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Chapter 283: Expand the army by 400,000

"Boss Huo is right, young master, I think we will follow what you said, and take more of these states in the northern part of the United States! Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

After listening to the words of the two, Huo Shi also nodded in agreement, "Young Master, if we really want to occupy these places, I'm afraid that these people in the current American Military Region alone are probably not enough!"

Hearing this, Huo Shan nodded thoughtfully! The reason why he decided not to want the United States to continue to send soldiers was because with the tall Rocky Mountain as the boundary, it was easy to defend and difficult to attack, and the hundreds of thousands of Huo family troops, plus they had grown up from the war, at least the servant army with basic combat strength was not so difficult to defend by virtue of geographical advantages!

But now, with the expansion of the territory that the Huo Jiajun wants to occupy, and with only a few big rivers as the boundary, I am afraid that it is really not enough to rely on the current troops of the American Military Region! After all, in addition to the troops stationed in the rear and maintaining law and order, the 500,000 troops that can really be put into the offensive are only 300,000, which is not enough at all compared to the defense line of more than 5,000 kilometers!

"Is there anything you can do as the chief of the General Staff?". Huo Shan asked.

"Young master, our regular troops are mainly at the division and regiment level, basically one in each province, and there is no superfluity! Therefore, if we want to transfer regular troops, it will definitely not work! However, relatively speaking, we still have more than 100 second-line Jing reserve regiments! Although they are only garrison troops, their combat strength and equipment are not as good as the regular army, but they are compared to the army temporarily recruited by the Americans. They're so much stronger!"

"Well, that's a good idea, but I remember that 80 percent of the Jing Reserve Force doesn't even have rifles, right?" Although the Taiping Military Factory has been working hard to increase the production of rifles since the day it was established. However, with the mass production of machine guns and artillery, the growth rate of rifle production has inevitably slowed down! Therefore, in the past three years, nearly 500,000 Type 80 rifles produced by Huo Jiajun have been produced! However, most of the new guns are equipped with regular troops, and less than 100,000 guns have been handed over to more than 100 regiment-level units in various provinces and base areas. Each regiment was given less than a thousand rifles, and it could be said that five or six of them took turns using one gun! Fortunately, they had been training for several years, and they were much better than the recruits. Otherwise. Huo Shi didn't dare to let them go to the battlefield!

Looking at the trace of embarrassment on Huo Shi's face, Huo Shan couldn't help but smile faintly, he knew that in the case of the regular troops being unable to move, it was most appropriate to use these second-line Jing Reserve Divisions. "Huo Long. After you go back, talk to Yun Feng and ask him to take out all the weapons and equipment we have in reserve! Then 80 regiments will be transferred from the base areas in Nanyang and various provinces within the Qing court to form 20 integrated divisions, and as for senior officers, they will be transferred to the deputy posts of various regular troops. In addition, if the troops are withdrawn from that military subdivision or base area, then the deputy of the regular army of the military region is located. Commanders at all levels of the newly formed troops!"

"Good boy, twenty reuniters! Young Master is so handy!" Huo Hu couldn't help but exclaim. But looking at the way his two brothers glared angrily. Huo Hu couldn't help but touch the back of his head and smirked: "Hehe, hey, in a hurry, in a hurry!"

Seeing his appearance, Huo Long couldn't help but shake his head, there is a way that is difficult to move, since becoming the top military of the Huo family, whether it is him or Huo Shi, who is the chief of the general staff, or Huo Feng, the minister of the navy, has become much more stable and mature, Huo Hu, who is not the minister of the army, is still a big grin, but the young master is still with him!

"Young Master, with so many troops expanded at once, I'm afraid the Prime Minister will be looking for you again!" Huo Long couldn't help but say. The formulation of the first five-year plan, the cooperation treaties signed with various countries some time ago, and the signing of orders of 200 million yuan with Britain and France this time have already cost nearly 800 million pounds! Although the funds received by the Huo Jiajun from Nanyang and the Qing Dynasty, as well as from the Indochina Peninsula, and even the current United States are several times this number! But in addition to the gold that must be left, plus a series of expenses such as factory construction funds, education development funds, infrastructure construction investment, etc., Huo Jiajun's funds have begun to be tight now!

Now Huoshan has once again expanded its army by 20 divisions, with nearly 400,000 troops! Even if it is equipped with only a small amount of artillery and machine guns, the cost of each division will probably not be less than 3 million silver dollars, and 20 divisions will be 60 million silver dollars! This is only the cost of formation, and according to the monthly salary of five silver dollars per soldier, these 20 divisions will need 20 million silver dollars a month! In this way, it will be 140 million a year! This is really a big burden on the finances of the Huo Jiajun, which is now gradually strained!

