Taihang Mountain provided weapons and equipment and trained personnel, and was responsible for training soldiers across the country, but Liao Fan's only request was to disarm and remove all those unqualified troops.

Liao Fan's idea is a very good choice for the National Army and the Eighth Route Army, first of all, they save the expenses of the troops, and by the way, improve the combat effectiveness of the troops, which is indeed a good thing to kill two birds with one stone.

But things are easy to think about, and when they are implemented, they encounter all kinds of difficulties. The army is a collective, and the collective will involve the interests of many people, especially in the national army, and many people have already regarded the army as their own property, and the reduction of the army at this time will inevitably cause many people to protest.

"Liao Fan, although this matter is well thought out, it is very difficult to implement, you also know that although I am the chairman of the committee, my rights are at most under the jurisdiction of the Central Army, and other local troops must look at the faces of the chairmen of the provinces! If they don't agree, you're equipping their troops with the most elite in the world, and they won't agree to disarmament! ”

Although the provincial chairmen nominally obey Chongqing's orders, if they are allowed to disarm, I am afraid that no one will obey Chairman Chiang's orders again, and if the provinces launch another rebellion, this disarmament will be a disaster.

"I naturally have a way to solve this! If they want benefits, give them benefits, and if they don't obey when they get benefits, don't really blame me for being rude when the time comes! ”

Liao Fan has already thought about this matter, after all, the chairmen of each province have their own troops, take Li Zongren and Long Yun as examples, both of them are people who have made contributions to the resistance against Japan, but it is completely impossible to make them give up the troops at once, especially Li Zongren, just some time ago he went to Taihang Mountain to find a way out for his troops, with Li Zongren's attitude, it is obvious that he will not carry out large-scale disarmament of his troops.

"If so, I agree with your disarmament plan, but there is one thing, not a single soldier of the armored forces under our national army can be reduced, you must know how difficult it is to train an armored soldier!"

"I naturally know this, my plan is to cut out only those troops that don't have much combat effectiveness, and I want to keep those veterans too late!"

Disarmament is not a self-defeating road, but is aimed at strengthening the national army. Now that the entire country's army is uneven, it affects the entire country, and for those troops with strong combat effectiveness, Liao Fan naturally chooses to keep them.

"How many troops should we keep in the Eighth Route Army?" Chairman Meow asked.

There are indeed many units in the Eighth Route Army with strong combat effectiveness, especially those units that have been retained from the beginning of the Long March to the present, have rich combat experience, and can survive in any difficult environment.

However, the units with strong combat effectiveness in the Eighth Route Army are very strong, and if the weak ones are also very weak, showing a trend of polarization, take those units that were originally guerrilla behind enemy lines, although they continue to harass little devils behind enemy lines, but since joining the regular army of the Eighth Route Army, their combat effectiveness is very low, which seriously delays the speed of the development of the Eighth Route Army.

"The four group armies, more than 500,000 troops, although the strength is smaller, but I dare to guarantee that in a year, the combat effectiveness of these 500,000 troops will definitely be stronger than the combat effectiveness of the current 2 million troops!"

A year later, the equipment of the troops will be replaced, and the training of soldiers will also be greatly improved, and the 500,000 troops will definitely be stronger than the combat effectiveness of all the units that the Eighth Route Army has combined, and in the future, Taihang Mountain may also supply the Eighth Route Army with equipped aircraft units and aircraft, and the combat effectiveness will be even higher at that time.

"In view of the important role played by the troops in Chongqing on the frontal battlefield, I intend to divide this year into three parts, the first four months to completely reduce the local security forces, the middle four months to assess the combat effectiveness of all troops, and the last four months to reduce all troops to 1.5 million people! And the Japanese army in the entire southern region is already less than a million troops, plus the troops in the provinces, it is not a problem to keep up with the Japanese army! ”

Since the Eighth Route Army did not have an advantage in terms of numbers, Liao Fan did not plan to give them much assessment, and Chairman Meow only needed to select the strength of the four group armies. The Chongqing side has complex troops, and Liao Fan needs to arrange personnel to evaluate the combat effectiveness of the soldiers and the entire unit, and after the assessment, equip the appropriate troops with weapons produced in Taihang Mountain, and then conduct training.

"I think it's okay, if it can be similar to the combat effectiveness of your troops, our 1.5 million troops can match the combat effectiveness of the current five or six million troops, although the number has decreased, but the combat effectiveness of the troops has become stronger than before!" Chairman Chiang knew that there were not many soldiers.

"In this way, our troops can not only reduce casualties on the battlefield, but also allow many soldiers to return to their hometowns, inadvertently increasing the local labor force!"

