readx; After returning from the exhibition of the army's new weapons test results, Chen Jingyun was in a very good mood, and he approved several plans put forward by the army with a stroke of a pen, such as the plan to formally prepare mechanized divisions, such as the plan to convert six infantry divisions into motorized infantry divisions, and the plan to expand the 3rd Armored Regiment and the 5th Armored Regiment into the Readli Armored Brigade. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

However, these plans are all important plans in a series of reorganization plans put forward by the Army, and they are also the core contents of the Army's 1934 reorganization plan, and the Army wants to implement the 1934 establishment plan, and the above mechanized divisions, the expansion of motorized divisions, and the plan of reading armored regiments are the most important.

As a matter of fact, even if the army does not take the initiative, Chen Jingyun will not let the army carry out modernization, because fighting a war in these years is no longer the same as before, and the construction of the army must keep up with the level of a world-class land, otherwise it will be unable to do its job in future wars. Although the strength of the Chinese army is still okay, it is still some distance from the strength of the army of the main participating countries in World War II in Chen Jingyun's memory, on the surface, the national army already has nearly 2,000 tanks of various types, but most of them are tanks at the level of the end of World War I and the early twenties, and there are actually only more than 300 T9 tanks that can really be regarded as advanced tanks. Although there are tanks in the armored forces, there is still a lot of distance from the armored forces of various countries in the period, such as self-propelled artillery, which is not reached, and self-propelled anti-tank guns are not, these are worse, and the air defense force is even weaker, the current anti-aircraft firepower of the Chinese army is actually relatively poor, even lower than the level of the armies of various countries, many times the air defense is temporarily erected by 7.92 heavy machine guns, there are very few specialized anti-aircraft machine guns, and the army is equipped with fewer anti-aircraft guns. The reason for this is very simple, that is, the air defense pressure of the army has not been very large, basically in East Asia, only the Chinese air force and naval aviation bomb others, the army itself will be bombed very little, in the middle of the war in 1931, the army units that entered Korea have not been bombed several times from beginning to end, although they know that air defense is a very important thing, but there is no pressure and there is no demand, which naturally relaxes. In contrast, the anti-aircraft and anti-tank firepower of our army, which has long been under pressure from China's huge air force and armored forces, is much stronger.

It's not about whether there's a capacity or not, it's a matter of demand.

The current situation is that the Chinese Army does not have much anti-aircraft firepower, and naturally the bigwigs of the Army do not attach much importance to it.

However, Chen Jingyun is focusing on the world war that will break out in a few years, and when the time comes, the Chinese army will not only face the so-called "Ben or Soviet Russia, but if one is not done well, it will be confronted with Britain, France, and the United States, and Britain and France are all easy to say, but the industrial strength of the Americans should not be underestimated; once the war starts, it is estimated that it will be relatively difficult to compete with the Americans for sea and air supremacy, and the army will have to focus on vision warfare and air defense operations at that time."

"The divisional anti-aircraft firepower of this armored division is still less!" Chen Jingyun looked at it and frowned: "Only twelve 12.7 mm anti-aircraft machine guns can't meet the air defense needs of an entire armored division!" ”

The person who came to Chen Jingyun to report on the new establishment was naturally Jiang Fangzhen, and at this time he said: "According to past experience, the air defense pressure we are facing is not too large, and having 12 0.5-inch high-level dual-purpose machine guns is enough to deal with the air defense threat of our army, and I am afraid that any more will be wasted." ”

Chen Jingyun said: "Enough now does not mean that it will be enough in the future, just twelve anti-aircraft machine guns are definitely not enough!" ”

After saying that, he swept it on the compilation table, and then frowned again: "This anti-aircraft gun is not enough, how can it be enough for only four!" ”

Jiang Fangzhen was about to explain, but Chen Jingyun frowned again: "Why do you still use 30 mm anti-aircraft guns, I remember that the 30 mm anti-aircraft guns have been officially withdrawn, isn't it going to be replaced with 20 mm and 40 mm anti-aircraft guns?" ”

Faced with Chen Jingyun's large number of questions, Jiang Fangzhen's mind was also a little sweaty, and he immediately said: "The establishment of anti-aircraft firepower is to follow the old establishment, so the number has not changed much, and the 30-millimeter anti-aircraft gun, which has always been the standard anti-aircraft gun of our army, is a matter for the navy, and they have replaced the 40-millimeter and 20-millimeter caliber anti-aircraft guns in order to increase the multi-level firepower of prevention and control." ”

Hearing what he said, Chen Jingyun also remembered it, knowing that this matter was really a matter on the navy's side, but the anti-aircraft artillery on the army's side had not changed, but now it was time to change.

