readx; After giving a speech at Yenching University, Chen Jingyun went to the Ninth Division on the outskirts of the city non-stop, inspected the Ninth Division, and watched a battalion-level exercise organized by the Ninth Division. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Chen Jingyun was not interested in watching it for a long time, he had seen too many similar exercises, seeing Chen Jingyun's lack of interest, Zuo Yugang, the commander of the Ninth Division, who was responsible for arranging the exercise, naturally felt bad, and then gritted his teeth, walked to the side and said a few words to his boss Li Jimin, Li Jimin pondered after listening to Zuo Yugang's words and nodded, but he still ordered: "Wait for you to go down and watch it in person, there can be no problems with this stall!" ”

Immediately, Zuo Yugang walked quickly to the other side, and talked in a whisper with Shan Ji, the person in charge of the Air Force Yanjing Base, and after a while, Zuo Yugang walked up to Chen Jingyun just now: "President, there is a joint ground and air exercise behind, do you think?" ”

When Chen Jingyun heard about the joint exercise of the ground and air, his eyebrows jumped, and then he said: "Hmm! ”

Zuo Yugang listened to it and went out quickly to prepare, of course, this is by no means a new preparation, but the Ninth Division had prepared two sets of exercise plans before, and Zuo Yugang had temporarily used the first set of plans in order to prevent various accidents, and seeing that Chen Jingyun was obviously dissatisfied, then Zuo Yugang was also preparing the second set of plans. Although this exercise is not a large-scale battle, Zuo Yugang attaches great importance to it, and he himself knows that many people in the army are dissatisfied with him, not to mention those small roles, just a chief of staff Shen Gang has a lot of complaints about him, which makes Zuo Yugang extremely pressured, and not only Shen Gang, but also he Zuo Yugang also heard from a few good generals and learned that Yuan Fang and Lin Chengkun have a derogatory evaluation of him, if it is a person, forget it, but also a chief of staff, The two army commanders did not have a high opinion of him, if it weren't for Zuo Yugang's outstanding contribution in the Northern Expedition, maybe he would have been pulled down again by these people.

Therefore, if he has the opportunity to perform in front of Chen Jingyun, he will not give up easily. 、

Following Zuo Yugang's orders, the second set of exercise plans scheduled soon was ready, and as soon as Chen Jingyun and the others arrived at the viewing platform, the exercise officially began.

Chen Jingyun watched with a telescope, while Zuo Yugang beside him personally explained the content of the exercise to Chen Jingyun, Shen Gang and others!

"Excuse me, President, in the area of No. 7 ahead is the fixed fort position of Party B, with the strength of one battalion, reinforced with six heavy machine guns and three 80-millimeter mortars, and their positions are constructed according to the standard positions of our army. In addition to the trenches, it was equipped with barbed wire, as well as cement anti-artillery fortresses! Zuo Yugang continued: "Such a fortress position can still hold on even in the face of an enemy attack five times the same combat effectiveness!" ”

Zuo Yugang's remarks are true, although the firepower of the Ninth Division is now greatly reduced compared with the original Chaohu Campaign, it still uses the standard establishment of 1914, and the Ninth Division is still the only unit in the Nationalist Army that has reached the full strength of the 1914 establishment, and the other troops are not comparable even to the troops participating in the war on the Hubei front. In the latest establishment table submitted by Jiang Fangzhen, Guo Hengsi and other staff members, that is, the 1914 standard preparation table, compared with the 1912 standard establishment, the heavy firepower was slightly increased, and the machine gun firepower was partially increased, but this increase in firepower was much less than that of the Ninth Division, which had completed the expansion of firepower. In 1914, the standard establishment took into account the number of greatly expanded national army and other conditions, and in wartime, the standard supplemented the complete logistics baggage personnel division, and the number of personnel in the division reached 13,000, which was similar to the number of logistics baggage personnel after the previous establishment in 1912, and the artillery regiment also continued the standard of 36 artillery pieces, and the 80-mm mortars of the whole division were also maintained at 18, and the number of 60-mm mortars increased to 40, but the number of light and heavy machine guns increased significantly, and the number of heavy machine guns increased to 27. Light machine guns increased to forty units. In fact, the establishment of 1914 is compared with the establishment of 1912, which is to formally incorporate logistics and baggage personnel into the establishment, and at the same time implement mules, horses, horses and other livestock, in an attempt to complete the mule and horse, of course, the livestock used by the army is still the majority of civilian livestock temporarily recruited by the national army, and it also relies heavily on the wheelbarrow in the hands of the transport team of the logistics department for the transportation of supplies, and it is still a long way to go to really make the whole army's mules and horses realize the internal supply of the army and abolish the unique means of transportation such as the wheelbarrow.

The Ninth Division, which had been downsized in 1914, still had the most powerful firepower of the entire Nationalist Army, and although one artillery battalion was seconded to the Second Army, the Ninth Division's other mortars and light and heavy machine guns were still fully staffed, which was not possible with other Nationalist units.

And this kind of firepower standard, coupled with a standardized positional fortress, even Chen Jingyun can see that if he wants to take this kind of positional fortress, it is impossible to effectively smash this kind of running fortress without several times the strength of the force, of course, bombardment with heavy artillery is also a way, but this is only a battalion-level position, and it is also a standard ordinary position, not a fortress fortress, but it is not required to be able to defend against the enemy's 150 mm heavy artillery shelling.

As the smoke of gunpowder rose in the front exercise area, the inquisition office of the exercise had already reported various exercise results according to the command and performance of Party A and Party B, and Zuo Yugang naturally continued to explain to Chen Jingyun: "Now that the attack of an infantry battalion of Party A is blocked, the support of the artillery regiment of the rear division is summoned by telephone!" ”

Since it was an exercise, Chen Jingyun could only see puffs of smoke and dust, but could not see the specific explosion, and the effect of the shelling was naturally judged by the exercise referee according to the command of both sides.

