readx; While Chen Jingyun was slowly waiting, the situation was slowly becoming clearer, as Liang Qichao and Yang Du ran around, Yang Du even turned to most of China, and even came to Shanghai twice, almost non-stop. www.biquge.info The Republican Party, the United Party, and the Democratic Party have reached a preliminary agreement after exchanging various interests, and seeing that the three parties are about to merge and reunify, even the United Republican Party is also under the strong advocacy of Cai Yi, and Tang Jiyao also has the idea of merging with the three parties, and wants to join the Progressive Party to expand the influence of the Yunnan Army.

Only the Kuomintang did not move in the face of the two parties, and became the benchmark for the third-party forces in the Congress, and many other small parties did not want to be annexed by the Kuomintang or the Progressive Party, but chose to follow the National Socialist Party. The National Socialist Party has no interest in the messy little miscellaneous fish, and will not swallow them up to affect the purity of the National Socialist Party, so although the small parties follow the National Socialist Party, they still maintain the surname of Reading Force.

Time passed slowly, seeing that March was coming to an end, the merger of the three parties had a clear eyebrow, and now it was ready to compete with the Kuomintang for the power to form a cabinet, and the follow-up would be a series of presidential elections and other things, but Chen Jingyun's expected assassination of Song Jiaoren still did not appear, and there was no sign of the second revolution.

"Could it be that Yuan Shikai really plans to compete with the Kuomintang for power in Congress?" Chen Jingyun didn't understand Yuan Shikai's thoughts, the current situation has developed to the present, Chen Jingyun's original historical memory has been completely deviated, because of the emergence of Chen Jingyun and the rise of the National Army, the history in Chen Jingyun's memory has completely changed, and now Chen Jingyun is no longer able to make choices according to historical memory.

This situation made Chen Jingyun a little depressed, but he couldn't do anything, and even he thought that since Yuan Shikai didn't assassinate Song Jiaoren, then he should send someone to assassinate Song Jiaoren, and then cause a conflict between the revolutionaries and Beiyang, but things haven't developed to that point, so Chen Jingyun is just burying his head in the army and continuing to prepare for the expansion of armaments, waiting for the day when the situation will be clear.

"The reorganization of the 10th Division has been completed!" Yuan Fang took out the report and showed it to Chen Jingyun, who took it and looked at it carefully.

In the pace of expansion of the Nationalist Army, the 10th Division was after the end of the battle in Guangzhou, and it may not be enough for the 3rd Division alone to control an area as large as the entire eastern part of Guangdong, and at the same time to face the threat of the Gui army, so a new 10th Division was established at that time. However, the expansion of the national army at that time was too big, and even the eighth and ninth divisions had not yet been organized into armies, so the 10th division of this emergency was basically an empty shelf, and there was a lack of heavy weapons and equipment and even machine guns, and the artillery regiment was a 60-mm rapid-fire mountain artillery regiment with reading power, and there was not a single mortar, heavy machine gun, light machine gun, and only some Hanyang-made rifles.

After the end of the war in southern Jiangsu, although the Nationalist Army spent a great deal of money on the reorganization of the whole army, it still gave priority to those main forces, especially those deployed in northern Zhejiang and southern Jiangsu.

In addition to replenishing the artillery units that had lost some of them on the front, they also had to prepare an artillery regiment for the newly trained 11th Division. For the time being, the newly reorganized 11th Division will be directly under the command of the headquarters and will be used as a mobile unit in the future. However, due to the low pressure on the 10th Division, it was difficult to prepare heavy weapons and equipment such as artillery for a while, so the reorganized 10th Division still had only one 60-mm rapid-fire mountain artillery regiment, but it was supplemented with quite a lot of mortars and machine guns.

The mortar factory under the Fuzhou Arsenal has received a large amount of capital investment, and is adding equipment almost every day to upgrade technology and expand production, and the Fuzhou Arsenal has not stopped working overtime. Not only the output of mortars, heavy machine guns and light machine guns, and even rifles and pistols is increasing rapidly, rifles have achieved a monthly output of 4,000, and heavy machine guns have also achieved a monthly output of 50 units, light machine guns 100 units, and even pistols that do not affect the development of the war situation have also increased greatly, and the first-year pistol that imitates the Telter M1911 pistol has begun mass production, providing a large number of pistols for the national army. This pistol is loved by many officers because of its simplicity and power, and its beautiful appearance. However, at present, the production is still limited, and it is not possible to provide pistols for all military personnel who need pistols, such as artillery, engineering troops, etc. The Nationalist Army, like the Beiyang Army before it, chose to equip the engineering troops and baggage soldiers with rifles in order to increase the combat effectiveness of the auxiliary forces.

The attached bullet production line has also been expanded again and again, and the large-scale application of the Nationalist Army's 79 light tip bullet (Mauser 7.92 * 57J light tip bullet) has exceeded the output of 79 round bullet (Mauser 7.92 * 57J round head bullet), providing ammunition for Type 12 rifles and light machine guns and heavy machine guns. In order to give greater play to the combat effectiveness of heavy machine guns, the Fuzhou Arsenal has begun to imitate the German army's heavy machine guns special 79 heavy pointed bullets (Mauser 7.92 * 57SS heavy pointed bullets). In addition, there is a production line for the M1911 pistol, which is being mass-produced, that is, 0.45ACP pistol cartridges.