"Hehe, Huo Long, don't worry! Don't say it's twenty divisions, it's doubling, and I can afford it too, young master!" Huo Shanshen said confidently.

With more than two years of layout and $1.2 billion in funds, Huo Shan has taken advantage of the opportunity of the 13 th capitalist world economic crisis to earn a huge amount of wealth; although these funds are now gradually withdrawing from the stock market, and there is no accurate figure yet, according to Huo Shan's estimates, at least 6 billion yuan of wealth is still available! With such a huge sum of money, how can Huo Shan, a unit of 20 divisions, take such a huge amount of money in his eyes!

Hearing the young master say this, Huo Long relieved himself! In his impression, as long as it was something that the young master promised, there was nothing that could not be done!

"Now, with these 400,000 troops joining the American theater, our troops in the United States will reach 580,000, plus a large number of servant troops, at least for a year or two, we don't need to worry about any dangerous situation in the war situation in the United States!" Huo Shan said.

"Young Master, it seems that we have missed a place!" Huo Shi looked at the map on the table and said intently.

"Oh, what's missing?"

"Alaska, this enclave of the United States, although the population here is not large, but the snow wolf special forces originally stationed here have been allowed to join the American battlefield, so we must have new troops stationed in this land with an area of more than one million square kilometers!"

After listening to Huo Shi's words, Huo Shan couldn't help but pat his forehead, there have been too many things recently, he really forgot about this matter!

"What specific unit will be stationed here, do you have a plan for this within your General Staff?"

"Yes, young master, what we want is to have the 47th Provisional Division transfer a regiment of troops to Alaska to garrison. After all, only the 47th Division of the troops in the United States is responsible for the rear garrison mission, and they have lived in Western Canada for several years and have basically adapted to the cold and changeable climate. Therefore, it is most appropriate to transfer them to Alaska! In addition, there is only one regiment of troops, and it is convenient for us to replenish them!" Huo Shi said.

"Well, you're right, but no matter what happens in our final battle with the Americans, Alaska will become our land, so it will soon become a province under the direct jurisdiction of our Huo Jiajun, and immigration and economic development there will also be carried out on a large scale. Therefore, it will certainly not work in the later stage by relying only on the strength of one regiment! Therefore, your General Staff must come up with a mature plan! Gradually solve the problem of garrisons!"

"I see, young master!"

Looking at the large map of the United States on the table, Huo Shan frowned and thought carefully over and over again to see if he had anything missing!

"Whew!" With a long sigh, Huo Shan raised his hand and pinched his tight eyebrows, turned around and walked back to the guest sofa, poured himself a cup of herbal tea, and took a big sip!

Feeling the slightly bitter, but with a light and fragrant tea, slowly swallowing, feeling the refreshing feeling of the tea moistening his somewhat dry throat, Huo Shan couldn't help but close his eyes in enjoyment! Because of his long-term martial arts practice, Huo Shan, who was far stronger than his peers, also leaned on the sofa softly! During this time, he was indeed a little tired because he was worried about the war in the United States!

Seeing Huo Shan's appearance, the three of them couldn't help but glance at each other, and walked lightly to the sofa opposite Huo Shan and sat down!

It wasn't until five minutes had passed that Huo Shan opened his eyes, sat up straight, and put the teacup that had been drunk in his hand on the low table!

"Do you know why I haven't thought about starting a war against the Qing Dynasty until now?".

Huo Shan's very abrupt questioning made the three of them stunned! With the continuous increase in the military strength of the Huo Jiajun, especially after the Huo Jiajun defeated the Netherlands and Portugal and gained control of the Nanyang Islands, there were many proposals within the Huo Jiajun to use the powerful military strength of the Huojia Army to go north in one fell swoop, completely overthrow the Qing Dynasty, liberate the homeland of the entire Chinese nation, and establish a new country!

However, I don't know why, every time these things were reported to the young master, they were suppressed by the young master, as if they had never heard of it or seen it! Although because of Huo Shan's deliberate suppression, such a voice has disappeared a lot, but even so, the proposal of the Huo family army to go north has not completely disappeared!

In the past, they always thought that the young master was waiting, set up in the base area inside the Qing Dynasty, and slowly increase the military strength of the Huo family army in the Qing Dynasty through piecemeal and slow infiltration, and then completely solve the Qing Dynasty at the lowest cost, the slightest loss, and the fastest speed, and retain the vitality of the Chinese land to the greatest extent!

Huo Shan had told them all at the beginning, but from the young master's expression and words today, it was obvious that it was not just this reason! For mobile phone users, please go to read. )