readx; With the passage of time, Nanjing also had a light snow, this light snow just after the Spring Festival was already the Spring Festival, this year's Spring Festival as usual, Chen Jingyun once again held a routine Spring Festival state banquet, many military dignitaries also participated, but unlike previous years, this year's Spring Festival state banquet has some people who have been invited for the first time, and these people are naturally just from the middle position to the core of the republic. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

For example, Chen Shaokuan of the Navy, this person was just an ordinary rear admiral a few years ago, and he was promoted to lieutenant general after making contributions in the war, and other vice admirals in the navy who survived by virtue of seniority and time, Chen Shaokuan was promoted by virtue of his real military exploits, and he was the core general of the aviation faction at the same time, so his prestige within the navy was quite high, and he was regarded by the aviation faction within the navy as the leader of the next generation of naval aviation after Guan Shijie. Like Chen Shaokuan, there is also Liao Hui of the Navy, who is also the real power of the aviation faction in the navy, and these two people, together with Admiral Guan Shijie, form the main high-level generals of the aviation faction within the navy.

Chen Jingyun looked at Chen Shaokuan who walked to him and said, "This journey can be considered smooth?" ”

Chen Shaokuan is currently the commander of the Third Air Fleet, and the base of the Third Air Fleet is in Qingdao, so Chen Shaokuan's permanent office is naturally also in Qingdao, and like other generals and officials stationed in other places, he also rushed back temporarily before the Spring Festival.

Chen Shaokuan said: "With Chairman Lao's care, my journey was quite smooth, but it was a little bumpy when I took the plane!" ”

In 1930-1931, when the war was called, China's high-level generals were mobilized and traveled long distances, all of them took the air force or navy transport planes, and the number of transport planes equipped by the Chinese air force and navy is not small, the main model C4 two transport aircraft are the main, the Y3 transport aircraft in the past few years has been in service for many years, and the surname can have fallen behind, so it has begun to transfer to the second line, At present, the special planes of high-ranking military generals are all C4 transport planes. However, with the development of aviation technology in recent years, and the B11 four-engine heavy bomber of Chuzhou Aircraft Company has been developed, Chuzhou Aircraft Company is also trying to use its own technical advantages in bombers to design a full-time transport aircraft, it is said that its new generation of transport aircraft has completed preliminary research and development, ready to compete with the transport aircraft of Nanchang Guang'an Aircraft Company.

However, Chuzhou Aircraft Company has a technical advantage in fighter jets and heavy bombers, which does not necessarily mean that it can win in the competition of transport aircraft, Nanchang Guang'an Aircraft Company's technical background in transport aircraft is incomparable to Chuzhou Aircraft Company, and this is mainly driven by the technology of Guang'an Aircraft Company in passenger aircraft, Guang'an Aircraft Company's civil airliner is the domestic boss, and its GA-6 is the main passenger aircraft of China's civilian passenger routes in the early thirties. The C4 transport aircraft designed by the GA-6 passenger aircraft is the main transport aircraft of the Air Force and the Navy, and the B8 twin-engine tactical bomber developed by Guang'an Aircraft Company defeated the old Chuzhou Aircraft Company to obtain orders from the Air Force. In order to maintain its technological leadership, Guang'an Aircraft Company has long begun to develop a new generation of passenger aircraft, and it is still taking the road of using passenger aircraft to pull transport aircraft and bombers.

The new generation of GA-7 passenger aircraft has recently completed the initial test flight, and has obtained a large number of orders, not only domestic, but also foreign, the United States and Europe, as well as the civil aviation enterprises over there are ordered a variety of aircraft, it can be said that the GA-6 passenger aircraft of Guang'an Aircraft Company has laid the foundation for them. So much so that the new generation of GA-7 passenger aircraft has not yet completed the research and development, and has already obtained hundreds of orders. The Guang'an Aircraft Company directly used the prototype improvement of the GA-7 passenger aircraft to design a new generation of transport aircraft for the next generation of transport aircraft bidding for the Air Force and Navy.

However, even though passenger aircraft and transport aircraft have developed quite rapidly in recent years, there are still some flaws, and there are certain dangers when taking passenger planes, and the comfort cannot be compared with the luxury carriages of trains. However, it is fast and convenient, which is why the top generals of the military like to fly so much.

After talking to Chen Shaokuan, Chen Jingyun encouraged him to continue to work hard and create more brilliance for the navy, and then he talked to Liao Hui and Guan Shijie of the navy, and he didn't say anything serious in the conversation, just small talk.