It can be said that the development of light weapons in the Fuzhou Arsenal has provided a foundation for the expansion of the Nationalist Army, but the development of heavy weapons that the Nationalist Army has continued has not been smooth, and the mortars are fine, and after the production has gradually increased, they have been slowly assigned to the divisions, and those main divisions have basically completed the full establishment of mortars. Although the 75-millimeter mountain artillery began small-scale mass production last year, the person in charge of the artillery factory made it clear last year that he would solve the problem after receiving the technical equipment introduced by the United States and knew that he would expand production on a large scale, but the current output still did not increase much, and in the face of Chen Jingyun's anger, Tang Huikang had already removed the two responsible persons of the artillery factory. However, he also euphemistically explained to Chen Jingyun that there is not much progress in artillery at present, mainly because of the problems on the side of the Southeast Iron and Steel Plant, which has already carried out small-scale trial production, but there are still many problems with the trained artillery steel, which indirectly slows down the production progress of the artillery plant, not to mention the 75-millimeter field gun under development. Although the scientific research department of the Fuzhou Arsenal has completed the initial model design and test with imported artillery steel, the Southeast Iron and Steel Plant does not provide qualified artillery steel for a day, so the artillery factory will not be able to achieve real mass production in one day, and as for the production of imported artillery steel, it is not as convenient and affordable as directly purchasing artillery from the United States.

You must know that Chen Jingyun's victory in the war in southern Jiangsu made Jia Leheng, the minister to China, extremely happy, and informed the country that the United States had made a key breakthrough in its China policy, which made the American political circles optimistic about the Far East, and at the same time, the Nationalist Army ordered a large number of arms from the American military industrial enterprises through the naval cooperation plan and the military aid program, although most of them were loans provided by the United States, but Chen Jingyun also gritted his teeth and took out a lot of money to order arms, especially the subsequent batches of artillery orders. In order to replenish the artillery of the newly formed 11th Division and other troops, Chen Jingyun threw out several million yuan at once. These large quantities of arms orders have made the American [***] firearms dealers extremely excited. In addition, the open-door policy presided over by the National Army and the establishment of economic development zones have allowed many American businessmen to invest, and in just one year, the United States has invested nearly tens of millions of dollars in China, and this is just the beginning. The American railroad tycoon has even planned to build the first American-invested railroad in China, and has sent a special delegation to China to prepare for Chen Jingyun.

In particular, after receiving the big loan from the five countries to Yuan Shikai is about to take place, the US Secretary of State has ordered Jia Leheng to find out when the big loan for the aftermath will be completed, and in addition, it will increase its support for Chen Jingyun.

The United States has this attitude, so when Chen Jingyun orders arms from the United States, the price is also very low; although it is more expensive than the original goods, and even more expensive than the German goods, the United States can deliver the goods extremely quickly by virtue of its strong production capacity, and there will be no delays.

In this way, it is much safer to buy artillery directly than to buy steel from the United States and ship it back to make it yourself.

Of course, when the Southeast Iron and Steel Plant has installed all the equipment and achieved large-scale mass production of qualified cannon steel, it is still much more cost-effective to manufacture it by itself.

In fact, the artillery shell problem faced by the Nationalist Army is more serious than the artillery problem, and a war in southern Jiangsu has almost wiped out the Nationalist Army's inventory of artillery shells, and although the Fuzhou Arsenal has been working overtime to expand production day and night, the simultaneous production of 75 mm artillery shells and mortar shells has made it difficult for the Fuzhou Arsenal to continue, and it can only be partially solved through outsourcing.

When these problems were taken together, it was not possible to complete the full strength of all the units in the expansion plan of the Nationalist Army, and the 10th Division, which was in an unimportant position, was placed at the bottom, not only did it not have 75-mm artillery, but also had too many mortars, and the training ammunition attached to it was far inferior to that of the other main forces.

After reading the report, Chen Jingyun put it down and said: "Although the equipment of the 10th Division is in short supply, the training still has to keep up, and the corresponding training ammunition supply will be raised again!" ”

Yuan Fangdao: "I understand, in the next step, I will negotiate with General Sun of the Logistics Department to raise the logistics supply of the 10th Division to another level!" In addition, the personnel of the 11th Division have been preliminarily put in place, relevant training is already underway, the General Staff has appointed grass-roots officers, and officers at and above the regimental level have asked the commander to confirm it as soon as possible! ”

Chen Jingyun has always grasped the right to appoint senior officers of the National Army, and the appointment of officers above the regimental level is subject to his approval, and the General Staff Department has no right to directly appoint, but can only recommend the appointment of officers at the regimental level, and the appointment of generals above the division commander is basically Chen Jingyun's own business, Yuan Fang will not even suggest it, not unwillingly, but undare!

Chen Jingyun thought about it for a while: "The 11th Division is only for preliminary training now, and the regiment-level officer staff department has drawn up a list to come out, and the division commander will be selected, wait!" ”

Yuan Fang naturally had no objection to Chen Jingyun's words: "I'll come again in the afternoon, and I'll bring the list over for the commander to see!" ”