Wen Hui didn't wait long for Zhao Liming to reply, the division-level establishment was not completed, this was not the puppet army before the Liberation War, and the current establishment is still worth a little money. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info So I gave Wen Hui the establishment of an independent brigade, with a string of reinforced battalions, supernumerary of the special service company, the meaning is obvious, if you can fill these formations, they have no opinion, if you don't look at it, it doesn't matter, it's just that the divisional establishment has to wait.

"Okay, the orthodox establishment is obtained, and the training for army expansion is your business." An independent brigade is an independent brigade, it's better than nothing. Although Wen Hui did not get the division-level establishment, it did not prevent him from expanding the brigade to the divisional scale, and those supernumerary reinforced battalions and special service companies could be used as seed troops to expand the division.

"Okay! It can be regarded as being able to pull a team. "Long Sidu is almost idle to grow mushrooms, the Hengyang Army Academy established a long time ago is still only in the state of teachers, the infantry training ground is empty and the grass is about to grow, now a group of pumpkins can be pulled in to practice, a group of instructors are gearing up to let them know that the security regiment, no, the food of the independent brigade is not so delicious!

The accelerated army training can be put on the battlefield in three months, and even if tactical literacy training is added, half a year is enough time to train a peasant into a qualified soldier, and as for the performance on the battlefield, there are two things to say, but this level of training is already beyond the level of most current armies.

"There is still one year and two months until July next year, and we can't catch up with the first few battles, and your task now is to train with peace of mind and put up a shelf for future expansion." Wen Hui calculated, even at that time, he was still a German armor division in front, and it was not his turn to play as a "motley army".

"Okay, what about the armored forces? Should the Air Force prepare in advance? There's nowhere for the Navy to train. And you've sold all 75 guns here, and there's no shadow of the barrel artillery we used ourselves......"

"Get out of here!" An enamel jar was thrown over, "It won't be less of you, it's necessary to urge it every day!" The things in front of you are enough for you to be busy, and you don't think you have enough to do, right? Now you are concentrating on formulating the soldier training syllabus, here is our 'Whampoa' know no! "The construction of this "breeding base" is the most important task at this stage, even if there is a fiasco in the future, it can make a comeback, and the Whampoa Department of President Jiang in front is the best example.

"Why is there no news over there?" Long Si stuck his head out of the door, and after Zhao Liming paid for the purchase of this batch of arms, there was no follow-up order, as if he had not done business with Wen Hui.

"Be patient, just looking for them doesn't cost me, I'm waiting for the people above them." Wen Hui waved his hand to let Long Si get out, he had already let people let out the wind in Nanjing, the 28th Army quietly purchased a batch of equipment comparable to the German armorer, and now the provincial capital is lively.

The provincial city can no longer be described as lively, Wen Hui revealed the news here, and the Nanjing government sent people over, but there are nothing else, and it is the norm to privately purchase arms and armed forces in these years, and the problem lies in the Bofors 75 gun.

As mentioned earlier, what the Nationalist Government urgently needs now is artillery, and the Shanghai-made Krupp 75-mm mountain guns and the Japanese-made Type 41 75-mm mountain guns can no longer meet the demand, and they are also purchasing artillery while reorganizing the troops.

In the early thirties, when the German adviser General Georg Weisel, when he assisted in the reorganization of the army, he believed that the greatest weakness of the Nationalist army was in artillery. Compared with European countries, which are often equipped with thousands, or even tens of thousands, of artillery, the more than 400 old artillery pieces of the national army are almost equal to 0. General Seckert, the father of the Wehrmacht, rebuilt the German Army after World War I and has extensive experience in building new troops. He naturally knew that the development of artillery would require a long cycle, and it would not be possible to do it in ten or twenty years.

Therefore, General Seckert and the previous General Weizel sincerely advised Chiang Kai-shek that it was absolutely impossible to build a large number of world-class artillery pieces in the short term. At present, it is necessary to purchase a batch of the world's most advanced artillery to solve the urgent need, and at least give priority to equipping the newly formed German 36th, 87th, and 88th divisions and the CSKA Teaching Corps.

When Chiang Kai-shek asked what kind of mountain artillery should be equipped, General Weisel, after some thought, recommended the Bofors 75mm mountain gun. General Weisel honestly told Chiang Kai-shek that the Swedish M1930 Bofors mountain gun had just been successfully developed in 1930, and it was the latest type of artillery, and its performance had surpassed that of German artillery at that time. Moreover, Sweden is a small Nordic country, and importing weapons from this country will not cause much political and diplomatic trouble. Because Germany had to take care of its cooperative relations with Japan, Sweden had little economic and political relations with Japan, and could ignore the Japanese intimidation.