The ground anti-aircraft firepower of the Chinese army, navy and air force was almost the same in the early years, in the early years, they all used modified 7.92 mm anti-aircraft machine guns, and then adopted the 1921 30 mm anti-aircraft guns developed by the navy at the end of World War I, and then the navy and air force also adopted them, becoming the standard anti-aircraft artillery of the Chinese [***] side, and the larger caliber is the 75 mm anti-aircraft gun, and the air defense artillery of this caliber is mainly equipped with the navy's warships and the air defense forces of the air force. In addition, there is a larger caliber 127 mm shipborne anti-aircraft gun, and that is also the secondary gun on large capital ships and the main gun on destroyers.

With the passage of time, coupled with the different requirements of the three armed forces for anti-aircraft firepower, the choice of anti-aircraft weapons of the three armed forces has also changed. In terms of air defense tasks, the focus of the navy is naturally fleet air defense, and the requirements for air defense firepower are very strict; during the Second Sino-Chinese War, they were extremely dissatisfied with the surname of the 1921 30-mm anti-aircraft guns, so as soon as the war ended, they had the idea of upgrading and replacing the air defense system.

The strategy of the navy is that the large-caliber anti-aircraft artillery is naturally a 127-mm high-level dual-purpose naval gun, and the sub-caliber anti-aircraft artillery thinks that the 75-mm anti-aircraft artillery is generally powerful, and the rate of fire is also low, so it wants to reduce the caliber of the sub-caliber anti-aircraft gun to the range of 40 to 50 mm, and at the beginning it also developed a 47-mm shipborne anti-aircraft gun, but the surname Neng is unsatisfactory, and finally learned that there is a 40-mm anti-aircraft gun on the Swedish side is very good, And this artillery is actually the famous Bofors 40mm anti-aircraft gun in history, not to mention the introduction of the Chinese Navy after the interview, in fact, Britain, France, the United States and other countries are directly introduced, after all, good things are seen by everyone, and there will be no good things that do not happen. So it was directly introduced as an imitation, and named the 1934 40mm anti-aircraft gun, and now the navy has begun to equip it with twin installations in batches.

With a 40 mm caliber anti-aircraft gun, it is not good to directly match a 12.7 mm anti-aircraft machine gun below, so a 20 mm anti-aircraft gun was specially developed.

As a result, the various types of warships of the Chinese Navy can have an air defense network composed of 20 mm to 40 mm and then 127 mm.

"Now our old 30-mm anti-aircraft gun is also old and unusable, I think it can be replaced with a 20-mm anti-aircraft gun and a 40-mm anti-aircraft gun!" Chen Jingyun also knew that the 30-millimeter anti-aircraft guns currently equipped by the Chinese Navy and Army could no longer meet the needs of modern warfare, and although it was not enough to be directly decommissioned, they also needed to be withdrawn from the front-line troops, and just like the 75-millimeter anti-aircraft guns that were heavily equipped in the navy before, they could be assigned to various reading air defense units for air defense in key areas and cities.

The divisional air defense units of the Chinese Army do not intend to be equipped with medium- and large-caliber anti-aircraft artillery, but only with small-caliber anti-aircraft artillery and anti-aircraft machine guns, because China's large-caliber anti-aircraft artillery is generally assigned to the reading air defense units. Because the air defense task is also divided, there is field air defense, there is important air defense, and the field air defense carried out by ordinary divisional units is mainly self-preservation, and considering that the mobile surname of the troops is impossible to equip them with large-caliber anti-aircraft guns, you must know that anti-aircraft guns are relatively heavy guys, don't look at the caliber, but the length of each body is more than fifty or sixty times, and the 1934-style 40-mm anti-aircraft gun is 60 times the caliber, which is heavier than the 75-mm field artillery, And for larger calibers, they are at least several tons or more.

In order to better match the anti-aircraft firepower, the army has established a large number of read-power air defense establishments, which are specially equipped with medium- and large-caliber air defense guns to undertake the tasks of urban air defense and air defense in important areas. Even if it is assigned to the front-line troops to fight, it is basically the same as those reading heavy artillery units, which are directly under the jurisdiction of the army-level command.

"If so many new anti-aircraft guns are replaced now, I am afraid that the cost will be high!" Jiang Fangzhen knew that the establishment could not blindly consider firepower, but also the cost, which would cost tens of thousands of dollars more to add an anti-aircraft gun, and the subsequent personnel and training costs accumulated every year were not a small amount.

