It can be predicted that in the second Sino-Russian war in the future, the number of belligerent troops on both sides will be 100,000. The establishment of the Huaxia Army, which inherited from Beiyang, is becoming more and more unsuitable for the future situation of a major war, and at this stage, the largest establishment of the Huaxia Army is a division. The so-called army is nothing more than a simple grouping of several divisions together and under the command of one person, and has not carried out in-depth integration and improvement. Simple stacking does not form combat effectiveness, so Xu Jie needs to re-plan the army establishment at a higher level.

First of all, it should be clear that the larger the army, the better, the larger the size, although the more people are grouped under a single command system, avoiding the conflict and tension caused by multiple commanding limited armies. At the same time, however, it should be noted that when the troop size is too large, it will cause an extreme expansion of the command and information transmission mechanism, and it will take more time for an order to be transmitted to the combat unit. The time delay and command confusion caused by this will delay the fighter plane and even lead to defeat, so it is not that the larger the establishment, the more conducive to command, and only when the efficiency of the information transmission mechanism is not exceeded, the large establishment is conducive to command.

At the present stage, radio and wired telephones are relied upon as means of communication. A corps of up to 100,000 men is most suitable. If it is too small, it will make the hundreds of thousands of troops on the front line too scattered, and if the scale is large, considering the breadth of the battle line, it will not be very convenient for the entire army to operate. Therefore, Xu Jie positioned the largest unit as a group army of 100,000.

The entire army group consisted of 6 infantry divisions, a army group headquarters and the corresponding corps direct units, 1 cavalry division, and an artillery division under the corps. A military-affiliated logistics division. Infantry divisions are the main force of operations, and each division theoretically has a scale of about 10,000 men. It has 3 infantry regiments, each with about 2,000 people. An artillery regiment, a transport regiment, and an engineer battalion and so on. THE DIVISIONAL ARTILLERY REGIMENT HAS A 152MM HEAVY HOWITZER BATTALION AND TWO 105MM HEAVY HOWITZER BATTALIONS, AND OCCASIONALLY A 150MM HEAVY MORTAR BATTALION. Each artillery battalion has 2 to 3 companies. Each company is equipped with 6 to 8 heavy guns.

Each infantry regiment consists of three infantry battalions and two artillery batteries and other auxiliary units. Each infantry battalion has about 500 troops and has three infantry companies and one fire support company. THE TWO ARTILLERY BATTERIES OF AN INFANTRY REGIMENT ARE GENERALLY A 75 MM HOWITZER COMPANY AND A 120 MM HEAVY MORTAR BATTERY, EACH WITH EIGHT MEDIUM-CALIBER GUNS. The number of each infantry company was about 135 people. It has two infantry companies and one heavy weapons platoon. There is no squad under the heavy weapons platoon, which is generally composed of about 5 combat groups, and each combat team has 6 people. HAS A HEAVY MACHINE GUN OR AN 82MM MORTAR. An infantry platoon consists of 3 to 4 infantry squads. Each infantry squad had 12 men and was equipped with a light machine gun and a grenadier canister as standard. There may also be a sniper rifle in the squad. The squad leader and deputy squad leader will be equipped with a submachine gun.

The configuration of the cavalry division is similar to that of the infantry division, but it is reduced from the cavalry squad. The division has about 8,000 men, and at the same time, it is generally strengthened with additional logistics supply and veterinary units. AT THE SAME TIME, THE INFANTRY DIVISION WAS NOT EQUIPPED WITH 6-INCH HEAVY GUNS, BUT WAS CHANGED TO GERMAN-MADE 170MM HEAVY MORTARS AND 105MM LONG-BARRELED CANNONS, OF WHICH THE 170MM HEAVY MORTARS AND 105MM LONG-BARRELED CANNONS WERE TOWED BY TRUCKS. It can be said that the cavalry division is a mule and horse-based army, but it has a certain amount of mobile striking power of motor vehicles. The ability to maneuver is between armored and infantry units. It is used to bridge the gap between high-speed armored units and infantry units.

The most powerful long-range strike firepower in the entire army group was the only heavy artillery division in the army. The establishment of this heavy artillery division is not specifically fixed. There will be some differences according to the tasks undertaken by the legion, for example, if it is a fortification mission, it will be equipped with more 8-inch heavy guns and 10-inch or even 12-inch short-barreled siege guns. ON THE OTHER HAND, IF IT IS A FIELD MISSION, THERE WILL BE MORE 6-INCH CANNONS AND 150MM HEAVY MATARS. Theoretically, each artillery division would have an 8-inch heavy artillery regiment, a siege artillery regiment, and a long-range cannon suppression regiment. In addition, a special transport regiment was attached to provide supply and mobility for the entire artillery division. If the army group is responsible for guarding the fortress, there may be additional fortified artillery formations.

As for the logistics division, it is not accurate to describe it in terms of pure logistics. Because in addition to transporting all kinds of supplies, this division also has a large number of engineers, railway soldiers and signal troops. They were the busiest, building forward positions and road transport hubs before the war began. In addition, it was necessary to repair the damaged equipment sent by the various divisions. The Nebuchu front was some distance from the rear industrial zone. It can't be said that all equipment has to be shipped back for repair. Therefore, it is very important to establish a relatively complete maintenance system on the front line as much as possible, which can save time, allow weapons to return to the battlefield as soon as possible, and at the same time reduce the pressure on transportation. Fortunately, there is still a long time for Xu Jie to complete his plan.

Of course, the above establishment is the establishment of the army field corps, in addition to the fortress garrison troops, logistics support units, and transport units responsible for the whole set. And for offensive power, there is also the railway artillery directly under the army. They will be armed with oversized caliber guns unloaded from naval warships and fortresses. Unleash your power on the preset oversized ring gun emplacements on the front line. THESE RANGES ARE AROUND 25 KM, AND THE GOD OF WAR PLACED IN THE ARTILLERY FORT HAS INCLUDED THE OPPOSITE CITY OF NEBUCHU AND THE SUPPLY CENTER OF THE RUSSIAN ARMY BEHIND IT, AND IS EQUIPPED WITH SPECIAL HARD CAP CONCRETE ARMOR-PIERCING SHELLS TO DEAL WITH POSSIBLE HIDDEN ARTILLERY NESTS.

By the way, there is another unit that cannot be ignored, that is, Xu Jie's carefully built armored force, but this unit only has a plan, although the development of various equipment has begun, but the progress is average. Building such a complex equipment system from scratch is not something that can be effective in a short period of time. And the amount of equipment is also absolutely limited. Based on feedback from various quarters, Xu Jie has felt the weakness of the fragile industrial system of the Chinese Republic in order to ensure quality and performance. Xu Jie has already begun to plan for the army to contact the German War Department.

"The German Army should always be interested in these things with excellent mobile firepower and defensive performance, right?" Xu Jie said in his heart. If nothing else, at least the number of land forces that can make up for the overstretched Germans can be compensated to a certain extent, and the striking power of the army depends not only on the number and equipment, but also on the speed of delivery, in the Franco-Prussian War, the Germans relied on convenient railway transportation to send hundreds of thousands of troops to the Franco-German border in a short period of time. And in the first world war in history, Germany also expected to destroy France in a short time with a fierce offensive. But it backfired, and France, the second strongest army in the world, withstood the full blow of the Germans with the help of the British! And then dragged the tide of the war into a protracted war. The Germans have always emphasized the mobility and strike intensity of the troops, which should be of interest to the armored forces!

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