Shortly after the Battle of the Mozambique Channel, Qi Yiming was invited to the Military Commission to attend a high-level meeting of the military. Usually, Qi Yiming would not attend such a meeting, and he himself was a little taboo to appear in front of people too often, and he was used to living behind the scenes, but this meeting was very important, and it was directly related to the direction of the future war, and he had to participate in it.

Qi Yiming had a general idea of the content of the meeting before attending the meeting, and even with his bold temperament, he felt in a trance when he looked at the content of the materials in his hand, because this change was too huge.

"Next, we will have a concentrated discussion on the topic of expanding our PLA Army into 80 group armies, and we invite all comrades to speak their minds freely, actively express their views, and pool their wisdom and efforts to build a stronger people's army and win this crucial war that has a bearing on the future and future of the country and the nation." Chief No. 1 presided over the meeting and expressed.

Although all the bigwigs here have some knowledge of this matter, it still makes everyone stunned and even confused when they really bring up this matter. In the major disarmament more than 10 years ago, the Central Military Commission controlled the size of the army at about 1.2 million and organized a total of 12 group armies in seven military regions as the main fighting force of the army. Obviously, at this time, China is facing a world-class war, and the army force of 1.2 million people is obviously not enough to meet the needs of the war.

For the foreseeable future, China's army will be involved in the battlefields of South Asia, the Middle East, Eastern Europe, the Asia-Pacific and other regions, and it should not come as a surprise that a million troops will be deployed on each battlefield, which makes China need a large number of troops to support itself in this world war.

But in any case, it is really inconceivable that the number of group armies has been expanded from 12 to 80 group armies at once. Even a guy like Qi Yiming felt that the plan to build 80 army groups was extremely difficult, and it was difficult to deal with a myriad of things.

"The United States and some European countries have already started a full-scale war mobilization, and we can't accurately estimate how big NATO will eventually build an army, but the number of five or six million should be no problem," the defense secretary said. And we can only build stronger and bigger forces to form an overwhelming advantage over them. The active troops, together with the reserve units that we have cultivated over the years, are temporarily able to organize about 3 million troops, and we plan to train another 2 million qualified soldiers to go to the battlefield within a year, but this is still a long way from our plan to form 80 group armies. ”

Qi Yiming said at this time: "Well, you mean that you want our Strategy Bureau to take out some of its forces to make up for the share of these eighty group armies, right?" ”

Qi Yiming had earlier reported to the above the "fact" that he had 8 million troops, and although the top brass was not afraid of this, they were also doing everything possible to figure out how to make better use of this part of the force and fight a good war. According to the current method of group army establishment, basically the strength of each group army is about 100,000 people, and the 80 group armies are to build up 8 million field troops, and in addition to the 5 million soldiers that the military itself has planned to organize, Qi Yiming should also provide about 3 million troops and form at least 30 group armies to participate in the war.

Qi Yiming's Red Police Corps does not need training, and its individual combat skills and tactical abilities are much stronger than those of newly recruited rookies, and it is the most useful military personnel, and it has won the trust of the military for so many years. Of course, there is another reason that cannot be said, and that is that these red police units can afford to consume.

Historically, the PLA once built 70 armies, most of which were dismantled and reformed after liberation, and gradually became their current size. In this earth-shattering war plan, the military intends not only to restore the 70 group armies that had been formed before, but also to add 10 more group armies. Each group army will have the combat strength of at least three mechanized divisions under its jurisdiction, supplemented by independent combat units belonging to some group armies, and all units that have been converted into brigades under the army headquarters will be reorganized and expanded into divisions, and brigade-level units will be subordinate units to the headquarters of the group army.

It is worth mentioning that these 80 corps include the Airborne Forces, which are already under the Air Force, and the Marine Corps, which are already under the Navy. The current 15th Army of the Airborne Forces was originally the 15th Army of the Army, and the Central Military Commission intends to rearrange the numbers of the 25th Army and the 35th Army in the lineup of the Airborne Forces to create a larger-scale airborne force. The Marine Corps was directly allocated to the quota of five group armies, from the 56th Army to the 60th Group Army, all of which will be Marine Corps Group Army. (The 56th, 57th, and 59th armies have never been formed in history)

The Marine Corps will also be upgraded from a major brigade unit to a divisional unit to adapt to today's big wars.

Qi Yiming has no opinion on the military requisitioning his own 3 million Red Guard Corps, even if the command of these 30 group armies will be completely separated from him. On the one hand, he himself has more Red Guard Corps at his disposal, and on the other hand, this is a national war itself, and he does not have an excess of power and the careful eye of a big man to squander.

