In October of the ninth year of the Republic of China, Wang Maoru returned to Changchun and listened to Yong Xingbao, deputy chief of the general staff, on the streamlining of the national defense force at the General Staff Headquarters of the National Defense Command Center. After a joint investigation by the General Staff Headquarters and other departments, it was held that the 23,000-man division and regiment system of the National Defense Force no longer conforms to the trend of the times, is too bloated, and is inconvenient to command; in particular, the weapons and ammunition of the main forces of the National Defense Forces are far superior to those of the Beiyang Army in history, so there is no need to determine victory or defeat by the number of people.

The military system of the Wehrmacht was originally formed into the Beiyang Army, while the Beiyang Army learned from the Japanese Army, and the Japanese Army learned from the German Army, both of which were two-three systems (that is, the two-two system above the battalion and the three-three system below the battalion). However, this kind of establishment has become a three-three system in Wang Maoru's place, so one army division of the National Defense Force far exceeds the normal Beiyang Army division.

A squad of fifteen people in the Beiyang Army Division is equipped with fifteen Hanyang-made or German commission-style rifles, and an infantry squad of thirteen people in the Wehrmacht, equipped with one light machine gun, one (or two) submachine guns, and eleven E-type fast guns. Comparing the firepower, the firepower of a squad of the Wehrmacht can be worth a platoon of the Beiyang Army, and if it is a defensive battle, as long as the ammunition is sufficient, it can be worth a company. Although the Wehrmacht's army divisions were extremely powerful, the logistics were even heavier, and the army was thinned down as a must.

The current large and bloated military composition of the Wehrmacht has affected command, and officers are in dire need of a leaner force. After half a year of research by the General Staff. Yong Xingbao believes that the three-three system should continue to be used by the army, but the personnel should be reduced, especially the squad combatants. A full-fledged infantry squad of thirteen men had to be cut. The future infantry will be full of ten people, and in peacetime a squad will only need eight people. In order to cope with the reform and adjust the proportion of fiscal expenditure, Wang Maoru ordered Yong Xingbao to streamline the national defense force to make the army divisions more flexible and powerful.

According to the calculations of the General Staff, there were ten full personnel in peacetime. That is, ten people as a standard infantry squad, in the event of an emergency war can be expanded to twelve people, two of whom belong to new recruits. Now there is an infantry squad of thirteen people. To reduce the number of three. Wang Maoru was very curious, how many people are in an army in this way, and how much can it be reduced? It's not that I don't know, Yong Xingbao calculated. In peacetime, an army division of 18,000 men. In wartime, an army division would expand to 18,000 to 22,000 men. And the teaching regiment (supplementary regiment) should be independent from the armies and placed under the direct jurisdiction of the military departments.

After carefully considering the construction of the General Staff, Wang Maoru finally made up his mind to carry out a slimming operation against the Wehrmacht. He approved the General Staff plan, but demanded that the downsized, soldiers not really retire, but enter the second-line reserve forces, that is, the armed police or police departments, so that the irregular army could be rapidly expanded in times of war. Now that the national police and armed police are in the hands of the National Defense Force, it is even more important. Due to the trial implementation of the national military service system in Heilongjiang Province, Heilongjiang is the only province. In times of war, 600,000 soldiers can be mobilized. Yong Xingbao, who was the deputy chief of staff of the National Defense Forces, received the benefits of the national military service system and applied for the same national military service system in Jilin and Liaoning.

However, within the command level of the Wehrmacht, a power struggle within the Wehrmacht was suddenly detonated because of a building. Lu Fang, deputy director of the General Military Affairs Department and director of the Military Academy Division, suddenly proposed at a military meeting that the names of the divisions and regiments of the current National Defense Force be changed, and that the division and regimental titles of the Japanese Army should be established following the example of the West. His construction was supported by a regimental commander, but was opposed by the Wehrmacht General Staff.

The division and regiment system can be under the dual command of the command center of the Wehrmacht and the corps, but changed to the division and division B in Western countries, it is under the jurisdiction of the corps, and the headquarters has no right to direct command, so the Lu side's construction is strongly opposed by the General Staff.

The difference between divisions and divisions is a contest of division of power, and the division system naturally has greater jurisdiction over the General Staff, while the division system has greater jurisdiction over the corps, and a silent power struggle has unfolded within the Wehrmacht. Historically, the struggle for power has been very brutal, and Lu Fang, deputy minister of the General Military Affairs Department, who put forward his opinion, won the hearts and minds of the regiment in this power struggle, but lost the hearts and minds of the Wehrmacht command, and was considered a traitor to the command center.

