readx; It can be seen from the construction of ships how important the basic materials industry is, so it is not difficult to understand why Chen Jingyun invested so much money in the Southeast Iron and Steel Plant, purchased many technical patents for it, and introduced various technologies, in order to lay a foundation for the country's industry! The Southeast Iron and Steel Plant is only a foundation, limited to the limited surname of Fuzhou, the existing scale of the Southeast Iron and Steel Plant is enough, the main customers of the Southeast Iron and Steel Plant are still the Fuzhou Arsenal and other military enterprises under the national army system, such as two shipyards, three arsenals, these are military products, the demand is also limited, if we continue to expand the scale, not only the source of coal mines and iron ore will be shipped to Fuzhou, but also the products produced by the Fuzhou Arsenal will not be used so much, and those civilian people will just be exported by sea, which is one more trouble. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

To this end, after the end of the first phase of the construction project of the Southeast Iron and Steel Plant, the second phase of the construction project will not be in Fuzhou, but in Shanghai, the Southeast Iron and Steel Plant will build a larger branch plant in Shanghai, and the source of iron ore has been selected, that is, the iron ore in Ma'anshan and other southern Jiangsu regions, due to the construction in Shanghai, the nearby civilian market is also larger, and the transportation is more convenient, which is extremely important for the subsequent development of the steel plant, after all, the demand of the steel plant can not always rely on the military industry to support, In the future, a large number of civilian markets will be the rigid demand for the continuous expansion and development of an enterprise.

To build a steel plant, to build warships, to rebuild the navy, all of these need time to bring step by step, not a matter of one or two years, but a continuous investment for many years, and Chen Jingyun is determined.

However, it is one thing to be determined, and it is another thing to do what to do, it is certain to rebuild the navy, and it is also necessary to build ships. But when it comes to scoring, such as now, Chen Jingyun will definitely not give the navy more money to build ships.

At present, in order to compete for hegemony with Beiyang, the national army needs a huge amount of military expenditure, and the southeast Xuanfu embassy is already struggling to continue to expand the scale of the army, so the navy naturally has to let it go. Therefore, in the 1913 annual naval military expenditure, in addition to the necessary fleet maintenance funds, only an additional one million shipbuilding funds were given, and this million shipbuilding funds were the preliminary funds for the two destroyers, in fact, the purchase of one such destroyer was only more than two million, and if the national army wanted to build it itself, the cost of one before and after would be at least more than doubled, but in order to cultivate the ability to build ships independently, even if it was expensive, it had to grit its teeth, and if it couldn't come up with so much money for a while, So for that part of each year, let's start now.

If the domestic situation is smooth and the finances are not tight, Chen Jingyun will plan to only give the navy basic maintenance funds, and the shipbuilding funds will be at most a million yuan to maintain the shipyard, and the other big heads still have to give you the army part.

The size of the Nationalist Army has always been continuously expanding, and it has never stopped expanding its army since the days of the Sixth Brigade, and new units are being trained in each period, but sometimes the pace is larger, and sometimes the pace is smaller. Before the Anhui-Jiangxi War, the Nationalist Army transferred the existing troops to form three mixed brigades, and after these troops were transferred away, the original troops, such as the Third Division and the Eighth Division, had to replenish their personnel and equipment to restore their establishment, thus increasing the strength of 15,000 troops in disguise.

In addition, at this time, the training work of the 11th Division was still going on, and dozens of artillery pieces specially purchased for this division had already returned to China, and the 11th Artillery Regiment had begun training, and according to the fact that it would take about half a year for the newly formed units of the Nationalist Army to be formed, it was expected that the 11th Division would be formally formed within two months.

In addition to the 11 th Division, the Nationalist Army has also set up the Fourth Mixed Brigade in Jiangxi and the Fifth Mixed Brigade in southern Jiangsu, and in the next step of army expansion, the General Staff has proposed to expand the scale of the mixed brigade to be used for combat missions in remote areas such as mountainous areas in China, and the 12 regular field divisions will be used to undertake the strategic decisive tasks of the Nationalist Army. This is also a method of last resort in the case of a shortage of military funds and heavy weapons, the cost of forming a regular division is too great, whether it is the Beiyang side or the national army, now it is very difficult to raise more than a dozen divisions, if you want to continue to expand the number of troops, then you need to adopt flexible methods, such as the formation of mixed brigades that do not need too many heavy weapons.

This is not only done by the Nationalist Army, but also by Yuan Shikai, in addition to a dozen regular divisions, he has already formed four mixed brigades. After all, Chen Jingyun has a staff department to advise him, and Yuan Shikai also has an army department to give him ideas, and when it comes to the model of this mixed brigade, Yuan Shikai played first, and the national army is just a latecomer.

