Chapter 2 War must start with a baby
China was very low-key throughout the negotiations, and Yang's always tough attitude suddenly disappeared this time, as if Yang Xiaolin had said in the newspaper, and the Chinese had really begun to pursue peaceful development. Even Chinese troops are beginning to be withdrawn.
In fact, China's army is really not very large, with more than 400,000 soldiers on the front line, more than 200,000 recruits in Shandong, and more than 1 million troops in various places, and 400 million people on 10 million square kilometers of land, but only more than 2 million troops. That's not too much in any country.
But Commander Yang said that China is too poor to spend too much money on the army, and judging from the current situation in China, he intends to form six group armies.
80,000 troops from Tang Yulin were transferred back to the northeast, 50,000 were transferred from Shandong's recruits, and a total of 200,000 troops from Hebei were mobilized to form the Northeast Group Army, with Li Debiao as the commander.
Wu Zhaolin's troops were transferred to Guangzhou to reorganize the troops in Guangdong, Guangxi, Zhejiang, and Jiangsu, with a total of 250,000 troops, to form the Southeast Group Army. Wu Zhaolin served as the commander.
In addition, Cai Yi, chief of staff of the Volunteer Army, was appointed commander of the Southwest Group Army, and transferred the Bingbu and Qian Yao troops to the south to combine the forces of Yunnan, Guizhou, Tibet, Sichuan and other places, totaling 300,000 troops.
Zaitao was appointed commander of the Northwest Front Army, which has a strength of 200,000 men and is responsible for the defense of Lanzhou, Qinghai, Xinjiang, Shanxi and other places.
Zhang Zuolin was appointed commander of the Northern Group Army of China, responsible for the defense of the Mongolian area, with a total strength of 250,000 troops.
After the last year, Liu Xianhe served as the commander of the Beijing Garrison Military Region, and transferred troops from Henan, Anhui, Shandong, Shaanxi and other places, and the Beijing Garrison Military Region directly governed 200,000 people.
According to the establishment given by Commander Yang, after the six military regions were reorganized in place. The whole of China will have only 1.4 million troops, which is really a bit less. Because there are few, other countries welcome it.
Not only the British and French also supported. Tsar Nicholas II of Russia also agreed with Yang Xiaolin's resolution, and even said publicly that he had seen the peace sincerity of the Chinese side from this action. In addition, the Japanese also sent congratulatory telegrams to Commander Yang, and the Japanese also said that they hoped that China would continue to maintain a policy of focusing on economic development, and that Japan was willing to cooperate with China.
This situation is similar to the fact that European countries continued to lend money to Russia after the collapse of the Soviet Union. But it is the same as asking Russia to destroy nuclear weapons. At that time, Russia really believed in the Europeans' set, after a large-scale reduction of nuclear weapons and shock treatment on itself, the result was that the more the treatment became more and more miserable, there was no money to repair warships, and the nuclear submarines were left there to rust and could only be used as decorations, watching one by one their original territories become independent, watching the Americans arrange missiles at their doorsteps, they could not do anything, and Russia almost went into real shock.
Then they finally understood. Without a strong guarantee of force, you don't want to talk about any development at all!
Yang Xiaolin didn't say that people wanted him to cut, but he was ready to cut it himself, which made many people feel that Commander Yang seemed to be funny. Did this bandit really think that he would be safe for eternity after winning the war against Russia? Whatever he thinks, by doing so, China is weakening their sharpest steel knives, and Japan and Russia, in particular, seem to have no reason not to support them.
Yang Xiaolin said to the British. China's disarmament may not go too smoothly, because it is a hassle to get some soldiers with guns to lay down their weapons and go home, and it takes money to house them. And China has no money now, and if I have money, I will not lay off people.
The British were really happy, and gave China a loan of 20 million pounds at once, which was still interest-free and unsecured, and was repaid after 20 years. France has also indicated that if China really does what it says, then they will also consider giving appropriate assistance to China in its disarmament and economic construction.
Even little Japan, which is still having a difficult time now, said that in order to support China's disarmament actions, Japan is willing to tighten its belly and provide help to Commander Yang. One can imagine how much Commander Yang's decision was embraced by them. Only the Germans were very disappointed!
Germany is really disappointed, and Germany has a lot of intelligence sources in the Chinese army, and they have all got a clear message, that is, Yang Dagui disarmament is true!
Mr. Mumo quickly found Yang Xiaolin and expressed the strong dissatisfaction of the German side: "Commander Yang, don't you think that your approach is a bit stupid? With all due respect, if your forces are reduced to less than two million, I can be sure that you will be the loser when it comes to another outbreak! You will bring China back to the way it used to be! ”
Yang Xiaolin glanced at Mu Mo, the Germans obviously continued to hope that they could put pressure on Russia, although Mu Mo's motive for persuading him was out of consideration for German interests, but the reason was really not wrong at all, if China only had more than one million troops, it would be over.
