Chapter 569: Armament Battle

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The S-level command is a national-level authority, and in addition to military appointments, the Government Council has also set up a shelf. Yang Du served as the president of the Government Council, coordinating and managing the affairs of the four southwestern provinces, and Tao Chengzhang of the Liberation Society took over Yang Du's position in Cam Ranh Bay because he took refuge in Chen Hao. The Guangfuhui and some other revolutionaries surrendered one after another because of the persuasion of Qiu Jin and others, and they formed Chen Hao's current team.

After Chen Hao became the governor of the southwest, the cadets who graduated from the Baoding Army Military Academy came to vote one after another, and he had the conditions to expand the army. Today, the Arsenal in Zhenyuanfu, Guizhou Province has quadrupled in size, and the munitions produced are sold to players in large quantities in addition to equipping the army. Cam Ranh Bay Arsenal is larger, but it has begun to transform, focusing on the production of large-caliber howitzers, mountain artillery, mortars, heavy machine guns and other weapons.

Vietnam's Thanh Hoa Duc steel mill has also expanded its production capacity, with an annual steel output of 500,000 tons, which can fully meet the needs of shipyards. Now Chen Hao has people under his command, and he wants guns and guns, but the size of the army is far from enough in his opinion. The only regular NPCs under his command are the former Cam Ranh Bay First Division, the two mountain divisions in Guizhou, and the newly built Broken Army, and the four divisions are only enough to defend the current base area.

After Chen Hao established the S-level headquarters, he immediately issued an order to expand the army, requiring the War Department to reorganize five army divisions within one year. This time, Yang Du did not oppose the expansion of the army, the shipyards and arsenals brought a lot of profits, and the finances were very healthy. After mastering the four southwestern provinces and establishing the headquarters, he immediately had to start collecting taxes, and there was no problem in raising five divisions with the taxes of the four provinces.

The troops of the four southwestern provinces, including Cam Ranh Bay, will be unified and reorganized, and the 1st Cam Ranh Bay Division will be changed to the Southwest Garrison Division, which will be responsible for garrisoning Sichuan; The names of the second and third divisions in Guizhou remained unchanged, with Xu Xueqiu and Xu Xilin serving as commanders respectively; The newly formed Broken Army was renamed the Fourth Division. Jiang Baili concurrently served as the division commander, responsible for dealing with the rebellious party Long Fei in western Sichuan and northern Yunnan.

The Cam Ranh Bay Garrison was upgraded to a garrison division, with Zhang Yi, an instructor from the Kaiping Armed Forces Academy, serving as the division commander; In addition, the four new divisions, three of which will recruit Sichuan NPCs, during the Anti-Japanese War, there was a saying that "no Sichuan can not be an army", and the combat effectiveness of the Sichuan army is obvious to all. It is impossible for Chen Hao not to take advantage of this geographical advantage.

The last seventh division, Chen Hao, was handed over to Bai Chongxi, and the young Bai Chongxi was assigned a Gui division to be responsible for garrisoning Guangxi. The combat effectiveness of the Gui Army was also not weak, second only to the Central Army during the Anti-Japanese War, and it was mainly due to the gap in equipment. Historically, Bai Chongxi built the Seventh Army in addition to his descendants, and with his commanding attributes, I believe it will not disappoint.

Sichuan recruited the fourth, fifth, and sixth divisions, and the commander of the fourth division, Sun Chuanfang, had a commander attribute of 88 points. Sun Chuanfang is a little worse than Jiang Baili and others in terms of commandery, but his political attributes are good. So Chen Hao gave him great autonomy. The Fourth Division was stationed in western Sichuan, and after three months of training at full recruitment, Sun Chuanfang would accept Jiang Baili's command to attack Longfei.

The S-class command comes with a recruiting hall building, and the attribute of this building is that 1-2 well-known NPCs will vote for it every month. Chen Hao was very lucky, an NPC came to the Zhaoxian Pavilion on the third day, and this NPC was called Yang Sen. Yang Sen has served as the chairman of Guizhou Province in history, the second-level general of the National Revolutionary Army, and the commander attribute is as high as 90 points.

Yang Sen didn't know if it was a good thing or a bad thing to vote for Chen Hao. Because Janssen's political attribute page is as high as 83 points, he is a difficult character to control. Historically, Yang Sen successively took refuge in the Yunnan Army, the Sichuan Army and Wu Peifu in Beiyang. But he never seems to be loyal to anyone, always taking advantage of others to develop.

Yang Sen is such an NB NPC to vote, which has a lot to do with Chen Hao's current status. Playing this strategy game is like snowballing, the higher the player's status in the game, the more powerful NPCs will naturally come to take refuge. Yang Sen came to vote because he took a fancy to his signboard as the governor of Sichuan and wanted to get ahead under him. Take advantage of his position to develop.

Since Yang Sen did not sincerely take refuge, it was impossible for him to be truly loyal to Chen Hao, and Chen Hao's imperial mental stunt could not play a role. If he reuses Yang Sen, Yang Sen will most likely be like Jia Xu of the Three Kingdoms, who will only plan for himself; If you don't use Janssen. He felt that it was too much of a pity, after all, Yang Sen's basic attributes were coveted.

Chen Hao finally appointed Yang Sen as the commander of the Fifth Division, which was definitely an exceptional appointment, and Yang Sen looked grateful. However, Chen Hao will not be paralyzed by him, all the officers sent to the Fifth Division are all loyal to his henchmen, Yang Sen as the division commander can command these people to fight, but if there is a difference, he can't take a single soldier away.