After throwing away the group of people in the navy, Chen Jingyun had to talk to Wu Shizhong and others from the Air Force, and then talk to the officials from the Government Affairs Yuan.

Half an hour later, Jiang Fangzhen of the army came over, and now Jiang Fangzhen already has the rank of lieutenant general on his shoulders, which is strange to say, Jiang Fangzhen entered the national army in his early years and held important positions, when he sat in the position of the Education Department of the General Staff for almost ten years, and then he was transferred to Nanjing Army University as vice president, during which he was promoted to lieutenant general, as for the position of principal, Chen Jingyun concurrently served, and Chen Jingyun actually didn't care, So Jiang Fangzhen's vice principal is actually the principal. After serving as principal for three years, Jiang Fangzhen served as the director of weapons for another year, and then was transferred to the General Staff Department as the executive secretary. His experience is different from that of most lieutenant generals in the army, because he has never served in a field army, and has always been in Nanjing, which is extremely rare among the dozens of lieutenant generals with real power in the Chinese army, and most of these lieutenant generals have the experience of serving in field troops, and they have all climbed up from the position of division commander and army commander one by one, and there are very few people like Jiang Fangzhen who have always stayed in Nanjing.

However, even if Jiang Fangzhen did not serve in the field army, his prestige in the army was not small, because he was mainly engaged in the study of strategic theory, and he presided over almost every reform of the establishment and equipment of the Chinese army, and after the war in mid-1931, Jiang Fangzhen put forward the theory of gradual depth, and this theory was based on the tactical theory of Major General Sun Liren of the army. In the future war, there should not be trench warfare like during the First World War, but there will be a movement war with mechanized forces with tanks as the core, and in the case that both sides have a large number of new equipment, if you want to break through the enemy's defense line, you must concentrate more troops and equipment, and it is expected that the first line of troops will suffer great losses when breaking through the defense line, so you must prepare the second echelon and even the third echelon to break through the enemy's defense line and open a gap to continue to advance to the enemy's depth.

The core of this theory is still to concentrate a large number of mechanized troops to quickly penetrate the depth of the enemy's army, so it puts forward higher requirements for the mechanization of the troops, and also requires the air force units to not only be able to provide air protection for the ground forces, but also require the bomber units of the air force to invest a large number of front-line bombers when the campaign is launched to directly support the operations of the front-line mechanized troops.

And this theory is also recognized by most of the high-ranking generals of the army, but this strategic theory also brings great problems, that is, with China's current mechanized forces are not enough to complete a similar gradual advance in depth, an armored army is estimated to only serve as an echelon of combat missions, and follow-up operations will need more armored armies, especially for the Siberian side of Soviet Russia, the Chinese army's mechanized troops are even more lacking.

In order to implement the strategic theory, a new round of reorganization plans has been carried out within the army, and Jiang Fangzhen is responsible for these reorganization as always.

"Now the establishment of tank units in our army can still stand the test, but the motorized units in the armored units obviously have some certain problems, although these motorized units are equipped with a lot of wheeled vehicles, but in actual combat, these wheeled vehicles will encounter great trouble after leaving the road, and the cross-country ability is extremely limited without the support of sufficient engineering troops, and our current motorized infantry are used to accompany the tank troops in combat, which can not keep up with the cross-country speed of the tank troops has brought great problems. In order to solve this problem, our proposal is to reorganize these motorized units and replace wheeled vehicles with tracked armored vehicles, but the cost of fully tracked armored vehicles is too high, so a compromise solution can be adopted to improve the current mobile cross-country ability of these motorized units through the mass use of semi-tracked armored vehicles. And the large number of wheeled vehicles currently equipped in these motorized units will not be wasted and can be transferred to various infantry divisions. ”

Jiang Fangzhen continued: "As for the future reform of the establishment of the troops, my opinion is to maintain the current size of the three armored divisions, and the current six motorized divisions to be replaced with mechanized divisions. Let our three armies become sharp-knife units. The ordinary infantry divisions are divided into two classes, one is to be equipped with various wheeled vehicles and a small number of half-track armored vehicles and light reconnaissance armored vehicles on a large scale, and become motorized infantry divisions with the ability to maneuver quickly on the road. Other units were equipped with the necessary trucks to tow artillery, further reducing the number of mules, horses, and logistics. ”

Chen Jingyun listened to this, and nodded secretly in his heart, Jiang Fangzhen's idea is still good, and looking at what he said, the mechanized division should be able to have strong combat effectiveness, which can be regarded as a semi-armored division, and a large number of Jiang's infantry units have been converted into motorized infantry divisions, which is also conducive to improving the combat effectiveness of the troops.