After the end of the Anhui-Jiangxi Campaign, the Nationalist Army decided to set up the Fourth Mixed Brigade and the Fifth Mixed Brigade, and when the Nationalist Army's current expansion work is completed, then the Nationalist Army will have 11 infantry divisions, one guard division, five mixed brigades, and a read-force howitzer shell, and the strength of the main force will be as high as 150,000, with more than 30 105 howitzers and hundreds of 75-millimeter guns. If we add nearly twenty local garrison regiments, two fortress garrison regiments of the navy, and other civilian soldiers, then the total strength of the national army will be close to 200,000 men.

Even if such a large-scale force is not as good as Beiyang, it is already close, after all, there are only a dozen divisions directly under the Beiyang system, and although the troops of those affiliated factions also belong to the Beiyang system, it is also a trouble for Yuan Shikai to be mobilized.

Among the hundreds of thousands of troops, the equipment is not as single as when there were only a few divisions at the beginning, and the light weapons are good, such as the rifle is still the main rifle of the Hanyang and Type 88 and Type 12 for the troops, and the light machine gun is simpler, only Madsen, and the heavy machine gun is mainly based on the Type 01, Type 99 and the Type 08 imitated by the Fuzhou Arsenal. The pistols are in chaos, all kinds of pistols are available, especially the officers' guns are all kinds of things, some are captured, some are simply bought by themselves, and the production of the first year of the Fuzhou Arsenal imitation Colt 1911 pistol is slowly increasing, but it is far from meeting the needs of the troops, and the pistol is far less important than other weapons, so it has not been included in the key production projects. As a result, the pistols equipped in the national army were all kinds of messy, and the logistics department only supplied the first year-old pistol cartridges, revolver cartridges, and the bullets of other miscellaneous pistols did not provide logistical support, and the guns they bought bought their own bullets went to ......

The carbine of the unit was a modified version of the Type 12 rifle, which was mainly used to equip the cavalry of the reconnaissance battalions of various divisions, and the equipment was not large, and the Nationalist Army also captured a considerable number of so-made carbines, and some of them were also used.

Overall, the light weapons component has maintained a considerable level of uniformity and will not put too much strain on the logistical system.

However, there is a bit of a mess in terms of heavy weapons, especially 75mm guns.

The heavy armament of the National Army can be divided into two parts, one mortar and the other artillery. Although the mortars of the Nationalist Army have been applied on a large scale on the domestic battlefield, and have also attracted the attention of officers of some major powers, but based on the backward impression of China, coupled with the simple structure of the mortar, people think that this is a kind of thing that the Nationalist Army has made up a number of things because of the lack of technical ability and the inability to equip artillery on a large scale. At this time, trench warfare had not yet taken shape, and the role of mortars was not great for the current forces of the great powers, at least they did not think it was large.

The artillery part of the equipment of the National Army is even more messy, with everything from Germany, to the United States, to domestic goods. Originally, the front-end time of the establishment of the national army, when the scale was not large, was fine, the artillery models were relatively unified, and the large-scale equipment was called 'this artillery and German artillery, but as time slowly passed, the national army was equipped with a large number of American-made artillery, and then captured a large number of chaotic types of artillery from previous battles. As time passed, the artillery models of the troops began to become cluttered.

For example, the first division of the front line was initially equipped with two German-made field artillery battalions and one German-made mountain artillery battalion, but in several battles before and after, more than 10 artillery pieces were lost. Other troops are almost the same, when the artillery regiment was first established, the artillery attached to it was the same batch, but after the battle losses and replenishment, it seems a little messy, especially now that the number of troops of the national army is large, the number of artillery has been seriously shortage, in addition to the main divisions in the early stage, many troops have begun to lack artillery, for example, the mountain artillery battalion of the third division has been transferred to two mountain artillery companies, and it has not been replenished, The mountain artillery battalion of the 8th Division was also transferred to the 2nd Mixed Brigade.

After the Battle of Anhui and Jiangxi, the Nationalist Army captured a lot of various types of artillery, and those that could be used were directly supplemented into the troops, and the unusable ones were sealed and sold to the Dian Army.

In order to solve the problem of chaotic artillery models in various units of the Nationalist Army, the General Staff Department is preparing to carry out a readjustment of all artillery regiments, so that the artillery under the jurisdiction of each artillery regiment belongs to the same type as much as possible, and there will be no embarrassing situation in which there are three or four types of mountain artillery in a mountain artillery battalion. For example, the troops in southern Jiangsu and southern Anhui will be adjusted, and then the troops in Jiangxi will be readjusted with each other, and the troops in Guangdong and Fujian will also be readjusted. To put it simply, it is a nearby match, and you can't do anything like not transport thousands of miles in order to adjust a few guns.

Any adjustment of the troops must be based on the premise that it will not affect the combat effectiveness of the troops!