After spending several days conforming the Iranians of their role in the future war, Cai and Furuji finally began to discuss the specifics. "According to your country's economic situation and personnel base, Huaxia believes that the number of troops that your country has before the outbreak of war should not exceed 400,000, and that too few are not conducive to expanding the army and fighting, and too many are beyond the limit of what your country can bear." Huaxia wants to hold the northern part of Iran, so I don't want Iran to deplete its human resources in this war, not to mention that the more cannon fodder the better during the war, and the cannon fodder also needs to be equipped and eaten.

The size of the force in this peacetime was formulated by Xu Jie in combination with the situation of Iran in history, you know, in history, Iran only had about 10 divisions in World War II, and none of them were larger divisions in the West. Before the collapse of the Pahlavi dynasty, the size of Iran's entire army was only about 450,000 people, and now Huaxia's 400,000 posts for Iran is quite high. Even if the 400,000 troops are not only the air force and navy, but the remaining troops will be divided into two kinds of troops, one is the defensive troops with poor equipment, low training level, and lack of mobility ability, and they will be stationed in major cities and fortified areas to serve as the defense of important places and ensure the stability of the rear, and probably less than 150,000 of them are the troops used for field warfare, and these troops will be equipped with heavy equipment and sufficient vehicles to ensure mobility, as an important auxiliary force of the Chinese Army.

After reading Huaxia's equipment list, Fruji expressed his incomprehension of Huaxia's request for the Iranian army to be equipped with a large number of armored vehicles and trucks, according to his understanding, it would be more useful to exchange these "excessive" trucks and armored vehicles for machine guns and artillery. It is difficult for Frugi to understand why the tanks equipped with infantry were no less tonnage and cost than Type 26 tanks. Can't these infantrymen ride in trucks? Do you have to hide in a thick tin can?

"In the case of relatively limited troops, we also need to have a large number of transports to fight against the more mobile German army, otherwise. These troops are like lone troops, trapped in one stronghold after another, to be slaughtered. As for talking about armored vehicles? In the eyes of our Chinese army, the value of weapons is lower than that of personnel. As long as there is enough industry and raw materials, the time required for a tank to start cutting steel plates and get off the assembly line is only a few days. The assembly line allows most weapons to be mass-produced, but not personnel, veterans and experienced officers are the skeleton of an army, and in order to protect these precious resources, it is not a luxury to equip them with armored personnel carriers. What's more, tanks need infantry to cooperate, so we must provide infantry with a platform with a certain amount of firepower and good mobility. Cai's tone was very gentle, but the unquestionable determination revealed in it made Fruji have to give up his thoughts.

"We are going to focus on building two mechanized infantry divisions. Their level of equipment will not be lower than that of ordinary mechanized infantry divisions in China, and they will have more self-propelled anti-armor firepower, and their firepower standards will be between mechanized infantry divisions and armored divisions. Each division will be fully staffed at around 15,000 men, and although they will not be assigned a full heavy tank battalion, we will still ensure that they have four fully formed armored battalions, two of which will be medium tank battalions, and the other two battalions will be tank destroyer battalions. "Since it is the main auxiliary force of the Huaxia Army, this force must be able to take on a certain heavy responsibility when necessary! So you must not be stingy in terms of equipment.

These two armored divisions will be the main auxiliary forces for the Chinese attack on the Kirkuk area, and they will be responsible for the security of the flanks of the Chinese armored forces. In terms of preparation, although there is no heavy tank battalion, because it has been replaced with a tank destroyer battalion, it will be better than the tank table in defensive operations. According to the understanding of the Chinese Army. You can't attack, but it's always okay to stick to your position and shoot black guns, right?

And not just tanks, but self-propelled anti-tank guns and long-range artillery. These two divisions have not shrunk much compared to ordinary Huaxia armored divisions, although the number of long-range artillery with a range of about 25KM is a little less. But the number of large-caliber mortars and howitzers was increased. It will not be much worse than the Huaxia Panzer Division in the projection of firepower at medium and close ranges. It is because of the Iranians' love for rocket artillery, a weapon with simple structure, murderous firepower, and low price. The Iranian division has even a little more rocket artillery than the Chinese armored division.

The real shrinkage is more severe zhòng is the infantry fighting vehicles in the various mechanized infantry battalions. The number of infantry fighting vehicles in the Iranian armored division is only about half that of the Huaxia armored division. Although the number of armored transport vehicles is larger, it is definitely not more than eighty percent. The reason for this is, of course, Iran's lack of sufficient funds to acquire these seemingly "less important" weapons. On the other hand, it is not necessary. China does not need the Iranian Army to rush to the front line. They are more likely to cover the flanks and rear, and they face less of a threat, so in this case, it is unbearable to transport infantry in heavy vehicles.