However, this cost is estimated to be more, even if it is very many years to carry out this plan, it is estimated that it will bring a relatively large financial pressure, after all, this is not to say the purchase of a few dozens of tank trucks, but hundreds of thousands of tanks, but also tens of thousands of various trucks and all kinds of new equipment, which brings a lot of pressure.

At this time, Shen Gang also said on the side: "For the improvement of the combat effectiveness of the armored forces, Fang Dashan also put forward a suggestion, saying that the various towed artillery in the armored forces at present have caused great inconvenience to the mobility of the troops, and a plan to purchase self-propelled artillery has been proposed!" ”

"Self-propelled guns?" When Chen Jingyun heard this, he immediately said: "Oh, there is no problem with the technology in this area, right?" ”

Shen Gang said: "There won't be much of a problem, Wuhu Heavy Machinery Company already has a sample gun, using our original T6 series tank territory, and then equipped with 105 mm artillery, but the caliber of this self-propelled gun is slightly smaller, for ordinary infantry divisions 105 mm caliber is enough, but for armored troops is still slightly insufficient, according to our estimates, the division artillery regiment of the armored forces, at least one battalion or more of 155 mm howitzers are needed, So it is to prepare for the development of a 155-mm self-propelled howitzer. ”

Shen Gang is right, for the Chinese Army, the 75 mm caliber of divisional artillery in the First World War era is okay, and the 105 mm caliber of divisional artillery from the twenties to the middle of the war is also good, but after entering the thirties, for the armored forces, the divisional artillery is only 105 mm caliber, which is a serious shortage, after all, the armored forces are rapidly advancing troops, and it is impossible to follow a large group of 155 mm heavy artillery in the rear, that is to say, in the war of movement, Armored units are rarely supported by heavy artillery of more than 155 mm caliber, and without support in the rear, they have to solve it on their own. Therefore, it is very necessary for the armored forces themselves to equip themselves with 155-mm self-propelled howitzers.

Hearing this, Chen Jingyun said: "Well, yes, the research and development and equipment of various new equipment of the armored forces cannot be stagnant, and this self-propelled artillery sounds okay, I'll take a look another day!" ”

Shen Gang said: "No problem, I'll let them arrange it, the bidding test is going to be conducted, and the products of several other companies will also be displayed together!" ”

After talking with the people in the military, Chen Jingyun talked with the people in the Government Council again, this will naturally not be the military, but the economic and industrial things, in the past two years, China's construction focus is not the construction of military equipment, but the development of the economy, in order to be able to have a strong enough strength in the upcoming world war, China has been immersed in a lot of infrastructure construction over the years, among which the most representative surname of the railway is developing rapidly, In the eastern part of the country, a large network of feeder railways has been built, connecting several existing arteries in China and driving local economic development. If the construction of railways in the eastern and inland regions is built for the purpose of economic development, then the construction of railways in the great southwest, northwest and northern regions is completely a national defense project, for example, the main purpose of the Northwest Railway is to be able to supply the troops deployed by China in the northwest and Siberia.

In the past, China's troops stationed in Siberia and Central Asia could only rely on the Russian Trans-Siberian Railway for transportation, and the transportation capacity of this railway was very reluctant to maintain the millions of Chinese and Russian troops in the Siberian region, and it was very likely that they would not be able to be busy after the war, not to mention continuing to increase troops in this region. But this is only a way to do it, so in order to completely solve the transportation problem of the Chinese troops in Central Asia and Siberia, the construction of the Northwest Railway has not stopped, and after the completion of the construction of the domestic section, it is to pass through the Alashankou and then continue to the Kazakh direction of Central Asia, and then connect the Central Asian Railway built by the original Russia.

In this way, the problem of China's difficulty in deploying troops in Central Asia was fundamentally solved, and with the railway, all kinds of heavy equipment could be transported, including armored units, not that the Kazakh region needed to rely heavily on cavalry units, as before.

In addition to the Northwest Railway, also built into the Sichuan railway, and the development of the Sichuan Railway in addition to the military significance, more important is the economic interests, after the opening of the railway into Sichuan can solve the problem of difficult access to Sichuan, so that the development of Sichuan is of great strategic significance, to know that Sichuan can have a lot of resources, but the railway into Sichuan is also difficult to repair, the construction difficulty is not much less than the Southwest Railway, and China was originally in order to build the railway from Zhuzhou to Guiyang and then to Kunming, However, a huge amount of money was spent, and even a lot of road construction workers died. Therefore, when the Sichuan Railway was repaired, there were many problems, but it was finally repaired.