"No, Mr. Mumer? Now it seems that there are no enemies around me, Japan and Russia are willing to sign peace agreements with me, and I have negotiated with the Americans, the British, and the French, and they have made a clear promise that they will give China as much assistance as possible if China's coastline is threatened. ”
Yang Xiaolin's serious appearance made Mu Mo stunned, he didn't say anything for a long time, and finally slowly took a step forward, shook his head and said, "I can't believe it, I really can't believe my ears!" Beast, when did you start believing the promises of the British? ”
Yang Xiaolin smiled after seeing his shocked and disappointed look, and put his arm around Mu Mo's shoulder: "I'm kidding you, Mr. Mu Mo, I've never believed in the assurances that others wrote to me on paper, to be honest, I think only the Germans in Europe are more credible, and I don't really believe in the Austro-Hungarian Empire." ”
Only then did Mu Mo breathe a sigh of relief: "You tell me, why do you want to dismantle the troops?" I can clearly convey to you Berlin's concern about your move. ”
Yang Xiaolin pulled him to the table and sat down, thinking for a while that he should get to the bottom of the Germans, at least let the Germans know that the containment of Russia would definitely be completed. Let Germany rest assured that it will fight with the French, and your brothers will fight well in Europe, and the longer the fight, the better. It's best like World War II, when Germany first turned France into a scorched earth, then struck England, and then turned Germany into a scorched earth when Britain and France recovered.
"Mr. Mumer, the reduction of the troops does not mean that I want to weaken the combat effectiveness of the troops. The number of soldiers and whether a country is strong in combat are two concepts. Let's put it this way, I am immediately ready to promote the militia system throughout the country, and all the workers, the peasants, have to go through a certain period of training every quarter. At the same time, I plan to increase the physical education curriculum in the school to seven classes per week, and elementary school students will have to learn how to operate firearms and simple combat skills. ”
Yang Xiaolin said that he took out a cigarette from his pocket and lit one himself, giving it to Mu Mo: "I need someone to teach those militia and children, so there must be some soldiers in the army who have been on the battlefield to go to the place immediately." The remaining soldiers will all be mainly technical and technical arms and grass-roots command personnel. In addition, I have to set up various clubs in various places, such as shooting clubs and fighting clubs, which all require money, and I don't have any money, and I am embarrassed to talk to you Germans again, so I will borrow some from them. ”
Yang Xiaolin's method is the concept of army building in the future. Don't look at Li Debiao's establishment of only 200,000 people in the northeast, including more than 100,000 high-quality troops such as tankmen, snipers, artillerymen, communications troops, and scouts, and tens of thousands of people are squad and platoon company commanders.
In peacetime, when there is no war, especially when you don't want to fight and don't have the ability to grab the colony, you don't need so many soldiers who can only shoot. The training of those grassroots combat soldiers can completely follow the same approach as the mustache before World War II.
When the mustache came to power, all areas of military affairs were restricted by Britain and France, from the number of troops to the size of artillery, and even Germany was not allowed to have its own combat aircraft. But in such a situation he created a force that swept across Europe, and before the invasion of Poland the German troops had just been freed, but the German recruits were able to sweep Poland and France in a few weeks!
After the invasion of the Soviet Union, the Soviets wanted to kill a German soldier, and they had to pay the price of seven or eight Soviet soldiers. A German pilot who has just enlisted in the army can kill your veteran Soviet pilot, why should people?
The first is that the weapons are better than yours, and more importantly, the quality of the German soldiers is better than yours. At that time, Mustache began to instill combat theory in children in elementary and junior high schools, and asked them to join the youth league and participate in various trainings. Whether it's France, the Soviet Union, or even Britain, your soldiers and German soldiers are not on the same starting line, and when you are learning piano, people are learning how to fight, and when you go to the battlefield, you are simply a dish on someone's plate.
Commander Yang felt that he was now very similar to the mustache, and the purpose of the mustache was to start a war, break the British and French shackles on Germany, and re-establish a set of world order. And the same is true of Commander Yang, who is now showing forbearance and pursuing peace, just to give China the ability to forcibly intervene in a major war in the near future.
If we want to prepare for the war of the future, we cannot focus on the present. War must also start from the baby! From the age of twelve or thirteen to the present children, they began to instill in them the concept of teaching them how to shoot and how to fire. When the First World War began six or seven years later, these kids were in their twenties, and they were definitely first-class soldiers.
The soldiers who have been trained for several years are fully qualified for the duties of grassroots commanders, and this group of experienced squad and platoon commanders will lead that group of energetic young men, and if they have the best weapons, I believe that no unit will be their opponent. (To be continued......)