At this time, the only military industrial enterprise in the Republic of Datang was NORINCO, which was able to produce everything from S1 manual rifles and grenades to 130mm naval guns and 155 naval guns for the Navy. However www.biquge.info the northern industry of Datang is completely incomparable with the northern industry of the People's Republic of China, and it cannot produce Type 99 main battle tanks or various missiles.

Therefore, when the army proposed to enhance its own mobile combat capability, when it needed an armored off-road vehicle, NORINCO did not have its own vehicle research and development department at all, so the project contracting had to be handed over to the automobile company, and NORINCO could only succumb to the role of supporting.

Originally, the Army's opinion was to directly contract the project to the FAW Group, after all, FAW is the largest vehicle manufacturing company in China and has a complete R&D and manufacturing team. However, the competitive cabinet finally brought the General Motors Group in, asked the Army Command to put forward specific requirements, and then the two companies carried out production trial production, and finally the Army accepted the results and selected the best and most reliable products as Army equipment.

Out of the mentality of supporting domestic enterprises, the Ministry of National Defense provided 50% of the total R&D expenses to the two companies before the bidding, with a ceiling of 100,000 Tang yuan. The two companies took different designs and built prototypes for testing. If you use the investment of the Ministry of Defense for research and development, even if you do not win the bidding in the end, you can get a certain return on the technology and invest it in your own products in the future. And the Ministry of Defense also proposed that the winning company could hand over some of the parts production to the losing company to minimize losses.

Overall, the bidding program, called the Light Land Motor Vehicle (LAV), was designed from the outset to achieve a win-win situation, with the military getting the equipment they wanted and the two enterprises getting development, both on order and in technology.

So after hearing the news, Liu Zhengtai and Ishikawa were extremely excited. Becoming a military enterprise itself is a recognition of the company, and in the case of the company's limited market and difficult development, it is very considerable to be able to get orders from the military.

Zhang Jin had reservations, he said: "I think you still have to be cautious, who can guarantee that such a bid will not let you accompany the prince to study?" FAW still has too many advantages, you are busy with development and research, and in the end, if you can't choose, although there is a military financial backing, but in the end it is still lost. ”

Liu Zhengtai was very determined, he said: "At this time, I don't even have the fighting spirit to fight, and I don't have to fight against FAW in the future." In the future, our country may be bigger, and there may be more companies engaged in automobiles, and if this competition cannot be sustained, there is no need for General Motors to exist. ”

Ishikawa, who advises on the company's strategic development, said: "I also considered this issue, and it is true that a failed bid will cause losses, but this loss is within our ability to bear." And to design an off-road vehicle, even if it can't be put into the military, we can use the developed technology and put it into civilian use. Before we crossed, SUV was a big head in the domestic vehicle market, and to be honest, the road conditions of our Datang are not too good, ordinary cars can only run on the road, and off-road vehicles may break into more places, especially for people working in the field, it is much more useful. ”

Zhang Jin sighed: "Since you are ready, I, as an elder brother, can't help you retreat, so don't mention anything you need." ”

Liu Zhengtai held Zhang Jindi's hand and said, "Thank you, Brother Zhang." ”

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The Army followed the Navy and proposed new major combat weapons, which were naturally also for the operational considerations of the Cuckoo Plan. In order to complete a large-scale war (including the landing in Tanggu and the raid on the Beijing Division, and the subsequent defense of the Beijing Division and the control of Jiangnan and Lingnan), the military had to set up an army on a large scale, and the original establishment of two army regiments was far from enough.

After conducting an investigation, the army put forward a plan to quickly arm the reserves and militia as front-line troops, and will select more than 3,000 people from the original Ming Dynasty soldiers and the soldiers of the Republic of China to form three regiment-level units, and the army also proposed to recruit a large number of naturalized Indians with a good attitude to join the army.

Originally, a large number of KMT veterans had been disarmed and returned to the fields, and most of them had become workers and peasants. Those who choose to re-enlist will receive a better salary and treatment, and many people are reluctant to retire because the military has a better income. However, at that time, the Ministry of Defense was planning to build a small but elite army, so most of the people were still eliminated.

The re-recruited soldiers are mostly agricultural, and the reclamation of large areas of land, as well as the cost and use of agricultural machinery, have liberated manpower, and the new immigrants brought back from East Asia are basically arranged on farms, so to a certain extent, the agricultural population is surplus, so they are mainly transferred back to the army.

