Chen Feng was very surprised by the candidate reported by Yan'an, and he actually transferred the left deputy chief of general staff of the 18th Group Army to Saibei to serve as this vice chairman. Regarding the deeds of the Deputy Chief of Staff Zuo, I am afraid that no soldier will not know the Tao in later generations, this is the highest-level military and political cadre sacrificed in the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression in Yan'an.

Yan'an was full of generosity, and transferred the two generals to Saibei, which made Chen Feng a little embarrassed. To tell the truth, although he absorbed both the Kuomintang and the Communist Party into the Saibei Provincial Government, whether it was the former Chahar Provincial Government or the current Saibei Provincial Government, the main departments were still in the hands of Chen Feng's own people, and although the Kuomintang and the Communist Party together occupied almost half of the power departments in Saibei Province, their actual power was actually very limited.

Of course, there are actually benefits for both the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, and the penicillin drugs that the Nationalist Government has bought from Chen Feng in the past 38 years alone are worth 1 billion US dollars, and its net profit is at least 1 billion yuan, and in turn the Nationalist Government has used this money to purchase weapons and equipment from Chen Feng's subordinates for 9 divisions, and there are still 700 million or 800 million surplus, which can be said to have greatly alleviated the financial crisis of the Nationalist Government, which is the main reason why Lao Jiang did not dare to easily fight Chen Feng.

The situation in Yan'an is similar, they are poor, so Chen Feng gave a great discount in terms of medicines, almost half sold and half sent, of course, Chen Feng was very strict in terms of quantity, basically only able to use the Eighth Route Army himself, and could not sell it to the outside world. In addition, in terms of weapons and equipment, Chen Feng also took care of Yan'an, and the equipment of the 11 infantry divisions only collected less than 2.8 million oceans, which was less than one-tenth of the price of the national government.

Of course. This is also different from the equipment that Yan'an wants, the national government only needs German equipment and Japanese equipment, and disdains those miscellaneous brands. But Yan'an did not refuse to come, as long as it was guns and ammunition, they wanted it, so in the past two years, all the messy weapons and equipment that Chen Feng's department seized from the puppet army were sold to the Eighth Route Army, which also made the weapons and equipment of the Eighth Route Army much stronger than in history.

Immediately after the government meeting, Chen Feng issued an order to convene a military conference of officers at and above the division level in all theaters, and all officers must attend and cannot take leave for any reason.

There is only one content of this meeting. That is the expansion of the army. World War II is about to begin. The Soviet-German non-aggression pact had been signed, which solved the worries of the Soviet Union, and Hitler and his Nazi Germany would immediately reveal their hideous true colors, and the flames of war in Europe would soon be ignited. It is therefore imperative that the force continue to be expanded.

According to Chen Feng's plan for army expansion. The existing 7 infantry divisions were expanded to 15. In addition to the 101st, 222nd, the 7th Independent Division, the 10th Provisional Division, the Guard Division, the Garrison Division, and the Instructor, the 4th Northern Division, the 1st Division, the 2nd Division, the 3rd Division, the 4th Division, the 5th Division, the 6th Division, and the 7th Division were added, and the 8 new infantry divisions were all expanded from the previous Special Task Brigade.

Other than that. In terms of infantry, eight task forces were reorganized. After the formation is completed, the Eighth Theater will have 15 infantry divisions and 4 task brigades, with a total strength of 360,000. Of course, the original 88 garrison regiments in the 8th Theater of Operations were reduced to 11, with a total strength of 33,000 troops.

In terms of artillery, 2 new mountain artillery brigades, 2 field artillery brigades, and 2 heavy artillery brigades were added, plus the original 3 artillery brigades, a total of 9 artillery brigades, with a total strength of 54,000 troops.

In terms of armored forces, it is planned to add two armored divisions, so that the eighth theater will have three armored divisions and three armored brigades, with a total of 45,000 people, equipped with 3,000 tanks and armored vehicles.

At present, there are a total of 1,400 combat vehicles and armored vehicles of various types in the Eighth Theater of Operations, mainly T34 tanks, with more than 1,100 units, and the rest are all Japanese-made light combat vehicles. Now Chen Feng still has a light tank production line in his hand, according to the instructions, if the raw materials are sufficient, this production line will produce 300 tanks per month, plus the production capacity of 300 tanks per month of the T34 tank production line, Chen Feng's department will almost become all the tanks needed to produce an armored division in a month, if it is not for the need for literate soldiers for tank operation, Chen Feng really wants to expand 10 armored divisions at once, and then form an armored group army, and then sweep across the North China Plain.

Moreover, starting this year, the Eighth Theater will expand two T34 tank production lines, and it is expected that the production capacity will reach an astonishing number of 1,000 tanks per month. Chen Feng remembers that the Soviet Union invested a total of 170,000 tanks in World War II, and in addition to the 18,000 donated by the United States, the remaining 150,000 were produced by the Soviet Union itself.

More importantly, the Soviet Union lost the most important industrial areas in Eastern Europe at the beginning of the war, and the Soviet Union produced at least 130,000 tanks in 4 years with only those arsenals in Siberia and the Far East, thinking that it was likely to go to war with the Soviet Union in the future, so Chen Feng now needs to increase a large number of armored forces.

The air defense force plans to add one division, plus the original one, for a total of 16,000 men in two divisions.

The number of special operations base troops has increased by 5,000, and the number of special forces in the eighth theater has been expanded to 8,000.