The commander of the Sixth Division was Xiong Kewu, an important figure in the Shu military government who was reused by Chen Hao. Xiong Kewu's commander attribute is 80 points, which is more qualified than Xu Xilin and Xu Xueqiu for the position of division commander, and it is a pity if you don't use it. Although Xiong Kewu is a member of the League, he is a member of Huang Xing's faction, and his nine-member group is full of contradictions with the industrial group supported by Sun Yat-sen. At that time, Xiong Kewu had already transformed into a warlord, but now he is still alive and enthusiastic young people, determined to do his part for the revolution.

Chen Hao was not interested in Huang Xing, and he was also very careful in appointing Xiong Kewu, for fear that Huang Xing would summon Xiong Kewu and make another revolution. The team of the Sixth Division was the same as that of the Fifth Division, and all the officers were deployed to serve Chen Hao's henchmen, so that Xiong Kewu could not set off any storms. Huang Xing will definitely let Xiong Kewu make trouble, and if Xiong Kewu fails to attract a group of troops, he will definitely continue to work in the Sixth Division. In this way, he always held illusions, but he had to work hard for Chen Hao.

There is another reason why Chen Hao attaches importance to Xiong Kewu, there will be a real famous general under Xiong Kewu, one of the three and a half generals commented by the Japanese. The famous general is still only a small secretary general, and he has sent people to inquire many times but there is no news, but he believes that the system will let the famous general appear under Xiong Kewu.

After Chen Hao's reorganization plan is completed, he will have nine NPC Organizers under his command, two of which are security divisions. Players who are still serving in Cam Ranh Bay are not right, they will be reorganized into the player's first and second divisions, and all of them will be equipped with new equipment. These players who have always been loyal to his work, he will not treat anyone badly, and he has begun to pay players every month, which is the only one in the game.

Each faction in the game recruits a large number of player soldiers, and at this time, because of the low cost of player soldiers, there is no need to pay military salaries to support soldiers. After the lone player reaches level 40 or above, leveling alone is no longer feasible, and he has to rely on the big forces to develop. Chen Hao spends hundreds of thousands of silver dollars a month to pay players, and the praise is also for all players to see, because he is ready to recruit a large number of player troops.

Before the fall of Yuan Shikai, Chen Hao had no possibility of dominating the world for the time being, and it was impossible for him to do nothing in the past few years. After Yuan Shikai appointed him as Minister of the Navy and Governor of the Southwest, he soon appointed Li Yuanhong as Minister of the Army, and he was ready to take advantage of this. Although Li Yuanhong's Minister of War cannot command the NPC troops, he has great mission authority, and if he asks Li Yuanhong to help issue a mission to recruit players to go to Korea to deal with Japan and Russia, it is not impossible to drive Japan out of Korea.

Chen Hao planned to assist Russia in defeating Japan before the outbreak of World War I, and now Cam Ranh Bay's naval strength exceeds that of the Japanese Navy, and Japan is definitely not an opponent when it unites with Russia. He holds the position of Minister of the Navy, and can issue missions to recruit player warships to participate in the war, and let Yuan Shikai's government pay the mission rewards. Now Huaxia's player warships are no less than Japanese players, and with the player fleet to contain Japanese players, he is 100% sure of defeating the Japanese navy.

The Russians have been sold by Chen Hao once, and this time they will definitely be very careful with their cooperation, and they must show sincerity. In a decisive battle at sea, maybe the Cam Ranh Bay fleet will be the main force, which Chen Hao is prepared for. As long as the Japanese Navy can be destroyed and the overall plot of Japan can be affected, it is acceptable for the Cam Ranh Bay Fleet to suffer some losses.

The Cam Ranh Bay Fleet now has two Super Dreadnoughts, five Dreadnoughts, and twelve Invincible-class battlecruisers, as well as a large number of smaller ships. Such a naval strength not only surpassed Japan, but even surpassed the United States and France, becoming the third largest navy after Britain and Germany.

Chen Hao holds the post of Minister of Navy, and he firmly holds the Navy in his hands. If you add the Chinese Navy and the Vietnamese Navy commanded by Sa Zhenbing, the number of ships in the navy even exceeds that of the British in terms of tonnage. However, the fighting quality of the British Navy was higher than that of the Navy under his command, and most of them could not be defeated in a naval battle.

Of course, Chen Hao will not provoke the British with a hot head, he will only claim hegemony in Asia, and the Japanese navy has always been his target. In a year, Chen Hao did not expand, and he was bent on cleaning up the four southwestern provinces under his control, and almost all the player bases that might threaten his position within the four provinces were wiped out, and the rest were some small bases.

Chen Hao dared to do this only with an S-level command headquarters, and he did not allow large player forces to appear on his territory, and the NPC was completely responsible for managing the place. When he began to exterminate forces like Jinma Chao, countless people on the forum questioned him for being too domineering, controlling the four provinces alone, and not giving other players any way out.

Chen Hao simply issued a statement, saying that he would not target innocent ordinary players, and would deal with unscrupulous forces. There is really no need to deal with the small forces that choose to develop in the four provinces, so I will give them favors and invite them to fight together in the event of a war with other regions. But forces like Jinmachao are different, they have wealth and power, and if they are allowed to develop, they may have serious consequences.

Long Fei was a thorn in Chen Hao's side and a thorn in his flesh, in order to expel Long Fei from the country, Jiang Baili commanded four divisions to launch 36 battles, large and small. Except for the first division, the fourth, fifth, and sixth divisions of these four divisions were all newly formed, and it was inevitable that there would be a large number of casualties, but after the test of blood and fire, the average combat effectiveness was greatly improved. (To be continued......)