The army will use the conscripts to form four infantry regiments, and the army will also form infantry regiments 102 Longxiang Regiment, 103 Tiger Regiment, 104 Fenwei Regiment, and 202 Cavalry Regiment of the Cavalry Regiment. Together with the earliest established Light Transmission Regiment and Cavalry Hunting Regiment, the Army will have a six-regimental establishment. This huge expansion and change naturally requires adjustments in the establishment.

One hundred new armored off-road vehicles will be assigned to two battalion-level units to create mechanized infantry, plus the original warrior off-road vehicles can also form two battalions, so each of the four infantry regiments will have a mechanized infantry battalion, and the automobile battalion, which originally belonged to the hunting regiment, was drawn out and arranged into the Longxiang regiment. The standard infantry regiment will have two motorized infantry battalions and one motorized infantry battalion, plus an artillery battalion. The Army will invest a huge amount of money in the production of large quantities of Liberation Trucks for the mobile transportation of troops, and these trucks will also be able to transport military supplies for the Army, as well as carry artillery.

The Cavalry Hunting Regiment and the Xiao Cavalry Regiment are both three cavalry battalions, and with the increase in the import of horses from the Tang Dynasty, it is enough to equip the two cavalry regiments with war horses. The main role of the cavalry unit will be limited to reconnaissance, raiding, guerrilla and other combat modes, and will not be equipped with relatively strong firepower, except for the general S2 carbine, S4 Thompson submachine gun, the heaviest firepower is the carrying grenadier.

When Bai Nan was in the Ministry of Defense, he saw the specific situation of recruiting recruits, and asked Xu Daorun with a little surprise: "There are actually 700 aboriginal soldiers who have asked to join this time, this number is a bit big, right?" ”

Xu Daorun said: "I can't be wrong, in fact, I was quite surprised." Sumuri was promoted to cavalry battalion commander this time, and after the mobilization order began, he returned to the tribe of Chumash and our Indian community in Los Angeles to help with the recruitment work. Now in our Datang Indian community, it is generally believed that joining the army can improve social status, and the income of soldiers is still higher than that of laborers, farmers and other industries. We didn't have a plan to expand the army before, so we pressed it down, and this time when we talked about expanding the army, many Indian men of school age came. ”

Bai Nan frowned and said, "Shouldn't you control it?" Although I think that the loyalty of these indigenous troops should not be much of a problem under the leadership of an officer like Sumuri, their combat skills and discipline still need to be improved. ”

Xu Daorun nodded and said: "The number you see has already been screened for a round of acceptance, these more than 700 people, all of them are able to use Chinese for daily conversation, we have conducted a physical examination, and we think that the physique is relatively good, and the person who is competent for military duties." Just brushing out the aborigines who don't speak much Chinese is several times that number. ”

Bai Nan couldn't help but swallow a mouthful of saliva and said, "This is a bit too scary. ”

Liu Tian, who came from the Ministry of Civil Affairs, heard the conversation between the two and said: "Also, sometimes I think it's incredible, the California native population is not much more than ours, and this is a year's work, and with our development, it has become attractive to the Indians." Many Indian tribes even moved to the vicinity of our farms, and knowing that food and goods could not be obtained by force, many Indians worked for our farms as a whole tribe, and after a simple training, they were able to do mostly unskilled work, but later they were able to get enough food, clothing, and other tools. Moreover, more Indians flocked to the big cities, and we had to open special schools and training institutions to train them in Chinese and work skills. This is really strange, you see that the Western colonists and the Indians are inextricably fighting, although we have fought several Indian wars, but now, the speed of the Indians' naturalization is a bit surprising. It may be almost a generation, and the next generation of Indians will be no different from our children. ”

Bai Nandao: "I think there are multiple reasons for this result, we Datang have more resources than Europeans who have just arrived in North America, although we are fighting for living space, but we are willing to provide a better life and other help for the Indians." In addition, we are physically close to the Indians, and it is easy to win their trust, and in the process of getting along, we do not discriminate against the Indians as much as the Westerners. And a lot of people sincerely want the power of the Indians to be integrated into us, and it certainly has to do with our culture. Of course, I think the most important point is the material thing, the aboriginal people have achieved a better standard of living by entering the farms and factories, and they no longer go hungry, although there is a certain difference with their customs, but most people are still more realistic. This has led to the fact that we have naturalized Indians faster than we could have imagined. ”