The army aviation unit will be increased to four army aviation brigades, each brigade will have two regiments and 340 fighters, and the total strength of the army aviation force will be 12,000.

The cavalry units were reduced again, the cavalry of each unit was reduced by 50% again, and all the troops were converted to armored or infantry. The number of cavalry in the whole army remained at about 10,000.

The armed forces of the intelligence services should also be expanded, and in addition to the strength of the periphery, the regular hoe and rape teams will be increased from the current 4,500 men in the three regiments to 9,000 in the six regiments.

In addition, the Air Force should also be expanded, the structure of aviation brigades should be increased, and three fighter brigades, three bomber brigades, two transport aircraft brigades, two reconnaissance aircraft regiments, and one radar regiment should be added under the Northern Air Force Command. Two additional airborne brigades were added.

At this point, the Northern Air Force will become a huge group with 3,100 fighters and 64,000 soldiers.

However, since the Eighth Theater is not yet able to produce its own aircraft, special means are needed to complete this expansion task. In the past year, the Soviet side has handed over a total of 780 fighters of various types to Chen Feng's department. The US side handed over 400 planes to Chen Feng, and in addition to the more than 600 planes in the past, there are now a total of 1,800 fighters of various types in the Eighth Theater.

If Chen Feng's expansion plan is implemented, there will still be a shortage of 2,600 fighters in the army aviation units and air force units of the Eighth Theater, and in addition to continuing to urge the United States and the Soviet Union to hurry up the delivery of goods, Chen Feng also plans to build his own airfield. He has already inquired that a production line with a monthly output of 100 domestic J-6 fighters and a supporting weapons and ammunition production line requires 18,000 points, and the MiG-15 with similar performance and the F86 in the United States are also about the same price. Bombers and transport aircraft, as well as reconnaissance aircraft, are comparatively cheaper, but not by a large margin.

Now Chen Feng has a total of more than 60,000 points in his hands, plus the system can exchange 10,000 points per month. If you exchange all the opportunities you have accumulated in the past few months. He can have at least 130,000 points. If he gets rid of the 16,000 points needed to transform his wife's body, he can also redeem it for 6 airplane production lines.

He plans to exchange 1 fighter line, 1 bomber line, 1 transport aircraft line, and 1 helicopter line. The remaining points are accumulated in case they are needed.

The establishment of the navy will remain unchanged for the time being, except that the establishment of the Marine Corps will be expanded to 16,000 men per division. For the time being, this division first went to Wuliangsuhai to conduct training in beach-grabbing landing. When the Navy really has its own large fleet to participate in real combat training.

According to the agreement between Chen Feng and the United States and the Soviet Union. By the end of the year, they will deliver nearly 60 warships of the Eighth Theater, including 2 heavy cruisers, 6 light cruisers, 10 destroyers, 10 frigates, 2 supply ships, 2 minelayers, 2 minesweepers, 10 torpedo boats, 10 submarines, 2 transport and rescue ships, and 2 submarine hunters. In addition to the 42 decommissioned warships purchased from the United States and the Soviet Union not long ago, the Northern Navy will have nearly 100 large and small ships by the end of the year. This is equivalent to a large fleet of the Japanese army. Even at the beginning of the Pacific War, the Japanese Navy had less than 300 warships.

Of course, the strength of the navy is not calculated according to the number of warships, and aside from the quality of the navy's officers and men, the main equipment of the ships alone is also very good. First of all, there are only two really large warships of these warships of the Northern Navy, that is, those two large cruisers, and these two heavy cruisers can compete with the flagship of the Japanese fleet, and the other warships can only fight.

As for the Japanese Navy, there were 12 battleships, 3 battlecruisers, 8 aircraft carriers, and 15 heavy cruisers, and as many as 49 light cruisers, 119 destroyers, and 64 frigates.

Therefore, starting from the development of the navy, I think so, for the time being, I will use these rags to match, although these things are not very good, but the training of troops is still very good. After the outbreak of the Pacific War, he exchanged a few later warships as flagships, and quickly increased the strength of the entire fleet.

He also inquired about the price of naval warships, an Essex-class conventionally powered aircraft carrier is only 8,000 points, even if there is no mission reward, Chen Feng can exchange for more than a dozen such aircraft carriers in a year. Advanced nuclear-powered aircraft carriers are more expensive, but they are only 15,000 points, and they can be exchanged for five, six, seven, or eight in two years, plus the more than 160 warships customized by the United States and the Soviet Union, which can be compared with the Japanese Navy.

According to the entire expansion plan, after the completion of the expansion, the Eighth Theater will have a total of 540,000 infantry, 64,000 air force, and 39,000 navy, with a total strength of 643,000 troops, and the expansion will be 50 percent of the existing strength.

Although Yang Yi and others were worried that such a rapid expansion of the army would inevitably affect the combat effectiveness of the troops, Chen Feng was not worried, although the troops would increase by 200,000 at once, and it had only been more than half a year since the last expansion, Chen Feng believed that the battalion with the iron of the Eighth Theater would definitely be able to deal with this problem.

On the one hand, the Eighth Theater has been ready for a large-scale expansion of the army since last year, and the 88 garrison regiments set up by the Armed Forces Department are not fancy; presumably after more than a year of military training, the soldiers of those garrison regiments should not be regarded as new recruits. Therefore, the soldiers who have been expanded to various units this time are veterans of regular military training, not new recruits, and although these units will be uncomfortable for a while, they will not have much impact on the actual combat of the troops. (To be continued......)