In fact, with China's mountainous terrain and poor road infrastructure, the 105 caliber anti-aircraft guns were a bit bulky. As for mountain air defense, because of the high shelling point, there is generally no need for anti-aircraft guns of a large caliber, but anti-aircraft guns of small caliber are more useful

In addition, Hu Weidong also designed a twin version of the 127 and 88 anti-aircraft guns to be installed on the four large warships in the future, making full use of the advantages of the larger space on these warships to enhance the anti-aircraft firepower as much as possible, and if there is enough space for light warships such as destroyers, they can also be reequipped, in fact, the navy later also said baibai to the 75 anti-aircraft guns

If it was Hu Weidong before, although he was extremely proficient in artillery knowledge, because the large-caliber anti-aircraft guns of later generations had long been eliminated, there was no ready-made template in his mind for reference, and he was not even clear about some key points. In this case, it is not easy for Hu Weidong to quickly design an excellent work, but after having the devil's two Type 98 anti-aircraft guns as a reference, Hu Weidong has been taking time to study during this time, and he has already figured it out, and it didn't take too much effort to complete the main design of these anti-aircraft guns, but Hu Weidong is busy now, and the details can basically only be handed over to the following Jishu personnel to improve

After a long conversation, Hu Weidong found that although Kanazawa Masao was not very good, he was really proficient in Jishu, so he had a more in-depth exchange with him with great interest, and the focus was on the maintenance problems of three large warships. Thereinto. For the Dingyuan, which could not be repaired because the dock was not large enough, Kanazawa Masao proposed a solution that was not particularly clever, but Hu Weidong had not thought of before, that is, to increase the counterweight as much as possible in the stern, and reduce the weight of the bow as much as possible, so that the bow of the ship could be cocked and hung on the dock for repair without capsizing

And the two heavy cruisers could have been repaired at the Qingdao shipyard, but the main problem was that the seriously damaged 240-caliber barrels could not be replaced, and Masao Kanazawa did not have any special good way to do this. However, he pointed out that the main guns of the Tone-class heavy cruisers were actually 203 caliber in the original design, so there was no need to replace them with 240 caliber ones, although he did not know that the border area could produce them at present

How thick is the barrel of the largest caliber. But the 203 is always much easier to produce than the 240, right?

In addition, Masayoshi Kanazawa also asked whether the Third Fleet had formed a Marine Corps, which woke up Hu Weidong. Although even after inflicting heavy losses on the Japanese Navy, the Third Fleet is still unable to confront the Japanese Combined Fleet head-on, so actions such as beach-grabbing and landing are basically impossible, but this is an excellent excuse to ask for a number! Perhaps due to the influence of his background as an expert, Hu Weidong seldom did the other generals of the Red Party to "arbitrarily" expand the number of troops to a large extent beyond the limit of the number of troops without the knowledge of the Ministry of Military Affairs of the national government, and even if the front line urgently needed to recruit more personnel, most of them would be transferred back to the local troops or militia after the war, and only a few who performed particularly well had the opportunity to stay in the main force and become a member of the regular army.

However, on the one hand, Hu Weidong is very good at "entertaining soldiers for the people", and the ratio of soldiers to civilians in the Central Plains border region is the lowest among the major border regions in peacetime, and when needed. On the contrary, it can pull up the largest troops in a short time; On the other hand, he is also very good at using all opportunities and even excuses to fight for the number of his troops, such as the previous Japanese Column, Sun Liren's new 38th Division are very typical examples.

No, as soon as Hu Weidong heard about the Marine Corps, he realized that once this unit was formed, it would be equivalent to having another unit's name. Immediately sent a report to the central government and asked Zhou Gong to fight for it on his behalf. Lao Jiang couldn't help but secretly have a headache after reading the report from Hu Weidong, but at the same time, he felt that Hu Weidong had to ask for his consent every time he expanded the army, which showed that he still respected himself as a leader, which was much better than other generals of the Red Party, and Lao Jiang was also worried that he would not agree. In the unlikely event that Hu Weidong had also learned badly and began to expand the army casually in disregard of the existence of the Ministry of Military Affairs, the consequences would have been even more serious, and Hu Weidong also proposed that the Marine Division should not have a political commissar or a director of the Political Department, but should be under the full command of the division commander (Note 1), so the old Chiang, who had a little illusion, finally gritted his teeth and agreed.

According to the suggestion of Hu Weidong, the former commander-in-chief of the enemy in the First Theater, Lao Chiang agreed that Hu Lian, the current commander of the 94th Division of the 15 th Army, would be reassigned to the commander of the Marine Division of the Republic of China Navy.

Although Lao Chiang only gave the Marine Corps under the Third Fleet the establishment of a division, Hu Weidong was very strict in the selection of commanders and fighters of the division, and in addition to the various new weapons that were given priority, this division was not inferior in combat effectiveness to those reorganized divisions from the very beginning of its formation, and when they were later equipped with sophisticated exclusive equipment such as amphibious tanks and expanded into integrated divisions, they became one of the trump card units with the strongest combat effectiveness in China

Hu Weidong chose Hu Lian as the commander of the Marine Division, and he had his reasons. Although he has been tempered by countless battles in the past two years, Hu Lian can now be called a first-class general in China, but his attack is weak, more precisely, he should not be good at fighting a war of annihilation, but he has never been able to improve much, in addition, although he has both wisdom and bravery, but he has too many ghost ideas, from another point of view, he likes to be opportunistic, which has affected the improvement of the combat ability of his large corps. Relatively speaking, Fang Xianjue made faster progress in this regard, and even Sun Weiting, who was relatively less conspicuous, was better at coordinating the overall situation than Hu Lian, and Hu Weidong also changed the first choice for the next commander of the 15th Army from the initial Haode Hu Lian to Fang Xianjue

Note 1: Later, this was the case for special forces such as airborne and special warfare, because the combat environment they were in required a strong ability to adapt to changes, and the dual-chief system often delayed fighters and even incurred unnecessary risks, but this system did achieve good results in actual combat. The reason why the central authorities agreed to Hu Weidong's proposal and did not worry about undermining the principle of "the party commanding the gun" was that these units were also built on the company branch, and the military commanders at and above the company level were necessarily veteran party members; second, because of the existence of the soldiers' committee and the existence of this special organ, even if there was no political commissar, if the military commander betrayed the party and the country, he would not be able to pull away the ranks. Besides, the strength of these special forces is limited and does not affect the overall situation......)

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