Chen Jingyun is full of contradictions about the reorganization of the Nationalist Army; on the one hand, he is unwilling to establish a division-level establishment from the bottom of his heart, at least not for the time being. However, if the Nationalist Army does not establish divisions at present, it will have a great impact on future operations, and if divisions are not established, there will be no room for subordinates to rise, and the generals will be somewhat resentful. So far, the Nationalist Army has reached more than 50,000 troops, and this scale is still five or six divisions in other places, but in Fujian, it still maintains a brigade-level establishment, and it will not work if it does not establish a division-level establishment.

When Chen Jingyun was determined to set up three divisions of the National Army, he had even announced the establishment of the first division of the National Army, and even the planning of the second and third divisions had been made, but Huang Xing in Nanjing gave him the names of the two central divisions, which disrupted his plan. Therefore, after thinking hard for several days, he decided to overturn all the plans made in the previous days and re-plan the issue of the establishment of the army.

For example, the specific composition of the infantry squad of 14 people, the infantry platoon, and even the infantry company cannot be changed, because the establishment of this specific small-scale unit has been formed for many years, and many tactical regulations have been set up, and rash changes are equivalent to reorganizing the troops, and training, tactics, and so on must be restarted from scratch. This can be done in peacetime or when there are several thousand people, but now it is unrealistic for the national army.

As the guards chanted: "All the governors have arrived!" ”

Suddenly, a group of officers in the conference room stood up and looked out of the door, at this time, Chen Jingyun was wearing a brown and green officer dress of the National Army, carrying an epaulette marked as a lieutenant general on his shoulder, and slowly walked into the conference room.

After walking to the main seat of the conference table and sitting down, Chen Jingyun stretched out his hand and pressed it: "Sit down!" ”

At this time, the generals of the National Army sat down, Chen Jingyun glanced at the group of generals under his hands, the generals present today include almost all the important generals of the National Army system, including Ma Cheng, Lin Chengkun, Li Jimin, Yuan Fang, Chen Kui, Lin Feitai and other brigade commanders, as well as the deputy brigade commanders of various departments around Fuzhou, the three major commanders of the headquarters and others, this group of people sitting together can be described as a shining star, several of them are still major generals, and in the foreseeable future, at least after today, several people here have great hope of being promoted to major generals.

And seeing these people sitting together gave rise to a sense of pride in Chen Jingyun's heart. It took him three months to bring the more than 1,000 people of the Fuzhou Uprising to this point, and almost every general present was developed because of himself, and Chen Jingyun was very proud from this point.

Chen Jingyun coughed first, and waited for everyone to focus on himself before he said slowly: "I guess you all guessed what I called you here for today!" You guessed it right, I'm calling everyone here today, mainly for the registrar. ”

Chen Jingyun spoke as usual, and said a little slowly: "Originally, some time ago, the first division of the National Army had been reorganized, and the follow-up plan was also being prepared, but Nanjing gave the number of the two central divisions, and it is not possible to use it, so I will solve this matter today!" ”

After Chen Jingyun said that, he gave Feng Qin a look, Feng Qin immediately understood, and then took the initiative to stand up and said: "Governor, colleagues, regarding the planning of the integrated division, the General Staff Department has done a detailed investigation these days, and has made a preliminary plan according to the current situation of each unit and the specific situation of our national army!" ”

While he was talking, someone had already handed out the general staff's plan to the incumbent generals present, and the plan in the plan only involved the troops, not the personnel of the generals and commanders of the troops, because only Chen Jingyun had the right to appoint the commanders of the troops at and above the regimental level, and the general staff did not dare to go beyond the limit. After a cursory look at the plan, the faces of everyone were different, and it can be said that some people were happy and some were worried.

At this time, Feng Qin had already left his seat and came to a display board next to him, on which a large schematic diagram had been hung, and Feng Qin also pointed to this schematic diagram and explained.

"According to the previous army building plan, the formation of our army was extended from the former tenth town, which was a brigade, two regiments, six battalions and twenty-four companies, but at present, our army has decided to install mortars and grenades on a large scale, and the firepower at the company and platoon level has been greatly improved, even surpassing the Beiyang Army! In order to make the combat units more concise and the command more convenient, the General Staff has made the following adjustments! ”

"The first is to determine the establishment of integrated divisions, and according to the plan, a division and four regiments will be set up, that is, three infantry regiments plus an artillery regiment and other related auxiliary technical units such as baggage battalions, engineering battalions, etc.

The infantry regiment will add a mortar company with six 80-mm mortars to the original one, and an infantry battalion will add a machine gun company to the infantry battalion, which will be joined by a light machine-gun platoon under the original battalion's command, and two 60-mm mortar platoons will be equipped with a total of four 60-mm mortars. In this way, the infantry regiment will greatly increase its artillery support, and will have a basic artillery strength in battle, without having to directly request the support of the division's artillery.

The artillery regiment will reduce its existing strength and change the system of six artillery guns to four guns per company, that is, the standard of one artillery battalion is 12 guns, and the artillery regiment will still be equipped with two field artillery battalions and one mountain artillery battalion, with a total of 36 guns. According to the existing number of artillery pieces in our army, it was reorganized into five artillery regiments, each with 24 75-mm field guns and 12 75-mm mountain guns. Among them, the 105 howitzer battalion is temporarily excluded from the integration plan.