"One of Party A's artillery companies and four 75-mm field guns shelled Party B's positions with little effect!" Zuo Yugang continued: "Party A began to advance to Party B's position with an oblique trench, but was blocked by Party B's mortars and retreated! ”

"Party A summoned the rear air force support to arrive, and the infantry accompanied the attack at this time!" When Zuo Yugang said this, Chen Jingyun also looked seriously, the ground and air exercises, this is the focus of the exercises at this time, and the purpose of this exercise seems to be to practice how the land and air forces can conquer the enemy's fixed positions and fortresses.

Soon, the figure of four planes flew out of the sky, the appearance of the plane was obvious, double engines and wings, Chen Jingyun could see at a glance that it was a large number of B3 bombers equipped in the air force, these four bombers quickly arrived above the position, and then lowered the altitude to prepare to drop the bomb, Zuo Yugang's face suddenly changed, and then looked at the result from the referee in his hand, which made his face not look good, but he still took a deep breath and said: "Party B formed an air defense network by raising the muzzle of the heavy machine gun and the light machine gun, and two of Party A's four bombers were shot down." , and the other two were seriously injured and left the battlefield! ”

After Zuo Yugang finished speaking calmly, he was already cursing in his heart: "Li Yuting, this bastard, who asked you to organize anti-aircraft firepower."

Naturally, the exercises and exercises were arranged first, and the content of the previous exercises did not say that Party B would use heavy machine guns and light machine guns to organize dense anti-aircraft fire, and if even the planes were shot down, then this joint ground and air exercise that he carefully organized would naturally be in vain, and it was obvious that Li Yuting, the battalion commander in charge of commanding Party B, did not have the habit of following the rules, and as soon as he played a temporary role, Zuo Yugang's prior arrangement came to naught.

However, Chen Jingyun was not surprised by this result, the planes in the Nationalist Army were relatively much more advanced than those of other countries, and at least for the time being, the planes of the great powers were not equipped with nose machine guns, nor were they equipped with large bombers such as the B3 bomber, which could carry hundreds of kilograms of bombs. However, in spite of this, the aircraft in these years were still extremely defective, and the planes with a speed of more than 100 kilometers per hour could not effectively avoid the killing of ground anti-aircraft fire when flying at low altitudes. Obviously, not every general saw the threat of machine guns to aircraft, at least now there is no special air defense unit in the National Army, and air defense is organized by temporary light machine guns and by raising the firing range of heavy machine guns. This is also because the national army does not face the threat of the enemy's air force.

Seeing that this exercise was about to come to an end, Chen Jingyun saw four strange-looking vehicles slowly driving from the other side of the exercise ground, and as soon as he saw this thing, Chen Jingyun immediately flashed a word: "Armored car? ”

Chen Jingyun's expression was not hidden, and Zuo Yugang on the side naturally saw it, and immediately explained: "This is the car company in our army!" During the attack on Yanjing, a number of cars were captured, and our Ninth Division also divided these four vehicles for office transportation. However, Fang Dashan of the baggage regiment said that steel plates could be added to the cars to prevent them from being hit by bullets and artillery shells when transporting them. ”

In fact, armored vehicles are not a new thing, as early as the Boer War, the British were the first to put armored cars into the war. However, due to the limitations of automobile development, the development of armored vehicles is somewhat slow, and now countries still do not have large-scale equipment armored vehicles, and Chen Jingyun is also interested in the development of armored vehicles, but there are no ready-made automobile manufacturers in China, and the combat effectiveness of armored vehicles modified by civilian cars is very average, and there are not as many as outsiders imagine, generally speaking, they can only block the attack of ordinary bullets of the enemy. Not to mention the direct hit of the enemy's artillery. Chen Jingyun put the hope of the armored unit on tanks and automobiles, and on the tractor factories that had been introduced and begun to be built. In addition to the high combat effectiveness of armored cars, the high cost is also the reason why Chen Jingyun directly gave up on it, because China is now unable to produce its own cars, although Huaxia Bank has an automobile factory under its name, but it is only an assembly car factory, and the engine and other core parts are all imported. If the car built in this mode is modified and the armored car is modified, the price will not be a few thousand yuan, but at least tens of thousands of yuan. Of course, in the future, when the domestic automobile manufacturers have the strength, in addition to purchasing a large number of ordinary transport vehicles, Chen Jingyun does not mind getting some armored vehicles to protect the infantry from breaking through the enemy positions.

However, these are all his Chen Jingyun's ideas, and he will never tell others about the ideas of tanks and armored forces, and even others have not figured out why Chen Jingyun introduced the tractor factory. But today, without Chen Jingyun's knowledge, this group of people in the army actually came up with armored cars, although the four armored cars in front of them are very primitive, and at a glance they seem to be goods that even heavy machine guns can't stop, but what Chen Jingyun cares about is not the four armored cars themselves, but the people who put forward this idea and put it into practice.

Chen Jingyun didn't have much interest in watching the next exercise, although the four armored cars were very powerful when they appeared, Chen Jingyun looked at them twice, but when Party B's Li Yuting used his mortars and heavy machine guns to form a tight barrage behind the scenes, these four armored cars were judged to be destroyed by the exercise referee not long after they came on the field, and it was obvious that it was not advisable to use armored cars as tanks.

However, Chen Jingyun didn't care about this, and before the exercise was over, he had already ordered: "Call Fang Dashan in your mouth!" ”

He was going to meet this man, the armored forces were still far away, but now it was time to plant the seeds!