readx; In the original 1914 establishment, the number of light machine guns belonging to the infantry division was 40, and in the new plan, the light machine guns will be directly assigned to the infantry platoon, and according to the concept of one light machine gun for each infantry platoon, the number of light machine guns in each infantry division will exceed 100, reaching 100 and 8. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

The increase in the number of machine guns has basically increased exponentially, and the reason why it has increased so much is not because of the whims of Jiang Fangzhen and others, still less because the machine gun firepower of Tang Jirao and other warlord troops in China has increased again, but because after the outbreak of the European Exhibition, the number of machine guns in the troops of the great powers has also increased exponentially, including the "This army, although this army is now suppressed by the navy in the country, it is still possible to increase the number of machine guns in the troops, and the personnel of the military intelligence department have already learned about it." The number of heavy machine guns in this army has increased exponentially, and if the Nationalist Army does not keep up with this pace, then in the event of a military conflict with the Chinese army in the future, the number of machine guns in the various units of the Nationalist Army will be seriously insufficient. However, China, which has always regarded itself as a hostile country, regards its navy and army as rivals, whether it is in naval construction or army building, and its army is equipped with machine guns on a large scale, so naturally the national army cannot be left behind.

In addition to the increase in the number of machine guns, the number of mortars, another important weapon of the Nationalist Army, will also be increased: 60-mm mortars will be equipped with two per company, and 80-mm mortars will be equipped with a two-gun mortar platoon in the infantry battalion, in addition to a four-gun mortar company at the regimental level.

It is worth noting that due to the great increase in the firepower of light machine guns and mortars, this has led to an increase in the number of additional personnel of the Nationalist Army, and if four infantry companies are continued to be maintained as one battalion, then the number of an infantry battalion will reach more than 1,200 people, and then the command of the entire infantry battalion will not be smooth, and the number of the entire infantry regiment will climb to more than 4,000 men, and the number of an infantry division may reach about 17,000 at that time. However, the Nationalist Army did not adopt the four-regiment system in the past in order to avoid an excessively large establishment at the division level, which would lead to excessive power of generals at the division and brigade level, and at the same time, an excessively large establishment would not be conducive to the garrison needs of China's vast territory.

In addition, there is a more important factor that more than 70 percent of the current military expenditure of the national army is the salary of personnel, and relatively speaking, the cost of weapons and equipment is secondary, which is why the national army is keen to increase the density of firepower of its troops, but is not keen to directly increase the number of infantry. Because for the current system of the national army, under the conditions of the same strength, the cost of equipping a unit with hundreds of machine guns is about the same as the cost of a unit without machine guns. Of course, in wartime, troops equipped with numerous machine guns must consume several times more ammunition than ordinary troops, but in peacetime, there is no obvious difference between the two.

This was true not only of the Nationalist Army, but also of the former Beiyang Army. The reason why these two units have adopted the policy of elite soldiers, especially the Beiyang Army, a town with less than 12,000 people in peacetime, but it is equipped with 54 artillery pieces, and the firepower density is higher than that of the army, which is not because the artillery is cheaper, but because the investment in artillery is basically a one-time surname, and although the consumption during the war is larger, it is much cheaper than the salary of the personnel. Taking the Kuomintang Army as an example, at present, each division spends about 5 million yuan a year when it is not on combat duty, and 80 percent of the 5 million yuan is the salary expenses of the personnel, and only a small part is the training ammunition and office expenses of the troops. This amount was the same during the Fuzhou Uprising, and the same was true for the later expansion of the troops, and it is still the same in 1914. Basically, it has changed, which means that the expansion of the firepower of the national army has not increased the cost of maintaining the army too much. Of course, the cost of acquiring equipment for the newly built troops and the cost of large quantities of logistical supplies in wartime are not taken into account.

Based on this important condition, although a large number of machine guns and mortars have been greatly increased in the new troop establishment, the total number of each division has not increased much, but has only increased from the previous 13,000 to 15,000. That is to say, the actual combat personnel of the troops have not been directly promoted, and the most direct reason for this effect is that the infantry battalion in the new formation has directly reduced an infantry company.

The infantry companies under one infantry battalion in the new establishment will be reduced from four to three. However, the change from four to three infantry companies did not reduce the strength and firepower density of the infantry battalions, but on the contrary, greatly increased. In 1914, the standard strength of an infantry battalion was 700 men, including four light machine guns and four 60mm mortars. The standard strength of the infantry battalion in the army reorganization plan will reach 950 people, with nine light machine guns, six heavy machine guns, six 60-mm mortars, and two 80-mm mortars.

By increasing machine-gun and mortar fire and reducing the number of infantry companies, each standard infantry regiment of the National Army has three infantry battalions and one mortar company, as well as other regimental units, and each infantry battalion has three infantry companies and one machine gun company. At this point, the standard three-three system has been formed in all levels of the National Army. Each infantry regiment will have twenty-eight light machine guns, eighteen heavy machine guns, nineteen 60 mm mortars, and 10 80 mm mortars. In peacetime the total number of troops is 3,000 men, but in wartime with the addition of considerable logistical personnel, the full strength will reach 3,350 men.

