readx; In the second half of 1946, the world was already peaceful, and the four countries of China, the United States, the Soviet Union, Britain and Germany also began large-scale disarmament on the surface, but behind this seemingly disarmament, in fact, it was a comprehensive upgrade of military equipment by various countries, and the research and development and production of various new weapons did not stop, and the Americans in the second half of 1946 had already served more than 8,000 M26 tanks, and the new generation of jet fighter P84 also began to enter service. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info.

The Soviet Russian side is also reducing the number of soldiers, a large number of T34 tanks retreated to the second line at the same time, from the development of T44-100, last year has been finalized and tested T54 tank also in early 1946 can not wait for production and service, although at that time there were a lot of problems with this T-54-1, only the first few months of mass production during the discovery and solution of more than a thousand problems, but in the face of China's huge T15 \ 18 tank group and the United States M26 tank, The old T34 of Soviet Russia is simply not able to compete, and the IS-2 and IS-3 of heavy tanks are expensive and have less production, and the mass production of IS series heavy tanks to fight T15 \ 18 and M26 is not shown, Soviet Russia urgently needs a tank that can fight the above two tanks and is cheap enough for mass production, and the T44-100 that was mass-produced and put into service last year proved to be unable to effectively fight T15 \ 18 and M26, This shows the urgent need for T54 tanks in Soviet Russia.

In this way, Britain, the United States, and the Soviet Union and Russia have reduced their personnel and increased the research and development and equipment of advanced equipment, and China and Germany, as one side of the confrontation, are naturally not far behind.

On the one hand, Germany was engaged in large-scale disarmament, and on the other hand, the E-series main battle tanks developed with the help of China began mass production and entered service in 1946.

Germany felt that during World War II, Germany's tank technology was complicated, the man-hours were too high, and the surname price ratio was low, and it was also part of the technology of China's T15\18 main battle tank, and very importantly, during World War II, Germany's various rare metal resources were very scarce, resulting in many ways to make military products outweigh the losses, resulting in an increase in the weight of the tank, etc., now, without these restrictions, at the same time, it has also obtained certain technical assistance from Chinese tank experts, so their' The future main battle tank plan is progressing relatively smoothly, and at the same time abandoning a series of tank research and development plans that outweigh the losses developed during World War II, such as E75, E100, etc., and focusing on the E50, while referring to many designs of the T18 tank, basically overturning the design of the original E50 tank, and the new E50 is basically the German version of the T18.

On the artillery, the Germans gave up the long-cherished ultra-long barreled gun, because after watching the live firing of the T18 tank, they found that although the 105L50 main gun on the T18 tank was not too long, when firing the APDS armor-piercing shell, it easily penetrated the frontal armor of the wreckage of a King Tiger tank. Germany's seemingly sturdy but low yield of a mess of ultra-long barrels, although the armor-piercing ability is also good, but their yield is too low, the process is complex, why the production of German tanks during World War II is so low, is because the German brain is funny, you need to install an 88L71 main gun The weight can be equipped with the weight of a 105 mm or even 120 mm gun, and the armor-piercing ability is not bad, and more importantly, the process is simple, and the output is large enough, The process required to produce a class of 88L71 or even 88L100 is definitely not comparable to 105L50, and the yield of the two cannot be compared, the same man-hours and resources The Germans can produce a course of 88L71, but in China they can produce more than five doors of 105L50.

After giving up the ultra-long barreled artillery, the Germans also directly mounted the 105 mm main gun, due to the reality that there is no rare metal on the armor, the Germans do not use those dead heavy armor, which directly leads to the decline of the weight of the vehicle, but the Germans like the inferior surname of Gao Daquan when designing tanks is difficult to change, this E50 tank obtained only forty tons of T18, T54, M26 tank combat surname can at the same time spend fifty tons of weight, although the surname price ratio has been much stronger than the original Tiger King, However, it is still something with a relatively low surname price ratio.

However, this is not much of a problem for the Germans, at the beginning they even planned to mass produce the King Tiger, which is not a good look, and the E50 is even more of a problem, so after a tense design in 1945 to 1946, it began to be mass-produced, as a substitute for the Leopard tank or even the King Tiger tank, in order to strengthen the firepower, Germany also imported APDS tungsten alloy armor-piercing bullets from China on a large scale.

And on the plane, the TA183 in the fighter has been put into service on a large scale, and as for the bombers, especially the strategic bombers, this is really not much experience for Germany, which is facing heavy air defense pressure.

