In the compound of the Wuchang East Lake Military Committee, there are a large five, small and six buildings that combine Chinese and Western styles, all of which are the kind of Chinese-style roofs with large cornices, and below are Western-style buildings of reinforced concrete, and then granite is pasted outside, which looks solemn and solemn from a distance.

The Ministry of Armaments occupies a small building in the compound of the Military Commission, which is a three-story building, one of the five small buildings. The other four buildings are the War Department, the General Staff, the Political Department, and the Admiralty. That building is the main building of the Central Military Commission, where the members of the Military Commission have their own offices, and the headquarters of the five arms of the armed forces, including artillery, aviation, engineer, cavalry, and joint logistics, also occupy one floor each in the main force. It is such a small territory that is the heart of the entire National Revolutionary Army.

In the office of the Minister of Armaments, two lamps of tea wafted with a fragrant fragrance. Luo Yaoguo and Bai Chongxi, deputy chief of the General Staff, sat face to face, chatting and laughing while sipping tea.

Luo Yaoguo sat leisurely behind the desk, gently turning the teacup in his hand, pondering the other party's intentions. The current Gui family is not the warlord group in history that supports the army and respects itself, but is just a small gang of a few Guangxi generals. Today's National Revolutionary Army is "semi-nationalized", with only a trace of warlords left. This time, Bai Chongxi did not get a member of the Military Commission, so naturally he had a lot less say in the personnel arrangements after the reorganization, and now the three division commanders of the Gui department can keep one of them. Today, this "little Zhuge " came to the Ministry of Armaments by talking about the army reorganization plan, most likely for this, right?

The two exchanged pleasantries for a while. Bai Chongxi got to the point first, he took out a document from the briefcase he brought with him and put it on the table. smiled faintly: "This is the preliminary establishment of the army division drawn up by the General Staff, please take a look at Brother Fuwen and see if there is anything that can be modified?" ”

Luo Yaoguo smiled and took the document and looked through it. The army division proposed by the General Staff Department has a very large establishment of one division and two brigades, plus four regiments of artillery, engineering, cavalry, and cavalry. The entire establishment is similar to that of the Standing Division, and it is not at all the same thing as the vacant divisions in China at present. If the entire division is fully equipped, it should have more than 25,000 men, and it should maintain a full force rate of 80 percent in peacetime, that is, 20,000 men.

"The artillery is very large." Luo Yaoguo turned to the page of the artillery establishment, and couldn't help but sigh with emotion: "There is an artillery regiment directly under the division, an artillery battalion directly under the brigade, an artillery company at the regimental level, a mortar platoon at the battalion level, and a mortar group in the company." If there are twenty such divisions, what will the warlords of the northern kingdom do to fight us? Scared and scared to death. ”

"Yes, don't fight, just scare it, we generals have no place for heroes." Bai Chongxi's words were playful, and they seemed to have some deep meaning. Several of the Gui family are first-class warriors in China at the moment, but the future does not seem to be very promising.

Luo Yaoguo raised his head, glanced at Bai Chongxi, and laughed: "Brother Jiansheng is really joking, how can you generals be buried?" If such a division does not have a strong man to command on the battlefield, it would be good if it could exert one or two percent of its combat strength, but if it is not good, it will become the enemy's 'transport captain'. ”

As soon as the joke came out, Bai Chongxi also laughed along: "Brother Fuwen is a metaphor for images, to be honest, these divisions do have to have a good command to play a role, but how many such talents are there in today's [***]?" ”

Luo Yaoguo smiled and counted with his fingers: "Xia Xicang (Xia Wei), Huang Xuchu, Liao Yannong (Liao Lei), Xue Boling (Xue Yue), Zhang Xianghua (Zhang Fakui), these fierce generals can always lead a division, right?" There are three Guangxi fellows here! My second uncle and I plan to recommend two of them as division commanders...... In addition, I also want to ask Brother Jiansheng to recommend four brigade commanders, I wonder who Brother Jiansheng thinks is more suitable? Luo Yaoguo glanced at Bai Chongxi with a smile, waiting for his reply.