At this time, the proposal of the A division system was not intended to chisel out a crack in the originally united national defense forces, and the reform of the division system into a division will inevitably appear in the future, but not now, not before the country is reunified. Lu Fang, who was originally very likely to accept the Ministry of Military Affairs in the future, was deliberately suppressed by the officers of the headquarters until he retired from the army. In the end, the army commanders who originally supported the Lu side also quickly sensed the intention of the command center and abandoned the Lu side. There were three reasons for Lu Fang's failure: the first point was that the proposal for the restructuring of the first division was out of date, the second point was that he was too eager to seek the upper position and betrayed the power of the headquarters, and the third point was that he did not communicate with Wang Maoru before proposing the reform, and he got Wang Maoru's support before proposing the reform, so he took the liberty of proposing it, and also won over a large number of officers. With these three points, the General Staff could even impeach him, but in the end, with Wang Maoru's interference, Lu Fang was only replaced by the rank of the Air Force.

Subsequently, the Military Studies Department of the Ministry of the Army was merged with the Military Academy Department of the National Defense Forces, and the placement of Wu Zhongying, former director of the Military Studies Department of the Navy, and Xie Baozhang, director of the Military Studies Department of the Army, became a problem. After deliberation at the National Defense Forces Command Center, Wu Zhongying was appointed commander of the Marine Corps of the National Defense Coast Guard, and Xie Baozhang was appointed as the director of the National Defense Force Officer Placement Division. In fact, this placement is a good explanation for the two of them, the Marine Corps has great power, and Wang Maoru attaches great importance to the Navy, and the Marine Corps will definitely show something in the future. The high position of the officer placement office is related to the placement of officers in the entire national defense force, and the most enviable thing about Wang Maoru's army is the placement of officers and soldiers, far more than any warlord, which is also the reason for the soldiers to return to their hearts.

Wang Maoru immediately agreed with the establishment of the headquarters, and Wu Zhongying and Xie Baozhang also immediately accepted the job arrangement. At the same time, the other officers of the War Department were secretly surprised to see that the ranks of the two men had been promoted instead of being lowered after they were merged into the Wehrmacht, and they had already made plans. It's just that the Lu side has been isolated again in this turmoil, and the reform of the military system is really a very worrying thing.

After fully considering the opinions of his subordinates, Wang Maoru believed that before the country achieved true reunification, the title of the division and regiment system should not be changed for the time being. In fact, what is being contested is not a title but a question of command, and considering that the division of the first type of division has greater authority over officers, and the pros and cons have been weighed, the reform of the division and regimental system has not taken shape.

Streamlining the army does not mean that it will be disarmed immediately, but the number of soldiers discharged from the army has begun to exceed the number of enlisted, and more soldiers remain in Nurgan Province, Dongji Province, Mongolia Province, Xinjiang Province, Taixi Province, Anxi Province, and the General Military Affairs Department actively arranges the problem of these retired soldiers to start a family, and thus produces a large number of descendants of Han and ethnic minorities, which are called the descendants of soldiers. Because the descendants of these warriors are mixed-race, they are born with handsome men and beautiful women, but many film and television stars appeared in the later period.

In order to prevent such incidents from happening, Wang Maoru specially signed a special agreement to set up four new divisions, namely, the 32nd Division, the 33rd Division, the 34th Division, and the 35th Division.

All the armies are disarming, but there is only one place that makes Wang Maoru hesitate, and that is the Western Regions, the three provinces of Taixi, Anxi and Xinjiang. The Western Regions and the Far East are not the same, the Far East has long had more than hundreds of thousands of Han people living here, while the three provinces of the Western Regions only have few Han immigrants in Xinjiang, most of them are Han people who fled to Xinjiang from the drought at the end of the Qing Dynasty and the descendants of the soldiers of Zuo Zongtang's expedition to the West, while there are no Han people in Taixi and Anxi.

In order to maintain stability, Wang Maoru deployed orders to Tang Shaoyi to gradually transfer the immigration work to Taixi and Anxi. However, this work is not smooth, compared with the five northeastern provinces close to Wang Maoru's nest, the three provinces of the Western Regions are obviously more dangerous. The people are not fools, and they are naturally vigilant about the prediction of danger, and they are reluctant to go to the Western Regions.

Subsequently, Wang Maoru rebelled in order to stabilize the population of the Western Regions in the future and avoid racial problems, especially in the Western Regions (Central Asia) region, where there are many white people, the people here have always been relatively strong and independent, with their own culture and living habits, and after 20 years, there were national independence movements in various regions of the world, and at that time more countries began to appear in the world. Based on the stability after 20 years, Wang Maoru planned to improve and sinicize the Central Asian race. In fact, if he wants to make the west stable, Wang Maoru's first thought is genocide, and only if all the people in the western part of the country are Han Chinese, it is the safest. However, he carefully considered that the massacre would be too damaging to the country's image, and if such a thing was exposed, it would inevitably put the Beiyang government in an extremely disadvantageous position internationally. So he thought of a more long-term but more effective way, immigration to the border and internal migration of different races. (To be continued.) )