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After a pause, giving everyone a moment to think about it, Huo Shan said again: "The highest unit of the National Guard is the regiment, each regiment is five thousand people, equipped with rifles, grenades and mortars, one for each provincial administrative unit!"

"Young Master, National Guard, do you still need the colony?" asked Huo Long. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

"Yes!" Huo Shan nodded, "Whether it is a direct jurisdiction or a colony, the National Guard is needed! Field troops are used to fight, not to garrison localities." So the colonies also need the National Guard to be garrisoned!"

"Xiaoshan, like the Comoros colony, the area is only more than 2,000 square meters, and the population is only 80,000, can you put a National Guard regiment of 5,000 people?" Huang Sheng frowned.

He felt that one of the 7th Marine Division of the Comoros was enough, and there was no need to station so many people on this small archipelago.

"Teacher, although the colony of Comoros is small in population and small in area, it is our only colony in eastern Africa, and it is our hand in eastern Africa. It is a matter of course to garrison heavy troops to guard it!"

After listening to Huo Shan's words, Huang Sheng nodded and did not speak.

"In this way, after deducting the base areas, the twenty-five provinces, four municipalities directly under the central government, one special administrative region and three colonies directly under the jurisdiction of the Huaxia Republic have a total of 33 National Guard regiments, with a total of 165,000 people!"

"If, plus the shore artillery units and the coast guard and other second-line units that are subordinate to the navy. Then in the future, the number of our second-line garrison troops will be 215,000! This number is still appropriate!"

Hearing this, everyone nodded, although the National Guard had more than 200,000 people, close to half of the regular troops. However, the cost of these troops is less than a quarter of that of the regular army.

Speaking of this, Huo Shan glanced at Huo Long and Huo Feng with smiles on their faces, as well as Huo Shi and Huo Yu, and continued: "After six years and hundreds of wars, the territory we occupy is already large enough, so in the next five to ten years. The main theme of the Huaxia Republic is development, so the army's funding should be lowered, in addition to the necessary training expenses and soldiers' salaries. All gear updates are paused!"

"Young Master......!" Huo Shi couldn't help but be anxious, Huo Long and Huo Yu were both anxious.

Now the Type 82 semi-automatic rifle researched by the Huo Jiajun Academy of Military Sciences is a fanged heavy machine gun with a faster rate of fire and more powerful force. More powerful. The 75mm support artillery, which has a maximum rate of fire of less than 30 rounds, and the newly developed 105mm and 152mm heavy guns that use the hydraulic pipe discharge system, they are still waiting to equip the whole army in the next five-year plan!

Waving his hand to interrupt what they were about to say, "In the next ten years, there will be no major war in the Huaxia Republic, so why do you need so many weapons and equipment." And now we have enough weapons and equipment in our hands to keep us ahead of the curve for this decade. Instead of equipping it now, it's time to get a new one. It's a waste of money, and it's better to wait until you need it to replace it. Okay, don't talk about it, it's decided!"

After listening to Huo Shan's words, Huo Long and the others couldn't help but look at each other and smile bitterly.

However, Huang Sheng resolutely supported Huo Shan's stipulation, and according to what Huo Shan said just now, if the cost of upgrading the army is reduced, then there will be enough military spending of 200 million silver dollars left in five years! 200 million silver dollars will be enough to do a lot of things!

In particular, the construction of the 14 provinces in the Americas is directly a bottomless pit that devours funds, but these days the development funds of the second five-year plan reported by the governors of various provinces are close to 5 billion silver dollars, which makes Huang Sheng worried. Now he can save a little.

"Young Master, ...... the cost of our navy's shipbuilding?" Huo Feng asked with a worried face. Although he didn't want to ask at this time, but if he didn't ask, Huo Feng's heart was really unsteady.

"The Navy's plan for the construction of eight Mingxiang-class light cruisers remains unchanged, and the number of the next class 'Zhenhai'-class heavy cruisers will be reduced from eight to four! The number of Seahawk second-generation frigates will be reduced from 48 to 16! The number of other Taishan-class comprehensive supply ships will be reduced from 16 to nine! That's it!"

As soon as Huo Shan's voice fell, Huo Feng's face suddenly turned into a bitter gourd face.

Originally, the second five-year shipbuilding plan of the Navy submitted by him was directly reduced by two-thirds by Huo Shan. Not only is the construction of the Zhenhai-class 10,000-ton heavy cruiser that he is most looking forward to only the general remaining, but there are only 16 second-generation Seahawk frigates left, and even the original plan to build 24 ships of the Mingjiang-class was directly canceled by Huo Shan.

Looking at the look on his face, Huo Shan was also helpless in his heart, from later generations, he understood how fast the replacement of warships in the next twenty or thirty years was, too many warships are built now, and in a few years, when mature steam turbines appear, then all the warships built now will become scrap metal.

Although Huo Jiajun is still financially rich now, he can't be so wasteful.

If it weren't for the fact that the sea area of the Huo Jiajun is too large now, and there is a serious shortage of warships, he would have to reduce these shipbuilding plans by half now.

