, one heavy mortar, one antitank gun, and one walkie-talkie, and a battalion-level combat unit should have a mountain artillery company, equipped with six mountain artillery pieces, and at the same time 82 mortars with 20 mortars, and an additional special service company with flower machine guns. The division headquarters has a cannon regiment and a grenade running regiment, the original equipment requirements remain unchanged, and the units directly under it are required to have a field hospital, a guard regiment, a communications regiment, a special service brigade, and an air defense regiment.

According to this calculation, each division has more than 800 light machine guns and more than 150 heavy machine guns, and Liu Yuan estimates that the firepower of a division of the first division in this matter is close to about three-quarters of that of an American unit, and the gap with Germany is already very small.

At the same time, Chiang Kai-shek ordered Xiao Lai to ask Liu Yuan to give the central government a part of the three hippos and cars to form a transport team, and this time Liu Yuan agreed very quickly.

Sun Liren has been treated coldly since he came back from the United States, and no one likes him at all, he did not expect that in this case, Liu Yuan would come to his house in person and ask him to join the Central Army. Originally, Sun Liren felt that Liu Yuanshu was a big move, and he shouldn't go out to follow him, but seeing that Liu Yuan was in a high position, he could still come to his house to find him, so it was not good to continue the stalemate, so he followed Liu Yuan to join the commander of the 100th Division. This made Sun Liren admire Liu Yuan very much. Only eclectic people dare to treat a newcomer like this, which also gives Sun Liren the urge to treat it until the journalist dies.

Chiang Kai-shek gave Liu Yuan a big butler, that is, Kong Xiangxi, and every financial transaction had to go through his hand.

"Sun Liren came to me today, he wants the 100th Division to be upgraded to a mechanized unit. It is used to quickly reflect on the wars that may be faced in the future. Liu Yuan said with a smile to Kong Xiangxi.

When Kong Xiangxi saw Liu Yuan's shameless smiling face, he felt a headache, and subconsciously stepped back and said, "How many cars and chariots do you need for a division." ”

"You can't have too many cars, you must know that the production in the center of the road is very limited, and the productivity in the southwest is also insufficient." Deng Yanda reminded on the side.

"The current production capacity of the central government is 50 vehicles per month, and it can produce about 600 vehicles a year, and this is still on the basis of giving up other businesses, and it is impossible for us to give all the cars to one division, so it is too much for him to lose." Yang Yongtai held his eyes and looked at Liu Yuan cautiously, he must be careful not to let him pry away too many things.

"It's only 600 cars, which is a bit small." Liu Yuan realized that the productivity of the central government is indeed a problem, and the automobile production capacity of the Southwest Special Economic Zone is indeed stronger than that of the central government, but most of the cars are used by him to build the economy, after all, the southwest is now dominated by economic development.

"In that case, then forget about the mechanic, after all, we can't weaken the bones for a fist." Situ Fei said, he is a student of the sixth phase of the infantry department of the Baoding Military Academy, and he is not a very up-and-coming person in the Baoding department, Liu Yuan feels that this person's name is very familiar, and his military knowledge is also good, so when the Central Army formed an elite army, Liu Yuan expanded him to the army and served as a military officer.

Lan Yundong is more general in the first phase of Huangpu, but he is still more bloody, so he is also a member of Liu Yuan's recruitment, at this moment he stood up and said to Liu Yuan, "Senior, we can't take care of one or the other, you must know that the army is organized this time, there are a lot of heavy weapons, and we need cars to transport materials, otherwise the logistical pressure is too great, so senior, I think the matter of mechanics should be slowed down." ”

Seeing everyone's opposition, Liu Yuan was in a very bad mood, and slapped the table and shouted, "If you don't have it, don't you make it up?" What if the enemy suddenly appears in Nanjing, but we don't have a force with the ability to react quickly, we didn't have planes before, and now we also have an air force? Since there are not so many cars, then we will buy them, go to the United States to buy them, go to the southwest to buy them, go to Germany to buy them, and find Yan Xishan to buy them, I have made a preliminary calculation, a mechanic has three regiments, a regiment has three companies, a company is calculated with 20 cars, each regiment has 60 cars, a division is a total of 180 cars, in addition to grenades and cannons to add 30 cars, a total of 210 cars for a mechanic, and a division of other troops must also be equipped with at least 50 cars to transport supplies. Six armies and eighteen divisions are 900 vehicles, and in addition, we need to set up at least 30 convoys to transport supplies, so we must have at least 600 vehicles, so we will need about 17,800 vehicles. Treasurer, how many cars do we have now. ”