The newly formed infantry regiment far surpassed the original infantry regiment in terms of strength, and its firepower was also greatly strengthened. When carrying out combat missions, with the reinforced heavy mortar and artillery fire of the division headquarters, a basic tactical detachment can be formed to carry out combat missions.

On the basis of the establishment of standard infantry regiments, each division has three standard infantry regiments, and the distinction between heavy and light units is mainly the difference between divisional artillery regiments, with heavy units equipped with heavier field artillery and light units equipped with lighter equipment.

The army reorganization plan calls for the construction of 40 infantry divisions in a new type of organization, and the specific plan is to build 15 heavily armed units and 10 lightly armed units. Heavy troops are mainly used in the northeast, Zhili, Shandong and the extension of the railway network. In addition to these 25 main divisions, 15 condensed divisions were reorganized.

In fact, in this plan for the reorganization of the 40 th Division, both the heavy and light divisions belong to the main force, and the difference is only in the weight of the artillery. As for the 15 compendium divisions, they are actually being reorganized directly from the existing 13 mixed brigades, and two new compendium divisions have been created.

In these reorganization plans, in addition to the adjustment of the strength of the troops, the main thing is to adjust the artillery units of the divisions. And the most important and strong support of the army generals is naturally the plan to build five new main divisions and two compendium divisions.

You must know that the Nationalist Army has not built any new units in the past six months, except for the 21st and 22nd Divisions that were newly formed last year, and all the troops that have been expanded in the past six months have been Beiyang Surrender Army, including the 23rd, 27th, 28th, 29th, and 30th Divisions, as well as the 25th and 26th Mixed Brigades. Although many army generals repeatedly called for the formation of several new infantry divisions, due to the ongoing war, a large amount of resources were consumed by the front-line troops, and there was simply no personnel and equipment to form new units.

Now that the war has just stopped, the army group can't wait to further expand the size of the army.

Chen Jingyun was also hesitant about the army's plan to set up five new integrated divisions and two condensed divisions. On the one hand, although the existing number of troops of the Nationalist Army is quite large, if it faces the strategic needs of the whole country after cleaning up many warlords in the southwest in the future, the existing number of troops will still be seriously insufficient. On the other hand, however, military spending is still high, and if we continue to expand the number of troops, we will no longer be able to carry out domestic infrastructure construction to develop the economy.

Therefore, Chen Jingyun, who was somewhat contradictory, asked Anwarin and Ma Yinchu to make a preliminary financial budget for next year after asking them to make a preliminary financial budget for next year. Within a few days, Anwarin handed him a budget for next year, which estimated that the direct revenue of the Republic of China next year would be between 500 million and 550 million. Compared with the current fiscal revenue, it can be said that it has directly doubled, and the reason for the substantial increase is that the Nationalist Army has expanded the areas controlled by the Nationalist Army, occupying Shandong, Henan, Zhili, and the three northeastern provinces in the north, and also occupying Hubei, and the increase in territory and tax revenue has directly increased. In addition, it is extremely important that because of the outbreak of war in Europe, the Ministry of Finance expects that the industrial and commercial development will rise sharply next year, and from the second half of this year to the beginning of next year, many large-scale projects in the preliminary industrial development program will be completed and mass-produced, which will greatly promote the development of the domestic industrial and commercial economy. Therefore, Anwarin expects to reach about 500 million fiscal revenue next year. This figure is already the same as the fiscal revenue of the whole of China in the three years of Xuantong in the former Qing Dynasty, and the fiscal revenue of the whole country in the three years of Xuantong was 270 million taels, which is about 540 million kilowatts when converted into Chinese yuan.

However, although the fiscal budget may exceed 500 million yuan, the budget available for military spending has not increased much; you must know that although this year's military budget is only 80 million yuan, this does not include the special tobacco tax and other expenses allocated to the military, and if all this is added up, this year's military budget will actually reach more than 130 million yuan. In next year's budget, due to increased investment in administrative expenditures, infrastructure construction, and education, these together account for 65 percent of the budget, that is to say, the predictable military expenditure only accounts for about 35 percent, which is about 175 million yuan, while the navy will have to take at least 20 or 30 million, and the air force will have to take 10 million, to say the least, so the rest for the army will be about 14 million at most, and this amount will actually increase only a little more than this year's military spending.

If a large-scale war does not break out next year, then military spending will naturally be sufficient, but if a war breaks out, then it will definitely not be enough.

Although the army was somewhat dissatisfied, because Chen Jingyun approved the new establishment in the army reorganization plan, that is, the establishment in 1915, the total strength of the troops will be further increased after the implementation of the new establishment, and the army will have to succumb to the heavy pressure of military spending.

After several rounds of meetings, the State Military Commission officially issued a document on the establishment of the 1915 troops, calling for the reorganization of the whole army.