Chen Jingyun said: "Although it costs a lot to replace the new anti-aircraft guns in a short time, it is better than guarding those old anti-aircraft guns, and these 30-millimeter anti-aircraft guns are not to be thrown away, they can also be assigned to air defense regiments in various places and continue to exert their spare strength!" ”

Hearing Chen Jingyun say this, Jiang Fangzhen said: "Well, in that case, I will discuss the establishment and equipment of the air defense battalion with other colleagues when I go back!" ”

Since this issue of establishment has been discussed, Chen Jingyun also continued to express his opinions: "Also, the anti-aircraft firepower of the armored forces should be self-made as much as possible, after all, what the armored forces need is mobility, and if the towed anti-aircraft guns are used, the mechanical power will not be able to keep up!" ”

When Jiang Fangzhen heard this, he secretly calculated in his heart: self-propelled anti-aircraft guns, combat effectiveness and mobility are going up, but the cost? If it is the same as the self-propelled gun, it is good to use a mature and old tank chassis, but if the chassis of the T9 series is used, it is estimated that the cost will have to rise! And if the number is more than before, four, six chairmen will definitely not be satisfied, to say the least there will be more than eight or even more than twelve, if it is loaded with a tank chassis, it is estimated that it can be used duplex, then four or six self-propelled anti-aircraft guns will be needed, and the cost is estimated to be more expensive than the same number of T9 tanks.

If the 1934 plan is implemented, there will be three armored divisions, two armored brigades, six mechanized divisions, six motorized divisions, and about ten reading armored regiments. These troops will bring heavy pressure on the Chinese army in the next few years, just tanks are good, more importantly, it is necessary to equip a large number of half-track armored vehicles, and then a large number of self-propelled artillery, in addition to a certain number of self-propelled anti-tank guns, these new types of equipment are basically the first equipment, the funds required are massive, and now if you add a self-propelled anti-aircraft gun, this will have to add a large number of expenses. Jiang Fangzhen was a little worried about whether the large-scale construction of the new armored force could be completed.

Chen Jingyun's determination to form a modern armored force was very great, and even he ignored the opposition of some people in the army, and stubbornly demanded that Jiang Fangzhen's establishment in 1934 greatly increase the number of various modern weapons, and a series of new equipment such as self-propelled anti-aircraft guns, battlefield communication systems, and self-propelled anti-tank guns began to be manufactured from various factories and then entered service in various units.

After all, the navy, land and air forces spend so much money every year, and these military expenditures will eventually flow into the domestic economic system, and to a certain extent, this is also a way to stimulate domestic demand.

And with such a huge military expenditure, sometimes there will always be problems of one kind or another.

"Now there are some eyebrows, and the part of the special funds that are spent more on the Shaohao has already found a whereabout!"

Chen Cai stood respectfully in front of Chen Jingyun, and did not hold the report in his hand, so he said this directly to Chen Jingyun.

Chen Jingyun raised his head and asked, "Oh, where have you been?" How many people are involved in the Navy? ”

Chen Cai seemed to be talking about a very plain thing: "According to the preliminary investigation of our investigation bureau, there are three aspects of the flow of funds, one is the German Zeiss company, the other is the domestic Fule Electric, and the rest is the Wuhu Iron and Steel Company." The three add up to almost 8 million. It is initially estimated that there will be more than 50 people involved in the navy, including five people above the rank of major general and two people with the rank of lieutenant general! ”

Chen Jingyun frowned slightly when he heard this, although he had expected that the investigation of the Shaohao corruption case would involve many people this time, he still did not expect that the amount involved would be as high as more than eight million, and there were two lieutenant generals and five rear admirals on the navy's side. And this has exceeded Chen Jingyun's psychological expectations and endurance.

Last month, the deputy director of the Admiralty's Audit Bureau secretly reported to the Investigation Bureau in his real name, saying that a large number of high-ranking Navy officials were suspected of embezzlement in the process of building the Shaohao, and the amount of embezzlement was huge. If it's an anonymous report, forget it, but it's still a real-name report, and if the identity of the whistleblower is lower, it's okay, but it's still the deputy director of the Navy's Audit Bureau, with the rank of colonel. Chen Jingyun didn't care much about it when he learned about it, because in his opinion, it was inevitable for someone to embezzle a few dollars, and if the officials were to remove him as soon as they embezzled themselves, it was estimated that the entire Chinese officials would have to be removed.

In fact, Chen Jingyun is still relatively lenient on the economic problems of the officials under his hands, and Chen Jingyun usually turns a blind eye to tens of thousands of yuan, after all, everyone has a big family to support, and the salary of a few hundred or nearly a thousand yuan a month is not enough to spend. So these officials under his command get a little money to subsidize their lives, and he won't say anything. However, large-scale corruption is something he cannot tolerate, and once the amount involved reaches hundreds of thousands or millions, Chen Jingyun will have to borrow their heads.

In fact, in the current two terms of China's military and government, the corruption of high-level personnel is relatively small, this is not that they don't like money, but there is no need for that, although China's relevant laws and regulations prohibit officials from doing business themselves, but they are not prohibited from doing business with their families, in fact, a considerable number of high-level political axes are businessmen, at least a few are professional politicians, basically although these people will not say that they are worth billions like Chen Jingyun, but basically they are not short of money.

