Chapter 634: Reserve Militia System

The six main cavalry divisions newly expanded by the Mongolian Legion, the backbone non-commissioned officers and platoon-level non-commissioned officers, are all Mongolian cavalry of the original main cavalry brigade. After more than years of training and ideological transformation by the Far Eastern Company, they have gradually matured.

Moreover, they had participated in the first phase of the Far Northeast plan, and they had fully adapted to the rhythm of operations in the Far East. After all, they are all natural cavalrymen, as long as they are given a war horse, there is basically no need to worry about their individual combat ability.

The Far East's training of them is mainly aimed at their usual casual style, correcting them, and emphasizing teamwork, fully tapping their potential, and enabling them to give full play to their combat effectiveness.

The main direction of training for the recruits of the Mongolian Legion is the training of the platoon and the cultivation of discipline. For these wild and unruly steppe herdsmen, it is definitely a difficult job to get them to meet the standards of the Far Eastern Teaching Team.

The Mongolian cavalry of the six main cavalry brigades of the former Mongolian Army Corps was able to achieve the purpose of training after more than a year of arduous training, and finally formed a combat effectiveness. The effort put into it can be imagined.

However, the six main cavalry brigades of the Mongol Legion, in the first phase of the Far Northeast plan, did show strong combat effectiveness, whether it was facing the tribal cavalry of the Horqin Department or the elite iron cavalry of the Chahar Division, they all had the absolute upper hand.

Coupled with the powerful weapons equipped for them in the Far East, and the all-round air support of the airship detachment of the Far East Air Force, the Mongolian army swept thousands of troops in all the battlefields of the first stage of the northward plan, and was invincible.

This is also the reason for the large-scale expansion of the Mongolian regiment by the Military Commission. Moreover, in addition to the three main cavalry brigades, the expanded main cavalry division also has division headquarters and independent combat and logistical support units directly under the division. All the commanders and fighters were Han officers and soldiers, and they were drawn from various units in the Far East.

It includes the headquarters of the cavalry division and a machine gun battalion of more than 300 people, equipped with three 70-mm infantry guns, six 60-mm mortars, and nine water-cooled heavy machine guns. A military police guard battalion with a total of more than 300 people, consisting of three military police guard companies, is equipped with Type 28A carbines, long-barreled cavalry revolvers and imitation 65 sabers, and the level of equipment is on par with that of the regular troops in the Far East. In addition, it was also attached to the battalion directly under the division. Including an engineer company, a communications company, a reconnaissance company.

The main division of the expanded Mongolian Legion can independently complete long-distance missions, and can also provide combat and logistical support to the three main cavalry brigades. Combat effectiveness has been greatly improved.

At the same time, the Outer Northeast Cavalry Corps, which was expanded, also began to carry out a tense large-scale expansion. The specific expansion plan is basically the same as that of the Mongolian Legion. However, the Outer Northeast Indigenous Corps is mainly deployed in the Songhua River and Nenjiang River basins in the north.

The expanded 50 Mongolian militia brigades and 30 indigenous militia brigades in the outer northeast are important additions to the main cavalry divisions, and there is no change in personnel and equipment this time. But all the militia brigades. However, the brigade headquarters were all set up one after another.

Brigade commanders and political commissars, as well as battalion commanders and instructors, are all cadres within the establishment, and when there is no need for wartime mobilization, they are temporarily transferred from the main cavalry division.

In this way, the cavalry units of the Far East will have a standing reserve in the true sense of the word. Each Mongolian militia brigade can be mobilized and trained in rotation every year according to the plan, which not only ensures that the militia units can receive stable training. Moreover, in the event of a sudden war, it can also be quickly mobilized and assembled.

And that's not all. For example, the militia brigade composed of grassroots musket militia companies in the vast rural areas of Liaodong and the militia brigade composed of Chinese people from all over Nanyang will be established as a fixed brigade headquarters and the vast number of militia members will be regularly organized for mobilization, training, and exercises.

Once a well-established reserve militia system is established in the Far East, in the event of an emergency or natural disaster in the future. Before the arrival of the main forces, the militia brigades in the Far East will first take on the work of combat defense, assistance and disaster relief.

To this end, the company will also unify the equipment of the militia companies in various places, and strive to gradually replace various firearms equipped with militia in various places, such as Japanese iron cannons and European arquebuses, in a few years. The unified armament of the future militia was a front-loading rifled cap gun and was equipped with a Mitsubishi military thorn. Moreover, the uniforms and equipment of the militia will be further unified.

In the future, every year after being demobilized and transferred to the localities, the retired and wounded personnel of the various units of the Central Military Commission will also be registered with the local militia brigades, and they will unconditionally join the militia brigades as the backbone cadres of the militia brigades in the Far East.

Every year, militia brigades in various parts of the Far East undergo a certain period of military training to enhance the combat effectiveness of the militia reserve units. In the future, they will also replace the regular units of the Central Military Commission and carry out some low-intensity combat missions, which will greatly reduce the unnecessary time and resources consumed by the main forces of the Central Military Commission and devote them to training and combat.

The establishment of the militia reserve system not only ensures internal stability in the regions of the Far East, but also enables the rapid formation of a paramilitary force in various localities to cope with various crisis situations, stabilize the local situation, and maintain order in the region in the event of an emergency. Moreover, the reserve militia is also the main source of recruitment for the regular forces of the Military Commission.

In the next step, the Central Military Commission will also set up a reserve militia department to specially formulate and plan the training plan for the militia reserve units, and correspondingly improve the welfare benefits of the reserve militia, so that the militia reserve units will truly become an important supplement to the main forces of the Far Eastern Military Commission.

As long as a complete reserve militia system is established in the Far East, the reserve militia trained and equipped in the Far East, in addition to their lack of battlefield experience, their combat effectiveness can even be used as the main force of various countries in this era.

Moreover, in the future, with the retirement of a large number of officers and men of the regular forces of the Far East, a large number of retired servicemen with the qualities of the regular troops will join the reserve militia system of the Far East. In this way, the combat effectiveness of the reserve militia brigades in the Far East will also be gradually strengthened.

The Far East Admiralty has also come up with a set of plans to redivide the future naval forces of the Far East into the main fleet, the coast guard, and the guerrilla fleet, which will be outside the third-class combat units of the Admiralty.

The original inland river detachment was gradually withdrawn from active service, and the inland river detachment was handed over to the management of the Inland Waterway Shipping Bureau of the Ethnic Affairs Committee. In the future, the retired officers and men of the Navy will be placed in the Inland Waterway Shipping Bureau, and these retired officers and men of the Navy will also become reserve militiamen, who can put on military uniforms and take up arms to carry out various combat missions at any time. The CMC hopes that in the next few years, the inland river detachment will be gradually and completely separated from the CMC Admiralty and that only one armed barge brigade of the inland river will be retained.

In addition, with the acceleration of the renewal of the Admiralty's warships, many of the offshore support ships originally captured in the Far East will also be gradually mothballed. These vessels include the Japanese navy's Ataka and Sekibune, as well as the Korean navy's tortoise and banya ships, most of which are converted vessels.

The next step of the Admiralty of the Far East Military Commission is to establish a naval reserve system, and in wartime, if the Far East is short of maritime forces, these ships will also be opened and piloted by naval reserve militias from all over the Far East as a sea force to support the company. (To be continued......)

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