Chairman Meow also affirmed Liao Fan's approach, which is really a good thing that kills two birds with one stone, which not only enhances the combat effectiveness of the troops, but also is conducive to the development of the local economy.

"The rest is the integration of the provincial troops, as long as the troops of the provinces can be integrated together, the combat effectiveness of our country's army will be greatly improved!"

Local troops, such as the Seventh Group Army, Li Zongren's Gui Army in the Fifth Theater, as well as the Dian Army and the Sichuan Army, cannot deny that they have made outstanding contributions to the resistance against Japan, but in terms of combat effectiveness, except for the Fifth Theater Li Zongren's troops, the combat effectiveness of other units is really very weak.

"The biggest problem is still the local army, but with your relationship with Fu Yisheng and Li Zongren, it is not a problem to reduce the army, but the only difficulty is the Sichuan army and the Yunnan army!" Chairman Jiang said.

The Sichuan army went out of Sichuan to resist the Japanese, with the support of millions of soldiers and tens of millions of people, and the officers and men of the Sichuan army went to various battlefields, shed blood and sacrificed, and made outstanding contributions to this nation and country.

It is precisely because the casualties of the Sichuan army are very large, the result is that the soldiers are replaced one after another, the veterans are killed in battle, the new recruits have just been recruited, and before much combat effectiveness has been formed, a unit is disabled. However, the Sichuan army still retains this very large scale, scattered throughout the country, and is the most difficult force to integrate and reorganize.

"Then start with the Fifth Theater and the Seventh Army, as long as the reorganization of the Fifth Theater and the Seventh Army has achieved initial results, do you still have to worry that the Sichuan Army and the Dian Army will not follow suit?"

Everyone hopes that their troops will be good, and as long as they see that one aspect has been greatly improved, other troops will naturally not be willing to lag behind, especially the commanders-in-chief of these local troops, whose vision is not that of ordinary people.

"Chairman of the committee, let's talk ugly things first, when the time comes, our equipment will be delivered to your troops for soldiers, not rusty piled up in the warehouse, once the favoritism and fraud are discovered, I will make an example of the monkeys at that time, don't stop me!"

Liao Fan didn't dare to guarantee that everyone was as honest as Hai Rui, especially in the national army, there were many people who made a fortune in the country, if they sold the weapons supported by Taihang Mountain to some caretakers by various means, Liao Fan couldn't bear it no matter how good his temper was.

"I've already said it, the control of the army in the future is yours, you can do whatever you want, I'm just watching for you now!" Chairman Jiang said sincerely.

"Liao Fan Xiaoyou, otherwise, you will take over the control of the national army now, and the two of us will also support you, and you don't have to discuss the reorganization and disarmament of the troops, and few people will dare to oppose you at that time!" Chairman Meow said.

Liao Fan shook his head gently: "Thank you for your trust, but I really don't have such a great ability to control so many troops now!" ”

Liao Fan knows that it is very easy to manage soldiers, after all, there are military orders and military laws, and then if they are implemented, soldiers are easy to manage! The most difficult thing to manage is those high-ranking officers, if these officers do not obey Liao Fan's orders on the battlefield, the result is known to fools. And now that Liao Fan is in charge of the troops of the whole country, these generals are from different camps, Liao Fan really doesn't dare to guarantee that they will be properly dispatched in a short period of time, especially when the war occurs, a mistake is the lives of tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of people.

Moreover, this reduction and training of troops is also an opportunity for Liao Fan to understand the national army, in addition to being able to understand the battles of various troops, Liao Fan can allocate his manpower through which veterans, at least in the troops below, the soldiers can know Liao Fan, which is beneficial to Liao Fan's control of the country's troops in the future.

"By the way, how is my son doing with you?" Chairman Jiang is not a hard-hearted person, and he sent his son to Taihang Mountain, and he has heard of some things.

Liao Fan smiled embarrassedly, estimating that what he did to Jiang Gongzi had already reached Chairman Jiang's ears.

"If Jiang Gongzi can survive this time, I will send him to study in the military academy, as for what he can learn, but there is a staff officer in my command headquarters, and if he is successful, I will naturally give him a good opportunity!" Liao Fan could only say that things were good and reassured Chairman Jiang.

"Well, in that case, I don't have to worry too much!"

"Lao Jiang, did you send your sons to Taihang Mountain? You have a good vision, Liao Fan Xiaoyou is a good master! Chairman Meow teased with a smile.

"My son knows it myself, and what I also hope is that a strict teacher will become a high apprentice, and this experience will be good for him!"

The military is the most tempering a will, especially the sons of big families like the Jiang family, who are already higher than ordinary people in terms of knowledge, but they only lack the perseverance to endure hardships, and in Taihang Mountain, this ability to endure hardships is exercised.