So, in 1931, Chiang Kai-shek ordered his subordinates, Yu Dawei, the commercial attaché of the Chinese Embassy in Germany, to go to Sweden for inspection. Sweden is a capitalist country, and Bofors is also a private arms company, so it is natural that it is happy to sell arms. The company warmly received Yu Dawei and his party!

After carefully studying the performance of the Bofors 75 mountain gun, Yu Dawei was pleased to believe that the artillery produced by Bofors in Sweden has excellent performance, and the steel used is also the best (Nordic Europe has the best quality iron ore in Europe), and it is the world's top artillery, and the price is moderate, which fully meets the needs of China.

Under the impetus of Yu Dawei, through the German Lihe Foreign Company as a middleman, four Bofors 75 mountain guns were first shipped back to China for identification. But Bofors is not without competitors, at that time the French Schneider company was also grabbing this list, in the face of the competition of the army power and the more famous Schneider company, Bofors, a rising star, naturally did not have an advantage. At that time, Schneider's weapons had been used in China, but they had not been exposed to Bofors's weapons, so they naturally preferred products that had been used in the past.

However, they were very shrewd, and immediately announced to the Nationalist Government that the four guns were given away for free, and that all the costs of transportation and testing during the period would be borne by the Bofors Company. Even if the National Government did not choose this mountain artillery, it would not need to pay a penny!

Who would dislike something given away for free? In the test, Bofors conquered the Military Affairs Department, the General Staff Headquarters, the Artillery School, the Central Military Academy, and other military organs and military schools with its excellent performance (at that time, 1560 people including He Yingqin, Zhu Peide, Yu Dawei, and Zou Zuohua personally went to the shooting range of Nanjing Tangshan Artillery School to participate in the observation).

The bigwig He Yingqin praised Bofors Mountain Cannon very much, and the attitude of the senior management naturally determined who the procurement contract went to. At that time, the price of a Bofors Mountain Gun was $15,000 per gun, and the price of a shell was $20 per round, which was not a high price. At the same time, according to the agreement, Bofors helped the national army to complete the manufacturing of mountain artillery shells and the assembly line of mountain artillery.

Subsequently, the Nationalist Government ordered Bofors 75 mountain guns from Sweden in batches, and the first batch of Bofors 75 mountain guns was delivered to China in 1932, with the number of 12 guns. But the strange thing is that when it was delivered, it was 15, 3 more guns (He Yingqin asked Yu Dawei, who was in charge of the review and purchase of artillery at that time, why there were three more, and Yu Dawei replied that it was sent by the Swedes, but in fact, Yu Dawei took out the kickback given by the Swedes and bought these three more guns).

Not long after the cannon was purchased, the 128 Incident broke out, and although the newly purchased mountain artillery only caught up with the butt of the war, it broke into its own prestige, and the excellent accuracy was very tolerant of the poorly trained gunners, and the range of 9.15 kilometers and the precision of lethality proved that the deal was very cost-effective (which was also one of the few deals worth the price).

After that, Bofors delivered more than 20 guns, making a total of 48. The Nationalist Government set up the First Artillery Brigade, which had two regiments under its jurisdiction, each equipped with 24 mountain guns. The training was carried out directly by the German military advisers, because this mountain gun was actually the mountain gun of the Krupp company (Bofors was once a shell of Krupp overseas), and the Germans were very familiar with it. Even the Chinese soldiers did not call him a Swedish mountain artillery, but a German mountain artillery.

After 128, the Nationalist Government ordered an additional 48 mountain guns, which was the second batch (a total of 96 guns were purchased). In June 1934, the Second Artillery Brigade was formed with these mountain guns, and the composition was the same as that of the First Brigade. Before the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, the Bofors Mountain Artillery was only equipped with two artillery brigades, namely the First Artillery Brigade and the Second Artillery Brigade. For more than a year before the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, the artillery of these two brigades trained the front line in Nanjing and Shanghai, waiting for a full-scale war with the Japanese invaders. And these two artillery brigades were also the two most advanced artillery brigades in the country at that time, which can be described as the main artillery units.

Now someone has quietly made nearly one-tenth of the purchased Bofors 75 guns, and it is still at a low price of $10,000 per unit! Do you think the central government will pay attention to it?

Therefore, the forty mortars and ten mountain guns that the 28th Army had in hand were ordered to be handed over before they could be warmed up, and of course the payment would be converted to them. In addition, they wanted to see who could get their hands on these weapons.