According to this plan, each division will have 24 75-mm field guns, 12 75-mm mountain guns, 18 80-mm mortars, 36 66-mm mortars, 18 heavy machine guns, 27 light machine guns, and more than 8,000 rifle and pistols, with a total strength of about 9,100 men. ”

The plan of the new infantry division is not simple, it is not complicated, it is nothing more than changing the two-regiment brigade into a three-regiment division, Chen Jingyun has been worried that after the two brigades are combined into a division, the risk is too great, but at that time he did not take into account the three-regiment establishment, and always felt that if he needed to fight against the Beiyang or even the future Yue army, he must maintain the four-regiment system of the master regiment, but when he found out that the full establishment of a division of the Standing Division was as high as more than 20,000 people, he gave up. Anyway, the four-regiment system can't compare with others, so let's just come to the three-regiment system, and when the time comes, two divisions will be added to the war, which is better than sending one division up to fight at that time, and it is much better to send two divisions up, and it is more troublesome to temporarily strengthen one or two regiments.

As for dealing with the Beiyang Army, although the artillery of the first division level is smaller, and the number of infantry is slightly smaller, it is supplemented by grenades, a large number of mortars, and a considerable number of light machine guns, and the combat effectiveness should not be worse at that time. Even if it can't be defeated, it's a big deal to send another division up, Chen Jingyun thinks that two against one will always do!

Regarding this reorganization plan, many staff officers of the General Staff Department, including many senior advisers, and even Junichiro Yamamoto, the adviser to the General Staff, have put forward a lot of opinions, which can be said to be more in line with the current establishment of the National Army, but secretly there are still Chen Jingyun's selfish intentions, and the most important reason is that Chen Jingyun does not want the establishment of a division to be too large, if it is according to the previous establishment, then it can only be reorganized into three divisions, and it is estimated that Chen Jingyun will have to guard against the rebellion of his generals in his dreams. Chen Jingyun was able to train four infantry divisions without expansion, and even transferred some companies from the garrison to form a new guard infantry regiment, thus expanding the guard division.

In the final analysis, this reorganization has not been expanded, but has only turned seven brigades into five divisions, and it is not necessary to expand the number of brigades and at the same time to be reorganized into divisions, and it is a cost-effective business to give the generals under his command a division commander.

After Feng Qin finished talking about the specific establishment, he paused for a moment before continuing: "According to the reorganization plan at the division level, the current 1st Brigade, 2nd Brigade, 3rd Brigade, 4th Brigade, 5th Brigade, and 6th Brigade will all be abolished, and the 1st to 4th Divisions of the National Army will be formed at the same time.

The First Division of the National Army has jurisdiction over the First Regiment, the Second Regiment, the Ninth Regiment, and the First Artillery Regiment;

The 2nd Division of the National Army has jurisdiction over the 3rd Regiment, 4th Regiment, 10th Regiment, and 2nd Artillery Regiment;

The 3rd Division of the National Army has jurisdiction over the 5th Regiment, the 6th Regiment, the 12th Regiment, and the 3rd Artillery Regiment;

The Fourth Division of the National Army has jurisdiction over the 7th Regiment, 8th Regiment, 11th Regiment, and 4th Artillery Regiment; ”

The Guard Brigade of the National Army was expanded into the First Guard Regiment and the Second Guard Regiment under the jurisdiction of the Guard Division of the National Army, and the Guard Division belonged to the Artillery Regiment. ”

When the people below heard that the first-level establishment of the brigade had been abolished, their faces were different, because there were so many brigade commanders and deputy brigade commanders here, but there were only five positions for division commanders, no matter who Chen Jingyun wanted to use, it meant that some people were happy and some were worried.

However, Lin Chengkun among the crowd was overjoyed, because he didn't care who the commanders of the four infantry divisions were, but the position of the commander of the guard division had already been determined to be him Lin Chengkun, and Chen Jingyun had promised him earlier that he Lin Chengkun had long been waiting for the expansion into a division.

Lin Chengkun's joy Feng Qin also saw it, but he didn't care about it and continued: "The current six garrison regiments have also formed two garrison divisions, namely the Fifth Division of the National Army and the Sixth Division of the National Army, each division has jurisdiction over three infantry regiments and an artillery regiment, and only two battalions are retained in each regiment of the garrison division, and the auxiliary arms such as the baggage battalion and the engineering battalion are also downsized, and the total number is controlled at about 5,000!"

If four infantry divisions, two garrison divisions, and one guard division are reorganized according to the plan, the number of our army will not actually swell much, but will increase by about 3,000 at most, and the total strength of our army will reach 56,000 by then. ”

When Feng Qin said this, he had almost finished the establishment part, and the core of the entire plan was to train four field divisions, one guard division, and two garrison divisions on the basis of not expanding the number of troops on a large scale. The number of people and equipment is still so much, but after this change has become seven divisions, this is mainly because the previous brigades are full brigades according to the Beiyang standard, but the reorganized division is only three regiments, and the artillery regiment is only about sixty percent of the people's people.

Although this is the case, people who don't know are shocked when they hear it, because the former National Army only had seven brigades, how could it become seven divisions overnight?

PS: (Corrected the number of mortars in the regiment from 12 in a battalion to 6 80 mortars in a company)