readx; At the beginning of 1942, with the end of China's campaign in Russia and the complete annexation of the Russian Republic, a large number of elite troops from the early stage of the battle with Russia have entered a period of recuperation, although in the first half of 1942 Chen Jingyun focused a large part of his attention on the Middle East, and in order to enter Iran and engaged in fierce diplomatic competition with Britain, but although the Middle East strategy is important, to some extent he is only a diplomatic strategy, and it will not be said that it involves too much military power in China, there is no need to use too many elite troops to deal with it. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

At present, China's deployment of troops in Central Asia is not large, except for a few front-line troops, many of them are second-line troops with the surname of garrison divisions, and even the Siberian side does not continue to deploy a large number of front-line combat troops.

On the contrary, after the end of the Russian campaign, the Chinese army carried out a large-scale military movement, withdrawing the front-line combat units of the previous operations, and then resting and recuperating, and transferring a large number of second-line troops from China into Central Asia and Siberia.

Some of these elite units that participated in the Russian campaign are now returning to their homeland, and the other part is resting in Central Asia and Siberia, and in the process of resting, these elite units have also begun to be rectified in accordance with the latest establishment regulations formulated by the General Staff.

The establishment of the Chinese army has been continuously changing for so many years, and most of them occurred after a certain war, such as after the domestic reunification war, after the first Chinese war, and after the second Chinese war, China has made adjustments in the establishment, before the army planning used the establishment formulated in the mid-thirties, but with the passage of time, the emergence of various new equipment during the Second World War and the army's substantial improvement in the mechanization of equipment, As a result, the establishment of China's extensive infantry divisions has made it difficult to use modern warfare.

Even last year, the army has been preparing to make changes to the existing infantry divisions, the most important of which is to reduce the size of the previous 18,000 troops, because with the increase in the degree of motorization and the increase in the density of firepower, the density of troops in a division can no longer use so many people.

During the Russian campaign, the army has successively reorganized several infantry divisions as experimental units, and later found that the effect is very good, so as soon as the Russian campaign is over, the army can't wait to start implementing the new establishment.

Compared with the previous establishment, the biggest change in the new establishment in 1942 was the full use of semi-automatic rifles instead of the previous bolt-action rifles, that is, the 1937 semi-automatic rifles were used to completely replace the 1916 rifles, in addition to the changes were to increase the number of rocket launchers and grenade launchers, the above three can be said to be measures to strengthen the firepower of the infantry at the grassroots level.

In addition to the strengthening of basic infantry firepower, artillery support has also been greatly strengthened, for example, the regimental artillery used to be 75 mm light howitzers, but in the operation against Russia, it was found that the 75 mm howitzers of the regimental artillery were still too weak. Because in these years, although the regimental artillery of the German army is also a three-inch infantry gun, there is also a 155 mm heavy infantry gun, and although the regimental artillery on the American side is also a 75 mm howitzer, the Americans are currently planning to fully replace the 105 mm howitzer.

As an army with the mission of confronting the armies of the world's great powers, the Chinese Army has always had a global perspective, so the army has decided to change the regimental support artillery to 105 mm light howitzers to strengthen the regimental artillery firepower.

Originally, the Chinese Army's regimental and battalion-level anti-aircraft guns were 37 mm, but whether it was China's own Russian campaign or the intelligence obtained from the Soviet-German battlefield, it has been shown that the 37 mm anti-aircraft gun is completely unable to meet the needs of modern warfare and cannot effectively complete the anti-tank combat mission. Therefore, the army has also decided to completely withdraw the 37-mm anti-aircraft guns in the front-line combat units and replace them with 57-mm anti-aircraft guns, and even equipped with 75-mm anti-tank guns in the higher-level divisional anti-tank artillery battalions.

In the past, an infantry division was not equipped with too many vehicles, only 6 or 700 vehicles, but in this new establishment, the army has increased the number of vehicles of various types under the newly established division to as much as 1,500, which is almost doubled.

The 1.5-ton trucks, which had been heavily equipped, were replaced with 2.5-ton trucks to provide transport capacity for the troops.

The drastic increase in trucks has made this new infantry division a veritable motorized infantry division, and no longer a half-baked motorized infantry division as before.

