Fast forward to 1944, the most important year of World War II, and several major battles will determine the future!

On 5 January, in the first conference room of the Marine Corps Headquarters Building, Li Junhao held his first high-level military meeting since taking office.

At the beginning of the meeting, the new acting chief of staff, Major General Richard Sutherland, first announced a piece of not very good news: Holland Bush, who had previously been attached to the Navy and led the Third and Fifth Amphibious Corps on the expedition, was not very good. Vice Admiral M. Smith, who has left the land and sea sequence, intends to assume full-time command of the Pacific Fleet's naval landing force.

Everyone in the conference room looked at each other, and they were all surprised by the news, Lieutenant General Smith just left the sea and land? This made many generals unacceptable.

Li Junhao glanced at the people in the conference room and said: "You are all older than me, you should know a common saying in the army, called 'iron battalion and flowing soldiers', while the recruits are constantly replenished, the veterans will also leave!"

"Of course, the departure of Vice Admiral Smith this time is not a retirement, but I feel that the Navy side is more promising, I personally disagree with his choice, but I can respect it!

"Here, I would like to confirm, do you generals have any similar thoughts? If there is, put it forward, and I will sign and release the people - everyone's naval rank is still the top one, and now the navy is also expanding, and there will be a good future in the past, and I will not stop everyone! ”

Hearing him say this, the conference room suddenly became cold, no one spoke out at this time, everyone wants to be faced, even if they really have ideas, it's not good to go quietly, how embarrassing it is to bring it up on this occasion! I didn't see it, Lieutenant General Smith said hello, and left without even coming to the meeting, isn't it just that I am afraid that my face will not look good!

After ten minutes, seeing that no one had answered, Li Junhao continued: "In that case, let me announce the latest reorganization order......

His final decision was that, in addition to the Gurkha Division, which had been renamed the 10th Division of the Navy and Army, which was directly under the headquarters, the other 70,000 recruits who had completed their training would be mixed with 125,000 veterans, plus 10 brigades of the 58,000-strong 101st Group Army, to form five amphibious combat corps.

The First Army, the commander of which he was concurrently concurrently servant, was under the following jurisdiction:

Directly subordinate units - special operations battalion (formerly the 102nd Special Operations Regiment), reconnaissance battalion (formerly the 104th Division directly under the special operations battalion), combat defense battalion (formerly the 3rd Amphibious Army Defense Battalion), communications battalion (newly formed), army aviation battalion (newly formed).

The 11th Brigade - the 111th, 112th, 113th, and 114th Infantry Battalions (reorganized from the 1st Infantry Regiment of the 1st Navy and Land Division), the 115th Tank Battalion (converted from the 1st Tank Battalion), the 116th Artillery Battalion (formerly the 11th Artillery Regiment), the 117th Engineer Battalion (formerly the 1st Engineer Battalion), and the 118th Service Battalion (each of the 1st Service Battalion, the 1st Transport Battalion, and the 1st Medical Battalion).

The 12th Brigade - the 121st, 122nd, 123rd, and 124th Infantry Battalions (reorganized from the 5th Infantry Regiment of the 1st Marine and Land Division), the 125th Tank Battalion (newly formed), the 126th Artillery Battalion (newly formed), the 127th Engineer Battalion (formerly the 1st Engineering Battalion), and the 128th Service Battalion (each of the former 1st Service Battalion, the 1st Transport Battalion, and the 1st Medical Battalion).

13th Brigade - 131st, 132nd, 133rd, 134th Infantry Battalions (reorganized from the 7th Infantry Regiment of the 1st Marine and Land Division......

The 14th and 15th Brigades are the 111th and 112th Brigades of the former 101st Group Army......

In this way, 10,000 people per brigade, plus 5,000 troops directly under the army, the whole army has a total of 5.5 people.

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The Second to Fifth Armies were formed under this rule, with a total of 275,000 men.

Commander of the Second Army, Major General Julian Smith (former commander of the 2nd Marine Division).

Commander of the Third Army, Roy A. Major General S. Geiger (former commander of the 3rd Amphibious Army).

Commander of the Fourth Army, Major General Alexander Archer Vandergrift (former commander of the 1st Marine Division).

Commander of the Fifth Army, Major General Harry Schmidt (formerly Commander of the Fifth Amphibious Army).

This time, the organization of the amphibious army has canceled the division and regiment levels, compressed the levels, and used advanced communication equipment to make the command process flat and efficient!

This model has a basis for the future, but in this era it is extremely advanced, a group of generals on land and sea do not understand very well, but in the face of the commander's strength, no one dares to jump out to refute, even those veterans who have been fighting on the Pacific islands for a year do not dare, because they are all miserable victories, knowing how difficult the Japanese army is, and Commander Pan Sen has killed 400,000 devils in a row on the battlefield in Southeast Asia! ——

After arranging the grouping of the main forces of the sea and land, the next step is the overall redress.

Li Junhao's face is not ordinary, since he opened his mouth, M1911A1 pistol, M1L sniper rifle, M2L carbine, M3 submachine gun, M87C shotgun, M1919A6 light machine gun, M2 heavy machine gun, M20 75mm recoilless gun, second-generation Bazooka rocket launcher and other weapons are sent like a stream, as are other M4 and M3 tanks and various armored vehicles and heavy artillery!

In addition, he laid stress on communications support, and the communications battalions directly under the military headquarters are equipped with the latest battlefield radar vehicles, and voice radio stations have been popularized to the company level, and walkie-talkies have been popularized to the squad, thus forming a communications network.

The newly built army aviation battalion of each army is equipped with the latest UH-1 "Huey" multifunctional helicopters, which are used for battlefield reconnaissance, air support, emergency rescue, and other tasks.

Many of these equipment are the latest products, the manufacturer has just been mass-produced, and the production capacity has not been improved, even if it is Li Junhao, the equipment of the million army cannot be done for the time being, but it is not a big problem to ensure the replacement of 275,000 troops, but the orders of other military branches will have to wait for a while!

If the officers and men of the navy and land thought that the new commander was too young and had some doubts about his ability, they were all convinced! In the eyes of the officers and men, Commander Pan Sen's energy is amazing, and he has brought the latest and strongest equipment, and in the future, the situation of backward equipment on land and sea will be gone forever!

Soon, everyone heard that the army, which was also expanding in large quantities, had sent people to discuss with the naval and land headquarters and asked for the equipment to be replaced by the sea and land - the expansion was too fast, and the supply of weapons and equipment was not enough! This is the whole opposite of the previous situation, it is the army that has come to pick up the rags of the sea and land! Relieve your anger!

In addition, after Li Junhao took office, the salaries and allowances of the officers and men of the navy and army were raised to the average level of the navy and army, which was twice as high as the original, which was something that the previous 17 commanders had not done!

For the US military, personal income and weapons and equipment are the two most important, and at this time they were all solved by the new commander, who is no matter how young he is, he is loved by the officers and soldiers!

In this way, it only took more than three months for Li Junhao to collect the hearts of the Marines!

(End of chapter)