Even some people who don't have a large amount of family wealth are the kind that want to go further on the political road, such as Liu Dajun of the Economic Development Department, he doesn't have much money, but his eyes are fixed on continuing to climb up to the Ministry of Finance or even the Government Affairs Yuan, where he will see the money that is embezzled, and as a high-level political axe, food, drink, housing and transportation are all public funds, and he can't even spend his salary.

Therefore, relatively speaking, there are relatively few corruption and bribery in the current high-level political axe. But among the middle and lower-level officials, this situation has changed greatly, basically the lower the position, the more greedy, in 1932 there was a big case in Shanghai that caused a sensation throughout the country, a section chief in charge of industrial development in the Shanghai Special Political Axe actually embezzled and accepted bribes as high as 1.5 million, you must know that it was just a small section chief, the officialdom saw people three points shorter, but such a person was greedy as much as 1.5 million, and this corruption case not only cost him his own life, Qian Yongan, then mayor of Shanghai, was already half a foot into the core of China's power, according to the promotion process of the previous mayors of Shanghai, he is very likely to further enter the cabinet, but because of this matter, he was saddled with a punishment of no discipline, and then was transferred to Guangxi as vice governor, and this transfer is a serious deposition, because China currently has three municipalities directly under the central government, namely Nanjing, Shanghai, and Beiping, Among them, Shanghai is the most important place, as for Nanjing, although it is the capital, but the local officials are all over the place, being the mayor of Nanjing is not a good errand, and one accidentally offends people, and Shanghai, if you can make achievements in the term of office, basically the end of the term of office into the cabinet is a safe thing, even if you can't enter the cabinet, but if you are transferred to other places, it is basically a provincial governor's position, and if you are transferred to other places to serve as vice governors, it is a demotion.

Chen Jingyun also knows that China under his rule is not an ideal society, and there are a lot of unsightly things, and Chen Jingyun asked himself that even if he is an immortal, he can't change the greed of human beings, so he can only control it in the general direction, and every year he will arrest and shoot a large number of corrupt and bribery officials, but this corrupt official can never be caught, and he can't kill him, and Chen Jingyun doesn't have any good way to do this.

Political axe officials will be greedy, he knows this, but what he didn't expect is that there is such a large-scale corruption phenomenon in the military, what is the army, the army is the foundation of him Chen Jingyun, for Chen Jingyun, anything can go wrong, but the army can't have problems. In order to avoid problems, he implemented a very strict separation of military and political affairs, not to mention the collusion between the army and the local government, and it didn't take long for ordinary generals and local officials to talk to each other, and the people of the Investigation Bureau would secretly investigate this.

Although after the implementation of the compulsory military system in China, ordinary soldiers only have a few yuan of subsidies per month, but for officers, the monthly salary is very generous, an ordinary lieutenant can get a few hundred every month, and there are more generals at the top of the army, and then there is the salary of the position, which ranges from 1,000 to 2,000 depending on the position, which can add up to more than 3,000 yuan per month, which is more than the salary of the major general in the former new army. And there are even more lieutenant generals, and it is not a problem to get five or six thousand a month.

In this era when the monthly salary of ordinary workers is about ten yuan, the monthly salary of five or six thousand is already an absolute super high income.

In addition to the normal salary, there are generally various types of subsidies, such as housing subsidies, bus subsidies, etc., and even more in times of war.

Therefore, in today's Chinese society, China's military officers belong to an absolute high-income group, and they are richer than civilian officials.

However, even such a high-wage system cannot stop their thirst for money.

"There are many people involved in the case, including Vice Admiral Lin Qingxiong, who served as the director of naval weapons last year, and is currently the commander of the Second Coastal Defense Fleet. There is also Rear Admiral Qu Sheng, the current deputy director of the Naval Department of the Admiralty, who colluded with the Shanghai Power Company in the power system bidding case, falsely reported the price, and obtained kickbacks from the other party! In addition, there is the head of the Naval Audit ......"

As Chen Cai said one name after another, Chen Jingyun's face became more and more ugly, and finally suppressed the anger in his heart: "Take the detailed report of this matter, and continue to dig this matter, I want to see how many people are still involved!" ”

Speaking of this, Chen Jingyun said: "In addition, the reorganization plan of the army side has been carried out in the past two years, and there are also a lot of tenders, and your investigation bureau will also investigate together!" ”

If the corruption of officials on the political axe only made Chen Jingyun sigh, then the corruption of military generals made Chen Jingyun angry, and when was the last time Chen Jingyun was angry? It was the general strike of 1924.

Looking at Chen Jingyun's angry expression, Chen Cai on the side secretly said in his heart: "This time, I'm afraid that there will be a big earthquake on the military side!" ”