Hearing Qi Yiming's agreement, several bigwigs in the military were still relieved, although they knew that Qi Yiming had always understood righteousness, but everyone was still slightly apprehensive about how Qi Yiming would choose, and they were also mentally prepared for Qi Yiming's desire to retain a certain control over the Red Police Corps.

The chief of the General Staff said: "We have urgently recalled the first batch of reserve units with high combat readiness, reorganized several group armies that were previously withdrawn, and now we have 19 group armies ready to go to the battlefield at any time, and the rest of the group army units are still being formed, and it is expected to be divided into three groups to be able to complete training." ”

The 19 army groups that have now been restructured by the military are the 29th, 38th, 65th, 16th, 39th, 40th, 20th, 26th, 54th, 1st, 12th, 31st, 21st, 47th, 13th, 14th, 41st, and 42nd armies, plus the Blue Army Army, which is preparing to be renamed the Second Army. The above-mentioned 19 group armies have completed their initial readjustment and equipment installation, and they will also be the 19 group armies with the most combat effectiveness in the military in addition to the Red Guard units for a period of time to come.

Qi Yiming selected and dispatched 30 Red Police Units of the Group Army, which were arranged into the new PLA battle sequence established by the military, and these units cancelled the number of the Red Police Regiment previously established by Qi Yiming, and officially hung up the number of the PLA Group Army. These 30 group armies are basically basic units without a star rating, and there are only five star troops on the scale of a group army in Qi Yiming's hands, and the highest star is only four stars. Qi Yiming incorporated the 310th Division, a five-star division-level unit that had participated in many important battles, into the new 10th Group Army, and this Red Alert Group Army was also the strongest group army provided by Qi Yiming, a three-star group army, and probably the most combat-effective unit among the 80 group armies. In addition, there were two one-star armies, the 18th Army and the 19th Army.

The military has not yet brought out all of Qi Yiming's three million red police troops in one go, after all, it is not an easy task to feed three million mouths for a while. Only five army groups were directly transferred to the command of the General Staff, including three army groups with stars, which were in a state of combat readiness and had not yet been directly sent to the battlefield and were in a state of readiness on the second line.

In fact, Qi Yiming was not only the 30 group armies involved in the early stage of this war, in addition, he also organized a lot of brigade-level red police units, including the fast reaction force, airborne troops, mecha troops, air defense units, etc., these brigade-level red police units are still under the direct command of the strategic bureau, at this time there are two brigades of red police units participating in the war in South Asia, with the expansion of the war, more red police brigades will participate.

The content of the meeting was not much, mainly about the formation of eighty group armies, and then the number was assigned. There were other meetings of the Military Commission in the future, and on the issue of the PLA's continued advance in the South Asian subcontinent, Qi Yiming did not want to directly participate in the discussion, so he avoided the table and left.

The victory in the Battle of the Mozambique Channel has given China more time to continue operating the Indian Ocean Theater, and the military hopes to seize this opportunity to crush India in one fell swoop. This time, Qi Yiming was asked to talk about the issue of forming more group armies, which was essentially to provide more troops into South Asia and solve India once and for all.

The chief of the General Staff said: "After all, India is a large country with a population of one billion, and although its military strength and comprehensive national strength are relatively limited, if we want to occupy and control this region, even if we involve Pakistan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Burma, we will not be able to send one million people ourselves." We plan to send one front army on each of the eastern and western fronts, with a total size of 600,000 men, plus about 200,000 troops in Pakistan and 200,000 in Burma and Bangladesh, to attack India. India's terrain is flat, although the rivers are dense and there are many puddles, but our mechanized equipment itself has designed the wading ability according to the characteristics of the dense river network in southern China, and the speed of driving on the Ganges Plain and the Deccan Plateau should be quite fast. We will not talk about the destruction of India in three months, but whenever we have the opportunity, we will advance and crush any large-scale Indian resistance to pieces. ”

Chief No. 1 nodded and asked, "Have you considered the possible consequences of our direct attack on India's hinterland, such as the Indians rising up and harassing us in a continuous guerrilla war, making it difficult for us to control the South Asian subcontinent?" ”

The chief of the general staff said: "Although the spirit of resistance of the Indians is weaker, and they are more moderate and cowardly, but we are all prepared for the worst, although guerrilla warfare is indeed very tricky, but the times are different, under our systematic war mode, even if there are guerrillas in India, they will be found and eliminated by us, and we also plan to naturalize a part of the Indian puppet army and strive for some forces willing to cooperate with us." Of course, it is also a good choice to sow discord among its complex ethnic relations and completely dismember India. ”