"Huo Feng, when your admiralty ordered warships, tell the major shipyards that the construction of new warships should retain enough space for refitting, and I don't want our newly built warships to become scrap metal before the deadline for decommissioning!"

"Yes, I understand, young master!" Although Huo Feng's promise was happy, there was always a sense of frustration in his words.

Seeing this, Huo Shi and Huo Long, the expressions on their faces were also a little unnatural, after all, they were also the Minister of Military Affairs and the Chief of the General Staff, and the Navy was also under their control.

But soon Huo Shan's next words made them no longer have the heart of chagrin.

"Next is the reform of the army military system! With the equipment of light and heavy machine guns and artillery of various calibers, and the increase in the firepower of the troops, the original army military system has become bloated, so in the next military reform, the army and the Marine Corps will have a certain reduction in personnel!"

"In the future, the number of people in a squad will be 15 to 12, one squad leader and one deputy squad leader, the rank of corporal, equipped with 10 Type 80 rifles, two Black Star pistols, and one Scorpion 2 light machine gun. ”

"The three squads were merged into a platoon, with a chief and deputy platoon commander and instructor, a lieutenant rank, 30 Type 80 rifles, 12 Blackstar pistols, and 3 Scorpion light machine guns. Personnel 50!"

"The three platoons were merged into a company, with the rank of captain and deputy company commander, instructor, and army captain, equipped with 60 mortars, 2 fangs, 1 fang, 100 Type 80 rifles, 50 Blackstar pistols, 3 scorpion light machine guns, and 200 personnel. ”

"Three companies, combined into one battalion. The battalion headquarters consists of a mortar platoon, a logistics platoon, a combat engineer platoon, a battalion guard squad, a battalion reconnaissance squad, a battalion communications squad, and a sanitation squad. The establishment of a battalion commander, a political commissar and a logistics chief, with the rank of major. Equipped with 9 60 mortars and 3 82mm mortars! 3 Fangs heavy machine guns, 528 Type 80 rifles, 246 Blackstar pistols, 12 Scorpion light machine guns, and 900 personnel!"

"Three battalions, combined into one regiment. The regiment headquarters consists of a 75mm field artillery company, a logistics baggage company, a combat engineer company, a regimental guard platoon, a cavalry company, a regimental communications platoon, a regimental reconnaissance platoon, and a sanitary platoon. Establish the chief and deputy head of the regiment, the political commissar, the chief of staff and the chief of logistics. With the rank of colonel, he is equipped with 6 75mm field guns, 9 82mm medium-caliber mortars, 36 60 mortars, 12 fangs and heavy machine guns, 54 scorpion heavy machine guns, 2,156 Type 80 rifles, 867 Blackstar pistols, and 3,200 personnel!"

"Three regiments were combined into one division. The division headquarters consists of a howitzer battalion, a logistics baggage battalion, a combat engineer battalion, a division headquarters guard company, a cavalry battalion, a division headquarters communications company, a division headquarters reconnaissance company, a division headquarters field hospital (battalion-level unit), and a special operations brigade of 100 people. With the rank of major general, he is equipped with 3 152mm caliber heavy howitzers, 6 105mm caliber howitzers, 18 75mm caliber field guns, 27 82 medium-caliber mortars, 120 60 mortars, 45 fangs heavy machine guns, 168 scorpion heavy machine guns, 9158 Type 80 rifles, 3876 Blackstar pistols, and 15,000 personnel!"

"In addition, each soldier is equipped with a combat uniform, an sapper shovel, a steel helmet, military boots, an armed belt, five grenades and 200 rounds of ammunition, plus the necessary provisions!"

Looking at the excited expressions on Huo Long's faces, Huo Shan smiled and continued: "In addition to the division level, we will set up a corps-level establishment. The three divisions are one corps, with a chief and deputy commander, political commissar, chief of staff, and chief of logistics. With the rank of lieutenant general, the army headquarters consists of a strategic artillery regiment, a logistics baggage brigade, a combat engineer regiment, a military guard regiment, a cavalry brigade, a military communications battalion, a military reconnaissance battalion, a military field hospital (regimental unit), and a special operations wing of 500 people!"

"Equipped with 6 203mm caliber heavy howitzers, 24 152mm caliber heavy howitzers, 48 105mm caliber howitzers, 72 75mm caliber field guns, 88 82 medium-caliber mortars, 389 60 mortars, 156 fangs heavy machine guns, 568 scorpion heavy machine guns, 46,858 Type 80 rifles, 13,876 Blackstar pistols, and 75,000 personnel!"

"Young Master, we don't seem to have a brigade-level military unit?" Huo Shi wondered.

"Then there is! But there are only special arms at the brigade level, such as logistics baggage brigades, cavalry brigades, mountain brigades, and so on!"

"A brigade-level military unit has a chief and deputy brigade commander, political commissar, chief of staff and logistics chief, the rank of brigadier general, two regiments, and about 10,000 personnel!"

"The reorganization of troops at the army level will not include the major base areas. It is limited to the major combat units under the surface of the Chinese Republic. "As for the higher-level group army, it's not yet time to appear. (To be continued.) )