Bai Chongxi was stunned and looked up at Luo Yaoguo. He originally thought that he would be satisfied with the position of division commander from Luo Yaoguo, but he didn't expect the other party to give two of them. This time, the "Gui Department" owes Luo Yaoguo a great favor. It seems that this pair of uncles and nephews have the intention of wooing the "Gui family". And he invested a lot of money to win them over, and he didn't despise them at all because of the situation of the Gui family.

The current situation of the "Gui faction" is very bad, and it is true that they have a few fierce generals, but the Kuomintang clearly says that it will not fight a major war for five years. Five years later, the regiment commanders and battalion commanders of the Whampoa have matured, and they are not bad at being division commanders and brigade commanders. Who cares about a few "old men" in your Gui family? If these people do not have a good future, they will die old in the War Department and the General Staff. This is too lonely for a general who was born for the battlefield, right?

Bai Chongxi stood up suddenly, and actually gave a neat military salute to Luo Yaoguo, with a solemn face: "Brother Fuwen has done Bai and my brothers a great favor this time!" Da En is not grateful, in the future, as long as Brother Fuwen has a place to be in the next place, even if he speaks, he will do his best in the next place. ”

Luo Yaoguo was also busy standing up and saluting, but his heart was full of ecstasy, with Bai Chongxi's words, he was sure to further win over the Gui family, and he could even pull the Gui family under his command. Wooing is nothing more than an official hat and a money bag, and now the Luo family has no shortage of both, and the officials have the Ministry of Armaments, the Military Intelligence Bureau, the Central Military Academy, and even the Executive Yuan can arrange it. If you want money, Luo Yaoguo has also amassed a lot of money now, and he can't remember the specific figures, and he is much richer than Chiang Kai-shek, a Qing official.

"Brother Jiansheng, the younger brother and uncle and nephew have always admired my brother, and I want to prepare a table of wine at the Xuangong Hotel tonight, please Brother Jiansheng must appreciate it." Luo Yaoguo smiled and invited again.

Bai Chongxi smiled: "Thanks to Brother Fuwen and Duke Yi, the younger brother will be a villain." ”

Luo Yaoguo clapped his hands: "That's great." At six o'clock tonight, the restaurant on the top floor of the Xuan Palace Hotel will be gone. ”

"Okay, we'll see you there." Bai Chongxi arched his hand, his face was smiling like a flower, but there was a hint of pride in the pair of sharp and deep eyes behind the glasses. It is a good thing that someone spends a lot of money to win over, which shows that he Bai Chongxi and those brothers of the Gui family have the value of wooing, but that old Jiang has no eyes and no knowledge.

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Sending off "Little Zhuge ", Luo Yao let out a long breath and sat on the chair, but it was difficult to calm down for a long time in his heart. I am actually wooing the three heroes of the Gui family! This time it's really a big game. Who are they? That was a thorn in the head that the "former president" Lao Jiang had worked hard for half his life until the end! I don't know if I will be able to pull them into the gang in the end, and I still have to control them?

Luo Yaoguo picked up the preparation plan left by Bai Chongxi, flipped through it a few times, and said in his heart, it seems that this is all the credit of the system! Now [***] has faintly taken the rudiments of the national army, and is no longer a tool of warlords. The establishment, transfer, personnel, and finances of the army are all in the hands of the Military Commission, and the division commanders below have limited power, otherwise how could this little Zhuge be willing to pull down his face and beg for himself?

After looking at it for a while, Luo Yaoguo's eyebrows frowned unconsciously. It turned out that he only cared about his friendship with Bai Chongxi just now, and didn't take a closer look, but now he found out that these old men from the staff department have a really big appetite! The divisional artillery regiment actually wants to equip the three battalions of the Min-16 type 105mm light field howitzer with a total of 36 guns! This gun is part of a partnership with Krupp and Rheinland. It is a copy of the German World War I 1916 105mm light field howitzer, which has just been successfully trial-produced by the Ishii Arsenal Artillery Branch. It will not be until the first phase of the Shaoguan Iron and Steel Plant is fully put into operation next year, and the cannon tube steel will be mass-produced after it can be produced by itself. Unexpectedly, the General Staff had already taken it to mind, and the caliber of the artillery had risen, and the weight would naturally increase, so that more horses would be needed to transport it, and these were all troubles for the Armaments Department. It seems that this minister is not very easy to be a minister, right?

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