IN TERMS OF HEAVY EQUIPMENT, THE TWO IRANIAN ARMORED DIVISIONS WILL BE MORE OR LESS INFERIOR TO THE HUAXIA, BUT IN TERMS OF LIGHT WEAPONS, ESPECIALLY THE 60MM AND 82MM COMPANY PLATOON MORTARS, THE IRANIAN INFANTRY IS DEFINITELY NOT WORSE THAN THE HUAXIA, AT LEAST BEFORE THE HUAXIA IS MASSIVELY EQUIPPED WITH ASSAULT RIFLES. Some of these weapons were transferred from the Huaxia arsenal, while others were produced under license. The number of semi-automatic rifles and submachine guns in each infantry squad was almost half, and this standard of firepower even exceeded the level of ordinary infantry squads in the German Army. Both China and Germany have MG machine guns, and in addition to machine guns, the German infantry is equipped with Mauser rifles and submachine guns in half, which is naturally inferior to the two Iranian armored divisions and the Huaxia with a higher fire density. As for assault rifles? These things can only be equipped on a large scale by paratroopers who are rich in oil, and the German Army has no plans to redress on a large scale.

According to the standard of 150,000 field troops, the two divisions have about 30,000 people, and after discarding some logistics units and units directly under the army level, there are still about 100,000 personnel left. These forces were sufficient to form about eight infantry divisions to fill the defensive line and defense. Compared with the two armored divisions that China and Iran focused on, the remaining ordinary infantry divisions are inferior in mobility and firepower, and in a certain sense, they are also considered defensive troops, in order to save costs, most of the armored units equipped with these units are assault guns or tank destroyers, and the number of tanks is small. The number of long-range artillery fell further, which was supplemented by howitzers, mortars and even infantry artillery. At the same time, the infantry weapons were a little worse.

In addition to the established troops, Huaxia also plans to establish a special armored firefighting team for Iranian troops, and in addition to the two elite armored divisions, according to Huaxia's standards, the mobile anti-armor firepower of other Iranian units can be described as completely lacking. At the same time, considering that the Germans were also equipped with infantry fighting vehicles, these fast-moving easterns would pose a great threat to poorly defended truck guns. Therefore, in order to make up for the lack of mobile anti-armor firepower, Huaxia has established several independent anti-armor groups for Iranian troops, in addition to equipping a certain number of tank destroyers, it will also arrange some Type 26 medium tanks, assault guns and infantry fighting vehicles to cooperate with tank destroyers. What's more, this force is not only to make up for the lack of anti-armor firepower, but also to separate the opponent's army if necessary. Anti-infantry fire is also important.

The arrangement of the army is like this, and the air force Huaxia divided the Iranian air force into two parts, forming two air armies, each of which has about 400 aircraft. One of these parts is naturally the front-line air force, which is used to undertake the task of theater prevention and control, and the remaining main force of the entire air force is divided into 15 flight squadrons, and the number of fighters in each squadron is between 16 and 20. In addition to eight fighter squadrons responsible for coastal air defense operations, this air force also has about four squadrons of torpedo planes and dive bombers, and the main task of these attack planes is to ensure the safety of the Caspian Sea route. At the same time as the seed unit of the Iranian naval aviation.

It stands to reason that Iran, a country with a small sea area, needs to develop a large navy? Generally speaking, it is unnecessary, and even Xu Jie thinks that it is unnecessary to order 4 Kidd-class warships from the United States during the Pahlavi dynasty in history, think about it, the 8000-ton destroyers in the 70s, equipped with anti-ship missiles, Standard 2, anti-submarine helicopters and towed sonar, what does Iran buy them for? Are there hostile forces in the Middle East with strong navies? No! Does Iran have a vast area of the sea that needs to be protected? Nor did it!

But this plane is different, because of political reasons, it is impossible for Huaxia to organize a fleet to fight with the Allies in the Iran War. Germany was taboo to have a complete falling out with the Entente, and China was equally taboo about falling out with the Allies. Therefore, Huaxia needs to arm Iran, as for whether the military port of the Iranian Navy can be kept, this is not a matter for Huaxia to consider, as long as it can run out before the outbreak of war, the port will definitely not be needed. As for how much of the fleet can be left, it really depends on the level of the Iranians. The purpose of the Iranian fleet was, on the one hand, to threaten the sea lines of the Allies, and on the other hand, to turn Germany's attention to the northeast and to engage with the British. Even the latter has a higher priority than the former. Xu Jie is even ready to let the Iranian fleet go afloat!

Thanks to the book friend hukaikaka, zhouyu1976 for the tip~~~, as well as the book friend f663026, the monthly pass support for the recruitment ~~~. The second is to offer ~~~~, ask for subscription, support ~~~~~. (To be continued......)