When Jiang Fangzhen and Chen Yi teamed up with the new compilation table to Chen Jingyun, although Chen Jingyun looked at the above data was very superior, but at the same time it also made him a little worried, because this time the level of weapons and equipment of the new establishment has far exceeded the previous level, and even exceeded the level of the British, American and German armies in the same period, not to mention the Soviet army.

The Yankees are so awesome in their industrial production capacity that they have only armed dozens of such divisions, is it possible that China is even more powerful than the United States, and can arm hundreds of such divisions?

Even Chen Jingyun himself is very suspicious of this kind of thing!

"According to this new system, regardless of the rest, it may be difficult to meet the number of trucks alone, right? Once this new schedule is to be implemented, at least more than 100,000 trucks will be needed to fill the gap! Chen Jingyun frowned and continued: "There is also the artillery of this regiment, which has been increased from 75 mm to 105 mm caliber, although the power has increased, but will the increase in weight bring about the decline in mobility affect the combat of the troops on the complex terrain of Asia?" Moreover, the 105-mm light howitzer to be re-produced? How long will it take to fully equip the troops? And what about the large number of 75-mm howitzers that were replaced? ”

Chen Jingyun looked at the establishment table in his hand, and continued to pick questions while reading: "There is also a tank battalion that directly cooperates with the division, and it is a tank battalion of the same scale as the armored division, a division needs more than 70 vehicles, and this 100 divisions needs more than 7,000 vehicles. Could it be that the army is planning to dismantle the existing tank regiments or several armored divisions, and then transfer tanks to supplement the infantry divisions? ”

At first glance, Chen Jingyun felt that although this establishment table looked excellent, it was very difficult to really make it, and the biggest problem was that the implementation of the new establishment had improved the equipment level of the troops, but it also required the domestic industry to be able to provide these equipment.

In the face of Chen Jingyun's problems, Chen Yi and Jiang Fangzhen had already prepared, and immediately Chen Yi said: "As for the various equipment requirements brought about by the new establishment, the General Staff means to implement them in stages, and the first phase of the plan is to focus on the 53 standing infantry divisions of the army, and strive to build these 53 divisions into the most elite units of our army. On the other hand, the troops with numbers after 67 will first carry out personnel reorganization, and the required equipment can be slowed down, and the old equipment can be used first, and then fully replaced after the domestic industrial production capacity has eased up. In addition, a large number of 75-mm infantry guns and 37-mm anti-tank guns and other old-style equipment that have been eliminated after the replacement of the standing division can be used for the expansion of second-line troops; at present, the expansion rate of our army is relatively fast, and now there are 120 division-level troops, in addition to a large number of reading garrison troops, and many second-line troops also need a large amount of weapons and equipment. ”

The structure of the Chinese Army is divided into field troops and garrison troops, but after the war, many garrison troops also entered the theater in large numbers, such as the garrison troops stationed in Central Asia and Siberia also frequently engaged in skirmishes with local guerrillas, and these garrison units also needed a large amount of equipment.

In the huge Chinese Army, the real elite field units are still those standing divisions formed before the war, including 13 mechanized infantry divisions, 13 armored divisions, 53 infantry divisions, and a number of reading regiments and battalions. During the follow-up mobilization period, the newly built troops were inferior in terms of both the quality of officers and soldiers, and the same equipment was also much inferior.

If the new reform was divided into multiple phases, and the first phase was limited to the pre-war standing forces, Chen Jingyun thought that he would be able to survive by gritting his teeth.

So he nodded: "This aspect has involved the industrial sector, I will ask the opinion of the industrial sector, if domestic production can keep up then it will be implemented, but you also have to leave a preparation, and you plan to make a backup preparation plan!" ”

After Chen Jingyun asked them to step down, they soon found people from the political axe, Ma Yinchu, president of the Government Council, Wu Yanqing, chief minister of finance, and Liu Dajun of the Department of Economic Development were all called by him, and the first sentence he opened his mouth was: "The army is going to carry out organizational reform in the near future, and it needs a lot of new equipment." And this requires the vigorous cooperation of the domestic industry. ”

These people are the main leaders of China's wartime economy at present, and they are responsible for regulating domestic production and then satisfying the various needs of the military and civilian population.

Ma Yinchu said: "If you want new equipment, I don't know how much?" ”

Chen Jingyun handed over the establishment form in his hand: "The number needed is still relatively large, and the domestic industrial sector still has to cooperate with the army to do a good job!" ”