In addition, in terms of light weapons, because Germany found that its various light weapons were behind the times, and was ready to redesign light weapons such as automatic rifles, of course, with Germany's military industrial capacity, it would not import rifles to China, but considering that China and Germany have reached a de facto strategic alliance, and China also has a large number of troops stationed in Europe, and at the same time belongs to Austria, which belongs to the ally sequence. Yugoslavia, Turkey, Finland and other troops all use China's standard caliber, that is, 6.8*50mm rifle cartridges are used on rifles, and 75mm, 105mm, and 155mm caliber guns are used on artillery. Germany is okay in artillery, basically the same caliber, how much can also do the ammunition universal, but the rifle is not good, at present between China and Germany only heavy machine gun 7.92 mm machine gun cartridge is universal, the others are not universal, at the same time, because the new generation of automatic rifles are considering the intermediate power ammunition, rather than redesigning, it is better to directly use the Chinese Army's 6.5 * 50 rifle cartridges, so they also designed a new automatic rifle equipment in 1946 to equip the troops, The history of the German army still using bolt-action rifles on a large scale was ended.

Germany, an ally, is carrying out military reforms, and Britain, the United States, and the Soviet Union are carrying out military reforms while carrying out superficial disarmament, and China, as one of the world's bigwigs, is naturally no exception.

As soon as the Baghdad negotiations ended and the armistice treaty was signed, China began the corresponding disarmament plan!

The bulk of this disarmament is naturally the logistical personnel who swelled up in large numbers during the war, and this part of the personnel is basically urgently recruited during the war, and the number is very large; after the end of the war, the combat units can not be laid off first, but these logistical personnel and all kinds of auxiliary personnel must be laid off first.

In just the first batch of disarmament plans, China's navy, army, and air force have retired about 3 million soldiers, the vast majority of whom are various logistics and support personnel, and there are also a small number of combat units.

However, even if 3 million are cut, the total strength of China's navy, land and air force is still very terrifying and ranks first in the world. During World War II, the military power of Britain, the United States, the Soviet Union and China reached its peak in July 1945, just before the military coup d'état in Germany. At that time, the total strength of China's three armed forces alone reached 12.6 million, while the air force also had nearly 3 million personnel, and the navy, including the Marine Corps, also had more than 4 million personnel, plus hundreds of thousands of coast guards. At that time, the whole army, including combat units, logistics support personnel, and civilian personnel, reached more than 19 million.

Don't be surprised to see this 19 million, China had a population of more than 600 million in 1945, and if we compare it with the total population, the proportion of military personnel in the total population was about 3 percent.

As for the countries of the same period, the Soviet Union and Russia said that the army has more than China, but they do not have a navy, and the air force does not have a large number of strategic bomber troops, but only a tactical air force composed of a large number of fighters and tactical bombers, and there are not many personnel, so the total strength of Soviet Russia in 1945 is still inferior to the three armed forces of the Chinese Navy and Army, and even inferior to the United States. However, Soviet Russia mobilized more soldiers during the war and died more, and if the number of troops during the entire World War II was not counted, Soviet Russian soldiers accounted for more than 20 percent of the population of Soviet Russia.

In the case of the United States, the Army in July 1945 was about 8 million, while the Army Air Corps had about 3.4 million, the Navy had about 4 million, the Marine Corps had about 700,000, and the Coast Guard and the like added up to about 500,000, so the total strength of the army reached more than 16 million, and the population of the United States at that time was only about 140 million, that is to say, the active duty military personnel of the United States accounted for about 11 percent of the total population at that time.

In addition, the Commonwealth forces also have more than 10 million troops.

So in World War II, the armies of all countries are calculated in tens of millions, so the first thing the big guy did after the war was disarmament, regardless of how the situation would develop in the future, the army would be cut first.

Therefore, after the first batch of disarmament of 3 million, China's army was still too large, so in 1946 it passed two successive disarmament plans, in which the 40 or so infantry divisions established in 1945 were all abolished, and the troops numbered from the 103rd Division to the 150th Division were all reorganized from the original provincial garrisons, and their combat effectiveness was very limited, so the first sword of disarmament was aimed at them, and these troops were not directly dismissed, but downsized. Subsequently, it was reorganized into an armed police force and placed under the leadership of the Ministry of Police, equipped with light weapons and a small number of wheeled armored vehicles, mainly to maintain public order and combat violent crimes.

However, for the sixteen armored divisions, the infantry divisions numbered 1 to 102, and the three cavalry divisions, they continued to be retained, but a large number of logistics personnel were still dismissed, and the troops deployed in the country were only the backbone of peacetime.

At the same time, a large number of reading units were also disbanded, some were directly disbanded, and some were incorporated into various masters, for example, many reading tank battalions were incorporated into the major mechanized infantry divisions, making the fixed tank battalions of the major mechanized infantry divisions increased from two battalions to three battalions.

As a result of these measures, the Chinese Army was rapidly reduced to only 6 million troops by the end of 1946, but because it still maintained a large number of division-level troops, it was possible to mobilize more than 10 million troops in a few months once the war started.