There are many options for the Sichuan Railway, but considering some specific problems, the subsequent choice is to use the Southwest Railway to build from Guiyang, then extend to Yucheng, and then extend from Yucheng to Chengdu. However, this is not the end, from Chengdu will continue to the north, through Mianyang, Yangping Pass and then arrive in Baoji, and connect with the Northwest Railway. After the completion of this Sichuan railway, it will also become China's third north-south trunk railway, which is of great significance to the development of the southwest region.

In addition to these trunk railways, there are also many branch railways, most of these branch railways rely on the trunk railways, some are to drive the economic development of the vicinity, and some are purely for the development of local resources, such as the Panzhihua iron ore mine was discovered, it has already begun to build branch railways, if nothing else, for the development of this super-large railway.

In addition to the railway, the most important infrastructure belongs to the large hydropower stations, because China's electrification process is getting faster day by day, the electricity consumption is also getting bigger day by day, after several hydropower stations have been built in the early years, although to a certain extent to alleviate the local electricity consumption, but still can not completely solve the electricity gap, in addition to continuing to vigorously develop thermal power, is to vigorously develop hydropower, and the development of hydropower is also supported by the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, because the construction of hydropower stations will also be conducive to the irrigation of farmland, The hydropower station is not only used to generate electricity, but also a water conservancy hub, which will bring great benefits to agricultural development.

According to the economic development of various places required by the electricity gap, as well as the local agricultural situation, China has started the construction of as many as a dozen large-scale hydropower projects in recent years, plus those built in the twenties, the total number of large-scale hydropower projects completed and under construction has exceeded 30, after the completion of these hydropower stations, not only can provide water conservancy convenience to the local area, but also improve the capacity of inland waterway navigation, of course, more importantly, can provide more electricity.

The construction of railways and hydropower stations is basically scattered throughout the country, but the construction of long-distance highways is limited to the developed areas in the east, with the increasing number of cars in China, and the motorization of the [***] team continues to accelerate, for military strategy and economic development considerations, the Ministry of Communications of China has built many highways in the developed areas of the east in recent years, of course, these roads are not the highways in the future, although Hitler in Germany did this, However, for China, there is not much need to build expressways now, and most of the roads built now are intercity roads, including intra-city roads and inter-city roads. For example, Shanghai's two ring highways are the financial support of Shanghai, and intercity highways are generally limited to developed cities, such as Shanghai to Nanjing, Shanghai to Hangzhou.

There are also roads built in areas where there are no railways, and the roads in these places are just ordinary asphalt roads.

In general, China's highway development is still relatively backward, far less rapid than the development of railways, and this is also related to China's own national conditions, first of all, China's area is too large, must have a large number of railways to meet the needs of national defense and people's livelihood, ordinary highways simply can not replace the role of railways, and unlike Germany is so big, it does not cost a few dollars to build highways. Secondly, although the total number of cars in China is quite large, the per capita level is very low, far less than that of Britain, France, Germany and the United States. Moreover, most of these cars are concentrated in the eastern region, such as Xi'an, which is also considered to have a high economic level in the central and western regions, and the number of cars owned by it is not even one percent of that of Shanghai. If it weren't for the traffic jam on the streets of Shanghai, Shanghai Special Municipal Axe would not have spent a huge amount of money to build the ring highway.

After a state banquet, everyone went back to their homes, so that such a Spring Festival was over, and after the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, Chen Jingyun came to the shooting range of the Nanjing Light Weapons Company, where today he was going to watch the tests of several new equipment of the army.

These include new tanks, new self-propelled howitzers, and various other armored vehicles of new types. The army has spent a lot of effort on this exercise of new equipment, and preparations have been made since the end of last year, and this has a bearing not only on the finalization of all kinds of new equipment, but also on the success or failure of the army's new-style establishment.

Just after the end of the year, the team headed by Jiang Fangzhen had already submitted a plan for the reorganization of the army, and according to the content of the plan, it formulated a new generation of army armored divisions, mechanized divisions, motorized divisions, and infantry divisions, and according to the time limit proposed in the plan, it was called the 1934 establishment.

The equipment that was about to be tested was the core equipment in the 1934 establishment, and it can be said that the success of these equipment was directly related to whether or not the 1934 establishment could be smoothly implemented.