After listening to Liu Yuan's words, Yang Yongtai turned his head and left, Liu Yuan pulled for a long time and finally stopped, "There is no one, do you think I am Sun Wukong?" You can conjure up more than a thousand cars, even Sun Wukong doesn't have so many monkey hairs, let me tell you, our logistics department only has a total of 400 cars, including the cars just purchased from the Southwest Special Economic Zone, there are only 500. ”

After listening to Kong Xiangxi's words, Lan Yundong immediately warned, "Fuguo, don't you fight the idea of these cars, since you developed the Yunnan-Burma Highway, most of the goods we purchased overseas are transported by these cars, and these cars were originally to be added, don't think about it." ”

Liu Yuanzhi explained their difficulties, after all, Chiang Ching-kuo was building Chongqing, everything had to cost money, everything needed materials, and it was indeed a problem to do material logistics without these cars.

"It seems that the formation of the mechanic does take time," Liu Yuan said to Li Qiang beside him. "United Heavy Industries currently has no production capacity."

"No, we're helping the Germans produce weapons, you know, Germany is crazy about custom tanks, and we at Unilever are doing OEM for them."

"Then you send a telegram to Li Qiang and ask him to order 2,500 Dodge trucks, which will arrive in Nanjing by the end of this year."

"Yes." Ang Lee nodded and left.

Everyone stared at Liu Yuan, thinking that this prince was really rich, in a word, there were more than 2,000 cars, even the central government did not have this ability.

"Chief of Staff, this money may have to be repaid by the Central Committee in more than ten years, and the Central Committee is in difficulty now, and you also know that Chairman Lu Dao has gone to the front line to suppress bandits, so this money." Kong Xiangxi looked at Liu Yuan with a shameless look, he had no intention of paying back the money at all.

"This money is my own private money, which can be regarded as my support for the construction of the central government, and I don't have to pay it back." Liu Yuan didn't want to look at Kong Xiangxi's hypocritical face at all, businessmen are mercenary, even if they serve the country, they can't die of that nature.

"Remember to send some soldiers and let them learn how to drive a car, you can't have a car without a driver." Liu Yuan commanded.

"The central government has established a training base for tank drivers, can it be called?" Kong Xiangxi didn't want to spend more money, so he said stingily.

"Those chariot drivers are all national treasures, how can they be allowed to drive, if you don't spend this money, then I can go back to the southwest." Liu Yuan said dissatisfiedly.

"Don't, don't, they all say that you Liu Yuan came to the central government with a money bag, but in fact? You didn't bring much money, but the central government spent a lot of money by then, how long has that pilot training base been built, and there is also a maintenance base, why don't you want my life, I have so much money there. Kong Xiangxi looked at Liu Yuan aggrievedly, if he was a woman, he would definitely cry to Liu Yuan.

As a newcomer, Sun Liren has no right to speak, but Liu Yuan said to him at the end, "I will help you solve the matter of Sun Liren's mechanic, Xu Guangda of the first phase of Huangpu will come in a few days, and you will set up an armored training school with him to train real tank commanders and charioteers for the country, and the teacher can be invited from Germany." ”

Seeing Liu Yuan's eagerness, the originally somewhat optimistic atmosphere became tense again, Kong Xiangxi hesitated a few times, and finally asked, "Fuguo, is it that the Japanese will not stop for a long time this time." ”

"How long, I feel that it is possible to fight next year at the latest, the principal will go to the northwest to suppress bandits, is it so easy for the Japanese to let us unify, Zhang Xueliang This guy actually let the main force of the Northeast Army enter the customs, and now the Northeast is empty, we must hurry up."

"The headmaster is confused, is he desperate to exterminate the Red Party?" Kong Xiangxi said anxiously.

"Senior, I have an urgent military situation to report to you." Dai Li's application solemnly walked to Liu Yuan's side and said.